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Books are a very different beast. What I'm talking about is PL goods where you'll take $item and make it $item by CamelCaseName.

Books on the other hand are probably sold by sellers who bought them used/returned/wholesale and are flipping them. They could care less about your product review because they almost always have only one or two copies.
> I'm a bit disappointed with the low frequency, short trains that Singapore deployed.

Could you explain this a bit more please? I've lived here for 6 years now, been to Japan and Taiwan, consider Taiwan the best of all 3, but cannot compare to Hong Kong as I've never been there.

Taiwan trains are a bit slower than SG, but they are much smoother, where in SG sometimes the older lines (green / red) which still have drivers I believe, are fast and break suddenly that you MUST hold onto something if standing to prevent yourself falling over.

So I'm curious what you mean?
Thanks. A couple resources to maybe add:

http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/1...
(Discussed here: https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/12/14/1639204/space-is... )

Definitely would encourage you to keep going with this to form a supportive community of interested people.

Some ideas on making groups work well that I've collected (often easier said then done): https://github.com/pdfernhout/High-Performance-Organizations...

A group I was involved in from 2008:
http://www.openvirgle.net/

I had some other links here (an archive of the OpenVigle wiki from 2008) but some are out-of-date: http://oscomak.net/wiki/Main_Page

Another group maybe of interest (but no recent posts): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLuna

I'd encourage you to explore links with the maker movement. That is sort of what became of the 2008 OpenVirgle effort -- at that time, it seemed to make more sense to think about the early maker movement and "Open Manufacturing" because increasing that capacity was a big win for everyone in both the short-term on Earth and long term in space. http://openmanufacturing.net/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openmanufacturing
At last! hehe I was wondering why no-one mentioned Cython. Did I miss the part where everyone learned why it's not a good idea? For me it's the best of both C and Python worlds.

Write a Python program. Compile it as a Cython program. (Already faster, with no changes.) Add C types to the speed-critical parts. (Up to many 100s of times faster than Python)
Yes if you can get a biometric that you can keep secret, and can easily access.

Finger prints aren't very good (they end up everywhere!). Retina scan? Not very cheap I'm guessing. Face? Definitely not secret.
Because they are caught at a later stage than women since men are not routinely screened.
Bitcoin address generation code is using private keys that can be discovered
> As a private citizen, can I ... just lay a super long fiber cable straight to it?

The other responses offer far more technical details than I can, and probably also a better long-term strategy, but here's a small thing you can do right now: knock on your neighbor's door, and offer a six-pack of good beer and half his internet bill in exchange for his WiFi password. If he says yes, cancel your service. Say you are moving to Bhutan and becoming a monk to make their "customer retention specialists" go away.

From my apartment in a fairly spread-out "city," I can see about ten wireless networks, half with a pretty good signal. I can only imagine what things are like in SF/NY, where techies are stacked on top of each other like dogs in a no-kill shelter.
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Let your code type-hint itself: introducing open source MonkeyType
India now becomes the largest consumer internet market in the world with net neutrality enforced - without China and the US in play.
Can someone explain the rebuttal to/flaws in this article? I'm sure the EFF and many other large organizations wouldn't back NN if it weren't truly a good idea, but then again this article also seems to make some good points.

http://hustlebear.com/2011/01/05/why-net-neutrality-regulati...
Are life extension and genetic engineering really becoming a victim of this? Or is this just a mostly inconsequential reaction by people who have noticed that wealthy Silicon Valley technologists love to talk about improving humanity but mostly end up producing products which make life easier for wealthy Silicon Valley technologists?
Saying it's one thing, doesn't make it so, which is why fiat statements of fact that arent fact, get downvoted. Sales tax on ecommerce has demonstrated that there are decisions that are both yet-to-be-determined and will resolve in fantastically complicated idiotic ways.
So is this ready for prime time yet? I used to follow camlistore, and it was still a little rough even for CLI nerds.
I'm risking a huge pile of downvotes here, but the aforementioned totalitarian fascist regimes could just put this stuff in vaccines and mercilessly ridicule anyone in their population who suspected anything.
> Did you hear what are they complaining about?

Yep.

> There is a lot of thing to complain.

Nope. Not in comparison with the rest of the world.

> MRT issues are happening very often, can't remember any other country with such amount of MRT problems.

Have you ever ventured outside of Singapore, I wonder? Are you even aware that the 3-5 minute interval between trains, air conditioning, seamless connections with other transport, no rubbish on the ground, no graffiti, trains less than 10 years old is not a rule but an exception?

I am not even talking about the sorry American subways. Go with the middle of the way level, say, Melbourne in Australia, Lisbon in Europe, or better standard, Vancouver, Munich, Amsterdam.

The only downside I am aware of is, it closes early.

