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Establishing sustainable colonies off Earth would put some of our metaphorical eggs in another basket, and make it more likely that our species could survive a major catastrophe. It's something we should be able to do in the next few decades or centuries, and I'm all for it.

But given current or reasonably foreseeable technology, we're just not going to be able to ship off enough people to relieve population pressures on Earth.

(Question: Has emigration to North America ever made a significant dent in population pressures in Europe, Asia, or Africa?)
Welcome to the system. If a show / journalist asks hardball questions they'll quickly find that they no longer have access to the folks worth interviewing. This is the self-censorship model that's well established here.

We may have a free media, but with self-censorship like this, it's effectively only marginally more free than a state run system.

Al Jazeera meanwhile has absolutely no chance (I'm assuming here) of getting an interview with a high level player, so they can pose hard hitting questions as they have no downside risk in doing so.
That's not lazy.

Lazy is preferring to move your hand over to the mouse instead of spending weeks learning an obscure editor called vim.

I have a beef with using the word "lazy" wrong like that. Lazy is undisciplined. The undisciplined will not become good programmers.

It takes a lot of discipline to learn vim.

It takes a lot of discipline to automate mundane operations.
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> And this sort of attitude is exactly why I hate Python 3 personally. "Work for free on Python 3 adoption or you're harming the Python community".

Sorry if I offended you with my comment, it wasn't my intent.

I guess there is a way to view this in a different light: PyPy is a major Python implementation, that is used by a lot of people. There creates ~some~ responsibility.

Also, using "hate" word is precisely the problem -- it's not a first time I hear that from PyPy devs. I just hope that you hate only that aspect of the whole "Python 3 Saga", not the language itself.
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Hello fixxer, thank you for your reply.

My understanding is the reason you advocate for long gamma vs. short gamma because unhedged short gamma trade (e.g., short straddle) could cause theoretical unlimited loss. Long gamma trades like long straddle or long option hedged with delta-neutral stock, you are facing daily theta decay and you are betting for either a rise in implied vol or realized vol.

However, the missing ingredient/secret sauce is (1) you have to figure out at price point you're going to take profit in your scalp; and (2) when implied volatility is considered cheap for the particular ticker you're trading. Much appreciated for your insight and let me know if I'm missing anything.
It's an open source operating system... what compromises are you suggesting? Maybe the compromise is that they don't sell Russian info out to American interests.
But it gets printed on the boarding pass right? So what's to stop a terrorist from forging the boarding pass with "pre-check" on it and going into the low-security line instead of the high security line?
I think this is why the author recommends NOT publishing public key identity publicly. Additionally, signing may not actually be necessary or desirable (e.g. given out-of-band transmission of the receiver's public key and a desire to avoid attribution).
Yes, it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627200

Or if you want to go straight to the source, see item 10b on page 5 of: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/...

As far as I can tell, the only reason people are saying he wasn't convicted of murder for hire is because the top-level charge is "conspiracy" or somesuch, with "murder for hire" as one of the specific conspiracy items, and they haven't dug down.
"It only seems to be there to instill the feeling of security in Jane/Joe Average"

Or worse; it's there to condition us.
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Take what this commenter says about OP with a grain of salt. He had a friend that hired OP and seems to be bitter that OP left before he could profit off of him. While what he says may be in the ballpark of correct, an anon poster making ad hominem comments is not the best source of information on the OP.
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Based on stories about those positions, even though they'll lose their job, hopefully they'll have a better position.

Amazon warehouse positions have high attrition and turnaround
This post actually does cross the line into being a personal attack. We don't need character assassination attempts in this thread or any other.
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Same here. Thunderbird with Enigmail on linux and it has worked for years.

What really made me happy was K-9 Mail on Android - now I'm not tied to a computer to send or read a secure email.

Facebook? I don't use it, but it is nice to see someone try to get GPG/PGP in front of people.
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Dang, I really love Wunderlist. Hope MSFT only makes it better! I wish I could drop a list in it more easily. I use it as a shopping list.
Where did you get them to ensure the right size? I'd be really interested. I tried to mod mine with an IBM trackpoint, with no success.
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I was under the impression this was true feature-set wise. I may be wrong though and am happy to be corrected.
Actually that code example should throw an exception when the first `a` is evaluated.
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Contact lens solution is considered "medically required", and "reasonable quantities" is sufficiently ill-defined that nobody really cares. I'm sure if you had a barrel of the stuff they might ask questions, but a standard 14oz bottle from the store gets at most a quick swab and you're on your way.

