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Ah, thanks for clarifying. I've got several friends who believe in various forms of the pH diet. They also tend to be folks who believe in a lot of other woo, so I'm a bit trigger happy in shooting down pH-based diet theories (those diets are particularly ridiculous because they often categorize quite acidic foods into the alkaline category and vice versa). If there's ever been a good study about it, I'd certainly read it.

I think there's a lot of superstition in general, but one could certainly have independently noticed that eating sugar or fat alone (say butter or honey) is somewhat self-regulating. You get sick of it pretty quick. But, put them together in a pie or pastry or donut or something and suddenly it gets really easy to eat hundreds of calories worth of sugar and fat in a few quick bites.
I have some small company websites (mostly Wordpress, 100-200 visitors a day with few dozens active email) on a single share host at DreamHost.

The cost is higher than some VPS. But their panel (and managed hosting service) is very nice and I have no apparent problems.

Although I might choose a DigitalOcean VPS to host new websites, I don't have immediate plan to move away existing websites from DreamHost share host.
I don't really understand the implications of this license. Does it forbid using the resulting vectors for commercial purpose? Or does it only forbid stuff like packaging their code into a product, or offering to run it as a service.
I'm not skeptical about her physics achievements, so I don't agree with your opinion. I don't understand why this post was flagged.

Down votes are for communicating "I don't like this post." Flagging is for violation of community guidelines, or just plain abusive comments.

To respond to your claim, I'd like to point to you her blog post on the subject. She does a good job of explaining how she went from zero to being knowledgeable about physics in this post: https://fledglingphysicist.com/2013/12/12/if-susan-can-learn.... Essentially she always was interested in the subject but didn't believe she was smart enough to pursue it, until she was encouraged to take an introductory course.
You are justifying your fear of a rising power, as if you are threatened, and you have all your rights to fear. However, the truth is that the West is still arguably more powerful, where the Chinese people are the ones that have been living in this exact kind of fear that you stated for a very very long time. If your reasoning holds as a universal value for all human beings (but not just for you), then it is effectively justifying a historically less powered entity, China, now eventually becoming free from this threat, where the world becomes more equal and multi-tenant in power, and you should happily embrace it.

Maybe what you fear is not that you are threatened, but that your current way of threatening other people in the world is no more. What you fear is change.

And yes, you are stating the facts: one of the ugly parts of human nature.
> They're doing this because of the oil in the area and to exert dominance. USA on the other way just want everybody to be okay cause you know USA is all about money and business...I think in general I rather have USA ideology over China bullying.

When the United States wants an island and its surrounding territory, it doesn't build a new one. It takes over an existing island and depopulates it by force.

Diego Garcia was located far away from any potential threats, it was low in a
native population and it was an island that was not sought after by other
countries as it lacked economic interest...Diego Garcia and other acquired
islands would play a key role in maintaining US dominance.

The Chagossians had to be removed from the island before the base could be
constructed. In 1968, the first tactics were implemented to decrease the
population of Diego Garcia. Those who left the island—either for vacation or
medical purposes—were not allowed to return, and those who stayed could
obtain only restricted food and medical supplies. This tactic was in hope
that those that stayed would leave "willingly". One of the tactics used was
that of the killings of Chagossian pets. Dogs were carried into sheds where
they were gassed in front of their owners.[1]

The island now houses a US military base (née "Camp Justice") used as a black site torture facility and banned munitions depot. The former inhabitants live in poverty and exile, the US and UK having recently declared the area a sham marine reserve specifically with the secret intent of preventing their return.

But that's fine, because the USA just wants everybody to be okay.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia
>radium

Not well understood physics, then it was understood and quickly recognized as dangerous. Nothing was done because of nonexistent regulations and corporate money.

>leaded petrol

Recognized as dangerous to begin with ("December 1922, the US Surgeon General wrote to GM regarding growing concerns that environmental lead would become a serious menace to public health."), huge negative effects in workers noticed almost immediately. Nothing was done because of nonexistent regulations and corporate money. (https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth/)

>asbestos

Recognized as dangerous by medical journals as far back as the 30s (About 40 years after it came into widespread use). Nothing was done because of nonexistent regulations and corporate money.

>cigarettes

Recognized as dangerous by medical journals as far back as the 40s. Nothing was done because of nonexistent regulations and corporate money.

