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I find it rather amusing that people assume teens have to drink in order to have sex. In my experience as a teen, drinking was something I did with other guys mostly and the relationships I had were more about curiosity and alcohol wasn't all that involved.

Is it just me or do kids in general seem more complacent these days?
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"Reflection and introspection are programming facilities in the Java programming language that allow an object to discover information about itself and other objects at runtime."

Sounds about similar.
You have a very valid point here. But to me this quote is more of a "Hey, it's normal that you have setbacks, but keep going, it's part of winning".

So to prevent: "Damn, they are ignoring me, I might as well give up".
The discussion was about why the web became a successful platform in the first place. There is no doubt "view-source" was a very significant factor in this. This is basically how the first generation of web devs learned the craft.
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The best thing you can do for your own sanity is register your own domain name, and point ALL of your email at it. Even if it just then forwards to another service. It makes changing email providers easy, because you just need to re-point the forwarder, and as long as you own that domain, nobody can recycle your address or anything of the sort.

Register it until kingdom come while you're at it.
Great read! Finally some hands on examples!
I think that's the wrong take - currently consumer companies don't ask for much feedback because they simply couldn't read all of it. Tech like this is bringing about a revolution allowing companies to solicit more feedback than they can directly read, and yet understand via text analytics tools.
Thanks.

Posting the direct link for the Oberon image.

http://www.saanlima.com/pepino/index.php?title=Pepino_Oberon
Please cut the outdated ignorant bigotry about gender and sexual orientation.
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>> Pilfering from the masses.

Whenever big corporations drain resources from the masses and keeps them enslaved by essentially brainwashing them; somehow that's OK. But when something comes along which offers the masses a chance for a quick (obviously high-risk) escape from slavery, that's a scam?

I don't agree with how bureaucrats spin this; as though people need to be protected from themselves. Maybe the government should ban entrepreneurship too - that's very high risk and very random/unpredictable too.
But that’s no different to running it in Firefox or whatever, it’s not a desktop app - it’s just JavaScript wrapper that is essentially doing the same thing but giving you less control and generally higher memory usage.
I agree -- I've been somewhat negative about Rust, but it looks like Redox is one of the projects doing "real work" with it. It's an impressive vote of confidence for the language.

Also, I'll pat myself on the back and say the Ion shell looks nice, because it borrowed some ideas from the Oil shell [1] :) In particular, we talked a fair bit about the array syntax and semantics, and lack of word splitting.

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/
Kids today also take less drugs and commit less violent crimes. Less drinking is nothing wrong either (plus schools treat drinking as grave offense instead of minor infraction it should be ). Responsible attitude towards sex (wait for partner you trust, do it only if you have proction) means less of it untill you have stable partner.

With exception of driving, we have bundle of starts about kids being better behaved then previous generation. Meanwhile, previous generation complains, cause if you are not like them you are weak.

There were always rich kids and poor kids. Rich kids always got gifts from parents and poor kids still don't get them.
There will be 2 answers to that question and they will both be right and wrong at the same time :)

Maybe not at the end of this year, but very soon, quantum supremacy will be claimed by one of companies that are developing a quantum computer similar to the d-wave computer used by Google and others. That is sort a single purpose computer that can only be used to perform a very limited set of work loads, but it still qualifies as a quantum computer, but will most like be a very limited in what it can do and how useful it will be.

A few years later you will see quantum supremacy be claimed by one the companies trying to build a general purpose quantum computer like Microsoft. It is first then the quantum revolution will take off.
https://www.vagalume.com.br/malvina-reynolds/tungsten.html
* then you appear on state TV apologising for your tax crimes 10 years ago.
This is a deeply unkind thing to say to someone who donates their free time to provide a public good. George apologized for his oversight and fixed the problem. Take him at his word and thank him.
Not sure about the readership,though. But I think you're right with regards to the discussion - you only hear one side a lot which makes it appear that there is only one side which is the majority. But it's really not the case, however: opposing views are being bashed or brigaded to the point where expressing such views has become unsafe or too much effort. So instead of real discussion, people who are not left-leaning/pro-state/pro-fiat increasingly just use only karma buttons.
How realistic is it to run processes of this OS (like the netstack processes) on top of existing microkernels like minix/QNX/etc. ?
Why is it amazing? A new platform delivers enormously simpler and cheaper development and deployment of cross-platform applications. Why is is surprising people adopt this platform?
The theory/model of evolution does not depend on the existence/validity of species as aconcept.
Thanks for doing this George! In addition to donating at https://iterm2.com/donate.html, what can HN users do to help you with iTerm2?
It has some degree of popularity mostly because it's free, although free ISAs are not anything new (OpenSPARC for example).

