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> If you think backup tools are a minus for PG, I guess you've never used barman

You are right, I've never used barman. But I have streaming replication configured manually. Generally I am quite happy with PG backup tools.

However this discussion made me to think about pg_dump deficiencies. WAL backup is for whole db cluster. But how do I incrementally update one db? E.g. one prod db to my dev environment.
While off topic. This is pretty great. If I ever run into someone with these shoes I need to remember this.
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You're right. It's just that the people who manage packages for those distros are actually sane. I can't believe people are still on kernel 4.4, or nodejs 0.10, or whatever.

Although there is something special about the PKGBUILD ports system. Here's how a well-behaved open source package is built: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/.... And here's how Arch Linux's kernel is built: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P...

It's pretty fantastic. And it means that if a package isn't available in the repos or on the AUR, you can package it yourself in less than an hour.
Mtgox was an exchange (a bank in the end), not a wallet. The only people who lost money on that were traders.
Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V
> I didn't want to make random changes elsewhere just to make the minimum needed to fix it, so I let it be.

Instead of just adding "I fixed a small code bug but SO has a minimum edit length, so here it is" to the end of the answer?

s/newpoint/new point()/g may not be obvious to the next person.
How unstructured data will impact precision medicine
For perspective, it's probably worth taking a look at some blog posts critical of this study, for example [1].

[1] http://www.marklynas.org/2013/06/gmo-pigs-study-more-junk-sc...
Marginally related; please stop asking for wildcard certificates.

https://newblog.dijit.sh/say-no-to-wildcard-certs/
How to merge two black holes in a simple way
If there is vendor competition, all tiers of service can be improved, while retaining market segmentation.
> The UI does show you if the driver is finishing a ride near you

Ever consider what that means on the opposite end? Let's say you're an inpatient person (not a rarity in Manhattan). What happens when you call your Uber driver? Shockingly, he must now answer a call with another rider in the car. Effectively: making the ride less safe, making the ride less personal, cutting off any conversation, cutting off last minute "drop off" instructions like "under this red sign on the left" and generally degrading the entire experience.

And yes it is currently a recommended pickup spot for UberX. Thus why I said "Recommended pickup locations." Do you think it will stay that way? Given all the aforementioned stressors on Uber's monetization strategy, I highly, highly doubt it.
I would imagine that, quite like Email, you have a universally recognizable IM handle that you can use with any service.
Uber is profitable in New York.
Including 'opportunity costs'?
I am not dismissing the idea that environmental causes may be at play... but be VERY VERY cautious when throwing around charts like that.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/glyphosate.asp

Correlation != Causation and not every scientist is an expert on Autism/Genetics/Biology.

"Even disregarding the sloppy mathematics, the claim's very basis (that glyphosate is the cause of a perceived increase in autism) is unsupported. No mention was made of how glyphosate was isolated and shown to be a cause (or even a factor) in some or any cases of autism in the article. No autism spikes near agricultural facilities were described, nor was any definitive causative link at all cited by the article (and presumably, Seneff) to back up the purported link between glyphosate and autism rates anywhere other than the imaginations of those making the claim. The single link of merit made within the article (to a USDA report) made absolutely no mention of autism at all but was misleadingly arranged to suggest a connection.

What the claim seemed to hinge on largely was a correlation/causation fallacy: Because [unclear activity involving glyphosate] occurred, a corresponding rise in autism diagnoses must be due to that unspecified issue with glyphosate. Claims of a similar nature have been dispelled with graphs like the following that show how difficult (or simple) it is to "prove" any one cause correlates with any one effect:"
If you want to keep the individual commits rather than squash the into a single commit. This is useful if the author of the PR actually wrote good commits that you don't want to make into a single commit. I'm also thinking of the case where a squash could turn a series of commits into a single commit with a massive amount of changes that is harder to grok when going back historically.
> Consider the default zero-zero GPS coordinates (and use an app for plane or shipping tracking to look at it). It's about 200 miles off the coast of Africa and there are thousands of dodgy transponders identifying various vessels as being located there.

There actually is a weather bouy at 0, 0. It's mapped in OpenStreetMap with a note of "This is actually here, it's no a bug"

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3815077900
>Should we blot out the moon next?

Why not? Lets fund an orbiter to create an artificial lunar eclipse exactly on full moon.
Slightly off-topic, but back in the day "V86" (or "VM86") used to refer to the 80386 CPU's inbult 8086 hardware virtualization mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_8086_mode
So you'd rather the case be decided by a single lawyer^H^H^H^H^H^H judge than a panel of lawyers. Even in common law jurisdictions, most of these sorts of cases tend to focus on disputes over issues of law (hence tried by a judge), not issues of fact (which are the only issues which proceed to a jury trial). Judges are usually lawyers before becoming judges--that's not terribly surprising, considering that judges are expected to know a lot of legal theory, which is essentially the same training you undergo to become a lawyer.

