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In an era where global overnight civilian shipping is taken for granted, that it takes the military so long to ship parts that 3D printing parts of questionable ability to meet spec is considered an "innovative" solution is just more evidence that the military's logistics are sad and ineffective.

Forget buttons for a second, the article references fans that took a week to 3D print.

Yes, the military has to special-order a wide variety of parts and products with no civilian market. This makes the argument that some products may be more expensive. If the cost of manufacturing can be dramatically decreased through 3D printing, then properly account for cost by front-loading R&D costs, open-sourcing the designs which were developed with public money, and buying from the cheapest contractor which meets spec. If that contractor uses 3D printing to offer the lowest cost, cool. If lowest cost doesn't require 3D printing, who cares? Buy more than the military needs, but not so much as to be inordinately wasteful, to keep the part constantly in stock across a variety of globally distributed warehouses close enough to people who would need that part to be able to deliver requested parts within a week. It's a hard problem to be sure but more or less solvable (for reasonable optimizations in the absence of a constantly renewing solution to an NP complete problem).

Yes, the military has to be able to supply forces in areas where no civilian infrastructure exists. And if you want to argue for 3D printers somewhere like Antarctica where supplies can only be delivered for a few months of summer out of the whole year then that would make sense. If you want to argue that setting up a full warehouse with all parts which may ultimately prove necessary in a brand-new FOB in a war zone is at the very least a very difficult problem because of the difficulty of keeping track of everything that goes into that FOB not to mention keeping sufficient stock levels then I may agree with you. Arguing that it's reasonable to wait for months or even more than a year for parts to be delivered from a warehouse in the continental US to large, major, permanent bases located within the continental US? No, hell no, no freaking way, no way to excuse that other than general incompetence.

Militaries are never going to be nearly as efficient or as quick as UPS / FedEx / DHL for all their usecases. And that's fine. But taxpayers should not allow that to serve as an excuse for perennially poor logistics performance relative to what should be expected in comparison to the private sector.
true but probably not in the way you meant
You really should try IceStorm. I've been using it for the past month. It works extremely well and it's fast.
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> Has anyone actually tried to boot up an artificial brain derived from a real organism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm
The market is also, like, the entire world...
I don’t suppose it’s as good as an 8” studio monitor? Who know what’s possible today.
Try a quick nmap scan on an AWS or Google IP range for tcp port 10250 to see some scary results.
>halved the market price

https://cryptowat.ch/markets/bitfinex/btc/usd/2h

where are you getting halve?
it may or may not be one page - however, that is a pretty fundamental question you ask about static site generators.

Why use them, when you can use plain html ?

Well, its because they come with nice features like componentized layouts and templates, optimized build (including minification of any js, etc) and most importantly content in markdown/yaml for easy editing.
It’s currently standard for CAs to host multiple verifiers in multiple jurisdictions, to reduce the chances of this happening, afaik.
Exactly this. It is a lot harder to convince people that illegals are stealing your job when you and all your friends have good jobs and a pretty good standard of living.
My politics are on the left wing of the political spectrum, but as I sit here in my home in rural America (pop 30,000, farm based economy, nearest city of 250,000, 1 hour drive away) it would seem to me that people are mad because:

-There are very few high paying jobs
-There is limited access to medical care
-Local government ineptitude has a very real daily impact
-Small tax base means surprisingly high taxes, but real struggle to maintain infrastructure (especially schools)
-“Traditional” upbringing, often religious based, that breed skepticism toward anything “foreign” - which means everything from non-white people to AirBnB.
-A fear that Washington DC really is a threat to their freedoms. For example, there is a view that gun laws aren’t really about guns, so much as a perception of a slippery slope toward totalitarianism.

Those are just kinda off the top of my head… but having now lived here in small town, rural America for eight years, I can sympathize with some of their views. People in small towns are not all the slack-jawed yokels city dwellers like to believe they are - many are well-informed and well-educated. By and large, they have legitimate concerns, even if they can be misguided in their beliefs about the potential solutions — and politicians to help them achieve those solutions.

My $0.02 — small towns need to be more entrepreneurial. The government isn’t going to fix it for you. Trying to recruit Amazon (for example) to put a warehouse there isn’t going to bring the desired economic outcomes either. Do it for yourselves.
Why hasn't competition reduced the price?
This is a classic "after it, therefore because of it" fallacy. $400M over a few months is a drop in the ocean in the bitcoin world.

