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No one can deny that there has been a great period of growth under capitalism, but it's also ridiculous to deny the fact that along with said growth there have also been many crises. That's what this article is about. So, the question that I originally posed was asking not whether GDPs are bigger now than they were in the Middle Ages, but whether or not we should move on from capitalism to something better. Your comment did absolutely nothing to answer that question.
I don't know what to make of this; half of these laws are on the books in the US, and the other half are on the books elsewhere in the West.
I think you are missing the point. The protest should be against polluting the city to power a non-necessary activity by not going to the mall.

AND if the government purposely delayed an electricity connection by months or years, then you should protest against them too. The above problem doesn't seem to be an issue of supply & demand of electricity, but more of a power tussle between the builder & authorities for possible kickbacks.

Related, it seems like India is almost power surplus according to these sources : [1] [2] [3]

[1] http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/we-can-tell-th...

[2] "By the end of calendar year 2015, India has become power surplus country despite lower power tariffs" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=india+power+surplus
The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

Oh, and of course: COLA (Combined Object Lambda Architecture): http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2483
I can read both Go and C, but not in the style that is preferred by core Go runtime developers. I struggle a lot to read the code when all important data structures are one-letter names - G, P, M, etc. I understand not wanting Obj-C style identifiers, but single-letter ones?

Go runtime code reads like `x := g.b(a.C)` and you have to do quite a bit of manual cross-referencing of variables and identifiers to even get a vague idea of what is going on. It obviously somehow works for them.
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Also of note, in zero-gravity the ullage space must be forced to the opposite end of the tank before ignition so the fuel is at the intakes. Commonly this task is accomplished by "ullage motors" which fire to settle the fuel before primary ignition[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullage_motor
> Children are an absolutely massive financial net-negative for all quality-of-life levels above the poverty line

Not in my experience. My kid cost me money, but quality of life increased a lot since everything is now much more enjoyable. Also, kids do not pay back their parents with money, but they pay back much more with their love, and making life much more enjoyable for the parents.
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But then it gets worse! They'll continue to do things that you consider stupid, but you can't control them any more.
When I was growing up, my dad stayed home to take care of us and my mom worked. And he eventually felt devalued by the rest of society, socially isolated, and (as we grew up and needed him less) missing a sense of purpose and accomplishment.

I think it's an individual thing. Healthy boundaries are a good thing to have regardless of gender. It's important to learn not to give up things that are important to you regardless of the messages society sends, and that if society has a problem with that, that's society's problem and not yours. Society is pretty big, after all, and there's bound to be some portion of it that will accept your well-considered choices.
We've actually developed a way that you can convert Portia projects into Scrapy spiders: https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/06/29/introducing-portia2c...

and since this is all open source, here's a link to GitHub: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia2code
The question poses a false dichotomy. We should regulate both as appropriate, with understanding of the science of how the pollution affects us. Doing so doesn't make one more important than the other.
> I am from Europe, not USA, but it is unlikely people are that different there.

You would be surprised. Americans receive very strong lifelong messaging about how they should live their life to optimize for immediate comfort. Having and raising children definitely causes strain on one's ability to fulfill the lifestyle that has been marketed to them.
This is a pretty despicable article on multiple levels. The guy pulled a gun on someone, and that's why the police were called. How many white people are shot by the police? Ridiculous rabble rousing. I'm ashamed of techcrunch.
Matt talked about the analogy of tech industry in Silicon Valley now vs. the financial industry in New York in the early days. My understanding is that this is definitely a long term play. Along the way though, this process also helps local economy, job growth and helping New York City to become the leading tech hub in the east coast etc. Obviously, those will all help boost the real estate market. Don't forget the 3rd partner in GCT is from the Milstein family[1]. All in all, this is one stone multiple birds :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Milstein
Good luck with that ... come in over asking ... pay a year in advance and bring a bottle of wine
Sounds like you want Lotus Notes :) I actually wish someone would recreate something similar.
But for such a user the choice is not third-party AV or nothing - Windows comes with AV software - so the true benefit of an AV product is only in how much better it is than the integrated one. That difference needs to be more significant than the product's drawbacks AND price.
And yet none of us seem to see those issues.

I can remember mail.app needing to rebuild a mailbox to a new format maybe twice or three times, since probably 2008.

