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I'm glad that more people are now thinking of mesh, or radio-delivered, internet.

I think there is a lot we can do (as programmers) to start supporting mesh-network style Internets. We're at a critical point right now where distributed systems research has turned up some decent consensus algorithms, where there's now a (finally understood) need for a computer network run by the people who use it, and where consumer radio/copper technology is fast enough to start building out reasonably fast networks.
I encourage everyone to watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHc81OL_hk4&feature=youtu.be...

especially the Q&A after the talk. Its extremely thought provoking
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On one hand, I can see this. Having worked in a casino, my gut reaction is, "If you are that dumb then you deserve to lose everything." But on the other hand, there is the societal good of not having people throw away their money and spend it on things like paying their rent/mortgage and healthcare and education and not be a burden to society.
In the USA advertising cigarettes through certain mediums is illegal. I wonder if the same could be done for sports betting.
The original article that this one refers to, and which doesn't ask you to accept malware[0].

[0] https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/motherboard-dear-future-p...
> illusory ... if the world suddenly decided ...

You might as well ask what would happen if the world suddenly disbelieved in anything else that's just a social construct -- property, authority, family, etc. It's a fun and perhaps enlightening thought experiment, but not much practical use.
> as social programs from the government have decreased

what programs are you talking about?
I would say there is more social good in banning junk food. Imagine the healthcare cost savings.

Gambling would be pretty low on social good list.
Great ! I'm using it since 1.4 on projects that are reliable because of it. It's a great software.

Now I know what my week R&D time will be : HTTP2 in HAProxy !
Off topic: today I learned that Hong Kong Airlines is owned by HNA Group [1], a china company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Airlines
Not just china. A few years back I flew from Vancouver to the RSA convention in SF. I was so put off by the hotel that had been booked for me that I didn't check in. That night I got a call on my cellphone from ICE as I had not checked in at the hotel I had listed on my entrance form. Nothing came of it. But they do check on these things.
What if I can’t go to church because I can’t forgive them for protecting priests who raped children? How did you get past that?
Just to clarify, this is the CBOE Volatility Index?

http://www.cboe.com/products/vix-index-volatility/volatility...
Aside from the inconvenience of clearing immigration on transit (and I can't say I've ever transited _through_ the US, despite clearing US immigration ~50), the airport experience is much nicer. International and domestic flights can leave from the same terminals, go through the same security, and use the same in-terminal facilities. You don't have to go through an outgoing passport control, so half the waiting time. I'm very happy with the system.
> You're insinuating you'd be a better decision maker than an entire team of lawyers, executives, and accountants at a fairly prestigious place to work.

And you're assuming that top-tier people at a company are able to make rational and optimal decisions when their livelihoods depends on the perceived survival and success of their company.
Either that or everyone is paying some kind of premium to subsidise the service. I would be extremely surprised if it's not rolled into some cost of goods sold metric -- if it's one thing microsoft is not, it's being bad at passing on costs.
> Ben Johnson recently was found to be on PEDs

Recently? Wasn't he caught in 1988?
Because a lot of people just upvote, and don't read the comments (or sometimes even the article). The title of the article is "interesting enough" to get an upvote.
For immigration purposes, Hong Kong is not in China, and doesn't have the same registration requirements as the mainland.
I found this History of the People of Bikini Atoll to be a very interesting and depressing read:

http://www.bikiniatoll.com/history.html
Even within Call of Duty, I would certainly call the single-player campaigns, from the original game up through today, successive iterations on a presentation of a narrative message even completely divorced from the ephemera of play (which is itself artistic in nature, though less universally obviously so).

Quake would be a better example, but I'd hold, too, that the decisions and the ephemera of that are art as well. Nothing says you can't play art.
As with a lot of other issues these days, it feels like that people forget there is usually a middle ground between the extremes. FB like any other tool can be a good or bad thing.

I spent a bit of time thinking about what I want to get out of Facebook.

- Social pulse - What are people talking about these days?

- Interesting/new content/new perspective/taking advantage of the echo chamber etc

- Keeping track of the very few physically-distant people that I care about

- Share some content that I think people would benefit from and wouldn't come across otherwise

- Buying/selling rarely in the marketplace

- Quick diary where I can store stuff that I found interesting

I took a few steps to get what I wanted out of the platform.

- Follow only the people that post content I might be interested in. It includes people that somewhat think like me and some that have very different opinions.

- Follow some of the content aggregation sites

- I only post content that is fit for public consumption except when I rarely share a photo of my kids/family

- Moved the FB app from the first screen to the last

How it has helped me.

