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I'm not so sure that it's a safe bet to assume that stocks will keep going up by 10% per year every year in the future.

I think we've already reached a point where people are starting to complain about corporations getting too big and becoming too powerful.

What drove increases in the stock market in the past few decades has been the replacement of many small businesses by few large corporate entities.

Economies of scale have been a double-edged sword; while they have allowed consumers to purchase non-essential goods and services (such as electronic devices and appliances, holidays, clothing, entertainment...) for cheaper, they have also been responsible for driving up the prices of essentials likes housing, transport, electricity, medicine, education, etc (e.g. by shifting the workforce to big cities where corporate HQs are)...

I think we'll reach a point in the near future when city-dwellers will start running out of resources to support basic living essentials and this will force them out of cities - This will drive real estate prices down but it will also drive down stock prices which depend on that lifestyle.

I think the bubble that we're in now affects every person on the planet so if/when it bursts, the repercussions will be massive.
And how do I know the VPN is trustworthy?
I have always found black cabs reliable I lost my wallet in one and it was handed into my bank with the £200 intact
Wow, this surprises me a lot, especially combined with the consensus position that Postgres is good, robust software. What is Postgres doing right and how can other projects follow their lead?
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The biggest current mechanism is the case where driving beats commuter rail + walking, but commuter rail + ride hail beats driving. The other would be where a shared ride (ie, Uber pool rather than Uber X) is replacing a solo car trip.
Agreed. However, C++ pragmatically does have restrict in both clang and g++, which is still useful in cases where you can deductively prove the lack of aliasing.
* is pretty cool but has some issues.
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Yes, just like the roads. The difference is that civil infrastructure isn’t expected to be profitable and there isn’t the equivalent of an investor who will decide that next quarter needs to be profitable.
Uber and Lyft have saved my butt more than a few times when the NYC subway trains weren’t running.

Maybe if the subway trains weren’t regularly delayed, overcrowded, and filled with performers and the homeless I wouldn’t be so quick to use Uber/Lyft.
I read a lot of textbooks on pdf and it’s a very poor substitute. Jumping back and forth, as you do, between definitions, theorems, appendices is a nightmare with the pdf readers I’ve found. I have to reaort to making screenshots of things I’m likely to need to refer to again.

Perhaps a good solution exists? It wouldn’t be hard to make.
Is it really such a hard ship to walk a mile?
> From the controversial construction of Africa’s largest dam in the rugged hinterland just shy of the Sudanese border, to Addis Ababa’s alleged displacement of tens of thousands of villagers in order to lease their prime Nile-side land to foreign agribusinesses, an uneasy pall hangs over the entire area.

Who are these "foreign agribusinesses"? Is it western corporations like "gourmet coffee" producers and such, or something more elementary / basic like wheat, rice, grain producers?

And who is leading the prime Nile-side land to them? The government (which might be corrupt) or is it greedy individuals who are destroying their ecosystem at the cost of their fellow dwellers?

> Just reporting there means navigating a complicated minefield of checkpoints, informants, and terrified interviewees.

Why?
So what happens when if you move back to USA would you still get advantages of 0 percent capital gains? Or would you have to move everything to the USA ?
Most plants have negative carbon-dioxide emissions. The trick is not cutting them down.
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Ugh, that phrase is so grim. I kinda wish people in this industry would just tell each other to “shut up and deal with it” if that’s what they effectively mean.
I mean, honestly, I don't blame these companies. I blame the carriers.
Imagine a subway that only runs one train per line, such that on average each station only gets visited once an hour.

No one would use it.

Now add 10 more trains so trains stop every 5 minutes.

Many many people use it.
My guess is that using the same disk performs better then round robin ... the disk could for example already have the data in cache, while the other disk has not. When it comes to optimization - the results are often unexpected. And you would have to do a lot of benchmarks on different disks, loads, use cases etc to make a conclusion, and you might find unexpected outcomes that you did not think about, like both disks being self-bricked at the same time as they have almost the same rw count.
Is it safe in this thread to bring up the human cost of Amazon's (and likely by extension Bezo's) almost sociopathic pursuit of success? I wouldn't deny Amazon is a successful company, but how many horror stories from employees being ground to dust under their management have crossed HN's front page? How many companies are now refusing to do business with Amazon because of the iron-fisted requirements enforcement on their suppliers? How many sales on Amazon are of shit quality, ripoff products no better than you'd find on the streets of Hong Kong?

I mean eschewing any and all corporate, social, and ethical responsibility will definitely make you a truck load of money, but I wouldn't call it exactly a net gain for all involved.
FWIW that's a list of "open items" for PostgreSQL 10 release. So it's not really a "global" authoritative list of open issues, but something the project uses to make sure we deal with all known issues in the development version before the first release.

