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Modi started with a very small policy when he came into office, where all Indians can easily get a bank account and ATM card.

What he did here is to build on top of this framework. If people decided not the open a bank account and now are in a panic. Also people in India always used Cash (not necessarily black money). There is still time to open a bank account and deposit money.
> I haven't seen much in the way of specific predictions from Stallman.

Try The Right to Read[1], which predicted ebooks, DRM, restrictions on reverse-engineering, electronic marketing profiles and hardware which refuses to run free operating systems — in 1997. When I first read it, I thought it was well-intentioned hysteria, but it was completely, 100% correct.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
China consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined, and the amount increases every year.

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=9751
Yes, Republicans are in charge but that does not mean they can't hear us. This "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish", Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863.
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> Or possibly the effect of having a user base in the billions. How do you adequately support that?

The same way Amazon does? How about banks, airlines and other similar.

I understand that there's little motivation for some online services to improve their customer service experience but Google is especially bad. Even when making a purchase from them (an area where both Apple and Microsoft do much better), you're dealing with a bot with absolutely no other contact point.
China already licensed every nuclear fission tech from Canada, France and Russia and lately the US as well. They have 35 operational reactors and 35 under construction.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...
Absolutely, this. They feel their platform is now legitimized, as evidenced by Trump supporters marching through colleges shouting "white rule", klansmen walking around in klan garb... daily reports of Muslims being harassed in schools, streets and elsewhere. Although Trump won't institute any overtly racist policies, he will also not oppose the racists who supported him. This, In their minds gives them the legitimacy to operate in the open. We've already seen this start.
Wasn't natural gas a byproduct of the shale oil/hydro fracking boom? It seems that perhaps (while oil prices were high) these coal miners should've moved to North Dakota and Texas. Is this not the equivalent of a jQuery developer complaining about lack of jobs when they could maybe learn React or Angular?
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So that's an actionable step that can be taken.

Fund the build out of solar production without worrying too much about profits. Not at a loss, just choose to fund factories that will build solar panels as an investment in the future rather than from a portfolio of competitive investments as an attempt to maximize profit.
> Trump supporters [...] assume he does not mean what he says.

I read this elsewhere (they are not my own words) but I think it's applicable here: "The Left takes Trump literally but not seriously; the Right takes Trump seriously but not literally."

I think this can be illustrated in the response meme "the wall just got ten feet higher!". Trump's supporters often subtly mock him in other ways as well; off the top of my head there is the recent use of "bigly".

That's not entirely unprecedented. George W. Bush was well-known for sticking his foot in his mouth by making up words (e.g.: "strategery") and Joe Biden is seen as similarly dopey by the Left.
Windows can do that too. On macOS cmd+space brings up spotlight. I don't see your point. In fact I feel the total opposite.
>climate change deniers

>climate change is a problem

Do you "deny" that climate change can have non-problematic effects?

Can a temperature increase in one area be beneficial? Can a drought in one area mean more water in another area?
How do you manage job and side projects?
I have been finding it very difficult to juggle between between my job and my side projects. It's not just side projects. Constantly practicing coding questions is important too If you want to get into a good company.

How do you manage all of these while not missing other important things in life?
No idea. More pandering, more lying. Nominate someone with no record of anything.
But then again, of most of the people going are hardcore fans, sales might not be affected to much (although there might be outrage)
If I had to guess it's probably a non-programmer trying to be clever, even though (null) doesn't make any sense in the context.
We don't have to choose. Today's technology means that burning coal is clean. There are carbon dioxide emissions, but in terms of pollutants that make the air dirty, there is very little (carbon dioxide emission have climate impacts, but are not toxic or dirty).
Thanks for giving it a try and please check this out! https://mobile.twitter.com/dcab/status/789838892753117186

It was done by one of our collaborators (advantages of open source), and it allows for multiple terminals just as you mention :)

Having a browser within the app has also been suggested, yo transform it in a nice dev tool instead of a terminal. We are still thinking what this could really be in the future,so any feedback and forward thinking is really appreciated!
> The coal alignment is a bigger deal than climate change. We are SOL on climate change anyway

We're SOL on stopping climate change, but what we're doing now will define how bad it gets, and the later we start the worse it will be and the harder the mitigation, as it has been since the 70s.

It's not a question of "SOL" or "token gestures" it's a question of how fast and how far it will go, and how much time we will have to handle such concerns as mass population displacements.

Not doing anything is a giant middle fingers to those who follow us, or for those of us who won't be dead within a generation (aka pretty much anyone other than the boomers), a middle finger to future us.
Over the past year or two, I'm becoming convinced Google's "Don't be evil" days are over.