- Cut down my usage by about 90%

- I am less concerned about privacy issues when it comes to FB as there isn't much on there that I wouldn't say out loud in public

- I kinda get a broad spectrum of how people are feeling about an issue

- More quality content than I used to get before. One of my favourite features on FB is "Save post". When I have a few minutes, I find stuff from my saved list or Pocket to read/watch.

- I see more photos of the people that I actually like rather than memes and quotes

I am pretty okay with how social media is involved in my life now.
Do you have a problem with Ver helping to restore Bitcoin’s original functionality of making instant, practically free transactions?

If you don’t like BCH then don’t use it, you can leave that to everyone else.
Because many different groups bought into many different viable systems in the same time? Isn't that why many countries in the world use their own currencies?
I live in Japan for quite some time (multiple years) and never had to, or heard about, having to "register at local police station".
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He shouldn't have argued. He should have taken the 24 hours transit they first gave him, said thanks and gone on. Arguing means that now he was denied a visa and the immigration officer is more likely going to write copious notes about it leading to him being denied subsequent visas.

If you're ever in a similar situation, never argue. There's no way this will ever solve anything.

In some countries, the only way to maybe solve the situation is a bit of money under the table but that's also quite risky and you need to know the customs and ins and outs of the local law very well (not to mention that your home country might consider this to be illegal). And, it usually doesn't work in major airports since there's more control.
It's true - no prohibition is ever perfect. And gambling, along with prostitution and drinking, are the classic vices. You're right on all those points.

Gambling is something that already exists a number of places in the US in many forms. Lotteries, casinos, poker games, office betting pools, and more are cultural mainstays. You're not going to be able to get rid of it quickly or easily, nor make it stay gone. People really like their games of chance.

Even if I did agree with you that gambling is just evil and needs to be banned.
I mean, on a universal timeline that's pretty recent.

(I have no idea who Ben Johnson is or was. You are probably correct, and I probably look silly.)
It's important to say that though. Public research findings, and public statements concerning anything political, tend to downplay the initial effects of very bad decisions, to sort of wash it under the radar. When it comes to nuclear testing it is especially important that such bad decisions are at the forefront of analysis, even when something good is discovered. It is possible to derive something helpful from every terrible situation, which is why we can learn from them, but to learn we must be aware of the context of the mistake.
Yea, I think maybe he is confusing having to always have your passport/gaijin card on you to present to police anytime they feel like bothering you.
On the other side, I believe this is the Bravo Crater:

https://goo.gl/maps/jrev6tnbCqE2
Or, the government could just butt out and let consenting adults gamble if that's what they want to do with their time and money.
> by constantly kicking ass technologically -- improving the products way outside of what competitors believed was even possible... by iterating crazy fast on their ideas -- something that conventional car companies will not be able to do.

Since you're so keen to bag on those dopey conventional car industries and their inferior practices and dumbass managers, explain to me why Tesla, who have in your assessment, have successfully proven their kick-ass technology and superior processes, have been chronically terrible at meeting quarterly production estimates? Is industrial engineering and optimization just too mundane for the exemplars at Tesla?
Works for me. Tested on YouTube and Vimeo.
That's a terrible point of view. Who is he supposed to ask these questions that would be absolutely ridiculous to ask in any developed country? Heck, I can't think of any country in the world where staying at AirBNB would be an issue, and why shouldn't he be paranoid when they so easily could pull up info about when/where he stayed there.. Does the airport security also have a list of Chinese girls the visiting foreigners have engaged sexual relations with? How long until they start rejecting foreigners when they have slept with >50 Chinese girls?
How else would they do it?
It's banned in Australia, too. Our cigarette packets also can't have any branding, must be a drab olive colour, and must have a graphic warning about the medical dangers of smoking. (Think "picture of a gangrenous foot" on the front 3/4 of your cigarette packet.)

Something similar, minus the gangrene, should be done for gambling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy_(ISP)
That makes sense. What's the issue you're seeing with a list of 50?

There's a guy @levelsio on Twitter who made a similar project but for crowdsourcing block words at https://mute.life/. I'm not sure whether he's tried to automate any of it yet.

So you don't want to use the API but you do want to keep the list up-to-date for all users kind of like sources for an ad blocker. Am I understanding your use case right? I've been looking for / to make a Twitter blacklist service for companies that get too spammy.
Thank you all for the great replies. I was leaning towards learning Elixir/Phoenix but I also felt it's probably the 'new shiny thing' factor attracting me. This kind of validates it. So, I will probably learn rails and keep an eye out for Phoenix.
Thank you for reminding me that even shitposts come in all shapes and sizes. The correlation between Elon and Satoshi are speculation at best. Conspiracy theory at worst. But your post is a reminder that even the Hacker news front page isn’t impenetrable. So thanks for the shitpost, Garbage.
Just to be clear, people have similar bizarre experiences with US Immigration too.
jeepers.. this is "daily news" level click bait rubbish.
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Thank you for the kind comment! Yeah, no love from HN but I’ll be back with more :)
> I mean this as nicely as possible

so, assume the same would be the case for the comment you replied to. As with regards to "insinuating", etc.
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Are you kidding? I'm an X'er and my parents are boomers, and I can assure you we all had an absolute ball before Facebook came along. "Not going out in the evenings to see friends, sitting watching TV, having narrow social lives" - seriously? Maybe in your family / community / culture, but not mine, and not many, many others too.

