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Joseph Davidovits explains the chemistry behind this and much more in his books and other works over many decades. Once ridiculed, acceptance of his ideas has slowly grown. Certainly the chemistry that he describes is very repeatable, and the Pantheon and other Roman works are very … can't resist … concrete examples and proof of his ideas. Follow the links in this wiki article and do some Google searches. I read the book in 2000, and was very impressed by the time I finished it. I later met with Davidovitz, and found him to be quite reasonable, intelligent and clear thinking. The biggest obstacle was/is that it was in more people's interest to promote the "mystery of the pyramids", and established dogma in academic circles than to just repeat his experiments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Davidovits
On an individual level, yes. However, if we require some central authority to demand at the point of a gun (abstractly) for us to clean up our act, then I think we're better off facing our own obsolescence.
The biggest reason would be the "native" interoperability. No FFIs because while you could call it a language it's more accurately syntax sugar.

Another reason with Rust at least. Rusthon can make the same memory guarantees as Rust.

Personally I wish this was done with Ruby.. But then again I'm not writing it myself, so I can't really complain.

A random last thought, it would be really something if Rust could formally prove its memory safety and then push that whole system of lifetimes and borrow checks into LLVM or a similar abstraction on top of LLVM. Because Rust as a compiler target is very interesting but it wasn't really built for that.
How often will I have to charge it?

How do I prevent it from getting stolen?
`python_to_pythonjs` seems to ignore that flag.
It looks interesting (We found a compromised CDn used by afghan government sites that delivers malicious code - it's is suspiciously like others we vaguely linked to China)

But, where is the cert number or other, peer reviewed verification. There is a lot of leaping to conclusions here (I really don't get the "time stamp on compromised file is same as on a photo of Chinese diplomat." Unless the attack originated from a journalists machine this seems trivial coincidence)

It is, without deeper knowledge of the area, a I am sure well researched but suspiciously biased article.
Unless it transmutes pointers and uses unsafe blocks, of course. One of Rust's most important features is that you can do things like that. Hell, the stdlib even has longjmp.
A startup is only concerned with one thing... survival. So an employee's gender, race or sexual preferences is secondary to their ability to deliver results for the business. A perfect environment for meritocracy. IMO startups don't need to worry about diversity because their inherent nature promotes a level playing field.
Sweet! I've been learning cljs/om and one problem I had while going through tutorials is understanding where to put your state, where and why. This answer on Stackoverflow helped me grasp the bigger picture of Om.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22883759/what-is-the-diff...
I've been tending to view zombie works as metaphors for 'mindlessness'. That is, herd behavior, just following the crowd, etc.

Sometimes it does seem like there is a high risk of that happening. Other times it seems like we are already living in that world. A world where large groups of people can be worked up into a frenzy and convinced to support, defend, and propagate horrible actions provoked by minimal or non-existent facts and evidence.
Funny the video talks about safety, but none of the riders wears a helmet. Also no mention of power/battery longevity.
Yeah, but that's clearly after-the-fact. :) Here's the oldest commit in Discuss, the conferencing system written for Project Athena:

https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/207670ad8bf752b...

That's an actual commit in RCS from 1986, which got imported to CVS, which got imported to SVN, which got imported to git last year. The entire history is now on GitHub:

https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commits/master

The codebase is still in use and still developed, although (as you might be able to tell from the recent commits) it's kind of old code. I've got one commit in there replacing a printf(s) with a printf("%s", s).
Cython isn't the answer.

It's a neat tool, for sure, but it's a very specific thing, and it has several down sides, mainly:

- Every module compiles to a shared library.

- Requires significant c infrastructure installed on the target machine to compile.

- Compiled code cannot be used without the python runtime.

This renders it almost useless for generating code for serious applications. It's an adhoc solution to ffi and slowness because those are things are major issues for python.

However, this (Rusthon) has some serious upsides:

The transpiled (if that's the word?) C++ / rust code is portable and fast.

It does not include the bloated standard python library.

It can be directly compiled using existing compiler tools for mobile devices (to be fair, as the kivy-ios project shows, this isn't impossible with cython, but it involves patching the python source to load modules differently).
At the same time his approach to others, would make him an extremly difficult person to work with. I enjoy looking at some of his work, but I could never actually work with him, which is quite sad.
The trade-offs between a single JITed language versus having a scripting and native language are interesting. I think there are a few advantages to the latter approach though. JIT is never going to beat carefully hand-optimized code, and the amount of code that needs such optimization is small. Furthermore the performance of JIT is not necessarily predictable, and comes with additional memory usage. Finally languages such as Python, R, or Matlab have a vast ecosystem of libraries; this gives a big incentive to keep on interoperating with them instead of switching to a new language.
> A universe without a conciseness to appreciate it is quite pointless, and might as well not exist.

