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Far upstream the refinery machine you're looking for is a hydrocracker and wikipedia link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry)

Cracking is not a net energy gain... However, if you're refining more asphalt than you know what to do with and have a shortage of shorter chain hydrocarbons, you can at considerable cost (economically and energeticaly) crack them and turn a useless pile of asphalt into burnable gasoline.

Coal to gas is convoluted. Coal to methanol somewhat more reasonable. Methanol being quite toxic is no laughing matter but then again benzene and mystery meat in gasoline is no laughing matter, probably "methanol causes blindness" would be all over the clickbait but it wouldn't be much larger of a problem than cancer from gasoline at a societal level.

All you need to end the world is about three days without food deliveries. That's about a factor of a hundred faster than the NIMBY permitting problems preventing installing steam engine rail between food warehouses and retail stores or whatever.

Fertilizer IS natgas. There's no such thing as a natgas or oil well, there's just wells with different ratios of natgas to oil, ranging from admittedly near 99% of one or the other to darn near 50:50 (by mass or volume). Its really quite problematic and dangerous. Yes the average chain length of crude oil is a nice stable diesel fuel but the std deviation is quite high leading to amazing explosions and fires due to 1% by mass being butane bubbling out catching fire then setting the rest of the plant on fire. Crude oil really is annoying and if it weren't so energetically valuable I donno if we'd use it as a feedstock for everything else, just TDP natural oils or something. Not to mention crude oil is full of "stuff" vanadium and sulfur and whatnot.

The wikipedia you want is

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

Basically you mix steam and natgas to get hydrogen, then you mix hydrogen with atmospheric nitrogen (under immense pressure and high temp) to make ammonia, quite an important nitrogen fertilizer directly, but also indirectly via acid plants and much hand waving the other fertilizers kinda sorta depend on ammonia and there's no other industrially viable nitrogen source.

For fun if you really want to trigger "hydrogen economy" enthusiasts you can point out ammonia is a better hydrogen storage technology than any other tech we have and its still ridiculously impractical.
Humans are a very tiny part of the biosphere. Evolution is certainly ongoing in all of the world's organisms. Humanity's biggest role in this is of course our outsized environmental impacts which place new selection pressures on life, not freezing genomes in their current state or replacing grey matter with GPUs or whatever.

It's also important to consider the timescales involved in this--often hundreds of thousands to millions of years. However it's not necessarily a gradual, continuous process either. I read a lot 15-20 years ago about 'puncutated equilibrium', which basically states that species in an ecological region stay pretty constant until some relatively brief event (such as climate change or the introduction of a new predator) causes everything to adapt very rapidly to the new conditions, and then another period of stability sets in. Stephen Jay Gould wrote about this quite a bit for the lay reader and I believe did a lot of the theoretical development when he was a younger scientist. Whe I was in grad school, my paleontologist friends tended to scoff at it so it might not be in vogue but the books are still worth reading even if possibly dated.

The other observation that Gould promotes a bit is that evolution is quite chaotic and that most genera and species simply get out competed and die off instead of morphing into something new.

My hunch is that we're forcing quite rapid evolution right now, mostly due to habitat loss and substantial modification of ecosystems (i.e. monoculture fields, removal of alpha predators on land), and climate change will increase in importance throughout the next century. The real next movement of evolution will probably be the repopulation of earth by pollution-resistant creatures after we've killed ourselves and taken a good chunk of life with us.
I'm the founder at Distelli. I'm happy to answer any questions.
> The sugar makes you hungry, making you able to eat more fat (which is highly calorie dense). If you cut the sugar (and other high GI/II carbs), you will eat a lot less of the rest.

Do you have any credible research on this? I'd be interested to read it.
Yep.. most annoying bit is that the Cloud Key uses 48v POE while all their APs (and the cheaper routers) only support 24v. So you can't actually run a Cloud Key off say an EdgeRouter X SFP.

Annoying for sure, though if you are doing a big install you'll probably need another switch and you can just make it a POE one.

Still love them though.
You're right, there's a bit about (paraphrasing) the clocks stopping at 11.30, bright lights in the distance and several low concussions in the ground.

Having said that, in the movie the protagonist awakes at night to an orange glow outside, implied to be wild-fires on the horizon. He rushes to the bathroom to begin filling the bathtub with water.
Ignore the part about where the partition is, then.

1. If I look at 2TB vs. 8TB HGST drives, their seek times are 8ms and 9ms respectively. But if you're only using a quarter of the 8TB drive, the drive arm needs to move less than a quarter as much. Won't that save at least 1ms?

