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I do it a lot for Japanese. You need to select a suggestion to get the kanji right, and from there on you're already looking at the suggestion box, so might as well choose from there if it's close enough.
Though, notably, the overarching concept of the imagemacro is a meme.
It's trivial to beat a generic CPU by 1000x with a specialised ASIC or even an FPGA in many cases (think cryptography, for example).
This is true. And it's already becoming a reality. You can see a lot of "stupid" managers in corporations being incredibly wealthy compared to some talented technicians that actually do stuff for them.
The only thing these managers are good at is pushing idiotic processes to corporate system and hoarding money.
The criteria for "major depression" have been broadened, so more people are included.

Here's a recent paper talking about placebo and anti-depressants.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.20241/abstrac...
Apple Removes ‘A Few’ Apps Including Ad Blockers for Installing Root Certificate
Ironically, the Quartet is quite controversial in Tunisia (I'm Tunisian), some sees it a businessmen-controlled organization that is steering the political scene in Tunisia, while others see it as a left-controlled organization that is doing the same. All in all, a lot of people were not happy with these organizations mingling with the politics of the country.
So I would say, this news came as a big surprise to us. Sarcastic comments has been popping all around on social media since the announcement.
You mean a 20% paycut and double the equity, right?

If it's just the 20% paycut, all your best talent is going to jump ship and you end up losing people anyway.
I don't understand why they don't just use data-* attributes and stay valid.
Yes, there are distinctions to be made. But the status quo is clearly absurd.

Also, contrasting "scientific inquiry" vs "traditional correlation" in the context of patents is misleading. There's no requirement to demonstrate mechanistic understanding to get a patent. So it's arguably all just correlation.
If money has diminishing marginal utility (to the insured) then insurance can have both positive expected utility for the insured and positive expected profit for the insurer.
I really miss maemo, it was pretty much what you're describing. Being able to rebuild packages directly from the debian archive if I wanted some new software, or patch some system software and put it in my own APT repository, are things I really liked.

In addition to the problems you describe with google moving more core functionality into its "Google Apps" packages, it also means that running android without the google bits is getting increasingly hard. It's missing some core functionality that other non-google apps expect.
Nuclear energy isn't going to die and it's still much cheaper than wind/solar energy while being much more green as well.
Isn't that true of the universe itself? So it's likely not a very useful definition when trying to make distinctions.
What's a nice XP-er doing in a company like this?
Fair point. PowerShell is three things, actually: An embeddable scripting runtime, a scripting language, and a shell. The latter is (by name, probably) what people see it as, usually. Furthermore, most usage examples throughout the web use it for things that are traditionally done in a shell, e.g. interactive use, or small scripts that mainly do filesystem maintenance stuff.

You're right in that Python may be a more apt comparison, especially in that PowerShell's .NET foundation serves as the equivalent to Python's included libraries.

But that's a discussion that would have to happen every time people try to think of PowerShell as a weird bash. And it is a capable and useful shell, too. It just can do a lot of things much better than bash; they just look different.
It definitely depends on the invention in question.

Consider the case of nuclear weapons. The first big leap is that the energy of fission can be made to be explosively released. Once you know that this is the case, most people in the field might be able to come up with something along the lines of a gun-type warhead.

On the other hand, implosion devices, even if you know they are possible, still require a huge amount of work and design studies to make work reliably. Knowing that they are possible isn't the hard part--making it work is.
Hey now, as a member of European Union, i am quite happy to refer to myself as Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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You're right, I didn't notice that it's going to be available; just not right now.
This is pretty cool. It would be neat to see people collaboratively work on a large mural but griefers tend to ruin things like these, just like in the early days of Minecraft.
What about RSS? That offered good performance, was widely adopted and was a real standard working for both publishers and consumers.

Remember who actually killed it? Yeah, that was also Google.. by discontinuing their Reader - a very good tool with lots of users but no revenue. That's how much open standards matter. Too bad @aaronsw is not around anymore, he would have said something about AMP.
> I disagree - most publishers I've seen (including large and mid-level) have some of the most bloated HTML with megabytes(!) of javascript and CSS just for rendering + all the other stuff you mentioned. They are definitely not optimized.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-...
Absolute control.
It works fine on OS X / Firefox.
Your arguments are irrelevant nowadays.

If my filesystem gets corrupted, I boot into a live cd, just like everybody does.

With btrfs and integrated parity, checksums, cow and scrubbing on the horizon filesystem reliability is only a minor thing to care about. With subvolumes we can snapshot as many things atomically as we want.

