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Active production capacity has left the US, but one of the things that people lament about the loss of industry is the loss of technical capacity. The current US steel industry is clearly large enough to support some high level of technical capacity, even if it doesn't compete in terms of volume.

It seems that really big, really fussy castings get done in Japan and Korea though.
I think that's part of Budapest's charm. It is a little dilapidated and worn around the edges. But it's also a lot less expensive to live in than Vienna.
Half the [low priority] bugs I fix are because they get too annoying while developing.
Seems like the police could bait bikes with this technology to make a serious dent on bike theft in their city.
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It is a well known fact that many ISP's cache well known speed test sites.

I truly believe that the speed test sites caught on to this and changed from sending a static file to a randomly named file.

Now they probably just prioritize the speed test sites.
Less of a link to Matrix, which many of the initial adopters probably would get.

it doesn't feel to me as a stronger brand later (both are fairly random words for many people if you don't look at an explanation)

violent connotation (CNN headline: "protesters organised using the encrypted Riot app").

potential confusion in tech-y circles with Riot the gaming company (which could totally be in the market to offer a messenger, given that they run one of the biggest online games), for Vector I didn't have any other project in mind.

In the end it's just a name and it won't make or break the app for me, but I personally don't see the benefit of the new one.
I'm rural and have a lot of things sending data to a central node for collection. I found LoRa interesting, but sadly none of the modules offered native encryption capabilities. Ended up using RFM69HW modules with AES128 in the same band and still get pretty good range, up to a mile+ NLoS (but not through 300m hills either..)

I imagine the low throughput of LoRa would make encryption a greater challenge than with other modules, but maybe there are other reasons for that.
What's more, they have a chat app. Lawyers are going to be all over this.
Certainly good points. It is definitely headed in the right direction with relation to its use of a web GUI, and its content models (at least once one wraps one's brain around the model approach). Perhaps I should have not expected it to make template wiring easier. Please don't get me wrong, I'm actually a fan of lektor, and wish it to really succeed. ;-)
This seems incredibly vacuous:

> Acid in the atmosphere can come from large volcanic eruptions and manmade emissions from industry

It's not surprising that the atmosphere isn't as acidic now, as there has been a decline in volcanic activity in the last 100 years (purely statistical noise).

In fact, it's rather harmful to push the "hey we're making improvements" narrative when there is still so much to be done to prevent global environmental catastrophes.
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You're missing the fact that most consumers are likely totally ignorant of this.
I'm pretty sure most 'premium' cable channels include commercials. Unless you restrict that to things like HBO only. If so, then you left out a bunch of channels that are cable only and outside of the 'basic' grouping.
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That is still going to be an impossible cliff to climb, they could just be washed out of search results from topical events of actual riots. Hopefully there is a plan attached to this, but it is hard to say because Vector was no better a name to start with (also gets washed out by programming documentation and cutlery sellers).
This looked exciting at first, but I hadn't heard about "managed accounts" and they (understandably) shift the work to the platform/API user:

Handling information requests: instead of requesting
it directly from the account holder, Stripe will request
information, such as a social security number or passport
scan, from you. You must collect this information from
the user and provide it to Stripe, otherwise Stripe may
disable transfers to the account.

https://stripe.com/docs/connect/managed-accounts
I agree with your conclusion (services should be focused on getting better and getting things done), but the rest of your arguments are needlessly negative.

If it lacks standardized discovery interface, the next rational thing should be to think about how to come up with one, instead of saying bots suck because of that.

That's like trying out a raw coffee bean and saying "coffee sucks, I tried chewing on these coffee beans but they all taste like shit". Someone else out there is figuring out how to add hot water to coffee beans to make it much better while you're complaining about how coffee itself sucks and moving on.

Same thing with extensibility, if you haven't seen any bot platform that lets you string multiple bots together, then great! It means there's an opportunity there. That doesn't mean bots suck.
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Kind of off-topic from the subject of renewables but on-topic for the subject of what to do with waste heat from power generation: a city near me has a power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan. They draw in water from the lake for steam generation and then have to dispose of the hot water somehow. Instead of dumping it straight back into the lake and disrupting the ecosystem with extra hot water, they run it under the sidewalks in the city. 762 gallons of really hot water runs under the sidewalks of the city every minute, keeping the northern-latitude tourist town ice-free, salt-free, snowplow-free no matter how cold it gets.

There are really interesting ways to deal with all kinds of byproduct from industry that are non-obvious. Like heating a hospital with waste heat from a power plant.
haha, I see a redflag for DoubleSpeak. I believe the filters of citizens' communications refers to filtering/blocking of their Internet connections.
If you're deeply disturbed by all the @s then you formed your opinion more than a year ago.
You composed this email at a rate of more than N.NN cps
It is generally not possible to think and type at a rate
faster than A.AA cps, and therefore you reply is likely to
incoherent, badly thought out and/or emotional.

