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Excellent! Pleased to see VPC Flow Logs included; they are underrated as a security tool and one big advantage AWS has over other providers.

At work I co-develop an open source Python library for reading VPC Flow Logs - it can be an easy way to get started analyzing them for security:
https://github.com/obsrvbl/flowlogs-reader
Anytime I see talk of mass colonization as part of a solution to overpopulation, I direct people to Charles Stross' discussion about the infeasibility of doing so [1] [2]. The TL;DR is: until we find a breakthrough like cheap anti-gravity (like depicted in Interstellar), moving that much sheer mass of humanity is energetically (with the required specific impulse) not within our civilization's current capabilities.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...

[2] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/space-ca...
Wholeheartedly agree. Black pepper is a seemingly strange, but necessary addition. It fills a small gap in the flavor profile between the tea and the spices. My preferred ingredients are cardamom, cinnamon, black peppercorns, cloves, and a very small amount of nutmeg. I like to add 1 part honey for every 2 parts sugar.

It's tough to get the perfect ingredient ratio without making large batches or using a scale.

Whole milk (or cream) is important for the fat content.

In general my chai does not come out as dark as the chai I had in the Pune region, but does have a remarkably similar taste. As I understand it they sometimes make the base the day before. The color difference could be because of my preparation haste, shorter brew time, different ingredients, or adding too much milk/cream.

The chai in India also has a different mouthfeel. I'm not sure if it's loose spices in the brew or if they add something but it feels almost like pulverized rice in the tea.
>decades ago we had time sharing systems where rarely or never did the work of one user cause security problems for another user.

How much of that was due to people not trying to cause those problems, though?
Here are a couple things I think societies struggling with birth rates should try.

1. Provide for the full costs of IVF and egg donation for non-fertile women up to age 50 and letting that fact be well known and encouraged.
2. Promote platonic co-parenting relationships for those in their 30s.
Also Japan is xenophobic so such a solution would never fly anyway
No, not to my knowledge. In fact, most people didn't even know that MSFT lit this feature up and they beefed it up for Vista.

I didn't shove anything down anyone's throat. Also, let's not pretend that everyone at MSFT was happy about this approach. But you have to think about it from MSFT's perspective. We are promising that if you move to Win10 you will always be up-to-date for the rest of the lifetime of Windows. You'll never pay for another upgrade/update. The benefit to MSFT is that if they get everyone over to 10, they only have to support a single core OS instead of backporting every single bug and security fix.

And no, MSFT isn't perfect, and it has made mistakes, just like every person and company on the planet. But it isn't doing this out of some malicious intent. The company is learning as it goes and genuinely trying to do right by its customers, but it doesn't matter what I say or what MSFT does, people like you will always find a reason to complain.
I think you mean "precedent" or "precedents" rather than "precedence".
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Sometimes I get i18n fatigue too. I think the world would be a better place if everyone's languages fit in ASCII.

That said, the cat's kinda out of the bag. UTF-8 is at least well-done, and the algorithms are widely available. I study Japanese and have started studying Russian and Chinese; I think maybe the best way to convince people to learn English is to walk the walk. Who knows, maybe everything will go very wrong again before we get a chance to standardize.

I'm also working on an engineered language with a test suite/corpus maintained alongside the language. Maybe in the ashes of the old new world there'll be room for something like this.
Things like this[1] are why I dislike semicolon inference. I very much think in language grammars, and languages that do clever things on top of that tend to annoy me. And, yes, I realize significant whitespace is likely implemented as a an edge case outside of the grammar, but it's at least simple.

An interesting thing with Scala is that in the BNF, "semi" is defined as ';' or nl.[2] After doing some initial reading about Scala, I was pretty much wondering why Scala needed semicolons at all. What you call "semicolon inference" seems like it's more like "optional semicolons", in that the language doesn't really need them.

[1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29743009/in-scala-are-se...
[2]https://github.com/jystic/language-scala/blob/master/doc/syn...
Climate change isn't a problem of having too many people on earth, it's a problem of emitting too much CO2 per person. If we got rid of 90% of the world population, we would still be dealing with climate change, it would just be happening more slowly. Trying to fix climate change by reducing population is like trying to fix a leaky pipe by reducing the water pressure; yeah it might cause less water to leak but it doesn't solve the underlying problem.

