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I don't think physical automatic wire transaction cost is more expensive than SMS.
High transfer/transaction fees in most banks are, on contrary, are subsidizing losses from other risky activities.
Hey, I did :)

But I gave that stuff up in 2005 ;)
Is there a video on the talk?
The only difference of my head is because one is messages received over the network and the other is messages generated by your phone (which can certainly be from network messages, but could also be because you have arrived at your destination, reach your fitbit goal, etc).
could the submarine rotate into a vertical position?
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Rails is boring. Thats great!
> If you have unlimited memory, network bandwidth isn't a problem and the additional garbage-collection won't kill your performance.

News flash: your database server doesn't have unlimited memory either.

About network performance - if you have such a large result set that you're worried about network performance, than the sorting work in the database is going to be very non-trivial as well. App servers scale out inexpensively - SQL Server does not.
If you can read some French here there is a price comparison table [0], some 'organic' food is even cheaper than its branded counter-part.

[0] http://www.consoglobe.com/achat-bio-cher-2846-cg
Good point, the reason is simple: I didn't check on Linux (and have updated the post to reflect this). I am guessing it would be similar, but don't have any data.
> Also, [2013]. Lots of things have changed in the DB market over the past 4 years!

Nothing about the article has changed in current versions of SQL Server, actually.
Googling "NASDAQ:SFM" would show those people that Sprouts also "sold its soul to Wall Street".
The approach is based on spam. Not the most ethical way. The trick itself is nice though: Distort the seller’s view of the market and use anchoring to create a base price for future negotiations. In this example the success rate is 1:160 (0.6%) to get a 60% discount on the market price.
Yeah, I think in the future they will be surprised how we ever managed to survive without an integrated sensor array to detect problems as they arise.
Build up more as tech gets better (i.e. taller buildings)? Have better transport so the boundaries of the city get even larger (e.g. twin cities)?
> You can try to phase out the UBI, but as above that is completely identical to raising taxes on those people, and imposing high marginal tax rates on lower/middle income people is the poverty trap.

> Nothing is going to be more efficient than a UBI because a UBI does exactly the thing it's supposed to do and nothing else. There is no inefficiency to remove.

Nonsense. The former system you've described doesn't pay out to working age economically inactive people, who vastly exceed those claiming employment-linked or disability benefits in every developed country. Unlike your hypothetical example of people paying each other to do each other's laundry, these people actually exist, and needless to say transforming the system to pay out $12000 per annum to tens of millions more largely non-taxpaying people has a net cost orders of magnitude more than state bureaucracy. Most reasonable definitions of efficiency would regard it as less efficient to pay out to millions of people whose actions indicate they don't particularly want the money. (Most reasonable definitions of efficiency would also argue that it's often better to divert some of that cash towards providing additional support to people that can demonstrate a genuine need for support costing >$12000 per annum if purchased from the private sector)

So on practical grounds, it's a much, much more expensive social system than any real or feasible system with a work requirement. If you want to argue that this is justifiable because it's morally imperative that people ought to be free to choose not to work or subject to any form of state assessment unless they're foreign, feel free to make that argument. Just be aware that's the true nature of the argument you're making, and that those UBI dependents' access to the affordable consumer goods (and probably food) on a state stipend is entirely dependent on the rest of the world not being able to afford such a system to retire their own menial workers.
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>The Holocaust is the reason everyone still talks about Hitler 70 years later,

That's vulgar comparison for uneducated people. If the only difference between Hitler and some other dictator is genocide, we haven't learned anything from history.

All fascist movements, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco etc. used similar methods that made fascism different from other dictatorships and authoritarian moments.

Suggested reading: The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton. In that book Paxton rescues the fascism as a concept from a insult into meaningful concept.
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I started keeping a physical journal a few months ago. For some reason having the physical journal with me as a constant reminder helps me keep up with it.

Anyway, I've gone back and reread the beginning of that and I've gone "Oh yeah, I forgot about that," several times already. I can't imagine completely losing my memory and needing to refer to my journals for memory. But at least if I ever did go through this, I'll have these to refer to.
I know many engineers at those companies. After a baby or two, everyone starts complaining about crazy home prices.
The preprint is here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07670
The Brexit and Trump elections was a big data exercise
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I will not shop a store where I need a tour to teach me how to "affordably shop" the store. Fail.
Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), Narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), Psychopathy (lack of remorse and empathy), Sadism (pleasure in suffering of others);
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13627525
This 1995 ad makes total sense now https://youtu.be/No26JKQKZNE
I don't think that fagball-content belongs on hackernews.
> So is this any different on Linux? Why is OSX in the title?

mkfile is not available on Linux. The equivalent utility is xfs_mkfile or fallocate.
I guess it is the same. Try doing a dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX (be warned, the latter wipes the disk!).

