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Um, the author does post to their blog as well:

>For quite a while now, I’ve been publishing most of my content to my personal website first and syndicating copies of it to social media silos like Twitter, Instagram, Google+, and Facebook. Within the Indieweb community this process is known as POSSE an acronym for Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.

YMMV on if Facebook sucks for you, your experience is probably the exception. Personally, I find it very valuable despite it's many flaws. It has made making new friends a lot easier (and I absolutely needed local friends after I relocated). I've used it to reconnect with a couple childhood friends which has been absolutely amazing and I'm super grateful for that.

Also, my mother is very toxic and abusive so I'd really rather not call her, however, I can acknowledge that my experience calling my mother is probably the exception. Additional values comes with being "Facebook friends" with my mom, it reduces her need to pick up the phone and harass me.
Here is the issue: software is not a product, it is a service.

It has to be modified, supported, updated, debugged, improved, and so on.

I don't think a "flash" organization can produce a "serious" product. And by serious I don't mean one that is complicated or large -- it can do that -- by serious I mean one that is intended to be used for more than a few months.
Maybe the Internet Archive has a digital copy of Dictionnaire Infernal?
It is not GPL3 licensed. Most of the projects that have moved from gcc to llvm did it because of the license not for technical reasons.

That isn't to say there are not technical reasons to say llvm is better - there are good ones. However they are not compelling like the license is. Llvm has a better internal design which should be better long term, but so far gcc generally compiles faster code which is for most people more important that internal design.

Note that linux distributions are mostly built by the types of people who like the GPL3 license. Using gcc is the correct decision for most linux distributions.
The gold plating is for radiation shielding in space. It reflects more infrared radiation than other materials.
Learning that there only is an "informal" system for nuclear strikes is fairly disconcerting and does not inspire confidence, especially if there are no added details and no available confirmation of what you told us.
> "Scientists use a virus to make the genetic changes in the T cells, raising fears about possible long-term side effects"

Isn't that the plot of Resident Evil/Biohazard? ;)
I spend about 100 nights a year in hotels and I've maybe had a hotel not have a reserved room for me once in ten or more years.

>the cancellation period is actually one day prior to arrival

Unfortunately, a lot of chains are increasing their cancellation window. In addition, there seems to be a fairly significant trend toward hotels (especially the chains) offering substantial discounts for non-cancelable reservations.
I thought "Hacker News" is mainly composed of developers?
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The babylonian method is, imo, easier to remember and perform than the "lost art" presented here:

Start with a ball park estimate of the root of x, then take an average of (estimate + x / the estimate). That's your new estimate. Rinse and repeat until convergence to an acceptable degree.

The biggest drawback if doing this by hand is the division problem can be a pain.

I see the attraction and "purity" of the proposed lost art.
But modification, support, debugging, improvements and so on take less than 1 full-time person.
Extensions are easier to package and distribute for most users.
Japanese tourists are amazing. I once saw a 20-something couple silently watch a beautiful peacock stroll through the grounds of St. John the Divine, for an HOUR. I was walking around and enjoying the space, but those two seemed to have found some sort of peace with the place that locals will never have. The nodded to me when they left and cleaned up their picnic perfectly. You don't see many Japanese tourists anymore and (completely uniquely) that's a shame.
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I would be OK with the distance and bandwidth limit if it were high quality audio transmitted zero distance (contact) wirelessly, without a pairing step which is currently manual.
I also remember having a billion seconds party.
Wait, so as an American I read reports of schools in France and how they feed the children better, more nutritious food all while teaching them some table manners. My appreciation of this "better" culture of food and dining makes me a fascist?
You're making some really sweeping and baseless assertions.
Into the beauty that is the ancap color scheme. It's poetic isn't it?
A lot of it isn't even about changing their design (which is terrible in terms of repairability), but basic ethics. Apple actively prohibits third party repair, as-if they own the device I paid full price on. I couldn't imagine being forced to only service my car with a particular dealership. I prefer being able to change the oil myself or having the option of going to the local mechanic.
I do a lot of video editing, color grading, and video encoding.
Who isn't assuming that? My whole point was that instead of having to recruit humans to enforce coercion, we can build our own soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines to do it.
This is just one student doing this in this one class out of the entire school of 36k+ students.
> It may be "RAID0 on top of your RAID5/6" but it's all integrated and works smoothly.

I know that it does but I don't like the way you lose your entire pool if a single vdev fails. I'd have less of a problem with it if a pool could distribute data such that a vdev failure results in the loss of only what was on that vdev.
Not really. C++ was designed by Stroustrup; a committee then modified it somewhat.
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36% cheated huh.

