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The first time I tried to read R code I was immediately disgusted with how '.' is a valid variable name character. Not only valid, but inexplicably also in common use.
I'm recreating the entire system each time. Basically they copy predefined CentOS image, then running my post-install script which installs OpenVPN and copies some configuration files. It's quite fast in the end.

I think, you can snapshot the entire system, then delete server and recreate it from that snapshot later.

But yes, if you're just stopping server, you'll pay for it.
> The current scientific consensus is that, like Earth, Mars once had a magnetic field that protected its atmosphere. Roughly 4.2 billion years ago, this planet's magnetic field suddenly disappeared, which caused Mars' atmosphere to slowly be lost to space.

What kind of event could cause the loss of a planet's magnetic field?
Would something like this be viable as part of a geoengineering solution to climate change?

E.g. could we partially cancel out earth's magnetic field in order to control atmosphere loss and thereby control the greenhouse gas effect?
This is what that is.
Amazing.

Concrete is also amazing. I can't believe how wood and stick frame took over traditional housing methods.
Blogspam of

https://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/lung-allergy/news/news/...

(this original has much more reference material)
The only thing stopping me from moving over to windows is its crappy text rendering / anti-aliasing. Its MUCH better on mac, subjective ofcourse.

Even with ClearType on, the text is too thin.
This kind of bug is not unique to Windows.
C++ is very big in finance and game development.
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I just discovered WSL today, and holy crap it's exactly what I've wanted since for ever!

I've been running an Ubuntu server VM for ages to get bits and pieces done, it's so nice to _just be there_.

Pretty cool stuff!
Aghh, this is what it feels like to have a migraine with aura, except that with a migraine your vision looks like this no matter what you're looking at.
A database without backups?
Wholly agree with you -- in fact I think we're at a turning point in smartphones catching up to being full fledged computers.

I've written some thoughts about this previously, if you would care for a detailed elaboration: https://guan.sg/apples-2017/
This link works:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/jp-morgan-so...
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Check out my Windows-based node dev environment:

http://i.imgur.com/nJhqlvX.jpg

I am far more productive now than I was on OSX. Switched over when the Windows Subsystem for Linux came out (you can see my ZSH shell running in the corner there)

Jelly yet?
Definitely not like what the parent said, or what I said? Maybe I'm remembering that rather than XP
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Macs do the exact same thing

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/233061/maspushagent...

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/111197/runaway-dist...

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/150945/nsurlstorage...

There are plenty of other examples
Here's the related patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1219272A/en
You're correct that phones are computers, however:

Solidworks, AutoCAD, etc. don't run on phones

Photoshop/Lightroom/Illustrator don't run on phones

SPICE, VHDL, Verilog don't run on phones

InDesign and other DTP programs don't run on phones

Emacs/Vi don't run on phones

There are a host of actually-useful programs that are completely unsuitable for run on phone-computers, that do run well on laptop-computers and desktop-computers.
You mean there is no chance for a tech boom in Australia ?
But can't those cases just be dismissed also? Unless they decide that case is worth the release of information.
I'd be surprised if this house meets state regulations for residential construction in any US state.

That'll be one of the biggest obstacles to 3D printed housing in the US. Even if you somehow get efficiency gains through 3D printing, it's going to require a different configuration depending on the regulatory environment, which varies by nation and state and county and city and topography, and changes every year.

These regulations affect every detail of the construction of your house, from the foundation to the window panes. Even details as innocuous as sink depth are regulated.
Ok then, I just deleted my bio, if that helps.

As for HN points, that just indicates procrastination (spending too much time on HN).
This product immediately reminded me of that 10-story (maybe it was larger) apartment building in china that they were able to put together in a day. Every floor was ready-to-go and all they had to do was plop them down on top of each other.
It once had a liquid core (like Earth) which generated the magnetic field. Being a smaller planet, it cooled faster and now the core is solid, hence no more magnetic field.
That maybe it. Perhaps the first camp is more comfortable and familiar with the "ocaml'ness" of Rust, while for the second (C devs) camp the concepts are alien.
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'Bash support made me consider Windows again' - but ..but you know that there's a native support for bash in an operating system called Linux right?
Most tech bubbles develop that pretty quickly.

Admittedly, California has a little bit of that going for itself.

1) California is naturally aspirational, it's 'quirky' and the place that people have gone to 'escape' classical norms for a few centuries now.

2) The weather is amazing.

3) It's in the USA = a market big enough to support anything to start, before international expansion. Almost nowhere else can do that. Think Sweden: you have to go 'very international' and deal with many cultures/languages to get going.

4) Standford/Berkley - almost the perfect mix of both public and private ethos in the same spot. I'm not for or against either, but both systems have advantages. Also proximity to other pretty good schools.