I triggered more than one "CAPTCHA" that worked like this on websites. This is an anti-pattern. Don't do this, it's incredibly annoying. There are people who think and type faster than you expect. It all depends on the case and various factors.
Putting aside the semantics of the word "autopilot", haven't Tesla always been clear that the system was in beta and should only be used by a fully attentive driver, with your hands held close to the steering wheel?

This understanding only comes from watching autopilot videos on YouTube. I've never seen the official instructions sent to owners, so I could be wrong.

If this is the case, it seems unfair to blame Tesla for incidents where people have used the autopilot in direct contravention of the instructions, just because we all slightly disagree on what the name means.

Can any Tesla owners comment on what information was sent to them when autopilot was rolled out?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529846
Or you could just use IRC with quassel + quassel-webserver, and get basically all of the same, but with an actual open protocol. Which actually has support.
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By the way, have you noticed how dramatically down usage is of this site? How participation has fallen off a cliff in the past couple years?

Ever think that might be because you harassed and banned everyone who thought differently?

That you've created a monoculture, as a result of your crusade against diversity, and thus there's not much to talk about when everyone is exactly like you and agrees on everything?

Maybe that's why. At any rate, your ideological based moderation and anti-intellectualism is not working.
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You should really define "defend yourself".

Sure, if an IRS agent comes with a policeman, and you pickup a gun and start waving it, you may get shot. But if you just don't give money to the IRS, nobody is going to actively try to kill you. Your life gets much, much worse, but you aren't killed.
I recently used that nice article in a discussion on Lobste.rs given its Type System section does a good job showing what good, static typing can catch without developer thinking to test for it. Get in habit of specifying basic stuff right then the compiler pulls its weight a lot. On top of it, key components in ML's get formally verified on occasion due to their easier modeling in theorem provers, etc. The last benefit is the compilation is apparently straight-forward and easier to get right given Esterel managed to certify SCADE code generator in it. That requires source-to-object code equivalence proof which is a bit hard in some of these popular languages. ;)
DataKinds lets you use NullPointer and all the various NotNullPointer values as types, but they are uninhabited. It doesn't (obviously) let you restrict a parameter to values using a particular constructor of a sum type.
> This is classic second-system thinking. 'This time we'll do everything right! This time we'll write it without any bugs!'

This is exactly what I'm afraid of. Don't get me wrong, I go outside for a smoke every morning when I find out I have to as much as look at X code that day (fortunately, it doesn't happen too often), but you know what, X11 works. It has, furthermore, worked reliably for many, many years, on more architectures than I can name, running more applications than anyone can remember, and has reliably solved problems that no one even conceived of thirty years ago when X11 was written. For something that "barely holds together", it works admirably well for the end user, and the nowadays-hated extensibility and policy-but-not-mechanism have allowed it to remain a very useful solution.

Wayland, in contrast, is universally applauded, but largely runs Gnome and a bunch of infotainment systems for automotive applications.

X11 has also not always been so reliable, and frankly, I doubt Wayland will take much less time to become reliable. It took about 10 years for X11 to stop being a pain in the ass. I'm looking forward to using Wayland every day. In 2025 or so.

Also, at the risk of looking like someone who wears his tinfoil hat to bed, it's worth considering that the two major improvements are largely relevant only for multimedia-super-heavy stuff and staying relatively safe from a legal standpoint while running 3rd party, untrusted (cough usually closed source cough) applications on a system that you manufacture and sell (oh, and a lot of people who want to move every application in the browser, but that could be solved by just sandboxing the browser). Before jumping into the PR boat and proclaiming the end of The Dreadful X11 Insecurity, it may be worth following the money trail.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12533140
Just curious - is that much silica needed to power the whole planet? We've got entire deserts full of silica sand and most rocks are composed mostly of silicon. I feel like refining enough silicon to power the world via solar wouldn't be hugely destructive.
I wonder how large that friction is. I look at git, mercurial, etc as distributed version control first and foremost, and that they're more alike than different.

It could be that I witnessed the popular adoption of all this via Linux going from tarballs/patches/mailing lists -> bitkeeper -> git, and have used and witnessed-the-evolution-of rcs, cvs, subversion, various DSCMs, and so my concepts of source control are stretched more broadly than people that are experiencing the dissonance between (e.g.) mercurial and git.

Edit: clarifying words
> IDC program director Al Hilwa wrote in an email that he had little doubt Oracle would be a major force in the cloud, and is building momentum.

