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I wasn't thinking about outright rejecting any charge, but rather that you would price some charges more expensively than others. As a seller of insurance, you're going to price above your estimated percentage, to give you some profit and compensation for the risk, but if you price too high you have no revenue.

It also becomes a much more interesting market if there are multiple competing providers of insurance that bid against each other (just as ad networks work, for example).

As a buyer of insurance, I would always have the choice to not buy the contract and take on the risk myself.

If the market works (which is a big if), it should become an efficient transfer of risk to companies that are experts in evaluating it.

Very interested to hear more of your thoughts though, as you're obviously part of the target audience at your dayjob!
Sounds medically legit
Risks are relative. is a very different calculation than People have lived in zero g for a year at a time, without significant health impact.
Rent Stabilization has been in the process of being phased out since 1970:

- Rent Control simply doesn't exist if you or a relative you co-habitated for years with under special conditions lived there before then.

- Rent Stabilization for a unit ends the moment the stabilized rent hits within striking distance of market rate or the number of stabilized units in-building drops below a threshold. More units deregulate every year than are added and this is true year over year as well (sole exceptions to the latter being in 2014 & 2015).
You do know that there are CPU cores out there which were written in chisel? It's true that it is still in the growing phase, but investing time to learn it will definitely pay off.
> an authoritarian government that will attempt to control and regulate every aspect of its citizens lives including persecution of wrong thoughts.

I think this is a perfect description of capitalist countries, including the US. Of course, they try to give people thousands of perceived options, like what color of car to buy, but in the end everyone needs to abide by rules that are increasingly more coercive.
Would make a great TV series, a la Terra Nova. You might have a society where the average lifespan is cut in half, predominant diseases are space-related and accidents are a daily or weekly part of life. It wouldn't be like living on Earth, but it would be something.
> To make the colony self supporting, you need to transfer factories, chemical plants, machine industry, mining industry, etc.

Like they said, most of the cost is transportation. Which gets cheaper.
Oh that at least could theoretically be feasible considering AWS's SLA though they might as well claim it's 99.9999999999999999999999999%
DDoS mitigation is already a mostly solved problem; IDMS/TMS and RTBH are things. Many networks don't install them though, and when they do they often only get tested once an attack starts. For obvious reasons, many network operators are highly reluctant to hose down production services with test attacks.

Adding crypto isn't going to help in the case where someone's hosing you down with reflected UDP traffic, as the packets are still going to transit your ingress link and clog it up for production requests. Sure, you can force the use of DTLS, but your load balancers are just going to go "well this is bogus traffic" and throw it away, but by then it's too late since it's already in your network.

Mandating egress filtering for traffic isn't going to help that much either, because then a botnet is just going to stop spoofing traffic. This makes it easier to mitigate it from the target's perspective, but with a large enough set of transmitters the target will still see an impact.

The bottom line is that if you want to allow connections from the entire Internet, then every lightbulb, refrigerator, and lawn sprinkler with a wifi chip is eligible to connect to you. Unless there's an effort to create international policies to stop vendors from shipping exploitable firmware for these things, this problem is just going to keep getting worse for those of us who can't afford good DDOS protection.
They are moving towards homogeneous systems in all their data centers. Each and every system will have these fpgas.
This one: Companies offer products that meet a consumer need without creating an effective, easily accessed platform for criminal third parties to tax the rest of us. If they can't do that, then they don't fucking offer the product. "The only way we can sell this is to enable DDOSes by Russian hackers!" is a reason to say "then don't offer the product!"
Honduras on the other hand had an elected president. Obama bankrolled his generals, who overthrew him in a coup in 2009, and then he continued bankrolling them. Where are the US newspaper headlines about the Honduran dictatorship? The Organization of American States, with the exception of the US, is who was condemning this.

Where did you read this? Wikipedia tells a very different story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional_c...

The OAS vote suspending Honduras from the organization was unanimous.. including the US.

The US and Costa Rica also negotiated with Honduras to have Zelaya reinstated (san jose accord).

