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A major science conference at which other Indian scientists absolutely repudiated Newton and Einstein, and pushed Von Daniken style theories about ancient Vedic aircraft and stem cell technology.

So clearly there are scientists in India who are fighting the good fight for scientific rigor and accountability, but this is in the context of ruling party politicians making comments pushing these sorts of crackpot theories in support of a nationalist glorification agenda. There is currently plenty of reason to worry about the politicization of science in India.
Everyone wants improvement but hate change. I for one welcome this stance and although I fear it won't help much as this is about technology and technology > the policy but hopefully the consequences of this will have some illuminating outcomes.
> avoid redundancy

That's really dangerous advice for anyone inexperienced in a particular endurance activity away from contact.

The military have a phrase: one is none and two are one. For anything that is life-critical, having only one is too risky.
i actually really hope things like this are more successful and gain traction in the future.

I always thought there may be ways to apply IEC 61508 more widely (if it can include mental or non physical damage) but i am sure there are probably quite a few ways of approaching this.
True story: a group of Indian scientists with sense criticize a right-wing group of pseudo-scientists making outlandish claims.

Impression left by BBC headline: Indian scientists are wack

Like, come on. One could do the same by compiling the views of every ridiculous theory espoused by people like Ben "grain silos" Carson or young earth creationists in America and write "American scientists dismiss reason". Are there a significant amount of people that believe nonsense like this? Sure, maybe. Is that representative of American scientists as a whole? Of course not.

And it's the same thing here. I guarantee you a biology grad student at some place like IIT is under no delusions about the origins of stem cell research.
What would this change?
The problem with nuclear is that is not really improved by market forces. The failure mode is pretty catastrophic so insurance is underwritten by the state.

No company can simply try a different operational regime and go under if they do it badly. Thua any nuclear project is by default a government project. I am much more hopeful for fusion in this regard. Letting a fusion company fail doesn’t seem very dangerous so if the basic science can be tamed, gradual economic improvement could actually acrue by market forces.

Contrast that to nuclear where each new plant is getting more expensive per GWH delivered.
Much the same reasons we started buying vinyl again. CDs have ridiculously short shelf life in practice, are too fragile, require a complex and brittle laser reader. The tech sits in an intersection between analog and digital that serves absolutely no benefit at this point.

Plus, the physical experience of owning and playing them was never anywhere near as pleasant as vinyl.
No wiring have been found to date in excavations of Indian sites. Irrefutable proof that they had wireless karmic communication.

These are the folks who have been running our country for the past 5 years. The other party, congress, is a party of sycophants trying to upstage each other by their degree of sycophancy toward their party president that typically has come from a single family. In the current govt, its the "scientists" who try to out sycophant the other in legitimizing the current govt's beliefs to win favors. It helps them that a significant part of the population believes in that shit.

So here we are, caught betweent a rock and a hard place.
What I'm really after is a web based search portal for all my network data that's hosted on SMB shares. It needs to be easy to setup and manage (so my other half can use it) and understand Windows domain security. Google-in-a-box used to do it (badly), and MS SharePoint Search (bloated and slow). Neither of which are suitable these days. Any ideas anyone?
Their SoCs are a massive differentiator. Unfortunately I don’t think the iPhone is in a good position to leverage that.
I agree but this type of comment also shows your lack of experience. Very rarely do you personally get to make a choice about the technology used. In this case I’ve come onto a project to fix a load of bugs and restyle something that already existed. I’m not going to come in and redo everything from scratch before delivering something...
Use Kotlin instead.
Yes, this is equally important when repairing some electronic gadgets with tens of little screws and interlocking parts, etc.
Words to live, and die, by.
Every series he ever did is worth a watch. Connections were of the same mould, but even more random chains of events of how something ancient led to something modern.

A digression, but topical today is "After the Warming" from the 80s about climate change. Quite remarkable if a little optimistic about our chances of doing something. Lots of 80s VR and CGI, which you have to forgive a little. Pleasingly free of dumbing down.

Probably some of these on Youtube.
I don't think the hindrance when starting to learn graphics programming is the math or the lack of ideas of what to build. The biggest problem is that the most known APIs (DirectX, OpenGL and especially DirectX 12 and Vulkan) are so badly designed and so poorly documented that it deters anyone trying to start doing anything. All these API are like magic invocation you have to make the calls in just the right order or it doesn't work at all. There is no real specification of what goes underneath and it can't be because the actual implementation is written by different vendors (Nvidia or AMD) which only slightly abides to the specification.
> As much as I wanted to love the iPhone SE, it always felt like last year’s model. It wasn’t a differentiated product that had a proper update cycle. A lot of people in the community were hoping for a proper update to the SE.

