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> Beyond this, what really stood out about Musk’s speech on Tuesday was the naked baring of his soul. Considering his mannerisms, passion, and the utter seriousness of his convictions, it felt at times like the man's entire life had led him to that particular stage. It took courage to make the speech, to propose the greatest space adventure of all time. His ideas, his architecture for getting it done—they’re all out there now for anyone to criticize, second guess, and doubt.

That is exactly so.

I think the timeline will be off by a decade or three, but this took huge balls.

It is hard to imagine any other billionaire taking a risk like this, especially in the public eye. I believe SpaceX and NASA can do it, it is within their capability even though it is obviously a difficult technological feat.

This was from the Economist this morning:

> How odd, then, that Mr Musk’s motivation is born in part of a fear as misplaced as it is striking. He portrays a Mars colony as a hedge against Earth-bound extinction... Claptrap

Complete with a pre-prepared image of a businessman leaping into space with his luggage.

This is why the British Empire failed. This is why they never reached the moon. They basically gave up going after real power in favour of the Law of Jante. They constantly tear each other down. Any Britisher knows what I'm talking about. Bitch, whine and snap, constant ongoing passive aggressive behaviour is now baked into their toxic culture. You are seeing this corruption spreading the US today as well but it hasn't managed to consume everything yet.

There are exceptions in Britain and British people of course. However any inspiration comes from early British culture, the one of the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. They have fallen a great distance from that vision since then for reasons I believe to be cultural. At some point the doers were overtaken by the talkers, followed by ideas that sounded good in principal while actually being destructive, and the whole thing became unwound. That is one of the main reasons I think some reactionary ideas are the rational ones, because we have forgotten some axiomatic basic principals for the feeling of fake sophistication.

There are good criticisms one could make of Elon Musk's plans. They are technical criticisms, like that of the Mars Society's Zubrin in his newsletter, or those based on economics or business ideas. Those are totally necessary.

The following is a speculation:

Intellectuals keep trying to fit their framework around an idea like this and they cannot do it in many cases because if Elon Musk actually succeeds it may bring down many long held beliefs about our limitations as human being and society. It would be like a successful businessman in the USSR. A taunt.

It has happened before that a great man was taken down by rats because they could not comprehend his vision for a better world. There is something in them that cannot stand the idea that they might be wrong about their system structurally, because they are ultimately afraid of questioning the premise underneath long held beliefs and habits of mind.
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When investing, first-time investors don't choose between all startups that exist in the entire world, or even just their city. They choose between those startups they have access too, which is a much much smaller number.

So what the best VCs have done is build a good network, rather than used extreme intellects or investment models to make their decisions.

Also, as firms grow, they lose touch to the scene, and that is probably why its hard to make good repeat investments. The next Facebook isn't necessarily in your network.
I was going to quote the same line, but because my brain found it particularly hard to parse. I assumed the clause beginning 'with' should refer to the last item in the list.
Nonetheless, this is what voters want.
"Therefore, you'd have to try 500,000 codes to have a 50% chance of forcing a random collision on a 6-digit code, and the odds only go up linearly with the number of guesses."

No, not according to the birthday paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem).

There's actually a simple formula to work out the number of attempts required for a 50% chance as shown below.

For TOTP (Time-based One-time Password Algorithm):

Assuming only the latest code per current time window is allowed (and not codes on either side), the number of brute-force attempts required for a 50% chance of collision against this code, is given by:

Math.pow(10,6/2) // base=10, digits=6

This gives roughly 1000 attempts for a system that only accepts the current code and not codes on either side.

I am sure there are plenty of systems out there that don't think to rate-limit 2FA codes.
While it may be a success, the 3DS has sold half of what its predecessor the DS did (~60 million vs ~130 million units worldwide). The NX will probably sell half again of the 3DS. The market for handheld gaming systems is dead or at least terminally ill. And I say this as someone who plays on a New 3DS daily (don't get into Monster Hunter if you want a life).

