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Kessler syndrome cascade.

The Kessler syndrome is about satellites, once you have an overpopulation they collide, smash into smaller bits, causing more collisions, causing more impacts, until its foolish to launch another satellite to replace the damaged ones because it'll get destroyed immediately and merely create more junk that destroys whats already up there, and launching an armored (military) satellite would just result in more bits of armor destroying more satellites, etc.

Likewise the analogy goes that every receiver needs a certain minimal signal to noise ratio to operate, to demodulate correctly with an acceptable bit error rate. Well, if the noise level goes up your only option is to increase transmitter power level which eats battery and ruins the environment and makes your radio link work, but you just increased the noise level for all the OTHER systems nearby which have to increase their power levels until your system doesn't work, rinse and repeat until nothing works.

A real world historical example is the social media like, CB radio boom of the late 70s. I realize not too many people here are old enough to remember that. But a system that worked well for a modest number of users at a legal and clean 5 watts of transmitter power, suddenly had way too high a density of users, all running illegal noisy 100 watt amplifiers because they wanted to be heard over other illegal noisy 100 watt amplifier users, etc. Eventually the system completely collapsed and all the users left because it didn't work for anyone anymore and CB is in the dustbin of history, pretty much.

In the long run to an end user it would look like in the countryside your bluetooth or wifi or anything else that uses radio will have a very long lasting battery and great range and be pretty reliable although the hardware will be much more expensive than it is now to try and work in the city, but in the city the battery life drops by a significant fraction, everything is slow and unreliable, range drops from across a large room to just a couple inches for bluetooth if it works at all, wifi is unusable in some areas that have hundreds of access points interfering with each other, etc. Some services would simply stop working in a very high noise environment due to high difficulty of increasing transmitter power. No more GPS, broadcast radio, possibly cell phone service, probably no more police/fire radios. The concept of a police car no longer having a usable reliable radio is weird.
And yet his embalmed body was there all along for everyone to see.
So basically:

"Can I get the mail.log for $date1 through $date2"

"no that would be too much work"

"is cat {ls -R /var/|grep *.log} |emailthistome.txt easy enough"

"sure here you go"
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I doubt the B12 you see in most energy drinks are the more expensive/absorbable form (Methylcobalamin) and not the cheap and less absorbable (adenosylcobalamin), I could be wrong though.
It fills a real need as the console-based text editor for people who don't know vi (and would usually use e.g. gedit rather than emacs).

(I'm sure it has other purposes too, but it's the most motivating one I know.)

Ubuntu X11 stopped working? Or perhaps you need to tweak the nginx config on that tiny VPS you're renting? If you don't know vim, nano is something that's very easy to use and often pre-installed.
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Maybe we should let him answer for himself? Thanks.
I got a similar 500 Internal error trying to watch a video (not search, not front page). First 6 characters appear to be the same for the error: http://pastebin.com/ibxLurkr

I wonder if someone could make sense of the error or if it's actually encrypted.
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A lot of companies get large by serving whales -- Oracle, IBM, Microsoft. Also it is well known that there is an 80:20 rule in customers, 20% of customers are responsible for 80% of your revenue. He seems to be saying do not serve these 20% of customers. I think you need to achieve balance. No one should say no to money, especially when it is a lot and you can align it with your long-term interests.

You should say no if the projects are not aligned with your long-term interests though, because you are then a consulting company.
From the mailing list, on using Github:

> Plus, in order to use their services, you need to assume liability

That sounds bad, as in really bad. One important function of Open Source licenses is to get as far away from liability as possible.

Do people here know whether that's just a misunderstanding, or a realistic risk of keeping code on Github?
> Would it be better to treat these enterprises customers' feature requests as Kickstarter stretch goals instead of a separate sales pipeline? If BigCo really wants a feature, and it is a feature all customers could use, maybe let them pay you to implement it and then roll out the feature to everyone.

Exactly. :)
In some sense, it doesn't matter what the subject is accused of. The standard for dismissal as an unpaid official of a private nonprofit organization is lower than that for prison. Subject could always set up his own networked privacy tool? OK, maybe that's a stretch... b^)
I use nano all the time when teaching Python, before moving to other more feature rich editors. It is perfect for quickly explaining the importance of plain text files. A big thanks to the developers for making software that is simple, ubiquitous, and lasting!
Do you have a link for dropping support for multiple build.sbt files? I can find a reference to it and I'll have to adjust my project if that is the case
Wikipedia links to this page with an hour-long programme: http://www.teterin.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view...

But it's not subtitled.
That would leave out all the BigCo specific features that benefits noone else. And often, these features are critical for BigCo to continue using the vendor.
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There was a nice xkcd about this [1]. I know HN is not the place for this comix, but anyway your question is a bit opinionated.