1 person saying "x is buggy and crashes" doesn't mean much without actual descriptions of the problem.
"The story is also coloured with anecdotes from various other luminaries at Bell Labs at the time, including John Tukey (the pioneer of exploratory data analysis and the inventor of the words "software" and "bit"), and Kernighan and Ritchie (who were upstairs designing Unix and the C language at the same time S was being developed)."

With Shannon still around(?) that must have been some place to be.

Meta: nice to be able to just download the mp4 video for offline playing - no flash player to fiddle with.
Biological systems are a tangled mess where everything interacts with everything else, and anything that goes in also goes out, and the other way around.
Children don't make you happier but they do make you develop as a person. I enjoy the company of my children and it saddens me how keen most parents are to offload theirs onto minimum-wage carers (ironically at great expense).
I tried all mentioned in the post and comments. I am currently using MailMate (https://freron.com/) It is still lacking, but does most of the things I personally need.
You should read Casino Moscow. It's an informal history of one reporter's experience in Russia in the 90s. Definitely not biased towards the present regime in Russia; it's written by Zbigniew Brzezinski's nephew: the Brzezinski family is quite anti-Russia due to their Polish nobility heritage. Yet, the book gives a pretty good understanding of why the Russians like Putin and the present system: the 90s were really bad. Like, Mad Max bad, across a huge country of 150 million.
There's nothing stopping a mail client from maintaining arbitrary indexes, caches, etc. in addition to the maildir.
Thank god for the US EPA.
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My wife and I debated having kids. By my mid 30's I felt like I was living a stupid life that was basically me sitting around watching sports at bars and waiting for the next cool video game to come out. My son gives me life immense meaning, but boy have the stress levels gone up. There's no "right" answer, just the choices you make and the ramifications of them. For me it was stressful life full of meaning, or easy life that felt empty and meaningless.
As for natural language interfaces, you can, right now, go to Google and type in "two-bedroom homes in Paradise, California". It won't try to answer it. It will instead send you to a site that is a database, right? And as I mentioned, numbers from Google's homepage are declining specifically because people are skipping that step.

The web as a general-purpose database is a vision that has yet to materialize.

Yes, sure. I guess that's my point: its materialization will be the basis of the next cycle. I have concrete grounds to believe that it's on its way and it will be tremendously exciting because it's the beginning of the final form. The data will get more complex, more contextual, and more refined, but it will always be data. The astonishing thing about new paradigms is that it's like suddenly being able to see; entire new dimensions open up; things that we didn't even consider before become suddenly cake.
Perhaps he had multiple children, extending the range
Some systems will scan the email content and try to guess the password; if they can't, they'll block the attachment.
It would help if editors stopped treating comments as second-class content. Most atom themes, for example, render it as I would render unused code (if I were to commit such atrocities) – grey on (light|dark) grey.

I wish there were a functioning plugin to render markdown inline. I bet people would start caring about comments just because they looked better.
Interesting from an academic perspective, but absolutely inaccessible to 99% of the population. If I don't get the outcome I want, I will dispute it (and people already do) because I think it's unfair.

And maybe it is in your case. Are all algorithms designed to be "fair"? Should they be? Can they be, if everyone has an exception or a loophole? Or at some point do "disputes" go back to a human with the same biases that algorithms were intended to solve?
It's easy to believe there's a lot of room for improvement- we've been improving the design of four-stroke engines for decades- but at least they are a huge step-function better than two-stroke.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12047902 and marked it off-topic.
email by definition sucks
Yeah, but that's because coding web sites is their main skill set. It says nothing about their raw cognition, except that it's above some necessary level.
I have the phone. Despite its problems and my plan to ditch it soon, I do hope that silent circle survives and eventually thrives. I support their purpose and ideals, even if it hasn't worked out for me personally with them.
Could you go into those reasons?
C has an eco-system? Really? Yeah, sure I can download source code and headers and somehow use 12 different antiquated tools that strung together with duck tape and bubble gum that are also not standard on Windows let's say, to actually hopefully compile that code, and then worry about 12 other different tools each with 6 different options to be able to do something simple like "link a library", and hope that works on FreeBSD and OS X and Windows, but it won't, it never does, without spending an insane amount of time tweaking headers and m4 macros, before giving up and learning CMake, but if that's what you consider a "mature eco-system", then you have very low standards.
I use this app every day and never heard about the campaign. I guess their marking wasn't really top notch, which even makes the shot even more impressing.
It's good that the government isn't allowing google street view access to the country's streets otherwise the world would see and understand the unmitigated hell that the country has become.
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Okay, given your understanding of what he said, I can see why you might agree with him (although I don't), but critically, that's not what he said.
Not a surprise. Ann Landers asked back in the 70s: If you could do it all over again, would you have kids again? Something like 3/4 said no.
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My theory (slightly humorous) is that kids don't smarten up until age 27.
What a terrible completely information free clickbait article.