I value life in all forms too much to agree with that statement. I value humans the most, but only if they can find a way to value themselves and their surroundings in a harmonious way.
> Can their be an external IO port that is both (a) fast and (b) access limited?

Yes. eSATA is one example. 10 gigabit Ethernet is another. DisplayPort is, for certain applications.
I'd draw the line at actually making the code, or sharing real theory with someone else.

I don't think that it's fair to condemn oneself because his/her ideas could potentially end-up sparking an idea about killer drones in someone-elses mind. In the end we're all very much alike, and it doesn't take much to transfer a few missing links if you know and they don't.

In the end the same laws of nature rule in all our heads, and while it seems like each and every one of us are our own compartmentalized observers, it's not until you think a good long while about the principle of locality(and most of the other fundamental laws) that you understand that it's the other way around.

Thinking this way for me is peaceful. I can't believe in god or another entity but to follow this chain of thought always leads me to consider that I'm part of something greater and more important than one single life can ever hope to be. I guess these days I see humanity more as some sort of super organism . Just as I emerge from individual cells so does humanity emerge from all the humans inside of it. I just try to do my part inside the greater of humanity, and I leave it at that.
A fair amount of research has gone into figuring out the study - the NCS was a major undertaking, involved laying down a lot of logistics, figuring out methodological issues, etc.

Also the Vanguard study, while a pilot study, was a fairly serious undertaking.
Exactly my point.

YOU value all life. But that life doesn't value itself. It requires conciseness to do so.
Good luck trying to buy this Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 if you're not in the US though.

I'm in Europe and contacted Sony. They knew nothing about it since it is a Sony Professional product. I contacted Sony Professional Europe but they knew nothing about it since it is a Sony Professional US product. And they refuse to ship to Europe... Sigh, here is a product I want to spend $1000 on and Sony wont take my money!
Reality is 70% of Americans do not hold a passport. Then, of those who do, most have traveled abroad, not lived there.

Then, of those who travel abroad and have lived in a few states, let's say, 5 - which is only 10% of the overall number of states we have...do you see where I'm going with?

The, "Average," experience is now personalized. Algorithms on Google, Netflix and Facebook or Amazon are about as, "Personal," as some technical people I know get.

Then there's a big, huge disconnect between reality and what we do for a living, because of where we are...I had to lecture somebody in our industry where the VC money comes from recently.

Either it's their age (youngster, lol) or unwillingness to wake up and smell the hummus, I don't know. Two cops were murdered by a guy claiming, "Revenge," for all the black men who we've SEEN get slaughtered on youtube.

It's revolting and I'm hopeful that, one day, the concept of, "Freedom," and, "Justice," will give us all a shot at a better society. Besides, I read too many comic books growing up with the X-men in them to let, "Hydra," win.
$1.3b to track 100k kids for 7 years. That's about $2k/child/year, which sounds insanely expensive. How can a study cost that much? You could buy each participant an iPad _every_ year and given them $100/month for filling out surveys, or you could hire 1 researcher for every 25 kids, which sounds grossly inefficient -- and you'd still be under $1.3b for 7 years.
Wow, $1.3 billion is a huge amount for a single study. For comparison, the Framingham Heart Study, going on 65 years, has an annual budget of about $10 million:
(Concerns that the 2013 sequester would cut about $4 million, about 40% of its budget here:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2013/10/09/framing... )

Any good accounts of how the $1.3B was spent?
It's week-based. Which make sense, since saturday and sunday have such a strong correlation with drinking. Seems fine to me.
Really? Where's the longjmp function?
FWIW, the default Go compiler doesn't depend on GCC or Clang, and doesn't do as many optimizations which could be dangerous or buggy, which I gather is the main problem with adopting LLVM?

(I don't have much experience with Go, though.)
You can't - that's why this is hilarious
The computer in question is a server.

If the server were configured to sleep unless the mouse is jiggled, it would already be asleep. Thus, using a "mouse jiggler" or similar is pointless, and risks detection.
please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepeta_cataria#Humans
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$1.3b... wow.
I hate to say it but: this is what you get with Goverment in charge of research.
About the jiggler: would the hid driver even be loaded on a server?
Or use USB-ID white/blacklists.
Where did you find that? Citation? And are you saying that the 97% of the 1.3 billion will be returned to public coffers, unspent?
The fan game “A tribute to DKC” is out and free (and looks pretty)
Not sure what you mean by not changing much. Those are probably NMOS circuits. We use CMOS today.
Feel free to drop the 'even' in that sentence. Just say the magic words 'child pornography' and the judge will go and install that bug himself. Tor has a very bad reputation in The Netherlands, I think just saying it's a Tor node might be enough reason for a judge to sign off on an eaves-dropping warrant.
You can only make an amateur assessment because you can actually see the document. If this had not been released, you only have the word of the gov/three-letter-agency/etc that it really really does need to be secret. Since we've seen members of this group repeatedly caught lying (even to their overseers) how much can we trust the system?

