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This would take an extraordinary departure from our current politics. Government intruding on software would (rightly) cause cries from the most stalwart Free Software advocates and from proprietary software companies.

Can you imagine the outcry if a new Linux fork had to seek government approval in order to post their distribution?

Can you expect Google or Oracle to fail to lobby the government to make sure they don't have to get each major revision certified?
The issue isn't the efficiency from the car's perspective—it's what happens to the other 25% of the energy that doesn't go into the car. Hence the molten puddle road comment.
Financial impossibility is a strange thing. Is if physically impossible for just %20 of the population to work? We have so much amazing technology, we should be able to attain that. Why let money get in the way of what is physically possible? Its just paper. Its not even paper. Its an integer.
I'm posting this partly because the 98 report is the top result every time I google it, but also - it's the canonical documentation for Haskell, AFAIK.

If you're interested in Haskell, consider at least briefly scanning this document so you know what you don't know.
There have been efforts to do something similar to create more "readable" S-expressions. I did work in Common Lisp for a number of years and didn't have any issues with the syntax but I rather like this idea:

http://readable.sourceforge.net/
Seriously. I kept thinking about YouTube when reading the story. What Hardbound tried to do is get VC money for an early stage YouTube channel. That's just silly. The business model for a YouTube channel is to start with nothing, make a video, nobody watches it, so then you make another video. Thousands of videos later you have a few people watching. You get a few of those people to give you a couple bucks on Patreon. You invest the money in better equipment and polish your videos up a bit.

It's just a long, slow grind. It requires direct communication with your audience. You have to listen to what they want and meet their needs.
But it is also not like you get to do what you want in big corporations. Rather you do what you have been told, and usually you might not even know the real reason.

Also security professional is a person that know a lot about security, his intentions are not necessarily "good" for him to be considered a security professional in my opinion.

Very good black hat hacker are also professionals.
In my nice first-world country I do trust the government to track it. But in many third-world countries, deed registers are prone to forgery and bribery, and it's not uncommon for people to discover they suddenly don't own their land. I've seen economists argue that this is a major factor limiting economic growth in those countries.

Probably some of those countries would like to fix this, and for them, a blockchain might make sense...say with multiple government entities cross-signing property transfers, rather than requiring all property owners to hold their own keys.
Strange, I'm absolutely jaded on the technologies of today's world. The web and mobile phones have locked us into a shitty content consuming culture. Almost nobody is writing real novel software, they're just gluing together premade parts and managing the plumbing. I don't even blame them, the amount of effort required to just get people to look at something that doesn't open with 1 click is immense.

But shunting data in and out of sql databases and making REST APIs is not novel tech work, it's just a very fragile way of describing and maintaining policy. The tech sites of old had more interesting and novel implementations in a handful of articles than passes through HN in a week, and it wasn't stuck behind a SaaS wall either.

As for VR or AI, one is stuck in a rut of uninspired arcade shovelware and the other is being used for terrifying totalitarian purposes. Welcome to cyberpunk dystopia, population you.
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I just wrote a similar comment but I think yours is better. "Contract" is a great word to use here.
This is an incredibly rude comment.
I don't think it's bad that Google, and you and I, have an easier time of switching to and from Linux kernels.
You say milestone, I say hacker-noon.
You write "Margarine, like pretty much any vegetable oil other than olive/avocado/coconut, is really bad for you."

Do you have sources for that? Which vegetables oils are healthy and which are unhealthy and why?

The only relevant knowledge I have is that saturated and trans fats are bad and that unsaturated are good. One source for that is for example https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you... .

If this is what you are refering to then margarine is indeed bad because it often contains high amounts of trans fat but for example coconut oil isnt good either for its high saturated fat content. Plenty of other vegetable oils should be fine judging by their fat contents rather than "really bad".
Yes it was the very first.
> stuff on the internet to be traceable by default

Traceable by whom? This is a recipe for speech suppression by harassment on a colossal scale.
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Twitter's one of my favorite mediums. Basically everything in my second paragraph shows up in my timeline. Feels like mainlining all the good parts of the internet in a concentrated form. I'm also old enough to remember web rings and all those different funky aggregators like Memepool. Twitter at its best is like that.