The claim that PostgreSQL does not have a bug tracker is not entirely accurate - there is no bugzilla/debbugs/...-style bugtracker (although it's a recurrent topic in discussions), but we do have pgsql-bugs mailing list. Which is mostly fine, as long as you fix bugs promptly and don't keep unsolved bugs lying around for years.

If you need to know what was fixed in a particular release, see either the release notes (high-level summary), or commits in the stable branches (those are typically just bugfixes, and the commit messages usually include a link to the relevant pgsql-bugs thread).
We subsidize everything to varying degrees – frequently “unable to make it work” means “would be working if we subsidized it at the same level we subsidize roads, gas, etc.”
MEO is the phone carrier. They're the largest one in Portugal, previously called TMN. They're the ones I called.

I can't edit to make my post clearer. I'm also not their customer anymore.
Interesting -- I'll look into it. Is it open-source (in the spirit of future-proofing)?

Answering my own question: It doesn't appear to be.
I’m surprised that Don Reinertsen’s book The Principles of Product Development Flow doesn’t come up in these discussions. Rich Hickey mentioned it once after a conference years ago and that’s the only time I’ve heard it mentioned. I’ve since found a few blog posts responding to conference talks (of which there are several on YouTube from around 2015), but not many. I think people simply don’t know about it. I wrote it down at the time and finally digested it over the past several months. It’s an incredible book that I think would resonate with many of the commenters here.

I think of Reinertsen’s approach as industrial agile, in the most honorable sense of industrial. There is theory and some math. There is heavy emphasis on project economics as a means of making complex trade-offs and a basis for training, deputizing, and expecting employees at all levels of an organization to make better decisions on the fly as part of doing their jobs. Lessons are drawn from many fields, such as network communications, queueing theory, and the Marines. Contrasts are drawn with manufacturing to explain exactly why some of the techniques we adopt do not apply in product development but where many techniques from kanban systems do apply.

The book is organized around hundreds of principles given as tools, to be considered and applied as needed to your specific situation. Annoyingly, he refuses to get into implementation. At first I thought he was saving pages, but the more I think about I realize the seeming omission was necessary genius. Digging into even one example implementation would result in the death of the message and framework as people copied that and get dogmatic about a methodology all over again.

The whole presentation is beautifully constructed and tight. It puts a perspective and language on things in a way that makes me hopeful and interested in project management, similar to how Rich Hickey’s talks raise my understanding, vocabulary, and aspirations for software engineering.

I would welcome anyone involved in prioritizing commercial software projects to read and discuss this book (and document their implementations).
Fix bugs, don't track them.
One could even go as far as to say, that we're successful in doing just that. Only in the opposite direction of what we've discovered to be necessary.
Bummer. Too bad the 'mineral' couldn't be used to make bricks or something.
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Not to mention safe and clean. In bigger cities, public transportation can put you in physical danger and have you walking out smelling worse than Theon Greyjoy
Better, in terms of congestion, is capacity. Buses>cars.
This was my plan as well, until I read Nausea. The Autodidact is not someone you come away wanting to emulate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autodidact
My hope is to release it in a form that can be compiled by open-source tools.
Not at all. Most reporters have a beat. They accrue and build relationships with sources around a broad subject. If you're reporting on books (the author does), you'd probably know quite a few a librarians who you keep in touch with just to hear what's going on.
So when their service gets hacked two weeks from now, we can see the locations of VIPs? Celebrities? Rich people? When they hear about this (after their locations are leaked...) they’ll make telcos fix it, right?
yeh a lot of investment pros are worried that the market is getting to high I am wondering if I ought to take some of my profits and buy gold etf's or just got cash and wait for the fall to buy back in
A clever economist could probably work it out so that's it's a pareto improvement for society. In other words those damaged by the policy could in principle be made whole from the gains of those who gain from it, with gains leftover.
Even if you presume it's true the next question is: what are some of the measurable benefits? For example, waiting for the bus, even with a mobile device, likely cuts into productivity.

If I have a concern it's the loss of public trans as a social/class equalizer (if you will). That is the better well to-dos will have less direct interaction with the less well to-dos. Awareness is the foundation of empathy. Less socisl "mixing" (if you will) probably isn't a good thing.
You could adjust it based on income.
> auto *my_matrix = new MathArray<double, 10, 10>();

In Fortran, one can choose the matrix size at runtime, though.

