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> And with a warming globe overall, there will definitely be no new ice age.

That's bullocks. That's not how "global warming" works, which is why scientists are typically careful to call it "climate change." The temperature of a region is predominantly affected by ocean and air currents. Sunny Marseille in France with its Mediterranean climate is the same latitude as New England. Montreal gets bitter cold for 5 months of the year but London, a full 5deg further north, gets a few days of snow and a lot of rain.

These differences in regional weather at the same or similar latitudes are waaaaay bigger than the few degrees global average increase we see in world-is-ending predictions, and are entirely due to these ocean currents. If they slow down significantly or stop or change direction, it'd be a big freaking deal. If the English Midlands started getting winters like Winnipeg, Canada, that'd be a pretty big deal. While not a glacial period per se, it'd be worse than Europe's Little Ice Age, so I'm going to go ahead and call it what it is.
Emacs cua-mode is not bad.
It does create some confusion with C-x shortcuts, eg. C-x C-s when typed too slowly will cut selected text and enter search, instead of saving :-(
But I'd love a more total conversion to CUA... E.g. I have C-o to open files, and C-w to close buffer/window.

https://gist.github.com/cben/ada7675ab9aa14000a1a50eae398611...

-- emacs user for >15yr, tired of motor context switching.
(Terminal Ctrl+Shift+X/C/V vs it opening devtools in Chrome is bad enough...)
Ftom all the videos of planes I've seen, I think slides are deployed only when fire is involved. Since the damaged engine didn't start any fire for 2 hours, the pilots probabaly knew there was no need to deploy the slides when they landed.
To some degree yes, but with IPFS that becomes easier in my experience.

Even with static websites you usually need to have a web server you are able to connect to, or have to go out of your way to add a Webworker that makes is offline-capable. There a single address that is served via an IPFS gateway behaves better with less additional tooling.
@dang this is old
It really depends on what you mean by "most," e.g. number of transacting instances, commercial volume, customers, etc.
Converted the binary to decimal and got 74880. Searched 74880 on Google and got "Weleetka, OK 74880, USA". The answer is "Weleetka".
Simple note taking from the command line
Flutter: How we're buildingUI framework for tomorrow at Google [video]
Some of what I've written here might seem to be the "It's not so bad..." sort of stupidity that abounds. ("It's not so bad, you don't live in a third world country. That's worse than everything you've experienced!") Nothing I've written here is intended that way, and I've re-written it to try and avoid that impression, so please don't read it like that.

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What she did to you was abuse. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you can start healing. I don't give a damn about what happened in her life that caused it, because the important thing is that you understand that you were abused.

I think you already do, although maybe not in as many words.

She deliberately destroyed your relationship in the most vindictive and painful way she could. Everything you've mentioned here appears designed to cause you as much pain as possible - and the fact that you're feeling this strongly (or poorly) means she's won this round. I wouldn't have fared any better in your place.

The game isn't over yet, and this round is going to take a lot longer than the first. You've got some win conditions you need to satisfy if you want to come out of this in good shape:

Get help from a suitable abuse counselor. This is the most important thing you can do, because it leads into the rest of your life. Do me a favor, and if you don't find one tonight, find one tomorrow. Don't even think about it, just do it.

Don't allow alcohol (or other drugs) to be your vent. This might sound silly, but take up a hobby well outside your comfort zone. Perhaps painting, singing, ballroom dance, fencing, or sculpting. The more friendly people you can be around, the better off you'll be. Please stay away from alcohol, it's not a crutch and won't help. Go and chat with AA, if you find that you can't. The people at those meetings will be able to support you through that.

Start to give a damn about yourself. Not everyone is out to betray you and hurt you, but this is something you'll have to relearn. Nobody who understands will hold it against you. I wouldn't.

You've been somewhat lucky, believe it or not, in that this happened before you ended up married and with a baby. Don't doubt that I'm horrified by her vindictive actions, or how selfish she was. I've seen first hand what happens when someone lived a similar hell, but got married anyway. I watched my father grow old as he was unable get on with his life after a similar sort of betrayal.

But this is about you. What happened to you was unfair, and a terrible trauma, no doubt about that. Right now please do yourself, your family and friends, your colleagues, and your future wife a favor: get counseling.
The Economist tends to be very good at this, particularly in the first couple of sections of the weekly, where it summarises the key news of the week, one short paragraph each.
Well performance aside there is also the benefit of not having to maintaining userland.
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That is why you use Xen as a base. Xen lets the dom0 (primary domain) handle the device drivers and then provides guests access to them via paravirtualised interfaces. I.e you get Linux compatibility and then you can run any OS that has paravirtualised drivers written for it.

Generally if you are going to use something like this or MirageOS you will choose to pass through certain real hardware to the guest and write drivers for it.

