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I do not have time to read this bag of words but I searched for the word "chimney" and I did not find it.

See, there is your problem and a big fat hint for a solution.

Most countries in northern hemisphere solved this problem more than century ago and it amazes me how this solution is not even mentioned once.
Submitted 8 days ago, no comments. Nobody cares?

Maybe people have been so beaten down that they've given up. Track us all you want, nothing we can do about it!

The country's smartest and brightest are graduating from Stanford and MIT and going to work for companies whose entire business model depends on vacuuming up as much of the world's personal information as they can get away with. Depressing.
Risk, Scrabble games have been taken down, but I don't think it was because of trademark. Civilization is the opposit with lots of clones, no take downs nor trademark suits, even for http://freeciv.org which uses "Civ".
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"No matter what the diet, the key to weight loss is to burn more calories than are taken in. Fats contain more than twice as many calories per gram as proteins or carbohydrates. It seemed logical, then, to reduce fat as a means of reducing calories overall, says Hall."

Translation: we were wrong, but it was logical to be wrong and we still have some other ways to be wrong, like the "all calories are equal" mantra to replace old wrongs that we can't say anymore with a straight face.
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How about this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-griffith/who-the-chick-fil...

Or this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynda-bekore/why-calls-for-boy...

People should help, but it is unbelievable to me with such smart people here we can't come up with a more realistic way to solve the problem than a boycott.
I do a great deal of R&D and work with emerging technologies.

I'm also one of the leads for IoT rollout. In essence, I look at many sectors and areas at the same time, and determine how it can be used in our org.

I was looking at message passing using IRC as a form of command and control. The hackers have used it successfully for controlling a force of DDoS clients; why not a server farm? I know that Ansible, chef, and others exist. But IRC is human readable, meaning status messages can be passively read.

Pretty much, I have a dream job. I can get funding for pretty much anything I want, have access to petabyte FS, access to 3 supers(HPC, not clusters), multiple clusters, and more. And then I'm asked, "what can you make with that?"

You learn quick in those situations.
Sounds to me like it is working, is what happened.

> Although these cookstoves produce fewer emissions than open fires, burning biomass fuels in them still releases plenty of toxins

For toxins that actually matter, that's smoke in layperson terms.

So what if the benefits are only partially there. It still rocks.

It makes me suspicions that the study where all the stovetops were no longer being used, was just picked as an example because it failed.

And as to electricity and gas being better, that's nice, the doers can continue down the biomass efficiency road while this is still being discussed.
Or is at least correlated. And that correlation is quite brittle - if you do things like split the world into developed and undeveloped, the correlations seem to vanish (suggesting Simpson's paradox).

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/e21_01.pdf

The stats supporting this are not very solid.
It's mostly because there aren't any real alternatives. Building a world wide push messaging network is really hard (you have to deal with carriers a lot and convince them not to close your long running connections after 5 minutes). That said, the servers support websocket connections as well. I don't know the current state of client support. Also, a Chrome/Chromium extension is in the works.
At least iOS uses CGFloats for argb components in its UIColor class:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/...:

Going beyond 8bit would be awesome; if you have large gradients and don't use dither, you get really heavy banding. Imagine a gradient on a web page background. If your screen is 1024 pixels high, thats 4 rows of pixels of the same color even if your gradient is going from 0 to 255 on a channel. If your range is smaller (dark gray to lighter gray), it gets even worse. Even older APIs could draw benefit of this, for example a CSS gradient specifying #rrggbb...#rrggbb with 8bits/channel could be rendered with more than 8 bits per channel to avoid banding.
I'm sure a lot of people already suspected this, in 2013 a Facebook engineer proudly stated that they've hacked their way around a dalvik vm limitation[0] for their app to work on Android 2.2-2.3.

It's the attitude that "hacking things to work is okay" is causing extremely bad reliability issues even when using a top of the range android phone or latest iOS device.

Have they ever thought that maybe 18,000 classes is a bit too much?

