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>>The same is true for Bangalore where Residential complexes have replaced the lakes.

What disappoints me in this regard is people who buy flats in those apartments knowing well that the complex is encroaching a lake(bed), eventually a demolition happens. But really how careless would you have to be, to buy there at the first place.

>>Four years back having an Air Conditioner at your home in Bangalore was very rare.

It is, Even now. In the insides of the city where there are more individual homes than apartments.

But, some times a few flat owners have no other options at all. I hear, the flats along the Electronic city road, receive crazy levels of dust every day. Same with those near Hebbal.

Also even in cases where lakes haven't been approached, due absence of civic planning, they obvious can't pipe sewage into the normal sewage pipes. Given those pipes were built for individual homes, not massive apartment townships. What they do now is send sewage to lakes. Case in point Bellandur lake and Ulsoor lake in Bangalore. By definition these are not lakes, but cesspools.
In the excellent book Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, about the life of J.C.R. Licklider, there is the story of how SAGE, the system used for command-and-control strategic planning, was modified to become SABRE, the first airline reservation system. This has been a computational problem for a long time.
It's an emotional response.

IMO you just wanna be loyal to the group you think you belong to (you said "we"). I don't do that. I decide for myself only.

You don't admit your part. You just just justify your feelings. If you feel threatened, it's your problem. Not mine.
I honestly don’t - I used to spend time playing online games with friends but I’ve mostly stopped recently. It turns out I’m bad at them too.

I tried learning to play an instrument but gave up. I might pick it up again but I haven’t found the time.

The sad thing is I feel like I need an interesting hobby or interests like the folks that went to top schools and work at top companies but I can’t think of anything or do anything well.
Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO, SpaceX, talks about her work at SpaceX
Imagine you have some kind of SaaS that customers pay for with microtransactions.

You do some kind of work on uploaded data (let's say it's 1GB) and return data to the customer.

The classic model forces you to make all kinds of upfront costs and predictions about usage. If you decide to support 10000 concurrent users you would need to provision a 10 terabytes of storage with high speed disks and maybe 10 beefy machines. Without actually having any revenue you need to invest at least $20k.

In the serverless model, you can calculate how much it would cost.

> 1GB upload + 120 seconds of 2G serverless time + 1 GB download = $0.15

Now you charge the customer $0.25 for your work and you make a neat $0.10 profit per task. If you have a lot of customers you make more profit, if you have no customers it costs you nothing. (except your development time, but that is not unique to serverless)
> paid temp workers who can't afford anything else

It's also not easy to get approved for a loan without a full time job.
> what would be the point

The point of my comment there was that I'm not sure what you meant by 'inapplicable'. It would work, right?

As you say, it seems unlikely you'd ever want to use file locks for intra-process concurrency when you could just use the mutex machinery of your language's standard library. The use of green threads doesn't change things at all.

> the challenge was time-sharing the scarce resource that was a CPU, not parallelism

The question there is how pre-emption works, right? They're non-cooperative threads after all. If I understand correctly, Solaris used not to have a direct mapping from userland threads to kernel threads (I'm not sure how the multiplexing worked), but they later moved to a direct mapping (every thread really is backed by a kernel-managed thread).

(I could be completely wrong about that, I just skim-read the 'Solaris Internals' book once.)
We have seen a neighbouring country (India) suffering from the results of rapid population growth, so doing nothing isn't free of consequences either.

China has basically just taken a shortcut to the "natural" reduction in family size that happens to every country as it develops and become richer.
My very first thought when encountering the article was "Needs more A-Ha", only for the Internet to have already made my dreams come true.
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I can't wait to get my hands on the stand-alone version that's supposedly on the way. Cheap and available (and compatible) hardware with decent performance is a long-awaited thing for a lot of Amiga enthusiasts.
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Why Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Water After 4 Years
I hate this phone. Typing is slow. I swap auto completion dictionaries a lot. Limited memory forces you to delete previous reminders and sms conversations. Deleting them is done with a menu system that is inconsistent; the same command jumps to different positions. Mms does not work with my provider. With some types of phones i call, there is some weird feedback of electronic noise that is only audible on my side. Stay away from this phone!
The numbering system was reset in 1962 as part of a bigger change, unifying aircraft designations across all the service branches. Some aircraft designated prior to this kept their designation, while others changed. Soviet aircraft obtained by the US for test and evaluation were often given designations >100 so they could be referenced internally without giving away what they really were, as the evaluation program was classified.