One could argue that having fewer people on earth would still be a good thing because it would give us more time to solve the real problem of reducing CO2 per person; but it would also mean we'd have fewer scientists and engineers working to develop the sustainable technology needed to solve our problems. It's not clear if fewer people would lead to a better or worse end result, or if it would just get us to the same place more slowly.
Thanks, I've been misspelling that.
In the same sense as Tetris is -- that is, unchallenging at slow pace, extremely difficult to do quickly.
Cap'n Obvious here, but immigration by non-Japanese in face of falling Japanese demographics will ultimately result in a country that's not really Japan anymore. That's probably a fact of life, if you consider societies to be living entities, and thus bound by the same constraints...and yet even as a non-Japanese it feels really sad to recognize that Japan as a unique nation, with a unique culture and society might disappear. Not much to do, though, if they don't want to have kids...
Apple's 12 watt USB power adapter* still has the same design. Swappable plugs compatible with all of the laptop power brick international plugs. It comes with the iPad Pro these days (and probably others, too).

* https://qmart.pk/image/cache/Accessories/AppleAccessories%20...
Thats not entirely accurate... The planet can adapt to a certain amount of CO2, a small enough population could use fossil fuels indefinitely. Climate change reflects a massive population each with a massive ecological footprint.
True. Japan has long been a leader in automation. Maybe they can pull it off. And elder care will be largely automated too.

On the other hand, limitations on immigration (not just to Japan, I suspect) won't reduce overall population growth. Indeed, it will arguably increase it, because those people will be stuck in subsistence economies.
Interesting, I wonder why the tradition is largely confined to West Bengal now?
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Intentional redirect from Zawinski. This has been the case for years. Apparently he is too lazy and/or ignorant and/or antagonistic to host static pages in a way that the HN traffic bump is not a problem.
>but it would also mean we'd have fewer scientists and engineers working to develop the sustainable technology needed to solve our problems

No it wouldn't. Quality over quantity. Having to support less productive and low-IQ people means less resources available to solve difficult problems.
Can you explain why you oppose CSV? And by the way CSV is a standardized format with its own RFC; it is definitely not home grown. There are mature parsers being able to handle commas and quotes and linebreaks and other special characters in CSVs.
One correction: consider Chinese. It's increasingly important, though less international.
It's mildly concerning considering that Europe, Japan and especially China will be facing a more extreme inverted age pyramid than the US 20 years from now. India won't, but it's already straining under the weight of its considerable population.

20 years is a long time though, especially given how much work is getting automated.
Societies come and go and there is nothing wrong with it that was the response I got from a Japanese elderly man few years ago when we were discussing declining population and future of Japan during my visit to Japan.
You are being downvoted because you are ignorant of massive population of people who consume work of art or other, but who aren't multilangual.

> it is ok to translate games for kids

Big thing that lets my father (factory worker who's 50 years old, no languages other than his father's one) enjoy Playstation 4 is the fact that Sony does insane amount of work to make as much as possible translated to Polish language. The Last of Us as well as Uncharteds which in no way are games aimed for kids received full polonization. WipEout Omega Collection has been polonized as well. Same goes for 3rd parties - Bethesda's games are fully polonized (this includes Fallout's, DOOM and Skyrim), CoD's are polonized, EA's games are polonized (Mass Effect's, NFS), etc. ect.

There are many adult consumers who are more comfortable with media in their native language for one reason or another.

Blizzard even went as far as to declare that every game they'll release will be localized on level that would make it par on native production. They are going so far with it that they are replacing US-specific jokes with local ones.
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>Lower population also means lower chance of inventing new technology

Really? Who do you think would have more technological advancements? 100 million Americans, or the projected four billion Africans?
"Add to Home Screen" is, to me, another QR code. It's "easy to use" and "available on every phone," but average users have no clue about it. I'm sure you can do it on Android, but I have not the slightest idea how (and I've been using Android for 7 years).

"Instant" apps are likely going to take over the space that this feature was supposed to inhabit.
If they really want to improve privacy they have to provide a way to turn it off altogether.
An easier way would be when you change -std=c++1y to -std=c++03 it won't compile.
He essentially confirmed the accusations and took an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital yesterday (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/vc-justin-caldbeck-is-taki...)
> No, not to my knowledge. In fact, most people didn't even know that MSFT lit this feature up and they beefed it up for Vista.

So you're saying you're unaware of the information on e.g. this page [1]? Which notably does not include Windows 10?

Notable quote (but not the only relevant one): "By default, error reporting is enabled. However, additional configuration steps are needed to configure error reporting, and no reports are sent unless these steps are completed."

> I didn't shove anything down anyone's throat.

I don't know about you personally, but so explain WTF was this crap they started doing after people were turning down the initial offers? [2]

"The redesigned GWX pop-up now treats EXITING the window as CONSENT for the Windows 10 upgrade."

> But you have to think about it from MSFT's perspective.

I never said what MS is doing is not beneficial to itself, did I?

> people like you will always find a reason to complain.