5) SF artistic culture + VC culture + Tech culture - I would argue all are needed, and it just happened to be there before, and now they have a mass in all three. Granted, the art-vibe is dwindling.

6) Money - another thing that comes from both US scale and capitalist culture, that doesn't exist most other places. Rich people write big Angel cheques and take risks like few other places.

It's crazy to try to 'reproduce' the Valley elsewhere - it's best to focus on things that regions have as an advantage.

Canadians are not the most capitalist/lean-in people (I know this, I am one), and we don't fare well on R&D spending etc. But - the Oil Sands are almost unique to Canada, and developing around that are tons of relevant mini-innovations and side industries. (Eco-issues aside, but even then - some eco-innovations as well).

Montreal has a huge 'creative community' that they don't leverage well enough.

Sweden has a specific kind of culture that has lent well to their exports and innovations espcially in Music. They are a world powerhouse in pop-music ... Spotify should be no surprise.

When industries are related, or if there is a 'key advantage' somewhere in the core, then other, related inustries can leverage that.

'Critical masses' happens when there is some kind of relationship between the various companies.

Trying to 'just make startups' wherein there is no synergy between entities is not a good strategy.
I've got a few things running on $3/mo Scaleway boxes. Bandwidth is unmetered and 200Mbit/sec. The only extra cost I pay for is additional storage volumes (50gb included, additional 1 euro per 50 GB/month) - other than that, dead reliable and all inclusive.
The "we both go to jail" policy would probably do even betting at keeping police officers honest. The threat of the officer going to jail being significantly worse than the threat of allowing the criminal to walk free.

The details are sketchy, who prosecutes the police/prosecutors? But in principle I think it makes sense.
That's an understatement! The Super Kamiokande project alone pioneered at least a dozen technologies and improvements now used by much of the particle physics, nanotech, semiconductor fabrication, high precision sensing, and even biotech fields.

The technologies developed for water purification are especially marvelous. The Super Kamiokande is full of water that is likely the purest substance in the solar system (at a macroscopic level, although maybe there's crazy bulk gluon plasma at the center of the sun).
It's true - but the early adopters are usually related to the industry anyhow. So they are almost the same thing.
More meta dicussions on controversial topics like politics (talk about what politics is and not about a particular political point of view).
>(And let's pause for a minute to enjoy the incorporation of the phrase 'lingua franca' in to the English corpus, too. I do love how English is completely shameless about taking whatever it wants from other languages to add to itself.)

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.

-James Nicoll
If you open the link, you'll note that this is in Russia; a lawless land where the government is constantly struggling to prove that you can run a business which isn't gazprom.
What Kind of Man Spends Millions to Elect Ted Cruz?
The article appears to be talking about vacant homes that are a result of people buying flats and only using them when they visit the city, not vacancies due to demand bottoming out for new housing. A person wealthy enough to buy a spare Manhattan apartment isn't going broke if interest rates go up.

Fixed-income securities are less attractive when there is increasing inflation. A bond that returns 1% will still only return 1%. You don't want your money stuck in 1% bonds when seeing double digit inflation.

Interest rates basically go up to either counter or prevent an increase in the rate of inflation. It's difficult to target a single market to head off a speculative bubble with the tool of interest rates alone, especially if inflation is low and stable.
On the other hand, if you really want to ensure that every construction detail are up to date and followed, automation and 3D printing is the way to go.
because clojure.spec, in practice, only governs interaces. It's not going to help you with bugs that are as a result of data structures generated and manipulated inside of a function.
Mixed in with rock at low concentrations. Are you proposing shipping massive mining machines to the Moon?
> Making structures has been solved for hundreds if
> not thousands of years, making land is the problem.

Well stated. I think land allocation also contributes to the issue. I was pleased that 'mixed commercial/residential' zoning got to be a thing as it makes for a much nicer living experience if you have your basic needs met by walking. I'm still waiting for a mixed commercial/residential/governmental tract where you can have a police station, library, courthouse, and office space mixed in with houses and shops. I remember touring York in the UK and thinking about how medieval villages were set up, they have the taint of 'old times' but they optimized a space for useful living and commerce. I think there are things to be learned there.
I could probably do that too on a smartphone in my teens. But its so much easier with the classic Nokias. The plain old keypads is way better than haptic feedback. The jutted part of the keys serves as your anchor. SImilar to the F and J on a touch system.
do you really still have to reinstall Ubuntu on upgrades? or are you using reinstall in a more figurative sense?

I use Fedora, and the upgrade process tends to work. I remember there was a time when Ubuntu wasn't so great at upgrades in various situations, but I'd hoped that sort of thing would be fixed by now.
It's still evidence, just less credible evidence. Hopefully the prosecutor has other evidence as well.

