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I really enjoyed this article! I believe we should produce mass amounts of cheap 3D printed housing that anyone can afford with a part time minimum wage job, and then fill in the labor gaps with general purpose artificial intelligence and robotics. Then people can chill out and ignore the more dystopian aspects of society and instead enjoy this wonderful resource of infinite education and entertainment we've created. I think the answer lies in making a good enough standard of living the default for everyone and then there will be less negativity in the world.
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I fully agree, and have the same need, in fact as I use gCal/goals frequently (which conveniently integrate with gFit), and end up having to double-mark currently.

It seems like Google's APIs for tasks/keep/goals, etc are in flux right now, which is not ideal, but I will be looking into an integration to remove that redundancy.
Here's an excellent interview of Jonti Horner by John Batchelor on this topic (free podcast):

https://audioboom.com/posts/4827661-mass-extinction-and-the-...
You should not be asking HN for advice. I've actually flagged this post for your own good, as it is irresponsible for anyone to even attempt to advise you with specifics, and it would be a huge misstep for you to follow any advice posted here other than "talk to a lawyer, now".

You should have had a lawyer on consult from the beginning, reviewing the initial contract and its payment terms. If the client isn't paying, you need to be talking to your lawyer. If you don't have a lawyer and an ironclad contract, the entire situation is a toss-up and there are no guarantees. You can't even refuse to deliver and walk away from this client without a lawyer's determination that you are not breaching contract by doing so. You believe you are the one being wronged. The courts may not agree, and the company could even turn around and sue you for taking their project hostage.

Only your lawyer, with knowledge of your state's laws, a copy of your contract, and an archive of all communications between you and your client, can help. Do not make a single decision based on HN comments, no matter how insightful they seem. If you follow the wrong advice, you could well see yourself in deep legal trouble with ramifications worse than losing the $25,000.

tldr; You should have had a lawyer at the start of this contract. If not, you must get one now. Get a lawyer. Now.
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> As far as I can tell, conservative viewpoint on climate change is varied, from 'the effects of man made climate change will be mild and not catastrophic' to 'golabal warming is caused by increased solar activity'

Unfortunately, that range lies outside what mainstream climate science has been telling us for decades.
Ah, thanks. This makes it better. I could only think of the exploding whale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwxH3PPWiU
Yeah, doarama. I am using chrome as well.
If you control the deployment environment, none that I can think of.

If not, and you need to deploy to RHEL/Cent 7, then maybe. They're still on 2.7, though software collections will let you install 3.x on either of them.
I wouldn't say the acting was horrible, though some actors/actresses weren't great.
Your confidence in this administration's eagerness to fund scientific research is ... well, surprising. To me, at least.

But, are you confident enough in their willingness to continue unbiased scientific research into climate change that you would bet money on it? I am very interested in a friendly (but financially significant) wager now. :)
>How much Symbian development have you done? Many small companies were doing J2ME on Symbian as a way to write portable code across multiple devices.

None, but this doesn't change the fact that C++/Qt was the main development platform. I'd also wager that the C++/Qt apps were vastly superior to the J2ME apps.

>As for the Series 30+, the MRE was a market failure, never reaching a fraction of J2ME, Mediatek doesn't even support the SDK anymore.

Well, at least they're still making S30+ phones. The S30 stopped production in 2013.
A more comprehensive solution would be to eliminate all other taxes and fund all public services from taxes on land. This naturally incentives local ownership because owners of high demand locations do not receive a benefit from the high taxes they are assessed to pay for public services for residents unless they actually live there.
Written just like a person absorbing the mere surface / tabloid portions of tech. Juicero, peter theil, etc etc. Little to no mention of the revolutionary technological progress in life saving medicine, green / lower pollution energy sources, a stronger push towards ecological responsibility, safer and more plentiful food sources. Just another low effort opinion piece from a shit tier journalist looking to rake muck instead of report on news, controversies, achievements and failures.
Be careful with generalisations. The laws could differ a lot in different countries and even in different states in the US. See the "Real World Divorce" book for details:

http://www.realworlddivorce.com

As far as I remember from reading the book, the law favors the spouse with the lower income among the two; and the spouse with child custody.
Rubygems states the gem was cut on 7th May - this being the common definition of 'released' in the Ruby world.
Did the author actually imply they wrote this to show off Python in particular and why "Vy" should be used over Vim?

Seems more like a personal project that they crafted after the original Vim, more than anything else.
Neat coincidence to see this on the front page today. On the train this morning I was re-reading David Brin's "The Deadly Thing at 2.4 Kiloparsecs". His 1984 article examining Earth's fairly regular mass extinctions and what might be causing them.

