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It seems pretty obvious based on Trump's choices for head of EPA, DOE, etc. that even if he is "keeping an open mind" he is appointing people to positions of power that have anything but an open mind in regards to climate change and environmental stewardship.

His recent interview was probably just political posturing so he doesn't get lambasted by the media while he is making these appointments.
Her young age, and thus minimal body development, may have limited the extra space needed...?
Javascript is written in Java and meant to script Java programs. Was this just made up? The whole article is completely insane.
"reducing fossil fuel use is like pissing your pants to keep yourself warm."

Bullshit, there are already many countries(0) that generate >90% of their electricity using renewable sources. Given the fast growing electric motor industry, we could get rid of fossil fuels pretty fast. It's only a political question, not technological.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
I take this as a sign that politics are out, and simple business administration is in.

Of course real cynics will yell too much power is being given to business people.
We will probably keep our distance from it since it's now part of Microsoft because I expect it won't be supported as well on anything other than Windows.
Can you point to a good debunking?
Yep, and in particular it's not difficult to get sufficient access to circulatory system.

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments_and_procedur...

We definitely need more info.

EDIT: Actually, looks like it was in fact an issue of space and blood vessels. From the Google-translation of the Italian article linked elsewhere in the comments:

> The particular malformation of the baby made it impossible for the kidney system donated by the classic conventional technique. The only option then was to use another way of connecting to the bloodstream....In order to create the necessary space for the new kidney, a revolutionary surgical technique which involved the removal of the spleen and the installation of the kidney on splenic vessels of the spleen itself along their course behind the pancreas was applied. The ureter of the transplanted kidney was then implanted directly on the bladder.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...
You wouldn't use the modulus operation. You aren't adding some arbitrary number that's going to make you increase either index by more than the buffer length so you know that at worse you are going to need to subtract the length of the buffer.

IIRC the way we made this really fast was the write the buffer backwards. That way you can detect wrapping around the buffer because DEC will underflow and set the sign flag. Then you can JS to whatever code needs to ADD back the buffer length to handle the wrap around.

But 2^n has another problem (back in that era): buffer size. You are stuck with 1K, 2K, 4K, etc. buffers. When memory is tight you likely need something very specific, so you end up with the solution we had.

But, hey, if memory is free use 2^n bytes for your buffer.
Some projections say peak human population will occur around 2050 or 2060.

That's pretty close in many ways.

Other projections put it further into the future, but decades rather than centuries, so still pretty close.
It does seem, from a maximum-paranoia standpoint, like this confirms the current status of your information, adds any pieces they were missing, and provides an indication that your data is extra valuable.

After all, you're tech literate (suggesting income) and privacy aware (suggesting your information may be scarce)!

(I assume most of these groups are more honest than that, if only because data reselling is legal but that wouldn't be.)
User-level threads. with threads
Visualize large data sets with Uber's deck.gl
I wasn't given the attribution when I heard about this, it's nice to see the face behind it. Not sure I can even tie my shoes the old way anymore, I've never done it once since learning Ian's knot. Every once in a while someone observant will see me doing it and say, "whoa, WHAT?" I do get a kick out of telling people I re-learned how to tie my shoes on the internet.
I am not exactly qualified to gauge the viability of your idea but I believe an Uber-like service is pretty ambitious of a venture, especially given the fact that you'd go for it solo. Consider the fact that you need to fill both the demand-side and supply-side, and match them almost in real time for it to be useful. I feel that it's often underestimated how challenging this task is.

I am not sure if a web-client would do the job. From my knowledge, interacting with maps on a mobile browser can be an aggravating experience. If an app doesn't do the job, isn't immediately useful, people discard it without further consideration which makes B2C things tenfold hard.

The surest way I see for it to work is to start as boring-taxi company that has a phone number and a person at the end. Then, slowly move into automated app-like way. I am guessing that's how OlaCabs, India's Uber, got started. Automation is awesome but there are so many points of failure in Uber-like venture that it's better to be safe by doing manual tasks.
Interesting discussion of this idea on the Stack Exchange photo site (from 2013): https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/33902/do-any-dslrs...
>Oh and don't assume my history thanks, you know nothing of it.

I'm going to attempt to be constructive here, but of course I'm biased so please take it with a grain of salt.

I cannot look past the words you speak, they are how I form an opinion of you on the internet. I cannot see your history, I cannot see your face/body language. Your words are your personality, they show your experience.

What you've said reminds me of similar people I know who have a distinct lack of experience, so, I lump you into that category.

In an attempt to understand you better I have peeked into your comment history. I can honestly say that I've not seen as much arrogance and bitterness for quite some time on hackernews.

