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> Migrating to 2.4 and mpm_event should be good enough.

Debian e.g. only received 2.4 with Jessie. Meanwhile, a feature-comparable nginx was available at least in Wheezy, maybe earlier.

If I have to choose between "compile my own Apache" and "just install nginx", well… Actually, I had to choose, and I picked nginx.
Infiltration gives you the ability to get to any bit of information you want. Not to all bits you need. Exfiltrating sizable amounts of data from US agencies is not so easy task, I would guess.
Opinions about DST vary, perhaps reflecting how a person's "internal clock" functions. Biological differences play a role, some people are natural early risers, others tend to stay up late. I'm in the latter category so I strongly favor DST, but I can see how others might hate it.

It's exacerbated living north of the 45th parallel. Officially we get about 16 hours of daylight/nighttime at the solstices. However, it's actually much worse than the raw data suggests.

Living in the shadow of hills to the west, among tall trees, in a rainy climate with frequent heavily overcast skies, after DST goes off, by 3:00PM the sky is already dark. No wonder a lot of people around here look forward to March and return of DST.

The morning effect is minimal, winter sunrise comes quite late. At year's end it's after 7:50AM, so it's dark on the way to work no matter what the weather and DST would not make the morning commute any dimmer.

OTOH >16 hours of summer daylight is amazing and delightful. The place just comes alive. While we can't legislate the seasons, keeping DST longer than we do would at least be a small token of compensation.
Honestly, I am very doubtful about Kotlin's JS support to be a "primary feature". They have certainly advertised it as such since day 1, but the facts are that they have not treated JS as such in practice.

Here are some of those facts:

* They intend to release 1.0 without finalizing JS support [1]

* The documentation for Kotlin on JS is virtually non existent

* The primitive data types don't behave the same on both platforms

[1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/10/kotlin-1-0-beta-can...
Also, the Wikipedia page links to German (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzwegeffekt) and Dutch (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuinzin) versions.

The details of the grammar of the languages makes the methods one can use to achieve the initially ambiguous parse different, though.
There are in UK, and MPAA already had some very nasty attacks on some of the file lockers and torrent sites funding. Just wait.
> What is hard about making signals cooperate?

Library A wants to handle SIGSEGV for memory mapping X. Library B wants to handle SIGSEGV for memory mapping Y. Which of them calls sigaction? What if both do? What if then unload one of the libraries?

Windows handles this interaction sanely. Sigaction does not.

> raise() is supported on Windows, but kill()

Windows splits the jobs of signals into structured exceptions and APCs. You can definitely send an APC to another thread: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
> At the top, r9-390x beats GTX 980 by a little.

No, but one step down it does. AMDs R9 390 beats the GTX 970 a little, which also has the problem of only having 3.5GB Vram, instead of 4 as initially announced. The R9 390 has 8.

The R9 390X is normally slower than the GTX 980, but also quite a bit cheaper (~100€).

(Source: I have a hardware-recommender at www.pc-kombo.de which aggregates many gaming benchmarks to judge processor and graphic cards performance)
When it comes to leaving the private key on the client systems then I would have to refer to Hanlon's razor.

It could simply be a stupid mistake, social media make stupid mistakes into big deals but they're not a new phenomenon.
More impressive in the same book, how another server (Warp) written in Haskell (GCed lazy functional language, supposedly way slower than C over epoll) achieves the same performance as nginx!

http://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/warp.html
the graphs in this are shockingly laughable and belie the complete insanity of macroeconomic dogma. To compare, I once simulated electron transfers between iron-sulfur clusters in an enzyme and, not knowing the exact kinetic parameters, used a monte carlo method to estimate variational effects. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yeiOE1Gy0YoPXlLdMo9y8XSS...)