I don't mean to push you into something you don't like, but if you want to give it a go again, search for weird twitter and follow anyone who looks interesting. Or follow your favorite authors or reporters. Over time, they'll retweet other interesting posts and you can follow those new people. Eventually, you'll organically build up something which follows your interests very closely.

That's how I did it. I started because I wanted to follow the Arab Spring and Tahrir Square events closely, and many Egyptians were posting their accounts on Twitter in English.
Why does remote work fail?
Yeah, it's over.
Isn't the problem in part that some people see "we done been hacked in our car making doohickey" (/cletus) and respond "backdoor all the things" thinking that allowing tougher security just let's the crackers hide whilst backdoors let the "feds" catch them.

I'm not even sure they're wrong per se. In theory (!!) a benevolent watchful government can promote liberty and protect its citizens (or in my case The Queen's subjects).
There is a startup in Montreal that estimates how much solar roof installation will cost based on house photos from space.
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How do we know that the recipient of the key in your scenario (or the originator of the CSR) is in fact the domain owner? The domain contains contact information, but the exchange can't be done by email - that's not secure. Can't be done by SMS - that's not secure. We don't know them personally, so there's no obvious out-of-band technique that can be used.

We'd have to go back to physical snail mail using the address on the domain record, and/or notarization. Both of which of non-automated and very slow (relatively speaking).
"Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser enumerates accidents related to nuclear weapons, many of which do not end in criticality due to sheer luck in most cases. Illusion of safety indeed.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7F8G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
I hope they do. Let Google show petty little governments that they cannot enforce their outrageous restrictions on free speech on a global, online network.
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Google will comply for the same reason it has built the overly-abused (and extra-legal) automated-takedown tools for its search engine and YouTube in order to cater to Hollywood's wishes and to get the content contracts they were hoping to get from Hollywood.
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I guess at least showing me ads.

It would be similar to an owner of a brick store directing me to the expensive or less expensive products, depending on my looks, instead of asking "what price category do you have in mind?"
But preferably not in production.
Please do Pull Requests. :)
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When I was about 12, I was in a academic play in which I had to recite a portion of the quote on the statue of liberty by Emma Lazarus:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I was very impressed by this thought.
I have a suspicion that the approach that will be used is the Dutch approach and a Dam will be built across the Block Island Sound enabling reclamation of significant amounts of land. The value of NYC and the ability to expand the city should make it worth while.

I suspect dams will be used to protect Miami which already suffers from sea flooding.
First a frivolous €2.4B "fine" from the EU, now some insane global censorship attempts by an aggressive minority market. That's just this week!

How long until Google moves to a boat nation or something? I'd live on a boat if I could skip out on income taxes.
Do you own a business? Or..have you? Are you familiar with the advantages for legal and ethical businesses from blockchain?
>Vs if you could send 1 packet from Russia that told the turbine to go "full speed reverse" that could shred the device?

Just want to point out that there's no such thing as turning on a wind turbine at full speed reverse. It's not a fan.

Potential mechanisms for damaging one include mucking with the brakes (as in the article), changing blade pitch, disabling some kind of cooling system, etc.
And as mentioned above, this is silly to ignore software security.

Software attacks are often far far amplified and harder to trace than their in person counterpart.
> sleep ... for the exact right number of stops

The trick is that you learn to automatically "wake up" everytime the bus (or train) stops.
It's almost subconscious, your eyes blink 1-2 times to check where you are. And if it's the last station before you have to get out you get a small adrenaline boost :D
"It is here are its mechanics is mechanics of depression (psychology)."
Something to note when discussing music copyrights.

The industry is much less focused on what it can gain through litigation, and much more focused on what it loses by not aggressively protecting their copyrights.

I recall a conversation with a friend who managed PR for the RIAA when they went around suing teenagers for using P2P (yeah, imagine that PR job). They knew the mess it would cause, but they had to do it, because it sent a stronger message if they did nothing. IANAL, but there's something about if you knowingly let someone use your copyright without demanding they license it from you, you give up or lose the copyright at some point? (Edit: apparently this only applies to trademarks, not copyrights)

Labels have invested a heap of cash buying these rights, we shouldn't all be shocked when they act lawfully to protect them.
Uhh, so I'll use DuckDuckGo to find the site instead?

