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It can be done. It has been done, many times, from 1980s amateur packet radio to 2000s WiFi meshes. It's not inherently difficult. The hard problem is doing it with enough bandwidth to support cat videos. Netflix, and bloated web pages.

Suppose you had a distributed emergency IP radio network available that could provide 56Kb as long as at least one solar powered node per square kilometer was working. It would deliver VoIP and SMS, plus slow data connections. It would have HF links for long-haul connections even if telco services were unavailable. Who would use it?

FEMA tried distributing HF radios to first responder agencies, as a backup in case everything else went down. They can't even get most agencies to turn them on and talk for a monthly test.[1]

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/shares
This makes me want to look up the history of Earthworm Jim, because Sega & surrealism.
It would be illegal after the announcement that they would stop buying Imagination's GPUs. Imagination's value tanked after, they wouldn't be allowed to buy it.
You should read up on cryptic mutations. I don't think it is that popular in the evolutionary biology field though, mainly because it can be a very vague mechanism.
I'll see your "maybe, sometimes", and raise you a "rarely, if ever".
Check out his next book, Anti-fragile as well. Builds on a lot of ideas of Black Swan.
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I've lived here for the past 5 years (including a summer before), and the subway has gotten significantly worse every year. Commuting to/from work in the outer boroughs in particular is a nightmare. The month I lived in Astoria for example, it seemed that on over 50% of my rides, the train would stop at some point for an extended period of time due to signal failures, and I'd often have to wait for numerous packed trains to pass before new ones would arrive.

I actively avoid the subways as much as possible, especially in the summer when the stations are uncomfortably hot/humid. I mostly walk, ride Citibike, or take Uber/Lyft. Luckily I'm able to do this because I live reasonably close to my office in Manhattan.

Uber Pool has been a godsend because it's so cheap. I can often Uber to/from the office for about $.50 more than the price of a subway side. Granted traffic in the city is horrible so it's not all sunshine and rainbows - my Uber Pool today from midtown east to west of Penn Station took absurdly long due to standstill traffic, but at $2.03 I'm not complaining, and I'll take any excuse to avoid the subways.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/nyregion/subway-complaint...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/nyregion/subway-delays.ht...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/nyregion/why-is-subway-se...

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-challenges-m...
I'm talking about just to start the IDE with no project, opening a project is time on top of that.

I don't see how it would make a difference though, running "nuget restore" only takes a second or two.
In theory, yes. In practice, no.
You're giving people too much credit. A lot of people, and companies, totally ignore their software. There's no risk calculation; they're not thinking about it at all.
not only that, but crashes correlate with too-high memory usage (I already use the great suspender to fold tabs up until I'm ready for them - still too high).

This is sometimes devastating for me, as described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617175

so decreasing memory usage would greatly help here.
Managing what happens in front of a camera is hard enough when you're making a video using a single fixed position camera on a static set. Making a video where everything in a 180 degree arc around the camera has to be choreographed is going to be a lot more work. I wonder if Google (or a third party) have any ideas how to make that part of the film-making experience better.
Yes, trees are involved in games too, but not at the level I'm talking about.

You don't have analogues for tree-structure-based "selectors" and anything more than straightforward property inheritance (e.g. inheritance of transformations in a skeleton) in game engines. CSS is much more complex in this aspect.

The DOM having lots of legacy issues is not the reason styling is slow.

CSS is designed for a lot of flexibility and can't be precompiled, which is why it is slow to style.
But what's the product? Is it that headmount thing they slide the phone into? Or is that Daydream? The cameras seem to be a separate thing arriving later, so it's not those. Or is it just the idea of trying to build a standard for 180 degree videos as opposed to static or 360?

I'm often quite surprised that a massive company with such competent staff can overlook detail on a public announcement site. Surely the very first bit should be a statement about what's on offer?
Windows 10 has tons of security patches in it. Yes, it also has some UI changes that are less than great, but, seriously, stop using Windows XP already.
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I run growth.email (http://growth.email) which is a weekly growth marketing email, listing 10 articles in each issue. I started it at the beginning of this year, have around 1,700 subscribers and make $40 a week from one single ad in each issue.