Simlicity is now what trumps your arguments overwhelmingly. The filesystem hierarchy has to be intuitive, consistent and simple, which it is currently not.
Yes. I was Time Man of the Year 2006 as well.
I've never encountered a system where xdg-open did something I didn't expect. It's basically the linux variant of windows' double-click and OSX's open. If I did it on a text file and it would open it in Firefox I would think "Jeez what idiot chose Firefox for text files" not "Jeez xdg-open is useless".
20% was just an arbitrary example. The underlying point I think is the first focus should be on trying to retain all full-time employees. And I probably should've mentioned that the likely outcome would be that the higher ranks would make the sacrifice, not the lower levels (unless absolutely necessary), since they probably depend more on their salaries for the basics.

Those who are not willing to make the sacrifice probably don't really believe in the vision and thus probably aren't the right people to help you get out of the rut.

And one other caveat would be transparency. That way a company can't just arbitrarily request that their employees make sacrifices when it's not demonstrably essential.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I was drawing on. I'm suggesting it as an arguably similar situation where we appeal to "nature" to deny patents. I brought it up because I think that HN might be more likely to consider software as "ownable" but DNA as not, which could seem like an arbitrary distinction (until we really get to a better reason than "nature").
I'd also be interested. I kinda like systemd as far as I've tried it, but as you say, the discussion around it is just inane. I'm sure there are valid complaints buried in there, and you seem to be a reasonable sort about these things.

There are other pages out there claiming to be neutral overviews, but they generally just take a neutral tone while rehashing the same long-debunked myths and spreading FUD.

The specific thing I like about systemd is the init replacement. It's just so much better! Automatically tracking daemon child processes, even detached ones. Supporting all the different modes daemons work, so I don't need to write yet another damn clean-up-all-the-children function in a SysVinit script. It's wonderful.

But systemd is a lot more than an init system and I don't really have strongly formed opinions on those.
Self promotion, but I recently published an intro to ECS after doing an extensive evaluation:

http://www.infoq.com/articles/intro-aws-ecs.

ECS is solid. Happy to answer any questions on it.
> Can we please stop paying attention to the Nobel Peace Prize now?

Why? I mean, you might not approve of everyone it was awarded to, but what exactly bothers you about discussing the Nobel Peace Prize?

More importantly, whether these recipients deserved it doesn't tell me anything about the group who got it this year.
It's not, but it's a comparison that helps clarify. I've been participating in online communities since 1994, I've seen the full range. I've watched, and participated in, epic flame wars on Usenet that went on for weeks. I've had people make death threats against me. I've seen legitimately mentally ill people spew all kinds of nonsense.

And in comparison to all of that I'd say reddit is worse. I like many things about reddit, it's got plenty of good parts. But there are fundamental weaknesses in the design and administration of the site which mean that it's difficult to avoid incredibly terrible interactions with assholes on a regular basis.
"This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason"

In other words, it's the programmers, the "geeks," the "code monkeys" that should take the fall for all of this and not the non-technical, MBA-holding managers to whom they answered and who almost certainly enjoy better compensation and more respect.

The perils of our profession's relatively low prestige are on display here for all to see.
I had the same thought at first but somehow all the indirections were confusing me and I think it makes things more difficult than necessary. What I plan to do however is to use direct threading instead since a JRST takes no more space than the mere address of course. That would make NEXT a bit simpler and save some space.
What? You mean the People's Republic of Capitalism?
The other problem is industrial consumers

Hydro and geothermal are 'green' solutions that can manage pretty constant power levels 24/7. Just make sure your factory is close to those type of power plants and you'll be fine.
But excluding factors like the health/pollution costs? So, not a fair comparison with things like wind/solar then.
Jobs is rolling in his grave for a chance to get back at Musk. Jobs would make him eat his words if he were still around... and vindictively at that.
Only english, or also for other languages?
His party gave him the arse because polling showed he was seriously on the nose with the electorate and had been so since shortly after his election.
I was wondering too.
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The question should not be whether you believe that it is possible for patents to promote innovation. Rather can you prove based on evidence that they clearly and irrefutably, in fact, do so? Do patents ever harm or retard innovation? Is it economically worth the burden of the patent system for the benefit achieved, or are there better alternatives?

Moreover, how much theoretical economic payoff justifies surrendering a basic right? Should government be given sweeping power to dictate how we use our minds?
I don't avoid sites that don't allow comments, but I tend to prefer ones that do.
You don't like some of the more controversial laureates therefore we should ignore it. Is that the point?

