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Oh my hot-headed, un-Bayesian friends: do you really think we'd be so dumb as to ban people for criticizing Dropbox and Rice after just saying we don't do that? That would be the I Do Not Freebase Cocaine of website moderation [1].

Comments posted from Tor IP addresses by new accounts are killed automatically [2] because of past abuses by trolls. Moderators unkill these when we see them and mark the accounts legit when they're not obviously trolling. I just did that here, even though "Sounds like Condi didn't need much time" is pretty far from a quality comment.

Before you seamlessly segue into outrage at that instead, may I mention that we've got a sweet idea for dumping that practice and a truckload of others in a grand devolution of moderation powers to the community. Maybe one day we'll even get to implement it, instead of typing the same comments over and over. Lord and NSA knows it'd be one ginormous headache off our hands.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ckIv1tiaU

2. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=noob+tor#!/comment/sort_by_date/pr...
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Sure, an epoch timestamp can be translated to any time zone, but what was the original time zone?

Consider these questions: Do I use Uber more often before or after noon? Is this a photo of a sunrise or a of a sunset? How late do I typically go to bed?

In the case of Uber we could try to guess the time zone from the coordinates, but it's not trivial.
In my experience, the Thai restaurants around me (East coast US) like to make their sauces very oil/butter heavy, which contributes to the second phenomenon you alluded to. I've never been to Thailand, so I don't know if this is an exclusively American phenomenon or not.

I personally really like a good Lat na, but what I'm served is often noodles in a thick, chicken flavored grease (rather than stock or gravy).
Eh, I think that's a little premature. Plus I don't think you actually tried applying it; it doesn't look like he scores that high.

The worst thing I think I can say about this guy with my undergrad-level physics knowledge is that he's a self-promoter, to a degree that's kind of distasteful in pure science. But the idea is at least cute.

I don't immediately get how it's proposed that the two universes couple, though -- from the reference to dark energy and repulsion, I figured that it was a sort of gravitational repulsion, but then there are references to eliminating the need for dark matter, which provides a missing _attractive_ force. So I'd like to know a bit more.
I see what you and shiven mean.
I agree those partial deregulations are bad. I say partial because that's not what I usually mean by "deregulation". "Stripping very specific regulations" is just that, just another law being passed, that flips some switch on or off.

When I asked for examples I thought we were talking about total deregulation (I previously thought deregulation was a binary thing - either something is regulated or it isn't at all) but I see it is used in other senses (although it is a bit perplexing to me).

> Some of those scenarios could have been prevented if more facets had been deregulated

Exactly this.
Yes, it's http://www.unex.com.tw/product/dnxa-h1
Investment decisions aren't as clear cut as the original commenter made it seem. The company was spectacularly successful at raising capital, became one of the lowest cost producers in the world, but still went bankrupt due to massive overcapacity in the market. Their strategy was to use economies of scale to manufacture a $5 product for $1. Unfortunately everyone else had the same idea, forcing a minor pivot: make something for $1, sell it for 80 cents, and hope the competition goes bankrupt first.

FWIW, I think the same thing happened with hard drive manufacturing 30 years ago.

http://www.themonthly.com.au/eric-knight-shi-zhengrong-sun-k...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengrong
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RAII is a form of automatic resource management, it's true. It is, however, a deterministic form of automatic resource management.

This is not to say that the underlying allocator is necessarily deterministic, but you're making a false dilemma here by putting it in opposition to making decisions about custom allocators and pool allocators. You can use RAII with custom allocators. You can use RAII with memory pools.

And that's where C++ really does shine. It's a niche that hasn't even really been attempted much, let alone that it's been surpassed in.
If you're worried about this, you shouldn't fly at all. The amount of radiation your body is exposed to during the flight is several orders of magnitude larger than the amount it's exposed to during the security screening. Not only that, the radiation you're exposed to during the flight is higher energy (cosmic rays are the major component) and can do more damage to your body than the microwaves used in the security scanners.
> NSA isn't hacking citizen's computers, except maybe for citizens in non-Five Eyes countries.

So just the majority of the world population.
I like nic.cz because they are utilising dnscurve.

Unless I misunderstand you, unfortunately this is not the case. A quick way to check if a domain supports authoritative DNSCurve service is to do e.g.

$ dig +short ns dnscurve.org

You'll see labels that begin with the magic string "uz5" followed by a Base-32 encoding of a Curve25519 public key.

Unless you meant something else?