Say for instance pass through an Intel NIC and then have your application embed a TCP stack and DPDK like components so that you can run your application at line rate.
Ultimately the declarative way of writing apps is objectively better and more predictable than the old mutable way :)

Now that said, I agree on the performance costs, and too wonder why Walmart is hellbent on this strategy, given the endless resources they have.

But at the end of the day, they have a head of engineering and need to make their lives simpler just like everyone else. If you know how to squeeze the performance out of RN/React, developing apps in the semi-FP declarative sate-driven way is a dream compared to all the old ways of client app development. People who's views are so against React/ReactNative usually haven't experienced it for themselves. I suggest really giving it try before making these comments which usually serve just to validate decisions already made. I.e. to make one's self feel better about sticking to the old ways. However, I totally understand what it feels like for new tools to pop up that put into question old ways I've invested a lot into. That said, don't you think you'd be better off fully exploring these ways before shooting them down? Don't tell me you have--zero people that have grokked the effectiveness of declarative state-driven programming make these remarks. They usually leave some hint at their experience with React. In short, it's only you left in the dust :)

Give the tools a try, which I know will likely be hard for you because you are likely coming from the Native world. I will say this: it's a lot more than just one language to make hybrid apps (i.e. like past tools such as Titanium). And, of course perf will be a challenge. That said, the perf is amazing given what it is. But more importantly, the style of development is what it's all about. It's so different and so much more predictable/debuggable than the old mutable ways. To me, it matters not that it's in JS. What matters is the declarative state driven way of development. If you can do that in native code, you're basically doing the most important aspect--and basically there's no argument from me there. There are some libraries that allow for that, but it's nowhere near the extent of what you can do in React/JS, given its ecosystem. I lot of work is being put in here to make this the best of breed future of application development. If you can't see it, you're missing out. Do your homework on React once and for all. You can thank me later.

Last point: Walmart's tool here is specifically meant for making apps where some of it you want in "actual native" and other parts in "react native." Without a doubt coding the React style is the best DX for UI development. AND without a doubt, "actual native" performs far FAR better. So what they have here is a toolbox for those with an "engineering mindset" to pick the best tool for the job. Everything that's happening is just getting better and better for all parties involved, no matter where your experience lies.
Aye,

When there's nothing left to believe in,

It's time to make believe something better.
I read StudentStuff’s post as implying it will set the stage for conflict over resources, not over ideology.
There's no rule that states you should provide correct answer on the first try.
If I understand correctly, the argument isn't against content addressing but against sharing the content with anyone. While you have an incentive to store it locally and reach for that first, you (currently) have a negative incentive (=cost of data/electricity) to share it with someone.
> Why not just say it’s a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language?

Because Haxe is more than that... Why would you favor less specific, less informative description over a factually correct statement?
Honestly? Nothing more than the White House is already doing. This criticism of the response is pure politics. If someone can find evidence that this response quality is any different than any other administration’s response quality, then I’d love to see it. And remember FEMA is working three storm responses right now, not just this one.

I do find it fascinating that badly led cities such as New Orleans during Katrina and San Juan now always resort to complaining about the highest level of government rather than their own incompetence; it’s a pattern.

Remember, FEMA is simultaneously working three storm responses and other than that political hack mayor of San Juan, there has been mostly praise for the overall responses in all three storms.
There's VLC too.
Not such a good post for HN. Two years old, flamebait title, a thin shell on top of better, more comprehensive coverage, and muddy prose that leaves the reader more befuddled than educated. It also appears to be FUD about something that never actually happened as far as I can tell.

Yet it got 30 votes in the first hour.
:-) That's a great story.

The dynamics of "power" are to be experienced everywhere. While you did not deliberately negotiate a raise, your employer on the other hand deliberately WAITED till he saw you could exercise your power of flight.

Magnificent.
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Catalan referendum: Voting begins amid police crackdown
You're not describing a problem that users need fixing. You're describing how nice it would be for corporations to unload their own infrastructure requirements onto unsuspecting users to try to piggyback on their hardware. That's not a solution to any problem. That's in fact a problem being created for users. Consumers purchase hardware to fill their needs, and there's nothing to be gained for wasting their resources and energy to power someone else's business.
The advice here given to avoid using "master" branch for development, and advice to create non-default branch named "develop" (or variations thereof) is quite harmful.

If you must have a "release" branch or "stable" branch, ok, go for it, but leave the "master" for developing. Why? Strive to have sane defaults.

Frankly, the idea that somebody must check out some extra special branch after cloning repo in order to start properly developing, is not sane.
It's okay if it's old, but it should have a (2010) year tag to inform potential readers.
Ugly? IDK, I like them.