>Non-ionizing radiation

Not recognized as dangerous despite every conceivable study being tried multiple times. No link to cancer. Technology has been widely used for a little under a century with no signs of population-level effects. No known mechanism of action (unlike all the others). Regardless, regulations limit human exposure and require standardized testing of all consumer products.
I tried to find it on Google Earth but could not. Sadly the article doesnt note the coordinates. Reminds me quite a bit of the Gates described in the tales of Gog and Magog.
When it comes to interference with DNA, it is wavelength not wattage that is important.
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I quit using Hostgator after they modified their cPanel to prevent you from installing your own SSL certificates and forcing you to buy their own offerings. Seems pretty underhanded (even GoDaddy lets you manually install a LE cert)
No there is not.

There is a well understood risk of cancer in people who drink really really hot coffee and tea in oesophageal cancer but in no other cancer is there a relationship
What domain were these projects in? What was the 'average' developer unable to grok?
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Could you elaborate more on that, please? I wonder what are challenges of Clojure in large scale or legacy projects.
I already know finding devs with Clojure/FP as core skill is harder than e.g. Java devs. But I have also seen Java projects being rewritten to PHP for similar reason so... just curious the other arguments about rewrite.
Well, apparently being good at college is not a requirement for becoming professor...
But I don't get that US GPA system. If B is the second best grade from 5 available grades, and GPA goes from 1 to 5 with 5 best, shouldn't this translate to 4/5 then?

We here usually just average the grades from the courses. But on the other hand, nobody cares about that score and it's not written anywhere officially. Because teachers are different and schools are different, a C with one Prof could still be better than an A with another one.
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I'm probably going to sound harsh, but diversity of spoken language is
way different than diversity of programming languages or frameworks.
We need to have a common cultural ground, a shared language: Esperanto was created because the world was deeply culturally divided at the time, nationalist movements and totalitarian mandate of us-vs-them only worked because you have different cultures and languages competing in the same area. Death of languages is not bad.
Having cross-cultural exchange and business links probably is the biggest contributor to world peace, all because of people speaking a common language.
Having one shared language has numerous benefits :
It increases efficiency by eliminating translation and adaptation to each country:
instead of making N editions of something for each language you have one.
Lack of cultural barrier: you can read sites/books/articles watch movies without subtitles and dubbing, also making content production cheaper and simpler.
News and communications become fast and unimpeded by borders and cultures:
no need to translate anything.
A standard term for something being as precise as the shared language definition:
instead of two languages competing for a descriptor word which covers different areas the meaning is made more accurate by settling on a single word.
Less of misunderstanding where content can have hidden/insulting meaning in another language due translation(often a quick translation can have subtle mistakes),
Diplomacy and travel become easier, with people less alienated from each other.
Cultural differences that depend on the language disappear, preventing bias and prejudice for the unknown and foreign.
A great counter-example to "benefits of language diversity" is tribes: they have languages unique for each tribe and constant warfare and tensions: us-vs-them mentality preventing progress and cooperation.
Congratulations on launching. But you might want to clarify that this is for a very small subset of countries in the world, so the rest of us don't waste our time with it?

http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/08/13/countries-that-dont-us...
I might be wrong but didn't something similar happen with Japan too? After the rise of their industrial power they started expanding outside, buying/investing in stuff outside their country in accordance to the BoJ guidance also known as "window guidance". But then the asset bubble burst causing issues for their economy.

Chinese loans seem to be on the rise:
https://www.reuters.com/article/china-economy-loans/rpt-upda...

So, will something similar happen here too?
Ok nevermind, seems there is the max 4 and max 5 system.
Not exatcly the same, but if you fly with norwegian, booking ticket through Norway locale will sometimes save you more than 25%.
We’re talking about two different things. The rubber Olivetti buttons under discussion were the ones from the yellow calculator.

I’m not sure what kind of switches were on this typewriter.

Anyway, the rest of your comment is in my opinon quite misinformed about typing ergonomics. If you want to have an extended discussion about why offline, shoot me an email.
>being a westerner surely gives you such right to assume that we Chinese are all being repressed.

You're free to oppress yourselves. You're even free to believe that your slavery is freedom.
But I have no doubt in my mind that China and its vision of the ideal society would be repressive to me and negatively affect my way of life.

See, I like being divisive and value the ability of a society to be disrupted in favor of bigger and better things. For example, we value the ability to petition and protest our government or society when it does something bad because that way we get progress.

The Chinese way to respond to a social grievance, whether you like/know/acknowledge it or not, is to just murder everyone and deny anything ever happened. Granted, that's also known to happen in America-backed dictatorships, but at least they don't do it at home.