2. The 8TB drive has a lot more data per inch, and it's spinning at the same speed. Once a read or write begins, it's going to finish a lot faster.

3. Here's a benchmark putting 8TB ahead in every single way http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/HGST-Ultrastar-He8-Heli...
The main use case would be if you had a very mature Ruby library without an Erlang/Elixir equivalent. I haven't run into much that I personally need that isn't already available, but there are definitely some gaps that this could help people jump in the short term.
I bought a Surface Book recently and it has been a mixed bag.

On one hand there's Windows' horrid display scaling issues. Hooking the Surface Book into an external HD monitor means dealing with blurry fonts and inconsistant scaling on some apps. Not entirely Microsoft's fault but its still a concern.

On the other, I really like marking up documents and drawing sketches on the screen. The machine is fairly solid and a joy to type on and use on a day-to-day basis.

Like others have said, the trackpad has taken some getting used to. It feels less "solid" than my 2011 MBP's, and it's definitely more limited than the MBP's. It doesn't handle palm rejection as well as I'd like, and the swipe to go back gesture is inconsistent across applications.

There are other issues too. Flux fucks with things; when I use it things get sluggish as the screen begins to warm. I've recently gone ahead and uninstalled it. Sometimes when I press the Windows key to bring up the Start search the search bar doesn't register the keyboard. Detaching and reattaching sometimes confuses the machine and it doesn't know whether to drop into tablet mode or return to desktop mode.

Despite that, if someone reads this in the future, I will say I overall enjoy the machine. I really like what Microsoft is trying to do in terms of bridging the gap between devices like tablets and traditional PCs. My girlfriend and I both like doodling on it, it plays older games good enough with its dGPU, and it's battery life is superb. So I'd recommend it as a great prosumer device.
I learned about that from the commentary on a LaserDisc of (I think) "The Graduate". The dick film professor mentioned the reel change circles and then said something like "now that I told you that you will always be conscious of it (hehe)".
Yeah that's a nice/bad thing about Polymer: how vanilla it is. 2.0 is even more vanilla. But the mantra is to #UseThePlatform and so that's what they do. The platform is becoming less burdensome than it used to be. Because of how isolated Web Components are it keeps things simple, particularly when you're dealing with DOM. Components tend to keep to themselves and interact with each other via your agreed-upon interfaces.

I also noticed the verboseness. On the projects I worked on at Google I had just made a Behavior of logic utilities that I added to components that needed that kind of behavior. So they could inherit some utilities like `_equalTo`. It wasn't ideal but it did stop the need to define essentially the same functions across multiple components.
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Terraform is a good option there as well.

https://github.com/poteto/terraform
For a while there in the .5 to .8 days performance was pretty iffy, and the documentation was lacking (as was expected for a library pre-1.0), but it seemed that was when a lot of bloggers picked it up, compared it to react/angular, then dropped it.

And back then when I was trying it out there wasn't any easy way to integrate webpack (or something like it) which made it difficult as I've gotten very used to a good bundler/compiler.
That's the thing, I don't know what I was missing. I'm usually a perfect audience for sit back and enjoy the ride kind of movies but in this one, I just didn't connect at all.
I've been using it since I saw this post. Impressions so far:

1. It's actually not that zippy. Do a "find /" and watch it lock up.

2. Rendering is very glitchy. Resizing the window seems to cause all hell to break loose for me and I have to restart to get things working again.

3. There are hot key problems. Sometimes hot keys (i.e. COMMAND-1 open tab 1, COMMAND-2 open tab 2) don't work, sometimes they do. Clicking in the window makes them work (temporarily) but doing some other stuff can break that again.

4. Sometimes it seems like I'm focused ON that tab, not IN the tab and I have to use my mouse fix that. That's a problem for something that's supposed to be keyboard driven.

Edit:

5. I tried to exit the application and now I'm stuck in an infinite modal dialog "uncaught exception" loop.

It looks like a very promising application, but a replacement for iTerm 2 it is not. This feels like this should be a 0.10 release and not a 1.0 release to me. This app is not robust enough to justify 1.0. :(
Like what? This used to be true but I believe most of it was remedied with iOS 10.
It was part of another comment, then I left it out of this list... But I have it on some of my contacts, very easy to know when some specific people are calling me :)
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> We're left with barebones facts that are of no help to anyone looking for reliable information about the band.

The fact that the band exists and has a newspaper article about it is helpful. Otherwise it's article will be very short. So what?

> All of this applies equally well to little-known authors, random Indian corporations, and your cat.