At this stage, my pitiful MRR covers costs, etc but not all the time I put in. Soon as I get to 10k+, at $25/cpm it starts adding up to $1k a month, which is a little less painful to look at. :)
You can spot the Google self-driving car on 101 and 280.
A bigger problem is the variability and pace of change combined with poor and level inspectability of generated code. This makes it fragile and laborious to design primitives that compile to efficient code. Contrast to eg. JVM.
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I think you're swinging too far in the other direction. From my perspective, the problem with software is the reverse: noophilia. Our dumb young people (and by some estimates I'm still one, though I think the dumb part is fading over time) build dumb things and people adopt them because they're "cool". Conservatism in the face of upending our everything for the newest trend is not something to look down upon, and yet there is a large segment of the software development community that does exactly that.
I'm also getting frustrated from Gitlab. My company has been on gitlab EE for over a year, and while they have pushed out features quite quickly, their UX is still way behind github. I think they don't have a laser focus on the user and spread themselves thin. There are basic user flows that lack the polish; for example merge requests actually are a pain to edit. If you click the edit button, it does a full page load (instead of doing it using ajax) and the page takes a few seconds to load. So trivial things like fixing the title because of a typo or changing the assignee are actually quite painful. They've hacked a solution by allowing you to some changes through back slash commands but it's still a hack that doesn't address the core problem. Even things like finding all the merge requests where you are listed as an approver is a pain. We have an internal Q&A site and the running joke is that every new hire during onboarding asks the same question "How do I find all open merge requests where I'm the approver" and the answer is always "we don't know". If took them a while to even notify you when your merge request was approved (so you could merge it). Just basic, basic UX is completely unaddressed while they roll out big features like burn down charts, todos, boards. Keep is simple stupid.

It's sad because I want gitlab to win (I believe in both their remote and open source approach) but Github's UX is so much better. We just acquired a company that uses Github so now we have a few engineers using both tools side by side and they all prefer Github's UX at this point so we might switch.
I believe it. I happily pay the $5/month for tips on upcoming flights. I love solo travel but I haven't been to a lot of places (just getting out of college) so I don't have too many specific preferences about where I want to go. Saving ~$400 per each of the 2 trips I've booked because of Scott's Cheap Flights actually makes my trips affordable.
Democracy is technically orthogonal to this issue. If the rule of law is firmly established in the country, people who do illegal things get punished. This is equally possible in well-organized dictatorships as in democracies.

I will grant that there is a strong correlation between (the presence of) rule of law and democracy, but it's debatable in which way a causal relationship might flow or if they might both be caused by something else. (For example, economic prosperity seems to help)
because the CIA couldn't create fake certs?
Yeah, it's a neat motor design, but it doesn't support the headline - 6% greater power to weight of the motor.
Atom has always had some C++ components, but lately we have moved more core data structures to C++. This PR, which re-implements the text-buffer in C++, also landed in the latest beta.

https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/14435
I am fortunate to consider Dominic a friend (he's slept on my couch, and I have shared beers with him in multiple cities), but I don't think that's quite enough to decentralize to meet the criteria.

I think that the real solution requires caching, lookups, and multiple types of access through fingerprinted (sorry, can't say "secure") forwarding and proxying. It's a big task, but I do think that a small example could be built within the next year.

Heck, even LoRa, with the right software behind it could be a contender, if married to the correct technology.

Hm. That gets me thinking.
What is it that you think the current person involved's course of action? Are you suggesting that the person in a truck regularly defends its load from piracy today?

2 aspects

1) If drivers are at such danger that they do more than contact police then the liability would require they have trained security with them.

2) Drivers themselves are a major security vulnerability, how susceptible is a driver to being paid off by a "pirate". [and there was a recent article in Outside about how healthy nuts go through a lot of truck theft]
Viewers will get over it. There were industry people opposed to sound, to color, to wide-screen movies, and to digital cameras. They're mostly over that. Adding grain in post-processing is on the way out.

(Film is really dead. There are some directors still making noise about shooting on film, but it's digitized for editing.)
In addition to what I consider the usual suspects (Startup [Gimlet] / Radiolab / This American Life), I just added two a little more off the beaten path:

The Pitch - Shark Tank on a podcast essentially. Somewhat deeper. The more recent episodes are way better than the first ones so just skip to the end.

Waking Up - so refreshing to hear someone as thoughtful as Sam Harris on a regular basis. I love that he is so calmly rational that he can have productive conversations with everyone from left to right, atheist to Muslim.
Workload is the wrong metric to focus on. Think impact instead. Then figure out how to have the most impact with the least workload.

Long hours just mean you're running at an unsustainable pace.
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How does it incentivized nodes to route packets for others?
Also, 360 3D video is impossible with the current software, so 360 videos are always a bit flat.
I had the same thought that this is some incentive to prevent big players monopolies with stuff like federated social networks or global distributed search engine without owner. Unfortunately it is only about connectivity to the internet, not only the web.
> Cutting them off, getting closer to them, slowing down in front of them, etc

Car drivers already take advantage of trucks leaving a safe distance or their slow acceleration in traffic.
Or possibly OP has access via his employer Kitware?

