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@finid: Good idea. No better way to get even!
That's completely backwards when people break the laws with impunity and/or the threat to security is law enforcement and the rest of the legal system. At best, laws are a temporary stop-gap measure until the technology is capable and verifiable.
But generally even with the weight cars are WAY more fuel efficient. There are some fords (non-hybrids) approaching 3 litres/100km. Even mini-vans that get 7-8 litres/100km. When 15-20 years ago a 3 door hatch back would be 6-7 litres/100km... So I don't really see your point. Yeah cars are getting heavier, and engines are getting smaller and more efficient.
Here's one way to get from an eighth-story office to the nearest Post Office: Jump out the window, then walk to the nearest Post Office.

If you were going to do that, you'd want a hell of a cushion to land on, right?

My point is, destroying Lake Shore Drive is a huge freaking leap, and unless the people who live and work in Chicago have something to land on the moment they need it, the immediate dislocation will cost more than Chicagoans can pay.

These kinds of massive multi-phase synchronized plans are something nobody is really good at yet, with NASA and the ESA probably coming closest. I don't really want to bet Chicago on one of them coming together just right.
I haven't really tried learning another language but that I think it will be really cool to learn German. I think Spanish is much easier to learn than German.
Someone had to invent the wheel, too, but that doesn't make it a good idea to design and build your own car.
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The beauty of software is: It could be built upon.
Including a simpler setup/interface, and a web interface.
There has been a lot of talks about this. I think its about time, the government allows telcos to use unused spectrum for big data too. It might help with network congestion problems.
Even if you're not a kernel developer, this article is well worth reading because it provides a warning about doing things in your code that would cause a lot of suffering if you ever had to undo them in the future.

Here's the punch line from the article:

The alternative would be to get rid of the "too small to fail" rule and make the allocation functions work the way most kernel developers expect them to. Johannes's message included a patch moving things in that direction; it causes the endless reclaim loop to exit (and fail an allocation request) if attempts at direct reclaim do not succeed in actually freeing any memory. But, as he put it, "the thought of failing order-0 allocations after such a long time is scary."

It is scary for a couple of reasons. One is that not all kernel developers are diligent about checking every memory allocation and thinking about a proper recovery path. But it is worse than that: since small allocations do not fail, almost none of the thousands of error-recovery paths in the kernel now are ever exercised. They could be tested if developers were to make use of the the kernel's fault injection framework, but, in practice, it seems that few developers do so. So those error-recovery paths are not just unused and subject to bit rot; chances are that a discouragingly large portion of them have never been tested in the first place.

If the unwritten "too small to fail" rule were to be repealed, all of those error-recovery paths would become live code for the first time. In a sense, the kernel would gain thousands of lines of untested code that only run in rare circumstances where things are already going wrong. There can be no doubt that a number of obscure bugs and potential security problems would result.
A lot of major players like Google are tying up with car manufacturers like Audi and Volvo for implementing connected car technologies. And I'd say, we may get this sooner than later. But this is going to be a major leap. A lot of consumers are excited and a lot more are curious. But Audi is also right, there are still so many potential issues that need to be ruled out.
Playing Chess against Stockfish, there's an setting for "thinking time".
If anyone missed it, here's the replay from T-1 minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7x-SumbynI#t=1140
I think flying cars are still stuck with Michael J Fox in Back to the Future's version of 2015. Seriously, who's in a hurry?
I'm willing to face any fact that is true, but which owners in particular must be compensated, and why?

What is your specific critique of the carbon tax that the book proposes?
Well, I didn't know this, and I'm glad I know now. I'll be looking for an alternative GUI SFTP client for Windows.

I was a bit confused though, I'm pretty sure I installed FileZilla on some Windows machine less than a year ago and would've noticed any malware. But now that I think about it, I used Ninite.com, a multi-install tool for free Windows software, which automatically opts out of any nasty toolbars and such, so I just didn't see it at the time (I'm assuming the malware is at least opt-out, right?).

Doesn't matter though, bundling toolbars/malware is a no-go for me. I know I can (usually) get rid of such pests if they get on my system, but I know so many people who would have a much harder time. Those people are being taken advantage of, they're not "choosing" to have this malware. I can't recommend this type of software to such people because they might get malware if they install it themselves, so they need alternatives without malware. Therefore I won't use the malware-bundled software myself either, because I want to check out the alternatives and see which ones are any good (and I don't really need FileZilla, anyway).
Well, carriers have significantly shorter landing strips, require the pilot to either hit a cable or immediately take off again and usually move themselves to provide more favorable wind conditions to pilots.

