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Say you have 1000 $1 bills marked with an identification number.

It's now easy to tell you're the thief as you own all the bills with all the ID numbers that were registered as used for the sale.

You then put it in a big box together with a thousand others who all also have $1k. You then shake and tumble the box, and then hand out $1k to each and everyone of them.

It's now quite hard to determine who is the thief, as everyone has about 1 registered bill, but 999 unregistered bills.

Then magnify that by a lot and throw in some extras, and it gets tricky.
People keep forgetting that telecom is not a typical B2C market. Telecom is not like a lemonade stand - low barriers to entry, low cost of goods, no moats, etc. etc.

There is Huge capex, land rights, spectrum rights, compliance and more that have to be handled.

Just getting into it will not be possible - because any solution will require access to some limited transmission medium.

If it weren't for that single limit imposed by reality, this would be a different market.
How long do you think you can sustain that? Do you think you are doing good work?
It's a big turn off. The task is implemented in countless libraries. Are we not supposed to copy? If we are supposed to copy then I don't like playing games like that.
or maybe http://orgmode.org/ if you are using emacs. I do not know how awesome orgmode was, and I was missing it. plus you can export it even to latex if you wanna track your research and write your thesis.
This. We used a similar approach in my lab (but in MATLAB) to build reports of a certain experiment. The experiment generated a large amount of data daily; MATLAB was used to ingest and process the data, producing the necessary vector figures and tables and then called a pdfLaTeX template that produced the final, beautiful PDF report. Finally, the script sent the report by mail to our inboxes.
What's the difference between this and standard MMSE?
This reminds of the 'Magic Eye' craze, while there's an impressive technical aspect, emotionally these leave me cold, in every case I preferred the raw image to the processed one.
What makes me sad is the arrogance of your comment. There are 1000 of things that each of us know that you don't.
But this trashes the cache line by half. Only half buckets are now in the cache, a miss costs 50 insn. It's a typical hashtable trade-off.
It pays off with bigger tables, as you have much more misses there.
What widgets do you use? I generally prefer the slim widgets that are now available in the today view but I suppose that they can't convey as much information.
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The https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ is also a great resource - one can expect to hit almost the speed the light, barring the repeaters / amplifiers, while going through the cables.
I actually I mentioned this 10 hours ago. So no need to be suprised ;)
Lonely Planet does cover Guinea? https://www.lonelyplanet.com/guinea

That said, they used to pride themselves on covering the entire world, including countries that weren't really commercially viable, but with the decimation of printed guidebook sales they've been pulling back for quite some time. IIRC the first place to get the axe was Micronesia, which gets next to no tourists, completely lacks the beaches that are the main driver of Pacific island tourism, and is frightfully expensive to get to and travel in.

(Source: I used to work there, but it's been a few years.)
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Yes, if I hadn't entered this business I'm pretty sure I'd have ended up in a trade, electrician most likely.

I sometimes wonder if that might have been an easier path, make programming a hobby rather than career.
You make a very nice point. Even an AUR package that just installs the drivers would be great!
There are no games that superseded it. Other "sandbox" games are entirely different, with more cautious use of sandbox concept.
Use a CDN then block every other country. CF has a country code variable in the session data. Other CDNs have something similar.
Instead of thinking that the author is "showing off" perhaps one should take it as an opportunity to learn something new. If one always encounters words/concepts one already knows, how does one learn anything new?
I can't find a reference, but I once read that by annexing Czechoslovakia in 1938, Germany increased its industrial potential by 50%. Just in time for the war...
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Please use the original title ("Spheres and points").
> Selectively enforcing their laws to the detriment

Excerpt relating the Weiquan movement[0]:

"Recently, some judges have started to believe that to be a
judge you just have to strictly apply the law in a case. In fact, this kind of concept is erroneous [...] all the legal formulations have a clear political background and direction [...] We must stamp out the kind of narrow viewpoint that thinks that you can also do court work by having judicial independence."

* Extorting international companies into "joint" ventures

Look at some of these articles on starting a China JV[1]. Man are the caveats. So many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Then look at a list of sectors WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises) are allowed in. Then check what licenses are required to operate, and whether this precludes entities with majority foreign control, any amount of foreign investment (e.g. Internet Cultural Media License 网络文化证）, etc. Then look at the costs of acquiring such a license. Remember that your Chinese competitors will likely just ignore that until they're large enough to be fined for it. Remember that they'll get a slap on the wrist as long as they play ball, and you'll get deported.

* "Treats" (as an insider told me) every several months.

Look at how China ate up high-speed rail in a couple of years. All 国产 now.

