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There's a reason why McDonalds gives out toys with Happy Meals and does free birthday parties for kids...
JavaScript is cute, I use it as a puppet language
Yes, many many choices, and it's impossible to predict what our descendants will want. Perhaps the Earth will be preserved as a monument.
Confusingly, biologists use the term "artificial life" to talk about both digital and chemical new-life experiments. Compare Richard Lenskis AVIDA platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida
Thats really bad, these few little things are, if anything, an absolute foundation of Typography - a designer should get knowledgeable with this quite early in their formation.
The Chinese win if they only have to pay pennies:

> The three companies owe a combined $1.5 million to New Balance. But while that sum may not seem like much, it’s more than American companies usually get.

Pennies on the dollar, Chinese win.

Ps. First link didn't receive damages and only partial win? 2nd link is better, but I'm sure copying Lego in China earned a lot more. So, still pennies om the dollar.

These articles you linked really don't proof a thing, just that some companies pay a minor fine. I'm suprised no one else sees this..
which isp do you have? a small local one or one of the three big ones (telecom, unicom or china mobile)?
I have never heard any non-school orchestra do that. Professional orchestras ulonly give one note (a for symphonic and sometimes Bb for wind orchestras).
Slightly related anecdote. I was in a coma for a month just over a year ago which left me with moderate nerve damage in my fretting hand. I'm still working on adapting my technique to better suit my condition. Initially, at least for a few months, I had trouble remembering any theory at all, but felt like I could improvise better after my coma, as weird as it sounds.

Funnily enough, even though my alternate-picking speed isn't the same, my legato playing has improved a ton. I'm not sure why this is. Perhaps something to do with the nerve damage and how the muscles have "reset" since then.

Any other musicians here recovering from an injury? What have your experiences been like?
I'm not sure how you assume chaos theory creates big issues with determinism and with what you wrote. I wouldn't agree with someone how an impossibility, "for beings inside a system of predicting how the full system will function" as conflicting with determinism. Even when a deterministic system is influenced by an outside deterministic system holding variables hidden to the initial system. I wouldn't described as undetermined by human language and write off determinism. I would say it's personal perception and arguable. Similarly I don't believe a defeatist mentality should be adopted with understanding chaos theory towards determinism. To me that would be taking an early stance, limited by our current knowledge and tools. Absolute impossible seems arrogant.
Key point: at high speed.

If want to go 1000km in 3-4 hrs then you are the kind of problem hyperloop might solve.
“Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets?
2. same fingering... So the C written conveys more a fingering than a pitch and the actual pitch depends on the instrument at hand.

3. Lovely anecdote, but wasn't it simpler if the pianist transposed ?
I did something similar actually. I have my 1Password vault on Dropbox so I can get it on my Linux machines.

Dropbox has some nice python modules/libraries to support me, so I’m able to download the directory as a zip and extract it in memory.

It’s stupid and unidirectional, but I’m sure more talented people are able to build a bidirectional python Dropbox client in no time, with inotify since python has bindings for this too.
Not really the same, but this reminds me of the top comment of the Dropbox announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
New Year 2019 and Christmas Holidays deals for programmers
> The Site may also provide notices to you of changes to these Terms of Use or other matters by displaying notices [emphasis mine] or links to notices generally on the Site.

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

In other words: really :P

PS. Check out VLC's menu icon today, as well (or Google.. lol)
Note HN has hellbanned your account, and your comments are showing up as dead.
I wish I never went to college. Giant waste of time and money.
Put together this small gimmick in ~5 hours and launched on the 24th, to celebrate the holidays.

The idea behind the platform is simple - Put a special message, offer, discount or freebie inside a custom wrapping (choose the shape and color of your gift), and send the link to whoever you like. They'll have to unwrap it to reveal its contents!

I personally have made a gift to it that I am happy to share with all of you. Enjoy! https://wonderurl.com/gift/tcodina
sadly 2018 was basically a total write off for me, starting out great and crashing down to me being left broke, homeless and jobless with nothing but the things in my backpack to my name, but im still alive and things are looking up for next year
Storing large objects in database rows impacts performance and scalability but this shouldn't be a problem unless your files are extraordinarily large.
I was not arguing against the validity and efficacy of the basic scientific method.

Scientific method is a great tool - for the tasks that it can handle. I can argue that there are many tasks which it cannot handle. Areas of knowledge which cannot be studied with scientifid method exactly.

Another limitation of it is obviously that it needs a hypothesis - which means it requires a preconceived notion of the world, before any testing can actually take place. Which means that the tester is responsible for the basic paradigm and worldview, from which they ultimately produce the hypothesis to test, to begin with. Obviously, the scientific method is less proficient in handling these preconceived prejudices and worldviews, because it comes in after they have been already applied. (It can help indirectly by verifying the hypothesis and perhaps sort out some worldviews, but it can naturally not create a new worldview by itself.)