"When the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Tuesday that his investigators had no “direct evidence” that Hillary Clinton’s email account had been “successfully hacked,” both private experts and federal investigators immediately understood his meaning: It very likely had been breached, but the intruders were far too skilled to leave evidence of their work."

Or aside from the rampant speculation in this article it could also mean just what he said!
If a filesystem is a poor match for an email database, I'd appreciate the use of a well-established, open, and documented database format. That is, a format not only your unique email client can understand. Something with an independent manipulation tool. In the perfect case, something that can be interoperably used by several different email clients (not in parallel, of course) and / or third-party indexing / filtering / other processing tools.

SQLite is used in many cases to store smaller things. It's likely not a good fit for a few gigabytes of email with binary attachments, though. I wonder what would be? NoSQL document-storing databases seem to have been created for a purpose like this. Is any of these used by any remotely popular client?
I didn't take it as such - I took it as a correction to my misinformation and updated my argument to reflect the new information. My backing point was 'Japanese makes kanji more difficult than Chinese" but my information wasn't correct originally.

Might I ask what you find difficult about conjugations? I might be able to help. With the exception of U-Verbs (五段) I found that they are very consistent and very "mathematical". Nothing else gets as complicated as "house and houses but mouse and mice, goose and geese but moose and moose". While there are still exceptions due to etymology, they are relatively rare. The same 2 verbs are exceptions to most everything and there are only a few common words which are exceptions, such as いい conjugating as よい.

I concede that 五段活用 is a pain in the rear but it is something you get an "ear" for over time. So if that is were you get frustrated my only advice is chug-chug-chug along! Eventually if you conjugate one of the words incorrectly it sounds wrong to you, even if you aren't certain you were wrong or not.
You nailed it!
REP MOVS is the fastest option for huge copies on Ivybridge and later by a large margin, as it uses special cache semantics that aren't available via any other instructions.

For small copies with buffers that aren't aligned or cacheline-multiple length and are resident in L1 cache, it's possible to be significantly faster than REP MOVS using a software sequence of AVX instructions. This is because the branches in these sequences are usually perfectly predictable in the real world, but the "microcode sequence"[1] used by REP MOVS does not benefit from the branch predictor. This imposes a static startup cost (a few tens of cycles) that exceeds function-call overhead, which keeps software implementations of memcpy in business.

[1] Not exactly microcode as that term is classically understood, but there isn't really a better term for it that's widely used.
Sure, every time you deviate from a targeted design you leave performance on the table. Whats acceptable to you, may not be to others.
>> My friends with children after they've had a few drinks have all told my wife and I to not have children.

Because getting out to have drinks with friends becomes so rare. In that moment, you are fulfilling one of their social needs that has been so neglected it seems like the only thing that matters. What they're really saying is that by not having children you'll be able to continue as you are right then. Take it as a thank you from them for having that drink.
I suspect the downvotes are because code readability is a complex, subtle topic that often gets reduced to flamewars by people who are sure they know ‘the’ right way to do things.

Code readability is relative to the reader, the programming language, and the conventions of a codebase. That's a lot of things to be relative to! Knowing that ought to put speed bumps on the way to dismissing code one isn't familiar with.

I remember having a reaction years ago on seeing some of P.J. Plauger's C++ standard library code. I think I burst out laughing and said I'd fire anyone who wrote code like that for me. Years of subsequent experience have brought multiple layers of understanding how wrong I was.
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> regardless of whether its results are racially equitable

Some would call this discrimination, if not outright racism.

