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As I understand it, the reason the world have become more democratic and liberal for generations was because freedom made a society work better. The open societies out competed the closed ones.

If this model really works for China and other non democracies, so they can keep a liberal economy and still control people hard politically, then:

1984, here we come. :-(
Yeah, I'm not asking for an explanation of the law. I understand how it works, and that's the problem. It bans the usecase of allowing people to rent out while they travel, which wasn't the stated intention of the law.
Exactly. I give you 5
Same here, they are doing some very interesting design fiction stuff on this show.... Not always recommend to watch before bed though :)
Well there's the rub. It's certainly technically possible if the device described in the article is. Tagging the cards with "smart dust"[0] might be easier, and harder for the casino to detect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust
Came here to mention exactly this. The 1st world isn't far off something similar (instagram/twitter followers represents power and popularity)
Someone mistook various dystopian science fiction books for howto guides.
> it was hard to map the Rust concepts with what actually runs when it is compiled.

This. The primary reason to choose rust is performance -- that is, you want more advanced abstraction/safety capabilities than C++, and you want that with the same or better performance. And performance implies CPU cost and memory usage/layout control. There really isn't any point otherwise.

Therefore, going into at least a little bit of detail on the idioms and performance impact of those idioms is important. Rust is a supposed to be a systems programming language to replace C, do not pretend it's as abstract as ML in the documentation.

What throws me for a loop when learning Rust isn't high level details like the borrow checker or sum types, it's what is happening with cpu & memory[1]. When things are copied, when they aren't, how much do the std derives cost, matching cost, sum type storage cost, etc. Because while the semantics are similar to C++, they are not the same. And you don't have to go nuts specifying it (compilers will differ), but at least give a general understanding/hint of what to do and what to avoid.

To be fair, the doc does have this scattered about, but it doesn't feel a priority (There are many things I've had to search the web for or ask on #rust, or just look at disassembly for).

[1] To take an extremely simple example, RVA is something Rust supposedly does much more consistently than C++, thus returning a new struct by value to be placed wherever is idiomatic. However this isn't called out very clearly (the last time I checked) in the doc, and to a C programmer, it feels very wrong. Stuff like this is extremely important, otherwise we'd just ignore performance and use a JVM based language with the same (or better) abstraction features and a faster compiler. :-)
No, it is not illegal to read Wikileaks
Dead? Namecoin is about to have a major release.
The title of this piece seems misleading to me, and an example of how many people misunderstand statistics. I haven't seen any of the studies referred to, but I'm sure they don't establish a connection between wealth and empathy as strong as the one suggested. More likely, they show that rich people, on average, tend to have less empathy than less-rich people. But surely some very rich people have great empathy and some very poor people have very little empathy. And all combinations in between, even if, on average, greater wealth tends to correlate with less empathy.

The point above, I'm sure, is obvious to most people reading HN. But certainly not to everyone, especially people with poor understanding of statistics. So it bothers me that the title seems calculated to increase the likelihood of misunderstanding. Okay, rant over.
Superhero Movies Are Dead on Arrival, Says Author Jonathan Lethem
Points aren't really big data, they are based on rare, high signal events rather than small statistical differences across many observations.
http://www.emblem21.com
Anyone know what boards they are using for their relay controllers?
400 error for me (Bad Request - Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand).
When you buy a BMW, you have an extra asshole installed.

/snark

But seriously, in my early 20s I did land surveying. I found that the richer the neighborhood, the nastier the neighbors were. I've had people be rude to me because they think "something is up" when we were simply trying to document how one neighbor can buy 6 inches from another to make a legal setback for a garage. And then I've had just random people offer me coffee on a chilly morning. I'll let you guess which was the upscale and which was the working class neighborhood.
Sure but on the spectrum of tracking data where exactly are you going to draw the line? I'm not saying I agree with what they are doing but clearly these kinds of systems already exist. This kind of reward and punishment system exists pretty much in any large enough organization. What is an internal review and promotion system if not some kind of systematic tracking of data to reward "good" behavior?

If the Chinese government is viewed as one giant organization then again this is just a logical extension of such systems.

They are just taking a cue from credit rating agencies.
Why is nearly every word in the title capitalised?
After finishing the season today, they've really stepped up their game, it seems, from the previous seasons.
At best, one can prove that the ad was served to a computer, not actually viewed by a user. Unless there's an incentive for the user to view the ad, as there are rewards for mining blocks, this model probably wont work.
Granted, there are ways to incentivizes the user, such as paying users to view ads, but this kind of defeats the purpose of getting the user to pay your and doesn't really require a blockchain.
NPM v4.0.0
Yeah. They gave the radio operator bonus to the cook (as an example). It's easy to see from the amount it was the radio bonus, and it's easy to see from the service record somebody was a cook, and that was bonus was overpaid. And now they want their money back (which is pretty shitty, given the circumstances). But the amounts of the correct bonus and the given bonus are not unknowable. These aren't bespoke contracts, every one unique.
Falling into the Wormhole Connecting Physics and Education
This is still not that many compared to the children going to school. Additionally that's a very heterogenous group, homeschooling their children for a variety of different reasons, using different approaches following different curricula.

