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Stick with hover for domain registration. I do love their service around that. Just move your DNS out to any number of providers. In my case, I moved off to Route 53 today. I forgot that Digital Ocean also provides DNS facilities and could have moved to that as well.

You can move to Google as well if you'd like (nothing needs to be hosted with any of these providers btw. Just in case that's helpful)
You don't need ICO. Bitcoin started from scratch and it's still #1! Crypto currency is software which is very cheap to make and distribute(compare to hardware). Also the most of internet startups get seed money under $200K, so I don't understand why are ICO's designed for $1M and more?
You pump and dump cryptocoins.
I find it interesting that most of the discussion about Snow Crash is "how about that other amazing book/series"?

AFAIK no one has tried the High House trilogy or Mythago Wood series or the classic sci fi book Heavy Weather.

Heavy Weather as a setting would seem well matched to soap operic writing which we'll probably be subjected to regardless of what we want, then finally spring the tornado on them in the last episode of the last season.
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No thanks will not be able to sleep at night doing that line of work (not consultancy in general, just the overselling and running with the money bit)
International waters start more than 20km out from the coastline (12 nm)[1], that would be a very long ferry just to reach the spaceport, not just a short hop like shown in the video...

[1] https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unc...
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I watched the documentary in a small screening a few years ago and the project sounded incredible... It wasn't Dune, not the Dune we've read, but amazing nonetheless. I definitely recommend watching it (be forewarned, Jodorowsky's english is atrocious). So many interesting stories about that movie:

Some of the design work and the people that worked with Jodorowsky actually went into Alien. I mean, Giger, of course, but also Dan O'Bannon a few other people.

He actually got Dali and Orson Welles to say yes to the project. Dali wanted to be the most expensive actor in history.

The story with his son borders abuse. He basically wanted to convert him into the Kwisatz Haderach and made him go through a very tough training for years.

Personally, I did enjoy David Lynch's version and even the tv mini-series they did (back in the late 90's?).
Automatically assume anyone who uses all caps mid sentence hasnt thought through their point and is internet rambling. I stop reading everytime.

Quite sure there's a few of us, if you need to emphasise anything perhaps being more succinct is better than subscribing to this form of communication.
I just can't believe that a New Yorker article--some blogger's white-labeled ramblings or not--consists entirely of re-digesting wiki's and comment sections from other corners of the internet. It's really coprophagic.
Hey, this is a fun game. Some ideas:

Game of Thrones - Varys

The Expanse - Chrisjen Avasarala. Or maybe her bodyguard, Cotyar.

Narcos - Bill Strechner

Archer - Lana Kane
> I remember one episode where the Fat Controller hires new engines to break a strike. There's obvious political overtones there that reflect the times it was written in perhaps. But in the context of the kids watching and learning, it's about not throwing tantrums to get your way, and the new engines being polite and humble in their work.

Do you think there is ever a legitimate reason to challenge authority? I mean, what determines whether going on strike is "throwing a tantrum"? Is it the mere act of disobeying authority?
Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks
You do realize that exists, right? (And quite good.) http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse
So who on HN is a Contact/SC agent then?

(Wait - Elon Musk - it's obvious! ;-)
39 minutes plus how many hours before & after, so we can compare the whole trip duration?

I can give you a nice example - flying from Geneva to Paris is maybe 40 minutes. Taking fast TGV train is 185 minutes. Overall only desperate fools would ever fly this trip (unless continuing to fly someplace else). Train is vastly superior experience - much more room, quicker, no security idiots everywhere.

Unless they can land on the main airports or similarly connected places, time gain might not be so great. Flying in the outer space is another thing...
It's good that they are going after individuals in Germany and the US in the VW case. All too often illegal behavior is only a risk to the company but no (substantial) personal risk to the individuals involved.
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What happens when you hit the limit? Thrashing swap or oom kills? (And what kind of overcommit policy did you use?)
Thanks for the missing piece of the puzzle!
The Concorde was one airplane. Its not like we have tried every possible way of increasing travel speed.

They will build this rocket anyway, the will have to make it reusable anyway. All they did is consider using it as a transporter for people on earth.

Its just one way the can potentially make money with this technology. Does not hurt to try. No reason to shit on the idea and claim its some absurd fantasy.
In addition to those questions lets stop beating up bushes - whats your budget @op

All you're getting right now are vague suggestions and hugely varying price points. If we knew the budget we could more easily recommend something
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Maybe it just works for me, but, as you ask... this is my "how":

1) Visit just 3 times a day.

Maybe I loose some links, but my time is limited.

2) Read the link before read the comments

And try to make your own conclusion before read the comments.