Bitcoin daily (!) trading volume is $6.1 billion today.
I maybe wrong but I see the email market in two ways: people who have two many emails which creates a scheduling problem. And people who reply/compose too many emails. I think the later market is not that big because you also need to make sure the people get more value (or should I say, write more emails) out of the monthly fees they pay for the service. But I'd like to be wrong here and I wish you succeed. Thanks.
Oh god where to begin? Apple Music is a disaster. I moved to AM from Spotify 2 months ago in anticipation of Homepod. It’s so incredibly bad.
I think the automated system can do a bunch to stop fraud, but in the OPs case, a local manager should be able to do a common sense test to provide the customer the appropriate level of service instead of being flagged a hard no.
It's irrelevant what you do to comply. To distribute in the App Store, Apple requires you to sign an agreement in which you license the code to Apple under Apple's non-FOSS terms. If you don't have the right to license the code under Apple's terms, Apple won't take it.

Apple doesn't comply with GPL and they don't want to. On a few occasions I have formally asked them to comply with GPL terms and they took GPLed apps down instead.
The fee improves the health of the network, because it incentivizes siafund holders to do whatever they can to increase the amount of data being stored. So Nebulous Inc. (developer of Sia and the largest holder of siafunds) wants to make Sia scalable and easy to use; other siafund holders might develop third-party apps or simply buy ads for Sia.

Disclosure: I co-founded Nebulous.
My problem (years ago) was that with Lattice, there just aren't as many tutorials/easy-EDA and they kind of expect you to know what you're doing.

So if you've never taken a class on FPGA's and learned how netlists work, et al, Lattice may be a harder time. I ended up buying a cheap Altera afterward just to learn.
> We certainly wouldn't want to replace an impeller for a precision milled high performance turbo pump on a rocket with a 3D printed part as the risk of catastrophic failure would be enormous.

A nitpick, but there are different kinds of 3D printing; on the higher end, companies like SpaceX actually do 3D-print rocket engine parts.
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"grab" as in "didn't pay for"
Yes, parallel counters would be a simpler solution.
What I see more and more is an expectation that, since computers themselves have consistently gotten easier to use with the introduction of things like mice and touch-interfaces, plug-and-play and graphical interfaces, programming them can be assumed to have gotten proportionally easier. Unfortunately for everybody involved, it's actually the other way around - as computers have gotten to be easier to use, they've become _harder_ to effectively program, since user's expectations keep growing exponentially. So you have bosses who expect everything to take a few hours at most because, "it's not like I'm asking you to put together one of those incomprehensible command-line thingies that you have to type into, I'm just looking for a normal drag-and-drop reactive cross-platform cloud-based application!"
The amusing thing is that retailers are going to have the data that shows this works. Return fraud will certainly go down.

What they're not going to have is data on the people who choose not to shop at these stores because of this policy, both those who have been incorrectly identified as fraudsters and those who just don't want to bother with the hassle.
There's no way to pipe it over Airport without sending ALL of your audio to it, two second delay on all other apps, makes apps that have any sound almost unusable.
I also recommend starting with Swarm (not necessarily going to production) and then learning k8s next. This is the path I am taking. Kubernetes is different in surprising ways, but it helps to already have the basic concepts down by learning Swarm.
The story wasn't clear of whether just future purchases would not be allowed to be returned, or if they were banned from returning anything (including previous purchases) after the warning.
Because people are interested in stability and making money, with individual weights on the two.

Bitcoin has first mover advantage, but it's sorely lacking in stability.

If an average person were confronted with knowledge that their bank might collapse, they're going to run to FedCoin, not fully decentralized stuff.
Anyone caught in a bank run only has themselves to blame. It's their responsibility to not deposit their money in an over-leveraged bank. Unfortunately due to FDIC insurance, consumers now spend more time researching the quality of the LCD monitors on the market, when deciding which one to buy, than the future financial solvency of banks, when deciding which one to trust their money to.
Think of it more like SQL, where you're describing a model, then a series of steps.
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" I haven't done it seriously for a long time"

Are you saying the effects lasted without practicing?

Also, how did you do with cold before the training? My preferred temperature is 30C or more. Below I feel cold. Makes me wonder if some people have more talent/predisposition for the method than others.
If you look at the metadata of both the white paper and the analysis, you can see that the creation time of them is only 2 hours, 50 minutes apart.

And that's the creation date, not even when they were published.

https://pastebin.com/CcDTz0hB
I think the idea is that if the operator is incapacitated or the control system is malfunctioning, stopping the train is the safest solution. While true, a multi-shot timer would be equally effective in detecting such a situation.
Probably not, I have a pair of Mackie CR4s in my office that sound a bit better, and are significantly louder. The highest volume on the Homepod is a little quieter than I would have expected. I got the Homepod as a replacement for the Bluetooth speaker I used in my bedroom and bathroom and I think it does a great job at that...
Problem fixed, it was a strange CSS issue in firefox only. Thanks for reporting.
Generally, pay is the same across all the branches and is public information. Although, I've heard the AF will give additional "substandard housing" pay if they require you to stay on an Army base.

