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Speaking of science fiction, I've just been rereading Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution [0] series. Great stuff, and I totally agree with Kim Stanley Robinson's assessment: "He is writing revolutionary SF. A nova has appeared in our sky."

[0] The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.
I think it's just someone's dive into Go.. But otherwise yes, this is just a barebones ElasticSearch..
What do you mean by "Morality is relative"?

Do you mean that there is no fact of the matter as to whether an act in a context is moral? Because if that is your claim, I disagree.
Apple "owns" LLVM which has changed our computing landscape from the bottom up in more ways than I can count. GCC was happy being stagnant until LLVM came along and GCC could finally see how awful and behind the times they had become. Now there's at least some competition again.

(competition-free platforms are never a good thing, no matter how many times you pray to your zero-to-one god)
Reading the World in 196 Books (2014)
Well today Trump called for all Muslim travel to the US to halt. My wife and I travel to the US every year. If Trump gets elected, we won't be able to.

So 'collective punishment' is already happening.

All this bullshit is already affecting our lives. We're not part of any Muslim community, but my wife has a Muslim name, and public photos exist of my Muslim wedding. My wife's been told to leave the country by a red-neck. I've seen confederate flags flying here (in Canada...). Up until recent events, Canada's been pretty tolerant. Now it's anything but. It's getting harder to play down terrorist attacks as simply an 'aberration' or an 'isolated incident'.

I'm being real, talking about real things. France woke up to the FN leading the elections. Hollande closing down a few Mosques and banning religious symbols is small potatoes compared to could happen in the not to distant future... Maybe I'm sensationalist and too controversial. I prefer the socialist dream to the conservative dream. But right now we're headed towards a bleak future...
What on earth is going on with your header? You have four options that look like links (Qbix, Apps, Platform, Blog) but I cannot click on them. I cannot imagine what I am doing wrong. I tried clicking on them for 10-15 seconds before I realized nothing was happening. You have tons of Javascript reference errors. Are those links created in Javascript using onclick? Whether they are links or not, that header might be worth rethinking... (I am running Chromium 46 on FreeBSD/Mate.)
I can't imagine letting anyone take a drill to my teeth but the most skilled DMD I can afford to pay. I'm surprised others don't feel that way (but hey, whatever floats your boat).
> Sending is easy. Receiving and sorting and filtering is harder.

I don't understand: Receiving messages on any of the transports is done every day and billions of platforms. After receiving, loading the messages into a common database, including mapping metadata such as sender, date, etc., seems relatively simple. Once in the database, sorting and filtering are simple.

What am I missing?
Is there a way to customize the approval process, for example the number of approvals, or require specific approvals for subdirectories in the codebase?
Just a thought, but maybe it'd be nice to allow people to (optionally of course) mark their uploads as "OK for public use" – using a CC license or something. This way other visitors can see and maybe choose from a gallery of earlier designs. Even nicer would be if people could get a small discount in return…
0x10c was a classic 2nd system effect.
How Finland's Basic Income Experiment Will Work
Aplets and Cotlets are Turkish Delight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Orchards
Nor are members of Congress 'free to do anything [they] please[]', but are also 'tied by tons of deals ...', making them, by your definition, also 'puppets'.

Nor are the Koch brothers, favorite targets of the anti-corporatists, free to do anything they please, but are also limited by many of the constraints you mentioned.

If everyone is a puppet, then the term 'puppet' is meaningless.
Have you ever tried debating with bigots? Both sides end up talking over each other.. I think it makes brilliant sense, to sing songs, hymns, etc and make the other side look dumbfounded and unable to respond..what do they do sing metal ballads about how all other races should be slaves?
LeBron James Signs Unprecedented Lifetime Contract with Nike
SSLv2 redux: patching Go crypto/tls to work with IE6
The older I get, the harder that question is to answer.

Remember way back when, when all you wanted was a GI Joe or a Barbie or a board game whatever? Some $10 toy? Yeah... No one's gonna buy you a smart watch or a new laptop hah.

iTunes or App Store gift cards are par for the course now; gift card from Amazon, local restaurant, whatever.

I want my wife to finish the semester with a 3.8+ and a white Christmas (no snow yet in NY) - other then that - a nice bottle of red wine will do.
Spam is pretty much addressed these days.

You need to consider what is more valuable, the ability to universally send arbitrary content to arbitrary end points without intermediaries .... Or no spam, and perfect security.

As I said, it's all about identity.
I still miss sparrow. It felt so much lighter weight than airmail on OSX.
Vermont utility says it will be the first to install Tesla powerwalls in the US
Yes, if you choose the slightly more complex toml format for your MAINTAINERS file you can define approvers, approver subgroups and tweak a bunch of different variables.

