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> Hyperloops seem more plausible

the vacuum requirements alone make hyperloop an non-starter imo. This type of "fastloop" seems a lot more viable.
You are correct DHL is an interesting story. But you left out the most interesting parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hillblom
The better plan would be to remove zoning restrictions (and while you are at it, institute a land value tax).
This has been implemented before. I briefly maintained a legacy project that supported it via IE. In practice, it's a nightmare. Users constantly lose their certs and require manual re-auth. There was a complex install process to get the new cert in place. Usernames and passwords were still a thing; the cert was just to verify that you're coming from an authenticated computer.

Something like your proposal may work if it involves a one-way hash of biometric data (fingerprint scan) so that people can't "lose their cert", but that comes with its own problems too.
Show HN: How self-driving cars should react in ethically difficult situations
I guess fetchmail is more stable now. I've never seen any crashes, and I've been using it against IMAP servers for at least a decade.
> So if you're looking for an IMAP->Maildir retriever or backup solution consider trying out mbsync first.

I'll second this: I used OfflineIMAP at first, but switched to mbsynrc after being unhappy with OfflineIMAP's performance. (It also seemed to hang semi-sporadically for me, which made it a pain to launch as a cron job.)

Lots of factors affect which tool is the better for a given user, of course, but I personally have been happier with mbsynrc.
Looks like many people are hoping for the FU money.

If you are living in SF, you have FU money already. It's just a matter of the choice of your lifestyle. And you only need to consider those comfortable ones.

I'd say if you don't enjoy coding, stop right away. If you're smart (and there's a good chance you are if you're coding), you will easily make a living. Possibly doing something that brings you pleasure. If you do enjoy it, why would you plan to stop.
Aliyun and Tencent use Xen, too. They are both on Xen's pre-disclosure list. I don't know it now, but Aliyun was at least Xen-only at one point. Huawei offers products both with KVM and Xen. This doesn't necessarily invalidate your speculation though.

The OpenStack aspect is true. Xen lacks support there.

A new Xen guest mode called PVH will remove QEMU when running Linux -- it is basically HVM without QEMU. Windows still requires QEMU.
Your edited comment is harder to misread.
Yeah, you're definitely right. This has been out for quite some time (I believe around the fall time frame last year, which was when I heard about it/started using it).
Sure, I agree. It's the SELinux policy which really confines QEMU. For example the compromised QEMU will only be able to open exactly the files containing the guest's drives (not even the drives of other guests on the same host).
It's a commentary on presumptions. Did you seriously fail to realise this?
Before alarm clocks, Britain paid people to wake them by tapping on their window
Thinkpad X200/4Gb/Chromium 57/OpenBSD: takes around 20 seconds to load (not very good adsl) then scrolls fine and smooth. No add-ins.
Not looking that way:

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/28/cupertino-adopts-proce...
Then perhaps your first sentence should have read, "Rocket packs are officially dead".

I think that the terms have historically been used interchangeably, but the distinction should be made. It's awfully nice not to need to carry oxidiser for your propellant.
Electric cars don't do anything to reduce the # of cars on the freeways, which is the main problem discussed in the article.
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Why not use a regular webcam with some diffusing glass in front to protect privacy?
i should have been less ambiguous, sorry -- USSID 18 is derived from EO 12333, and USSID 18 nominally provides protections to US citizens from being spied upon; USSID 18 also is what has a secret interpretation by NSA lawyers that most people would probably feel is not in the spirit of the EO. here's a very nice writeup:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/primer-executive-order...

section 4 outlines collection policy, beginning on page 6 of the pdf:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/1118/CLEANEDFinal%20USSI...
> It's bad to train users that their bank/whoever will be sending them links via email, because then when the user gets a phishing email, they will have no way to tell the difference.

I got an email using the PayPal template headed "Dear PayPal Customer" once. The copying was so faithful that it preserved the footer at the bottom noting "Communications from PayPal will always address you by your name, never as 'Dear Customer' or similar".

So there can still be ways to tell the difference. Point of interest: would it be more alarming to the PayPal-using public generally if their fake emails omitted that footer, or if the fake emails preserved the footer while still addressing the victim as "dear customer", as happened with mine? You, the phisher, can't avoid having some difference between your email and legitimate email, but you can choose how much and what kind.
Interesting: so when you say 'no added oil' you mean just the fresh-milled flour, salt, water and sourdough/yeast?
OK, given what you claim to have known all along, what do you find bad about what they're doing? Everything you now say you've known all along is perfectly legal and what a spy agency is supposed to do.
He could fly to five metres attached to a safety line on a ten-metre tower, or a crane. A simple auto-descender would do fine.

