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F.lux has nothing to do with GPU or shader. Its an application which tweeks display temperature controls. All modern OS provides such interface, on Linux, its x server extension, on Windows its GDI interface. So, its an application that uses the OS interface, that doesn't mean that it has to be made part of OS. At OS level, you provide functionality of underlying hardware but don't decide policies or features. f.lux is a feature not a functionality to display.
> there aren't many TV shows on preparing for hurricane season.

You're making my point for me. Statistically speaking hurricane prepping is much bigger deal in America than survivalism but yet the TV media campaign leaves outsiders with an exaggerated impression of the situation. Some think this occurred just because it makes for good TV, but I think it's also part of a larger campaign to sell more hamburgers and wal-mart stock.

> While if there is a strong social safety net (as in many places in Europe), and you believe the government will be effective at responding to a natural disasters, then there's less need of a belief to take on the heavier burden of individual planning.

I don't think that the social safety net is as strong in Europe for the exact reason that you think it is. In other words in Europe nobody has a choice but to rely solely on the government to stabilize the situation after a major emergency because they don't have the firearms they would need to restore peace on their own.

In America however it's a different story because hundreds of thousands if not millions of veterans currently own rifles strikingly similar to those they carried in the armed forces, lacking only the full-automatic selector switch. Their brothers, sisters, parents, friends, and neighbors who did not serve in the military are often just as familiar with the weapons, if not the tactics.

Many of these Soldiers and Marines have special operations training. They are former warriors with experience at conducting irregular warfare and counter-terrorism operations in dangerous urban environments. In the Middle East these troops were frequently tasked with restoring order to urban areas exploding in internecine strife. Today these former military men and women understand better than anyone the life-or-death difference between being armed and organized versus unarmed and disorganized. One could even say it's part of our culture.

That's a real social safety net in my view, and since we have this safety net we like to enhance it, by taking simple steps to be more prepared, while in Europe I get the feeling that some people feel like 'why even bother' ?
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I've been building stuff for years and years along side my job. It's a long term marathon to find something that people will pay for.

If you can, find a way to do it alongside your normal lifestyle then you can do it forever if you want. Currently you're trying to set yourself up for one all-or-nothing run at it. Find a way to do it forever.
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FreeBSD has worked out a means of accepting pull requests on their github mirror, guessing using the API.
> You're looking at one of the oldest, most capital-intensive markets in existence. It's practically the polar opposite of technology. Not a whole lot startups can really do.

Well, prefab homes are a thing and they even use the word 'modular' liberally http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/prefab-lives... mobile homes are a thing, and are fairly dominant in low-income areas (which kinda sorta impacts the market acceptance of prefab homes). But no one has quite cracked the prefab for multi-family market.
way back in the day, a friend found a keyboard that had an extra "reset" key on it - it sent the ctrl-alt-delete sequence when pressed. he promptly bought one, sanded off the "reset" label and carefully lettered "ANY" on to the key. he then waited till the beginning of the college year and sneaked it into the freshman computer lab, then found a machine in the back corner of the room and sat back to wait.

sure enough, a kid comes in, sits down on the machine, goes through the login sequence, then hits the "press any key to continue" prompt. he scans the keyboard, finds the "any" key, and presses it. computer promptly reboots. kid waits, login screen comes back up, he goes through the sequence, hits any ...

he finally went to find the lab attendant TA, at which point my friend quickly swapped the keyboard back. so when the TA got there, everything just worked, and when it came to hitting "any key" there was of course no "any" key to be hit, and the TA explained what to do.

(epilogue: my friend's reputation had preceded him, the TA figured out he had something to do with it, and came by later to ask "how did you make that guy think there was an 'any' key?", and offer to buy the keyboard when let in on the joke)
I have Amazon Prime (living in Germany) and when I visited my brother in Turkey, I couldn't watch any TV shows on Amazon Prime due to country restrictions. I know different licences in different countries etc but in the end, it sucks that you cannot use a service which you are paying for.
They also don't communicate these restrictions to their customers in a visible and prominent way for obvious reasons.
Could you elaborate on the multi-billion gov't subsidies to GS?
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Closer look at the ruby scopes
"What if the maintainer never marks the library as deprecated? What if they're just hit by a bus?"

There are a lot of "if's" and many things might go wrong -- there's almost never 100% guarantee, but every mean that makes end product more reliable is a good idea.

"I feel like if you have so many direct dependencies that you can't keep tabs on them, you simply have too many."

