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> the whole "Earth is the centre of Universe" thing that held back modern thinking

This says much more about how we dismiss ancient civilizations as inferior than it does about ancient civilizations themselves.

The fact is, the geocentric model was an excellent one, able to explain all observations at the time in a sensible and straightforward way. Admittedly, more data helped to develop the heliocentric model, but there were valid scientific criticisms against that model at the time. In particular, it took Kepler to provide truly sensible and strong arguments in favor of heliocentrism.

The geocentric model is so good that even today it is often the sensible model to use when thinking about some astronomical problems. I hate to hear it being dismissed as 'wrong' - because from a physical perspective the two are simply geometrical transformations of one another, they are both 'right'. It's simply that one of them is simpler than the other for most problems.

But most of all, I hate hearing people say it 'held back thinking', because I assure you that the people doing the thinking back then were just as capable of doing good, logical, rational thinking as we are today, and didn't need anyone to claim they were too stupid to think critically for themselves about the scientific understanding of the time.
One consideration is the Barring straight is very narrow compared to other ocean passages, so people may have regularly crossed each side without thinking 'new land'!

From their perspective the map looks like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumpolar_peoples

From their perspective North America is simply yet another settled area.
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Great point. I may actually have to re-evaluate Unreal 4.
I'm in the US (suburbs near NYC) and over the past 12 months we've used 15714 kWh. 5 bedroom house built in the 1950s. With all my electronic toys, our love of air conditioning in the unbearable NY summers, and the tendency for nobody to pay any attention to turning things off, I'm almost surprised it's not higher. Also, we have a Nissan Leaf (electric car) which is responsible for 2500-3000 of that usage. Total electric bills for the past year comes to $2885. I don't think we get enough light here for solar to be worth it, but occasionally I think about it.
the name neural network is unfortunate. but then again you can't call them "continuous function best fit support vector feedback machines on cocaine"-networks.

the name will cause confusions for many years to come. but it's what we have. nice article, it's good they're trying.
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You can do this in Go as well: https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/debug/#SetGCPercent
Streets happen naturally when there's enough population density and permanent structures. Of course, those things require agriculture first (or at least plentiful, permanent food sources like fish).
No, it means they will ban a couple of hosts to 'set an example' and then move on because there is no money in getting rid of hosts short of the most horrible (and probably press-worthy) cases.

This is a typical case of CYA.
> "AuthaGraph... faithfully represents all oceans and continents"

What does this mean? Literally, that is impossible, so what's it actually preserving and distorting?

It looks like angle is distorted. Is that it?
Sad the site is now a Javascript powered site. Its not even old SEO friendly (I know most of the engines now run JS but it slows down indexing).

I thought for sure they did a PJAX [1] like design when I saw the spinner to keep asset loading minimal (why c2 would need that is beyond me).

But it is even worse. A full page reload on each click and then an XMLHTTPRequest call is made for some JSON.

I wonder who is running and why they picked such an awful design. Do people just not know how to write old web 1.0 apps?

For now I will play devils advocate and just assume perhaps they are offering JSON like API so that someone else can maybe write a better skin. If some one does hopefully they will use push state.

EDIT

I clicked around to see what Ward has been up to and now I can sort of see why c2 is the way it is. Basically Ward is working on Federated Wiki. I think the idea is sort of cool as it is yet another attempt to continue to decentralize the web.

I believe it is going to be based on some JSON protocol but it would be interesting and perhaps have greater consumption if it was in Google AMP format or supported that format or converted or whatever (not c2 but the federated wiki stuff).

[1]: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax
How I wish qemu had an interface as easy to use as Virtualbox!
As you suggested, continuity of appearance is what makes this problem so difficult.

I recall watching a movie that was converted from black-and-white to color as a child. There were many distracting artifacts. Most notable was the hairlines of the actors would shift as the actor rotated their head. It made the film unwatchable.
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The article mentions the map "aims to create maps that represent all land masses and seas as accurately as possible."
But map should be accurate in the first place. It's not like you can just ignore things you don't want to see there just because they are naturally to big and take up too much space
Still the same content (and old bookmarks work fine) so I can live with the new bizarre delivery system (could've been worse, like one of those old flash websites). You can overwrite the css style to make it look normal.
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But many parts of Europe need heating instead of AC. I think it has more to do with house sizes. More Europeans live in cities compared to US and thus have on average smaller apartments/houses. Also there might be cultural values in the play, at least central and nordic countries are traditionally quite efficiency oriented.
How is guest support for macOS Sierra?
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The level of serendipity in HN is absurd. This is exactly what I was going to search for today. I'm going to use it local with Electron.
Yes, if it happens immediately. But most likely they'll be doing it for a long time, possibly years before something will be done about it and more often than not those cases will involve Airbnb getting bad press (which is what gave rise to this whole thing in the first place):

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/20/airbnb-sued-for-allegedly-ign...

