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Some years ago I read an article through HN by someone who did their programming on an ipad through SSH (and bluetooth mac keyboard) and ditched the laptop. Pictures of croissants in the sun outside in Munich. Got me very inspired.
But in the end I decided on a stationary box at work/home, and a MB Air for when not at the desk (or on the sofa). Works great and doesn't weigh much anyway. The main problem with the tablet was that were always things I was missing that I hadn't thought about when moving to iPad. Maybe it'd be better with another brand, but I'm not bothering now.
I think methanol makes far more sense then ethanol. But basically you can cheaply build cars that can run on pretty much anything. It would be easy to require all cars to support everything from M10,E10 to M80,E80 without much issue.

I think 20-30 years ago cars should have started requiring cars to support all that stuff and allow competition between the different fuels and different methods of fuel production. Meaning most likely methanol from gas, ethnaol from food or gas from saudi arabia.

Methanol from natural gas could have been incredibly successful specially because natural gas export is not an easy problem. Meaning that gas prices in the US were incredibly cheap and a huge fleet of car hungry for methanol would have made it reasonable to do the conversion process. Far less methane could have been wasted into the air.

Now I feel like time has passed and EV make more sense.
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As an aside, if you ever visit Rome take an hour train ride to Ostia Antica. It is the ruins of an entire port town, complete with a tile mural where the baths were and stone seating for a forum. It is about a mile square and you have full reign to wander and explore it with hardly anyone else around.
With the additional caveat that even if the production of renewables is not emitting CO2, the production of the equipment, installation and maintenance is.
My point was : node is just a web server and npm just a package manager. There was countless before, there will be countless after, we will continue to code with or without. I have worked with a few technologies and in a few industries and package management is always complicated. The nature of the package management tools are not that important.

The passion that this kind of topic seems to unleash looks like the consequence of a terrible fear a loosing control over an irreplaceable tool. But no tool is irreplaceable : if you can't/don't want to(for political reasons) use node, npm or even javascript just use something else.

That just it. I have no opinion about who makes money from what. At least, not in this thread.
> Many people in science tend to reject claims based on a lack of explanation alone.

Do you have a good example? Most of the examples I think of are just results got by badly run clinical trials or unreproducible physics experiments.
I'd be interested to hear specifically what problems you are solving.

We've been remote for over a decade, so aren't feeling too much pain in our on-boarding, but that doesn't mean there aren't better ways to do things.
A Linux distribution’s work is the packaging format and tools - deciding to use a common one would basically be shutting down the other distro.
It’s usually just flying, for me.
Every decision can have unintended consequences.

While not every erosion of civil rights is justified, there is a very difficult balance that has to be maintained between privacy, and the ability to do effective investigation.
That's only an issue if you assume that farm land is a limited resource but that not really the problem in practice.

There are no fuel shortages just because you have cars that use ethanol.

I'm not a huge fan of ethanol specially not how it was handled in the political process (farm subsides) but using it in general is not a bad idea if it can compete.
Fair enough.

One thing along similar lines that I've always hated to see is when the floating-point type in a programming language is called "real".
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Awesomeness @adamfeldman, thanks for the pointers!
Good write up, thanks.

I wrote three books using LaTex, but I now use markdown with leanpub, otherwise I would immediately clone the author’s setup. I also find that an iPad Pro is great for writing wherever I happen to be. I recently gave my large iPad Pro to someone and bought the smaller one. My new iPad Pro is so small it is always ready at hand.
Yup, the nuke ships are what I was thinking about -- wasn't sure if there were any other examples of pushing steam through a turbine.
What do you use it for? Just personal apps or professionally?
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I said that there is no "default" central store for package in AppImage. Which means that there is a "default" central store for snaps and flatpaks.

And if you do not like the "default" central store, you are free to distribute yourself the individual snap or flatpak package. Just like with AppImage.
That's why I'm taking it. I have an absorption disease (Celiac) and I was having terrible cardiac issues at 38 (and with a minor family history of heart issues at older age, but nothing like what I was having). Magnesium is one of the things it has taken to straighten it out.

If you have heart issues, you may have to try to balance magnesium and potassium. If the problem is a deficiency, this is a rather annoyingly difficult balancing act to pull off, because as per the comments in the beginning of Gwern's article about magnesium, magnesium has a very slow-moving component to it, where it depletes slowly but also only fills slowly, and a fast moving component that responds relatively quickly, and based on my experience, the heart's use of magnesium seems to be related to both. Potassium, by contrast, appears to take nearly instant effect. So you're balancing something you can't see that changes over the course of months or years against a nutritional input that is instant. This is not easy.

