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>On the evening of February 9, 1990, with the project now in the final frenzy of testing, bug-swatting, and final-touch-adding, he left Origin’s offices to talk to some colleagues having a smoke just outside. When he opened the security door to return, a piece of the door’s apparatus — in fact, an eight-pound chunk of steel — fell off and smacked him in the head, opening up an ugly gash and knocking him out cold. His panicked colleagues, who at first thought he might be dead, rushed him to the emergency room. Once he had had his head stitched up, he set back to work.

Hah. That's how you are able to kill Lord British in Ultima VII. I had never understood the reference, until now.
I email myself the interesting and important links with added note. Gmail have powerful search option to go through any link I am looking for, no problems so far.
Thanks I just went there and found stuff I had saved before and never visited
That completely depends on the nature of the failure. This speech was written for a broad range of possible causes.

Capsule explodes on takeoff from the moon? No last words. Discover that nobody remembered to refill the rocket fuel? Sure, they have quite a few days of life support​.

Though I expect that, like the story of the doomed cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov (who was allowed to say goodbye to his wife privately as his capsule burned up as it careened, parachuteless, through the atmosphere) their last words might not be something that NASA or Nixon would want to broadcast.
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We are lagging behind reddit!
I'm gaming, and it works fine. I actually had a newer NVIDIA card, and replaced it with my older AMD card, because the AMD one worked better.
(Score:5, Insightful)
Well there is this side-by-side comparison with other leading lowlight technologies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0s06ORTkY
It's not a lost cause. Most of these destructive effects are unintentional. Indeed they don't feel destructive at all, they feel like standing up for what's right. That is why people post and upvote them. And in fact they are standing up for what's right, but unfortunately doing it in an way that is destructive of the community and thus does more harm than good.

It's possible to recognize this pattern and choose to change it into one that has positive side effects instead of negative ones. Many HN users have done so. I had a long process to go through myself.

As for the culture of the forum having shifted recently, it's society at large that has become more vitriolic. This is not unique to HN, nor can we expect to be immune from macro trends. We need to assess this accurately to have good options for reacting. If a boat is lurching because of a stormy sea, the problem is not in the boat. Unless the sea smashes the boat altogether.
The source of said anecdote: http://www.pcgamer.com/the-designers-of-dishonored-bioshock-...

I'd say it's worth a listen/read if you're into the genre
It is though. Runtime type validation is just a clutch that's needed when you don't have compile time validation.
I use bookmarks. Mainly to keep autocomplete of important URLs intact after clearing browser history.

And also to keep track of important endpoints when I work for a new client (I am freelancer).
Very very rarely, but have a few.

Mostly just browser history, or I'll ddg it again as a fall-back. Doesn't work as well in Chrome (or im doing it wrong) but FF awesome bar seems to pull up the links I need within a few keystrokes the majority of the time.
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With over a billion people in the country, the highest levels of leadership can't easily stop the kind of corruption that most businesses are victimized by: Extortion by local officials. It's like, they walk in to your factory, claim your fire extinguishers are not regulation, and demand that you buy a dozen of them from their friend and no one else, and it's going to cost you 50,000 RMB ($7k USD). And if you don't go and get them, right now, then they're taking the keys to your factory, kicking out all the employees (who you will still have to pay) and not letting anyone back in until you do. And it has to be cash. And no, you're not getting a receipt.

Or it will be things like, you order something, it's not delivered even close to spec, and the corrupt police make you pay for it anyway or else. Contracts are utterly meaningless. And of course this only starts happening when you start making money. And they'll know you're making money because the locals around you are definitely ratting you out and quite possibly in on it.

You need to have the right friends to avoid this, and those kind of friends cost money.

Our systems aren't perfect, but it's rare we have to put up with shit like that.

Still, I like it here. The cost of living is reasonable, the weather is good, it's a big city with lots of entertainment, and a lot of people are here doing stuff. Being right next to Hong Kong is also a big plus. Biggest downside is how bad the internet sucks.
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> Assad, Iran, and Russia

Yup, they seem to believe that they have some strong interests in common. First cut, from the campaign and the terrorists attacks, the US is mostly interested in stopping terrorism, in particular just ending ISIS. For that, a guess so far is that Assad, Iran, and Russia see no real gain and a lot of pain in the back side from ISIS and will be eager enough to see the US, Turkey, Baghdad, if it is now not too close to Iran, and maybe even Assad kill off ISIS.

How far Assad, Iran, and Russia can get with a coalition for geography, power, and money I don't know; my guess is that once ISIS is dead, the US will have more important policy items than Assad, Iran, and Russia in the Mideast and will have friends in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Israel.

