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The fundamental difference between modernism and traditionalism is that modernists see doubtful intelligent people and cocksure stupid people whereas the traditionalists see a group of people; the traditionalists observe that when you turn on the stupid lamp, they act stupid, and when you turn on the intelligent lamp, they act intelligent. Actually, this "acting" is a matter of perspective. You were told to see them act stupid or intelligent by some higher power.

The traditionalists are quite confident that the lights are the source of the difficulty whereas the modernists are determined to keep their manichaean glasses on and see a human being as a source of light rather than a network of filters of light.
I am a mail account hoarder (9 so far and more coming) and offlineimap together with mu4e is the best email client for multiple IMAP accounts across multiple mail servers. For sending mail I have message-mode and smtpmail.el (both come with Emacs) set up to handle composing and replying across the multiple email addresses. I also set up smtpmail to queue mail and run in a sub-process - this gives gmail-like "undo sending this email" functionality, ability to compose and reply to messages off line, and most importantly does not block the parent Emacs process when sending email, while providing better error and progress output.

Planning to write a blog post about this configuration, but in the meantime I am happy to share privately - vsedach@gmail.com
Guy tries to show how much more mature he is by stereotyping an entire generation? Sounds to me like both parties involved are a little low on the EQ spectrum.
Thanks! I can see, though, how it would be hard to scale up to a bigger business. Since it's just me a few others, we can rely on trust and common sense. It's somewhat easy to tell when you're being yelled at because of some unrelated thing that has the customer upset...And, so give them a little more room. Other times, it seems more clear it's just an entitled prick. I don't know how you would make guidelines or training on how to scale that.

Or maybe I'm making bad judgement calls sometimes? In any case, life is too short to take excessive crap just to make a living.
Right, but

> The Google aquifer permit application states it will reuse water before eventually discharging it to the sewer system, but the company did not provide details when asked by The Post and Courier.

And 2 paragraphs down

> Groundwater can be returned to the aquifer after use, but some is lost to evaporation and the operation is costly, according to industry sources. There are other alternatives. The National Security Agency cools its Fort Meade, Maryland data center with treated wastewater, touted as an environmental boon and cost savings compared to tap water or aquifer pumping.

So basically Google is going to draw aquifer water, probably reuse it and potentially just flush the water into the the sewer system.
You are not wrong in asking this, but the way you asked led people to believe that you are against such a thing, and people who object to what they perceive as your belief will down-vote you.

As Scott Adams has so rightly pointed out, we are victims of our bias, and it is very difficult to think coherently on an emotive subject like this.
Why would anyone need to use potable water as a coolant, and why is potable water completely ruined and transformed into grey water by its use as a coolant?
> It is not Java-specific, but it is common to a few specific Java frameworks as well as at least one of Microsoft's older frameworks (I forget which one).

ASP.NET WebForms has a feature where the Session ID, normally stored in a cookie, is stored in the request URL path instead. This was done back in 1999-2001 to support extremely rudimentary HTTP clients which did not support HTTP Cookies - imagine really prototypical mobile-phone web-browsers or hastily-written shell scripts using CURL.

Fortunately it was disabled by default and the documentation describes why it's a bad idea to use it - and I understand the business reasons for including it - however this design does not break things like multiple-tab browsing: that's just what happens when you have any stateful web-application, regardless of framework.

It's now gone in ASP.NET MVC (where you gave full control over rendered URLs), so that horrid chapter has ended.
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I consider them and most of our industrial buildings a kind of litter on our landscape. Some (and I stress 'some') of the old Victorian bridges are exceptions, and there is the occasional building (mainly churches, pubs, and manors) which integrate in an aesthetically pleasing way, but then again we have already turned all the land to farmland so maybe there is little left to protect inland.
False dichotomy. That's not how a significant amount of coal is mined. Yet every windmill sticks up into the air as a reminder of human presence.
The issue is, as I understand it, how to make a carbon tax "progressive". In particular, how to make it so progressive that the developing world will accept it (i.e., it won't condemn their poor to generations of high energy prices and much slower economic growth) but still strong enough to dramatically reduce future emissions growth.

Just imposing it on the developed world would help some, but any benefit would be at least partially offset by emissions-heavy industry shifting further to the developing (and higher emissions-intensive) nations.
If this is true then I presume you are devoting all your waking hours to preventing it?
Why is there still a pop culture cliche of weathermen being terrible at their job?

Precipitation forecasts are usually accurate several days out and temperature forecasts are good a week or two out, in my experience. If I want to know if it's going to rain on Saturday I check the weather on Thursday and it's usually right. When there's a big storm comin', a local meteorologist does rolling updates with the latest data and it usually gives a consistent but evolving picture that matches up with what actually happens.

