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> DNSoTLS and DNSoHTTPS in their short lives have already gained more traction than DNSCrypt ever got

I'm not convinced at all that this is true. Cisco, Comodo, Infoblox, Yandex, support DNSCrypt only in their products. They have no reason to switch to protocols that would require 10x more traffic.

OpenNIC secure resolvers are all DNSCrypt. Cleanbrowsing resolvers probably get a lot of connections over DNSCrypt as well.

I run both public resolvers accessible over DoH and DNSCrypt, and the traffic over DoH is negligible compared to the DNSCrypt one.
Thanks for the link.
Touchdown confirmed ...
InSight lander: Nasa probe approaches Mars – live updates
> I suspect another source of difference between what I see used and most formal processes is that the most formal processes tend to come out of a waterfall tradition. There's a stop-the-world-for-months aspect to them that I think is incompatible with a lot of what people do today.

It's true that a lot of formal methods were first defined then. Those that weren't abandoned entirely were refined beyond that time, though; you might find Yourdon’s last (before throwing it to a Wiki which was somewhat unsuccessful and vandalized) documentation of the Structured Analysis method, his freely-available PDF Just Enough Structured Analysis from 2006, illuminating. [0] There's no stop the world aspect (except in one of the two polar extremes of approaches to application, both of which are described as impractical for real projects.)

> I could totally see using Event Storming and Story Mapping as two one-day activities as part of a kickoff week for a new project. Structured analysis, not so much.

It's true that Structure Analysis is a full-lifecycle activity, not a kickoff event; OTOH, there are certainly parts that map out the problem space that work as kick off events.

[0] http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~sasanr/Teaching-Material/SAD/JE...
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Title seems a little (maybe a lot?) misleading. It's not "on drones" it's actually on a video stream coming from a drone. There's a huge difference: you're doing all of the processing on a desktop/laptop PC.

There's some mention at the end of the article on how to attach a PC to the drone, but basically it would be the same thing: just run the processing on a PC.

Just by the title, I was expecting a clever way to run a pre-trained model directly on a drone.
Perhaps it's a sign of weak government, a strong government wouldn't allow monopolistic behaviour and America hasn't in the past.
NASA’s InSight successfully lands on Mars after ‘seven minutes of terror’
NASA Insight is on Mars
Hooray! Great job NASA! Amid politics and war, it's refreshing to see news that can unite us all.
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You can't really cook greens to sterilize them they'll just wilt and won't be the same food even.
That was a fun read. Parts of it feel like something out of Sherlock Holmes:

> When I spoke with Lieutenant Mark Hollandsworth of the local sheriff’s department, he supported Dunkenberger’s theory: “The rain this year did spoil a lot of grapes.”
What's the difference mercure and the competition such as wamp.ws ?
Yeah using a mix of Qt and WINE, instead of properly porting VCL wasn't a good idea as well.
Ask HN: Why don't common text editors support printing?
I'm new to the Mac, and I've started looking for a text editor. It turns out that you can't print from several major ones, including SublimeText, Atom and Bracket.

I don't print very often, but when I need to, I need to. What is going on here? Why would these packages omit something so basic?
Successful touchdown confirmed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
I assume his point is perspective. There are bigger problems to solve.
Did you mean VxWorks? I still have my certifications for that somewhere.
omg 30 hour weeks sounds perfect
I think they would better spend their money on Elysium-style refuge. Fewer people means they wouldn't even need fusion, solar, wind and hydro would be enough.
He is morally liable

Google says "Definition of Liable: responsible by law; legally answerable".

If you claim he's not legally responsible but is "morally liable", where "liable" itself means "legally responsible", what in your world does the term "morally liable" mean, specifically? What does it mean you can do to him, or what does it mean you should do in future in response to this?
I know I am going to be in the minority, but I think it's time for the JS community (and others) to reconsider whether Apache & Eclipse orgs with more "rigid" governance requirements should used more for popular packages.
I mentioned non-resident with the purpose of excluding domestic spies like Anna Chapman, though perhaps "not active in the US" would have been more appropriate.

As for the DoJ, I agree that I simplified the issue. I'm making the assumption that the indictments we've seen so far are much more tractable for those offices than charging Assange would be, but perhaps I'm wrong about that.

I thought Espionage Act charges hadn't been levied against noncitizens operating wholly outside the United States, who would instead be charged under local espionage laws where they acted, US classified materials or other act-specific laws, or UCMJ spying rules in times of war. All of the cases I'd previously read about were either US citizens or foreigners like Truong and Yatskov who acted directly within US borders. It turns out this isn't true.

