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A few years ago I started reading "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan. I had somehow timed it so that the week I finished the thirteenth book "Towers of Midnight" the fourteenth book "A Memory of Light" came out. I blew through the first chunk of the book and then got to a chapter that was over a hundred pages long, maybe even longer, Google says it was over fifty thousand words. It was the last battle, the moment the previous four million words had been leading up to. I read a few pages and then set it down. For six months. It was obvious the series was going to end in a way that was bittersweet (as all good stories end) but I just couldn't bear the thought of there being nothing left.

By putting it down I was freezing the moment I had left it in time. When I returned to finish the book I felt that familiar sense of sadness. A period of my life (fourteen months!) was over. I'll probably re-read the books someday, but I know it won't be the same. I often get that feeling when I finish a work of fiction I enjoyed greatly. But there was something about "The Wheel of Time' that made it much more profound.

Any medium that can tell a story that people find intense and immersive will produce that same feeling. Why would VR be any different?
I thought ICQ died off long ago - much like MSN Messenger faded away years ago.

Does anyone still use it?
Yeah, I have a 500K number. I had a friend who was in the low 30Ks.

There was a sense in "pride" when you gave someone your number and they would say "Isn't there meant to be a few more numbers?"
I'm putting money on something to do with ZFS. Turns out bit flips are significantly more common than had been thought in the past, which makes a error-correcting file system somewhat risky to use with normal non-ecc ram.
looks like russians trying to resurrect dead smelly app
Can MiaB help create a GMail killer? I think so
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wget -qO shellshare http://get.shellshare.net && python shellshare

Please don't tell people to do this. This is an idiom called "curl pipe sh"; you're asking people to run whatever code someone on their network decides to send them.

As an absolute minimum, you should change that http to https, so that they're merely running whatever code YOU decide to send them; but even that doesn't quite fit with the "share your terminal (read-only)" philosophy...
The point is that post-Apple, you don't need to find a decent industrial design collection in order to find incredible industrial design. You can just ask the person next to you to see their phone/laptop/etc.

That is the great design achievement of Apple.
It does support ECC, but I don't understand its thermal design. Probably it's like NUCs, a small box for the sake of prettiness and a tiny-n-cheap fan that will be noisy.

It's a shame, because you can passively cool things like a i7-6700T these days without much effort and without ever falling into throttling [1]. Plus, Calyos is about to release a loop heat pipe that will be able to cool massive systems without any noise [2].

I wish someone like Apple or perhaps the new Microsoft had the vision to sell corporate desktops and workstations that did not suck noisewise. I imagine a little fanless Mac Mini running on Xeon would sell like hotcakes and would give Apple the chance to gain a further chunk of enterprise marketshare. But they don't seem to be interested.

[1] http://www.atlastsolutions.com/ultimate-fanless-mini-itx-pc-...

[2] http://www.calyos-tm.com/
Hi jrudolph, I lead the Clarity team at VMware. We appreciate the feedback. We're definitely committed to continue to fund and push this project forward as an open source project. I do get the hesitation of VMware leading a UI project but please feel free to continue to take a look in the coming days/weeks as we continue to update and release and of course, please do let us know if you have any feedback, we'd love to discuss!

To get to know more of the team members working exclusively on Clarity, you can visit https://vmware.github.io/clarity/community/
You need to be told that deep-fried (or even baked) carbohydrates covered in trans-fats && heavily salted artificially-flavored mock-cheese powder are unhealthy?

As a general rule, avoid eating anything that is Trump-colored.
When I wrote my comment, all previous ones were attacking her personally and none of them referred to the actual content of report.

Such an attitude and existence of sites like that confirms that 'climate science' isn't science anymore. It is more like a religion.

There are heated scientific debates in many fields, especially those ones depending on complicated models (e.g. quantum physics). But 'climate science' is the only one field where those ones who even slightly question the consensus are being witchhunted, their employers are being pressured to fire them and media to ignore them.

Just take a look on the site linked above:

- personal records of 'denialists'

- a counter in the sidebar saying "Our climate has accumulated
2,421,220,822 Hiroshima atomic bombs of heat since 1998", what is pure sensationalism and populism, and reminds me this counter, which I saw in the sidebar of some another site: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/TROP.jpg

- in the same sidebar it links to the "Climate Science Legal Defense Fund" website, which says: "Our opponents won’t go quietly."

This is not a scientific debate anymore. This is a religious war.
It is a common misconception that the theory of global warming, and the concern about global warming, is based on the results of global climate models (GCMs). It is not.

In fact, the opposite is true: it is skepticism of global warming that depends on the correctness of GCMs.

In the simplest model, which any kid can test in middle school, you take a plexiglass box full of air (representing the atmosphere), add some extra CO2 to it, and see if the temperature goes up. It does.

