samuel

I hope nobody thinks these shots are somewhat representative of the country, even when they were taken(70's and 80's). At first glance I thought they were taken in the early 60's at most.

(Yeah, I know the "hidden" it's in the title itself and should warn about generalizing what's being shown, but still).

I wholeheartedly agree. I only finished it because it was his, but I feared he could be «losing it».

Fortunately seveneves was again spectacular.

I might be prejudiced, but this looks like a big PR stunt/done for the cool factor kind of thing. Aren't there simpler/saner alternatives for getting good randomness?

You are told your voting place and the specific table inside that place.

Apparently, hoy can even try to negotiate with them

http://www.radiolab.org/story/darkode/

Yes! I use it from time to time in applications which have rhino as its scripting language(mirth connect and Orion's rhapsody, mainly).

Why humans? People are concerned about the survivability of human species, and it's certainly a noble goal, but at this point it's outside or technological reach. Preserving life, in the other hand, could be doable. We «just» need to take some prokaryotic cells to one of those planets, assuming they have the right environment, and in some million years you have a complete ecosystem...

Assuming also, of course, that there is not life there already.

Following that advice, it seems that's py3 compatible only. Print statements are function calls without having imported from future.

If someone spends the first block or any which is believed to be held by Satoshi would be noticed and the bitcoin market would panic. Satoshi is alive and spending their money!! Sell now!

With tshark used to be possible to capture packets using display filters, which was pretty handy in lots of situations. When privilege separation was implemented, the feature was lost(bug 2234).

I understand the importance of privilege separation, but I miss the feature.

Spanish Tax Agency and Social Security both use SSL client certificates to authenticate citizens, and I guess that's also true for other countries with smart cards as national id cards.

Works fine for authentication. Usually the problems arise when you have to sign something, which usually requires a Java Applet. That's a real PITA.

Spanish here. One of biggest differences is that spanish vowels always sound the same, that's why spelling contests aren't a thing here. It's pretty confusing at first, until you embrace the fact that there aren't shortcuts: you hear the word or you don't actually know how to pronounce it.

See http://spanishlinguist.us/2013/04/spanish-vowels-vs-english-... for a comparison.

Most of the models that we use everyday are "leaky abstractions". They are useful in most contexts, but they get fuzzy at their boundaries.

My favourite example is the "chicken and egg" problem. The difficulty of it is to define what a chicken is, everything is trivial afterwards. The answer, IMHO, is that "a chicken" was born from an egg put by a "non-chicken".

Not the arp cache but the Mac adress table, but yes, switches should know where they are.

Chrome works fine, too.

I know, but that proves that cancer scares people to the point of doing silly things. An innocuous screening test, even with a fair amount of false positives could be a huge win.

I don't know the answer to that, but I know that some people are taking full-body CT scans annually or bi-annually because of fear of cancer.

The thing is that they aren't workers. It would be a much easier problem to solve if they were. They are freelancers with unlimited liability.

The councils(not the goverment) sell/auctions a tiny fraction of licenses. There's a secondary market where license owners sell them, usually when they retire.

Also, licenses had their own bubble. Probably their value has decreased about a 50% since the peak.

Colonizing a close planet like Mars only has any sense as a way of avoiding extinction in case something really nasty happens in Earth. I can't think any other motive to try that.

This book is great, even if you don't use FreeBSD. I remember that I learnt how a TLB/MMU really works by reading this book, and not on an Operating Systems lecture.

Not by default, at least in Android.

"In order to maximize shareholder value in the long term..." I would hate to be fired, no matter the phrasing, but kudos to a CEO brave enough to say things just how they are.

Ahem... Some days ago I went to a live show and the actor started to interact with the public. At some point he asked women to raise the hand if they knew the meaning of "bukake". Almost no women raise her hand.

When it was men's turn, most did, and probably some who didn't raise his hand knew it too, but were ashamed to admit it in front of their girl friends of wifes(this could be the case for some women, too).

If you don't what it means, don't search for it at work.

So, I bet that's a way more discriminative word that any of that list.

Edit: the "live show" was just a monologue show, in case you were wondering.

One thing they can do is show the statistical distribution of when account cancellations occur in the billing period. If it's skewed to the right, they have some things to explain.

And NetApp's Data ONTAP...

ONO really was an startup? I don't think that any startup, in the HN sense(garage startup), has the financial strength to become overnight a cable company.

Anyway, I haven't heard about this "guy", Eugenio Galdon, and it seems that he was the chief advisor of Calvo Sotelo, former president of Spain.

So, in my opinion, this is hardly news. This is a typical story of spanish success, where a "well connected" person, with the financial help of big investors, takes advantage of regulatory and (foreign) technological changes.

Panoramio, idealista... even Inditex are real spanish startups, much better examples of entrepeneurship.

Take a look to «building machine learning systems with python». It's a great read. If you are interested I reviewed it at O'Reilly's site.

I have read "The panda's Thumb" and don't know what you are referring to. Could you elaborate?