There is certainly space for companies who want to sell educational products and there are companies already doing so. What that means though is that you already have quite a bit of competition in a market that you're not going to completely capture. If this is your target audience you have a relatively low ceiling and you won't be able to push past it.

Additionally you can't scale to different countries or even states that easily. You need different materials to account for different languages, cultures and curricula. You need to account for regulation and a sales teams to approach the various homeschooling groups.
>Empathy does not seem to be an involuntary ability like eyesight or smell.

But my wife has accused me of selective hearing...

/rimshot

I'm here all week. Try the veal.
So why is the conversation centred around "rent"? Aren't rental prices just a byproduct of purchasing price?

You want cheaper rent? Make purchasing cheaper. You want cheaper property? 'Fix' the supply/demand problem.

I'm not entirely convinced that there is a problem - SF, NY and Sydney (heh, little old Australia still trying to stay relevant here) are great cities which are in high demand (close to infinite!), yet is extremely limited in space/land. To me, it makes sense that the price reflects that demand.
Same here. UART isn't always the only option on my platforms, but if Ethernet, WiFi, or USB gadget is unavailable for whatever reason, sz/rz (from Linux) or loady (ymodem, from U-Boot) is usually the next best choice. Minicom makes using these fairly convenient.
Would this be through a civilian court? Or a military court?
Oh great, more Telco consolidation. First the banks are too big to fail after the Great COnsolidation of the 90s and 2000s, and now this. So we can have more arguments about Title I and Title II and more arguments about the illusion of choice when we have only two choices ... DT or HC, Title I or Title II...
> Its the certainty with which some people express there opinion as absolute reality, dogmatism and fanaticism, that attracts the trolls.

This is it for me....whenever I encounter someone passing an opinion as fact, it is irresistible to have some fun. I make no claim to expertise in most any subject, but the benefit of spending 10 hours a day thinking in a nearly pure logical form, it is pretty easy to tear apart any incorrect position, the logical inconsistencies are usually plentiful enough to make it like shooting fish in a barrel.

Of course, very few people will ever change their mind based on logic or facts, but it's still fun.
This is awesome. I was about to ask at the office who set this up, but I see you bought it second hand.

Still plan on sending to everyone at the Rethink office to check out!
Exactly, the rent control can keep rents so low, that the subletter gets a great deal even though their rent for one room pays for the whole house. Why would they bring it up with the tenant board?
Yes, light rail is much better at getting people from one place where they don't want to be, to another place where they don't want to be.

You wouldn't judge an entire rail system based on the throughput of a single track, would you? Why judge the throughput of a networked surface vehicle system by the throughput of a single highway populated by human drivers?

The other person I'm conversing with in this thread makes the valid point that vast swaths of urban land are taken up by streets. What I'm saying is that this is a feature of an effective transit system, not a bug. Nobody really wants to go from one light-rail terminal to another, but streets go everywhere.
You can enforce your own property rights. The best example is Somali. No gov't, but I wouldn't argue that people don't own things there.
There's also the National Curvebank at CSULA [0].

[0] http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/home/home.htm
Many people also turn to crime in an attempt to escape poverty or a dying town. Certainly we can have empathy for desperate people making difficult decisions, but it doesn't absolve them of moral agency or place them above scrutiny.
What? It's basic math. Personal automobile space, plus stopping distance, times passengers.

Huh? That's not responsive to what I said.

You realize we're talking 30 years from now, right? How much do you know about what's already working in autonomous-vehicle pilot programs today?

Look, I get it. You don't like cars. And I don't like trains. But I genuinely think I'm right about what needs to be done to serve public transportation needs over the next several decades.

Why? Because like a lot of people I know, I'll seldom ride a public bus, streetcar or light rail system, but I'll take an Uber any day of the week.
They say they'll target Russia next.

I guess we'll know soon.
Right, because the best way to fight a hordes of posts is with another horde of posts (with less individual utility!). What you say and what OP wanted to say is only the obvious. Alienate people with more clickbaits and shit stories isn't going to fix it.
Alternate theory: being less empathetic makes it more likely you'll get rich
There is also a big difference between old money and new money. And hard-earned money vs. inherited money.