Does anybody have any recommendations for alternatives to Google Drive?
What about R?
> I think it is helpful in these situations to extend your thinking to everyone else and see if you like the result:

I don't see how this is helpful. The calculus is obviously different between your state being carried 60/35 vs a 50/50 battleground.
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"I'm confident you have sources on b."

Yes.

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=9751

1) China consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined.

2) Environmental regulations in China range from "minimal" to "non-existent". Do you need sources on that as well?
Same thing for gas. Obama did nothing to lower gas prices. But imagine if for whatever reason (say a hurricane came through and knocked out US refining capacity two months before the election), he would've got the blame for high gas prices. And not just Obama, the same situation kind of happened to Bush when Katrina knocked oil infrastructure offline.
I was talking more about his staff down in the CWR during wartime.

But I hear you.
Beneficial effects for humanity? Yes, the rate of change we're heading for is way too high for anything humanity depends on to handle it, including our infrastructure.
When I came back from watching "Arrival" I immediately looked Heisserer up, thinking "this guy did his job well, he must be behind some other interesting movies". Yeah. "Final Destination 5", "The Thing" remake.

Makes you wonder how many very talented people are stuck doing shitty things in any industry because things just didn't line up for them. At least they have for Heisserer, now. He's like the inverse of Lindelof, who turned out after all the hype to be a phony.
You know you're a pussy when you need to apologize for having your own opinion. Worthless.
China is building 200 GW of coal by 2020 alone http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-power-coal-idUSKCN0Z...
Well, this might be a locally constrained point of view and doesn't have to hold true in other countries. But in my country, people don't use Uber because Uber is great, people use Uber because Taxis are awful.

- The vehicles are mostly quite old (which is strange in this country where private vehicles on the road are relatively new).

- Many of the taxis are in bad hygienic conditions (many times dirty, practically always smelly).

- Many taxi drivers, are uneducated and impolite and just won't shut up and let you have the ride you paid for in peace, some of them are plainly rude some times.

- The taxi drivers will make it difficult or even sometimes outright deny a receipt of the trip at the end.

- One of our best journals (i.e. the less sensationalist ones) made a research 2 years ago and found out that 80% of the taxi rides from the airport to the town would overcharge the costumer if he presented himself as a foreigner.
Ask HN: What can I do to mitigate climate change?
Recently, I have been increasingly concerned about the harm done by my first-world lifestyle. I'm looking for suggestions for things I can do to actually help, either things I can stop doing or things I can start doing. Is anybody aware of a quantified comparison of the effectiveness of lifestyle changes? Is there something in particular I can do as a programmer? Maybe an open source project that climate scientists rely on? I'm an American, so is there an activist group in particular that could use my help? I'm open to lifestyle changes like not eating meat, but I'm interested in how much this would actually help.
If this scares you, consider donating.

http://climatesciencedefensefund.org/

(I posted this as a reply to one of the comments but I want to make sure it's seen, given the gravity of the situation.)
I didn't say that Trump was anti-gay or racist. I'm saying that electing a man who pledged to roll back LGBT rights and stop people of a particular religion from entering the country is evidence that we might not be as incredibly tolerant of other peoples' lifestyles and religions as we previously thought.

Including a gay person on Trump's transition team does not negate campaigning against gay marriage and transgender bathroom use. There being a good explanation for why people are intolerant of Islam does not negate the fact that they're intolerant of that religion.
The way they sell this is by appealing directly to the people losing what amounted to very high paying but relatively unskilled jobs. Coal mining, working on an oil platform, working in a refinery, etc.

That's why people believe this rhetoric even though it seems absurd on its face. They see the faces of people who have lost jobs that is largely obscured from other parts of America because it's of the geographic distribution of signed paychecks to the American middle and lower class.

To defeat that rhetoric over the next 2 years, liberals and socialists need to find a story for how they're going to solve that problem and preserve a livelihood for folks suffering.

And to be honest, that's a wee bit frustrating because as a whole millennials are already tackling these economic challenges without the safety net of a massive lobby, while being told they're lazy and valueless, and often with crippling student debt for a poorly conducted degree. But a vote is a vote, and not every citizen can or will vote against direct self-interest on moral grounds.
Before you post,
1. Are you a parent?
2. Are you about to post some variation of "Richard Stallman is emotionally broken?" i.e., "What an oversimplification by somebody who sounds like an emotional failure", or "I feel bad for poor Stallman" or "What a sad man"
3. Are you a parent, or have strong feelings about becoming a parent?