I agree with your post though. I also use tinydns, but with CurveDNS for DNSCurve support in front. They just work!
I've written a library in Scheme to generate my tinydns configuration from a functional program. It includes error-checking, IPv6 and SPF support (haven't used DKIM yet). I might clean it up and publish it if there's interest.
Company must have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntech_Power I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis
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I bet it was a Javascript system that tried to interpret month numbers of 08 and 09 as octal because of the leading zero. Am I close?
So, the moral of the story is that your code should do one thing and do it well.
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There is the web-mode for emacs [1] to manipulate files with different languages. It is oriented for editing templates but something more general should be possible.

Currently I am using it a lot to write React's JSX which combine javascript and XML.

[1] http://web-mode.org/
From what I've seen out of the Clojure community over the past few years, it seems like they're far more likely (and able) to offer up concrete examples of how Clojure makes their businesses and products successful in a way that an imperative language could not. So, yay Clojure community, and boo on hand-wavy Lisp people.

e.g.:

http://www.kreuzwerker.de/en/blog/posts/why-clojure-rocks-2/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5113060
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The top reason here could been written - lisp is more expressive. You can find ways to express an idea that make sense now, and which are readable. Macros is a different part of the same idea.

--

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but a problem I've had with racket is as you begin to build larger projects, when something breaks it can be quite difficult to find out exactly where the break happened. When you compile Java or run Python, it's almost always immediately obvious what broke.

The way I got around this was to use a methodical TDD approach. Would be a shame if that turns out to be as good as it gets for lisp.

Something I haven't done yet but am interested to get to is attaching a repl console to a running process.
"More energy" can mean two different things. In the case of sound, only one of those meanings--the amplitude of the wave--is relevant: soft sounds have lower amplitude and loud sounds have higher amplitude. The frequency of the wave, as jessaustin pointed out, is independent of how soft or loud it is, and for sound, there isn't any useful sense in which any frequency carries "more energy" than any other frequency, given that the amplitudes are the same.

With regard to light, however, there is a second possible meaning for "more energy": not a higher amplitude of the classical wave, but more energy contained in a single quantum of the light (i.e., a single photon). Light of higher frequency (toward the blue/ultraviolet end of the spectrum) has more energy per quantum; light of lower frequency (toward the red/infrared/microwave end of the spectrum) has less. This sense of "more energy" is still independent of wave amplitude: wave amplitude corresponds to number of photons (more precisely, the number of photons is proportional to the amplitude squared). So you can have faint light (few photons) of high frequency (more energy per photon); or you can have bright light (lots of photons) of low frequency (less energy per photon). The total energy contained in the light depends on both of these factors; but the total energy in the light is not the crucial factor involved (see below).

It turns out that, when you are looking at the possible effects of radiation on the body, the energy per photon is the most important factor, because that is what determines what kind of interactions the radiation can have with the molecules that make up your body. UV, X-rays, and gamma rays have enough energy per photon to break apart the chemical bonds that hold together things like proteins in your cells; that's what makes them potentially cancer-causing. Microwaves, OTOH, don't have enough energy per photon to break chemical bonds; all they can do is make the molecules, like proteins, vibrate more rapidly, which just means heating them up.
That dumb kid's name? Albert Einstein.
And a C implementation: https://github.com/jedisct1/spritz
It's not only nuclear, China also heavily invests in renewables. The installed wind power is even more than nuclear
Also, there is a paucity of information with which to draw conclusions as to the quality of software you are buying into (whether literally or figuratively) in order to make informed decisions, and there are rarely adequate resources assigned when making the decision to investigate potential problems (or the expertise to do so effectively). This is all confounded further by marketing departments putting out a lot of misleading information.
Wow:

> When People’s Daily, a newspaper that acts as a Chinese government mouthpiece, posted an online questionnaire asking readers to rate their reaction to the murder, as a smiley face, a sad face, or an angry face, sixty-five per cent of readers chose the smiley face.

After having read the accounts of what their health care system is like, it's not hard to understand this level of outrage. It sounds like many of these doctors are exploiting the hell out of their information asymmetry in order to defraud and extort patients who have already been driven to desperation by their ailments. Arguably this behavior is due to the fact that the doctors are underpaid in the first place, but I doubt anyone expects that to be much comfort to the patients.

If Wang Dongqing was privy to his son's misgivings about the moral compromises he and/or his peers were making then the possibility of patient retaliation must have haunted him for some time. The fact that his son died as collateral damage rather than as a result of a slight he personally committed really drives home the fact that the only solution is to address the issue at the system level :/
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>First of all Science and Religion are not competing for adherents.

In practice, how are they not? There are at least 3 major classes of popular religions that claim that the earth is only 6000 years old, among a smattering of other objectively false claims. One cannot correctly claim these facts are or might be true and also observe the scientific method.

