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On my blog I ask a random question that any of my readers would know the answer to. This makes sure they actually read what they are commenting and I received zero Spam so far..
Number 2 is a lot more possible now than just a decade ago due to the rise of smaller, more efficient aircraft (A350, 787) over jumbos and the popularity of point-to-point (rather than hub and spoke) airline networks. This decreases the cost of establishing a new route and popularising a new destination - Europe is leading the way here.

Croatia, Georgia, Estonia and others have all been opened up substantially by cheaper airfares.
Let me add two interviews with Tim Ferriss:

Dr. Rhonda Patrick on Life Extension, Performance, and Much More https://tim.blog/2014/06/10/the-tim-ferriss-show-rhonda-patr...

Exploring Smart Drugs, Fasting, and Fat Loss https://tim.blog/2017/05/04/smart-drugs-fasting-and-fat-loss...
this is exactly what i was writing about: the paranoia.
what does Snowden and the billions of dollars spent on spying have to do with what i buy and what i consume?
nothing. no one is coming for us. we're way too unimportant.
I am not sure if open source developers rage against nVidia for justifiable reasons or not.

They were the first to provide actually usable GPU drivers on Linux. But then the kernel guys became upset because they couldn't see the insides of the drivers. IIRC they started the holy crusade when they introduced the tainted flag in the kernel and made it policy to ignore all bug reports from kernels with that flag set. That was designed specifically to make nVidia look like a bad actor. There have been a number of similar sleights against them from various developers and the company took the beating and has so far worked stoically around all of these hurdles that were erected.

I am not saying that they are saints, but singling out the vendor of the objectively best GPU hardware and software package in the market like that does not feel right, either. There are tons of users out there that have practically no alternative to that hardware and they are being screwed over. And they are one of the few markets in which Linux actually has a dominant share in.

Long story short: I believe that kind of ideology first thinking might do the Linux software stack in in the long run.
Yeah, this is unforgivable, and for me makes the whole speed argument void.

Edit: to be fair, they handle a couple of other things, which many similar libraries ignore. I particulary like the support for full 64bit integers. And at least they document their limitation on NULL bytes.
They'd most likely request European Arrest Warrants for the CEO and most board members and seize all French assets. Then they'd go for the assets in all other EU countries.
If you are in Europe you can also check out Hetzner Cloud. Pricing is way way better than everything else. You have to manage it yourself though, but it's easier than you might expect and you are learning something new on the way.
Why not use a timeseries database, like http://btrdb.io?
Python might be the one language that isn't true for. In my Python experience, the Google protobuf library is frustratingly slower than the built-in json module for any data structures I've cared about, which is why things like pyrobuf exist to solve that performance problem: https://github.com/appnexus/pyrobuf
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This is really impressive, but what's the real lifetime is going to be?
C is one of extreme cases; that's why Cap'n'proto works pretty well in C++ and its cousins for example (it amortizes the decoding cost to accessors, and accessors are really cheap in those languages). There are many languages and implementations where decoding cost is not as significant.
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Actually do mean "the side of the moon not in light", like night on the moon itself.
Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users.

Example abound: finding out where people are the most frustrated (high exit rates), what content drives the most interest (page views), what content is missing or inaccurate (high bounce rate and low visit duration for visitors coming from Google), how they are using the site (browsing patterns from page to page), etc. etc.

Preventing all forms of tracking will definitely result in lower quality websites across the board, so like with all things there has to be a middle-ground found.
I don't really see how you provide incentives that go the way of blood to the hospital without paying donors that explicitly donate towards that goal more than those donating for rejuvenation.

Right now, we don't have enough just for the people in the ER. Not saying it can't work, but it seems to me that the potential for catastrophic failure on a social level is quite high.
Hehehe. No I didn't, thanks, looks fascinating.
Putting the exhaust air through a heat exchange unit or dehumidifier can collect most of the evaporated water and lost heat.
This would make for a great Rick&Morty episode, though :).
I quite understand the motivation behind the project — this is absolutely great. However, open publication of all details can create all sort of problems, including those he described.