This is so wrong. I was pretty darn happy and not complaining about Windows XP, 7, or 8 (with the exception of 8's Metro UI). I've been complaining about Vista and 10. So it really does matter what MS does.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj618323.aspx#BK...

[2] http://www.pcworld.com/article/3073457/windows/how-microsoft...
Why not just leave your job, walk out of your home, leave everything behind and travel to somewhere far away where interesting people reside? There is so much left to try before suicide. It's like blowing up your car because you ran out of gas.
Fair point, but in practice we're not likely to get down to such a low population level any time soon (if ever).
These instructions seemed a little strange to me, until I later read the article and found out why.

> tea using a technique that is unique to the state of Tamil Nadu — frothy milk is pulled with sugar and then combined with black tea that has been brewed separately.

I'm used to this one, and I thought it was the only way until today.
CSV has no formatting. Who wants to resize columns and set up text wrapping every time you open the file. Could save it as .xlsx and then export to CSV, but that's another step and it's not hard to parse simple spreadsheets in XML. Worth it in my book, because it enables fan translators to contribute easily since everyone has Excel.
yeah I don't see any reason not to use that XML format. CSV can be problematic because it doesn't declare it's own encoding and doesn't play as nice with translation tools as something with named fields, such as XML or JSON.
Amusingly enough, the audio data packing in AVB/TSN comes from FireWire via IEC 61883-6. AVB seems to be on its way to irrelevance in the pro audio/video world in favor of AES67/SMPTE 2110, which are Layer 3. Requiring switch support didn't help its adoption as it created the classic chicken/egg vendor adoption problem.
That seems like some serious overkill, unless you are relying on your translators to produce production assets.

We have used json, xml, ini-style files, or csvs, which, as i8n goes, has been pretty easy
>We have at least a couple hundred years before we would really have to worry about overpopulation.

We are using energy and releasing carbon at an unsustainable rate. This means that we are overpopulated.
The tragic thing is that the wet-pipe fire sprinkler has existed for around 140 years -- this is 1880s-vintage technology! The fundamental design is very simple -- a network of pipes, pressurised with water (from a tank or the municipal water supply and individual and replaceable sprinkler heads, each with its own heat-activated valve (initially with a melting fusible link, in 1922, the glass-bulb sprinkler was released) and deflector. The alarm valve, which activates a bell once water is flowing inside the system came later, in the 1890s.

Nothing else can get extinguishing agent onto fire faster than a sprinkler system. A room can flash over in a little over two minutes, and not even the best fire brigade can get there that fast. A hundred litres of water per minute per tripped sprinkler head (and sprinklers will have activated well before the room they're in flashes over) puts an end to most fires with extreme prejudice. If the fire hasn't gone out by the time the fire brigade pulls up, the firefighters can hook up their pumps to external connections to the sprinkler network, which will increase the water pressure/flow inside the sprinkler pipes to get more water onto the offending blaze.

This is not newfangled experimental nonsense, this is boring, well-established, and reliable technology. Sprinklers control fires so well, even in unsafe buildings, to the point that some designers neglect passive fire protection -- it's a bad idea to to depend on a single mechanism for critical applications like fire safety since there's always the possibility of the fire sprinkler system being manually turned off or otherwise malfunctioning. Fire deaths in buildings with operating fire sprinkler systems are rare (http://www.nfpa.org/~/media/files/news-and-research/fire-sta...), there's about 80% less fatalities and almost all fatalities in sprinklered buildings are of victims who were present at the location the fire started -- sprinklers can't undo the damage from the event that started the fire.

Most fire deaths are avoidable with century-old technology. It's tragic and depressing to see the never-ending trickle of fire fatalities (punctured by ghastly mass casualty incidents like the Grenfell fire) knowing that around 80% of them would have made it out alive had they been in a building with a functioning sprinkler system. This should be a well-solved problem, for fuck's sake, there's no technical reason why most occupied buildings connected to a municipal water system can't have some bloody sprinklers. Grenfell tower should have had sprinklers, the Triangle Shirtwaist building should have had sprinklers, and it's a failure of society that every building built less than a century ago and connected to municipal water supply doesn't have sprinklers.
I don't know that the experience of being a human is any more vivid or real than the experience of being a shrimp. Don't conflate the ability to reason with the quality of having an internal experience. Perhaps the shrimp lives more truly, undistracted as it is by meaningless thoughts.