All the attention from RISC-V comes down to the fact that the creators like to trash talk proprietary ISAs like x86 and ARM and they like to put RISC-V under the banner of being "new and clean". This leads the average joe (and by "average joe" I mean software engineers without any background in hardware or in CPU architecture) to dream of a "Linux of CPUs", thinking they could hack something overnight and magically have a working open hardware, even though the CPU is just a small part of the entire system.

At the academia level, RISC-V is a very good thing since it allows to research new kinds of architecture without being bound by proprietary ISAs. But at the industrial level, it's just hype.
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It's more CISCy than MIPS/RISC-V. It does a reasonably good job of having complex instructions that closely match real world patterns, as opposed to some of the crufty bits of x86 that are complex... and useless.
I have this, and I do believe what people say about how powerful it is. However, I find the UI to be very alien and very unlike any other software I have used (especially on Mac).
Why does that make the author hard to take seriously? Because of your bias toward materialism?
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Shortages (gas lines) were not caused by price hikes or the Saudis or the Iranians. They were caused by the US government allocating fixed amount of gas to each gas station.

Reagan eliminated the allocation system at the stroke of a pen, and the lines vanished overnight, never to return. He also eliminated the price controls, which drastically curtailed the Cartel's influence over gas prices, which never returned, either.

The whole gas problem of the 1970's was something the US imposed on itself.

You are correct that the lines were not there continuously - but they were a recurring chronic problem, seemingly striking at random. There was also the peculiar phenomenon of lines in California with simultaneous gluts in Florida. The DoE proved to be hopelessly inept at allocating gas according to demand.

Note that we still have gas "shocks" today, like a refinery blowing up or being incapacitated by a hurricane. The result is a modest increase in prices for a few months, and no lines or shortages whatsoever.

(There were some brief lines when the hurricanes rolled ashore, but those are cases where the weather cut the supply lines rather than the government.)
Perhaps individual ants are conscious to a degree. This kind of non binary contiousnes was explored in "I am a strange loop"
This is the recurring argument about "monolithic kernels" vs "microkernels". In the latter different user-space processes can be used to implement filesystems, networking, etc.

There are a lot of small operating systems that take the decoupled route - but you'll almost certainly never see them because they're either research-based, or suffer from the problem of most hobbyist operating systems which is "lack of hardware support". Doesn't matter how modern/sexy an O/S is if you cant run it upon your hardware. (Relatedly once you can run it you need software on it too..)

That said there are some compromises available, even with Linux. If you use something like FUSE you can write your own filesystem in 100% user-space - something I've done for a couple of niche applications.
Deserts are abandunt- in fact they are the default ecology on all planets.

https://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/pdf/229_RSER_WildLife_2011.pdf

If solar panels could be modified to create substained microclimates below that would be awesome. After all, there is still enough straylight getting below, to allow for a average forrestplant to exist.
Python and Ruby got adoption because they provided frameworks that made writing websites easy - Django and Rails respectively.

Node became popular because now front-end devs could write their own backends.

Go became popular because of Google and it's concurrency primitives (as far as I know)

Swift is going to become popular because of Apple and... fill in the blank.

My take is that it'll take good performance, and easy to understand concurrency primitives that make writing libraries and using them a joy - that's the only way.

That'll be the differentiating factor that'll entice people to pay attention - otherwise as you have pointed out, there are plenty of alternatives.
Thanks for your answer. I didn't know single-engine operation in a 2-engine jet was even a possibility. Planes are so crazy.
Thank you for that link; it was a very worthwhile read. Two things stand out:

1. Lattner's ability to present complex topics in an approachable way is very impressive.
2. I'm really excited for Swift 8.0 (my best guess at the first version that will include all this).
>Because, as the people of Kuwait discovered after first Gulf War, depleted uranium leaves a potentially deadly dust behind after it burns. It sounds bizarre but, in the world of warfare, tungsten is the eco-friendly alternative.

i knew it is bad, just googled and according to some sources it is really bad, especially when it comes to birth defects :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-considine/us-depleted-ur...

It is not necessary radioactivity that makes DU that bad, it is its toxicity that does it. Unfortunately, DU is still better for armor penetration : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/18/armstrade.koso...

