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I think there are a lot of things the UN ends up doing simply because it provides a somewhat permanent diplomatic forum for nations of the world. That's fine.

I'm not saying that the UN won't end up handling asteroid defense, or various other world-government-ish things. I'm saying it wasn't designed to do so. Big difference.

I don't know how far you stretch the intent and structure before something breaks. If I had to bet, that's a long way away. But still, people should be aware of what's going on. The results you get from UN programs are not always going to be what you expect, and there's good reasons for that.

Or to put differently, if the UN evolves into doing something for everybody, it stands a significant risk of losing focus on its initial mission. Over the next few decades, the organization could easily become a destabilizing force in the world instead of a stabilizing one.

There's no corrective action to tell the UN that it's a victim of scope creep, so they could decide to try to do dang near anything, whether it's a good idea, whether the tools exist, whether it's just some half-baked crackpot idea, or whether it's just an elaborate bribery scheme. There's no feedback loop -- one of my initial points. Anything you can imagine, you can imagine the UN doing. That's not a recipe for a healthy future for the world.
I suppose google.io is taken.
It seems to me that the surest indicator that a bubble is underway is people saying that it's not a bubble.
And the early google.
There are people here who work in that field, and they don't strike me as having 'low ethics', offhand.

The consensus I'm more favorable to on HN is avoiding knee-jerk insults to people who you don't even know.

I'm not wild about HFT myself, but these sorts of nasty comments are something I would prefer not to see in this community.
Not coincidentally, that's also why so few .io domains are parked. Overall, I'm OK with this.
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ReallyColor.com officially launched about a month ago (end of Sep 2013) and is being bootstrapped by one of my partners and I. Our tech let’s you convert your images into printable coloring book pages. Our primary target is parents (mostly moms) and people who are interested in turning themselves into sketches.

We are noticing a large amount of initial interest in the idea itself, and have seen some initial traction and traffic on our site, but our repeat visitors so far are barely over 10%. Our audience is also more international than expected. We have not built a mobile app yet, but that will be a project soon.

I would love feedback on:

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2) Whether a monthly premium membership would be better than an annual one. Keep in mind our international audience.

3) Other revenue generating ideas (other than advertising).

4) The general user experience (both creating the free coloring page and as a free member).

5) How a mobile app could play into this given that the coloring pages are printable (via PDF’s).

Any other thoughts and feedback are also welcome. Thank you!
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Quickbeam (https://github.com/ChadSki/Quickbeam) and
Halolib (https://github.com/ChadSki/halolib.py)

Together, these comprise a Halo modding tool which can edit the game while it's running, which is also why it's cool.

Additionally, whereas previous editors have usually hardcoded functionality into the editor, all of Quickbeam's functionality is implemented in the fully-scriptable Halolib, written in Python.

Ultimately I would like Quickbeam to become the Emacs of Halo editors.
Install it using Homebrew (brew install fish).
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It's also important to note that Xen existed before and works without hardware virtualization support. That is one of the main reasons for it's approach, there was no commodity support for virtualization within the CPU, so the only safe place to handle it was very low level within the kernel.
Do they offer proper DNS services?
And that's because Musk is the closest we can get to a tech "rock-star" (ignoring the Blizzard guys who are actual rock-stars and play in a sweet metal band).
The frightening thing is that all of the usual suspects--CIA, FBI, Mafia--committed assassinations regularly and it would have not been out of character for them. And for most motives, you can't count out LBJ either--whoever wanted Kennedy dead likely had some belief that LBJ would be better for their purposes, and what better way to ensure that than to involve him in the plot?

On the other hand, knowing JFK it could have just as easily been a jealous husband.
How dare he post this on his personal blog? That post is the property of Medium.
No, because the the two negatives don't cancel out in this case. "I didn't prove that 3 isn't prime" doesn't mean the same thing as "I proved that 3 is prime" (because one negation is in the matrix clause and the other is in the embedded clause).
I think nanoc or Hakyll are more what I want: simple, static site that directs cleanly to text, mathematics, and downloadable files. Thanks!
Just looked it up, running ASP.NET MVC 4. Not surprising, tech concentration is pretty regional and this part of the country is very heavily Microsoft focused.
The history-beginning-search-backward widget, which is standard to the zsh line editor, does it. You don't need to pull in all of oh-my-zsh.

