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That depends on what you mean by terraforming. If it is use nuclear bombs to cause huge volcano eruption, it is obviously stupid, but if it is using mirror to heat up air behind the cyclone makes it dissolve or change route, it's a great idea we should try. And we'll learn a lot about the climate in the process.

> my 'improved' climate might be disaster for you.

People tend to like the same kind of climate, so it will be disaster mostly for white bears and desert lizards. Of course it's possible that someone tries to improve climate in his location, by making it worse in other places, but that is not a risk introduced by terraforming.
Since the 50's, VC has been a blend of operators and finance people.
This should be updated to just be a link to Pedis on GitHub. Most of the added information is either covered in the README or through the links back to the Seastar project.
I keep hearing this "violation of Twelve-Factor" statement.

The Twelve-Factor Methodology is a sensible set of guidelines/defaults for building a modern app, as written by Heroku.

Don't blindly follow it As It Was Written without thinking. Seriously, do what works. Use your brain. Using this statement as an argument against other methods is sending the wrong message.
> Vocal and demonstrable elitism is a valid social hack - if the people who are demonstrably great coders are proponents of Haskell and sneering at PHP, while the code monkeys are all using PHP, that's a pretty clear social signal.

Sure, but the sneering is totally unnecessary. Being great, and being vocal, and being critical – those are the things that get the job done in a constructive way. Why do we also need to cop an attitude that is unpleasant, socially undesirable more broadly, and aggressive towards people who could end up being valuable members of our preferred tribe?
That article is over a year old. It sounds like slow progress, which is nice. However, given the timeline, I don't expect electric vehicles to be significant for at least another decade.
Just checked the OED -- the first citation for "burglarize" is 1871, and the first citation for "burgle" is 1872. Looks like "burgle" was a back-formation from burglar corresponding to the "burgulare" of legal latin.
I own a home built in the 1960s in the northeast US. My home (like many others, I'm sure) uses an oil-fired boiler to provide heating and hot water. I don't have gas lines to my house. The gas company won't run them unless I pay ~$5,000 for them to do so. Even if my home used natural gas instead of oil, I feel like it's not really solving the problem.

What are my options here? Is solar viable? What can _I_ reasonably do to improve consumption? I use only LED lighting, eat meat rarely, use a programmable thermostat, have new windows/doors, etc. Improving the situation seems either not economically viable for most people or an incremental improvement. Just wait?
By the 1300s Arab slave traders had a concept of blackness, it's older than whiteness as far as I can tell but I'm no expert.
Why isn't it? If I needed to build a static site for someone wouldn't some tools and languages be better than others? Those same tools and languages may not be useful for building a very high traffic site that perhaps has an ecommerce component.
I agree with the case of Go, the std lib does good enough job to be full-toolbox. Go is getting really big. If want you can check the numbers from the first part [1] where I mention that. You can find number other languages as well there. But still, if you think about I wouldn't be too fair to compare Go with Ruby on Rails.

I'm the author of this blog post.
Do not assume mala fide when it is sufficient to assume that people have different opinions on how to achieve good goals.
WW3 IRAN SEZ USA IS RUN BY ALIENS WHITE ONES,US HAS GUILLOTINES READY ARE ALIENS
It would be interesting at least to see an "other" line to get a feel for how many jobs are being advertised overall. And perhaps a table of the data as an appendix to show the actual numbers in more detail.
Trying to set NixOS on a armv7 board (NVIDIA Jetson Tegra K1), There is a customized linux 3.10 kernel that comes with the board and I'd like to know how to integrate that on NixOS. Currently I managed to boot the board using a generic armv7 image which runs on SD card I got from this page - https://nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM . But I cannot activate any services like ssh or install drivers like nvidia, cuda iwlwifi and bluetooth on Nix. Any support will be appreciated. NixOS manual doesn't explicit between different architectures and I think it's mainly written for running NixOS on amd64 PCs or similar architecture but not arm. What am I missing here, where should I look into or read about to set a properly running system on my arm board? Thank you!
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If IMF has expired its utility, then the option of not taking IMF money very obviously is there and we can concentrate on some other ideas.

What might they be?
Python JITs are coming
> Being proactive instead of reactive is very difficult if your product managers don't know what your customers find useful. They can't know what your customers actually use your product for without metrics.

So MDD is an office politics tool?

TDD and BDD are development tools that help you write better more maintainable code.

If all MDD is saying "put in metrics to help you win arguments with your PM", then I already am a MDD master. I'm not saying measuring and testing aren't important. I'm saying it's not a design paradigm. I don't know of an engineer who doesn't run tests before diving in to solve a problem on an existing system.

