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A large part of it, for me personally, is what I perceive to be "over-alarmism". Climate is a complicated subject and climate science is still evolving. The media tends to focus on the worst case scenarios, and tends to exaggerate too much. This triggers my bullshit meter and makes me pay closer attention. Other things like the usage of the term "denier" for skeptics, the over-emphasis on scientific consensus, and the near-religious zeal with which any amount of what I consider to be healthy skepticism is met with doesn't help.

That's not to say that the arctic isn't warming (it is), or that the arctic sea ice isn't melting (it is). I would be more receptive to the data if it were brought to me with all of the considerable uncertainties exposed. I remember the days when scientists had a hard time saying anything definite in the media without a lot of caveats.

I doubt these are specifically American traits. The politicization of both sides of the argument and the us vs. them mentality that pervades all dialogue any more that doesn't allow for non-extreme positions is probably the real problem.
That's a strawman. The classic DRM solution is to create a new format with some secret knowledge required to play it. Only players that respect the metadata are given the secret required to support the codec.
Isn't 400 their max ceiling by regulation? Presumably they don't want to breach their operating rules so actually fly somewhat below this?
Calling it an algorithm may be giving it too much credit.

The packing program reads in a file, sorts the passwords into clusters based on their length, maintaining a popularity count as it goes. Then it prunes any passwords that occur less than some number of times in the input file ("4" by default, so it doesn't spend a lot of time churning on unpopular passwords). Next, starting with the longest passwords, it works its way down the list, merging the popularity count of shorter passwords into the most popular longer passwords which contain the entire shorter password. e.g., "password" gets merged into "password1234".

Finally it starts writing the output. Starting with the most popular password, it searches up to N passwords ahead in the list (40 by default), looking for any passwords that begin with the same characters that the current password ends with. So it finds "123456", and writes "password123456" to the output file.

I think the only thing I can do to optimize it further is to re-cluster the passwords by their starting character during the output stage, to improve its chances of always finding two passwords that can be glued together.

It's a crude brute-force approach but it works okay.

I just looked at the code, it's not that bad, I really will release it with the next update.
This can save some time, the interface is stupid simple
I discovered this porting an application from Postgres to Oracle. Another thing that drives me nuts about Oracle is that there is no native boolean type.
I guess we shouldn't have planes or cars either because they make noise.

This is a massive step forward technologically for consumers. With every new technology I've noticed that there's always that croud of people that oppose it, talking nostalgically of the good old days when we didn't have phones or the internet.

Just for a second can we marvel at what has been accomplished here? Deliveries aside, ordinary people can buy, or even make, devices that _fly_. Actually fly. How anyone can just take it for granted and then dismiss it by saying it makes noise is beyond me.
The downside is that offline builds cost $399/month, though I would hope that they would make this functionality available to everyone if for some reason the company shut down.
A deaf person can tell the difference between nice IEMs and the stock apple ear phones. I don't think anyone is disputing that. Now take some nice bluetooth IEMs and compare them to similarly priced wired IEMs, then it gets a little more difficult. Bluetooth transmission is very much a problem when it comes to sound quality, since the audio needs to be compressed to send wirelessly.
Leptospirosis is seriously nasty. I know kayakers who've had doctors not take their risk level seriously ("Hi doc, I was kayaking in this nasty canal and now I have flu like symptoms, please check for leptospirosis", "Nah, leptospirosis is rare and the test are expensive"). An extended stay in ICU resulted for a couple of them.
I look forward to the day when there are only careful, fully aware, sober, non-facebooking drivers on my morning commute.
Really interesting project and looking forward to having time to play a bit more with it. After trying it for the first time and reading the documentation I have the impression that the `alt` key is used a lot as a modifier key for basic things such as selecting inner objects. One thing I love about Vi and Vim is that most it tries to reduce the usage of modifier keys which is awesome when you are touch typing. I would love to know why the author chose the `alt` key and what the other options were.
That's a great project and I'm sure it could help a lot of developers to understand modal mode.
Great work!
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A negligible decrease in mortality in exchange for an intermittent high-pitched buzzing sound in any populated area... I think I'll pass on this one.
So because children suffer injustices, it's fine to spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money to deliberately cause more injustice? That can't be your argument.
I preach this knot to everyone I can. I'm a runner and a running coach. I've run literally thousands of miles (approaching 10,000 at this point) with this knot and it has NEVER come undone.

The really nice thing about this knot is that it looks really nice too so you can use them on both running shoes and dress shoes.