Yes, a hypothetical religion that posits nothing more than "there is a god" would not technically directly contradict the known body of scientific knowledge, but it would still contravene the scientific method.
And all you need to do is keep a potentially deadly piece of consistently underestimated hardware in heavily-trafficked areas!
Should we not hold the government to a higher standard than random individuals?
I thought time, at the bare iron of the universe, was the slow but sure thermodynamic change into a state of pure information. What's he talking about? Time as it relates to relativistic theories?
I am not sure if cats are a good idea for this. But what about rats? Could we teach them to do image recognition? Perhaps it could answer questions like "is there a cat in this picture?". Since rats are quite small this approach could scale well.
> As for the argument why not send -2 instead, well guess what? Other negative values also have a meaning. Negative values in kill send signal to a process group instead of a process.

That's the problem there. Kill takes an argument that's either a process id or a magic number or a different magic number or.... Those should be different functions, and the special cases like "kill all processes", "kill all processes in this group",... should be some kind of enumeration type. But it's C, so...
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Nice app. Plupload (https://github.com/moxiecode/plupload ) is an open source library that also allows you to upload large files. I've used it in projects before, such as a file explorer for Cloud Storage services (Box, Dropbox, etc.) that also allows for local file upload: http://jsfiddle.net/pseudonumos/PB565/embedded/result/
Well, I wouldn't say selfishly, since the reviewer is doing it out of kindness to another, but yes, you could argue that in this particular case, it's endangering.
> Wei had only recently returned from a reëducation camp

They'll put a diaeresis in re-education but they won't print tone diacritics in Chinese names. I'd kind of like to know how to pronounce the names.
Nope, I didn't think that you are dumb at all. However, I believe that you have a clear cut conflict of interest that you may not be able to mitigate no matter how hard you try.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_beware_conflicts_of_inte...

Also it would be really cool to add [tor noob] fair describing a hellban reason.
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IRC on the web with tons of work-relevant integrations. And an easy API, emojis, searchable history, etc. It's great.
Ask HN: Text-based PPT alternative?
Is there any good way to generate slide presentations from text files? I'd like to be able to push my presentations to GitHub as text, so that I can see changes from one version to the next and so on. Is LaTeX the answer? Somebody's got to have wanted to do this before me...
This is the fourth posting of this article in the last couple of days:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/the%20ivy%20...
If our universe was inside a "black hole" seen from the outside, how would we ever know?

For al we know the percieved timescale of the big bang and the time since it is just timedialation, and that black hole might even exists in more than 3D.
What does this have to do with entropy?
The story is not that far fetched. Decades ago (I think) there was a computer simulated game designed to play out what is called the Prisoner's Dilemma hosted by professor Axelrod. And the winning program? It was the simplest one, which the author had named Tit-for-Tat.
I think the moral is that in this case reliability wins. (And in this case, strapping a shell loop around your program that restarts it every n seconds would have worked.)
Oh, but Tit-for-Tat didn't win because the other programs crashed.
Same link, no paywall:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/business/media/popular-and...
Their website and apps are really bad....but what keeps me coming back is the incredible incredible content. I've found so many great remixes as well as obscure but extremely talented musicians on Soundcloud. It's amazing.

The site/apps and just general design really are embarrassing though. I hope they're doing something about it.

I guess this is one case where content really does make up for a shoddy product. I'd be interested to know the story behind their growth and how they managed to create the community of content creators. I'm sure at least a part of it is lack of a better alternative but I'm sure there's some secret sauce in there somewhere.
Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/) is my goto for keeping lists, planning, and tracking my work/project logs.

For work, I have a section structured as such:
Work > {CLIENT} > {YEAR} > {MONTH} > {DAY, HOURS, SUMMARY}

e.g. A day's entry might look like:

8/13/2014, 6.75h, One-liner summary of the big ticket accomplishments today
* 11 - 12,30, 1 - 6,15
* [x] #ASAP Task 1 description
* [x] Task 2 description
* [x] Task 3 description
* [x] Meeting with @client @coworker1
* Notes from meeting...
* More notes...

I track my hours worked in shorthand and format {DAY, HOURS, SUMMARY} because I dump and parse the data at the end of the month to generate my invoices.

SQL, Markdown, or code snippets is a little trickier, but you can hang multi-line text as a sub-node using SHIFT+ENTER. In general, Workflowy offers a ton of great keyboard shortcuts and pretty decent search capability. Media attachments would need to be as URLs AFAIK.

I've been using it for 2-3 years and if they ever decided to close shop, I would seriously try spinning up a similar service.
Occam's razor at work. The simpler the logic, the more likely it is that it does not contain unexpected faults than a system which has more complex logic.
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> [...] and a population that has endured great hardship in living memory but emerged with concrete benefits such as mass literacy and for the most part improved material wealth.