Yes to the first two. (My cat has zero verifiable information about it.) They will have very tiny stub articles. So what?

> If all we have to go on is a couple of primary sources and maybe a passing mention in the press, what is there to say without giving undeserved credence to the primary sources?

So don't say anything else.

I really, really don't understand what's motivating your position. I'm trying!

> But really, I'm just rewriting the ideas of the consensus based notability guideline, which is much better written and specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

That page is almost exclusively about defining notability (which, because of the intrinsic vagueness, necessarily takes a long time and is mostly unsuccessful). The only part that's directly about the reasons for the requirement is this subsection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Why_we_ha...

And the only argument it brings up that I didn't address is this: "We require multiple sources so that we can write a reasonably balanced article that complies with Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, rather than representing only one author's point of view." This, again, is something that can easily be addressed by just requiring verifiability to include coverage by multiple sources. (Even in highly notable articles, there are a large number of facts that are only verified through a single source; this isn't a reason to delete the fact.)
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What's the preferred workflow when continuously integrating and deploying in containers? At what step do you run your automated tests? Do you run them in the same image that will go into staging and then production? If using the same image, do you ship to staging and production with test dependencies included, or how do you strip away test dependencies first?
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One huge substitute is games: I know several permanently unemployed people who while away all the time on online games - there are some really addictive ones out there, the ones I know are hooked on League of Legends or DOTA or other games with e-sports, which give a substitute feeling of achievement (and it can be a real one if they get to the pro scene).

It's a huge problem in Japan:

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

And in other countries (not as big in mine, but it's growing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET
From the looks of it, the first NORSAR computers hooked up on a permanent basis were two IBM mainframes.

Also, the Norwegian Defense Research Institute (FFI) utilized a teletype against the TIP. (Source: A couple of Norwegian-language webpages.)
In a historic sense, It's quite fascinating to think that we all evolved from just dirt, water, and gas.
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Yeah don't need it all the time, but it's nice to have running since you can use their mobile app to make config changes without having to boot up a laptop or make sure the app is running.
I ran the controller on my own machines, for a while in AWS and for a while in my closet, for a few years. It's fine. But I've been happier since I switched to the Cloud Key. The functionality is the same, but I find the maintenance (upgrades, etc.) a fair bit easier, and it gives me more freedom in choosing to run or not run the servers and instances that I had the controller software on (I do like having the controller running all the time). I guarantee that I've spent more than $80 worth of my time maintaining the Linux system and controller running on it over the years. With the Cloud Key, I've never had to mess around more than clicking the "upgrade" button.
Amazon Personalization.

We use ML/Deep Learning for customer to product recommendations and product to product recommendations. For years we used only algorithms based on basic statistics but we've found places where the machine learned models out perform the simpler models.

Here is our blog post and related GitHub repo:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/generating-recommendat...
https://github.com/amznlabs/amazon-dsstne

If you are interested in this space, we're always hiring. Shoot me an email ($my_hn_username@amazon.com) or visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/personalization-and-recomme...
Yes, your method of iPad/Apple Pencil/Microsoft OneNote is the best note-taking experience I've had as well. OneNote is absolutely fantastic.

That said, I rarely draw pictures and defer diagraming to my co workers, so vimwiki will fill a purpose for me.
haha seems like there's so many hypers. When I saw this I thought about Python Hyper (HTTP2) https://hyper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
2008 MacBook airs stopped getting support in 2012 for Mountain Lion. Just 4 years of ownership until a device becomes "antiquated" is very frustrating.
...or the best of both worlds.

There are corporate jobs in tech where you can spend almost all of your time working on the things you enjoy (say research, product development, or solving hard technical problems) while letting others take care of the things you don't. You don't really have that option if you're an entrepreneur. And the fact that you can get a salary that places you in the upper-middle class is an added benefit.
> coding doesn't have much room for professional advancement

Coding is like 30% of a developer's job. And I'm being generous.
I found Polymer to be very easy to pickup coming from Angular 1 & 2. The only friction I experienced was difficulty integrating TypeScript.

Given how Polymer components are typically written with the JavaScript included with the HTML file of the component this was not really an easy option for a beginner.

However using tools like polymer-build with gulp you can still get TypeScript support. In the upcoming Polymer 2.0 release TypeScript typings are going to be included with the library!
Hi. I know Distelli was originally less targeted and could deploy to bare metal, snowflake VMs, k8s, etc. Is this latest version a narrowing of focus or is all that just less promoted now?
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Exciting about Polymer 2.0 for take advantage of native "v1" Web Components implementations across browsers.
You accused 'rsync of adding articles to Wikipedia solely to promote their company. Casting aspersions on the motives of fellow HN users is corrosive to civility. Please don't do that. If it feels unnatural to bend over backwards to avoid giving that kind of offense, that's all the more reason HN needs to be careful about this kind of thing.
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Why are you doing EE if you want to program?
No, but it is marked for the 1.0 release: https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/issues/304
Want to spend time with your kids? That's fine, just don't expect to get paid for it.

