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I love usb-c. It’s extremely convenient when travelling to only have to take one charger and a usb switch for all 4 devices.

I also find it far more convenient when working. One usb-c plug to plug into my entire work desk (monitor, backup hard drive, power, various chargers and connector cables).

Perhaps you haven’t invested in a decent usb-c switch? Only upsides for me so far.
Movies are still generally protected with DRM. Do you know if you can play iTunes movies with a third party player (like VLC).
Myself, I enjoyed the entire book, but I understand the let down feeling some here are expressing. The first part is immediate, gripping, intense, and hard to go through it (but you don't want to stop, because it is so good).

After all of that resolves, it's pretty hard to emotionally connect with the rest of the story, since you are exhausted from all that came before. The final act is worthwhile and interesting, it's just a pretty big change in direction.
If it's anything like the BeagleBone Black Debian-based image, you can connect with USB to get access to a shell, or access the Cloud9 IDE through your browser. It's very plug-and-play friendly. (The BeagleBone variants also have ethernet/WiFi, which can be used for the same, but I can't tell if the PocketBeagle does wireless or not.)

EDIT: Here's a video for the Blue:

https://youtu.be/pTpUMajQS_U?t=170

Starting around 2:50, she shows opening up the onboard Cloud9 instance after plugging in the MicroUSB cable.
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Take a look at https://github.com/HVF/franchise/blob/master/src/cell/visual...

Basically, each visualization is a react widget with some static properties that define its icon / when to show it / etc.
The article mentions that he chose to use a larger than accurate size for the simulated earth to speed up the simulation. That suggests that "in real life" it would in fact take longer.
Credit ratings for countries are only about the government's borrowings.

And these are also proportional, so China's debt to GDP is higher than the US's debt to GDP regardless of the $ (or yuan) amount involved
Perhaps the business unit wasn't doing well and the alternative may have been lost jobs?
Or old content.

Spotify provides access to a huge back catalogue and although it probably reduces the value of some content it monetises other old content that was basically dead.

Currently Netflix has a tiny library, when you take into account 50 years of film ripe for rediscovery.

Anyone know what the blocker is?
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So you want to sabotage the system because you're afraid of being replaced by a robot? Given that images are all checked multiple times, that seems inefficient and probably ineffective.

Wouldn't that time be better spent learning a task that is harder to automate? It seems a bit like pissing into the ocean to spite the rain. If it is going to rain, you might as well sell umbrellas.

Though the robot slavery part is interesting. If we develop AI, and it is truly intelligent, then is it ethical to own it and demand unpaid work from it? Or, did you mean that humans would be slaves to the robots?
Wire is really, really exciting. I don't know if I trust its crypto anywhere near as much as I trust Signal's, and I don't know if I trust its business model as much, but featurewise it seems a healthy competitor.

Multi-device. Email-address-based. Federated [soon]. What's not to like?
How about the NSA make all US government agencies use their Simon and Speck algorythms and we (rest of the world) see in a few years what the outcomes (and their so-called secret documents) look like.
If you don’t get the reference and you like scifi Seveneves is awesome. It’s not hard scifi.

I managed to finish it in two days. Super entertaining.

Anywho, this visualization is cool to see after reading the book.
Unix managed to be written without those extensions.
That's one cause of inflation. Another cause is raising the income for everyone (i.e. minimum wage, etc.).

There exist goods and services with prices that are a function of income-elasticity, meaning that they inflate with the more money that people make (e.g. housing). This is one of the reasons that many welfare programs are targeted spending, like food stamps or medicaid.
> Now do you understand why the Chinese government is attempting to ban Bitcoin? Chinese people are scared of their currency

The People's Bank of China is loosening capital controls [1]. The yuan is overheating and the PBoC wants to weaken the currency.

Capital controls weren't the reason behind China's move. Fraud was. Constraining the problem to China-specific characteristics appears to be why this "China banned Bitcoin because of capital controls" meme has taken root.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-capital-cont...
Those are all true, but I think we will eventually discover that the psychological impact of flights is also real. Being packed in very close proximity to a large number of strangers and having limited mobility and autonomy for hours on end is a really unusual environment to put a hairless primate in, regardless of how well-trained it is.

I'm mild-mannered, low key, and non-claustrophobic and even I get stir crazy being cooped up in a plane after a while.
So does $5 CAD/hr. Salaries in India have grown a fair bit since the early oughts.
Wow this comment is confusing a lot of stuff.

- "Free-market anti-capitalist" is a term used by people who want to call themselves "mutualists" but lost the rhetorical shell game trying to compare themselves to Proudhon, with whom they in reality share nothing.

