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> eye tracking repeatedly shows people have trouble reading very wide text

Yes but to optimize for larger screens, the correct thing to do is to scale everything up (fonts, spacing, etc) in a responsive manner.

The amount of text content per line wouldn't change much, it would just fill up the screen better instead of using the same tiny font size you'd use for a 13inch screen @ 1080p on a 32" 4K display.
You can measure the amount of ability to choose and answer your own questions though. Also, this all very idealistic nonsense- until 300 years ago, we lived basically in tribal community, and people yearn for that, no matter how futuristic they dress up.
John Sculley sold sugar water and never did anything worthwhile after that. Tim Cook is running the world's most valuable company with more cash than most of the world's countries put together. He's not Jobs, no one is. It's like complaining if you are not Einstein there is no point in being a physicist because you won't change the world forever.
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I never thought I would live to actually see the day. Seemed like everything just slowed down on that front for two decades and now it seems almost to soon.
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From the discussion of this yesterday, I understand that most other companies could also meet these costs, if they had the same access to very cheap loans. These bids are supported by near minimal cost loans, that are being offered to help kickstart the industry in these areas, and to acquire skills and knowledge. Plus in the hope that the continued improvement in solar panels, rather than relying on the tech they can get their hands on today.
PR? Hidden subsidies? Lucrative maintenance contracts? Desperation for revenue in a competitive market? Overly aggressive sales staff? Contract loopholes for cost overruns?
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This is very sad.

If you're reading this and don't have a "Living Will," know that this is exactly the sort of thing they are for.
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(though when I saw the link title was hoping it would be a companion piece to this DC style guide - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207954002578217.59... - ツ )
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They will is they get subsidies to do so.
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Big giant government projects never have cost over runs.
That is very scary if it's true. If a degree in the experimental sciences from a top-10 institution does not pay better than a degree from Tumbleweed State then the employment market for scientists is completely broken.
You are right, they did. But this is not how judiciary system works.

You cannot respond to a judge order by giving interviews on newspapers or by a blog post or even with a testimony in a legislative hearing.

You need to ask your lawyer to answer the judge request, on paper.
That article doesn't say anything about Facebook deleting posts of his. And the only thing he's specifically listed as doing, calling specific groups cattle/scum/trash, well, Facebook sure doesn't seem to delete similar language in general. "It's against the rules" does not imply that enforcement is fair if enforcement is highly biased and ignores 99% of cases.
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It doesn't look like Bloomberg knows what he's talking about. We all need safe spaces and many of us have them. My living room is a fine example -- it's a place where I can moderate the amount of s*(^ I get, and it's useful in providing a buffer against the rest of the world. I love my living room in part because I choose who I invite in, and because I can ask people to leave if they're jerks or I just don't want to listen to them. The point is the rest of the world is not this way -- but I have great discussions in my living room that would not happen elsewhere due to all the yelling. We all need those places.

To argue that this makes people "soft" or uncompetitive in the world economy is ludicrous. We all know the rest of the world isn't safe; that's the point of the contrast. But why should college be just like the rest of the world? Sometimes you want to have a discussion about history that doesn't involve a yelling match about current Israel-Palestine relations. Just because that is unlike the real world doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
OK, but how do you think the actors in this story should behave, given that that is not the case? Should the homeless man starve to death? Or perhaps the judge should sentence him to years in prison for stealing less than ten dollars' worth of food?
Desal is not the panacea many believe it to be. There are serious environmental consequences associated with all the brine discharge.
This is absolutely not true. We are actively hiring all of those positions. We take down positions from the jobs page when they are filled (which is why it changes).
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Rape is a common one.
So you agree that some places should be safe spaces?
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I guess dropping very slow connections are also kind of protection against DoS or DDOS attacks, where attacker can drain resources.
well that's the point.
I've never seen a map with east-is-up. Why is/was that preferred?
It may pay better, but they are calculating the overall return, meaning the cost of that top-10 degree is a factor as well.
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I really wish people would stop misusing TCP resets. It's not just a fast way to close a connection. That's not what it's for at all. If you're ever thinking about sending a reset, please read RFC 793 and RFC 3360 first.