1 : http://xkcd.com/378/
In my defense, It was late into the single hours and I couldn't sleep nor think right.

Maybe "embeddedness" is the better word. The symbol system that is language is never the whole story of communication with language; we hardly code expression that's verbal but nonlexical (tone of voice, prosody, etc.); nor we're able to incorporate the layers upon layers of material mediation (reproduction and transmission technologies, air, light) into our generative account of linguistic phenomena.

Which is maybe another way of putting that what you say isn't what you mean - it's what's out there.

Maybe it's still a stupid point, but I thought it was worth trying to restate it once more.
The problem with most economic theories is that they neglect the phenomenon of entitlement. Since welfare was invented, more and more people find the utility of their choices distorted. They will spend discretionary income on luxury goods and use welfare to obtain the necessities. I find more and more people using their cash to buy cell phones, big screen tv, etc. but they are still unemployed, getting Medicaid as well as disability income sometimes. So the decision to purchase a luxury good (like honey) sometimes does not respond to price hikes as one would expect. Normal users might stop buying it as the price goes up but 'entitled' users may continue buying it and thus they become even more dependent on welfare (and our taxes) for survival.
When I used to work with PHP files directly on an ssh'd serve nano was my jam.
It sounds like lighting products that also use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth might have the unintended consequence of being more efficient, then?
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Interesting. It looks like the Nano devs have misunderstood what can be called a GNU package. If they don't assign copyright to the FSF, but want it to still be a GNU package, they just have to declare that they're taking responsibility for licensing enforcement.
I REMEMBER THAT. I was in my early 20s and Usernet went from heaven to hell in about 6 months. AOL AND NetTV consoles.

Room titles went from Nerd/Hacker/CS to Single Meetup rooms, PR0N and Music topics. I left maybe just in time and moved to IRC (A-Net was also HELL the 4-chan Grandfather)????
- How about UK businesses which DO NOT export and have to compete with low cost european countries instead?

They will still need to compete against lower cost products being imported as it's highly unlikely that those goods will be heavily taxed once UK is out of the EU (and the EEA for that matter).

- How about UK employees which also have to compete with low cost labor from low cost european countries?

If the UK still intends to export to the EU (which accounts for a big chunk of the UK economy), they will still have to compete with low cost labour, but with the added cost of tariffs since they also want out of the EEA.
>What's the science of human-relationships called?

I'd say it's a combination of combination of Social psychology [1] and Developmental Psychology[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Psychology
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_psychology
Convincing meat eaters to convert is going to be hard but just getting McDonalds to make it special on their menu could make a vast number give it a go and once they find it to be just as good or even better, and eventually cheaper, then a good portion of that resistance will have been overcome.

McDonalds gets hit disproportionately by anti-capitalists and environmentalists and is always trying to improve their green credentials so I'm sure they'll be working on their own recipe.
I find it very convenient to open large log files bc Nano is very lightweight. Something like that:

$ cat /var/log/logfile | grep -n section_start
which gives me required line numbers. and then:

$ nano +lineno /var/log/logfile

and for configs, of course.
Of course they are more likely to believe their intuitions. They also believe that it makes no difference whether or not you swap doors in the Monty Hall problem, and don't believe that with only 23 people the odds of a shared birthday are more than 50%.

To some extent, there is the problem. People trust their intuitions, and their intuitions are often wrong. That's why for some things we need proper proofs.
> You can also compile Elixir and Erlang to native code

How? Can you provide a link about this?
Iirc, its because of their genome.
I'm not saying anything about the ability to check proofs, or the value of axiomatic proofs in general, only that 2+2=4 specifically doesn't require an axiomatic proof in order to convince anybody that it is true. This is like saying that we need a rigorous theory of color in order to be convinced that black is darker than red. Mathematicians didn't axiomatize natural numbers in order to show that 1+1=2 or 2+2=4, or any other trivial arithmetical fact. They have never doubted it, and I don't know what "doubting 2+2=4" even means. In fact the entire process is reversed: they invented axioms that can form a formal basis for what we already know to be true. If Peano axioms proved that 2+2 = 6 - they wouldn't be a valid axiomatization of the natural numbers. One cannot axiomatize the natural numbers without already assuming that all the basic arithmetic facts we know about them are true (or else he wouldn't be axiomatizing the natural numbers, but something else). Somebody who rejects 2+2=4 has a problem understanding human language, not proofs.
Phoenix is hinting that 1.2 might drop too https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/745265003775823872
I looked at a few. I thought it was interesting that many of the ones I tried did not contain the word "cabbage", apparently they do some semantic matching which ends up including articles about cauliflower (which is a cabbage), endives and potatoes.