Instead of trying to be snide and assuming you're better than people, or trying to passive-aggressively "win" a conversation.. Why don't we try to extract as much understanding or knowledge from every interaction on HN as possible.

most people on hackernews have some strong technical background, we have people here who are absolutely the forefront of their industry posting as regular users (Bryan Cantrill and Branden Gregg come to mind) which is absolutely humbling.

Now, with that out of the way, I invite you to read the topic.

"DynamoDB cannot store empty strings"

contrast that to your comment

>"NOSQL database on the other hand, completely different scenario. Exporting is a much more steamlined process."

NOSQL solutions aren't comparable if they handle types differently, they suffer most, if not all, of the conversion problems of relational databases.

The problem I faced when converting database solution was always types... Triggers, views and other relational-isms are a one-time investment fix.. converting types can easily lead to corruption of a few columns for a few rows.. how do you check that?

The answer is writing a lot of tests, and doing things especially carefully and incrementally.

and also, optimising for more revenue is not being cash-strapped, it's being wise enough to be able to reinvest capital in a new venture.. it's incredibly unwise to throw money up the wall for no reason other than it would cost a lot more to switch away due to vendor lock-in. (which is a reason not to move in of itself) which is what I'm warning about.
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So the solution for you seems to be allowing bad guys DoS your system because bad guys can do bad things, is it?
No, it's an optimization.
Ya because a bunch of business leaders wont just say yes to whatever business friendly ideas they can exploit.

We're just getting rid of the veneer that business interests don't run the country now.
how much money has gore and his fellow scum made off of climate change?

i dont recall me disputing the need to take care of the environment. thats not what the above poster was referring to at all.
Surely a bigger question is how a site with a basis in PHP transformed to making PHP compilers, .js frameworks, Haskell, C++ etc.

They seemed to have succeeded in creating a culture of coders/hackers that were opinionated/empowered sufficiently to use their tool of choice, and to persuade others of the advantages.

This doesn't really happen in large-cap companies (though does happen to empowered teams, but even then, only somewhat - thinking finance). And speaks to advantages.
I am much more bothered by the fact that I can't control my mouse and keyboard at the same time.
Still, I applaud efforts like this to make things better. However, key layout seems to be one of those things that just won't change once the majority uses one standard.
It bothers me that Twitter is frequently considered an original source, and yet comments can be deleted willy-nilly. It's too close to 1984-esque Newspeak. The HN model seems much better: You can only delete comments for some amount of time after initially posting; after that, they're fixed in stone.

(But I am glad this new council is somewhat bipartisan!)
India Just Flew Past Us in the Race to E-Cash
I actually learned Norman a number of months ago to a pretty reasonable level (90WPM) with http://type-fu.com/.

However, I couldn't get over the hump to use it day to day. It's hard to unlearn vim commands and all.

Strangely, I'm able to switch pretty effectively between qwerty and norman. Also strange is if I think about typing in my mind, it's in the norman layout.
“The Talk” by Scott Aaronson and Zach Weinersmith
Hmm..., interesting.

I've always been doing it the "wrong" way, mostly on embedded systems. My classic application is a ring buffer for the received characters over a serial port. What's nice is that this sort of data structure doesn't need a mutex or such to protect access. Only the ISR changes the head, and only the main routine changes the tail.
Who Said JavaScript Was Easy?
Ask HN: Your Opinion on Labor Unions for Software Developers
I'm curious why there isn't any notable amount of interest, discussion, etc, around a labor union for software developers.

I suspect it's somewhat driven by the general approval of a meritocracy...and a similar dislike for tenure driving compensation.

However, if I compare to other highly skilled workforces, like airline pilots...it seems we're missing out on some opportunity. It's fairly easy to find examples where their unions clearly improved working conditions, treatment during layoffs, salaries, work rules, retirement, and so forth.
Kudos for the effort, but it's always going to be extremely hard getting people to adopt a different layout.
Your "which thing should I give a shit about" decision making process needs some serious calibration.

Side note: Humans subconsciously adjust accents to their audience. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/7931299...
Ya, Uber just wants people to think they provide better service at lower prices than their competition; and the tricksters, they're doing it by working to provide better service at lower prices than the competition.

Feeling peckish? Ignore it. It's just the McDonald's corporation trying to raise the value of it's stock.
China might help here - if they ramp up their subsidies & innovation in the green energy space, US/Trump will have a lot of motivation to follow suit!
The person he's appointed to be Transport Secretary, Elaine Chao, is very hands off (no pun intended) when it comes to regulation, which is likely to be a good sign for driverless cars.
You really have not been paying attention since the election, have you?
The Ian Knot is quick, but as someone who never ties their shoes and just slips them on and off, I much prefer Ian's Secure Knot: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

I usually tie this knot twice over the lifetime of a pair of shoes. Once when I get them, and once more when they're worn in and need to be tightened.
"I'm curious how things changed?"

