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Sorry but everything is relative and we could have just stick with JVM and Java as it's super performant and you have enough developers to choose from.
Picking elixir over ruby is like picking a katana when you want machete.
Isn't Firefox limited to three predefined groups? Work, Personal and Banking?
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Yes, if it makes the system in its whole more free.

According to you, a society with the freedom to kill is more free than one without that freedom.
I set up a merchant account on Amazon, distinct from my main user Amazon account, and it's a big big pain to have to switch between the two (or sometimes not remembering under which account I'm logged in and spending time understanding why something doesn't work).
Sadly, they have a video embedded in the article that at first glance seems informational, but it's really just an "action" animation of the solar system. They could really just have shown the orbit this thing in a diagram or something.
Yes but isn't one of Elixir's strenghts that it scales very well on a single machine? Why do we need the load balancing?
are you using rails stack. If so, can you explain how you achieve it?
that repo is pretty dated by now (June 2015) and is not really under active development

https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example...
Aircraft go all the way down to single-seaters, and helicopters all the way up to ~100 passengers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26
> One of the most interesting things traveling to African countries is lots of locals considering oil a curse.

Don't see any of them in a rush to give up their 'curse'.
Cannot ponder it at length and necessary depth if you're too mortal or preoccupied with survival.
For clarification: I'd assume that is man-hours in maintenance vs flight-or-field hours?
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While I mostly agree with you, I do think that once we have moved to a non-GPL world, nobody (or very few) will care or know about the alternative.

People get just used to the current state of affairs, even if that means not having rights that they do not even know are possible.
"reasonable expectation" constantly changes in response to technology. The police and courts are fond of reminding citizens that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy when they store documents in cloud storage, for example.
Beeminder sounds like a great idea, but there's something stopping me from using it. Every time I try to set a new goal on Beeminder just before I set the dollar amount I hear myself say "this is really stupid" and promptly cancel.

I know that if I feel guilty about paying those $5 per transgression I can just lie to the app, which makes the whole thing pointless.

I understand that the whole idea is to be honest to yourself. But because I have been frugal/cheap my entire life, it feels stupid to waste $5 when I could easily avoid it.
Because all house robots so far don't really incorporate the more advanced aspects of AI, such as neural networks / deep learning, empowerment and general research done into social robotics. Even with what we have, they still have the potential to really wow the world.
"manufacturers have talked us into thinking we need to keep buying new ones"

Not all of us.
Would it be possible to create a container for every site I start at in a fresh tab.

E.g. I open a tab, go to example.com and that stores all cookies and cached images and so on from that point on in a container that get's opened every time I start at example.com. So you have one container for every start point.
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Automation. My number one thing might be learning to use multiple cursors in Sublime, I probably jump into it 10 times a day to psuedo-automate text editing. I wrote of one example here: http://jontelang.com/blog/2016/06/22/sublime-efficiency.html

Another thing is, also automation, to use Hazel to automatically keep my temp files manageable. Basically, when I file is older than X days, move it to a "need review" folder. This mean that there is a steady but very very manageable flow of files to delete or move to their correct location. I also wrote about it here: http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/17/hazel-is-great.html. My Downloads folder have not been 1000s of files since I started with this.
I know looks are not the point of this browser but the tabs look great! Much better than the Chrome tabs!
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The last part is generally a prejudice nowadays. It is either laziness (and if you don't use it, you lose it) or senility due to medical reasons.

What actually might be happening is genetics and society prodding young people to actually be smarter.
Uniform is entirely the wrong thing to expect at a given time of day. Typically we model these as exponential, or poisson distributions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution
A chromium derivative whose key selling point is that it makes something a bit easier which the base version can already do, but you need to sign up for one of their "limited beta invites"? Hmm ... totally doesn't sound like snake oil.
I can't produce the set of all humans on Earth either, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

Both real and natural numbers can be reasoned about despite their infinite size (and we even know that e.g. there must be "more" real numbers than natural numbers, even though both sets are infinite)
That's probably based upon older reactor designs like everything in the nuclear industry, since regulation had made progress slow-going.

Newer designs, and some others, burn spent fuel. Out of the 3 major nuclear reactor incidents, all were old reactor designs. There are new ones that also cannot meltdown in the common understanding of the term.

Don't forget coal mining releases nuclear radiation, since you are unearthing radioactive minerals. So much so, that you are exposed to more radiation in the vicinity of a coal plant than a nuclear reactor.
Exactly, people take for granted the AI that drives Siri and Google talk - these are amazing advances. It's enabled family members who are dislexic to completely transform their ability to engage in technology and the world.

