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The cattle on farms wouldn't be off roaming the countryside if we didn't eat them. They just simply wouldn't exist at all.
> ... front-end developers are overcompensating for years of JS derision from "real" programmers....

More like compensating for JavaScript's very real shortcomings.
The few 14+ hour flights I've been were more comfortable than the usual connecting flights I take for the long haul and ultra-long haul trips. Not sure if the longer haul flights have more comfortable seats even in economy but leg room and width were ample. They were all 777-300ERs. I prefer them over having to go through another airport (security) and chances of delays for the connecting flight.
Sorry, couldn't find the info, Matt. And you're completely wrong. It's a "volcano" not a "vulcano".
As far as I'm aware Chez Scheme will become the language engine for the Racket family of languages replacing the current language engine. I mean, Racket used to be PLT Scheme, we're not talking a huge leap language-wise here, it's that the Chez Scheme back-end implementation is of very high quality. Racket has a lot of front-end stuff going on that Chez Scheme doesn't. I'm totally open to correction here from those with more familiarity.

I am far from an expert on these matters. If you dig into the repos and docs that have been linked and read around for a bit you'll have as much knowledge as me :)
Ia it really going to matter? 20 hours on one plane or 24-26 with a stop and disembarking into an airport lounge?
While I partly agree I do not suppose all of sudden 50% of society will turn in to food like this.

This is a solution to all the people that have a problem with the evil food industry. There is enough for everyone. What I am saying, there are more than two options. Also, if more people would eat such a products and prices would rise a bit, I bet a lot of people would start using their unused farm land for such a purpose.

Also, I think it would lead to new "Amazon for farmer products" start-up arising.
It feels like a cheesy gimmick, I miss being able to change brightness/volume without looking at the keyboard, and I preferred my escape key to be a key. It's been a few months and I have yet to use it for anything keys didn't already do.
Humanity needs a constantly rising amount of processing power to keep pace.
My comment that said "So far, the Infinite monkey theorem is just giving us an infinite number of javascript frameworks, and no Shakespeare" acquired 29 points but then has been deleted. Why is it so?
This is a great headline for Tesla.

The point isn't whether a Tesla could beat it in a real race, etc, this is just a "brand" moment for them.
Japan seems to have given up the idea of happyness for indirect proxies like a good job etc.

US, has gone down a similar path, but has this crazy idea you should be happy and successful. France IMO is closer to the ideal that happyness should be the goal not a side effect.
For news reading: miniflux (I hacked up the css to make it legibile)

I plan to start self hosting a copy of five-filters rss, which scrapes full text from rss feed articles. It is basically the ultimate ad blocker / AMP replacement.
I'm no expert on protein folding but isn't there a more mundane explanation? There's plenty of physical processes that a computer can't simulate because reality is massively parallel to a degree that a computer isn't. I'm not sure that would explain the constant vs exponential discrepancy but I'm not sure I see the connection between that and "aliveness".

Or maybe I do. I'm seeing a glimmer but I don't want to put words in your mouth.
You can get up and walk around during the cruise phase. I vastly prefer direct flights, even for long trips. (For example, I fly Washington to Beijing every couple of years, and try hard to get a direct flight for that.) Changing planes adds so much time, and is stressful for international flights where you have to clear customs before when making the connection.
I was wondering why Alonso was shouting "NO POWER NO POWER" over the team radio at the end of Q2 qualifying.
Antirez said he plans on merging disque into a Redis module, now that such a thing exists. I'm pretty excited, and would love to migrate off of RabbitMQ to Disque or whatever the module version is named, as we're already successfully running redis instances.

As for merging queues after partition recovery, the RabbitMQ devs have been talking about implementing that for years. I understand it's a hard problem, or it would already be part of RabbitMQ, since it's the most obvious and desirable solution for applications that can handle duplicates.

We're doing the same thing wrt avoiding clustering and accepting the brief downtime when the single RabbitMQ instance fails.
> I find it so hard to sit in the plane for such a long time.

