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Please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that.
What's hilarious is that this is what is meant by calling them "floating point". The counterpoint "fixed point", in comparison, does not necessarily imply integers.
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I really like the GNU/k* notation; it highlights the separation between the kernel and the operating system in a very clear way. In this case it would be entirely accurate; Windows is standing on its head to look like a Linux kernel and does a pretty convincing job.

Unfortunately for projects related to WSL, which ultimately challenge some of the 'defaults' people expect, there is a tension between the name that is accurate and one that people will understand. For example, people are so tied to the notion that Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that calling it anything else would be confusing, despite the reality that Ubuntu is an operating system that just happens to have Linux as a kernel most of the time.
I cringe whenever I hear the low unemployment number.

That sector of workers who can work, but just gave up is staggering.

I truely believe Trump got elected because he was pretty much the only person who said someting is really wrong with this economy, and it's been wrong for awhile.

(I don't like the man, but on the economy I think he's right.)
> Why did Russia want Trump to win? Did he promise to hand over the Crimea or something?

I was listening to this today [1], and it explained that Russia fully expected Clinton to win, and was just looking to make her presidency chaotic. You know had Hillary won, and news of Russian "hacking" reached Republicans, they would be reacting just as the Democrats are now, calling for investigations and lobbying charges of collusion with the Russians against Clinton. Trump even primed the base to accept that line of attack, calling the election rigged when it looked like he was going to lose (since that's always his reaction when he starts to lose).

That Trump won came as a shock to Putin, and now after a brief honeymoon with Trump, Putin has ordered to dial back praising Trump on national media.

So really, there may be no direct link between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling, but they certainly aren't doing themselves favors by lying about it. I could understand that the optics look bad, given the circumstances, but being caught lying about it looks exponentially worse, especially since sessions previously refused to recuse himself from the investigation into said contacts with Russians!

[1]: https://www.npr.org/player/embed/517994347/517994380
Also, should note, it's about a 98% savings in bandwidth, but cost savings explicitly was 70% since we have to factor in the cost of running this new server.
Thanks for the response. Interesting stuff. Time will come when people look back and have trouble believing we lived without this stuff (like lacking antibiotics, knowledge of hygiene, etc.).
Ah yeah, I just linked to the discussion about the New Yorker piece that aired on Fresh Air, also a great listen.
I was just a pre/early teen when most of this was happening but I can remember reading about it and being amazed, after becoming interested after reading _The Cuckoo's Egg_.

Today, I'm a network engineer at an ISP. Go figure.

> MAE-WEST is still at 55 South Market in San Jose, for example.

Yep, and fiber runs from there to 611 Folsom and into Room 641A.

(Edit: It probably wasn't quite that early in the Internet's life but it was still very young.)
I think you're severely overestimating the ability of supermarket chains.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/03/quirklogic-s-quilla-is-a...

Looks like if it's a technical issue, it's a solvable one.
I wonder how this could be done on hadware level.

You can look at the NaN value as an implementation of Option / Maybe, where it means None. It even behaves like it should, short-circuiting any normal operations with it to also produce NaN. Too bad Fortran and C lack sum types to surface that properly on the type level.
Even if AI can program computers, it's still difficult to replace programmers because programming comes hand in hand with analysis - process analysis, system analysis, design, security, interfacing with old projects and interacting with human teams. AI won't replace a programmer's external knowledge before it reaches the level of AGI.

A horse or an assembly line worker do lots of repetitive work. A programmer does lots of non-repetitive/creative work. It's a whole different game. There are examples of creative AI but it is clearly inferior to humans in music, painting, poetry, translation and many other tasks, while in programming it's completely incapable as of yet.

Maybe if conversational agents become good enough to replace lots of websites and apps - that could make a dent. Yet chatbots are quite limited today and in the next few years. It could take 5-10 years before they can be good enough to threaten app makers, and in the meantime there is a glut of unused apps.

The largest threat to programmers is Wordpress, Facebook and Ebay in my opinion. Instead of paying for a new website, Joe Business Owner would suffice with just a FB page or a Wordpress blog. Instead of making an online store, he would prefer being a simple Amazon or Ebay reseller.
Just because you personally don't use something, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. And if the alternatives are so much better then why does it exist?
I know ...but when? 2030? There is no timeline. My point is that GC and DOM should have been part of the MVP if it were to gain any traction as the assembly of the web. Otherwise it remains an experiment/niche like Asm.js, PNaCI etc. I didn't see many(if any) "todo" apps in wasm yet.
In theory someone could be relying on the bug, and not be vulnerable - e.g. if they don't allow any external access to the system.

If you just re-publish the old version, it's difficult to know whether you've taken the change.

If you are going to reissue the same version number - why bother having version numbers at all?
>The needs of a few never outweigh the needs of the many.