If you want to be a weapons designer (and why not?), your best bet is probably working for the government. The second best option is to limit information distribution to other hobbyists / professionals.
The first of the two bad thing about Line is that connection to a phone number. Wife got a new iPad, and, because of the other bad thing - that Line only works on a single device - it had to be 'moved' to the new iPad. Which needs a confirmation by phone message. And that phone was in Japan, unlike my wife, and wouldn't have worked for text messages even if she had brought it (phone plan didn't allow international calls or text). Contacted Line and got all kinds of useless advice - at least there are people in the other end - but nothing worked.

Had to create a new account.

The backing-up and restore is the easy part. Not much help if you can't move the account due to that silly phone number lock-in.
Then again, it lead to very high quality drivers from first Intel and then AMD being included by default in every Linux distribution.

The user experience with that hardware is so much better as a result, it isn't even funny.
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There’s no permanently dark side of the moon. The moon rotates with respect to the sun. The rotation is synchronised —due to tidal forces— with its orbital period around the earth. Therefore we see the moon as non-rotating.
I also doubt it will replace a $400 9.7“ iPad, or the reportedly upcoming iPad Mini in the same price range.
> Coming from a c++ background where it's super clear, new goes on the heap everything else goes on the stack

AFAIK modern C++ practices eschew new/delete pretty completely, and while std::unique_ptr or std::vector will create something on the stack it's a glorified pointer, the actual data lives on the heap.

Also probably doesn't help with the specific criticism but FWIW the `-m` build flag should print out heap escape. I don't know that there are editors which integrate this though. And of course there are cases where you want the escape and heap allocation, tough one possibility would be to ban escape analysis and use `new` when you want to force a heap allocation, maybe?

edit: -m is pretty noisy though, lots of constructs will cause non-bypassable escapes e.g. the fmt functions will "escape" their format string and every single parameter: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8618
> Evolution doesn’t answer to a single why question.

Evolution selects for traits correlated with successful reproduction. Correlation doesn't imply causation. All evolution can do is say "hey, things with this trait worked better, let's build more of these."
The problem I have is that within these big countries, the policy doesn't have a majority. For me, that questions the democratic legitimacy for the european legislative process.

Because it can evidently be abused to push through "unpopular" laws that only serve special interests.
One of the things I can't see the actor model explain is how to scale an actor vertically, which obviously has it's purpose. Amdahl's law and all that.

However these days we see people build actor frameworks using CSP (golang) and "restricted shared memory" in Rust http://actix.rs

Isn't it ironic? Yet shows that the actor model can be inclusive of many "competing" paradigms, and gain from them, perhaps even need them to scale vertically?
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Yeah, so this again is a matter of opinions, but since you are relying on assumptions about the future, I would say that test-tube blood is probably much further away than you think it is.

So I prefer to rely on verifiable present-day fact to decide on socially critical issues.
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Also stop saying "Before you go further..." we need to share your data with tens of corporations. /s

Note to non-EU users: Techcrunch is completely blocking the page with a popup asking me to share my location and behavioral data (for advertising purposes) with a probably very long list of companies (something called "Oath" family).

The logos shown are for Yahoo, Aol, Autoblog, Huffpost and Engadget.

Nah. I'll skip as always :D
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It's not needed to sustain the business but it is needed for those who invested in it and would like to cash out on a higher valuation - which typically is achieved through growth.
Pretty incredible to have the audacity to showcase a plagiarized site in a bid to win customers. As a consultant, the last thing I would ever want associated with my reputation is taking shortcuts.
So, you cannot vote for your MEP?

As far as I know they're chosen from current parties by proportional representation. With a few exceptions. (Country dependent.)

You (as Swedes, for instance) voted for those people. They are local national level politicians in an international setting, no different from any minister except for the stakes and reach.

That other countries can exert some influence on yours? That is a fact of life and nothing will change it. Everything is an agreement, including EU, with relatively specific scope, agreed to because it is beneficial (or politically convenient) even if limiting at times.

They're about as easy to influence as any minister, but more numerous and more diverse most of the time.

Essentially just think you're writing to a minister of european affairs in your country. Minister of foreign affairs.

It is a better model than everyone keeping laws dictated by the US, Russia, Germany or France, or WIPO, Google or MPAA lobbyists, which it was before. (National standards get copied or are intentionally very similar.)
You get to vote at least on the common choice, instead of the strongest one winning.
This is really confusing.