It is usually joked that AF members are more office workers than soldiers, which is kind of what this joke is implying. My recruiter for the AF embraced that, telling potential recruits the AF has more college degree holders than all the other branches combined (not sure how true it was).
I assume by 'grab' they mean shoplift or less politely, steal.

There's also the trick of rooting through the store garbage for receipts, then going through the store to find the corresponding items and 'returning' things you never bought with the found receipt.
They're comparing a single-ride fare to a monthly-pass fare. A single ride fare cost $2.00 in 2008[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_transit_fares#Fa...
I learned first-hand that migrations are difficult. Do not go to production with Swarm if you are thinking of migrating to k8s. Use it for experimentation and learning.
Getting a job in crypto
This is geoblocked in Australia. Does anyone have an alternative source?
I should have been more clear and said something like the 'current consciousness.' Thanks for the pointer!
No obligation to vendors, no obligation to the public, so what are your ethical standards exactly? It sounds like committing crimes is it, but that’s a legal standard and not an ethical one. At what point are you less of a researcher and more of a sociopath with a keyboard? What makes researching software vulnerabilities such a uniquely non-ethical undertaking compared to all other forms of research?

You seem like a living argument for ethical standards being imposed on your industry, by law if needed.
Trump seeking tariffs on $60B Chinese goods, targets tech, telecoms
The market is also, like, the entire world though...
You'll see a lot of people say "Red Rock", and there is a reason why. It's very friendly to tech meetings. They have an upstairs with a bunch of power and wifi, and they don't seem to kick anyone out even if they stay for hours.

I've attended multiple meetings there as both a founder and investor. It's kinda funny actually how much of a default meeting place it is.

Also the office for 500 startups is right down the street, so you'll see a bunch of the 500 startups people roaming around.
The prisoners still locked up are stateless terrorists who are not protected by the Geneva Convention or the Constitution. They have no rights under any law, and the only reason that they were accorded due process is because we are better than they are and prove it by not simply filleting them.

The ones left in Guantanamo were given trials and found guilty of war crimes, including the rape and torture of their own former countrymen. Rotting in a prison with free healthcare, food, and religious materials is better than they deserve.
Indeed, this is my understanding of how most non-US high-speed-rail controllers work - the driver sets a target speed, the physical location on the track has a maximum speed, and the traffic system looks at the cars ahead and sets its own maximum speed (e.g. zero when another train is right in front of you). Instead of stopping the train when the driver exceeds the speed limit, it just uses the minimum of all the target speeds.
> it seems so antithetical to capitalism to conjure up some laws to create scarcity.

That is precisely what Enclosure(pretty much the birth of capitalism) was. Land was made artificially scarce by concentrating it into the hands of the few, creating a landless working class that had to move to the cities and work in the factories to earn their living. At the time Britain also had something akin to an internal passport system, so that movement of labor between parishes was also restricted.

For a bigger, well researched exposition of this, see Kevin Carson's essay "The Iron Fist behind the Invisible Hand".

https://c4ss.org/content/24158
This goes back a few years http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usmc/strategic_corporal....
Also found in Asimov's Pebble in the Sky.
Since all of this seems to be related to "Secure Boot" and other DRM related crap, can we please just have the option of booting with minimal firmware support, no hidden code, and go for a completely open, community maintained, and audit-able by /anyone/ infrastructure?

No, I don't want HDCP or any similar crap; let me run my servers and desktops in secure mode.
Since the certificate need to be updated every three months they have access to exact number of how many people use ACMEv1. They also have as naturally part of the process the domain names of those users. This should allow them to very slowly watch as the number of v1 users drops until there is so few that they can try contact any remaining users before deciding to set an end-of-life to that version.
Wikipedia contains a far better example of this phenomenon of a rock face in Argentina over the authors photo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Qu...

Source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stratum

Edit: Very interesting article none-the-less. Thanks for sharing
Evaluation Criteria for Functions as a Service (Serverless)
It's pretty incredible how many people rock climb (at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale). People are interested in talking there as well, as opposed to lots of cafes where people are heads down.

Meetup groups for things like Ultimate Frisbee, Spikeball are good too.
This is basically the thesis of evangelical Christianity.
Announced sales of company stock absolutely move (and absolutely should move) the price of a company's stock.
they must have installed one of these single-shot timers on the uptown A between 50th and 59th. it always crawls through 50th, stops in the tunnel, then crawls into 59th. didn't used to until a couple years ago.
Exciting times! Seems it's all about making a product that sells the features of serverless in the right way. Technically I would like websockets on these platforms, but I don't know how to sell that as a feature.

