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We humans usually don't focus our resources on a single issues. Have you ever heard we have to stop spending money for cosmetics because right now we have to fix amazon deforestation? And even then, we usually don't go all in on a single plan but want backups. Mars might be one of those. A tiny one we barely invest any resources into. NASA is ~0.5 percent of the US budget. Cosmetics would be easily 3x that.

I'm with your GP on that. Not terra-forming, but a small mars colony will prove Humans are able to live independent from earths ecology. That we have the necessary technology and just have to scale it up. That will be hard enough on potentially short available time frame we have to react, so doing the R&D now in form of a government financed space program will probably buy us necessary time.

That doesn't mean the colony has to be independent of earths economy. Decoupling mines and factories from earths ecology will be a lot easier than doing so for e.g. food production.

But yeah, that will be painful and I'd prefer mankind to find ways to keep our current environment intact.
You people really trippin over chicken pox? What about the CDC doctor Dr William Thompson who admitted to fraud in vaccine paper? What about another Dr. Thorson wanted by interpol bc he stole CDC money for autism and vaccine research? People will blindly inject vaccines and not even ask about the safety tests for the nano aluminum particles their using... or the XMRV retroviruses from animal byproducts contaminating the supply lines
> Like it or not "states rights" is an American interpretation of the Civil war, even if it is one that is not historically accurate.

More accurately, “states rights” was, at the time of the Civil War, a code word for protecting slavery that was revived during the Jim Crow era as a broader code for protecting segregation and systematic discrimination, and the faction which uses it that way has always been strong enough to play a major role in shaping the national mythology.
Like all things this will have it's negatives and it positives. Will result in decrease in crime cleaner streets better behaved citizens. One major problem China faces is that they have advanced too quickly from rural to urban for the people habits and behaviours to have changed. Now this will force people to change. But at the same time the restrictions that people will be living under will result in mental problems in the future. My thought is taking this at face value and not considering how this will be abused as that is another argument which everyone else is doing.
Right, this seems dumb as you're going to lose your best people first, since they're the ones knowing they'll have no issues finding something else on the open job market.
That's a nice piece of history.

Steve Case replied to that article too - https://www-archive.mozilla.org/stevecase.html
I find the article a bit confused about the purpose of checklists. The checklists in the aviation industry are there for the technicians (including pilots), not the engineers. The article seems to advocate automated checklists for programmers (who really are engineers) and not end users or administrators (who are technicians).

I work on a 40 year old mainframe product and as a vendor, we provide a lot of checklists for our users (system administrators). Everything from installation and configuration to maintenance and customization is covered. This approach is an exception on the mainframe and it is virtually unknown in modern software applications. (We are not really mission-critical software, but we have a culture like that.)

Could some of our checklists be more automated? Yes. But I believe today there is this strong idea in the software world that you never ever need a technician (system administrator), because everything is so user friendly and automated and reliable. So you never need the checklist either. I think this is false and there would be a benefit from stronger culture of checklists (provided by the vendor for the end user) in software.
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Could it only take a filing in federal court, in the state where the NDA specifies which state's laws shall considered, to bring the former employee into the local regime of the NDA, under a diversity of jurisdictions process?
Society will no longer be able to function if you can't break rules. I can easily see the people who are impacted by this system starting a revolution.
The Strangest Desert Festival in the World Makes Everyone’s Mad Max Dreams
Which one of your papers was written for the advocacy group?
This was probably the most effective tutorial I have ever used: https://www.amazon.com/RPG-III-400-Shelly-Cashman/dp/0878352...

Early in my consulting career, I got a gig doing RPG III and in three days got up to speed.

Not relevant to many folks these days.
Yes, because targeted advertising is just like playing along with killing hundreds of millions of people. It's almost like a grey area exists here.
I think I'm getting your comments. I don't think you're getting mine.

> What's going to happen? The price of rice rises, dramatically.

Yes, which is what has been happening in housing.

> However, rice farmers the world over see that price rise, and they start growing more rice.

And here's where your analogy falls over, because (a) the availability of land for residential real estate is not infinite; (b) it requires a far, far greater capital outlay (and time-to-market) to build housing than to farm rice; (c) developers are incentivized to build expensive housing because that's where they make more money.

That's where my earlier comment came from: the amount of new housing required to satisfy this equation from the supply side would be enormous, as would be the environmental destruction it would cause.

> And unless you're an idiot, will stop dumping your money into the rice market.

Only if there's a better place to park my wealth. That's where all this money is coming from: people with money, who want to make more money, and are dissatisfied with the returns available in a lot of other investment vehicles.

> It's only a very small number of them that perform better. In aggregate, housing already does underperform the S&P.