Absolutely nightmarish way of working.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...
You're also less hungry when you restrict carbs (bread, pasta, sweets, etc.).
We are currently at 24-bit colour palettes - 8 for each colour. 32-bit is used for ARGB, with alpha-channel, so it's still 8 bit per channel.
This, however, moves us to 30-bit palette, which is nice.
November '83 - my first term at University in the centre of Edinburgh. A Soviet first strike would probably have been around 3am Washington time - 8am UK time. I know to within a few metres where I would have been - at least it would have been quick - unlike my parents and other family members 20 odd miles downwind from a couple of RAF bases.
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It's a common misconception that newer systems bring productivity improvements, but that's not always the case in reality. While there are undoubtedly occasions when newer systems do bring vast improvements, there are also occasions when newer systems are just trying to reinvent the wheel and ultimately end up little better - or sometimes even worse - than the old system (and that's before you factor in training your staff to use the new systems). There are also occasions when the newer system is trying to change a process in ways that meet modern fashions yet fail to meet a company's core business requirements. Both of the last two points are things I've unfortunately seen a few times in previous jobs.

There are generally three points that need to be considered before upgrading an older system:

1. Is the older system still fulfilling the needs? (often jobs change over time and some systems are rigid thus require users to perform additional steps in the modern era to continue to make use of the older system).

2. Is support still available for the older system (eg if it breaks, is hardware available to replace it? Are engineers still available to maintain it? etc)

3. Will the new proposed system fix the aforementioned issues?

Often you'll find that the first two points are still or that the 3rd point isn't true. Sadly it's all too common that the reason someone pushes to upgrade older systems is either down to agism ("it's old. Old is bad!") or because someone needs to justify their own job / bulk out their CV ("I was responsible for migrating Company xyz from product a to product b.").

With the greatest of respect to yourself, as you get older I think you too will start to notice just how often upgrades go wrong and how some businesses would have been better off sticking with the old system. So there does need to be a carefully considered pragmatism with regards to just how robust some older systems can be and whether the upgrade is actually offering any benefit or whether the older system is genuinely just bad / no longer fulfilling the job requirements.
Well, labeling it a vice to be avoided is just application of social pressure to suppress or shun this feature of the human psyche. "Inequality is just fine, feeling unhappy about inequality is a character flaw."
I want to hurt the shareholders of companies that cause environmental destructions.
There is actually even simpler solution. Build a chimney and exhaust the burning fumes directly to the outside. Problem solved.

These people are living two centuries in the past so proved, simple and local solutions would be the best.
>Envy was also always related to greed.

They're related in that they're both pejorative terms for the act of wanting something, but their meanings differ. Envy means wanting something 'cos other people have it, greed means wanting something for some intrinsic property of the thing. E.g. if I want to get rich so I can afford a hundred hookers, coke and pizza a day, I want that for the intrinsic satisfaction those things bring, not because I care about having more hookers/coke/pizza than anyone else.
as opposed to board games
One of the reasons I didn't install WhatsApp is the sheer quantity of permissions it wants (on Android).

Yes, I realise that this is part of Android's broken security model.

But the Signal app also wants access to practically everything. Device & App History, Identity, Calendar, Contact, Location, SMS, Phone, Photos/Media/Files, Camera, Microphone, WiFi Connection info and Device ID and call info.

Call me paranoid, but making an app with all those permissions seems kind of the obvious place for backdoors and similar.

If there was a 'light' version of the app which only required access the internet, then I'd be much more likely to install and use it. (And maybe if I ended up trusting it, then later install add-ons / the full version later).
Do they have ZRTP in the baseband of normal GSM call?

This is what I have been waiting for.
I instantly thought about Interstellar beginning scene...
Not related to this article directly, but what is the current perception of the term "Software Freedom"? I know that FSF equals it to GPL, which grants certain freedoms to the user of the software, but if such a user is actually a developer, one freedom is quickly taken away - one can't use the software as one wish, but needs to also license his work as GPL.

