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It can't hurt to learn Java. There's a huge amount of Java code out there, and there are lots of Java jobs. It has a future, though the hype wore off it a long time ago.

That said, I can't say I particularly like Java, or find it fulfilling or interesting in the same way I like elegant and clever C++, or even Python. It's had all the sharp edges filed down, making it a pedestrian and mundane language. But that's of course why a lot of companies use it; it's a known quantity which you can have a team of people work with and get a working result in a planned timeframe. On the downside, there are too many people who only ever developed with Java, and can only think about design within the constrained limits of what Java allows, i.e. basic OOP. Definitely learn more than one language so you have a wider appreciation for what's possible.

Personally, I'd recommend Python 3 as a first language to get started with today. You can rapidly get started doing interesting stuff with a minimum of fuss and vastly less unnecessary verbosity than Java. It's also less constraining with regard to design; it doesn't force the use of classes and OOP like Java, so you can experiment with different ways of doing things.
Yup. Some very interesting things going on in that field. My wife is in the art auction business.
This is not as good as NVidia ruler, unfortunately. From one of the Amazon reviews:

its neat, not as neat as the nvidia ruler that my boss showed me, i bought this one on a wim after my boss showed me the one his son got from nvidia, the nvidia one had alot more stuff because it was a 12" ruler, i either neglected to see this was a 6in ruler, but im pretty sure it didn't mention it before, it does now, but i got it and was totally disappointed at the tiny ruler..
La fission nucléaire
Does thos work alongside an existing git solution (such as GitLab), or is it an alternative/replacement?
Terrestial cables are easy to repair, in terms of hours. For undersea cables, this could take weeks or months, depending on location and wheather conditions.
Are Gen X's really a bunch of Yuppies who are against regulation? Even after everything that Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago Boys have done?
Tsunami in the Baltic Sea (or North Sea, for that matter)?! How's that supposed to happen?
Some words, like this one, should be exempt/blacklisted from autocorrect.
Don't forget that France is heavily relying on German electricity. Especially in the winter time, France needs to shut down some nuclear power plants due to frozen rivers and but still needs electricity for heating. In the summer some nuclear power plants have to shut down as well because the rivers and thus the cooling water is too hot. In those times, Germany's reliable power sources help France to avoid major blackouts.
In some ways, the story of someone getting ripped off like that leaves the victim with a better story for themselves than simply being a guy who has four super bowl rings even though he doesn't actually play football.

Which is not to applaud theft, but rather to highlight the unsympathetic qualities of the victim.
How Secret Underwater Wiretapping Helped End the Cold War
My 2c: I never had any interest in writing C# on the .NET platform until it was open-sourced and added first party-supported cross-platform support with the introduction of .NET Core.

Nowadays it's my favourite language I write in - it has _excellent_ tooling, especially JetBrains Rider IDE. The open-source library ecosystem might not be as broad as NodeJS or Ruby, but it's high quality and growing all the time.
It depends on what you want to do with your programming knowledge. Here are my considerations:

* If you want a steady job in a large organisation then Java will probably keep consistently employed, but probably also uninspired.

* If you want to learn some powerful programming concepts and gain solid CS foundations, then I'd suggest reading SICP and learning Scheme.

* If you just want to learn something that you can be productive in quickly then Python is a good choice.

* If you just want to tinker with web pages, etc then Javascript.

It is very hard to predict which languages will be considered great in the future. Go, Rust, Kotlin, Clojure, Erlang, Swift, etc all have their ardent fans and when you understand their reasoning you might be in a better position to make your own informed decision, but I would not suggest learning any of those as your first language.
Close up, they always look like landscape...
Absolutely unreadable. What a disgusting way to transfer information.
Chef Ramsey makes a cake, everyone has a slice and says it's the tastiest and best looking cake they've ever had.

Jamie Oliver comes along and says "No, no! You're wrong, it's not a tasty cake and it looks terrible, it's just tastier and prettier than you've had before".

Does the fact that everyone, other than Jamie Oliver, is claiming the cake to be incredibly tasty and the best looking not by default make the cake both tasty and great looking?

Surely the proof is in the eating?
Agreed, why not? Why should dictionaries not be improved? They're constantly in motion except for dead languages like Latin and Greek.

What could also work is having multiple hooks (different "niche" dictionaries) which could be enabled or disabled.

In SwiftKey you can select multiple languages (dictionaries) which should be supported (and corrected, if you opt for that option).

But what I mean is that say a user could enable a medication dictionary, or a UNIX manual dictionary, or a law dictionary, or...
First thing I do on every new device, computer tablet or phone is disable the stupid autocorrect. I can't understand how it can be the default. Spellcheck and suggestions are fine, autocorrect absolutely not...

