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Agreed. Having been run over by a large truck while biking to work changed plenty of things for me. Aside from being the living example of the 'bus factor' on my team, convalescing was a huge change in the way I normally do things, not being able to bike, climb, play with my son, or even just tidy up was initially maddening, but ultimately valuable. Also knowing that the social contract is real, that first responders were there in five minutes to get me out from under the truck and to the hospital, surgeons managed to bolt most of me back together, and people from all walks of life were willing to help hold doors and so on for someone in a wheelchair. I'm back on the bike now, and I do feel much, much more conscious of how little it would take for someone driving distractedly again to take me out for good.
Amazing how people don't even open the article isn't it?

edit: opening it is the easy part, reading however proves challenging for some
There's stronger evidence (among serious-ish runners) that it doesn't really matter, and you should wear what feels good.
As of yesterday, they were sending an announcement every 5 minutes about the impending shutdown. Now when you try to connect, they send the announcement and then disconnect you. I guess they want to see 0 traffic before they pull the plug.
OK, that's the NSA, you can assume they know everything already. And in this case, the article mentions Yahoo, which is where the information was in the first place.
Be more pragmatic. It's about licensing. The microwave frequencies are licensed. Laser frequencies are not. Want to setup a network without first securing government permission, the obvious choice is laser. This is also a primary reason COPs switch to lasers for speed enforcement.

The bandwidth of individual connections is only half the equation, and largely irrelevant imho. What matters for the network is the lack of interference. Laser connections can spider across a city without real risk of contaminating one signal with another. So even if the point-to-point bandwidth is the same, the total potential bandwidth of the installed network will be much higher.
From a NYC law office wasn't it? You believe that was falsified? It could be, sure, I just haven't seen any proof.

Seems like no amount of verification will ever be enough for a good chunk of the crypto community. The scars of Mt Gox and BFX socialized loss are too deep.

The market seems to think otherwise, you can unload your tether for $1.02 most days if you want.
Hell I'm building an FM radio as we speak - I'm literally just waiting for my soldering iron to heat up and checking the internet.

Of course I'm making an IoT radio, which can be controlled via my PC, mobile, or via buttons. But it still counts as old-school! ;)
The big challenge, as far as I can tell, is that the typical end user equipment just generally is not suitable. You e.g. want equipment with longer operating distance, and able to bridge multiple networks for example.

My home wifi barely stretches 50m down the road (yes I know they mention Bluetooth, but bluetooth is even worse in this respect). Meanwhile you can get outdoor wifi repeaters within the allowable output in the 5GHz channels in the UK with ranges in the 1km-2km range that are still cheap, and directional microwave equipment with theoretical ranges in the 100km range (major limit there is going to be height - beyond a few km, the curvature of the earth becomes a major hassle unless you can go higher gain).

Without that kind of distance, you need massive penetration to be able to connect users at all, even if you aim to pass data over the open net as soon as you get data to a node that is connected.

I live on a relatively high density London road, and I can typically see maybe 10 networks at any one time when travelling between home and my local train station for example. There'll be multiple devices on each, but with that kind of visibility it'll take a large proportion of users signing up to a service like this before you even start getting any big benefits from it.

I do believe peer-to-peer setups can make sense for this, but unless our smartphones gets massive upgrades in terms of antennas etc., I think building something around higher gain outdoor wifi will be more likely to be viable.
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You might have worded it a bit too tersely. I'd go for something like:

Mods: please add [2011] to the title, since the anniversary was in 2011 (MIME was released in 1991).

That makes it clear what should be adjusted, while sounding a bit more polite. That's my guess about the downvote, anyway.
You couldn’t scale like you did with AIM.
I'm not happy with how this rolled out, and I'm not here to justify it.

I wasn't involved in its development, so I can't speak to its origin or the decision to use Shield for distribution, but
I can gather feedback and answer technical questions about Firefox and the add-on.
Amazon needs to adopt Ardor with it's own child chain.

Ardor's network speed, I believe is setup to do 35x faster transactions than bitcoin and 3.5x faster than ripple. Disclaimer: I own some Ardor.
Most crypto traders don't even hold their own bitcoin. The exchange holds it for them.
Checking in! I was a huge AIM user. I've had the same screenname since I was 12. Now the only two left in my circle who use it are me and my wife.

I'm really nostalgic about AIM. I met a lot of really cool people on there, but its time is definitely passed. Luckily having used Pidgin for years will make the transition for gchat or something similar pretty seamless.

Still sad, though.
I'm actually from the UK - but either way, I feel like my post made it clear that I don't think having ID is a problem, the problem is attempt to increase friction on voting for a subset of the population by making getting that ID harder in areas where your opposition has more supporters.