My dad used to deliver furniture as a side job for a local upholstery shop. Most of the clients had money, but some were rude while others (esp. the "old hard earned money" types) were extremely friendly.
That's what FreeCraft folks thought too
I ran TriBBS for years as a kid in the Maryland/DC metro area (301).

My OS of choice was OS/2 Warp. It could handle a full-time, two-node BBS and still allow me to do other tasks without skipping a beat -- all on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM!

I also remember being rather envious of how cool Renegade, WWIV and company looked. Not to mention the more exotic software powering the, er, rather more questionable boards: software with ominous names like ViSiON-X or Oblivion/2... But after trying them all, I eventually switched from TriBBS to PCBoard.

It was the right choice: I loved the flexibility of PCBoard's scripting language and C SDK. Adding functionality to my BBS is what prompted me to pony up for Borland's Turbo C++ and get serious about programming.
After starting mtr, press "d" twice.
The better question would probably be: Programmers, why don't you want to unionize?

While I see the benefits of unions, I also see the cost of them. Namely, I refuse to condone an action (establish a union and require membership in order to be legally employed) that limits the ability of another human being to feed his or her family, should they disagree with joining the union.

Unions, as of late, have been overtly political in action. If someone disagrees with that political activity, then they should not be forced to join the union (with whom they disagree) just to be able to provide for their families.
Two queues on the escalator is how it's supposed to be everywhere. In big cities in the US, people generally obey the rule "walk on the left, stand on the right."

But sometimes you get chuckleheads like one guy who stood right in the middle of the BART station escalator during morning rush hour and blocked everyone behind him.

And then when he got off the escalator he just waltzed out the emergency exit (thus evading the fare) without batting an eye. Some men just want to see the world burn.
The "Chesterton's fence" experiment comes to mind..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fen...
Cybersyn was about giving the government what we would call a 'dashboard' of the planned economy (with Star Trek chairs), not social control.
I didn't say it was unclear or surprising, it's very obvious since an array is an object with the special length property.

this is also obvious:

var a = new Array();

a["hello world"] = "foo";

console.log(a.length);

console.log(a["hello world"]);

Now, I don't think anyone would ever do this, but it does seem to me show weirdness in the conceptual model.

although I guess you could have someone on accident setting the value of an item in array and using a key that was NaN, example

var a = new Array();

var f = f + 3;

a[f] = "foo";

console.log(a.length);

console.log(a[f]);

I guess though it's weirdness that is easy to understand and doubtful to ever come around to bite you.
I think we as hackers can use our abilities to analyze certain companies better than the professionals.

Example 1: track the Google rankings of companies that rely a lot on search engine traffic. see if any have dropped a lot from a major algorithm change (i.e. Demand Media)

Example 2: use the Facebook graph API to do the same for companies that rely a lot on Facebook for traffic.

Example 3: at the end of every month create a profile on weightwatchers.com. Note the user id number. Use this to extrapolate the number of users that signed up every month.

Example 4: track the number of websites that installed a JS script for vendors like Hubspot.

Example 5: every month scrape Ecommerce sites and track the increase % of reviews for major brands.
AKA you don't have to be a callous jackass to get rich and stay rich, but it probably helps.
The main Russian alternative pipeline I'm aware of is Nabucco, which would be from Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany. I've not been aware of any pipeline projects from Qatar and Saudi Arabia--their natural gas is exported mostly via LNG. Considering that, unlike oil, natural gas prices are not priced equally around the world, and that the price for natural gas is much, much higher in Asia than elsewhere (Europe is about 20% the price of Asia and the US about a third to a half that of Europe (yay fracking!)), it's much more profitable for them to export to Asia.

Edit: After doing some research, I did find that there was a proposal for a Qatar-Turkey pipeline in 2010 (see https://web.archive.org/web/20120228125310/http://pipelinesi... ). It was proposed to connect to Nabucco, which hasn't been built. The articles that link the Syrian civil war, or more specifically Qatari involvement in said war, contend that Qatar wants a Muslim Brotherhood government to build the pipeline, which ignores Saudi coolness to the idea of the pipeline (Saudi Arabia also funds rebels in the civil war) and the fact that Qatar also funded the uprisings in Libya and Egypt, in the path of no contended pipeline.

In other words, the idea that the Syrian civil war is mostly about gas pipelines looks rather like people trying to find some resource that the war must be about because they can't believe war is about anything other than resources.
Raytraced view? How!?
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia used this concept as a plotline, and managed to treat it with more subtlety. Granted, it's a comedy, so the tone was wildly different.
The missing perspective here is Overwatch isn't very effective. Blantant cheaters are easy to find but anyone with half a brain can use certain types of cheats to remain easily undetected. The only solution valve has to stop cheaters is automatic detection through software which they do with VAC. However, "private" cheats (essentially paid for and only shared with small few, likely never advertised publicly) are notorious for never being detected.