The graphs, accordingly, show confidence intervals and are most certainly not smooth or simple.
Do we know if this is a just a reference implementation or what Google uses in production? My guess the numbers will come down pretty quick. From what I can see from mxnet versus theano versus torch is that GPUs are really the final determinant of speed and not the framework.
Do you use really the newest driver? Witcher 2 for example worked a lot better with it than with Catalyst when I tried it out, I think that was half a year ago.
It's a thing in all languages.
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Scala's biggest concern is compilation time.
However when comparing GWT and ScalaJS, mostly ScalaJS pulls ahead. So Java -> Js or Scala -> Js you would definitly prefer Scala.
I would have liked to see maps of the whole world. I live in Helsinki, 60 degrees North, and the sunrise today is 08:40 and the sunset is 15:33. It's still going to get a lot darker before the solstice.

Quite frankly, at this point it doesn't really matter if it is offset one hour in either direction. But the abrupt change of DST really takes a toll. The timing is also unfortunate, because on the last days of summer time there's still a bit of sunlight after regular work hours, but the change to winter time practically removes the last lit hours from the day if you work somewhat regular office hours.

I would like to see the daylight savings time abolished and going to permanent summer time here.
If one let it count there still is the R9 295X2, which beats the GTX 980 Ti.

Edit: Source http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1437?vs=1496, because this got downvoted (??)
Is anyone aware of any good open alternatives to Evernote? I've been reluctant to try Evernote for that particular reason (and lock-in factors). Ideally something like: 1) open source format; 2) you host the files e.g. on Dropbox; 3) markdown; 4) searchable (and entries can be tagged). Happy to pay for the app but the files need to be self-hosted in an open format.
There is actually a lot of stuff your brain automatically filters out when you look at things.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Floaters/Pages/Introduction.asp...
this perspective is not shared by the west

True - because we can't see what's actually going on. Undoubtedly it's a complex situation like Israel or the Balkans. But since reporting is banned, we have to do the arithmetic of "police repression" + "reporting banned" and assume that it's cover for human rights violations like what happened in Tibet.

Edit: quite a lot of the comment here looks like a not-very-convincing propaganda operation.
Yep I'm well aware of burn-in issues. And the screen I have is just a dumb monitor; it has no interpolation feature so the 600Hz claim is what the display is theoretically capable of, though it's different from LCD refresh:

http://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-600hz/
The fact that they installed the certificate unintentionally. It wouldn't be there without intention. They're just stupid.
The flip side is having an extra hour of daylight in the evening to be able to go outside and play catch/whatever with your children.
I find it strange insisting on "flickering" screens. No "artist" desired it (as in "let's make this movie, but it has to flicker!") it was always just the limitation of the technology. If you'd want the "whole original effect" you'd have to insist on the 35mm films and their projection in the movie theater. The only thing that is true is that with the limitations of the technology, some "corny" scenes looked more acceptable, as our brain actually got less information and in more unnatural form so then our brain turned on its "more tolerance" mode while watching, reimagining the scene better than what it saw.

Also:

http://www.projectorcentral.com/judder_24p.htm

On another side, what I fully understand is that the older frame interpolation algorithms did very poor job for moving scenes, so people turned it off because of that, but it seems that the algorithms got noticeably better.
That's still a bit far fetched. "Weakly supervised" refers to using a small amount of labeled data. This is not the case for word2vec and similar embedding methods. As a matter of fact, rather, the method presented here, sense2vec, would qualify, at it indeed is weakly supervised.
I think there is a very good reason why structural engineers never see this type of thing, and it's because most structural engineers don't like math. They like clicking buttons in their CAD/FEA/BIM/<insert-latest-TLA> computer system.

The people who write those systems on the other hand enjoy this math very much, and tend to use Galerkin as a verb and will casually point out just how wonderful the Lax-Milgram theorem is.
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Maybe tvtropes will have a page on it; they seem like the heirs to the awesome fun place wikipedia used to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
I agree. Dynamic languages had their appeal when the only mainstream alternatives were Java and C++.