The quote they use doesn't sound like he has "little doubt"

> "In terms of market leadership, I think Oracle will have to produce much faster growth rates to really get ahead of Amazon or even Microsoft in IaaS, and analysts will be watching its spend on data-centers to track this," he said.
Geologically at least.
gnicholas@ linked to this article that explains the factors: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/14/why-tesla-s...

From what I understand, if you limit the stat to a) cars made in the last 2 years and b) luxury cars and c) the conditions where Autopilot is mostly driven, the fatalities per million miles would be lower. i.e 94 million is too low of a number
They're getting pretty sophisticated. For example, SSH used to work just fine. When I was there last year, SSH would work fine for standard terminal stuff, but would die if I used it in SOCKS proxy mode. It was similar for a lot of VPN protocols I tried. Often the connection would work, but then die as I tried to use it. Typically I couldn't reconnect for a while after that. From what I've read, they're doing traffic analysis and machine learning to try to block things based on usage rather than simply protocol, port, or destination.
> X doesn't protect against malicious clients

Nor should it. That kind of sandboxing should be done as a wrapper around a particular program, not in the display server. A nested X server that sanitizes the protocol wouldn't be particularly difficult. Also, if your aren't fully sandboxing your potentially hostile application, a keylogger is the least of your problems. The display server isn't going to protect you from actual local attacks and privilege escalations; instead, it will only provide a false sense of security.

Furthermore, doing this in the display server itself is shortsighted and unfortunately typical of the freedesktop.org development style that refuses to consider use cases outside their limited personal experience. I use the ability to send synthetic keyboard and mouse events to arbitrary X clients regularly. Occasionally I use the ability to keylog to work around poorly written software. If Wayland refuses to support these features, it isn't compatible with my software.

Security is important, but simply removing features isn't the solution. Gnome/KDE may be popular, but many of us have software that uses X directly. Some of it written before those "desktop environments" even existed.
> it's got really good cross-protocol bridges

With that you mean "a worse IRC bridge than Slack"? Every user and dev of IRC clients and servers I’ve talked to in the past weeks has only complained about Matrix’ bridge.
I've had a few instances where Inbox was unable to automatically parse the email to extract the information making it somewhat useless in those cases. If there were also a way to manually enter information, that would be perfect (perhaps Google Travel does?).
"But the toll on your own people has real consequences that you can prevent. Killing someone is the sort of thing that makes you question your own right to life."

Agreed. We never consider the toll this takes on the executioner. How about the cost to society? The people that have to witness death will have long term psychological issues. How about the cost to society when we realize we've executed the wrong person? The downsides to our barbaric practice of executions are huge, and quantifiable.

What's not quantifiable is the motivation for keeping the death penalty. The only justification after debunking all other reasons is belief. People "believe" that killing is the only punishment that fits the crime. We should not be in the practice of making life or death decisions based on belief.
Here is a well-considered riposte from Brett Glass:

https://www.quora.com/Hacker-Culture-Who-was-Brett-Glass-nam...
From my experience, it's a combination of "What's the worst that could happen", "It wouldn't happen to us", and "That's what we have insurance for". Not the most reassuring thing.
His dad went to harvard so I am guessing he grew up pretty well off.
They just picked up a guy I know who has no cloud experience for a bundle of money.

Seems like a bunch of people around seattle are getting the mounds of cash.
That's a superficial analysis. Tesla's MTBF has been discussed here before. For one thing, Tesla's auto-driving is only expected to work on freeway-type highways, and fatality rates for those are lower than for all driving.

Tesla's "autopilot" now has a second fatality, in China.[1] There's dash cam video. "When it was approaching the road sweeper, the car didn’t put on the brake or avoid it,” a police officer said in the CCTV report. “Instead, it crashed right into it." Take a look at the photo. It's possible that the big rotating brush behind the street sweeper didn't produce a radar return. Remember, Tesla's radar is only at bumper height. Teslas are radar-blind at windshield height. The rear profile of the street sweeper truck, which is high off the ground, may not have been recognized as a vehicle by MobileEye, especially since the street sweeper is throwing up dust. Video: [2]

So far, there seem to be at least two Tesla autopilot defects that can kill people:

#1 is a high obstacle. That was the trailer crash fatality. It's also the auto-parking failure where the vehicle didn't stop for a truck with overhanging ladders out the rear.[4] Teslas are radar-blind at windshield height, and if it doesn't look like a car or truck rear end, the Mobileye vision system won't see it.

#2 is a left side obstacle partially blocking a lane. There are two videos of crashes in this situation.[2][3] The "how big is the open space" vs the "how wide is the vehicle" analysis may be defective.