Oh, c'mon. Deal with me honestly here. We're not talking about BFE, Iowa, yeah? We're talking about housing in metropolitan areas, and I'm pretty sure I've been specific about that in my comments on the subject so far. Y'know, the areas where there is a lot of investment money -- demonstrably -- and where there are ridiculously high housing prices to go along with it.
My favorite quote from that documentary, about people who work in tech:

"This is a monk-like existence. There are very few women in these societies. These are male societies. They are secret societies. They function very much like the Masons or some street gang."
Best people is irrelevant after a buy out. In fact they are often the best paid so it’s a wash anyway.
I’m struggling to read your comment as anything but a direct and unapologetic “Fuck you I got mine”.

Are my rights as beneath your family as my ideals? And how does the fact that you’re not self employed absolve you of this, exactly?
You aren't the first to do so. That line is an easy one to draw, and the moment you have to bring up Nazi's you're argument doesn't hold water. There's a huge swath of subjectivity between targeted advertising and murdering hundreds of millions of people.
I guess we should outlaw or regulate every labor saving device that produces any form of annoyance, no matter how fleeting. What a bout loud circular saws, concrete saws, jackhammers, vibratory packers, etc. etc. These are indespensable labor saving devices. If you have a neighbor overusing them then that is an issue to take up with them directly. I don’t see why we should regulate things out of existence because some asshole doesn’t know how to use it appropriately.
Sure, courts cannot freely move Bitcoin from address A to B, but that's not really relevant. The relevant part of ownership in this context is whether moving Bitcoin from address A to B was legal, i.e. did you have the ("ownership") right to act with that Bitcoin? And the answer sometimes may be "no", even if you had the key (which you obviously did, if you made the transaction); the question "whether that transaction was fraudulent, did you commit a crime by making it" depends on who legally owned these Bitcoin, not on who knew the keys.

And in many cases courts can move Bitcoin, and have done so - hardware can be seized, people forced to reveal passwords, and Bitcoin transactions executed. For example, see the multiple auctions of seized Bitcoin by U.S. Marshals Service. They can't be guaranteed to succeed, but that's nothing new (it's not like stolen goods or cash always get recovered), and they certainly can try.

If someone steals something edible and eats it, courts also can't return that thing back to the owner, it doesn't mean that edible things are owned by whoever eats them. In both such cases, the courts can order (and, as much as possible, force) the culprit to compensate the rightful owner - but it matters who the rightful owner (in the opinion of the court) is, so it is meaningful to debate who owned it.
‘Electric shocks and broken bones’: Amazon workers protest on Black Friday
Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership
The Brooklyn Army Terminal: New York’s Next Manufacturing Hub?
Makes you wonder why they took the risks at all when special effects are so good that nobody needs to do such things anymore. Maybe they actually made a mistake by getting the scenes so perfect.
A Software Engineer's Struggle with Anxiety
Ummmm...no, at least not according to the study I read. The study identified lots of reasons for demand. Mostly, it was the economic situation. When jobs get scarce, or people get fired, they often go back to school (or stay in school). That increases demand. And changes in population between areas also increases demand in particular regions. Demand also varies with percent of population at an age where they go to school. There was more to the study - but I read it a couple of years ago and never tried to memorize the details.

I'm trying to be generous in my response, and assume that you aren't simply trying to justify a philosophical position.
Some trees (walnut) have poisonous leaves that can't be left to decay in place and must be treated and removed, but this is the best option in the majority of cases, yes.
at 53:30 one of the engineers says "We're at the beginning of an industry and who knows where that industry's gonna go? This could all turn into television again. It could be controlled by a small number of companies who decide what we see and hear. And there's a lot of precedent for that."

Sounds pretty prescient considering current events.
I think you're conflating "common stressor" with the aspiration of being financially stable, which you're right is a zero-sum game. Your argument breaks down because its relative and finite. Money is finite and having more money than my peer is relative. If every single one of us in the country goes through the exact same experience (ex mandatory draft) then there is no relativism.

I agree in the open challenge but i'm bullish on that challenge being pinned to an objective metric and not relative. If there is something truly that every single American experiences at some point in their life that is adverse in its' nature, then that is the common stressor and that is exactly what would bond us all, lowering lonliness, and depression.

VERY small communities do have this, which is also in Tribes. For example very poverty-stricken neighborhoods in say Baltimore all go through similar hardships. They are among the least alone people, mentally because of this shared hardship (but also because they rely on eachother but that's another point).
They did have an advertising cash cow, just not as a web page.

Searching via a form directly embedded in the browser UI would end up being hugely valuable.