And that's the culture you export- encouraging harmony, monotony, and social conservatism ("don't rock the boat") in countries they support rather than free thought, diversity, and innovation. I'd hate for the remaining 5/6ths of the planet to be under the boot of an immutable society in love with its own stagnation and mediocrity.
great! with version control, you can see line-by-line where that infection was added... and when it was committed. Good!
They launched their first domestically built carrier last April. (Technically, it hasn't completed what we'd call sea trials and commissioning.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/china-aircraft...
that's simply not true.
If you're using apache, mod_md will automatically setup LE for you: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_md.html
Your grandchildren will be able to see minute details of your life, using social media archival tools. They may be able to read all your HN and reddit comments. Would they be interested in that? Who knows. But things are about to change nevertheless.
They can't grok how they will get a higher paid job after once they reset the "years' experience" clock on their chosen stack.
> The only time I can think of where this is useful is when you are trying to be super defensive with possible exceptions being thrown.

If your application uses exceptions at all, then the time to be super-defensive about exceptions is all the time. If you don't form the habit, then you'll forget in the cases where it matters.

Plus, most programmers are pretty bad at identifying where exceptions might be thrown, because it tends to reduce to the question: "Where will my code have bugs?" Obviously, if you knew, you'd have fixed them...

> _much_ more readable code.

I'd argue that it's more readable to put state build-up and tear-down next to each other, so that future readers can see and modify them together. If you put them far apart, it's easier for them to skew.
The irrelevancy of the nation state is something neoliberals and socialists agree on, yes.
Actually, I think you misunderstand how the Hukou system works.

You're allowed to physically go anywhere and visit as a tourist. It's just that if you want to to permanently move to another city, you have to do a bunch of bureaucratic paperwork. In reality, people move around all the time, but it's rate-limited, and it's easier to go from a dense place to a less dense place.

As a point of comparison, consider the housing crisis in San Francisco. One could facetiously argue that political forces limiting the housing supply creates a similar effect.
Hi, I'd suggest finding a local Python or Django user group and asking for help. Also it's worth joining #django on irc to ask questions.
It's happening in advance of the Beltline transit in Atlanta. The Beltline has been building out park/trail and surrounding neighborhoods are doing very well. The light rail is currently just a promise.
> What frightens me is the scenario of human thought being overwhelmed and left in the dust. Not being aided or abetted by computers, but being completely overwhelmed, and we are to computers as cockroaches or fleas are to us. That would be scary.

I suspect our expectation of GAI is unreasonable and we will sooner or later have to reconcile it with a different and less anthropomorphic expression of intelligence and consciousness. It might not be required for AI to be (anthrophomorphically) intelligent or conscious for it to 'take over'. Infact it might be a huge advance over mankind that it is not.
Riding the bus in Seattle is usually a bad experience (olfactory, auditory, etc). Hobos, wangsters, creepers, stinkers, etc.

But it costs ~$40 to park downtown for work day. How could anyone afford/justify that? I had a parking pass that my company paid for for about $250 a month for a while. The lot was crazy packed and was valet only (but not in a nice way).

I work from home now, and we got an office in Lynnwood. Not as cool, but it works for us. Parking was too expensive, bus far too time consuming..
The real question is, on October 2017 which shared webhost can you recommend???

I am with Inmotionhosting on their business plan and that has been working fine. They support postgres in addition to mysql which is nice. Other than that nothing special, only that it works and they don't hassle me. It's not very cheap though... USD200 per year.

Hosters scrapped:

- Servage.com

- Greengeeks.com
Houston is a bit too spread out. Where can you get to on the rail?
If you want to talk about 1968, we can talk about the mass purges going on in China too.

Criticizing the history of the United States is fine, but it's not even in the same universe regarding human rights abuses. China continues to purge and "disappear" people, so I can understand why you wouldn't want to talk about 2017.
It's more than that. Look at the recent deal with Sri Lanka to resolve the debt owed to China for building a port there:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-china-ports-idU...
My reasoning is that the 'invisible hand' of many less informed bettors leads to market efficiency in aggregate, particularly in highly liquid markets. Greater liquidity in parimutuel markets makes for odds that are less of a moving target, but it leaves fewer mispriced prospects to capitalise on. So not only do you have to beat a fairly efficient market, but you have to beat it on average by a margin equal to the parimutuel operator's take. In less liquid markets the unknown odds are more of a problem. That's not to say it profits can't be made, just that it's harder imho. With fixed pricing, even though the numbers don't 'add up to one' there either, you can lock in a positive expectation long before price consensus is reached.
> It just means that ML based approach may be better than whatever it is we humans do in enough tasks to make the humans irrelevant.

