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A problem with statements such as yours as that I imagine you would have difficulty even estimating the popularity of smart phones in America, let alone the world. For instance since I can find reliable data for 2015, what percent of Americans do you think had smart phones in 2015? The answer, written backwards, is rouf ytxis. Of course I suspect around your sample of people, it's near 100%. This creates the stage for a very poor level of intuition as you then extrapolate such views outwards where they become even less correct.

So for instance smartphone ownership rates in India is 18%. [1] By contrast this article [2] overviews some data in a survey from Dell India which gives various hints on PC usage. Overall 51% of families have somebody that is PC literate, 79% in East India stated they used a PC at cyber cafes, and so on. It's safe to say that your hypothesis is not really supported in India.

China has a vastly higher smartphone usage, but they also have a vastly higher PC usage with dirt cheap and constantly filled cyber cafes on seemingly every corner of every street. The only information I could find on PC usage was here [3] but that study is hopelessly outdated. As it mentions, "according to data published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC) (2010), the average number of home computers per 100 urban households in China increased steadily from 5.91 in 1999 to 65.74 in 2009, or at an average of 27.24 percent per year." The absurdly rapid growth rate makes it difficult to say anything other than that PC usage is certainly not rare in China. Your hypothesis is going to be, at best, questionable there and exclusively dependent upon the rural population.

[1] - http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/16/china-outpac...

[2] - https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/06/12/what-indian-pc-user...

[3] - http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3767/31...
If you have issues with protecting children from harm by predators, apart from that kind of being a red flag, I would rest assured that any kids ideally will be adults one day, with their potential heavily influenced by what they went through as "mere kids". Think of it as a really cheap way of helping adults.
I received the following (candid) comment from a geologist that I asked. He said that I could share his comment

> I don't have time to write the essay on this, but we definitely DONT wage war to get "boots on the ground". That's absurd and if true why go to that effort when there is the rest of the world to but your boots on without war. That's one of the biggest problems. The Afghan Geo Survey was at PDAC pleading people to come work in their country but, I for one won't be going AND NO ONE is going to put money into that huge risk. Why would they with the rest of the world available to make a real map you have to have boots on the ground, (like Iv done for 40 years) not a computer with .tab and .shp files. That is a derivative product that comes after collection of real data that costs money and is proprietary intellectual capital. Nobody sees my map without a non disclosure agreement or confidentiality agreement. And that happens across the world for any private expenditure. Exxon, Total, Shell, etc possibly have the the most vast earth science databases created by mankind. They represent $trillions of investment and are not about to make that publicly available.
Publicly available earth science information is created by, curated by, and made available through governments, =tax $. Thus, it is meager, everywhere.
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Self-publishing is definitely the domain of cranks. It's just not the exclusive domain of cranks.

The real problem with this isn't that there is nothing worth reading being presented, but that the signal to noise ratio is just terrible. You can waste an inordinate amount of time looking fruitlessly - I can't blame anyone for deciding it isn't worthwhile.
Ah, you implement the online backup API! That's something I need to do. Opened an issue.
and The Tor Projects response to that: https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare

They have been in this dispute with each other for a long time.
MySQL v1 or v2 were not unusable (or unreliable) products, despite the fact, that later requirements changed and code changed with them. This could significantly lower the ratio discussed for software products (not sure if it applies to books, too).
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Source and more info: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168236-W...
China blocks Reddit – but why now?
Somehow a crazy person decided that I was cheating on Google's SERP using "hacked routers" (?) and started to make random queries to my "/search" endpoint, dozens of "POST newsletter/add" with fake emails per second, and other really lame attempts to get on my nerve and cause downtime.
Walk into a bank with a face mask on, and see how they react. Same principle here.
I guess the step after this is greater representation of minorities in the board room. In general there does need to be greater representation of minorities in upper management. That does not happen as much as it should.
If you read Daemon, you really need to read FreedmonTM. It's a direct sequel, and almost has a hopeful vision of the future where Daemon has a dismal vision.
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Actually probably not very much traffic is from tor. Tor bandwidth is notoriously bad.
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> we use induction to reason all the time

Yes, people use all kinds of invalid reasoning techniques and fall victim to a wide variety of logical fallacies and cognitive biases. That doesn't mean that any of them are valid.
If AMD's method scales so much easier, why didn't Intel just... do that? Honest question.
That's really useful - and worth submitting as a separate post.
Depressingly, this is apparently unfamiliar even to doctors who actually face this exact situation on a regular basis. Given multiple choice tests, they get the right rate at (or a bit below) random chance, and a large plurality think that the test accuracy equals the chance that a positive result is correct.

