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Razuna 1.9 is here – Full support for IE11 and more #opensource
It really depends on what you are doing; I spend a lot of my time doing dev on a 512mb system and my main system where I do 80% of my work on has 4gb (with ssd though!). For the work I do: JS dev, Android dev, most image recog, C/C++ dev, Python dev and just playing around with esoteric langs that works fine. I do not use heavy window managers (I prefer Ratpoison or i3; both are incredibly light) and when I need graphical software that is not being devved by me at the moment itself, I start it, bundle my tasks and close it again. It works well for both battery life (15-17 hours on 2011 tech) and for me it is perfect. I was an avid Mac user before that but I like Linux more for some reason; matter of taste.

It seems however though, and this is an assumption I can only base on personal experience of what I see, that people like all the 'stuff' during their work that eats battery and memory and cycles.

All the animations and things that go on in the popular wms and OSs and browsers that deliver no 'direct value' to me (like said; this is I personal thing I believe) seem a must for most people even though they are devving.

Why would one use the incredibly heavy and animated WMs over something fast and simple which even works faster (for me!). When I use Unity (latest) my laptop has 5 hrs battery; switch to i3 and plop 10+ hours more.

Do people like that so much or am I just completely wrong?

(one other reason I see with colleagues is very heavy IDEs but let us not go onto that)
That document classified nothing as true or untrue; it simply stated some things that are not compatible with the university's mission (goals being inherently subjective) and that the professors would resist such things. I would prefer that the document acknowledge that racism, bigotry, etc. are subjective judgments, however; it spoke of them as if they were objective classifications.
As Bruce Willis said in Fifth Element, I only speak two languages, English and bad English. Yet I've had the funny experience of "translating" between Vietnamese English and Bosnian English.

But yeah, when native-born Anericans act like your English is unacceptable, they're being assholes.
it's not a university's job to teach me morality. I'm an adult. and I'd hope that those who attend are also adults.

education is not about imposing your personal values on somebody else, and that covers morality.

edit: I like how this is being downvoted. congratulations.
I think government has plans to introduce a SSB tax, on top of the 20% VAT, sometime in 2018. This is to encourage the industry to self regulate.

I hope it doesn't go the way of minimum unit pricing for alcohol, which was announced and then withdrawn.
To add to your list: the moonshot cost 4% of the US GDP, and it only got a couple of men to the moon in a tiny box - far from a self-sufficient colony seed.
'tptacek has (by his own admission) been flagging quite ruthlessly on several occasions.

This submission, which he apparently disapproves of (see elsewhere in this thread) is also sinking quite fast.

Filter bubble as usual.
That's not really an alternative. The posted project is a thin client/server setup that just happens to target Raspberry Pi computers.

The Linux equivalent would be something like LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org/)
I don't see Rust in their timeline, this must be a project for old people.
The 'science isn't optional' part is a nice addition to the usual fare, but this is ultimately still the usual fare. And I think what bothers me about this stuff is that it sets such a low bar for human society. We reject hate. That should go without saying.

If you are going to say it, there's a lot more you should say too: What precisely "hate" is, how to identify it, how big of a problem you think it is, and how it should be handled when it's found. Not saying these things implies that hate is a much bigger problem than it actually is.[1]

What we really have here is quasi-religious rhetoric. Evil, hate, demons, and so forth. Who doesn't believe? Simply omit your name below so we all know who you are.

[1] Some (still quite limited) discussion on this point: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
The main problem I've had with Chinese students is rampant cheating and lying, including with help from Chinese professors. I dated a Chinese girl in my PhD program for a bit and she showed me it all first hand, including a Chinese professor giving exams to his Chinese students ahead of time. She giggled about it and didn't see a problem; to her, it was just an easy way to get ahead.

During undergraduate, I participated in international competitions twice, both times with a Chinese girl on the team I led and who both times tried to collude with competing teams in China (who were colluding with each other) until I yelled at her to either stop or get out of the room and let the rest of the team finish without her.