SpaceX drone platform is easier in that respect, since the rocket is landing vertically and alot of those factors are mitigated. It's still a extremely hard and complex problem to solve - it IS rocket science after all ;)
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This is pretty cool stuff, but when I tried it in mid-2014 (release 0.8.1), there were stability issues with orifs, and the user interface was rather confusing. Quite possibly these issues are resolved now, as I see there have been new commits again from October onwards.
Why are these links to Ninite.com flag-killed? It's a tremendously useful program, IMO. Is there some secret danger about this tool I'm missing here?

I'd post my one-click-install-all-the-useful-things Ninite link (which preselects a custom selection of software into one installer) that I use for quickly setting up clean Windows machines at the kids' technology centre I work at. But I fear it might get flagkilled too. (ah doesn't matter anyway, I'm sure the average HNer is smart enough to make their own selection, and currently looking at my selection, some of the tools seem a bit out-of-date, wouldn't pick those today anymore).
Thanks so much for all that. Will definitely work my way through your post and check them all out. Much appreciated.
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Closing with a Futurama quote. Nicely done.
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Why would we need to compensate them (Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and other owners) when it's our demand that gives them the ability to sell their product. Since the value of their oil reserves is tens (if not a hundred+) trillion dollars.. it would be cheaper to simply give everyone in the US and Europe a free electric car.

Edit: 100 trillion is so much money.. that we could literally replace every car in the entire world (1 billion cars) with a free tesla and still have money left over.
The reason why we need to compensate the owners of the fossil fuels is that otherwise they will block any attempt to do anything about climate change. Just considering oil there is around $100 trillion worth still to be pumped out of the ground in the next 30 years. All of this oil is owned by someone and all these someone's are not going to sit back and let their oil be made worthless (this is what would happen if we were to actually do something serious about climate change). Unless we pay off the fossil fuel owners they will continue to block any effective progress.
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Ask HN: Android vs. iOS operating system
I am android user and love it because of its openness and multi threading capabilities, i have few friends in my circle who claim that IOS is far better mobile operating system then android but i think the other way around because android not only support multiple hardware but also allows background threads (means versatility) unlike IOS which not only support one hardware but also allow not allowing background threads.
I know android has problems but still its far better OS then IOS because
"IOS NOT ALLOWS YOU TO DO ANYTHING THAT'S WHY IT IS STABLE"

Please share your thoughts on it

Thanks
Obviously this is mostly for kicks, but there's a lesson in the 45x speedup improving the algorithm vs the 4x improvement changing technologies. :)
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Yes, it's trackable, subject to the pseudonymous limitations and opportunities for obfuscation inherent in blockchain technology.

http://blog.cryptocrumb.com/2015/01/bitstamp-theft-bitcoins-...

BTW, in that title, the word 'spent' is used in the formal sense for blockchain transactions. It doesn't mean the money is gone or ''used up'. It really just means 'moved'.

After reading that, it looks like the person who stole this money is actually panicking and making a lot of dangerous mistakes. I guess they are in a state that's between terror and ecstasy. I doubt they had any sleep recently, and they're going to be looking over their shoulder for a very long time.
Guess it depends on your location. In Belgium they pay quite a lot to compete with the private sector. In Germany not so much...
I think there is definitely a growing segment of people who do not want to contribute to the growing surveillance of their lives, but nevertheless do want to have a way to share their data and details with whoever they want, with trust, at a personal level.

I know a few families, for example, who are now using their own social-media apps built by family members, and for which there is no outside access - yet they have their own network, trust system, shared media and data, and so on.

It is completely within their control.

So there are people out there for whom Ori and its peer technologies are very important. Not everybody wants to just genuflect in front of the ultra-corporate ruler(s). Its quite possible to continue using computers unhindered by third parties; tools like Ori assist that - technologically as well as culturally. Get all your friends on their own p2p networks.
Spot on. A random server could go down at any moment, either by a hardware failure or because your cloud provider decides it needs maintenance. The latter actually gives you an up-front warning, the former is just "bang". So any well designed system independent of running on a cloud or on your own hardware should be able to deal with this, since it's the reality of servers: sometimes one breaks.

All of the bigger Clouds (Amazon, Rackspace, SoftLayer) handle their security related restarts this way, one area/region/DC at a time carefully making sure that well designed systems don't notice downtime.

What Verizon does is a totally different thing and something most "important but not life threatening" systems do not design for: Taking down the whole cloud with all servers at the same time.
Yeah, I would have to say that Ori has the worst documentation ever. Except, this is pretty useful:

http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13/papers/p151-mashtizadeh.pdf
I think android is better in term of multiple hardwares wheres IOS is better in user satisfaction
I was about to post something like "PuppySwap - By psychopaths, for psychopaths" .. but alright, you got me. Congratulations.

