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As a native-born Australian, your last sentence really resonates with me. I was lucky to have been born there, and raised a bit, but when I was old enough to have a religious-like experience out there in the north-western deserts, I realised I couldn't ever feel comfortable for as long as I, a privileged white boy, lived on the Australian continent.

So, I left. 30 years later, I'm taking my kids back for a bit of tourism.

And for sure, we'll be keeping an eye out, back up on those long stretches, for the odd kite or two .. not that there's much to burn where we're going.

Australia is a huge, and most awesome place in the world. It's a pity what its current humans are doing with it.
It's always worth having it stated in the canonical form. :)
> You could say people voted with their wallets.

Problem is some wallets are empty and some are full, whereas in a democracy every vote has the same weight.
After taxes this sale would amount to $1B+.

That's a solid psychological finish line for some entrepreneurs.

The liquid Billion club gets a pretty cool Amex card with personal concierge.
I don't see that the GP implied his ousting wasn't a direct consequence of his actions.

Anyway, it's not hard to imagine that Travis, despite being aware of how his actions resulted in consequences, may feel hurt, and maybe even remorseful.

It would be a mistake to believe that people who act poorly all lack empathy.
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> This seems like a major oversight in Content ID, it should force the claimant to provide a release date for the song and exclude videos that were uploaded before that date.

The major oversight rather lies in the fact that the law does not introduce huge penalties/indemnification for false copyright claims - if these existed, copyright holders would be a lot more cautious with potentially false claims.
I love these guys. Came here to link them. I suggest anyone watch these videos. They cover those topics as well as Visa issues and censorship.
my guess is no. otherwise it would be called out as a feature with lots of fanfare.
> Allowing the experience to wash over you without analyzing it while experiencing gets harder.

I agree, and I didn't realise the extent to which this was happening with me until a few years ago, when one of my children got interested in performance magic. Because he was young, I went to various magic conventions and meetings with him, and listened to a lot of people talking about the practice of magic as well as its technical aspect. Turns out, a big preoccupation of magicians is how hard it is to get people to just watch the magic without them being distracted by trying to figure-out how its done. If anything, its harder for magicians than film directors because what they do clearly does merit disbelief.

Anyway, I learned that it really is ok to just watch a difficult film and experience the feelings that it produces without picking them apart. As an analytical person this was both a relief and a learning experience for me.

(Also, 2001 is an excellent film.)
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> is it so bad to have another word for source-to-source compilation?

If you compile C to Assembler then you compile from one code (C) to another code (Asm, or machine code which is the compact form of Asm). What's the difference to a "transpiler"?

Wikipedia states that the difference is just the (almost) equal level of abstraction. I would call such a thing a high-level source-to-source compiler. The word "transpiler" is uncertain and barely known, hence the people here who ask what a transpiler is.

Cross-compilation is another thing since it means compiling on one platform for another platform. In all three cases we deal with compilers from one regular language A into another regular language B.
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The problem is best illustrated with things like road deaths.

If you look at road deaths for China, it’s something like 20 per 100k people per year vs maybe 2-3 in the UK.

What that means is, statistically China is 8-10 times “worse” than the UK.

Does it mean you’re going to be seeing car crashes everywhere all the time? No.

Does it mean China’s road safety is much worse? Yes.

Things are much worse in China in a variety of meaningful respects. Does that mean it’s impossible to live there? Not at all.
> Noone has been running their own datacenter for a while.

I tend to agree that new businesses are very unlikely to invest in their own metal - because it's not really a path to profitability, but many small-medium businesses run their own data centers. Especially if the business was founded in the 90s and the leadership hasn't chosen to invest in tech.

Many businesses choose not to scale (in ways which cloud services would help) - many more just have no need to scale (i.e. regional service providers).
Consciousness is the central concept of Hinduism and has been researched & discussed for at least 5000 years (conservative estimate). "Sat-chid-ananda" is the description of this consciousness which is always awake and it is the same as within humans as it is with the consciousness of the universe - according to the Vedas.
All areas of the world are not the same in terms of having access to or knowing of possibilities. There may be valid experiences that you or I can't imagine and valid folks this article will help.

The issue is far beyond becoming informed for one's self - the reality is students higher on a socio-economic scale organically have more support and mentors around them.

Children do not pick the families and environments they are born into. It's true living in a marginalized group you do have to believe in and support yourself a lot more and likely differently than others. Ones hard work also goes towards the basic necessities with a lot more of your attention and effort before pushing towards higher, life transforming goals.