But otherwise, great. Now if you just add slicing so that if we, say

allocate(name_of_array(-1:5, 1:3))

and then say fill in the matrix by

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21

then

name_or_array(0:4:2,2:3)

should return

9 11 13
16 18 20

and then we're talking. (Slicing should of course also work in higher dimensions than 2.)
I think that, as a coworker of mine has suggested, the situation will improve as programming matures as a field of work. Something like a professional's association could work wonders if well executed. I'm not looking forward to all of the associated crap, but you win some, you lose some.
Yep. Or any app that runs on your phone that makes even 1 outgoing API request can get all of this info.
FWIW we're not "DBA-as-a-service company". It's part of the job, but we do all sorts of stuff (support, consulting, trainings, custom development, ...)
Transit systems in the US need some payment technology upgrade.

On a couple of occasions, I haven't been able to board a bus due to not having exact change. Once, I was with kids & family visiting NYC. We were planning to take a public bus from a suburb to the city. The fare turned out to be $16 for all of us, but I had $11 and some $100 bills. Guess what, I couldn't board the bus as they can't return change. The bus driver cannot accept partial fare from me. I couldn't give up 80+ dollars as change. If I had $20, I wouldn't mind not getting back $4.

I wondered why they cannot start accepting credit cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay or any reasonable alternative. I then had to find a train station nearby which could accept credit card.
Your definition of socially liberal is quite different from most people’s.. every time I see this it just seems like arguing with yourself for the sake of arguing.
I am too, but you need a lot of people going in the same direction. Lyft Line can already be pretty annoying when you need to drop some else off significantly off your path.

I think we're going to see an explosion of vehicle miles when self driving cars take off, with the attendant congestion issues.

I'm sort of expecting a big change in the sort of cities people want to live in when delivery and transportation gets cheaper and more convenient.
I think biggest ones are i) nix command is a bit complex, but it's getting redesigned [1] & ii) nixpkg definitions sometimes contain a lot of cruft.

I've found Guix and GuixSD, which are a GNU-blessed Guile Scheme-based reimplementation of Nix and NixOS, more aesthetically pleasing. Quite simple and elegant in fact.

The major differences are that Guix DSLs are implemented on top of Scheme, whereas Nix uses a custom DSL. Furthermore, Guix avoids systemd and uses GNU herd instead.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779
This is a basic contradiction which I am not sure is solvable. If the stops are too far away, you (or somebody for whom walking is harder, like older people, less physically fit people, etc.) won't be able to use it. If stops are too close, getting through them takes a lot of time. I know there is a body of work that tries to find optimal setup for such cases, but I'm not sure it's possible to make everybody happy here. If you want good coverage, you'd have to sacrifice speed, the bus can't go everywhere and be fast at the same time, at least not within a single mode of transportation.

In SF, this is made worse by the people's behavior. There is a dedicated line for the buses, but cars routinely drive on it to turn, get in/out parking or just feeling they can outsmart everybody by doing so. So in fact, the bus stops not once but 3-4 times per block to deal with these. And then there are traffic lights of course. And yes, as a result it's not too much faster than walking (though somewhat more relaxing, if you get a seat :)
It's rent adjusted. So if everyone passes it on to the tennants they end up paying more tax.
Wha? You're putting words in his/her mouth for the sake of appearing arch. Public transit is subsidized and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, because that's what the owners (the public) want. Far less clear is how many more unicorns the owners of Lyft and Uber are willing to toss into the furnace before they starting wanting to see some actual ROI. Anecdotally, both services have gotten way more expensive in my area recently.
I don't buy that social liberalism and expensive welfare programs go hand in hand. It is entirely within the realm of possibility to broach society with progressivism sans nanny state sans righteous indignation.

While libertarian ideology may be akin to some brand of utilitarian nihilism, we don't have to lower ourselves to that level of impersonal cold distance. Government need not be devoid of personality for us to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

We don't need to give way to expensive social welfare programs in order to have a clean conscience.
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> There is ZERO riscv software at all

Exactly. So if you are porting your code to RISC-V don't you want as fast of a simulator as possible?
There was discussion about the spelling of "robbin" versus "robin", but that was easily corrected and a new patch submitted. It was definitely the request from the Linux RAID maintainer Neil Brown to provide benchmarks that stopped me from pursuing it further. I created the patch when someonein the Linux IRC channel was reporting this imbalance on their SSDs, so I had no access to hardware SSD hardware to test it on. This was a long time ago.
I have seen some efforts at carbon negative cement; that might be an input that could accept this buuuuuut its most likely not as efficient as shoving the CO2 down into the ground with high speed pumps.

http://berc.berkeley.edu/carbon-negative-cement-turning-clim...
I have had the same issue in the past in the Bay area. I finally got a clipper card a few weeks ago (I live in MV typically walk to work). Yesterday, I was in front of a VTA in San Jose trying to get back to MV. The people around were a bit shady, and there was a pretty long wait for the train - of course .. I called an Uber, which cost a few bucks more. Still waiting to use that clipper card.
Mass transit works amazingly well in Europe, particularly in the north.
Back when I still ran Linux on my personal servers I noticed this. I was adding TRIM support to the md drivers before the maintainers finally got around to it. That's when I noticed the balancing code tended to favour one disk.