Google pays Apple ~$9 billion this year to remain the default search engine on Apple products.
Reeder.app on macOS and iOS.
Unless you have a very subtle point that I'm missing, I think you got tripped up with the numbering of the centuries. The "19th century" started in 1801 and ended in 1900 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century) putting the Civil War itself in the late-middle of the 19th century.
Thanks everyone, HN rocks as usual. :)
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Aol (now oath) in Ashburn still has a Mozilla statue in the front hallway — it’s a Pokémon Go gym, for some reason, even though only Aol employees can get close enough to it.
Happy drive for the Atari ST
You don't have "the right" to no targeted advertising. You have every right to do whatever you legally can to prevent it from happening. Your rights aren't being violated. If I'm knowingly participating in a violation of your rights, I'm culpable. If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in something that bothers you, you are exactly right fuck you I got mine. I'm not subject to other peoples belief systems.
Land value tax: the least-bad tax
While I do agree with your thought that transient communities are more lonely because they have no true community. I disagree in that I think diversity has powerful mechanisms that breeds unique experiences, which is arguably the universal joy of life.
Gratitude is Good for Business
I’ve noticed with doomsayers it’s always deflation or hyperinflation. It never occurs to them that the Fed can do something that’s in between the two, such as what they’ve been doing for almost forty years since Volcker stamped down inflation.

Central banks in practice can print as much or as little money as they want. In the third world, they often do. Well-functioning banks like those we have in the Western world can do better, such as the way Iceland was able to deal with their entire financial system collapsing in one day. But it’s always intrigued me the way people talk about QE as though there’s something artificial. Artificial is exchanging pictures of George Washinton for goods and services. Everything else is an implementation detail.
I looked into this a while ago. If I'm recalling correctly, code in particular is treated legally akin to a literary work, so it wouldn't be "work made for hire" by default. I might not be recalling correctly.
Dune is visually great but the script and performances are terrible. So much of the novel is concerned with the inner motives of the characters and the wheels within wheels of plots and counterplots.

Lynch tried to capture this with ridiculous voiceovers that slow down each scene and don't really help anyone who hasn't read the book anyway.

I don't make films so what do I know, but I have always thought that the only way to film Dune is to ignore all the background and make a rip-roaring adventure film with giant worms and wizzing ornithopters.

The Lord of the Rings films were successful in keeping the general tone and most of the plot of the source material while jettisoning elements that grind what Lynch made to a halt.
Thanks, I'll join soon, depending on my prognosis. Hope it's not bad to say this, but prefer to not join too many things to limit the volume of emails going into my inbox! :)
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Considering vision problems: I wonder if VR headsets could be hacked to be a useful screen-magnifier. The screen would not necessarily be represented like a big movie screen, but you could move around the screen using head motions. Not sure about the ergonomics of this, but it might work better than solutions on standard computer screens.
The entire point of the system is to make revolution, or any change at all, impossible. The people no longer have anything to bring in on their side of the negotiation.
As another academic author who works in vastly different field, I can confirm this is true in all disciplines I have had the opportunity to discuss with colleagues. It is common to pay a thousand and not uncommon to pay a few thousand to get something published, and the most that can be made from an academic book is in the same range. If I were to write for profit, it would be by writing a popularized version of a trending topic with far less academic value than a typical publication.
Funny enough, I've been about to embark on something similar, for a project I contribute to that makes a Raspi Zero W into a "smart USB drive" for the built-in Tesla dashcam:

https://github.com/cimryan/teslausb

(Props to Cim and Ray who are doing a ton of work making the project go, also!)

The goals/advantages, vs just using a USB thumb drive:

- will connect to your wifi network (when detected) and copy off your saved dashcam files (over CIFS, SSH, others)
- fixes any FAT filesystem errors on the virtual USB drive (presented to the host using g_mass_storage) automatically; some Tesla software versions had/have a bug that left the filesystem dirty on shutdown, rendering some thumb drives unreadable until formatted again

- (in process testing) uses BTRFS to keep the drive online while taking snapshots to do the file copies (and other neat things I have planned, like extending the 1-hour rolling buffer that Tesla uses by copying off files older than 1 hr into a secondary backing store on disk to be copied off later)

- automated (headless) setup by putting a configuration file in /boot (including wifi setup)

- quite a few more ideas to come; love to hear more brainstorms too. Maybe with a little more work it's worth its own Show HN? :)

I've learned a lot about how little I remembered about bash, how Raspbian images are built, setting up Jenkins for automated builds, even controlling the LED on the Pi to show progress of headless setup. (Sometimes it's the little things...)

On the to-do list was something exactly like this post: provide a way to get to the files if you are away from your home network, and/or don't have a computer with a USB or SD reader handy. Say, if you had just gotten in an accident and wanted to get to the files pronto. So, a way to trigger the Pi popping into AP mode was my next area of exploration; timely! I was actually exploring having your phone make a BT connection that would cause the host to switch configs (either automatically, or using BT PAN. (And a web UI to grab files, make settings changes, etc.) Good thoughts on security in some of the comments, and glad to see others have thought through this.