This advice to pursue software development as a way to transform and improve one's life doesn't only apply to women, but a lot of children would benefit from this message.
I didn't mean animals don't do sacrifices. I meant they don't do sacrifices for imaginary things.
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Important to note that those figures are for monthly income, not yearly.
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Here's a cockatoo that genuinely seems to dig Elvis (worth waiting until 2:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQuDyuQFKE.

And Whales have music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_vocalization#Song_of_the... -- their singing employs musical rhythm and phrasing, and is culturally transmitted rather than instinctual.

Scientists are generally quick to give such vocalisations -- along with bird song, etc. -- purely functional attributes, thereby dismissing any aesthetic or emotional meaning it might have for the animal. "It's a territorial signifier". "It's for mate selection." Etc. This is a mistake: Mozart used his music to get laid; what musician doesn't? We can't know what these sounds truly mean -- subjectively, not functionally -- to an animal, because we can't talk about it with them. But that doesn't mean that it is empty of meaning.
Or how about we stop perusing services that demand that we run 200+k of JS just to look at a few lines of text and images?
That knowledge does nothing to alleviate the potential hurt he may feel.

Knowing you messed up doesn't necessarily make it any less painful.
Three comma club.
On the flip side of this incessantly boring argument, once you've actually dealt with a swarm of all of these things successfully, i.e. lived to make lunch out of it, then .. pretty much .. everyone elses' zeitgeist seems pretty fucking boring.

The dangers in life are what make it interesting to think about, right at the end of it all...
From what I understand one seriously thinks about bitcoin as a currency anymore.

Think of it as gold for the digital space almost literally (it's expensive to mine, exist in limited quantity and expensive to keep secure)

People keep talking about high volatility but any currency can be exposed to high volatility and there was a time when currency was that. Now we have central banks but they have their own problems with systemtic bubbles.

Bitcoin will be a kind of contract ledger perhaps between countries or large organizations.
I don't disagree that it would be better to have video evidence and that it might be a side effect of breathing too much campfire smoke.

But there really is a lot of understudied country out there. Hopefully curious ornithologists and others will start to head out bush during the Dry. If it's a bush legend -- though I hardly put this on par with yowies and bunyips -- then the picture will probably become firmer either way.

FWIW I'm Australian too. Darwinite turned New Yorker.
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Don't forget that the company isn't profitable yet.
>I'm suggesting that we look at the fluids movements like FMRI do but using diffraction like xray-imaging with bigger wavelengths.

What would we gain from using RF-diffraction as opposed to MR?

The major advantage of fMRI is that you're measuring a so-called Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent (BOLD) signal. That is, you're looking at a contrast between oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood, which is more interesting than just looking at where blood (of all types) is going.

The underlying assumption is that brain volumes consume oxygen at a rate roughly proportional to the level neuronal activity. As such, a BOLD signal is really what you want.
What they don't tell you is that two of those ten years will be spent in a secret gulag for writing a wechat private message to your friend about how you dont like the great firewall of china. Thanks, but I'll pass.
Blizzard and a bunch of other gaming companies have made good use of torrent as a way to distribute patches.
Well when you find the great badger city where badgers have been able to put aside their differences and work towards common goals together then let me know. I'd love to see it.

In the meantime I'll stick with the assumption that there is still some sort of difference.
you can always start with a desktop version and move to a web app if things go well/there is demand.
> The cover band's claim that they were acting in good faith would likely hold more water.

This claim of the cover band can only hold water if they made strong investigations to ensure to their best that the creater of the video did not have a permission of the original copright holder of the song that they covered.
Thanks for this, looks to be not a problem at all! Well, now I've got one less reason to keep the SGI boxes wrapped up, thanks!
At least he can keep the JamPad funded for a few more years.
I guess we have a different understanding of what "extremely hard" means.
But the premise of the AA falls flat if you don't accept the notion of a higher power (and many chapters of the AA are fine with substituting arbitrary objects for God for that purpose so they're acknowledging the higher power doesn't actually have to do anything).

Yes, the first step in beating any addiction is to recognise that you have an addiction and to decide that you want to get rid of it. But that's true for any other psychology problem: if someone's clinically depressed but refuses to cooperate with their therapist, they're not going to get better.

The thing is that with normal secular therapy you learn to control yourself. You learn to reflect on your thoughts and why you might have them. If you're depressed, you don't really want to kill yourself, you just think you do because you can't imagine things will ever be any different. If you're addicted, you think you need the drug because it's the only way to feel better but of course it isn't.