But in today's world, with verbosity-eliminating type inference, more expressive type systems, and tools that can make use of all the extra information to greatly increase productivity, it's really hard to think of any meaningful benefit dynamic languages can provide (that is related to their choice to have dynamic typing, not other parts of the language).
The one metric which nVidia is beating AMD handily in is gaming performance/power consumption.
Sure, let's "put back" something that was never there in the first place. Philosophiae Doctor is just the name of the degree. Where did it come from? Let's ask wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy ):

> In most of Europe, all fields other than theology, law, and medicine were traditionally known as philosophy, and in Germany and elsewhere in Europe the basic faculty of (liberal) arts was known as the faculty of philosophy.
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Ask HN: What's going on with the Apple Genius bar?
I've been trying for a week to get a reservation with the Apple Genius bar in London but there are no slots. I can't be the only one?
> If you wait until the spike hits before you spin up your VM you're still too late.

precisely. this is the other elephant in the AWS room. the only way to survive a spike without service degradation while vm spin up on that platform is through lambdas/s3 served pages/api gateway - but even lambdas lag behind traffic.

but then you need to build your whole architecture for it

anyway I'm running on AWS right now, but for other advantages and services, not for its scalability/price performance.
The sidebar shows two other languages for this Lemma, the Dutch one is interesting:

* Intuinzinnen, From the Dutch proverbs "ergens intuinen" of "om de tuin geleid worden". Literally: To "be gardened into something", or "to be led around the garden." Both meaning the same as "lead someone down the garden path"

Seams the proverb is nearly similar in both languages. Which makes me wonder whether they originated from the same word. After all, Dutch and English (And German, Danish and Swedish) have the same common ancestor.

Or whether they describe the same, in the past generally known effect of garden paths leading to unexpected dead ends.
Maybe I've misunderstood all this time, but I thought "in the mind" meant to think about suffering, not literally suffer in the mind. That is to say, more like "whether or not one thinks suffering is nobler".
There're quite a lot parts in Xinjiang has converted to Islam in last few decades. Also, there is an effective executive order making laws easier for minority[1]. For those who don't know, eastern Turkestan is always trying to take the land. It looks more like a wartime regulation than regular censorship in peace time to me.

[1] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/兩少一寬
> Could you give some examples of the journalists who have left?

There have been successive waves of departures, many of whom have left for the WSJ's rivals in financial news: Reuters and Bloomberg. I was a journalist for years, and this exodus is well known in the industry. For example, Laurie Hayes, deputy managing editor at the WSJ, left for Bloomberg in 2008. The mass departures of WSJ staff is credited with transforming Bloomberg internally. Many more names are cited here:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/04/25/exodus-former-wsj-st...

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/more-wsj-ve...

> in any event it would take at least 16 years for the policy to have an effect

I agree that it will take time for the policy to take effect, but the article made a lot of predictions beyond that time horizon, which I believe are overly, willfully pessimistic.
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That argument holds no water. Changing a readout on many human invented devices will drastically impact people's lives (bank account balances, work schedules, directions to the hospital, etc).
I must be the last person ever who survived thanx to sextant in 1990:

I had $50 plastic sextant "Ebco". I made a program in my pocket computer (Atari Portfolio) which automatically showed your position on a map (A line perpendicular to the sun, ie with several measurements you could get a total fix). Realized however that sextant is useless if there is no horizon visible in direction of the sun. I needed "artificial horizon" but it was $1000. Too expensive. Then I saw the movie about Nansen crossing the Greenland. All he had was a bottle of mercury. He simply measured the angle between the sun and its reflection. I felt soo stupid.

Then I started paddling from Vancouver city to the west in 1990. I did not understand them tides. I did not know you can get pretabulated tables. I was paddling against tides most of the time. Somewhere between Kelsey Bay and Telegraph Cove there was 2 weeks period of fog and rain. I totally lost it. I was running out of food. I decided to turn back to Kelsey. But then the setting sun peaked out and I was able get my longitude. I was 3 kilometers from Telegraph cove. Paddling back would have been a suicide.