The issue is that the republicans keep trying to push through legislation that requires ID to be shown, while providing no guarantees on ID availability. If they want it to go through, they just need to add the guarantee and then it can't be used for partisan gain. They refuse to do so, and have repeatedly abused ID requirements when passed by restricting access in democrat-supporting areas.
We have code that you can run on your AWS account for more accurate information from servers.lol based on Cloudwatch metrics. Latency and coldstart information would be totally interesting, I'll suggest it to our team!
I don't agree that an algorithm building a model of you based on information you've provided to the website is an invasion of privacy.
I was using a 9600 baud connection about an hour ago. It sucks rocks. You can see the ascii-menu updating. Everything flickers. (Serial console access to a server, if you really care.)

If you run ytalk on a modern machine, it doesn't flicker, but you can still get every keystroke, because that's the protocol.
"The internet is literally used to retrieve information, that's all it does."

That is false. The Internet supports communication between the end points; information retrieval can be built using communication, but the Internet itself is more than that. For example, it is also possible to use the Internet for two-way voice communication (VoIP).

What is important to remember about the "information service" classification is that it has a specific legal meaning that was meant to capture the service provided by AOL, Compuserve, and other early consumer ISPs. At the time Internet access was just one of many features provided by online services, and some truly acted as "gateways" and did not us IP for the last-mile connection. Obviously that is not what ISP service looks like today; the FCC had to really dig to even find examples of ISPs providing something that meets the "information service" definition (the best they could come up with is DNS and transparent caching).
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>> Instead of using an animal carcass or a human cadaver, the researchers opted for a synthetic polyurethane “skin-skull-brain” model coated in rubber skin. A hole was left at the bottom, through which the researchers injected a brain-like gelatin mass. Two skin-skull-brain models of different thicknesses were used to account for human variance. Dyer and Fibiger believed this model more accurately represented the shape and strength of the human skull compared to an animal carcass, and that it was more ethical than battering away at a human donor’s corpse.

For me that ethical question is on the same level of interesting as the actual subject of the paper. It's a matter for debate, of course, but I can tell that I would not want to conduct an experiment that involved me beating someone's dead body with a big stick. I can see why the authors would consider the ethical implications thereof and I'm glad to hear that people do that as part of their research.
how do you open the article?
I used to sometimes run a mile in the middle of my treadmill run @ 10 mpg. I'm a bigger guy and regularly the machine would shut down because the belt would start to slip or overheat at that pace. I don't think it would even do 13+ mph
That's Canada for ya!

I've moved to the US from Canada, and my life is more stressful and less relaxed then it used to be. The US is a great place, but its got a kind of crazy, competitive, wild west, make it or break it, work hard, never stop, push your limits past the breaking point kind of attitude. Which can be fun in a way, if you're managing to keep up with it, but definitly exhausting in the long run.

Now, I just keep thinking how nice it'll be when I move back to Canada, after my US "adventures", and get to relax again, enjoy good people's company, and just appreciate a comfortable life without worries and minimal stress.

Canadians kind of do fall into their stereotypes. They're just nice reasonable people, who just want to be friendly to you and not have to work too hard, but know how to organise themselves and work together so everyone can enjoy a nice life.
Can you provide a source for this? Is there an easy way to view the transactions that create new USDT? My searches are just turning up old Reddit posts and news articles supported by imgur screenshots.

edit: This seems to show that $180 million was issued in the last 3 days: http://omniexplorer.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3...
I'm a little shocked that you removed and commented on this fairly benign comment but apparently don't have time to remove outright bigotry that I've flagged in the past. It feels like the moderation here is very much in the pocket of the alt-right.
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> So, will Google in return allow Amazon (and maybe also others) to stream to Chromecasts from Android devices without Google Play Services?

Cast services, like Airplay are proprietary technologies
It would be cool if this used MindNode documents as a backend. This way I get a org-mode like view of the notes in my mindmaps through FoldingText, while retaining the ability to view/edit mindmaps in MindNode.
I also think it will be entrenched by then.

> Serious (perhaps dumb) question, can the end of NN really be fixed with encryption?

I have some hope for a decentralized private internet like this one https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/pied-pipers-decentralized-... but I would see it as more of an enthusiast's space as this internet wouldn't be able to compete with the size of the current internet.
> The resulting frequencies will be auctioned off to the wireless carriers for 5G data.