Such number of dependencies is common when building custom Kernel/OS + application. Also, I've never mentioned direct dependencies, some are just tools to build tools. It wasn't event that big of a project -- a relatively small (~150 Mb) custom OS with Qt application for an embedded device.
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Peach is dead, four days after its launch
So, did anybody e-mail you?
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Actually it shows the author knows the bit-coin community very well indeed, and knows that they freak out and write pointless posts like yours about trivialities... you are well-trained.
Gold is the instrument of choice for growth investor with inflation fears (i.e. it's rumored to hold its value when inflation speeds up). It is not free to own in large quantities, as one must incur additional storage and security costs.

Real estate is the instrument of choice for income investor with inflation fears (i.e. if all goes bad, you can still rent it out, and that rent will still bring something). Through successful lobbying it's relatively cheap to own if you buy in a state with low property taxes.
> Like hell. It's totally an advantage. Annotations on YouTube are a total mess, and they're their worst invention, even worse than their comment section, infamous for low-quality content.

Ugh, I hate them. Specially when they aren't set to last a specific time and are there the whole video. I instantly deactivate them when I see them.
Charismatic leaders could use their
position to advance their own agenda, award desirable
tasks and projects to an “in group,” and shift blame for
mistakes.

And how exactly does that differ from formal hierarchies?
I watch the project and did not see "UNMAINTAINED", cause i scroll automatically on github projects down to the readme.

I search and then i see it in the title.

Better would be an Option in Github to set a project to unmaintained or deprecated, with an optional link to the new project (if some exist).

Github could then change the background color from white to an other color or add a border around the page, so that it is really obvious that this project es EOL.
"In the absence of any hierarchy decisions tend to be made by whomever can shout the loudest."

This. Classic problem with volunteer organizations. If you have the time, you can have formal meetings using Robert's Rules of Order, which are designed to force decisions by voting after discussion. But that's unwieldy within an operating organization.

The military is formally very hierarchical but, when planning operations, is much less so. There's a military custom that, when discussing a proposed plan, the most junior people speak first. (The elder Moltke is credited with this custom.)
This, of course, is to reduce the tendency of people to agree with their superiors.
More than that, it's to find holes in a plan before the enemy does. Once the decision is made, everyone is expected to carry it out fully, and not drag their feet, whether they agreed or not.
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The degree of this reliance varies greatly, and its better to choose tools that minimise or eliminate this. We can now do better then C, so let's kill it. Btw. just today OpenSSH got another buffer overflow found. One that exposes private keys.
Importing Pull Requests will be possible with the next version of gitlab that's going to be released on the 22nd january.
See this MR for more information:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2168
exactly, the governments responsibility also lies in supporting those who will lose their jobs, not just the drivers but the service station workers (clerks, cooks, cleaners etc. etc.), motels and so forth. Many point at Basic income as the answer, technology should release us from the shackles of work, not simply further enrich the 1%.
CDO's are huge and complicated deals. All the little details are documented in the prospectus. Granted it's 700 pages long on average, but maybe people shouldn't be buying 2-3 billion USD securities if they don't have the capacity to understand and model them properly.
That anti-pattern isn't possible in Pony, because Pony has no blocking receive call.
Only a few Republicans.
Are you high?
This is actually my experience too. A "friend" downloads a movie lets say, and for about 12 hours afterwards their connection speed is throttled in an apparently retaliatory gesture. Not so far fetched if you consider that the ISP has been recently been acquired by a conglomerate with media interests ...

Said isp has been "only show in town" for serious internet access for some time so thankfully that is starting to change so a move might be on the cards.
While I think it does. Focusing only on myself is near-sighted planning.

If I trusted FEMA or the Red Cross - which I don't, for reasons I mentioned - then I would likely face simpler adversities.

If those relief organizations were able to get tents, food, and water to New Orleans within 2 days after Katrina hit - which they could do if they were well-run and funded - then I wouldn't have to plan for possibly two weeks of self-sufficiency should a major hurricane hit.

Is it better for me to spend a lot of money on myself for something that isn't likely? Or pay less for something that is of overall more use for myself, my community, city, state, and nation?
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> You really had to work hard to goof off at work when all you had was nntp, archie and gopher.

Nonsense, I could goof off quite easily with nntp :)
The concept of paying for people to leave does not make sense to me. I see companies doing it, and seems to me that they're doing it so they can reduce headcount without having to actually fire people.

Thing is, the people who will take the buyout will be the ones who are confident that they can find another job. The company is left with the people who don't really care about their job, are afraid they may not be able to get hired anywhere else, or both.

