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> Why should I switch to this from Jekyll?

I keep seeing this question when a new technology pops up when in a crowded field there are already usual suspects out there. You shouldn't switch if all your problems are solved. Why would you?

My rule of thumb is that new technologies are for fresh projects to evaluate whether they are good fit or not. I haven't used any static site generators before so I'm open to this but if I had already invested in an ecosystem I wouldn't give it up for a similar feature set unless it's massively better.
Tellywonka talks and interviews about startups.
It's much easier to control your pace and avoid sweating on a dutch commuter bike surrounded by your fellow dutch commuters whilst in the pancake flat NL.
That's not entirely fair, because treating it as "matter" gives a quite good mathematical fit for current observations so far, while the first experimental observation of light speed ever made immediately falsified the ether hypothesis.
I feel like this is a daily critical thinking exercise for the commenters here to process.
Your use of the pejorative "silly" is indeed indicative of why Dutch people wouldn't use them. They might be silly for low speed commute cycling, but labeling the helmets silly in and of themselves is, uh, silly. Perhaps you should have said Dutch people would view wearing the helmets for bike commuting to be silly.
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Creating a food detector
Time education in practice:

The linux kernel boots 5 minutes before the end of time, so that anyone whose code would break when jiffies wraparound will see that breakage soon after boot. That's a great, great feature.
Until you assume midnight one day plus 24 * 3600 seconds will equal midnight the next day. These kinds of problems will bite you in all sort of places you don't think you need to worry about them.
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So who actually checks return values of malloc, and why? (or why not?)
The immunological drugs really are game changers. Up until now we have had three basic ways of treating cancer: cut, irradiate or poison. These basically never work on advanced cancers, or cancers that come back after initial treatment.

The immunological drugs turn the immune system against the cancer and this approach can cure cancers that are untreatable using other methods. It is still really early days, but the immunological drugs are able to take patients that are weeks from death, and for which everything else has failed, and cure them.

What we really need to know if why it does not work for everyone, but it provides a crack into which we can hammer a wedge.
Billy Bush is tho'.
Since iOS8 all apps using can get JIT compilation if they use the WkWebView. From what I gather the JavaScriptCore does do JIT as well.

So, maybe it would be possible to build a browser that has its own renderer but uses JSC for javascript. But then, I suppose that most if not all of the demanded features are not HTML5 but actually javascript.
Second this. I learned to use mirrors and look over your shoulder as you open the door. Like you would if you were to take a left turn. Basic situational awareness.. This whole "Dutch reach" thing sounds more like something written for the internet points.

As for the whole helmet thing, they do not make you more safe. Proper infrastructure makes you more safe. Unless you're riding downhill, racing or performing stunts. You don't wear kneepads when you walk down the street do you?
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> If your commute is one hour cycling in guessing you might sweat and need a shower?

Not really. Our cycling is pretty relaxed, it's not like we're trying to race there as fast as possible. And we don't have steep hills to climb either. The only time I really sweat on a bike is when I'm wearing a rain suit. The lack of ventilation causes transpiration.
Eh? I don't think it's important to see a junior dev's work before college. But if someone has been coding from a young age, if they've been self-taught, it's a very promising sign - they're self-motivated and are likely to stay up to date on tech - and a bonus is you're effectively getting a more experienced dev for the price of a junior dev (though in reality people should recognize this and bid their price up).
North Korea has surprisingly low tax rates for a communist country. I suppose if all the companies are owned by the state, they can just decrease salaries instead.
And because time is so simple, we figured to just rely on accurate time for TLS certificate validation and thus the security of HTTPS. </sarcasm>
I always thought "NP-complete/NP-hard" metaphor only meaningful in theoretical work. In practice, it does not make much sense in guiding what/how the real world problem is to be solved.
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If they're doing it for bus systems too, I'd imagine the complexity is much greater. Cities with two or three metro lines might have dozens of bus lines.
Wikipedia article oversimplifies labour taxation. It consists mostly of marginal tax rate and doesn't take into account tax breaks, tax-free allowance, etc. If you take that into account the picture is different.

I find OECD report on average labour taxation the best comparison, though limited to fewer countries:
http://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/taxing-wages-tax-burden-t...

Also keep in mind in most developed countries there are major differences between average effective tax rate paid by single earners and family with dependents.
I think you've reversed my premise.