I've seen this in two out of two institutions, and have had this confirmed by friends at other schools.

In the first big boy job I got, we hired a Chinese guy who ended up having lied on his resume about being able to code. At my last position, I've admonished the Chinese guy on my team at least once for copy pasting others' code into PRs without understanding it (which would never even occur to me to do because it is so obviously wrong), and have once caught flat out lying about having done something, apparently because he thought I wouldn't check his work.

All of these cases have been with people who went to high school or undergrad in China. The ones I've met who grew up here seem to be better about it.

So, personally, I look down on what I've seen of Chinese culture for this reason. Not people - culture; when I work with someone that grew up in China, I check for cheating and lies, because of what I've seen of the culture. With people that grew up outside China, I don't worry as much.

I expect I'll get a negative response to this, and I don't care. I'm criticizing a culture, not a race, and these are my life experiences with that culture. It's possible I've just had an extremely unlikely series of uncounters, but, tautologically, that is extremely unlikely.
I've literally just finished reading this today. Wonderful book, beautifully made. Now we just need a broadway opera on the subject.
President Obama's background as a constitutional expert is perhaps the most interesting sub-context when reflecting on this particular part of his political legacy.

If he writes a memoir, I'd be curious enough to read that chapter.
There's a huge difference between using IRS-allowed expenses to reduce your tax bill and claiming (as Snipes' accountants did) that all domestic income is not taxable.

One is legal and the other is not.
Immutable.js would be great if it were actually maintained. FB hasn't made or approved a real pull request since April, and there are hundreds of pending issues that haven't been addressed or even responded to in over a year.
Yeah. They are pretty clearly baseline systems, designed to set a benchmark for whatever comes next.
In addition to the technical problems, the usability has gone downhill too.

My work iphone automatically sent balloons to a coworker when I messaged "happy birthday, send me the file". I also have to cancel out of "send with effects" screen each time I press the send button a fraction too long. If I turn my phone sideways, I get the handwritten message screen. All this in addition to the hidden buttons and other UI problems. Ugh.
This is a relevant question to me as well. Where the servers and backups are hosted is important.
Martin Gardner, popular mathematics and popular science writer
The author's distinction between prediction and judgement wasn't clear to me. It seems that AI can be trained for both prediction and judgement problems as the distinction between the two is not clear. When someone displays good judgement it's relative to a positive outcome, so in effect judgement is predictive.
6 - I quit my $80K job over a year ago, haven't been looking since. I enjoy web dev, but I can't find a good company to work for. Mostly due to unqualified mgmt and avg. devs who think they are rockstars.
Exactly. It would be helpful if that document went into detail about what can be classified as discrimination, hate speech, etc. so as to make those terms less malleable and abusable. I also wish that it emphasized the intent of someone's speech and actions rather than the content or other's reactions to speech.
They used to tow ice bergs back before refrigeration was common. This seems normal by comparison.
What browsers are you using? Can you file an issue?

Thanks.
The plant is old, but that doesn't mean there would be anything wrong with it. When it is properly maintained, any worn components are replaced and it's completely stable. Safety systems improve all the time.
As a keyboard user, I feel Windows more polished than macOS when you work with multiple screens.

To name a simple example, pressing CMD + Shift + -> moves an application to the next monitor, with macOS you should pay for a window manager to get a similar functionality, or give up the keyboard and embrace a touchpad-centric gimmick like Expose, which I perceive as distracting with these animations.

It is certainly an example of YMMV.
Incidentally, you can find a more complete discussion on PWR stability as compared to Chernobyl here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor#Mode...
Really? More info?
Should add (2003) to the title
first part is a rant. and it's true. scientific protectionism.
I'm continually shocked at how many people think nuclear reactors are just nuclear bombs one failure from exploding.

The nuclear plants in Switzerland are safer and more efficient than coal power plants.
Usual right wing drivel.