Just from a glance at a map, easy enough to understand why Russia might want a warm water port. E.g., the US has warm or even hot water ports all along both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico with all of those ports a lot of deep water away from adversaries.

There may be some neo-cons around who never want to pass up an opportunity for another foreign advanture and saw Trump's shooting 59 cruise missiles as a big day for neo-con goals -- here I believe that the neo-cons will be wrong.

I hope Trump still wants to stay the heck out of foreign adventures, be President of the US and not the world (his saying "God bless the world" alone is okay), stop Assad from using gas, kill off ISIS, organize an effort in the Mideast, with funding from the Saudis and Gulf states, for a refugee area, help draw new lines to keep the Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds separated, get all that done quickly, and then just come home and concentrate on jobs, the wall, trade deals, replacing Obamacare, getting the economy going, e.g., fast enough to generate the needed tax revenue, energy independence, etc.

Trump has talked a lot about the $6 T or so we have spent in the Mideast, and I hope and believe that he won't spend even another $1 T there -- his big infrastructure program is supposed to be only $1 T. If we throw $1 T at a time over and over at the Mideast, after a while it adds up to real money we would have liked to have spent here.

> Both sides have to figure out an arrangement that ends up benefiting the Syrian people.

Kill off ISIS. Have a Sunni area cut from the current Syria and Iraq and get Assad, Baghdad, and Turkey to go along. Have a Kurdish area cut from Syria and Iraq, and tell the Turks that, no, we don't want a greater Kurdistan. Tell Assad he can rule half of Syria or none of it -- his choice.
I don't want to go into my medical history here... but I'm sensitive to several common proteins and compounds. Chronically low on B*, D and Calcium. Doctors think I'm nuts. It runs in the family-- my mother and grandmother have the same problem. B vitamins seem to modulate one of the problems and not another. :)
I think this quote of yours summarizes why I still use bookmarks extensively:

"If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever."

I have tons and tons of things that I probably could google/ddg search for, but were really difficult for me to find initially and that I know I would never find again. Some things, sure, no problem, and I search; other things no, I want to bookmark them because I'm not sure I'd find them again. Search engines are really not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

The other reason I have bookmarks is to kind of remind myself "hey remember this thing--you should look into it in more detail later. Like soon."

So I kind of have two sets of bookmarks. One are kind of like "recent things that I need to remember," sort of like a todo list, but or sites or reading, and then will delete quickly, and the others are references that were hard to find initially.

I could email myself things, but to me that's not easier, and it wouldn't help with reminders, because I'd have to go looking for them (if I have to search for it, it's out of sight, out of mind). I don't see the point of something like Pocket, because my browser already syncs across all my devices everywhere. I suppose I could save it to a text file that is synced across devices, or something on a note system, but it doesn't seem better than bookmarks. There was something else I tried that I don't even remember anymore, that in theory would be perfect, but it wouldn't let me organize them in a way that made sense (it insisted that things be sorted alphabetically or something like that).

I do think there could be something better, something that is kind of like synced bookmarks, something like a notes program, something like an RSS reader, but I haven't seen it yet. Ideally what I'd want is something that syncs across devices, allows me to bookmark things for reference or later reading, reminds me of "urgent links," basically acts as a news aggregator/rss feed reader, and gives me useful suggestions for new feeds, and is open source or at least has some sort of open API.

I've noticed recently--as in the last year--I've started using Google Keep kind of like how I use bookmarks, but that often is cumbersome in its own way.
I have a really hard time believing that jobs will be scarce. There are always new things to build - always new things that people want. People will come up with new products no one ever knew they needed but want - and need to hire people to come up with building something that can't be automated out of the box.

I don't think there will be a problem for white collar workers or technical workers at all. Not sure about blue collar workers - I mean you always hear about how there is a shortage of people who are skilled in construction or whatnot. Will that be automated soon? I would be surprised. If not, perhaps some muscle-requiring jobs might even be more in demand.
I use firefox. It's easy to bookmark things by clicking the star. I almost never pick them from menus, but you can limit awesomebar searches to bookmarks by typing "[asterisk]", so I can find, say, all of the interesting github projects I've ever bookmarked by typing "github [asterisk]"
I imagine that means they give up repeating, "do you copy?"

Did they have suicide pills? I don't think I'd want to suffocate.
I agree that China will eventually become a democratic country, but that will even make it stronger, not weaker. China is just getting started, so they're far from collapsing.
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Thanks. I've tried them in the past and never could really get them to work. I'll give them another look.
Is that red rocks (just outside of Las Vegas). There's a lot of man made light sources that really scatter light pretty far and in a lot of directions (the Luxor spotlight comes to mind). I wonder if that could have an effect on this camera's performance.
Sensor gets more sensitive to light as you increase voltage. That's why you see all the noise as well.
I configured my webrowser such that it clears my browsing history whenever I'm closing my browser and mainly use bookmarks for fast auto-completion when typing in the address bar. With respect to organisation, I generally don't. I just use the "star" button to mark websites as favourites. I synchronise bookmarks across devices using Firefox Sync.
> the deepest ocean is the one above us.