Administration is going to love seeing that one released.
I wonder though if just having these types of cells in the bloodstream could limit or even prevent cancers from metastasizing. That would provide a massive increase in survivability in and of itself.
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I respectfully disagree and even question how experienced you are with the flight industry.

The reality is that the lowest fares are often found on the airline website and the airline website only and the voucher is good there. There are sometimes but rarely real good offers on these OTAs but it's literally getting rarer and rarer day by day.
The way you do this is you say, "I doubt you can even find copies on the Internet." Then someone is going to take up your challenge :)
I don't think they're saying that money buys your way in a Ivy school, but in that it gives you a legs up with stuff like better and earlier education for example
It depends on the product.

I suppose we should now talk in ratios of FTE:PTE, and where we in the lifecycle and so on.

Note that bringing in part-time help, contractors and consultants is not new. The article seems to be making a point about the degree to which it is used.
No, it’s not in their right. If I buy a book on Amazon, I have a right to make a copy, but DRM prevents me from that.

If I buy a movie on Google Play Movies, I have the right to make up to 7 backups without DRM, but DRM prevents me from that.
Cite some sources for your claims dude.
To be fair, we do have examples of some superbugs, such as the Spanish Flu in the 1910s, where an influenza virus managed to wipe out a significant portion of the world. It would be considered by most to be airborne, infectious, and fatal. Maybe my optimism results from the fact that a supervirus has never been engineered (which I agree is fallacious), but I don’t think CRISPR, a research technique, even begins to encroach on the topic of genetically engineered superbugs.
only 90% accuracy! So it's very lossey perfect for jpeg.
This is an incredibly popular meme, with absolutely zero compelling evidence to support it.

Airlines are, in general, incredibly bad at advertising the small ways in which their coach seats are better. You have to go to weird niche websites to find this information. And you're blaming the customers here?
> Bootcamps aren't for everyone.

DBC grad here (Chicago 2013). Mandatory morning yoga is not an inherent part of a generic coding bootcamp experience. DBC chose to make yoga classes part of its unique culture, but I doubt all other bootcamps follow suit.

Personally, I wasn't "enraged" by the yoga and I even appreciated the emphasis on mental health, but I don't think yoga was the only way to achieve this and I would have appreciated the chance to opt out.
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App Academy nearly tripled my salary in all of 6 months! The motivated people I met and what I learned about the industry, not including the technical skills I obtained, have easily been worth double what they ask for.

It ended up costing 1/4 of my 4 yr degree. I admit, that it's not a magic pill like their marketing will have you believe. That's my one gripe, with how they portray themselves. You have to be motivated and driven to succeed and realistically, not everyone can handle the complexity and speed at which they teach.

They really give you the bare minimum but it's an amazing little boost. It's up to you build yourself up from there.
I love this! I really think the title could use the project name in it; I almost didn't click because there are tons of other go REPLs out there for explanatory programming; but nothing that gives you this drop-to-repl in a program.
Did you call Alpha Centauri? Did you use Russian service provider?
Firefox and Chromium already don’t work with EME unless you install a proprietary addon.
> and some of the santiziers that clang has (ubsan, asan)

GCC has these.
> For printers, there is PostScript. Why there isn't a similar standardized 3D rendering protocol?

There is. It's called OpenGL ;)

That said, I share your sentiment. Tossing aside the drivers and the general optimizations they offer seems to me to be akin to tossing aside your compiler because you can write more efficient assembly by hand. I think the ability to write such low-level code will always have its place, but I can't help but feel like we (as an industry) are going in the wrong direction with this.

In trying to be optimistic about Vulkan and the like, it may be an opportunity for developers to experiment with different higher-level APIs until we manage to find abstractions that are as good as the ones we have for networking (and hopefully better, even).

> it's like I am writing driver-level code, which is not my idea of fun.

Luckily, that's somebody's idea of fun :)
I'm not confused and it seems we're close to being in violent agreement. But I'm pointing out that where one puts the emphasis is important.

If OP has fallen into the narrative that she is especially at risk being black [0], then there is a fine line between trying to extract her from that possibly nonconstructive narrative and shouting down her entire story. This is the general problem with the identity politics tarpit - if one objects too hard at a certain collectivist narrative (in this case, racism), then they are easily pigeonholed into being the "other" in that narrative, fueling the unproductive fire.

[0] Which given the location, is likely true regardless of the overriding distribution.
Research is needed, it's hard to predict, and Development for space forces the movement of practical, envelope pushing movement of research and theory into at some hard problem solving in ways that just more research doesn't accomplish.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_solar_cells

Space isn't solely responsible for solar cells, but I can't help but note these entries in the timeline.

1950s - Bell Labs produce solar cells for space activities.