As a new forward to the story, Brin mentions the OP-linked theory.

Imho, the article still holds up well and you can read it here: http://davidbrin.blogspot.jp/2015/07/the-deadly-thing-at-24-...
Make it one year fund.
Even better, have make one-year fund using peak expense month as a reference.
The probability of not needing to use it fully is high, but not 1.
Still, the actual pirates (the naval boarding ones, for example in Nigeria) are not romantic. They have families at home and would prefer a peaceful life.
Someone living around minefields answers in the BBC story:

"Falkland Islanders weren't enthused by the idea, to put it bluntly," says Barry Elsby, a member of the Falklands Legislative Assembly.
"We would rather have left the minefields as they were. They are all clearly marked, clearly fenced. No civilian has ever been injured. We said to the British government, 'Don't spend the money here, go to some other country where they have a much greater need to free up farming land.'"
"Unfortunately," Elsby adds, "the British government have signed up to the Ottawa convention, which puts a duty on them to do this."

It looks a somewhat similar nature reserve to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which also acts as a superb nature reserve (also a BBC story):

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160421-the-chernobyl-exclus...
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One great application I can think of is depth of field adjustment. Some games have depth of field simulation, which makes far away scenery blurry. Personally I always disable it because I think it belongs to the uncanny valley: it's nice on screenshots, but it doesn't work so well in-game because the focus doesn't change with where/what you're looking at. Eye tracking, by making this feature dynamic, would I think enhance 3D rendering for relatively cheap.
Private car ownership should be banned imho. People will claim that public transport including taxis isnt up to the task of point to point travel but Id wager this void would be quickly filled up by enterprising private companies. Vanity, materialism.. A bloody shame..
I feel bubbled by accident and I am actively trying to get out of it. That doesn't mean I would read anything, it just means I want more options presented to me through various avenues than currently are. But perhaps that's the issue.

As the internet and it's use has trended away from user driven discovery and toward curated feed driven discovery, it's become harder to pull yourself away from the feed of just-okay content and the content is in a very narrow band of safe vs interesting. It's also almost never productive, just mildly interesting.

My mind is bored and I know that's not from lack of available subjects. It's just that the pipes and feeds I set up have become stale. I don't believe more pipes are the answer, I believe a shift in paradigm is needed for me. Cut the pipes and retreat back to a curiosity driven discovery approach. HN doesn't know what I'm curious about at any given moment, nor can it know what discoveries would drive my development and progress forward, so it doesn't suffice.

I slowly let feeds and aggregators replace my curiosity and now I am out of practice. I'm not saying I need to replace HN and others, but certainly to be mindful that I shouldn't forget to find things for myself and limit how much of my mindshare I give to the aggregators.
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His argument seems to boil down to "growth must be cancer" and "wikipedia/wmf shouldn't have expanded it's scope", with the conclusion "this must fail". But don't most organizations do? Are non-profits not allowed? Otherwise I also would like some more specific criticism about how money is wasted.
It is kind of silly to talk about life extension, when we have cardiovascular diseases as the number 1 death cause which are around 90% preventable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiovascular_disease
There's never been a better time to be rich, white, and male with a 1st world passport!
The Chinese consul in Vancouver actually criticized the Canadian government for doing too little to regulate the housing market. She even suggested a tax on foreign buyers to quell some of the public outrage about housing prices.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/the-market/chines...
> paradigm shit

Still works.
At my university, our mathematics courses were taught by the Mathematical Sciences Institute in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Not disputing your statements about proof methods and use of empirical evidence, just pointing out that the term "science" can and indeed commonly is applied to mathematical disciplines in the academy.
1) What I did 2) Why I did it 3) Any additional documentation and references

I commit when a task is finished, or when I take a break or go home for the day.

Before I push I make sure that I have not broken anything.
If it's still work in progress I hide it behind a feature flag.

I push after most commits.

Only using one branch, always ready to deploy.

There are many work flows and this is just one, that I use for the current project. I however find it very simple, it's just commit and push. No fancy stuff.
The orbit in the model are supposedly eccentric, but the period for a complete prbit is quite long, allegedly around 220milliom years, and yes the paper is all about bad things happening periodically as we change our local neighboors. But not something we'll have to worry about in quite a while
Haha, if you read this as entertainment it's great. If you read this seriously, it's hopelessly shrill. Life has never been as good before.
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> There's no mechanism that would ...

And that's OK.

