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> The decision will put the United States in league with Syria and Nicaragua as the world’s only non-participants in the Paris Climate Agreement.

So I guess its up to private industry in the US to tackle climate change.

And just before people start complaining about Trump..

> A letter from 22 Republican senators urging Mr Trump to withdraw played a major role in the decision, Axios said.

This is an American political issue not a Trump issue.....

> Canada, the European Union, and China have said they will honor their commitments to the pact even if the United States withdraws. A source told Reuters that India had also indicated it would stick by the deal.

This is much happier news
Sure, the US isn't even in the agreement currently, it hasn't been ratified by the Senate.

Independent of which, international treatises are treated by US law as part of regular domestic legislation, meaning any treaty the US enters can be exited by any act of congress that supersedes it, just like any regular domestic US law. This, as an aside, is why it's been constitutional for the US to break all the treatises written with native American tribes.
Very good question.

I value Internet (a lot). But I don't need a phone to reach it. I value being able to move around, but I don't need a Ferrari to do it. I value meeting other cultures, but I don't need these to be 10000km's from my home.

Now as how I value myself, well, I dunno. I'm more interested in how the others value me :-)
Note that the person who replied is not the person who owned the repo.

Either this is a case of Put the joke into air ten feet of north of me. Verify the result. or there was an issue with the repo.

If I was doing this I'd be looking at making a real repo with a magic string in its README.md - because there's a big difference between HTTP 200 on / for github.com, and everything working correctly so that magic string displays.
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While this is a setback I'm curious what real impact this will have?

The markets seem to be driving towards clean energy regardless. Coal is not competitive against Natural gas (and I appreciate gas isn't ideal). And, hopefully the US will regain it's senses in 2018 & 2020 elections.
Just look at the sources of an editor written in Lisp (GNU Emacs and others) and Yi (in Haskell - https://github.com/yi-editor/yi ).

Ask yourself which code you like more...
Aggregate Function: Count Distinct

Like count, but only counts each distinct value once. Useful for judging data quality (i.e. if you have 600 items with 599 distinct values, chances are there's an invalid duplicate; if you have 1 distinct item chances are that column's not of interest; if you have a few distinct values, you have a potential pivot candidate, etc).
Aren't developing countries the ones benefiting directly from the treaty?
Good - renewable energy is becoming more efficient and within our lifetimes will become overtake fossil fuels as the most cost-effective forms of energy. Indeed this will happen faster in the absence of taxes and regulations that slow innovation and do relatively little to combat climate change.

Edit: Use this website to find your representative and urge them to support this decision: https://callyourrep.co/
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What is really nice about the full Zen line is they are supporting ECC memory. It always felt like Intel had removed this on lower end chips just to force users to buy a Xeon even if the did not need the rest of the Xeon features.
What's wrong here is that anyone thinks this demographic -- by which you seem to mean "people who don't live on the coast" -- is newly visible.
Maybe relieving employers of the need to provide all full time employees with fringe benefits (ie. medical insurance)?

Even before it was legally mandated, market forces made it virtually impossible to not offer it for full-time skilled labor.

Why would I work for you when I can go to your competitor, work for them and get medical insurance? Even if I was in a position where I needed a job, as soon as I can leave, I'm going to go elsewhere.
I genuinely don't know but at least they haven't pulled out of it and I haven't read any news article saying that they're missing their targets so far. I guess it's probably too early to judge at any rate.
I would like to see a tariff applied to US goods produced in the US and exported to the rest of the world as means of charging the US for not abiding by the agreement.
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Wonder if any country would take a stand and sanction the USA for "not doing their fair share to save the world". Like imposing a climate tax on US imports.. That'd be interesting.
Is there a good explanation somewhere as to what someone can and cannot make/sell/open/close with Qt? Last I saw, platforms that allow precompiled dynamically-linked libraries (i.e. everything but iOS) could have the LGPL stuff in a separate binary file. But if you linked the code in directly, you couldn't distribute your application without the source.

I wish there was a FAQ with easy answers like "If you write an iOS app with Qt, you can close the source if you pay us a license fee" or something along that line.

IIRC, Xamarin had similar problems, but that went away when they were purchased.
...and the USA wouldn't?
This is insane. That being said, we have options. Please call your representatives, please donate to environmental groups. These actions won't directly force Trump to change his mind but we need to show the government that climate change is important to us

Find your reps: https://tryvoices.com/

Citizens Climate Lobby: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/donate/

350.org: https://act.350.org/donate/build/
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Your regular IT manager. I work in a private company and my skills are rented to governments. I like it because it's private but the benefit of my work helps others. I worked in other industries and the balance was not like that; it was more my boss makes a ton of money on me, selling stuff that I don't consider much...
Why bother quitting the deal? It's not like it has any teeth. Trump is dumber than I thought. He could have his cake and eat it, too.
So not even half of the Republican Senators, let alone all the Democratic ones? Hardly an 'American' issue.
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Ask HN: How do you manage large projects?
Hi,

I quit my job a while back because I wanted to work on a problem full time. It's been over a month, now and it feels like I can't make much headway.