President Obama has issued 260 Executive Orders, fewer than Bush (291), fewer than Clinton (364), few than Reagan (381), .... He's issued 12 vetoes. You have to go back to the half term Harding to get fewer than that. He's had 1 veto overridden, the 9/11 bill allowing Saudi Arabia to be sued.
As a home cook with plenty of time, you probably shouldn't be cutting yourself even if you use the wrong knife.

Of course accidents will happen, I just see that as a philosophical point; I should be in full control of the blade, not being fancy or hurrying.
> One requires massive social and economic change. The other requires sending a limited number of people to another part of the solar system.

Do social and economic factors magically not apply to people who colonize the solar system? Seems to me you now have 2 problems.
For real - it's so efficient that you can buy the cure and the disease at the same store!
I'm making a new planning app for you and I'd love your input
In the US, you are required to assist in the execution of a warrant (though naturally officers prefer executing it without your participation if possible).

You must unlock your door, and you must unlock your safe, if it is within the scope of the warrant.

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-search-warrant-compel-me-to-unlo...
It's called the Thermomix, and it even chills. It's awfully expensive though.
Doing more good than evil is a pretty good outcome for everyone around him...
Chrome on MacOS and Chrome on iOS
> Java's type system is _sound_ as it guarantees that you will never use a variable of one type as another incompatible type.

Is it though? I always thought it was unsound due to, at a minimum, mutable covariant arrays. It's definitely possible to have a type error at runtime without using a cast.
It's not a wise financial choice, since they currently generate a net loss of 1 billion each year, with no better prospects for the next 10 years.
They companies running the reactors even tried to give them away for free to Électricité de France, with no luck. I am against ruling out nuclear tech, like this initiative wanted, but the current state of nuclear power in Switzerland is a debacle.
Ultimately the state will have to to pay for the shutdown anyway, be it now or in 2025. It would have been a wise financial choice to shut them down now.
I know multiple people who are buying 2014 and 2015 model years or even PCs instead of the new one.
And I'd like to recommend Prof. Strogatz's book "The Joy of X" as a wonderful sampling of a number of basic math topics. It's very easily digestible. https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Guided-Tour-Math-Infinity/dp/0544...
So, your biggest problem in a reactor cooling pool is "lead poisoning", eh? :-)

Anyway, worth pointing out that cosmic rays are little groups of neutrons (and adjoining protons). I don't know about the half life of the resulting products, though, or how often a heavy nucleus collides with another nucleus, vs simply bashing through electron bonds.
I use this to test for iOs

http://www.responsimulator.com/
Interview with Simon Peyton Jones – Futurelearn
Your point being?
I'd imagine you can just use a free (as in beer) developer license for SQL Server work on Linux, just as you can on Windows. SQL Server licensing is only really charged on production instances.
11 Chernobyl type reactors are still in operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK

(some of the design problems have been addressed in the still operating reactors)
How much of AMP's speed is coming from re-hosting content on very very fast CDNs with edge nodes everywhere?
The plan of shutting down half the plants by next year was pretty insane and had no chance of passing. Switzerland is still getting out of nuclear and won't build any new plant, just not on that ridiculously short timeframe.
Very happy to have your comment, Gwern. I am a big fan of some of your work.

I certainly agree with you in principle. I just am not sure the sample sizes here are truly large enough to capture an effect on the order of 1.25x for such a complex phenotype. It's not necessarily a criticism of the author's work, which appears to be well-done. I just updated my prior and remain not yet convinced.

I also agree that many psychiatric disorders certainly have integral immune components, but on the other hand this is also true for most chronic diseases and pathologic processes (in my opinion).
Before 2.5 I hated the UI. But after 2.5, I realized I could work so much faster once I learned the keys and layout. I have used 3ds Max for years and even knowing a lot about that software, I still find myself exporting to blender so I can do something. Usually I can do something in blender with only a couple key presses where in other software I have to click a few different buttons in various popup windows, etc.