If the supreme court of Honduras issues an arrest warrant for the president.. in what way is that the fault of the US? Surely you're not suggesting some kind of grand conspiracy involving the US, the Honduras supreme court, Honduras military, multiple OAS members and Costa Rica... all working together to remove the president of Honduras just so that 6 months later they could hold an new election and continue their democracy? That would be a bit crazy.
IANL but I think when people like most of us here try to interpret the law we try to think of it as software code. However the law doesn't work that way. Intent of the law can cover more than the strictly literal interpretation. That's why we have judges, to decide what the law means. A Judge could very well decide that what you are doing is close enough to a B&B as to be a distinction without a difference.
And it's an 'additive' kind, being that I get an additional boost of happy neurotransmitter thinking I'm adding a beneficial comment, thus potentially helping a reader to an understanding I have & perceive that they might not have as strong a grasp of. I like to help, thus am happier. If the form button fails to submit my contribution, I feel disappointment. At having wasted the effort in trying to contribute, but moreso, at not contributing.
Honestly, the more you program in rust, the more you get used to its mannerisms. I don't at this point find that I'm less productive in it than in Go, and with gennerics I'm generally able to reuse code more often meaning that I usually write less code. Similarly in C I lose time on screwing up basic things that I have to debug in testing, whereas in Rust I don't have to even worry about that.

I'm actually not buying the productivity argument, after you've learned the language. Claiming that it is less productive when you barely know it isn't fair, it's similar to saying that Italian (as an English speaker) is much more complex and hard to communicate in than English, when you've only studied the language for a month.

It does have a steep learning curve, so it's either worth it to you to learn it, or not. But once you know it, I think your overall productivity is higher or the same as other languages, and on top of that you end up with fewer production issues!
Source? AFAIK NASA is performing successful experiments of closed isolated colonies. http://hi-seas.org/
I definitely haven't seen anything as comprehensive as the linked PDF for Rust (although that shouldn't be surprising given the extreme thoroughness of that guide and the age of C++). Probably a good project!

When doing very performance sensitive things in Rust, I usually find myself asking questions a lot on IRC and looking at disassembly in perf.

To answer some specific examples you cited above: I'm pretty sure that enums are (almost?) always equivalent to tagged unions. If you have an enum which doesn't contain any data, then I believe it's representation is just the tag. Iterators are just structs with methods, the various generic functions they implement are monomorphized and then optimized by LLVM.
Perhaps an easier example is Janus, such as their 2-way demo that forwards all media packets through the Janus server: https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/videocalltest.html

Or the more complex demo, for a video conference where all media is forwarded through the Janus server: https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/videoroomtest.html
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coming from haskell too, i missed this. ghci is really fantastic.
I am curious why you think that the government could curb its worst excesses more easily as a monopoly when it fails to do so now when its basically a duopoly.
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Worst case scenario, what would that actually be like? A few hundred people who gave up their lives on earth to live in habitats on an inhospitable planet one day learn that the worst fear of the 20th century came true, and there's nobody left back home. It's just them, the only remaining sentient beings in the known universe, without 99% of the technology that got them where they are now.

How could they even begin to try to rebuild civilization when they can't even go outside without an apparatus that took thousands of years of science to produce? What is the speed divisor for advancement of a society marooned on a world it didn't evolve to live on?

I'm all for Mars colonization, but as a backup plan for Homo sapiens, it kind of sucks.
There isn't that I could find, but I'm happy to keep track between now and when they burn through their runway.

Offtopic: Love utilitydive.com! Very helpful for keeping track of how renewables are making inroads in the utility sector.
A nuclear-proof bunker hidden beneath Greenland with air/water filter system will be 1000 times cheaper, and will promise a better survival chance in almost any scenario.

If humanity is wiped out on Earth, people in Mars are fucked anyway: they will be one depressurization accident from extinction.
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AirBnB house has positive externalities, and is much more desirable to live next to than multifamily, at least in the type of town I live in.

This is why my land owning neighbors love me and are happy with the direction the neighborhood is changing into.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135484
Thanks for the info. What was noteworthy to me is that their aircraft carrier is running on diesel and is clearly something from the 80s.
haha, that safety stuff is just training wheels. You can't delegate security. Even if you use some baby-proof "programming language", as a security engineer you still have to verify that the safety works in the condition(s) you're programming for.
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But it hasn't really dropped off since earlier today.
This isn't true at all. The language has an impact on whether you can make perform these checks at runtime or at compile time. If you can do them at compile time, performance isn't affected at all and the code won't run slower.
It's why I'm concerned about Clinton.
A credit to Node.js, but you don't have any redundancy with a single server. Also, for $100 on Google that's a small instance (1-standard-4)?

With MongoDB, you really should be running a replica set cluster which requires a minimum three nodes.

Anyway, if your hosting cost is $100 a month or it is $1,000 a month, both trivial compared to your time of working on the idea.
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Ceres is a much better hub for mining asteroids or as an intermediate step to gas giants. Martian atmosphere is a b as the sad yesterday news show. Also less gravity. If you're going to need living in an underground bubble, look for the practical arrangements, not for the planet status.
> 1) If you attempt to read the script in your browser first, and everything's great, then go pipe to bash, the server can send alternate content based on your user agent.