I'd never heard of Alfred Zehe, but apparently he was a German citizen who did some analysis for the Soviets in Mexico, and was arrested on Espionage Act charges when he later visited Boston. He filed for dismissal over this exact point - that he was a non-citizen, not in the US, and not directly accessing American sources - but was refused. And in a bizarrely ironic twist, it was Robert Mueller who directed prosecutors to withhold documents from the defense over "national security" that had already been offered to Warsaw Pact governments.

So it looks like not only was I wrong on the history of Espionage Act charges, but there's direct evidence that the current Special Counsel has no hesitation aggressively prosecuting such cases. I appreciate the correction.
They aren't wrong about the timing. I cite bank mergers [0] as evidence, you can see they start becoming the norm about 1981. The inflation-adjusted numbers start exploding as well [1].

I'm a bit suspicious that the real advantage of large companies is more assets, more faith and better access to credit. From an economic perspective, I can recall many mergers and acquisitions that basically failed to make money. But on the other hand, maybe a good merger is a very low key event, I can name a few in tech specifically that worked - but usually that is because the network effects of online businesses are absurdly important.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_mergers_in_the_Un...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_mergers_and_ac...
You could also try a bhangmeter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangmeter
I don't think they have to be active, but an OS should in principle own hardware resources and merely grant access to other programs by some means. Just importing a library that directly accesses hardware wouldn't qualify as an OS.

There has to be some distinction between the subset of all possible programs that qualify as "operating systems", otherwise why have two terms?
Wow. Combine this with the ability to drop some of the latest nano-sensors (atoms strung together to build dust-sized sensors and batteries and power at scale), and we should be able to monitor absolutely everything everywhere. Let's see anyone even try to object to my rules or procure a weapon!

And given some on-board weapons, we would never have to worry about civil unrest again. Only people grateful for the food and job they are allowed to be in our society. Utopia!
Why does something like this work vs eBay?

Sorry if this was addressed in the article, but there was a paywall to read.
NASA's InSight lander has touched down on Mars
TIL the Wall Street Journal thinks tracking prices longitudinally is a stock market. Where on StockX can I buy a share of ownership of a luxury watch?
What do you mean the 'smart talk' is exactly what he said? That needs clarification and citation to be a meaningful statement.

Inventing the chinese room argument is a point against taking him seriously. It's a very confused argument. The fact that it keeps being trotted out is sad more than anything (not that I'm saying you are doing that).
Steve Jobs' daughter's boyfriend, who he disapproved of, worked for HP. So he decided to change the world so that everyone would learn how only uncool people print stuff on physical paper.

If you're the kind of person who wants to use a printer, there's definitely no way you're a cool enough hipster to be using Apple products.
People get their water from where ever they can get it -- whether shallow or deep. Most people in the world (~75%) do not drink water from karst groundwater, but compared to karst aquifers' spatial extents, two times more people are affected than would be expected.
Unless you are personally working to stop the inevitable Heat Death of the Universe, there are always bigger problems to solve.
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The signals do degrade with time. They appear to be using Utah arrays which have been around for a while, so the old problems likely still exist. A second problem is that the signals themselves, assuming they are good, change as well. They're doing ~15m calibrations followed by ~40m activity sessions.

I think ultimately for these things to really work, there has to be a shift in the HCI paradigm. Specifically, the interaction context needs to be structured such that the behavior of the subject is highly predictable, with that being the case it then becomes easier to continuously retrain online in the background without the subject being aware of it.

That said, they got it to work! Always nice to see hard projects come to fruition!
> > The power of monopolies and indeed of corporations in general is directly tied to the power of the State.

> No it isn't.

Yes, it is for corporations (monopolies are a more complex question.) Corporations are creations of the state; everything done through them is an exercise of state power.
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Down voted __again__ for stating a fact. Only on HN. And I thought CNN was bad.
It's tough to avoid complaints when you're a bigger company, but when I hear StockX, I'm forced to think about the multiple complaints of fake selling through them.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sneakers/comments/9tqfv6/i_received...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sneakers/comments/9uqafs/stockx_sen...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sneakers/comments/9jaj4r/exposing_s...

Can't be a good thing for people to think that about a company.
> Sure, if it's easy and cheap to test and sterilize irrigation water, then let's do so.

The figures I've repeatedly seen say that ~$10-15mm worth of testing would have saved > $100mm worth of medical and related expenses — so far.

An order of magnitude cost savings is, by most definitions I'm aware of, a serious bargain.