It makes no sense to teach the more common shoe tying knots.
I think the guy I replied to confused the codecs first. AV1 is the codec being developed by AOMedia, not VC-1. VC-1 doesn't fit into the story here, so I don't know where that came from.
If $20M per year can actually clean up Delhi's air that would be a great solution. That is if that works. Central Delhi's population is 10M and this is $2 per year per head.

I am pretty sure people are spending lot more than that to protect themselves from harm coming from pollution.

> If India has 20 million a year to spend on fuel for this contraption, why wouldn't they just spend that money to clean up the power plants instead?

Shows gross ignorance about Delhi and India. Delhi's pollution is not caused by power plants. This is not California you are talking about.

Powerplant do not contribute much to Delhi's pollution. The real problem with Delhi is that it is land-locked city surrounded by even more polluting industries. Delhi administration has 0 control over what happens in the 4 neighboring states.

People around Delhi are burning wood and cow-dung to cook food. There are thousands of brick kilns that produce worst kind of soot. Farmers in Punjab regularly burn husk. Unlike Mumbai Delhi has no oceanside to replace city's polluted air with relatively cleaner air.

For example In Delhi fine particle pollution rates are ten times higher than that of Chennai, which has ten times more cars but is coastally located, without the surrounding industrial areas.
Even when Haskell gets dependent types, they won't be quite as powerful as what agda/coq/idris have with the termination checks I believe. Which is fine, I don't think that many people want to program via proofs for everything.

I'd say Idris is the closest to a useful general purpose programming language with proofs. At least that I've found so far, unless isabelle is? Not used it just came across it a while back and have to have a look.
https://isabelle.in.tum.de/overview.html
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Those traffic waves are in large part psychology though. If every car traveled at the average speed you wouldn't have them. If even just 10% are self driving and have data on average speed for that section of road, they can not only avoid the wave but break them up, making traffic better for everyone.

I've even done this myself. I see a standing wave in front of me and slow to what I know is about average for that time of time. People cut in front of me as the gap gets bigger, but by the time I get to the choke point the wave dissolves as I pass through, and everyone behind me who was pissed about my slow speed is suddenly happy.
I always give this interactive cheatsheet [1] to git newbies to help them conceptualize the state transfer.

[1] http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html
As a city dweller, I would take random car over random parking spot every single time. Certainly does not apply to those who already pay a little extra for private parking though.
> ... and now Trump is not so bad

I'm pretty sure most people's basic opinions of Trump haven't changed.

In fact, I think it's a pretty admirable trait to be willing to work with someone that you might personally detest in order to make the best of a bad situation. The easy but wrong thing thing is to refuse any cooperation if someone you don't like is in power. That's largely what the Republicans in the House have been doing for the past eight years. That's not a way forward, that just deepens divides and future gridlock.
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Yes, but there are lots of applications for driving capabilities, that are not getting people from a to b.
Like transporting cargo at an airport, dumpers at a pit mine, even long haul trucking (see Otto).
I'm not the person you replied to, but I can answer this.

Segwit is technically a soft fork, which means that it has some degree of backwards compatibility. Segwit will be redefining a previously-unused opcode in the bitcoin stack machine, which all old clients should treat as a NOP. So old clients will continue to operate normally with old transactions, but they will see segwit transactions as junk and be unable to validate them.

In the past this hasn't been much of a problem because soft forks have always implemented optional features. However this time it will be a problem, because the plan is to move all transactions over to Segwit. Any client that hasn't been upgraded once Segwit is activated will likely see no transactions at all, the same as if there had been a hard fork. So that's why they added a 95% activation threshold.
> 1. Dive into Markdown

Is that an obscure Mark Pilgrim reference or just a coincidence?
Not sure if how much external consumer data the credit rating agencies use, but I can't help but think of the possibility of repercussions to your credit.

I've been in a years-long dispute with Transunion over my credit due to incorrect data they have on my financial history, all because my SSN became tied to another person in their records. No malicious intent was ever found, but it hasn't stopped them from wrecking my credit.

Fake data makes sense in some of these cases, but trying to pollute your records with the credit agencies seems like a really bad idea based on my experience dealing with them.
Your comment is very dismissive and hand-wavy. What do you think your conjecture has contributed to the discussion?
Any research done to nudge these spleen cells into making other types of cells (stem)?
Would you mind providing a way to get in contact with you or is part of this that the project specs must be posted on HN?
Thank you for the clarification and illuminating link.
What happens in bad weather with a drone delivery?
Good! I try to avoid closed applications on my mobile devices if possible.
There is no such thing as true cross platform UI. You're either going to have to set things up as a least common denominator of all, not truly fitting in and ignoring the strengths and features of the individual platforms, or you're going to specialize so much that you might as well do it native for each.
Climate change is not a priority for India where people are already dying of polluted air. It is pointless to think about "clean air for future generations" when the current generation itself is dying at rapid rate.