Both may reduce some cheating but overall CSGO remains one of the most cheater infested games. The latest approach by valve is something called Prime matchmaking, where you must verify your identity with a phone number in an attempt to reduce throw away cheating accounts. This further divides the user base into smaller groups.

Many of the problems with cheating stem from the data passed between client and server. Though many of these design choices have advantages for other client performance/features, they allow cheating to prosper.

As a side note, third party match making such as ESEA use a more extensive and supposedly more effective anti cheat software. These services are usually paid as well.
There was a British show called The Real Hustle where the cast basically performs real world scams on people filmed with hidden cameras. One year, they went to Vegas.

In one of their most brazen scams, they gathered a crew to swap the card shoe at a casino table. It's amazing how much damage nerves of steel, team work, and a split second distraction can lead to.

This particular scam starts at about 22 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixUvZjIK_Ms

The expert at the end does mention it is likely bribing dealers and camera operators would be the most likely scenario since the payout is large enough to make it affordable to do.
Or maybe it was a distraction while they did some nasty stuff we'll hear about (or not) on Monday... Big linux vuln announced day before, right?
React-native is using native components not webviews, the business logic can be reused. To me the biggest upside is quick iteration livereload is very handy compared to purely native dev. flow.
Is Music Education Important?
Indeed. Vegas is about as sanitary and clean as it gets. There's almost no sleaze left. Fremont at night can get sketchy, but only in the sense of desperate poor people.

But I guess that's how good they are at selling the myth of Vegas. They want you to believe it's wild, sexy, out of control, and naughty. In reality, it's all highly regulated, calculated, and completely under control by large corporations.
http://www.graphwar.com/
That's not true, xz allows efficient decompression of arbitrary byte ranges inside the file.
As soon as you saved and bought, they announced 56k! Fun times. :p

Talking of modems, a place I worked around '90 had racks full of modems for customer dial-in. What never occurred to me until I saw it was each one needed a phone line - half the back wall was covered with phone points!

Some years later a project was trying to do caller ID to computer. Simple idea, ridiculous number of issues. We found one modem that actually talked UK CLI of the dozens that claimed to. UK Cable spoke US CLI.
How to Practice Piano in the Noise
I wouldn't trust this device as a phone, especially not as a smartphone. You couldn't pay me to associate it with a trusted wifi network, put my SIM in there, or actually use an app.
Lets all pretend that the US won't be doing this in 10 years.

Facebook/Google are already working with credit agencies and law enforcement.

We make China out to be the big bad guy, but all they do is follow our example.
And next weak we read how the daughter was raped and murdered.
It seems like a reaction based on some very conservative legal advice and a nasty cease and desist letter. I hope they have a strategy to negotiate and if no quick progress then name and shame by publishing the letter.
> You realize we're talking 30 years from now, right? How much do you know about what's already working in autonomous-vehicle pilot programs today?

Nothing at all that addresses their space or energy efficiency. Nothing on the horizon either. Those physical constraints are fundamental to that mode of transportation.

> Look, I get it. You don't like cars.

Actually I quite like cars. You don't seem to be responding to the points I wrote.

> Why? Because like a lot of people I know, I won't ride a public bus, streetcar or light rail system, but I'll take an Uber any day of the week.

Why is that?
They just tag the boxed decks so they can verify chain of custody and control.
Remix (YC W15) is hiring engineers to build real-life SimCity
...because they use DynDNS's services?
The premise of this sub thread is that cybercom and NSA proper have fundamentally different missions, in part because they are governed by fundamentally different legal frameworks, and it should therefore also be split from NSA proper. It was not an argument that IAD should not also be split off.
You seem awfully confident in your assertions about the behaviour patterns of a demographic to which you presumably do not belong. Can you provide any independent analysis of these behaviours, or systematic investigations of them?
I am sure it doesn't help that plenty of people say ugly things like "eat the rich." Plenty of rich folks "have dozens of friends and the fun never ends -- that is, as long as they're buying." If you know all the people around you would not hesitate to sell you out and only have any so-called respect whatsoever because you have money and power, it isn't like you are getting any empathy.

That shit cuts both ways.
I was just saying something similar on Lobsters. It's even the same patterns down to no security in OS's and Telnet-style issues.
Completely not true at least for poker. In the last 5 years, I've never been asked to put my phone away, at least as long as I'm not talking on it.