Of course it looks like I am trolling here, but I really try to understand what is so great about GPL. I noticed large companies like Google or FB are releasing their open source projects under Apache license, which also grants the same freedoms like GPL, but also offers more - truly use the software as one wish. And for some works, like for example FB's folly C++ library, it is really a high quality cutting-edge stuff, and anyone can still contribute like in GPL world.
This is an example of many other Asia countries as well, even if the host country is "hi-tech" but the excuse is always be "our company isn't hi-tech". If you're not working in trending industries, eg. e-commerce, mobile, finance, banking, etc., you'd expect to be stuck with 10yo technology.

I was using a HP Gen 3 server to query DNS to get here to input this comment.
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When you look at ketogenic diets being used to control epilepsy you realise there is likely more to it than just behavioural.
I got bitten really badly by this a while ago when trying to migrate some servers about.

3TB of storage would cost £21/month just to have it sat in Glacier. This isn't too bad, I suppose, but when you then need retrieve it, you're looking at an additional £270.
The "closed by default" attitude drove me nuts. Teams develop tools to improve their work and refuse to share the source code, even internally, even when there is a business reason (I'll improve the tool for you and me). Forget about cross-company collaboration on open source like you see in web dev.
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Of course, when you look at the biggest sources of rent seeking in the US, they are mostly not protecting the interests of the very wealthy.

Exclusionary zoning, occupational licensing, overpriced government services, these are probably the biggest (in terms of $) examples of rent seeking in the US. These generally favor some middle class and poor folks at the expense of other middle class and poor folks.

If this theory were true, where is the rent seeking?
> New to HN,

That surprises me, especially since you posted something 237 days ago:

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1 point by rlafranchi 237 days ago | 4 comments

Even so, the usual modus operandi[0] is that if you've got an article to share then you submit it in the URL box. If you haven't got a URL to share, but want to say something, share something, or ask a question, then you put it in the text box.

Doing what you did has at least two consequences. One is that your item has a "non-URL" penalty in the rankings, so it's less likely to make the Front Page, and if it does, then it will fall off more quickly.

The second effect is that people need to copy your URL, then paste it into their browser. It's not clickable, so far, far fewer people will read it in the first place.

[0] And no, it's not "modus operandus" : http://ask.metafilter.com/103558/why-not-modus-operandus
Gotta hand it to SoftBank and Gung-ho for buying half of Supercell for what is now a cheap price.
As do high-carb diets. The issue is one of keeping to the strict dieting requirements. The article states the issue being that diets, on average, enable you to lose 5kg over a year. This is not successful weight loss.
Beautiful country, awesome food but Indonesia is a mess... If you have the opportunity to go there you will see why, the lack of government is apparent everywhere, they are as poor as it gets and the government is completely incapable of handling it's country.

I come from a country like that and there is no way this will be solved easily, some countries are just too corrupt and incapable of handling themselves, it takes a lot of investment in education and a large number of generations to fix that and since the country is a mess there is no way for that to happen without some miracle.

It's so absurd that drug use or commerce is punishable by death yet every five minutes you get stopped getting offered some kind of it, of course being a tourist in my early 30's help with that but I was with my wife and I don't exactly look like a junkie. What I mean is people (some at least) are not afraid of breaking the law...

This is not even in their radar.

It's worth a visit, but living is probably not fun.
If package theft was a significant problem, Amazon would require signature on delivery for everything.
To be more specific, they talk about low-fat, moderate-carbs and moderate-protein, processed and toxic food. In that case it doesn't matter if it's low-fat or not. Drinking all day coke ore eating all day fruit are both low-fat. Guess what, there is a difference.
In the same fashion, look up the formula for the standard deviation for discrete random variable. Then look at the formula for euclidean distance.
Yes, I meant "do not understand". I fixed this. Thanks!