Also, the titles are hilarious:

Council Regulation (EC) No 969/94 of 26 April 1994 fixing the basic price and the buying-in price for cauliflowers for the period 1 to 31 May 1994 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1775/93 of 2 July 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2165/92 laying down detailed rules for the application of the specific measures for Madeira and the Azores as regards potatoes and endives http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...
So in some sense he's safer in the embassy than he would be living in Ecuador proper. Because the US is willing to illegally kidnap people but won't dare to mess up the embassy system.
I thought we were talking about global warming?
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That looks very good, ExtractorApp doesn't create the SQL table, it allows you to map to a table structure,
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Pico was certainly open source; it was part of PINE, one of the older and more popular Unix mail programs.
It surprises me that HN is so full of conspiracy theorists. Assange is stuck in the embassy of a less than ideal country regarding freedom of press etc because of his own actions, and he's free to leave at any time. When he does, he will get arrested by English police, extradited to Sweden, and questioned regarding alleged rape. If the prosecutor thinks he's guilty he will get arrested, and he will stand trial in Sweden.

Nothing in this case supports any of the scare tactics he himself and parts of the Internet is using. Sweden isn't a better country to extradite him to the US from than the UK. Sweden isn't legally allowed to extradite him after he's been extradited from the UK. He was in the UK for months before he started hiding in the embassy. He is not in house arrest, he's fleeing the justice system of two well developed western countries. Sweden's government can't give any guarantees that he's been asking for, because it's against Swedish law for the government to interfere in legal matters. It's all a bunch of FUD, and people seem to eat it up because it fits their narrative.
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I think it has to do with the evolution of our scientific taxonomic system. It was realized that although fungi seem like plants in many ways, they have certain differences which warrant their separation from plants, phylogenically and morphologically.
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Either awesome move to crowdsource vulnerabilities and improve stability...or horrible internal mistake.

The code (of course) isn't public, it's just that the kernel isn't encrypted. Some places are reporting it inaccurately.
Me neither, specially because most C and C++ developers seem to be quite happy to use compiler specific extensions to ANSI C and ANSI C++.

So using moc isn't ok as it ties the application to an extra tool, but using features that tie the application to a specific compiler is ok.
Cheers, thanks for the kind words and for being big enough to come back like this. I apologise as well, my attempts at humour fall flat a lot of the time. A little of it goes a long way according to my wife. Best wishes to you.
@internetofshit is a great follow and pretty quickly illustrates just how absurd the IoT rush has become. Solutions in search of problems.
> It just feels like inventing a way to build a nuclear weapon that can't actually explode [accidentally], and then hoping the problem of nuclear war is solved.

That's how cold war remained cold.
Nobody is saying he would arbitrarily give something to himself. My statement could be reworded as "even the CEO doesn't get an employee discount."
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"easy temporary image hosting" - How long do images last before being removed?

It was actually that drawback that lead me to making/using my own image host! With my own host, files that were uploaded back in 2012 when it first started working are still there - with the same URL (despite URL scheme changing since then)
Only 129 backers with 6 days to go?

This sounds like the type of project everyone should be supporting - unless I'm missing something and there's an alternative that's more secure and optimised than ImageMagick?
> However, this brings me to the only strategy that worked for me consistently in restaurants. It turns out that Japan has it's own traditional vegan cuisine. It is called "shoujin ryouri". It is a Buddhist way of eating (the "monk training food" noted by the GP). It is composed of very traditional Japanese dishes and is wonderful. Although there is much more to shoujin ryouri than just eating vegetables (and they also avoid alliums like garlic and onions for some reason), it is a word that every Japanese restaurant worker will understand completely.

This. I had some vegan friends that spent some time in Thailand and there are similar things. You just have to know the "secret code word" for vegan-type food. IIRC, restaurants in Thailand that have a yellow flag outside are marking that they serve food acceptable to a particular religious order of monks (or something of the sort).

That said, I was mostly referring to eating at Japanese restaurants in the West. I realize that eating in such a way in Japan itself is somewhat difficult.
Plenty of people rent, and can't easily change the locks or add more locks to the house.

Upon saying that, I've added extra locks (bedroom locks) to the past 2 houses I've lived in, and the landlord had no issues, but that's student flats and cheap landlords.

That's not to mention that it's a lot easier to just break a window than pick a lock. I have never heard of a burglar breaking into a house by picking the lock. The sort of people that burgle residential houses tend not to be the sort of people with the skill, intelligence and finesse to pick locks.
I use nano whenever I have to mess on a server directly (which is rare). Rest of the time I'm in a JetBrains product I happily pay for.
I'm in a similar position. I built a thing that I'm turning into a startup, but I'm coming out of the military and don't know anyone in a position to join me on a startup, let alone interested.