It's not a complex technical task. I set goals for the week when I start and work towards them but it seems like the week concludes and I don't have much progress.

I write things down. I use Todoist/GH issues to keep track of tasks. I try to formulate what I want to do for the next week. These little tools are useful but I suspect they aren't my real problem.

I can code just fine. I love programming! But I need guidance.

Where did you learn to manage large projects? Who taught you?
How do you manage large, new projects?
Cheers! Interesting point about the fingerprinting, although I can't think of a way it's any worse than ETags.
DATE support.

Help mentions INT REAL, and TEXT. Having support for dates would be useful; especially if this enables us to treat dates as multi-part values; e.g. pivot by year & month instead of by the complete value.
What kind of features are you looking for that are missing in apps like Postico?
In the short term companies will use this as a way to continue to pollute because it will be cheaper to pollute than upgrade factories to make them cleaner.
Yep, exactly. Additional pension fund is, well, risky :-)
It's not official but many news outlets have sources telling them the decision has been made. Although given how quickly Trump has changed his mind on some issues in the past, it's probably better to wait for the official announcement indeed...
Treaties and agreements like this one also usually specify an orderly withdrawal procedure.
The distressing thing about this goes way beyond whether or not climate change is human caused, or a natural cycle of the earth. I'm distressed that we would leave an agreement that would bring prosperity to future generations. Like it or not, we have to all still live here and keep this planet alive. How the hell did science ever become a political issue?
And the 98th percentile is still faster than the 50th percentile of GitLab...
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Thats what I would like to see done and seems like the most appropriate way to deal with it.
This is an emerging talking point, but tariffs are a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot maneuver; restricting free trade increases the barriers to innovation, and innovation is precisely what renewable energy sources need to become cost effective.
reposting from the previously flagged thread:

More details from the NYT, in which it was noted that things are not final, as President Trump is set to meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this afternoon. Tillerson has been advocating on behalf of sticking to the deal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/climate/trump-quits-paris....

> And Mr. Trump has proved himself willing to shift direction up until the moment of a public announcement. He is set to meet Wednesday afternoon with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has advocated that the United States remain a part of the Paris accords and could continue to lobby the president to change his mind.
This is an interesting possibility:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6ee5qw/thanks_to_threa...
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Interesting, I didn't know you can type the slide number.

Anyway, no need to remember the last slide number - just press the End key to jump there.
Trump thinks of the future as next week or next month, he doesnt think on a timeline longer than his own (or even that of his children).
That's precisely why, indeed. This 56-core machine is what was at hand at that moment. Genetic algorithms is something we tried, but we didn't have enough confidence in it to invest too much money and effort. Which was a good call, since we soon realized there was a much better approach.
Me too. I noted as such here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14452439
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While this is true, there is still a unix-like userland typically, at least in the form of busybox or somesuch..

I think there is some value in denoting 'linux the kernel' from 'linux the unix-like system', especially in the face of those systems which mainly use 'linux the kernel' in a non unix-like way, such as here..

e.g.: the 'gnu parts' (e.g. unix-style userland) are hugely important for me in a workstation - I could not do work in a system that doesn't provide the 'gnu(unix) like' user interface. On a phone/consumer/browser device, this is not so much the case
So AMD have done something really clever, it is not 1 big Die but rather 2 smaller (ryzen7) dies linked.

The issue with binding is the larger and more complex your die the more failures you have. But breaking it down to 2 smaller dies that are combined they reduce this since they are already getting relly good yields out of the ryzen7 dies.

Epic is just 4 ryzen7 dies. So no this is not worse bins the 16core threadripper is 2 ryzen7 cores.
The fact that so many people confuse 'computing' with 'von Neumann architecture' shows how few know the underlying logic.
The fact that the market priced in the haircut does not mean there was no haircut. It just distributes the loss between different creditors. The bonds are just as much in default, representing a net transfer from creditors to borrowers.
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I'm just following the "system" here. Nothing fancy. I'm not in a situation where I can retire earlier. I could do it, but for that I'd have to make a ton of money, which implies competing with people which may be better at selling themselves than me. I'm afraid I wouldn't perform very well in such context.
You're looking at it the wrong way. His cake is playing to his base, while helping his investments. Pulling out of the Paris accord does both. The people who care about the climate are not the ones who voted for him.
34 Senators would be required to block ratification.