Does this actually ever work?
It used to be in the 90's/2000's in the UK that all was fair in love and war between banks - they are the big boys and are supposed to know what they are doing.

If you rip off "widows and orphans" though you will get punished severely.
Getting a lot of hate for this comment...

Couldn't find the article I read, could very well be that it wasn't on phys.org and was just a bullshit article. However, here is an article where scientists mention that it could be possible to one day exist:

www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112964783/zombie-virus-could-be-reality-exclusive-100213/
The type of separation he's talking about would limit the ability of banks to affiliate with each other in a risky manor, as they had leading up to the crisis.

In an attempt to accomplish this, Elizabeth Warren has drafted a reasonable, 21st century take [1] on Glass-Steagall, which Senator Sanders supports.

[1] http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/21stCenturyGlas...
I just created and maintain a little Android library (a very rewarding experience by the way) so most of the complaints about Github doesnt really apply to me because the size and reach of my project (I understand the point perfectly though).

But I read some complaints about the users and the issues they tend to open and I fully agree. They are a minority but I can't only imagine what people with bigger projects have to deal with. This is what I've found:

- People with little to zero experience in the language/framework that simply state that my project doesn't work without providing more information and sometimes they didn't reply to my "give me more info" inquiries.

- Guys who just want to get their homework done and They are basically trying to get it done using me as non-paid freelance.

- And my favourite one, junior dev in a company, he needs to get their work done with more pressure than the previous one so became anxious about their problems and I feel it even via email. Eventually He gets the thing done but He notices I changed the build system to Jitpack for better dependency handling and and start to complain about Man in the middle attacks to his company and black-hat hackers replacing my lib with a malicious one (I guess it could happen but come on).

But it is a very rewarding experience besides these anecdotical cases
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Similarly, Pony's union (ie sum) type implementation always optimises to untagged, but required "boxing" raw machine-words when they're in a union type.
> I'm also curious as to how they handle sales objections

A friend of mine told them he was interested, but hesitant because it was a lot of money. They asked him whether he knew anyone else who'd attended who he could ask. As it happened, he had me. I told him something like: it's really hard to know if this has had long term effects on me, I do think I'm happier than before, I'm definitely glad I went. My friend decided to attend.

> and how they approach up-selling

I'm not sure what you mean by this? I can't think of anything they'd need to upsell. I suppose, for the yearly reunion, they say "it's free to attend, but it costs us $x per participant, and if you could pay that much, we'd greatly appreciate it". You could count that as a form of upselling, and their approach to it is "please".
What about the government people that encouraged "Ninja" loans to people who couldn't afford to repay them?
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I think it's nice to have a simple format for storing images for the sake of being able to build a pipeline of filters that are very lightweight and simple to implement.

But I was really distracted by how the author kept going on borderline nonsensical tangents about compression. There's a reason we usually build compression into the file format, instead of just zipping a lossless bitmap. It turns out that there's a ton of stuff you can do to exploit redundancy in two dimensions - if you can apply a transformation before the compression stage.

And yeah, you can make up some of your losses by using bzip2. But again, there's a reason formats like PNG don't do that: it's slow.
I'd be curious to hear GS employees points of view. We often get "insiders" comments here on HN, but not so much on this topic.
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Bitcoin is money
Ironically, git itself is decentralized. More effort should go into decentralized software architectures, especially in the current security climate where having a central point of failure is like having a virtual bull's eye for bad guys. There's no reason you couldn't have a decentralized issue tracker for example.
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well, i have MS in Math with ~3.85 GPA (all A except for ROTC program and English) from one of the best math school in Russia which also included graduate level courses in mechanics, mathematical physics, etc.

What about you?

>there is no possibility of deriving equations of motion of mechanics from the laws of thermodynamics

i didn't say that. It actually works the other way - thermodynamics is derivable as an aggregation from the laws of motion. And thermodynamical entropy is just a facet of the entropy (which in general can be defined using relative volume in the space of states of possible configurations of the system for a given values of generic coordinates)
Related blog posts, by a past instructor (possibly co-founder? I forget): http://acritch.com/cfar-scaling/ http://acritch.com/cfar-altruism-and-core-vs-labs/
Gotta agree with @wtvanhest on this - I've been a passive real estate investor for more than a decade now and between scenario A, where several distinct properties are owned and managed through several property managers, and scenario B, where a single property manager takes over multiple properties, B would offer a consistent lead all else being equal.

It's just easier to scale things such as service requests, day-to-day operations, a large manager would have a better time negotiating things like paint jobs or re-carpeting due to sheer volume.
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IBM programmer controls a BB-8 droid from 'Star Wars' with his mind
As file format a better name would be suckmore.

