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It's mentioned in the article. In section "The road to hell":

> “Fireworks during Diwali marginally added to the pollution… But other things inside Delhi did not drastically change. So the smog is mainly due to smoke from farm fires,” Kejriwal said.

> Every year around this time, farmers in Punjab and Haryana—the predominantly agricultural states to the west and northwest of Delhi—burn the leftover straw in their rice and wheat fields. This is the cheapest way to prepare the land for the next season of sowing.
Some more resources for Debian on mobile devices:

https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
> you guys still believe

I believe this is your error in a nutshell. The American environmentalist movement alone has pro- and anti-vaccine factions, pro- and anti-GMO factions, and pro- and anti-nuclear factions. If you lump these people together with various other political and religious groups, just about any sweeping judgement you make is going to be wrong.

I don't want to get any more confrontational about this, but the world is much more complicated than you seem to think it is, and most people don't fit into your stereotypes. The current wisdom is just that, it is not the only position that will ever make any sense, and carrying on as if it is will only make you look foolish in the long term.

About nuclear power, those are good points. I'd point out that at least Japan did build passive-safe reactors, and at least to our knowledge no one has been hurt yet by the Fukushima incident. Any community without effective building codes is definitely not the place for that kind of project, though. I like wind and solar as useful tools, but I question some of our current policies which can incentivize using them even where engineering would suggest better options. In any case this is the kind of stuff I'm actually interested in talking about.

I'm not sure what is the best way to address this air problem in Indian and Chinese cities, but the status quo is horrible (burning wood and coal, and running unfiltered diesel engines). Using energy in more efficient and prudent ways might be their best bet in the short term, but that kind of progress is very hard to manage at scale.
No, just no. You still need to keep track of local times relative to the Sun because that's important. And time zones are the best way to do that. We could improve our usage of time zones, but abandoning time zones is just a silly idea.
At first we had similar thoughts. But I really wanted to try it with one file. If the script becomes bigger and more complex, I think again.
Looking at the pattern: if the statistic would end in autumn instead of summer, then iOS could also have come up on top.
History seems to have shown the opposite, in transport.

Trains are engineered to absurdly high safety standards and every time there is a crash, it's widely publicized and an in-depth investigation is required along with suggestions for systemic changes to prevent repeat events, and the companies are required to pay large settlements:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/27/499592760/...

At the same time, trains are vastly safer than personal cars. Yet when a driver kills someone, police can barely be bothered to attend the scene and rush to excuse the driver and let traffic flow again.

The safety standards on vehicles are such that billions are spent on engine development yet we tell people to watch out for the "blind spot" in that trucks mirror contraption. We're soon going to have autonomous driving AI yet trucks are roaming city streets that are unsafe by design and regularly claiming lifes. I don't see Volvo and MAN settling with anyone over that.
Does the license not allow forking it with group of people more interested in accepting contributions? It has a bunch of users. If my theory is wrong, it should've forked with a lot of updates by now.
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Yes, this proposal does make things a lot easier because:

twelveHour = twentyFourHour mod 12

But instead with the status quo, we need to add this extra line of logic:

if twelveHour == 0 then twelveHour = 12
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I would totally code on an e-ink screen if it was larger than a Kindle.
Snapchat's definition of “camera”
Illegal?

Someone's TOS is not a law but mere a wishful suggestion to others who usually won't bother to read it anyways.

"You are not allowed ..." is the most laughable statement in TOS.

TOS may however remind of existence of laws.

Laws do or do not allow, TOS are not.

Laws do exist to protect copyrights and trademarks but scraping per se is not illegal.
You basically just said that the US is allowed to pollute more than India because they make more money.
Some quotes that stuck out:

"So being a camera company in an age of photo-taking obsession makes a lot of sense. And what’s the most important part of any camera? The lens! Snapchat’s Lenses, the technology which magically morphs and mixes your face with digital components, then, are the most important part of Snap Inc., the camera company."

"When Steve Jobs said that Apple would be making personal computers, he did not mean that he was putting a mainframe in every garage. And similarly, when Evan Spiegel calls Snap Inc. a camera company, he doesn’t mean a Leica in every hand."

"A Snapchattian camera understands itself as a device that captures and processes images for the purpose of transmission within a social network. "
>that and Apple and others catching up in terms of "sleekness" and aesthetics.

Wasn't Apple always ahead of the Japanese laptops in terms of sleekness and aesthetics?
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(I'm not terribly familiar with Python's threading, so I'm not going to talk about it)

I never understood why people tout Go's goroutine feature so much. You can have it in literally any systems language.