Several times I've settled on a dosing schedule that seemed to work for me, but had to be changed after a couple of months as the slow-pool magnesium (I hope) continued to improve. I've actually learned the difference in my body's reactions to a potassium deficiency (a tightness in the chest) vs. a magnesium deficiency (restless legs, heart that may not be "racing" but is not slowing down for sleep properly). YMMV; n=1, etc.
This is good for the ecosystem. Next phase would be a crypto backed by government(s).
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Despite all of these absurd constraints on business, companies are bending over backwards to establish themselves in China, because the market is that huge and profitable.

All of these points are great, but HK became wealthy as an intermediary between Asia and the West. Now it is losing what remains of that role. They will lose their high salaries not primarily because of the mainland's interference (although I'm sure it'll be huge factor) but for the same reason that wages are stagnating or dropping in the West. As time goes by there are fewer and fewer clear reasons why the average HKer will be worth a higher salary than so many other nations.
I've done computational physics at the grad level. There, PDEs are converted to finite difference which basically leads to giant sparse linear matrices. These are solved using SOR or even more advanced numerical techniques. These techniques tend to be quite GPU friendly.
I take Mg Taurate against extrasystoles and it works very well for me. I also tried Mg Citrate together with Carnitine which enhances the Mg uptake in the gut. Mg Carbonate or Oxide are hardly soluble and also basic which makes it not very digestable.
"Dietary magnesium intake has steadily declined over the preceding century, due to...(b) making dietary choices low in magnesium-rich foods such as whole grains, rice and wheat bran, nuts, seeds, chocolate, peanuts, peanut butter and green leafy vegetables..."

If the root cause is insufficient dietary magnesium -- due to poor dietary choices -- eating foods that are rich in magnesium, and cutting out refined foods, might be a good start. It would have other benefits, too.

I don't like to see people taking tons of supplements whilst eating poorly.
There’s nothing wrong with looking at something and appreciating a particular trait, or a particular victory that was achieved without having to apologize for every bad thing that the same person or company has ever done.

I think that this is true as long as the thing that you are appreciating itself was being done for good and noble purposes, or not in furtherance of a greater evil.

So you can look at something about China, or something about George Washington, or something about Apple/Nike/Google, and recount that history in full appreciation of the magic that went into succeeding in that moment.

I think if every time you say something good about someone/something you’re supposed to disclaim everything terrible, you’ll have a hell of a lot of disclaiming to do.
When the free market is in charge the results aren't much better, why not have another go at the government approach and learn from our mistakes?
and in the meantime real crypto projects like ICON is ignored by all.
You really should be. I am continually amazed at how, even though computers have become orders of magnitude faster since the early 90s, everything still feels pretty much exactly as slow.

Let me put it this way: A 2nd gen i5 can execute about 6 instructions per cycle per core. At 3Ghz, that's 18 billion instructions every second or 5e-11 seconds per instruction. If each of those instructions is a second to the processor's subjective experience, then 18 billion of them is about 570 years. It takes 3 times that to startup an application for typing text into a document.

I didn't even take multicore into account.
Local news TV has been infamously consolidated to conglomerates and often clearly makes a mission to do as little journalism as possible - often overreporting one story in development with speculation and forgetting about the actual resolution.

You do see some good work in complaints forwarding "name and shame" occassionally where they pressure for resolution about bueracratic failures and dodgy businesses fixing the situation as it is the easiest way to make the problem go away.
How does a ban of a VPN work?
reach out to recruiting, college recruiter, they should be able to help setup something if you are interested
We have generated voice using IBM Watson text to speech. Hope you liked our 1990's computer narrated voice :)
You can now use a contactless debit card in London in lieu of an Oyster card.

I don't really see the difference between that and Octopus, now, except that contactless debit cards are a federated global system, which seems superior. Is the difference that Octopus cards can be obtained arbitrarily and anonymously?

Because nobody gives a crap about being tracked by debit card usage, and they're already deanonymized.
I can't show you, but my job involves writing a lot of numerical grading code (as in code that grades calculated student answers in a number of different ways). I've had the pleasure of seeing many other systems pretty horrible attempts at this, both from the outside and in, in both cases numerical errors rooted in floating point math abound. To give an easy example, a common numerical property required for building formatters and graders of various aspects (scientific notation, significant figures etc), is the base 10 floored order of magnitude. The most common way of obtaining this is numerically using logarithms, but this has a number of unavoidable edge cases where it fails due to floating point error - resulting in myriad of grading errors and incorrect formatting by one sf.

