skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever happened to Kamen's "Slingshot" water purifier? [1] It was a little vapor compression distillation unit powered by a Stirling cycle engine. There was a tabletop-sized model, and a shipping-container sized model. There were announcements of field tests. Heavy PR around 2012, then silence.

There were a few demo installations, but it never appeared as a volume product. There's a similar technology from Simon Frasier University.[2] They're looking for someone to commercialize it.

A YC startup might start by deploying that technology in East Porterville, CA, where the wells have gone dry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distill...
[2] https://www.biv.com/article/2016/5/water-machines-creator-th...
Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash
IIRC most of the ARM chips can support it, but you'd need something w/ a full BSP unless you want to roll your own (ew).

The cost factors have become pretty interesting. I've moved to ARM-based boards, but in general I've used a standard gcc toolchain along with FreeRTOS-like OSes and for anything beyond "oh you pushed a button" I skip the Arduino IDEs.
How close are we to a world without SUID binaries? It seems like you could just replace sudo with RPC to some privileged daemon (which could be as simple as the existing sshd and "ssh root@localhost", but another daemon would be fine), and most of the other use cases (mount, pt-chown, dbus-daemon-launch-helper, etc.) have been slowly disappearing.

That would avoid the weird special case for SUID binaries, which looks like the sort of thing that someone is going to discover an attack on in a year or two. (And it's a special case in lots of systems, not just this one.)
GRSecurity has some interesting ideas and if systemd is any indication some Linux vendors will happily work with iconoclasts. However it seems like much Theo De Raadt can rub people the wrong way resulting in OpenBSD, GR Security's alleged refusal to submit patches in a manner Linus will accept has resulted in their rejection from the kernel mainline. Considering for some applications Linux needs all the hardening it can get, this is truly unfortunate.
My experience is opposite yours. Mentally I'm much stronger when my brain runs on ketones than sugar.
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I would recommend two things: 1. Read the "bash" man page about once a year, and 2. Learn Perl or Python or something for the harder tasks.

It's helpful to learn some more about bash, and there's some good stuff in there. But shell scripts above a few dozen lines tops are a bad idea, and even those "few dozen" lines need a surprising amount of armoring with "set -e" and such.

I don't think this is because bash is bad. I've come to the conclusion that there's a fundamental tension between interactive use and safe programmatic use, and anything really good at the one is not going to be good at the other. In particular, interactive users more-or-less want the shell to accept inputs that are a bit sloppy, because they can interactively recover from the vast bulk of misinterpretations immediately, whereas a program becomes very risky with the same level of sloppiness because it will quite likely just keep going, doing very bad crazy stuff. (Which is why all my shell scripts tend to start with "set -e", which amounts to "If you get confused... STOP, instead of trashing an arbitrary amount of state.")

And again let me emphasize #1. By splitting my world up into interactive use and programmatic use, I've made my peace with shell, and I don't hate it or anything. I use a lot of the features interactively. For instance, I do a lot of little loops on the command line. Often I'll build them up with some "echo"s done to make sure that it's about to do what I think it will do. There's a lot of great ways to save time in interactive bash (or zsh or whatever), and the best part is, in interactive use you can be as crazy efficient as you want and there are no software engineering implications. Writing bash scripts with every crazy sophisticated trick in the books starts raising software engineering issues fast, and worst of all, some of them are quite invisible ("what if you run this in a directory with a file with a space in it? a newline? a file called '-rf'?"), to say nothing of whether the next person working on the script will know what all the fancy operations do. And I've got a decent-sized collection of 5-line bash scripts lying around doing various things. I just don't let them get much longer.

One of the most useful things to do is just load up an index in your head of what bash can do, then know you can look it up if you ever want it.

(Substitute your choice of shell for bash throughout.)
>MS "needs" (?) to prioritize "don't torment your users".

No, no they don't.

If the user knows what they're doing, they run Windows Update manually at times when it's convenient for them (e.g. just before going out to lunch) so that they never encounter a forced reboot situation.

If the user doesn't know what they're doing, they exactly the people who need to be forced to the latest update so they don't wind up inadvertently joining a botnet.

And, of course, there are ways to forcibly disable WU for really advanced users but at that point whatever befalls them is quite clearly their own responsibility.

So, win-win for everybody but the malware makers.
How much concern would non-standard architecture support matter for ntp? Given how many architectures Linux supports, I would think that C would still be the best choice, until these other languages gain support for those missing architectures.