But let's see.. The target audience of this website is people who abandon animals. But they're kind of lacking in the empathy/remorse department, because otherwise they wouldn't abandon animals!

So basically, all the work put into this website was wasted, because you can't guilt those people into not abandoning animals!

But great work tricking me and others with empathy though!
Thank you for the explanation. That's very interesting. I see now that Ori would be vital for powering something like that.
Plaintext SID? Couldn't you just replay that SID then? Or generate random SIDs and see what sticks?
One of the points Casey is trying to make with this series is that, at least in games, dynamic languages aren't quite the silver bullet for productivity that people make them out to be, and you can write your gameplay code just fine in C or C++. It might even work out to be a net productivity win, because native code debuggers are far superior to "managed" language debuggers (most of which don't handle the boundary between managed and native code at all), and because even moderately well written C or C++ is much less likely to cause performance problems down the line than anything garbage collected.
> Through the use of replication instances can be resilient and recover damaged data from other nodes

I sure want this. Setting multiple nodes might be cumbersome, but it should be worth it for important data.

Also, the use case you are presenting is for overly casual cases. People just caring about their photos could use Flickr or just about any random photo service with a private setting.

Dropbox users are already a step or two further down the line, and there are files like password databases (keepass databases for instance), and other sensible things you'd want to synch seamlessly but wouldn't want to be accessible to anyone else, even with just a warrant [0]

[0] I think you still can refuse to give a password if I'm not wrong
Isomorphic App Development with Ruby and Volt (2014) [video]
Read the white paper to learn how to use it:

http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13/papers/p151-mashtizadeh.pdf
C++ sucks
It's an interesting comparison. At least, with a carrier you can go around, but I suppose that, for an aircraft landing on a carrier, the moment of irreversible commitment to landing maybe comes a second or two earlier than it does for SpaceX.

I don't know if the SpaceX vehicle is programmed to back off and wait if a big wave rocks the platform, but it could do that, wind permitting (edit: no, it couldn't, apparently, see reply by Denvercoder9). Fuel is limited, but it seems like it should be able to hover for a few seconds and wait for the platform to stabilize if necessary.

Anyway, they're not developing a sea-landing vehicle, so it's understandable if they don't spend so much time thinking about that. It's designed to land on solid ground, I think and the ground doesn't usually move, after all.
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The difference with economics is that it has for better-or-worse some influence over society's discussions about income distribution. I used to be a biology academic and I can tell you nobody cared what any of my collegues thought in this area :)
What's the reason you are asking for the email address permission?
Is this the course you are looking for? https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2
I'd rather not divulge too much as far as details/places/companies, but the basics of my career is something like this:

- Played around with making websites from the very early days of the web (gray backgrounds, black text, blue/purple links, <hr>'s everywhere, that kinda thing).. mostly personal projects and small sites for friends/family. Did this for many years, until discovering dynamic content via CGI scripts.

- Got obsessed with CMSes.. Red Dot, PHP-Nuke, rolling my own CGI scripts, DHTML, then PHP etc. Small hobby turned into obsession.

- In the mid/late 90s I started doing freelance websites for local businesses. Family contacts, local shops, etc.

- Mid 2000s quite my retail management career and started a small business with a friend, still just doing websites for local shops, friends of friends.

- Did a few contracts for larger companies (TelCos, local Gov't), fixing up their websites or installing CMSes (WordPress, Drupal, SharePoint).

- One of those Gov't contracts was a 3 mth contract to redesign and rebuild their website from scratch (static HTML site to a large Drupal multi-server deal), they really liked me, hired me full time for more money than I'd ever made in my life, to manage the website and build a decent sized web team, which I've done ever since.

Everything I learned was from books, IRC and Google (.. and before that, AltaVista, Compuserve, etc). I've never done any courses or education past dropping out of high school. I just live, breathe, sweat and crap Web. Subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds and blogs, have 100-odd books, etc.

I don't think not knowing CS ever held me back, but I definitely hit problems I couldn't solve without that knowledge (Sorting/searching data, the maths side of JS, etc).. I've just been lucky enough to know some really REALLY good programmers to trade help for beer, when it comes to those problems. Those friends have shown me how amazing CS is beyond web stuff, and for a decade now I've been meaning to learn to do "proper" programming and kept putting it off.
Umm what?

You're supposed to cook lentils. Also, turns out lentils don't even contain that much phytic acid from the start.