The reason Nintendo has avoided mobile gaming is probably down to fear of piracy. The DS was ruined (from Nintendo's POV) by flash carts, and with the changes they made on the next generation the barrier to entry for copying games is now lower on Android/iOS than on the 3DS. I think that when they do finally go mobile, the games will have a lot of server-side checks going on. The games will be a pain in the neck to play even if you are paying. For example, always-on internet required will only work on non-rooted devices, that sort of thing.
I once read an article describing a full-blown callcenter for scam calls operating out of Brazil. I guess that with the right connections, it's not that hard to hire a couple of people willing and able to do that kind of thing.
How do Amazon (or any other cloud provider) make sure they have enough of these machines to cope with the demand for them without getting too many?
This is where the "computer" should be replaced by the "appliance". Simple raspberry machines in rugged enclosures running ONE piece of simple software off flash cards. If it breaks it's a matter of either just inserting the backup flash card (because the old one died) or worse case replacing the raspberry inside the box. Either way it's dirt cheap.

The shop can easily be given 3 raspberries and a dozen flashcards when the system is first installed, for almost no money. Even if the software vendor is out of business when it breaks in 10 years, they are good to go in no time at all. Any auto mechanic can swap the raspberry inside the case in 10 minutes and be up and running again.
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From what he wrote, he was writing Java and switched to JavaScript. C# got lambda expressions years before Java, if he wasn't using them, then yes, those languages are very restrictive.

They solved most of the expressiveness problems; at least for me. And Java only got them a year or two ago didn't it?

I use typescript a lot at the moment, I really miss it now when I have to write vanilla js, but it's still not a great language. You still have to think about 'this' a lot, 'this' still causes bugs, in many ways it's over verbose because every property and method call has to be prepended with 'this.'.
No. Garbage in, garbage out is true for deep learning as well.
How will a court view the way in which this evidence was obtained? And what about the veracity? Surely anyone who appears in the purchased data will say that it is unreliable.
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When did you? Two years at BigCo is borderline...
Apart from all the other answers already given, it will allow you to write automatic unit-tests, proving the properties of your code (using the laws of the given category). Perhaps there are already editors which allow for automatic refactoring, given the homomorphisms of the categories.
The Baltic states' tax authorities are to do the same. Heard a debate on the radio few days ago, with the host asking "is this even legal" and the chief of the tax authority responded: "and is this legal to evade taxes?"
Consider supply and demand as well. It's not every day you need a data recovery service.
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I experienced it myself. There was chunks of 6+ hours where you could not connect at all, and you had to restart the app every 10 minutes (or every third pokémon), and wait while it was draining your battery like an hungry walrus on its bucket of fish.

However, it became perfectly playable after their "tracker patch" (which was the trigger for the massive exodus that followed).
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All states routinely break their own "rules". I don't know why anyone would be surprised by this.
You pretty much answered your own question. First, they have 'too many', second, if they dont, they oversubscribe, third, after running your business for a while, you can do some math on your stats and predict future demand with accuracy that's 'good enough'.
In which currency is "805,000 euros ($903,000) " a round number (say a million)? That could be a hint to origin.
NaN !== NaN is just right
The photos are all from the area around Calgary, where some of the initial ideas were born during an OpenBSD hackathon. IIRC we disabled Latin1 support during this hackathon.

While giving this talk in Belgrade, Ingo apologized he didn't have photos from a Belgrade hike yet so he used the Calgary ones instead.
This is what we should be talking about. That role is up for grabs!

Is there a corporation that is willing to put their energies behind a closed loop system?

Because solving or scaling some kinds of closed loop system problems would, as you say, have enormous impacts on the everyday economy.

Not to mention the attention of the world would be focused on you like a laser beam.
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I've been using PostgreSQL for 12 years and learned some great stuff from you. THANKS!!! In the past, I have checkbook-engineered my way into performance. Easy to do when it's someone else's money. Not possible when bootstrapping like I am currently.
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I wouldn't consider Docker a deployment system (at all).
Why did you posted about this ? Isn't that the main reason why people visit a different country ?
Why use dynamite when you can do the same thing with the developer tools fairly easily?
It should probably say "On operating systems which support arbitrary locales, ..."
There are two issues, Google offers a black box service where your Tensor Flow model gets optimized. While AWS offers a generic instance which is far more flexible and can be used with multiple frameworks. Second AWS offers spot pricing on GPU instances (though not on P2 instances yet) which can offer significant discount depending on the type of workload.

