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That might be quite apealing to some. 60k isn't that little if most of life's necessities (housing, food, clothing, etc.) are provided to you for free.

Plus no relatives to ever deal with again, til you retire.

I would've probably taken the offer, but as it stands, I probably lack the qualifications required.
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Consider me very much impressed. That's the first workable DIY lasercutter that I've come across.

If you're going to do the copper thing make sure to get some kind of fume extraction going, metal vaporization is an excellent way to poison yourself!

A poor mans version of this would be amazing:

http://www.thefabricator.com/blog/direct-diode-lasers-enter-...

Poor: a few thousand $ for a head.
One more reason to implement the append-only log using blockchain technology. Seems like a good fit. I don't think privacy laws can be applied to a blockchain, but probably that is still unclear. For example, if I post my email address in a Bitcoin transaction, can I then force every user to delete their blockchain?
How exactly? Connect these three, for example -

Peer 1: 192.168.0.111/16
Peer 2: 172.16.0.222/12
Peer 3: 10.0.0.333/8
So is it like Snapchat but with Voice?
I'm afraid I don't see your point? Are you responding to something in my comment?
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bad things. This is much more practical for torpedoes. In fact you would almost call those missiles at that point.
Yup, it appears that is already a thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supercavitating_torpedo...
The person who made the ceramic mug tutorial has a tutorial on making a falling cloth onto a glass bowl ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zd1AI198I8&list=PLzmyR17f55... ) and making a teddy bear ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCghBIUZyuM ).

It's amazing how easy it is to make something that looks amazing.
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You would not be able to stop individual users from doing so, but you could potentially make it legally untenable for commercial/corporate operators.

But personally, regardless of legality, if Google implements this with the degree of disclosure of e-mail details, I'll find another operator that isn't implementing this proposal.
> I live in Hangzhou and they are already addressing these problems. For example, there is a network of public bike stations.

Do people use these in your experience? I've noticed them pop up all over Germany and then Taiwan too, but I found it hard to spot anyone but tourists riding public bikes. I always wonder if these are simply prestige projects to impress green-minded citizens (like myself).
The structure of every single one of these stories is a single slide or page or quote, containing maybe less then 50 words maximum.

From there, wild speculation then goes on to breathlessly exclaim about what this really proves, while failing to actually support any of the assertions.

For good measure toss in some wilful blindness about the point of surveillance, mechanics of law enforcement, collective action problems or the fundamental differences between one's own government and a foreign government (hint: foreign governments don't have a monopoly of violence over the citizens of foreign countries).

The people who keep yelling about how nobody cares enough need to consider that just maybe they're not very good at arguing their point.

Cue downvotes.
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One of the things the US healthcare system has needed for decades is a rebalancing on the amount of healthcare Americans receive.

Canadians receive a lot less care than Americans do. They wait a lot longer for that care. Given the health problems Americans have derived mostly from obesity / diet, will that cause a lot of trauma to American patients vs what it does to Canadians? Maybe (I would say yes, but it's an extremely difficult data point to calculate)

I do believe that if Americans had a better diet and got more exercise, they'd need a lot less healthcare.

Americans are also the most over-tested, over-diagnosed, over-medicine'd people on earth. It's of course one of the factors for why there is so much cost in the system.

One of the first things that was always obvious that a government take-over of healthcare would focus on, is the amount of healthcare available, especially to older patients. Obama tried to dance around that issue when confronted with it when the ACA was being passed, but it was understood by anyone familiar with European style socialized medicine.

1) lower frequency of use; 2) squeeze pay for healthcare workers; 3) stop the rise of drug prices by refusing to pay the ever increasing rates or refusing to allow patients access 4) use cheaper alternatives when possible
An autonomous vehicle needs to be at least as good as people at crap like reading numbers and street signs. There is no such thing as a computer which can do this task, though all drivers can do it, or they wouldn't pass their driver tests. That's why these are still considered challenging data sets for machine vision people:

http://ufldl.stanford.edu/housenumbers/
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> "... despite any lack of sense or evidence."

With secret courts, secret interpretations of laws, gag orders etc. How does one obtain hard 'evidence' of anything (beyond whistleblowers)?

And what exactly do you mean by lack of sense? That we apply our limited knowledge to the scenarios described and then discard anything that doesn't neatly fit? That leads to cargo cult thinking.
In case you didn't realize the coolest part of this post: mouse over the lines of code that draw the béziers. The diagrams showing béziers drawn by the code update as you mouse over each line.