Those numbers are from 2007 - given that I learned this result in an entry-level undergraduate stats course, I'd like to think things are improving. But I'm not especially optimistic, and even if they are it still means generations of practicing doctors weren't taught this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28166019
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A comment from a geologist who I asked about this (he said I could share on his behalf):

> Faults of the world that effect mankind are mostly known and well mapped at the surface and below the surface through assorted geophysical means. We can't see there otherwise. Google Earth has made a tremendous contribution to mankind and there are many efforts to make Google geo-earth at least in small chunks. Universities are the best homes for this type of effort.
Quality of data is a huge factor. The location of the San Andreas Fault is very well understood. Yet 20 years ago, there were NO geologic maps of even rudimentary quality for the San Francisco Bay area. Maps yes. Useful, printed or digital No. I doubt that has changed. Reason? Politics, funding, right people to do the job, etc BART and bridge routes are well studied for engineering purposes and should be public information, but try find a geology map derived from that suitable for public use.
When I work in foreign countries and even in the US, there are regional maps, say 1:1,000,000. But that offers very little value. Now I am writing the book on the geology where I am working. I am the first one there to figure out what I am looking at and the potential value for any mineral commodity. You can't do what I do from a computer or satellite. You HAVE to be boots on the ground.
The way forward for advancing geologic understanding is quality mappers on the ground knowing what they are looking at, translating that to useful information that conveys both facts and interpretations and then that to digital.
We are a looooong loooong way from having geology Google Earth, but if we did, it would be great for mankind. Raise taxes?
Buckminster Fuller thought of that long ago. http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/newsletters/1995/bu...
Or, you know, limit the ability of newly created user to spam forums. Or put them on "must be reviewed" lists. Or...

The easiest solution is to ban Tor, but it's far from the only solution.
I am an undergrad trying to break into AI and machine learning research. Hopefully this will be useful. Does anyone know any other resources that will be helpful? So far I've just been reading AI: A Modern Approach, by Russel and Norvig.
> "In general, the manifesto was antisemitic, anti-capitalist, anti-democratic, anti-Marxist and anti-liberal.[49] To increase its appeal to larger segments of the population, on the same day as Hitler's Hofbräuhaus speech on 24 February 1920, the DAP changed its name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("National Socialist German Workers' Party", or Nazi Party).[50][51] The word "Socialist" was added by the party's executive committee, over Hitler's objections, in order to help appeal to left-wing workers.[52]"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party)

I am not too familiar with all of this, but surely it's not such a weird thought that a party might call itself socialist even if it opposes the actual socialist? A bit like how a despot might call his party or country democratic.
NUMA means "(Explicitly) Non-Uniform Memory Access"; this means that some cores have easier (lower latency, higher bandwidth) access to some memory regions than others.

In practice this means that memory controllers are partitioned amongst groups of cores, with some slower and often otherwise busy interconnect between those groups.

The software implication is that if task X uses some bit of memory a lot, then that bit of memory better be node-local, i.e. easy to access for the core where task X is running.
Ask any kid with a phone whether they’d rather lose their Disney, Coke, Mattel, or their phone.
> we don't have a justification, other than induction

Yes, we do. Scientific theories are justified by their explanatory power. Read Deutsch.
I found the first 20% hard to get through, but after that, the book was one of my favorites of all time. The compelling technical aspects combined with quality storytelling made the book extremely worthwhile.
Yet another reason it'd be insanity to incorporate in California.
I said it and it's definitely true. TV has been doing this forever. Laugh tracks are a psychological trick. As are cliffhangers... Television is designed to be addictive and sell ads, just like apps.
I always update to onsite warranty because of this. It is well worth the money.

Had to get my personal X1 fixed while on a business trip in a company meeting room and another personal X1 in a hotel room while on vacation.
Are there any sites that have updated startup valuations for comparison?
are there any researched measurements to show exactly how much is available?

obviously it would vary greatly depending on where the connection is going... but wondering if there is some overarching idea of what it has..
Wouldn't you at least agree that the ratio of edits to end text is at least closer to 10:1 than to 1:1 though?
As someone who has lived on both sides of the pond, I know what you mean. They had contactless pay and chips in Europe like a decade before.

I think there are a couple platforms like RH launching. Revolut is doing one, and there is www.ninetynine.com is in the EU.