It could also be the case that it's evidence that was collected by someone who didn't commit the crime, but would currently be excluded by the fruit of the poisoned tree doctrine.
That's like half of the internet these days.
The Surface Pro 4 line has a mag safe equivalent (while avoiding the Apple patents) which also allows for distributing ports ala USB-C.
From your own link:
> Border Patrol, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without "reasonable suspicion" of an immigration violation or crime (reasonable suspicion is more than just a "hunch"). Similarly, Border Patrol cannot search vehicles in the 100-mile zone without a warrant or "probable cause".

Unlike the airport that 100 mile zone is not a free for all. They can ask you questions. You are free to not answer them. You haven't violated any laws by not doing so. Unless you crossed a border very recently you can tell CBP to kick rocks.
Hell, even non-square spaces (or spaces composed of non-right angles) are a pain in the ass to effectively use. My old place had a main living area with a few 45 degree angles, and it really limited what you could do with it unless you were willing to lose several square meters of floor space.
iOS apps are also more profitable than Android.
On the other hand, most people is more directly affected by scientific nutritional advice than scientific elementary particle theory, and http://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choco...
The problem with using this approach with the Moon is that there is no stationary orbit that would keep the magnetic shield properly between the Moon and the Sun. Mars can use the Sun-Mars L1, but no such point exists for the Moon.
Maybe that's a viable solution but to me controlling green house gases by shedding our atmosphere sounds like a terrible idea. I'm pretty sure we would want to keep the oxygen around. Finding ways to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester the carbon should hopefully also be easier than controlling the magnetic field of the earth.
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Do people really buy technical books anymore? Can't you just read the official documentation?
It was more of a meta-comment for the whole thread to attempt to end the "nuh unh" "yeah huh" back and forth.

As I said, I don't know who's right and who's wrong, but the argument seemed to involve a lot of effort for being so unproductive.
Tiny houses are great and all, but most articles, tv shows, etc two basic issues:

- land
- hookups

Had this discussion today with someone enthused about a tiny home community until the land use rental fee came into play.
> worse than the threat of allowing the criminal to walk free.

Alleged criminal. You realize you're innocent until proven guilty, right?
Nope.

http://www.ecowatch.com/india-solar-market-2118202661.html

Unless you believe every news outlet bought into the story. We have free press you know.
I don't agree.

Uber is playing against a highly regulated market, with controls on supply, and also massive institutional incumbency which means inefficient pricing (the cab owners take huge out of the wages of the drivers), as well as just general inefficiencies.

Also overlooked: quality of service. Everyone who I know takes Uber does it largely for the convenience of a) the app call, b) the payment and c) friendly drivers, clean cars.

The 'added volume' of cars + 'better service' is absolutely growing the pie.

As far as Instacart - well - so long as there is a good chunk of people who want the service and are willing to pay a surplus, then there is value add.

I do not buy the premise of the article that there are some kind of systematic reasons for lack of profitability.

The reasons for unprofitability have everything to do with lots of liquid capital, massive risk appetite by owners and investors, and same for the competition, creating very aggressive market-share combat scenarios: see Uber China, and Uber vs. Lyft in the USA.
magnetopause sounds like a bad menopause pun
For some pictures: http://www.inakadate-tanboart.net/
Undocumented Backdoor Account in DblTek GoIP (read comment for exploit code)
There is this video doc from wired on YT, about how Shenzhen in China is the next SV, for the following reasons : the city is thriving, it has the highest number of high rises "in the history of mankind" (to quote that lady in the show), and because it has access to cheap cheap HW components, right down your office.

Just as comments below say, it takes more than having wide spread fast Internet access to be able to replicate the SV. It also takes more than having access to cheap HW components. It also takes more than having access to dirt cheap computer programmers. That's why Shenzhen is not the next SV, neither is New Delhi or Bangalore. Plus, in Shenzhen, I assume the State gov. maintains all the control it can over whatever is going on there. This goes against the SV start-up culture of freedom of entrepreneurship and freedom of thinking and freedom of capital circulation.
I was able to write what I believe to be the first publicly available exploit code for this vulnerability, which includes popping the user straight into a root shell. The repo is here: http://github.com/JacobMisirian/DblTekGoIPPwn.
Listen to Ethereum network transactions in real-time
Squatters do. Some of the most famous squats in Paris, i.e. 88 Rivoli, were abandoned and inherited by the state.
A round building maximizes the area for the amount of wall material. You get benefits not only in the initial building materials but in the ongoing heating/air conditioning. Rectangular buildings are only popular because they're easier to build and easier to fully utilize. A totally spherical building such as a Buckyball is even more efficient/more awkward to utilize.
This won't necessarily be a popular opinion, but I remember when everyday there were negative blog posts and stories about Apple and the new MacBook Pros. It seemed like every developer got on their Medium and wrote a blistering post. It you just read the internet and HN you'd think the world at Apple was crumbling down.