A few of the bézier diagrams with visible control points are interactive too.
Even if you are right (I don't know), and history would be exact science (it is not), that nobody would want to rewrite to they own benefit, the writer makes a very good point that should be considered.

There is an ongoing arms race between oppressors and freedom fighters. Both use technology to achieve their goals.

Today it's as true as it was in the medieval era, only the style is different, and the scale is larger.
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I expected to see more night owls in the "Computer and mathematical" category, but it looks like we're more conventional than the average.
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This approach makes perfect sense in a democratic country where people are the sovereign. That's like an intelligence service spying on their own king. It subverts the whole system in ways that spying on foreigners doesn't.

It's not about human rights.
Yeah, hopefully. There are right near 200M licensed drivers in the US. That would be 200k catastrophic accidents!
"In this paper we discussed the large shortcomings in today’s
programming practices to support the growing need of harnessing data and software components found on the Internet.
The tasks of discovery and ensuring compatibility between
components are for the most part done manually, making existing systems hard-to-manage and fragile and building new
systems a real challenge."

If a developer wants to understand his/her system as a whole, it's a
requirement to understand all included libraries as well. Automatic checks
can help a lot, but they must work really well before they can replace
manual work. Their work, in particular, adds another language for metadata on
top of the existing code, which was self-describing in the first place.
When changing the actual code, the metadata description must be changed
as well. How do you ensure that the description is accurate? Use yet another
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That's how I saw it as well. When you rotate to the "side" (pivot) in the 4th dimension, you see the wall and its change over time as one entity. So then you can either pick going around the start (when construction of the wall began) or at the end (when the wall falls). Naturally the landscape would also experience change, hence the desert. When you pivot back, you are at the same location in time and space of the 3rd dimension, just in front of the wall now.
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I meant what I said: there are 700+ TLDs listed at https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db and the percentage controlled by governments is declining - currently 297 country-code TLDs and a handful of other state controlled domains (including .com). ICANN has been giving out new top-level domains pretty generously and the vast majority of the new ones are non-state domains. Hence, the percentage of state/government controlled TLDs is declining.

No matter what the PKI system is, there will be more and less trustworthy actors around.
I agree that many state controlled TLDs are currently quite popular, but I don't see them as generally less trustworthy than the commercially operated TLDs. Both groups will contain some iffy elements, but I don't know if there's any way to build a system where iffy actors can't play. At least they can only mangle their own domains with DANE. And sounds like DNSSEC should be quite a bit more tamper-evident than our current CA sysetm.
Although it is true that you can reconstruct a holographic image with only a piece of a hologram plate, you do lose information. The spatial resolution will get worse and the field of view will be reduced. I don't think you're supposed to lose information when you zoom in on a true fractal.

Anyway, I think the part of the article that you quoted (about the TV pixels) was just explaining the idea that space could turn out to be discrete if you zoom in enough.
My pleasure. Glad it was useful.
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In the Netherlands, most train stations have a bike station like that, and it seems to be quite a success. 4 years ago, seeing someone on such an "OV-fiets" (public transit bike) was an oddity, now it's very common. Doing the last mile by bike beats buses and trams big time, IMO. No waiting, no sitting next to sweaty people, no thinking, planning - just go.

It probably helps that biking is already a strong element of Dutch culture, but if I'm not mistaken the Chinese bike a lot too so I guess it could work just as well.
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A very simplistic and skewed article. As per its usual modus operandi, China is pursuing all options simultaneously. Which means that in addition to building hideous sprawling automotive-dependent suburbs, they're building the largest and most sophisticated urban and regional rail system in the world, and pursuing initiatives such as the Chengdu car-free city (http://weburbanist.com/2013/02/11/car-free-city-china-builds...) which are vastly more progressive than anything the rest of the world has attempted.

Portland is a great city by American standards, but its public transit mode-share for all trips in the metropolitan region still hovers around 4% -- with an additional ~2% coming from cycles -- making Portland ~94% dependent on private cars. (Note: you'll see statistics claiming a much higher mode share for Portland; this is done by excluding the other municipalities which account for >70% of the population in the metropolitan region, as well as by excluding the >60% of trips that are non-commuting trips). China is already doing much better than that, so it would be a shame if Portland were its target.
Nice story.