I have an SE and appearance aside I disagree. It had the guts of the current model including touch id and performs quite well for me.

Now, sure, it feels a little bit left behind. Maybe. It's still fast enough to run the apps I want. But, let's face it, all of the updates that the 7/8/Xfoo have had are updates I don't want.

The problem I've got with Apple is that they don't have any new products I want. I just had them replace the battery on the SE (which was a clusterfuck in its own right) and I just bought a refurb 2015 MBP. Granted Apple probably made more money off the sale of a refurb than they would've off of a new unit... but if the lineup hasn't improved in another six years I'm off to Linux on the desktop.
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Did you read anything before making the claim?

> "We don't subscribe to their views and distance ourselves from their comments. This is unfortunate," Premendu P Mathur, general secretary of Indian Scientific Congress Association, told AFP news agency.

BBC always have an agenda when it comes to India.
For me, it's the size and headphone jack. Android vs. iOS doesn't matter much, but Apple was the only company still offering a phone that fits my two criteria.

Now I have 3 SEs (one with a broken screen that I'll get fixed, one currently in use, one still in the box) that will hopefully last me a while - maybe the phone market returns to sensible sizes & features in a few years.
I would really recommend anyone who want's to get a taste of "real" function programming to develop some parser with parser combinators (I developed a java-parser). I started to understand a great deal of functional-programming concepts by using them...and they are so awesome! They are, in my optinion, a prime example where functional programming shines. I think they really had an impact on my journy through programming languages.

I am just not sure about f#, but that's probably because I am so used to haskell.
"You're posting too fast. Please slow down."

Twice in THREE HOURS is too fast?

How about you FUCK OFF, HACKER NEWS?

What a bunch of jagoffs.
Chat is too demanding for most people.

I suggest making discourse forum and advertising it on Reddit ads.

Even Facebook ads can be useful.

You'll need to create a marketing page to explain the purpose of your forum.

Using github/gmail/gitlab login would be useful too.

It seems i am unable to sign-up for your slack workspace.

Personally, I am very much interested in such forum/chat.
Our modern increased individualism and focus on mono-nuclear families should require that. In tribal societies everybody knows how to do that since they have been doing it since they were old enough to care for their younger siblings or generally the younger kids of the village.
Doesn't even come with an installer!

Depending on whom you ask that is actually a good thing. There's already enough software which is completely portable by nature, i.e. just a directory or even single executable which you can put anywhere, but still gets shipped as an installer only. Which depending on who wrote it might or might not get rid of artefacts again.

Apart from that: just like many, many other software it's easy to acquire via PowerShell's package management in which case it will even be in your PATH. If you've got everything setup it's Install-Package sysinternals. You might need Install-PackageProvider ChocolateyGet and Import-PackageProvider ChocolateyGet before that.

How come it never got integrated into the main OS?

I think the story goes something like 'Mark Russinovich created sysinternals, it was awesome enough for MS to embrace it, but deemed too technical and too much for power-users to be part of Windows'. A logic which is understandable in a way. Also if you opt for procexp to replace Task Manager it actually is integrated in the OS.
I dont find the headline misleading at all.

"Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, publicly dismissed the discoveries of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein."

Yeah some scientists are calling them out, but that does not take away the fact that such crackpot ideas are being proselytized by the speakers at one of the premier venues of "science"
Phone Arena has a good page for phone size comparisons: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iP...
The Army decided some years ago to give every Company (~140 people) a Raven drone for recon. However, it's a huge deal if it gets lost (if the GPS guidance were to suddenly fail), so no one ever uses them to avoid the fallout associated with losing Army equipment.

That sounds like a serious problem?
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A great feature of Red is their cross platform GUI support. I see Android is also supported. Does anyone know what the status of iphone (iOS) support is ?
> It's naive at best.

It's naive at best to assume that something isn't suitable for domains which you perceive as needing near-bare-metal performance.

E.g., your idea about games is provably false since at least IL-2 Sturmovik of 2001 which was written almost entirely in Java.
Like many of you, I wish that more of my peculiar behavior as a kid had been tolerated. I think this is getting better over time. My grandfather got beaten for being left-handed, my dad failed 4th grade for poor penmanship, I got briefly put on ADHD medication for being unable to sit still -- but this trendline is encouraging.

Cnservatives (e.g. Kevin Williamson) sometimes say: "Don't just do something, stand there!" The lesson is that not all problems can be solved quickly or well or through active attention. In general this is an underrated response, IMO.

