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I've read all six novels of David Brin's Uplift trilogies this past year. If you enjoy sci-fi written with a sound grasp of ecological issues and an intriguing take on galactic society, have a look at these books.

Also, dolphins in space.

If you are unfamiliar with this author, you may remember him from his essay on a particular persistent trope in sci-fi writing linked on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13040930

I enjoyed the Uplift series (written in the eighties and nineties) a lot, and was pleasantly surprised to learn of a short story bundle that came out just this year. It includes a novelette that takes place in the Uplift universe, wrapping up some loose ends.

The story bundle is named Insistence of Vision, named for the opening story. The name is indubitably a nod to John Varley's (sublime!) short story The Persistence of Vision (also the name of the story bundle it is collected in, recommended for any sci-fi fan). I always find short sci-fi stories refreshing in that they provide a chance to explore more radical ideas and settings that would be hard to facilitate in longer works. Brin is one of those authors who succeeds in titillating the reader's imagination with interesting what-ifs and extrapolations without feeling contrived. Recommended.
From what I've gathered so far, LEDE is where the vast majority of activity and development moved after OpenWRT alienated most of the participants with friction in their workflow. OpenWRT had just a shell of 3 project members left, but continued to have substantial name recognition.
What replacement do you have in your mind?
Yeah, once you're committed to the AMP, the first part doesn't matter.

If you ran a LAMP shop, and you told the developers that the company is switching to BAMP (BSD) or IAMP (Illumos), it wouldn't change the code the developers write one iota. Honestly, the important parts are "free as in beer" and "Unix-like" (and you could probably replace "Unix-like" with "command-line driven" and it'd work just as well).
I will admit that had there been a better sea wall the Fukushima incident would have much less severe. But I still think it's beside the point.

As to your point about passive safety systems only working for a finite period of time before causing issues, would you mind providing some sources for this claim? As far as I know this is completely false. The very nature of 'passive' safety system is that the laws of physics provide a negative feedback loop that stop a chain reaction and dissipate heat away from the core. This isn't the case for every reactor design of the past few decades, but that's not my argument, I'm simply stating that there are reactor designs out there that are completely passively safe (in terms of preventing a meltdown). You will still be left with the radioactive remnants of the (non-active) core but this can be easily shielded by water for an indefinite period of time.
That ~$250M/year is spending on both homeless and homelessness prevention, only about $100 million of that is actual services for the homeless, of whom there are ~7000, so about $14,000/homeless person.

http://sfist.com/2016/04/12/no_san_francisco_does_not_spend_...

I think there's a strong argument for changing tactics, but if one of my friends anywhere in the bay area told me they were living on $14,000/yr I would ask if they have enough food, so it doesn't surprise me that this isn't really working.
You're correct, initially it was merely fraud, but counterfeit dimensions soon emerged.

I should also mention that when I received the package, the USB drive was inside of Kingston USB drive packaging, which surprised me because they didn't describe it as a Kingston product on the listing page.

I can suppose the rationale for Kingston packaging was that Kingston was the only provider of 512GBs at the time, and its addition was a way to sell the fraud's narrative should any doubt later arise, such as after getting mysteriously corrupted data whenever more than 32GB was used.

I had live chats about the case with different customer service agents over a period of months. However, every time I spoke about the issue, it was like the previous hour-long conversations had never happened. Each time, I had to get the agent up to speed on the situation from the ground up, resending the images of evidence, re-explaining that I would be happy to return the item but only to the police or to Taobao corporate instead of resupplying and becoming the accomplice of a suspected criminal.

As far as I could tell, there was no internal procedure for investigating the possibility of fraud or counterfeit. The customer service agents only ever viewed the case through a general return heuristic. The first and final recommendation was always to "return the product to the seller."
just went ahead and 1-click ordered Eckhart's book. I recall listening to the audiobook I torrented 4 years ago but never got to finish it.

I'm reading Principles.com and I'm blown away by how similar it is to my own model of the world but without the same confidence and experiences to back it up the way Ray did.

I think perhaps I was being too judgemental about Ray by reading the WSJ article. But to be fair, I'm constantly trying to grasp reality. Perhaps it's better to go in without strong opinions at all...#2017resolutions
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to a true local storage option. I'd recommend watching https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/7562 and https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30044 if you want to keep up with how things develop.
> well, my point was, in garbage-collected languages you don't have the option to never even engage the garbage collector by creating variables on the stack, while in languages like C++ you can avoid the overhead of malloc/free by using stack variables.

Oh, I see. I can see what you mean, but there are solid techniques for avoiding GC in e.g. JVM-based langauges -- for an example see e.g. Disruptor/Aeron.

