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> I briefly was maintaining my blog using make and M4.

I also wrote a static blog generator with M4 and GNU Make recently. It was the second time I've used M4 and it was pretty great. The first was a templating (probably missusing the term) system for my dotfiles to make them work across many distros and machines I have.
Stops you wasting too much time on HN. It's deliciously wonderful at thwarting your attempts to read (and respond to) too many articles.
And what is the primary characteristic of a homeless person? "homeless" describes it pretty good.
I got the number 1/8 from

> 25% of the emissions are produced during the Landing Take-Off (LTO) cycle (for flights over a 800km range)

and

> Taxi operations are the largest source of emissions in a standard LTO cycle

It seems almost unbelievable, but the sources seem solid. I would love to hear other input on this.
I suspect ants don't have accountants who view things like devops as a cost centre.

If the availability of tasks and failures that need responses was a source of nutrients that caused things like devops staff to reproduce...

It's true: all analogies break down under close inspection.
No annoying ads, opens picture, allows comments, thematic. I'd say that this is good cause
He looks a little disheveled, but I see your point. It's obvious that he's not as unhinged as the market and commentary would lead us to believe.
No. You need a wheat cell as well. Then you might be in business.

And, no, it is not possible (today) to rebuild a multi gigabase hexaploid genome. The best that's been done so far is mycoplasma (500kb genome, which is many orders of magnitude smaller).

Also, the "genome sequence" presented here is not really complete. Thus far only the simplest organisms have had their genomes synthesized from a digital template and resulted in a viable cell. We rarely can produce a "complete" genome for anything other than bacteria and viruses. And for those, the diversity in the population makes the idea of establishing a single genome sequence somewhat limiting.
Now that's a life.
there's an interesting issue wrt. maths and Juila; yesterday there was a story : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781475 on unmaintainable code. One of the clauses mentions the use of non standard characters as variable names : δ σ π ρ for example and cites the issue as having to deal with the code in a simple text editor.

I recently wrote a simulator intended as the demonstration of some issues in a paper. I found that using non standard characters enabled me to create a clearer implementation of the calculations in the paper in the code - so I think that it's a great thing that you can do this in Julia and that it should be encouraged.

In 2017 programmers have access to super powerful computers - some cycles to render and enable the manipulations are appropriate? What do people think?
How much money do you earn by leaving flaming bags of dog poop? Can you get rich that way?
That's lowercase of both.

Thorn: Þ, þ (as in "thick")

Eth: Ð, ð (as in "the")
Hehe, good news I guess! Just hit reply on the digest if/when anything comes to mind :)
Not always. Folks can obtain a degree later in life to throw off the ageism detector.
This is a fallacy - for all we know, SF might be spending that money to help 20,000 people to find homes, and 7,500 homeless people are still left or newly homeless.
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Congrats to ZeroCell dev, good work! it looks simple and perfectly usable with well formed files, but how it deals with the day-by-day office files (not so well structured, lot of edge cases and so)? Maybe an entry for these cases would be necesary in the documentation.
> Just hand out cash?

That's what we do in most (all? I can only find a handful of dated references to a program in the UK) parts of Europe. Seems to work fine.
>[0] Except for the backtick as opening quote. Objectively, I think this is a good design decision for any language, but it takes a lot of getting used to.

The `quoting' in m4 is pretty nice since it makes the quotes easy to nest. Sure braces would also be an option but I don't see any fundamental difference between the two, just visual.
The genome is akin to the software of an organism. It's not exactly obfuscated, so we can actually learn a lot just by reading it. The next big benefits are all about relating the genome of one organism to others.

A single "reference" genome can serve as a high quality basis for interpreting new genomes. This is called resequencing. Small pieces of the new genomes are sequenced with very cheap techniques and mapped into the most-similar bits of the big genome, in effect allowing for a kind of guided reconstruction of the new genome. The short read lengths make it difficult to reconstruct a new genome de novo, but that's OK because if we have a reference we've already paid that price once for a related individual.

This process has bias but it's also expedient, say when you have thousands or millions of genomes in a study (as happens in agriculture).

One big problem in the field now is this obsession with reference genomes and resequencing against them. Researchers forget how much the reference genome can bias their resolution of a new genome. This has resulted in a lot of fussing and fixation on high-entropy regions of genomes and small variations (point mutations, or SNPs) within them. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that large changes are probably more important for adaptation, but they remain somewhat underappreciated because of this short read resequencing modality.
Simple. They don't. My stream of thought during a lucid dream isn't much different from my stream of thought during normal, sober waking hours - it is just the stuff going on around me is weird and I have different constraints on what is possible.