This is, uhh, kind of false. In liberal democracies like the US, we have some extraordinarily protections for the needs of the few at the expense of the many. For example, we've ruled as unconstitutional anti-miscegenation laws. The founding fathers were explicitly worried about the tyranny of the majority, too.
I'm sure you meant this to be tongue-in-cheek, but it comes off as a very superior and passive aggressive attitude. I recommend a different approach if you're trying to get people interested in learning more.
The fact that I got voted down on this just goes to show the level of ability to understand reality HN has. HN is a bubble.
> No one would even try in
> this political climate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_th...
I had a very good experience. I spoke with a member of the team and emailed a bit with Jared. He was completely transparent about timeframes (YC was interviewing for the W17 batch and they were slammed so he told me there would be a two week delay). I heard back from him shortly after their YC interviews completed and went onsite to meet the team.

He was always prompt and respectful of my time.
Yes, Bagladesh is screwed, but if that [Clathrate gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis) goes off, we're looking at ~60m of sea level rise. The Low Countries aren't going to do very well at that point, either.
I think there is evidence that it put Trump barely over the top in critical midwestern states.
Note that Kalanick is in denial that he fucked the driver over. Talk about denying your responsibility for your own shit.
What exactly are you arguing?
Is speaking to the Russian ambassador somehow illegal? It seems that the accusations here are whether Sessions had contacts with Russia during his time as a Trump campaign surrogate. He did not. So it's not clear to me what the controversy is here.
I remember hearing a slight variation...

Q: How do you get a job application for the NSA?

A: Pick up the phone and ask the dial tone.
Do you know what a municipal bond is? Real question,I want to make sure you understand one basic area of the civic financial ecosystem.
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This is probably what we will end up doing because it is the only one that is really viable without insane energy/time requirements. Everything else proposed would require an engineering project many many orders of magnitude greater than anything humans have done before.
It's not really enough to read and upvote, but I'm at a loss as to what I can personally can do about this.

So in the spirit of the askhn "how would you turn around Twitter" - let's apply the same thinking to this: "how would you fix the oceans "?

There must be some practical steps that one or many of the hn audience can execute?
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I'm waiting for a CS101 taught in PHP.
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365's a downmarket brand (lower margin) focused on millenials and a "hip" shopping experience.

WFM never wants to be a virtual distribution center for Instacart.
Your gitweb [0] has always worked perfectly fine for me! I agree, I don't see the need for Github.

[0]: http://gitweb.saurik.com
But homo sapiens will probably survive, and so civilization will probably eventually be rebuilt

This is a very arrogant assumption. Our species is one component of a little-understood web of interconnected dependencies. Just because humans are slightly more clever than past dominant species doesn't make us any less extinction-proof.
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This is good advice. Peter Lynch puts it best (and actually, he was misquoted about the mall story 25+years ago): https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-lynch-25-years-later-its-...

tl;dr you better really know what you're investing in. If you don't know, don't invest even if you miss out on the next "big thing".
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository [pdf] (2016)
Depends how large you want to get, and what you really want it for.

If its really just for reading PDFs, have you tried a Kindle DX?

If you want something hooked up to a computer for whatever reason, I know http://shopkits.eink.com/product/13-3%CB%9D-epaper-display-e... does exist and you can buy it (alibet its expensive -- but not as expensive as the dasung, wow, 1300?) but its very DIY development kit.

There was another company in the USA that I found that also sells e-ink displays that are HUGE, they do it as digital signage (menu at a coffee bar type stuff). I can't fathom what they charge but its probably astronomical.

I do think this is all a bit unfortunate, I would love to have a few of these e-ink displays on my walls at home for things like shared calendar with my family and put a few in the office for our calendars too but its just crazy expensive and very inaccessible for now.

Unfortunately I think e-ink missed the boat. They never got past the volume curve to make large displays remotely mass produced (due to expense), and they are expensive because they aren't mass produced....
I think that carbon tax pays for the building of the thing?
I still can't for the life of me understand why they didn't slap a gps chip on it. I was so hoping that Nintendo would develop the gameplay that will become the standard for AR games.

Instead, it's a glorified 3DS. =P
> Of course this would mean automating away the shoppers :/.

Seems inevitable. :/
It had a slower clock speed. You fell for Sega's "blast processing" hype machine
What happens if we divide a lawyer in to a number of pieces, rotate and translate the pieces, and reassemble them? Has anyone ever tried it?
nothing that is happening to this administration is garden variety or normal
According to the article it was the written question submitted by Sen. Leahy that limited itself to communications specifically discussing the campaign.

The oral question by Sen. Franken was more open ended, and Sessions response seemed even less ambiguous.

At his Jan. 10 Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing,
Sessions was asked by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) what he
would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone
affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the
Russian government in the course of the 2016 campaign.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded. He
added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in
that campaign and I did not have communications with the
Russians.”

Officials said Sessions did not consider the conversations
relevant to the lawmakers’ questions and did not remember in
detail what he discussed with Kislyak.

I don't think there's any kind of conspiracy involving Russia. But clearly there was a conspiracy among the Russians to effect the campaign. And there _might_ be something of a conspiracy within Trump's camp in the sense that they're intentionally circling the wagons regarding Trump's preferred Russian policy. I wouldn't speculate about the motivations behind Trump's preferences because they're probably numerous and not even necessarily coherent; more like a general coincidence of interests that both Trump and Russia would like to exploit.
That looks really cool and I'd totally buy one even if it was like 1-2k, but unfortunately its probably 10x that or more.
You might try Google Fi. Not Google Fiber, Google Fi (https://fi.google.com/).