My impression watching this guy's videos when they have hit the news over the past few months has been that, for whatever reason, it skims the ground and can't ascend. If he wants to disprove that, it should be possible to rig up a safe test.
1. We will make that easier, once we’re past the closed beta. I’m just trying to do is throttle this area a little. My concern is that if we open it up entirely, we’ll find it polluted with spam. So, we’re setting a completed bio as the baseline for posting new content. (And, yes, I realize I’m somewhat responsible for the Catch-22 I describe.)

Once we see that it’s working properly and have a bit more time to build in some mechanisms (i.e., prompting members to complete their profiles, in order to gain post permissions), we’ll open up posting to the entire community. In a perfect world, we’d already have that in place. However, we need to get some critical stuff sorted first (i.e., the ability to edit posts).

2. Yes: I think so, too, especially because I remember essentially begging folks to “hunt” us on Product Hunt, when we first started Officehours. This is the weird part of where we’re at. I know that this is something I was looking for, a few years ago. In fact, I even wrote this post, on the subject: www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/places-to-post-your-startup. However, getting those first folks to participate is often a little challenging. ;-)
There are a lot of places where you can't take the bar exam through just reading the law, you need a degree.
Uncomfortable topic that needs talked about more, far too many have long painful ends needlessly.
Slight tangent: I have seen a lot of mention of Zen, but not many people bring up the follow-up book, Lila. I found the second to be a more accessible and applicable-to-every-day-life sort of book, and more maturely written.

I enjoyed Zen more when I was younger and Lila more as an adult; I have read both at least 4 or 5 times apiece.

Both are brilliant though. And the linked review is fantastic.
Even large companies depending on how you want to classify one as "large". Back when Palm announced their new phone, the Palm Pre, I was given early developer access on their developer portal. I reported to them multiple security vulnerabilities including one that allowed anyone to change a simple integer in the URL and instantly see everyone's SSN / TIN, payment information, etc. It took them 3 months to fully resolve, too (their first fix was simply changing a GET call to a POST, sigh). They never even disclosed it to anyone despite my pleas (I should have but was still sorta green back then and didn't think it through).
Toronto really needs this. We have a raised express way that's right in front of our harbourfront and it makes the whole area noisy and ugly, blocking what should be a great view towards (great) Lake Ontario. Most importantly it takes up a ton of very valuable real estate.

A huge amount of condo development has been done right next to it and having lived in one the noise is a real problem. Living on the south-end of the highway towards the water almost feels like being cut off from the real city

You basically have to keep your window closed most of the time otherwise it's a constant drone. Night time is the worst as it goes quiet then occasionally a truck will come by and wake you up. The higher up you live the better, but that still leaves about half the units close to it.

So not only would it open up a lot of new property development but also significantly increase the value of existing properties.

The city has been considering burying the highway underground similar to Boston's tunneling project. But the Boston one ended up going billions over budget, so it is not an easy thing to do.

If they can bring the price down dramatically and perfect the concept I'm sure we'd be one of the first consumers for the tech.
You're seriously overthinking the name here. I generally feel the same about names but make exceptions for the original use that started the trend and creates the fashion such as How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Atomic Bomb or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Also a reference to motorcycle maintenance is central to the start of this book, sadly I've only read the first third, so the name feels perfectly natural especially so taking into account the time it was published in with the time's interest in Zen.

I cannot speak to your other objections but I suspect you would like the book based on your response and if you give it two chapters I think you'll know.
It's kinda like a new world of readings has opened to me.
I certainly agree about the Belgians ;)
> but I think the EITC uniquely incentivizes those in the program to work themselves out of it, unlike other programs

No, it doesn't, it incentives them to work their way into the middle of it. Once you're there, like other means-tested programs, it mitigates market incentives to further progress by reducing benefits with increasing outside income, reducing the marginal utility of each additional dollar of income.

Now, it may be that it empowers people enough that the increase in the ability to move up outweighs the incentive mitigation at the top end of the range, and that it is in that way more effective than some other programs. But, it's incenitved have the same failings criticized by UBI advocates as other means-tested benefit programs.
The same thing is happening to downtown Sunnyvale (4-5 story condos going up on top of street-level retail) and Mountain View (10 story towers going up around San Antonio, with the giant strip mall being converted into mixed-use condos + shops). The same may happen with North Bayshore - Google's building its new tent campus, and the plan includes up to 10-story residential buildings on street-level retail. There's still a lot of resistance from local residents, but the development tide seems to have turned.

With everybody complaining about how expensive SF is and how terrible the commute is, it seems to me like a more likely solution is to bring the city to Mountain View rather than bring all the workers from the city to Mountain View.
QEMU is a 14 year old codebase designed for research and cross-platform emulation. It is not developed with a focus toward ongoing security testing/auditing.