Here's my all American take on this: you made the choice to have kids. Don't expect companies to subsidize your child-rearing efforts, we owe you nothing.
Most built-in Apple apps can now be hidden in the normal way.
Part 2: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-papers-nips-part-2/ and part 3: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-papers-nips-part-3/
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With overpopulation I am not sure that encouraging more people to have kids is actually progress.
why is the USA miles behind the rest of the world in this regard?

Because if something has even the hint of socialism, the discussion is considered over. It's why the U. S. doesn't have universal health care.
EDIT: This is total conjecture.

only 1 or at most a few of those 21 features represent real data. The real data represents similar information to the insider information which they wish to act upon.

Example data prep:

1. Insider source says that a contract is falling through, a patent is being filed for, quarterly numbers have been missed/surpassed etc.

2. Similar information is gathered from historic performance data of the company, similar companies or market segments.

3. The information is correlated with whatever metric they wish to move along and encoded in one of the 21 feature classes.

4. Repeat for whatever relevant information that can be linked to the insider source - i.e. competing companies, re-encoding separately for long and short positions etc.

5. Fill in remainder of 21 feature classes with noise.

6. Profit.
Zimmer is often accused of scoring more movies than he actually does, because other composers are told to simply copy him. Whether you're actually paying for the real deal or not, your movie is going to end up with the same sound.
This is brilliant, would love to read a full write up on it. I hope you get a big raise.
I have been looking at making the switch to another kind of laptop too (I'm still running a 2012 MBA as a personal machine, 2013 MBP at work, and a Win10 desktop for gaming).

I've test driven a few, but still haven't committed to something. For now, my macbooks are still doing pretty well (though the MBA is feeling low on RAM these days). I know I'll find it tough to give up their trackpads, assuming another vendor has not successfully copied their feel within the next year or two.
There are many way to do this but we (distelli) recommend the following:

1. Run automated tests during container build (maybe in the AfterBuildSuccess step)

2. Have a single image that goes to both staging and production. Pass in environment variables or configs to operate the image differently in staging or prod

3. Don't include test dependencies in the image so the image is smaller. So if you're running tests etc don't add the tests and dependencies in the Dockerfile. Instead have your CI system run the tests.
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The general idea is to test and develop on the same image that will go to prod. Environment-specific configuration should generally be injected at container runtime.
It's American Express, their money is made by a bunch of servers in racks, they could put half of their staff on paid leave for an entire quarter and the numbers would be unchanged.
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>Your response actually agrees with the author

the author is a milquetoast analyst paid to be a "thought leader" on this topic...

the thrust of my response is drastically different than his: i suggest that it is time to tear down the surveillance state by any leaks necessary to accomplish that goal.
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And with a usable interface
I am actually down to about a quarter-of-digging-them.

I love the flavor, but I don't like to eat a whole one... just for nostalgia..
No, I've created a fully functioning app. Just best practices for actually deploying in the wild
The podcast "Reasonably Sound" recently released an episode on the Braaam (originally performed live in September, so I wonder if this is somehow related).

https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/the-braaam

However, it's not the same take at all. The Longreads piece is focused on non-melodic minimalism, and Reasonably Sound is focused on what the Braam really means and its history in storytelling.
You're absolutely right - I missed that.

BTW, it might just be the fact I have scripts blocked, but it doesn't appear to say that on the homepage at hyper.is - just the Github page.
People who choose not to have children should not be forced to subsidize those who do.

If someone's getting 55% pay for almost a year while they're not creating value for the company, that has to come out of someone else's paycheck, directly or indirectly.

> Parents being around for their kids is important.

I absolutely agree, but that doesn't imply in any way that it's right to foist the cost of choosing to have children on other people.
We still support the VM, bare metal use cases. We've just created a new landing page around k8s because its our latest offering and its on our list to add additional pages around our existing VM use cases.
Here's the list of FAs, to get some sense of what the bar is here. The overwhelming majority of WP articles --- including the important ones people care about --- aren't FA's; an FA is essentially a very high quality professional grade encyclopedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles
The United States culture is more pro-business than other western countries. Other governments put consumer and employee rights ahead of business interests.