Poetic.
Thanks for the quality response.
> When I give a draft of an essay to friends, there are two things I want to know: which parts bore them, and which seem unconvincing.

Ironically this article is somewhat boring. The general impression I take away it is that the author thinks that he's much more intelligent than other people. That might be true, but still it is rather tedious to keep making that assertion.
> Vidar Refvik, director of police at the Justice Ministry, said police will use the same combination of "breathalyser" and blood tests to enforce the new law as they did the old one. He predicted the lower limit will yield anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 more arrests, a rise of about 15-20 percent.

Seems like Norway would be the same.
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It might be a nice thought experiment but it makes no sense in practice
Sorry, I was getting down voted a lot. I restored the code.

I'm pretty sure Crockford still pushes this. https://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/crockford%E2%80%99s-2014-obje...

It does eat up more memory, but as Crockford says, memory is cheap. It's not likely that it'll cause a problem.
I don't think this is the place to debate standards of care for trans people. Here's a review of some literature, if you're interested: http://www.sebastianmitchellbarr.com/blog/2015/10/8/why-are-...
Payment gateway options other than Stripe?
A my business is handling payments for small businesses in a very specific setting. We make money by charging a nominal percentage. However, because we use Stripe, this really cuts into us making anything.

In order for us to be able to actually make at least some of the money we are currently giving to Stripe, are there any gateways that charge a flat fee or is there a different way we can handle this and still be PCI compliant?
With all that Moller has accomplished, he's the expert.
This reminds me of the story of Kaspar Hauser[1] (which was made in to a movie by Werner Herzog[2]) and of the fascinating book Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks.[3]

In his book, Sacks investigates various cases of children growing up without language, how they cope (or don't cope) with it, how they finally acquire language (if they do), and how differently they see the world in both the pre-linguistic and post-linguistic states. Hauser was one of the most famous cases of this sort, Helen Keller[4] was another.

Reading this book inspired me to learn sign language, which I expected to be radically different from spoken and written language, and more powerful in many ways, as you can physically describe things in ways that has little parallel to spoken and written languages.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_hauser

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enigma_of_Kaspar_Hauser

[3] - https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Voices-Oliver-Sacks/dp/0375704...

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_keller
Maybe you're a better programmer than you are a configure-r. But its tooling is insanely, insanely good.
As a native Chinese, I think the parent commenter knows China better (on the right track but far from being a real expert). The parent looks at this from an outsider's point of view with limited info resources. Now, many of us Chinese think we know ourselves better. But that's simply not the case. This age is one of the most reflection-less in our history. The progress of science constantly brought up different perspectives of the world and there is so little applied to how we Chinese look at ourselves and the world. And the groups reflect most are younger poor students and people involved in trading in finance. Those so called democracy movement leaders and thinkers/observers/writers are just jokes producing brain-dead bullshit begging for fundings from either the ruling party or its opponents, if not both. I ended up with giving up looking for real light from contemporary Chinese contents a few years ago since there was only silence. Probably talked too much here, haha.
A lot of our sites all use the same favicon. I keep the names short and sweet, but I keep them named.

When I ran out of room on the bookmarks bar I just started organizing things into folders on the toolbar.
This could have influenced Twitter's decision to sue: to get more positive publicity for themselves.
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> Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away.

I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads. I can't google stuff that's useful to a topic, but that I've forgotten about. Webcomics often have terrible search indexes - and even navigation - so I'll bookmark my place when archive binging exactly as I'd use a physical bookmark. I bookmark-bar things I open so frequently (JIRA views, trello boards, etc.) that I don't even want the overhead of googling / typing in the url. I bookmark difficult to google topics - e.g. I still can't re-locate the win8 user you need to grant read permissions to, to allow Win8 AppX/WinRT programs to bypass the sandbox to read files (so you don't have to pack game assets into each .appx build).

But I don't bookmark things I merely access quite frequently, like HN ;)

> If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever.

Too much friction.
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Not really - ⌘L to get to the address bar, and then autocomplete handles the rest as I start typing for 99% of use-cases. However I know I used bookmarks semi-recently when I was working on a project where I was regularly using websites that I don't normally use.
Australia recognises it does poorly in this regard: https://industry.gov.au/industry/IndustryInitiatives/Pages/B...
> (1) who decided to bring the media in?