1954 - On April 25, 1954, Bell Labs announces the invention of the first practical silicon solar cell

1958 - T. Mandelkorn, U.S. Signal Corps Laboratories, creates n-on-p silicon solar cells, which are more resistant to radiation damage and are better suited for space. Hoffman Electronics creates 9% efficient solar cells. Vanguard I, the first solar powered satellite, was launched with a 0.1W, 100 cm² solar panel.

Would the solar cell technology we enjoy today have developed as quickly or at all with that little extra push of space investment to move it along? Would the research ever have ended up as practical without hard engineering problems to solve along the way?

I think you'll find similar connections for fuel cells, and battery tech. You see metals research now which is applicable for the space application first, but the engineering knowledge will likely get re-applied in more expanded mundane applications in due time...
aren't there some pretty basic CSS rules to even make the formatted code look better on a narrow screen mobile? something like `white-space: pre-wrap`, IIRC?

maybe I should look into how to add custom CSS rules to a particular site (HN), can you do that native in firefox, or does it need a plugin?
To me this is the primary challenge of outsourcing your client side tracking -- you risk a wholesale block of your analytics if the Segment file gets blacklisted.
I think the windows scheduler might already do this, but the issue is that UI message queues take a highly contended lock.
You could build a telescope there. Also managing infrastructure, survival, and resupply would grant loads of experience applicable to habitating Mars with cheaper fuel costs and a slightly easier abort option should something go wrong.
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Why stop at bootcamps? There are so many resources on the internet, most of which are free, that can replace all of the knowledge universities have to offer and then some. Someone could learn astrophysics through Google searches.

But that's not a reasonable position across the board. Of course universities offer more than mere information, and I would say that bootcamps(at least DBC) focus mostly on those other things and far less on the information. By that I mean learning to code at home online isn't going to give you the same experience as spending days or weeks hacking on your first mobile app with a bunch of other people, non stop, while chowing on beer and pizza. Yes, there's tremendous value in that, especially if you need to learn to work on a team and self-organize. In theory, you can emulate that environment on your own, but there's a reason people pay for that kind of experience. A person of novice experience can't or won't come up with a substitute for that. It's an introduction to a world, of sorts. At least it was for me.
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It has, it's even linked to in the article: https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireinfe00coll_1
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Decentralized currency comes with its own strengths and weaknesses. The tech is still in its infancy. Take it or leave it.
I think you're misunderstanding the situation the article is describing then.

In that unlikely but possible scenario: Your wallet would have received coins on Chain A, but the majority of the network now favors Chain B and as a result is ignoring Chain A.

You still have the private key to coins and can spend them on Chain A. It's just problematic because they're on a chain fewer people value. Fewer, but not zero. They will still have some value, just less, and will be able to be sold out of band for coins on Chain B if desired.

This has already happened with Ethereum [1]. Each chain has its own exchange rate.

> Even a turd of a currency like ZWD won't materially vanish. You just have to spend it as quickly as possibly after you receive it, while it still holds value.

The ZWD's rate of inflation was at one point at 79,600,000,000% [2]. We are getting pretty abstract if we're going to debate how close that is to materially vanishing.

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-classic-explained-blockchai...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar#Withdrawal_o...
What makes you think mutiny would be likely? It would depend on many factors such as the psychological makeup of the launch & command staff and the circumstances du jour. No doubt they made sure independent-minded soldiers likely to be unreliable were not placed anywhere near any silo.
It's fun being able to start a bunch of brute force number crunching jobs that peg cores for hours and still be able to use the computer as if nothing's going on. Browse, code, listen to music, watch video, everything runs smoothly.
Not everyone qualifies for government loans.
This structure has existed forever in government contracts.

Northrop Grumman owns a shipyard and wins a contract. They build most of the ship. Raytheon supplies a missile system or three. BAE does some systems integration. A laundry list of companies you've never heard of do everything in between.

At scale it's more efficient to be over/under staffed at times rather than perpetually hiring.

Within the larger contractors headcount is semi-constant and they shuffle bodies from project to project as appropriate.

The smaller companies you've never heard of (e.g. a machine shop that NG subbed out the run of several thousand of a part to) will hire people or bring in temps for the contract .
Build Time!

I will pay a great deal of money to reduce my build times. Building is readily parallelizable and with a good enough build scripts and system design there are several smaller linking steps instead of one huge serialized one at the end. On my current system building the code I care about only takes about 2 minutes, about 5MLOCs of C++.

Anything more than 10 seconds is enough to get stuck in the time waste that is Reddit... or HN... I am getting back to work now, my build is likely done.
"some" research. Not talking "fundamental research" stuff (like particle physics) here. Just looking at the API's provided by a 3rd party product to see how the integration would work.