If you answered yes on step 3, and want to know how I knew, it's because you disregarded that Richard puts his ethical argument for the implications to humanity first, and you go for personal "attacks" rather than addressing the crux of the argument.
The taxi company's lobbying efforts had two main points:

1. public safety.
2. fairness

Rideshare companies had no infrastructure for basic safety inspections, so they didn't think it was important.

Rideshare drivers had no insurance contract for the time they were on the clock. 'Duper said "we've got you covered", but their drivers didn't have any paperwork supporting this claim. The taxi company lobbied to force the ridesharing companies to provide certificates of insurance to their contractors, so that if their driver was involved in an accident they could provide the ridesharing company's insurance information, instead of their personal policy.
I like the idea, which is work for autodidact/professional who want to master their craftmanship. There is always something to learn. By giving mastery path as a guide would help on self-improvement.

We've seen it in Pluralsight or FreecodeCamp where they made the paths for their users. Now, if we can turn it around by making it crowd sourced and to a wider skills, that'd be awesome.
You're reading the headlines but not understanding the details of the cases.

Uber is not stupid, they know they need a healthy two-way marketplace in order to have a thriving company. They can't piss off drivers and expect to stay in business. The idea that most drivers are unhappy is a myth. More than 90% of the drivers I've had are very happy.
Thanks for the idea, I tried it out but always end up long passing what I'm looking for due to inertia. I would like something smarter like iTerm with the cursor though.
Got suspicious about the name Proton, started reading the website, saw that it's based in Switzerland.. and yup, they're Ex-CERNies. :)
I'm not disputing that. But stuff like hot patching, profiling, etc is in beta or missing. Just compiling on demand is not enough for make dynamic languages fast.
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Not replacing ourself is a good thing. We are too many, and right now we want the population to grow because our economical system depend on it. This is reverse thinking. We have economical problems because there are too many of us. Too many to feed. Too many to host. Too many with a car, a smartphone, heaters in the winter, and eating meat 5 times a week.

We would have zero resources problem with 1/3 or our current population. Pollution, climat change, administration issues, education... All that stuff are way harder because there are too many of us.

Of course, we could consume less, but since we are unable to do that, being a smaller number is a much easier solution.

There is also a very unhealty "cult of having children". People that don't have children are considered incomplete and looked down. It's a must have, a goal you are supposed to try to reach in your live.

And of course, there is the fact most people I met in my life suck at being parent. They are feeding and clothing their children, but their ability to educate is terrible, and they spend years at training their children to have the same fear and ignorance they have. The children that were creative, full of energy, of potential, turn into the same zombies their parent are. Scared, unable to create something. Unhappy.

So no, you are not a bad person for having children. But it's sane to say most people should at least consider not having any. There should be a debate. It should not be obvious.

Raising children correctly is one of the hardest job ever, yet, most people have children almost without thinking about it. It is scary.
I have a feeling many HW startups just pirate solidworks. Though hopefully people will start shifting to Onshape which was made by a chunk of the solidworks team.
That's brilliant. Would definitely add it. Thanks for the suggestion!!
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That presupposes some reason for humanity to keep existing.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If you can tell which group a particular user belongs to then you can train two models and optimize them independently. Then you just select the most appropriate model for the user.
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Some people, Stallman for instance, think of free software and privacy as moral issues. On those issues, taxis are morally superior to Uber (not necessarily on purpose, but that's irrelevant).

"For some weird reason" - I think Stallman's essay gave lots of reasons...
It's called "moving the goalposts".
The problem with nukes is the required long-term storage of the byproducts. Ask the people who live near the salt mines in New Mexico.
I think this shows, to me, why I like Michael Dirda's book reviews for the Washington Post so much.

He understands the criticism ("mind" part, I guess) of literature, and can help me understand that side of things.

But he loves a good book, and can really communicate that "full body" sense of how wonderful reading can be, when you really lose yourself in a good book.

Gee, maybe I should tell him that I appreciate his work :-)
First you are ignoring chords and note timing which is an option. Second there are only 1,327 named openings and variants in chess many of them are known to be inferior so you do see a lot of repition in the beginnings and endings of Master level games.

As an order of magnitude each note in a melody is from a low end estimate of ~1,000,000 completely valid options though musical style will limit this.

Thus from an encoding standpoint a chess game is theoretically a much lower entropy. But, a sufficiently constrained melody may be lower but probably not. Consider an easy example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DtvNAQ8KOqI
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There are around 6,000 coal mining jobs in Pennsylvania out of around 6,000,000 jobs total; I doubt it made a big difference in the election.

https://www.eia.gov/coal/annual/

http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.pa.htm
Putting it in the title would've been less a cheat.

The analysis is interesting. "What" and "17.2" both occupy four characters. The latter conveys far more meaning.