The first strategy I'm working with is going through the short list of people I trust and trying to get them interested enough in the vision to think about joining me. I've had some success with this approach, but results are insufficient. I assume that what I really need is commitment to the vision and that most of the skills can be acquired. I could be wrong about that.

The secondary strategy I'm working with is reading as much as I can possibly find on the various subjects related to my startup and its domain, and keeping track of the people who stand out in some way. This is limited by the fact that people have to be publishing or I won't find out about them.

The tertiary strategy I'm going to try is pursuing all of the vaguely warm connections I might have to different groups, like veterans groups, alumni groups, entrepreneur groups, etc. At least having that factor in common will help.

The backup strategy is to just do a normal search of the marketplace for anyone I might like to work with and hustle my way into meetings or working together. Maybe something will develop, but this strategy isn't significantly different from the default...

...which is to just be a single founder. Others have made it work. It's not ideal, but it shouldn't make things impossible either.

Anywho, with respect to your specific situation, it seems like it would make sense to move to NYC. It's got a good startup environment and already has a focus on finance. You could try to just cold email a few dozen well connected people in NYC and say that you're going to be in town and you want to talk about startups for 15 minutes. If nobody bites, then don't go. If you get a bite, buy the ticket and then email more people and say you're going to be in town to met with so-and-so and while you're there you'd like to chat about startups for a minute.

I haven't gotten a chance to use that approach myself yet, but apparently it works.
I've used something like this before so it's easy to lookup the exact error that they saw.

Generally i just do something like an sha of the error and time, and spit out like the first 10 bytes or something (as well as put that in the log line), i'm just looking for something i can grep for.
First, no: embassies are not "sovereign soil" of the countries they represent. The Ecuadorian embassy in the UK is UK soil.

Second: do you have evidence that the US sought Assange's extradition prior to him taking up residence in the embassy? What would he have been extradited for? He's not a US citizen and has no duty of care for confidential information from the US that was never vouchsafed with him to begin with.
Totally agree, this is great stuff. Every school could have a "music programming lab" with inexpensive Sonic Pi workstations. They are easy to mass produce. I hope teams of parents get together and fund these for their local schools. I put together my own from a Pi 2 and mostly spare parts.

Pi 2, case, power supply (Adafruit $65 shipped)
8g Micro SD w/ Raspian Linux (spare parts)
Keyboard, Mouse (spare parts)
Speakers or headphones (spare parts)
HDMI, Ethernet cables (spare parts)
Monitor (just used my TV)

You can also run Sonic-Pi on a PC/Mac, which would let some kids continue their explorations outside of the lab.
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Right, TFA is at least as pointless as the Drake equation itself.
> By the time friendly developers can launch AGIs, unfriendly developers will not be far behind.

I think making friendly or unfriendly AI is similarily hard (you depend on the same variables just with different THEN clauses).

Making accidentally homicidal well-meaning AI is much easier than both IMHO.
If only the Erlang VM would be a little bit faster at string operations and number crunching at runtime. Using Elixir is really really great, but if I could do some heavier text analysis without resorting to NIFs it would be great.

Maybe we need some NumPy equivalent or the like for the Erlang VM.
Lots ...

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Notes on a Synthesis of Form

etc
> It isn't as if it was possible to doubt that 2+2=4 before the invention of the Peano axioms.

It certainly was; primitive cultures frequently lack words for medium-high numbers like 10, and have been known to lack 4. Unsurprisingly, those people are generally uncomfortable when asked to manipulate quantities that high. (They may use other methods, like having a collection of stones which is known to match the number of sheep in a flock, and "counting" sheep as they arrive by moving a stone from one pile to the other. If you failed to move a stone, you're missing a sheep.)
Just read through their terms of service, and I don't see anything to that effect. You are responsible for not violating other people's copyright with stuff you upload to GitHub, and GitHub is not responsible for damage, etc. due to service outages. But that's it.
print() "works" but it's not a function in 2.6 without the import. It's still the print statement and those parens are just gratuitous. If you happen to pass multiple "function arguments" then what really happens is that you're providing a tuple to the print statement. This will cause the printout to have commas and parens which is not how the print function behaves. There are other subtle differences between the print statement and function (line-ending, etc).

Example: https://gist.github.com/androm3da/dd257031eeaf3ff09d6654726a...
Ah this looks like the important one: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg000...

The current maintainer is/was A) looking to pass on responsibilities B) not get copyright assignment like GNU projects are supposed to

so they just decided fuck it.
Stencils aren't really needed, they're only really useful when using a reflow oven, and even then, I honestly think it's easier to hand solder for a single board than to pick and place and reflow.