Since Kepler, science is not about mechanism but about prediction. There is often a rather fetishistic disdain of mechanism, that gets relegated to philosophical, coffee-table curiosities. See, for example, the various mechanisms that explain Newtonian and relativistic mechanics. Have you heard about them? Probably not; nobody cares, as the theories allow to make all the predictions than you need, and you do not need anything else.

The fact that there is no mechanism to explain a phenomenon that you can predict is not a problem. It may be a shortcoming of our understanding, but not in any case "scientifically indefensible", as you claim.
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A wild stab in the dark: remote code execution using a standard codec/library, easily triggered in the context of an ad.
And all of those things make the things being ridiculed in the article less worthy of ridicule how exactly?
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There's never been a better time to be a poor black female with a 1st world passport either
The author's argument basically boils down to "I like wikipedia, so I'm happy to see it grow. It's just getting started".

Which I would agree with, but doesn't really counteract any of the points of the original piece.

What real need is causing this rampant spending, and what should make us believe it is going to slow down in anyway.
Python and TK and a viable app? I'm impressed. Kudos to the author.
Luckily we solved this by uncoupling wages from general productivity starting in the 70s

http://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
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It's just that the imbalance between how good it is to be either is so big.
> If you think Microsoft supports features long-term out of lazyness then you haven't been paying attention.

Misreading. GP talked about MS's lazy long term users, "lazy" applies to the users not to Microsoft.
> Little to no mention of the revolutionary technological progress in life saving medicine

They do mention this, but then note how the US government is trying to restrict healthcare despite this.

I didn't take away that this article was just complaining about tech. Instead I felt like their point was that culturally we are regressing, unable to use this incredible technology effectively. Hunger is still a problem, and our energy/waste is nowhere near green.
I'd just like to announce public and private repo support in Kobble. All data is now stored in a public or private repo, depending on how you log in.
Having seen people who seriously campaigned against installing wifi in a community library because they feared it was going to give them cancer, I think the same people you're trying to help will reject such an automated infrastructure out of fear of technology they don't understand. Although I'll eat those words when I see mass-market self-driving cars (I think people will campaign against those too because there's nobody to blame/sue when a self-driven car accidentally kills a bunch of people).

Engineering a better future is one thing. Selling it to the public is a whole different ball game. Which is sort of the other side of this article. People have the technology for better living (like strong end-to-end encryption) and they're scared of it.
This is kind of a silly strawman in some ways, simply because all software - including the code helping fly jumbo jets, steer oil tankers or run MRI machines - is written by fallible humans, and is generally considered safe only because of QA testing, rather than code analysis. There are some rare instances of insanely complex code having every line thoroughly vetted like those in NASA projects, but pretty much everything else out there is simply "good enough" until a flaw is (inevitability) found and fixed. The decision trees generated by AI will be no different. Until, I guess, an AI can perform the analysis of the code of another AI... cue Inception music.
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Debian has included Python 3 since Squeeze.

The Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical provided AMIs on AWS don't even include Python 2, though it appears to be back in 16.10 and 17.04 from my double checking - but on 16.04, there is literally no python27 without installing it via apt.

RHEL and Cent have had Python 3 available in software collections since 6

And yes, since 6 is still not EOL the fact that they are still on 2.6 by default is something I can hold against them.

But per PEP standards, python should always be python2.x, and if it's not installed, not work at all. python3 should always be python3.

As for why I didn't like 2.6: 'io' performance was quite low, and much of what I've worked on makes heavy use of it. The C rewrite solves this. Lack of support in logging for logging over TCP. Being restricted to a single context manager when using with. Optparse instead of argparse. The lack of dictionary comprehensions (and I guess set comprehensions too, but I don't really use sets too frequently).

Why is Python 2.7 still not at Python 3 levels? I do a lot of work with international characters. That right there is enough, really. Outside of that? Just so much stupidity. Parts of the standard library with inconsistent names. Why are some libraries capitalized? Queue vs queue. Lack of asyncio.
Public and private repos are available now.
Wrong. Depending on the contract and exact details of this situation, the client could turn around and sue him. He needs a lawyer, even if he wants to walk away.
I also checked and there is no mobile restriction on the OpenJDK.

Are there any restrictions on what I can do with it?

OpenJDK is released under an well-known open-source licensing model, that places no restrictions on your
ability to run OpenJDK. Please check the legal section of the OpenJDK project site to understand the scope
of your rights and obligations.