These are an easy target to find issues that _matter_ because users are essentially fuzzing the inputs, so they are bound to find an error if it exists, and they will also care when they do!

When these oversights become a problem is very context sensitive. I suppose mine is quite biased.
I was thinking of doing something similar with auto-generated SVG files for open graph images. Does anyone know if FB/Twitter etc support SVG images for open graph content?
This argument is so misguided and I’m surprised whenever it comes up how many people bite.

How many megatons of CO2 are released globally every year due to people setting their air con to 72 when they could just deal with it being at 76. Or heat their homes in winter to 75 when they could just put an extra layer on and heat it to 70.

The point is energy is there to be used and people will choose to use it however it suits them for whatever they like within the confines of what they think is a reasonable use of their money. Bitcoin is no different. But these articles and the comments are all about attacking Bitcoin with an attitude that we should prohibit this particular use of energy. The correct thing to do is to properly price in the externalities to energy so that all uses are effected and if a use is then truly bad it will be priced out, or at worst it’ll at least pay for its environmental cost (such as setting your thermostat too high).
Operations that you think of being associative are not. A simple example is adding small and large numbers together. If you add the small numbers together and then the large one (e.g. sum from smallest to largest) the small parts are better represented in the sum than sum from largest to smallest. Could happen if you have a series of small interest payments and are applying it to the starting principal.
invalid might handle similar cases to http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/mu.html
99% of the stuff you're informing yourself about full time is useless and probably making you stupider. The only news that ever is even tangentially useful for me is stuff on HN. "Current events" knowledge rarely extends it's usefulness beyond random trivia and wasting your time. Take the time you spend reading about politics (which you will never be able to effect or change yourself) and put it towards something like developing a skill and your life will be much better. Reading stupid news stories on your phone is just mental masturbation. Little 5 minute pills of information that makes you feel like you learned or accomplished something when you didn't.
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I've been having a hard time getting people to sign up for my service, I found that it's easiest to get to know a person then shill them your product. I guess that's the equivalent of what Jeff Johnson was doing. It's a lot of work for little return, especially for a social media site. A shoe has a lot bigger profit margin compared to a website (per user). I'm still learning though, the site has a lot of other useful examples
I have HOCM and afib and Mg and potassium helps wonder with the extrasystoles. I also take taurine against the extrasystoles in combination with Mg and K in the evening before going to bed and I can sleep much better.
Sounds like 4chan - but possibly worse.
It's pretty sad that they're announcing blog news on medium at all instead of their parent companies multi billion dollar network
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I started tracking the "Sleep as Android" app and it made my insomnia worse.

Someone recommended me a treatment called "Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia" - or CBT-I, and it was just amazing. What worked out the most was Sleep Privation and not worrying about my sleep, I Highly recommend this to everyone who is struggling. (Note aside, the first days of sleep privation are an absolute hell, I wanted to literally die, but it's worth at the end).
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Be careful: For the improvements, are close against some quite fundamental chemistry and physics. E.g., for fast charging, the battery has internal resistance, that is, gets hot when charging. Likely the amount of internal resistance varies, but charging as fast as filling a 20 gallon tank of gasoline might encounter something impossible due to the chemistry/physics. Fast charging is one of the reasons for the pursuit of capacitors instead of batteries, e.g., the EEStore effort with barium and titanium. The capacitors also typically are able to discharge much faster than batteries. IIRC, battery charging is a chemical reaction where have to move atoms around. A capacitor, first cut, just moves electrons around. But for research time, EEStore has been at it for some years now.
Originally: Not a fast enough computer and IIRC the first form editor of VB.Net was not as smooth as the one of VB6. Also it was a language change, let's call it VB#.Net

Now: 50% laziness and 50% don't want to migrate a few big projects that only need a tweak per year. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I just run myself a docker container with pandoc and a flask endpoint on heroku.[1] Doesn't work offline, but with an iPad with cellular service I basically am never offline, and I have a Siri shortcut set up to share documents from any app, or markdown from clipboard, straight to the endpoint. Full latex, markdown, conversion to word... and on free dyno time no less.

[1] https://github.com/paultopia/miniapi
Having a CLI isn't surely part of it for 99% of the consumers, neither in 1999 nor in 2019.
In many ways, it's actually better cycling in dense urban traffic moving at a snail's pace than say, a 5 lane road (2 in each direction, shared center turn) of the sort that are arterials in suburbs or might find near your local mall when traffic is moving at 35mph.

Source: I've put about 14,000 miles on a bicycle, half touring, half commuting in Cleveland and Boston. for context, that'll seem absurdly large to non-cyclists, and quite small to serious cyclists.
I see no reason to criticize people that compete in this sort of thing. No different than any other intellectual sport.