To use it, I use:

bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward
Have you looked at IntelliJ? Their RoR stuff is really really good, and as IDE it's lightyears ahead of Eclipse or Netbeans, or even VS.
> how overhyped things were.

It's rather because of mainstream media that the hype occurs.
>What if you could take the percentage of taxes that you spend every year and choose whom to help with it.

Kinda like just spending your own bloody money.
The great thing about this alternative is that 100% of it goes where you want it, rather than the low tens of percentiles.

P.S. "ala the grinch" doesn't really make sense, it should be "a la grinch" since la handles the "the".
a) Trading isn't zero-sum. If you meant to say HFT, no, that isn't zero-sum either.

b) Trying isn't enough. A billion blown is a billion blown, it doesn't matter what your intentions are - and if it does, I'm sure most HFT-traders are convinced that they are benefiting society and the economy.

c) People are also making a living of off money spend in HFT-space, regardless of what their intentions are.
sigh

This is not the pub. You can't dismiss something with the wave of a hand just because you heard about an even neater idea. Because we all have Google at our fingertips, and personally I have 'Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids' ( http://www.amazon.com/Mitigation-Hazardous-Comets-Asteroids-... ) on my desk.

Things are just not as simple as you present them, and I hope you'd realize that if you put in the time and effort.
I see a lot of attacks on any sort of libertarian (and for balance, many attacks at libertarian straw-men) on HN that use this same sort of inversion of force - the "stopping theft is violence" argument. Yours seems well-written enough that maybe you can answer one question I have about your viewpoint.

In your post, you refer to "shared natural resources" and then "deprive others of access to certain resources". Do you just mean "shared natural resources" as things like rivers, oceans, air, fossil fuels or does the argument really mean everything in existence because it presumably leveraged those things?

For instance, suppose I pick up a rock which everyone agrees has almost no value. I chip at it with another rock for a week until it now is in a shape of some useful tool, furniture or art. In your ideal system, who owns the value created through my labor? Do all people have equal claim to the item because it started out as a rock which was a shared resource? Do I own it? Something else?
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"Some people worry that the looser rules may end up hurting small investors."

LOL bagholders will always find a way to set themselves up as bagholders, all you can do is shove them in or out of certain markets. When you look around the poker table and can't figure out who the sucker is, and you're only at the poker table because its trendy and cool to play poker right now, guess who the sucker is?

Just like real estate always goes up (until it doesn't) tech IPOs / valuations only go up, so by greater fool theory you should put all your money into whatever is going up because you can always sell to a greater fool at a profit (until you can't)

If you use EPA/OSHA/NAFTA/whatever to eliminate all other resource extraction industries, you end up with a bunch of sharks extracting resources (money) from dumb investors. The same folks who would be selling the golden gate bridge to multiple people are stuck selling tech IPOs at this time.
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SystemD is best ever.
Maybe they already have.
I'll need to look into that. Obviously not just before impact, this is something you would have to do several months of maybe years before it is expected to hit, I guess. I'll come back when I find it again.
Yes, hence the emoticon.
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And I dislike the basic premise of it too. But I can see a lot of other people being okay with the trade-offs needed... just like ads in my hotel WiFi.

I don't get why people say it shouldn't be made... it should be made, but they should educate the users as to all of the trade-offs needed.

As it stands, I think people are going to be weirded out (as we are) about LinkedIn reading your email. The regular user doesn't love them that much, I'd think, so I think it's likely Intro will fail.
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Using 'noreply' makes you feel unprofessional. Don't be like these guys.
the 60m or so people who constitute the world’s top 1 per cent. About half of these are the richest 12 per cent of Americans

The top 12% of Americans by personal income makes $75,000+. [1] It's pretty amazing to think that $75,000 puts you in the top 1% of earners worldwide.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
3 months to test a website. That's crazy!! Why didn't they build correct the first time?!

</sarcasm>

This is why I really hope they use the government's failure as a means to educate the lay person on how difficult it is to build a technology system and equally how important testing it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6586499
Anyone paying attention to the news back in 2001? Remember when Sun and the other tech companies were offering all kinds of totalitarian tech solutions (like national IDs) to "solve" terrorism. Ah, how times change.
Could you give a little insight into what you liked/disliked about it?
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In my mind, the value that HFT adds is theoretical at best. The Economist could surely rationalize it in terms of "finding the right prices" or "arbitrage" or something. To me it looks like a systematic way of taking advantage of people who aren't using it.
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I dont think one has to go all the way into avoiding everything and anyone associated with these businesses for it to have a positive impact. But you could at least try to not work directly for them.