Fearing the provisions of ISDS would undermine the principles of justice means that you would rather trust the judgements of a single, likely overworked, lawyer who is expected to know the entire relevant body of law and case history for his or her jurisdiction over the judgements of a panel of lawyers who are likely to have somewhat specialized in the area of dispute being covered.
How is it so ruinous? It's a fairly bog standard way to say "naïve", "ill-advised", and so on. Hopefully you wouldn't let the rest of the content be overshadowed or dismissed by a particular pejorative. OP still makes points worthy of discussion.
Don't C++ and Rust offer the same facilities? C++ has std::weak_ptr and Rust has std::rc::Weak.
State a clear criticism then, instead of vague and smug dismissal.

Does my (indeed) simple model of free market misses something a more complex model shows?

Decreasing prices are usually the consequence of oversupply and lead to a decrease of production. That's indeed econ 101: a free market regulates production.

If you offer an insurance that proposes to shield people from such an effect, you are either lying to them or you are planning to replace this regulation by another mechanism, most likely planned production (which can actually perform better than free-market in some cases).

Banks are not in the business of managing industries. They are in the business of making profits (another simplistic yet surprisingly accurate model!), so I doubt that it would turn down possible profits in order to protect an industrial field.

Insurances conceived by a state, as a braking mechanism to dampen the results of market regulation, they can work. Insurances designed to generate financial profits and sold under the promise to shields agents from industry-wide effects? This is a clear step out of the land of useful financial tools that helps production.
Sure, but the incentives are mostly already there. And they're not buying the new super-efficient large jets because they have a hard time selling enough tickets to fill them. So I don't think they're going to be physically able to reduce emissions too much further, certainly not enough to hold overall emissions steady as flights rack up 3x as many miles over the next few decades.

To put it a different way, most of the advances here will not be in more efficient ways to fly, but in more effective ways to sell carbon credits to the airlines.
Yikes. Really sorry about that, @im_dario

Mind giving a try in Chrome / Firefox / Safari?

Would really appreciate that.
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Jared Cohen, former advisor to Condoleezza Rice and later Hillary Clinton.
Many. They're all scams
It doesn't need to be one or the other. Genetics can predispose somebody to be more vulnerable to certain environmental factors. They will not show any symptoms unless those environmental factors are present, but there's still genetics involved.

And of course there's this whole field called epigenetics that studies how the same genes can be expressed differently based on environmental factors.
There are a lot of potential candidates... too many to be honest, and a lot of them are related to basic economic activities. History shows that environmental issues driven by economics aren't solved until an alternative comes along and is adopted; the problems of dead horses and horse dung in NYC streets were solved by... the automobile.

I'm put in mind of the recent paper posted on HN regarding magnetic nanoparticles being found in human brains. Unrelated to autism (probably) is the increasing study of prions and in general, maladaptive protein synthesis. What isn't known about these issues could fill volumes.
The Agile Manifesto for Designers: UX Matters
There seems to be plenty here that like the idea of lowering the Value Add Tax on repairs. Let me ask: Why stop at 12.5% VAT for repairs? If you'd go all the way down to 0% - the repairs could potentially be up to 25% cheaper than they are now.
I agree the Bay needs to expand supply. But I think your premise is flawed. You say that commercial is prioritized over residential because it generates greater tax revenue. This may be true (edit: it's not), but new home construction generates greater tax revenue than existing homes thanks to prop 13. And yet, existing homes are prioritized over new homes as well.

The issue is less that city councils need incentives to build new housing and more that the NIMBYs do. Large chunks of the population decry the high cost of housing and then vote against more. No one actually wants to see their home values drop and no one wants to see the rate of appreciation slow. You won't fix any of this by adding tax liens against these people. Also they'll just vote down your proposal.

Edit: Actually, commercial construction isn't generating more tax revenue, because commercial properties also receive prop 13 protections. Residential properties supposedly generate 72% of tax revenues.

http://www.evolve-ca.org/prop-13-facts/

Edit 2: General property taxes produced 6.5 times as much revenue for SF as sales taxes in 2015. Property taxes on vehicles alone (which is not included the the general property taxes) accounted for more revenue than sales taxes. It's utterly untrue that commercial real estate generates more revenue than residential.

https://data.sfgov.org/City-Management-and-Ethics/Spending-A...
> Who implements it? Every individual website? then we're back where we started, not to mention that everybody's responsible means nobody's responsible, and consequently it won't happen.

Erm, as far as I know, that's the way the web is designed. The person who runs a site is responsible for it. And if this person does not care about accessibility , than that's the way it is.

But usually the owner want as much people as possible to be able to have access.