I would say that while I still have to evaluate Google Cloud ML, AWS offers a far far better experience and cost effectiveness.
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They mention this phenomenon often on the RCR podcast http://rcrpodcast.com/ the problem tends to be the power supplies going wrong, causing surges that fry the computers. New modern power supplies for old computers is their recommendation, rather than risk using the old supply and damaging good hardware. Too late now though!
Great idea! Even more leverage for a DDoS attack!

It is a quicksand this idea, it seems fine until you rely on it and are shaken by attacks that just make your service unavailable with very few computers and traffic. And then you are screwed because we still hardly know howto prevent DDoS except by having a huge bandwidth compared to the attackers. Unless you are a megacorp with huge datacenters everywhere it is a bad idea.

But well Google will never become a monopolistic company that behave assholishly, right? They would never push standards that favors them other the few remaining hosting companies on the internet. Wouldn't they?
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Anyone could recommend any good gestures extensions? That's the only thing keeping me on the Firefox right now. I tried a bunch of the most popular ones, but rocker gestures (prev/next tab) almost never works as intended :(
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I would recommend the Raspberry Pi. If he turns out not to be that interested, you won't have invested much - the computer itself only costs $35 plus shipping and taxes.
Apart from the computer there is a truly awesome community, with a lot of emphasis on getting kids interested in coding, all sorts of different projects and really helpful forums if you get stuck. Scratch is very well supported.

There is even a getting started with computing kit: https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-77882?ICID=rpim...

That costs €139, but Matlab is freely available for the Raspberry Pi (special license), and the documentation is also freely available. What you are paying for is the bundling together with all of the accessories, which you may not need.
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At my day job, we receive a real money for processing each transaction, which adds maybe 1kb of information to the database. This makes the scaling story laughably easy. By the time we're maxing out the biggest database you can buy, it's IPO time.

For most of my life I worked in games, which is almost the exact opposite problem. Tiny CPMs, insane traffic. Multiple providers of cheap bandwidth have gone bankrupt and left me high and dry; but the savings were worth it, and I continued to chase those deals. It was the right call.

Engineers love to design architecture that (they believe/hope/pray) will scale to Uber sizes. But if you're not having a conversation with the business as to whether that's a sensible goal, it's negligence bordering on fraud. You aren't being paid to needlessly teach yourself cool new technology to solve imaginary problems.

Which is all to say: ignore parent's advice at your peril.
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This product makes full disk encryption a bit more convenient, but that's about it. Even that turns something to know in something to have, which you could argue is easier to coerce someone into handing over.

The parent comment is right to point out this computer has a fully functioning Intel ME, running it's secret, unaudited, possibly backdoored, firmware on the co-processer which runs even when switched off, and can interact with the rest of the system undetected. Any "secure" system with this foundation isn't really secure.

IMHO a product which would focus more on this (like libreboot laptops) can make a bigger claim on doing something for security than this.
Sometimes it makes sense to make a big bet on building some complex software that might take months or years to build, with lots of moving parts, but once complete solves a big problem. That is software that is "hard tech".

If and only if, a market for such a software still exists and continues to grow when you deliver the product.
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All of the instances are powered by an AWS-Specific version of Intel’s Broadwell processor, running at 2.7 GHz.

Does anyone have any more information about this? Are the chips fabricated separately or is it microcode differences?
Strange you got downvoted for this. So I will enforce you stance.

Suppose you have $50.000 to invest, what is the best strategy to invest it? If you run over the history of stocks, the best strategy is to invest it all at once, now. Not wait until you THINK the market is low, not splitting it up and buying in smaller chunks to spread your risk.
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If you don't like my viewpoint you can engage in a conversation, I'm not someone that ignores people with other opinions.

But I am going to make my case that governments should stop manipulating the markets whenever I want because it hurts the majority. (not me though, I've actually profited greatly from this. I'd still prefer it to be fair for everyone because I do not fear competition - competition actually gives me great pleasure whether I win or lose)
> "That's a good essay isn't it?" "Yeah, Yeah."