Bad? Not at all. UI designers try very hard to make them intuitive, and from what I hear are largely succeeding.

TBH, if I look at an aircraft cockpit (especially a modern one), I have little trouble orienting myself, or figuring out how to tell the plane to do what I want. However I can easily believe that a person not well acquainted with airplanes and their systems would be overwhelmed. However that's not bad UX, that's just exposing the airplane's complex systems.

I recently watched a few pilotseye.tv videos (the things people do for fun...), and observed a lot of very interesting details in the planes' UI that made a lot of sense, and underlined the attention to detail on the part of the UI designers.

Sauce: I'm an aeronautical engineer.
What are the overheads of maintaining userland?

Not trying to be stupid, but I'm not really clear on what the advantage is of this system. Do I understand correctly that the dom0 OS is still providing drivers and hardware abstraction? So both that and some userland exists somewhere in the stack; it's just not duplicated in the virtualized OSes?

Is the main goal simplicity, performance, or something else?
> The will of the people is clear

I thought quite a lot of research showed that voters across the board are actually in favor of more Europe-style/better health care policies, but that they vote against their own interests because of partisan issues/politics.

If that's true, you might still be right in practice of course, but at the very least there's a bit more hope that things can change.
In today's world, it will always be about resources, and painted with ideology, no matter how ridiculous that ideology. Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, painted with a War on Terror, but people in the USA are orders of magnitude more likely to die from police shootings, sugar, lack of access to healthcare, etc.

The ideology comes in when selling the war to the 99%. The resources are for the 1%.

That's why we should stop speaking of conflict over global warming. It won't solve global warming, and it won't help most people.
Ugh, why can't JavaScript programmers learn from others languages first?

Making all your variables const is just going to confuse most people WHEN THEY'RE NOT CONSTANT.

Stop with the const spam already, you just look like dicks.

I am waiting for the articles in 3 years time, "const isn't constant" as the JavaScript community tediously explain to each other ref. vs value types like it's the 1990s.

Just use let and stop confusing people.
Somehow this converts to 'cogito, ergo, sum'. Still trying to find out why too!
I’d be interested to see performance comaprisons between this and Go on a Linux variant.

Aside from performance, what are the alleged benefits of a unikernel? Security?
If I were building a healthcare system, I'd be looking to France/Germany for a role model
Yeah, and you have to cross without one, because they are too far away. I wouldn't use Australia as an example of good driving rules. You are allowed to get away with murder in Australia if you are driving a car.
Soon Europe will need to expend more energy to heat during winters. Currently this is done with coal & Russian Gas (& French nukes)

Dacian has a better way that is actually cheaper than burning gas. Solar power used to directly heat a big thermal mass.

He moves generated electricity into big resistors within the concrete block & there is a controller that turn on / off those resistors. Concrete heats up by day & radiates heat at night.

Another cheap way is to heat a barrel of water using the resistance of wires running into that barrel.

http://electrodacus.com/ He also offers some great, cheap solar <-> lithium battery controllers.

Sweet, huh?
I'm assuming you think it's harmful because master is the branch committed to and pushed by default?
> If you want to preload 6 adjecent tiles as suggested instead of 8, it seems better to make them hexagon-shaped as well (to make the distance to edges more uniform in all directions).

But then you incur the artistic complexity of hexagonal tiles....
Other than the click-baity title this article is pretty good. What I like about it is that it makes actionable suggestions as to what you can do to help improve your performance. It also at least makes an effort to provide research to back up some of its claims.

I wish more articles and news outlets would do this. If journalist are going to critique something or show that its problematic I really appreciate it when they give me enough data to go explore and discover more on my own and when they also give me something actionable (preferably based on a body of research itself) which I can do to solve the issue / problem.
I didn't say you more. I said some examples to say that in all the country it's the same with the corruption. I said anything about the vote in this comment
Cue "this wouldn't have happened on Jobs' watch".

As an Android user myself I think choice is good but also think Apple should strive to offer as few choice as possible.

It's one of their main strengths.
2-year old, shallow and short article. Disappointing
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That hasn’t been true for many years so what exactly is the complaint?
For a moment I thought: Has someone figured out something better than git-flow? But no, it's the original git-flow article again.

It's good, but now exactly "news". Every git user should be aware of git-flow, even if you do have a better way of using git.
Yeah, some good general advice in there that's actually achievable. Although the suggestion of dropping by a colleague for a potential "wonderful conversation" made me laugh given Hacker News readers' usual opinions on interruptions.
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Every time I read an article like this, I get a bad feeling and I say to myself "I'll definitely exercise more - I don't wanna be all buggy when I get older due to my lifestyle - I'll do this NOW!". Then a couple of hours later, I'm back coding happily seated. I'm sure this is the case for many of us.