Likewise, I am also very concerned about the sustainability of the human culture in general, still i dont stop eating meat completely or stop driving my car. But i will try to balance things and reflect my consumption patterns on a regular basis.

Sorry, i am not a native english speaker and can not really word this in the way i want, but well, you might get the idea ;)
Yes. Even email forwarding.
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Coming from a teenager, this article makes sense and I enjoyed the point of view, but this is horrible advice, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. You should consider letting this one hit the floor.
Private solutions? You think that Asteroid defence has a business plan? How would a private solution generate a profit?
Another secret to success: have good parenting, DNA, education, friends, and an interest in creating things of value (as opposed to the other million things you can do with your time)
The Gladwell pivot
I don't know, but how is it better than DNScheck (for DNS)?

http://dnscheck.iis.se/?&setLanguage=en

https://github.com/dotse/dnscheck
So true. It's like everywhere I go, I see teenagers making thousands of dollars online. Because they're "digital natives" who intuitively understand the internet and the market. Makes me so eager to invest, I pull out my wallet every time I see a kid who looks like Mark Zuckerberg.

I'm baffled by these news reports of record high youth unemployment. Everywhere I go, it's just Ritchie Riches tossing money out of their limousines.
IPv6 on DNS Lookup would be nice :)
Email is the productivity-killer. (apologies to Dune)
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Hey if you're really trying to have Emacs work in your dev environment, look into Autocomplete and flymake (though I'm assuming you've heard about them already) and some more of the package repos (marmalade, etc)... They should be able to help replace the features that IDEs offer...

I no longer know what to do when I get in an IDE. I have found it so hard to develop on windows that I downloaded emacs to Windows, and now, that's the only way I develop.

Though, I have to look at the docs quite often usually have the docs up in one window and emacs in the other. I think that keeps me honest about how much I actually know whatever it is I'm using -- If I'm spending too much time looking up the docs/stack overflow for a particular tool, that is an easy way to gauge how proficient I am.
If you want to adopt a pro-HFT position, can you point to a single major market volatility event when the insanely risk-averse HFT algorithms, didn't just shutdown? I've looked, I haven't found any. Would be nice if they did exist as it would invalidate some of the HFT criticism.
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As you have might already noticed: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/vide...
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Rama and "Hammer of the Gods" both were evoked for me during the Chelyabinsk event. Another world-shattering celestial event that could have altered human history if only it's million year journey had been off by just a few seconds.
That's actually not true. The religion says that they're not to consume "hot drinks", although I think they all take that to mean tea and coffee. Some of them assume it's talking about caffeinated drinks, but the church officially is not opposed to caffeine or soda.
This is a great article, thanks. I've been itching to completely customize my emacs experience for a while, but have been avoiding it due to the large up front time investment. I think that this will help a lot.
I really don't think that zsh is born of some desire to keep things from getting messy. That doesn't seem to be what it does in practice anyway, particularly with the popularity of things like oh-my-zsh. Rather I think zsh is born from a desire to have more. More functionality and more customization options.

> What do you do when you have to use a computer without your customization?

How are people running into this situation so often? I don't sit down at my coworkers desks and start using their accounts. On production servers, I still have zsh and although some of my custom utilities are missing, it is not like I am somehow crippled by their absence.

This concern is like being opposed to cordless drills and screwdrivers because "what would happen if you found yourself with only a regular screwdriver?" ...well, what of it? If I found myself inexplicably with only a regular screwdriver, I would use it. Not a big dea. It's not like zsh users turn into blithering idiots as soon as they don't have their fancy PS1 set and are missing a few completion options.
HFT is

1. not a growth industry

2. the regulators are keen to clamp down on this sort of activity.

As such, anyone with the intellectual chops to master HFT, I'd suggest they apply it to greener pastures. Wasn't AdMeld started by former HFT people?
As would trading on a clock. If the market only updated once a second or even a far smaller interval, this whole insane business would be mostly irrelevant.
He, I recently rolled my own alternative to domaintools.com locally. Their prices were too high for what I'm moving at the moment and I needed the functionality.

It's simple but it works. I though about making my tool into a business but I don't know what to do about the WHOIS info. If I start making a lot of request I'll probably get banned.
So much of the conspiracy theorists' case rests on the "magic bullet" that you'd think its definitive refutation would have chastened them. Perhaps my favorite source is this video, which uses the Zapruder film and computer animation techniques to recreate the scene:

http://youtu.be/DSBXW1-VGmM

It's clear from the timing and the geometry that a single bullet, originating from the Texas School Book Depository, did indeed hit both Kennedy and Connally.