I felt the same way about the difference in quality between cell phones and old-fashioned landlines. "Telephone voice" used to mean "bad audio quality," but compared to cell phones, the old telephone sounds golden. The nicest thing about PSTN-to-PSTN calls is their timing. Cell phones have a delay that always trips me up and keeps us from getting into any kind of conversational rhythm. Again it's another thing that I didn't appreciate back in the '80s, when landlines were all there was.

Finally I got Fi. The difference in quality is refreshing, even when talking to people on cell phones with different carriers (which is all the time, because no one else seems to know about Google Fi). The latency is much less, and the sound is clearer.

Ready to kick it into high gear? I can make phone calls on my laptop. Plug in earbuds with a built-in mic, and phone calls never sounded so good.

No, I don't work for Google.
There is a lot of ignorance regarding what 5-8 degree warming means. The worst case scenario (and that is the only one we should be concerned with!) is a global mass extinction event. We've already had 5 of them - one of which was due to runaway greenhouse warming -
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/big-five-extinction...
We cannot be sure we'll stop at 5 degrees or 8 degrees. After that we will have a mass extinction event, and humans would most likely not survive it.
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FWIW WholeFoods recently invested significant sums (~$30M) into instacart and made them the official online distribution channel. So WFM sees some value in being a distribution center, if that means moving more of their goods.
Become a vegetarian. Not only will you not contribute to the fish market, but you'll also reduce the amount of fertilizer flowing into the ocean.
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Ideally, I agree with you. The other part of me sees humanity in a transition period of having all of this amazing information at its fingertips but not the smarts to use it, at least for the common person. We need a brain boost to keep up and that could just be the AI we merge with at some point or some genetic/biological enhancement or combination of those, otherwise, I just feel we peaked as a world and will just go up and down until that happens.
Probably not easier at all, quite the opposite.

Raw data may be very available, but to the average investigator not of much use without reporting and analysis being done for them.
What I find really interesting in that number is that according to Matt Levine the IPO has been already oversubscribed 10 times.[0]

This kind of number strongly implies that one can expect the immediate post-IPO valuation to be quite a bit higher. However, once the aggressive stock flippers are done, there's no telling where the stock price finds its equilibrium.

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-01/snapchat-...
> If we can geo-engineer effectively and safely it won't matter.

That's a big if. The global climate is an extremely chaotic and complex system; ur ability to accurately model it is still extremely nascent. (Scientifically, understanding the global climate seems at least as hard as deciphering the architecture of the human genome, say.) If you are at all skeptical of our ability to master geoengineering in time for it to matter -- I'm talking a few decades here -- then it behooves you to opt for conservation instead. Literally the only system that we know for a fact is sustainable is the one that existed before industrialization.
Well I for one was bothered to find out that snapchat would give away ads through their news decision to such a political advocacy group.
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I wouldn't mind having a 24" or 27" for coding use. All those years of having active pixels (and phosphors) blasting my eyes can't be a good thing. An issue might be getting good quality ambient lighting to use with a display like this.
People don't like to rewrite infrastructure code just b/c the provider decided it's not worth it anymore. When you sign up you consider the whole ecosystem not individual services. The cloud platform is marketed as reliable and rock solid that you can trust. It may be the case with AWS but on Google you should expect experimental, cheap and a high risk to get broken or even deprecated all together. It behaves like a start-up with customers paying for experiments. It's OK for some use cases but you should be aware of that.
There should be literally 0 "Linux" code, so yes.
Nice try. Scientific evidence, please?
Exceptions are utterly painful for vectorized operations. Goodbye Tensorflow if you say goodbye to NaNs
Why dont they make a console with really good hardware, yet still affordable, and simply _make good original content for that console_? Look at breath of the wild. People arent excited for the switch, a _tablet_, they are excited for breath of the wild. Look at resident evil 7. Success in games is really simple: make a good game. Its not that hard. Look at battlefield one. But no, everyone decides to rely on gimicks and whats already popular.
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To make a dent I suspect becoming a vegetarian isn't enough - you'd have to become an effective-evangelical vegetarian.

So, given that fear and shock tactics are failing - how do I convince the world (or a sizeable portion of it) to become vegetarian?

I heard a podcast recently about a guy working to produce real meat from plant matter. This would probably be an effective solution.

By spending time otherwise used for side projects perhaps I could help bring the cost of production down to below that of animal-meat? Know of anything I can work on to help?
Maybe you should start banning accounts that post milquetoast inanities
Yes, I hope it is. I just was writing it in a style of a possibility rather than a prediction as its the same thing to be very positive or very negative, at least in terms of making errors into the future.
Solar, wind and nuclear kill poor people?
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I mostly use Windows 10 and OSX.

But have experience with Linux, I just don't play games anymore and most of my stuff at home can be done on .NET Core so I can always use a VM for the odd Windows stuff I need.

Good chance to learn Linux properly while learning something else.
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