Of course driverless cars are s massive feat and I see more robots entering the house soon in less subtle ways.
1. Stop calling anything a "life hack."
Looks like most of the features can be covered by nginx+iptables, so it will be great if authors will state what can't be done at all or in some specific case.
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Correlation doesn't imply causation.
It also has an incredibly useful debug console for HTTP(S) which allows you to inspect requests as they come in, its absolutely priceless when working on webhooks.
Not sure, but the time cost is the latency of loading an almost-empty index.html, loading and parsing your app, _then_ it starts running and hopefully fast doing some API requests and then it's off and good to go. Subsequent JSON-API-requests-and-then-rerenders should be pretty fast indeed, but those aren't the point :)

You want to server-side render React apps so that while all that happens, the app already works.
A one master mesos cluster with 5 c4.2xlarge public nodes only costs 2k$...
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Start asking questions in Stack Overflow. I wish I started doing this years ago. I used to be just a non participating reader for a long time. Once I got the taste of it, I ask questions frequently now. If you are stuck with an issue for over 2 hrs, ask in SO. There are so many knowledgeable people who will guide you to in the right path and save you hours/days! The best part is you'll get a response when you are back after coffee or max on the next day morning when I come to work. I've started trying the same thing in HN as well lately :) .
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Well, I'd argue that all those people you listed are either professionals in diverse fields, or enthusiasts. If you take 17 million PC's sold, just in the United States, that's 17 / 300 * 100 = 5.66% of the population. And I was conservative in using 300 million as the total U.S. population, when I've read it's more like 321 million, so what does that tell you?

But if you look at the number of PC's sold year over year, the number is dwindling at the rate of roughly 15% - 18% per year. Look, for example, under the "Global Computer Sales" column, here:

http://www.statisticbrain.com/computer-sales-statistics/

the average laypeople don't want computers any more, and the sales reflect that. For their needs a tablet or a mobile telephone with a web browser is pretty much all they need, and the web can and does now deliver pretty much any kind of application they could ever need or want. And that's precisely where most of the sales of desktops were. Professionals using computer aided design and people like you and me are few and far in between, in comparison.

On an sgi related note, I myself owned several Octanes and even an sgi Challenge R10000 (with a corresponding electricity bill). I must have torn and rebuilt that Challenge four or five times, just for fun. My primary workstation for years (which I fixed and put together myself) was an sgi Indigo2 R10000, with an hp ScanJet II SCSI scanner, a 21" SONY Trinitron, and a Plextor CD-RW SCSI drive, back in the day when CD-RW was "the thing". With 256 MB of RAM when most PC's had something like 16 or 32 MB, it was a sweet setup. Ah, IRIX 6.5, how much I miss thee...
Well, since our beta a few months back, we have had about 180 companies sign up, but all are under the 10 employee limit, which at the moment is free, so we haven't actually had anyone pay for a higher tier as yet.

Of that 180 sign ups, about 30 or 40 are quite active and visit the site often, although it is hard to judge because some only need to revisit the site once a month or so to update details and respond to reminders etc.

We are looking at scrapping the free 10 employee limit soon, and making everyone pay (except the early sign ups - we will honour their free tier pricing indefinitely).
Having made the same switch from Python to Haskell I agree. However, I just wanted to temper your claim that "almost all of the errors" could be prevented by type systems. I think it's hard to measure errors in any way such that "almost all" is a valid claim, but "very many" certainly is!
So, noisy neighbors mean that you can't get predictable performance from shared dynos; simple math indicates that even one lagging dyno out of 20 will kill your 95th percentile response times.

The trouble with the dedicated dynos is that you need at least two for high availability (to not miss requests on dyno crashes / restarts). That puts the minimum cost per service at $500/mo. Not necessarily an issue with monolithic apps, but quickly untenable with microservices.
> I don't really see how we can have both manslaughter and murder, without free will. What extra thing did the angry guy do? He didn't make a choice, because (for the sake of argument) he has no free will. What is the characteristic that makes what he did worse? The cost to society is the same.

That doesn't require the concept of free will. Because for manslaughter and murder the reasons are different for the death. One is deliberate, one isn't.

> It seems like, punishment would need to be interpreted purely as societal cost. So you tally up the wreckage from the car accident example above, say $25,000 and 2 lives.