There are two big reasons for it.

Firstly, goroutines are extremely lightweight. "Traditional" threading in C, C++, and Java means native OS threads, which are comparatively expensive. Sure, fiber/coroutine libraries exist for these languages, but they are far from common (and, the only fiber library for Java that I know of, Quasar, came after Go).

Secondly, Go's ecosystem encourages CSP-style message-passing, rather than "traditional" memory-sharing. This is channels, not goroutines, but they make working with goroutines very nice. This is less concrete than the first reason; you certainly can implement message-passing in any of the other languages' threading styles. But empirically, it doesn't happen as often. A factor in this is also that, unfortunately, many CS curricula don't discuss CSP, which means that Go's use of this is the first exposure many programmers have to it.
Its bigger than that. We are at a point where I would pay a monthly premium in order to keep my privacy and would rather have a bunch of free tiered alternatives that are all explicitly non-private. Because lets be honest with ourselves nobody but us really gives a shit about their privacy. And it is a billion dollar industry. Let people who do not care keep the free shit at an up front cost rather than all this running around corporations do now. Or I can even see a future where the government gives you free internet in return for data mining 100% of it.

I would actually probably use that.
I'm sorry, I don't see it. Can you explain how that short history somehow makes your sweeping claims about the future more credible?
Is this just because you don't trust the government not to use your secret key for nefarious purposes? Because if that's the case I feel like you wouldn't participate in the civic system at all... Like forget signing your vote you just wouldn't vote.
This is stupid. This is obligatory reading: https://qntm.org/abolish
This is an incorrect conclusion. The occurrence of both parents working has been around for less than 30 years. Before that, the mom used to stay at home, so she would take care of getting the kids ready for school, etc. And yet, school started around the same time then as well.
I completely agree. I'm amazed at how infuriated I can find myself sometimes.

One advantage of the text messaging/Facebook-type environment is that it's async. We have the opportunity to step back, take a breath, re-read what we wrote before we press send. I think I end up deleting at least a third of the comments I start to write because I realize I haven't figured out ways to express something properly. Or I'll blanket it in so many qualifiers to try to make sure I'm not misunderstood that the actual content is hard to parse out. And just text is a difficult, low-bandwidth medium because we don't get to see any of the cues associated with body language or tone.

But hopefully I'll get better with practice. And I don't want to stop trying, because I think it's really important for us to figure this out.

Thanks for taking the time to respond. It gives me hope that we'll be able to get through this.
Con: money is taken from people who earned it and given to those who didn't
Did you read the article? Shell said "we are going to be fine, because we are switching our business to things natural gas and biofuels"

What most petroleum companies say, as the article indicates, is that oil demand is going up for a good while longer. That's because if the idea gets around that demand is going to peak, they won't be able to borrow the gigantic amounts of capital they need to keep drilling new wells.
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Everything with extensions is about trust, we recently started developing an extension for our customers to improve their experience with our product. While in theory you could look at the source code from your browser, the only solution for proving that we do not track their data is to publish the extension as an open-source project.

By the way: while testing around with extensions, I happened to realize that Kasperskys safe-form-input thingy does not work at all with other extensions, in fact: everyone can track your passwords, no matter what you do.
"Invoking Crocker's rules means choosing to state that you cannot be upset because you want to enable free speech."
"The old way" is subsistence agriculture. If we're really going back there, we'll be too busy wrestling with questions like "will the harvest be enough to feed me this year?" and "will my child die of this treatable infection?" and "what are cars?" to worry about parking :).

>it's going to hurt bad for a lot of people.

Well yes, anything that ends the economic conditions which make current residential arrangements appropriate will have significant consequences.
> But empirically, it doesn't happen as often.

It's sad that people use choice-of-language as a proxy for choice-of-execution-strategy (interpreted? JITed?), choice-of-allocation-strategy, choice-of-linking-strategy, choice-of-packaging, and so on. All of these factors should be orthogonal. By linking them, we create a lot of inefficiency by fragmenting our efforts.