[0] Huang Jiayou, "Considerations on some issues related to the education in socialist rule of law viewpoints," China Laws (http://www.lawbase.com.cn ), 13 June 2006.
[1] https://www.chinalawblog.com/tag/jv/
Relevant XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
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Those earning >90k are, which includes all Europeans to chose that historic adventure, whilst all Asians who will earn less are excluded.
Which matches the demands of the American workers, who don't want to replaced by cheap unskilled labour from overseas.

>60% of H1-B visas are a fraud and the new limits try to catch the fraudulents.
I meant programmatically customizable "reports" like invoices with charts. Sorry I didn't mention.
Yes we should be looking for technical solutions even if they seemingly don’t exist. I know political solutions do ... but this is Hacker News.

There’s always a way.
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Yup. From a technical point of view these style transferring algorithms are really cool. But from an artistic point of view they're dull. And these examples aren't anywhere near as good as those found here: https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style for example. Perhaps someone can use this technique as a starting off point for creating something of artistic value, but so far I haven't seen it.
That looks like single mode fiber never refracts… Surely it can't go round any bend, then, though? (And I'm probably missing something obvious. It's been a while since I've done optics of any sort.)
Ask HN: Firefox mobile move share to bottom
I'm a Firefox fan and it becomes better and better on the desktop. Unfortunately someone, somewhere decided that the mobile version has a context menu that starts with a "share" menu. Open in a new tab is below.

After gazillion misclicks and complaining on Mozillas bug tracker without success someone on HN suggested the "Move Share To Bottom" [1] addon, which.. does what it says on the box.

Unfortunately.. that's not compatible with the latest Firefox and I'm wondering if there's any solution? So far I see only "Hi Chrome" or "Figure out how to build a Firefox fork", both of these are.. less than great.

Is this sort of stuff still fixable in addons? Do the people that suggested this addon have a different workaround now?

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/share-to-bottom/
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It doesn't care. I'm talking about income/outcome or savings. The problem here is if you have a bad sense of what you think is 'enough' for going all in.
Is that really the case? I always imagined that was a meme the dish washer manufacturers promoted.
I wonder what it would look like scaled up to a higher resolution with a dithering algorithm applied. With the extremely limited palette of lego bricks you'd have to get pretty creative with the dithering to get an accurate representation, it seems like a fun problem.
Tatra was fine during the war. It's decline started with the ascent of communism and it's planned economy.
This was a really fun read. The explanation for the 1860s error rate peak blew my mind. I wonder how many other characters could generate similar errors and how long it will take for us to notice the patterns.
Huh? So the meaning is more like "blocking vs. non-blocking" rather than "synchronized vs. non-synchronized"?
It depends on who that someone will be, of course, but I'm feeling rather optimistic - our district went for Clinton by 3 points, and I think by 2018 any Republican candidate won't be able to clearly distance themselves away from Trump and the federal GOP platform. Reichert had the benefit of being the incumbent, and being a fairly moderate Republican (or rather a very pragmatic one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIlizXcKVLY).

If you mean who I'd vote for, it would be the Dem candidate, no question. The parties are far enough now that I don't foresee a situation where a Republican candidate would be more closely aligned with me on the issues than a Democrat, even a particularly disagreeable one. But, more importantly and urgently, I think that this administration must have some counterbalance in the Congress to check it. But this is a moot question, anyway, because I'm not a citizen and cannot vote.
You have 3 components that can be comparable with each other or not depending on many conditions:

- travel time on fiber

- transceiver conversion time

- time spent sitting in some buffer. This can dwarf other components on "common" networks!

http://www.m2optics.com/blog/bid/70587/Calculating-Optical-F...
1. Contact forms and newsletter signups for static html sites.

2. Endpoint for collecting anonymous usage stats in our apps.
China emerged from the bottom of the economic pyramid with this strategy. It wasn't immoral of them to insist that its people wouldn't be exploited in perpetuity, was it?
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US is an outlier in that regard. In other developed countries, railroads are mostly electrified.
>Parenthesis: by the way, non-mining full nodes add precisely ZERO value to the network, and they actually slow it down. Before you guys start yelling, please see reference at the end of my comment for details. That's another urban legend purported by Bitcoin Core. Anyways, don't get me started.

I would have thought the point of bitcoin is to be a currency and not just a way to fund wasting electricity.