Sometimes I confess I read a couple of comments before open the link, and sometimes I skip the notice and just read the comments, but I can't give a writen rule for this, I use my subconscious.

3) Keep in mind that people maybe influenced (startup sphere, self-promote, etc), when reading and judging comments.

Do not take other people thoughts as a religion.

And skip threads as soon as you detect they are not useful for _your_ case.

4) Use some system to keep useful information in your backlog.

Pick your pioson: desktop wiki, bookmark system, TO-DO file, ... (?)

5) Test, try and then judge.

New products, features and programs.

6) Read the source code of the interesting stuff.

This in my case gives me more than reading thoughts.

7) Comment

Sometimes you will get useful conversations and sometimes downvotes.

8) Enjoy

If you feel pain, change activity. Nobody is forced to use this.
> working at a low level with only machines below you is a safe and stable job

until your job is replaced by a machine

Yes you can get made redunant / fired as a manager, but people management is much less likely to be replaced by machines in the future
Without society, individual A would not be able to earn same higher amount of money.
शनिवार को है दशहरा यहाँ जला दे तेल का दीपक, इतना आएगा पैसा संभाल नहीं पाओगे
I know a lot of companies that immediately adopt the new standards in C++, sometimes as soon as the compiler supports them, even if the standards aren't official yet.

For example, I was working at a company that was using C++14 features in 2013.
Nah, those bad uses won't kill the tech, but the bubble will burst. But yes, I also notice a lot of companies that are riding the blockchain train in scenarios where a central server would be fine, and all they'll end up with is a needlessly complicated solution to their problem.
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My team of friends and I have been approached by the owners of $1b group of companies to implement some tech for one of their major subsidiaries.

The company mainly imports certain bulk products, stores and packages them. This involves quite a bit of engineering.

Other companies then buy the packaged product for onward marketing/distribution to end consumers. They're also now getting into manufacturing.

What we've realized though is, being a family business that grew fast, they lack IT in nearly all facets of the business.

We're engineers, new to IT consulting. The whole process, from proposal writing to price quotations is a major challenge to us.

1) Is there a standard approach to this sort of thing? We're thinking of studying all their operations, creating a process map, recommending IT pieces for all nodes, implementing from scratch where we don't find off-the-shelf software.

2) We decided to start with a small bit first, order management. However don't even know how to price ourselves. Any pointers on how to charge for our work?
Snow Crash and Ringworld are no-fooling classics of SF. Alas, I am too manly to actually squee with delight at this news.
The fix was committed in April, but some distros never pulled it in because it wasn't marked as a security fix. Sysadmins should make sure all kernels are updated since as of a couple days ago there was no Cent6 kernel with the fix.
Musk didn't say it would replace regular planes nor we would all be astronauts, that's just you saying it. Also, his talk was about 43min long and only the very last "slide" and couple of minutes discussed the why-nots of reusing BFR for local transportation, because technically it is possible.
I remain convinced that any treatment, aside from Anime, won't do Snow Crash justice.
5mb still sounds like a lot, considering you could squeeze Linux 1.3 on a 1.44 mb floppy with a (compressed) rootfs... I mean does the runtime really do that much more than a full (although old) os kernel and a C library/runtime and apps?
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If there only were some sort of technology that could make it possible to keep water away.

Also, you can just generate that fuel from the air and make it carbon neutral if that was really the issue.
One of the things I found surprising and curious about bitcoin is that the minimum viable amount is actually the transaction fee, which is maybe around 27,000 satoshis (median tx size x 120 satoshis/byte).

The surprising part for me was that, as a corollary to that, wallets with less than that amount have bitcoin in them which is potentially permanently removed from the total supply of BTC.
It can't be good for the environment that Apple designed an iPhone 5s with connectors so tiny that one unplug and re-plug ruins the pads and renders the device useless. The connector would have been fine being a little bit bigger, but no, they had to minimize everything and make it impossible to fix.
A pyramid. A ponzi is more abstract and could still reward the last people but be harmful to the rest.
I couldn't get past the first episode, partly because I knew exactly what would happen as I read it recently, but partly because the belters aren't different enough.

I can totally understand why they aren't as the costs would have been astronomical, but it's such a huge part of the books it's a little jarring.

For those not in the know, Belters are people who were born/grown up in space and look very different as a result:

Humans born to the Belt are taller and thinner than those on Earth and Mars because of the decreased gravity. As a result of these physical differences, Belters are dehumanized by many Earth and Mars residents because they superficially seem to be a deviation from the species norms of humans. - http://expanse.wikia.com/wiki/Belter
The incentive to tell good stories on streaming services is probably higher relative to traditional television.