The spectrum auction has come and gone: https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/fcc-initiatives/incentive-auct...
Neither was the Looking Glass extension.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921692
Coinbase de-anonymizes bitcoin users, taking away a big bitcoin feature. You'll notice how they also don't disclose transactional versus speculation ratios. That's because Coinbase is largely a speculation platform. I have no problem with speculation, but the big lie that's being told about Bitcoin is that people are using it buy groceries, and it just isn't true.
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Modern design seems so pathetic in comparison.
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This technique works and is in fact quite simple. I suspect it's simply a matter of competing business interests that it hasn't been tried before.

Even near visible laser communication systems can operate at harmless power levels for miles, can be aligned by hand in many cases (you provide a "collection" dish to reflect the light in) and they're dirt cheap.

I actually built one as a project in my required EE classes for my CS degree back in 2002 using a pair of (rather expensive and overpowered) helium neon lasers. In 2002 and with these lasers the speed we had build was quite slow because of the switching time for the lasers, but the point was to build the hardware so we were good.

Given the absurdly low cost of these systems w/ modern components and their phenomenally low power budget, I'm not surprised.
Well now I'm worried. I also bought a tiny amount of ETH and BTC which is still in my account but I'm really worried about getting the funds out, even if it's just a refund of my original USD.
> Not only that, but it might have exacerbated it: someone with the fear of being perceived bias and losing his job will want as few women in his team as possible. How about that possibility?

Someone being actively nasty towards women in his team just because they are women will most likely get fired, so that's a self-limiting problem.

> He said it multiple days before he got fired. The timeline doesn't add up!

What timeline? There's only one timeline:

1) He releases a "manifesto" expressing his opinion

2) Someone reads the manifesto, is disgusted and a controversy ensues

3) Media picks up on the controversy

4) Google is forced into a really shitty position by being asked a bunch of times what they are going to do

5) Damore gets fired

6) Damore goes to "men's rights advocate" Stefan Molyneaux podcast and wears his "Goolag" shirt. He does a bit of media, tweets out some really ambiguous tweets.

7) The world forgets about Damore.

So where's the flaw in the timeline?
This one is a factual question which should be discussed openly. Shutting down the conversation doesn't change opinions, it just hardens them, drives them underground, and makes it clear that we do not tolerate open debate.

That said, the majority of studies that I have seen disagree with your calculation. http://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-ef... is typical. Even low skilled immigrants have a small but net positive effect on the net wealth of US citizens. But the effect is small, and there are some who are impacted negatively. Particularly among blacks and teenagers who have been displaced from bottom rung jobs by immigrants who are willing to work harder for less, and still feel lucky because their lives are better than where they came from.

Due to that I am happy with having relative open borders for immigration. But I can understand why others might be concerned.
Probably. I keep forgetting there are ordinary social niceties in play on HN :)
Implementation is in-progress. I've open-sourced it at https://github.com/IsoGrid/IsoSwitch

I agree with you, I would also rather be reading about a stable and popular implementation of a scalable mesh network. However, there is no such thing. TCP/IP is the closest I've seen, but I think we can do better.
Imagine trying to explain to a kid that this one computer is actually a bunch of computers and why that is cool vs. having a bunch of flashing lights visually showing the work being done in a way that they have never experienced before. Which do you think would be more engaging?

> Other than that they can't run this at home because of the cost?

Do you really think that, as an example, a middle school student is going to be able to go home and install virtual box on their home computer? If they even have one?
Had Damore been a woman, she would have to be fired too. I don't really understand this perception that "women get away with everything". The legal department would have as much of an argument to fire a female Damore as they'd have a male Damore.
Since this drug was developed on public funding in the UK, how does that affect its pricing and incorporation in the NHS? I assume whoever gets the license to sell it in the US will have exclusivity and make it expensive as hell.

edit: Never mind, although the research took place at the University of London, it was funded by Ionis Pharmaceuticals (US) and further by Roche (Swiss multinational). The Guardian article relegates that bit of info to the very last line, as if they were just a minor part of the effort.
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Ionis-Pharmac...
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You know how I can tell that I accidentally use the normal phone app, instead of voip, when I call my family internationally? Because the sound quality is good. Low latency, no dips, no buffering, smooth. To the point that my reflex is now: “hmm , the quality is too good, this must be the normal phone.”
Howlin' Mad Murphy?

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/sealab-2021/howlin-mad-murph...
i love these kinds of problems, because it seems like there is often a really simple solution like that. just finding something different in a very simple feature like color, or shape, or size, or location. there is a reason our brains pay attention to these kinds of things!
Hi,

Agreed - DAB coverage is seemingly much more spotty than what is claimed by Norkring (the operator) - makes you wonder what models (or antennas, in the case of field tests) they use to produce the maps.