The legal section contains the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

So you're wrong. This also explains why Oracle went for the hail mary copyright claim on the SSO of those 37 Java API's - because it's all they had.
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As an off-topic counterpoint: I heard so much about SOMA, but I actually didn't get out of my apartment because of game mechanics (or lack of discoverability thereof). I actually didn't know what to do, as in what to click, drag, toggle, ... nothing realy worked, so I stopped.
Isn't the reverse just as likely, that many potential paths to intelligence were snuffed out by extinction events. The currently accepted theory is that it the evolutionary pressure of climate change was enough for us to evolve intelligence.
> post-secondary education

In many places, loans for university education are guaranteed by the government. So universities have no worries for charging absurd prices for useless degrees. Even if the graduates go bankrupt the university still gets their money from the government. (And in some jurisdictions bankruptcy doesn't discharge student loans.)

The GP raises a legitimate point that government involvement in just about everything muddies the analysis.
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Outliers are always wrong, and groupthink is always right?
+1 for cheap and easy. I'm using a Playstation 4 + USB thumb drive. It was the cheapest & easiest set up I could find that would play files from a storage device, and give me a remote.

Before the PS4, I was pretty happy with my Google Chromecast, but it can't play video files unless you stream them over a network. I also got tired of using my phone and/or browser as a remote.
>> STOP ALL ACTIONS UNTIL PAYMENT IS RECEIVED

Absolutely not. He may be in breach of contract by withholding.

>> Get yourself an attorney

This. He should have already had a lawyer on consult. If not, he needs one now. There is no way to resolve this risk-free without a lawyer.
Seems like the FCC already blocked the page mentioned in the video...
The main problem is that even 500kg at sub-7 km/s doesn't deliver that much energy. Conventional weapon of the same mass is way more effective (and this is why ICBMs now can deliver conventional warheads).
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His arms and influence is also changed the way I view conflict between states.
Re new DNA combinations, do you have evidence? CNS development is a higher level of natural selection, involving on-the-fly variation. Rather like the immune system. There arguably hasn't been much biological evolution over the past few thousand years. Certainly not enough to account for modern civilization.

We all become disruptors when we switch fields.
I live in Texas. Private car ownership definitely has a materialistic component. However, owning a car is almost a necessity in every city in Texas. You see a lot of big, decked-out pickup trucks here (vanity). I drive a Prius because there aren't good public transit options (necessity) and I like to visit family in Dallas (I'm in Austin). I end up driving _a lot_.

I understand that some governments have penalized car ownership by way of license plate restrictions and other tax situations (I've heard that license plates in China get auctioned for $12k USD because they're so rare). This turns owning a car into a vanity symbol for the wealthy. It may not even be an intentional symbol, but I'm sure that's the way it's perceived by those who don't own a car.

My point being that for some, car ownership isn't so bad. No need to go shaming people.
J.A.R.V.I.S (re-imagined as AI for Iron Man movies) is the only one I can think of, and Alfred App for OSX in a similar role (no voice, but name of digital "assistant").
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That blog post linked at the end of the answer is gold. I think I've read it over 10 times, and I always learn something new every time!
I'm usually well into #3 before I realize I'm in too deep
It's not that expensive to build massive amounts of housing that anyone can afford. But it looks like this:

US version: [1]
USSR version: [2]
French version: [3]

"You can't stack poor people who drink."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_Homes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15elections.t.htm...
To be cheesy, it seems I have the world of knowledge at my fingertips, but my hands lay still while content streams to my screen. I do not fetch knowledge to be used, I am fed knowledge to placate myself.

All this is grand exaggeration and I am much more functional than that makes it sound, but it's a real problem and I think many others are in the same boat.
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There are over 4600 references to MySQL in the MariaDB codebase. There are also 56 pages of search results in the MariaDB documentation that contain "MySQL". Is that also supposed to be funny?
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They can however make recommendations for regulations, and influence U.N. regulatory guidelines.

This could make a low-staffed EPA significantly more effective, because then it would only have to pick and choose regulations to implement/try to pass.
If brain function does not degrade it's obvious that more experience to draw upon means better decisions. Hence voting age etc. Maybe others assume those decisions will be net detrimental to others but I don't. Who is anyone else to decide who survives anyway?
You're think of the first RC; final 2.0 was released yesterday

https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commits/master/lib/sinatr...
On the other hand, knowing that you will live to see the effects of climate change might be a great motivator to solve the problem, especially if it has the potential to cut short your infinite life. Eternal life may make us incredibly risk averse.

> It would make the population boom of the last century and associated wide-spread destruction of the natural environment look like a picnic.

How much of the population growth is caused by our mortality and the desire to "live" forever? A lot of it was almost certainly because children were the retirement plan before the aged pension became a thing.
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