I'll happily grant that it's a problem that it can be quite hard to see if you're actually avoiding GC when using these patterns. It'd be interesting if there were a "@no-gc" annotation which could enforce such patterns on the source code. (So, essentially you'd have a compile-time "GC by default, but you can opt-out and the compiler will tell you when you violate that". One can dream.)
Yeah I can't replicate it either on my OnePlus with Chrome. Really confused what's going on here, as I don't do any JS routing things at all...
Wow awesome job you have done there! Mind sharing how you manage to get your first client?
I read a few PG Wodehouse books every year. Uncle Fred, Lord Emsworth, and Bertie Wooster are my spirit animals.
The higher level languages are also used to munge the data into lib-readable format. Python and R's standard libs are especially good at putting out various tabular and database formats in preparation for ML input
Thanks for the feedback!

Pricing keeps coming up, so we're going to look at what we can do. We don't want to get into providing accurate prices (they change too frequently and it'd be a game of cat and mouse; and the intention is not to be a price comparison site) but it's been asked for enough that clearly we need a way to at least show the difference between a $50 toy and a $3000 rig.

I'm curious about the negated filters - why would you want to only consider things that don't have a feature? If you don't care about a feature, you can ignore the filter for it, but why (for example) would you specifically want something that doesn't have GPS or doesn't have Altitude Hold?
Then what alternative would you propose? The terms of the debate have been defined by totalitarians who themselves use Newspeak to get people to accept their systems. By disrupting the language, RMS makes dissent thinkable.
Remove GNU glibc, then, because you use Firefox, not GNU glibc.
The permissions Signal asks for do seem excessive (both on iPhone and even more so on Android).

Can anyone justify why they are necessary?
A proposal for preventing phishing
Essence of Linear Algebra
A (very small) few of these are responses to common Newspeak found in the industry. For instance, RMS insists on calling DRM "Digital Restriction Management".

.. A much more evocative and accurate title. You don't put DRM on something to make it more open, you put DRM on something to restrict it. The name itself is inherently weaseley, this inversion actually calls it what it accomplishes. Besides, nothing is lost, since the initialism is more common in everyday usage.

But a great deal of it is just tiresome pedantry.
C string literals are " char * ".

C++ string literals are " const char * " (one of the minor incompatibilities between the languages).

They ought to be "const char[]" but aren't. And, the behavior of "char[]" should be the same as "struct { char[] }", but it isn't.
And to even reverse global warming I suggest a full blown nuclear war. All the CO2 producing industry will be destroyed and the nuclear winter afterwards should be cold enough even for hardcore global warming alarmists.
MCP.js (dynamic) vs. GitHub Pages (build process)
I think you're missing the point. It is not that all that information exists, it is that all that information has to exist in a single particle. This is not impossible, but it is implausible.
Obama to impose new permanent bans on offshore drilling
I read a few dozens each year. These are the top in my 2016 list.

* Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. If you can read only one book on startup this year, read this book.

* Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

* Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works.

* Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business.

* Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle.

* Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. You will like or hate this book a lot, but it's surely an interesting read and perspective.

* Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. Good book that gives you a framework to become more optimistic.

* Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

* The Three-Body Problem Trilogy. Great, great sci-fi.

* Understanding ECMAScript 6. Best ES6 reference book.

* Node.js Design Patterns. Best Node book for intermediate/advanced developers.

* CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems. Great, great book on advanced CSS tips & tricks.

* Mastering Selenium WebDriver. This is probably the only good book on Selenium among so many bad books on this topic.

* Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people. This is a good book but might be too basic for many people. Recommended for those who wants to quickly refresh their algorithms knowledge.
You would be surprised at how many private liberal arts schools are north of $40,000 / year and how many people pay full pay.

Even schools that are mid to low tier are charging a lot for a 4 year education. I suspect that many of the low tier and some mid tier schools will go out of business in the next 5 to ten years. Some schools have gone under already. Getting alumni to donate is getting harder for raising money and schools rely on not just the fees they charge but also donations[0].

This site will allow you to see private versus public schools and has estimates for fees and room and board (living expenses). Just page through a few pages and you will see that for private schools most schools add up to more than $30,000 / year and many more than $40,000. Many the schools you will not recognize their names. The cost of college is out-of-control.

Some private schools many are "need based". What that means is that if your effective family contribution (FASFA Calculation [1]) is less than the estimated cost of attendance [2,3,4] then the school will provide financial aid for the difference.

The financial aid may be in the form of tax credits, student debt, grants (like a scholarship), scholarships, exchange for student employment and more. Many aid packages are a mix. Schools that load up students with debt are doing a very bad service to the student, their families and society.