You would also want to calculate predicted future costs from that person, mainly from the point of view of harm to other people. If someone like them is likely to kill on average one or more people in the rest of their life then they aren't going to be allowed to interact with general society again. This doesn't need the concept of free will to implement. It only needs a sufficiently sophisticated way of determining of what harm a person like them will likely cause. This is in addition to the harm they have already caused, so there is no reason for someone to become a one time killer. And yes, getting the predictions right may be really tricky, and the way the courts currently sentence people may be a good as or better than trying to predict what people do on average. But the way courts sentence at the moment doesn't require the concept of free will anyway, because people do what they do because of reasons, human reasons, and they can differentiate there.
Yet another reason to move to SSDs...
At some point cars are so old and worn down that you're going to have to replace something every few months, and the maintenance costs explode – sure, you can completely refurbish the car, if you want to, but that's easily in the magnitude of a new car.

Labour costs to produce a new car on an assembly line are much lower than those of having two or three (skilled, but not necessarily familiar with your particular model) mechanics take your old car apart and test and reassemble it again.

That manufacturers sell spares at a premium and aren't interested in long-lived products doesn't help, but the basic problem remains.
New Scientist has gone horribly, horribly downhill over the last few decades. It’s a pale shadow of its former self :(
Yeah, can't really talk about costs unless you factor in running costs...
> Verizon launched its 4G LTE network in the US covering 93% of the population it needed about 30,000 towers, each one of which had to have a fiber connection

I'm curious whether this is true. Base stations are usually connected to the backbone network using microwave connections. The average bases station has a capacity of under 300mbits, so it would really be something if Verizon managed to connect all its base stations with fiber
I consider the bicycle market to be totally a lemon market, so why not get the cheapest lemon, sometimes.

The most irritating part is the lack of standardization. Every bike needs its own cassette remover and its own bottom bracket and its own brake pads. I’ve had 3 different road bike wheel diameters, 5 different crank standards, and 10 different axle standards.

And then the big brands like Shimano are all too happy to have their name and parts associated with everything from crappy BSOs to luxury bicycles. Rarely do these details appear in the Craigslist ad, nor the bike store ad, even if I had the inclination to memorize the Shimano part list. Many ads don’t even list the length of the bicycle.

I’m not sure about the “plenty of life” thing, either. Usually, I ride a bike for a couple years, and then some part of the frame cracks. Disappointingly, this almost never happens to the cheap department store “mountain” bikes. Usually, for those, the bottom bracket breaks.
I have this fear that someday it might be about a teapot...
Feeling relived for now
You can write it both ways. t.method() is the same as T::method(t).
Given enough genetic modification, nothing is really out of reach.

And more basic biotech is probably enough for massive improvement.
How do you do this with Chrome?

At least the impression I got from the cached copy of the site is that you can basically have multiple windows which each have a different... something that is similar to a profile in Chrome.

That sounds handy. Chrome really ought to support it imo.
Push the responsibility one step away from yourself. Since the goal needs data from you, then you can connect the goal to something like github, RescueTime, TagTime, Complice, etc. Or design your own service for your own personal needs [please do this if nothing exists]. Example with GitHub: if, to lie to Beeminder through GitHub, you have to make a fake commit, push and pull request, then you're already part of the way to doing what you want! Just s/"fake commit"/"what you actually want to accomplish", and as they say, Bob's your uncle.
I'd love to hear how to use nginx+iptables to traverse a NAT.
Well, I don't have similar experiences with SO. Sometimes I feel that easy questions are being answered very quickly by many people because everyone wants to get reputation points quickly, but difficult questions are often left unanswered forever as they require a lot of effort and don't bring as much reputation to the answerer (as their potential audience is not so wide).
That video in the article was the biggest load of ... I can't even find a word to describe how awfully irrelevant and non informational it was. They obviously had an intern sitting around and they needed to give them a job creating some animations for a day...

In any case, if they do find planet 9.5, I hope they call it 'Rupert' as a tribute to Douglas Adams...
An alternative way of looking at it is that societies do better when they make full use of their resources. Saudi Arabia has long been criticised (by lots of people, but particularly relevant here) by economists for the way they keep women out of the labour pool. They are making themselves uncompetitive by this.

It's the same for North Korea - who are getting rid of their most interesting voices for change into hell holes.

So an economic argument would be that we are currently running the years 67+ as unproductive, and the first society to change that will do better than the others. It's also possible that this is the first time in history it would be safe to allow life extension in a lot of countries due to the falling birthrate at the same time.

Oh, and immortality doesn't mean living forever. I read somewhere that even if we could extend lifespan, actuarial tables show that on average people would live to about 700 before dying of accidents.

> You could make the case that you continue to work past 65, but in what field. How many 85 year olds are in fields they could stay relevant in?

