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There is so much in your reply, I am gratified!

I can't possibly reply adequately, at least on this touchscreen phone. A few things:

- agree suncycles/sunspots follow a general pattern, but by no means precise nor energy predictable.

- I suspected static because of some of your conclusions, for example that earth as a closed system. It's not! Earth is slowly growing due to dust/meteor accretions, our orbit and spin are slowly changing, single random volcanic eruptions can throw more particulate matter into the upper atmosphere than all human activity in history affecting weather for years, random cosmic ray inputs, earth's fluctuating magnetic field strengths, sun spots, cloud formation, and on and on ... huge inputs that make the system incredibly dynamic.

You are right to say that louder/more urgent pleas for action don't necessarily mean there's an attempt to scaremonger. I just observe that it's tough for fear not to soak the rhetoric especially when the screamer is legitimately afraid.

We just need to be methodical about any substantive change we attempt, no more rush to judgement. Fear can lead to rash decision making that could make things worse. (Like that insane proposal a few years back to seed clouds on a massive scale in order to reflect more sunlight back into space.)

I continue to hold that, based on recent history, we can apply tech that is clean AND continues our economic and social growth. We can have our cake and eat it too!
The question is whether that should be included in the project, or as a configuration of the deployment tool.
I only skimmed this very quickly, but the difficult issues in that tech report seem to concern issues in distributed systems. Does Eve have a distributed "story"?

My impression was that it was mostly a synchronous rule language that, at each time step, does vaguely Datalog-like stratified evaluation and then updates its state. That's a very nice model and indeed rooted in logic programming, but I have the impression that referring to the Dedalus tech report is overselling it.
Considering that India's state is essentially a rent-seeking colonial state, I don't believe it has much legitimacy.

Then again, considering the large number of Govt. employees suckling at its teat, it's likely never going to go away. The local-minima is far too comfortable for those that matter.
I agree that the current systems are very far from optimised. But what benefit does the blockchain per se give them, given they already trust all participants? It only seems to introduce unnecessary costs, such as mining, when compared to the alternatives.
To be fair you can't just call it a "fruit logo". If you try to slightly modify it people will instantly recognize that it's not the Apple logo and it goes back to being a stupid fruit logo. So (of course) the point is not the fruit but the symbol.
Maybe crediting Minecraft with it is "not correct", but I see with my own son too that a lot his creativity centers around open-ended games - including Minecraft - that helps provide structure when he wants to sit down and write.

It provides ample inspiration, and a setting that he can describe rather than have to invent from scratch, and that is very helpful "scaffolding" to be able to focus on the story in the beginning.

As he gets "caught up" in describing something, what he describes starts to morph away from the game world he started with.

Look at the vast amount of heavily scripted Youtube videos that use open-ended sandbox games as "set" and you see much of the same, where the games clearly affect the creative process by letting people act and react and describe rather than having to jump straight into inventing from scratch.
Yes, I forgot about the UK, sorry. I still remember studying here as an EU citizen and paying something like 800 pounds per year.
How far should you live from work?
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> Why are the requirements like function calls though?

Flexibility?
I don't really see when I would use the this.
When I have JAR with unknown contents and I want to see version and dependencies of it?
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Try it out, I think you'll like it! Age is not a factor, my dear father is 74 and he uses it (no pressure from the family, of course...). Even if you don't use the agents, the app stream that curates your apps and our overall approach of "within a thumb's reach" resonate very well with our users so far. Actually, give it a couple of days and I'm positive that you'll find that you get more efficient with your phone!
We're doing something like that for Klarna Checkout (https://www.klarna.com/us/business/sell-online-with-klarna). At first, we built applications as completely standalone applications that were loaded into iframes and communicated over postmessage. We're still doing that for some things, but it has some big drawbacks, especially when it comes to bundle size and browser support. Bundle size is pretty obvious, since you end up sending the same libraries multiple times, and since the applications are separated, you can't extract common dependencies at build time. As for browser support, you basically cannot nest more than two levels of iframes (parent -> iframe -> iframe), or all hell breaks loose. If any nested frame needs to be able to scroll or has form fields, prepare for pain.

What we're testing out now is distributing the "applications" as blackbox React components which are built into the consuming applications. The state of the applications is contained completely within the component, and the API is just exposed through props. It increases the coupling between applications, since it forces everyone to use React and even be on more or less the same version of React, but that was already the case for us, so it seems like an okay tradeoff. One downside is obviously that the consuming application grows larger and larger as we add applications to it, but that can probably be solved by asynchronously loading chunks on demand.
@Fricken Genius. That's the first new thing I've heard said about climbing in years, and hits the nail right on the head :D
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My background is in Python, too. There was a summer where I dug into Ruby and Rails and I was really impressed with a lot of the concepts. I had dabbled with Flask and Django, but I things like the Gem lockfile, switching easily between test, dev, and production database, and database versioning (at least with little setup) solved problems I had when using Python (I'm not a webdev).