- Thick vs thin libertarianism is orthogonal to the discussion here, though I think it's discussed almost exclusively by ancaps; as far as I know the distinction was created to discuss two different attitudes towards the NAP. Anarchists and other socialists don't put much faith in NAPs.

- "Market anarchism" is a synonym for full-on Rothbard ancap.

- "Libertarian socialism" is identified with anarchism back into the 19th century. Any attempt to use the term to describe "free market" policies is incoherent appropriation for the sake of (probably populist) branding.

No libertarian socialists of note work within the Libertarian Party in the US. When the term "left libertarian" is used in that context, the "left" is only relative to the paleoconservative parts of it.
Do you have example source code (to borrow a term from Stack Overflow -- Minimal Complete Verifiable Examples) for all of the features that the chip provides?
It means that Google can use it at all. Otherwise they would be unable to use it. Which is what they're concerned about. Previously, with other companies actually making the phones, they didn't have to worry about that kind of thing. Now that they're looking to do more of it themselves, they do.

Google doesn't give a damn if Samsung can come in and use the same IP and have similar features on their phones. Remember, Google just wants to improve the Android experience as a whole. If they use the HTC IP in a cool way, it's good for Google if Samsung does the same thing.
> "If your AC is more than 5 years old..."

Most A/C units will work perfectly fine for 10-15 years if proper maintenance is being done.
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It's a weird situation. Your credit information is so crucial that the agencies need a workaround for everything - a user can't be allowed to get stuck in a state that locks them out of their credit forever.

I'm still annoyed by this entire debacle but I'm not sure what the correct solution for a lost PIN should be.
Every C compiler has a libc.
Also, if we're making the usual assumption a UBI is intended to replace [most] needs assessment of state benefits, we need to test how people respond to having $2500/month value in various state cash and in-kind benefits replaced by $1000/month in cash (with the difference pocketed by people hitherto deemed less in need of support)
We fail miserably on Earth.
Literally doing nothing seems to be a valid literary technique. The part I remember most from Cryptonomicon is about some guy eating cereal.
Given how horrible non-(Nexus|Pixel) phones have been, I'd consider this to be better in practice. I agree with you that in an ideal world, other Android device makers would be on a level playing field and not do a shit job.
Then, under U.S. law, this would need to be positively proven in court.

"What if"s don't produce convictions.
This is already an issue with Medicaid. 65 million people depend on the government for free healthcare and cannot afford to lose it.
>Rent a cheap house with friends, smoke weed, and play videogames sounds like a pretty decent option to a lot of 18 year olds. Or even younger maybe?

I suspect a lot of people here don't appreciate this because they (and many of their friends) have a much different mindset. But I can easily see a lot of that sort of behavior and then, ten or fifteen years in, they decide they want something more out of life, start a family, whatever. But now they're 30 years-old with no skills, never having worked a real job, minimal education, etc. Pretty hard to do a reboot at that point.
I don't have a dog in the fight either way. I dislike Democrats and Republicans alike. There's enough publicly available evidence that she mishandled classified documents. If I did that, they'd lock me up and throw away the key.

It flabergasts me that otherwise reasonable people can say what you're saying. Is it confirmation bias? Is it a media that while rarely outright lying, just avoids mentioning anti-Clinton facts? How?
Key whitening is about expanding the key space, not changing the plaintext prior to encryption (which might be called data whitening).

Say you encrypt a message M with key K1 and get encrypted message E: encrypt(M, K1) = E. An attacker might brute force your encryption, if your key space is small this might be an issue. So what you can do is XOR the message with another key K2 before encryption and a third key K3 after encryption to get: E = encrypt(M XOR K2, K1) XOR K3. Now the attacker has three keys to brute force. (though I think the actual effective key size is between 2x and 3x the length if the attacker knows the message distribution)

I'm not an expert but I imagine XOR is popular because it's a basic logical operator and so has gate level hardware implementations.
The earth is being given a size for collision purposes. But possibly much too large of one?

With that and it being 2d it's nearly useless for figuring out the actual collision rates, or how long it takes things to settle. But it is useful in some respects.
When Life Asks for Everything
If people in every location have their income increased, then the housing prices inflate in every location. Saying, "People can just move" is missing the point.

It isn't that they can't afford to live where they are now, it's that BI will be absorbed by price inflation everywhere.
When I fly, I'm aware that there are risks, and I choose to opt in when I buy a ticket. The risks are super obvious, and I'm the "customer". Not to mention airport security is pretty heavy handed and visible.

Data gathering is usually not opt-in and it's also intentionally non-obvious who your information is shared with in most cases. I'm also rarely the customer, which means there's very little chance that my interests are being represented. Security or lack thereof is pretty hidden as well.