(Bumi in Avatar season 2 makes the same point: "I'm going to do...nothing!"Neutral jing FTW.)
I believe that service is a function of who you are, rather than what you do. I have met people in healthcare who are superficial, while one of the deepest thinkers I know spent his entire working life in insurance. Make your service how you live your life: loving, real, generous, intelligent--so that whatever your field of endeavor you will help the people in it and through them the greater world.

After that, your choices will become clearer and in many ways, the choice of work will matter less because it will be informed by who you are. Any choice that interests you and that pays the bills well enough will likely be right enough.

As Gandhi (I believe) once said (not verbatim): "Is the street sweeper or the cobbler not noble by the honesty of his work and the kindness of his soul?"
Nothing to do with charity but there’s this: https://gofuckingdoit.com
>There are people that were spanked as a kid that grew up violent, despising their parents or simply engaging in more dangerous behavior due to the breakdown of trust.

My point is that negative reinforcement has its place, not that it is desirable in and of itself. My parents very seldom used it, but it wasn't completely off the table, and I am confident that I benefited from that approach. That is a fundamentally different situation than one where spankings or other physical punishment are so common as to have children lose trust in their parents. I always trusted my parents.

>We also know that hitting your pets does not work either, yet for some reason we seem to believe that hitting children is effective.

Speaking of pets and pain: the hotwire that I used around the horse corral kept both my dogs and the horses safe, with only an absolute minimum of actual pain. No animal needed more than one or two incidences of contact to learn to not mess with the fence, and there was no more effective solution available. Note that this isn't hitting or striking an animal out of anger- it is a very specifically directed form of negative reinforcement to prevent otherwise dangerous behaviors from spreading. It works very well, and does not cause the affected animals any long-term trauma. The just learn to respect the wire barrier. Just like they know that it will hurt if they touch it, they also know that it won't chase or bother them if they leave it alone, and that's usually how it goes, no stress beyond the first few contacts.
Master? Expert? That are some high goals - not everyone can be the best. Not everyone should be.
The irony is that the Minimi ( M249 ) was originally developed by FN as a Baby MAG ( M240 ) to bring GPMG firepower to the squad. It was originally chambered in 7.62x51

It was rechambered in 6x45 and then 5.56x45 for the US SAW competition. It never seemed to adapt well to the smaller rounds, less power for the mechanism.
Wait that’s why you use the median
In terms of design, those fat bezels around the MacBook displays feel very dated just a few weeks after I started using a Dell XPS 13 notebook (which was years ago).

I can't believe Apple is lagging behind in this area so badly.
Young children have a very limited ability to understand cause and effect. It simply isn't possible to explain to a toddler that "if you run out in the road then you might get badly hurt", because their brains still have a limited grasp of "if... then" and "badly hurt". I am strongly opposed to corporal punishment in the general case, but I am willing to concede the possibility that it is a necessary option in cases of genuine life-or-death emergency.
TensorStream, a pure ruby ML framework (with OpenCL support) based on TensorFlow
This company seems to be doing wooden bricks (or legos): https://www.aaltohaitek.fi/frontpage
Somebody should dig out the SCP file about that damned hair dryer.
The persistent datastructure that clojure used are actually Rich own invention, building on Okasaki and Phil Bagwells.

Phil Bagwells then started working in that direction also, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NYwP90bNs

Some of Clojure data structure are pretty much from Okasaki, but Vector or HashMap.
I second the idea of diversifying your platform skillset. Not only with it future-proof you as a developer, it will give you a better comprehension of computer science that will aid you in your current career.
writing and composing music

I'm not even sure how to approach criticizing this, because I'm sure you mean well, but if someone aims to make a living in these two things, they better get ready for a lifelong dose of failure.
This doesn't feel like some special debugging area. If you really want another "area" try the second quest by putting your name as ZELDA.

"This quest was created due to the programmers using only half of the space allocated for map data, so it was decided to use the other half as another quest."

https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Second_Quest
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/ds/zelda/1/5
What's your opinion on soldiers addiing more of a fitness emphasis to strength, rather than just cardiovascular fitness? EG: https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/heavier-kit-stronger-soldiers/
> BBC always have an agenda when it comes to India.

Yes they do but its not that they are lying here. These are the ideas that are being spread from a premier platform.

BTW I am sure cyberjunkie was being sarcastic.
Unfortunately, I think you're right about viable competition. Google's equivalent seems to be the closest in terms of features but from what I've seen the watches are buggy and slow, as well as having privacy issues.

I've got the latest watch and it is very good, so although the price is high it does not seem particularly unreasonable.

iPhones, on the other hand, give me the impression of being very expensive for what they offer and I find them unsatisfactory in a variety of ways. Currently, I plan to keep the iPhone 8 for as long as I can then decide what to do depending on the state of the market; this will probably involve getting a reasonably-priced Android phone with a custom ROM and some sort of fitness tracker.
That logical fallacy list is required reading here, it's practically a holy text.
You know something is wrong when Apple gives up control of their experience to Samsung even if it is only a part of it.
> I find interesting that he criticizes "Restrictive type system".