0: http://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/compare/tables/?state=M...

1: https://fafsa.ed.gov/

2: http://www.olin.edu/admission/costs/cost-of-attendance/

3: http://financialaid.richmond.edu/prospective/cost.html

4: https://www.elon.edu/e/admissions/undergraduate/financial-ai...
Uber will lose over 3 billion dollars this year. It lost 2 billion last year. Personally, that should influence your investments more than them avoiding a $150 permit or an attempt to avoid invading their drivers rights more than they already do.
My sister has spent the last ~15 years in nonprofit management, she consistently says that marketing and outreach are 30-40% of the budget at the nonprofits she works with, many of which have annual donations in the 8 figures.

Socially it's really unacceptable to say "we spent $3 million on marketing this year" because people think you should have spent it helping people, but if you don't spend it this year your doors close next year.
Ok Mr Tanenbaum, Linus and you already had this argument </sarcasm>
The final stage are fully automated factory's on ships, going to where the resources are the cheapest. Receiving machinery from other ships, selling Kalashnikov and cellphones, to a mankind at war over boredom.

Good thing is though, machines dont need CEOs - so the last rat on the ship, might have the flagpoles cotton as towel.

That is unless they can invent so many boolshit jobs, that the hamster wheel keeps on churning.
We've started building a comparison chart for Quadcopters and would appreciate feedback! Only just started but I'd ask for feedback to make sure it's going in a good direction.

https://www.thedronechart.com/

The goal is to be a really simple chart of popular drones and specs that can be sorted/filtered/linked to to help you quickly see which drones might suit your needs. It won't include reviews or other subjective content, just facts/specs/etc. (and no prices, because they fluctuate too much). In the future it might do drone vs drone comparisons but for now it's going to just be a filterable/sortable table.

All filters persist in the URL so you can easily share links, eg for drones with GPS and gimbals, the link looks like this:

https://www.thedronechart.com/#t-gimbal=on&t-gps=on

You can also click the Share icon next to a drone to highlight it and move it to the top - this also goes into the URL so you can send someone a filtered list with a highlighted recommendation. Eg., a GPS-equipped list with the Mavic Pro highlighted is like this:

https://www.thedronechart.com/#t-gps=on&dr=dji-mavic-pro

All of this is generated (sadly not in realtime) from a public Google Doc (there's a button at the bottom of the page):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ac0f5RKq86v-_mDdjb08...

Although editing the doc is restricted to us, anyone can add comments. This means the community can help fill in the blanks or correct things with comments, and we will frequently review the comments and update the real data.

All feedback is very much welcome! What things you think should filterable? What columns are missing? What columns are useless fluff? Should we exclude really cheap toys? Flags are intended to show where the drones are available to purchase (we're only adding US/UK for now) but if it turns out 99% are available in both, we might just ditch them (there's a filter to go with it, but it's hidden while the data isn't fully populated).

We'll continue working through populating more data over the coming days; apparently there are a lot of quadcopters out there! ;)

Note! The site does include affiliate links/banners (but fairly minimal, we detest ad-heavy pages as much as the next guy). I'd really love to upgrade my Syma X5HC to a Phantom 3 Standard so I hope this might help towards that in addition to being a useful tool for others.
OWS already has:

https://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/2125358...
Dynatrace CEO blog: Constantly innovating. 7 years an APM leader
Java Champions' Response to the Register Article on Java SE Usage
Amazon, Jet/Walmart, and eBay (alternatively AliExpress). Throw in a handful of niche marketplaces like AdaFruit or SparkFun, and it sounds like the market is working as intended.

You don't need to convince me, I know what you mean. But I don't want to have to buy Hachette books from Hachette.com, Penguin books from Penguin.com, MiracleGro from MiracleGro.com, Cards Against Humanity from CardsAgainstHumanity.com, bleach from Clorox.com, toilet paper from Charmin.com, etc. It's really nice that for all of those things, I only need to give one company my credit card number. Worst case scenario, two or three.

It's also the same reason I do my grocery shopping at a supermarket and not buying directly from a farmer. I only need to visit one store (maybe two).
super-into isometric graphics. Invisible Inc does it very well.

Tokyo 42, a supposed spiritual successor of Syndicate, is another new game with a terrific architectural style.
Trump doesn't generally take concrete positions, so I can't find any other meaningful quote from him on surveillance or encryption or anything like that. If you're just asking in general, he has disagreed with the courts many times, such as on Roe v. Wade or his own lawsuits.

