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This is going to sound like a stupid question, but how does one use Jekyll on Windows? I've also never been quite clear whether the github Jekyll is supposed to be run locally before push or is run automatically on their side.

(also, what is S3 adding in your case? As far as I'm aware github.io sites are free, while AWS billing is not a hard limit and you're still liable for potentially huge charges if someone decides to DDOS you while you're away from a computer)
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Hi, congrats, looks awesome (loved the look!! (and feel and sounds)), I would love it to be easier.
Is the same data displayed into multiple branches of the tree? :)
Except there isn't one producer, there's many competing ones, so you have overproduction because everyone hopes to get more market share than they actually have. Over that, there's overproduction in many areas (especially food) for a very silly reason - that people will buy more when there's more stuff around it (aka. no one wants to buy the last few carrots). It doesn't get consumed, and poor people don't benefit from it. It gets thrown away.

About throwing away new things - heard of planned obsolescence? That's what companies now do to cope with falling demand. Yes, your car maker does it too.
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Kevin Hicks is a great resource on the longbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvKJcxa8x_g

He is also very knowledgeable about all things from this period of history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYd6pNy6QU

There is also some more detail regarding the make up of the "English" army bowmen here: http://www.bowyers.com/bowyery_longbowOrigins.php

Sidenote:

- Bowyer: Makes the bow

- Fletcher: Makes the arrow

- Stringfellow: Makes the string

- Arrowsmith: Makes the arrowhead
Have you seen Nim's concepts? [1] They sound similar to what you're describing.

The semantics are slightly different from Python. 'a[x .. ^1]' means 'The items of a from x to the last element'
I'd really love to see some blog posts and/or code about this. It sounds super-cool!
I fail to see their references to support the claim that france or scotland was more politically unstable.

Also how about the rest of european powers, I am not certain there is support that england was the only politically stable entity is europe during the middle ages.
I can see how hardware would benefit from someone taking a risk with investment. It's better to sell hardware at the price point it would be at if you are doing it large scale to test the market, even if you are selling it at a loss. However, it sounds like you are almost beyond that point and know there is a demand and at what price, but it was probably hard to compete for investment (and talent) when investors were willing to throw money at zany schemes with hopes of unicorns. I hope for you, once investors become more careful again, that a business with something more proven and where the cash was managed sensibly will be exactly the type of company that most investors will be keen on. This was roughly the situation after the dotcom boom, except investors were poorer and less confident (well, I hope). I also think investors will have to increase their appetite for hardware, because IoT and autonomous vehicles are showing a lot of promise. I also think money that would normally go to unconventional oil and gas projects would be seeking something new. Good luck!
The paper does address exactly that point. The longbow required sustained central support over many years which prevented rebellious nobles from quickly adopting it:

"These features of longbow technology had two important implications for those interested in adopting it. First, centralized efforts were necessary to create a culture of archery. As shown above, these efforts in England consisted of laws supporting bow ownership and practice, restrictions on competing leisure activ- ities, subsidies for bows, and festivals and tournaments focused on archery skills. Because of this, the longbow could be adopted only by, or with the permission and support of, a nation’s ruler, who alone wielded the authority and resources required to undertake such e orts. Indeed, given the nature of longbow technology, to have even attempted to adopt the longbow without his ruler’s permission, a noble, for example, would have needed to successfully hide the fact that he was continuously training large numbers of archers for years—a highly improbable proposition.
Second, conditional on a nation’s ruler adopting longbow technology, a usurper noble with an eye on the Crown, or a prince interested in independence for his territory, could lead an effective rebellion against his ruler by supplying the inexpensive weapon to large numbers of citizens, whose ruler-sponsored training and practice with the bow had made them proficient archers. Thus, to be willing to develop longbow use in his country, a ruler had to be confident that his efforts would not be turned against him."
So how about using prison labour, where people are paid 10 cents(or however much, it's an example not a solid number) an hour? The only difference between homeless people and prisoners in that case is that homeless people are not in prison. But the job they do serves the same purpose - offers them something to break the cycle of what they are doing currently.
I've only read the abstract, so I'm not sure if this is covered, but the longbow requires huge amounts of practice from a young age to be effective. You had to be incredibly strong just to draw the string. A crossbow, by contrast, was easier to draw, and men could be trained to use it in a far shorter time. English Kings had constant problems with procuring enough men capable of using a longbow, passing all sorts of laws banning all sports except archery etc. Perhaps the French simply couldn't find enough trained men?
Jekyll should work on Windows because Ruby works on Windows. The reality of it is that many library developers are very bad at making sure their stuff work on Windows. http://rubyinstaller.org/ might be something to look into. Another option is to use some other static site generator instead of Jekyll.