The state of consciousness is correlated with the state of matter. We don't know more than that. We've assumed that physical reality is the ground state and consciousness is the phenomenon, but reality could just as easily be a dream in the mind of the universe. If consciousness can influence reality that would seem to indicate it is either equally fundamental to, or even precedent over material reality. The alternative, that consciousness is a passive observer, is both depressing and unlikely.
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Don t use Excel to edit csvs. It makes a hash of things at best, and frigs things up at worst.
Softbank bought Boston Dynamics from Google recently under a $93 billion fund they have. Japan certainly has a domestic tech industry, but perhaps not much of an international one.
Awesome article. I'm always impressed by the distance people will go for their passion. Lucas talks about ultimately having to hand draw Cyrillic versions of _each_ of the game's ten fonts. Very cool!
Meetups are a great way to find people interested in the same things you are interested in. And since you can target by distance to where you'll be as well as dates, you can have a schedule ahead of time.
Yeah, as a testcase generator that sounds useful to help compiler developers move faster.
Nations are more than identity-less economic zones.
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Philip Longman explained why depopulation is a problem in this 2004 Long Now lecture[0]. One of the main issues is that infrastructure and social spending is implemented as a pyramid scheme (he didn't put it quite that way IIRC). If you don't have an expanding population, you can't pay for all the programs that have been enacted. Of course, population can not expand indefinitely and there's no political will to avoid passing financial burdens to future generations.

[0] http://longnow.org/seminars/02004/aug/13/the-depopulation-pr...
It is not idiotic.

It is anachronistic.
That's adorable! CSV is notoriously loose, has a bajillion edge cases, differs wildly on region, and is not even really a format at all. Basically nobody follows RFC 4180, nor does anyone care about its existence.

The other day I had to fix a bug in our CSV importer; it turns out that when you install Excel, it changes the mimetype of CSV files from 'text/csv' to 'application/vnd-ms.excel' system wide. Wow! These sorts of shenanigans are never ending in the futile endeavour to support CSV.
Somedays, I dream of a world where the ancient chinese were exposed to alphabaeic scripts and decided that was a good idea, instead of sticking with characters.
What's driving this? Why is it happening in Japan, but not other places?
Disable C++11/14 with a compiler flag (or use an old compiler version) and try to build the project :-P
Most compilers stop after encountering a certain number of errors, like 20.
Saying "Japan is xenophobic" is perhaps a poor choice of words, but why the downvotes??

Even if Japanese Citizens are welcoming of and friendly towards foreigners, Japan as a Country is quite well known for it's strict immigration policy.

> Discrimination in Japan is based on nationality. Guest workers are not considered true immigrants, and their children and grandchildren are often seen as outsiders because of the absence of birthright citizenship. Employers tend to treat them as foreigners.

Source: Immigration Is Tough for Japan, But it's the solution for population loss. => https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-12-07/immigrati...

and

> Call it an opportunity, maybe, but don’t call it work. Legally, the time Ms. Liu spent ironing and packing women’s wear in Japan is considered “training.” She had entered the murky and at times abusive world of Japan’s technical trainees — essentially second-class laborers brought in from abroad to fill jobs that Japanese citizens aren’t taking.

Source: Japan Limited Immigration; Now It’s Short of Workers => https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/business/japan-immigrants...
Reminds me of a chicken taco business on a street corner in Cuernavaca. Live chickens on one end, fresh tacos on the other. Very tasty.
>Up to three quarters of Germany’s refugees will still be unemployed in five years’ time, according to a government minister, in a stark admission of the challenges the country faces in integrating its huge migrant population.

>Aydan Özoğuz, commissioner for immigration, refugees and integration, told the Financial Times that only a quarter to a third of the newcomers would enter the labour market over the next five years, and “for many others we will need up to 10”.

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At the time of the first technology demos, the story was that Apple and Intel jointly developed it.

https://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated...
This is neat. I'll make sure to use it whenever I post something here or on Reddit. Great work
You act like there aren't ~35 million Japanese 30 and younger.

Aging != nobody is being born. There are plenty of young Japanese who can be extremely well educated inheriting the wealth of a larger generation who can apply that education to develop the future.
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The problem is in the future, and those uneducated immigrants will have college aged kids in the time frame you mention. They will have the resources needed to develop this automated society, and the automation of labor makes being a dependent less of an issue.
Japan's great skill is adaptation without throwing away all the lessons of the past. It's an extremely delicate balancing act that requires a lot of trust in your neighbors. They've been doing it more or less for at least a thousand years, so there's plenty of room for an optimistic outcome. As usual, the narrative in the west is that Japan is going to fail any minute because it hasn't followed the lead of enlightened nations. Meanwhile, moving from NYC to Japan felt like leaping twenty years into a brighter future that I can only hope others will be able to discover. One thing is for sure: Japan in fifty years won't be the same as Japan today. Rapid and determined change is a constant here.
>3,540 meters, or almost 2.2 miles

https://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm
> Also apple makes decisions like encrypting binaries and then compressing, removing a lot of over the air space savings.

Is compression not the first step of basically every encryption algorithm ever?