If what you are saying is true, then it really points to the direction that international embargo would be a solution to this problem.
If this is reasonable justification to forcibly distribute people's capital, than why not to force everyone into a wheelchair to give the disabled more happiness? Or force everyone to shave their head to make the bald more happy? Or force everyone to lob off a limb for the "benefit" of the maimed?

EDIT: to the silent down-voters might I suggest you more equally distribute your down-votes to increase HN happiness.
It's not just Asia. Here in Canada I recently had to make some changes to my cell phone plan, and I watched the clerk struggle to use a system that was running on Windows XP.

I've also watched bank clerks using systems that were obviously running on 3278 simulators.

Most businesses are no more high tech and up to date than they have to be.
I'd argue that social pressure to shun this feature of the psyche is ultimately more productive for human happiness. Some people are always going to be luckier/smarter/harder working/more ruthless than others and they'll end up with more in pretty much any social system, so people who accept this inevitability are gonna be a lot happier than people who aren't happy as long as anyone else has more than them.
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Why not on my Nexus 7?
What I don't understand is why 8 bit color isn't enough. Back when 8 bit color was released (yes, I'm old), we were told that it provided way more colors than the human eye could discern - 24 million as opposed to the 10 million that the human eye could discern.

What changed?

Is 10 bit color smoke and mirrors or is it something that only a smaller fraction of the population can appreciate?
As long as it still requires Google Play I'll still consider it snake oil.
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Yes. Zynga PMs looked at the numbers and saw that Draw something was on its way down. They made noise but management didn't listen.
Hi!

I´m sorry the responsive version is not ready yet. The layout in the documentation is quite tricky and I haven't time yet to build media queries so you can use it on your phone.

Consider also that using the playground in a touch platform doesn't make too much sense, but sure I will make it responsive.

Thanks for your feedback!
That's possible, but incredibly tedious.

It may be easier to just generate binary code from assembly in coq (as Microsoft Research has demonstrated: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd...) instead of trying to shoehorn a C compiler into a verified context and then running proofs over that for non-trivial problems.

seL4 was a huge project. Once you start reasoning about using L4 APIs, it will only become worse (eg. it's not simple to determine who has access to the pages in any L4 AddressSpace)
To add to this, with 10-bits per channel, you could essentially have a 40-bit desktop in ARGB.
Exactly.

And you're only talking about the small percentage of the geeks. The non-geeks in our society have absolutely NO clue at all that such technology exists, how it works and how effectively it destroys privacy. Basically, they still live in dream land.

Technology moves faster than anything, not just the law.
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weekend project doesn't necessarily mean "only one weekend" could be multiple weekends
We already have that built in: click on the “stacked view” icon on the top right.
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In Android Marshmallow you can deny / disable any of those permissions. And apps compatible with API Level 23 won't ask for those permissions from the start.
The majority of shareholders have no influence over the decisions made. The companies can work to be more responsible, but if you boycott, you'll give them even more incentive to cut corners, and you'll be hurting low-level workers and many others that have no influence over the decisions that are being made.

It is fine to be angry about it and want to help, but choose a path that will work.
The solution, I think, is to make sure that the political process happens completely transparently and with approval of the people. Properly designed IT systems could thus help solve the problem. See: [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy

[2] http://liquidfeedback.org/
That's excellent. Installing and using GPG (or GPGTools or GPG Keychain or whatever it's name is) on OS X is awful.

Something that's still OSS and cares about UX (like Signal on iOS) would be fantastic.
In Iceland some folks find it more convenient to dump their old furniture into the sea: http://grapevine.is/news/2015/11/01/caught-on-film-throwing-...
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I am not sure that the psychology of the hairless chimp makes this fine point when it is thinking about those two things. I think it goes "I see. I want. That thing shiny. That guy have - why I don't have?"

But I get your point. It is another trick of the rich to use religion to solidify their wealth. You want what I have? Sin! I want to enclosure more land? Not sin.
I think the distinction was between console games and PC games, which don't have auto-aim because the player is unlikely to be using a controller.