Well, since the mid-1800s, we have been adding CO2 to the atmosphere. We know that we've burned a lot of fossil fuels (that were underground), and we have directly measured an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. So based on the simplest model, we'd expect to see the temperature going up. And we do! Yay, science works.

Of course there are a lot of ways to say that the simple model is wrong. But they all involve the construction of a more complex model. In order to see if anything will mitigate or compensate the basic physics of how more CO2 traps more heat, you have to add in additional factors.

So when someone goes on and on and on about the shortcomings of super-complex GCMs, remember this. GCMs are important tools for making detailed predictions and policy decisions, but we don't need them to predict the basic fact of global warming.

In fact the original hypothesis of global warming dates back to about 1900, well before anyone was using computers to model anything. The theory of global warming rests on basic thermodynamics, and it was first proposed not long after those basics were discovered.
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Here's a linguistics professor who disagrees:

> if a word denotes the end-point of some scale (as unique surely does), then it can be used — and will be used — in describing approximations to that end-point, using approximative expressions like almost and nearly. (If there are only two occurrences of X in the world, then each of these is nearly unique.) Then, of course, you can ask how close to the end-point something is by asking how X it is, and you can describe something that has very few competitors for being the one and only as very X, and you can describe something that has no competitors at all as entirely X.

> Back up. Some of you are objecting that unique does not denote the end-point of a scale, and you say that because unique is not used in mathematics that way. But it's a mistake to suppose, when we're talking about ordinary language, that the mathematical usage of terms takes priority over ordinary people's usage of them. Yes, in mathematical usage, unique is used "crisply", for 'one and only one' (and that's an important concept to have in mathematical contexts), but, frankly, this really doesn't have beans to do with how unique is used in ordinary English. Instead, the mathematical usage is a specialization, a refinement, of ordinary English in a technical context.

source: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=479

bio: http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/
I spent a big part of the past year in email marketing for another company... It is a huge job for any organization, I'm glad that SO has such high standards. Making the product as good as possible, over making interaction the goal in and of itself without thinking of the need for that interaction.
FWIW, 64-bit Firefox will be the installer default for new installs (and re-installs) on 64-bit Windows 7/8/8.1/10 starting in Firefox 53. Migrating existing 32-bit Firefox users to 64-bit will probably happen in mid-to-late 2017. Similarly, Google plans to migrate their 32-bit Chrome users to 64-bit sometime in 2017, too.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Win64
It depends on our ability to deduce anything about its underlying process.
I guess people are down-voting you because it's a simple google search away. However, to answer your question:

On Atom, I've set ctrl + tab to remap to pane:show-next-item, and ctrl + shift + tab to pane:show-previous-item.

(view your keymap, and see what ctrl + page-up/down is bound to, and then bind it to ctrl + tab /+ shift)

Edit: here are my settings:

'body':
'ctrl-tab': 'pane:show-next-item'
'ctrl-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'
'ctrl-shift-tab': 'pane:show-previous-item'
'ctrl-shift-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'
Apparently these were the inspiration for the Death Star trench run (because why else would you fly into that trench?)
I did a simulated annealing version 5 or 6 years ago (so I could have a neat Christmas card), and was surprisingly slow (well, I had a slower computer, too). Congrats on making it fast and nice (and exporting in vectors, which is something I didn't bother to even try!)
> an under-discussed historical civilization in pop culture

Considering the current cultural and political climate, that's probably for the best. Remember "300"?

Even by Hollywood standards, that's a pretty blatant and awful piece of hate propaganda.
You need to look deeper than that, I'm afraid. When you actually look closely, Islam is simply used as a tool by those in power to keep their citizens, who are usually followers of the religion, in check.

A few popular examples:

* Controlling the masses by claiming that the royal family shares the Prophet's bloodline, making the king literally of "superior" blood (Jordan). Just to clarify, this is absolute nonsense: the Prophet himself disallowed this.

* Maintaining the most important spiritual site of the religion (Saudi Arabia).

* Commanding the people to follow their leader because he is the religion's "chosen one" (Iran).

Ironically, some dictatorships are now moving away from using Islam as a tool because it starts to overlap with current extremist ideologies, especially now that ISIS is a huge threat in the region. The focus is now on the "wisdom of the rulers" and their "generosity" towards their subjects. Examples of such countries include the UAE, Kuwait, and Egypt.

In summary, it's not that Islam wants to keep things the same, but rather that the rulers who use Islam to keep themselves in power want to keep in all under control.
Bomber command had horrific rates of death.

Of a total of about 125,000 men about 55,000 died.
Just commenting to say this is the first feature I looked for. Batch processing would be my main use case. Great product none the less.
Wrote a plugin for Borland JBuilder (Java IDE from 2002).