In other words, should this be for all the search engines?
It's not that binary here. You seem to believe that the law should be binary on the subject, but you have to realize that the circumstances where it would be applied may not be interpreted so.

In this circumstance I think it would come down to tone, and perceived intent. If you were to march with hateful picket signs screaming obscenities in front of a church on Sunday you might be asked to leave by the police for reasons besides hate speech.

First, you'll likely be confronted by people passing by who think you're being an asshole.

If you were renting a hall, or holding a speech at a university about your researched theories on why we should change something in our society or petitioning government and other social groups, you wouldn't have a problem (except maybe personal. Fundamentalist/Evangelist groups can get as bad here as in the US)
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Yeah, but you're talking about good programmers.

Do you really think that all the others really read books? :)
Depends on how green the grass is.
It was, I wonder what the ROI looks like today on that investment.
Using your numbers, that's

337000 cars/day * 300Wh/mile/car * (1-.75) = 654W/m

That road has four lanes (two in each direction), so if every vehicle is electric and is using the charger, it needs to dump a daily average 164W/m. For comparison, solar irradiance is 1.3kW/m^2.

So, I don't see the problem?
My understanding of the hydrology around Miami is that dams won't work. Water will just seep through the ground.
Um, what? How would you tell the difference between (f 2 (g 3 4)) and (g (f 2 3) 4)?
All the more reason to only run it at certain times of the day. Enable it at night, when electricity is cheaper, heat generation is less of an issue, and there's less congestion.
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Let's Encrypt's renewal notifications don't cover cases where a new certificate was issued, but for some reason isn't being used by a server, perhaps because the ACME client ran into a problem, or because the server wasn't reloaded. It's useful, but it doesn't quite replace actual certificate expiration monitoring.
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How do they make money? Do users pay for the service? It is not obvious from the website.
Wasn't that Google though?
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I counter with another question. Is it ethical for a company to pay you the same to do more work? If you tell them you have automated your job, I guarantee that the reaction will be to give you more work. You will not get more free time or more pay.
This isn't a technology problem though. It's a stupid problem. Compare this to building a blender that plays MP3s. Why would you not just cheaply mount the solar panels next to the road? You can still do all the gimmicks with the LEDs and stuff without having to spend time and money making a high traction, durable road surface that doubles as a solar panel. There's nothing to be gained.
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> who knows what they really meant.

They meant that several EU countries are pushing them to "do something" about terrorism and nationalism spreading on social networks so they are preemptively increasing moderation under slogans of unity, community and understanding before politicians come up with some byzantine hate speech enforcement which would bring them serious costs or kick them out of this market altogether.
At the risk of bing flamed, while I read this and marvel at the technology, I wince at the terrible cost - animal testing - to achieve this.

CalTech's statement on animal testing is on their website [1] though I'm always skeptical of "oversight" groups established by an industry itself, as are PETA [2].

[1]: https://iacuc.caltech.edu
[2]: https://www.peta.org/blog/labs-gold-standard-seal-mean-anima...
Anyone else dislike the immutability fad?

Mutability has its place, and simply hiding it behind abstractions tacked on to the language (vars, refs, agents, and atoms in Clojure's case) isn't a productive way to deal with it. It has a lot of benefits, but the downsides are significant. Sometimes I just want to create a map and mutate its structure, and the language saying "no" is constraining me in an unpleasant way.

It's the old debate of whether the programmer should be constrained by the language, or the language should serve the programmer. Maybe it's a matter of opinion.

Also, typed function parameters are painful. Declaring a parameter as a `f: () -> int` instead of `f` requires that you think about what the signature needs to be. What if you don't know? What if you want to change it? The cost goes up significantly, and I'm not sure the purported ability to sidestep a few bugs is worth it. If safety is an issue, good test coverage can be a sufficient substitute for types.

(The article is excellent, by the way.)
Your saving rate is going to be higher on 50k/year in easter Europe than 100k SF salary. Just by using this extra money and investing them in various assets might help you get additional income streams that will eventually helps you cross that gap or maybe just retire much earlier.
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The helipad issue seems pretty intuitive. Personal helipads are so rare that the system probably hasn't seen enough to "learn" that this is a sign of extreme wealth. Virtually all the helipads the system has seen are probably on the roofs of hospitals and inside airports, neither of which is particularly associated with "high income".
Forums?