This story however has quotes and documents from many different people, including John Tye, Edward Snowden, Jesselyn Radack, William Binney, Melvin Goodman, Loch Johnson, Kenneth Mayer, Christopher Dodd, Ed Loomis and Thomas Drake.

Were you perhaps reading a different article?

edit - I am all for encouraging critical thinking, but you are hardly going to achieve that through complete misrepresentation.
Non-US citizens are considered less than humans. To be fair, the same holds to some degree also for lots of kinds of US citizens/residents (blacks, latinos, native americans, etc).
This EconTalk podcast does a good job of explaining how the infrastructure costs American suburbs are experiencing now weren't something that was anticipated when they were constructed: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/charles_marohn.html
I think the previous theory was that ice formed under the rocks, then the rocks slid on that ice.

I heard him on NPR this morning, and he said that the sheets of ice are like tugboats, pushing the rocks instead of carrying them.
Really? They seem to have slowed a lot in recent years, and a lot of their most innovative stuff is coming from acquisitions rather than internally. They had some good ideas that kept them better a bit longer (catering, 20% time - which I hear is now much less solid than it once was), but they now look rather like a bigger Cisco.

I'd expect the best people to leave soon or have left already (we already see a lot less enthusiasm about working there than there used to be), and Google to decline like any other big company.
>Another top-voted article about the NSA on Hacker News that is thin on evidence to say the least.

Yeah, we should all wait until they hand over the evidence in a golden plate, like secret agencies usually do.
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The original submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8232739, blasted to oblivion for being, uhmm, disruptive?
The Formlabs rook (the one with the helix in the centre) is pretty good, but it's difficult to find an STL for it.
Well rock bottom or not I appreciate that you responded.
I am pretty sure that he didn't have is physical eyes on me. But clearly some how he was able to 'see' that I was no sleeping and instead was 'online" some how. So that he sent me a message within about a minute of me pulling up my Facebook account. I hadn't done anything on Facebook yet, chat is turned off. So I figured I was "hidden" unseen. Though he is an ex-cop, I doubt he has any "hacker" skills or abilities so it is very unlikely that he has accessed my iCloud account.

1. after the comment was made and I questioned it, it then turned into a challenge.
2. Yes, I was intentionally hiding, so thought anyway.
3. No, He is 15+ miles away from me and to my knowledge he doesn't know my address, though that information is easy to find.

So is he yanking my chain, and the timing of his message and me getting on Facebook was purely coincidental and just perfect timing? Or was there actually away for him to know that I was online???
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Define "less actual care". The two examples cited in the article certainly don't establish that.

Generic drugs are not "less care" than their name-brand counterparts, and a reduced hospital stay may be the result of improved treatments or the recognition of the danger of infection.
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It didn't raise much interest so I didn't add credits on it.
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Not when two competitors are spending their money to actively make the other competitor's service worse.

Then everybody is worse off. It's a negative spiral that either ends in a monopoly or a stalemate with money being wasted on holding off the other party's attacks.

(assuming that Lyft is engaging in dirty tactics as well, but the argument works similar if it's one-sided)
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They try to solve a difficult problem and they want to do the right thing. Personally I also think hellbanning is a bad move. But perhaps they have the experience that it works.
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It's not that they are afraid, it's that they are in bed together. Dutch intelligence relies on US intelligence and visa versa for 'the war on terror'. The situation in Germany is similar, the German government was only offended when it turned out that they tapped Merkel's phone. When it were regular citizens, most politicians shrugged their shoulders, some put on a small show for their electorate.

One of the few institutions that stuck their neck out for their citizens is the European Parliament. Unfortunately, a substantial portion of the EU is now so enamoured with nationalism that they want to reduce the power of the EU or even leave the EU.
I recommend that anyone interested in the topic watch this film: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-sec...

It's incredibly detailed, though focusing primarily on executive action post 2011.
I know it's probably supposed to be pronounced like "Opal" with a slightly aspirated 'p' but I keep wanting to pronounce it "offal" or even "awful" instead. As silly as that is, it might actually put some people off trying the code.
This point "Mostly written in JavaScript" in the sidebar is confusing. If Lua is the superior language people are going from JS here, why advertise that its written in JS? Also why write in JS?
Hey op, not a big deal but I found a spell check error in your post. Last paragraph you say I continue to be memorized when I think you mean mesmerized.
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They get money to eat and pay rent, not to build ideological organizations with the aim to undermine the government. You are talking about somebody completely different.
MySQL already supports loading CSVs directly, why convert them first? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html
Pray, share it if you have anything that can disprove the wild speculation.