Clickbait, even for an informative article, is insulting and shows contempt for the reader. Don't do that.
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The whole eco-disaster thing is more about our highly environment-unfriendly and inefficient material and energy lifestyle more than another mouth to feed.

The whole planet cannot afford to live like a westerner even if we want to.
That actually looks quite different from Gmail to me, with the exception of the pop-out compose window. If anything the two-column layout reminds me more of Apple's Mail app.
Yes. I also think his isolation creates a situation where he doesn't understand what makes Uber/Lyft et al, special.

> With real taxis, you can flag one on the street or phone in any fashion; you can pay cash; you can be anonymous.

The problem is that real Taxis only troll popular areas, and when you call for a pickup they aren't incentivized to actually arrive in a timely manner.

Uber/Lyft fixed this problem in a simple and elegant way. It's the value of the service and UX of asking for a car and getting it, unlike Taxis.
> While it's true that Redis is yet another service, it is precisely that which I hope would appeal to some people if they use Redis anyway.

It doesn't make sense. Instead of a system with one service one now has
a system with two services, each of which can fail in its own unique way. More
moving parts for absolutely no reason at all. This way you could add there
ZeroMQ or AMQP, just to appeal to people who have these two already deployed.

>> How many programmers need to write a client

> when implementations in other languages come out [...], programmers don't even have to 'write a client' at all.

So the main benefit of "not needing to use network sockets to write a client"
drowns down the toilet. Have you ever needed to implement your own XML-RPC
client? I only needed that once, and only because I insisted on using
a runtime without a satisfactory one. This is what libraries are for, not
sprinkling a database over the smallest things.

> The point of the project is to be able to swap out existing functions with a Shisetsu-wrapped remote executables for easy integration.

This is the whole point of RPC, not putting Redis there.

> If [users] don't want to run an additional service, they can use existing RPC protocols instead (ZeroRPC, Thrift, ZeroC Ice) at the cost of additional development to integrate those.

So you say Redis acts as a magic faerie dust that eases integration process?
How?
You are absolutely right, it succeeds in making the banking facilities a mandatory step to any sort of financial transaction that can be tracked and overlooked by the government. It sucks coz the banking sector is still quite backwards in many ways but everyone sees the good intention
Insofar as it's part of many runaway processes modeled [1] [2], no I don't think so.

Or to put it in more stark: whatever minor benefits exist are outweighed by the massive risks to mid-long term survival of the human race.

Some think we can simply out-evolve/adapt these changes. That, to me, stinks of hubris.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect
Oh wow. Those emails could very well explain why he doesn't have children. Why would he put those up?
breathless exclamations of relative ease of exploit execution is just subjective editorial flair, for those keeping track of the well-intended neophyte observations.
The entire thing comes off subjective. In modern journalism courses don't they preach about avoiding that pitfall?
Unless everyone in tech writing wants to be Hunter Thompson by breaking all the rules.
I think this is the kind of discussion that requires careful disclaimers or self-disqualification from participants. If you have chosen to have kids, or sworn to never have them, your position will be irrevocably slanted. The same goes for discussions about marriage, or fundamental lifestyle choices like being a digital nomad vs. working at a well known tech company. I don't think I have ever seen one side bridge the gap with the other.

EDIT - I'm not saying this applies to all discussion, I'm saying this applies to a special class of discussion. I'm also not saying don't discuss, I'm saying if you're already in one camp, know that your position is irrevocably slanted so take that into consideration.
Can't speak for gp, but we're using supervisor inside Docker containers as lightweight init process. In our case the main advantage of Docker containers is ease of installation and consistent environment - so we don't always use just one process per container.

Systemd on the other hand is just something that is being forced down our throats. :-/
What about a target temperature?
The government could eliminate poverty if everyone was willing to make significant sacrifices to do so. But it won't happen because the necessary changes would be politically untenable. Climate change is the same. No President is going to make the kind of significant investments necessary to have a meaningful impact on climate change. The Paris Accord is a merely symbolic bit of goal setting. It does not provide an infrastructure for how to achieve the goal, or commit any real resources to doing so.

In terms of national priorities, even among Democrats, climate change takes a back seat to (1) jobs; (2) pensions; (3) education; and (4) healthcare. At the same time, it'll require a bigger change to the economy than any of those things.
Listening to the other side is part of critical thinking, so I do not see how a lack of it may result from overteaching critical thinking. It might be a result of superficially teaching critical thinking, which could result in people being able to name fallacies but not be able to see them.
The general scientific consensus is that any localized benefits are far outweighed by global detriments, such as rising sea levels, mass crop failure, animal extinction, etc.