I'm saying that early coding implies a higher probability of having useful experience in a junior dev (i.e. straight out of college). You seem to be suggesting that I think that the probability of someone having useful experience is lower without early coding. But I don't think that at all; I don't care whether useful experience comes before or after college.
Yes, a better protocol called the Zerocoin Protocol allows for more security (as well as faster transactions now): http://blog.zcoin.tech/zcoin-and-zcash/
You're already locking your bike, you can loop the lock through one of your helmet straps (I do and have never had a helmet stolen, except when the whole bike was).
It also recently tripled in value from its opening price ( https://zcoin.tech )
We could just cut to the chase:

Falsehoods programmers believe: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22things%20prog...

http://www.metafilter.com/117073/Falsehoods-Programmers-Beli...

By way of lists, a pretty comprehensive one: http://spaceninja.com/2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-beli...

More in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12675830
It doesn't seem to have client-side encryption. Is that correct?
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How many investors turned down Airbnb, Uber, and DropBox? A lot.
It's a 7-floor climb to an 8 square meter room. I'm not sure anyone's calling it a luxury apartment.

Look at the before&after pictures on the original http://kitoko-studio.com/projects/interior/maids-room-renova... - you'll see it's more an exercise in trying to sell every last bit of space in existing buildings.
Personally, I'm interested to see what happens to conformal gravity. The theory is able to fit galactic rotation curves without a need for dark matter[1], but supposedly leads to inconsistent results when trying to do the same for gravitational lensing[2]. However, that might have been an artifact of incorrect approximations and the calculations should be repeated using exact solutions[3].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3495

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7930

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07633
Maybe. But I guess my hidden objective here would be to open up the legislation making process to the public. At the moment (at least in Australia), the best we can do in this regard is 'exposure draft' consultation.

Basically a draft of the legislation is put on some consultation website, and people can send in big long essays via email. The participants don't see each others' comments, it's just a 1-1 type relationship between the government department and the 'consultee'.

I'd like to see infrastructure that would allow:

(a) consultation participants to see and comment on each others' suggestions (think Greenpeace commenting on Shell's submission regarding fuel tax credits, and vice-versa); and

(b) for participants to be able to make pull-requests, forcing the government department to answer in the positive of negative and give reasons.

On the second point, under the current system they can simply put your submission through the shredder if they don't like your suggestions. By making it very public, government departments will feel strong pressure to acknowledge and respond in a reasoned way. Many government departments do a big song and dance about 'transparency'. I think this provides a concrete and actionable way to significantly increase this wonderful 'transparency' thing that I hear so much about.
There is no obvious practical application for such system. So "why?" is irrelevant here.

Never the less taking such common abstraction as MMU and disabling it is awesome illustration of OS architecture.
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A couple of months ago I watched a short video about how we got our cycling lanes. I think it provides some interesting context on why we built our cycling infrastructure. If you like this topic, you'll like the video...

https://youtu.be/XuBdf9jYj7o
I actually got excited when I saw this, I thought about like minded people on github pinning stuff, and being able to find projects that like minded people pinned. This doesn't seem to be that though.

This seems to be much more like instructables, but without original content.

libhunt (from the comment above) is closer, so looks like I found something cool today.
What is difference between nommu linux and uclinux?
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I fondly remember playing with Photoshop 2.5 on my Color Classic with its 16MHz CPU with 10MB RAM... It was amazing what you could do on such a "primitive" machine.
Maybe somebody wants to develop a new CPU from scratch and has not implemented MMU yet...
"Site under maintenance"

Archived URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20161007165853/https://opensource...
> Conversely, if 500 startups routinely invests in companies where 90+ other investors already said no, you gotta worry about 500 startups.

All alpha in financial returns comes from doing things your competitors are not doing. If you do what other investors do, you should expect to get exactly average results. As a commodity product, if you get exactly average results your LPs are going to start wondering what they're paying you for.

500 startups is correct for seeking out startups that the other 90+ investors are ignoring. You may or may not be correct for pitching an idea that 99% of investors will ignore; it's a risk/reward trade-off, where pitching the obvious idea will give the obvious result (getting funded) followed by the other obvious result (landing at a big company in a face-saving aquihire), while pitching the non-obvious idea gives you a 99% chance of ignominious failure and a 1% chance that you're the next Google.
This result could suggest a MACHO, however.
Strong, much-needed words here:

"Right now, entrepreneurs are trying to fix things that aren’t broken. And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change…"

Damn right. Those are real problems.