Or did you think they came up with this because they thought it was a good idea to tell people who they can invite into their homes?
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If so, I would be very interested to see what, if anything at all, moving from JVM to BEAM in Erlang/Elixir/Phoenix would do for them. In a never going to happen but interesting to see on this scale kind of way.
> they would not have an objection to these roofs

Unless the HOA rules have a stipulation about your roof shingles exactly matching the other roofs in the neighborhood, which is common. And boring a shit to look at. I hate HOAs so much.

If all they did was protect property values by keeping people from doing outrageous things, I might be okay with them, but they go way beyond that to the point where it diminishes the value of buying property (since you can't adapt it as you see fit). Municipal codes usually take care of the worst behavior, anyhow. Which is why if I ever buy land and/or a house, it will be in a more rural area. Then I can put a damn Tesla solar roof on it, build a shed with a different roof and paint it all purple with green stripes if I feel like it.
14,130 kWh for a 4000 sq ft 4 bed in Boston over the last 12 months for a 150 year old house. It looks like AC is a large portion of that. Thankfully, we use gas for heat and cooking.
fwiw virt-manager is quite good!
Do not bother testing the hard stuff. Test for the easy to average stuff.

e.g. Ask people to print numbers from 1 to 10. Then kick the 20% of applicants who couldn't do that :D

Source: I had to correct a batch of HackerRank tests for one company.
In The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz says there is two types of really successfull people in the business word: Chaotic visionaries and orderly executioners, called type 1 and type 2.

I think Apple is a perfect example for this, with Jobs having been the visionary and Cook the guy who implements these visions.

Horowitz stated that a company works only well with the visionary at the top. We can see how true this as Cook just is not creative. I am sure he works really hard and is really smart but he should have never gotten to where he is now.
At first I thought he would only be a interim solution to manage Apple while they search for another creative genius but that seems not to be the case.
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No, Airbnb is flouting the law left right and center but will hide behind it when it suits their purpose.

This whole affair is simply to avoid some bad press, not to make any sweeing changes in Airbnb policies. Now they can point to their TOS and say 'see, it wasn't us', kick out the occasional host that makes them a target for bad press and continue business as usual.

A real change would be to:

(1) force hosts to accept all guests, without any kind of ability on the part of the host to decline guests

and

(2) to not show the guest details until the person shows up to receive the key.

Anything short of that is simply window dressing.
Anyone have as many problems as I have with virtualbox, vagrant and Ubuntu 16.04 as a guest OS? I would expect it to be one of the most common Linux versions running in vbox now a days as it's the latest LTS.

Nonetheless, I have had all sorts of issues with trying to tie my 16.04 box to a specific private network IPs.
I do :) I run Jeskola Buzz in a Windows VM. At least in a macOS host, audio latency is BETTER than I remember it being on native Windows (back when I ran that).
Does this person know anything about graphics, or is this some sort of creative writing or reportorial exercise?

How can one introduce vectors without the word "direction"?

How can one so thoroughly screw up the introduction to illumination?
It's actually not a bad financial decision at all relative to other cars. Reasonably specced Model S montly lease costs after tax benefits come out to well under $1000/month. That's on par with a mid-high spec E-class or 5-series. Now factor in fuel savings and small business lease write off. Plus access to carpool lanes during peak hours and prime parkin spots.
My post was intended to be two questions:

1. What are the chances of any us surviving outside of human civilization if all technology was stripped from us, even if we had memorized all of humanity's combined knowledge?

2. How long would it take to replicate current technology from scratch, if all the research was already done for you, and you were basically immortal?

By "from scratch" I mean skipping the creating-the-universe part, just starting without any preexisting tools other than what you may find in nature.
Christians prohibited loans and banking. Jews were able to practice it though.
Well, in modern C++ you _shouldn't_ do that.
I've got an 80-year-old row house in Queens, NY. Family of 4, no pets.