Check out https://lgtm.co/docs/approvers/
2.4GHz technology has already stopped improving. It's just getting more crowded as "the Internet of Things" trend gets more popular, flooding the 2.4GHz band with even more devices that—owing to their low-power design—often support only 802.11b or g and only at low rates, making them horrifically wasteful of airtime.
Ain't Google's Inbox app the same sort of thing?
I enjoy reading books like The Art of War and the Prince, so I decided to show people how Trump is using similar tactics.
Is there a site where I can find reviews of angel investors?
As most entrepreneurs find out pretty quickly, there are a lot of angel and seed investors and most of them aren't very good.

Is there a site where founders can anonymously add reviews for angel/seed investors they have worked with?
SMS is used to send tiny chunks of text, and SMTP can be used to send message content in HTML format and rich text in addition to plaintext. I haven't worked much with rich text format, but HTML format for sure would be relatively impractical via SMS (XML adds a lot of characters, so you would have a lot of little chunks to send if you wanted to send HTML over SMS).
This sounds similar to Big Turk (by Nestle, Canada). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Turk
I don't have my copy handy to check for sure, but I think this is a full chapter out of 1491.
Don't get me wrong that's all good and well, but it's still 15 year old technology being implemented and not a paradigm shift. Most of the time you're still going to be typing in your e-mail, postal address and credit card number when doing things online. It's not like you swipe your card once for logging in to you computer and then when buying some service online to verify the setting up a subscription payment and having all your data at the provider encrypted with your identity.
"Warmists"

Thank you! Finally, non-ironic usage of "SJW" is no longer the biggest indicator of someone who is a tool. Now it's "Warmist".
This is currently under development ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap
Slack is a corporate product that sells subscriptions to their native-only service. An e-mail client that only let you see your last 30 days of e-mail without paying for it likely wouldn't catch on because people have different expectations for how e-mail should work/openness than they do with a corporate communications platform.
> However as an employee in the government sector I can confirm ...

One person's anecdotal experience doesn't confirm anything. There are probably tens of millions of government employees in the United States alone.

> It's more then just being a large organization there is a real lack of competitive pressures that force efficiency.

That's true in many large organizations. Inefficiencies due to employees' (including managers') lack of exposure with any marketplace consequence are a very common, well-studied problem. See: Dilbert.
General relativity I much easier to test in simple systems, like planets traveling in the vacuum, or to get more precision you can test it in the lab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity . I'm not sure if this is the more accurate current test but from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment :

> The result confirmed that the predictions of general relativity were borne out at the 10% level. This was later improved to better than the 1% level by Pound and Snider. Another test involving a space-borne hydrogen maser increased the accuracy of the measurement to about 10^−4 (0.01%).

Nutrition and diets are more difficult to measure (you can't enclose a few thousand persons in the lab for 20 years) and it's full of side effects and interactions. IIRC a low fat diet is still recommended. I think that a better example of the changes in nutrition is the butter vs margarine recommendations, see for example http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1179683...
You measure steel in tons of a given quality. GDP is not for measuring manufacturing output. Services do add to GDP despite needing no new resources per se.
Wouldn't you need much more than 10Mbit/s before the lens, if it's getting compressed down to 10Mbit/s after the lens?

That is, unless you're talking about injecting that data directly into the optical nerve.
emacs has built in smtp support, so I just use that.

Notably, I use the smtpmail-multi package along with smtpmail in emacs to support sending from whatever address I put in the To: line[0]

[0]: https://github.com/codemac/config/blob/master/emacs.d/boot.o...
Korean here. I have no difficulty enjoying savory dishes from all around the world, but I just can't stand the ridiculous taste of American candy and mass-produced ice cream (Haagen-Dazs being the only exception).

I guess it's much easier to adapt one's palate to foreign variations of meat and vegetables than it is to forget the taste of sweets that one grew up with.
A world of languages
> It's difficult to make an index fund of products.

Well, that's what I said, companies are vehicles.

> It's difficult to retire on "product dividends.

But you can retire on corporate dividends. And when a companies shares are acquired you either get money or shares in the acquiring company.

> Companies exist as an attempt to get all the money in the world

How do you square that with 'it is hard to retire on product dividends'? Companies pay out dividends to their shareholders.

Companies clearly do not exist to 'get all the money in the world' because then the economy would grind to a halt.

> and most fail that goal.

All companies fail that goal. They fail every time they buy new resources, pay out salaries, rent offices, pay out dividends and so on.

In fact, the worst thing for a company is to have a whole pile of cash and nothing to do with it, that's money that is not currently working for the company in a meaningful way. That's why companies tend to manage their liquid reserves very carefully.

> Apple is pretty close.

Close to getting all the money in the world? No, not even remotely close. And even all that money that Apple has is indirectly owned by the shareholders of Apple. Either Apple will have to spend it or they will have to pay out. Having it sit there does them no good.

> Refusal to acknowledge failure as failure is pathological insanity.