The more languages you need to type, the worse it becomes.
I would say that social science is an exception rather than the rule when it comes to reliance on p-values for their results. Many, or most scientific fields don't. For example DNA nanotechnology gets published in Nature a lot by creating concrete proof-of-concepts where the "result" is a picture on an atomic force microscope or something like that. Other examples abound, crystallography, microscopy. So saying that academic success is a crapshoot or a scam in general because of p-hacking is not correct. Within social science it is probably correct.
What kind of biomass though? If they are just burning wood, then I guess it's better than direct deforestation by fire, but unless they replant those trees, it isn't long-term sustainable either.
Karnaugh maps are often made out as something special, but it's nothing more than a graphical brute-force method. Thus, useful for pen-and-paper up to 5-6 bit logic functions but no better than exhaustive testing for a computer. There seems to be little emphasis on the "why" in Computer Architecture courses.
Having grown up in Saudi, I had heard that they had (literally) the same issue when MMS was originally introduced many years ago - but they have a lot more desert and are simply looking for porn, not even anything abusive.
I know it’s not very good explanation, the site was put up quickly before we pitched to a large government contract and it was aimed at them and not a casual reader.

New site coming soon with examples and a demo.

It’s a generic asset management platform - so one current use case is tracking the movement of goods through a supply chain, and also recording transactional history in an industry that is currently full of corruption and tax avoiders. Having an immutable transaction record that’s publicly visible is the correct usage of blockchain and it solves this problem very well. We are talking about amounts that are so large, this system will likely be regulated by the government.

Another current use case is tracking physical (and very valuable) assets - again the use case is an immutable pubic record.

The immutability is key - sure you could Store this data in a database, but the problems we are solving are the fact that when you have a single entity running a database then at a certain level of wealth you’re practically guaranteed corruption or unethical behaviour. This is the reason we use blockchain - blockchain has a good use case for avoiding the corruption that massive centralised systems are often plagued with
Governments are hesitating to use this because pump storage has major environmental impact. It just needs _a lot_ of space. You also need mountains for that and not every country has those.

There is some research going into putting concrete spheres into the ocean and pumping water in and out of them. The principle is the same but it doesn't need hundreds of hectares of forest to be cleared.
Even more efficient is to control the flow in a hydroelectric plant by stopping the generation when the demand is low. This removes the cost of pumping. If there is sufficient reserve water capacity it is done in places where the energy price depends on the market and economic incentives are there.
> easiest out-of-the-box-this-thing-just-works experiences.

Have you ever tried to debug a wi-fi issue? I had a Windows box that completely refused to connect to my home wi-fi. We never figured that out and corporate had to issue a new laptop for my wife to work from home. The second one worked. Nobody ever figured out what the problem with the first one was.
Specifically - how does global warming manifest itself - at present (aside from projections) as a problem in Germany?
Lots of ways. Imagine a meteorite strikes the North Sea for instance (tongue-in-cheek).
Isn't mathematics just a modeling tool, like in other sciences?
Briefly:

- distribute regenerative sources geographically to have a better average production; there's always wind somewhere in Europe

- increase storage capacity through various means; e.g. pumped storage, chemical batteries

- make electricity consumption match production through various means; e.g. have (industrial) cooling and heating work in excess if there is an excess of "free" energy, charge electrical car batteries

- reduce electrical capacity requirements through gains in efficiency; e.g. improve home insulation

It's also not just a matter of production capacities: we're throwing away huge amounts of regenerative energy because we don't have the technology to a) adjust other production sources fast enough, b) store excess production and c) we don't have the infrastructure to transport it.
In denmark they are converting a lot of power plants to use straw and grain. I think the goal is to stop use non renwables sometime in the next 10 years.
Are we? Source?
Home made wine (up to 20%) is legal to make and drink also in Sweden, but it is illegal to sell. In general I think there is a few limiting factors in play:

Students generally rush the process and the quality and taste is terrible.

Car ownership among students is down and on campus there is fewer reason to drive.

The culture is generally focused on hard spirits and beer, not wine.
The list is interesting, though some of the commentary is less than fair.
I have heard this before and believe it, but I don't understand why it's not vulnerable to a competitor (perhaps a manufacturer specialising in generic drugs) releasing the version with only the active enantiomer. After all, it's not protected by patent.
Towards Intelligent Industrial Co-Robots
I have a moon question.

So the moon affects the gravity of Earth, producing tides.

If the moon did not exist, would that affect the 'Tyranny of the Rocket Equation', would it be more difficult or easier to launch spacecraft?
Yeah the human brain i capable of finding sexual imagery in the weirdest of places.

As such i am unsure if this "AI" is failing or has become all too human.
I learned C# a while ago when started a project in the now defunct XNA. I loved how I felt like home when moving from Java bit with some really nice differences.