What? The farmers aren't paying everyone else's medical bills? "Externalized costs are, like, totally someone else's problem, man..."
I agree. I hear the comments about a lack of funding but to me it isn't necessarily a lack of vision from politicians and businessmen. I have a Ph.D. in physics and even worked for 6 months full-time in the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as an undergraduate and I still hav mixed feelings about fusion power, particular vs other non-fossil fuel options.
60 years ago, when nobody knew anything about fusion (so not a very different situation from today...), the stellarator was the favored design. The advantages are obvious on paper (which is all they had back then): continuous operation, more stable plasma. But then the Russians built a small tokamak and it worked surprisingly well. So the whole world went

"given the importance of fusion, shouldn't the time and effort being put into stellarators be devoted to something that's important in the immediate?"

and started working on tokamaks. 60 years later, tokamaks still haven't been turned into power plants. Things were harder than imagined, and much more expensive, too. It doesn't look as if ITER will ever yield something practical. Maybe the MIT guys can make the Arc Reactor a reality; but all they have right now is... exactly, paper.

(The whole world? No! A tiny village outside Munich built the Wendelstein series of stellarators...)
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Mars: Nasa lands InSight robot to study planet's interior
Not sure I understand; if the coop is opening at dawn and closing at dusk, why does it need to adjust for DST? From the chickens' perspective, the sunset time doesn't change substantially at the moment of DST change.
Sounds like the same kind of guides that were being printed in the West https://twitter.com/TurnerMarko/status/1066830331288973314
This is useful, and long overdue. Trying to deploy a single page app or static site using S3 + CloudFront is way more complex than it should be. Trying to automate deployment using CodePipeline is a real pain. By the time you start to think about cache invalidation, most people have already given up and started looking at Netlify or Firebase hosting. The fact that they handle things like atomic deploys and password protection for dev branches is icing on the cake.

I do wish the data transfer pricing ($0.15/GB) were a little lower, though it is the same as Firebase hosting who I guess they are positioning themselves against. The pricing is simpler that CloudFront pricing which varies by region, but ends up being a worse deal for those whose customers are primarily in North America ($0.085/GB on CloudFront) and a better deal for those in India ($0.17/GB) and South America ($0.25/GB). Push come to shove, if you need to reduce costs I guess you can always try sticking Cloudflare in front of it and seeing what the performance looks like.

They are still not doing a great job on the product marketing side of things though. Why is it called Amplify Console instead of Amplify Hosting? In my opinion they should really just take a look at how Firebase positions their suite of products. Amplify Framework, amplify-cli and Amplify Console is a confusing and counter-intuitive mix.
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> corporations are creations of the state; everything done through them is an exercise of state power

Legally, yes. Politically, it's more complicated. The banana republics were largely run by the domestic subsidiaries of foreign companies. Just because the subsidiaries were chartered by the state doesn't mean they didn't have more power than the state.
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i think we'll look back a decade from now and realize 90% of the start-ups from 2008 to present were small businesses in disguise with MUCH MUCH smaller markets than forecasted by founders.

i think hopping to a startup and back to a big tech company is fine. i've done it for career advancements, but it was grueling.
Sorry that you fell into that set, it's easier for me to focus and learn new things as I get older. The only challenge is free time due to more responsibilities.
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I like to think some manager saw the army drop a humvee from a blackhawk and asked "why can't we do this, but on Mars?" and nobody came up with a good enough answer so they did it.

Edit: Why is this comment unacceptable?
Microsoft's Surface Book is absolutely stunning--although a little pricey for me--and unlike Apple's stuff it doesn't break after a month of normal use with people having to do class actions for them to acknowledge that there's even something wrong.

The surface book is actually known to have thermal problems, and the surface pro 4 almost went to class action before microsoft organized a replacement program.

http://www.classlawdc.com/2018/02/06/microsoft-surface-pro-4...

On the other end, macOS is definitely better than Microsoft in pretty much every aspect (although that might be subjective).

As someone who hops between macOS and windows I'd have to disagree with that. Window management on laptops is way better on windows. There's no good way to cope with the dock on a small screen. It's difficult to resize windows (very small targets and no "dock to resize" feature) and the window behavior when maximized (fullscreen) is very clumsy. Also, macOS has no equivalent to the windows timeline.
I agree that Rust is the exception--it has a fantastic tooling story, but it's actually the _language_ that holds it back for the sorts of applications I tend to write. The performance and even correctness benefits it affords me over Go are just too small for the cognitive burden it imposes (and yes much of the gap closes with time--I've been kicking the tires on and off for 5 years now--but every year the returns diminish and it's looking like the gap will remain significant). Hopefully I'll be proven wrong in the next few years.
"goths: a ludicrous satanic deathcult who like the cure" made me laugh out loud
Is there video of the landing or just the reaction?
You built your own MTA in Ocaml?
I don't understand the question.

With a use-case of "I'm paying a 3rd-party to secure my traffic", which matches what these "VPN" extensions claim to provide, then the answer is simply "Wherever the 3rd-party runs it".
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"Bootstrapping" usually refers to funding the company (in the seed stage) without external investment, whether through pre-selling to customers, relying on founders' savings, doing consulting, etc. I think the term you're looking for is "profitable".
Man! I actually like half of Golang's error handling practice. Returning errors and dealing with them in a simple case sounds nice, there is no magic required, no need to think "am I forgetting to catch an exception here?"