> I've also never been quite clear whether the github Jekyll is supposed to be run locally before push or is run automatically on their side.

Depends on the setup. In all setups you are going to want to be able to run the page locally in a watch mode. `jekyll serve --watch --drafts`. When it comes to deployment it differs a bit, if you use the approach outlined in my post the actual building of the page happens on Travis which pushes the generated site to s3. With Github pages it's all taken care of by Github when you push.

> also, what is S3 adding in your case? As far as I'm aware github.io sites are free, while AWS billing is not a hard limit and you're still liable for potentially huge charges if someone decides to DDOS you while you're away from a computer

When running Jekyll with Github pages there are limitations to what kind of plugins and gems you can use. However it's a perfectly valid approach. I have a billing alert set up at $5 on AWS and to a degree Cloudflare protects me from DDOS. Honestly though most of my pages are extremely lightweight and s3 is cheap enough that even millions of requests is not going to incur huge costs. All my static assets are cached by cloudflare as well.
It also states that "SQL" is the top DBMS. Oracle holds 2nd place. No mention of Postgres anywhere. Drivel.
> So what is a "high-end" black name?

The unfortunate implication of parent's statement is that there are no "high-end" black names, and therefore all 'black' names are low-end. Fuck, this is depressing.
I'm in the opposite camp - having medium.com in the url substantially decreases the article's chances of ever being read by me.
I don't use it either. The point is - I don't buy the "Internet will die without ads" argument. What will die is the (what I consider) crap part. So I say, let it die.
Monarchy doesn't really work like that.
Pitching in implies that it is voluntary. Government funding by taxation is not.

Calling something childish is not an argument.

Being underfunded is no excuse, they could be efficient and get the most out of the money they take (by force, don't forget my friend). If they were, then you can argue we should fund them further.

I'm still eagerly awaiting your definition of well-functioning and an explanation for how the "rest of the world" fall under that definition.
This is not only susceptible to referrer spamming, but it's also a far more efficient way to do it. Ultimately it's a inbound channel where all submissions are nearly guaranteed to be reviewed by the recipient, simply because that's what it is for.
This is one of those "listen to your body" things I'm doing.

I've done pretty physical construction work during summers. Drinking 6L of water during the day in the process. After three weeks, sucking grains of sea salt tasted better than any candy. Until they suddenly didn't.

On the other hand, during the winter pickles started to taste really bad.

I try to eat my salt so that I actually taste it. When you mix it evenly to mashed potatoes, you only get to taste fraction of the actual salt. And if you put lot's of salt to bacon, your belly will prioritize fat over getting too much salt. This is all based on the idea that my body knows what is best for it. But I have to enable that sometimes.
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That's not really sensible to call a Horror-show the very writing system upon which one of the longest and most fertile culture on Earth has been built...

But it is also right to say that the difficulties of learning Chinese makes it an unlikely candidate for a universal language.
A picture of the $uptime command would have been great!
I generally find this article lacking in anything beyond personal opinion. However, I think the kernel of the problem is hinted at when he writes about chemical elements (and the article it links to is more suggestive of this): That is, synthesis of new terms must be very difficult in Chinese -- due to the large number of homophones -- which is compounded by the inflexibility of the writing system.

If this is true -- I'm not a Chinese speaker, but I'm married to one and have had this discussion before! -- then that is a burden on development as it clearly makes communication of new ideas clumsy.
Excellent article. A must read for those who use PostgreSQL in production.
According to the very basics of human physiology, excess of Na in blood stream will cause water molecules to leave cells and bind to sodium, which causes dehydration of cells and higher blood pressure, to which kidney should respond. That's why we feel thirsty after salty foods - to take more water into the system so eventually cells will go back to balance.

Prolonged exess of sodium which is maintained by habitual consumption of packaged foods causes imbalance and unnecessary burden to the system, so it works much less effective with obese people.

Water retention in various places of the body is also caused by exess of salt, which is a side-effect of a chronic imbalance.
Purely video-based though, no materials at all, no transcript. That's a no-go for me.
Electrical grids are capital intensive anyway, one of solar and winds big advantages is how non-capital intensive it is compared with the competition, that's why it's making up such a large share of newly built generation capacity across the globe.