The 14.5 hour flights I have taken were certainly more tedious than individual 7 or 8 hour flights. But back-to-back 7 or 8 hour flights plus an hour or two layover is much more tedious. Whenever possible, I would rather do a single flight.
You've just brushed upon one of the biggest debates in modern motorsport. If you are interested in reading further there's many great opinion pieces on both sides of the fence. Here's one interesting piece written recently by ex-F1 driver Stefan Johansson [1].

[1] http://www.racer.com/more/viewpoints/item/143400-johansson-m...
Mammals still have a cerebral cortex.
I had the domain since a while and was not using it. So instead of searching hours for a name, I just used what I had :D
Reminds me of 3D Touch. It could become useful but right now it's a solution to a problem I don't have and most developers can't find a useful way to implement it.
Seems almost comical when you analyse it like this. But in all seriousness, this should have been a major consideration when designing the software systems for the 2017 regulation cars.

The new design with wider tyres and improved downforce means that drivers can now take previously 'brass ball' Spa corners like Eau Rouge and Pouhon with the pedal to the floor, compared to the old days. That very fact should have been allowed for in the AI algorithms.

You'll have to excuse me, I just woke up here on the other side of the world and watched HAM's pole setting lap last night at Spa, and man, these cars take all those tricky corners at Spa very fast! [0] (For reference, Eau Rouge is at 0:22, and Pouhon is at 1:01)

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRYrgVhJYQ
Another Lisp, I see. I've heard good things. It seems just a different set of trade offs. Clojure tradeoffs align better with me. The extra emphasis on immutability, concurrency, and functional programming, and embracing the JVM and JavaScript ecosystems. As well as the extension on the syntax for better data notation.

But I'll eventually give Common Lisp and Scheme a try.
I try to live in Skill Sprints that direct focus for a few years. I pick things that combine history, books, places and tool mastery like photography, music training, cooking, core muscle exercises or even Buddhist Pali suttas and walking meditation. You have to create your series of time boxed challenges. With a daily drumbeat of global finance news and HN it keeps me out of trouble. Our notational computer process logic and memory access hierarchies turn out to describe almost everything worthwhile. [ed. Did not want to skip music training.]
It's interesting that a lot of the OP's reason for not needing the Touch Bar and/or TouchID is that the Apple Watch replaces it, because if I recall, the Touch Bar effectively is a built-in Apple Watch with a funny-shaped screen (i.e. it's a tiny iOS device). So it's not surprising that the watch provides much of the same functionality.
Well, as you may know it's currently being used in some coins like bitshares [0] and it works fine, Ethereum also is migrating to PoS [1]. So the consensus for a lot of people in the ecosystem is that it works.

[0] https://bitshares.org/technology/delegated-proof-of-stake-co...

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-casper-proof-stake-rewrite...
Check out Compatible Versioning 1.0 (2016): https://github.com/staltz/comver
>> But right now, all the money in the world won’t get you from Sydney to the Big Apple or U.K. without a pit stop, because commercial planes just don’t have that kind of range.

This makes it sound like this long a flight is a physical impossibility today. However three minutes of searching leads me to believe a few commercial aircraft have indeed made a similar or longer trip. Not to mention any military aircraft that might do this as well, I'm sure there exists an amount of money that would get you on such an aircraft today :)
Yes.

My comment was just an extra anecdote to the grandparent comment... if you want 4K at 60 fps, why aren't you plugging in via DP instead of HDMI?
Could you describe how you find it useful?
It isn't deleted. It's rolled up down thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106370
Modern business class is a different world. There's space to stretch out, kick back, sleep, food is often served on demand, etc. On more than one occasion I've found myself at the tail end of a 14-hour flight and wishing we weren't landing just yet.

Having flown Sydney to New York and back just last week, I would much prefer a single non-stop flight. Especially since on the way back I missed my connection in SFO due to bad weather and was stuck for a full day: all US West-Australia flights leave late at night, so if you miss one wave, it's 24 hours until the next batch.