So what happens when there are multiple hypothesis from completely different paradigms that show some evidence? Or what happens when there is a hypothesis which you just cannot disprove directly? This is where other paradigms ultimately come in.

I suspect that the question of consciousness is ultimately one of these questions, where we will need help from many other areas, before the scientific method can ever be applied here. Before a testable model can even be conceived.
A Typographic Christmas: new iA variable fonts available for free on GitHub
I meant "I just hope people would just NOT believe it"
A MAC address is 6 bytes, so 48 bits
Free SSL vs Paid SSL certificate: which is best for you?
Prime Video on Fire TV boxes now autoplays some selections in the menu (maybe just Amazon original content?). Now I have to mute my TV with Prime Video just like is required for Netflix.

Prime doesn't have the bizarre, useless, space-wasting auto-expanding selections like Netflix though.

Netflix stream selection UX is so infuriatingly atrocious.
Thinking it may be time to look at some Azure stuff for me, seems fairly in demand these days
I just outlined the argument where I show exactly how not being able to predict it means in effect that it is not deterministic. Can you provide some logic against that argument? (So far you just said you don't agree.)

Also please note, and I repeat myself that I argue there is a great difference between "really hard to predict" and "physically impossible to predict for any being, based on our own notion of the universe".
But what's say there was some conjecture that if proved to be the case proved a unifying theory of everything in Physics that relied on that conjecture, but that conjecture couldn't be proven under the given set of axioms... then in that case wouldn't it be that there were some truths about the universe that aren't possible to prove?

I don't think it's irrational or anti-science to say or think that. It just seems like it might be a possibility, which sure, why the hell not?

"There's this thing we can't prove under the given axioms"..."Ok, well just extend the axioms"..."Right but there is still this other thing we can't prove under that set of axioms."..."Ok, so rinse and repeat?"

How, if you can't prove it, do you figure out if it is an axiom in the first place?
That's not my claim but it's part of it, there is a reason why it's only 1% and it's not because it doesn't have political support.

You still haven't actually put forward any realistic proposal for how a 100% solar grid system would work realistically providing us with stable and scalable energy and ability to solve the world increasing energy needs.

So you can call me what you want that doesn't change that fact.
NAT doesn't do this on its own. It would be a duplicate implementation of the stateful firewall, so NAT leaves this piece to the firewall.

NAT is nothing more than a lookup table of router IP+Port and internal IP+Port pairs.

(Well, PAT style NAT anyway... But that's what everyone here is talking about...)
I dived into prolog this year, and I really liked it. However, I didn't find a very active community to answer questions. The lack of energy in the community, and my wondering where I could use prolog for a practical application, tempered my enthousiasm, and I switched to learning something else (category theory).
There is nothing defeatist about it. It's about finding the nature of the universe. I don't know why if a certain model of the universe would show up as being less accurate than another model - anyone would that "defeatist". I think it is important as scientist to not lock oneself to a specific model and think that it is defeatist if that one model shows up to be incorrect.
I must say this is beautifully written. Our perception of how we view the world is fundamentally important. Self importance with what's observable can create an illusion. How you described objects entering the world, similar to any other process is perfect.
Why does the client care which filesystem you use???
If one of those 5 tries to connect e.g. to a remote windows file server .. you now have an open port on your public IP which will accept packets from any IP on the internet and will forward them to the windows file share service on your desktop.

Add a stateful firewall with connection tracking, and that port is only open to the 1 server you tried to connect to.
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Exactly. Remove the firewall state, and you're wide open for all the NAT'd ports. And if someone thinks they don't have any NAT ports, they would be wrong. You likely have 10's or 100's ports NATd for every device activity being used on your network.
This topic interests me. I am very interested to hear what the specific issues are with "non programmable" config files in your case.

Generally I find that people often choose config languages because of syntax preference, where in reality they should be thinking if what they are trying to express is data or behavior?

Ansible should have been just python. Yaml makes for an ugly programming language. Whereas python setup.py files should have been anything but python. It's a terrible source of metadata.

There are cases of course where the distinction is not that obvious.
Is your nginx config data or a program/behavior? How about your CI config?
Anyone not coding on a 4K or higher monitor should complain.

They’re not that expensive now, and the text is so much sharper. You might not notice the difference with a 4k TV on the other side of a room, but you will with a 28 inch screen a couple of feet in front of you.
This is rad and obnoxious at the same time
And what is the argument?
Well, my complaint is that you need something like the tidyverse and a ton of books and blog posts -and Stack Overflow threads- to figure out how to do basic things with R. When I first started learning R, my first point of call would be the CRAN package documentation, which was, often, indecipherable (e.g. it often refers to concepts in S).