I do think some of the UI needs to be a little more logical, but aside from that I honestly want to see their UI in more.
I don't think they'll build new ones, way to expensive, unprofitable and the general strategy is to phase out nuclear until 2050.
>* I'm not in love with Windows, but as long as you don't go out of your way to screw it up it makes a pretty decent bootloader*

So, I've been running win10 on my games machine for about ten months now, and there's been two 'reboot now or in 15 minutes, no other choices' updates that I've seen, and a sizable number of times I've come back to it having autorebooted to a login prompt. Usually I'm just gaming, but I've had it reboot with open documents.

I could probably turn this off somewhere, but as it's not a mission-critical computer, it's still amusing to me.
Cure is probably too strong a word.
I've been running MiaB for about 6-7 months now. It's one of those things that 'just works', and with 'just works' I mean:

* Well configured, secure email server
* Ease of adding/removing domains, aliases, catch-alls and user accounts
* Ease of using email, either with the ready-to-go Roundcube webmail or any IMAP/POP client
* Batteries included: DNS is included, DKIM, SPF, you name it. DNSSec
* Want to host a static HTML site? MiaB's got you covered.
* Yes, that included Let's Encrypt SSL certs
* Awesome status page to check: version updates, misconfiguration, system health, and for each domain: DNSSEC, nameservers, DNS, TLS/SSL, blacklisting, etc.
* Open source! Huzzah!

If you're serious about moving away from Google or any other corporate mailprovider is feasible, take a look at Mail in a Box.
You might like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9322723
He has a valid point about restructuring the three freedoms that he did keep to make sense. However that 'zeroth freedom', which both the FSF and he initially forgot, is important as well.

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose"

This is about licences that restricted possible uses of software. Just as you are free to drive your vehicle anywhere * , and transport anything * while using it, so to should you be free to use software the same way.

( * the point is no artificial additional restrictions, not literally wildcard)

Multiple edits: I will never get used to the crazy custom syntax HN posts have. It isn't pure plain text (maybe with hyperlinks), a form of psudeocode tagging, or markdown like.
Isn't google drawing it's own line around the open web with AMP? I mean with AMP I'm literally browsing a site hosted at Google with a Google top bar on my page. If a user hits the 'x' on my page it takes them back to google.

AMP is a competitor of instant articles rather than the 'cure'.

If google really cared that much about speed they would just punish slow sites. I see amp as a land grab in cute packaging.
Are you okay with being treated differently for being Asian though? I don't see how being silent to mockery helps us at all. Americans are well aware of how African-Americans feel about stereotypes and racially charged language, but can casually mock Asian-Americans because of the subservient attitude a lot of us display. Please don't just take mockery with silence, let people know how you feel because they won't know otherwise.
I feel like Blender Game Engine is a massive waste of dev resources. There are much better game engines out there. I wish Blender concentrated on their core software. Full OpenCL support in Cycles would be nice.
There was some speculation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11945420/Who-was-Joh...
Still, the ALL CAPS LOCK answer by Italy rocks.
Unless compression cannot be used: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049898

Also, there are still cases where compression cannot be applied, e.g. if a script naively queries innerHTML. (This wouldn't affect loading time but it could inflate the page's RAM unnecessarily)
I appreciate that the article points out at the end: "There is no quick way to move off the Earth. We will have to solve our problems here."

Solving the climate change and other ecological issues we face here is surely easier than colonizing other planetary bodies.
Stop copying code. That's lazy and ineffective. If that hasn't occurred to you, perhaps evaluate your work ethic.

Would you learn math by copying and pasting from a solutions manual? Would you learn to write fiction by copy pasting others' short stories?

You won't learn to write code without writing code.
In my early consulting days I got sent to an ex-Atari execs home and was told this exact story, although he said the final call was to just "give the whole thing away to the army" since internally Atari was so strongly against the endeavor on a political level.