> While a text-only mode of some type makes sense for a document-oriented web, it holds little appeal for app developers or consumers.

And yes, of course I was refering to document-oriented web.

But apparently you got me totally wrong: I did not mean, "Text only" as in only text. I meant a proper formated html page.
Just without fancy javascript and css-animations and so on.
And while I actually like those, if they are well designed, I don't like them if I they are in the way of the content I want.

So I'd like a alternative mode. Easy to read on mobile as well on screen-readers etc. ...
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Credit cards are always preferable over bitcoin. You only use bitcoin because you have to. Not because you want to
I live in a small town and Every time Mr. Shreak of Shreak's IGA sees me pull out my credit card he gives me a bit of a look and has complained several times to me about the fees he pays. If I could have the convenience of electronic (credit card) payment but without the guilt trip form Mr. Shreak I'd use it.
My cousin had debilitating autism that was greatly diminished by removing wheat germ from his diet, so I partially buy the environmental take, but on the other hand it is a disease that is correlated with parental IQ, where a higher IQ leads to more likely incidence of autism. I don't think it's a coincidence that the rise of co-sexed secondary education and finer grained sorting with institutions like Harvard and MIT getting an even more concentrated amount of intelligent people.
>removing dev tools

Hold your horses! The introduction of dev tools was one of the best things to happen to browsers. Removing them would take away opportunity from a lot of people in learning web development, and would also lead to websites having more bugs.
Microsoft signs up Adobe for its Azure cloud computing services
How Big Data and Data Science Are Transforming Political Campaigning
Yay now it's only missing rebase then merge with --no-ff to be useful to me!
Probably the least worst option unless you want to buy (very expensive) commercial/industrial models.

The main downside to Miele that I'm aware of is that unlike other manufacturers they monopolise repairs, i.e. only Miele repairmen can repair Miele machines, AFAIK.

Also while Miele machines are better built they still use short warranties. Here Miele claims to test their machines to 20 years equivalent use: http://www.miele.co.uk/domestic/washing-machines-1566.htm?ma...

Yet they still only offer 2 years warranty as standard. IIRC they occasionally offer free 10 year warranties for brief periods for promotional purposes. So they sometimes put their money where their mouth is, but only occasionally.
Bonsai wants to democratize machine learning
I wonder what the time for adaptation is?

That is, if I want to keep my gut biome un-optimized for absorbing calories from my diet, how often should I shift my diet from carb-heavy to protein-rich to ...
That's a pretty plausible explanation for why my eyesight has gone down the drain in the past couple years. And I'm young, I can't be losing my vision just yet.

I suppose I should ask my optometrist about this.
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What happened to the legendary driver ratings system enforcing politeness?
I prefer http://justgage.com/ less skeuomorphic and more modern looking.

Used by https://freeboard.io/ which is a decent dashboard I have forked for some personal IoT stuff.
Ah, got it. A subtle point but a pertinent one!
So it's like the old "merge", but doesn't create another commit when you close the PR?
I actually put in a ublock rule to filter out that message because I was so tired of seeing it all the time. Definitely not a one-time thing.
NativeBase – Bootstrap for React Native
Indeed, I love Firebug and have been an avid user since it first came out.

For the rogue JS, that is indeed a problem. From a development perspective though, I even think this is a good thing: stuff that bricks your browser needs to be optimized first. the moment we'd allow a more easy grip in terms of development, a lot of slow stuff will find its way into the codebase.
I'm surprised there is no "commit tree" drawing to illustrate this.

Basically it adds the commits to the master branch without a merge commit:

e.g.:

master: A - B - C
feature: D - E
master (after merge): A - B - C - D - E

See: https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-request-merges
It's a fairly inelastic demmand for many of these people. Which, I think is the opposite of novel.
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That's a great idea, if there were such a thing as overseas homebuilders and small shops like the internet. But the reality is that the internet exists outside of the US, and the ADA cannot tackle every website.
Aren't we about to be abounding with mechanical inclined labor? Like aren't all truck drivers and car drivers about to be automated?

This seems like a nobrainer.

Relocating that labor surplus towards supporting a repairable mechanical/technological industry and commercial future seems really plausible.

That sounds like a decent job, troubleshooting and repairing the machines, designing machines to be repaired. Better than driving trucks.
Solving Common Issues in Distributed Hyperparameter Optimization
Key phrase from this speculation:

> Investors, including myself,

People are pumping up these rumors to unload the stock. There is absolutely no reason for Google to buy Twitter. None.
The article says 1-5% of the ASD cases they looked at were related to the "HARs" (human-accelerated regions). The most important thing to understand about autism is that it isn't a single condition, but an umbrella category with a bunch of conditions grouped into it.