It would be one thing to prefer one candidate over the other.

But Musk's remarks are very strong.

Basically: "This man is not qualified for the job" is a very string rebuke.

And then to go on his panel? It's a little hypocritical.

Trump knows that these guys value their careers more than their credibility, and he's making Elon Musk, Mitt Romney etc. 'kiss the ring' and 'eat their own words'.

They will likely have to say positive things about Trump in the future, coming out of meetings etc..

I'm by not means a Trump fan but there are shades of brilliant Machiavellian bits about this.
Why not? We're all facing the choice of moving to Europe, or, given the troubles there, a remote cabin in Canada. Musk has apparently, and admirably, considered and rejected those options. Once he's made that call, the only thing left to do is to try your hardest to keep the ship from going too far off course. And if that's your agenda, better get as close to the ship's bridge as possible.
Top prize is ten grand (!) so I expect the essays submitted will be higher quality than your average online contest. I wonder how well I could budget my time over the next few months... this is roughly what I majored in, but it might be bad for my health to plunge back into a student's paper-writing schedule.
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WW3 MAY BE TOO LATE,READ WW3 LETTER FROM ALBERT PIKE
You would be doing a service to interested laypeople by writing down and sharing your thoughts on this. Experts often forget that things that are very obvious to them can be very enlightening to others.
The troff suite includes eqn for equations, pic for diagrams, etc. that make it more like TeX in its capabilities than HTML like for Markdown etc.

http://www.troff.org/prog.html#pic

And the basic inline markup tags are, at least in my opinion, just as simple as Markdown, Textile, or AsciiDoc.
Your response to possible global mass extinction is to shrug and say whattyagonnado?
You managed you be every generic motivational article ever. Mission accomplished I suppose. Maybe it is time for a new focus, this seems to be an afterthought for you, or you need some creative writing classes.
So, you just signed up to comment on this article ? Is there a "climate change article" alert system that sends notifications to troll farms to sign up and flood comment boards ? Would love to learn more about how that works.
There was a veneer?
"Using superadvanced machine learning techniques we've trained our great Uber Customer Surv^D^D^D^DSatisfaction Improvement Module (TM) to predict customer vomitting with over 90% accuracy and will automatically deploy a <your name here> antiemetic for just $10 (free for Uber Prime customers). Tell us how we can improve Uber even more in the comments!(1)"

(1) Joke's on you. We already know better.
The spleen is a lymphatic organ (full of white blood cells), the kidney is a mechanical filter coupled with molecular transport to pick back the good stuff and the water from the filtrated serum.

Beside being solid organs with a roundish shape, they have nothing in common.

Kidneys are usually grafted in the pelvis, using IIRC the iliac vessels, because it is more convenient and allows to keep the existing kidneys that may have some residual function. Maybe that kid had malformed iliac vessels as well...
Ok. Do you mind if we as a human race try to protect ourselves from nature having its way?
The accent is the only genuine thing about him.
Historians.
Are they affiliated with annual credit report . com or trying to confuse? I belive that is the site recommended by the Irs for an actual free credit report each year.
I still can't tell whether you're trolling or not.

Please provide sourcing on when and how in history we had an increase in temperature with a rate of change like the one we are seeing currently.
Which makes his cabinet appointees all the more unsettling.
Our Automated Future
It seems to be almost the same as the traditional method to me, since the crossing of the laces seems to cost about 50% of the time. It gets a lot better when you leave the crossing in. Edit: Apparently, there also is a routine to get the crossing in a nice, fast way, it just wasn't included in the pictures :)

More importantly, I can't seem to get a Ian's knot very tight. Does this get better over time?
How to Do Things – I want to thrive in a complex world
A malevolent AI is a particularly terrifying prospect.

Despite the fact that humanity has possessed the ability to destroy ourselves for quite so long, fortunately because we're still flesh and blood, biological entities and our evolution has lead to some more or less universal truths about us. We tend to love our families. We tend to want what we consider to be the best for our offspring. We tend to have some sense of obligation to protect our parents when they can no longer do so for themselves.

All of these (and many other) things that act to mediate our civilization-destroying traits wouldn't necessarily apply to an AI.
User of bépo (more or less a French dvorak), I am frustrated by the locations of x, c and v for cut, copy, paste. It's not easy to change those shortcuts in software.

Norman took care of that by keeping those keys in place as in qwerty, which is good.
Mysterious 'Crater' in Antarctica Has Ominous Cause
That's not really an option: As long as we pump CO2 into the atmosphere climate keeps changing and at some point you just run out of money if it's spend on consequences. And at that point the problem is still there.

