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Ask HN: Examples of PETSCII/ATASCII/others
As part of the justification for a proposal (http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17435-terminals-prop.pdf) to include several ancient computer character sets into Unicode, I'd like to ask for examples of current and old artwork and text-based graphics using these character sets (as well as others, such as the Apple mouse characters and the ITU T.100 and T.101 block and smooth mosaic characters, and characters specific to Amiga and Atari ST)
Vancouver is well protected from tsunamis caused by earthquakes in most spots (including this one) by Vancouver Island. The Greater Vancouver tsunami zone is the only one in BC not covered by the tsunami warning issued for this quake.
This is the North Pacific in Winter. I'd be surprised if there weren't 10m waves out there.
Oh you are right. It actually _does_ have a time shift. I take back what I said and assert the opposite!

Thanks for the explanation.
Tesla’s Pay Deal to Keep Elon Musk: All or Nothing
> browsers don't seem appreciably better at handling documents than Javascript is

If you disregard memory consumption, CPU load, battery life, then sure.
Quite impressed so far, the interface clean and straight forward. We've been using Hetzner for years, mostly because the PX121 machines offer excellent performance for cheap. We'll be doing some in depth testing of this new cloud offering in the coming days/weeks.

Provisioning is already impressively fast, especially if you're coming from EC2 where it feels like an intern has to press a button or something to get an instance online.
Which do people tend to use? Are there tools for converting back and forth?

I am tempted by the idea of being able to type e.g. ½x² in mathematical code, but overall it sounds like much more trouble than it's worth.
I agree, it definitely hurt mainline Perl development when Perl 6 was this promised great new thing. At least Perl 5 never got abandoned, and there is development and bugfixing still going on today.

Perl 5 has a feeling of being 'complete' as a language. I guess this makes it unsexy and it'll never be the cutting edge where all the cool devs want to work, but it's rock solid stable and reliable.

Now, if only Perl 5 could get a JIT compiler...
Otoh, drivets are also the ones taking the traffic regulations most seriously.
Pedestrians are inclined to jaywalk, and that’s pretty much it, but don’t get me started on bicycles…
Picture a 1m high wave with a crest to crest wavelength of 100km. That is pretty much what an open water tsunami looks like.

This is why when there's a tsunami warning, boats are supposed to leave the harbor, where it's dangerous, and get to sea where they won't notice the wave.
Presumably things hadn't got quite so bad that they were considering sending in the Paras to quell the London riots.

Edit: I can recollect a family member (who was a senior firearms officer in the Glasgow police and very much on one particular side of the sectarian divide) describing with some glee the effects of using an SLR in a built up area. This would have been in the mid 70s.
Pretty clear that DannyBee was referring to their particular Elixir deployment environment, rather than to Elixir as a language, no?
Yes.

Everyone is subsidizing fossil fuel production. Most countries agreed a few years ago that they were doing so and promised to stop, but little progress has been made on that.

The IMF has some numbers here:

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sonew0...

About 7% of global GDP in subsidies.

China is the highest by dollar amount, Ukraine highest per capita.
They could form a separate company to handle US operations only.
Syntax is supposed to be composible and intuitive. One shouldn’t have to keep looking docs to find out how to do X. PowerShell has pretty bad, unimaginative and non-intuitive syntax. I was actually chosen many times to keep scripting in old dos syntax because that was more intuitive. Go look in to stackoverflow and forums where people struggle every day on how to do simple things.
Suggest gitbucket - https://gitbucket.github.io/

blazingly fast (a single war file - just run "java -jar gitbucket.war" to get started) and has a very nice UI.
A plugin system enables you to extend the functionality (including CI) ... and a very active dev community.

https://gitbucket.github.io/
In your doctrine, can you ask someone else for help with response to the violence?

Can that someone make his response not the same moment, but when he actually meets the guy who threatened you and yours?

Because these two things seem rational, and cops are exactly what you get with them.
Kudos to Germany for sane-minded laws about personal data and to Hetzner for respecting such laws!
Basically resellers and enterprises
yeh, that would be like over 100m when it hits shallow water. But if the water level is unusually low then GTFO!
For lightweight use among friends, I found that gogs works much better for me. Has a tiny subset of features but reliably creates/manages repos.

https://gogs.io/
This requires way more work than I intend to put in. Good luck with getting a significant number of respondants. And if you do, be sure to weight your results with the fact that your sample contains only people who are willing to spend a few hours on your study for free...
If Windows systems are needed, there are ways to distribute updates for them offline: http://www.wsusoffline.net/.

On Linux you can of course do that too - and if you purge software you don't use, I'd assume need less update volume overall.