As for the F-117; fighters are generally regarded as sexier and more attractive than attack, bombers, cargo or other types. By calling it a fighter the USAF reckoned that recruitment would be easier and also that it's real purpose would be obfuscated. This is also the reason for the number; by giving a high number they indicated that this was an airplane designed prior to 1962 which never became anything.
For now it's tied to EUR amount and converted on the average exchange rate for the last 5 days before payday.
True. I guess you could load the content from a client running at a central service, and send the stripped-down version to the final client. Of course, you'd have to trust the service.
you think a government of Burma for example can 51% attack Ethereum? The purpose of all this is to put all their balance sheets and title deeds etc on the global blockchain not a private blockchain they control in their offices.
I'm also living in Saigon and it's the same for me, at the beginning I was putting the AC to 17 degrees, now I put it at 27 degrees, you get used to it after a while.
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Long term costs of things, health care implication of issues like Pollution, and garbage littering(hygiene) are neglected. In fact this carelessness can be seen in other places like nutrition too.

Also general lack of respect for the law. Things like everyday corruption. And then lack of basic public hygiene, come to mind.

India had to do a lot of work to eradicate polio. It took quite literally decades.The next set of diseases which will be more like Diabetes, Thyroid related diseases, Malnutrition etc will be far harder to deal with.
India 1975: 621 million people

India 2018: 1.358 billion people

India 2038: 1.615 billion people

https://www.populationpyramid.net/india/2038/

India urgently needs population control, perhaps schemes funded partly by the West to issue vasectomies to young, poor men in exchange for $200.
Every public policy has its negative consequences. Ending the one child policy is a non-brainer.
I've developed breathing and stomach problems living in Delhi the last 10 years. My wife now has asthma. I've also developed severe allergies.

Things have become particularly bad in the last 5 years. Come winters, the sky isn't visible in Delhi for weeks. At the height of the crop-burning season (why they do it, I have no idea), there was literally smoke inside my house.

India's biggest cities are practically unlivable. Public transport is abysmal, traffic is terrible, and the pollution keeps getting worse.

Nearly all the smart people I know who can afford to emigrate have already emigrated, or plan to.

India needs to control its pollution and traffic problems otherwise there will be yet another wave of brain drain and the beneficiaries will be countries like Canada and Australia
I think it's a very short list of things that evangelical Christians don't somehow consider to be signs of Satan.
what do you mean a "blockchain government"? yes I would love all the laws of my country and everything else to be on a transparent unforgeable ledger for sure.
To be more precise I have a choice of being paid fiat/crypto (it's ETH) in any ratio I choose. So it can be 100%/0%, 50%/50% or 0%/100%. For now I'm using 50%/50%, so I'm not completely out of the "classic" financial system :) But I know people who are.
Usually when organizations have diversity programs and goals, it is racial or pseudo-racial diversity they are talking about, or gender diversity, or both of those.

To achieve such goals, for every 1000 students a school should have about 127 black students, 178 Hispanic students, 613 white non-Hispanic students, 48 Asians, and 34 others.

About 290 of every 1000 Harvard students are legacy admissions. Legacy admissions are overwhelmingly white.

My point was that Harvard can admit those 290 legacy students without affecting its racial diversity easily, because fully diverse Harvard would have 613 non-Hispanic white students per 1000 students. They could arrange that every legacy admission who would not have made it but for being legacy displaces another non-Hispanic white student, so had no affect on racial diversity.

I would not be at all surprised if among the white applicants Harvard has enough from each income level that they could even make it so each legacy admission that would not have made it if not legacy is displacing a non-legacy who is white and in the same income range.
He was only 40 years old.

Personal blog:
https://www.gerv.net/aboutme.html
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Not only is your understanding of history at odds with the facts, which anyone can look up for themselves, but I am extremely confused at why the ill-defined concept of “Servo as a whole browser” is important at all.

Servo is a browser engine, not some VR project (where the heck did you get that? Go to https://github.com/servo/servo ); what’s more, Firefox is “Servo as a whole browser,” whatever that is supposed to mean. Of course you are able to run Servo “by itself,” how the heck do you expect Servo developers to be able to test their browser engine?

I’m not sure what weird dramatization of history you are trying to create, but it’s all the more bizarre in that (1) this all happened in the open, so you should easily be able to see what you are saying is and was simply not the case, and in that (2) far from Servo being killed, it is the future of Firefox, so what on earth is there to be upset about? This has been surreal; good luck.
And in the case of the UK we don't have a triad - just the 4 Vanguard-class boats.
Aaaah our first PC. It had a Intel 80286, a display up front and a turbo button. I pressed it once. My parents became very mad. Because the fans of the PC spun up so much in turbo mode, they thought it would damage the computer. Just like how pressing ctrl+alt+delete did damage to the computer

Sweet memories

Still wish I hadn't taken that computer apart (and never put back together) in my never ending quest to quench my curiosity
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It is an encrypted zip file. Not a password protected website. Not a rar. I downloaded it and ran file on it. Oddly the filename is .tar.