I suspect we would find a way to fill the economic holes if every credit bureaux was phased out over the next 5 years.

IMO, the entire vertical needs to be more transparent.
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You're not in the minority bud, sorry to break the news to you but the majority of people are selfish assholes who think all the opportunity in their life is simply the outcome of a god given right and ignore the centuries of oppression and theft that has enabled them to reach such a social status.
I had the exact same experience. I absolutely chewed up the first act (or two depending on how you look at it) in the matter of a few days, and it was awesome. But I never finished the final act. It was just not interesting enough for me to finish it.
Probably both. That's a pretty good-sized arbitrage opportunity.

Think about the number of people in the financial world who are looking to get a percentage of a second advantage with high-speed trading. Hard to believe they'd pass this up if they knew about it.
Fertility rates in Flint, MI before and after switch to lead-poisoned water
It's also a rare example of a book whose movie adaptation is really worth watching. I watched the movie first, and I think both the book and movie are better thanks to the other. The book makes it clear how each story exists in the next, and the movie gives a better sense of how the themes of the books tie together, despite their differences.

To anyone who reads Cloud Atlas, I strongly recommend you also watch the movie, and vice versa.
> running a microwave will kill nearby wifi and bluetooth connections. Isn't that strange?

I replaced all of my light bulbs for bluetooth light bulbs.

Fun thing is that I can't turn on the light when the next door neighbors use their microwave. And by fun I mean dealbreaking.
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Where are the results of the feasibility study in Oakland?
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I would like one of these. I spend most of my time on ssh and maybe one or two webpages.
Easy answer: they lose it.

http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/
"It takes the average recipient of an inheritance 19 days until they buy a new car."
I'll be showing off an infrared camera and a handheld MAME console I built at Maker Faire New York then sharing the design info. Working on pushing to github later this afternoon.
Yes, indeed it is an interesting AI project. Initially we can train system to check redundant tasks and help in reducing total drug discovery time.
So, given that this is a new class of attacks, and they mention the Nexus 6 as an example but that it works on commodity ARM chips in general, do we know whether this current exploit implementation refereced could be adapted to Apple's ARM chips, or whether they have a different setup that prevents this implementation?
Locks, Little's Law, and the universal scalability law
If I make a device that lets half of society sit on its ass for 100 years then murders everyone, I think the costs should be factored in by sueing me before everyone is dead. But maybe that's just me.
The social media sites and web tracking tools we built should help.
You're describing an idealized theoretical team organization model with strict separation between the engineering manager, product manager, and developer roles. In the real world with highly productive teams those roles tend to blur together. In order to produce actual business value — not just churn out code to spec — developers absolutely need to be able to communicate clearly, empathize with customers, and collaborate with colleagues.
If item is already a promise, and not a function returning a promise, they would be "executing" in parallel.
Good. You discovered a bit on how businesses work. In this case it ended little beneficial to many employees as instead of being laid off due to HTC downsizing or shutdown, they get to work for Google.
Which one? And did it successfully compile with multiple compilers?
There's one bit that could be a pretty big spoiler for the last book too.
Many of Stephenson's books, particularly Seveneves and Diamond Age, have amazing worldbuilding, but simply fall apart from a plot coherence perspective about 2/3 of the way through. We on this thread aren't the first to notice this: https://www.google.com/search?q="neal+stephenson"+ending

It's not easy: when you build "mysteries" into a well-built self-consistent world (and Stephenson's worlds are excellent in this regard), it becomes increasingly hard to reconcile them all. As soon as you allow yourself to explore emergent phenomena during a creative process, you run the risk of writing yourself into a corner. I tend to read most fiction with an approach of "imagine the stories you wish happened in this well-thought-out universe" rather than worrying too much about the way an author actually writes a plot.
Can your project be found anywhere? (github??)
> If what I create with my mind isn't my property, then what you create with your hand isn't yours either.

That implication is not a logical necessity. There is a big distinction: if I take away the thing you made with your hands from you, you have one fewer thing, and I have one more thing.

If I learn or copy what you have in your mind, both of us have something. I cannot take it away from you.

Also, the whole phrase "Intellectual Property" is a misleading thing that should not be used in any reasonable discussion, because it derails the arguments by unifying a bunch of pretty different things[1].