That said, the bigger problem is that addictions are rarely isolated problems. There's usually something that started it and something that sustains it. Frequently addiction starts out as a coping strategy (I'd say for many adults nicotine and caffeine are obvious coping strategies although they become inefficient on a chemical level fairly quickly).

I'm not seeing addicts should avoid therapy and simply will themselves out of their addiction. This works for some people but obviously not universally (again, consider how giving up nicotine is so challenging it has become a widely known trope in Western media). But those people who can't do it on their own should instead seek actual help, not the AA.

For all we know, the small group of people who actually managed to overcome their addiction while attending AA would have been able to do it on their own, whereas those who failed would have benefited from actual fact-based therapy.

You wouldn't suggest a treatment as the go-to default solution if its viability was never tested and there are easier and more reliable treatments that have a scientific basis and have been proven to work.

The great thing about the Sinclair Method is that it works both if you do it yourself or with supervision. You don't have to will yourself to stay sober, you just have to will yourself to take the pills and your body does the rest. Sure, that in itself is a feat of willpower but that's why actual therapy is a thing that exists.
They might be able to attract high end talent from low end countries.
This is the same post from 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16064611
Back track to the dot com era and the mantra of the day was "get big fast." Principles IPO'd and cashed out before things fell apart. While I can't speak to the intentions of individual company's management, today's institutional investors will likely not throw around their money on an early venture as easily as they did in 1998. Also, the more value a company can create prior to IPO, the more equity they can save for the original owners in the long run.
The pacing made it extremely hard to watch for me back in the day when it came out as well ;-)
Not with that attitude, and not with this crowd.

Even if that doesn't magically create good things out of thin air, I so would love to separate for good from those who don't even want good things.
Had some great suggestions, but this one wets my whistle the most, haha!

Probably what I'll do, though, is set up SCSI on a linux box somewhere and try to xxx the shadow, seems to be the smoothest route .. don't wanna mess too much, because after all, 20 years later .. I still wanna boot my old SGI like the good ol' days. :)
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We can apply this logic to (almost?) any extremely wealthy person.

Does Musk deserve his coin? What about Gates? The Koch brothers? Mostly other people have done the work for them.
tl;dr "For some time we have recommended that customers use our latest generation instances with HVM AMIs to get the best performance from EC2"
Sure but not all goalposts were created equal.

We talk about the use of tools because it's a very significant conceptual leap. Once you understand that you can manipulate your environment to accomplish your goals the abilities in your list are comparatively incremental.

Our use of tools isn't the only measure of specialness, but I'm not sure there are many cognitive leaps quite so significant... language would be one but seems trickier to pin down because there are degrees of sophistication.
Yeah, actually you are right. GP did not implied it and my disagreement on this point is wrongly stated.

It would be more properly stated that I do not personally feel bad for Travis being ousted (because is, IMO, a deserved consequence of his acts). And in this case it is not actually a disagreement, just a difference of our reactions.
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Standard? 2000 Hz sampling rate may be used with intracranial electrodes.

If the EEG is measured from the scalp 200-250 Hz sampling rate is usually good enough. It enables EEG recordings up to 80-90 Hz. Most clinical uses are interested EEG below 40 Hz.
The law does in the form of perjury charges for false DMCA claims; content ID is intentionally operates outside the DMCA legal framework.

The perjury coverage is weak, but they at least provide something.

EDIT: Perjury comes into play as part of a permanent takedown request, not the initial temporary takedown request. Just a clarification.
They were more than general points. Please don't poo-poo this as some sort of horoscope doom and gloom post. He specifically pointed out the the issues addressed in the recent disclosures:

> It is not just buggy, but Intel has gone further and defined "new ways to handle page tables" (see page 58).

The MMU, page tables, and TLB are all directly related.
She also mentions "exposure", but people are exposed to software all the time. My interest started with being curious of how things were built and how I could do so myself. I didn't know anyone who was a coder either. I got lucky and found someone who was willing to help teach me web development, but I learned a lot of basic concepts and had written scripts on my own.

I knew I was interested in building things that made people's lives better. Maybe it was implicit but I never thought "I've seen white guys on TV coding, so I can do it!" My parents actively discouraged me from spending time on the computer and worked against me to do so. My friends would make fun of me when I'd show them a little thing I made. I had essentially no encouragement until I actually got a job doing it, but I had spent hundreds (if not thousands) of hours on it before that point.

I have no problem with women being programmers, I work with a few on a daily basis. Women in the west have tremendous choice in how they want to live their lives. Your examples of India and Pakistan just illustrates that point. Women are fully capable, but how many would still have gone into programming if it weren't economically necessary for them to do so? The simple truth is, most women simply aren't interested in it. That's okay too, people should stop trying to impose how they would like the world to be. Recognize how it is and work inside those parameters.