Our electricity usage is well below yours. We don't make a huge effort to
conserve, and I don't believe our house is particularly well insulated. We have
no special energy tech, unless you count the LED lights. We have a lot of
electronic gizmos sipping away at any given time.

Winter: we don't have the baseboard heaters, but I work from home most days
and have an infrared heater pointed at my desk for a good 8 hrs or so each day.

Summer: my wife hates A/C when she sleeps, so we only have one air-conditioned
room at night (me and 1 kid in the room w/ A/C, wife and other kid in the
other). No pets, so we leave the A/C off when we're out, it comes back on (by
timer) about an hour before we get home. So big difference in summer.

Still, that doesn't sem to account for all of the difference. I just checked my
con-ed history online. Some typical usage numbers:

Feb: 310 kWh
Apr: 240 kWh
Jul: 410 kWh
Sep: 270 kWh

We spend anywhere from $80-$350 a month for electricity. Maybe there's a big difference between an 80-year-old row and a 150-year-old row?

We have

- 3 window A/C units.

- 3 routers, running 24/7

- 2 servers (mostly used as NAS), running 24/7

- FireTV, a few sonos devices, drawing a bit 24/7

- Many lights, mostly LED. We're pretty good about turning them off.

- ~10-15 phones/kindles/laptops/tablets/gizmos constantly being topped off

- Gas for stove, water, and household heating

EDIT: After reading more discussion below, I thought maybe I'd made a mistake, since there is a difference between our usage and most of the other US folks. I double checked, and the numbers are right. Our total usage for the last 12 months is 4340 kWh. We were gone for a few weeks in the summer, else it would have been a bit higher.
I am self-employed/own a company. They are basically business leases so written off nearly 100%.
Something to watch out for is that vagrant does not always (most of the times really) work with the latest release of virtualbox. Try skimming through the documentation of vagrant and they'll say what versions of virtualbox they support. By using the version they say should work, I have no problems (and I'm on 16.04 as well)
If I remember correctly, the pottery wheel came later.
I hope there will be more articles like this exposing HackerRank and its ilk. Recently, I found myself on that site, and quickly gave up on it after having to deal with bugs and artificial impediments, even having problems copying and pasting from my text editor to their textbox.

It is a waste of time for anyone who can program.
What does it mean, "as accurately as possible"? Is that stretched-out Brazil accurate? Or that shrunk China? Pretty sure a lot of areas of this map aren't very accurate.
NPR, and all the old media are now competing with BuzzFeed etc for clicks. These sites do not hire trained journalist or even writers. What you get even from NPR etc is republish of blog posts someone wrote while eating breakfast with little or no editorial oversight. Its mostly clickbait trash.

And for those who downvoted this there is a very simple test you can do to reveal racism that you may have grown desensitized to. Simply replace the race with another/white and read it back.

"A Moment of Silence for the White and Yellow Talent That Grew on Vine."

nothing racist there at all...
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The solution seems easy: replicate your 6 seconds clip 50 times and you'll have a 5 minutes video to upload to youtube.
So was it thermal shock?
> Sometimes I wonder if the greatest inventor of our time might be applying his work to video game engines.

John Carmack?
I love their pants and shorts.

When I was in the market for a new tux, I thought they fit very well but they lacked a lot of tradition. I'm not a fan of a modern interpretation of a tux. If you want a modern tux, wear a notched lapel or cropped leg but don't mess up the basics traits. Every coat had pocket flaps and some pants lacked a satin stripe. I ultimately went with a Boss black label.

But honestly, to each their own. I'm not a fashion snob – just personal preference. Next time I'm in the market for a suit, I would definitely check them out based on the slim cut and stretch material.
Overall, I have had enough unnecessarily poor experiences with both Virtualbox and Ubuntu that I try to not use them in general, fwiw. I don't use Vagrant so I don't have recommendations for that specific case, I'm sorry.
Nice setup! How much did connecting to the pipeline cost? Making an individual connection to something so large sounds expensive, but obviously I have no actual clue.
Yea I agree. Their own site is programmed very poorly, yet they are supposed to be the graders of who is a good programmer?
Have they fixed "you can't scroll while moving the mouse" yet?
I think that is because Ward Cunningham wanted to transition to a static site instead of running it old style CGI way.

See also:
https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/issues/2
http://wardcunningham.github.io/
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I get what you're saying, and you are right, of course.