I wonder how that vote would turn out if Trump submitted the treaty to the Senate (as Obama should have).
Good points and great suggestions, thanks!
This is a terrible idea as Tectonic as a software product already exists: https://tectonic.com

It is a registered "computer software" trademark as well:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:npp...
Was receiving random downtimes when I've tried opening a certain project and its wiki ~1 hour ago. Nothing big and a couple of refreshes fixed it, just minor annoyance.
7-10 years battery lifetime is not that bad. A lot of cars get replaced after the first 7 years of their life.
Yeah. They could say that this is to counter the price advantage that the US exports get by pulling out of environmental obligations. Not sure how this would play with the WTO. Plus it probably won't happen anyways.
Quick Filter

i.e. Currently to add a filter you to the bottom, clicking filter, selecting a column name, selecting equals, entering a value.

Instead, right clicking on a cell and selecting "filter > equals" would apply a filter to that column for values matching the selected cell's value. Likewise "filter > contains", "filter > does not equal", "filter > greater than or equal", etc.

These filters would then be appended to the filter at the bottom, so could still be managed there; but just saves some effort when first populating.
AEAD cipher with nonce generated from plaintext? That would have equivalent security properties except for being needlessly complicated?
Well, no, I wouldn't add that because plenty who work full-time don't see part-timers as lazy or unmotivated (or may intend to do so themselves at some point if they have a kid, for example).

And sure...it may indeed be the case for some that promotions are slower to come by not working full-time. Hardly strange- if you work fewer hours, your experience will accrue more slowly. But this is separate from cultural acceptability or value judgments by your coworkers/employer: one can be productive and motivated for 36 hours a week, just as one can be lazy and unmotivated for 40.
If you draw a line from Point A to Point B, that's called Forward Drawing / Mapping. Basically you will loop over every sample that you know (thanks to a mathematical study) go near your line.

The reverse would be to look at every sample you have and decides its colors based on the line information (the two points) with basic geometric calculus (distance of a point to a line). Applying anti-aliasing / thicks borders is more easy in this way also.

The reverse is called Backward Drawing / Mapping, and is fit for GPU programming and others uses. Some problems are only defined for one kind of drawing and it's difficult to transform it to the other kind. It's like finding the inverse function of a mathematical function, hard.
Does anyone share my apathy toward politics in general? My logic is that we have no, as in zero, control over the entire apparatus. In a country with two sides, there will be a natural bifurcation that will not allow for constructive... _anything_. Couple that to the beltway insider club AKA lobbying and you have a situation where only those with serious capital have a voice in the capital.
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Only a part of the interest comes from risk.

One important part is that if I were to give you 10$ in 10 years, it has less value to you than me giving you 10$ now (which is the difference between lending you lending to me and you not lending to me if you were 100% sure I would pay back).
I've never gotten paid directly for speaking at a conference.

The boost to my resume, however, has helped me more than double my income over the last three years.

I've always been able to get my employer to cover airfare and hotels. It's good marketing for them too.
That's a pretty positive spin on an ethically undefensible industry.
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At the risk of sounding nutty... I'll say it anyway.

The Paris climate deal is a cabal for Goldman-Sachs to draw money from governments via the taxes levied for participating countries. If you read the deal itself, the language doesn't have any metrics for success... it's goals and methodologies for combatting climate change is really hoaky.
Science has always been a political issue. Generally at odds with religion, which is also a political issue.
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We aren't talking about a tariff on renewable energy production though are we. A Tariff on goods produced by companies/factories that are powered by coal or natural gas due for export to the rest of the world. Prove you use renewable energy and you dont pay the tariff, this would motivate companies who export to adopt greener energy. It would also make trade freer for companies who do this and more difficult for those who do not, therefore there is incentive to innovate to use renewable energy.
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> How the hell did science ever become a political issue?

When it interfered with corporate profits. It's beneficial in the short term for American corporations to pretend climate change doesn't exist, so they do. The Republican party represents big corporate interests, so the Republican party follows suit in pretending it isn't real.
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threeoh.com (link from 04.jp.org) works much better in modern browsers ;)
Do you mean you will be teaching someone or what you can suggest to someone that goes and reads/does etc to get him to an average programmer?

For me it was always great to see results when learning programming (a website, a mini app). My first contacts in a classroom environment with programming where not successful as they where teaching more theory or how something would work. I really caught on when someone showed me how to write a real (very basic) app. What I was taught had a purpose and output I could immediately see.