I tried to pitch the Gemfile and lockfile approach when we were developing our own internal packaging system but nobody seemed to "get it" or see the value. I also tried to pitch database versioning (which alembic seems to do), but again, no takers.

I feel like it was a failing on my part to communicate or show the value in these things...they came randomly out of meetings and I probably botched the concept when pitching it.

I've stumbled with requirements.txt and setting up a new package. I'm also picky and don't like installing packages to my system (and I'm not always using virtualenv) so I have to look up how to install to my homedir. So I've stumbled with Python packaging (although, I think everyone can admit it has a bit of a hodgepodge) while I liked how Ruby did it.
Isn't it funny how it is the Mac OS people implementing these changes while the Linux people aren't coming up with equivalents?

And yes, you can have a transparent terminal on Linux, make emoji work, have better scroll, etc
Well, once per platform. Plus increasingly in-game purchases of texture packs etc..

Though Minecraft is still cheap and low on commercialisation compared to a lot of the "let's annoy them until they succumb and pay for more diamonds/gems/gold/tokens" games.
And therefore nobody else should be allowed to have them either. Which is the explicit justification given for this decision. Sheesh.
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It sounds quite unsurprising that Haskell (or for that matter, any language that isn't java/python/c) doesn't have an ecosystem comparable to one of the most successful industrial languages around.

I'm not saying everything is great with Haskell, but so far, I haven't run into major holes for what I'm doing, library-wise.
Ben has been once of the main external contributors to Kestrel and is a big reason of why it's so fast. Great work! I have no idea how he manages to do all of this and write a game at the same time.

https://www.techempower.com/blog/2016/11/16/framework-benchm...

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r13&hw=...
Not as such, but I've encountered setups that shell out to Inkscape, ImageMagick and other tools, and don't gracefully handle failure, sometimes to the point where the only error is "Failed to install egg".
I did not know about Gobo either. Why isn't everyone using it yet? Directories as packages, multi-versioning made easy... Use it now!
You must be joking. We are a poor nation and you suggest poor people in India, living in backward areas with no banks have more than Rs. 1000000 in cash and there are millions of such "poor" people?
I'm not sure why you'd need two requirements.txt. You'd normally create a virtualenv, pip install what you need, then lock the versions with "pip freeze > requirements.txt". You don't need an initial requirements.txt to install new packages.
You mean non-purely functional languages.
Remind me Microsoft is on a Frankenstein streaks lately, merging tablet touch with desktop, mixing Linux terminal inside Windows and this.
Sorry if I wasn't clear: your bytes on GCS and S3 are stored across multiple buildings (GCS Regional, S3 Standard). More copies is more dollars not less ;).
> Demonetization is far from an 'experiment'. It's a fairly common practice: India did it in the 20s & the 40s, Nixon did it in the late 60s, the European Central Bank also did it recently.

Context:

- India 20's 40's : Rs. 5000, 10000 notes

(current prices: ~$ 15k , 30k resp.)

- Nixon : Gold & Silver exchange stopped.

- ECB : 500 Euro notes out.
It's a fantasy world that is more tangible to them than most, because they can dip in and out at will and explore it more.

I know for my own part, I can still remember part of the geography of various CIV games I played 10-15 years ago, and often elements of what played out.

It's the same with Minecraft - once you get games like this, where the spatial aspects of the game world hangs sufficiently together, we're very good at remembering it.

And what we're good at remembering, we have a better shot at describing well.

That makes it a comfortable, safe, but still exciting starting point.
Read this:

http://www.pref.aichi.jp/global/en/living/prevention/

Something that's missing there: don't use elevators during or immediately after a quake.

IMO the single most important thing is: when you're at the beach or close to the coast at sea level make sure you know where the nearest evacuation area is.
Submitter here. The extension is just for chrome at the moment. I've been using this myself for the last 12 months roughly (when it was 90% complete) and only got around to finishing it off recently.

Main things about it are: it uses a smart search instead of folders/tags and it's built to be used just with key binds. Of course it can be used with the mouse as well.
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Ask HN: How useful is linkedin really?
A lot of people are ditching social networks it seems, and so have I, I don't contribute to facebook, instagram or the likes, but I still have my linkedin account and considered it something different. Yet, reflecting back on it, it does not feel like something useful either. What do you guys think about this? Do you consider linkedin useful or would you just get rid of it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if Emacs was licensed under a more liberal license (MIT, BSD) such forks would still be possible. (Non-free forks would also be possible)
This column is a fine example of false financial reporting. The author has less than superficial knowledge of India and the country's recent demonetization of banknotes of certain denominations.