On psychedelics, I view the world and myself differently. I know I'm on drugs. My stream of thought is different I'm obviously still in my house, for example, and I know I can't fly or make things appear out of thin air. By the time any hallucinations would be dream-like (strong and heavy), I freaking know I'm hallucinating. Even with lighter things (much more common), I know it is a hallucination. I know that my painting doesn't really move like that, for example.
If I found whoever thought like me, putting us together wouldn't make either of us less lonely, we'd be lonely together <3
There is, of course, the pesky minor detail you're quickly glossing over, namely that the word's root is race, something I was (probably) misled to believe by conservative-leaning science teachers with a hidden agenda has a fairly agreed-upon scientific definition, which has much to do with DNA, and not much with economics, whatever Peterson's opinion may be.

Now, if the left (which is anything but "progressive" these days, just hearing you calling them that is borderline offensive) wants to fight its political battles via redefinition of the meaning of words, things are unlikely to get to any kind of constructive any time soon.

The fact remains though, that the article specifically mentions they only do business with black farmers. Use whichever language you'd like to describe this, the behavior is what it is.
404 logic not found. You just want to forcibly take away my money so you can feel good.
I tend to have my waking stream of thought during a lucid dream. It isn't really different from waking stream of thought. I can control my own actions, but my dreams are usually fun and I get curious to see where the current story is going.

I don't know if that helps or not, but that's what it does with me.
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I debated whether to say anything or not because this seems zero-sum and the potential for downside is huge. Yet, here I am at 4:30am, in Canada, being opinionated about a problem that I am far-removed from.

20 years ago, I was a 20y/o radical activist. I spent a significant amount of my time, energy and money participating in street-level activist organizing - all while holding down a job as a software developer by day.

I have protested the KKK (the Ohio police put us in a big cage while robed Klansmen hung out with a PA on the courthouse steps). I have personally been involved with shutting down white power skinhead concerts, which often involved physical confrontation. I wasn't "in Seattle" but I was "in Washington", for those of you old enough or inclined to catch the reference. I've held placards at Free Mumia rallies. I almost got arrested for jabbing Fred Phelps (the God Hates Fags asshole) with an umbrella.

I offer this - if you're willing to trust me - not to brag or signal virtue, but to offer some context when I say that holy fuck the language that they use in their call-to-arms manifesto is irritating to me.

Maybe it's true, what they say about getting old making you conservative. Maybe this post is giving me an existential crisis. And yet, I don't think so. What I actually think is that perhaps East Bay food activists are just guileless in their messaging and are completely tone-deaf to how incredibly elitist that this kind of intentionally polarizing propaganda actually sounds to anyone who might not shake their fist at the concept of capitalism still existing in the bathroom mirror every morning.

Ranting about how a startup is stealing your thunder / community groups because they are gasp effective is the literal definition of sour grapes. It has nothing to do with capitalism, which is true regardless of how many comments you delete.

Seriously, phatbeats: when did you get so scared to innovate? You don't have to do it in a capitalist framework, but you have to get creative and try new things or you won't have a legitimate argument to make to 99.9% of the population. Even Canadians who are moved to tears by Bernie Sanders find your tone to be grating.

I want so badly to support people who spend their energy making the world better for people. Maybe these Imperfect Produce folks really do have blood boys and drink the tears of orphans. But my knee-jerk reaction to your post, as life-long self-identified progressive, is to cheer for them. That should not be what's happening, and it's not just because I got old and sold out.

Meta: I am genuinely impressed at how civil this discussion is. We HN commenters often get a bad rap. We often++ deserve it, but today, we can have nice things.
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One Page resume was still the style in 1980, that's cool. Really well written cover letter as well, hard to see that come by these days.
Try to see the anti-gene-modification initiatives as a security by obscurity approach.

Seeing the horrors of info-security (drm, attacks, cheap-hacks) today unfolding, and imagining a nature, where wild gene drives are on the loose, this approach seems misguided but at its core valid.

The one time loss of half the biosphere that will occur with the source code being readable is greater then any gain.

A great book to get more into the dangers of genetic editing and proprietary genes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
It’s the assumption that people (clients) are stupid and frauds (weighting items, „unexpected item!”), plus the fact that creating the software is created at the lowest possible cost. Yes that’s the future - the quantity of resources and services is fixed, robots and machines will guard people from accessing them, while overzealously detecting and punishing potential frauds. The profits from "automating out" the things will not go the pocket of the consumer/end user/client/claimant.
Ohhh… I really disagree; I find that strong typing allows me to get the compiler to check that the work that's going on in the various branches of my code is at least allowed - even if it's wrong. I wish that my test cases really did test all of these corners, but realistically I just don't believe that I am good enough at writing test cases to get everything. From another perspective using strong typing like this saves me lots of time in terms of writing finicky test cases. I'm not saying that dynamic typing is wrong - in fact it is brilliant in terms of not having to write reams and reams of dangerous and maintenance heavy boilerplate!
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Most European countries have things like free medical care and maternity leave that we lack in the US.