What I mean is, it takes a lot of support before you can feel comfortable and be fluent in R, rather more so than in the languages used in the software dev industry, that are much more considerate of programmers' strengths, and, of course, weaknesses.

I'll agree to sort-of disagree. Thanks for your insights and merry christmas :)
> disrupting the peacefulness and the attraction that is/was a hike through ancient cultures and landscapes with no roads

Other people's abject poverty is beautiful I will give you that.

Even a walk through a city slum has an amazing beauty to it.

But men doing the work of animals and machines is beautiful.

And Nepal is one of the only countries I've seen in real life women doing 3rd world manual construction. It blew me away, I'd never seen such poverty.
Different supported features make it easier to maintain such a client. Example: Some filesystems notify observers on file change, some don't.
The quintessential eighties.
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I'm sorry if I didn't understand you reply, - I think you wrote is very obvious and I though i adressed that with the simple neutonian system reference.

Using your analogy, whether United States will exist in 10000 years might actually be undetermined. Not just unknown, unpredicted, but undetermined in the chaos theory- sense. Not only you don't know it - the universe itself does not know it. And the universe is built in such a way that it is impossible to know. Not just "very hard and requires a lot of computation". Impossible, because we can show that the computations you would need would require a computer bigger than the universe itself.

Then there is of course an extra note required here is that there is no way for me as a human to know if the question about United States actually is universally undetermined - or just unpredicted; if there is some entity that can predict that. But the chaos theory says that many aspects of the system, and the system as a whole is undetermined. (While having exceptions where simple things like your plane landing can be predicted with some accuracy, yes.)
Well I wouldn't say a deterministic model has been shown to be incorrect. It may come down to what is most measurable and what we decide to lean towards but I think it's way too early for that judgement. I would find it interesting if one day I go around without a determinism perception towards everything. I just haven't been able to do it with what I've read and thought about. I don't think I'm stubborn either!
Yup, I also know that we are actually seeing progress in that field because the Chinese are investing in it and which then obviously needs to be factored in like everything else.

The point was that fusion is as far of as 100% solar is. So again unless you show some actual proposals for how to get 100% solar to work realistically you are in no better position than the Fusion crowd is.
So is the TV the new parent now? What ever happened to good parenting?
According to Hindu cosmology, there is no absolute start to time, as it is considered infinite and cyclic. There are multiple universes, each takes birth from chaos, grows, decays and dies into chaos, to be reborn again. Further, there are different and parallel realities.
Well, it's christmas. Although I'm an atheist, HN has put on its holiday suit and I don't feel like pressing this point any further. My apologies to the OP and to yourself, if my earlier comment sounded too curmudgeonly. I'm really the Grinch that stole Christmas, so don't mind me :)
No I haven't said that at all.

I have said that the claim that wind and solar is the way forward is to do with the "communism has never been tried" argument.

Why do you need to lie about what I actually said.
If there were local agents with a truck of explosives, there would be way, way more valuable targets to attack though.
Nassim Taleb on why IQ is baloney
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No but you are.

Having no problem with misrepresenting what other say.

I was replying to this:

"This is very much the "true communism has never been tried" argument, isn't it? "

Which you very well know. So yeah thanks for showing your hand.
WWV "server" for the service could be rapidly restored from any site in the same general area. There are almost certainly spares for all the equipment, and most of it isn't even specific to the application. What matters is the protocol and widely deployed receive stations (which would be very hard to change).
What's Ruby's popularity these days? Genuinely curious to gauge the trend for this language over Python and Javascript.
It looks like there might be a bug. What happens when you add a new file? A quick scan of the entr help text suggests you should be using the -d flag.
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Designwise i’m not that sure the color combination on the website is the greatest to attract people from tumblr to librl. It also looks like it was quickly thrown together using simplest components. The idea behind it seems nice but to get mass adoption you need to focus on the presentation.
This assumes that our level of technology will increase over such long time scales. It might be cyclical, resetting to zero periodically.
Very cool - hopefully ads won't usurp this...
Hm, sounds like mathematician giving fancy biological-sounding names to some procedurally generated abstract art forms.

Frankly, I had hoped for more, given the title. There's some really cool work that has been done with digital artificial life that has real biological significance. For example, Richard Lenski's group at Michigan State University developed a platform called AVIDA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida) that has been used for evolutionary biology research. Slightly different, 2012 saw the publication of the first whole-cell computational model (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286741...). And in the past 30 years, computer simulations of ecosystems have slowly been gaining momentum and acceptance as a tool for addressing ecological questions that are very hard to study in real life (this happens to be the field I work in).