Xen uses a stripped-down QEMU to boot unpatched guest OSes. However, even Xen doesn't test its qemu-xen components extensively. Writing a new purpose-built emulator (assuming you know what you're doing) is a better idea.

edit: Or use PV guests, and skip all potential QEMU flaws.
Ask HN: Should I move a popular Medium article to a third party's publication?
I'm fairly new to Medium, and definitely new to writing articles that take off so rapidly.

I've recently been asked by a couple of people over e-mail to move my post from my own publication to theirs for increased circulation (it was the most popular post worldwide briefly this week I believe).

I'm not so familiar with the platform or how it works at high traffic.

It may be a stupid question but HN has not yet steered me wrong.

So..

Is this normal practice? Am I being really gullible? Should I move it?

Thanks in advance.
This is such an odd joke.

I say joke, but I feel that many people feel it is true. In that if the Bay Area builds any of that housing, that in a few years they will be forced into living in it against their will.

For existing property owners, this is not a problem. They have their single family separate household. And yet it's those people that put up the most opposition to people who want to live in a different way. To me, an apartment on a rail line is far more valuable than a house that's only accessible by car. That's what I want, yet the market is not allowed to meet that demand because of zoning restrictions and NIMBY actions.
Wouldn't even go near India ;) It's read on every death cause map I've ever seen, from traffic incidents to presence of diseases to antibiotic resistance.
Always a bit disappointed to see my message shared more effectively in fewer words.
I have to give Elon Musk credit - the average person would be hard-pressed to come up with even a single laughably impractical mode of transportation, but he's got two.
I would be interested to see how you would graph price discrimination not reducing consumer surplus. Price Discrimination in itself is about redistributing surplus from consumer to producer.

> a large surplus being created by the fact that planes fly more full

I think you are conflating surplus with utility. Full flights have more utility than not full flights...but the market surplus available is unaltered.

Maximizing utility is not a bad goal to have...but it is distinct from Consumer and Producer surplus.

> I don't know any reason to think that consumers don't capture much or most of this .

Because in general most of the surplus is captured by the Producer and the producer doesn't have any incentive to redistribute it back to the consumer. Not having an incentive doesn't mean they don't, I am just pointing out airlines aren't incentivized to reduce the seat cost of a late purchaser by the amount of the cancellation fee for the person that cancelled their flight...or even offer the seat at the price the original person paid.

Anecdotally (as mentioned in my other comment) we can compare United to Vrigin. Let's assume that a whole bunch of "surplus" is created by overbooking. United overbooks, Virgin does not. If the consumer captures most of this than United flights should be cheaper than Virgin ones in almost every way (ticket price, bag check fees, cancellation provisions, etc.). I fly from SFO-PDX twice a month. Virgin America consistently has lower priced fares than United.

This is observational and anecdotal...but the result casts doubt on the hypothesis that the consumer captures most of the surplus generated by overbooking. Admittedly, I wouldn't expect the consumer to do so from a purely theoretical stand point .
Recently I won an auction at Galabid.com. They use Stripe and after putting my credit card, it was denied (I think because it was a large payment and I have no limits). Unfortunately, the Stripe JS popup didn't let me change the card. I don't know why - I tried incognito, diff browsers, but it was helpless. I had to send another Card number and all its data through email or the items were going to be auctioned again if I didn't pay in 24hs.
"Type-Driven Development with Idris" is the best Haskell book I've ever read.
I have Thunderbird installed on an ODROID-U2 board solely for searching my email archives via VNC when I'm not at home. It works very well.
Thanks. I'd missed that. It looks pretty close to what I want.

Just one suggestion - I'm uploading python files. It'd be nice to be able to exclude my `venv` virtual env directory from being zipped and uploaded since that's strictly for local use. From the docs I'm not sure if that's possible (I've not gone into detail with them yet).

If I can also run tests as part of the build process then I'd be sold.
You only become a pro when you actually get money.
Burrow, the permissionable smart contract machine
Can we let the thing get announced before we all jump on the Tesla bandwagon. We have no idea what the capability of this thing will be.
Me too. There is one caveat, though: I've found TB's UI starts to struggle when dealing with folders with a large number of messages, particularly on Linux. It's not uncommon for the UI to freeze up entirely when I switch the view from one folder to another; usually this just means having to wait a second or two for TB to become responsive again, so it's not the end of the world, but it is annoying.
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It was called "Carmel Bakery", so it didn't label itself as either a boulangerie OR a patisserie. It was very misleading.
Hyperloop would seem even _more_ plausible if we were able to lower the cost of tunnel construction. Likewise, traditional mass transit and other infrastructure (power, telecom, sewage) could be significantly cheaper with improved tunneling technology.

If Elon Musk wants to spend--or convince others to spend--billions of dollars innovating tunneling construction, then I'll enthusiastically support whatever vision motivates him.