It isn't really a comparable situation. Acting like it is doesn't do anything constructive for American problems.
The idea that it's difficult to self-host these open source solutions is often part of the marketing but it often isn't true. Many times, I've seen companies host their own HTTP servers but outsource their WebSocket servers even though they don't require much additional DevOps skills if they used the right open source tools.

Often, those companies would actually have benefited from being able to integrate their backend systems more closely.

Regarding back end services; I've used various Amazon AWS services at different companies and, every time, it made development and deployment way more complicated - For example, one corporation I worked at, there was only 1 person in the whole company who had the full knowledge to work with our Lambda setup; this person worked very slowly (probably not their fault) so they were blocking all other teams in the company. It would have been much faster if the company operated the server themselves.
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maintenance, readability, extensibility, reuse :)
It's regrettable that you have to put a man like this into confinement.
Sorry, being a hormonally motivated biological machine developed over millions of years sometimes makes me have sexual thoughts cause I'm programmed to have one too many of them; I apologize for stating the course of action that 99% of the straight males in the world would do if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
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If you close your eyes and visualize reading a random magazine, what is in it? What do the words say? What is in the article? Can you actually read it? Is it different if it is a magazine you wouldn't usually read, like you might in a doctor's office waiting room? How about a new book?

Yes, this seems a difficult exercise, but it is exactly what your mind is against in a dream. And while a few people can read things in dreams, many cannot. Some folks can read simple signs. For me, most times, letters move around - if they are even latin letters at all. That said, sometimes I know what they say regardless. I get the illusion of reading, but not the actual experience.

Reading is sometimes a trigger for lucid dreams for me. It was unsettling at first :)
Glad to hear that, I was not aware of most of these. How about starting GitLab Engineering blog? :)
entropy_avail returns bits of entropy to a maximum of 4096(?), but this reads 1000 bytes. Why check if it's greater than 1500 if you're going to use it all anyway? Am I missing something here?
Disagreeing with me produces stress hormones which cause actual harm to my body. Ergo, you commit violence against me when you dispute positions I hold. Stop the violence, confess you are wrong, and agree with me before I have you arrested for assault and battery.
A useful technique, when you are clear on the emotion you are feeling, is to create some space with closed eyes to first feel the emotion in your body and then ask your body when the first time in your life was you felt such a feeling of frustration. You may be presented with an image or scene which you then can explore and integrate.

I work with a variety of folks, including some of the top founders in the valley, and this type of subtle exploration is one of the most useful tools to unlock deeper levels of clarity, performance and wellbeing.
Contemporary programmer: spends a whole weekend tweaking CSS parameters, asking web forums for LaTeX templates, finding a cool fresh font pairing on Google Fonts.

1980s programmer: sits down at the typewriter and bangs out a fixed width table, finishes with a signature.
Really there is a small but seriously problematic population of people in need of a high level of mental health care who I would guess are the primary perpetrators of public defecation + urination (schizophrenia, addiction/intoxication, etc.). The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $106 million in emergency medical and mental health services in 2015. Putting this money to work institutionalizing these chronic cases seems like a sensible and responsible thing to do – and it isn't hard to pick these individuals out. Staff at the General know all the regulars.
Thanks for the encouragement!

I like the philosophy of friends! (even though I too don't need quite the power of it (yet). ;))
That will probably change in the next few years though, as they are planning to extend the blue line from Kungsträdgården out to Nacka. Central will still be Where most people hop off no doubt, but I’d expect traffic at Kungsträdgården to pick up considerable as theres plenty of commuters living south and south east, that work in the offices around there.
GWK?
I made it obvious. Let me know if this is clear: http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations/.
Neither speech, language, or even a punch to the gut hurts as bad as widespread intergenerational economic injustice.

This free speech nonsense misses the point. It’s only en vogue because the Dem Party is so desperate to avoid and distract from how discrimination and injustice actually happen. Yeah sure words can hurt, but you’ll manage. Time to get with the program.
Same here, for years. It was the best way I could find to consume HN.
It does not require a newsletter subscription and one can consult it whenever he/she wishes.
I normally consult it once or twice per day, and make a conscious effort to focus my attention on that task for a continuous time amount.
Associated fifties right away too, although not that colorful :)
Thanks for your comment. It's interesting to me because I am a progressive who is actively disenfranchised by "the left" for some of the same reasons.