Miners add zero value by design. Mining only exchanges physical resources like energy into equivalent bitcoin. If people are willing to buy bitcoin for $7000 then that means miners are willing to spend up to $7000 worth of energy to obtain a single bitcoin. It's the buyers and sellers of bitcoin that have added the value.
We don't need to get into difference between countries. The question is, which quantity of money you spend every month and if you think that 4 months of savings are enough for going all in. I wouldn't go all in with 4 months of savings... life is full of uncertainties... just that.
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If you squint at the final result it is really quite good! A fun article :-)
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Imagine a future in which every North Korean has this tech and is actually truly happier in NK than the west. And NK starts sending these people out to actually "follow the generals start and bring the Juch idea to the world." Now, we bank on NK not wanting their countrymen to discover how much more technologically advanced the west is.
I can't access the article but it sounds bullshit to me; although the portuguese didn't mind at all being super racist towards their colonies. Guinea comes from portuguese Guiné, which has (so far) an unknown origin but historically described a long portion of sub-saharan costal land in Africa. In the region there used to be local powers called that because it would mean "warrior chiefs" or something in a local language. It's not exactly known if they were from Mali (whose city of Djenné traded with portuguese folks) or from Gana (another name related to the story and with uncertain origin).
Interestingly, the use of English in German (the opposite) is not nearly as awkward, and often comes off as quite intelligent and resourceful on the part of the speaker.

I think there is a cultural bias behind this, however. The English are not as inclined to learn other languages as is the case in the German-speaking world, and I think this really works in the German-speaking favor. For example, it is very difficult for an English-speaking native to come to Germany and start speaking German - everyone else would rather practice their English instead, meaning that .. the English learn German much slower than the Germans learn English.

So actually, it could be claimed that Sprachgefühl is one of those words that just should come into the English lexicon, and we ought to bloody get on with having a bit more of it, in our English-biased cultures, because it really does increase ones awareness of the world.
I would expect SF to Hong Kong to be much faster than Denver to Chicago, since a larger percentage of the time would be spent travelling over fiber.

Regular electrical signals can propagate just as fast in copper wires as light does in fiber:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_propagation_speed

Also, if there are any wireless (microwave) links in the path, those will actually be (almost, due to the atmosphere) at the speed of light.
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There is a general and unspoken resistance amongst casual historians in assigning any merit to any of Adolf Hitler's ideas or concepts.

It's as if he has to be kept firmly bounded in the 'Crazy Genocidal Idiot' box in case any grudging recognition of merit would immediately flip him into public acceptance. But I don't think it's a healthy approach - it's not how history works.

Oddly Josef Stalin doesn't seem to get boxed-in like that.
The EU has the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC. Article 13 prohibits the use of email addresses for marketing purposes. The Directive establishes the opt-in regime, where unsolicited emails may be sent only with prior agreement of the recipient.

The Internet is the wild wild west, lots of scummy practices (including shadow profiles).
The reason I bet on is now Apple made it integrated into the stock Camera app. The QR reader is very clean (as Apple is to do).
Perhaps it was left out in editing, or is made in Ullman's recently published book Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology.
I think the headline is fair. In the UK, the ICO requires [1] that breaches are notified within 24 hours of a breach being established. 2 months is a long time and the media is right to paint a negative picture. I suspect it is similar within the EU and I hear it is only going to get stricter once GDPR comes into force next year.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-eidas/breach-r...
> In addition to the refraction index, you’d expect fibre optics to have another limiting factor: scatter.

Fiber optics have lots of limiting factors: power limits, chromatic and polarization mode dispersion, spectral attenuation, manufacturing imperfections, crosstalk, ...

Fiber optics are just better than a lot of other mediums, but that does not mean there aren't limitations.
Decent enough read here on the subject:

https://darknetmarkets.org/a-simple-guide-to-safely-and-effe...
And convert your USD into EUR and then into JPY, back into USD.
Yea, but you don't just see an entire review page just filled with bad reviews.
For one thing how would you weaponize this? Do you think that scientists are robots and don't have their own morality?

You still haven't told me how to design a technology to be "good intentioned". Technology has no intension it's the people who use it.

It's really disturbing that you automatically assume that technology is evil because who created it and you have a prejudice because it is DARPA.
Single mode fiber isn't immune to dispersion or other impairments, it just does better than multimode.
> This is done by finding the nearest neighbours in the RGB space.