Finally, your teeth rot? How? I suppose if you didn't cook the lentils, you might want to chew and ruminate them in your mouth for a few hours (tip: no, you don't), which might be long enough for the acid to have some effect on your teeth. But if you consume them like normal, and apply some basic dental hygiene, you're going to have to explain to me how this could really affect your teeth worse than most other foods (which are usually also slightly acidic).
Looks kind of interesting to me. How does it compare to use a git repo as a "decentralized file store"? What is the speed of this thing.. I see it uses fuse, which generally isnt that fast. Speed probably isnt a goal, but none the less important.
To make this a succes, docs should be available. Now it feels like a research project to me.
Glad to help. I think it is very important to explain to people - in the now generation sense - right now that its dangerous to 'just give up and start using the Cloud', and that indeed the Cloud - and its issues - is not a new battle in computing, nor even a new and innovative feature in the candy-sense that it is coated now, but rather a continuation of a long-standing battle in the computer world about where data 'lives' and who 'owns' it. We swing back, forward, back and over again between the monolithic model, and the distributed model, in computing. The youngsters need to know that their iPhones are real computers and can do real computer things - un-impacted by outside/external entities. It is a real travesty that there are already new generations of kids who grow up thinking computers are something you need a credit card to use.
Yes the money involved is massive, but the way politics works is those with something to lose have far more power than those that will gain from any change. This is why tax reform is so difficult. The owners of all the fossil fuels are effectively able to veto all change unless we pay them off. If this is the case lets get on with buying them off.
Except that, with certain caveats, XML has a slightly nicer syntax for text-heavy documents, and JSON is slightly nicer for hardcore data representation. For example, I'd much rather have a web page in HTML than JSON, but I'd rather have a config file in the latter.
Same reason as MySQL: it's there, it's popular, it's the first thing that springs to mind. That it's shit doesn't factor in.
I quickly scrolled through the paper a few people mentioned earlier. About speed:An evaluation shows that as a local file
system, Ori has low overhead compared to a File system
in User Space (FUSE) loopback driver; as a network file
system, Ori over a WAN outperforms NFS over a LAN.

Interesting. Git is mentioned as well. I guess i have to read the paper after i finished cleaning the house ;)
> I have never heard of a professor "forgoing their own salary" to keep the lights on. I'd be surprised if this was allowed, actually.

This is because when you say Science you are of course thinking "USA Science". This is pretty common in other countries.

I spend 6 entire years "collaborating" with my University waiting for my opportunity. No salary, no social benefits, no contract and all day. It was take this or take the exit and bye bye!, we have a lot of other candidates, ha ha.

This was my election. I don't blame on it.

But the worst was when (after spending all day picking-up things from the inner guts of a deeply rooten 500 Kg carcass of a dolphin) someone tells me: "you should be happy, all your wishes granted, this is what you wanted!" Yeah, to bath myself in shit, rancid fat, guts and breath formaldehyde all day is the best thing in the universe...
Of course. You can also replace Orchestras with a MP3 player.

But there is one thing that machines don't have (yet). The ability to feel emotions and transmit them to people.

Also a 2 point sound source could not compare to dozens of them that are actually people who interpret it different each time.

There is a lot of complexity handling dozens of people at the same time, as they are not machines. They get shuttly out of sync and have to be compensated on real time.

There is a world of difference between a bad conductor, and good conductor. Most people won't be able to say why, but they certainly could feel the difference.
Have the governments of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela etc. actually been blocking progress? If so, how? As far as I can see, the primary blockers of progress on carbon dioxide reduction have been:

1. Environmentalists, interfering with nuclear energy which is the only full substitute available now. (I'm optimistic about solar and wind, but there is much work to be done before they will be more than partial substitutes.)

2. Zoning laws, particularly in the US, encouraging people to drive far more than should be necessary.

3. The US government blocking (for what reason, I don't know) the introduction of a tax on aviation fuel that would cause the price of airline tickets to accurately reflect the real cost.

What are the other major ones? I'm letting the Chinese off the hook for the amount of coal they're burning because they have actually been making a lot of progress; I don't know of any gratuitous blockers there.
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Cool tool, nice work!
I disagree. There is no reason to think that just because oil owners stand to lose a lot of money, they will be able to block changes. After all, if they were able to effect arbitrary changes, they could simply force the government to give them another $100 trillion dollars.

The reason countries resist a carbon tax is not the value of oil per se, but the total economic impact, which is primarily from the reduced consumption of fossil fuels etc. (note all existing carbon taxes are on the burning of fossil fuels, not their extraction). The economic impact comes from people being forced to pay for more expensive alternatives. High oil prices don't actually benefit a nation, unless that oil is exported, in which case a national carbon tax won't effect it.

So the real barrier to carbon taxes is international cooperation. But the book argues that the easiest way to create international cooperation is with a global carbon tax (rather than global cap and trade).