I'm looking at you Arbor.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding what you're looking for, but doesn't Tornado fit that bill?
>I never understood why our society expects people to fight the good fight.

One reason I would guess is the massive fortune that is made off pharmaceutical sales.

If someone takes their life early, that is potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars saved by the family that otherwise would have went to big pharma.
Or, you know, you sell it as salt

(though you might need more sun and space for that)
I am an elementary school teacher, and while I teach many subjects, this news has the geek in me very excited. As we get closer to the launch date, kids, no doubt, will be very excited about this mission. I get to plan space- and Mars-based curriculum now!
As someone searching for an enterprise grade replacement to our current system of using MS word -> pdf -> CD to publish and maintain 500+ user and install guides...

-what flavor of Markdown do you support (captions/TOC/auto-number figures and tables)

-can I paste images from the clipboard directly into the editor (like one can with github issues)?

-what's the advantages over setting up my own git repo and using something like gitbooks?

....

You _really_ should have a demo available for people to try out.
> If you spend a lot on an ad campaign for a product and your sales don't go up, you notice that and rethink your next campaign.

Most people who spend money on ads just want to be seen as the kind of people who spend money on ads, or else they just want to make their boss happy in the short term by telling them that they bought ads on Facebook or whatever. The chain of accountability is very diffuse, and most results don't really get tracked.
> How many hosts are there in a /23 network?

I've recently learned that this is a bit of a trick question. How many routers are in embedded the /23? How many addresses are reserved for multicast? Are you on AWS VPC, where they reserve even a few more addresses for internal management?
Just look at it as they self selected as not a good place to work.
Stealing a couple morsels of food and stealing thousands of dollars to rent an apartment don't really seem that similar to me.
The ads don't bother me so much. If you load your page with annoying ads I will just take my eyeballs elsewhere. It's the malware and tracking that bothers me.
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Pretty standard "We should work together to make the world a better place" for most of it, no? I can appreciate the sentiment. Wisdom isn't bestowed by education, nor simply by age, but through experiences and reflection. Oh, and having some good associates in life, instead of bad influences.

Found this quote combination pretty telling:

>If we want to stop demagogues, we have to start governing again, and that requires us to be more civil, to support politicians who have the courage to take risks, and to reward those who reach across the aisle in search of compromise.

...which sounds good! Then, soon after:

>Today, people choose cable TV channels and websites that affirm their own political beliefs rather than ones that inform and challenge their beliefs. As a result, we have grown more politically cloistered and more intolerant of those who hold different opinions.

That right there's the problem - people aren't choosing to work together. His observation is the result of, essentially, our own choosing. I read through the rest of the speech looking for practical advice (e.g. 'vote third party!' or 'turn off the tv!') but found it lacking. Definitely identifies the root problem, just empty on the whole having it figured out and giving guidance on how to solve it.
Few other interesting articles on this have been posed in the last few days, but none have got much traction - if you are interested more to read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11617988
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In addition to the obvious 0 line, it's worth taking the article's observation that S&P has returned 7.8% and mentally drawing a line there too.

Also, for anyone in the position of deciding which to do, I'd add the observation that it is way easier to go to college and get a formal education in science, math, or engineering, and pursue an ongoing adhoc self-directed education in the arts and humanities in your remaining decades of life, than the other way around. Locally to HN's interests, this calculation is a bit distorted by the way that programming can actually be learned via adhoc self-directed education, but as science, math, and engineering goes, I'd suggest it's on the short list of exceptions, not the rule.
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I agree this might indicate that top tier institutions simply extracted all of the value difference that separated them from the others.
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>Five years ago, searching for "credit card" had top hits from credit card search spammers.

20 years ago it would have taken scrolling through several pages of porn to get to anything resembling a card. I do not miss those days at all.
Ads will shift from the annoying, low-quality banners and sidebar images to "native content" and "submarines" - ads disguised as objective information written by whatever website you are on. The industry will evolve, and ads will continue to annoy/prey upon people and make the ad ecosystem money.