It's like if a kid decides to clean his room so the aliens can land their spacecraft, then by all means, let's get ready for the aliens!
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Also, a large portion of the voters are home owners in those districts.
I can give you specifics.

A friend of mine studied electrical engineering in Spain, and was so good at it that she got accepted into MIT's Technology and Policy Master's Degree. Back when she was 18 and about to enter college, her father got into a big fight with her, because "engineering wasn't a profession for women".

My mother and I were raised by my mother only. Your idea that motherhood is at odds with "chasing after a high paying career like the powerful men in society" is ridiculous. They aren't at odds, and the propagation of that myth by people like you is detrimental to the women that consider the choice.

My neighbor made more money than her husband. So instead of "abandoning the role of fatherhood, to chase after a higher-paying career", he's the one staying at home raising their daughter, while she keeps working full time. She's the sweetest little girl, and they're very happy. In their case, the man might be better fit for that role than the woman is. I wouldn't have trouble believing that, were their roles reversed, the girl would be a bit less happy, and they certainly would have less income to save for her future.
That's the way I see it. Programmers have been automating themselves out of menial tasks since the first compiler, or possibly even before.

What is considered "menial" depends on the context of the problem needing to be solved and a mix of your personal experience.

The increase of hardware performance also helped allow software abstractions to the ridiculous levels you see. That's what also makes it possible for computers to solve a greater array of business problems.

Engineers making tools that are used for making other tools, that are tools for other tools for other tools that eventually helped make someone's wedding photography site on Wix.
I live the Xeon Phi---I worked on the original Larrabee project---but this article reads like an ad fir Phis.
Don't forget to sleep. Sounds stupid, but happens easily enough, and is really inefficient.
> Why is it so hard for each one of us to just reduce our intake by, say, just 15% to begin with?

Because if you do it and no-one else does then you're hurting yourself for basically no reason. It's a coordination problem.
Read the article carefully and you'll note that he was never required to pilot a plane 23 hours in a 24 hour period (which is against all regulations). He was forced to ride along with one flight in order to get to his work flight.

The author has a great job where he is well paid and occasionally has to sleep on a plane. What's the problem?
Wait, german highways are frequently concrete highways with junctions. Not so great??
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It wouldn't all be so bad if the transportation infrastructure in the bay area wasn't such a joke. When I first moved here I was surprised that a region known for it's innovation, had roads and public transportation systems that looked like people just gave up trying in the 80s.
I am still too naive :(

So they scam people into "settling" fake litigation. Over Facebook. And many people, who of course don't have much of a clue, fall for it. Amazing. But some of them, frightened and angry, contact your firm.

In some other world, where GnuPG had become widely used, legal communications would be signed, and people could just check signatures. That wouldn't help for fake websites, however.
I'm in a situation similar to the one you were in (mu4e, Exchange IMAP at work), and mbsync (version 1.2) works for me. Not sure what Exchange version is there, and I had to configure it a bit both initially and after an MS Exchange update -- but just some basic settings, such as `SSLType STARTTLS`, setting CertificateFile manually, `AuthMechs LOGIN`.
You should not confuse the western philosophical zen writing tradition with Zen Buddhism.

In the western Zen Buddhist circles Robert M. Pirsig and Alan Watts are seen as both menace and blessing.

On the other hand these two gentlemen created interest for people to learn zen. On the other hand they created new western philosophy that adopted the name of zen and shares some ideas in surface level. Watts was very educated in Zen Buddhist literature and his writings are even more confusing.

Zen tradition is known as the meditation tradition in Buddhism. The word itself (etymology: zen -> ch'an -> dhyana) means meditation. Zen training trough the history is sitting in meditation. Very little is taught as a philosophy. People who go to the gym and are able to put time aside to train can pick up zazen easier than people who read zen books for 10 years.
I don't like how this article implies that they aren't saving and storing all of your emails unless you are communicating with a surveillance target. In reality they are sucking up all data in transit and only looking at it when it involves a foreign target.

But technically they are storing it regardless if you do or not, and we are basically trusting them to not look at it.

This seems to be the biggest issue that is never addressed in these articles.

Not to mention the FISA court process being oddly rubber-stampy. Despite claims that they try really-really hard to get each one right, as an explanation why every single one gets approved.
almost all of fusion development is basically plasma physics research. nuclear fusion itself is known science, its the plasma containment & stabilizing that hard. so you can sustain the fusion & get positive yield.

that said I'd much prefer all the money being burnt on ITER/tokamak would be better spent by spreading the bets into exploring concepts like W7 or inertial confinement or even MIT ARC kind of efforts. Grand efforts like ITER are just ensuring fusion is always 30 years out.

My personal prediction is that we'll have fusion positive yield within a decade of when alternative energy becomes a significant portion (say 25% .. & growing) of total energy mix.
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I'm not convinced they're more secure, but they're most certainly a UX nightmare.