So, knowing that I see the mainstream left as a tone-policing, virtue signaling, intellectually numbing quasi-fascist dumpster fire... does that change the tone of your reading?
I think this last paragraph is a bit misleading:

> use a proper programming language

m4 is a small proper language that can be used directly. jinja2 is a DSL written in python that doesn't actually have access to much of python.

m4 is harder to work with in the domain (quoting, escaping, and data modeling) since it is a general purpose language, but it is easier to do general purpose processing tasks with m4 if they violate the stereotypes of what should be done in the domain.
I am still trying to stick to that. No one has time to read multipages resumes (and I think most interviewers read the resume on the way to the interview room anyway).
Social programs should really plan for these types of disruptors more often. We've had Asda (Walmart to you US folk) trying to do the same by adding boxes of below commercial grade into supermarkets couple years ago. It really pressured our local small suppliers by people seeing the cost of two trips higher than the difference in prices. I don't think the author should feel more cornered though - imperfect food still makes perfect meals at a higher margin - perhaps they should use this encouraging response from their community to take their stock, teach to cook healthy and retain profitablity to support their existing programs? They would even be able to maintain a reliable % for food banks and reducing waste by converting excess into food for a later time.
They still the norm in Denmark. Although more information is normally crammed in.
FYI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17485109
Looks like a really good project, especially with the collection of test-files.

I had fun fuzzing the "real" awk, finding a couple of trivial segfaults. If you've not already experimented with fuzzing I'd recommend it - I found a few minor issues in my own simple-interpreter, and language, via feeding them malformed scripts.
Plus, GitHub is a Microsoft property now, and I believe that on some fundamental level, Microsoft is happy to be in command of social web properties that still see avid use, and aren’t being stifled by Microsoft’s otherwise domineering reputation.
I'm all for humanization, and some people can really be cruel. But I also think it is important to point out that 55% of the homeless population in SF has been homeless for a decade or more, and are not just "people who are currently homeless."

And at some point we have to accept imprecise language in service of useful abstraction (which is all language is).
> fallacy .. and speech float in the ether.

No, speech is transmitted by the movement of air molecules. And the movement of these air molecules typically does no damage, unless amplified to absurd pressure levels.

> harms the body

Nope. A "cutting" comment produces no incisions in the body. I think you are also confusing "harms the body" with "feels like pain". There are studies that show that, for example, social exclusion produces a pain sensation in the brain that is hard to distinguish from physically caused pain.

However, that's not the same, just because there is a pain sensation as if you were physically harmed does not mean you were physically harmed. And no, the pain sensation is not the same as the actual physical harm. And yes, long-term cortisol exposure will cause negative effects on the body, but again not everything that causes harm is violence.

If I give you wrong directions, I am causing you harm, but that doesn't mean my directions are violence. If I drop a banana peel and you slip on it, that causes you harm, but it is not violence. The sun causes you harm, but the sun is not violence.
Bookdown is super easy. Some oreilly books (eg R for Data Science) used it.
It's a amazing that a company selling to consumers dares to use such tactics.. it's bound to back fire and give bad publicity.

I can't believe that scam tactics like this will bring in much money either. Not compared to the cost of fixing the out publicity issues.
They aren't naive. They are lucky, in the sense that they've had the opportunity to experience a big chunk of North America on foot.

Really though; people are generally good, and you shouldn't be scared to get out and have a look around.
Thanks! Indeed, the library really works best for well structured files. Where I work, we use it daily to process different types of excel files with at least 40 columns each but they are all well structured.

Will update the documentation to make this clear. Thanks for the feedback. :)
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Don't be silly. The actual harm must be systematic, unescapable, and perpetuated over a power imbalance over a long period of time. Are any of those conditions satisfied in this case? No.
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Yes, clearly this is a misuse of a platform that offers GitHub pages with custom domain support so that users can host their own static sites or blogs.

I mean, it’s a also a platform with an embeddable “gists” feature ostensibly for code snippets, but frequently used to access notes of all types. Clearly anyone who has ever typed a plaintext gist is also misusing GitHub.

/s

Dude, why do you care? It’s not a “project” in a traditional sense but it’s not hurting anything and if someone wants to store a cool readme in their account, why does it matter?
I doubt a resume like this a would even be considered today. It's missing pretty much all the bling.
> those that [aren't in the language ] (like Classes) aren't there because the authors of the language don't think that they are useful

From what I understand it's more that the combination of other features in the Julia language (like multiple dispatch) makes classes redundant.
I didn't realise the word "cyber" had been around that long... As much as I (have to) use the word, I didn't know it's background.