There's another static analysis engine....also for Android....also called SPARTA!

https://types.cs.washington.edu/sparta/
Having visited just the year before they closed it - I felt like the beach itself was pretty clean. The woods right at the beach line though had some tourist trash. Apparently the worry is the coral is mostly dead and it will imbalance the rest of the ecology. It was beautiful when I visited and definitely far from being “trashed”. I don’t know a lot about ecological conservation, so maybe there’s lots of signs I didn’t notice!
The detection has value itself. I’d much rather know now that I have a year to live today than a week to live in 51 weeks.
Can you see any differences with different levels of optimization? I recall a presentation at some point where the old obj-C style compiled code did a lot of checks before and after calling a method ("does this object listen to this message?"), while with an optimization option enabled (whole module optimization?) these calls could be optimized out. That is, with Swift they can make the resulting machine code less er, "checking for safety", so to speak.
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While theoretically true, in practice the actual character parsing tends to a small to negligible part of the overall time. Which leads to the measurable fact that on macOS/iOS, the JSON serialization stuff is actually one of their fastest, faster than their binary stuff.
Yes we do! It's available on plans starting at 19$/month though.
If I owed you money and flee in another country, can't you generally sue me in that other country to get your money back?
Please don't post like this to Hacker News. It's really easy to convince yourself that you've uncovered a sinister plot that simply must be true—everything adds up! and then it's hard not to come out blasting. But because you're working with incomplete information, most of the time it's just not true—and the people on the receiving end of the blast are as human as you are, and basically it just really sucks. This is covered by the site guideline that asks: "Assume good faith." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Sure, a small portion of the time, you guessed right and your suspicions were correct. But the upside of being right isn't worth the downside of being wrong. Statistically speaking, it poisons the commons, even though your intention was to protect it.
What you would have to do is to have the Japanese and Korean phones/numbers available at the same time, from the same place, and then change the phone number. Which is not something that is always possible - re. my post above.

As you, I only used the number for the initial registration - and I suspect that what's everybody do. I have no idea what the phone number should be used for outside of that. I'm not sure why Line (well, Naver, the company) does it that way. Others, including Skype (which would need the same level of 'verification') manage it better.
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A hosting forum I know used to talked about shared hosting, but now all they are talking about is cloud hosting or vps. I'm curious, how many and what kind of users are still using shared hosting like Godaddy, Hostgator, Bluehost, etc..
This comment needs to be higher up; Amazon has a service for doing just this, dumping 'dumb' files (like json, csv, etc) into S3 buckets and performing SQL queries on them. No need to have to think about how to store things for future querying.
Animal trypanosomiasis, transmitted by tsetse flies, causes "fever, weakness, and lethargy, which lead to weight loss and anemia; in some animals the disease is fatal unless treated".

Doesn't it sound like such diseases are likely to alter a zebra's fecundity?
You mentioned I said something very very wrong, but it's not clear to me if this is a language or fundamental issue.

For instance if I say, as I have tried to enunciate above, "if herd immunity is too low, vaccines may do more harm than good at a social/epidemiologic level", does that still seem very very wrong to you?

To be clear, your above comment gave the impression that you thought that a low herd immunity could not increase deaths due to disease compared to no herd immunity at all, which is wrong and was probably the reason why you were downvoted.
Do you have some pictures of the UI (which is arguably the worst thing about most OS file managers for android)? From the spec-sheet this looks great!
I recall an article that discussed the impact Instagram and the like were having on previously little-known, lightly trafficked sites. People post selfies and geotag themselves, sites get more popular, more trafficked, risk of damage goes up, etc.
> don't have power by money (and thus hardly any power by speech)

That would sound much more convincing if it wasn’t for the fact that most media and academia is dominated by the Left (which is far more authoritative these days).
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> a whole careers worth of earned respect

Hundreds of US law professors disagree with you about that respect.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/02/brett-kavana...
Court orders can, and are, routinely enforced in other countries. The interested agent goes to country B courts with a decision from country A and asks for a local enforcement order. When granted, this has the same power as a court order from country B. Even if UBS decides to abandon all assets in France and never do business there again, agents of the French state can get the fine from UBS assets in other countries.
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If the speed different is irrelevant, why are they struggling with it?
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Yes, movies and TV shows with children under 13 are widely-accepted, but being widely-accepted doesn't mean it's morally alright.