Then, experiment with various buffer sizes (bs=1k, 10k, 100k, 1M) - I personally use 1M with dd.

Be warned on OS X you have to use /dev/rdiskX instead of /dev/diskX, as the latter is a buffered version that usually is slower.
Most of the problems are .. well, systemic, not much the devs can really tackle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13627452
I'd second that recommendation; one of the best-written examples of that type of dystopia.
I have taken classes from fitting and joined colloquiums from Raymond. Learned a lot from them. RIP.
If this interests you I can highly recommend the book 'Trying Not To Try'!
I think the main difference is that `mkfile' doesn't exist on Linux? As far as I can gather, it's a Sun OS utility, that BSD has and therefore OS X.

I've read that some Linux distributions have `mkfile', but it's just a script wrapper around `dd'.
You're better off making all the arguments you can, and letting the medium do the repeating for you. The people you reach in person are a very small set of the people you reach in total.
No, sadly scientific CS conferences are only rarely recorded.
In Denmark, Twitter penetration has been fairly weak, while Facebook has been extraordinary.

Last I heard numbers, it was something like 80% of the population checked Facebook at least once a week.

Here most politicians and other "influential people" will take to Facebook when they want to be heard.
For context, the app (Piezo) in question was removed from the Mac App Store (not the iOS App Store, as I first assumed on reading!) by its developers.

It's an audio recorder which can record audio from other apps. The App Store introduced a sandbox which prevented the app from working, but they got around that by simply not updating the app and thus retaining the ability to work outside the sandbox. However, other apps introduced changes which broke Piezo, and which needed a fix which couldn't be distributed via App Store, finally killing that methods of distribution.

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2016/02/12/piezo-1-5-arrives-...
Same here. Used to live somewhat close to a Whole Foods in DC. It had a small parking lot that filled in peak hours, and there was no other place to park even if I paid. Of course the lot was half filled with cab drivers buying $10 worth of food, thus pushing out customers willing to fill a $200 cart. The full lot and tiny carts showed this store was not set up for someone buying a lot of food. I stopped going.
> If a business card can delight people who receive it, then it has a point.

The first rule of the advertising club is AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. A business card should draw attention, if only to distract from the terribly clichéd action of handing over a business card :)
Exactly. An industry with a high barrier to entry is prone to becoming a monopoly.
It's interesting that if you google "how do i create a large file on osx" you get guidance for this command[1].

But yes, syscalls are more expensive on OSX.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26796729/quickly-create-a...
That's an interesting point about finding things you completely forgot about in journals.

It made me realize, if I had to reconstruct my memory from written notes, I would end up with a lot of stuff that was only important to me at the moment my thoughts were being written down.
This still begs the question I've had since day one when learning about buffers: what the heck is the recommended buffer size. I've seen a lot of old code that use extremely small buffer size as well as some recent code that use extremely high buffer sizes (up to 10MB).

What is a good sweet spot that runs well on older hardware (less then 10 years old) and new hardware? And should network buffers be bigger or smaller then disk buffers?
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I want the string that hashed equals "deadbeef". And now we wait for +Infinity milliseconds for an answer to a deceptively simple question.
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>little boxes of geometric gibberish used as identifiers

in which context?
About as hard as on desktop? I mean, many of the core datastructures commonly used there are implemented using unsafe. This does not mean that the application code must or should be riddled with unsafe code blocks...
For a very simple example see
https://github.com/hackndev/zinc/blob/master/examples/blink_...
Most approaches to GPU security seem to say "The architecture is complex and proprietary enough we won't bother securing it. We'll just make sure we have a robust reset procedure and make sure a compromised GPU can't compromise the rest of the system".
"more or less forced them to use this"

Well, but that's how it works, isn't it? I wish I could go to an employer and say "Please remove that horrible MS Office 2013 from my computer, it is a steaming pile of orc manure, and I will not be forced to use it!", but that's just not how companies (or bureaucracies) work.
There's a Fortune article which refers to Japan's 99-year and 100-year mortgages [1], in 1990.

However, here's a Telegraph article which is only a year old, reporting Sweden's average mortgage term is 140 years [2].

[1] http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/mortgages/sweden...
Refresh the HN front page all day long, like I do.
I've tested the new Peugeot 508 and 307 and they had horrible infotainment software - slow, buggy and very illogical (some settings couldn't be controled from steering wheel, some settings were only available on the screen on the dashboard, etc.)