Ah yes. Whiny people. But that has nothing to do with the MRT.
The most immediate one to come to mind is that a private ISP can't indict me.
> I didn't said you should, but in all honesty upgrade-ability is so overrated in the PC world.

You can keep a screen for example longer than the internals of the PC. Macs are just a waste in general because they are not made to be taken apart and to be serviced. And certainly NOT by the user.
In some ways I think Americans are cheap. I'm imagining a paid FB-like service in the range of $5-10/mo, considering ISP packages can easily run up to $80/mo, and a FB-like site should ideally only consume a portion of that.

But I think you really need to re-think the core concept of a social platform. Can't find the comment on HN, but someone a few days ago mentioned: social platform vs. social technology. A social platform is likely to be closed; Facebook only wants you to communicate via Facebook, same with Twitter, G+, etc. If you decide to email your friends instead of using FB, they lose out. A social technology, however, doesn't care about other providers as much. Think about a telephone company. They obviously want you to use their service, but they don't care if you call someone who has a different carrier. Likewise, they won't listen in to the content of your calls to tailor their service to you, because them providing you phone data and the contents of your calls are completely orthogonal.

Try thinking along the lines of a social technology, rather than a social platform. E.g. my friends want to put together a movie/pizza night so they go to Facebook to create a poll to decide on a movie and pizza toppings. Why can't that be part of an SMS standard?

It seems to me like SMS has a lot of potential for future iterations. Right now you can send texts and images to one or more people. Why not bake in other features like polls, appointments, etc. It truly has frustrated me that my friends will use Facebook to organize something that could easily be done over SMS if it just had a few extra features.
Their active user count increases in every region every year. Their revenue is growing 50% per year.

They are not dying.
I live in Overland Park, KS and I’m still waiting for GF. They have ground to a halt.
I have intermittent experience and found it useful, but I've only used it "after hours" and Sundays, when perhaps it's not subject to high use? I don't really care about a dirty car: so is the metro.
I have friends who work in the IT section for an under-resourced cultural institute focused on the preservation and recording of disappearing cultures and ethnic groups, including the preservation of speech and utterances in languages that now have no living native speakers. They discovered recently, to their alarm, that the only surviving copies of some recordings were now on old 3½ and 5¼ inch floppies that had somehow been stored without accurate cataloguing. They are struggling to find equipment that can 1) read the discs, 2) interface with the disc drives, 3) tell them what is actually on each disc and what file formats are in use (they have good guesses, but no certainty) and 4) find software that will be compatible with those formats.

They have neither the skills nor budget to do in-house nor outsourced forensics for this. At this point they don't even know what exactly might be lost to humanity's knowledge, and the descendents of these people, forever.
http://blog.builtinperl.com/post/5-major-websites-that-use-p...
Genetics have already played out enough for people to kill based on them. Look at Hitler. Look at African civil wars. Look at the riots/revolutions against "foreigners" in Asia.
Hong Kong rocks - agreed.
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<marquee> was better.
Embrace and extend python? I think not.
so.... org mode? but you have to pay for it?
Can everyone read this and vote this up in the survey? This is the real LPT.
Really NYT? The correct way to write this is:

'8th planet orbiting distant star found with AI help' or
'AI helps to find 8th planet orbiting distant star'
It's not very secret anymore :P
Singapore has a long way to go before it is "green enough".
Dude, MD won’t let you have guns. Need to move to flyover country for that.
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I'm confused about your African civil wars comment - what were you referring to?
If you compare Singapore's MRT system to similar systems in every city in the world, it will rank among the top. But it's a matter of expectation.

But if you include the massive hype and expectations set over the years — and the performance of the MRT system for the first 10 years — the current breakdowns, delays and obvious negligence in maintenance and how they are currently handled is what makes people here complain about it all the time.
Serverless is great for all the tiny little things I want to schedule and forget or setup a trigger for and forget. But my type of usage is not going to pay the bills for serverless.

I just don't get why anyone is using stuff like lambda for big projects unless they have extremely unpredictable and extremely spikey traffic.

Because any kind of sustained usage will quickly be cheaper to put on a nano instance and scale up from there.
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Don't be so pessimistic, people care about things.
Then pass it through pools of liquid an algae I don't know... I'm sure we could transform a large chunk of emissions into useful byproduct if people tried.
The office 365 support could be implemented using the jupyter kernel protocols rather than transpiling to javascript. That would give them a consistent behavior across desktop and web and even open the door to support more languages in the future if they really wanted to.
There are USB disc readers, USB floppy readers, USB to RS-232 cables, you name it. No need for SATA. They usually aren't very expensive either.
I think what jessriedel is pointing out is that bullets, nerve gas, and machetes are a good deal more effective tools for a despot to use to eliminate a population than DNA.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
> What if everyone in the 1960s had a decade to prepare for PCs [...] while they were still prototypes? In hindsight, we can all see that jumping in early would have been the right call.