I think this depends on whether the brain can be made young, too.
(I'm a Beeminder cofounder) This is good feedback; thank you! We're mostly ok with targeting the particular psychology that this kind of thing works for (our very self-serving characterization thereof: http://blog.beeminder.com/typebee ) but what about adding enough social accountability that you wouldn't cheat? We don't have many social features but you can just point some friends/family at the url of your Beeminder graph.

Or maybe a better answer is to automate the data entry (we have dozens of integrations -- GitHub, Trello, Fitbit, RescueTime, etc) so that you'd have to do more than lie to the app. With enough effort you could still cheat, of course.

Would love to hear if this is overcomeable or a dealbreaker!
This seems a lot like buying a Mig-21. Yes, you can get them for dirt cheap (under $50K in the Mig-21's case [1]). But the cost in parts, maintenance, fuel, and hiring an instructor pilot so you don't kill yourself the first time you take it up will quickly exceed the initial purchase price. There's a reason why people are selling them.

[1] http://www.city-data.com/forum/automotive/503914-mig-21-ebay...
I second that. A dev I spoke to basically said that the indie dev scene before (distribution-wise) was really tough because the only way to distribute games on a mass scale was through big box stores (with actual physical copies). A lot of these stores rarely, if ever, dealt with smaller studios (let alone one-man shops) so you would have to make deals with publishers (like EA) just to get your games on those shelves. Those publishers then took a large cut of all the revenue.

If your game was somehow a success, you had to keep making bigger games with a bigger team just so you can make that game 'relevant' to the big box stores. It's a never-ending cycle of needing to keep growing, expanding, and eventually that financial pressure swallows up indie studios. Nowadays, you have digital distribution channels like Steam or itch.io which make it significantly 'easier' to reach customers. Plus, there's less pressure to grow unless you want to. Like erik said though, there's definitely more competition nowadays.

I will say this though as someone who writes about games, a unique hook (ie in mechanics, story, tech, or maybe all of them) goes a long way in getting press to write about you. I suppose that's the way it is with other fields though.

As a writer, I love discovering and covering new indie games. I want to write about you but if you scroll through a lot of these games, it feels like stuff we've seen again and again. The one game that changes the formula even for a little or presents it in a novel way (ie Undertale or Her Story), you get people really interested and talking about it.
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Ha, you said this much better than me! Thanks!
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I just heard a convincing criticism of our mental health system from the invisibilia podcast. They went to a European town where mentally ill people were assigned to live with regular people to take care of them. And that they had much better outcomes than in the US.

The full episode is here, there's a lot of interesting observations in it: http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/483855073/the-proble...
I've just bought a new-to-me Prius and I think the way it works is the way forward until the issues with electric-only cars are resolved (i.e. how to refill it in 2 minutes as opposed to 2+ hours):

The ICE is connected to the drive shaft via the 'hybrid synergy drive' which is a gear box and electric drive in one. It can drive the vehicle either under electric mode with the ICE off, with both electric and ICE, or in electric mode while the ICE charges the battery.

When you brake it cuts power to the ICE (either just cutting the fuel, or stopping it completely) and charges the battery. There are also normal brake disks if you push the peddle extra hard.

I like it because it's relatively mechanically simple, which means less things can break. The ECU does a lot of work, but try and find a car that doesn't nowadays. Also it only needs electric motors in one place - the rest of the axle and drive system is exactly the same as a normal car.

The only thing really letting it down is the low capacity battery pack, but I guess that's for cost savings. There is also a plug-in version which can do 26 miles on electricity alone. Toyota offer this as an option in most of their cars, even the Rav4 SUV, so I expect in the next 10 years it will become standard across their range.
Hi, dreeves! The Complice integration is the best thing yet! I'm wondering how many other kinds of such services can be added like this.
Eeeeeh, "final" is such a strong word. They won't (or shouldn't) spend much time polishing assets before they've sufficiently tested out (and polished) the core gameplay. But yeah, they shouldn't invest too much until they're confident that the game's going in the right direction.
Devising ways to prevent such an end and making people psychologically tougher is also part of life extension. Not the most interesting one, but least researched.
Twenty minutes. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-20-minutes-after-wo... this is amazing.

Elevate your command line game:

autojump https://github.com/wting/autojump

ag https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

Use zsh and put this in .zshrc https://gist.github.com/chx/f9509cb2db6595be334ca2404fac8a91

Now you can jump to directories freely with just j afewcharactersfromthedirname, search their contents with ag super fast and if you ever figured out something on the command line, you can recall it after this. For example, I remember I was searching dangling commits with awk so I do Ctrl+Rgit*awk and there it is. (I posted this particular command to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21903972/search-for-strin... but that's less relevant to the topic here so I won't repeat here.)