I'm having trouble finding a proper source, but I'm pretty sure someone came up with a way to do it even if curl spoofs the user agent. I think it worked by looking for the characteristic timing pattern of bash emptying the pipe in small bursts as it executes the individual script lines.
It's hardly dire if the custom fonts don't load for a few hours.
Also an unbiased and free news media, which is another thing that might need to be on your list.
You need to transport a seed factory.[1] The clever thing about the Mars Colonial Transport is that it includes solar panels to generate electricity as well as the machinery needed to produce methane and oxygen which serves as fuel for a return voyage.

The really cool thing about this is that methane can be used as a feedstock to produce many plastics and the oxygen can be used for humans to breathe.

The MCT is a prototype for a seed factory style Von Neumann probe.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Seed_Factories
Luckily I don't live in NY and short term rentals are perfectly legal in my town and state.

What I am saying are the laws in NY are too strict and strangling growth.
LOL. I, too, sometimes forget HN is an American majority community and get enraged by the occasional foolishly bold comment like parent's. But then the reality sets in... I am on American soil here on HN! What was I expecting?
I'd say my experience matches this. I've written well over 50 KLOC of both Go and Rust in the last few years (I love both), and I don't personally experience a big productivity difference between them. There is one dimension where I feel like Rust makes me more productive though: when writing code that I want to go as fast as possible.

I bet there are things that would be more productive in Go, maybe building web applications, but I haven't built any in Rust yet, so it's hard to compare.

As a reference point, I feel much more productive in Rust/Go than I do in any unityped language. I suspect the same is true of C, but I've never been a heavy C practitioner.

I'll stop here though, because this is all pretty subjective and wishy washy, and it will undoubtedly vary from person to person and be dependent on what kinds of problems you're solving most frequently.
Hi-seas isn't self-sustaining in food, water, or atmosphere.
Presumably about n-fold higher (marginally) than without redundancy. Not counting the cost of this sort of outage, which could swing the equation strongly in favor of nX
I didn't retitle it, that was the original title. NYT changed it realizing it was clickbait.
But you have to do that for every similar service and try and match up records. It would be a nightmare. Landlords would also create different companies/accounts to rent out the max nights per year. It's just not enforceable.
Do you actually believe that an orderly transition to socialism is what's happening in Venezuela, or are you just presenting that as a theoretical framework for some kind of ideal case?
First class multi-dimensional arrays with natural indexing syntax would be a huge draw. You get that in Numpy, Julia, Fortran and it is extremely powerful in terms of expressing the types of operations that are common across many scientific domains.
not the OP, but i strongly disagree. you don't need to be an expert to write rust. Many of it's features are in a huge amount of other languages; parametric polymorphism, ad hoc polymorphism, type inference, etc. there's nothing new and groundbreaking besides ownership and lifetimes, from a language syntax perspective. it really just takes a little bit to get used to ownership and you're off to the races. the compiler helps you out in a big way with writing correct programs.

i also feel fracturing the community would be terrible. i came from basically a dynamic programming background (had done java and c++ in soft. eng. in school and that's it) and I had no problem learning rust.
Hi-Seas is not closed loop. You're thinking of something more like Biosphere 2[1] Which had it's flaws.

We've never done this on any significant scale with success.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Yup until this morning, AWS was using Dyn as the sole provider of nameservers for the us-east-1 zone. So this attack did have a pretty substantial impact on some AWS services until they updated us-east-1 to use the more diverse set of nameservers their other datacenters use.
I love Evergreen's three cup tofu and eggplant enough that I figured out how to make it at home now that I don't live three blocks away :-P
Where is the WTF in that script? Just because the author chose a base-85 encoding over base64? (That's a little weird, as I suspect the savings are so minor as to not be worth it …)
> If you attempt to read the script in your browser first, and everything's great, then go pipe to bash, the server can send alternate content based on your user agent.

curl | less

Or copy the request "as curl" from the network tab of any modern browser.
Universities are research centers, not just schools.

Undergraduate students get scholarships for doing research, grad students do research as part of their studies and professors are usually researchers as well.
Has anyone seen any estimates of how much economic productivity was lost from today's DDoS?
Congrats! Now comes the hard part. Launch is a huge event, but it's typically difficult to get that level of press in the following months. You'll mostly have to grow on your own.