Given that more and more people are employed in ML-related jobs, what makes you think advances in ML will render humans irrelevant? Seems to me like the opposite is happening right now.
To repeat, it's not physically possible to judge every single thing. It doesn't matter if you're literate and engaged - there's just not enough time, even if you were to spend every hour you have on this. And most people have jobs etc.
and MX foremost!
I thought the dam retrofit itself was done and the remaining work is just road work.
actually, i am disappointed. if someone posts a library and then doesn't have any tests.

It will be causing pain for the guys/girl how are using it.
i.e. minor changes. that are actually breaking etc...

On top, no tests => inferior code structure and architecture.

Without tests, properly structuring according to SOLID principles, get's difficult.
> The best solution to this problem seems to be Python's "with".

Ehhh... `with` is a crude substitute for destructors. C++ is a whole language designed around RAII. Python really is not.

You do make a good point that the handling of exceptions in destructors in C++ is problematic. But you can actually throw from destructors, as long as the destructor wasn't called during unwind for another throw. I'm of the opinion that the inability to throw again during unwind is a glaring bug in the standard, since it presumes people can know if their code is going to throw, which is like presuming people know where their bugs are. But the reasonable way to work around it is to squelch exceptions from destructors when another exception is already in-flight. This is usually fine, as the "secondary exceptions" thrown during an unwind are usually side-effects of the "primary exception" anyway.
I suspect the built-in Java Native Interface (JNI) won't work when compiling bytecode to native code, since the JNI methods require a pointer to the JVM (passing a pointer to the JVM to C functions or calling methods on the JVM class in C++). Perhaps an FFI library like this could work, though: https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi .
> The point is that being "baked in" is something machines lack which biological intelligences possess.

I’d say it’s the exact opposite: A freshly born CPU is as a capable as it will ever be. The problem is that it never learns anything new, as opposed to biological organisms which continuously adapt to their environment.
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I am looking for a cheap SBC with two switched Ethernet ports for a network device project. It is incredible how rare SBCs that have just two Ethernet ports (without a kitchen sink of other stuff) are.
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By your own description, doesn't that make it a great model in "99%" of cases?

If you outgrow it, sure, but your odds of a small business or little WordPress blog outgrowing such a thing are quite small. Paying more might not make sense in that "99%"of websites.
"...included a plan for a 99-year lease..."

The loss of sovereignty is the most extreme example for of course. Leasing is something in between. Though 99 years is a pretty long time.

"You can't pay, ok how about we'll just take control of this little part of your country for 99 years".
I think your links goes to this post.
As someone else pointed out, the first commit was 16 hours ago. Maybe a little early to be disappointed about a lack of tests? It might have been posted to HN earlier than the author wanted it to be widely known. Who knows?

I'm a big fan of tests myself. I'm also a big fan of pointing out positives as well as negatives, and keeping things in perspective. It's easy to tear down projects in their early days (hours!). Let's show a little support as well if we're pointing out flaws rather than doubling down on negativity.

Anyway, you asked, I speculated, and that's that.
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I used to Work in Seattle. I just moved to Belltown a few blocks from work. Saved a lot of money on gas and commute time. Parking was a pain, but then again my company offered a subsidized 90$/mo pass. My rent did go up a lot, but when factoring in gas/time saved it was worth it to me.

But this was quite some time ago.
The "extraordinary rendition" international kidnapping program that literally disappeared people and was facilitated by Diego Garcia began in 2001. The "Chagos Marine Protected Area" which was internally praised as "the most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos Islands' former inhabitants or their descendants from resettling"[1] was established in 2010.

But that's fine, that's clearly ancient history.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Marine_Protected_Area
I'm still using FutureQuest for my main revenue generating website, about 20 years later. I'm still extremely happy with FutureQuest, sites have been very reliable & responsive and I've only had two small downtime incidents in those 20 years. Their support still has that 'small business' feel where you know all the staff by name & they know you & your account personally.

I keep my random experiments on Dreamhost, because I can throw an idea onto the one Dreamhost account to see if it gets any traction. But I'm not happy with Dreamhost's reliability or performance, I often can't even log in. As those sites get traction, I migrate them over to their own FutureQuest account.
Sugar doesn't meet the medical criteria to be considered an addictive drug.
> Although forgery of results would be possible

However, testing is done by multiple independent countries, so for any significant effect something would be found.
Don't many businesses have 'no-traffic' websites?
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Interesting service, you're right that timing matters since we probably would've used this when we started. Also OpsZero is my cousin, small world.
It is mentioned, even if not deeply: "...Gwadar is experiencing a storm of construction: a brand-new container port, new hotels, and 1,800 miles of superhighway and high-speed railway to connect it to China’s landlocked western provinces"