There might be a time in which we reject such content just as we did with prior widely-accepted behavior that was immoral (like homophobia and racism). Future generations might look down on us because of child celebrities (among other things), and I sincerely hope they do.
> Never give feedback at work, unless positive. This includes things like code review.

This rule is creating problems. It actively makes relationships and work itself worst. It creates leads to passive aggressive environment where everyone is insecure and in doubt and problems wont get solved.

> There can be no friends at work.

Same here.

> No permanent friends or enemies only allies based on interest that serves you.

Same here too. I am glad I worked in mutually cooperative environment where people took my interests into account and did not based all their actions on their own interest.
I wonder if that's the case. I think the source of the problem is people prioritising the short term over the long term, and I'm not sure whether potential jail time in the long run will deter you when your direct environment is pushing you another way.

Instead, if the company risks fines like these, the environment of its employees may start to emphasise derisking more, to prevent them from being hit with new fines.

Of course, this is all just me looking into my crystal ball.
I doubt that plays any actual role because as long as it's properly outsourced nobody can claim it was one of their employees who censored something. Which is exactly what happens in the Philippines [0]:

> There are two ways the content is forwarded to the Philippines. The first is a pre-filter, an algorithm, a machine that can analyze the shape of, say, a sexual organ, or the color of blood or certain skin color. So whenever the pre-filter is analyzing and it picks up on something that is inappropriate, the machine will send that content to the Philippines and the content moderators will double check if the machine was right. The second route is when the user flags the content as being inappropriate.

Afaik Facebook, Twitter, and Google all participate in this kind of "moderation outsourcing" but the only way this is even possible is if they have AI/ML pre-select content for moderation.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywe7gb/the-companies-clea...
Does anyone know if law mandates such largescale projects to co-operate with research? If one is going to make, install, use and monitor (within the same system, and thus using exactly the same metrics) huge amounts of batteries, it would seem useful to not make them all identical, but to arrange a hypercube of production parameters (concentrations of chemicals, purity levels, tolerances, ...) so that we can learn the most cost efficient utilization?

In the lab people experiment with sigma aldrich grade materials, but the cost efficiency is also a function of the cost of purification grade, manufacturing tolerances, ...
Those bigger teller windows were appalling, but this was more the actions for a rogue branch/country network than an officially sanctioned policy from senior management.

It does show a lack of controls in place, though.
As far as I can see the vast majority of "serious" registration schemes on the net have a phone number field which is mandatory to fill in. Mobile phone even, in some cases. You're not allowed to not have one. Soon you'll have men in black asking you what you're up to if you don't have one.
As long as the cookie does not track the visitor across different sites?
Not bad.

I recommend to separate Web design from other design stuff.

E.g. I want Web stuff but not the wooden spoon innovation.
There is also the HoHo building („Holzhochhaus“, lit. wood high house) in Vienna, which is a wooden high-rise with 24 stories and 84 m [0]. They just added an antenna to the Mjøsa Tower to break the record. (Boys and their towers…)

[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HoHo_Wien
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And worse, 600 VDC trolley lines, which are closer to the ground than uninsulated distribution feeders. Unlike power lines, trolley wire covers a sizable fraction of street area.[1] Trying to raise even a 20 foot metal ladder is dangerous.

[1] https://www.munidiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/wires...
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2. At the start, raise the corn harvester to the excavation tool tip 5-8 cm from the ground and combine the power output of the tractor, idling for 1-2 minutes. If there is no abnormal noise, hang up the working gear and gradually relax the clutch lever. Adjust the height of the knife edge gradually into the soil, and then increase the throttle until normal cultivation.
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> But then the kernel guys became upset because they couldn't see the insides of the drivers.

I think you are misunderstanding how drivers and linux work. Being able to inspect how the code works is a technical requirement. Linux internal API is not stable and drivers get refactored over time. Drew makes that point in his post and gives an example of Wifi drivers in it.
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That might be true for people who would otherwise be desperately poor, but these are not.