As an Indian I will leave that problem for Californians and New Yorkers.
> won't work in a city

You could have a kind of platform coming out of your front window (not necessarily for it to land, but to receive the package). Now imagine it would be fully automated, as the drone approach, the platform comes out or open, receives the items, comes back in. The mailbox of the future. We call it the iPost, and we think you're gonna love it
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I'm not so sure he leaked that one. It seemed actually damaging. The DNC/Clinton hacks stuff is win for trump no matter how it ends up because what the leaks exposed is far more damaging than who leaked them.

Those leaks showed that the DNC and Clinton were colluding with the media to give Clinton an unfair advantage in the election. Broaching this subject can't escape that.

I think what happened next was accidental, Trump didn't expect to win. Right before the election He goes out of his way to make claims about how the election was rigged beforehand. This sparked rebuttals from the left including president Obama. Now that he's won, the people recounting and investigating the election look like hypocrites.
Probably it was a joke though one can imagine the size being configurable which surely would lead to interesting results if somebody sets it to 1 for some reason (like troubleshooting).
KeePassX doesn't seem it should require mono. I think it's what I have installed, but I can't check now.

https://www.keepassx.org/requirements
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not sure why I'm being down voted.

corruption - dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.

CEOs and other decision makers of companies certainly have power. Several of them have hid the side effects of their products to continue making money.

I would call that being corrupt.
> The attempts to understand how the classical world arises from quantum laws seem particularly boneheaded to me.

Why? They have been completely successful. The reduction from QM to newtonian mechanics is very easy; you just turn the action way up so that you can't see the quantization gaps between actions anymore.

QM is not acausal. Even in QFT where we have interactions that look time-reversed, they still aren't acausal.
Me too, especially given that I was anxious to practice law a few years ago.
I think the "why not write it all in Haskell" argument is a bit spurious. Only the engineers on the team knew best the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches. Presumably there were very good reasons to integrate it the way that they did, whether driven by architecture, performance, knowledge, library, smallest-effective-change, or other reasons. It's clearly worked out very well in the most basic sense (it does the job). And on top of that, we now have bug fixes and other improvements submitted to ghc. Seems like a win-win.
How many of the people that do review your code would exploit it vs reporting it to you? Combine it with a bounty program, and chances are you will get useful feedback at a fraction of the cost of a full on audit.
They appear to be trying to confuse - the name and address on record are very different, at least.
I'm not sure your average English word has as much as five characters on average. Okay, let's count this paragraph.

91 characters, in 21 words. 4.3 characters on average, which would mean 13 bits of entropy. I don't believe it. It sounds like your source didn't account for word frequencies in real sentences, let alone grammatical constraints.
I'll agree that the Trackpoint uses a different method than virtually all other solutions (relative indication of direction desired as opposed to absolute motion).

As to the rest though, I have exactly the same complaints about touchpad - lack of speed, accuracy, etc... it just boggles my mind how people can put up with it (especially on smaller laptops/netbooks).

Largely I imagine therefore it's whatever you're used to.
That being said, and for whatever this extremely biased and small sample is worth, there's nobody I know (friends, family, co-workers, fellow geeks) who can beat me on either speed or precision if they use a touchpad and I use trackpoint.
I can pinpoint things down to a pixel (can never do it with touchpad, regardless of time), drag & drop with ease and I can move from one corner of the screen to the other in less than a second in one motion.

[couldn't care less about "professional" look - nobody I know would be impressed... if anything, most people will just look at me in bewilderment/pity when I try to use the touchpad :]
My biggest problem is typically dealing with distractions. I get easily distracted by either responding to an instant message or just stumbling along something interesting while searching for solutions to programming problems, or when doing research when writing articles/blog posts.

What helps the most for me is just closing out all other applications, chats, and browser tabs and not reopening anything else until I'm finished with work.

It's easy for many to get in the zone, but staying there can be hard.
I like the implications of "pass phrase"
I'd say I'm more of a realist, whatever is happening is happening, and whatever the results are going to be are going to be.

Likely some of what is happening is caused by humans and some is outside our control. Likely our actions will make little difference. Realistically the whole world runs on fossil fuels and that is not going to change anytime soon or quickly. Sure they can raise taxes significantly, but that is going to make the food at the grocery store much much more expensive before it makes any serious change on the environment.