Are you calling me insane in a roundabout way?

> Getting paid to fail (or to "soft land" and save face on an outright failure) doesn't mean the fail didn't happen.

Oh, that happens. But it's pretty rare. But better than chapter 11 if that's the alternative.
a very cool concept for doing a lot of projects where users need shared db.
Not sure what's happening with your setup. For me it's nearly instant. Some long long threads or heavy HTML can be up to about 800ms.

I'm also talking about my iOS experience. There are some perf issues that would be nice, but for me that's mostly in search and initial sync than stuff that's already downloaded.
Thanks. For artistic uses, yes it's too technical. But for mechanical design, it seems like an important piece of information. If it is compensated on your side, you're right, I don't necessarily need to know the exact width -- but please put the fact that it is compensated on your website. Would also be helpful to know for the internal corner radius of a nominally square internal corner.
What do you mean by technical?

Section 3 of Qualcomm's filing did respond to many concerns in either simple analysis and/or lab tests. For example, the concern on the impact of rate control algorithm in WiFi.
Pegasus mail was pretty good, even if a bit enterprisy. I just searched and wow... it's still being developed! The website even still lists the msdos version. http://www.pmail.com/
Url changed from http://gizmodo.com/unprecedented-image-shows-a-dolphins-echo..., which points to this.
I was skeptic until I studied the history of the subject. It's a sad state. Nobody would expect to study lets say material science from historical perspective.

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

There could be some major breakthroughs since 1970, but the whole shebang is so polarized, that I would not know that to believe.

From policy point of view human emotions have to be taken to account. Motivations for denialism are often either "nah, it doesn't matter" or alternatively "They say we all die! I don't want to believe that." I was in the latter camp.

Prehistoric events show us that climate change is probably not the end of humanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...

And on the other hand ask any farmer how he feels about unpredictable weather. Agriculture is completely based on predictable seasons. It's very likely that combating climate change could save millions of lives.
Since most are looking at this from 1 direction (giving the poor additional money) you should consider the question from the other direction (having the wealthy pay more). Will the wealthy stop working as hard, earning less money or retire altogether?
Considering what 10Mbps compressed video can do, I think we're doing pretty well. Getting really close to the limit would require eye-tracking to only encode and transmit the details that the viewer is actually in a position to notice, and that's obviously only possible for a very limited slice of applications.
That one also appears in the llog posts if you follow the links: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478

As far as I can tell, their critique is correct in that the research Brooks cites isn't enough to support the claims that he wants to make.
Me too :) Hoping to announce a bunch more support in the Cyrus IMAP server very soon!
Any trial?
Fair point, but Youtube commenters tend not to score highest when it comes to intelligence and autodidacticism. Doesn't necessarily make them racist.
So, you're a Rails developer and you want to learn “Node”?
yup...
use the contact form... write that u come from here...
The Funded (http://thefunded.com) is like Yelp for investors, but not sure how up-to-date or if it is used at all anymore.

Edited to also add AngelList to some extent. You can find out about various investors and track down previous investments to get opinions directly.
He means the Outlook iOS/Android app, which was a 3rd party app Microsoft bought (Accompli) and further upgraded by the people at Sunrise Calendar (also bought out) to make the app that it is today. Outlook for OSX, though, is still the classic Microsoft Office for OSX app, so it doesn't have any of those upgrades. The iOS app is my daily driver, and it works splendidly.
Argument from authority is not invalid when it can be backed with fact.

It's often unnecessary, because you need the fact anyhow. In some cases it's justified to save time. Like in the military.
"The container tools I'm working on are completely declarative."

Tears of joy stream down my face.
I agree with that. I don't mean that I want to send my email messages visa SMS. I mean that I want all my messages sent/received and read in one messaging client, whether they are transported via SMS, SMTP, etc. If the HTML message should go via SMTP, I expect my software to deal with that. I want the content; the transport is an obscure detail for developers to worry about (speaking as a typical end user).
"Apple controls the future of the language, Google can only lose from such a relationship."

I didn't think of that, but makes perfect sense. I haven't heard of Kotlin, thanks for sharing. Personally, I think the "massive amount of work" would be worth it, considering they can afford to hire more developers.

If you ask me, anything would be better than this weird Eclipse plugin concept, not very sexy. Granted, I have not researched it more than a few hours, but if "Hello World" requires a certain bloated IDE and multiple pages of code, I want nothing to do with that. I did find DroidScript and that looks like fun, but I haven't tried it yet.

Strictly from a marketing perspective, the name "Swift" just sounds easy and intuitive, which is maybe the opposite of Java's reputation at this point.
also, on Guardian UK:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10669272
This is what cookiecaster.com does, and it's awesome.
Spam, generally.

Because email uniquely among communication protocols allows sending a message without any previous agreement from the recipient, will always be susceptible to spam (and getting rid of that feature would destroy emails benefits).