Have patience!!
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> As opposed to Disney's or Coca Cola's or Mattel's psychological war on kids?

Yes, as opposed to those, because it is so much more effective at that, that it becomes its own category, and not just an extension of age old tactics.

> It's ironic that an entity dependent on ad money would create such a title.

Why is that ironic? Getting people to watch ads, is not what this article is describing. It's the way they convince the brain that doing xyz is a sign of success.

Making people watch ads is a problem, but it's a totally different problem.
It's a trade-off. If you trust Cloudflare it adds additional protection against bad guys. If you don't trust them don't use them. Same with Amazon or any other place where you can rent server room.

Using Cloudflare gives control for control over which part of their site can use shared cache and which is direct link.

If you don't trust anyone, run your own servers and don't hire sysadmins.
Cranky nerd here. I've tried to use Tor to access websites for legitimate purposes and found much of the web has become unusable recently.

But perhaps you need a motivating example, since you don't think there's any value in supporting Tor! I'll give you some.

- Security researcher wishes to contact an organization about a security hole in their site or product, but doesn't know if they'll be sued, so they want to protect their identity. (source: this is me; have met other people doing this)

- Pedophile (who doesn't want to be one) seeking therapy options that don't involve a high risk of being incarcerated or killed. (source: read an article about this)

- Teenager in a repressive environment trying to access LGBTQ resources; parents have a netfilter on, or maybe have snoopware on the router. (source: several acquaintances)

- Chinese citizen trying to find a different view of history (source: pretty freaking common, although Great Firewall makes it tricky)

These are people who don't have other, good options. And you'll need to be able to withstand the sizeable quantities of malicious traffic that don't come through Tor, so it's not like you really win anything. It's worth not blocking Tor.
> I also see far too many boys whose gaming obsessions lead them to forgo interest in school, extracurricular activities, and anything else productive. Some of these boys, as they reach their later teens, use their large bodies to terrorize parents who attempt to set gaming limits. A common thread running through many of these cases is parent guilt, as so many are certain they did something to put their kids on a destructive path.

This was me. I was 14, my parents just divorced and I got hooked on Starcraft in 1999. I would play until the sun came up, go to school and sleep through class. I did it for 3 years straight, with varying levels of addiction.

At some point, my mom wanted me to see a pyschologist but I tried to show her I wasn't addicted. I took the cd out of the computer, cut it up and glued it to a piece of paper. I hung that paper on the corkboard for all to see, then, not 5 days later I bought another cd and started the cycle again.

I don't know if I was reeling with teenager angst or overloaded emotions because of the divorce but I needed help and my parents didn't know what to do. I nearly didn't finish high school because of it.

Now, with a son of my own - I am constantly thinking about how in the world do I expose my son to technology but also teach him moderation. I don't want to have a fight about how much time is too much, I simply want the technology to be useful to solve a problem and not something my son feels compelled to use all day long.
Funding the government and pleasing your constituents are legitimate aims in a representative democracy.
Every college/university I've taught at allows instructors to choose their own book or has a committee of faculty members in the department choose the book. Increasingly there is a movement in state legislatures that mandate that the university system push open source textbooks. There's definitely a desire amongst a lot of faculty to use an open text book but the book has to be good and that's the hard part.

One thing to keep in mind is that publishers don't publish books to appeal to students. Their client are faculty members. So they include things like websites that handle grading online homework/quizzes. Faculty are going to use what makes their job easier. With pay not commensurate with level of education I understand why faculty have this mindset. Personally I think it's bad to use the online homework/quizzing systems out there.
I have 32 GB of ram, but you could easily fit 128 GB if needed. Above that, I think sourcing the chips becomes difficult.

If you aren't concerned with getting absolute maximum speed from the servers, then I'd think you could run 16 of 'em with only moderate degradation; perhaps 20-30% slower (per server) than a single server. Feel free to imagine the Clusterio applications.
I think this happens to almost everybody who loves their job and the way I've made my peace with it is by making a distinction that this part is my job that I do to make a living (usually repetitive work I may not necessarily like) and this part is what I do because I like it.

So like Google's 80/20% formula I keep one whole day when I work on something that has no purpose without an guilt.

Anyway, For me working with new technologies and working on ideas related to things I find cool. Some recent projects include creating a serverless framework (1), a delphi app that toggles my monitors for my sitting / standing desk, or making side projects like this (2), etc.