As you say in places where demand isn't growing quickly, it's more about shutting down and replacing existing plants, and that's where it can get political, see the "war on coal" in the US. But even there, it's an economic no-brainer to shut the coal plants that are killing people and replace them with gas and renewable, the only thing stopping it from happening is politics, not anything inherent in renewable tech.
Imagine if I asked you to read English words in this way. I segment the words into individual syllables, and show you one at a time. You read each one aloud, and then (very quickly) I show you the next one. So you're constantly reading the phonemes. At the same time, you try to listen to yourself and turn the sounds into meaning.

That's kind of what it's like for me to read pinyin. Pinyin is great for learning pronunciation, but not great for getting meaning: it's just too slow.
This is the service supervision approach, which is indeed the best, avoiding race conditions and nasty polling. If you really must monitor processes which you cannot parent, at least under Linux you can do this using ptrace to sort-of-reparent the processes (as long as you have CAP_SYS_PTRACE or your ptrace scope is set to 0 in Yama), with waitpid to monitor all of them.
Until the default changes and those of us who don't like change will learn to make the effort to revert back.

I have no idea if google is actually a better search engine, just that it's a familiar one.
What I get: There is a base line of unattractivety which Amazon crossed. Working under the conditions Amazon provided in that specific program effectively reduced overall utility. Which in turn means that being homeless without that job is better that having a job like that.

That should tell something.
It already exists and is called Certificate Transparency:
https://www.certificate-transparency.org/
Videos are also really short. If you don't already know how neural networks work, you won't learn it here.

This, I think, is more of a library demonstration than anything.
Why, is there are any objections to the premise that the very human concept of art was inspired by natural phenomena in the shared environment, and beauty of ne nature, such as simetry, colors, shapes (which constitutes health markers among other things), sounds (of bird songs, or even wind) comes long before emergence of so called human intelligence, and has little to do with it? Human arts, by the way, has a lot to do with pseudo-intellectual classifications and criticism, instead of the very essence, which we some times call beauty, captured from the environment.
Well, England did have the distinct advantage of being the largest power on an island - while they didn't manage to conquer the Scots the Scots weren't really much of a threat to them. So they got a certain amount of stability largely through geography.
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"Person of color" is essentially a tortured, PC, language construction intended to enable people to avoid saying "non-white" (which, while descriptive, is apparently insensitive or something like that).

So, for example, mixed-race President Obama is a person of color, his African father is a person of color, and his White mother is not a person of color.

It's fairly situational and the lines are relatively blurry - for example, if I have one Japanese grandparent, am I a person of color or a White person?
Why not just use flickr? A search for images with "No known copyright restrictions" returned 663,502 results.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?license=7%2C9%2C10&text=&adva...
Thank you very much! It looks like we'll have to put an easy-hard slider in a future update!
In what way? I think royal power at that time was less well defined than we might think (e.g. the Scots statement that Robert the Bruce was only King as long as he kept defeating the English and if he failed to do that he'd get replaced).
A carbon tax would work too to reduce "consumerism", and the politcal support for that seems to be snowballing (many jurisdictions already have various behind the scenes mechanisms that do the same thing in a slightly obscure way, because the word "tax" freaks people out)
And only 1% of those users will have their phones stolen, and only 0.01% of those users will be suspected kidnapping victims. So only a handful of people would actually be actually be inconvenienced by such a policy.
The past/perfect tenses, the infinitives and gerunds, the active/passive/possessive/nonpossessive, the he/she/his/her, of the English language is... a pain.

Chinese is much simpler! :D
"synthesis of new terms must be very difficult in Chinese"

It's not. You just slam two existing characters together. So many possibilities. Computer? Electric brain.

If you want a new individual character, just put them on top of each other and invent your own single character (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duang) as long as you don't expect it to be added to unicode.
Having read and enjoyed this thread and the later follow up thread on The Register, I was struck by the number of commenters who could not clearly remember the dates/machine types or who posted anachronistic descriptions.

People here forging ahead with innovative hardware, why not just record brief details of dates and setups in the back of a diary or something. In 30 years time, you'll be able to start threads like this!
Thank you for your feedback!

Notifications are indeed on my to do list. As well as a more accessible RST reference, right when you're replying/creating a new thread. The RST syntax on the forum supports the GitHub-flavored ```lang ... ``` code blocks, and many people don't realise that.