These numbers 50 ms of compute time and 15 s idle are interesting in the serverless space. Now I'm waiting for sane performance suites to figure out what suites you, I'm guessin this solution will kill in these strange latency test for AWS lambda from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16542286
Cool! Feel free to get in touch if you need any help.
Thanks for sharing this. Funny thing is, I've been thinking more and more that this seems like at least as plausible an explanation of consciousness as any, but hesitated to share the thought since, if it's not falsifiable, it's not really science (and we can't use the tools of science to verify it).

Still, I find it at least as likely as the "consciousness just sort of happens when information processing gets complex enough" explanation.

You might find this interesting https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-spin-on-the-quantum-bra...
Openbazaar Raises $5M from Investors Including Bitmain
Why does Google Play Music never come up in any of these discussions? I've found Google's recommendation engine to be far beyond competitors. They also allow uploading your own library which no other service out there does. Plus, you get Youtube Red for free with GPM, which is great value. They have the same family plan, and 320kbps.

What is it lacking that no one ever considers it?
Bad culture is at all levels, but management control the factors that turn culture bad.

If you'd like to see a fine example of how changing the management and the management philosophy can turn a place around, look at NUMMI. There's a This American Life episode with extensive worker interviews: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
What browser is that?
Until they realize they are standing on thin ice and everyone flees the bitcoin market(s). What happens then when nobody wants to buy into bitcoin?
What tax do you pay Amazon?

The only thing I can think is that they are building a monopoly which might be a problem in the future.
How can a small town become more entrepeneurial, competitively against a city, or without becoming a city?

The past 300 years shows that rural is simply not economically highly-productive.
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The main point of accepting returns is to reduce the cognitive overhead and friction of a potential customer's purchasing decision and make them more likely to spend money with you right now. If a retailer doesn't accept returns then potential customers are more likely to shop around for price or selection and become less likely to buy from you at all, and if they do buy from you, it will likely be later, thus costing them some cash flow.
Accepting returns makes people buy more stuff and buy it earlier than they would otherwise. And they are more likely to buy it from you specifically.

The primary problem in retail generally isn't revenue or margin, it is cash flow. Creating additional customers or even encouraging customers to purchase sooner than they otherwise would have is a huge win.
> until AMD authorizes publication

AMD doesn't have the power to prevent publication of research from third party researchers that haven't entered in an agreement with them. This definitely isn't insider trading.
Discover Weekly is like the page rank of playlist recommendations.

I think it works by looking at songs you have in your playlists and then finding playlists of other users that have those songs. From there it’ll make a playlist for you using songs those other users have in their playlist that you don’t have in yours.

Rather than trying to do some matching based on song properties it abstracts the hard part to humans.

It works extremely well and it refreshes every week.

Spotify also has all the generic playlists that Apple has too.

I also find Spotify’s UI to just work better especially between devices.
It is not an unfortunate fact -- civilization moves forward when we increase the number of things we can do without thinking.

FDIC, as the underwriter, has the power not to insure a manifestly poorly-run bank. Thus, the FDIC mark is a defacto sign that a bank can be trusted by a consumer.

I would much rather have FDIC (or a system of robust private bank insurance) than need to vet each prospective bank's balance sheet, employees, and loans when choosing to open a personal checking account.
Hi! Thanks for your comments. I am Srijan (one of the authors of the work).

I agree with some of the risks that the paper entails, e.g., how to attack "better". But at the same time, we suggest how to diffuse those attacks as well :)

We specifically didn't name any subreddits to avoid identifying "suitable [subreddits] to fight against" (e.g., those that have been attacked a lot in the past, or have been unsuccessful in defending themselves). Same for the most (successfully) attacking subreddits. It would just encourage them.

Re colonization during neutral events: we see in Figure 7 that neutral events lead to "immigration" instead of colonization, i.e., there is no decrease in activity of the existing members, while there an increase for the "attacking" members. It would be interesting to see how productive these neutral exchanges are in the future.

Re using the map to identify bans: we haven't looked into that, but it sounds interesting!

Indeed it is interesting question of how to encourage and improve coordination and good information flow between groups. It is an open research area on how that can happen!
>Trains used to go up to 55mph with no systemic problems.

During the age of steam, express passenger trains regularly exceeded 55 mph. For example, during the 1930s the Burlington Zephyr regularly exceeded 85 mph. For example it made the Chicago to Denver run in 1934 in 13 hours rather than the 18 hrs it takes today.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2009/05/stop_th...
"Wrong" is highly subjective.
Also PUBG, which runs on UE4, uses AWS (and Azure) for their dedicated servers.. I wonder if they're on GameLift for the AWS ones or if they rolled their own setup..

Those engines do come with some networking I believe, but I don't think they come with full server-side game code libraries for matchmaking, server routing, etc..

But maybe I'm wrong, I've only dabbled with those engines as a hobbyist.