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Our relationship with nature is symbiotic, not adversarial. We work better when we work to strengthen nature, not deplete it.

To give an example, there has been some concern recently about diseases affecting bees. Beside adding to the variety of the world, bees play an important function in pollination. Could we do this pollination artificially? Probably yes, but not without a considerable amount of effort, and bees do this work very well for free.

Besides this, I don't want the world to be dominated by a single species, for me the world is far richer and more interesting from the contributions of nature (if want to view yourself as separate from it, whereas really we're part of it).
I only smoke when drinking but just cannot seem to shake this habit.

The smell and act of smoking disgusts me when I'm sober but as soon as any booze hits my lips, I instantly want a cigarette.

Any tips for kicking this? I've been doing it on and off for 18 years so time to stop.
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I view this being like wishing Mercedes Benz / Daimler would make a Smart FourTwo... which they do.
In effect, something su was doing broke whatever infosec voodoo systemd was trying to do to keep track of "sessions".

Part of this was what path that xdg variable got set to, so in their infinite visdom the systemd devs decided to clear it whenever su was run.

This in turn lead to various programs curbstomping user files as root (in particular Gnome ones, surprise surprise).

At this point in time it seems like one would do best to stay well away from anything related to Systemd, Gnome, Freedesktop and Fedora. The mixing of roles in those groups is downright worrying (i wonder how many times i have seen someone use a Gnome blog to port straight RH/Fedora news, even though the latter surely has their own blogging facilities).
Why would you want to go to a gas station?

Batteries improve ~15% per year ($$$ / kWh stored). It appears to be some sort of moore's law for batteries. It also means we'll see way better batteries in 10 years (4x better regarding $$$/kWh).

Now with way more range and non-stop travel (2-4x) the bottleneck will be how long you're willing to sit in your car without a major break (sleeping).

Such a future would be very similar to charging your phone at night. Most people can get away with just charging at night. Even if they travel. I expect the car battery capacity to grow beyond the point where intraday charging is relevant at all.

And once we've reached that future going to a gas station will seem like a strange thing of the past. Yep, it might be 10-20 years from now. But we'll hopefully all watch this happen.
It's more than a third cheaper than an i3. It's cheaper to insure. It fits in smaller spaces.

The Twizy I test drove earlier this year had windows; they looked stock although I suppose they might have been aftermarket installations.
Torvalds could have been such an asshole for Linux, but he is adamant to not look outside of the kernel. As such, Poettering, Sievers, and the rest are doing an envelopment and containment move by basically building a second kernel in userspace. They also seem to have managed to get a friendly ear on the inside in the form of GregKH. A person that Torvalds seems to place a bit too much trust in these days.
That is a separate issue.

The main problem with p-values is that, without further information, one cannot infer from them how likely it is that a result is genuine.
There are plenty of sources with broadly similar numbers. Google is your friend.

https://www.google.com/search?q=deaths+per+kilowatt

I'm all on board for wind and solar, we should be deploying as much of it as possible. But if we want to eliminate fossil fuels from the world economy in the next 50 years, we need more than just solar and wind.

Saying that nuclear power produces "highly radioactive, toxic waste" is extremely misleading and demonstrates a core misunderstanding of the nuclear fuel cycle. This stuff is only scary because it has been pitched as the boogie monster by anti-nuclear weapons campaigners who were completely uneducated about the difference between the two.

If you educate yourself about nuclear power, your views might change.

http://archive.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/11/mo...
Fukushima was an unsafe design. Chernobyl was both an unsafe design and being operated in an obviously risky and neglegent way when it failed. These kinds of disasters won't happen with more modern reactors that already exist. Even if they do, making a few permanent wildlife reserves in the irradiated areas isn't a global catastrophe. The world is full of uninhabited and uninhabitable places.
if you’re an adult and making a decision based solely on your health"

Not infecting the Earth seems like a pretty big benefit. Can we stop beeing so selfish?
That's debatable. Coal is known to cause far more deaths than nuclear. Even Fukushima was nothing compared to the 10's of thousands killed by the tsunami.
Sorry if that seemed like an insult. Rather, I was (only slightly tongue in cheek) pointing out that one of my favourite text-only experiences was my old green-phosphor Hercules monitor. I'll grant you it was lousy for anything other than text :)
Mathematica / Wolfram Language I would describe as you take the idea of M-expressions from John Mccarthy's paper and program nearly every single Mathematical algorithm that you can think of.