It would auto-wrap code comments to a specified column number. It would also auto-wrap on delete or backspace. Still miss it because I want it for existing editors but I'm not interested in learning some random plugin API just to rewrite it.
What are api.smoot.apple.com and other hosts my iPhone is secretly talking to?
The problem with this feature is that it depends on hidden UI state. With the "last used" behavior there's no way at a glance to know which tab will be activated when pressing ctrl-tab, so you either have to maintain the state in your head, or guess-and-check how many times to hit the key combo.

If you only have a few tabs open, it can be useful in conjunction with Ctrl-[1-9], but I am also still strongly in the next/prev tab camp.
How is "business nexus" defined?

IANAL, but if your project is purely a website, isn't the residence of you as the person pushing code irrelevant?
How many people owned Braun TVs? Or Braun anything?

How many people own something by Apple?

No one is pretending that good design didn't exist pre-Apple. It's that good design wasn't a dominant force in standard mass consumer markets.
Bah. I'll take a fictional president over an expert any day. 2016 in a nutshell.
Around 2000 I got annoyed with the ads and crap in ICQ, so I wrote Miranda ICQ, now called Miranda IM (http://www.miranda-im.org/) based on libicq. One of my main inspirations to write the app was I wanted to connect a chatbot to ICQ to harass my friends, but the standard API wouldn't allow sending messages. So I added a plugin API, connected the MegaHAL chatbot and good times ensued.

I lost interest in Miranda shortly after that, but I'm always impressed that a group has kept it going.
>the forerunner of all messengers

...erm...

IRC? write? talk? CBBS?

No?
> Let's be honest: when people see unlimited, most think "I don't have to worry about how much I'm storing" but a small group thinks "How can I take advantage of this?"

I don't want to take advantage of it. I just happen to have 8TB of data to back up...

But backing up that much data over the internet isn't practical in any case.
Having seen these at several large corporations, I always figured it was either:

1. a division of labor: each corporate "division"—themselves large enough to have their own subsumed IT departments—gets its own hostname prefix to plan a routing map under.

2. a division in time: creating a new wwwN "prefix" allows them to "throw out" their old route-map and start again for new projects, while still keeping old projects on their existing routes at the old hostname.

My guess leans more toward the second option: corporations large enough to maintain extensive intranets have a particularly faithful dedication to the "cool URLs don't change" philosophy, because they don't want to go around fixing thousands of links built into dozens or hundreds of internal apps, emails, calendars, &c.

Of course, if you know you're going to do this from the beginning, you can just do what the W3 recommends, and begin each newly-defined route with a prefix for the current year+month (see https://www.w3.org/2005/07/13-nsuri).
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> The simple tool which has probably had the largest impact is bsdiff -- now found used in hundreds of millions of devices

In your thesis, you mention an updated algorithm that produces smaller patches. Do you have any code available that implements that algorithm?
https://github.com/techwizrd/fishmarks

It's a pretty simple tool that lets you bookmark and jump to directories. It's not that complicated but I use it pretty much constantly and it gives me a strange sense of satisfaction to have a project I can call "done". Everything I want to add to is merely packaging enhancements so that more people can use it.
I agree. It's the worst!

I don't use ST, but at least in Atom, I know you can easily override it in your keymap:

'body':
'ctrl-tab': 'pane:show-next-item'
'ctrl-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'
'ctrl-shift-tab': 'pane:show-previous-item'
'ctrl-shift-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'
I purposefully read both the last Harry Potter (which I assume everyone knows) and Lev Grossman's "The Magician's Land" (which I assume less people know) slow for that very reason.
I do. Have one friend that's still on ICQ. Everybody else mostly migrated to VK.
My point was that what you wrote was the opposite of convincing. If I start googling everything myself, then sure. I wouldn't have had any problem with your comment if you just wrote "here are her views, and here are the rebuttals", like the page you linked to does, and like the other commenters have already done in this thread. As it stands, your comment isn't ad hominem, but saying she is a bit of a skeptic is wrong-headed as a way to point out that she's wrong on climate science, it does less than nothing to advance that point.
I used to have a DOS game by the same name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(video_game)

High probability the game was inspired by the show, I'd guess.
Similar technique using regular bombs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_bombing
The OP agreed and replaced the image. It wasn't a nude due to cropping. It was the same as on Wikipedia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Okay. It's longer now.
Kind of but more focused
With CRISPR, it's even better right; live gene editing. You can be a rakunk, rather than just own one!
Great. Thanks for sharing. I may become your customer at some point.
I use to dump video from a TV Tuner card into the linear frame buffer of the 3DFX Voodoo card. Instead of using the pass through cable I used two monitors. It was my first multi-monitor setup.
A pipe transmits bytes. You can transmit bytes in C datatypes, hence they're equivalent. Whatever serialization is used right now can be reused.
First footnote in the linked press release, justifying them calling it "the world’s first mini workstation[1]"

[1] Based on publicly available information of workstation competitors as of October 3, 2016 with volume of at least 1 million units annually as of October 3, 2016 having < 3 litres volume, professional graphics, Intel® Xeon® quad core processor, ISV certified applications, ECC memory.
> It could also allow us to increasingly choose to build fully artificial realities.