But then the author praises Elon Musk for sending people to Mars. For prioritising space exploration over alleviating famine, poverty, illiteracy, whatnot.

The author's utter inability and unwillingness to distinguish between frivolous and meaningful is precisely the problem he's denouncing.
I've half joked that dark matter might be cumulative IEEE floating point rounding errors.
The country is compact enough that most people have < 30 minute bike commute, and it's flat, so people don't really break a sweat. Getting wet is indeed a bit of a problem. As children we're told "you're not made of sugar", i.e. you deal with it. (Some places provide showers for people who want to come to work jogging or race biking, but that's not standard)
> Running "a server" is not any more difficult than running any other app, on Android or on Linux, the difference is pacman -S kwrite or pacman -S lighttpd, or picking "primitive ftpd" app and running it.

Which directory does the ftpd app store it's data in, and on which partition? How do I get alerted if I'm running low on space and what do I do if I am? Is the data backed up and what is my disaster recovery process? What port is it running on and how do I connect to it? BTW, insta-fail because we should be using secure ftp. Is it using encrypted communications and how do I install a certificate and share public keys? What about configuring access through the firewall? etc, etc.
I think it very much applies to presidents. There are vastly more important considerations for a president than "has never said anything regrettable".
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I hope it's dead. Income should be reserved for just upper income/lower income. I shouldn't have anything to do with class.

I have found zero correlation between income and class.

I first heard it thrown around in college, and felt it was just out of date, and that was decades ago.

It not that it slipped through the cracks of political correctness; it's just wrong. So wrong--I'm still kinda taken back when anyone uses it.

Low income=poor

High income=wealthy

Low class=could be any sector of society? Would anyone call the Amish Low Class? Would anyone call a priest who took a vow to poverty low class? Would anyone call Donald Drump High Class? I can go on forever.
OneDrive doesn't do file versioning, which makes it useless for backup. Get a ransomware on your PC then watch in horror as your cloud storage is useless for recovering your files. SpiderOak may have a clumsy UI, but it keeps historical versions of your files. Dropbox keeps versions for a month and they have an add-on for a year. Even Google Drive keeps versions for a month. OneDrive is basically the poorest choice you can make.
If that was really true, it's be a safer bet to dismiss what experts in a given field think and just go with what the uninformed population's opinion is on the matter.

E.g. to dismiss scientific opinion on a topic to go instead with lay opinions on it
> Hugo 0.17 was released two days ago with native multilingual support. Important for some bloggers, but a pretty huge thing for documentation sites.

Thanks, didn't know that, I might take another look at it then.
Well, where I live a few million of those elderly lady cyclists (including my mom, 73, makes 100 Km trips on her bike) have reached that age simply because they know not to mix themselves with traffic faster than theirs. Living in a country where traffic has been educated to give cyclists room most definitely helps but I'd hate to see our older generation decimated because they decided to seek 'the middle of the road' all of a sudden.

Cyclists stick to the right of the road exactly so cars can pass them safely.

Anyway, I'm out of this discussion, I find it very interesting that commenters from countries where cycling is decidedly unsafe are going to lecture those from countries where the predominant mode of transportation is the bicycle on safe cycling practices. If the US would adopt half the measures of what we consider normal here when it comes to roads and other facilities for cyclists and cyclists there would adopt half the practices of what we here consider safe cycling then you might have a chance at making cycling a viable means of transportation.

In the meantime, good luck with 'assertive cycling', occupy that lane, it's yours after all and make sure you wear that helmet, you'll need it.
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Lithium ion batteries can supply a lot of power, especially relative to what a cell phone uses. I would be very surprised if the batteries were failing because of too much power draw, rather than a combination of faulty manufacturing and overheating.
I really like the minimalism here. Is SEO a concern for this though?
No bullshit. I was taught this. It's standard practice. You may have just had a shitty instructor.
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By now I would say the image of the Note 7 (and the replacements) being associated with exploding batteries. It might be best to ditch the Note 7 and move on to a newly named phone.
I learned a variation of the Dutch Reach in my driver's license test (tested in Haarlem, school teaching it Max120). He didn't give it a name or anything and seems like common sense and I think it's a better way than the Dutch Reach described in the article.