If you start from scratch, how does MDD help you build a restful API? What about an authentication microservice? Adding a new feature - what metrics can we measure? TDD and BDD BOTH help you with the process of engineering stronger solutions.

Saying "measure things and use analytics to make decisions" doesn't really qualify as a paradigm.
~100 trees according to this awesome map
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That probably has more to do with location than politics.

I've seen more Border Patrol in San Diego than in Phoenix.

And Phoenix is not within 100 miles of the border, while San Francisco is (the border includes the oceans), so Phoenix may actually have a theoretical advantage there.

https://www.aclu.org/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Hah! You've had a very lucky programming career indeed if you can ask that question in all seriousness.
well, at least as recently as Windows 8.1[1], windows was on that list and microsoft said to use DHCP for that (which has always bugged me as it's yet another protocol to support).

Have things changed? I haven't checked on win 10.

[1] https://www.ernw.de/download/ERNW_Whitepaper_IPv6_RAs_RDNSS_...
> (4) Daylight savings time.

It's always annoys me whenever programmers complain about time zones and daylight savings time, because of the difficulty and inconvenience handling them in software. It's getting things backwards. Software should model the (human) world* ; the human world shouldn't be changed to model what's most convenient for software.

* That doesn't mean you can't have a simpler model that you translate to/from.
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Are we supposed to ignore the established long-term warming trend just because the records now being set aren't sufficiently beyond the ones from one anomalous year?
...particularly when there are tens of thousands of warheads that can be re-purposed.

Megatons-to-megawatts is the closest modern equivalent of swords-to-plowshares; it's harder to think of something the world needs more.
Alan Kay's Turing Award Lecture (2003) [video]
"This paper presents a set of full-resolution lossy image compression methods based on neural networks. Each of the architectures we describe can provide variable compression rates during deployment without requiring retraining of the network: each network need only be trained once. All of our architectures consist of a recurrent neural network (RNN)-based encoder and decoder, a binarizer, and a neural network for entropy coding. We compare RNN types (LSTM, associative LSTM) and introduce a new hybrid of GRU and ResNet. We also study "one-shot" versus additive reconstruction architectures and introduce a new scaled-additive framework. We compare to previous work, showing improvements of 4.3%-8.8% AUC (area under the rate-distortion curve), depending on the perceptual metric used. As far as we know, this is the first neural network architecture that is able to outperform JPEG at image compression across most bitrates on the rate-distortion curve on the Kodak dataset images, with and without the aid of entropy coding."
pretty sure we can stop them but not by asking nicely. just takes armed officers and the threat of force from the state.
Doing business in India still isn't easy at all, but it's definitely better than the hellhole that was the pre-1991 License Raj.
I wish predictit.org (or a similar site) had a way to bet on this prediction, because I would like to bet against it.
I'm aware if its existence, although if I run search on the job posts for tags like lxc / lxd. The chart line was flat. I'm not too sure if this is something comparable.

I wrote this blog post.
Tools and languages might (hypothetically) be better for a specific narrow purpose whilst being objectively inferior technology. A hammer is better for some jobs than a CNC machine.
or iostreams. BTW I sure would lap the book up.
All you need to know about most VCs: they have money, end of story. Doesn't automatically mean that they have any particularly insight into business, competition, technology, etc. They may have some insider information and connections, primarily because of the money; but it doesn't mean that those will be played to your advantage.

Anybody can win a lottery and have money, but you don't immediately assume a lottery winner has any particular insight about money making or business. Just because the lottery is different doesn't change that property.
The writing was on the wall.

The irony is that the premium price was marketed as a guarantee of perennity.

This must serve as a reminder that third-party cloud storages have a price as well as a maintenance price. Moreover, iOS APIs and devices evolve a lot and ask porting work with every new version. Additionally the more you implement your own custom UI elements the more you expose yourself to additional work when porting to a new device or for the next release. That's certainly why not only the syncing part is shutdown but also the app is not ported to iOS 10 and is removed from the app store.
If the shit hits the fan, I'd rather be in the country with a lot of weapons. Historically, American weapons usually get used on other countries, not on ourselves.
1) GV has $2bn under management, plus it is a corporate VC.

2) No, no or yes, yes - totally agree about training, it is still a USP. But as markets are much more public, it´s easy to follow the development even without being invested. Most of the data can be assumed from what´s publicly available (app store ranks, alexa ranks, disclosures of competitors, headcount etc.)

Admittedly I worked in VC myself - so certainly I look as well differently at news and have maybe a different analytical tool belt.