Yet since $AAPL released the new MacBook Pro (Oct 27th '16), their stock is up 24%, with a breakout record Q1. Let's not forget that the entire market has been in an epic bull run since Trump took office, so perhaps that is a factor.

Source ($AAPL vs Dow Jones and S&P since Oct 27th): https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=1&chdv=0&...

Don't believe what you see on HN all the time. People here are incredibly intelligent for the most part, but there is frankly lots of disconnect from reality. In my opinion lots of conspiracy theorists, purest, and some social justice warriors pushing agendas.

My opinion... But I think we can bundle GitLab, CloudFlare, and Uber into categories of will be just fine.
I imagine AppArmor is configured to minimize the access that LibreOffice has to the rest of the system. Otherwise yeah, vanilla LO is probably not any better than MS Office.

VServer or similar could also work well but might be harder to configure correctly.
Well, a merkle tree provides verification, too. You can only reach the hash given a certain chain of parents. What am I missing?
I wrote it wrong, I wanted to say that I vaguely remembered that the whenabouts of 1981 were wall's times, and referred to the computer design spreading.
It's relatively easy to set up a brand new start-up anywhere in the world. It's also possible to grow it from 2-3 founders to perhaps 100 employees.

Growing the company after that is somewhat problematic, as one needs engineers, marketers, business developers and recruiters in rather large quantities. A company that's growing from 100 to 1,000 employees will have to resort to importing such people from Silicon Valley, but what would motivate those people to move?

Some can be attracted by the premise of cheaper housing, better schools, easier commute or, as the article suggests, faster Internet. But they also have to consider the risks of

* lost opportunity cost (a rapidly-growing rocketship startup shows up in 2 or 3 years, eyeing this exact engineer, and is most likely to be located in SV, not in Topeka)

* spousal unemployment

* lack of fallback scenarios for layoffs, team/manager mismatch or just plain burn-out, where you happen to work for the only major tech employer in town

With that said, Snap managed to grow from 0 to 1,500 employees in LA, and I'm sure there are some NY companies in the same league, so things are possible.
> 1) California is naturally aspirational, it's 'quirky' and the place that people have gone to 'escape' classical norms for a few centuries now.

Is this still the case? I could sort of see this in the 60s, but present day, living in the bay area it feels pretty home-owner-associationy. In Oregon in the city we had neighbors who performed a ritual pagan goat sacrifice in their back yard -- I kind of don't see that flying in Palo Alto.
Linux namespaces/containers create a memory page table completely separate from the host's so barring vulnerabilities in the container implementation that allow mapping host physical memory to guest virtual, isolation is strictly enforced by the memory controller in the hardware. Without an exploit, the worst case scenario is leaking shared library read-only sections across containers (since the physical memory might be shared for a smaller container footprint, although i don't know if LXC supports that yet).
Sure.

But then, Google "Most expensive homes in NYC" (result: $72M-$120M)
vs ""Most expensive homes in Toronto" (result $14.8M-$27.5M)

I guess it is clear that most expensive homes in Toronto are not even close to most expensive homes in NYC.
Have you visited those cities? I don't find it surprising at all.

Quebec / Montreal: historical politics pushed investment to toronto when separation was on the table and pushed by certain political groups (again bumping toronto prices and not helping those areas at all!)

Winnipeg / Calgary: isolation from other large cities, colder climate, less immigration friendly.
Good luck they have that money.
? I'm not sure how this fits together. There is a four or so hour extended version of the movie which I love. Is this saying that there is a new version as well?
In case it isn't obvious to everyone, the government runs or has tapped most or all TOR exit nodes. This has been going on forever.

Nobody knows exactly what the attack is...but if they're willing to drop cases to cover it up, its probably something that either:
1) completely breaks TOR permanently
2) is easy to bypass/block

Since TOR has withstood a lot of scrutiny I'm betting on option #2. They found a total break but it's really brittle. Either an exploit in software, or more likely, some protocol hiccup that allows them to de-anonymize users running certain popular software or OS.
What do you mean by cheap, what price do you consider cheap based on your configuration?

I do use a lot vultr, instances are small and cheap, but I sometimes have reboots or maintenance issues.
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wow. amazing. Isn't the SV called that way simply because this is where they used to manufacture silicon based chips AND because the US is one of the main silicon producers, and because it is a valley ?

I mean you can create a drink today and call it "sien cola", that does not mean you are going to sell a 100 million bottles per day tomorrow as a result of your "awesome" marketing strategy.

Why does everyone call their startup scene silicon something ?

It's like Bollywood which is not going to compete with Hollywood just because it has the same name. Or these Chinese companies which brand their phone "Appel" or their car "Felali". They are not going to compete with Apple and Ferrari.

I may be wrong, but I don't think this strategy works.