I added round-robin code and experimented with splitting large sequental requests between idle disks.
One of the key points of the article is that there is a lot of legacy code written in Fortran. As a former high energy physicist, I have an anecdote here that some people might find interesting.

There was a library written in Fortran called CERNLIB which included a broad variety of miscellaneous numerical algorithm implementations (e.g. minimization, integration, special functions, random number generation) [1]. I couldn't tell you exactly when the library was first released, but my best guess would be the early 80s. It can't possibly be later than 1986 when PAW was initally released [2]. The field has since transitioned from the Fortran based PAW to the C++ based ROOT since then, but many high energy collaborations still rely on CERNLIB for their own analysis frameworks (keep in mind that many of these experiments had been in planning and development stages for over a decade before they actually turned on).

The thing about this that I find interesting is that compiling CERNLIB has become a lost art and that this fact has had far reaching consequences. The last available binaries were compiled with GCC 4.3 in 2006 and packages are only available for Scientific Linux 4 [3]. This crucial dependency has led to collaborations using extremely outdated Linux distributions and GCC versions in their computing facilities. The majority of analysis code is written in C++, but not even C++11 additions can be used because everything is frozen on GCC 4.3. Nobody can even run the analysis environment on their local machines without resorting to the use of virtual machines running SL4. It was really a nightmare to deal with.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN_Program_Library

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_Analysis_Workstation

[3] - http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/version.html
I'm learning Dutch on Duolingo, and they recently updated the "Tree". Basically whenever they do that, you lose a lot of your "progress", and have to revisit (months of) previous sections that you'd already completed (because some new things are added to previous subjects). It sounds similar to what you described (very demotivating), and seems (from comments on the site) to especially affect people who are relatively newer to the site. I'm not sure yet, but I think there's a mismatch between gamification and motivation for actual learning.
I was able to use a half dozen or so psychs, dissos and MDMA to address issues the medical establishment can't/won't. I have official diagnosis of PTSD, GAD, Major Depression, ADHD and OCD. I was in a very, very bad accident as a child. While, I am "ok" with it in the Freudian sense, It just left me anxious all the time.

These things made dramatic changes to my personality, I was weak, shy, reserved. I'm now confident, self-actualized, empathetic. But they also did trigger DID which had been dormant for a decade. For me, this was actually a good thing. I made peace with those parts of me and I can call upon them when needed.

You kind of hit a wall with self-growth-- You're going to realize a lot of your friendships and relationships are unhealthy. You'll need to remove these unhealthy things. My employer was massively abusive (had to end that), and my wife, while not intentional puts massive amounts of stress on me due to some issues she doesn't care to work on.

People who refuse to grow, or want to keep treating you negatively will label your behavior crazy, and express concern for you when in reality they want to continue the negative patterns you had previously participated in.

I've also gotten to some really scary places mentally, with meditation and dissos achieved brief glimpses of "enlightenment". Which is far less interesting than it sounds. Enlightenment is actually rather lonely. Imagine your mind expanding into an infinite space, an infinite, empty space.

The hardest part has actually been my family. They don't recognize me because, for the first time in their lives, I am not completely, utterly miserable.
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RIP Firefox OS. :/ It might be a little challenging to base on a platform with not a lot of future support.

I use EtherCalc as my primary spreadsheet editor, and I can definitely agree it's UI is not it's strongest feature, though, it's way better than having nothing. I definitely noticed how clean FireText looks and feels compared to Etherpad, which is my main text editor.

Regarding export/import, I think the biggest thing (and Sandstorm doesn't do this well either currently) is an easy way to do that in bulk. For example, I'd want to export all of my documents in one batch, so it's something I can quickly do regularly as a backup. And for import, I'd want to see something someday like where I log into an OAuth for Google Drive and it auto-imports all my crud. Consider the import flow for most email services: You log into your old provider, and it uses IMAP to pull all your old mail in. One and done.

That's not to suggest I think this is a quick or easy thing to implement, just food for thought.
The point of agile is that your spec and schedule are nonsense. So-called BDUF has failed time and again and the reasonable approach is to not bother planning more than a few weeks at a time and be able to change priorities quickly.
It was nice of you to provide sources even when challenged by such a low-effort comment.
Agreed. You may also enjoy this psilocybin study that was released last week: http://www.newswise.com/articles/johns-hopkins-study-probes-...

> Altruism: Comparing LD-SS to HD-SS, the effect size was 1.36, which statisticians consider “very large.” Comparing LD-SS to HD-HS, the effect size was 1.95, considered “very large,” almost “huge.”

Psilocybin seemed to cause 'very large' increases in altruism.