Your other points are also valid.

But now let me give you the Nim communities perspective. Why did we decide to write our own forum? Well, for three reasons:

1. The old forum used phpBB which is horrible. When the Nim forum was initially written, the "nice" forum software didn't exist (Discourse).

2. (Kind of a continuation of 1) popular forum software was always spammed to death by bots, because of the software's popularity those bots were far more prevalent. It was our belief that a custom forum would have a lower chance of getting spam, and we are mostly right about that.

3. We want to test Nim. The amount of bugs that the development of the Nim Forum (as well as Jester which the forum uses) uncovered is phenomenal. The Nim forum is also a showcase of what Nim can do, and I think that's important.

What I find puzzling though, is the fact that many of your points could also be said about Hacker News. Hacker News has no notifications, no friendly GitHub-flavored Markdown syntax and also has awkward little buttons (the upvote/downvote on mobile is irritating). Yet it thrives and you yourself use it.
An important difference is that English lets you get your point across even if you mess up word order, conjugation, and/or spelling. With logographic systems, there is practically no connection between written symbols and their sounds. Even competent writers can know what a symbol means, but not know how to pronounce it. Or they'll be able to use a word in speech, but not be able to write it down. The first time I saw this happen with native Mandarin speakers, I thought they were playing a joke on me.

The main advantage of logographic languages is written information density. If you've ever seen a Chinese or Japanese copy of a Harry Potter book, you'll understand. (They're quite thin.) Also, Twitter is a totally different experience when using hanzi or kanji. The character limit is enough for a paragraph instead of a sentence.
Thank you! That's not a bad score if you ask me :) Not nearly there, sadly, but a random guy contacted us and sent us $25 in Bitcoin so we are pretty much at awe at this point!
> I don't agree with the apparently widespread conclusion [..] that not publishing is better than publishing using a less-than-lovely platform

And moreover, I don't agree that not communicating is better than communicating using a less-than-lovely platform... Static generators are fine for publishing but taking into account the requirements for blog-style bidirectional communication (comments, trackback, pingbacks etc.) excludes static sites unless one surrenders control to third parties such as Discus & al.

Wordpress is fine - as long as one carefully selects plugins and culls the unmaintained ones mercilessly.
What are you talking about? The standards should definitely be lower for missing children. Finding your missing phone is a lot less important than finding a kidnapped girl. Are you really saying the police shouldn't have been allowed to do that search?
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We'll probably resort to implementing an easy-hard slider in a future update!
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No, what I got was that the terms of the job were not communicated correctly, possibly not presented at all. It depends on who at the YMCA was doing the recruiting. Was it an Amazon rep or someone at the YMCA just selling a dream?

Warehouse work isn't fun. My employer has a large number scattered across the country and picking and stocking requires some hustle to meet customer demands; ours is more sensitive as we pull for both overnight and on demand. Still there are many people who keep these jobs for years, if not using them as a springboard into better positions within the company (most of our older executives came from pullers). Amazon may or not have a path out of their warehouses, I don't know
I can't. My work PC is a client in a large network and registry access is not available.

Please all devs: UI choices are important for end users.
That's nothing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10952016
> The ACM certs cannot be used with an EC2 hosted site.

For clarity, ACM's certs don't come with access to the private key, so you can't install them yourself directly on an EC2 instance. You can easily and fairly cheaply put an ELB or CloudFront in front of that EC2, though.
Thank you for the feedback. Glad to hear that you think it's good :)

Will definitely cut down on the pagination. Reply notifications are still not implemented but are on my todo list.
If you happen to target Windows platform (I know article does not), don't reinvent the wheel. There are NT Job Objects [1] for this. The 'target' process creates the job with `JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE` set and keeps the job handle open. 'dependend' processes (by default all children spawned by 'target', but you can add more) will all be killed when the 'target' process terminates, no matter how is terminated. Jobs can do more, like cap CPU/IO/Memory for the job.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
One of my posts here was very short and got attacked.

The length of my posts is not the reason I am being attacked: I've posted some very long posts at HN, right to the limit of 10,000 characters and sometimes longer broken into two posts without any attacks.

No, I'm being attacked because I am giving a reference to a BBC video clip and explaining that clip that conflicts with the climate change paid propagandists.

Surely you can see that.

This is a war at HN about the climate change movement. I'm giving rational arguments against the movement and being attacked.

PG, Sam, clean this up.