This is an interesting hypothetical based on the assumption that quantum computers will be available in 10 years time. What if the first practical quantum computers are still 50 years away? Using the same hypothetical, it would be like someone preparing for the PC age in that 1920s. That might be "jumping in" too early.
As far as I know, which is very little generally, AWS doesn't bid. Prices are as advertised. Not sure if GCP is similar. Azure certainly does, though.
Rental is usually used to denote set time and location (1 hour, 1 day etc returned to the pickup spot). Sharing is completely flexible in regards to both time and location.
> Tho I don't think that many of the self-burned CD's from 2 decades ago are still any good, I know mine usually ain't.

You'd be surprised. I went recently through several of mine and lo and behold they could all be read. I guess it depends a lot on your storage conditions.
I tried to edit it to prevent animation and apparently I can't edit or copy or download or export. Gotta try printing next.
The more likely next step is not cable-esque plans. It is ISPs shaking down Internet companies to try to get huge sums of money at the source.

As such, what you'll see as a consumer is just higher prices from _other_ companies, as they're forced to pay for access to bandwidth which you paid for.

This also means that most people won't understand the problem, and won't get upset with the correct people.

This is a travesty, akin to if every appliance manufacturer had to pay a recurring tribute to the electric company.

But hey... at least the Libertarians are all quite excited.
Ask HN: Examples of large exits without VC Funding?
Just asking for self-motivational purposes!
For example:
1. Plenty Of Fish sold to Match Group in 2012 for $575 Million, by sole founder Markus Frind.
Do Not Track compliance is even easier to build. Does the same logic apply?
but one can put you in jail and the other can't.
How does insider trading law affect Bitcoin exchanges?
That's laughable. If Google was to take a VZ, there would be no VZ. Same goes for Comcast, AT&T etc.

The reality is that Google has no interest in taking on carriers. There's nothing sexy is digging treches and hiring Fat Joe, who belches, farts in a workplace, drinks a litter of coke, votes Trump and goes to work at -4C to splice fiber. You won't get accolades. You would only get shit if fiber is out and Paris Hilton can't watch her Netflix.
if my bot is actually my cat actuating a switch for it to load a page, does it have to follow robots.txt?
Any recent examples in the $100 Million plus arena?
> unless you need to do numerical work (numpy/scypy) or data work (Pandas & Matplotlib)

Perl has libraries for numerical/science stuff too. :)

http://pdl.perl.org

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GSL

http://bioperl.org

Those are some of the major ones. Being Perl, of course there's more.
I feel conflicted that these explosions are so beautiful to watch, and I always wanted to see one in the sky where the ground didn't interfere with the cloud. Now I have but I'm not really satisfied because it references a possible destruction of humanity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n3uane1UT8
Just don't try to push a gig over it.
It has been explicitly set to be non-downloadable or exportable.
It's kind of fun: Tesla pulled in the mass manufacturing date of Model 3 to 6 months earlier, is late, and is ahead of the original schedule. Everyone complains.
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For a year? a burned CD in a safe deposit box. Also a USB key there for convenience. Basically paying for physical security of the devices/data.
Spent the whole morning burning them, as it so happens.

Trying to get data in to an air-gapped environment is a true PITA.
I did this for a few years in the late 90's, before anything better than POTS was available in my area. Used a 2.4 GHz 24 dBi antenna on my roof to reach an access point on a mountain about 7 miles away. This worked well; the network operators were competent and the service was more reliable than some of the systems I've had since.
why everyone thinks ISP will start to sell internet as tiered tv channels? this is not happening and will not happen.

what will, and is happening for the last 3 decades, is that ISP charge to do something they used to beg for: co location of high traffic services.

contente providers, lets pick netflix as an example, uses ton of bandwidth. but they already paid for their uplink. now, customers pay for the downlink. and ISP now see their oversold pipes actually being used (what a surprise). so they beg netflix to pretty please place some edge servers on their data centers so they dont pay the expensive outbound traffic. and netflix gladly did that because that cut latency from 300ms to 2ms for those customers. everyone happy.

then ISPs started to sell that as a feature for the reduced latency. but if nobody bougth, they would still fall back to begging for them to do that for free. and everyone still happy.

now they can outrigth limit how much expensive outbound bandwidth they will spend on netflix content. no matter that the ISP own customers already paid for bandwidth for that service or another. so netflix and all other providers will have to pay a huge premium for colocation (for that great latency reduction feature) or a still high premium simply to not be blocked!

the client will just see that they can't connect to netflix. the isp doesnt even have to warn their own users, because there is nothing they can do. netflix is the one who have to pay up. so they will have to charge more and pass that to ISPs. and that is the ISP end game. they can still be afloat after cable cutters moved to streaming platforms they dont own and operate (which is the likely outcome, since all their attempts are falling flat on their faces)
Is that because electric rates are heavily regulated as utilities, or because the free market let the only electric supplier do whatever they wanted to with your rate structure?
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Isn't this kind of arbitrary? You frame it as "paying twice". What about the framing that you're normally "paying half"? If Comcast had Google's margins, we could argue that they're pricing unfairly. But Alphabet has 2-3x Comcast's profit margins. I feel about this argument the way I feel about militancy over airline baggage handling fees. Sure: it's obnoxious. But the airlines used to bake that directly into the fare.