Sort-of. The concrete benefits came when they stopped the greatest self-inflicted hardships.
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Tell HN: The joy of 100 to 1 backup compression: 8.3M to 70K
Dear HN

I wish to share the joy deep in my heart that I have found from using lrzip http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/

My Postgres database dumps are compressed more than 100 to 1. So nice.

(venv2.7)username@ip-x-x-x-x:~/backupscripts/16303$ ls -lah
total 8.4M
drwxrwxr-x 2 user 4.0K Aug 21 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 user 4.0K Aug 21 ..
---------- 1 user 8.3M Aug 21 singlepageguru_db_21-Aug-2014-06:00
---------- 1 user 70K Aug 21 singlepageguru_db_21-Aug-2014-06:00.lrz
(venv2.7)username@ip-x-x-x-x:~/backupscripts/16303$
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Really great read!
http://decksetapp.com/ does this from Markdown.

If you don't need actual PPT/PDF/etc. slide generation, and don't mind writing HTML, S5 was one of the original standards to do this; there are plenty of others, now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_slideshow
In wake of Ferguson shooting, calls escalate for cops to wear body cams
That's some pretty ugly text for a site called 'practical typography'.
'try' and 'finally' are in C now? Someone should warn the GCC guys they're behind the times.

Also, getcwd has a size parameter these days, and of course you want to check if the getcwd actually worked.
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When "cannot happen" happens:

1. stop everything

2. coredump (if applicable)

3. return -1 from main
English-language newspapers in China don't include tones either.
Simpleflake is a 64 bit alternative http://engineering.custommade.com/simpleflake-distributed-id...
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The manual to this publishing system, discussing how its markup/programming language is implemented as a custom Racket language, is pretty interesting: http://mbutterick.github.io/pollen/doc/
Chopping down trees to make room for wind farms is certainly dumb. If you take a closer look that is yet another story about the dangers of subsidies.

"nuclear fuel is 2 million times more energy dense than any other fuel"

Citation needed. Also i don't think energy densitiy is what we are looking for here. Remember the thorium car? A drop of water (in principle) also contains all the energy needed to power a car for years. Now if you could just get the H-atoms to fuse...
The point is, it matters how much energy you can (efficiently, at all, ...) get out of it.

"How can we factor in" - Calculate it.

"We should count not just (...) CO2 during operation, but also (...)"

Yes, PLEASE make a complete calculation based on solid numbers taking every aspect of the whole lifecycle of a power plant into account INCLUDING fuel production, fuel transportation and waste management. The publish it please.
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Lucene-based search (i.e. Elasticsearch, CloudSearch, etc.) strikes me as overly complex from a dev's perspective. The indexing and search processes don't seem to have enough sensible defaults and that's to speak nothing of cluster configuration and management, memory issues, etc.

In general, there's too much of a requirement to understand Lucene's implementation details in order to use it effectively, and I'm just not sure why the process of building a search feature needs to be so difficult.
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A titanium hull is, but you mentioned superstructure, which is everything above the hull.
Pretending like we even have a clue of what happened at the beginning of the universe... blah...
That doesn't seem like a good idea because then your code quickly turns into a hot mess if you ever have to change where stuff lives.

It doesn't turn into a mess if you handle it correctly from the start. The way we ususally handle this in large applications is to have one single class like 'ApplicationPaths' which internally figures out all paths needed. No other code uses paths directly, instead always uses paths relative to ApplicationPaths.AppConfigDir/ApplicationPaths.UserConfigDir/ApplicationPaths.ExecutableDir and so on.
Related..I thought maybe you could claim it as prop money for the movies but no dice.

"As it turns out, the Feds have strict laws about the production of fake currency. According to the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, a reproduced bill must be: a.) either less than 75% or more than 150% the size of a real bill, b.) one-sided, and c.) made with only one color (so as to discourage the reproduction of identifying factors). "

http://priceonomics.com/the-business-of-fake-hollywood-money...
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The failover modules can be a little awkward to wrap your head around at first. There's simple, weighted and multi failover modules, and sometimes the one you want isn't the one you'd expect!

Aside from that I can't fault it. We're still running a pre-1.0 version (around a year or so old) and it's not skipped a beat.
Ah, I remember the days when I lived on Sourceforge and Freshmeat.net...
Ctunnel 0.7 released
This is a lot of fun - server is a bit laggy/buggy but unique idea, very cool!
This is cool :) The difference between this and what I've made is that hotfilefinder looks at number of lines changed
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But what are the odds of one out of a few dozen reviews to be written by your friend or even foaf?
Root has had the ability to assign negative nice values since long, long ago. Non-root users can only assign positive niceness. The range is -20 - +19.

In theory this can give higher priority to a process, but if you cannot get into the run-queue at all (fork bomb), or the problem is in kernel space (e.g., I/O access, hang, or a kernel space loop), then it's not going to help you much.