Hysterical speculation is to be expected when dealing with the doings of an arm of the government that is willfully shrouded in secrecy. The leaks so far have only confirmed what was being called "tin-foil hattery" until pre-Snowden.

If you are so concerned about subduing rampant speculation, how about showing up with proofs to the contrary instead of ad hominems and downvote baiting?
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I've found phpMyAdmin's CSV insert feature has been very useful.

Allows for quite a few options.
Weird, I came to work once at Twitter at 9am and I was the only one in sight on the whole floor.
It is an exact duplicate - the URL is identical. It doesn't matter if the content of the page changes - HN does not fetch the page and compare contents, it compares the URL. That was the same.

And this post will have been hammered by flaggers - it's meta, and it will be perceived as complaining about flags, down-votes, or rankings. As such, it's regarded by many as "noise", detracting from the main point of "articles of interest."
What do you mean? When users sign up to a Key Registry, they are explicitly acknowledging that their emails and public keys can be used in the way described by the protocol. AFAIK, that's perfectly legal.
It also has the CSV storage engine which actually uses a CSV file as its data back-end, no conversion required.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/csv-storage-engine.html
Since you've got a relatively new account, you might not know that you can see hellbanned users, posts, and comments by going to your user account page and changing showdead to "yes".

You can then make up your own mind about whether or not hellbanning on HN is a problem.

So far, it seems to have the same traits as a spam filter: it's effective most of the time, but occasionally catches a false positive.

I don't think I'd go quite so far as to say that you get hellbanned here for "speaking up" -- there are plenty of unpopular or controversial opinions here. I might agree that people with those opinions occasionally get tired of arguing against the crowd and stop contributing as much, and I'd definitely agree that there have been a case or three where somebody got hellbanned under suspicious circumstances (idlewords' account, years ago, is a good example). But that doesn't really indicate a systemic problem here.

The rationale for hellbanning is that it lets actual spammers do their thing all day long without annoying the regular users, it keeps a few people with mental health issues from disrupting every conversation here, and it keeps a few malicious people from being too much of a nuisance.
Does this mean that Jumble takes care of key management? How is that safe?
Yeah.. I'd be interested in something that does the opposite of this tool actually. LOAD DATA INFILE is a lot faster than SQL query files for heavier data
Actually it's your proposed comparison that's useless. If you and your neighbor are both exposed to the same bad environmental conditions and you get sick and your neighbor doesn't, that's probably a matter of luck in the genetic lottery, which you can't do anything about. To isolate the environmental conditions - stuff you can do something about - you have to compare a population exposed to one environment with another population exposed to another environment, which is what they are doing.
Your problem is that you're making some absolutely incredible claims without any evidence to back them up. Prove to me that your product does what you're saying it does, and then maybe I'll trust you. How does it work? Why do you believe that your solution is effective? What guarantees do you provide?

At the end of the day, HN is full of very technically minded people, including security experts, programmers, and researchers. You're not going to be able to sell to these people without seriously backing up your claims.
Tried it with a file containing this:

Field1,Field2,Field3,Int,Float,Quoted
This,is,a,12,1.2,"""file"""

...and it returned an empty textarea.
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There are occasions where you can't just do a straight insert. Perhaps you need to conditionally create a foreign record, or you want to format a value on insert instead of doing it directly in the CSV.

That said, I can't see how the OP actually helps me with that.
That was actually my point - it is a surveillance state, but the author of the piece lacked the balls to say it directly.
in EU, you can say at any point to a company 'delete every piece of personal information about me that you have', and email is considered an personal information. Even if you gave consent, you can withdraw consent at any point in time.
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Yes, but if users later can't remove their information because the list is append only then that may not be legal in the EU.
Sounds great and it's free no more snooping on my emails
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Good stuff, something so obvious but important and it works really well.
This submits to your server. If I have sensitive data, I sure as hell don't want that going somewhere where it might be stored.

Why isn't this just done client-side in Javascript?
Sounds great and it's free no more snooping
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