I thought that after open sourcing .Net the C# adoption outside the MS ecosystem would be wider by now, but I feel it's not the case. Or am I missing a trend I'm not aware of? (which is very likely too)
it pushed toward aesthetics capabilities
Nobody knows how to store it in good conditions. The attempts in Germany are highly controversial.
There could be a product in there - verified contributions of actual people?
I've been wondering about something else - who determines, how, which music to play in stores, and is there money in offering something better?
In a few stores the music is surprisingly good, in most it is awful. There is a bar that I like among other things because it plays good music on high quality speakers. I believe that there is a market for good music. The charts are bent by the type of people who still buy music in ways that are reflected in the charts.
An example of IMO good music that I think most people can enjoy would be Ladytron.
This is from 20 years ago, the idea was to scan a selection of laptops going through border control on Eurostar, although it only worked on PCs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/150465.stm
It's the same with everything else. For example, with complex software projects, the ones that make the most incredible claims about their capabilities are much more likely to get hyped up and get blogged/tweeted about... And it's often at the expense of real quality.
> What is the end game here?

Getting off fossil fuels. Specifically, it's something called the "European Grid Vision" [1]

The short version is advances in long range power distribution using DC transmission lines mean we can transmit power further with less loss than traditional high voltage AC lines. ABB has done wonders in rolling out HVDC technology [2].

But what does this have to do with the variable duty problem you ask? Alternative energies are hard to grid precisely because they are so variable as you observed. But with efficient transmission you could, for instance, collect solar in North Africa to provide power to the continent as well as pump up water into dammed fjords in Scandinavia which can be drained at night to through hydro-electric supplies. Wind in Germany or Tarifa can supplement dams one week, which can be drained the next. And of course there is always geo-thermal and nuclear.

So yes, today one needs the backup coal/gas/nuclear plants but not by 2040 in the updated roll-out schedule.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uir-BPoTN88#t=0

[2] http://renews.biz/109437/abb-transforms-chinese-grid/
Anyone know the specifics of how you actually intercept data on a fibre optic cable?
I find it astonishing how much of my laptops resources are occupied by a web browser. But I came to believe that it was not necessarily a problem with the web browsers per se but that each website would have a variety of javascript constantly running, and most of that code is not providing any information that I want. So I have turned off javascript in the browser. It breaks many sites, but, especially for news sites, it makes for a quieter experience.

I also like to archive many of the articles that I read, but I don't like keeping bookmarks. So I wrote a small utility to convert html to text by combining 'readability' (python) and lynx (text-base web browser), which does a nice job of formatting the content and storing the hyperlinks as footnotes. This archive is also nice and easy to index if you are so inclined.
Dude:

colonoscopies with dirty equipment
led to a rash of hepatitis and HIV

...pretty much in the worst way imaginable.

Following the links the article provides:

Army veteran Thomas Mayo got a colonoscopy
after the VA insisted on it - only to learn
it may have left him with a chronic disease.

6 veterans who took the follow-up blood checks
tested positive for HIV, 34 tested positive for
hepatitis C and 13 tested positive for hepatitis B.
But there is no way to prove [blah blah blah], and
some [roll their eyes, accuse the victims of lying
and accept paychecks to play devil's advocate,
claiming maybe] the infections probably already
existed.

You pretty much have to figure anyone that cares enough about their health to subject themselves to an elective colonoscopy, probably has a firm awareness of their HIV/hepatitis status, before hand, including the patient zero carrying the source of the disease in each case. There are likely medical records capable of proving which patients were the infectious patient zeroes, and which contracted the disease as a result of the malpractice, even if those identities are never made public due to privacy law.
Tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming
In my experience my 2009 MBP didn't slow down as the battery wore down. But I did read somewhere that if you remove the dead battery without replacing it, then the MBP will only run at about half speed on mains power alone. Depleted batteries have a habit of bulging and damaging the internals. I ended up buying a third party replacement battery, but it never restored the MBP to its original run-time capacities.
Being German living in France I don't think an absolute comparison like this is telling. The EEG in Germany (
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz) fosters development of alternative energy sources at the real cost of guaranteed purchasing prices. A good investment (see adoption https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaik_in_Deutschland) but borne by all through increased electricity costs. I never liked the price hikes but I do think it will spur further innovation in network anf storage while here in France I pay more for access than consumption and rent from owners not interested in changing windows to anything resembling insulation.
I have to agree. The social sciences are one place where nonsense flies free and often with wings. But even in the technical sciences, many papers don't list p-values or anything remoteley quantitative. I think we need to be careful of taking the part for the whole.
True, we didn't have a major war since 1945. Abolishing them, would teach those hippys a lesson about reasoning with psychopaths.
>it's the tastiest and best looking cake they've ever had.

I've italicised the relevant part.