Are people disappointed by this? What are you wanting out of your weathermen that you're not getting?

I know the weatherman used to be a joke, back before satellites and computers, but I swear the cliche only survives as part of climate change denialism.
I linked to the Rust implementation of capnproto elsewhere in this thread.
There is an interesting set of choices to make if you switch gears. You can work to reduce impact, reduce existing, or survive change.

If you want to focus reducing impact then for CO2 there are many sources for it in developing nations. The US EPA (quick, archive it before it goes away!) lists these for the US[1]; Electricity (35%), Transportation (32%), Industry (15%), Residential & Commercial (10%), and others at 7%. Any endeavor which is cutting into transportation or electricity generation specifically will be most impactful but there are places like better LED lighting for business (reduce commercial electricity consumption). Pretty well plowed but they can always use the help.

To act on reducing the existing gas levels perhaps the best place will be sequestration exercises. Generally it helps to have a Chemistry background here because many of the sequestration techniques consist of converting CO2 vapor into something that holds on to the Carbon. There are more mechanical solutions (pumping gas into mines) and there are biological solutions (growing plants rapidly and then burying them) as well. From a software perspective I would imagine the biggest use would be control systems software as these are essentially industrial processes that folks are trying to automate.

Finally if you're looking at living with it, then there things like modelling immersion maps for the coastal areas and helping cities plan to migrate to higher land. There are efforts to design more weather tolerant living structures to survive larger and more sustained weather events, and storage and recycling systems to maximize the use of local resources which may become scarce in a different climate.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#c...
I'm totally with you on that. There are all sorts of charming towns in socially progressive areas of the country that I would move to long before Kentucky if I ever got disillusioned with NYC. There are some amazing towns in Vermont that I've been to with great access to nature, skiing, and locally farmed food. And they've also accepted the Medicaid expansion under the ACA, they aren't homophobic, and they aren't trying to strip government to the bone at the expense of providing important services like infrastructure and public education. And if drug criminalization is something you care about, Vermont is a lot more friendly as well.

Techies tend to be socially liberal, or at the very least, libertarian, and the appeal of a place like Kentucky just isn't there.
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this is interesting- where can I read more?
That's for searching the USPTO website. Not searching patents, or Google's patent search.
Not OP mistake, but the title is click-baity as hell. Yes, it is a direct quote, but that was mentioned in passing to a question of whether he'd invest in any.
I think I agree with the glassdoor review actually.

An unsolicited and unnecessarily harsh critique with language like "My English and history professors at Cornell would have ripped this to shreds (as I just did)" is not appropriate as an application response.
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I prefer Taylor myself.
You do know that a significant amount of coal is mined without the destruction of mountains, right?
I think expecting your users to have a GitHub account to leave comments is a terrible idea. Normal non-developers do not have, do not want, and should probably not be enticed to, make a GitHub account for purposes that have nothing to do with GitHub. Not to mention that unless GitHub themselves state that this is perfectly acceptable, they could take steps at any time to counter/block such usage.
That's editorializing, not blackmail.

Here's an alternate account of that conversation by someone else that was at the dinner that suggests that it was a completely different conversation than was portrayed:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6198250

I did some more research and it turns out Ben works for Buzzfeed, which shortly before that conversation got a $50 million investment from A16Z, which is one of the biggest investors in Lyft. I'm not suggesting Lyft is the one playing dirty here but given all the money Andreessen has poured into journalists I wouldn't be surprised. VCs generally operate on the "no conflict, no interest maxim".
Or maybe you should have asked me if I had read the paper before making such an inane comment. I did read the paper and I am not convinced that they corrected for mental illness correctly in the study.
So it is copy-on-write. Interesting.
Because no evidence supports the theory that the electricity system was hacked.

In SF, I live near the PG&E substation that had a problem due to a fire. There's nothing fishy about that...
Please have a look at the following (copied from a recent comment of mine):

Most recent study of methane flux/storage in the ESAS:

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/2052/2014...

Arctic temperatures are estimated to rise 1.9x compared to global average:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005GL025244/full

During HCO the arctic is estimated to have been 4-6C warmer than baseline (yearly average):

https://epic.awi.de/38441/1/Beierlein_2015_Holocene_page1.pd...

That's not all that much. We're now already at 400ppm CO2, and recent unmitigated projections to 2100 (538ppm) simulate an arctic yearly average of ~ plus 8C:

http://climatenewsnetwork.net/arctic-is-set-to-reach-13c-by-...