I'm trying to think of this not from a prescriptive position, though, but thinking of "why do people like Mercator". And I believe that people like the perceived efficiency of Mercator, in the sense that you can make a world map that fills more of its area with land mass.

Or, addressing your comment more pointedly: yes, yes you can. You can ignore the Pacific Ocean on a world map most of the time. :D
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Spain, 4BR/200m2 house, roughly 5.500KWh/year. No A/C, heating used pretty much only in winter.
The Chinese may have had primitive steam engines before Heron of Alexandria:

http://tellmewhyfacts.com/First-Steam-Engine-James-Watt

That doesn't diminish Heron of Alexandria's accomplishments in any way, I highly doubt it was anything else than either an original invention or an independent re-invention.

Super interesting historical figure, right up there with Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci.
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Practise: Always encrypt. Aw wait... what do you mean "tls is not supported?" Are you saying that half of our applications have been running on bare HTTP for years?. Mehhhh. Well, all our public accessible websites are running on HTTPS, right? Right. Guess it's only half a disaster after all:(
Germany is at a similar latitude to England/Wales, and they've been investing a ton in solar.

It's certainly less efficient, but still worthwhile.
While I worked on HN I did this for a few users. I required that the account they wanted to update positively identify them (via comments they'd made, items in their profile, etc), and that they be able to prove they were the same person.

Definitely something we handled on a case by case basis and declined to do if we weren't comfortable.
Entertainment is fertile soil for creative invention; it is often an environment which eschews rigid, pattern-based development in favor of creative expression.

I've spent a fair amount of time in video game development and in enterprise software; without a doubt, my experience reflects that creative developers are drawn to video games, whereas the few that found their way elsewhere have a sense of being exotic caged animals.
Streets and roads aren't useful only for wheels. Try taking a mile-long walk through a (seemingly) flat field and through a paved surface as an experiment.

The first one will be much bumpier and tiresome than the second for any given speed, and you'll be at a higher risk of injury due to careless step. And the benefit of having a flat surface is greater the more rugged is the terrain that must be crossed. This is why, though the Incas didn't use the wheel, they had roads nonetheless. And the Romans, too, built their own roads mainly for the speedier movement of their armies while on the march.
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> Unfortunately almost all his inventions were for entertainment value only.

I read somewhere that one of the problems in antiquity to develop useful machines was the abundance of slave/captive labor. Why do you want to create a complicated inefficient first version of a machine when you have cheap humans being to do the task?
Has anyone ever checked for backdoors baked into these virtualization layers?
So far oracle has successfully turned into crap every single community of free software they put their hands on:
- java,
- mysql,
- openoffice.

Just because I believe in the power of communities over the power of license and I see a pattern in Oracle corporate culture inability to plays nicely with open source communities I know give up on using any free software that is related to Oracle.

R.I.P. virtualbox.
Ive had no issues with that exact setup with Windows host. Must run vagrant up as admin for symlinks to work is all that's been bothersome.
Extensively incorrect.
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Do you think it may be your bias based on your entire lifetime of looking at Mercator projections? The purpose of this project is to make it an accurate representation. The observations you make are precisely why this made was made.
On macOS nothing works better for vm audio than Parallels. Never experienced latency with it. However, I would never use Parallels with Vagrant. I do all my dev using VMWare.
Their shirts are just OK - I would avoid the oxfords particularly though as they are not very durable. The pants are great.
My company always works a "Big-O" question into interview questions. It's funny how we ask about the complexity of the algorithm and maybe 50% of applicants even know what Big-O notation is.

It doesn't seem to impact hiring decisions though. We haven't turned anyone down because they miss that question.

I think it's because anyone who has programmed for a year or so professionally already understands the concept of inefficient algorithms. They don't need to measure it mathematically, just learn how to optimize.
So in "black and brown", what ethnicities qualify as brown? Does it include some, all, or none of the black category?
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Dive right in:

https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk

This also ties into 'reproducible builds', even if you find nothing at all what does it mean if you compile the sources and don't end up with a binary that is identical. Oh, and do make sure to check if your compiler isn't inserting it's own backdoor.
That's a good point.

I guess I am trying to say that a map that accurately represents the area of seas is potentially not what everyday map users want from a world map.

But I see that they optimized for that instead of my vague sense of usability. :-)
Man lazyfoo, that takes me back...

I remember extending what I learned in the series of tutorials into a tiny Windows/Android cross platform demo a few years ago to get familiar with NDK