Since I started learning rails and used his tutorial I still think that Michael Hartls Rails Tutorial is one of the best to get started. He teaches you the proper concepts (TTD etc.) and techniques while keeping it simple and still building something right from the beginning. Ah yes, and it is free (railstutorial.org/book).

If you will be teaching it to somebody you could also use this book as a guideline, make them work through it and help him with problems. He/she will have a working app in the end and have learned the basics of web development by then.
I find that 20 and 25 hours is too little. You need to spend a considerable time in office just to be part of what's going on.

However 30-35h where perfect. You get stuff done, you are not too far out of the loop, especially if others do the same, you are still able to rest enough.
What authority would tax the US? And why would the US even care about complying to it?
AFAIK the digi-comp ii and dr. nim toys, both invented by my grandpa, were the first to use the physical toggles/marble architecture. They were very influential in inspiring a generation of computer scientists, and since these days there's so little focus on fundamentals of computing it's great to see a modern twist on it! Good timing since my kids are almost old enough to be exposed to this
Fascinating, and nice work!

I'm curious, though, about the listings with regards to mileage. As has been said many times, electric cars don't wear out in the same way as ICE based cars. For an ICE, mileage is a rough approximation of how dependable the car will be. But the thing I would be concerned about when buying a used Tesla is the battery health. I would love to see a number for each car with how many miles of range the computer shows when the battery is at 100% charge, in miles and as a percentage of the initial rating from Tesla. Mileage doesn't really cover it; you can have one battery at 80% capacity because it was frequently used in Ludicrous mode, deeply discharged on long trips, and often supercharged back up to full, while another was gently discharged some few percent a day for a commute and slowly trickle charged overnight.

And the biggest differentiator, to me, of a sales site is the quality of their parametric search and database. You have a small enough inventory right now that I can manually scroll through all your listings and pick out the ones I am considering, drop the top 6 in a spreadsheet and compare them - but this should be done automatically on the site.

For some examples of parametric searches, Digikey is amazing. If you haven't from them, go check this out: https://www.digikey.com/products/en/capacitors/ceramic-capac... (understand that to an EE, each of those categories makes sense and perhaps 1/3 are relevant to their purchase decision). Now imagine trying to do this if all their parts were on Craigslist. Newegg probably is among the best in their business, when you weigh in availability and customer service, but there are too many cases where I have to select both "Yes", "1", and a few numbers greater than one to identify a value. Amazon is terrible, because you have to select a category, and the data is all provided by the seller and barely normalized. For normalization, at this point you can just manually update the database so they all filter correctly. At scale, you could get a photo of the car's VIN number and look up all the specs, with the user just entering mileage...or heck, it's Tesla, they know how many miles are on each car and what the battery health is.

Also, for the comparison, a visual is nice. Here's an example bubble chart I did when looking for a Craigslist winter beater: http://i.imgur.com/AjHRHOA.jpg Mileage (or battery health?) on one axis, and cost on the other, bubble size and color can indicate age or model.
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I think AMD have been really clever in how the have built the Zen system, unlike Intel these higher end CPUS are basically just multiple lower end ones put together. This means they don't need different fabrication (they just build ryzen7 CPUs) and given they have such good yields on those chips know they can bring the price down. I would expect this chip to be at most 2x a ryzen 1800.

However, it is not jus the chip cost for these systems its also the mainboard if AMD can get the motherboards to be cheaper then that will make a big difference in the overall price.
Particularly interesting, given that most of the software in the container space seems to be written in go: Docker, Kubernetes etc
SSDs achieve close to sequential throughput

^ potato =~ potato
The authority in charge of imports in any given country?
>I'm really not sure if this makes it all that more attractive to me as an investor

The article talks about foreign investments being attractive now specially in distressed assets and bad debts.Prior to this investment in this particular sector was relatively very slow and underperforming.The regulation of the default being handled in 180 days is a brilliant move.

>in a place like India, you never which corrupt person or entity is going to screw you!

Investments in a country depend on a lot of factors, corruption being one of them.India from a pure market point of view is still one of the top lucrative investment opportunity for all investors.
I think having a holistic point of view that Indians and Indian entities are out there to screw every investor is totally a childish point of view! India does have problems and are working hard to solve them.
That fact that we elected Trump indicates we have incredible control. What an awful mistake.
OP's language wasn't clear but I expect they mean additional tariffs on US goods.
And what would a "stand" look like, exactly? A "climate tariff" kind of made me laugh, as the repercussions of doing that would not be pretty.