So, are you willing to play the russian roulette game with the arctic methane? The PETM boundary showed a global average warming of 5C, mostly from arctic methane at a time where there wasn't even a large ice shelf, so with significantly lower capacity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene–Eocene_Thermal_Maxim...

That would be in addition to the CO2 induced warming, mind you. That should make it quite easy to see how we're likely triggering a rapid warming to +8C (global average) or above. Rapid means it could come within a single decade since methane is that potent.

At that point, vast amounts of land on earth becomes uninhabitable from the heat aspect alone, never mind food production - you'll have mass migrations that top anything human history has ever seen. I suggest reading up on history as well, especially the late bronze age collapse which seems very interesting in its modern relevance.
Never do this remotely. Far off management companies for far away properties will take you to the cleaners. Only buy and rent local properties. Ignore your friends and coworkers talking about the screaming deals they are getting in the desert properties. Stay local and you'll do OK.

It's OK to use a management company to find a tenant, show the place, run credit, Etc. Don't use them after that though.
Minds can be changed. For one, propaganda does work. If only minds could be changed using more honest means... Granted, education works too, to some degree. But that requires even more work on both parts.
My credit card may be used for an online payement because it tells on a few information (number, cvv, etc.). This is obviously a security problem. Nobody cares: neither me as any payments which are not mine are immediately reverted (and then, maybe, the bank investigates), nor the bank for wom it is cheaper to write off this money then to fix the system.

So no, publicly exposing an issue does not always work if there are no incentives for anyone to fix it.
That makes no sense to an HPC person (who has actually been evaluating low-latency Ethernet recently). How do you even separate the MPI-IO traffic over a different fabric from other MPI in, say, Open MPI, and how could maybe doubling network cost and complexity be a win if you could? And then we have to re-write the applications somehow?

There's literature on improved performance running HDFS over Infiniband and Hadoop over Lustre and PVFS at least.

And from up the thread, for a discussion of file systems for high performance checkpointing of MPI jobs (which is what's relevant to HPC) see, for instance http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/static/media/publications/a...
If it were "vaun", then the obvious response would be that Vaughan is a perfectly acceptable name, and look how English spells that. (-:
>Strip-mining? Not so much.

I assume you don't know much about strip mining, because strip mines in first world countries reclaim the land they mine as they follow the seam.
I was imprecise: I'm not talking wing-walkers, I mean standing inside a plane, where wind is hopefully nonexistent
Yeah, the proper response here is:

NO U

Especially when the entity requesting the valuable resource (water they don't yet have permission to use), is the one prompting for the NDA.

Sorry, private corporation. Take your NDA elsewhere, and go swat at your lowly job applicants with it, as they grovel for permission to waste their youth away in your flourescent dungeons and air conditioned nightmares.
There is a niche market for drones to scare away birds from airports. Would not be a far stretch to use more advanced models to herd birds away from windmills.
You might want to work on a way to make a convincing argument to the general public. Because the echo chamber here notwithstanding, where I live nobody really believes there is a climate problem, or at best they give it lip service while they drive their new Escalade to Starbucks for a $5 cup of coffee.

I think that in reality we will not see people changing behaviors unless and until there are real observable climate changes that are affecting their lives. And even then I have my doubts.
I've decided to move my blog to a GitHub + Gist since it's easy to crosslink and include code snippets. Visitors can write comments with their Github account and don't have to leave the site. The Github stars (likes) are also very nice :-) As "Index" I use a special Github Repo with link collection (date, title, url) to my Gist blogs and use Twitter to promote my blogs. Of course you could use the Github JSON API and jQuery to integrate it into youre website :)
It's like a squabble between children. Applicant with an over-inflated ego submits a sub-par writing sample. Owner with an over-inflated ego rejects it with a gratuitous insult on top of some helpful criticism. Applicant throws a fit. Owner throws it right back.

Oh, wait. Did I say "helpful criticism?" The first comment strikes out the word "subsequently," calling it "entirely unnecessary and redundant" before exhorting "Don't use unnecessary words." Well, speaking of unnecessary words, how about "entirely" and "redundant" in your own comment? The rest are in a similar vein, coupling actual criticism with needless (and antagonistic) commentary. Instead of calling out a sentence as merely "too long," he has to then label it "an absolute monstrosity."

Nice dodge, millennial job seeker. This is not someone you want to work for.
Respectfully, do you know more about climate science than shouldbworking?
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Here is how your sentence sounds like:

I never ever need [to run standard Docker commands that work everywhere]. Usually process is a bit different [than using the standard Docker commands that work everywhere]. Wrecker [does something that is completely custom to Wrecker]. So there's no limitations [to something that is completely specific to Wrecker]

If that is not vendor lock-in, I don't know what is.
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They said the same about Facetime and iMessages but never opened or documented those, so let's see when and if it actually happens. Apple has a history of false promises when it comes to opening and documenting their protocols & data formats.