Also, 20 hours seems like a lot, but it's only an incremental increase on the current longest flight (17:40 for Doha to Auckland, NZ on Qatar) or the previous longest flight (18h+ for Singapore to NY). The problem is really the economics and the rocket problem: to fly further nonstop, you need to carry lots of fuel, which increases the weight, which requires more fuel... The 18 hour flight was business class only with seats going for north of $10k return and Singapore Airlines still couldn't make it pay off.
I believe at some point they were afraid everything will get autopilpted in. That also increases the risk to the drivers lifes. So they decided to cut it out early.
Two features of touchbar that I use consistently are enough for me to pretty much like after initially not seeing the point at all --

1. when taking a screenshot touchbar shows an option to toggle between the various destinations (desktop, documents, clipboard) -- nice because these keyboard shortcuts are really hard to type and often I don't make up my mind about where I want the picture to go until I'm in the middle of selecting the region

2. Scrubbing between safari tabs is a pretty nice feature -- I find myself using it a lot.
Only in the US is a drag race important for anything.
Highly relevant: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Memos/Examining-Reproducibility/
If you are resorting to a hardfork to manage malicious actors, you can always change the proof of work algorithm, which would damage the malicious miners to a tune of billions of dollars in bitcoin.

Rewriting a year of history in a proof of stake system takes a couple days on consumer hardware. Rewriting a year of history in Bitcoin is going to require burning a literal hundred million dollars of electricity, if not an order of magnitude more.

In a proof of stake system, typically less than 30% of participants by coin amount actually do the proof of stake. And that's for systems that don't require you to bond coins for months. Exchanges frequently control that many coins. And if an exchange abuses their power, are you going to burn the coins of every single person using the exchange?

It gets worse than that though. You don't need current coins to attack the system. You only need old keys of coins that you sold. After you sell your coins, why wouldn't you sell your keys to an attacker too? If the attacker is paying for the keys, and you sold the coins anyway, there's nothing to lose for you.

Or an exchange can rotate their coins to new addresses and use the old coins to attack the system.
No the US is just irrationally obsessed with happiness.
None in the North East either, makes me sad. Nothing better then their pecan waffles.

Anthony Bourdain enjoyed eating at one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_kbIVxl_o
Why can't I swipe backward on this website? Does the author dislike both the TouchBar and the MultiTouch Trackpads? ;)
I agree with you. Not being able to get a version without the TB was one of the reasons for buying a 2015 model instead.
>The obvious change to make is the addition of haptic feedback.

Yeah they are called physical keys, no need to make a NASA pen... didn't Apple buy out some company making keyboards out of tiny e-ink dipslays, that would actually make sense. Making keys out of a touchscreen when the only reason to look at it is because there are no physical keys on the other hand is ridiculous.
my kid starts kindergarten this year and will be using some site called i-ready.com through their chromebooks, anyone know what this is like?
I think Apple should kill the MacBook Air (not sure why it wasn't killed a long time ago when the new 12 inch MacBook launched).

Then all MacBook Pros should have the touch bar if they're going to keep it (no 13 inch two port version without one).

It's strange to me that the Airs and the MacBook Pro without touch bar exist.
Every day, and at great expense and increased risk. The motivations of the U. S. Air Force differ just a tad from commercial airlines.
I lived just around the corner from that overpass for several years. A bit surreal to see it come up on HN.
The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.
Can’t speak of touchbar but I don’t understand the hate for 3D Touch. I love it and use it a lot. Sure discoverability sucks but I think it’s worth while.
What can the touch bar do that a touch screen could not?
Kids should have absolutely no expectation of privacy.
MDMA granted “breakthrough therapy” status by FDA to treat PTSD
> It’s one of the least threatening issues facing our country, the one with the lowest risk factors of any environmental threat. It’s safer to work at a nuclear site than to sit at a desk trading stocks

The relative safety is often brought up in this debate. It's technically correct, but fails to account for just how much damage a single incident can do. Chernobyl had 31 "direct" deaths and several hundred more due to radiation poisoning.