Lenia, on the other hand, is nothing more than an abstraction of Conway's Game of Life. A pretty mathematical pastime that is fun to play around with and gives you some interesting patterns - but nothing that merits the description "biology". The whole paper just reeks with misapplied terms: from "taxonomy" to "ecology" and even "physiology". (They don't have anything to do with their real counterparts.) In short, I fail to find any significance for our knowledge of life on earth, or any other life, for that matter.

Pretty graphs, though.
It’s just like ad networks and ad agencies that rename after being blacklisted or caught of malpractice
Pgweb – Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go
Adults sure, but what decent human sets out to get kids addicted???

The relentless march of capitalism
A short, sweet summary of my opinion :D
Thanks for sharing the screenshots!
Which should someone learn first, Ruby or Python?
Patience Diff, a brief summary (2008)
I used it as a workout for the compiler that I'm writing. I solved every problem in my own language, so that was pretty cool. The language is now almost as powerful as C. I kept all the code in one file, which now has grown to 4500 LoC (non-empty, non-comment), producing 38k LoC in LLVM.

On day 6 I got a stack overflow, so I had to quickly implement new/delete. For the Elf processor I had to add in binary operators. Design-wise it taught me that good literals can be really helpful, e. g. an initializer expression for an array of structs. With Python's dict/tuple/array literals e. g. you could sometimes replace parsing entirely with a couple text transformations in Sublime. Maybe this is specific to these kinds of problems, but I think it would also be helpful for unit tests.

It was fun to learn a new algorithm (A*) and implement it. Day 23 part 2 was my favorite. I was stuck for hours, tried two solutions that didn't work out. Went to bed frustrated, then implemented the solution the next morning. I'm still thinking about it, it's an interesting problem.
I hadn't seen entr before! My first glance at your one-liner:

find $ORG_DIR | entr -r rclone sync -v $ORG_DIR $REMOTE:org

is that find will enumerate all your existing files, but starting a new one won't get picked up.

It seems like entr is prepared though, and you should just pass in -d. In fact why use find at all, if you want to rsync the directory?
Cheers. Note also that you can relatively easily move all your SQL tables to Prolog by exporting them as text files with Prolog facts of the form:

<table_name>(<column 1, row 1>, <column 2, row 1>, ...., <column n, row 1> )
...
<table_name>(<column 1, row m>, <column 2, row m>, ...., <column n, row m> )

So each table becomes a predicate with the table name as its predicate symbol ("functor" in Prolog), the number of the columns in the table as its arity (the number of arguments of the predicate) and where each row of the table is a separate clause of the predicate.

Many tables exported this way will not be necessary any more, particularly those ubiquitous tables used to map other tables' keys between them ("Customer_ID_Ticket_Id" etc) and in most cases primary key fields will no longer be necessary and so on- but you can move all your data to Prolog, with very little change, is what I'm trying to say.

Mer' Christmas :)
I think they rather meant the difference between procs and lambdas (e.g. wrt return).
If I can't make an account it doesn't exist! :P

Of course any kind of feed readers are a welcome addition to the internet or fediverse...as long as you don't muck up image search like pinterest did.
> In what way are tooltips "infeasible for advanced software"?

They aren't, and Blender has them. I think it's had them since I started using it, about three years ago I guess. Although they've definitely improved in that time.
Ha! I took too long to format my response :). The entr examples from [1] seem to do the same (ls *.rb for example).

[1] http://eradman.com/entrproject/
Neither. Learn an assembly language first and work your way up.
What makes you think there'll be a resurgence in its use in the next few years?
Reminds me of surgery banjo player Eddie Adcock underwent to deal with a tremor that interfered with his playing. It was quite successful.
You are invoking a classical notion of existence.

This is not acceptable to a constructivist, for whom “a statement is true if we have a proof of it, and false if we can show that the assumption that there is a proof for the statement leads to a contradiction”[1]. The parent poster, whatshisface, may be a constructivist.

[1] Troelstra A., D. van Dalen (1988) “Constructivism in mathematics: an introduction”
But optionals are just a union type (T | None).
Pretty bold and empty statements at the same time; site doesn't show anything but text+image placeholders and bulky design similar to pre-Material of Google.
“Completely free and open, apart from if you want to say things that might offend people who don’t share your views”

If you’re going to say that a platform is free and open, allow it to be so.

This seems like a quick rush to generate interest for a cryptocurrency (LibrCoin). Not buying it.
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Browsers are getting too feature laden. Soon nobody will be able to write a browser from scratch. Instead, let users implement the features they need, or let them use libraries if necessary.
What sources do you have to learn category theory?
Stopped at day 15 as it was starting to spend too much time on it all :D wouldn't mind picking back up where I left off over my holiday.
I couldn't resist...

Your example could be improved by using "products.sort_by(&:cost).last"

I try to not use map because often there are methods that already implement filtering.
Gotta love Ruby readability.