You seem to be in denial about how prohibitively difficult it would be to 'fix' this problem.
I think this is a smart move by Docker. The experience of docker-compose for local development is sublime. The option to deploy that local stack to any number of schedulers but with the same core container runtime feels like the right kind of prod-dev parity. Choice being the main point I'm making.
Interesting. Instead of just an emergency brake, you want a second emergency handle: a mechanical linkage to a circuit-breaker on the mains.
I agree with your thought that these are part time, but for a different reason. I think they'll only be turned on when the temperature/env conditions are right to form the inversion. Fire the jet up for a day or two to prevent the smog from getting trapped under the inversion layer, then turn the jet off once the conditions subside. None of this 20mm a year business will end up happening.
If the plastic bit at the end falls off, just cut off the frayed part and dip the end into molten wax from a candle. I can't say I've tried it yet though, even that's so much trouble that I just live with the frayed end.
First two lines are italic, last one is bold. I'm not sure the point you are making, as all three are straightforward examples of unambiguous Markdown. (There are plenty of ambiguous cases you could have picked...)
I'm not an Apple hater. I've always loved Apple and I will always stick with Apple. They have always come through for me and they are still the same wonderful company they have always been.

In fact, it is MORE of a fad these days to be an Apple hater than an Apple fanboy. Why do you have to be a follower and hate on Apple? Try thinking for yourself.
It's some correlation, and it's more useful than the full spectrum.
Good faith meaning, an honest attempt. It's not an insult to apologetics that they don't. As I said (and as CARM's front page declares) its mission is to defend and justify Christian doctrine, not to investigate whether it is correct. I think you'd be better off rejecting the premise of the original comment (why falsification is important), than you would trying to argue that apologetics operates that way.
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Yes, but the market for high end cameras is an incredibly small niche anyway - small enough that it's not that hard for buyers to have direct contact with business decision makers. If Canon/Nikon won't do it, someone like BlackMagic will.
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Wonder where OP got the idea that this was from 2007.
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Thanks for the reply. Sounds like another case of "we've always done it this way".

I feel like underlying all of this, there's a lagging perception that "spaces and special characters are hard". But when all you're doing is hashing them... they're really really not. Whenever I hit a max length limitation, I'm automatically assuming that particular password is being kept in plaintext.
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It's effective in getting these companies to clear your data. But do you actually get fewer unsolicited calls/emails, etc.?

The do-not-call has been fantastically ineffective for me. I imagine this could be the same. It's also possible that all of the companies strictly adhering to the FTC rules (i.e. those on the OP site) constitute a minority of the market, and spammers are getting data from other less scrupulous sources.
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Global warming doesn't mean "it'll get a few degrees warmer and sea levels will rise a bit and things will settle into a new normal and we'll all have to cope by just moving inland a bit and no longer having to shovel snow in the winter".

The ecosystem is a huge, dynamic, non-linear system. A key characteristic of a non-linear system is that relatively small changes can have huge cascading effects.

When you disrupt the system by introducing an imbalance — by pumping out CO2 — the result is usually a period of chaos until the system settles on a new equilibrium. We don't know what equilibrium is exactly, because we don't know what the first step is — there'll be a cascade of effects.

For example, we know that melting ice will decrease ocean salinity, and we know that the balance of salinity is crucial in driving the global ocean conveyor belt, which in turn has an impact on local climates, storms, wind patterns, rainfall. That's ignoring the cascading effects of melting tundras unlocking enormous methane deposits that could turn Earth into another Venus.

In the short term, the effect on agriculture is probably the scariest problem, even scarier than rising sealevels forcing coastal settlements inland (mass displacement has never been a happy occurrence for the people being displaced or those who have to receive them). Society is completely dependent on food production to stay civilized. If crops fail, livestock die, too, and eventually people.
We as technologists need to also learn to think beyond the technology. We need to think about broader impact of our tech. Especially social and psychological impacts.

Why not? We have the tools. The only barrier sense to be our ego. We view something as net positive and as a technical marvel and become upset at any suggestion that there maybe be done undesirable consequences.

I know this won't be the popular opinion here. But the least we can do is learn to engage these kinds of thoughts. Perhaps middle ground can be found. Dismissing them helps nobody.
Thanks for the feedback. I hadn't used one for a few years and my memory of their capabilities was hazy.
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Yeah, I am maintening a gem and after a couple of people ask me to be able to donate a bit to support the project, added gratipay. However, nobody in the end did donatate. Maybe $3 in total. Was a lost of time.

I think people just think other people will donate so don't really matter. I think that too for other projects, so it makes sense.