Thanks to OP and others; I think there's a solution one way or another in several of these project ideas! And, as customary, PR's welcome :)
Superconducting Tape Could Lead to Lower-Cost Wind Power
I think of that every time I see an ad with a facebook page, instagram, or twitter handle.
Ah... apologies for my confusion. Thanks for the clarification.
For several operations, there are multiple keybinds. But I can think of something interesting. If you can come up with a keybind profile for non-querty, we can have a separate config for that set.
Anecdote: I grew up with people use leaf blowers outside, so the sound is soo soo comforting to me.
Airlines face crack down on use of algorithm that splits up families on flights
Intel Nixes Chip-Tracking ID (2000)
I believe that it’s almost always wayyyyyyyy more expensive to CGI the thing. Sort of amazing to think about, but I think smashing up a bunch of cars, flying a bunch of helicopters, etc, is simply much cheaper than faking it with a convincing level of fidelity.
I have been a Vim user. Coding mostly C, C++, Rust and Python.
As I tried to make it more IDE-lile, added autocompletion plugins and lint plugins, startup time and responsiveness was seriously affected. I then tried using IntelliJ and Atom for a while. They were even worse. So I stuck with Vim.
Then a friend told me about VSCode, a few weeks ago.
I have installed vim emulation extension and now I am doing all of my coding entirely in VSCode. Startup comparable to Vim with Deoplete+Clang complete and ALE. Responsiveness and usability much much better.
Atom was also comparably feature rich, but performance wise Microsoft nailed it this time.
> Trucks that make a shrill beep-beep-beep when they go in reverse.

Trucks can't see directly behind them; the sound is so that pedestrians notice the truck backing up so that they don't get hit or crushed by the truck.

> It's tragedy of the commons where the commons is the air space.

Agreed. There should be a tax applied that's proportional to the level of annoyance generated by such things.
That's impressive. In some synthetic scenes or actual applications?

I think careful and elaborate design and scalability can get you a long way, but the thing is, without relaxing some API rules (e.g. rasterization order) which makes a rasterizer robust, you're gonna have difficulty keeping up with HW eventually.
Using everyday objects and familiar language systems such as Braille and Morse code, author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminating narrative for anyone who’s ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers and other smart machines.

... cleverly illustrated and eminently comprehensible story ... No matter what your level of technical savvy, CODE will charm you—and perhaps even awaken the technophile within.

Code doesn’t sound “slightly lower level”.
The biggest thing I've learned from breaking addiction is that addiction thrives with a maladaptive relationship to pain. Developing a new relationship to pain, embracing it as a path to growth, has been a key for me in overcoming addictive behavior. So many people I know who continue to struggle with their addictions do so because they're avoiding pain.
AOL didn't know it. Browser search deals didn't exist until after AOL shut down Netscape in 2003. The first browser search deals arrived in 2004.
> The vast majority of Apple's buyers don't know or don't care about privacy. To assert "this is their biggest claim to fame" is ludicrous.

The users don't care, but the media and government are going to pounce on whatever they can, especially the government after the FBI debacle and subsequent refusals to cooperate. If you don't think such a revelation isn't going to completely upheave the company, then you're the one that's being ludicrous. Just because the end user doesn't care now doesn't mean they can't be made to care with the right messaging from someone who takes advantage of such a discovery.

> This is still the only argument for Apple that I've ever seen. They maybe aren't doing this, because maybe it doesn't make business sense for them, and maybe we could detect it if they were. Nothing about this is solid; for me it's just wishful thinking.

Did you somehow miss my grandparent comment, or just decide to completely ignore it because it doesn't fit your narrative? If you don't trust them, then go do what I said to do in said comment and audit the data that is being sent by the device to their servers. This isn't rocket science, it literally takes a few minutes to set up. Just because you don't want to doesn't mean that trusting them is somehow the only option you have. And just because you don't see the source code doesn't mean you can't possibly know what data is being collected and sent. That's literally the whole reason these MitM proxies exist -- to inspect data leaving your device for various purposes.

> like buying a car with my own money and having it be controlled by someone else.

So, what already happens today and has been happening for at least a decade now?
A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday
Except when the leaves form a coating over grass that grows mold, and you are allergic to mold, which will also kill the grass. You don't have to remove every last leaf, just enough to give the grass breathing room.

In fact I just spent six hours today doing that... with a rake. We had a window where the snow cover lifted just long enough. It'll rain tomorrow, then freeze and snow again later next week.
(Or just use diffie hellman to generate a symmetric key pair for communicating for the length of the session... you'd still want something to prevent MITM, but if you're not concerned about MITM attacks at session creation time, DH gets user effort down to about zero.)