I'm reading a David Foster Wallace article from 2004 in which the exact same thing is happening to the radio ad industry.
I like how the primary data points used to justify the dire prediction is "news flow," a metric that's never really explained ... which is then used to give very specific probabilities.
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Do those ROI calculations include the cost of borrowing? I'd expect they don't - and if not, it means that most degrees are no longer worth it if you have to borrow a significant portion of the money.

With federal loans ranging between 6-8.5% (last I looked) it means that for the first 10-20 years, the government is the one capturing the gains from many people's college educations. There may well still be a positive ROI for some degrees but the loan picture means it comes on a much longer timeline, doesn't it?
Errm, how will you open your mind, if you are able to discuss with others, to read challenging ideas, to take on-board another point of view, when you are hermetically sealed in a "safe space"? Surely they are unsafe spaces, as they close off the world, fostering very singular view points?
No - they are able to undercut as they have access to hugely cheap loans, which the others do not, so the bid come in close to the actual hardware and running costs, not that figure plus the loan repayments.

Quote:

One can suspect that Masdar had access to long-term financing through the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi that no commercial banks, the primary source of capital for the other bidders, could match in cost.

From: http://www.apricum-group.com/dubai-shatters-records-cost-sol...
I don't think non-lexical lifetimes will make code harder to reason about (beyond the fact that it means there are more valid Rust programs, of course), because it doesn't change behaviour: a program that currently compiles won't have different runtime results with non-lexical lifetimes.

I suppose it will mean a programmer might have to think a little harder if they want to manually preempt compilation errors, but fortunately the compiler is there to catch them if they don't get it right. The example the OP points out is a situation that will likely play out like the following in most circumstances:

- programmer adds new use of variable b.

- compiler points out an existing use of some other value a that could invalidate b, and, importantly, highlights all the moving parts (conflicting use of a, use of b that prolongs its lifetime, etc.) in the error message.

- programmer edits code to avoid the problem.
Is that because it's actually hard to avoid the consequences, or because a lot of plants are lazy about diluting brine to save pennies? Let's think big, willing to bump the cost by 50% to make brine disposal safe. How hard is it then?
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One very important thing missing is that solar is not dispatchable. It does not serve the same purpose as coal and it is an apples to oranges comparison between solar and coal.

Coal provides baseless power--coal plants are designed to run at a relatively steady level for more than 90% of the time. Reliable power is critical for things like server farms which draw power all the time. Solar cannot serve the same purpose without battery or other backup.

At this time of year in places like California, solar doesn't help meet peak demand either. http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/20160503_DailyRenewa... Solar has a role, but comparing it to coal is misleading.
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Possibly. But we do have our own conformism too. We do live under our own ideology.

There is no escaping ideology: we humans have values that go beyond our own self anyway. Good luck finding the "right" (whatever that means) ideology, though.
I find it disheartening that the only way it seems we can think about college anymore is a sort of vocational school where we train for careers.
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I too read that part of your post and paused. Your argument about it not being built into Linux is interesting because it gets down to what is Linux versus what is the distribution, etc. Which I don't think is worth getting into. The truth is I'm almost positive you rely on plenty of other core components not built into Linux proper. DNS caching is certainly available to you and if you don't have config mgmt or an immutable infrastructure model in place, I'd start considering it soon.
Not exactly. The real world is far too complex to cover all edge cases, which is why we have human judges to evaluate cases on an individual basis. Leaving these decisions up to a computer is essentially subjecting ourselves to rule by computers, which is incredibly concerning.
Actually they do, but they also result in dramatic changes (Railroads, Highways, Apollo, TCP/IP, etc).
Some places (e.g. shelters for abused people) must be "safe spaces" to protect their occupants.