For instance you can do these things without calling an external library or datasource:

Classify some data using the examples. Oh yea the text is included in the program or automatically downloaded. Also you don't have to choose a model for this classification step it just attempts to classify based on the preprogrammed models.
Accept user input to classify the unknown. (Yea it has its own UI code).Deploy to the cloud (this is sort of in beta but it works). Export your notebook to latex / a slideshow once you have submitted your work to someone so you can explain it.
You forget all the people killed through air pollution.
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To me it is obvious that the way to go would be to abstract out the power source by using an electric drivetrain regardless of the engine. When the car has electric motors connected directly to drive shafts you can eliminate lots of the mechanical linkage and you are also free to redesign and relocate the power source as you wish.

But, most importantly, once you accept the slight inefficiencies in converting energy to electricity and then to radial forces, you are free to experiment with whatever power source you like:

- use batteries like Tesla: you can simply fill with batteries any compartments of the body that you wish. The car runs as long as the batteries have charge.

- use fuel cells if those ever become viable.

- design a small, self-contained turbocharged diesel engine that runs at the optimum RPM to drive a generator when the batteries need charging: put it in the boot or the front bay, but you don't need to consider how it connects with the wheels mechanically, and it can be lighter and doesn't have to support a wide range of RPMs like current engines.

- or maybe linear generator engines powered by gasoline or diesel (like what Toyota has been developing) turn out to be optimal for mobile electricity generation for some period in the future.

- or maybe a low-cost turbine engine hooked to a generator like the Whisper concept car: the engine can burn nearly anything and provides high power output at high RPM that would otherwise be in the impractical range for a car.

But if you combine any power source and a small battery, that allows you to buffer energy and only use the combustion engine to occasionally recharge the battery. You can drive the rush hour traffic or a downtown route using mostly electric power only, and rely on the combustion engine to recharge the battery when parked (but not plugged in to mains) or while driving during longer trips. A reasonable compromise for range anxiety would be to drop down to limited power when the battery runs out and you need to rely on the combustion engine only. You could still reach your destination but at slower speeds.

Nevertheless, the options are quite unlimited. Buffering of energy is more useful than raw power in the future just like an Android phone is more useful than a desktop PC in the general case even if it's slower and runs only a day or so without charging. Only serious usage warrants desktop PCs with stationary power supplies: most online activities can be done with a low-power device that runs on energy buffered in the battery.
Yep, I have. Pretty cool stuff
Look into its history, it got fired up by Havoc Pennington out of RH. Sadly it seemed to work at first, but now it is basically a tool for Gnome/Fedora to bludgeon the rest into submission by sheer weight of code.

Frankly it seems that Linux has grown its own "internal" MS. A massive, overfed gorilla in the form of Red Hat. And it is now swinging its weight around, thinking it has "won" some kind of unix war. Sadly it may well be right, as there is few that can match it in the amount of man hours it can throw at a project.

Damn it, https://github.com/subuser-security/subuser/issues/216 is a "blog" entry related to Docker that holds a mention of such weight throwing.

"A number of developers from RedHat were once very involved in the project. However, these developers had a very arrogant attitude towards Docker: They wanted docker changed so that it would follow their design ideas for RHEL and systemd. They often made pull requests with poorly written and undocumented code and then they became very agressive when those pull requests were not accepted, saying "we need this change we will ship a patched version of Docker and cause you problems on RHEL if you don't make this change in master." They were arogant and agressive, when at the same time, they had the choice of working with the Docker developers and writting quality code that could actually be merged. Another thing they often said was along the lines of "systemd is THE ONE AND ONLY INIT SYSTEM so why do you care about writing code that might be portable?" Or "even though the universal method works with systemd now. A redesign has already been planned in systemd, so do it the new systemd way and don't be portable."(This is in response to the fact that Docker writes to cgroups, and systemd would like to be the "sole writter to cgroups" some time in the future.)"
ttyp0 is way better than Terminus, which is so popular among Linux/Unix people. But if the world ever goes HiDPI, I guess bit-mapped fonts will die out.
There is a similar startup in the UK, has good traction https://www.facewatch.co.uk/
How about the VISA to get talent tech people in Japan? How does it work?
I call bullshit, in Russia people still write in cursive long after introduction of ballpoint pen, because that's what people are taught in school. It also happens to be much faster than print, regardless of the writing implement, so that helps too.
This started quite a conversation, looking at the stats in Codeanywhere it seems at a first glance that Inconsolata is the most used (although true this is the default font). Will do a detailed analysis and report my findings :)
Good ideas but those different power plants all have very different coolong and exhaust requirements. Hard to design something that can adapt to all that.
I'm talking about getting academia onboarded back in 1996 here. If you look at the industrial market, then sure, but I'm looking at what it takes to get languages that doesn't look like the normal imperative piece of crap to run on the JVM, and without tail-calls that is just hoop-jumping.