The Montreal Protocol is quite successful in repairing the ozone layer. It is not like we always failed rolling back industrial missteps.
what about the best layout for writing code? usually you use a lot of characters that require 2 key press like (){}:"|<>?~$+...
Some of the products (like Xamarin.Mac) only run on macOS and a significant percentage of the team develops on macOS. I wouldn't assume poor non-Windows support.
I like the idea of term limits on congress. I think it makes sense. There are a few things to like in there but I tend towards the middle of the political spectrum.
this income is very good. compared with worker in Google and facebook.
Maybe easier than ever with most keyboards being virtual now...
EmDrive: Chinese space agency to put tech onto satellites 'as soon as possible'
> you just signed up to comment on this article?

His name indicates that this is a throwaway account he made so he wouldn't risk having posts like that in the history of his usual account.
Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction
It's weird, as this is mostly a programmer-related community, I am a programmer and I never found that typing is the bottleneck. Mostly the thinking part is the bottleneck.
Should there be a renaming here?

It's not intentional clickbait, but my brain did catch that title very quickly and proceded as fast as it can to make assumptions.

Both titles here[1] are better in my opinion.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176066
He's an old real estate hand, they're used to more diversity than will ever be found in SV/Tech or stereotypical business in general. Real estate is the art of compromise between extremely diverse people/groups.

I'd say there's probably more diversity working in real estate than most any other large industry. Today you're meeting with some commie union leader, tomorrow a bank prez, next week you're buying off some environmentalist with a donation to their cause. Local political leaders for your plot of dirt could be anything from ultra left to ultra right and you gotta work with them to make your money. Not to mention you're buying and selling to absolutely anyone, money talks. Local urban governments vary from ultra left to moderate and you gotta work with them. The neighbors are all over the political map and if you want them to sign off at the planning commission meeting...
How about we look at the trend over 22000, and notice what effect, if any, we've seen recently, since the huge globalized industrialization we've seen post WWII?

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Plug: if you ever find yourself wanting to merge everything painlessly: https://github.com/unravelin/tomono :)

accompanying blog post: https://syslog.ravelin.com/multi-to-mono-repository-c81d004d...
As long as keyboards can not show a different layout (e. g. OLED keys), all these efforts will not get much traction.
"They can't. Please send my prize money to..."
That's still a little strange considering that once she reports it stolen, US carriers will blacklist the IMEI and make it unusable here.
> Just to provide a contrarian viewpoint -- strong disdain for the military is one of the criteria for a weak state rife with degeneracy and malignancy.

Any evidence for this?
Since the transplant recipient requires immunosuppression anyway it's probably a good trade off.
Not really, If I have an AI good enough to drive safely. There are many other places where I can use them more profitably.
Sorry. Most of us are as shocked as you. I don't really know what to do about it.
It's not inflammatory if it is demonstrably true.
No, I think being able to run more elections is dangerous, because there are a lot of reasons republicanism works better than direct democracy at scale, but people are self-entitled idiots and will want to weigh in on things they have no idea about or useful input on because they're important.
Ugh!

Too late to edit this now but I meant to say Mandarin, not "Chinese."

Mea Culpa.
your leg bone's connected to your........ hip bone
An ordinary DSLR will shoot 4-10 frames a second. A mirrorless camera will often shoot 2x that or more. Any current model will shoot 2k-4k video. That means streaming can easily hit gigabit+ requirements. Ordinary Wifi doesn't do that.

In addition, pushing over WiFi requires power to broadcast a radio signal. That power comes at the price of less shooting time. It also broadcasts the photographer's location and is susceptible to jamming.

Even without jamming the images are vulnerable to manipulation via Man in the Middle attacks. Of course the solution is to encrypt the image transmission...and that necessary step is what people close to the problem are asking for.
I liked that feature of truecrypt. Does anything else these days have a deniable encryption feature?
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/papers/2013_acns.pdf

This paper shows you know to achieve exactly that. You can vote anonymously and receive a proof that your vote was counted correctly, without ever telling anyone what that vote was. To prove that your vote was miscounted, I believe you do need to reveal who you voted for, but you can prove to the world that there was fraud.

This paper solves one of the major problems with blockchain based voting, but there are many more. I don't endorse blockchain voting.
This is perfect timing for me, as I've been experimenting with the Texas Instruments CC110L attached to an ESP8266 running the Arduino stack. I started on this after having written an SDR receiver application to receive my electric and water meter readings using an expensive rtlsdr dongle and a raspberry pi. Thanks for sharing!
Depends on what you're typing. For coding, it really doesn't make a difference... so much of the typing is punctuation anyways. But for prose - emails, blog posts, HN comments, etc - typing speed matters.
I for one am very glad to see Trump reaching out to and including those who opposed him in his advisory council.