That said, I did change that answer to "more like 8 weeks" after we spoke further. And that was still just a rough estimate. Anyway, regardless of how accurate that is, the point is that we don't do the "anything can be done in two weeks" thing. :-)
Halt, fascist! You require reeducation.

Of course my comment is making sweeping and baseless assumptions. It is my attempt to sarcastically express the zeitgeist.
If you read other articles you can see that Uber spent 170M in Russia till now. Along with this 225M its a total 395M of spending. And now they got 36.6% stake in a company (now a leader in Russia) worth 3.4B. So Uber got 1.4B. How is that not coming out with anything? Uber did same thing in China. While we all think they lost in China, Uber seems to have spent around 2B or so but got away with close to 8B stake in Didi (leader in China). Any investor will be happy with those returns.
This is predicted by contract theory: in a perfect free market (we are still far, but we keep getting closer), and a perfect contract market (we are still very far, but we keep getting closer), there are no companies at all. Just ad hoc contracts.
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If a government outlaws a currency and you sold your house for that currency, who could you possibly call?

Bitcoins transacted before July 31 WILL stay in your wallet. They are not going to evaporate any time soon.
A real risk compared to, say, dying from cancer that you already have? What, are they worried it might give you cancer in 10 years? If the cancer you have now is going to kill you, that still sounds like a good deal.

(This is not hypothetical. My wife's grandfather had radiation treatment for cancer. 20 years later, he got cancer again, plausibly from the radiation. That's still a net win of 20 years.)
55 million kwh is 55 GWh, not 55 MWh. Hence the GPs implied question about a 500% capacity factor.

The answer lies in the press release, the 55 GWh is over the 25 year PPA:

http://www.solamericaenergy.com/news/carter-farms/

Implying a 25% capacity factor.

edit: more like a 19% capacity factor. Whatever, something sensible, the reporter screwed up calling the output annual.
I quickly and poorly tried to make a point, so let me just state what I envision. NASA is one giant government entity bogged down by bureaucracy like any other govt org. The private sector can grow, and become competitive for the greatest minds, more efficient tech, and more networked understanding of what is needed to accomplish this mission. Each company will do what is in the best interest of their company and invest as such. NASA will take the money out of our pockets, dump it in these projects, and will waste a certain amount, and may not even come out with tech as effective as had the private sector had done it.

The reason I trust the private sector over NASA is that NASA is a "too big to fail" org. It can lull for a few decades but because it's a federal org, if a new need arises they'll try to solve it by dumping money into it. I mean I'm sure persistence is a great quality on an individual level, but when our dollars are at stake, I'd at least like to be ensured that the entire process up until the final product is created is invested privately as it puts pressure on a smaller scale. If they fail at doing it then we waisted the dollars that could have been spent elsewhere more effectively, while a private company will be able to re-structure, support and collaborate with others with their knowledge.

I just don't have this blind trust that dumping money into NASA will produce a result, let alone the best one. The people at nasa if they are smart can freely go to a company that can do it better without the government waste or abuse, NASA is merely a department with people, they're not shackled to their desks and must only use their minds on American Space Ventures.
C++11+ is even more complex than before, so I disagree: C++ is worse now. Almost all the old crap still exists on top of the shiny new stuff.

Designing classes that distinguish & and && properly makes writing new types more difficult. You need even more boilerplate stuff now. Like: I define a '-' operator, but I don't automatically get a '-=' operator, WTF. And now I need to add a && version of the -= and += and = and to invoke move() correctly so the type system is pleased AND it won't crash. This is supposed to be used for application code, so why do we need so much brain capacity to handle it?

And I would really be interested in a survey to find our how many professional C++ programmers know the intricate rules behind overloading with template functions, template classes, inside and outside class scope, with namespaces, with & and &&, with const, with auto and lambda and maybe more etc. This is just too much!

Using classes is a bit better now (if they are written properly), but once you start defining your own types, its no fun anymore.

The nicest I can say about C++ is that it is fun if you want to experiment. But for a production system, it is not a good choice, because it is too complex.
"Hatred can rot away at a person's intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and hinder a nation's progress toward freedom and democracy."

-- an excerpt from the article

Note: This article was written by Liu Xiaobo for his final statement at his trial in the winter of 2009. It was later read, on his behalf, as his laureate lecture when he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia.
I'm paying 5€ extra per month (Germany) for more upstream, a crappy sla and most importantly a dedicated support hotline. Whenever I call, it's a waiting time measured in seconds and the people answering have technical knowledge.
A "GPU that doesn't suck at branching" is basically what the Xeon Phi is intended to be, with 72 AVX512-enabled Atom cores per chip. However it costs over $6000.
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Looks like they took that line out...?

EDIT: never mind, it was in the PDF
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