Go for DRM-free games that don't require forced updates or online connectivity where possible.
When I lived in Sydney I found that my car was sitting idle for the majority of the time. I did the sums and even with free parking at my apartment, it would have been cheaper for me to just rent a car for the days that I needed it (like a weekend trip, a shopping trip to the suburbs/ikea, etc) than to own it outright. I had coworkers that did that any it was fine.

If you look at it financially, you owning a car is the same as owning an option to rent a car at any time. The less you drive it the more the ability to have it available costs you.
Many Items on One Recycler View – Android
True, but they require a source of heat. And the question is what to burn or what to use for heating, and in order to be a true steam engine, it should not be electrical or hydrocarbons ( otherwise you don't need an extra engine on top - just burn/use that already).

So what's left is carbon in different presentations : wood, or coal, etc.
I built this using the webhose api to scrape and filter for cryptocurrency related topics from reputable news sources and trending forum posts. I'm a terrible designer so I eyeballed the hacker news layout and finger painted some CSS over it. Hope people find it interesting :P
You are propably right. But sometimes such discussion can meta-stasize into intersting ones.

For example- what is the definition of a good guy? Is a good guy something stable, reliable, someone behaving reproducable?

Is a good guy somebody who gives you a short term reward, and costs you dearly in the long run?
Or can a good guy be someone who costs you short term, but becomes a long term positiv force.
What if somebody is hostile, but stabilizes out of self-interest a otherwise negative are in the world.

Its all very complicated, and the dynamics playing into it, can be horrifying for anyone idealistic.
OVH tries to do that but I doubt that's waterproof. Probably easier to have an agreement with a US provider.

Having everything in the EU makes it much easier for them and is a selling point for many customers.
This sounds too much like the old "man playing God" trope: we don't know, therefore we should continue to revel in our ignorance instead of taking any risks. To hell with that, if I can give my children genes that prevent debilitating diseases and low intelligence and if the risks are manageable, I will take that. That possibility is decades away, but it's a worthy goal to pursue.

This is not about "designer babies" in the eye color or physical appearance sense - who knows what will be the beauty norm 50 years from now. It's about ridding humanity of what we know is deadly and, on a personal level, preventing my own bad genes getting passed on. I have a bad back, an insatiable appetite and high cholesterol, I'm balding and have a slight heart deformity. Should I pass those traits along just for the hope that someday some bald distant sibling will have immunity from a future plague? I don't think I'm really responsible for that, it's the task of future generations to keep the baldness genes in a bank or database and use it at that time if they find them useful.

The reduced genetic diversity is moot - people of all ethic groups have today a chance to reproduce instead of being wiped out like for most part of human history. We are in an explosion of genetic diversity, even very dangerous traits are being preserved in the gene pool due to the advances of medicine that made them survivable. When genetic editing will be so widespread as to threaten the genetic diversity of the human species, we will be living in a Star Trek egalitarian paradise, it's very presumptuous to think we have any foresight into such a future.
They directly adjust the exchange rate each day, it is not set by the market. There is a market based rate in Hong Kong for RMB (referred to as CNH), but it necessarily closely follows the government rate.
Uh, what? 14U colo rack space for 100 Euros per month[1], that's insane -- I must be missing something.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/colocation/13-rack
You're comparing OVH's SSD where they don't guarantee speed and have 100mbit connections. Speed on those can be incredibly slow. For a fair comparison you'd have to use their public cloud instances which are 2-3x the price of Hetzner.
> Unlocking the ability to target specific genes will overcome this since the same tech that allows targeting only cancer cell will allow targeting specific groups or individuals.

Filtering for specific genes doesn't offer any evolutionary advantage to a theoretical pathogen, so why wouldn't it very quickly evolve our of this artificial limitation?
Making sense of the Tether situation
For one thing, it enables careers instead of just jobs - In'n'Out employees are promoted all the way up the corporate chain, moved to launch new locations, and generally signals to employees that if they want to spend next 40 years working for the company, they will not be seen as failures by their peers, parents, significant others, children and people at high school reunion.

With franchised restaurants the promotion ladder looks like employee -> manager -> dead-end.
That's strange. I remember getting an e-mail from them about it some time ago. Perhaps they had issues e-mailing you. Check your spam folder.
Let's forget ethics for a moment, is there any decent way to calculate the difference in bottom line between creating and providing a great service (presumably leading to a good reputation, and maybe better, more long-lasting relationships with customers), and squeezing and weaseling every penny out of your customers and doing everything in your power to keep them from using the service they bought (presumably leading to bad reputation, but more cash upfront)?