About 80 km between those places. But I was doing it against tides averaging less than 10 km per day.

BTW. George Vancouver was also stuck for weeks at the same stretch of Johnstone Strait. The devilish tide current appeared to be totally random and followed none of the god-given rules and laws.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/timonoko/9513772987/in/album-7...
Yea, there have been a couple good summary articles I've seen here on Hacker News. Personally I find it kind of mind boggling. It's like discovering the cause of Alzheimer's, dementia, or autism.

I just find it funny, when discussing issues in comments, the depths people will go to, to frame things in black and white.
"But it wasn't a hoax dude. It actually happened. He got arrested for pretty much _no_ reason whatsoever."

The whole "homemade clock" claim is what was a hoax, regardless of any subsequent panic about its application. (If you aren't clear on the backstory, look it up. It's just a mass-production A/C-powered clock taken out of its case. For example, see: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICRONTA-Large-Red-Display-Digital-A...)

Regarding the reaction: hindsight is a handy thing, but we live in an era where schools routinely go into complete lockdown if some kid or staffer thinks he might have spotted a weapon.

When you read the article carefully, some things pop out:

1) BBC makes no mention here of the whole "homebuilt" concept itself being a hoax, e.g. a "homemade" clock (why the suitcase?) that was really just a disassembled, mass-production A/C-powered clock).

2) Lawyer letter stating, "Irving Police officials immediately determined that the clock was harmless" is false. Beat cops aren't qualified to make any such analysis; even things as innocuous as an unattended backpack get further analysis by specifically trained personnel.

3) "Ahmed's father ... once stood as a presidential candidate against (Sudanese President) Bashir." That's a pretty strong theoretical motive for a publicity stunt.

In any case, they leveraged the fauxtrage into a full scholarship to The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community... so, mission accomplished.

Another article, however, claims the following:
"(Teacher) did escort Ahmed to the office, where the letter alleges that five police officers, the principal and the assistant principal performed an "interrogation." During that time, he was allegedly not permitted to contact his parents and was forced to sign a letter of confession under the threat of expulsion." Now, if that is true, that warrants investigation and corrective action on its own, completely unrelated to religion, national origin, or who "made" the item, or why.

Meanwhile, this article says that his older sister claims to have been suspended 5-6 years earlier over alleged threats to blow up her school:

'The sister claimed after the arrest that she had been suspended from a school for several days. “I got suspended from school for three days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do with,” she said, without providing evidence or proof.

The episode occurred around 2009, she said. The scare happened in “my first year of attempting middle school in America. I knew English, but the culture was different, the people were different,” Eyman said.

“I got suspended and I didn’t do anything about it,” she said.'

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/23/ahmeds-si...

If true, that's an interesting pattern.
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Just wanted to say thanks a lot for taking the time to write it! :)
"the poor aerodynamic properties of bananas [citation needed]"

Worth reading just for that little bit of precision.
On several laptops already, I got a blank screen at boot, after some updates. Looking for fixes usually gave me "purge nvidia-*". The way i see it these days is that you just have to be lucky.
With a little creativity. computers can be made out quite primitive items. Of course, one might need to define what constitutes a computer.

The Tinkertoy Computer

A. K. Dewdney's article, "Computer Recreations: An ancient rope-and-pulley computer is unearthed in the jungle of Apraphul

Domino computer

http://www.blikstein.com/paulo/projects/project_water.html

Lehmer sieves

How to Build a Working Digital Computer (1967)by Edward Alcosser, James P. Phillips, and Allen M. Wolk
Open source drivers are meaningless for gaming, the compiler and driver specific optimizations are not open sourced for AMD neither in the old nor the new driver, and do not seem to ever be. While it's true that AMD has "better" open source drivers I would not go as to say by far, because they are usable and that's about it, you can't use them for gaming no more than you can use the OSS Geforce ones, and on the closed source part NVIDIA driver quality trumps AMD, I wish we were back in the old ATI days with my Hercules Radeon 9800 pro but we aren't.
AMD at this point constantly lags behind NVIDIA on everything from performance, to feature support, memory utilization and power consumption.