That looks good on paper, but does not account for the radioactive plume that has spread all over Europe. To this day I can find contaminated mushrooms and areas of increased radioactivity in Germany, about 1500km away from the reactor site. 30km around Pripyat are considered uninhabitable for 20000 years and cancer rates in Belarus and Ukraine are still way higher than elsewhere. The Dniepr is contaminated and the flow went all the way to the black sea.

It looks similar in Fukushima: Few direct deaths, a small exclusion zone, but the effects can be measured in the entire Pacific.

We must realize that even if nuclear power works out well w.r.t. Co2 and direct death count, it is fundamentally impossible to rule out the occurance of a catastrophe on par with Chernobyl or Fukushima. If something like that occurred in central Europe, mainland China or one of the US coasts, highly developped regions would be rendered partially uninhabitable and largely undesirable. This kind of damage is not accounted for in these kinds of articles.
Yep. I've flown a few 14+ hour ultra-long-haul flights in business or first class and it's a pleasant enough way to fly. Key for me is to shower at the lounge before departure. That makes a big difference in comfort.
Technically the article is correct, turbocharging is a form of supercharging.

Supercharger is an overloaded word, it refers both to the principle of forced induction as well as a particular mechanical method of achieving that. Oddly this isn't just a problems with English, German has the same overloading of 'kompressor'.

Turbocharging was originally called turbosupercharging when developed by GE.
Or just use cyanogen privacy guard to send random fake data.
My suggestion would be to place the car by distance travelled since last leaving the home straight. Use steering + throttle inputs to determine when you are on the home straight, make a best guess at where the start/finish line is, then guess where you are based on distance travelled since last passing it.
I'm pretty sure they mean "API" in its true sense. An API for a module or a library, not necessarily a Web API. It's not unusual for an organization to maintain several projects/libraries/services that interact internally via their APIs (sometimes over HTTP, sometimes directly as a library), SemVer makes perfect sense for this use case.
Just got a new MBP with touchbar and am finding it quite annoying for these reasons:

- there seems to be no way to dim it and it's way too bright in the dark.

- the context specific functions appearing and disappearing make it really eye catching and distracting. There also seems to be a slight lag before it updates with the latest context. (I ended up switching it to only show some small subset of default controls).

- I'm hardly using it at all, but sometimes it just stops responding. Hitting the buttons doesn't do anything.

- it's too easy to accidentally tap one of the buttons.

All in all I think it's a gimmick and I'd much rather have a physical escape key.
TouchID is the only feature I've used on the touch bar, I've had this mac for ~4 months as a full time dev. Even then, I think I can type my password in the time it recognizes my finger. The rest of the touch bar is a disaster. The last button I want to accidentally press is un-mute or the play button. I can switch it to be a function row, but still then I don't want to accidentally touch f5, f10,11,12 while developing.
I believe they are free to not carry gasoline. The fact they carry it, tells you a lot.
Adding haptics and the ability to make it static (even outside of login sessions) would make it much more friendly to touch-typists. It could also stand to adhere keyboard brightness configuration
This is pretty much the premise of The Island.
“Of course” is not a popular phrase in physics.
I've written similar things before, and it applies here too:

To the extent that anyone on HN knows an active philanthropist looking for potentially highly impactful but severely underfunded causes - send them this article.

I believe there's a case that funding MDMA research has very high dollar/impact returns - or at least that it's likely enough that it's worth a thorough exploration.

It sounds like they still need to raise about $12 million, which is shockingly small compared to the ~$1.5bn/yr NIMH budget - and all of it will come from private philanthropists, as governments aren't yet willing to fund the work and for-profit companies don't see much profit yet due to the lack of patentability.