#1 is the result of an under-sensored system with a huge blind spot. #2 may be a software bug.

Looking forward to the NTSB report. Nothing new from them yet.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/business/fatal-tesla-crash...
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3790176/Shocking-das...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkx-4pFjus
[4] http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a29...
no they filter many different ports and do deep packet inspection on anything that is not encrypted and will block if contains certain content. There is a set list of banned words that will get content blocked instantly. VPN traffic is usually blocked once it is identified as being unlicensed vpn, you need a license to run a vpn server. So these vpn companies will rotate their ips multiple times per month and have special clients that keep the list updated just to avoid the GFW
> weak extension support

Which definitely doesn’t apply to IRC

> lack of identity

Which the CAP Account extension allows to provide

> strong capabilities for bridging between protocols

And a Matrix-IRC bridge that constantly breaks, doesn’t properly handle private messages, and which badly handles IRC extensions?
An autopilot in newer light GA aircraft, like Bendix/King KAP-140, is able to hold/climb/descend to an altitude, and maintain heading based on the GPS input, so it does handle hands-on flight operations leaving the pilot to maintain awareness and program the GPS.
There are similar (research) projects going on in Europe as well. One in Finland is also drilling to get about 4 miles deep[1]. I believe some recent news (that I couldn't find) have said that the project has been progressing ok.

URL: http://www.st1.eu/news/st1s-geothermal-heating-project-appro...
I don't think that they find comfort in it. I think it's more they can't stop the fact that they are going to die, and want some control over the process. So they take control of how they die, not whether they die or not. And that seems like comfort.
> The 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to everyone, everywhere.

Even granting that, what is "reasonable" depends on a lot of other factors (both legal -- such as specific grants of power to Congress, and laws passed under such grants -- and factual), and the nature of world of multiple sovereign states and the grant of power to Congress to regulate interactions with them, and laws passed by Congress make surveillance of purely foreign material "reasonable" under circumstances where it would not be domestically.

> It would be sufficient to establish by treaty a court wherein a foreign person may sue a U.S. government and its agents for violations of U.S. law.
I don't see how such a treaty can be reconciled with Article III; the treaty power does not extend to contravention of the Constitution.

> It might also allow a U.S. entity to sue foreign persons for violations of U.S. laws in that foreign state's jurisdiction.

US entities can already sue foreign persons for violations of US laws in foreign states territory in US courts to the extent that the US law at issue has extra-territorial application.
dragonwriter tells you that the current version of Visual Studi CE (i.e., 2015) is not time limited unlike 2013's, and you come back with a link about Visual Studio 2013 community.

I feel like you've missed something.
> writing into the home directory requires hardware access, too.

It requires access to a filesystem, which may or may not translate to writing to a physical disk, depending on the setup.
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Is Aliyun that big?
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Back when I worked for a pre internet messaging company our terminals speed was slowed down to the same (1200 or 2400 baud) as a dial up user would see.
Agreed! There are people who think before typing, for instance.
Around where I live acid rain was a major problem earlier. It wiped out the wild trout along the west coast of the country.

AFAIK the problem was that the when the streams became acidic they dissolved certain minerals from the soil that somehow congested the gills and made it impossible for the fish to exchange oxygen with the water.
> I think looking at percentages doesn't really tell the full story here, since China's production has increased so much as to overshadow most other countries' output. The "drop" from 25% to 5% wasn't as much due to production leaving the US as it is production not increasing at breakneck pace.

But that is extremely relevant. When our production is flat (actually declining) while world production is soaring, it means that we control very little of the market. We don't control supply. We don't control pricing. This puts our production at higher risk because it's much easier for China and India to price our industry out of business.

Our production per capita has also been cut in half since 1967. So in addition to the world producing more, the US is actually producing a lot less. Our consumption is also up, and we're producing only about half of what we consume now.
I actually built the Django app that powers the system "This Old House" installed (http://groundenergysupport.com/) and one of the interesting things that came out of the app is what a dangerous assumption "a suitable sized system" is. I think the client has had trouble getting traction in the industry because some of the installers don't want to see their claims put to the test. Which isn't to say I think these are bad idea or ineffective, just that the sizing seems to be based more on what the installer can sell some times.
Right, that's what I was saying! I guess we just misread each other, but this is absolutely right - their comparison should use a higher denominator than 94 million!!!
Notably, the reverse move (US chains in Europe) has failed. Walmart left the market again.
Or, you know, Cyberdyne Systems - the creators of SkyNet:

http://www.businessinsider.com/terminator-genisys-cyberdyne-...