On the GPGPU front NVIDIA is only "better" at FP when you are talking about HP, FullP is just horrid on everything but it's Tesla and 1st Gen Titan cards. And since you don't need to use FP as much because OpenCL and DX-Compute push towards using advanced INT32 operations (mu, mua, sad) it doesn't fair well, NVIDIA dominated when all of the real world applications used FP in their implementations even when you only had to deal with ints (e.g. SHA256) now when you can do INT32 operations it's dragging it's ass behind GCN for most things that people here would care about (Bitcoin, bruteforcing passwords) even if you are buying Tesla's.
It's been tried. There's not just the "demoscene". There's Dogma.[1] There's a Fisher-Price PixelVision film-making cult. They're all dead or tiny niches. Probably the most limiting technique with a mainstream following is stop-motion animation.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/328590
I don't get that impression at all.

For one thing, nearly every example from TFA is of the owner living in in the workhome. Having employees live there would be an entirely different proposition.
Permanent DST - aren't we just arguing to move the prime meridian 30 degrees to the west and pushing everyone's time zone out?

Or would it just be easier to get everyone to agree to go to work an hour earlier?

Where I live we have no DST. As I live at the eastern edge of the time zone, the sun comes up at 4:30 am and is all done by 7pm on the summer solstice. It's a stupid time zone. But efforts to get DST implemented have been very difficult and strongly resisted from people living further west.
There's more than that in SIGHUP. It's sent to the process group owning
the terminal[1] (/dev/tty[1-X], /dev/pts/*) when said terminal is closed. Your
shell, Midnight Commander, Vim, Emacs, and what not terminates when you close
your terminal emulator window.

[1] I don't quite remember what happens to other process groups, since you
could have some background jobs stopped.
I think it is saying 'at least 5pm'...meaning that in winter you'd still get light at 5 PM in winter.
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I think it's a lot further away than you assume. The US has much stronger free speech protections than most countries and really doesn't take kindly to censorship.

The MPAA has gone after torrent sites, but that's very different from blocklists. For one thing, it involves actually shutting down the site so isn't really a viable vector for mass censorship.
295x2 is a dual GPU card that requires a nuclear reactor to power.
It will beat the 980ti in games that will gain 50% when using 2-way crossfire.
Considering the usually disadvantages of using crossfire/SLI it's really not worth it.
Some feedback:

1) On chrome, this site breaks the back button. Once I get to the site, no amount of pressing 'back' will take me back to where I came from - additionally, if I visit a second page on the site, then the back button actually rotates between the front page and the second page indefinitely.

2) It loads in an odd fashion, loading the sidebar first and then the content. It's not a deal breaker, but it looks odd when reading the page, and I wonder how well this would work on slower connections. It does also make me wonder how well it might actually scale in practice.

3) CouchDB is an unusual choice for a product like this - if you're shipping a product with an embedded database, something lower maintenance (and with better HA capabilities) might improve the lives of your users.

4) Minor point, but why is the 'View Raw' button given such prominence? I'm not sure what purpose it solves for an end user, and it could perhaps be better hidden under 'Page tools'.

Overall though, I like the architecture and design. Thanks for sharing!
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Xinjiang isn't exactly North Korea: we actually can see what's going on pretty well, if not always in realtime and/or perfect fidelity. Anybody with a Chinese visa can go there and poke around without special permissions, and Urumqi is a city of three million people with a large international airport. For example, here's a detailed story in the Economist about the XPCC, the paramilitary state org responsible for a good deal of the exploitation of the region:

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21578433-region-plagued-...