Edit: I misrecalled that iMessage was announced as something they were opening.
Dammed rivers release less water because of increased evaporation. Another problem is riverbed deepening which lowers the groundwater table. Where the water pools up is also important - having a bunch behind a dam when former wetlands and floodplains are dry is obviously not conducive to the ecosystems in those wetlands and floodplains.
Economics beats morality. Making it about morality is counter-productive.

Water is a resource with a price, just like land or gasoline.

If Google had a cheaper way to cool their servers, they would.

If we have plenty of cheap water then we should use it to cool the server or for watering lawns or whatever.

If the price of water is too low, then we should raise the price of water so that it's cheaper for Google to use a different way of cooling.

If you make it about Google and cooling servers (and not about the price of water) then you might win a battle but you'll still lose the war because Google is only one of many entities that will eventually deplete water resources if they are not priced properly.
Learn to use the help commands (press "C-h ?" for a list). Apropos especially ("C-h a"). Personally, that's what got me hooked. The self-documenting was so mind-blowing to me at the time; I would spend hours just looking commands up.
I love this -- and many of those 100K jobs are maintainatory jobs, permanent and not tied to continual production and growth.

I always hate how projects are touted as 'bringing X many jobs to the region' when a majority of cited jobs are in the construction or building of whatever the project is, and then evaporate away once it's built.
While it's undeniable that structural engineering has been around longer than climate science, scepticism should be based on performance, not simply the age of the field. The mainstream (IPCC) models have quite accurately forecasted global temperatures and sea levels over the past couple decades.

While climate science is a constant exercise in refinement (as all science should be), it's not a bunch of wild-ass guesses.

I don't know of anyone who claims there is anything specifically meaningful about 400 vs 410pmm, it is simply a new record.
This is basically how we cool our house in Montana during the summers. Cold water is pumped up one well and hot water is returned down another well. It uses much less electricity than a conventional AC system.
Let's suppose the machines are spying on you and you want to learn a secret language of humans, a language with the highest ratio of human speakers to NLP technology. Which language should it be?

I think it would be a language spoken in populous but under-served areas, where English is a widely-used second language, so those who do use computers are content to use them in English. But not spoken by so many people that you could expect people to be prioritizing it for NLP anyway.

Tamil and Hausa would be my guesses. 70 million speakers each, largely in India and Nigeria respectively, both awash in English as a second language.
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It drops like a rock if the Jesus Nut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut) fails, but that situation is freakishly rare.
Significantly fewer people need to live near them due to energy density.
I dunno, I always find them unsettling. I mean, I love them from an environmental perspective, and I think they look quite charming when static... But when spinning they just look so impossible. Like something that big shouldn't move like that.
The issue here is that even if you could do it, the question when working in a large bureaucracy is whether you're given the latitude to do so when teams are silo'd and responsibilities are split along very sharp fault lines.

So, even though you could setup a working system top to bottom from scratch, depending on which team you're attached to you'd have to design, explain/argue and work with other teams and their overbearing workloads and attendant baggage.

An experienced team with full ownership of load balancers, firewalls, hosts, security and applications could conceivably do this in their sleep inside of a week -- but few large organizations split their responsibilities in this manner.

I don't know anything about USPTO and am only making sweeping generalizations, but my experience with government and large network operators seems to generalize well (so far).

This is why I hope that other 3rd parties can somehow export USPTO data and make them available somehow. Not sure if this is a potential target for the Archive Team[1] or archive.org, although the missions aren't cleanly aligned to this particular need.

[1] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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What's the quality of these jobs? Stable long term employment with good pay?
I would pay TB prices for a 15" with traditional Fn keys.
It's such a shame the Aussies don't build nuke plants. They have the uranium and they have a good place to store the waste. But they're so stuck on being Commonwealth Texas that they'll stick to fossil fuels forever.
There is only one herd- and it is full of gnus.
They are a public storehouse of technologies. We have a right to read them. Some are well written and have useful information for reproducing them rather than just a lot of BS fluff. I just ran across the TMDS encoding patents (DVI & HDMI signaling) a few weeks ago. My thought was "wow, this is a pretty good patent" and conveniently just expired.
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Those "people" are already over-saturated on things like "facts".

You can't appeal to everyone.
This is secondary reporting. The actual announcement was posted here as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14171119 by Denis Roio xyrself.
Reminds me of Hank [1]: http://www.hankboughtabus.com.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6261948