Also I find that using repetitive music really helps me get into flow a lot faster. I've found this really weird music genre called "epic aggressive modern hybrid-orchestral music" that really makes me forget everything else besides the work I'm doing.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16552325

(2) https://www.exercisemix.com
It's unclear from the article what they're talking about, but that's usually not how it works. More likely, some other teams are not writing code to check if Location History is on. Or they decided it doesn't matter for reasons.

Making sure rules are consistently followed in a large organization takes a company-wide effort. It doesn't happen by default.
As a website operator too I don't see spammers, attackers and script kiddies from tor network with valid user agents (tor browser or mainstream up to date browsers). The worst I see in that traffic is very few people trying to post/upload something anonymously, but mostly it's just people trying to access a few pages anonymously. Bots and scrappers for some reason use fake user agents in tor network and just get 403s, but the amount of that is so tiny compared to the rest of the bots, that's it's not even worth mentioning. Tor network is sort of self-limiting in this regard, because it's too slow and too obvious for such use, it's only viable for casual browsing.

Cloudflare proved that it's both unwilling and unable to solve the problem.
Aw I thought it was going to be an actual hacking game, more like uplink or hacknet. I really want a new game that's as good as uplink...
It seems too late for that; in the context of the sexual revolution, any human can now claim to be female.
> When an addict tells you that you shouldn't use heroin it doesn't make them narcology expert.

Especially when what really matters is academic credentials and not first-hand experience.

> WRT "currently", does Guantanamo count?

Sure. So let's oppose Guantanamo and what China is doing. At not let one derail every attempt to address the other one -- because stopping both is more important than which order we do it in.
It's Chromium 56 with the default Chromium build-chain.

At that point, Chromium required Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 or later. Anand use VS Community 2015.3. IIRC, by default it doesn't have LTCG enabled.

By default, release builds are almost entirely statically linked (with a few shared libraries, platform dependent), which makes linking time pretty significant. As a result, it ends up more as a linking benchmark than a compilation benchmark.
I looked at the books. They seem really nice but are not feasible for use in the classroom for the courses that we teach.
https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html

Currently the network is processing ~125Gbit/s of traffic.
Not exactly the same, but I stumbled on another seemingly confusing math reality a little while back. It's probably obvious for places that measure their mileage in gallons/100 miles or kms or whatnot, but for MPG:

If you could chose to increase the average fuel economy of a car, which of these would save the most fuel:

1. 10mpg -> 12mpg

2. 12mpg -> 15mpg

3. 15mpg -> 20mpg

4. 20mpg -> 30mpg

5. 30mpg -> 60mpg

Of course with a little thought, it turns out that they all save the same amount of fuel, but it's hard to wrap my brain around the fuel savings being equal between 10mpg-12mpg and 30mpg-60mpg.
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Nearly all racing formats have banned certain technologies.

For instance, swimming banned LZR Racer swimsuits as "technology doping". Formula 1 has banned a variety of technologies, some just for increasing risk to spectators. America's Cup banned pedal power and cyborgs. Most human-powered races ban performance enhancing drugs.

I could easily see space racing banning negative mass.
blog.torproject.org uses an invalid security certificate.

This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
Not everything runs great on containers. My internal firewall is a pfSense, BSD based which doesn't run on a linux kernel.

Atleast 3 VMs need patched kernels or more recent kernels/regular kernel updates than the host provides.

Additionally VMs provide a bit more isolation than a simple container (atleast unless you do unpriv'd container).

I do have containers too, about 20 of them, half of them unpriv'd, all of them LXC. Docker is not suitable for my use case at all and frankly I don't think you should suggest someone should switch to Docker without knowing their use cases.
Tell them what? That literally every other major manufacturer makes a motor with higher max engine speeds, higher reliability, and lower maintenance costs? Or that in the 60-year history of Grand Prix motorcycle racing they've only won once?
I'm seeing the CAPTCHA a lot with the Brave Browser Tor Tab. You might want to reach out to the developers to make their Tor Tab be treated the same as the Tor Browser Bundle.
Ask HN: Has anyone built a recommendation engine in-house?
For example, a recommendation engine to recommend similar products, blog posts, movie, music, etc.

Would love to understand the challenges you faced and any library or third-party products (e.g., recombee) you used to power the recommendation engine.
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Minecraft reigns king in that category. I don't know if it still does, but a couple years ago Minecraft actually managed to somehow still use the OpenGL immediate mode. Back then the larger Minecraft servers required ridiculous amounts of memory and dedicated a dozen cores just to Java's GC.