That swab is what makes this scheme impractical for bringing dangerous liquids, of course.
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Exchanging a key pair specifically for future anonymous communication between two parties using a publicly published identity seems like a good compromise for communicating anonymously with previously unknown parties.
While the pick up tool did use a vacuum pump are you sure it is using that for suction? It actually looked like the end effector was something along the lines of the 'coffee grounds' pick up tool. See (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/10/researchers-deve...)

If it is that sort of gripper then it could pick up the perforated boxes just as easily.
There is an option to fetch only last some number of E-mail through IMAP, but then you can't back log so it defeats the purpose of fetching E-mail this way. (and for the same reason, I moved from Thunderbird to Gnus.)

From my experience, it seems to be just about any MUA on any platforms will start choking when it starts getting around 2GB to 3GB -- not only fetching takes forever, but also makes it very unresponsive. We have a few people here using Outlook with Google for Work, and I had to set it up to limit fetching and tell them to go on to mail from a browser for older E-mails as it'll start doing weird stuff when it hits a certain threshold.
A 2% conversion rate is actually pretty good.

The attrition identified in the article may have less to do with having a killer feature, and more to do with how an existing feature is marketed to the correct audience.
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Perhaps there is a way to introduce the idea without inducing such skepticism. Our meeting rooms have a large TV in each, so one could plug in and mirror your display, but you could also likely bring your own projector. (OK, that's probably outside anyone's budget, especially mine.)

You might pitch it as something like, "I tend to sketch it roughly at first, and refactor heavily while I'm making an initial solution. Since refactoring is so much easier in a programmer's editor, I'd like to write in vim/emacs/pycharm, and project it on the tv/wall so we can discuss it."

... I'm not sure how that would work if they didn't already have conference rooms wired with monitors, though.

If your solution would fit in a screen without scrolling, it probably would work similarly well as a whiteboard.
I was under the impression that Windows 10 was going to be free for all (like OSX). I guess not.
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Yeah, I talked to a startup that had an existing product with a revenue stream, but they were aiming to take like 10m in investment in order to either grow exponentially or flame out early. That makes zero sense to me, why not bootstrap and build a real company rather than be a piece in somebody else's larger game?
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Sounds interesting. Do you have any links to documentation?

I'm interested in reading more about it, because Nim is doing a lot of experimental stuff and it's always interesting to look at its designs.

(Edited to remove speculation about how well it will perform before reading about it.)
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I wonder if the the subliminal conditioning to think there are terrorists around the corner also make us distrust the guy lurking around the streetcorner.
I wouldn't really call it an "ad" in the revenue generating sense.

They are notifying you that you can get Windows 10 for free. This program lets you do that in a couple clicks and is very convenient.
Here are 18 from Mashable :)
Not all fit in top slots though
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So, I've noticed that over the past six months that every time something about Nim gets posted to HN, you make an effort to discredit the language.

Care to offer an explanation why?
> Thanks for curating these articles from 2012!

My pleasure:) I find there is way to much secrecy around algorithmic trading, and I do what I can to shed some light on it for newbies like your self!
I'd imagine handguns are much easier to find since they are distinctive.
Read the first sentence:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731082%28v=vs.110...
I've not seen anyone treat string theory as "this is true" though. At best it's "this is a cool idea and it might maybe possibly explain some stuff if anybody can ever figure it out."
pool.sks-keyservers.net is a round-robin pool pointing to several dozen synchronized keyservers (including the MIT server). It's usually the default option for most PGP clients. See https://sks-keyservers.net/
They don't. It is a convergence problem. If you've ever seen a pick-and-place robot in a factor you know they can be quite fast.

Simply put, the convergence problem is getting to the correct orientation and position to positively pick up an item. Factory robots finesse that by putting parts in a narrow area in the work space but modern car assembly robots can pull parts in a wide variety of orientations and positions.

Current research has focused on visual systems as it is pretty cheap these days to put a couple of cameras near the end effector to provide a stereoscopic view to the effector converging on the target.
FYI, when I attempt to view your resume I encounter:

"You and this LinkedIn user don't know anyone in common ... You can only view the profiles of users within your network. However, as you add connections, you may discover people you know in common."