It's a trait (trait cluster, really), analogous to intellectual disability or giftedness, rather than analogous to a condition with a single known cause like trisomy 21.
See https://intellectualizing.net/2013/12/17/book-rethinking-aut... and
https://intellectualizing.net/2015/06/04/why-it-matters-whet...

Once we understand that autism isn't a single condition, a lot of the ways the public (and researchers) talk about autism turn out to be kinda nonsense.
I haven't used Swift on the server yet, so I can't honestly say. I'll give it a try soon.

However, it's probably best for devs who are already using it for apps (code reuse, experience, etc). For other dev, I might try Elixir, for example, for web dev. It is gaining a lot of momentum. A critical mass in adoption means better support, quicker answers to questions, etc. We all can't pay IBM to worry about the details.
Yeah, just tough to read, really jarring. I can read right through typos but for some reason this particular grammatical error is arggghhh inducing ;-)
I rarely have the sort of experiences on SO that some seem to have. From my witnessing the kind of frustration friends have had with SO, and from experiencing my own occasional mistakes, I think some people are just poor at stating an actual question, but can describe their problem in detail, which is fine except often just talking about a problem without conveying the direction one is looking to go towards isn't helpful to others. Some people also just get offended really easily. Perhaps it comes from a past of spending time on very Machiavellian BBSes, but my skin is rather thick and I've only once run into a complete jerk on the Stack Exchange system, though not on Stack Overflow.

It's easy to complain about any system, but what do we really have that's better than Stack Exchange? Quora? Yahoo Answers? lol Maybe Experts Exchange, but the userbase hasn't been nearly as large as SE in years. I personally like the fact that SO/SE is so strict because, for all the power of the internet, there is mostly incorrect information on it. I'd much rather some people get dissatisfied with it, and that some of my questions get closed or downvoted easily, than have to wade through a ton of duplicate questions with answers that appear to be written by 12 year olds.

The only thing that I wish SO would implement is mandatory explanations for downvotes. Upvotes help a question get attention so there really isn't a big need for an explanation, but a negative score from a few voters early on can prevent a perfectly valid question from ever being taken seriously. This has happened to me on a couple occasions where I knew that the question was valid and the body properly formatted, but someone just didn't like the question for whatever reason. It's a good thing that a bounty can fix this, but I shouldn't have to spend 100+ of my points just because one or two people didn't like that I was asking a question that supposedly every programmer should know and I'm an idiot for asking it.

I have no clue what people are talking about when it comes to a "signal to noise" ratio; Stack Exchange is one of the least noisy sites I've ever seen.
The most hilarious aspect of this story is it took nearly two months before anyone noticed he was gone.
To peer or not to peer
Why? All of them? What makes Bitcoin legit but a github clone running with faster tx times a scam?
The post I answered to assumed that only two entities existed in the island: financial actors and fishermen and explores what it means for the economy when we apply the basic assumptions of free-market : individual agents planning for short-term gains.

I worked within those bounds, I am actually a pretty strong advocate of sane regulation of free-market, partly because I agree with the GP: free-markets unchecked lead to some insane financial cons. And also to the tragedy of the commons that you explain.
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1) Our health care system is certainly unusual and it might very well have problems. But, again, that has nothing to do with measures of worker productivity outside of the health care sector.

2) Other countries have significantly larger transfers from the rich to the poor. That certainly puts more spending power in the hands of the bottom half of the bell curve (which might be a good idea!), but it doesn't mean they're more productive.

3) I don't magically believe that increases in median worker productivity slowed in the 1970s, I believe it because it matches what I see in the world. GM used to employ 100s of thousands of people when it was one of the most valuable companies in America. Now Facebook holds that status with something like 15,000.

Technology has become this huge lever where fewer and fewer people are needed to make more and more stuff. So increasingly it's the people at the top end of the bell curve that are capturing these gains. A programmer can write software that gets used by more people than ever. A retail store employee is doing pretty much the same job now that they were doing 30 years ago.
# after the number is widely understood to refer to pounds (as in weight) in the US. Not sure how common that use is these days but most people would understand what was meant if they saw it.
A. Allow the refresh rate of your gauges to be set, or disabled entirely and only refreshed manually, perhaps with a button (so your user's screen reader can finish at its own pace).

B. Use SVG, and something like D3 to build your graphs with a textual representation. I have no idea if ARIA works in SVG, but I know there are plenty of ways to label your data textually, even without aria-label, etc.

Unfortunately, there's probably no good way to convey information in the same way that visualization does for sighted users (being able to intuit trends from lines, for example), but even just having access to the aggregate numbers in a time series is better than nothing.
Installing Let's Encrypt on CentOS was a pain because the auto command didn't work, I found this really useful cpanel plugin that automated it though https://github.com/Prajithp/letsencrypt-cpanel

Once it actually is easier to generate/install certificates it'll hopefully see wider adoption.