As for the GC, the interplay is the ability to tell the runtime where your pointers are. It is one of the places which usually lacks because many VMs assume a calling convention, like the one in Java, say. The JVM is a bit better here as it uses a stack-based engine, and as such is somewhat simpler to handle.

Functional compilers rarely, if ever, uses the standard conventions for handling this. Especially if they want to avoid boxing polymorphic parameters, and expand them for speed.

We could have had far better client-side and academic penetration of the JVM by now, had Sun played their cards differently. But alas, they didn't, and we are stuck with a Server VM market only.
Same in the UK.
Thank you for this, I really, really like the compactness of it.

Not surprised to see Pragmata as an inspiration, I bought that font a few years ago when it was around US$100, and I still love it today, I probably use it 80% of the time :)
The technology in Formula 1 is just impressive, there's far more to it than meets the eye of a casual observer.

Just to name a few things related to McLaren... Their headquarters has an artificial lake to cool down the airflow in their 145 meter underground wind tunnel [1]. And when the cars are out on track anywhere in the world, their engineers and strategists are hard at work in their mission control room [2] that resembles something out of a space program more than a racing team. Not to forget that they are pioneers in using composite materials in racing and other applications.

But I really had no idea that they had something to do with toothpaste.

Now, I'm a bit gutted to see such a great team having such a horrible season in racing with their new engine supplier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Technology_Centre
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYhl7csZJHw
Teach them ways to become autonomic, to find their own path through life, and addiction will calm down by itself.

Yes, but as addiction goes deeper it becomes more difficult to escape. It's not a nice thing to say, but there is probably a point of no return for many, after long periods of drug and alcohol abuse. Early interventions are crucial.
Extensis Portfolio (commercial) will do this, and can continue to 'watch' folders..

An initial run could relatively straight forwardly be scripted and imported into a db or indexer (mysql, elasticsearch, rethinkdb), but then the problem is there's no UI or updating/sync'ing..
Engineers go to work dressed like bums and chances are that their boss isn't an engineer (implying a stagnant career, which easily explains the lack of ties). They are the working class of university graduates, low status indeed.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-tab... "Times of stress throughout my life have led me to turn, or return, to the physical sciences, a world where there is no life, but also no death."
Same principle, though in the RE i3 the ICE isn't intended to run most of the time, so the i8 is a better point of comparison: you can use it all-electric for short hops but most of the expected usage is with the ICE running and the battery serving as buffer & booster.
Pretty much every single new car comes with Start/Stop technology nowadays,so it's a bit of a moot point.
It is always sad when a person curious about the world dies. He provided me with many stimulating hours of reading and for that I will miss him.
I can attest to this. In the past few years I've watched two close friends destroy their lives through addictions to alcohol and drugs. One of them died recently after years of severe alcoholism. The other is now in prison for drug-related offences.

I recall with fondness and sadness, both of them at their best... kind, generous, witty, intelligent; highly capable in their careers and loving and supportive to their families and close friends.

But each of them had ways in which they didn't quite fit in, and didn't always get the returns for the efforts they put in to try to achieve what they wanted in life, and as their frustrations grew, their self-destructive behaviours escalated, and the key support structures in life - most crucially their jobs and relationships - began to fall away.

But it was absolutely not the substance abuse issues that came first; in both cases that happened after the heavy knocks of life took their toll.

From observing these stories, I've become painfully aware that society just isn't very good at equipping people to understand why and how they're going wrong in life and how they can correct and achieve happiness and fulfilment. The support services that do exist, like therapy, AA, rehab etc, only become available when the problem is already entrenched and that much harder to turn around. I learned this when I recognised that I was starting to head down the wrong path in life and sought help before it got out of control, but the response was generally something like "you're pretty fine, don't waste our time".

I did end up finding an effective way of getting my life on track, and things are now going very well for me. I hope to live to see a time when it's much easier for far more people in the world to recognise their own failings and risk factors before they get out of control and find a better path before it's too late, and I'll be doing what I can to contribute to that cause.
In reality, it would be a waste of money to install charging point infrastructure in each place as the demand is so low. Most people would prefer better appliances than a charging point. It wouldn't be that difficult to fit the charging point yourself if you purchase an apartment.
While I'm sympathetic to bashing non-functional stuff, the JVM holds the record for languages. The CLR got the tail call thing partially right (AFAIK they didn't work well and weren't guaranteed) but due to the Windows only aspect MS chose, got almost no 3rd party language support.