Or perhaps it's a good opportunity for a language which offers transpilation with ANSI C as the target?
Well, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, so I think it wouldn't be fair to compare timelines so directly. With chess engines, the compute power just wasn't there in the beginning, but it's all already there for go. Also, speaking as an optimist, yeah! why not? To be honest, my suspicion is that they aren't trying.
Why do we need inheritance? Embedding and delegating can handle any task but the silly ISA pretend game.
Unless people really start using bitcoins for a lot of things fast I'm worried that bitcoins are just this generation's "tulip mania"
At this point my expectations for Apple are set so low that I'd be thrilled if 2017 brought us options for a physical escape key and 32GB RAM on a spec-bumped MacBook Pro. But I suspect even that is too much to ask.
Rooh by Neet
Two races. Don't forget the Indy 500.
That use of "cheap" is doing too much work. Obviously Intel hasn't squandered many-core scalability either, c.f. Broadwell-E which is available with as many as 10 cores and targetted at exactly your market.

It's just not cheap, being a 240mm2 die (almost twice what Kaby Lake is, with attendant yield penalties) targetted at a niche market with low volume.

So your point isn't that Intel isn't innovating, it's that you want them to do it in a way that violates straightforward economics and hand it to you for less than it takes to produce.

Basically: you got spoiled by the early days of the VLSI revolution. Silicon scaling isn't doing what you expect any more.
Preston's National Geographic article has pictures:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160209-honduras-l...
On Win 10 FHD the UI is tiny - looks like a scaling issue.
Also uninstall is broken.
>According to that article, 75% of capital income does not go to the rich.

The article says 25% of all passive income goes to the 1%, but says nothing of what goes to the rich.

> Do you think that a trust fund baby would not become more productive if they lost their trust fund and needed to find a job? Do you really believe that exactly zero rich people choose not to work because they don't have to?

You're making a straw man argument using stereotypes. I only spoke of 1% as a group on average. Any group will have people that are not currently productive, even those forced to go to work.
The benefit of keto is more satiety than anything. All diets use calories deficits but on keto I'm not nearly has hungry as I am on sugars or starches. Chicken and rice vs chicken and broccoli and I'll take the latter.
Perhaps the only two who still enjoy it. :)

I'm working on the latest revision of a client's CF intranet app that been in use for fifteen years, now.
Basic interaction design is still being done on VR and AR. There are new forms of HCI currently being made around them. http://elevr.com/some-rather-different-social-vr-experiments... http://elevr.com/all-about-the-context/
No the whole point is to avoid this trade secret nonsense. Get the good ideas out into the public sphere and yet still reward the people who came up with them by giving them a limited window to monetize the ideas. Once the window is up everybody else is free to improve upon the ideas freely, avoiding licensing hell and also making sure inventors that get lucky can't just sit on their thumbs for the rest of their lives milking their one good idea. Or in the case of Copyrights, letting their great great grandchildren sit on their butts and milk the invention.

Excessive use of trade secrets leads you down the road of middle age trade guilds that had to jealously guard their skills and could spend more energy keeping their secrets than advancing their arts.
Thanks for the great advice!

> If you are only talking to 10 people a month, and you close a deal with 10% of them, that's 1 new client a month.

If I follow the plan described in my post, I will be talking to ~30 people a months. But they are just developers spending time in meetups, not people actively looking for freelancers. So I won't get 10% of them as clients, maybe 1% or less...
Yes, it would be great if patents could have user comments associated with them.

(The same can be said for publications in google scholar, perhaps you could pass it on to the appropriate team)
It's a complicated argument. Instead of doing the formal argument I rather give the anecdotal one because a few years back I finally understood it. It just clicked. Basically Camus says the world does not give a damn about you. It has no interest in you. Nothing matters objectively, so why the f* are you here? Get rid of yourself already!! If you're not going to accept that the nothing has meaning and that only you can give something it then you are living a lie. When you accept that nothing has meaning you are ready to give meaning to things you want; knowing that the meaning comes from within. I don't want to write an essay here but I have more to say so if that doesn't fill your interest feel free to DM me on Twitter (@pducks32).
Does in fact work and any aged used as a weight-loss drug for awhile. Highly toxic so you might die.
Africa.
>this is typically all they are going to be looking at. //

Are you referring to the USPTO there, do you have a source?
I hate to gratuitously disrespect a whole company like that, but how can you mess PDF when you're Apple? There's most likely an ISO specification document minutely describing the structure of a PDF document. Apple has the money, the talent, hordes of customers depending on good PDF support but they're failing at this.
> Say someone patents a widget A + B, and later files a continuation A + B + C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_patent_application). The first patent could be expired, but while building your copy of A + B you might come to the same conclusion that the invention also needs to include C (which is still in force) to actually work.