Common public places however must remain open for debate and free speech (of course limited by laws prohibiting libel, Holocaust denial etc).
I don't use my windows install for development so I can't comment for that. However, I'm seeing issues with Photoshop and a lot of other programs that end up very small, blurry or with their images all stretched up.
I'd submit that stretching "action at a distance" to include "function local" is really taking the idea too far. When we decry "action at a distance" I don't think we generally mean "seventeen lines previous in the same function". I think we also generally mean "action at a distance that produces hard-to-debug runtime effects", not "compiler errors that point out exactly what is wrong on what line" (as I assume will be the case).
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.. and the correct way to do this is SO_SNDTIMEO.
America is not India.

Btw, is there any serious explanation other than blatant racism why rape is so prevalent in India, e.g. compared to China where the male/female ratio is grossly on the male side...
Nahh... that's probably part of it. But in many cases, it's the family insisting that you "drag it out".

I remember at NY Hospital, this guy (in the next room) was VERY sick (AIDS) - he was at end of life. Had 105+ fever they could not get down. He was laying on a bed of ice, and the nurse was pouring ice water over him - all at the insistence of his sister.

I remember thinking how could she torture her brother so much? I know she loved him. And it was a vain attempt too save his life. He wasn't conscious though most of it, but I think he would've preferred to die in peace and quiet rather then laying on a bed of ice.

He lasted till the morning. What a way to go.

That's why Living Wills and Medical Directives are so important.
Is that the link you meant to post? Looks like it's about solar
You do this exact thing all the time in non-Rust languages. Rust notices, and then tells you about it. I don't think that makes code harder to reason about... I think that leans more in the "easier" direction.

I don't think you should dock Rust for pointing out bad practices that other languages simply don't notice. I think you can dock it for complaining about code that's really OK, which just happens to be exactly what they're trying to fix here.
To be clear, this particular mission is an unmanned mission, which of course has done many times before. But it would be the heaviest payload ever landed on Mars, and would pave the way for future manned missions.
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Also, don't forget that this didn't actually show all of the news. Just the news that passed the timeline algorithms in the chronological order (instead of just putting them all over the place). That's why nobody complained when it got removed, it just wasn't doing what it was supposed to do when it was there.
So? As the article says, from Cook's position many executives would have made a capable run of the past five years; the question is what Apple is going to do in the future.
Why is this scary? Experimental sciences typically don't pay well, regardless of where you go. Increasingly you need a masters to even get a lab bench job. PHDs very rarely pay well either unless you are in a few specific fields. People from the math and sciences who want to make money go into software or finance, its been this way for well over10 years.
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It's not just salt, it's also the rest of the contaminants that came out of the seawater. The processing costs are greater than all the other ways to get salt.
> What? They wanted a timeout on how long it takes X bytes to send on an active TCP connection. That has nothing to do with poll/select timeouts.

nginx called send(file), then polled the socket for write with the timeout, closing the connection if the timeout was hit. It has everything to do with poll/select timeouts, and especially with Linux letting poll hit timeouts when waiting on effectively writable sockets.
Unless you're lucky enough to already have enough resources to spend both time and money attending a school without any expectation of return, it seems to be the natural conclusion to me. Without the incentive of higher paying jobs backing colleges, something tells me they would be quite a bit less successful in recruiting students.
I think you could still do ads, but they would have to "come home" to the actual site, and the site itself would be responsible for negotiating ad sales. I think this would be the best bet for small advertisers, in the long run. Yes, there's no chance that small advertisers could afford to advertise on a large site, but most small advertisers want a more-targeted site, anyways. I tried to buy super-targeted ad-space late last year, and it is nearly impossible to buy ad space directly from smaller web sites. They either a) don't do ads, or b) only use a larger ad provider. I think a lot of smaller sites are giving up a lot of ad revenue by not managing the ads themselves (regional competition vs. global competition, as one example).
Why not just put water pools in plastic domes, collect the dew at night?

Creating electricity with a lot of effort and using it for heating water doesn't make sense.
Appraisals are supposed to be strictly tied to the price of homes. The appraisal shows how much the property would probably sell for on the open market today. The loan amount doesn't even show up on the report.
MBA's also have a much wider variance on costs, so return per dollar spent may also be similar between good/expensive and bad/cheap schools.
A lot of people use the battery argument when it comes to solar, but isn't Musk's home battery pack designed specifically for this purpose?