AFAICT, C++ is the only language that's really been successful at being multi-paradigm.
Precisely. You simply can't use only UTC locally. You need to develop a system of keeping track of local time. And it can't just be a personal system because you need to figure out equivalents for everyone in the same area (when good times for work schedules or for business hours are). So you need to have an official, standardized system of keeping track of local time information. And in the end you have time zones again.
I stopped reading the article after the first paragraph. Doesn't make sense to avoid an operating system because email.
But you might get rid of all the species that human beings eat.
Make more stuff. How much energy does it take to make cars that are sold all over the world?
Lane splitting is just crazy, in my opinion. It's not legal where I live (midwest US) but I see people doing it every time I'm in California. I don't think I'd do it even if it were legal.
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India's population is a problem we have created ourselves. If you look at forest cover, US has 2x forest cover of India's. So yes for once I agree Indian's should stop looking outside and start taking responsibility for our problem and solve them ourselves.
Define unoccupied:

- By original owner?

- By original owner or renter?

- Cleaning lady coming once in 2 weeks for 5 years is ok?

- Duration of time no living being is present within the premises?

- Neighbor taking mail once a day?

- Average number per district is ok or precise addresses are required?

etc .... Clear definition is needed
We also continue to more efficient at consuming, pricing, and allocating those resources.
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>...there are many who believe that only their timezone matters.

This is partly why we (all) can't have nice things.
And Rust's developers think that 'unsafe' in third-party crates will be well-vetted and therefore actually "safe", most C developers don't think somebody will incorrectly free or screw with memory they've allocated and passed back to the caller, most C++ developers don't think anybody will (ab)use 'const_cast', and so on.

A lot of terrible bugs in code is caused by people making assumptions such as yours.
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Because it waited too long and now everyone who needs scripts just uses Python/Ruby/Lua instead. I highly doubt Perl 6 will take off in any meaningful sense. Not to disparage the language, it's just the social dynamics of the software world and tastes have shifted. Perl is, rightfully or wrongfully, considered a legacy language of the 90s and it would take a serious re-branding and evangelization effort to change that perception. That being said, I know some folks who pull in pretty good bank maintaining Perl apps but they are definitely not writing Perl 6 on the day to day

The logo is cute, I will say.
Maybe the gut bacteria simply follow a cycle based on our eating habits? But who knows, those things are weird and I keep running into them a lot lately.

The experiments are not mandatory at this point, though I would love it if more people were inclined and allowed to experiment freely with what works best for them. For some reason I feel like most people don't have their schedule determined by trial and error :)
It's not like we have to use all the oil in the planet this century. Saving oil for making plastics and other useful products makes sense.
Shortly after release I got interested, looked into it enough to discover that speed was a concern for the future and that the current implementation was super slow. I wandered away.
This is true if your only goal is to maximize the amount of daylight you have after work - taken to its logical conclusion, you would just go to work in the middle of the night and get off in the morning. However, if you add the constraint that you never want to go to bed before sunset, you will improve by adjusting the clock so sunset is at a relatively constant time.
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Yes, it's allowed ('though the name is trademarked). However, forking is usually harmful (effort spread thin, divergent APIs, plugins, integration with other tools such as Maven, Gradle, ...).

On that very email chain, once the sitution was stated and as Bill kept on ignoring everyone as he did over the last year and a half, the community hard forked FindBugs and started aligning behind https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs

Bill's reappearance is now puzzling. To abandon the fork to go back to FindBugs would require major leadership changes, as confidence on Bill has been shattered. Keeping the fork leaves the project on the same point people tried to avoid in the first place.
And to think the former is still being argued about 2000 years later.
This is my own personal opinion, but I despise Perl. The language requires a ton of memorization of small, tedious rules that are arbitrary, and there are many disparate ways of writing the same thing. I remember giving up on Perl when I discovered that || and or were both "or" operators but had different precedences.

Again, this is my own personal opinion. I know many people have made some great software based on Perl, but it's the only language I won't touch with a 10 foot pole, and I've spent a couple of years programming in PHP and a year in COBOL.
For me the essence of it is this:

Perl says "there's more than one way to do it"

Python, by contrast, says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

The practical outcome of the Perl philosophy is that Perl code can be extremely varied to get the same thing done and therefore much harder for different programmers to understand and maintain. Python programmers are more likely to quickly understand the intent of a chunk of code regardless who the author is.

Perl at its worst can also be pretty arcane and I've heard it described as "executable line noise". That doesn't make for maintainability.
Thank you. I meant to say Photoelectric Effect. I misremembered.
Without supplying context, this is not helpful. (I work in a lab that analyzed the magnitude of the Aliso Canyon leak.)
>> I remember giving up on Perl when I discovered that || and or were both "or" operators but had different precedences.

|| has a higher precedence than or in Ruby as well.
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At the same time, trains are vastly safer than personal cars.