For traditional television the primary revenue stream is directly linked to the number of viewers; for subscriptions services of course they still want lots of viewers, but the revenue is more tied to the basket of content than to the single show.
Well, NASA had the right initial idea with the Shuttle, it just that their execution and then evolution of the idea was a total disaster.
> In this article I explain how to create a second Signal number that is safe to publish on your Twitter bio and business cards, so strangers have an easy way to contact you securely, while your primary phone number remains private.

Article summary. Decent enough idea but article only very vaguely matches title. I guess technically you're no longer giving out your phone number.
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A week? What are you shaving with them? Yaks? :-)

My cartridge razors last at least two months before I need to change them. Do you clean and dry your blades after use?
Doubtful. It comes down to a philosophy of workmanship and wanting to build quality products. Most companies today have zero ethics and exist only to plague the living. They sell you an idea, not something of actual value or quality.
Normally wouldn’t submit a political link, but the intersection of DMCA and copyright law with what feels like a pretty legitimate case for fair use (IANAL) seems like it makes a good fit here. When you start getting down to YouTube striking entire archives of interviews with the future president based on DMCA alone, something about the process seems haywire.
Skynet?
How about the good old humble entrepreneur? You have a little bit of each category. In contrast to the founder of a startup, you are not going for exponential growth or a buy-out, but for a steady income. You'll have both technical and business tasks, but you can offload some to employees or contractors, so you can choose where your focus is to some extent.
Capitalism how it should be. No paying for influence. And a parliament preventing the paying of influence. Monsanto chose to "influence" studies and are now paying the price.
Ringworld and Known Space more broadly provide a really interesting and large canvas. In fact, the flaws of Ringworld as a novel (like a number of Niven's longform works it's a bit of a travelogue) actually makes it a great setting for a somewhat open-ended set of stories.
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I think that depends on whether or not the ticket is something like 50x more expensive.

If Musk is proposing this idea then I assume it won't be too expensive, even for rich people. So it should cost significantly less than what private jet trip costs them (because the BFR is not so private after all).

Of course, the faster time to destination should also balance things out, but I have a feeling a trip would be more like 2h with the boat trips and waiting time included, because as others have said, I doubt the launchpad will be that close to shore.
Thunderbird with Simple HTML view is my favorite. It strips the remote content and fluff, while allowing simple things like bold and tables.
A number of the books (Use of Weapons, Surface Detail for example) would make fantastic series by themselves. The grander ones like The Algebraist are begging for a mega budget treatment with a brave, independent minded and intelligent director.

For the books to work, the director and the writer must be able to depict "greater than human" intelligence, thinking a step ahead of the viewer and not hobbling the human heroes to make a weak plot work (since SC are supposed to be the best of humanity). Too simplistic a depiction of the characters is my greatest fear in a Banks adaptation.

Much as I thought American Gods (the series) was badly written in terms of weaving the story together cohesively and of timing (it was fine as a visualisation of the book for people who have read it), many of the characters were well depicted in their full ambiguity and their evolution had the sense of direction otherwise lacking from the series itself.
At least Japan and South Korea are going to be hit by more severe problem: They'll have much fewer people to even take those IQ tests.
Well, you can send zero fee transactions, they'll just take a while to get through, depending on the current size of the mempool. And you can also always send transactions from multiple addresses, meaning you can add up these small amounts to something more meaningful
Meanwhile in Germany, VW is allowed to use tax breaks for the dieselgate fines, so the taxpayer is effectively footing the bill.
plenty, if you live in the EU
I use wooden dowels that I get for free from Ikea. Drill a hole large enough in the stripped area or the dowel, use a bit of wood glue and then hammer the dowel in.

It's perfect.
Speaking of stroke order, it's hard to imagine that the image based approach should be more efficient, seeing "the need to achieve stroke-order independence".

It seems so much more difficult if you can't use the stroke order information, or the stroke direction. Even the speed over the stroke should be able to help you along, especially as you say for cursive characters. Without stroke order it seems almost impossible to decode those in a systematic way.

I suppose this is a general feature of deep learning, it's still not clear how to make good use of all the structural information we possess about a problem, instead a very brute force approach is chosen.
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I like the MITHC series. But I admit that I have gone from must-see-TV to I'll get caught up one of these days.
the ghost in the shell OVA or SAC team could probably pull it off.

live action will be challenging. i’m not enthusiastic about their success.
Note, in this case I am the one on the manufacturing side. If our smart power outlets get a firmware update that for example destroys the current soft fuse or thermal protection, we would be screwed. How would we be able to give the people the ability to tamper, but without incurring the risks that come with that?
Nah, in half an hour you can always come back to sleep at home.
Why doesn't it? Canada isn't the US and Quebec isn't New York. What doe the electricity cost of some regions of the US have to do with the costs where data centers actually are like New York? The GDP per capita in Canada is $46.000[1] and in the US it is $57.400[2].

