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I am all for govt. funding scientific endeavours and space exploration like this.
But one thing I don't like about the comic is it implies that many problems faced in the world like hunger and malaria are not easily solvable.

IMHO, It is quite simply a travesty that there is still so much absolute poverty and deaths (through malnutrition easily curable and/or preventable diseases) in the third world. Many of these problems were solved in the early 20th century- It is a lack of political will of governments and the collective apathy of its citizens, who are engrossed in their own first-world problems.
To answer the xkcd comic: Yes. 15 years should be enough to at least halve world-wide deaths due to hunger and diseases like Malaria and Cholera, If the citizens of the first world make it a voter issue. Such endeavours will pay themselves multiple times over. (increased human output, new trading markets for companies, reduced population growth) And you don't need to sacrifice funding for scientific research to do it(coughs military budgets).
Did you know that the number of active pirates is proportional to the average global temperature?
I think they likely misparsed the parent comment. :)
better than COBOL
My phantom 2 vision supports 16 waypoints via the recent update to the iphone app.
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It's almost as if modern nanny statism and traditional authoritarian statism are just two sides of the same coin... or two manifestations of the same personality disorder.
all of your favorite settings here are never going to be standard, unfortunately.
I think that I would want to develop an intuition. I also definitely want to be able to check in on my mobile phone somehow.
That's why it's a metaphor, not a strict skeumorphism.

The core ideas taken from the concept of "paper" are stacking, layering, print-design-style blocks of color, and the idea that things can be shuffled and moved but cannot instantly appear and disappear in/out of thin air. That doesn't mean it's literally trying to be a pile of looseleaf, just that it's mimicking those abstract concepts from the real world in an attempt to make the interface intuitive and less "magical" (in the negative sense).
Anybody that is concerned by printed or "untraceable" firearms should go on YouTube and look up the videos of shotguns that teenagers in the Appalachians have been making out of plumbing parts from hardware stores for decades.

Give me $50 and access to a Home Depot I can legally make a shotgun in an afternoon. That includes labor costs, though I keep the gun. Transferring it would be illegal.

Since I'm bored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OoBwLVXpFc Obviously anybody with any sense would just go to Walmart and buy a proper shotgun. But obviously anybody with any sense wouldn't use a 3d printed plastic gun either.
About the photo: I think it looks fairly representative of a colorized photo of that time. Note that this is not a photoshop job - it was colorized in 1920, probably by the photographer.
The title appears to indicate that the book would be available for download (free), but this does not appear to be the case. Am I overinterpreting or missing something?
Eww. Can we pay cash or btc to buy CPU time upgrades?
Ahh yes! I've been waiting for something like this since getting hooked on Starcraft and wishing I could dip into the worker's AI so it would run away if getting attacked - would save so much brain CPU and make the game much more high level (as it stands, Starcraft is really just a game about being able to split your attention on a series of rote tasks while still keeping your reaction time higher than the other player).

I'm tremendously excited for this.

Also: if you don't launch with coffeescipt, I'll be adding a browser plugin to enable it.
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Your absurd idea of an 80% tax rate would never fly. People who won't miss another $200k a year in taxes are the ones already minimising their taxes to the point they are only paying a half million or so.

The wealth is concentrated into the hands of a few. Higher tax rates for higher incomes makes perfect sense when basing "far" on "ability to cope with the loss".

20% of a low- to middle-income salary is a far greater burden than a 40% tax on someone with an income exceeding $400k.

There is an old saying in my social circles: follow the money. If you want to make money, you arrange to take it from the people with the money. Luxury cars, luxury apartments, gastronomic restaurants, and so forth.

Why not tax these people more? They aren't actually going to miss the money, and ensuring that there are more healthy middle class folks with disposable incomes will actually help the rich get richer still.

Social welfare and a universal single-payer health care system is actually a grand firm of corporate welfare. Throw a living wage into the mix and you can reduce minimum wages to zero. How much better will the outlook be for entrepreneurs and startups in that environment? No longer will volunteer internships be exploitation, no longer will labour costs factor into viability of a business, and you will have many more consumers with spare change to serve.
>My view is that most people should ignore exercise and fix their diet first, only easing in to an exercise routine slowly once they start to see weight loss results.