I wish our brains could keep this bad, guilty-like feeling that makes us take action around for longer.
>but bottom was like looking though coke bottles.

Yes, exactly! Many others have the same issues and describe it in similar ways: "tunnel vision", or "looking through a pinhole"

It's very strange that optometrists & opticians don't explicitly explain this trade-off upfront: the "convenience" of progressive bifocals and the "fashion" of hi-index lenses will always be blurrier away from the center point than single vision lenses. If customers were properly educated ahead of time by the opticians, they wouldn't think progressives and hi-index were "defective". The lenses are not defective -- it's actually an unavoidable optical tradeoff! Your eyes just happen to be sensitive to it.

Some people adjust to progressives or high-index lenses just fine. Others don't. I tried them for 3 weeks as they recommended and never got used to them.
> "Distributed filesystems and CDN in general are great, but let's use them for things that do not actually need a single bit of security, please."

The notion that distributed filesystems are inherently, or can't be, secure is way off. I would argue that with these technologies, such as IPFS, they can be more secure.

The use cases are not only "open databases" (by which I assume you mean open to public), private databases and data sets can be achieved just as well. Just because it's "distributed" doesn't mean it can't be private or access controlled.

Agreed on the comment re. "...illegal to share unless the user explicitly consents" and I believe this will turn out better in the trustless, distributed web, eventually. Our whole current approach is based on the client-server paradigm forcing us to put every user and their data into one massive centralized database. But we can change the model here. Instead, how about you owning your data(base) and controlling who gets to access it? "Allow Facebook to read your social graph?" "Oh, no? How about another social network app?". As a user, I would want to have that choice.

That bridges to your next point on authentication, which can be done on the protocol level with authenticated data structures. You can define who can read/write to a database by using public key signing/verification. It could be just you, or it could be a set of keys. One good example of this is Secure Scuttlebut (http://scuttlebot.io/). I highly recommend to take a look an understanding the data structures underneath.
"In fact, I think I should just start recording everything, every day, all the time, and convert the audio to text."

About a decade or perhaps 15 years ago in Birmingham UK, the Ikon gallery had a multi-artist exhibition of a conceptual nature. one of the artists had used a micro-cassette recorder to record every word he uttered over a week and then had the tapes transcribed by audio-typists. The results where exhibited as an impressively high stack of A4 sheets. Unfortunately, they were, apart from a few sample sheets on the wall, piled in a glass case thus preventing viewers from sampling the text. I was taking bets on the sheets that were hidden from view being blank. The artist also exhibited the micro-cassette recorder and tapes used.

Google has nothing to say about the exhibit, but it has to be said my memory is a bit short on key words.

A sibling post mentioned Ted Nelson.
PS. I'm amazed he has received only 58,000 CAD. This is one seriously underfunded genius dude. Any VCs out there reading this should be beating down his door.

Here in Hungary I often see a sign saying that this beer stand or hot dog stand was funded by the EU & received about 60,000 euros. Somehow Europe does not have priorities straight or nobody in Europe have located Dacian (from Romania.. EU country) to give him more money than the average Hungarian hot dog stand receives.
Yes, because master is the default implicit branch. (Now, in git is possible to designate other branch as default, but folks who follow the advice in article often are not experienced enough to do it.)

I know a team that runs this branching model. It's quite surprising to hear statements "we never commit to master branch". "after cloning, always remember to switch to development branch". "when creating pull request, always remember if you used "development" as base". and then the mistakes eat up lot of cycles in the end.
Thanks for taking the time to dig your way to the facts, and then report back with what you found.

As it turns out, I learned something as well. Contrary to what I said, that same passage requires failing turbine blades to be retained as well. However, they seem to be drawing the line at complete fan or compressor assemblies or turbine disks.
Much smaller attack surface.
well... discounts...
Cdist 4.7.1 has been released
Its really just part of being a more global company. iPhone 6S happened because Asian consumers expect phones with big screens.

Apples roots are luxury brand, but we are seeing it slowly go after other segments of the market. Very natural progression as economies of scale grow and they can bring the same product at lower prices.

Even if it means a small hit to consumers in the west, its worth it to start reaching the 2-3 billion people in the rest of the world.

Its a classic case of luxury products becoming commodities, and its how a global giant is born.
Oh I guess no one has posted it this month, let's argue about git again.
Haskell doesn't force types to be nullable. Nulls are the "billion-dollar" mistake - by introducing bugs in programs.

That's just one example.
Glitch: Putting multi-language support on hold
A public, distributed ledger updated in consensus by the nodes repeating and storing it? With the proof of work that you could retell the full owner history, checksummed by verse.
Anyone here who can point towards using them as Windows Screensavers?