Interesting is your remark / question, about “how do we find them?” - will think about that part :-)
It's mostly subjective, but not entirely. PHP and Java really do objectively suck.
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How is this different from/better than Stack Exchange's blackbox[0] which doesn't require a third-party service (just plain-ole gpg) and is written in bash?

[0] https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox

P.S.: I think the image looks aesthetically pleasing, but why is it there? It's a scaled-down 1,600x680px image that costs me 140KB and doesn't add anything to the article; what's worse is that it's not even a nice banner image, it's just smack dab in the middle of the article.
If they had, and such modification was relevant to the topic at hand, I suspect there would be a discussion about that in the relevant research papers. If the conclusion was as dramatic as you claim it is, it would be mentioned prominently in the IPCC report. It isn't.
Request for clarification, this is at the end of the sixth paragraph:

Trade accounts for roughly 150% of national output, more than any other country at its level of per-person GDP.

How can something account for more than 100% of output? Should it be 50%, or am I missing an economic term here?
> 1. There are two built-in solutions to this (as well as a slew of other solutions in modules), the cluster module and the child process module: https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html and https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html

Process spawning and threading are two different but related mechanisms. The former is much more expensive and hard to use with optimization techniques like pooling. It also forces message passing for IPC rather than shared memory.

> 2. JS's duck typing is thought to be a "feature" to some and a "bug" to others, so if you think it's a bug, use TypeScript or Flow. They'll give you "reasonable type system[s]"

Nothing that transcompiles into JavaScript can fix JavaScript's lack of a native integer.
It would make sense that people who worked and fought for South Vietnam were originally mostly from there.

If they then left as refugees to U.S. and now come back as investors, it's likely that they invest to the places they know and remember, i.e. the south.
One advantage is it is easier to have a single persistent connection that the client can interleave in multiple requests on. That way you don't have to pay the price of constant opening and closing TCP sockets. Just open one once and use it until it dies and then open a new one. There are many reasons a socket can die so you client does have to deal with that situation.
>> 75% of this planet is difficult/impossible to live on; why not use it for a clean form of energy?

Because of that 75 74.999999 of it is too deep to be practical. The cause of so much conflict is the need for these turbines to stand in the relatively shallow water, often within sight of expensive ocean-viewing residential properties. If we could place them just anywhere, they'd be just over the horizon from everywhere.

The real issue isn't lack of viable location but the legions of old people for whom a windmill in their view is an ugly reminder that times change. In europe they are part of the landscape. Where I am (BC Canada) they are fought against tooth and nail by retired landowners who blame them for everything from night terrors to cancer. Vancouver has _one_ visible turbine and even that rarely actually turns. It's more disney ride than power generator.

https://www.grousemountain.com/eye-of-the-wind
> This might change as dotnet core gathers steam.

It also might not.

> Mono was not considered a solid base by most companies, especially when compared to Java, while dotnet core has the QA assurances Microsoft can provide.

This is true, but .NET and Windows both had that before: if the QA assurances Microsoft can provide was important to startups, the fact that a third-party reimplementation of .NET wasn't viewed as a solid base wouldn't prevent .NET uptake among startups.

Now, if the only thing holding startups back from .NET was lack of first-class support for non-Windows platforms, .NET core might cure that, but I don't think it is.
I'm not familiar with Neural Tensor Networks, so I'm not super sure. From the bit of reading I did, it seems like they're related to recursive neural networks somehow.

I couldn't find any implementations of either concept on top of Keras, so I probably wouldn't recommend it.

Your best bet is probably to find an existing implementation and study it in whatever language/framework it's in.

Depending on how related recursive neural networks are, I found a few implementations of those in theano, etc, and I'd probably suggest starting there.

If they're not super related, Keras may be a good option, since the learning curve isn't very steep to get started, but you'll probably have to assemble the architecture yourself and since it's an abstraction it will really depend on how easily NTNs can be expressed in that abstraction.
It may be clear to you, but it's probably less clear to management. This gives them a "pulse".
Tin trade. Tin was pretty rare and IIRC the fertile crescent and Egypt are thought to have imported it from Cornwall or Iran/India. Pithy quote: Strabo (Geography, 3.5.11) mentions the important ancient tin trade with the Kassiterides, the 'Tin Islands', which have often been credibly identified with either the Isles of Scilly or Cornwall, and goes on to state that 'in former times it was the Phoenicians alone', from Cadiz, 'who carried on this commerce'.(10)
Propane can be moderately cleaner than oil. Depending on the age of your boiler, you might get a big boost in efficiency by replacing it.