$ file .reaxys.tar
.reaxys.tar: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

As one of the other top level comments said, the links to it are here: https://twitter.com/MichaelSLaufer/status/102263726560276889...
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>> And while the web itself has undergone big changes in the last twenty years, browsers have remained largely the same.

Yeah, it's largely the same : we open app, enter the URL and it shows a web page..But cmon, stating that IE6 is largely the same as Chrome or Brave is kinda exagreggation.
Delhi gets the worst of the summers and the worst of the winters. The air in Delhi is practically unbreathable in the cold season
If your target audience is in Europe and you care about multi-language support then Shoperb might be an option (I'm the founder). While it is a SaaS, we work rather closely with our merchants and help them often to get their store going, do custom integrations etc.
Unity "proving" C#'s success in games is about as reasonable as saying that Android games in Java proves Java's suitability for games. Its an accident of history that those languages were tied to particular projects that were very successful. Unity could have used Java for scripting (in fact, it does now for Android) and Android could have been delivered in c#. Claiming that these products could have only been delivered in their target languages is just ridiculous
Countries wage war with whatever tools they have. We waged war before nuclear weapons, we wage war after. Nuclear weapons affect the collateral damage of war, but does not by itself disturb the peace. Removing them does not make us more peaceful.

(I am not pro nuclear weapons, but that's because I don't want Trump to have the power to accidentally the whole world because he couldn't keep his short, fat fingers from a big red button he couldn't read the label for. I do not, however, believe their removal would positively affect world peace at the current time.)
A ”natural successor” to the 68040/68060 and suitable for implementation on FPGAs was developed by Apollo and is indeed known as the 68080. http://www.apollo-core.com/
the website says 68060 (which was a real chip used in some amiga 4000T models & accelerator boards), I assume the title is a typo.
Project page: http://rise.cse.iitm.ac.in/shakti.html
I think hanlon's razor applies here. The Web is ridiculously complicated and it takes a supercomputer to compile a browser capable of running The Web at full speed. Not to mention that people have done it -- see, e.g., qutebrowser or next-browser.
Which task do you resent the most today?
should get you thinking why there is so much hate for blockchain and at least be a contrarian here. What can I tell you? Read books about Bitcoin and Ethereum? The "how blockchain will help people" is a huge subject. Did you spend hours/days/months thinking about how this can affect governments, global title deeds, transparent balance sheets, supply chains and well...voting too? If you think you ever in your life had to deal with corruption or simple mistakes then you can think of a blockchain solution. Is that what you wanted to hear? Asking about "how the internet will affect our lives" in 1995 would be the same, but it would be better first to read about what exactly it is. So you went to this OSCON..
I doubt that "for some people the best way to handle their trauma is to never speak of it and pretend it never happened" is actually true. I would like to see some study that proves that.

Otherwise you just empower the rapists for no justifiable reason.

And even if there is some personal net benefit for not telling anyone. Is it more important than saving others from potentially the same harm?
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you can also send messages with pigeons, why use internet and whatsapp at all?
How new digital health initiative can save billions in global healthcare costs
when it was at 5800 and ATH was around 21000? kind of yes
It provides the continuation of that community and its values.
The inherent problem is that the universe has been transparent for a limited amount of time. Since this time the light from this era has been travelling in all kinds of directions, some of it in ours.

We can only see the light that has had time to reach us. Everything that is farther away than about a dozen billion lightyears is not visible.

Technically new stuff is always becoming visible to use, the visible universe expands naturally as new light reaches us.

Of course, the stuff is now farther away since the universe is expanding and at some point the expansion will likely overtake the speed of light and over some distance may have, which means beyond some distance we will never be able to see or know.

What is beyond the visible universe is quite unknown. We can't see it.
I don't wish to be obtuse, but why would it be obvious that you're a women's-rights maximalist?
Glances – cross-platform htop on steroids
The "correct" way to do this was the 1/18th sec timer interrupt, even when the RTC worked it didn't have sub-second resolution.

http://www.pldworld.com/_hdl/1/VHDL_courses/www.ee.duke.edu/...
42, Machine learning. I discovered Coursera for me and worked through a number of courses. People say that learning is getting more difficult as you get older, but so far it is getting easier for me. When I was younger I didn't have the patience to learn something if I had no immediate need for it. There were distractions everywhere. Now it is much easier for me to focus on a single thing.
I'd like to see those emails. Can you get them and forward them to me? There should not be any "else" in those mails.
> I suspect that humans will adapt to this new way of life we've brought upon ourselves.