He doesn't? He quotes an anonymous reviewer and points out that the type system is not very restrictive and well worth it.
Sorry I don't understand what that means?

A Lisp list is a persistent data structure.
Raytracing and Rasterization sounds so cool :D
Either bifunctor
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Everything usecase is when you need to search really everything. Most times you don't and in that cases Listary is way friendlier.
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Exactly what I thought. You may not want the "mule" to carry vital stuff, but if soldiers are carrying too much, they need to get rid of all the 'nice to haves'. If you want to have them nearby anyway, put those on a mule that trails the squad. At some distance, if necessary, as long as it can eventually catch up or be found when it's needed.
The 5c was essentially an iPhone 5 (the previous years iPhone) in a plastic shell, with some other minor differences. Given that Apple are continuing to sell the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 you could say that the spirit of the 5c lives on (iPhone 7 is $450, vaguely the same price as the 5C).
That's pretty much what the title already says.
I have been "struggling" with this myself for a long time. It doesn't affect my day to day life but I'm still searching what to do with my life. So much I want to do and so little time.

I saw some mentionings of philosophers. I would love to read what philosophers said about "regret". Does somebody have a list of books or sources to read about this subject?
US exploring use of DNA sequencing to screen newborn babies
No. It probably won’t have knock on benefits for public debate. The government already has channels for expressing your views to them, and society has always shouldered the distribution cost of their own views.

Making hosting free is unlikely to benefit anyone and more likely to actually hurt the First Amendment. Just like we have a division of Church and State, we are better off having a division between Blog and State.
I think Dart was a result of optimizing JavaScript VM and learning about the cons of language which are hard to optimize for JS VM then getting rid of them.
> Simple is gold.

Which IMHO is the reason why no software for personal managment of stuff will ever be good enough.
We all want the perfect tailor-made suit to work with, but we don't wanna go to the tailor and pay for it. And even worst, we grow, we change, so custom-made solution today might not do it tomorrow.

I think for that reason applications with a programatic approach are the real solution for organization like notes or tasks. Something scriptable is a good start for this.
I just read Rob O'Neill's [1] book [2] and in it recounts an anecdote about when they were preparing to attack a building. They fired a couple of rockets at it, and were readying to attack when the guy responsible for carrying the ammo (who was also on the smaller side) asked if they could fire another one so he would have less ammo to carry back to base.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._O'Neill_(U.S._Navy_S...

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Operator-Operative-Mission-Changed-...
Re: Force Touch. It is a bit of a dumb feature, but it's been a feature for all the new iPhones (bar the SE) for a few generations; plus, when you get used to it, it's bizarre when it's gone. That it's missing feels sloppy and creates fragmentation in the product lineup that didn't need to be there.
Asinine or not, he certainly had a point with rule 3: "There must be no love interest in the story. To introduce amour is to clutter up a purely intellectual experience with irrelevant sentiment. The business in hand is to bring a criminal to the bar of justice, not to bring a lovelorn couple to the hymeneal altar."

If only the makers of genre movies would take this rule to heart! It would make for tighter plots and shorter running times. How many thrillers, action flicks, superhero films, disaster, spy and scifi movies have been marred by inserting some half-baked love story into it?
That's what's so attractive about this Nokia model in particular (and about other phones under the Android One designation): it has pure Android Pie, without crapware or half-assed vendor customizations, with guaranteed security and OS updates.
As I see it, adding lambda/anonymous functions would have a transformative impact on the whole language. Adding them to C++ had a similar impact although the language offered some ways to get around the limitation.
Should the UK be raising rather than lowering the voting age?
Gabon soldiers seize national radio station in coup attempt
I don’t consider these folks scientists.
The problem with those Android phones is that they run Android.
>Fix design. Fire Jony Ive's a$$ and hire some real designers.

I think that's almost certainly unfair on Ive. I do strongly suspect that Apple has a culture problem because of the secretive nature of their design lab. A very small team working in absolute secrecy enabled them to create disruptive new categories of product, but it carries a substantial risk of stagnation in the long term. It's difficult to sustain a culture of innovation when the flow of information is so strictly controlled. There's an inevitable risk of inadvertently fostering a yes-man culture, a risk well known to anyone who operates in a classified intelligence environment.
I'm ok with Google knowing what I do on Google. I'm not OK with Google knowing what I do everywhere else. Home does not have ads. If it ever gets them, it'll go straight into the bin.