May be as format for piping images makes some sense, but seems quite limiting.
Amazon do have their own ships, they are reselling shipping services.
Cool! Disk failures and losing data scares the shite out of me.

>even if you have a 36 gig raid, you still need a backup

and a backup of that backup too.
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I can only imagine a world without monetary payment, in some form, for the extremes of far too little and more than enough.

Thinking about the brighter side of things I suppose that in the more than enough side of things you would be paid with happiness. That to be wealthy would be to have something you enjoy doing all of the time. Success however, would be measured in a currency that is more difficult to track, respect.
Installing it on Heroku is not an option because their containers do not allow the disk access GitLab needs to store and manage the git repo's. source: https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-a-threat-is-GitLab-to-GitH...
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It's much better for Jono to quickly reply and ack the issue, rather than radio silence while we want for them to completly solve the issue.
I'm saving up for a Oneworld RTW on QF in J right now - should have the points by the end of the year. As someone who has never been in J and who has also never travelled to Europe I'm looking forward to it...
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Yeah but is there any group/business in bitcoin that doesn't consist of keyboard warriors on reddit?

https://www.reddit.com/user/anarchystar as a random example that comes to mind.

like, yay it fixes a technical issue, but I'm doubtful that a group that acts like children in forums has any long-term sustainability.
In China people can be sent to jail for 'causing destruction' but in western countries you have to have been proven, beyond reasonable doubt, to have broken a law.

Most of the activities the banks were carrying out that contributed to the crash were well known long before the crash, and were not illegal and they weren't being called out for it. In fact many politicians and the public were keen for broader availability of cheap loans. So yes, we need better regulation of financial institutions, but there were many causes of the financial crisis and blame lies in many places and many lessons learned, but you can't apply laws retroactively or arbitrarily.
Who is using Digital Ocean in Europe?!

It is all about AWS and Azure over here.
Well, I've had a QNAP TS419 for years. It's been great, never had a problem, receive regular updates, has a decent package manager (optware) and decent UI.

My one complaint is that when I use the web-based file browser sometimes it tries to generate thumbnails for all the items in the current directory and ties itself up for a few minutes if there are lots. I've only encountered it a few times because I use SSH.
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What you say is a very reasonable comment, there certainly are companies writing in one language and compiling to JS to run their code in production if you consider those languages to be separate to JS. I took the remark in the article to mean languages that have their own compiled (or interpreted) output that can also be transpiled to JS through mechanisms like emscripten. In my opinion TypeScript and CoffeeScript are effectively extensions to JS that pile on some sugar to fix what their respective authors see as JS's problems rather than being different languages per se. Not sure about Dart.
Yes. It's open source so if you want a feature badly, file a pull request. Much easier than complaining
I've found that the moves app + gyroscope actually fulfills this "diary of my day" pretty well.

I think (not sure) that moves uses fb checkin, but I never understood why Foursquare tried to pivot so hard when it was obvious that checkins were the main USP of the whole service.
I was very surprised to learn a few years ago that this is <10%, possibly much less depending on measurement error (see my ref above). So then there are two diseases: Aneuploid cancer (>90%) and non-aneuploid cancer (<10%).
But an investment bank alone can still be too big to fail, it's about the contagion effect caused by the banks being deeply intertwined with each other.
Oh lordy, I had no idea! Thank you so much for the links!
The big sleep
It's the nature of any issue tracker to gather low-quality feedback. The people using the product who are happy with it or who can solve their own problems mostly aren't the ones booking issues, unless there are genuine bugs. Paradoxically, a high quality project will have fewer genuine issues to report, and therefore be sensitive to a lower average quality of feedback.
Other than, well we are seeing the results of two to as many of five years of the pipeline coming out finally. It isn't like they can plan for cheap gas. GM would know this best with the second generation Volt landing when gas prices were already on their way down.

The real opportunity here isn't for the automakers, it is for the Congress to change the law with regards to fuel taxes so as to set a floor price on fuel to encourage the shift to more economical vehicles; not necessarily full ev. A tax system could be set to provide a floor and a ceiling - meaning if the product price got to high the tax would decrease a bit to compensate

Still, what did you expect from the big companies in the face of the fleet mileage requirements? You cannot do that without at least hybridization. Finally, with GM, did anyone really expect them to cede the everyday car buyer market when it came to electrics. GM even has the production capacity to make the cars when people want them
I just put together a list from this post on pcpartspicker: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9f3s99

It sums up to around $2600.