I'd even be tempted to speculate that those of us who aren't Facebook addicts are the ones who are able to socialise just fine without it, thank you very much, if it weren't for the fact that I know plenty of good-living, fun-loving Facebookers too.
I guess a certain someone gets to become the time person of the year after all.
>If you rent, cash out refi, rinse and repeat.

Can you expand on that point?

If they rent it shouldnt they just sit around and collect payments?

Also, isn't this all highly reliant on location?
Your points are well taken. It's not a well designed site, but to play devil's advocate I hardly noticed the need to scroll right (focus was on text) and didn't notice the text hover effect issue. Nav being below fold was largely immaterial because more information of interest was on the single page.
Python community conventions are not camel case for functions...

forwardAddGate

would be

forward_add_gate

and return is not a function call...

return(max(x,y)) or return(x+y)

would be

return max(x, y) or return x + y

spaces around operators...

x + y not x+y

spaces around function args...

def foo(a, b) not def foo(a,b)

and when calling...

foo(1, 2) not foo(1,2)

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Just things to think about when publishing python code for the greater community.
yup, that one event didn't make it up to 10k feet. But as pointed out, it was like twilight, and the temperature dropped 5C. Asia was spared.

But if you continue on, you'll find more recent research, both pro an con. I think it's still a completely reasonable foundation for a dystopian fantasy story.

In spite of the specific events in Kuwait, I'd be willing to wager that if humans launch, say, 500 nuclear weapons there will be climate consequences resembling nuclear winter.

We probably won't agree on this point. I think we can agree, let's not find out.
Even at that amount it's not really worth it. I paid with Bitcoin for a $70 purchase the other day and paid $2.50 in fees. I won't do that again. Compare that to the past when my fees would be less than a penny and not worth worrying about.

As for lightning network, let's wait and see once it's actually completed. Can Bitcoin afford to wait that long? The core developers are taking an awfully big risk when Bitcoin cash had shown that bigger blocks are not an issue.
Surprisingly, they're not his biggest fan. At all.
Nope. They are not friends.
1) There's no such think as too much flattery.

2) Sahil Gupta is possibly looking for a job.
Have you seen the Runit Dome? https://goo.gl/maps/55YfnL15iWN2

It's mesmerizing to scroll around looking for circles in the ocean. And then to spend all night reading depressing wikipedia articles about past behavior of the US government.
Decisions in online ad bidding have to be done in fractions of a second, so unpredictable latency could cost a lot of money.
This is completely offtopic: But can anyone provide a name to a TV documentary/docudrama on "Point shaving" It was about some NCAA team and a guy that looked like he later in the sopranos. I think it was made by Fox.
Despite copper's technical limitations, this smacks of the inmates once again running the asylum.

Once again, I am putting my decision to vacate the US back on the table.
Things are messier in the US where insurance is tied to an employer, and employers can implement arbitrary "optional" measures like requiring you to be a non-smoker or very strongly encouraging you to take a biometric screening so that you can "elect" to participate in their insurance plan. If you don't elect to, insurance options outside that through the exchange (healthcare.gov) are not great and often very expensive. It's a complicated subject here.

As far as the DNA sequencers,
I haven't heard of any sharing their data with insurance companies today but I also haven't read their privacy policies closely to see what they could do. If 23andMe has the option to give you a copy without retaining any that might be the safest option here.
> Here in the U.S., I have to notify ICE everytime I change my address

Yeah, like OP said, "totalitarian shithole"
I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather have the economy of 1917-2017 than 1417-1517. It’s only in the last 100 years or so that we’ve had, y’know, industrialization and a rapidly rising standard of living. “It worked for thousands of years before the industrial revolution” is an exceedingly poor argument for an economic system.
I found this podcast, an interview with Charles Koch, interesting. There are two parts to it. Whatever the ideological issues may be, I found he spoke in an engaging way.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...
Once he nukes NK, they'll fall in line along with everyone else. ...Or at least, that's the plan.
I am familiar, ironically. I spend my downtime listening to SE Daily, Newstack Makers, and other things to make car rides less boring. CNCF comes up a non-trivial amount. I will check your personal site. Thanks.
They're on good terms now

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-david-bi...
Difficulty is not in any way ever increasing. Difficulty is set based upon the overall hashing power of the network. If it becomes more expensive to mine, miners drop out and difficulty decreases.
It’s not at the police station but you still have to register at the ward office when you’re moving to a new city.