"Armour penetration is increased by concentrating the force of a shell into as small an area as possible, so the projectiles tend to look like giant darts. [ ... ] The other metal used for anti-tank rounds is tungsten, which is also very hard and dense. When a tungsten rod strikes armour, it deforms and mushrooms, making it progressively blunter. Uranium is "pyrophoric": at the point of impact it burns away into vapour, so the projectile stays sharp. "
It's really fine for casual documentation. I wouldn't write a book or a paper in it though.
It's insane if you're paying for mobile data.
Out of curiosity, do you think it would also earn them a pass if they did something shitty to you, like involuntarily bumped you off an overbooked flight?
I am actually working on something like that right now, a place for book readers to discuss the books they have read, are reading, and/or are interested reading. My goal is for it to be a great place for discourse on books and a great place to find new books. I'll be launching my MVP within the next month.

Current site is discorse.co

I currently have over 100 people signed up and would definitely love if HN users signed up and gave feedback. :)
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=commission...

(Not an endorsement in any way and I'm sure there are others).

Fees are min($2, 0.002%), typical spread is a few pip or much less (eg. EURUSD at the moment: 1.20015 (sell) 1.20020 (buy)).
But you'll also need a bank account in both currency most likely.

edit: maybe a downside, but there's a min $10/month activity fee at IB if you have less than 100k holdings (but your transaction fees count against that). But as I said, I'm sure IB isn't the only place with those offerings.
"Any category conceivable" here means "a bunch of categories I cherry-picked."

I can "conceive" of many categories in which the US is less totalitarian: freedom of speech and of the press, judicial independence, not having to show ID to buy train tickets or prepaid SIM cards, freedom of assembly, severity of punishment for minor drug crimes, ...

The US isn't perfect, but let's not exaggerate.
Sorry to be clear I didn't think you were, just sympathising with your point about hams who want everything TH.
+1 for Jon Skeet, he's the Chuck Norris from dot net. https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet .

Then you have also Scott Hanselman, a known .net evangelist: https://www.hanselman.com/ and Scott Guthrie
This comment only got down voted because the traditional VC crowd is upset that something has come along which can disrupt their tight funnel which gives them a monopoly on venture capital and the corporate acquisition pipeline.

My open source project is now receiving funding/sponsorship from a cryptocurrency company.

I had applied to Y Combinator and various incubators in my country many times over the years but was consistently rejected because VCs didn't understand what I was doing - The founders of many of these cryptocurrencies (especially the more popular ones) actually understand technology very profoundly and so I am having much more luck there. I think that some cryptocurrencies are literally 'smart money'.
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I hope you didn't take too much damage!
The first was a last ditch effort by the Qing dynasty to retain power with the election of powerless feel-good provincial assemblies. Even if they had real authority, which they did not, only half a percent of the populace had franchise. Not a democracy by any means.

The 1912 election was for the Nationalists upon overthrowing the imperial system. However China transitioned into a period of warlord rule immediately and the National Assembly never had any control over anything except in theory on paper until Taiwan transitioned to democracy in the 80’s and 90’s.
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Yeah, but will they give it back in some form?

The examples of contributions from big players using BSD like licenses, specially in the embedded space, proves otherwise.
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edit: ignore the huffy tone this came out in, it wasn't meant that way, early morning.

I was talking about work as a professional developer. We can all 'make a site', there exists any number of solutions for that, CMSes like Wordpress, Drupal etc don't count in this argument unless _you_ wrote Wordpress or Drupal from the ground up. Being a wordpress hack isn't being a developer. You won't ever be asked to write something straightforward in enterprise, you'll need to know at least HTML5 & CSS & angular 1.0 & 2+ (or similar) & docker & gulp/grunt & backend & databases & jenkins & MVC & node/npm & version control & bootstrap (or similar) and and and.

99% of sites outside of a company that makes real money and doesn't just serve a page are sites that aren't what developers actually do at work.
That's like saying global variables are just a special case of variables, so it is "funny" global variables are discouraged while local variables and parameters are accepted.
I sounds unlikely to me that an app for casual encounters is the reason people have less sex...
Hey bitcoin miner! Power is one cost but I've always wondered about other costs at scale like hardware and labor. Devices tend to wear out after a while, bitcion mining seems quite intensive, how does this kind of issue effect your buisness / profits?
That alternative to putting them in the desert is putting them in some non-desert area or putting them nowhere. If these people are objecting to putting them in a desert, they'll object to putting them in a non-desert area too.
This sounds like inverse economies of scale. Interesting.
The evidence suggests that it was priced in. Just as the BCC/BCH business was priced in. Why do you say that it wasn't?
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It went as low as $3.3k. That’s a bit lower than we’re at now.
I support my favorite musicians on Patreon and usually get gadgets on Kickstarter although I admit I supported the occassional video game or novels. But Patreon is about continous delivery while Kickstarter is about one big bang, delivery is on the several months-1/2 years scale while Patreon doesn't work well if you don't deliver a thing every month preferably more than one. Seems like a completely different thing.
That GitHub link was very useful! Thanks. I will see how far this gets.
But someone with no connections would presumably not have that much capital to move either, right? They'd not move much volume even if they bypassed capital controls.
Look here for a better informed source:
https://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_27/october_2016...
True thing. A friend of friend was banned from facebook for 7 days just because he posted anti government thing. This happened in India!
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Specs are a bit weird to try to come up with the right licensing (It was a bit of a pain in the butt to try to get this right for webm, for example).
You want to encourage compliance with the spec, and protect people who implement the spec.
That is a different type of language that say, apache 2.