But really by the time a new link pops up, is indexed, found, recognized by infringed parties, then by court order delisted, 10 more will have arisen no?

As long as courts are involved and the process is slow, I can't imagine it having any substantive effect on these kind of links which seem to come and go.

This is different from the case in the article which is a longer term enterprise being delisted. And in that case a regroup, rename, new domain and maybe a new website seems it would be easy enough if the infringing party is determined to stay up.
Trademarks are the thing you can lose if you knowingly let someone use it, not copyright. Copyright remains even if you do nothing to enforce it.
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A nation state is not just there to collect taxes but to provide some guarantees that the company can survive and conduct business in a certain way.

If you or Google were to move to a boat, who is preventing some nation state from bombing you. Who is preventing nations to not just raid Google servers and ban them as they wish. Other nations currently don't do that because of the backing of the nation Google is located in.
> There's only so many movies I can watch (for me, 1 or 2) before I get bored out of my mind.

How about downloading e.g. some tech talks? Or video lectures?
There are some niches left even for DV like wildcard certs or longer validity periods.
> Obviously attribution becomes far more important with cyberattacks, but that's a tangential point.

No its not, its the whole point. The point of the age of information is that it is a departure from the age of blood and steel. The tactics of blood and steel that you are supporting have no place in this future and are counter-productive.
The point of the age of information is that power is no longer solely in the hands of nations. Therefore treating it as a case of "stomping on the bad people" means your attack spread increases from all the nations in the world to all the people in the world. Added to that the evidence of those attacks can and will be forged.
You're chasing shadows and its not worth it. Just build a better shield, that's all that matters.
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The more I read about electric autonomous vehicles, the more I feel like we are about to re-create the train technology.
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Well, a ring is better than a watch I suppose. But the idea of charging my ring every night just so I can authenticate feels burdensome.
Dynamite is not required. In the 1970s in Minnesota angry farmers destroyed about a dozen transmission towers with nothing but wrenches. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU_project_controversy
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Perfection is impossible, but OpenBSD shows that you can get close: only two exploitable holes is a good track record. Now granted there is a lot of fine print in there (the big one being you need to be up to date - many of the holes people are falling victim to Microsoft has already fixed). OpenBSD puts a large amount of effort into their code audits to achieve that, which is expensive. Microsoft probably will be willing to give devices completely instead of going that far.
Except autonomous vehicles are point-to-point, which makes them way more convenient!
The Internet is clever. It will find a way, I'd wager.
The 90 degree rotation thing is surprisingly common. I've seen it done at least twice. Also several instances of edge connectors that were entirely backwards due to being CAD placed on the wrong side of the board, or incorrectly pin nimbered.
I know not with what weapons the first world cyberwar will be fought, but I know the second will be fought with floppy disks.
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it's common lisp. if the language spec hasn't changed, and your code works, you don't really need to change the interpreter.
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And being "capable" in the first place is largely due to luck also. What is being "capable?" Intelligence, education, discipline, motivation? Intelligence is largely genetics and your socioeconomic status as a child. Education? Intelligence plus socioeconomic status as a child and young adult. And a fair bit of luck too (i.e., admissions, etc.). Discipline? Parent's socioeconomic status and probably some genetic/psych/environmental influences. Point being, just being capable of being "capable" has much to do with things outside of your control. Most are unaware or dismissive of this. Goes back to the old adage of being born on third base and congratulating yourself for hitting a home run.
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Yeah, if you own a copyright or trademark and do not defend it, and can be shown to have known about it, then it becomes almost impossible to defend later on in court. Kind of like a muscle, if you don't use it, you lose it.
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"1 packet from Russia"? This requires physical access to 1 wind turbine in a networked Wind farm, which is going to be at most 250 turbines and I'd be really impressed if they were all networked together.

"Full speed reverse?" You could perhaps increase fatigue overtime. Some wind turbines can start spinning to get to a more favorable position in their power curve, I'm not aware of utility grade ones being able to do that, or go "full speed" enough to cause physical damage.

I have some experience with network access in a UK wind farm. They were extremely paranoid about network security.
Would this not apply a force against the direction of travel, thus making the car expend more energy than gained in order to maintain speed?

Correct me if I am wrong.
But phones should be put in flight-mode before takeoff. Which means no wifi/bluetooth.