This is a perfect example of why patents are harmful. The patent on C did not in any way help the person copying A + B, it was invented on its own. But now this new person can be punished simply for being equally as creative as the other guy. It's a huge disincentive on innovation. I understand the theory behind patents, but I have a really hard time believing anyone in history has ever actually used a patent to find out how a thing was made and then improved on it; or could not have done this equally as easy without patents. Even if you can point to one or two such examples, that still has to more than balance out the loss in innovation and increased legal costs created by uncertainty of IP legality.
The book looks good. Is there a place I can find the table of contents or reviews of your book?
I tend to answer "can you...?" questions by pointing out that you can do just about anything in any Turing-complete language. The more useful questions are whether you should, and if not, why not. It sounds like an annoying hair-splitting technical distinction, but I've found it leads to more useful discussions.
It is probable that it's entirely legit, but my god it spews of so many red flags.

Than again, there is always this: http://time.com/money/4209599/bernie-madoff-new-ponzi-scheme...
Nowhere did I say the retired are 5.6 million people. I used 54K people as the number of retired people at 2 people per each of the 27K rent controlled apartments. I also stated 5.6 to be the total number of all renters using 70% of 8.1 million total residents. Using 54K people again as an example mean that .96% of the populating is in rent controlled apartment. In reality that number is probably much lower because we are talking about an aging population.

I have provided actual numbers and data to demonstrate there is not a high subsidy. You have not provided any supporting evidence to the contrary.

This aside it is pretty disturbing that you keep insisting retired people are a "problem." They have as much right to live New York City as anyone else. They have paid into the system longer than anyone, they stuck it out through the tough times - the bad old days when New York City was a crime-ridden and financially insolvent city. They are not freeloaders by any measure.
That "Minutes left to complete the purchase" is one of the oldest tricks in the sales book. I felt my blood pressure going up just looking at that gif, and I wasn't even buying tickets!

Edit: I know why they do it, but it isn't necessary for most ticket sales. Just turn it on when there's high demand.
I am from the state (Kerala) which is called the "Spice Garden of India". Little did I know about the history of Nutmeg that grows in abundance at my home in my state.
Cold stress is interesting and how evolution allows our body to adapt. Another side effect is hair growth on the body.
Yes, and it also has to be electrocuted repeatedly before it runs for the first time.
I would say that spatial controllers are a new* form of HCI, but not necessarily the VR viewer. Although I would concede that there are a few experiences that track what you're looking at to interact, it's really mostly focused on the controllers.

Many VR gamers who use traditional dual-analog style controllers concede that it's not really different in terms of HCI model.

* = "new" meaning unconventional and/or untapped in the current mindshare of HCI. Obviously this stuff has existed for decades.
Open MongoDB installs hit with ransomware
Rust has impressive support for different architectures. I ran `rustc --print target-list` and it returned 63.
DripWorks has a great catalog and good prices.
Their HEDT stuff has more PCI-E, except for the cheapest HEDT stuff which is still more expensive than the expensive mainstream stuff. Basically, spend $500+ on a CPU and $300+ on a mobo and Intel will give you more PCI-E lanes.
I don't think there's anything "garden-variety" happening coming up. And what else is this place, than a discussion about tough topics?

My flagkilled post expands greatly on the sentiment of that commentary. The fact of the matter is, people with low income are not targeted(for the most part) by entrepreneurs. Along the same idea, those very people have little to no input in the economy ~ they are non-entities. I've seen plenty of posts discussing this very fact to people digging around for an idea to exploit... and the general consensus is "stay away from poor people, they have no money".

And yes, I have disdain towards Trump, and a lesser extent, republicans. I've also shared previous disdain towards democrats as well.

But the crux here is, what is to be done with low income people with limited skills? It costs money/time for skills, which they have little of. What's the downside of writing them off? (Obviously, dang is doing his work on UBI, and throwing away millions of people isn't my point in this discussion.)
Can anyone offer any evidence to confirm or dispute the rumor I frequently see online in message boards that Ticketmaster is passing most of the profit from these fees onto the venues and it's really the venues that are doing the price gouging here?