Kitware could be doing software consultancy for Formlabs. They already have expertise in 3D slicing [1][2][3], which is just what you need for 3D printing.

This is pure uninformed speculation:

Formlabs look like they have great hardware.

On the other hand they could be under competitive pressure on the software front.

Firstly there's Autodesk who launched Ember as an "Open" design [4] in roughly the same market as Formlabs Form 1/2.

This is straight out of the Joel Spolysky playbook [5] "Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements." Autodesk's (MCAD) product is Inventor now transitioning to Fusion 360. 3D printing is the complement. That's why Ember's "electronics are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, the same license under which we've shared Ember's resin and mechanical designs; the firmware is licensed under GNU GPL (see the source code itself for the full details)." [4]. You can bet that it will be a cold day in hell before Autodesk releases Inventor and/or Fusion 360's source code under any sort of FOSS license.

Secondly, there's Stratasys that bought GrabCAD mainly to acquire there MCAD software team, several of whom are ex Solidworks / Siemens PLM (Unigraphics/Parasolid/D-Cubed). Expect in the next few years for slicing of STL to be replaced by slicing of native MCAD file formats. That's a step up in development effort and probably needs Modeling kernel (Parasolid, Acis ...).

Thirdly, there's 3D Systemes who decided to compete with lawyers rather than software developers - but eventually that got settled [6].

Possibly strategies for Formlabs:

Either, invest heavily in their software. That's wny they might contract Kitware. Maybe they license a modeling kernel.

Or, get acquired by one of the other (not Autodesk) big three MCAD vendors: (1) Dassault, (2) Siemens PLM, (3) PTC.

[1] https://www.kitware.com/platforms/#3d-slicer

[2] https://www.slicer.org

[3] https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/

[4] http://learn.ember.autodesk.com/blog/ember-open-source-elect...

[5] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

[6] http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/3d-systems-and-formlabs-s...
What if nodes were incentivized to route traffic for others via crypto currency, e.g. proof of routing. Maybe then you could get real bandwidth.
I recently got a Gear 360 (affordable 360 camera from Samsung) and it's easy to see why Google would focus on 180 instead: the quality of the image is seriously weak in 360 and cannot be much better in 180 due to the device having only one camera facing either way, there is no way to preview photos without the phone, and a lot of the time (concerts, sports hyperlapse, landscape shots) you only want the front view anyway. That being said, I still like the idea of 360 for being able to capture the full scope of a place (like a studio apartment I shall soon move out of) easily - though maybe Google's could just do panorama easily.
Off topic, but I'd pay (a small amount) for something like Need to Know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_to_Know_(newsletter)

NtK pioneered some things that got taken up elsewhere: dohgifs highlighted terrible algorithmic placement of online ads next to news stories. Private Eye now does this as Malgorithms.

A newsletter like this would fare better now we have things like Patreon.
I don't think you understand how dangerous the situation is for the drivers. And if it is a human thing to do, you can always go and help to smuggle them over the border. Good luck.
> I also have to imagine they will be a ripe target for vandalism

Is a lone driver with a tire iron, mag-lite, or billy club really the deterrent to this? Especially, the stereotypical obese early 50s driver?
Yes, the final analysis showred that Windows 7 systems were the most affected by WannaCry. And they were targeted for more than a year by Microsoft with the multiple "upgrade now to 10" ads delivered through the security update channel. And I personally had the computers which didn't work under Windows 10, and worked correctly under Windows 7, so I really understand those who disabled auto-updates.

Not to mention that also afterwards there were Windows 7 patches that kept one CPU core 100% busy for days!
"...doing it with enough bandwidth to support cat videos. Netflix, and bloated web pages."

There's the real problem, too many fools using the internet in broken and inefficient ways, me and you included.

If we want to decentralize the web, maybe the point is to abstract the UI display layer to the local application, i.e., site layout templates, forum UI, mail UI, etc. all be standardized with only data flowing over the decentralized net. It's essentially the same thing as existed before with local applications essentially being the terminals of the internet. shit, I can't even think of the various message boards, RSS readers, mail clients, etc that were crucial in the decentralized web of the past.

Look at what we have now, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. all instituting authoritarian and dystopian 1984 like controls on what can be said and who can and cannot be offended and who is punished and censored and controlled for saying unapproved things. That was practically impossible in a decentralized web where free speech and free will and human dignity still existed without the tech elite authoritarians dominating the internet.