In some industries/companies/communities/what-have-you, there seems to be this consensus that exploitation, scamming and backstabbing is the obvious way to make the big bucks. Is this objectively true, or is it just some kind of oral history and tradition handed down from 1800s industrialists?
Probably because that's how servers can be set up most efficiently? It's probably much cheaper to run servers with a lot of ram and storage instead of having cpu-heavy machines (infrastructure, cooling, electricity).
Verslavingszorg weigert klanten wegens personeelstekort
This. Drivers, pedestrians and bikers hating each other is a result of infrastructure that results in them having to interact in poorly defined ways.
Believe it or not, I don't have IOTA nor XRB in my portfolio.
New Jersey Town Aims to Keep App-Guided Outsiders Off Its Streets
Thanks, this is the kind of answer I was looking for.
It's just a bit sad that the companies rely so heavily on academia.
About the papers on efficacy: I remember that I wanted to slice the efficacy data to customize it more to compute confidence intervals for my ex girlfriend's case who has breast cancer (BRCA2), but she didn't want to have hemotherapy and wanted to see if the drug can help in that case as well, but the raw data in the testing wasn't published.
Thank you for the link, what a fascinating project!
Show HN: FAIR's research platform for object detection research
Yes, you pay German retail electricity prices, i.e. 24c/kwh. But they've always been that cheap.
> "To them, violence, power, cruelty, were the supreme capacities of men who had definitely lost their place in the universe and were much too proud to long for a power theory that would safely bring them back and reintegrate them into the world. They were satisfied with blind partisanship in anything that respectable society had banned, regardless of theory or content, and they elevated cruelty to a major virtue because it contradicted society’s humanitarian and liberal hypocrisy."

-- Hannah Arendt

Where you see a "shadow" or something "hampering", I see a railing. Where you hear criticism of the jealous people left behind, I am waving at a dot that is getting smaller and smaller.
> I don't know, maybe I'm missing something.

The thing you're missing is volume. Even if you assume the vast majority of people will attempt to mess up your data, when you have enough people doing it, you can look at them on aggregate and based on patterns disregard bad data. It might be "expensive", but still worth it.
The failure to admit it was going slowly was another killer. It will be released at Christmas, we just aren't telling you which one. After a few years of hoping, I gave up and am in the world of Python and Django. Its a shame as Perl feels like a more powerful / expressive language than Python.
> When you print money you devalue existing money

Unless those billions in asset price increases buy less consumables than they did before QE, there isn't any inflation in the US yet, it just means Americans are richer.
Unpleasant contingencies for sure, but I don't think you can in good faith compare a gratuitous massacre carried out by a tyrannical ruling class against peaceful protesters, and a popular uprising that ended a millenium of tyranny and was a major step towards freedom and democracy in the West.
>Is it ? A corporation that already pays employees higher than minimum wage can drive out smaller shops that do not pay much more than minimum wage by working to raise the minimum wage.

If you're talking about, say, Walmart, they lobby very hard against minimum wage raises and even go as far as to threaten what appears to be self destructive behavior to prevent it from occurring (e.g. threats to close profitable stores).

Minimum wage goes up -> Walmart profits go down. It's that simple. (see minimum wage across state borders by Dube, Lester & Reich).

They drive out smaller shops by using their buying power to beat suppliers down on price, using their size to get sweetheart land deals and sweetheart tax deals with local officials desperate to bring jobs to the area.
I had to specifically disable nouveau to get cuda to install correctly on ubuntu 16.04. You need an nvidia card and drivers that are new enough to run the later versions of cuda.
Reminiscent of Breve.

https://github.com/cwells/breve

I don't see a huge advantage over hyperscript (hyperapp and mithril both use it), but that is a ridiculously small codebase.

The JS hate is kind of funny around here, because when you dig into stuff like this, you realize that JS is very lispy in ways (it's easy to build up trees of HTML dynamically). In the mid aughts on r/programming people would rant and rave about the kind of stuff Smalltalk's Seaside could do. Now that's possible, most of the disadvantages have been worked out, and people hate it.

Can't win, can you?
Why don't you get a passport, government ID, or driver's license? I'm honestly interested, if that's not too personal to ask.
Is there a key for it on my keyboard though?
Kodiak Police Department
7 mins ·
TSUNAMI UPDATE: 0229 hours

Harbor officers report water reciding from our harbor. Citizens should remain in place and wait for further updates.

https://www.facebook.com/KodiakPD/
Does anyone know if they offer per-customer, or per-project local networking?

It is something I can get from Packet.net, but not from Linode or DI (Although Linode promised that it was in their pipeline, I have yet to see it), OVH does offer this but I only experienced pain with their interface and service.
I may be wrong, but what about Google Fiber?
There's some suggestion that it was considered, and subsequently planned for in 2012 (possibly as part of public order / antiterrorism planning for the Olympics): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9046668/UK-ri...