Many works of science fiction as well as some forecasts by serious technologists and futurologists predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future. Let us suppose for a moment that these predictions are correct. One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.

— Nick Bostrom, Are you living in a computer simulation?, 2003
>What really astonishes me though is how you can have these really nice machines and Apple doesn't bother to update the Mac mini.

IMHO there is indeed a great deal of pent-up demand for more powerful Mac Minis. I really wish Apple wouldn't just treat them as incidental devices, but presumably there's not much incentive from their perspective since these are lower margin than their other offerings.
I'd never heard of this, but it seems like a pretty innovative solution. It's refreshing to see money go to apps/ideas that actually add something new to social media.
It's hard to take your comment seriously. Breitbart might use "words" and "paragraphs" from other sources, but they live in a different, fact-free world. They are generally advocating something, leading you toward that. NPR is not generally ideological. Saying global warming is accepted by virtually all legitimate scientists is not pushing you in a liberal direction, it's simply factual. I just looked at twitter, and breitbart news has a story that quotes "FS1's Whitlock: Dems ignoring working class, fanning flames of racial divide". It's very questionable that dems fanned the flames of racial divide - merely mentioned it exists seems to enrage some people, but it's pretty clear it exists.
The $1500 price tag alone makes it difficult for anyone to really be affected by their objective of 'getting more people to cook.'

Who doesn't cook? Millennials. [1]

Who doesn't have money for a toaster oven that costs twice their monthly rent? You guessed it.

The author nailed it here -
'...yet, June is taking something important away from the cooking process: the home cook’s ability to observe and learn.

The sizzle of a steak on a pan will tell you if it’s hot enough.

The smell will tell you when it starts to brown.

These are soft skills that we gain through practice over time. June eliminates this self-education.'

If we want more people to cook, we should give them solid reasons to. Automating the process doesn't teach people to 'cook', it teaches them to be yet more reliant on a piece of technology.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/millenni...
Sounds great, can't wait to experience it :D
Ask HN: Anyone here programs for Tizen?
Recently I've seen that Samsung has a programming contest for Tizen applications. Anyone here programs for Tizen ?

Tizen seems a nice enough OS with a C programming interface, but with zero market share on Europe or North America.
Helium IoT Hardware Development kit promo pricing ($49)
To create a poll you must go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll (IIRC, you must have 200 karma to use this).
It's funny, but I have to say that I've never heard the term cheese curls before. People in my area most always use "Cheezies". I guess this is a bit of a genericized trademark thing. The Cheezies brand is quite popular around here, and in some ways their history is similar to the one described in the article.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/jim-marker-moulded-c...
Can't use it at all. Locks up with a redirect loop on registration. Cleared my cookies and tried logging in, currently getting 302's from home->setup-wizard->home->set-wizard->...
Man, that would be an awesome screensaver, far better than the picture slideshows that are typically used...
I was going to ask this too, but start with a simple 2nd voice coil on the opposite side of the spindle, keep the 3.5" form factor and just make it longer. My guess is the motion of one actuator would disrupt the airflow of the other, since we're talking about micrometer-ish (?) mechanical tolerances. This might be able to be mitigated by interleaving which side each arm wrote to. So the left arm's heads address the tops of the platters, the right side addresses the bottoms.

Perhaps another option is to go back to the 1980's hdd designs where the arm moves straight down the radius of the platter. This design might permit multiple heads on the same arm. I'm sure all this stuff has been researched thoroughly.

Either way, this doubles/triples the probability of mechanical failure
http://lalo.li/ (simple voice message service) - coded mostly offline in a hut in bolivia
Finishing "A Memory of Light" and the The Wheel of Time series left me in a funk that lasted a whole week. I sometimes regret finishing the series, I now know how it ends, so I can not go back and re-read the series for a 4th time.
I wonder if any of those carputers and infotainment systems are using a custom identifier in the curl they ship. Imagine scrolling through access logs listing regular Firefox, Chrome and IE entries and then all of a sudden you get to one that says

User-Agent: Toyota Corolla

:)
I think ICQ (along with non-technical IRC) took a gut punch when Microsoft bundled MSN Messenger with Windows XP.

Almost over night people were switching to (or adopting) MSNM, often reproducing online the cliques already existing in the local communities.