This isn't an argument for leaks but I'm trying to point out that the system doesn't work as advertised.
As a person who wasn't even born at the time USENET was popular, I've found this service very interesting. I was quite surprised when I found one of my current college professors posting in net.jokes!

If you like this website, you may also enjoy http://www.textfiles.com/, a huge collection of old text documents from the early net (especially BBSes).
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What about Whatsapp? Same fate?
Don't know about them.
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Have I abstracted this problem too much, too far away from reality?

I'll say. You could throw it in and go work as a coal-miner, but then you'd have to worry about the coal you mined being used to smelt steel that goes on to be manufactured as bomb casings. And so on. Certainly you shouldn't work on anything that offends you conscience, but the mere fact that something can be repurposed for warfare doesn't create moral responsibility.

This isn't to say that worrying about war or your personal purpose is misplaced GH Hardy opined that ballistics was 'repulsive' both because of the moral purpose and the triviality of the mathematics involved, and there are more musings on the ethics of that sub-branch of math here: http://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/~hackw/mp480/exhibit/ballis...

But as long as you're knowingly working on some sort of combat system, it's folly to beat yourself up over the limitations of foreseeability and the vague possibility that something you craft might turn out to have military utility which you din't intend at the time you conceived it. Instead, look for ways to provide utility in other areas.
> - Every module compiles to a shared library.

How else would you import a module if it wasn't? If you want to reduce the number of shared libraries you could put all your code in a single module, of course.

> - Requires significant c infrastructure installed on the target machine to compile.

Anything which involves compilation to native code requires significant infrastructure.

> - Compiled code cannot be used without the python runtime.

And this is a downside why? Combining the best of both worlds--native code and Python--is the whole point. If you want to take out Python from the equation just use C/C++.
Because the UI is better. I personally make the tradeoff for more openness and power and use Linux, but I can see why people use MacOS.
She didn't do anything remotely this complicated, but a few years ago Jeri Ellsworth did do a couple videos of "homemade" ICs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcKwOo7dmM
virtualenv beats the crap out of rvm though. If you ever tried ton use rvm in crontabs, etc
It might not be a replacement for ag today but it is 500 lines of C++ code w/o dependencies. Sounds like a great resource to learn from for people like me :P
I'm surprised they are using smrtgrips.bike when they own smrtgrips.com.
> 8.1

> A novice asked the Master: "I perceive that one computer company is much larger than all others. It towers above its competition like a giant among dwarfs. Any one of its divisions could comprise an entire business. Why is this so?"

> The Master replied, "Why do you ask such foolish questions? That company is large because it is large. If it only made hardware, nobody would buy it. If it only made software, nobody would use it. If it only maintained systems, people would treat it like a servant. But because it combines all of these things, people think it one of the gods! By not seeking to strive, it conquers without effort."

http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
No no wrong wrong please stop applying blanket statements to things like this. DARPA and NASA alone have benefitted humanity and science in ways hard to grasp - from the Internet to vaccines to the microwave frackin' oven.

Please do not lower yourself to blanket statements like this. It's true, government projects sometimes become massive boondoggles like this (or say, the JSF) but just as often the benefits are enormous.
Hold off on the conclusion-jumping = 'possibly consistent with X' is a long way from 'proof of X'.
A smart watch with Google Maps already provides haptic navigation. Not sure I'd want two more things I have to charge daily.
That's genius! Can't wait to use this and experiment with other pages!
The US/EU governments run their own nodes. Why WOULDN'T they take down third parties that aren't willing to give them the access they need to sniff traffic? Their support of dissidents in other countries doesn't require private nodes to exist.
If HN isn't your target demographic, the answers here are going to be really skewed. Social signup is very much preferred (we have a number of iOS & Android apps targeting consumers) and social login makes up around 82%.
Uhm no, absolutely not. The basic operational principle remained the same, but absolutely everything has been changed many times over. Trillions of dollars were invested to make it happen.

The only constant is probably that it is still made on a silicon wafer. But even this wafer changed a lot, and I am not talking about its size.

Would you also compare a horse carriage to a Tesla?
The issues I pointed out are related to building distributable targets.

Shared library per module and 'wrapped' compiler execution for example, is fundamentally hostile to distribution for mobile environments. Have a look at the hoops kivy-ios jumps though. It's absolutely ridiculous.

That's the thing python is the worst at; building a single stand alone application that does not require the user to install a copy of python and run pip to download a million dependencies before it will run.

This isn't in question. It's just life; that's not what python is good at.