Certainly the usual rightwing media suspects were happy to demand tanks on the streets: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/263973/UK-riots-92-per-cen... (look at all the commentators bemoaning the idea that the Human Rights Act prevents the Army shooting unarmed protestors. Plus ca change.)
Based on this page, linked by someone just above, it sounds like they do have 2-way comms (Iridium) and can remotely be put into 'Event Mode'.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart/dart.shtml

I think it's a combo of noise when that was activated (see the page above, describes exactly what it reports when it goes into that mode, etc) -- and then for the one that shows a substantial sea level rise, it's likely just the pressure since it's all pressure-based sea-level measurement "estimates". Guess I kind of thought it measured actual rise/fall of the buoy, or maybe used GPS or something, but makes a bit more sense that it's solely based on sea-floor pressure.
Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation
There's a good documentary about Chinese infrastructure work in Africa called "Empire of Dust" which can be found on YouTube and similar sites.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2148945/

It appears to be popular with racists (at least going by the YouTube comments) because the middle-class Chinese engineers are needing to cope with very poor tribal workers who are not quite on board with the concept of the 9-5 culture but I felt the film itself humanised all sides and I was particularly touched by one scene where the engineers try to decide what to do about a worker who has damaged some bit of equipment that he wouldn't be able to afford to repair.

Generally made me feel good about the future of humanity.
Actually, they don't need to ask, they can make such a person persona non grata (which is where the term originates from [1]).

Of course this almost never happens.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_non_grata
That got me curious, are you saying you don't have a passport because you're Egyptian, or was that just an additional piece of information separate from the passport? (Don't know if I'm missing some international news/info here.)

Also, maybe it would be worth contacting their support about your situation, maybe some other form of identification can be used.
> it just feels like Gitlab cannot compete

The GitLab hosted service is not really a competitor of GitHub at all; in fact, their (primary) marketing is based on self-hosted service.

In my opinion, this has connection to the corporate/engineering culture - GL relies on young and very sharp... but also underpaid minds, at least when compared to GH.

I speculate that in order to have a high performing and stable infrastructure, you need grey beards, who require salaries that GL doesn't offer. I highlight speculation - but I'm not surprised when the company losing 6 hours of data is one rather than the other.

If this is correct/realistic, it's not a negative judgment; it's just a different orientation.
I hope everything is okay - but I’m finding this a fascinating real-time case study of the chaotic nature of breaking information during a (potential) disaster. Conflicting reports, false alarms, difficult-to-parse data...
Since Hetzner appears to be reading here: I have a question that support couldn't answer last time. How are your DCs connected with each other and with external peering points? I notice that some traceroutes to FSN servers go via NBG. If one data centre region goes down (as OVH just experienced), will all peering still work on the other or would that kill some peering points?

Having some kind of network topology (like OVH's weathermap) would help with that, esp where to position servers that rely on certain peering points.
Wonder if using Hetzner makes you subject to unusual German laws requiring (nearly) every site to have an "Impressum" page with contact phone number, mailing address and other data that would be uncomfortable for an individual (not a company) to disclose.
Would this work in space?
This debate is about desktop and server processors. You are imagining there is a market segment, worth caring about for non-niche companies like Intel, of non-hackable systems with no network access that use high-end microprocessors, but it isn't so.

Most relatively complex systems that use deluxe microprocessors and could be air-gapped are accessible for convenience instead, and more extreme actually inaccessible systems are likely to use different, specialized processors.
China has figured out that economic invasion is a lot cheaper and more effective than bombing. Sadly the US still seems to be a long way from learning this lesson.

But if you think China doesn't exert pressure in other countries' politics you haven't spent much time in Asia, particularly SE Asia.
Maybe we just have more interns than amazon ;)

full disclosure: am working for hetzner cloud
Forgive my ignorance but how does the stock market as a whole keep growing if the GDP isn't growing at a similar rate? where is all the attributed value coming from?

Or am I thinking about it the wrong way
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Nobody set out to cause a long-lasting, destructive conflict in Syria. Those who were backing the opposition factions were no doubt hoping for a quick, orderly transition of power. But obviously it didn't work out that way.
also hiccup in clojureland,
https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
which has an abandoned looking python port: https://github.com/pascience/pyhiccup

Thanks, I hadn't seen Breve! I was looking for exactly this a while ago.
Android 8.1 Oreo shows the speed of public Wi-Fi before you connect
This.

Being "forced to use Python" sucks as a Perl developer.
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We can't even make it on Earth without horribly fumbling it, how would moving out to dead rocks help?

This is how we play for time, this is the whimpering with which we fade out. Looking straight at the iceberg, saying "it'll probably transform to cotton candy if we hit it fast enough". The drunk captain and the armed guards letting no sane person near the bridge is how you know everything is fine.
>This sounds too much like the old "man playing God" trope

Which was never much discredited in the first place.
So it's $75 a vial, only three times as much as the NHS.
I showed them my government ID but they refused, understandably because it's in Arabic language. They asked for an English passport. But since I didn't have one, I couldn't continue the registration. It's really frustrating. Why isn't my credit card enough to verify my identity? Almost all top cloud/vps providers don't ask such questions.