I'm not saying Comcast should hold other video services for ransom; I'm just pointing out an oddity of the argument you're using.
Google Fiber failed because it was a software company that has engineers that have never seen a prism decide they can take on VZ.

When Warren Kumari gets less accolades than a random Google SRE you have a real disconnect with reality.
I don't think any of this explains the jargon in that paragraph from the paper, which is what I questioning. And Nate Silver didn't have a 98:2 forecast.

If I make a bad bet I don't go "bankrupt" or lose that money before the event happens. There's more than one way to structure betting on events than the way he proposes as well, so I still don't understand why his is an authoritative take.

"Given the recent history ... and other factors" is more of an explanation for why someone thought it was a coinflip, but doesn't represent "a proper statistical analysis" modeling 50:50.
That makes perfect sense.
In terms of elemental psychology, probably not. But the weapons have changed, and moving from conventional to nuclear weapons is a sort of phase shift.
A company has to continue to employ you no matter what dumb things you say at work?

(Also, no place worth working for will fire you for saying “private citizens should have the right to free speech without being fired.” What is the controversial opinion you’re actually worried about expressing at work? That Windows Mobile is making a huge comeback? That pina colada Oreos are tasty?)
Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying government order
They plan on being a secondary payload. Secondary payloads don't have to buy an entire rocket flight. As an example, SpaceIL (one of the other Xprize competitors) recently explained how they plan on getting to the Moon:

http://spacenews.com/spaceil-making-final-fundraising-push-f...

> "SpaceIL has a contract with Spaceflight Industries to launch the lander as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission whose primary payload is a commercial communications satellite. That satellite, which he declined to identify, will be deployed in a supersynchronous transfer orbit, whose apogee is above the altitude of geostationary orbit. The lander will then use its propulsion system to fly to the moon and land there."

The cost for being a secondary payload can be much cheaper than an entire rocket, and much cheaper than other smaller launch vehicles like Soyuz and Vega.
meaning that despots arent the issue, but the more durable and long lived motivated organizations are. just need a suitable crazy preacher to write a book and build a support base.

despots makes it easy to think in short time frames
We probably wouldn’t exploit it as long as access was hard. Once space travel becomes more common though, I think we might have a situation like Star Wars where the far away worlds are basically left to their own devices since it would be a huge pain for an earth centered society to enforce laws...
Leave the security community out of it. Your rhetorical questions are not at all settled dogma in the community.

> Why are full disclosure policies recommended by security researchers?

This is still a somewhat controversial issue. Coordinated or "responsible" disclosure appears to be advocated by most security researchers. Meanwhile, the full-disclosure mailing list still exists, but the activity on the list is far lower than it once was.

> Why is open source healthy for security in general?

This is also controversial. Open source software has its fair share in-the-wild 0days. The "many eyes" theory only works if there actually are many friendly eyes, and so far, it seems like that is not true. Nobody does this crap for free.

> Why is "security through obscurity" frowned upon? Because it is important to be able to discuss threats in order to better protect yourself from them.

"Security through obscurity" does not come from the "information must be free" community. The phrase comes from the idea that you should assume that your adversary knows everything about the defenses you have set up.
We know the theory, but looks like no cigar in practice
Since people are confused about what this is I'll write a summary (from old memory so it's probably 80% correct)

It is a consumer-oriented storage system that is:

- Content addressable

- Indexed

- Tag-oriented (vs. hierarchical)

- Permissions, encryption, compression, sharing, etc.

- Spans storage across machines and clouds

- FUSE mountable

- Has CLI and Web interfaces built-in

The intent is to be a personal data dumpster that you can throw all of your files and other data (tweets, etc.) into for search and backup.

The website could be better organized to convey this information quickly.
What are three practical goals you'd want to achieve --- at a higher level than "demonstrating the design of a Schnorr signature" --- in a curve sig tutorial for beginners?
Disney is rolling out their own streaming service in 2018. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/disney-will-pull-its-movies-...

Netflix was just there first, but they don't own most of the content.
That's why independent scrutiny is important.
This is posted, because Mr Chanos is a very smart man and his ideas are worth reading...
I also tried to develop with Truffle but after a few hours I decided to avoid it and really start learning all the internals without a framework. To this day I haven't had the need to use Truffle at all to develop the majority of my projects.