Let's say, all the cakes they've ever had were baked dirt. Now Chef Ramsey has come along and baked soft dirt with sugar and sprinkles on top.

- Is it still dirt? Yes.

- Is it the the tastiest and best looking cake they've ever had? Also yes.

- Is it not a tasty cake and it looks terrible, it's just tastier and prettier than you've had before? Yes.

This also goes to show that arguments from analogy are inherently false, including mine ;)
Regarding fonts, nowadays I just use XeLaTeX and you can select any system font directly and output straight to PDF.
Elbow grease has taken on a whole new meaning to me
When I go to the gym they are always playing the most atrocious garbage at a deafening volume. Is there any way to locally hijack a Sirius XM signal and have it play something else?
France only imported electricity from Germany in 2016 because a good part of the reactors had to be shutdown at the same time to investigate a dfect risk. But every other year it's Germany that buys France's electricity
It will be like a invitation to work from your boss- you simply will decline, because hey basic income.
Japanese were preparing to surrender anyway

They were so close to surrendering that after the first nuke they had several days to surrender, but didn't until they were nuked again?
I'd personally suggest some low white noise for this purpose. Used all the time in offices already.
As I understand it, for women front to back significantly reduces the likelihood of contracting a urinary tract infection.
Since the work of Morgenstern and Von Neumann (Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour) onwards, mathematics has assumed a very active (normative) role.
FYI - there is support in .net to run any nodejs package
Why do we even expect Linux to have a dominant share of the desktop market? Most computers are sold with Windows and most people don't care about what OS they run. Not all people need a decent command line, the ability to easily install and update software, a rich set of easily accessible language interpreters and compilers, and an environment that is similar to the servers most the internet runs on. Among those who would have an advantage from having that, Linux and macOS are already the dominant OSs.
Morgan Stanley on Bitcoin: 'the value would be 0'
I believe they are referring to the opt-out default filter isp's have been enabling. Not sure on the laws surrounding it.
Show HN: Leap Mission for a Decentralised Co-Ownership Economy (desktop Only)
I pay 25 cent per kwh, in munich;

End game? Trying to produce as much wind and solar as possible.

Those numbers are only getting better and better with every year.
Sounds good, would you share your source code?
Ask HN: What happens to society if we run out of oil?
or what they're doing is placing remotely detonated charges for later simultaneous usage should the need arise. (I'm not saying I think this is what has happened, but it's just a thought)

if you lose significant capacity (or all capacity) simultaneously you can't fall back to the "internet is resilient" routine. you're straight up screwed.
Generational GC in Python and Ruby (2013)
I'd like to switch away from Java in future applications, and C# seems like the top contender, but there are questions I'd really like answered before I make the switch.

I see a lot of people talking about Microsoft open-sourcing .NET Core. But as someone who's never used it, what is .NET Core? And if .NET Core was open-sourced, what about the rest of it? Am I likely to run into major parts of the ecosystem that are still proprietary?

Also, can I develop and use C# applications on Linux without feeling like a second-class citizen? The ability to easily develop on Linux using free software and then run on my clients' Windows computers is one major reason I use Java at all, and I definitely won't switch to a language that doesn't support Linux properly.

And finally, how likely is Microsoft to fuck free software developers over with proprietary extensions in the future? This is Microsoft we're talking about, after all.
Music is not or bad; it's subjective. There's a whole industry that provides music for stores and cafes, and big chain clothing stores that care about their brand do careful music selection so it fits their demographic; young adult brands mass-market brands like Zara and Topman, in particular, come to mind.

As far as bars and clubs go, music is often their defining individual trait. I used to DJ in a small bar on a crowded bar street; these places offered the same drinks at the same prices, but each had their own visual and musical style - one had a mexican-ish feel, another was all about classic rock, third one top40 and trap music in particular, and one I played at was a moody techno place.

What's curious is that most people actually went back and forth between these places all the time - seems like they liked variety more than any particular music genre.
> It's completely possible to go years without catching a cold if you're willing to devote maybe 10% of your time and a little money to it, and avoid certain situation

You picked my curiousity! What do you have in mind?
Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality
> I wish there was a way that we could apply our skills toward fixing this injustice.

Educate yourself on why does that happen. Main purpose of every company is to make money. As long as IT is making a lot of money programmers will be paid a lot. As soon as industry starts to cool down - our salaries will drop as well.
If I brush my teeth (+ all other things in preparation such as locking the door, feeding the cats, etc) and go to bed, then read (without disturbing my partner) then I am ready to fall asleep as soon as I feel tired.

However, if I stay up without brushing my teeth (+ the other preps) then I cannot go to sleep right away when I'm tired. Because I still got errands to do.

When I read in the first situation I am already lying in bed horizontally. In the second situation I am sitting. Also, while you're reading, you should use an e-reader without much blue light.