The fact that 307 got rid of climate control buttons and only had the settings on the laggy touchscreen was even worse.

Did 3008 really improve that much in this regard?
With so much of our lives being lived online, with advertisers knowing what's required to make you buy their products or services, is it only right that political establishments use similar techniques to secure their election results?

One of the other on-going projects, is to see how much an AI can control you as you continue to feed it your innermost thoughts both consciously and subconsciously, by noting what sections of texts or thumbnails you pause over when reading online content as well as the online content you visit or friends & relatives you associate with online.

The index page of the DailyMail.co.uk website is particularly useful & efficient for this as are other online media websites when considering how javascript along with a variety of analytical tools common to so many websites work in tracking your movements around a webpage and website.

Never before in the history of mankind has it been possible to know so much about your darkest deepest secrets, including your kinks & perversions, your stress levels to push your to the max, your likes to extract maximum profit for big corporations.

How do you feel about being surreptitiously spied on and controlled by Big Data for corporate and political gain?
I wonder what info can be "stolen" by listening on the bus even when your device isn't being addressed?

I could imagine a malicious device sniffing all data flowing over the bus and storing it ready to be read back by an attacker.
Plagiarizing and stealing content is immoral and unethical. "This is just how we do things in Russia" is not an excuse. We shouldn't be promoting this behavior. Anyone with half a brain can make money stealing stuff and serving it via an API.
And that's why sane people will tell you to not use something like st_blksize as the IO size, because that's far to small. Many tools use 32 KiB, but that can be limiting even on Linux and needlessly uses more CPU (especially if FUSE is involved -- reads are not coalesced at the VFS layer! Read and write merging is done at the block device layer by the IO scheduler there!). Something like 512k-1M is a sane default these days.
To what degree did India mortgage its industrial future in its protectionist era?
It could also be important to your friends and relatives.
> The problem in France, from my perspective is that there is an obsession with 'saving farmers,' when many of them really ought to leave the market due to inefficiencies.

Yeah and what's left then? Huge megafactories with no regard to animal welfare, and providing next to zero jobs to the rural job market?

No thanks, it's already bad enough here as it is, Europe doesn't have to go down the US route.
You can use humans to clean the mess, whose massively redundant computational model is much more robust to radiation damage. They will however suffer or die from radiation exposure long term.

This is what was done at Chernobyl in admittedly much more dire situation. A quantity of Japanese remote-controlled robots were urgently imported back then as well, and failed in the same manner.
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Doesn't Euler look a tad cartoony to you? I guess that goes away when you are used to it.
The Internet is made almost entirely of other people's computers.

If you put something on the Internet, you are putting trust in those people (and companies).

I what was meant was, most people do not understand that when they send nudes to someone, that person is not the only person that has access to those nudes.

As an example, let's say Alice sends nudes to Bob, by way of a simple email. In this example they do not use encryption or even SSL.

Apart from Alice and Bob, there are others who can access the nudes:

* others on the local network

* the ISPs (of both parties)

* email server providers (of both parties)

* anybody recording internet traffic at any relevant point in this process

This is where the metaphor of sending a letter breaks down. People use the Internet as though messages only reach their desired recipients.

I'm assuming I don't need to name the specific agency which has been intercepting nudes and forwarding them to their colleagues.

It is true that that is illegal.

It is true that (most) people have an expectation of privacy.

It is also true that that expectation is broken on a regular basis.

Therefore, unfortunately, in the world we currently live in (which is not an ideal world where corporations and governments always follow the law), that expectation is unfounded.
Update: I've committed a fix that prevents building this bee (freedesktop.org notification support) on Windows/OSX.
They've done an awful job of hardening their platform. Cease and desist letters to those who give them reproducible test cases because they violated some sort of copyright/license term does not harden anything other than the arteries of DBAs everywhere.
Note that present day religions all are about how other people should live, not just about how you should live.
It seems like everyday someone on Skype I know gets hacked. This has been going on for the past 2 years.

I have am old account I don't use anymore, and haven't logged into years but friended my new account back when I made a new one. My old account I haven't logged into for years just messaged me out of the blue with a random link.

Contacted Skype and support is pretty useless. I got a feeling that their own database has been hacked at this point. Just seems so strange for so many people being hacked.

Happens enough, even the Verge wrote a article about it. http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/8/13561024/microsoft-skype-b...
I find the meat quality at Whole Foods to be quite good. We do most of our shopping at Star Market (a mid-range "normal" supermarket) and the meat there is OK, but if we're making a meal where meat is the feature, we're pretty likely to make a special trip to WFM to get the steaks.
Radiation-hardening electronics is not simple, and this robot was rated for 1000Sv cumulative, which is something of an accomplishment even if it wasn't enough for the environment here.