That's sarcasm, which is not a grammatical construct but a cultural(?) one. "Yeah, yeah" is a positive statement (grammatically, a double positive never turns into a negative in English), but a statement said sarcastically implies that you meant the opposite of what you said.
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What makes you think that we'll see generalized AI this soon? Is there some kind of progress beyond machine learning that I missed?
They have chips dedicated to video encoding/decoding with the latest cards doing h265. Nvidia has an ffmpeg patch here https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg
yes it's the same language. You don't have to use 'this', prototypes or classes a single time in your program. It's so much saner without all that crap.
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First time I hear this. Can you elaborate or give a source for this?
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RF spectrum is a limited physical resource, unlike a completely imaginary thing like domains namespace. But some regulation is needed, so you can't register "something.", then register "google.something." and start scam users.

There is no such thing as "default implied ownership", you can propose anything to ICANN.
I'm not a C# programmer, but attributes seem more like decorators than AOP.
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I still think that making the bulk of the vehicle land and then take off is a bit odd. Sending the fuel/oxygen factory without take off capacity ahead of a smaller crewed vehicle able to return seems to be a winning solution. The crew wouldn't need to stay after setting up the factory and other automated facilities.

I'd also be happier if a couple Dragons are sent ahead with supplies and landed around the colony site just in case the colonists need a plan B.

Finally, we shouldn't dismiss the cycler vehicle idea. We could, btw, launch one to test the environmental conditions and validate what we'd need to shield the crew during the trip. As exposed, the transport vehicles would take much less time to do the trip, but that has a cost in infrastructure.
This is a case where you have to weight both sides. On one side it is leaked documents, on the other hand it would be useless if people just paid taxes as they should. I'm okay with them doing this to catch tax evaders. Ideally all states would freely exchange information about financial transactions and tax payments for companies - rendering this useless.
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Oooh, leaf-spring or micro-switch Competition Pro?

I loved my leaf-spring one, it was built like a tank. When friends destroyed their Quickshot IIs in Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, mine just kept on trucking :)
Or run pkg audit -F (with a nice random sleep) from your monitoring system.
Vimium is a life changer. My fingers are on the keyboard 80-90% of the time and I get things done so much more efficiently.

Vimium + Alfred is a potent combination.
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"open source and secure", powered by a potentially backdoored Intel processor (i.e: through the Intel Management Engine).
But most of the Middle East and Africa aren't wired up well enough to begin with let alone have strong entrepreneurial cultures to push for local cloud adoption. Israel has a booming startup culture, they just all must use European clouds if they decide to go with a cloud infrastructure (and the vast majority of them do).

Fast connections there are also few and far between in the Middle East and Africa. In Israel, LTE is ubiquitous in urban areas, most residences have either DOCSIS 3.0 or Fiber-to-the-curb, and a nationwide FTTH infrastructure is being built out currently. Domestic connections are great - the problem is just that almost nothing is hosted domestically.

Eastern Europe / Western Russia sounds like a good idea to me, although I'm not familiar with their local Internet topologies.
The worst case was once used to attack Java based servers, using colliding post parameters I think. Since then the Java HashMap sorts colliding entries if the entries implement Comparable.
It's an API that returns a document. Nothing fancy, no bells and whistles. If, for literally anything else, someone had suggested building such a service using raw sockets, they'd rightly be laughed out of the building.

Twilio isn't implemented using AT commands either, and for the same reason.
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That's good to know, but as you say, too late :-(
There is also this, which is also still pre-release, but looks like it might be a but more affordable.

http://www.lowrisc.org
What would a minimal and sane variant of Unicode be like? Removing the weird behaviour of Unicode would necessarily mean removing support for some characters, like those that only exist in decomposed form with combining diacritics, and some types of scripts like right-to-left. Mapping code points, characters and graphemes one-to-one seems like it would make text processing easier at the cost of excluding a large portion of the character set.

I guess it would form a middle ground; US-ASCII is also a minimal subset of Unicode where text processing is easy.
They keep using the word "socialbot". I've read through the FAQ and I still only have a vague idea of what they have in mind.
I don't think you can oversubscribe GPUs

But at the price they're charging, if demand exists, they just call nVidia and order another batch of cards
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