Also as a "fun" fact, residence cards features the logo of the ministry of justice. Just like if all foreigners were criminal with such a high probability that this minister handle the matter from the beginning.
You're not the only one, but it can be an unpopular opinion. Of course we wrote very large code bases with no unit tests for decades, before it became a blessed cult of sorts. I know when I've written a method that's so inherently tricky, that I need a unit test for peace of mind. It's rare, and I prefer not to write tricky methods, or complicated architectures. This is practically impossible to avoid on a large team of mixed skill and weak leadership. I prefer not to work on teams like that.
LISP was created a long time ago. Assembly was the weapon of choice. Thinking Machines, Symbolics and Macsyma might already say: We did that. But, uh, no.
"Everyone else". Lol.

24HR Transactions:

* BTC — 328,580 [1]

* BCH — 20,255 [2]

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It's in active development. https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml This way you don't have to depend on the browser including certain functionality because you can fall back to downloading a whole rendering engine.
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How many people here wrote a comment and then hit cancel before posting it?
buy ETH
You have to remember that many of these people are not planning on “cashing out” but on crypto becoming the new cash.
To echo the original comment, I already know half my assumptions don't hold anymore, and I don't care about them. Unit tests are just more code to maintain. It's like vastly expanding the requirements, unnecessarily.
> This rule is clearly explained on the back of the immigration declaration form

Is this in English/other languages, or just in Mandarin?

The only part of this story that I find particularly egregious is the part where he was made to sign a form that was only in Mandarin.
I did encourage folks to watch some gameplay videos (there are plenty of streamers, "Let's Play" bloggers for folks to choose from) before making up their mind.

I'm genuinely curious: what makes you say Jeff's games are terrible? Honest question. Personally I played Geneforge and Avadon series and enjoyed both.
However it's crazy how volatile it is. When you Cash out, you would put your money in a less volatile currency or asset.
The Abbot / Turnbull govt stopping the rollout of fibre in favour of using copper.
Reading the article I dreamed of a community system were every flat / house was a wireless peer in a mesh grid.
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It seems like one can opt out of having their data shared to third parties.

> It is true that 23andMe’s big moneymaker is consumer data, not consumer DNA testing kits. Black said that more than 80 percent of 23andMe’s two million-plus customers consent to having their data used for research.

https://gizmodo.com/23andme-is-selling-your-data-but-not-how...
Even 20 years ago. Newsmedia tried to drive the issues of the greater society --at times that meant participating in Mockingbird ops, but I think they honestly did what they thought was for the benefit of the country at large. I think that fell apart during Clinton's second term where things got really partisan and we've not recovered from that. We used to cooperate on things like Gun rights/control, Abortion, Civil Rights, etc. Now there is no overt commonality. They retreat to their corner and vilify the opposing view.

Nowadays, it's more about driving issues at the edge --things that will get a rise out of both foe and friend.
Yes absolutely terrible drop in speed over VDSL over distance or noise.
Tesla's primary method of financing is through debt and equity, not through any government subsidy.

Yes they get ZEV credits, but the revenue from those pales in comparison to their sales, loans, and stock offerings.

Not to mention that most of the traditional car manufacturers in America received huge government bailouts to stay afloat in 2008, so even if you slight Tesla for receiving a loan (which they repaid early with interest) they are still on equal footing with other manufacturers.
Various moon benefits:

- Relatively close and accessible (as opposed to the other planets)

- Seemingly stable platform to build, other wise we continue to rocket everything up from earth.

- Raw Materials - stuff to build more space vehicles, structures, etc.

- Lack of air - May help foster newer/cheaper materials and other processing

- Low Gravity - Also may factor into developing new materials and bigger objects.

- Lack of thick atmosphere - for astronomy, earth visualization.

- for data centers - potentially better cooling, or energy (solar) less susceptible to intrusion, security, etc. Lack of air might be a plus too.
Yes it will happen.

Sadly what I have come to learn about our society is that almost all vested interests get what they want eventually by just persisting in the long term to keep bringing it back to the government through their lobbyists.

Gambling, privacy reduction, net neutrality, mining, fracking, selling national interests overseas, property development... everything happens eventually if those with the money just keep pushing firmly over time.

It's almost a prerequisite that these things are first resisted by the people and defeated by people power a few times... the vested interests know that the 2nd and 3rd time around people will stop fighting for whatever that thing is.
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In my country, it's illegal to not disclose a hack that you know of. So, bigger fines would be one way to incentivize them.