[1]: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
[2]: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Coming from a reader of the whole series: the second season has much better writing and budget, and the actors have also worked together long enough to gel well. Aside from the casting of a certain Martian girl (someone should introduce the director to some real Marines), I think they avoided major errors and everyone in the house is eagerly awaiting the next season.
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I knew the correct word and expression, I just didn't have it in mind at the right time ^^

I've read and written in English everyday for 10 years. I just can't speak it. One day I realized most news article I read were only translations of other articles. So I decided to skip the middle man.
> incompatible data formats and plenty of non-digitized data

This is exactly what many with a cursory knowledge seem to think a blockchain will solve. Unfortunately, these are generally challenges people have to talk about and resolve via mutual agreement and compromise; you can't simply throw code at the issue.
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This can be the problem with adaptations. If you've read and enjoyed the books, you not only possibly know whats going to happen but you have specific expectations. Personally, I haven't read The Expanse and have enjoyed the series.
> Oh, come one, you don't need to be a marketing genius [...]

But your product does need some marketing, which is the point I was trying to make.

Marketing does not just "build on top of [Engineering]", they are codependent.
Ringworld could work well as an open-ended style series. The world is so vast there would always be some new area to explore. Plus the visuals could be pretty awesome.

It could work along a similar vein to that show from the 70s, The Startlost, though with more connected arcs.
That doesn't mean it's anywhere close to being economical. It's just one of the few options they have there, or it's perhaps a little cheaper/more practical than carrying everything from Earth. Perhaps capturing it from Mars instead of bringing it from Earth means the project can cost "only" $5 billion per trip rather than $20 billion.

But that says absolutely nothing about doing that on Earth vs all the other much cheaper alternatives.
Why not? :-?
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Well my bad, all I did was clicking on the link, I made a lot of assumptions on what they intended to do with that.

Indeed it doesn't hurt to try!
In a company like Equifax ? Not much.

The issues are/were so systemic without complete change of culture and engineering processes not a lot of improvement in security can be achieved. This is very expensive change management and needs lot of will to push through . Companies of this size generally do not have the appetite for any type of change unless there is clear and present immediate danger that everyone perceives as one.

Sadly it takes a breach like this , one that impacts business significantly for most management to move in the right direction as they do not understands the risks fully until then. Just as home/medical insurance is really appreciated by someone who had to pay out of pocket.
If you ask me, focusing on colonizing planets is the completely wrong long term survival strategy anyway. What would be much better would be finding a way to survive in space, just orbiting a star in some kind of craft. I mean, if you can't grow food on it anyway than a planet is just a really big asteroid with an unreasonably large gravity well to deal with. If and when we eventually work out a way to viably travel interstellar distances (my money is on ditching biological bodies), every star would be a viable colonization target.
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Elon mentioned on stagram that cost would be about the same as an economy ticket on a current airliner.
Hey, FUCK at least has a real use case.

Making it possible to give a fuck or give no fuck digitally.

That's what the world has waited for!

/shill mode off
UPS drivers don't start out as drivers. You have to work your way up from package handling to get to that point. $25/hr isn't reasonable for any entry level job with no college degree requirement. Even a skilled trade like an electrician still requires training and apprenticeships. You might not be going to college but it's going to take just as long to become a journeyman in whatever trade you are looking at.
Xiph's implementation of RNNoise is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD license, so it would be easy to wrap a VST around it with a simple GUI.
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It would be hard to get the feel right. It's so grounded in old school pulp SF/space opera that it would be a tough balancing act to update it to something palatable while staying true to the spirit of the original.
Fusion power can't come soon enough. Maybe it's time for Musk to start working on that. He actually said in an older interview that he would like to tackle it eventually.
You miss Magit I suppose.
Well I just watched the video, it clearly imagine a world where you could fly BFR like airplanes... I don't see how it would be accessible to the mass, therefore it's a niche product for the very rich, no big deal!
I have to say that is actually the main reason why I would be using nano. I know the basic commands for vim, as well as some extended keys for nano (save), but nano really helps for being able to not spend time outside of development to find keys for critical functions.
Micro does have a help option, which is haven't really read, only briefly checked out the exe a few hours ago.

I wouldn't call it critical, but it really speeds up the learning process, or for users thst only use the program once in a blue moon (because GUI)