You might want to adjust the public profile privacy controls on LinkedIn so that the public can view this.
Unless we're talking about, oh idk, schools.
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"But beyond automation, the team at Lully is focused on solving different sleep problems in children. For example, 75 percent of infants between the ages of four to six months are unable to sleep through the night, even though they should be able to at that age."

For parents that's absolutely massive. I can see a lot of people paying a lot of money if it works.
models aren't hard problems?

OK, then show me a js model system that does one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships — while still having clear, concise and understandable code.
I guess the candidates are still limited to one particular country on one particular planet, right?
I meant I know what latency is as a notion, just haven't measured it and I don't know how-to.

I feel a bit lame for misleading you in writing this whole thing. Sorry. :(
> You are NOT getting past your Verizon/Comcast router with IP alone.

... on IPv4. On IPv6 you don't have to worry about NAT, and IPv6 usage is growing: the percentage of Google traffic conducted over IPv6 has doubled in the past year and is significantly higher on weekends, which means consumers are driving a lot of that traffic. It's now over 7% on weekends and growing by about one percentage point every 3-4 months. That seems to me like a sufficiently large pool of potential testers.

The NAT problem is really finally going away. What we need to be worrying about is dumb firewalls, but I'd bet that there will be just as many consumer routers that fail to make any of their firewall rules apply to IPv6 as there will be routers that can pass TCP over IPv6 but not arbitrary protocols.
Zed, after reading this (and reading a few of your other posts) I can't help but be drawn to the honesty you put into your writing and the honesty you put out into the world. I really value that in a person. Though conversely, I can't help but feel that I'd take your advice with a grain of salt (which I think is healthy for almost EVERY piece of advice...but more-so with yours).
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Re: Common Lisps implementing this, yeah, I'd noticed that SBCL did this. Speaking of SBCL, a disadvantage of boot images is that the implementation is sometimes non-portable; for example, SBCL's Windows support is still experimental. To answer your question, I'm pretty sure that support for a boot image would have to be baked into PyPy, or whatever Python implementation you want to use.
Sure the robots can pick items out of bins, but can they wait in a 30 minute long security screening line at the end of their shift?
Wunderlist is integral to our companies business processes and it was a fight to get everyone moved onto it, I can only hope Microsoft has a hands off approach to the app and continues to let them create a best in class application.
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Or skip the desalinated water and grow Salicornia bigelovii with straight seawater or runoff water or aquaculture wastewater.
I use Mandrill with Mailpoet (wp plugin), and have nothing but good things to say about them.

You didn't ask, but we compared them with AWS, and the big problem with AWS was that we had to throttle our own SMTP output. Mandrill will rate limit for you.
Considering how easy it is to get a linear implementation, why would anyone choose to use a slower method?
I'd argue essentially the opposite. That TSA is there to make people believe they are safe from terrorism. Fear of flying crippled the airline industry post 9-11.

People have a very irrational fear of flying. It's the safest mode of travel, yet, single incidents panic people and multiple panic the entire country.
Rumor has it that Altera was unhappy with Intel's process and was going to bail. Intel was so dependent on their cooperation that acquisition started to look good.
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Do you actually use OneCloud on OSX and the mini office on Android?

I find OneCloud to be very smooth: I only have a 128GB SSD drive on my old MacBook Air and the selective sync lets me keep most of my videos, pictures, backups, etc. offline.

I don't use Office on the Android too much, but it seems OK enough.

BTW, I went with Office 365 as a price/cost decision. For $99/year my wife and I both get 1 TB of cloud storage, and if we want them the latest office suite. We both just use the web versions of the Office 365 apps on out MacBook Airs though.

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Oh, how I'd love to make money with COBOL, from overseas home...
Everytime I run into the WSJ paywall I want to throw things. Yes it is easy to get around but no we shouldn't have to. Because advertising.

Anyway does anyone know approximately how many users this app had? Seems like a pretty rich valuation for a to-do list app.
> This was a play to stop fragmentation like the one you're predicting.

The parent seemed incredulous that "power users" would use iOS. My point was that power users might just give up being power users if Google does things like you describe: locking up the APIs in google play, etc. A lot of so-called "power users" will just go ahead and give up on Android and use iOS devices.