All that said, I definitely appreciate the proactive approach with all the linked resources. I see way too many "women in tech" articles that say we should encourage women, and don't do something so basic as helping give women (or anyone for that matter) a starting point. I'll probably bookmark this article and send those links to people when they tell me they are potentially interested in learning.
> HSBC/RBS/Citi were fine with it

They’re also not payment networks. In any case, that lawbreaking occurs is not sufficient evidence that the banks don’t care about AML. By and large, AML procedure is generally well enforced. (The penalties are draconian.)
And you'll call that difference 'consciousness'. OK.

Meanwhile, I found a great termite city where termites have put aside their differences and work towards common goals together. Also coral. Their city is a thousand kilometres long.
Adding to the other comments if you thought the whole rhino horn medicine idea was bad wait till you hear about inflicting pain to animals to make the meat more delicious.
At this point, all major browsers use multiple processes.
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If it were not for Randal Munroe, Astatine would probably not have been so fascinating to so many of us.

“There’s no material safety data sheet for astatine. If
there were, it would just be the word “NO” scrawled over
and over in charred blood.”
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Are you able to generate dry brush type of strokes?
One trick I discovered last year is that whenever I feel like procrastinating I reach for my Kindle Oasis. It sucks much less energy than HN or browsing or aimless computer work.
Squirrels bury acorns they could eat that day so they can have food in the winter instead.
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Show HN: Ipfs-dropzone, a subclass of Dropzone.js that publishes to IPFS
As a transwoman I haven't been able to afford any surgery.
I'm hopeful that eventually society realizes luxury & cosmetic are just added terms to discriminate against people suffering.
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Chinese taxes are a bit higher than the states, but note that is an all inclusive rate (federal, local). There are also many ways to get some income tax free for foreigners via special exemption (say around 10%) so it is only a bit more than USA taxes in the end (I filed the foreign tax credit form way too many times so have done the math a lot).
In each of those categories we're far and away the best. I really don't understand this feeling that humans need to be modest or that describing ourselves as special is wrong. We are special.

I think among some people that are frustrated with the human world for whatever - either personal or abstract - reason, there's a feeling of misanthropy that colors their thinking, and so they try to belittle humanity.
"Spectre" is a pretty cool and spooky name all by itself.
> I think people have tried, and the only meaningful success has come from approaches that build key management into the mail client and make it transparent. At first blush this seems great, but there are drawbacks that make it not worth that much:

I'd say no-one has tried at the level of committing significant resources to it - i.e. a couple of full-time developers/designers. Certainly not the level of investment that Signal has got.

> 2) For a local client, the keypair isn't backed up anywhere, so if the user switches computers or suffers a hardware failure, the key is gone. These days you can mitigate that issue by integrating a cloud backup feature, but then you're risking that the user is protecting the private key with a weak password (which I'd expect to be common). I expect that most people don't use thick clients these days, outside of corporate use that mandates Exchange/Outlook or something similar.

All true. I'd hope that hardware tokens (Yubikey et al) could offer a solution, if we could agree on a standard for them. A good "web crypto" API would also be a huge help - browsers are more willing to add new APIs these days, so something like an encrypted input field where the cryptography is managed by the browser and the far side never sees the plaintext is a bit more feasible. Also the rise of bitcoin means people are having to get used to the level of key/passphrase security necessary for securing genuinely valuable things - we're seeing a new wave of interest in things like SSSS split keys. There are serious challenges, but there's room for hope as well.

> 3) You don't get the benefits of the web of trust. These sorts of users will never go to a key-signing party or anything like that, so one of the stated goals of OpenPGP -- that you can examine that web to feel safe that you're actually communicating with whom you think you are -- just falls away.

True, though there are also a lot more ways identities could be passed around these days. When Keybase started I dared to hope they'd help improve the OpenPGP ecosystem, though they seem to have gone down the opposite track now.
Big difference between running on colo'd hardware and running on cloud. It's still "own hardware" in someone else's rack.
Are you fucking serious? CVEs are for security vulnerabilities, not for malware. It's you who has to demonstrate to me that it isn't the case. Just find more than 3 cases in history of opensource malware, and you refute my theory.
> companies should not be in the business of deciding what laws are okay or not okay to disobey.

Why not? We do this everyday as individuals. A company a coherent group of people acting collectively.

Laws are a high-latency side chain of authority, not the Word Of God.