The idea that is frequently floated is that Ticketmaster bears the brunt of the hate from fans in exchange for letting the performers and venues collect most of the extra fees and giving TM a relatively small piece of the pie.
Organic milk is usually hyperpasturized.

(I know someone who switched from organic to 'local' because of that)
Do you have any contracts/legally binding agreements in place with him?

If not, take the code and walk.

If so, hit up a lawyer about exiting the agreements - there are circumstances where you can regain control of the code (and company) based on his lack of due care to sufficiently promote the product as part of his role within the agreement.
I think they meant improving the quality of actual patents (by giving people tools to combat bogus patents), not necessarily improving on the patent browsing experience (though I'm sure they would argue that they try to do that too).
In LA you'd save more time and money by taking an Uber and using Instacart
> So if gaming isn't the primary user and driver of VR hardware and software, what is?

Perhaps pornography? VR could offer a completely novel set of experiences
To be fair, it's 100x better than the old days of waiting in 6-8 hour lines to guarantee a ticket to popular events.
It's not even clear you actually get a shipping container, just that everything could fit in one (and how could it not? It's just a bunch of hoses, a pump, and some electronics). The shipping container itself would probably be the most valuable part of the package.
SquiLu (a fork from Squirrel) it has a good C/C++ extension API (inherited from Lua), it can accept a big chunk of javascript as is and it can also accept a limited chunk of C/C++, it's fast enough and already has a good set of extensions.

https://github.com/mingodad/squilu
Some explanation of rationale would help the guide immensely, especially on short stub pages.

> but why ISO8601

The guide's recommendation should be tightened to RFC 3339 instead [1], to exclude less common formats like week-day and day-of-year that are defined in ISO 8601.

The two biggest advantages of the advocated format are:

- no redundant information, like day-of-week, which may cause trouble if the redundant fields are in conflict

- big endian throughout, therefore ASCIIbetically sortable for chronologic ordering

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339
Yup. They're horrible.
He is incredible. His arguments are often shadowed by Sartre but Camus was a philosophical god.
I don't share a strong sense of optimism that we'll 'beat climate change'. We need to fundamentally change how humans live on this planet and interact with our ecosystems to move past issues like this. Projects like these will certainly help a lot of people in the near-term, but I fear they distract us from addressing the real problems. Sadly, the real problems don't have much of a financial incentive to be solved.
It's really just a "countdown to being infuriated." I've had it lapse on me and I had to go back, find the right seats, and repeat literally the entire process all over again. "Give us your money quickly or we'll wage a bizarre form of psychological warfare on you." it seems to say.
Bozeman. And the realistic worst is what we've currently got - averaging between -10 and 0F for about a week. Lowest it ever gets is probably in the -40 range for a day, but the entire city has shut down at that point, and it's a once-in-a-decade event.

Ultimately, the cold is annoying, but it's no worse than dealing with high heats - most of the time you're moving from a warm building to a warm car, and back into a warm building. And you can always put on more clothes. :)
There's an adapter for your Thunderbolt Display. You will however miss out on the power provided by the display.
That's true of otherwise healthy people, nothing says that system must work as you describe across all populations.

As an example in the other direction. I gained significant weight after getting a foot of my intestines removed while eating the same diet. In this case it was a very good thing as calories out balanced due to incomplete digestion.

PS: Albumin levels are not something you generally hear about, but it's very bad when they get low.
I suspect this is a visibility problem. Go is a more popular game in the East I bet there are a few grad student level problems doing just what you described at Tokyo U and other prestigious Schools far from the West.
A business basic language called Providex (or PxPlus depending on the version).

There are several hundred thousand lines of the language in the main application where I work.

While there are definitely some major issues and pain points with it, it's actually suprisingly powerful and the language itself is still being developed.

We've got a lot of things you wouldn't think would be in a BASIC, like classes and object-oriented programming, a "UI" library that targets the web without any (tm) changes (in practice it misses that mark, but it's still extremely useful), support for the big 3 platforms, and more.

I don't deal too much with it though as most of my job is connecting new web stacks up with the pxplus backends.
(I'd add that I've been doing development for a Pretty Long Time now, and the whole practice of knowing how to make code less smelly is fairly intuitive. I've been struggling with how to codify this to bring newer developers up to speed.)