The difference can be quite substantial:

http://energy.gov/energysaver/furnaces-and-boilers

As much as 25% more energy directed into the home instead of out the chimney.
I keep looking for a good long-term, low maintenance solution for storing, organizing, and sharing family data (photos, videos, stories, et c.) and haven't found anything even close to good enough for me to commit to it. It must be a Hard Problem, I guess. Or demand is low because everyone just relies on Facebook or whatever to do it for them.
> After using it for over a year (and switching out) I"m not. Its got a ton of good features. But most days I'd find myself pouring over the documentation trying to figure out how to do something I already knew how to do in Javascript

You probably don't have enough experience with Ember (if you are still pouring over docs) or aren't working on something of large enough scale to really benefit from Ember. (I'd say the analogy would be Rails vs. Sinatra, Ember really does a lot of stuff, but takes longer to get comfortable with).

> I do sometimes wonder if they'd adopted React for their view layer early on and sold themselves as the "everything else" framework if they'd done better.

Really? I think the React model of inlining HTML in your Javascript is atrocious compared to HTMLbars. An Ember code-base is just so much nicer to read.

Ember is sometimes painful in ways that jQuery wouldn't be (e.g. what I don't have access to the children components of my component!) On the other-hand if you have a large code-base with complicated computed logic, Ember really, really works by forcing you to do this the Ember way - where everything else would have dissolved into a complete mess. That said the upgrade path to 2.0 has been very painful. Never the less I would 100% choose Ember over React for a new project today.
Java: 11

I guess companies should stop using Java for big enterprise applications with tons of dependencies.
Or this isn't a problem because programmers usually know the basics of the language they are using. And if they don't, then that is the problem, not the language.

btw, Python: '1' * 3 -> '111'
What about the overhead of starting bash processes for everything, not to mention parse files, interpret and whatnot?

(Presuming systemd is compiled code)
Looking at the last hundred years or so, natural CO2 production is less than natural CO2 absorption. The difference is substantially less than artificial CO2 production, so the net change is still positive.
> still don't fully understand, and that is undergoing changes with implications we don't fully understand.

There is evidence to support what you are saying: every year there is new research that brings the inhospitable-deadline closer to today - there is a high degree of uncertainty. However, assuming that humans are at the very least responsible for the acceleration of climate change by pumping out GHGs, we could start by reversing that single change that we have made.

It's not as though we should just give up.
Apples and oranges. What is hello-world in Haskell such that it is embedded into a page that you load out of Apache?
We really need a global carbon credit system (with stiff tariffs for countries that do not participate). Cut net greenhouse emissions by a few percent a year until net emissions are negative and atmospheric CO2 and methane are back to pre-industrial levels. This will help renewables (and nuclear, for better or worse) in the short term. In the medium term, the invisible hand of the market will make carbon capture profitable, which means smart VCs will start dumping cash into it now.

I think this sounds more plausible than terraforming, but is really the same thing.
Sure but I am assuming the parent have read about climate change in german before. Whether he undertands the difference is another question all together.
When the author says "add QR codes on bills so that consumers can easily extract their consumption data and make better choices", I think they mean "bill" as in a printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services, rather than "bill" as in US banknote.
I'm puzzled as to why you quote part of my comment and then act like I didn't think of the point you're making, when I made the exact opposite point just one sentence later.

Batteries, pumped hydro, thermal storage, and many other technologies exist. They just need to become cheap enough. Thus, the problem is once again price.
> Put to simple terms: USV didn't grow fast enough and are now stuck in the middle. They cannot do enough (small) deals to leverage an average of their bets and on the other hand side, entrepreneurs are much smarter.

You're making it sound like USV is struggling or becoming extinct, but my impression is that they're actually doing incredibly well.

First, they're considered one of the best Series A firms in terms of financial returns. See: http://fortune.com/2011/06/06/venture-capital-returns-the-be...

Second, they have an amazing reputation among founders. Check out the following survey, where USV was ranked 2nd out of 64 Series A firms in terms of who people wanted in their Series A round: https://www.cbinsights.com/research-venture-capital-series-a...

Finally, I'm pretty sure I've read this in several places, but USV is not "stuck" in the middle. I'm positive that if they went to the market and tried to raise $500m, the market would oblige happily. It's more that they've found their fund size sweet spot -- their product/market fit, if you will -- and have little desire to raise a lot more money and become a larger firm. A lot of funds do this: they raise larger and larger funds for a while, then stabilize once they find a fund size that works well for them.
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Yes, that's because they are code monkeys who are unwilling to put the effort into learning something new. (An uncharitable, but perhaps effective way to phrase it.) My proposal is simply that we don't treat this anti-intellectualism with kid gloves.