The holy grail is massive, sustained, free word-of-mouth growth. You mentioned achieving product-market fit? That's usually what it looks like: You've identified a group of people who have a valuable problem, your product does a badass job solving it for them, your marketing appeals to these people specifically, and they are talking to each other about your product with enthusiasm.

There are lots of examples on my website (https://IndieHackers.com) that showcase how various businesses have reached this point, so you might want to take a look there. Here are a few suggestions that I've distilled from these interviews:

- Hang out on relevant message boards and forums, and offer your product to people who sound like they might need it. (It's important to do this in a non-spammy way, e.g. talk about other options in addition to yours, and also give them general advice.)

- Offer some sort of referral/affiliate program so your customers (or even random people) can advertise for you, and you don't have to pay unless you make sales.

- Look for a good distribution channel. I've talked to lots of people in the past who make almost all their sales due to exposure via the Shopify marketplace, the Google Apps marketplace, the App Store, etc. Maybe building integrations can help with this.

- Direct sales is underrated. Find potential customers and email them. Go to conferences and events where you know potential customers will be, and talk to as many as possible.

- Make your branding even more niche. One example is how ConvertKit went from "email marketing" to "email marketing for authors" to "email marketing for professional bloggers". It seems limiting, but it makes it way easier to find target customers' communities, and it helps you spread by word of mouth since these specific people tend to hang out together. It also gives you lots of ideas for building the features your specific customers need, so your product ends up being way better for them than alternatives.

- Start producing content that your potential customers would benefit from. This is a long-term strategy that takes some serious commitment, but it can really pay off. For a good example, check out Hubstaff's blog, which I believe is crucial in helping their business generate leads: http://blog.hubstaff.com

Also, your TechCrunch article says you're a bootstrapped team of 3, and I don't see any pricing. Are you giving it away for free? If there is one piece of advice you take away from this comment to the exclusion of everything else, it's this: Charge money for your product as soon as possible. It's extremely difficult to tell if you're on the right path with a business-targeted product if people can't pay for it, and it it's extremely difficult to build a company if you can't tell if you're on the right path.
> Download and run

I generally have a shell open, so it is easier for me to copy/paste into that session than open a file dialog, save a temporary file, (potentially) switch to a different directory, run the script, and delete it.

> GUI program

Creates a temporary file on my disk, needs a correct file association for .sh since the download manager won't save it with +x (for my machine it automatically opens in Emacs, which isn't what I want), I don't even know how to make Linux open a terminal automatically for .sh. I know on Windows cmd.exe would close the window immediately after running the script so you can't see the output. All in all more complicated than just copy and pasting into an active shell session.
They are not experimenting with sustainable biosphere. They eat prepackaged foods and are not completely sealed from their environment. They just simulate trip to Mars psychologically and test foods.

There was Biosphere 2 experiment few decades ago, but they could not keep the biosphere stable.
And why would an authorian regime in one country justify American destabilization in their territory?

Jesus, I'm tired of american military acting world police pretty much everywhere. I do not like dictatorships, but bombing people into democracy rarely works, as northern Iraq is an excellent example of.
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I guess that's what I'm getting at though. If we were to scan for the affected devices, change the passwords and notify the manufacturer of the change and that it was made because their carelessness essentially endangered the internet it would make it possible for them to fix it.

You're plugging a leak and letting the owner know, hey this was leaking and I stopped it but you're going to need to address that.
Which is why most package managers for installling software use signatures. .msi, .deb, .app, .rpm... all provide methods for signing code, and can refuse to install code without signatures or improper signatures.
From his handle (and comment) he/she seems to be Brazilian, a kind of people that see the world with red-coloured lenses and believe the next populist is always the best one.
Awesome. I have used Iron a few times to write small web services, but I can't wait for Rust to really have a strong story for the backend. If that happens it'll be the first language I reach for whenever I need to write a backend.

I think it has a lot of great bonuses already. It's language ergonomics are that of a high-level language, yet it is extremely fast, and I can be very confident in my code if it compiles.

Rust is one of my favorite languages, keep up the great work guys.
Thanks Walter! Those are good points.
Sometimes in dating, it seems that giving an explicit rejection early on can open yourself up to further undesired communication and wasted time/energy (i.e. rather than accept it and move on, they take it as an opportunity to engage further). I wonder if the same sort of thing happens in the job market? Perhaps this is the rationale (a subconscious one even) behind some of this "ghosting"?
I'm not worried about open conflict, I'm worried that the internet will become a battlefield and our businesses will be caught in the crossfire.