To be concrete: If you license the reference code as apache2, that would grant patent rights to people if they used reference code, and they'd be SOL otherwise. Licensing the spec as apache2 would do nothing, as it's not software.

So if you want something apache2 like, you have to use a grant that tries to talk about granting rights to implementations of the spec, and that, for example, terminates if people sue people for implementing the spec.

The first pass i took at this was in https://www.webmproject.org/license/bitstream/

(but i'm sure there are better approaches now)
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This is exactly what is happening. The guardian article talked about an arrest made for a anti govt post. FB is being used for these purposes.
> It doesn't sound like it would be too hard to build

Heh, try then. We can't even understand complex sentences yet, much less process things like sarcasm. Even people have issues with that.

The examples you listed are also biased. Not untrue, but the sexual orientation one was based on self-published profile photos which completely changes the context.
Language stability may not be a goal.
Or probably they are a mixture of old and new ideas and eventually things will streamline?
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I will be teaching some programming to an absolute beginner and am wondering what HN thinks is a good book for absolute beginners. So please share your thoughts.

I'm considering starting with 'Learn Pyhton the Hard Way'.

Some background:

She has some experience maintaining and setting up WordPress websites but I would say it is fairly limited.

I'm looking to teach fundamentals more than making her ready for a job although that would be welcome in the long run. So, gaining some understanding or being able to pivot to PHP and/or JavaScript is never a bad thing in this job market (Amsterdam).
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If you want this, I would suggest tmux. Tmux by default comes with tabs (multiple terminals) and panes (multiple terminals visible at once within a tab) where you can split your screen vertically and horizontally however you like.

Usually, you want one full-height terminal and two about half the height of your screen.

http://www.kaltpost.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tmux.png
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There are large tungsten deposits outside of China. The issue is, China has such a monopoly it controls the price.

I have been apart of at least three Tungsten Mine pre-feasibility studies. All they need to do is ramp up production, and the price falls to a point where NPV of your tungsten project falls to zero.
I wonder if obesity is the cause for the multi-generational decline of testosterone levels.
sorry I'm not @lettergram, so I cannot really help you with his code; I never tried to inject code into a facebook page, but I can imagine that especially after minification it's going to be a pain to do
You really should include a trigger warning with comments like this -- I still have nightmares about that class.
It seems it does, but they do put effort to make the transitions as easy as possible.
Give yourself some breathing room. I limit connections to four in a three minute window.

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m recent --update --seconds 180 --hitcount 4 --rttl --name SSH --mask 255.255.255.255 --rsource -j DROP
>had Hawaii declaring independence, and various states trying to separate either to go completely independent or join Mexico or Canada. And now of imagine that a coalition of China, Russia, Iran and other unfriendly nations were constantly posturing towards an invasion of Mexico

Can you map these metaphors to their counterparts in China?
Ask HN: What books and blogs are best to learn about hardware manufacturing?
Moving from hardware hacking to developing consumer-quality goods is a big step. What books/blogs/websites are good for learning the basics of moving from tinkering to production? Thanks.
> The Infotainment system is one of the most user-facing components of the vehicle. It's something that can reflect the brand identity of the vehicle, and most OEMs are not eager to cede that space to Apple or Google. Google and (especially) Apple certainly aren't interested in mixing their branding with a manufacturers.

It actually seems like most manufacturers are including CarPlay and Android Auto in new cars. In terms of CarPlay, Toyota is one of the notable holdouts. Mazda, the other notable holdout, is going to offer CarPlay in newer models and upgrade older models to support it. Jaguar was the other major holdout, and it seems like they will also support it in the future. I can't think of any other car brands sold in America that don't offer it except Tesla.
I think the parent is suggesting that there is the same or more sex, just for fewer people. If you can access a thousand people in your league there is no reason to look outside of it (we're all min-maxing) whereas before you were limited by vicinity.

I understand tinder has become more of a dating app than a quick hook up one these days anyway. At least that's what friends tell me, I prefer getting drunk in a bar the old fashioned way.