Cython doesn't solve that problem. It solves a different set of problems; namely, ffi and speed.

My point is that by choosing an alternative approach (compile to portable C++ / rust) this project gives you the benefits of ffi and speed and distribution.
From the video (at around 2:02, CadSoft EAGLE frame) they're using Nordic Semiconductor's nRF51822 Bluetooth Low Energy & 2.4GHz Wireless SoC.
To go further, n the 50's and 60's upscale real estate often included bomb shelters.
There's a non-portable version of OpenSSH too. This strategy produces high-quality software while making developers' lives easier. (All in my highly-biased opinion)
Here in the Netherlands almost no one wears a helmet on a bicycle. There have been studies that suggest cars are less careful with cyclists who wear a helmet.
Thank you so much for Silver Searcher. I depend on it every day. One feature I would like is the ability to ignore very large files that get in the way when I'm searching.
AFAIK neither Rust nor Go supports all the platforms that OpenBSD runs on.
Welp, looks like it's time to rebase on I2P.
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are you kidding me? NASA is your idea of a successful lean government project? Elon Musk is doing what NASA couldn't with a tiny fraction of their budget.
just watched princess mononoke last night. =)

> Definitely agreed, if you've got kids Totoro and Spirited Away are good excuses to become introduced to Miyazaki's work.

totoro and spirited away are my two favorite miyazaki movies. not that you're necessarily implying it, but these are not simply kid's cartoons. like a great poem, they're the kind of movie that has multiple layers of meaning and connects with people of all ages.

and i'd recommend watching them in the original japanese, with subtitles if you don't understand japanese (i don't). you lose the essential asianness & the original emotional nuance of the dialog when it's dubbed, just imho.
According to the OpenNTPD web page, "The portable version is outdated and in need of a maintainer."

Why another from-scratch rewrote, instead of helping with that project, especially when it was also motivated by an aversion to the "100,000 KLOC" in the ntp.org ntpd?
People like what they like. This is not the place for a flame war.
Also, if you lose a tooth, stick it under your pillow, because fairies will come replace it with a dollar bill!
The wafer is a slab of polysilicon, and has been that way for a long time. Most of those trillions you mention were invested to make the lithography smaller, which is how you get more transistors into the same die.

Edit: silicon, not poly silicon. Not sure why I said poly there...
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Yes, for the KVM, since not all KVMs use the older PS/2 protocol.
Having a faster grep-like tool installed on a production BSD or illumos machine sounds reasonable.
Mavericks was far faster on my Mac mini and my MacBook air. Fusion 7 and esxi 5.1.
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Do you mean consciousness?

Do you see consciousness as separate from life?

Would you agree that value requires more than just consciousness?
This came up often enough that I wrote a blog post about it:

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cryp...
Part of the reason you wear a helmet is to reduce reliance on what drivers do as it relates to your safety.

Helmets are pretty universally known to reduce traumatic brain injuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Meta-analyses
After reading the very concise and accessible report on the state of the study, I got the impression that the $1.3 billion had been allocated by Congress but that little or none of it had been spent, basically because the study design never got close enough to being finalized and approved for any large-scale data acquisition to even take place. Unless I'm quite mistaken, the $1.3 billion has been parked on the NIH's balance sheet for the last several years rather than being lost.

http://acd.od.nih.gov/reports/NCS_WG_FINAL_REPORT.pdf

edit: this page suggests about 60% of the funding was spent: https://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/about/funding/Pages/i...
Calling the NCS a single study is like calling the moon landing a single rocket launch. For example, from the report:

"There are 112 papers resulting from NCS efforts so far, primarily papers about methodological design issues, but also including preliminary results related to environmental exposures."
There is also evidence to support that cyclists are less careful when they are wearing a helmet (theory of "risk compensation") though some studies differ.
I don't think you can label this article an EV hitjob.

You know everything that surfaces facts unfavorable to Tesla isn't some sort of conspiracy. This is good information to know.
Hold on! It says the study never went beyond a small pilot? Where did the $1.3B go?
Thank you for the information, but I strongly feel that your website could use a very hefty re-design. Additionally, based upon your prompt text, it seems as though this is being maintained manually. Companies come and go very quickly - how are you planning on coping with changes in the data? Do you pull from any local databases of employers, or are you simply posting companies that contact you?
I'm not sure I follow. Isn't one supposed to select a scale which allows the compiled data to be clearly and informatively expressed? And doesn't the data compiled so far fit comfortably on a linear scale?

Would you recommend using a logarithmic graph because you expect Bitcoin use to increase exponentially? In that case, wouldn't the use of a logarithmic scale at this point imply a direct belief in the future of Bitcoin use?
what sort of "interesting things?"
If you find it that easy to build a portfolio of MVPs, you're probably not building meaningful MVPs.