Each of those people received the award for a reason. You may disagree with it, and perhaps that reason (particularly in light of subsequent developments) was insufficient.
Good Technicians also ask Why and they also have to remind the engineer how Ohms law goes some times :-)
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I would also recommend using something like AOSP with a very minimal GApps install. Or bake your own ROM if you really need fine control. I even had to build a modified TWRP recovery in order to fully support my latest device. Additionally, use a firewall and Xposed with XPrivacy to tightly reign in apps. However the reality is that this is no fun, and not something you can expect the average consumer to do. It is quite unfortunate and I have similar sentiments.
Reaction to this VW thing from everyone everywhere except the press trying to blow up a story...

"Does this actually affect the cars in any way?"
"No, not at all, it's just some numbers on a report".
"So.... ok then" (moves on)
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I thought basically all nations had signed on to completely decarbonize by the end of this century?

That will effectively mean leaving a lot of fossil fuels in the ground.

You'll have to pencil in the details for how this equals "abandoning industrial civilisation". Is this because of that EROI numerology thing?
Facebook are nailing it at the moment. I love the look of Origami (http://facebook.github.io/origami/). I wonder how long until it can export to react(-native) components...
> What would you --not wikipedia, the dictionary or politicians-- you (or the person I originally asked) suggest would be the approach to gun control legislation that would allow police officers to not worry about whether or not civilians are armed when approaching them?

I gave one: implement national laws and policies equivalent to what's in Australia, Sweden, or Japan; wait the few years for use/presence of guns to go down; observe that the justifications for the stark use of police force have gone down; no longer permit those justifications.
Sure, I understand that, yet "everyone" has wifi already, and even in the streets you receive a decent number of wifi signals...

There might be a need for longer range IoT comms (in cars, etc) but for urban use, WiFi would be fine if only it had OOB. We're not using the full potential of WiFi I think
You should also include external costs to your cost of producing coal power; then is what the CO2 taxes are an attempt to do.

That someone else is forced to pay to handle the effects of your pollution doesn't mean that this cost shouldn't be considered part of the cost of coal generated electricity.
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Seems to me that linux is self destructing, causes by people who think new is better than working.

First systemd pretty much ruined linux, I know so many people who lost interest in promoting or using linux what that was forced on us.

Now they seem to want to change this.

Yeah.... I'll just go back to windows.
Or getting caught in a clamp down and being put in front of a firing squad to "Pour encourjay lays ortras" As the Late Terry Pratchett put it.
This is a really interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. It could have implications for the ability of people to express their ideas, and thus on their imaginations. It reminds me a little of Newspeak. Not that I'm suggesting that SwiftKey's neural net is some sort of Orwellian thought-controlling tool by design or mistake, but it's an interesting idea that as we get the benefit of accurate autocorrect (I don't actually use autocorrect on any of my devices), we start to lose both the individuality of expression, and then the imagination that fuels that expression.
I just setup something similar for one of our api services as a trial to see how it would work out. My biggest gripe with ECS is that it currently does not support dynamic port mapping between ELB and a container instance. For example, if your service listens on port 8080, and ELB terminates port 443 and forwards to a container, then you can only have one container instance per EC2 cluster node, b/c spinning up two containers on the same node results in a port resource conflict.

This makes the whole solution fairly similar to just using auto-scale to spin up a new EC2 instance per app.

I know this is a major gripe right now with ECS, and hopefully Amazon is working on a solution.

Other than a few other frustrating gotchas, ECS has been pretty nice. I do like the idea of putting central config in S3 and copying config files over to cluster instances with a user data script (how they recommend you pull from private docker repo).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...
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http://www.chromoscope.net/1.4.1/what.html#xraygaps
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Here we're not talking about medicines with ruinously expensive approval processes, though; we're talking about gene-based diagnostic tests. Non-invasive diagnostic tests don't have anything like the same kinds of regulatory hassles, because there isn't a question of side-effects - it's purely a question of how accurate they are.
Interesting that "social channel" with Facebook, Instagram, etc. will be $5 and the basic web browsing connection will be $16 per day.

I wonder if Facebook is subsidizing the social channel option, or if Carnival just assumes the social channels are free advertising as people post about their cruise in real-time.
American education based on sales. It sells knowledge and that is why it is going downhill. Being politically correct on races is another curse. And don't talk about creativity when you students cannot do math on paper!
You are completely ignoring the fact that large Pharma companies would be unable to have any return on investment, would not be able to pay their employees and thus many people would be unemployed and there would thus be no incentive to even develop new drugs.
Move or change location of OneDrive folder in Windows 10
Many users of Windows use two separate drives on their computers – a main drive like an SSD to run the operating system and other programs, and a regular hard drive to store the bulk of their content. OneDrive, by default, stores files to the C:\User\<username>\OneDrive location. In any event of misfortune, a user can lose all the files if he has them stored on C drive. So, as a precautionary measure you can change the location of the files to wherever you want
It's also fine on Firefox/Windows 10
The "What am I looking at?" section (http://www.chromoscope.net/1.4.1/what.html) says that they are:

"Don't worry, they aren't holes in the Universe being ripped open by creatures from another dimension! They are actually just gaps in the survey."
Estonia wants to collect the DNA of all its citizens
Thanks for both of these (also sub comment). These were great reads, kept me up last night.
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They are running out of ideas. The peace prize has drifted too far to be taken seriously, a perfect example to hijack then abuse the influence, and finally lose it.
Tunisian here. This just goes to show how unreliable the Norwegian Nobel Committee is.

Also, flagged for a very misleading title.
Do American house buyers not have a survey done. In the UK its a requirement of a Mortgage application.
That's exactly how a site I work on operates. True, changing a link across all pages is a very slow operation (about 50 seconds for 11,000 pages) but a) that's happening in a highly structured and powerful but resource-intensive way (i.e. DOM parsing) b) it happens so rarely that I haven't bothered to optimise it. The main trade-off for an update that happens maybe once every 1-2 months taking 50 seconds is that every single page load is faster. There are other benefits from static files, too - it's much easier to work with content in flat files, 1-per-page, than the kind of complicated database / file / code relationship used by many 'normal' CMSes.
Those are global averages. Some countries have lots of sun and little coal, and vice versa.

Islands that have to import oil to burn are ideal early markets for example.

And every solar panel or wind turbine reduces the price of the next, a positive feedback loop.

Every bit of coal or gas burned puts more CO2 in the atmosphere and increases the costs that governments will impose on production, a negative feedback loop.
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Wow, this looks really cool! I've contemplated making something similar myself but now it looks like I might not have to.
I was as annoyed as the next person when Google killed Reader but, to be honest, RSS was killed off for typical users way before that when browser manufacturers dropped/hid support for it. I still use RSS every day, as do many of our customers.
I'm a tad disappointed that people are downvoting you on this. It sounds like you have quite a bit of knowledge in this area, and if you are wrong, I'd prefer if the individuals actually commented how/why you're wrong, and back it up. It would yield more information/insight to all of us reading the discussion.
The overwhelming majority of programmers are strongly opposed to any patents on software. The opponents of gene patents have nothing on the fury programmers vent when they see what lucrative software patents actually look like.
Yes, by electrolysis. Of molten minerals. This also consumes energy

"Alumina is dissolved in molten cryolite, typically at 960 °C"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting
In Poland you only get composite if you pay extra, National Health Fund (mandatory insurance) gives you the amalgam. And a month of waiting, where time is crucial. And no anastheatics for drilling. SLAVIC FUN!
How to configure files using Windows Sync Center in Windows 10
you have your Windows 10 computer set up to sync files with a network server, Windows 10 Sync Center will allow you to check the results of your recent sync activity. Its a tool for giving you access to copies of your network files even when your computer isn’t connected to the network.
The thing is that his work is basically worthless unless he communicates it to others.
Show HN: A chat app built for AMAs
English, from what I can see.
I wonder if it can take advantage of Qualcomm's Zeroth neural processor in the Snapdragon 820.
> Participating in the Austin Group is pretty open

Not really. I know someone who's spent ages trying to get O_CREATE added as an alias for O_CREAT.

http://spiegelmock.com/2015/01/23/fixing-a-typo-the-hard-way...
When white actors play other races: 'Whitewashing' in Hollywood
I guess this makes my lowly blog now advanced technology, because it doesn't use JavaScript.
Indeed, also Google Chrome.
YES - most people in technology here are just too eager to build things, to the detriment of any long term strategy. But in other industries I've met locals who are very able critical thinkers and so there is hope. The common thread amongst them is time studying abroad though...
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Coal is heavily subsidized in many countries, even up to 50% in some.
There was a major ext4 bug just earlier this year that caused data loss for some folks: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785672

Booting a LiveCD would not have fixed affected partitions.

You're not the first on HN to say in so many words that the sometimes expensive lessons I've learned over 30 years of computing are suddenly irrelevant now. I used to argue that, but I don't see much point to it anymore.
>"When code breaks often the "lay" user notices. The result is obvious to a novice."

That depends "how" it breaks. As a novice coder myself, I've had things go wrong that I don't notice or can't identify, and it looks like my program is running fine.

I think that's the parent's point: it might be stupid to implement crappy macho learning models into production, but it isn't worrisome. It's expected.