Another cornerstone of the conspiracy case is that Kennedy's head moved "back and to the left" after being hit, when in fact the Zapruder film shows a sharp movement forward immediately after impact. This fact was uncovered by, of all people, Richard Feynman: http://assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/wound... (Warning: graphic imagery).

The real world is messy, and conspiracy theorists will always be able to find things to stoke their suspicions, even though many of the key "facts" underpinning the conspiracy theories have been debunked in the years since the assassination. It's clear at this point that no amount of evidence will convince some people that Kennedy was killed not by an elaborate plot but rather by a lone nutjob. But Oswald had the means (rifle & training), motive (desire, as a 24-year-old loser, to prove his importance to the world), and opportunity (a job in a building that happened to lie on the motorcade route published in the paper on 11/20 and 11/21). As Robert Oswald, Lee Harvey's brother, put it, the Kennedy assassination was one of those "happenstances of history"—undeniably, a bitter pill to swallow.
It looks like given this https://twitter.com/luislavena/status/394228584199372800

That the old BSD header and copyright were removed and LGPL added. You can only do this if you have the agreement of all copyright holders. The BSD does not allow you to remove the copyright.

Sadly, I agree with your conclusion, this is a minefield.
Venezuela, Iran and Egypt also have massive currency Black Markets due to similar troubling economic and political undercurrents. Some of Argentina's figures are very surprising!
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I recently switched from NetBeans to Emacs, and while NetBeans did support split windows, it involved carefully dragging a tab to just the right place in the application, then adjusting, then reaching for the mouse any time you wanted to scroll. With Emacs, it's not just split windows, it's split windows accessible via one key command, and a shortcut key to scroll the _other_ window without switching that really boosts my productivity.

The thing I thought I'd miss the most was not being able to use the scroll wheel in the text terminal, but using 'go to next function' and 'go to previous function' key combos, along with making very liberal use of inline search has done a pretty good job replacing how I previously navigated documents.

I didn't think that not having to leave the home row keys was such a big deal but now I have to do it so much less often taht I can feel how jarring it is to my rhythm of working.
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Let's face it, coders can't multi-task.

Fortunately, computers can do all that for you.
We're not talking about major events, we're just talking about everyday normal trading. My entire point is that HFT is valuable for reducing risk for this kind of work, you say "risk-averse" like it's a bad thing...

It's not a case, btw, of being pro- or anti-. HFT is just a tool. You can use any tool in any way, it doesn't care because it has no moral agency of its own.
I think it just became irrelevant at some point. Every decent Lisp editor since the 80's will automatically match parens for you, so I don't even notice them anymore, unless I specifically need to do something special with them.

Then when you add in other little features that you can do in emacs, like fading the parens close to background colour when you're not working on them, highlighting when you are, etc... It all adds up to make the old "parenthesis hell" a bit nonsense.

I sometimes imagine that there must've been a stage when universities forced people to write Lisp in Notepad or something, or by hand maybe. I can't imagine how much that would drive me insane!
Also, if you agree with the above sentiment and are getting frustrated replying to all the shallow and cynical comments riffing on "wage slavery and welfare may be bad but it's the best system we can come up with", just read this other topic on the front page with people opening up about their skepticism towards something as banal as Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625306
Yes, I think so.

The reason I use Namecheap for all my domains is really because of their DNS services. For example, I have a subdomain that points to my home network router. The public-facing IP address of my home network is dynamically assigned by my upstream ISP, so it changes every couple months. I have a script that runs every day that checks if my IP address has changed, and if so, executes a cURL command to dynamically update the A record of the subdomain. Namecheap provides this HTTP API and dynamic DNS capability.

So, you have a good deal of flexibility in configuring the DNS, although of course not as much as running your own DNS server or writing your own zone file.

For most people, however, their DNS services should be sufficient. It certainly is for me.
Im using oh-my-zsh, but I cant find this one. Care to enlighten me which option or plugin I should enable? :)

Edit: Seems ctrl-up and ctrl-down does the trick.
That's correct. All the servers are connected using the same length cable so that the server at one corner won't receive the data a tiny bit faster than a server at the far corner. So there are simply plenty of unused cable next to the machines.