It's sad that as write that I start realizing that the intent really isn't at all what it used to be. IT seems Zuckerberg et al. are becoming ever more successful at achieving his goal of replacing the internet. I would not be shocked if today's kids, e.g., between 10-28 had absolutely no idea what the internet means beyond Facebook, amazon, netflix, google, instagram, Uber, etc. The whole system has essentially collapsed upon itself.
It's a bluetooth confetti cannon. Isn't that obvious?
>There are two kinds of AC motor: asynchronous and synchronous. We will focus on the synchronous ones because they generally perform better and more efficiently.

fwiw Tesla disagrees. True the peak efficiency is better, but the average efficiency is worse.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/induction-versus-dc-brushless-mot...
So you are just going to ignore the fact that Microsoft abused the security patch channel to automatically "upgrade" people to windows 10?
pretty sure its 2D, yes. just a single line of pixels.
As the article points out its mostly a review of https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1795/_index...
Windows XP is a red herring. No one uses it anymore, and WannaCry didn't even successfully spread from that version of Windows.

Windows 7 is the new holdout, and people aren't eager to swallow 10.
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This is getting quite philosophical now. It depends on the intrepetation of "world". If we mean the universe then no, it is to our current understanding of it, not useful to model it's entirety using continuity, if we can only messure it discretely. If by world we mean a subset of the universe, then it makes perfect sense, because the world might be on the macro level where this "discretness" is far smaller than we ever want to go.
All the ones with 8 kids.
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Not for long...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/03/why-tr...
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He gets money for each callout.
My list https://lists.pocketcasts.com/d4460e3f-2edc-4d23-b6da-8c62d0...

If I would recommend one from the list it would be Ted Radio Hour
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Almost all of the responses here putting this down as "not that big a deal" are completely missing the point. It's extremely easy to say that evolution should do a thing, but if you cannot provide a mechanism to explain how such a thing is passively selected for, then evolution doesn't care. Evolution has no intelligence. There is no designer. This is probably the most important aspect of evolution to understand and the one hardest to grasp intuitively.

For example: say you had a savannah with grass and tall trees populated by 4-legged horse-like animals that survive by grazing on the grass. We can look at such a scenario and say that it would be advantageous for some sub-population of those horse-like animals to grow longer and longer necks until they were capable of also grazing on the trees (doubling their available food supply, relative to their neighbors), but it will never happen! In each generation there will be a distribution of neck lengths, and as there is no advantage to those with slightly longer (but not long enough to reach the trees) necks, the distribution will remain unchanged. This is the basic Hardy-Weinberg principle.

The only way you get giraffes is if the trees start out much shorter, so that the horse-like animals are capable of grazing on them. Then the trees that are slightly taller will have an advantage, and the distribution of tree heights in the population will shift. This will give an advantage to the horse-like animals with longer necks, causing their distribution to shift, and on, and on. This is the basic Red Queen hypothesis.

So saying that an organism that has an inherent capacity for adaptation, or one that knows to cooperate with neighbors, would be better able to survive than the alternatives doesn't mean crap. If you cannot provide a mechanism (backed by a mathematical model) of how such traits arise, then evolution doesn't care.

That is what makes this work so particularly interesting. The authors are providing a model to explain how a mechanism for the selection of cooperation could occur.
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What about Stuxnet? Did they go to companies and told them to patch against that once it was out? We don't even know how many more times these things have happened in the underground and used by criminals. We have just one example of NSA doing this, and even that wasn't sufficient because the "horse was already out of the barn."
Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
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There is some light bedtime reading for a decade or two... Thanks for the link, I actually look forward to dive into the topic.
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You can capture (in my opinion) better experiences of static scenes with Cardboard Camera (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr....). It's higher resolution than most 360 cameras I think and comes with depth (!!) and sound. It's been a while since I used it though and I think it might have holes in the top (it's not a full sphere).
To be honest I wasn't talking about online play either. I was thinking more about GUKPT type competitions. But what you say was also true for my mates back before they became regular final table players in major tournaments. Online playing tends to bring out a different type of competitor from what I gather but the "grinding" nature of the game is still the same.
Still relevant, as it appears many developers don't pay attention to what happens at WWDC, IO or BUILD sessions, where these type of advices are repeated over and over.
I didn't see it either. Was about to ask if it'll work for Rails projects haha
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http://99percentinvisible.org/
http://freakonomics.com/

Both a great in different ways.