The article also absurdly understates what an activity level like 650Sv/h actually means. It "could kill a person quickly", the article says, as though the question were open - the truth of the matter is that such heavy irradiation will kill an unprotected human in a matter of seconds, a few minutes at most. As for protected humans, good luck wearing thick enough and dense enough armor to make a meaningful difference under that kind of bombardment - and if you do manage to find it and wear it, good luck not suffocating or being crushed outright under its weight.

This should, I hope, put in some more accurate perspective the fact that the robot lasted a couple of hours. It doesn't sound like much, and isn't - but it's vastly better than anything else we've got.

It should also, I hope, put paid to a sibling commenter's rather hideous suggestion of using Chernobyl-style "bio-robot" "liquidators" to deal with the aftermath. The only way that might possibly work would be by insulating the active slag under a thick layer of quite dead and half-cooked human bodies - a very Soviet suggestion, perhaps, but nothing to be seriously suggested by anyone who values even the pretense of civilized humanity.
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I'm in Bali now and can see where you are coming from.

This is def an age thing though. The older you get the more you want to settle (in general).
I can't remember if it was via reading Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, William Poundstone (or someone writing in a similar vein) that I came across Smullyan but his name cropped up in many things that have captivated me over the years.

This dialogue is absolutely marvellous: http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTao...
I am pretty sure I'm living in an apartment that's smaller than my parent's house was when I was born in 1988, despite having three incomes instead of two to spend on it.

I also think that a pretty big fraction of all the extra people attending college and receiving degrees aren't doing any thing with them. My girlfriend would I think be strictly better off in a world were she didn't have student loans and didn't need a college degree in Psychology for her mostly unrelated office job manipulating artwork and processing orders. I don't think she's consuming less education exactly, but I also think it's tricky to say she's consuming more.

I'm not sure where this fits into your model, and I suspect some of it is "it would be great if we could legalize lower priced options". But it does feel like a place where things go wrong.
> With all the machinery you'd have to stuff everywhere, there'd be a lot more problems.

Oh, machinery like pacemakers, knee implants, cochlear implants? Seems to me we have far too little of such machinery, rather than too much.
You might want to read this article: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/23/consistency-alphabe...

For instance, "C as in ACID" enables a CEO to say things like "the number of records in the personnel database should be N, the actual number of people I have hired." Or "number of cars produced should be less than or equal to the number of engines purchased." Or "at the end of the data analytics run, there should be a single summary object for each region, containing accurate statistics of sales figures." Or "every Bitcoin transfer that has been executed should be reflected in the corresponding users' wallets." In general, C as in ACID encompasses any kind of property that can be expressed over collections of records, where these properties are application-specific, user-defined, and checkable functions over total system state.
Nice work :-) Hopefully I'll have some time over the next few days to do some testing. If I discover any more Windows based issues I'll send you a PR or create an issue.
Some would say putting mercury in tooth fillings qualifies.
For me it even jumped to the top if I was not extremely careful and conscious when scrolling vertically, never even made it to the end of the description of the front side before giving up in desperation.
Sure, but apps like that aren't the majority :)
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Life is something like this, except that with more powerful weapons and means for making global warming over time, less and less bad acts are needed to send everybody to hell.

Anyways, I loved reading his books as a child.
IE9 gets security updates on Vista SP2.

More generally IE9 and IE10 are both still supported by Microsoft (for Vista SP2, Server 2008 SP, Server 2008 IA64; and for Server 2012, and Embedded 8 Standard), so it seems entirely plausible Microsoft would sell security updates for other OSes to clients willing to pay for them; they definitely do that for some clients (some still get security updates for XP!).
Messenger was broken away from the main Facebook app because it was the principle use case for Facebook users - messaging - and by splitting the function off, Facebook was able to be even more intrusive, since the assumption is that "its just a messaging app, it doesn't do anything more than that like the main app" - whereas, it actually does a lot more than that behind the scenes in order to gain access to data that Facebook wants to know about you.. such as listening on the microphone to gain clues about where you are, who you are with, and what you are doing.

>App privileges

Sure, just like the NSA isn't spying, since it has permission from Congress. You won't ever know what it does with the data - because of course, those rights are privileges and not granted to you, the individual - but it doesn't make the net result any better for those of us who care about privacy and controlling our own lives, un-hindered by corporate policies requiring the mass usurpation of our individual rights.
I love diplomatic shitstorms.
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."

That's an odd thing to say given our history of how we treated (and currently treat) the only truly non-hyphenated Americans: Native Americans.