We should be calling copyright, patents, and trademarks what they are: they are not properties, they are monopolies authorized by the government (trade secrets may be a bit distinct here). Perhaps authorized monopoly is a more accurate term than "intellectual property". cf. [2]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html

[2] http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/11/cory-doctorow-s...
The existence of this heading really bugged me. It removed all the danger. Some number of people were safe and going to survive.
FreeBSD can be built with gcc, although it's built with clang by default: https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

The patches to make it work for icc is simple enough that this is almost a non-issue: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2003-Novemb... (albeit old)
Etcher is a bit easier than the old 7-zip + win32diskimager solution: https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#update
> to both the neoliberals and the neosocialismés

You're right - it serves both conservative and liberal ideals, which is a good thing.

> but I believe this is a terrible mistake that will have the exact opposite effect to what its supporters intend - there will be more poverty and debt slavery, not less

Watch this to understand why it would not be the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
I choose between aisles and windows based on a lot of things. If I just want to sleep, I prefer window (early morning flights and, if I can't avoid, red-eyes). For daytime flights, I'm more inclined to sit on the aisle so I can get up and stretch, etc. when I want to.
> If Coke ... had research 50 years ago that showed the link between their products and diabetes and then funded misinformation and contradictory research for the following decades

do you honestly believe this isn't the case? where do you think low fat marketing and all of the insanely bad public health fallout came from? it's bought and paid for by the sugar industry.

having said that, no, i don't think we should sue them, what's the point of that? people like eating crap and medical care is still privatized.
The question really isn't whether someone person on Hacker News would want to work.

A better question would be, "how many would report their work out of an entire country was offered a basic income?" There are already data points for comparison, when that question is asked.
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Thanks Erik.

How stable is the current chip design? I.e. will it be around for quite some time now?

Are you planning on letting clients customise the internal layout at some point?

What are your long-term goals and plans (that you can disclose)?
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See "We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest":

https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/
Heh, that's a really interesting point.

If I can go into Google and click a box to completely expunge my google history, why can't I do the same with a credit-reporting agency?

I get that the thinking is, well, you could just expunge away bad credit choices... but, so what? Your blank credit history is now your red flag, as well as a bad one.

But if you wanted to opt out, you could.

What could possibly go wrong? (Hah, I didn't mean that as a jokey rhetorical question!)
Let's say I had a great pizza and tell a friend about it without much details. The friend thinks pineapple on a pizza is license to kill, but he's not aware where he's going to... Bottom line is he is disappointed and tells everyone that this place suck.

If the places doesn't give a fuck and keeps serving only Hawaii pizza, they'll keep having disappointed customers and 1-star reviews without much explanation. They could bend over and start making special pizza for those occasions. But that'd destroy some of the charm for the people who absolutely love pineapples on their pizzas.

I guess this is loose-loose situation. The only solution could be if people gave either good review or no review at all. But then some objective criticism would be lost...
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Well, it's a trade-off. Personally I just use cloud VM now and don't run a home server anymore (previously I had DynDNS and would SSH X11 tunnel into my IRIX box from outside).
You say that like they didn't...
One of their talks has a tweet sized implementation, if you want to look at that. If you don't want to be "spoiled" be careful reading the original paper because it has Speck in C IIRC. They're also good algorithms if you want practice with SIMD instructions.

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/lwc-workshop2015/papers/sessi...
> China has over $20 trillion saved

From where did you get $20 trillion? The data I see show $3.5 trillion for the United States versus $5.4 trillion for China [1]. U.S. depository institutions hold over $9 trillion in savings [2]; this doesn't count savings held in stocks and bonds, the majority of Americans' savings.

In any case, private savings aren't really relevant to a country's credit rating. Ability and willingness to pay are. If the U.S. Treasury defaults, one can sue. If China defaults...you're just screwed.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNS.ICTR.CD?location...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSAVNS
Currently we have an economy that motivates companies to spend 1000x more capital developing innovations for a consumer with 1000x more buying power. Basic income introduces a source of capital that motivates companies to innovate in that area of "basic consumer needs", i.e. things needed by the majority of people, not the majority of dollars.

You're right that the short-term effect of this is indeed inflation on the prices of these needs, but the long-term effect is larger portion of the economy dedicated to filling basic needs instead of superfluous luxuries.
One of the major problems (at least in the US) is that the process is heavyweight and specifically tuned towards "lowest conforming bid". You end up getting subpar work and long delays, but the government is absolutely unwilling to restart the process in almost all cases because the cost is just that large (and we picked this one because it was going to be the lowest cost!). In some ways, the government has very little control over the outcome.

We've seen through things like 18f and usds that the government can adequately and effectively manage software projects itself and produce amazing results. Giving the US government more agency to self-fund ongoing development and procure solutions that are technically superior as opposed to "lowest conforming bid" is what is really needed IMO.
Yeah! You could buy a discarded shell from some existing device, like a broken Chromebook.