I would be quick to criticize any claims that success in these sorts of competitions predicts success at delivering business value (which, unfortunately, is exactly what TopCoder's home page seems to be implying).
Your feedbacks is welcomed, I didn't took it as an attack just was trying to explain why we designed it like this.

We are already working on it to bring more changes and tweaks to make it more user-friendly. Hope you liked it.
I love it. Most date time pickers are very click heavy, this keeps the fingers on the keyboard but not forced into rigid structured time formatting.
>and particularly from Russian magazines that were covering the events at the time.

Why would those those magazines have particular credibility?

Post-Soviet collapse was a shit show, but it was never going to be anything bug a shit show. They were trying to rebuild a corrupt, decrepit Soviet economy as a modern market-based economy, while at the same time building, from scratch, a modern functioning judicial and a democratic political system.
Not directly answering your question, but in general the studies and anecdotes point to around 200 mg of elemental magnesium in the form of magnesium threonate and 4,000 IE of Vitamin D to be a very good combination.

The Threonate makes the magnesium available to the brain.

Other forms of magnesium are usually taken in the 400-800 mg range.
Life sciences that are part of Fortune 500.

Several examples to pick from.
Could you please expand a bit on what and how you‘re doing this?
FWIW, Apple’s implementation of this is called “NSDataDetector”.
This has good potential, what are the limitations on the VM?
We had such floating point printing performance issues in java once that i needed to implement a grisu variant that didn't fall into bignum calculations and had few other tweaks to short circuit the printing and improve some common cases. It made a decent impact especially on garbage generation (it was specifically zero gc). Since been ported to a couple other languages, and I was thinking of redoing it lately for another project and using the newer algo. https://github.com/jnordwick/zerog-grisu
Author of Grisu here.

It's really surprising, how long it took to find the most efficient algorithms for double-conversions. In 1980 Coonen already published a good algorithm, but that one was kind-of lost.

For a long time Steele & White's algorithm was the state-of-the-art (with some improvements here and there over time).

Now, Ryu is by far the fastest algorithm out there, but that took ages...

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy-to-use, complete library for Ryu yet.

The Grisu library (https://github.com/google/double-conversion) is probably still the go-to library if you don't want to implement it again...
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Some are even filming this for KeaTube. "You won't believe how this Human reacts to broken car windows" - 12 million views.
Doesn't the article mention that calcium and vitamin D produce harmful effects?
That's funny, reminds me of Engels' principle in Hegel's logic of the "negation of the negation".
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We already got them back around here, since a few years ago, mostly used by mailmen.
No cryptocurrency can replace fiat currency until it solves the use of force problem unless you think that there will suddenly be a world where you don't have to pay taxes.
Thanks for your suggestion! I do have software that's ready, just need to start working in the "legal how-to's."
> Also your conclusion at the end is completely wrong. Prison excludes people from society. Letting them exist in society by imposing some rules is exactly the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
I remember an old IE based browser that represented history as nested side bar tabs.
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Sounds like you completely misunderstand what a police state is.

A police state does not require the police to be concerned with upholding the law. In fact there is usually a departure from the rule of law in police states.

As the other commenter mentioned, the police in a police state are usually concerned with maintaining order and protecting the power of the state or ruling faction, and policing people's behaviour to this end.
Google is always focused on AI. I am pretty sure there will be AI among the players who will behave like humans. Maybe your best friend in game will be an AI.
Well, there was (and still is) the Swiss Frank. Nordic currencies and Dutch Gilderr were also going pretty strong.
Many businesses exclusively accept WeChat and Alipay. So there is a mechanism for paying rent, utilities and tax. Otherwise they would run out of cash.

To replicate that level of success, Facebook must create a mechanism to convert tokens back to cash.

So the tokens are basically just used to get past regulations. Facebook will then gather some hard numbers to show that crime is negligible. Sensible governments will tolerate the tokens because it's replacing physical cash where crimes like tax evasion are rampant.
Reminds me of "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Living myself in Switzerland, married with a mother who stayed at home during the first 15 years of parentship, I can tell you we solved this without the government, we solved it as a team.

Just like we solved all our private matters.

The one thing we love about this country is that people here do NOT see tax as a solution to all. As a matter of fact, since this is a country with direct democracy, if we'd feel tax would be the solution we could initiate a referendum and solve that within months.
They could try to fix the banks so that those holdings move to bank accounts and start earning interest. And be taxed.

But why take risk to do the right thing, when you can leave the banks messed up and every year steal 2-3% of what's stored in safety deposit boxes.
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