Noooooo. RGB is not useful for anything but computer displays. Always use a suitable color space if you want to calculate with color values. Eg a CieLAB one or similar.
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Maybe I go against the common thought here, but for me I think it is completely useless.
Whenever I start working on a problem I obviously have an approach in my mind, but very often I find out that is the wrong one.
And I can realise it only after I start working on the actual problem and solving it.
At a certain point I will find some obstacle that will make me rethink the whole approach.
For this reason I can't really see the added value in spending more time before actually tackling a problem once you have a plan in your head.
The most important thing to do when solving problems is to be prepared to change your point of view multiple times and to attack the problems from several different directions.
I'm sorry but I really can't see how writing in stone your approach before you fully understand the problem can help you in any way...
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Ponzi scheme / not everyone is "on the boat" yet. If Bitcoin does hit a million dollars one day, I'd be kicking myself, so have a small "I'm OK with losing this" amount invested now.
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Sure. Hard to think clearly and break from the herd reaction "BUT BUT BUT IT'S NUCULAR, EVERYBODY PANIC!!!"
I believe the fiber acts as a waveguide, essentially keeping the wavefront perpendicular to the fiber at all times.
Thank you so much for Deck! I used it for a few talks recently, you can find two of them about Go on my BitBucket page: https://bitbucket.org/teknico/
You also have a pull request on Github. :-)
If you don't mind, what do you use to generate crossword puzzles? Maybe it's an open source software?
China is doing what any country should do.
It is not extortion, there is no blackmail here. Foreigners want to be part of the Chinese market? let's make a deal.

Nobody forces you to accept this. I say this as a European that actually worked some years in China. I was extremely privileged as engineer and manager as I was making China wealthier.

That is not different than Britain hiring the best engineers of the Netherlands(where industrial revolution started) and giving them a good life if they improved the country, until they did not need them anymore of course.

The USA did the same thing later with Britain, pirating their industrial machinery, even as it was punished with death.

Nor any different from the USA accepting Einstein,
von Braun, Sergey Brin, or Elon Musk and giving them the opportunities they lacked in their original places.

But in China it is not so much about "secrets" but culture, West culture has evolved from 500 years of extreme changes thanks to Gutenberg press.

If you read "The prince" Machiavelli says extreme changes are happening today(in 16th century). Napoleon reads it and say:those changes are nothing compared with those happening today(in 19th century).

When you live in China you realize all those accumulated changes were not done at all, as culture was very well controlled so the masses could not access to it. So a revolution happened but inner change of the culture takes time.

You say China improving is terrifying. What is terrifying for me that is the extreme differences in poverty in the world. People in poor countries like China are hungry to get out of poverty while people in the west feel entitled to wealth even when the only thing they have done is being born privileged.

I travel to Africa frequently as a reminder of all how rich we are and giving value to things we ignore as we take for granted.
> That looks like single mode fiber never refracts…

No, it does.

> Surely it can't go round any bend, then, though?

No, if you bend the fiber too much the light leaks out into the cladding.
also, the final version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjaPpAnbbkI
I recommend HW wallet like https://trezor.io Trezor is well thought off, very secure way of storing digital currency. I have been using SW wallet but switched to Trezor recently and finally I feel my coins are safe..

Just make sure to chose a good pin and passphrase (I recommend setting up both). Ideally somehow compute or derive this pin/passphrase so that you never forget it. I mean generating a random pin is a very bad idea as you will almost surely forget it over time and you will lose the wallet.
Somehow got me thinking about impact maps again: https://www.impactmapping.org/drawing.html
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Your "preference" is a simplistic translation of the term, specially due to ignoring the whole "sprach" of it. I think given the context of the article the usage of that german word is justified. Let's learn something new.
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The government of China bails out industries all the time. However, they do it with money they print up on an as needed basis that doesn't incur debt to the government or require future payments for this debt by the taxpayer. This means that bailouts have no effects on the taxpayer in China while they burden the American taxpayer for years to come.
As a native Chinese speaker and a Chinese citizen, I found nothing interesting in this article except the author's dislike towards CCP.

It looks like the author wanted to understand the meaning of 美丽 in this context but failed so instead he/she just dumped all his raw research and personal opinions without justifications and deeper analysis.

> Note that, as a rhetorical progression, the five modifiers from "rich and powerful" to "beautiful" become increasingly abstract, with "beautiful" amounting to an unassailable purified truth.

This sentence is not really making sense to me. The 5 adjectives are all abstract, and 美丽 is the less abstract one among them because you normally use it to refer to physically objects.

Also, the discussion on single character vs two characters are pretty much irrelevant to the contextual meaning of the word 美丽 here, because the two character word is used just to make all 5 adjectives have two characters uniformly (more beautiful). If the other 4 adjectives were single character, this word would also be single character. In Chinese, the usage of single vs multiple characters is mostly purely for aesthetics of the written sentence. For example:

真，善，美 (all single characters, looks and sounds nice)

vs

美丽的上海 (adjective and subject are both two characters, looks and sounds nice)
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I thought this story would be about mobile phones.
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