Some news agencies in an attempt to reduce costs resort to reducing original news-gathering, do not fact-check articles before publication, churn out such inaccurate stories, and wash their hands of them with their usual disclaimers.

> This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Reading this I am once again fascinated by the link between body and mind. My hands start to sweat as soon as I read the headline.
South of market. Guys looked totally like any other guys in suits you see in the Financial district.
I agree on the phone side. How many of those millions of apps are usable from a phone screen, using a phone interface? This sounds like cool technology, but this particular use case sounds very limited use on phones.

However, on the tablet side, it may allow Microsoft to bring down the price of the Surface a bit while still maintaining legacy app compatibility.

My understanding is that Intel caught up with ARM a couple years ago on performance-per-Watt, but how's the idle power consumption of 64-bit Atom processors these days compared to 64-bit ARM offerings? For many consumer use cases, idle power consumption has a bigger impact on battery life than does performance-per-Watt.

I'm a bit sad this news came out after SoftBank bought up my ARM shares, but I'm glad to see more evidence we may yet get the x86 monkey off our back.
Interestingly both started roughly around the same time (though i only started hearing about Nix in the last few years).

Note though that Gobolinux is largely constructed from shell scripts.

Also, since this comparison was made Gobolinux replace /System/Links with /system/Index. The latter is more like the classic FHS, and came about because of various issues during software compiles (iirc).

Oh, one potentially interesting tidbit about Gobolinux history is that it apparently started out as one guy's way to manage compiles stored in his user directory on a university server. Sadly since the move to /System/Index the tool for bootstrapping such an environment, Rootless, has been nonfunctional.
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> Intel direly needs the competition

They're already heading for the hills - this just adds to the swamping they're getting in the low ground ...
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Rusty Russell summarized this nicely a few years ago: http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=236 (careful, sarcasm follows).

The merge does involve some loss of flexibility (for instance, "traditionally", you could use the programs in /bin to recover a failing system), but there are fewer and fewer users relying on it. It also involves departing from the FHS, but Debian already does that (e.g. they use /lib/<GNU triplet> rather than /lib{32,64}). I haven't heard any super convincing arguments from either side; normally, I'd go by the "not broken -- nothing to fix" route, but it's also hard to poke holes in the "this additional complexity isn't needed anymore" line of reasoning. Plus, like most arguments that involve tradition, it's pretty hard to tell robustness from cruft.

Whether this change can be done cleanly and without breaking users' systems is an entirely different story and past experience has shown that moderation is a far better friend than optimism. It's particularly difficult to migrate existing installation to this scheme (e.g. Arch failed quite badly, as I remember from those particular two afternoons, thanks a lot Arch!, and it didn't go more smoothly for others, either), but Debian can benefit from the lessons learned by more up-to-da^H^H^H^H fast-moving distributions and do things better.
Basically its all physics rules how particles interact and the energy flowing through. Now am "I" in control of making decision to do one thing and not the other? Or was it inevitable that the decision was made as that was the only possible outcome of particles inter acting in my brain at that moment? I am stuck with that thought
At least it stopped now. Really wonder what happened though, preparation for the adult content filters?
> But the recoded E. coli will be unable to grow unless fed one of those artificial amino acids, so it shouldn’t spread in the wild. “Biocontainment is our number one priority,” says Church.

Clever, but still sounds a bit dangerous. What about mutations?
Check out rclone [1]. I haven't used it yet but it's free and supports lots of backends.

[1] http://rclone.org/
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Has government published any stat ?
Hey, as we're way off-topic, feel free to hit me up on my profile's email address if you'd like to talk.
Consistency isn't the objective though. If there are features on free platforms that don't exist on proprietary platforms, this policy would be no barrier to implementing them.
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> FX-8350, mentioned by you, costs $149.99 according to cpubenchmark

It's on newegg for $139.99. Close.

The AMD FX 8300 is also for sale at $115, and the AMD FX 8320 can be had for $119.

> and for extra $35 you can get E5 1620

It sells for $308 at newegg. Nearly 3 times the price you pointed out.

Intel's recommended price for the Intel Xeon e 1620 is $294.00.

http://ark.intel.com/products/64621/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...

Get your facts straight.

> and for extra $35 you can get E5 1620

Benchmarks state exactly the opposite of your claims.