As others on this thread have pointed out, at some point the algorithm follows the underlying data, which may also be discriminatory (zip code, etc.).
I'm not saying that he said rockets render audio, I'm saying that has nothing to do with modeling the real world. If you're criticizing the idea of modeling the real world, we should talk about actual models of the real world.
Awesome of you guys to open the place for the tech walk!
How often do you do this, and how long do the effects last? Do your allergies stop bothering you entirely?
I am plagued by hayfever in the warm season and my only option seems to be to munch antihistamines each morning, or twice a day sometimes.
The key issue with C declarations is that "declarations mirror use" which means that you can interpret them this way:

int *p; // dereferencing "p" gets you an "int"
int **q; // dereferencing "q" twice gets you an "int"
char a[10]; // subscripting "a" gets you a "char"
void (*f)(void); // calling f() gives you "void"

People who write the asterisk next to the type often have a hard time understanding this.
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I’ve read the article yesterday (fully), and I didn’t get the impression that the author thinks that “other browsers are stupid”. (And I’m a loyal Firefox user, so I think I would have noticed.)

From what I’ve understood, the thesis is about the issue of browser inconsistencies, and how it sometimes may be sensible to resort to user agent detection and hacks.
The Nordics, where having kids also increases your happiness, are also very high on individualism as opposed to collectivism. The key difference to the US are the public policies that allow families never to stress about things like arranging daycare to the kids from the day they born.

These policies are not there to combat individualism, but to enable it with taxpaid support networks. Most of them are not poor aids, but state benefits that everyone enjoys, like the free or cheap high quality daycare used by the poor and rich alike.
You can compare the maps for e.g. PM2.5 in New Delhi and LA quite easily:

http://aqicn.org/map/delhi/mandir-marg/#@g/28.6188/77.2405/1...

http://aqicn.org/map/losangeles/los-angeles-north-main-stree...

Quite a lot worse, as you can see!
I think a big part of it is that a lot of people think that having kids is expected of them. I applaud the people who know what they want and follow through no matter what expectations are put on them. Be it with not getting married or not having kids (or vice versa). I wanted kids and so did my wife, our views were the same and we ended up having two kids. It has brought immense happiness to me (and sleep deprivation). I wish I could see them more but I value the time I have with them when I'm home from work. I would never tell anyone they have to have kids or get married. I can share my experiences but how the hell am I supposed to know what makes you happy, you need to find that out and stick to it.
$25 a week isn't much cost/work. That's what it costs for two guys - one on a mower, the other on a string trimmer - for roughly 15 minutes.

Apartments don't come in 1500+ square feet, all on the ground floor.
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I'd really like to see a study specific to female happiness with children

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood discusses this (https://www.amazon.com/All-Joy-No-Fun-Parenthood/dp/00620722...), among many other interesting topics.

I'd also observe that there are probably time-sensitive issues; much of the day-to-day stuff with small children is dreary, but the long-term prospects are quite good. I've heard lots of older people say that having adult children is great, because they're self-sustaining and yet emotionally close / connected.

Many long-term projects (probably including startups) have somewhat crappy day-to-day moments but high long-term satisfaction. And many short-term satisfactions (like eating ice cream) may have negative long-term consequences.

Bryan Caplan's book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think is also good on these topics, and he points out that much of the supposed happiness research is overblown or misused.
More dangerous rabble-rousing. The fact is that the police shoot more white people than black:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-...

The problem seems to be more to do with gun ownership and trigger happy police (perhaps understandable if the person in front of you might be reaching for a gun), rather than racism.
The grid in India is pretty broken. My dad had dreams of going back to India to retire, but on his last trip he told me housing was now super expensive, the pollution was still terrible, the air not fit to breath and the water still unsafe to drink.

In other countries we take a national grid for granted. In Europe, power can be bought and sold from country to country. India may be lacking in capacity, but even if they're not, the grid is fragile, unreliable and not a national one.

There are over a billion people living there too, in a land mass way smaller than their more populous neighbour to the north (and let's not forget all of China's trouble with pollution as well).
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I mean, if you like Mail.app, use Mail.app. I'm not here to tell you that you should change how you read your email if you're satisfied with it. I was pithy in the Mail.app section because the article was already shaping up to be quite long and I just sort of assume everyone in the Apple ecosystem has used Mail.app at least a bit and knows its strengths and shortcomings already.
"Happiness is for idiots" -DeGaulle (maybe)
That's not "modeling the world", or if it is, it's a very bad model of the real world. Rockets don't render audio.
Anyone needing an idea for a hack project: make a realtime version of this for phone or webcam. Bonus points for swapping in ridiculous sound sets, or keying augmented-reality visual fx overlays.
> If you are independently wealthy, sure. Otherwise, IME, you are considered a failure for not being able to provide for your family.

Even then I'd say that many men would face thinly veiled criticism or even ridicule behind their backs.