This quote in isolation is still not great, what does "I think security overall — we have to open it up" mean? But looking at it in isolation is obviously not very useful. Combine it with his lack of a position on many other important issues, and his cabinet picks so far.
Could anyone else find where the stat came from on number of millionaires? I opened the linked PDF report the link ultimately led to, read the whole thing and couldn't find it.

I'm curious because the devil may be in the details and the headline may not be what it sounds.

Specifically...

- What form does this wealth take? Are they only paper rich? If so, they probably can't access much of those funds. Same if they are tied up in retirement accounts.

- What is the distribution of money in this sample? If it is closer to $1M for the majority vs much higher amounts, that isn't as much money as most people think it is out here when a crappy small house in a decent neighborhood costs more than that. Certainly not "divert your funds to solve poverty" levels of cash. If you have $1M and have a decently large mortgage out here, that money is likely not even enough to cover your retirement if you keep living here.

This sort of headline and math drives impressions and revenue for Business Insider but this is likely a non story.

Don't get me wrong... This is a big problem that we should absolutely be trying to solve. But this seems to point the finger at a group of people who may not really be worth pointing the finger at because they actually aren't that wealthy in reality if you factor in the form of that wealth, cost of living, mortgage, and saving for retirement. They may in fact look more similar to the upper middle class of 20 years ago, albeit with smaller, crappier homes.
Tron/Etron and variants most likely if any operating system at all. What powers non-smart refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, microwave ovents, etc? Tron for many of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
That's unfortunate. I'm totally a small game designer. I come up with concepts that excite me all the time but "adding new content" i.e. seasonal hats and new weapons and crap doesn't excite me at all (and I did it professionally for a year at one game company, I can do it for work but I'd hate to do it in my spare time).

Adding features or levels is different, and I could do some of that, but I think I just want to make a games that are addictive to play and give you the "oh, I can get a little farther this time!" feel, like again like 2048.

Oh well, if they're not successful then that's just too bad.
I think the most interesting thing about this article is that they pulled it from reddit. That said, there are a lot of interesting things in there.
The point is that while both reference counting and garbage collection are types of automatic memory management, the reverse isn't true.

From a 1976 paper on automatic memory management https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/690M/deutsch.pdf

"Automatic reclamation of storage no longer in use is done by the following two techniques:

* Garbage collection
* Reference counting"

Note that these are two separate items and that one is not a subset of the other (and vice versa). It is simply incorrect to call reference counting "garbage collection" when the academic and industrial practices already have explicit meanings to these two terms.
Every time I read something like this I think about all my rich friends in Silicon Valley who engage in armchair socialism. Gives me a good chuckle. ^.^
People have been asking for gibs since the dawn of mankind.
Institutional failure: don't forget the second shuttle disaster on reentry (Columbia) with the known issues with tiles getting knocked off by foam. Badly engineered contraption.
Ask HN: Are you satisfied with your work?
Signal's use of GCM has also been beaten to death: it's a platform issue that has no impact on security (but does make it harder to deploy Signal on nonstandard Android platforms).
It's not batshit crazy. It's the responsible response.

Trump's said plenty of disturbing things. Both in his political run and in his 30+ years in the public eye. He's erratic, petty, prone to seeking revenge, and extremely thin-skinned. Americans should have never given this guy power, but they did.

The most responsible thing 2600 et al could do is warn people and be prepared for the worst. If the worst happens, people need to be prepared already and not taking panicked steps at the last minute. History is full of examples of people thinking the incoming leader didn't mean all the awful things he said. It's best to believe what the leader has said and take appropriate action.

There's a chance of looking crazy if Trump ends up not being as bad as his words indicate, but that's a chance worth taking considering the harsh and very possible alternatives.
Federation concerns availability, not security. "unplug the ethernet and write plaintext to /dev/null" is extraordinarily secure and 100% decentralized, though badly unavailable.
"Who do they think they are?" and "I think security overall — we have to open it up" are the more concerning parts of this particular quote.
It hurts to type sometimes. Typing at work isn't really an issue since I have an ergonomic keyboard, but big side projects can sometimes hurt.

? is far easier and faster to type than .unwrap().

So no, there's nothing horrible that I see, there is something horrible that I feel though.
Mexico’s Journalists: On the Front Lines of Press Freedom
The protagonist in Billions seems to be basically an evil version of Dalio. I think characters based on him have made it to the screen a few times already...
Counter argument: if you don't rely on PaaS/SaaS, it'll take you 3-4x to launch. So, rely on them, but be ready to switch. A few bad things like this shouldn't take away from how services enable rapid development and iteration of ideas.
70% of SF homeless from SF: http://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/...

Page 33, under the subtitle "Place of Residence"