Most likely because trains essentially only travel in one dimension almost all the time, along a very well-defined path.
This can happen if you grew up in an abusive environment and learned that even people who are supposed to love you unconditionally can be dangerous.
Not everyone drives equally safely. For many drivers, switching from manual to a self-driving car will increase their probability of a collision. Maybe in the future this will not be the case, but until self driving cars are proven safer than the most cautionary drivers, some people will increase their risk by switching.
I don't know if there are any wide polls available about this, but from my experience:

- Most perl developers moved on long ago. My last 3 bosses were all "perl" people who switched to Ruby as their primary language around 2010.

- No strong argument that perl 6 is "best-in-class" for any particular type of problem. This is often what brings interest in new languages (Go, Elixir, and Rust for example, all have this).
Your example is problematic because it's not even perl code. Perl 6 code is actually pretty nifty

for 'dict.txt'.IO.words -> $word {
say "$word probably rhymes with Perl"
if $word ~~ /[ea?|u|i] rl $/;

say "$word is a palindrome"
if $word eq $word.flip;
}
That is exactly the thing I am talking about. But your comment does not exactly answer my question. My question was not "should we fear death". It was about wether that sort of fear is essential to our current system of life. For example, a fear of death makes one to buy more insurance policies and earn as much as possible before they die. You take out the fear of death, then you take out a lot of incentive for making people work...

To put short, the question is about how much does these kinds of insecurities count in modifying a human being to make them into a suitable component of our current system of life.
Not sure if this was rhetorical or not, but if it isn't, none of them. The 1070 and 1080 stand in a class of their own. AMD won't have a competitive card in these class until Q1 2017 which will be about the same time that the 1080ti drops.

I honestly don't care about this, these threads always attract those who value privacy above all else and believe that every should play on their terms. Most people do not care, and as an engineer I see extreme value in providing this data. This isn't to say that there aren't dark patterns being used here(the acceptance language is hidden in the EULA), but there is a simple work around...don't use GeForce Experience. Manually download the drivers from Nvida's website. In addition to there being a complete go around, I also use G-sync for my games which is superior technology to Freesync, so there is basically no chance that I'm leaving the Nvidia ecosystem unless they did something truly harmful to me.
Pretty much that. And to elaborate, there is no shame at all asking for help. I can think of a few ways in which to do this:

- If you are the sole maintainer of a project, putting up a note in the README asking for a co-maintainer or someone to take over the project entirely.

- Responding to emails with, "I'm swamped/I don't think I can do this right now, can you help/would you be willing take on this role?" Totally acceptable. There are lots of eager developers out there who would be willing to contribute to an open source project if they could.

- Posting on HN asking if anyone is willing to help out. :-)

I get that sometimes stuff happens in real life--illness, working long hours, taking care of children or family members--these are all perfectly valid reasons for not being able to put in the time needed to work on an open source project. However, the developer community cannot offer its help if said help is not asked for.
The author did post a story about intercooler four times in the last 3 years. Where is the problem?

Look at the author's comment history, rather than story history. He has a reputation of plugging intercooler in every discussion related to JS. Not that I mind; but most of the "reposts" that GP is talking about are comments, not actual stories.
In this case, sounds like the source lost interest, a fork didnt have enough to accomplish anything, and now a good project is toast. Despite it being OSS with significant adoption.

Sounds like quite a few precautionary tales in this one.
> The OS itself is still visually superior to anything else, but it’s been showing the signs of neglect for a few years now.

Can you elaborate on this? Without going into any detail your post reads a bit like a paid promotion. Probably not but you gotta be careful because of stuff like this:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/stealth-marketing-micr...

https://uncrunched.com/2014/06/17/microsoft-paying-bloggers-...
That is in the lama book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001322.do).

> Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.

edit: formatting
Maybe we could do a video session one day if you want to set up a video with a local meetup there and you don't mind broadcasting it publicly.
How can market share dramatically swing between 30% and 60% like it's doing in this chart?

Is this bad data? Is the market expanding & contracting so greatly that existing users are a minority of future marketshare?
And it's full of vacuous entertainment industry people and their hangers-on. Nobody knows how to read books. Only advantage is being able to turn right on red. Sammy Glick, Day of the Locust, Helter Skelter, gag me with a spoon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, earthquakes, wildfires, riots. Bad food. Best to stay far away.
I'm not even talking about the software. I'm talking about the people that were the active maintainers who made a few attempts to connect with him over the course of a year, being let down. And the response after that time of "ok, I'm back now" after a Hacker News post hits the front page, without apology or explanation to them.