You can't beat the laws of thermodynamics. When the wet bulb temperature reaches the human body's natural 37 degrees Celsius, it'll be impossible for the body to expel heat via sweating (evaporative cooling). At that point no amount of adaptation will help, and humans need technology to stay alive.
Oh I didn't intend it as that, sorry. I just didn't understand the baseball reference of the parent post and thought it attributing the description in your post to a leftist political view. Far from being an attack, it paints the picture of a fairly calvinist, very moralistic enterprise (IMHO) not exactly a social revolution... but perhaps that's what Architecture is, at least in the western english-speaking societies? Don't really know... peace
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There is talkietalkie.el major mode for Emacs.
The obvious thrust of these policies aims at scaling down the rights of women's genius. Successful as these children may be, they will be unwanted.
There's always someone better/smarter/faster/more successful than any given person. Just stop caring. Concentrate on one or two areas, become really really good at them, and start doubling your prices till you hit the ceiling.
That cannot be even kind of right. You need to grow and ship 10x more food energy and protein in the form of plants ("vegetables"?) just to have the necessary feed. That's just to make feed (ignoring water and raising altogether) and it's already absurdly more wasteful than it would have been just to eat the plants directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...
I'm totally stuck. I would write an exhaustive pattern match to implement that function, but I have no clue how to do that in logic, without using negation.
There used to be (or still are?) programs that paid addicts if they choose some form of permanent birth control, like an IUD [1]. Those programs were extremely controversial, even though children of addicts have it really hard in life. I really doubt that we'll be able to enact any legislation touching reproductive rights. The historical ballast (eugenics!) is just too heavy in the West.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-addicts-paid-to-get-birth-...
One of the suggestions on that video was this analog approach which looks very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMHHfMTJTDk
I think Cal's proposal deserves consideration. (It's probably still game-able.)

The problem isn't that maternity leave disrupts companies individual companies. So does sleep, and they're both part of normal human life. The problem is that the system in effect has the effect of a) discriminating against woman and b) suppressing the birth rate. If you are planning at a national level, suppressing the birth rate for a tiny economic boost right now is a high road to nowhere.
See Said's argument about "Orientalism".
>>My wife now has asthma.

Well the bad news, Asthma like diseases are like the tip of the Ice Berg. The next set of life style diseases like Diabetes and Thyroid Malfunction are going to be worse. There is already a growing trend of Thyroid Malfunction among women in Bangalore.

>>At the height of the crop-burning season (why they do it, I have no idea),

The crop waste after they harvest is expensive to dispose off, and decays slow. All options getting rid of them are expensive or too slow. Plus they don't compost because fertilizers are cheap, apparently.

>>India's biggest cities are practically unlivable. Public transport is abysmal, traffic is terrible, and the pollution keeps getting worse.

I can assure you there is no respite. We are only in the beginning of what are huge urbanization trends. Talking to my relatives who stay around districts around Bangalore, I don't know a single young nephew/niece/cousin who doesn't want to come to Bangalore. Because Bangalore is where good tuition classes, jobs and other stuff is.

>>India needs to control its pollution and traffic problems otherwise there will be yet another wave of brain drain and the beneficiaries will be countries like Canada and Australia

More bad news here. Many countries are cracking down on immigration. Thanks to the blatant fraud and abuse our people do here. During a recent H1-B thread on HN someone mentioned India alone files 2.5 times more H1-B applications than all other countries combined and the phenomenon of 'Principal Engineers' who can't code a shell script.

With the growth of right wing politics and nationalists trends in the west, immigration is no longer an easy deal.
India witnesses one of the highest female infanticide incidence in the world:
The irony here is that although C# has had direct memory and structs available for ages, Unity never took advantage of that - until just now - the in-development ECS / C# Jobs / Burst compiler architecture is utilising packed structs and manual memory allocation heavily. Why I say this is ironic is that Unity/C# have succeeded despite not using these features that you claim curb Java's popularity in the same space
This is excellent news.

I wonder how long it will be until we can buy a full raspi-like platform that has no proprietary chips or firmware.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638677 (196 comments)

Also earlier[0] and earlier still[1], both with upvotes but no discussion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638464

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637750
So apart from not really being about R, this author also seems to completely miss the point of scientific computing: it's not about having the cleverest language, it's about having a solid ecosystem and community building useful tools (e.g. RStudio). People work around language warts pretty easily, most people doing scientific computing just need to get shit done and don't give a rats arse about the programing language arcana.
Even where parental leave is publicly funded (rather than paid by employers), women of a certain age are rejected because it’s expensive to hire someone who may be gone 2 years of the next 5. You need to find and train replacements etc.
> If the financial world wanted instant settlements, we would have had them decades ago.

As a confirmation - they wanted it and they have it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area#SEPA...
Past posting on social issues. (You're not required to read it all, don't worry.:) ) I just wanted to make the point that, although I do support women's rights, what I was saying was valid even if you didn't.