On the other hand, the fact that we are returning a tuple of (result, err) where by convention err should be nil if everything worked screams as a terrible design to me.

But I might be influenced by reading too much Haskell/ML inspired languages :D

Once you understand applicative validation [1] or exhaustive pattern matching on row-polymorphic sum types [2], other error handling methods just seem so crude :)

[1] https://leanpub.com/purescript/read#leanpub-auto-applicative...
[2] http://keleshev.com/composable-error-handling-in-ocaml
Why do I keep encountering people who apparently think that Twitter is an appropriate medium for conveying thoughtful, considered information?
Focus is a thing you can lose, or regain by active cultivation. Your muscles don't stay the same after you stop running every day. Likewise if you haven't "hit the books" in years, your ability to do so will be affected.

You won't have the mental plasticity of your younger self but you can improve your ability to focus by training on it. Like you wouldn't expect to run a few miles after not doing so for years, you can't expect to focus for long periods right off the bat either.

Train your ability to focus. Start small and don't expect to improve quickly. Do some meditation as well. Get away from high-distraction things for a while, like the smart phone, the laptop and the tv.
Would love a translation for this, if possible. Looks humorous for sure.
Hey MrTonyD. I understand where your coming from. But honestly most people are using this for monitoring things like Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, detecting seals and crop prediction. We can't have a sustainable future without a lot of these technologies in place.
https://nanonets.com/drone/wind-turbines/
https://nanonets.com/drone/solar-panels/

All new technology will have some deviant use case associated with it. The internet is one of the worst enablers of child pornography, human trafficking and everything disgusting with the world. However it just means you try and control the use of technology not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The first one, about everything having to be lazy, isn't true. You can define strict data types or functions. The other two are though.
Just the reaction, there's a slight possibility that Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught a picture of it entering the atmosphere but we won't know that until later since MRO is on the far side of Mars at the moment.
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Only tangentially. I recently finished Pikkety's "Capital" and found it very much to be (as you said) about observed behavior not theory. His primary discussion is about labor vs capital return split of output (and its resulting effect on individual inequality). He does discuss observed economies of scale for returns on capital which could have monopolistic effects. (aka returns on 1 million might be 5% but for 100 million might be 7%)
Sure, there are various laptops like ThinkPads and Dell XPS that work fine for Windows and Linux developers. They even have escape keys.
Is there a title you would recommend I change it to, to make it more clear?
The next big thing is quality. We have everything we need. What we need is quality air, food, water, time. Basically everything that capitalism has taken away in the last 50 years.
One part of the company is verification that the shoes are real. So while they missed in that case I'm sure they are trying to improve. On something like ebay you have zero verification. And you can always get a refund.
Link: https://youtu.be/rk6z1vP4Eo8
I think you made a fantastic decision on this. When you're going for a billion dollar valuation you need to be impeccable. This domain name gets you one step closer to that and saves on a costly rebrand later + it's a high value resalable asset.

Easy IPO if you hit all the right notes. Good luck!
But now there is no need to rely on Mono, right? Now that Microsoft has released dot net for other OS.
A few reasons I can think of:

* Counterfeit expertise. Counterfeits are common with high-end sneakers.
* Presentation focused on shoes and not goods. Why is this shoe important amongst the many shoes available?
* Superior search and discovery.

They certainly don't have the TAM of eBay, but specialists can have huge advantages when they build an entire site, and set of processes, around one market segment. If I can pay for the transaction with a frictionless payment system (e.g., Amazon Pay or Apple Pay), I'm way more likely to use the specialty retailer.
Re-read "A 2015 study by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found glyphosate in 30 percent of 3,200 food products. Similar studies have found glyphosate exceeding maximum residue limits (or MRLs) in Cheerios, beer, and wine."

The first sentence is saying a DETECTABLE amount of glyphosate is found in 30% of a huge number of food products.

The second sentence is saying excessive amounts have been found in some of these three specific food products.

Put together, it sounds like 30% of products have excessive glyphosate in them, but if you go back to the source [0], you'll find that:

"The overall compliance rate for these surveys, based on Canadian Maximum Residue Limits (MRL), was 98.7 %. No samples of fruits and vegetables, soy products, or infant foods were found to contain residues exceeding Canadian limits."

So 30% contain detectable residue, 1.3% contain residue above the Canadian MRL.

(Which, hey, room for improvement in compliance, but it's deceptive to act like 30% of food is above the MRL.)

[0] http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/chemical-residues-microbiol...
Do you have links to any data that shows the statistics on my luck?
He's measuring altitude with the onboard Barometer. Adding GPS to this board would make it highly problematic from a legal standpoint.