If you're on HN and this is the first you're hearing about this research, some resources:

- A short video excerpt from a documentary on MDMA therapy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iKx2MKS70

- NY Times article - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html
Caddy server, MediaGoblin, FreeNAS, WeeChat
Deploying My First Node App to Cloud Functions
> I could attempt to justify my stance? Thanks, jacquesm, you are truly magnanimous.

No need for personal attacks, this is exactly the attitude that you displayed two comments up thread.

In no language is that a personal attack. "Magnanimous" is generally a complimentary adjective. Your statement, "You could attempt to justify your stance by saying..." was somewhat rude, and mostly deserved the sarcastic thanks it got. The only previous comment by that user was the following, which also was not any sort of personal attack:

If I'm competing in a high growth industry against somebody who is busy planning for the worst, I'll move twice as fast and put them out of business before their plan can matter.

We are all impressed by your many internet points, but in future please be less of a prima donna.
Even down to the part about living forever.
Touch bar is great for 1 control things like volume or as a lever for something.

For everything else it doesn't work because it switches meaning based on the context and thus makes it close to impossible to apply muscle memory to.
I was lucky to love my job for the outcomes and not just the paychecks. Is there any central pooling of contract work around more important Open Source projects? Here in DC we have interns working for free or cheap on good causes they hope will lead somewhere. I would think many software devs not raising families would take lower steadier rate for work they can talk about and be proud of. Many governments are seeking stable OSS office automation infrastructure. Stability is the goal compared to pyrotechnics. Is that a solved problem yet?
What is this a new hybrid hype based on Frankenstein and NN?
COBOL for the Web has already been done: http://www.coboloncogs.org/
The touchbar is a problem looking for a solution. For the premium they charge for it I fail to see how it returns its value. Perhaps this was innovation for the sake of innovation, but I don't see the touchbar having a prolonged lifespan. Sooner or later Apple is going to come to the realization that they need a touchscreen on the MacBook.

On a related note, I was trying out the MacBooks at an Apple store and couldn't believe how bad the keyboards have become. The key travel was nearly non existent. Perhaps this is Apple's way of slowly conditioning their users to a keyboard with no physical keys, but rather touch keys powered by force touch. It certainly seems like the next evolution as they keep reducing the key travel lower and lower. The sensation of typing on the keyboard, IMO, was so bad that I would never purchase or recommend one. I would, however, still recommend the previous generation with a proper keyboard.
I tend to think of this system as a sort of twincharger, because the compressor is driven by a turbine and an electric motor.

And to nitpick, all turbochargers are superchargers. Their original term was a turbosupercharger. It was later renamed to turbocharger. :)
How on earth did they manage to locate that fault? That would be an awesome story to be told in detail.
... and I'll probably be 20 years in the grave.
It solves the problem of exposing hundreds of millions of people to multiple emission sources of highly deleterious fine particulates in their immediate vicinity, every single day. It's not rocket science, it's an obvious fact, and not a single person posting here can honestly claim not to understand it. Ignoring or downplaying it is a near criminal act of negligence.
Why, and from whom? Their parents? Their school? Corporations?
Which do you use? I've been bitten numerous times by a seemingly normal object or array method being Mozilla only or not yet standardised...
Angular 1 has its flaws but I've found it to be pretty stable, has developed some pretty consistent paradigms, and gets certain jobs done well. Don't put the round peg in a square hole, but I think it serves many web apps well, particularly if you're going the SPA route and don't care too much about things like viewing without javascript or ultra fast load times.

I used it first in a personal project, then in a job, and have used it after in a personal project. I think that says it's at least not the worst. I've wanted to look into Vue and React for some time but I'm mostly a back end developer. Angular is getting the job done to the point that I haven't been forced to switch.
2 generic use cases that emerge from the points you mentioned

1) An equivalent interface to the Android snackbar which is a contextual "more options" menu to the most recent interaction

2) Global hirerachy and navigation
and i say this as a huge fan of roadkill
You forgot the sarcasm /s.