Add to this the annoying property that whereas a FM signal degrades gracefully - as the signal gets poorer, you simply get more hiss, but can still make out what is being said, DAB basically drops off a cliff - it is fine until it - well, isn't, at which point it is pretty much unlistenable.

As for power, there are two factors both tipping in DAB's favour - first of all, you get good area coverage with lots of channels from one transmitter, seeing as the different stations are interleaved in one stream - say, a dozen channels for a realistic example. Having that same dozen channels on FM covering the same area, you'd need a dozen transmitters, all illuminating the same area.

Additionally, an FM tuner requires a signal which is significantly stronger if it is to decode it properly than what a DAB receiver does.

(This benefit is somewhat offset, power-bill wise, by the fact that DAB final amplifiers must be very, very linear in operation (because of the number of carriers) whereas an FM amplifier need not bother about linearity at all - and, hence, can be run at higher efficiency.)

(For a very rough comparison - the DAB transmitter on Tryvannshøgda providing local radio to Oslo boasts less than 5kW output. The Radio Norge FM site next to it? 88kW.
Why not build the CSS bit into the plugin? WordPress has really simple APIs for registering a new style sheet from within a plugin. If it’s really small, you can even hook into the document head and dump out a style tag.

Other than that, seems like a neat idea.
> I recently painted "Get off your phone, cunt" on my helmet.

Well all you're doing is pissing off the normal people. The cunts are too busy on their phone to read your helmet :)
> often means

No it does not, neither in theory nor in practice. Also, "less code" depends primarily on the language structure and not on whether the language is dynamically typed or not. (Haskell, for example, is more terse than Python.)
I have similar experience recently. Tx on T+3 day got cleared but a T-day tx is still pending.
My mom just switched from DirectTV to Comcast (...) and one of the "hilarious" parts of the Comcast (X1) experience is their "Changing channel to N..." interstitial when you try to change to another channel.
Adium just got disconnected about 1:20am EST and shows an error when trying to connect. Were you using the official client?
EU agrees clampdown on Bitcoin platforms to tackle money laundering
This doesn't make sense. Computers do stuff that people don't "comprehend" all the time. In fact, in the past, one of the fundamental appeals and drives behind AI was to make systems that could explain themselves, not requiring complex analysis and experiments to understand what's going on. (And vice vera, systems that could understand humans without programming.)
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Absolutely not.

There's a lot of competition for the non-visible spectrum at useful levels. It's only natural we'd start to move up. Also, as your wavelength gets smaller it gets cheaper to start compressing signals in ways that don't interfere over the same physical area.
There's a trailing quote: try https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899383
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This. Something like 6% of insurance claims (I forget where I read that). When you filter out all the ones without injury or property damage to anyone else's property it really isn't much at all.
As for 3), current market forces are clearly not sufficient to create good competition across most markets. It's extremely capital intensive to build a wired, to-the-home network.

Heck, look at Google Fiber. Even Google threw in the towel and said 'no more', basically.
I shouldn't need a ToughBook to commute on mass transit in a major city.

I don't think it's "most users are fine working within the limitations." It's "most users don't have a choice but to work within Silicon Valley's imposed limitations."
Indeed, statistics is fine, but I think the problem is larger than scientists being poorly educated. It looks to me like an awful lot of scientists aren't acting in good faith. I don't think that their conduct necessarily rises to the level of dishonesty, more like they aren't taking obvious steps to mitigate the potential for erroneous results.
Because the party in power is actively restricting access in areas that predominantly vote for their opposition. While it may still be possible to get IDs, increasing friction will definitely result in some not getting them. Should that kind of gamesmanship be legal when it comes to voting?

It's worth noting that another example specifically is legal in the US - you are legally allowed to gerrymander for political gain. Most people I talk to agree this is wrong too.

The reason it's mainly focused on voting is because the idea of voting as an enshrined right is very important, especially in the US. Everyone is meant to get a vote, and attempts to stop people from voting are seen as an attack on the core principles and foundations of the country.
Stopping a major combined arms invasion from an easterly neighbor is the focus of all of Germany's big training exercises to this day. Instead of whatever the Heer says through its public affairs officers, look at what is actually being practiced and paid for with the Euros in the defense budget. It's not counterinsurgency, it's not disaster relief, it's training out of Wildflecken focused on stopping a theoretical invader from penetrating the Fulda Gap with tanks.
I had a similar and frustrating issue where my 2 factor auth was re-enabled after I manually disabled when I knew I was giving up my phone. They eventually helped, but it took longer than I would like.
It is a bit extreme but I completely agree. If you're driving a car that has the capability to easily maim and kill (sometimes without even noticing!) then one must take responsibility for that power.

It boggles the mind that someone would be willing to trade the life of a stranger to send a text message.