I don't know, but I'd place my wager on whoever turns this into a movie.
yes HN itself. I don't bother organising them, search is provided. The articles posted by myself, others are as good as it gets. Moderated/insightful comments are a bonus.
Drupal 6 and 7 use Drupal crap function-based programming (not functional programming) style which over time leads to maintenance mess as you have tangled interdependencies of modules which are not 100% in terms of test coverage or quality. Drupal 8 bootstraps on top of that mess OOP. Drupal is engineered as garbage and gets unwieldy pretty quickly if you are going to be doing custom programming and straying away from the main modules. However for your case it's foreseeable you could stick to views and content types, and templates to customize those and not have to stray too much into actually writing custom code, however the UX of that sort of thing in Drupal is still shit and trying to customize that makes you do it the Drupal way which is often ugly and complicated. PHP 7 is a modern language I recommend a modern PHP framework or a modern Python framework like Django. In the end use what your technical founder knows best. Drupal makes it seem as if it's going to cut down on work, in the end it leads to more work to maintain, scale, and keep adding features and creating a better UX experience which users have come to expect. These days I would probably use some language for the backend and make the frontend with a responsive javascript framework like Angular, React, etc.
> This is usually considered too expensive in the context of non-coin/-blockchain p2p networks because you want nodes to be able to run on embedded and other resource-constrained devices. The O(log n) node state and bootstrap cost limits are quite important. Otherwise it would be akin to asking every mobile phone to keep up to date with the full BGP route set.

Funny you should mention BGP. We have been approached by researchers at Princeton who are interested in doing something like that, using Blockstack (but to be fair, they're more interested in giving each home router a copy of the global BGP state).

I totally hear you regarding the costly bootstrapping. In Blockstack, for example, we expect most nodes to sync up using a recent signed snapshot of the node state and then use SPV headers to download the most recent transactions. It's a difference between minutes and days for booting up.

> Of course, but for some applications that is more than good enough. If your adversary can bring enough resources to bear to take over 1/3rd of your network he might as well DoS any target he wants. So you would be facing massive disruption anyway.

Yes. The reason I brought this up is that in the context of public DHTs, it's feasible for someone to run many Sybil nodes. There's some very recent work out of MIT for achieving BFT consensus in open-membership systems, if you're interested: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01341.pdf

> I mean blockchains lose some of their security guarantees too once someone manages to dominate 1/2 of the mining capacity. Same order of magnitude. It's basically the design domain "secure, up to point X".

In Bitcoin specifically, the threshold for tolerating Byzantine miners is 25% hash power. This was one of the more subtle findings from Eyal and Sirer's selfish mining paper.

> The things you list don't really replace the purpose of a DHT. A dht is a key-value store for many keys and a routing algorithm to find them in a distributed environment. What you listed just gives you a bunch of nodes, but no data lookup capabilities. Essentially you're listing things that could be used to bootstrap into a DHT, not replacing the next layer services provided by a DHT.

If the p2p application's steady-state behavior is to run its own overlay network and use the DHT only for bootstrapping, then DHT dependency can be removed simply by using the systems that bootstrap the DHT in order to bootstrap the application. Why use a middle-man when you don't have to?
Cases like this are so rare and so unique that you simply cannot speak in general about "feral children". In the case of Genie she would have acquired some human language from her father in the first 20 months even if she only ever overheard him talking, enough apparently to seed a rudimentary semantic layer in her mind that facilitated her learning more advanced language later on (but nothing approaching full maturity).
Good lord, this is a ridiculous comment, its truly shameful that its most upvoted.

Before you call out Chinese government on Great Firewall, What about Patent Trolls? Or the upcoming Physical wall south of the border? Painting an entire culture with a broad brush is stupid.

>> The real question is whether Chinese people can innovate while inside China.

To decisively refute your argument. The current leading company in Drones, is DJI
The company was founded in 2006 by Frank Wang (Wāng Tāo, 汪滔). Who did not study Abroad.

Also they brought the most populous country in the world from extreme poverty to a near superpower status, and they managed to build home grown tech industry (Baidu, Didi) while intelligently keeping SV out. Is it ethical & moral that's a different question, is it innovative? You bet it is!

If the only innovation is some stupid IOT microwave made (with heart emoji) in Silicon Valley by hipsters supporting bernie then you are utterly deluded. The chinese government is filled with geniuses. Refusing to term the enormous progress achieved by the Chinese government (filled mostly with Chinese who studied in China) as innovation is antithetical.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21647981-chinese-firm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJI_(company)
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Ropes are pretty sweet. I still prefer a piece table, just because of the sheer simplicity.
I am, unfortunately.

Relevance isn't the only concern. When you send a message you probably don't want a response, however relevant, blasted through your window by bazooka.