> You can also install up to 384 GB of memory, whereas AMD cannot go above 64 GB.

You've tried to compare a server-oriented CPU with a desktop CPU.

Even so, you failed to account for the fact that there are motherboards for the AMD FX CPU line that support up to 256 GB of RAM.

Again, Intel fanboys usually take jabs at AMD but they seldom back them up with evidence.
> That could have been done gradually without banning notes.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but banning notes is to bring about a few changes like forcing people to declare black money and fighting the counterfeiting industry (just to name a few). Like you pointed out, the cash transaction limit could have been brought into force without banning the notes, but by combining both, isn't the cap more effective in deterring accumulation of black money in the future?

> Introducing higher denomination make even more less sense.

I don't quite understand this. Higher denomination or not, the cap is on the transaction amount, so how are they related?
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Often Banff Mountain Film Festival has a good climbing film or two. The Caldwell/Honnold Fitz Traverse (for which they won Piolets d'Or) was in there this year. Strongly recommended- a really great story.
The initramsf case and the embedded system case are good point.

Can Computer Science help us decide if some people are right?

The measure of Informational entropy : a state with more compartment as more order, thus more information. By merging /usr you lose information, thus making the one in need losing it, whereas the one without a need for this gain nothing.

I laughed at the comment of philosophy by pitchforks of angry users, and I would claim these pitchforks are the one from the Maxwell Daemons telling us to remember that it is easy to lose information and that increasing entropy is messy.
Disclaimer: I Am Not A Physicist.

The Big Bang didn't happen in a specific location some distance from us - it created all of spacetime; the epicentre was at every point[1] in space.

[1]: for want of better phrasing, given that we don't know if spacetime is discreet or continuous.
"The thinness"

I just don't get this one. If they are engineered to last longer, and it happened to be thinner, lighter--fine. Personally, I wish Apple laid off the form. Put that brain power into making rugged products, long battery life, and ease of future repairability.

When I buy anything, I care about function, especially a electronic device.

I bought my first Mac becuse it allowed me to use Microsoft office, which doesn't work anymore. I could care less about how it looked. Actually, the fact that I couldn't see a screw on the device scared me. I just thought that are so well engineered, I won't need to fix it--wrong.

I honestly don't understand form over function in electronic devices.

But then again, I don't understand most people's mind set when buying consumer products. I looking into buying a new car.

These car companies have put so much thought in gadgets, I honestly can't find a new car I feel comfortable buying. I'm back to looking for low mileage vechicles from the 90's. I'm even considering a classic vechicle.
More: http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer.html

Thanks, I laughed.
> The hard part is coming to grips with consciousness merely being an abstract or concrete system changing states and nothing more.

But that's no different whether it's an computer, marbles on card board, or stone on a beach. If one of them can become aware at sufficient complexity, then logically, so could the others. Though it's easier to believe with computers, because they already are so complex that they're mostly black boxes to us, whereas stones on the beach is just not feasible in reality.

> If rocks on the ground can be (slowly) self aware, then doesn't that mean everything in the universe is self-aware?

Maybe it does. It's an interesting thought. This also goes back to the idea of the self-aware anthill in Hofstadter's _Gödel, Escher, Bach_ (where the ants are not aware, but the anthill is). Or maybe awareness is an illusion, as some people claim (but then what is perceiving that illusion, is what I'd like to know). Or maybe computers can't be aware and we can.
Dunno. Maybe because it is largely made out of shell scripts and symlinks, and not laden with buzzwords?
Remove z option in tar? Where did that come from?
It's what happens with any rolling release distro given enough time. We thought it would solve the problem of having to upgrade the OS and migrate every few years but it didn't really.

Now we have docker. Probably not solved until we write all our applications as some sort of crazy monad to minimize maintenance pain. I think docker is a meaningful step toward that.
At a guess, may be useful when:

* Working with old enterprise libraries ("just use the jar!")

* Optimisation when dealing with a compile to JVM language like Closure or Scala

* Research, such as reverse engineering badly behaved jars.
The model you describe works well enough for Bundler with a Gemfile describing desired versions which can be loose or tight, and a Gemfile.lock specifying exact versions for all dependencies. It works much better in practice than one without the other, as in the case of package.json and non-deterministic npm.
It wasn't that bad. It did require manual intervention to get the install to work (which isn't a great surprise given the nature of the update) but it installed pretty painlessly on all bar one machine. The one exception being a laptop which I put off the update for several weeks and then left myself with a much larger job than it should have been - so really that one was partly my own fault.

The glibc update from around the same time was a much worse update update. I think that one did break every Arch install I had at that time.