Plus people want to filter differently. People deal with their inboxes uniquely.
I actually got into history through visual sources and maps, like Colin McEvedy's "Penguin Atlas of Medieval History." But the history books that I remember really changing my life include Simon Schama's "The Embarrassment of Riches" (a fantastic history of the rise and fall of the Dutch empire), Alfred Crosby's "Ecological Imperialism" (similar to 1491, but more wide-ranging), and Fernand Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism series (the best history books of the 20th century, in my view).

I also remember loving John Brewer's "The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century" and Mario Biagioli's "Galileo Courtier." Also "Mad Blood Stirring" by Edward Muir, which tackles the question of why 16th century Italian street life was so incredibly violent.

Edit: seems apropos to mention that a couple friends of mine are about to launch a site for historians to curate lists of their favorite books on key topics, called Backlist: http://backlist.cc
Nice - will it work with GH Enterprise?
this is a shortcoming of laser cutters. On material under 6.5 mm thick, there isn't enough thermal mass to soak up the heat you need to put a small hole all the way through. With birch, it catches on fire. With steel, it melts and looks bad.

The advantages are primarily no tooling, no jigs, no setup. No clamps, even, if you want to play fast and loose.

Where it loses to traditional methods is production - on quantity a handful, laser cutters are great. When you need Q144 or Q1000 you need to look at stamping or die cutting.
I wouldn't be so sure about "purposefully": they are reading the same book (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478, the book is https://books.google.ca/books?id=525HX623L_cC), but it seems on page 90 instead of 116. Brooks doesn't link to the study itself, not mentioning authors' names, so I think they made a guess about which study he meant.
Accompli was renamed Outlook and then functionality from Sunrise was added in recently when they announced the sunset.
Jeb Bush forgot to autorenew his domain, redirect to Donald Trump
edit: Specifically to storage, the Moore's Law equivalent is Kryder's Law, named after Mark Kryder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder
> "My current Comcast line is so fast that I don't experience any issues due to congestion - so how would I benefit from QoS?"

Are you sure you don't have a few hundred milliseconds of bufferbloat in your cable modem, as is the case for almost all modems out there?
Why can't the universal mail client I propose have a spam filter? More likely, my incoming mail server will have the spam filter; the client will have the spam folder. What does it matter if only SMTP messages end up in that folder?

> Plus people want to filter differently. People deal with their inboxes uniquely.

That issue affects every messaging client's filtering. How does it affect a client any differently if it combines, for example, SMTP and SMS?
Having made three trips to the South Pole with the National Science Foundation, I've seen first-hand the impact private traverses can have on people. When all goes well, it's wonderful but when it doesn't go well it is the lives of the polar program's rescue team these people are risking.

The continent is full of cravasses, fractures in the ice hundreds of feet deep and potentially tens of feet across, invisible because they are covered with snow, and large enough to swallow entire vehicles or teams. The third year I was down there, a rescue was required in which the leader of the rescue team dropped into five separate cravasses trying to get to a group of "explorers." That was just his count, not including the rest of the team. Yes, he was roped off and knew how to progress through a risky environment, but every one of those falls in a remote and hazardous environment was a very real risk to him and his team. The teams have helicopters, and ski-equipped twin otters, but safe landing sites can be far removed from the location of the team needing rescue.

The history of Scott and Amundsen shows just how difficult and dangerous the continent is to cross, and it remains that way today. If this guy wants to risk his life, that's his business, but he's also potentially risking the lives of the team that will get called in to save him if he gets into danger.
Such a great timing for this post, as Dropbox announced that they are shutting down Mailbox: https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2015/12/saying-goodbye-to-...
"That's a speculation on your part"

Whereas your post is speculation on yours.

"Nobody asked them to support it"

At the same time, if they do open source it, people are going to see that it was once Dropbox, and any issues they see with it are going to be seen as the fault of Dropbox.

"Just dump the damn thing online"

Far more work than it sounds like.

"Clearly their intention here was profits"

They are a company with bills to pay and engineers to pay, right?

"They won't do it so nobody else should try to safe email either."

I don't see them going around and killing other people's email clients.
"companies, technologists, and law enforcement haven't been willing to sit at a table at solve the encryption problem"

hurdurdur...
How about the true "encryption problem" is the state sponsored progress in undermining current encryption solutions. Please let me know when dinner's on, I will be there to see how we can find some "common ground" on that area.
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God no. Most of those hold no value or any interest for me. Bash only because it is the default shell. And thanks for pointing out why I should avoid the others.

Have you never looked at a diff? Massive whitespace changes hide real changes. Next someone will say "Git has a -w option". To which I say "A diff without whitespace changes in those languages would be useless". I can't test it, apply it, or otherwise use it without re-indenting the source myself.