The client side issue was much more to do with the terrible UI stuff and insistence on cross platform (hint: actual end users rarely care about cross platform since they tended to only run one platform at any time.) I believe MS was particularity enamored with Java but Sun slapped them away.

Client side was not lost due to lack of functional support. This should be trivially verifiable by the fact that fp is still only lightly used in industry.
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What you've quoted there is a good analogy of an entangled state. In reality there are several differences, and the biggest piece of misinformation is that measurement of one system somehow "collapses a wave function" in the other system which isn't the case.

The phenomenon of entanglement is that measurements of certain things are either perfectly correlated or anti-correlated. Eg. Measurement of spin along some axis on electron A will always be -1 when measurement of spin along the same axis of electron B is +1.

The similarity to 2 coins is: if i have a 1972 coin and a 1973 coin, and give one to you randomly, then you go a million light years away and look at your coin and find you have the 1973 coin, you will know I have the 1972 coin. Although this is only a simplified analogy of entanglement the important point is that the state was prepared before we separated, and no information has been communicated.
When you try to understand this in terms of classical physics, it's weird. But it's not classical physics. I wrote more about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10133674

Also check out the leonard susskind messenger lectures for a quick overview and his stanford continuing ed lectures on youtube for the long version :)
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Is the statistic that 90% of small buinsses fail? Odds are even worse, for even more effort.
I'm impressed that in literally two lines you took two different approaches to criticising Google.

They didn't ban them enough, then when they banned them, that was too much.

What are you trying to say, because it's completely incoherent.
> The problem is rather the chernobyl/Fukushima risk.

The risk from these types of accidents is less than the toll from fossil fuels in normal operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...

For Fukushima: ".. no confirmed casualties from radiation exposure.." "no evidence to support the idea.. will lead to an increase in cancer rates or birth defects".
Ummm language?
It's easy to underestimate communication because it is hard to quantify but when you cannot express the value of a startup clearly or develop deep relationships due to language barriers its going to affect your success.
While this is how many people feel, the facts say quite the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...
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It seems a perfectly consistent criticism to me. Rather than do their due diligence, Google threw the baby out with the bathwater by shutting down the whole program.

Sadly that is unsurprising in a tech world that so often likes to pretend it's powerless to police its own content.
A great loss, made no less shocking for all its foreshadowing due to his illness. The knowledge he shared through his work and his books have had a lasting impact on my life and the lives of others. Would that we all leave such a legacy.
And I wonder how you know where they're from, considering there is no city/country listed on their profile. Can you please explain how you arrived at that from OPs simple comment?
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File this under "doable but not easy." If you need specific instructions, they're often situation-specific and outside the scope of an HN comment. Email me and I'll data-dump about it. (Offer open to any HNer at essentially any time.)

The high percentage options are a) spouse of Japanese national, b) engineering status of residence (need to be able to demonstrate approximately ~3 million yen a year in income and an ongoing contract with one or more Japanese companies, and it is highly to your advantage if they're established old-line companies), and possibly, c) intra-company transfers (easiest to accomplish for established startups with significant ex-Japan operations), and possibly d) the new point-based immigration system.
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One detail worth mentioning, and a few other bloggers have touched on this as well is that Japan, from a business perspective, can still be very xenophobic. Kind of a cultural and racial version of the "not built here" problem. If it's a problem for foreigner workers, it is likely a compounded problem once you throw in the high-risk nature of start-ups and the extremely risk-adverse cultural preferences.
I take your point, but it has to be said that the copyists and e.g. book keepers in 19th and 20th century wrote more slowly and methodically than students scribbling in a lecture. As the author Rosemary Sassoon quoted in OA put it...

"most of us need a flexible way of writing—fast, almost a scribble for ourselves to read, and progressively slower and more legible for other purposes."

I have a suspicion that we mainly use pens/paper for the writing fast bits and the purposes for which slower writing was needed are now achieved using our keyboards.

My personal test for a pen of any kind is to hold it lightly between thumb and index finger, and then drag the pen down a page so that the only force pressing the nib/ball/tip onto the paper is the pen's own weight. If it leaves a line then I can use it without hand pain for fairly long periods. If it does not, then I'll use it mainly for shopping lists and post-it notes. Most but not all fountain pens pass that test as do some of the gel pens that produce wider lines such as the Uniball signos. Felt pens e.g. Sharpie fine points can pass the test as well!

As mentioned in a sibling comment to this, italic writing was taught in most UK schools for most of the 1960s onwards.
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I rented a diesel 2014 1 series in Ireland that had it. If a rental 1er had it I imagine it's standard on all their cars.
Which "Write Now!"? There appears to be several by different authors on Amazon.