When you open the door you grab the door handle -- the thing that opens the door -- with your right and plastic black handle -- the thing that gives you more 'grip' -- with your left. By doing this you have a lot more control on closing the door as well if you still happen to accidentally open it when you shouldn't have.

I had to retract once, because it appeared I had a blindspot where I couldn't see a cyclist.
If people are convinced that funding other transport modes is a waste of money for projects that no one will use, then your precondition ("fewer drivers on the road") is not met. (Consider the beliefs of people living in suburban areas designed around cars, where cycling is only for the most stubborn.)

If people believe that space for a bike lane takes away from a car lane, and that few people will use the bike lane, then while there are fewer drivers, the traffic density and (presumably) congestion will increase, making driving more difficult.
I tend to use Perl (generally via CGI::Application, but more recently with Dancer / Mojolicious). For databases I use MySQL and Redis for caching.
Ask HN: What is the most impressive home automation setup you've witnessed?
Most homes I've visited used very little home automation technology. I've only seen a few motion sensors and clappers. My own experiments with x10 equipment have been pretty limited due to time and budget constraints. I'm curious what kind of state of the art systems are out there and how well they perform in practice.
OK, it was Russians. Can she explains what is in the leaks, independently?
Rocksmith looks really cool, I will check it out - thanks a lot for sharing!
> At the seed stage, there are companies who have been around for 5 months and others for 5 years.

And what is the reasoning behind considering the former as better than the latter? The latter most likely has a more mature product with less technical debt and has shown that it can shoulder its operational costs for 5 years. The former has "speed" ... great.

> Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development.

Quick turnaround is first and foremost an indicator of something wrong, not something right.
Structural design is always a compromise and it's not hat other manufacturers haven't underestimated the forces involved in the past (e.g. bend gate).
The first generation Nvidia shield had a great stylus.
You can use distributed bug trackers with git, like https://github.com/tst2005/nitpick or http://www.bugseverywhere.org
While these are certainly the ideal, there are still many places in Netherland, particularly in major cities where there just isn't enough space for a thorough redesign, where bike lanes run right next to parked cars.

Ultimately, it's a matter of awareness of other traffic, both for cyclists and for motorists. And pedestrians. You always need to watch what you're doing in traffic, and what others are doing.
> "When you are not in The Netherlands you should most definitely wear a helmet no matter what kind of bike."

Why? It's actually not statistically safer.
Good link!

In summary,

Zcash ships with a magic number, essentially a public key whose corresponding private key is able to counterfeit ZEC.

In order to mitigate the risk developers shard the keypair generation, such that only one participant needs to destroy their private shard to guarantee destruction of the private key.

More details: https://z.cash/blog/snark-parameters.html
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It's not just how you're treated. Research has shown that cyclists wearing helmets tend to put more trust in their helmet, whereas cyclists without helmet tend to be more careful.
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You can trivially undo helmet straps, because it needs to be adjusted it's not one solid piece of webbing.

It stops someone from just picking your helmet up and walking away with it, but it takes no more than half a minute to undo the strap, so it's not going to stop someone intent on stealing it.
I ran into this a while back when I wanted to make sure every user got emailed a report at 6am, Monday morning, their local time.

My chosen solution was a script to be triggered by a cronjob that ran when reports needed to be emailed out, but not otherwise, eg, at 6am in every timezone, every Monday. All I needed to do was figure out what times those were. Simple right?

It didn't take long until I realised I needed to make some concessions to reality. :)
I remember hearing that Analog TV stations were also used for timekeeping since they had a very stable clock for the blanking interval
Well generating the transactions only takes a few seconds with the Zcoin cryptocurrency: It's a different coin called Zcoin which uses a different zero knowledge protocol and is a lot faster and more secure than Zcash: http://blog.zcoin.tech/zcoin-and-zcash/
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I always liked the idea of music following me from room to room. Bill Gates; house (52 miles of fiber optics http://www.therichest.com/luxury/celebrity-home/the-million-...) had that feature years ago.

"a GPS system in his car could alert his networked bathtub to begin filling itself with hot water as Gates approached his home."
It doesn't always matter if your application only has a handful of users (plenty of internal applications) and defaults works at a reasonable speed. Also there are plenty of scripts that need to be run once and once only to get data from one place to another. Optimizing for performance then is pretty pointless.