Besides he said, "they could just have just taken it from us anyway".

I don't know if that was a comment on their contract terms or what but it was clearly an uncomfortable arrangement for Atari.
To be fair, you aren't legally allowed to repair the public road outside of your house either. I can't think of any western country that would allow that.
What I learned the most from JP is the "no fuss" approach to cooking. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. A relaxed approach. I typically follow the school of though of the Modernist Cuisine, where precise measurements are everything. And don't get me wrong, they work great. But cooking like that feels more like an engineering project. Results are great, but it's "less fun". What I learned from JP is to be flexible within reason, and to relax, share with friends and family in the kitchen and have more fun in the process.

Last year, KQED did a radio interview with JP, and people kept asking him what was his favorite knife brand, type, etc. He said "the sharp one". And he showed amazement at how chefs are now celebrities. "After all, we are just food preparers". His humility is the real teaching here.
Gah, that's not good. Thanks!
This is going to have 0% impact for patients, except for making hospitals an even more depressing place.

I can easily imagine I'd enjoy a sugary beverage to wash down the horrible hospital food. It isn't a huge stretch (no pun intended) that that might contribute to a more positive attitude and therefore faster recovery - especially if I was used to drinking it at home. Whilst it isn't healthy, I doubt a ban in hospitals would change my mind.

Finally, before implementing this they'd better be 100% sure drinks sweetened "artificially" (i.e. not sugar) are actually better for your health that the sugar-sweetened drinks. I think the jury is still out on that one.
> Even today the HP 3000 is supported by a third party (Stromasys) who makes an emulator allowing native MPE programs to run on a modern Intel processor.

Seems the article answered that question and gives a starting point for your search. Good luck and write up your experience if you feel inclined! :)
You have talked about everything but what the parent was mentioning- actual cache. As in, L1 and L2. Those vary sizably among the different price tiers, somewhat understably, for reasons related to this.

On recent IBM Power chips, there's a so called PowerCore option that turns off half the cores, and lets the remaining cores double their L2. On some workloads that's a net win. I also tend to think it's there for those people paying a pricey per-core or per-socket fee, where a modest 15% performance gain/core could be very rewarding in a way that scale-out/more-cores can't replicate, but that's in a different realm than anyone I know.
Totally agree. I use 3ds Max a lot for work and I have modified as much as possible in those settings to work like blender. It baffles everyone else I work with.
My experiences with the subreddit have been negative. For some reason, most comments are very negative and bitter for no good reason.
Have you looked at and 'reviewed' alternatives, such as Facebook Instant Articles or Apple News Format?

Why is passing validation an important thing for AMP? The main complaint I hear about it is the AMP CDN, where Google caches and hosts your page for you. If you're failing validation then they wouldn't do this, right? So you get the advantages of a fast page without the disadvantage of Google reposting your content.
Are you referring to UTF-8? If so, this is misleading as you can encode up to 2^21 + 2^16 + 2^11 + 2^7 = 2,164,864 code points, which is not the same as encoding bytes in a single character.
Rationalizations of psychological buffering?
I'm using Beyerdynamic DT 797 PV. The sound quality of both the headphones and the mic are excellent. It needs 48V phantom power, so I feed it with a Focusrite Scarlett USB audio interface.
> Is it too much to ask that universities allow a free market of ideas, without drawing subjective lines categorizing them as "good" and "bad"?

I love relativists.
> Lainchan is pretty good but also glacially slow. Many threads stay open for years.

No kidding. There are still threads from when I first found the site (2014).
A layman's proposal for addressing the fragility of DNS
> Or maybe I am missing something obvious?

Yes. Google and Facebook aren't the only ones.

> I think that the main reason 2FA has been pushed, it's for the Facebooks or the Google to have good reasons to get your valid email and your valid phone number.

You don't need a valid phone number to implement 2 factor authentication. There are implementations that require it, sure. But it's not the only way.
I think that probability also deserves it's place in this tetrad.