Agreed. In the last few months, I've lost about 20 pounds via diet alone. I'm starting to incorporate exercise now, and it's a lot easier to keep going day after day since I can move easier, so I don't get discouraged as easily.
In the words of Douglas Adams: [I got it revised, it now says] "Mostly Harmless".

I think the it's a good idea, but it's not a good fit for wikipedia as it exist today. I think it's grown to the point that for good or bad, it needs to be managed more like the Google corpus, than a traditional encyclopaedia. I'm not advocating abandoning human editing all together, but I think a new ideas are needed: wp's success has made it into a fundamentally new thing. It exists in the conceptual space between the sum of all newspapers and scientific journals, traditional encyclopaedia and the whole World Wide Web.
Unfortunately not. Making this available is a lose-lose for Google: It will prevent collection of personal data which their business model relies on, and break apps which will diminish the user experience and reflect badly on Android.
Off-topic:

I know this is a long stretch, but if any of you bought a used copy of LiSP from someone in Virginia, USA, please can you check if your copy has a telephone number hand written on inside of the right cover? It's the only contact I had to my step-father and I have not heard from him since. We haven't been in touch since my mother's passing.
And they did an incredible job all things considered. It's worth noticing that even quite advanced countries like France unironically put numbers before the word "Republic" to keep track of which edition they are on. The longevity of the U.S. Constitution is simply unprecedented.
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Since this is their whole business, I'd hope that you could talk to the service as though it is a person and have it be understood, whether by the AI or a human trainer (these are mentioned in their FAQ I think).
I think paid add-ons, visualizations, could be a thing.
In terms of building LLVM and clang, I wrote this ShutIt module a while back when trying to learn it myself:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/llvm/...
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What? I hope you're being ironic, because if you're not you seriously don't understand the point of bot-based strategy games: https://www.battlecode.org/info/

Having one person being able to pay for more cycles is the textbook definition of unfair : it restricts the non-paying player to a subset of optimized searches, while the paying player can ultimately get an edge because of his additional compute.
Related: https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/
Not sure, never used a "US/European" chat-app or if they have the options.

However, going on the history of "pay 99p for a new ringtone" craze before smartphones became prevalent. I am willing to say stickers will work the world over.
Coinmesh: decentralized currency exchange
It was actually a credit union. And yes it is crazy, but then so are a lot of their other practices. Also, I was calling them internationally so even though the private questions they asked me verified my identity, it was still an arduous process. The number of times I called to finally get the card cancelled actually made my long distance charges greater than the stolen value ($25).

Like I said, I don't know if they still do this.
It might be worth also asking on the newsgroup c.l.l and the irc channel #lisp on freenode.
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No. The linked page is essentially an advertisement. (But the book is well worth buying.)
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Wow, that is a pretty drastic change, did they not consider this use-case or something?!
His "thing" is using emerging technology (3d printing) to get people to realize the current state of things (it being trivial to manufacture your own firearm).

Many people believe that it is currently difficult to make a gun, and will not believe you when told otherwise. However when you give them an excuse to be wrong without being ignorant (emerging technology), then they listen. 3d printers allow people to acknowledge that it is easy to make a gun, without forcing them to admit that it always been for the past century.
artchiv: I would paypal you $20 to have early access to the API docs.
> You can centralise and better enforce data integrity within your application.

Right up until someone rights an import script! That's WebScale(tm)
You really need to participate in WP to see how dysfunctional small parts of it are.

I notice you use --. Discussion around dashes is extensive. Here's just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy...

That single discussion is around 15,000 words. Here's a search for some more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dash&pre...

Note the search results helpfully give a word count - there are several hundred thousand extra words there.

Dash-discussion was not limited to the style guide and its talk page, or to the village pump. Disputes were escalated to ANI (a notice board where incidents for administrator attention can be raised); finally ending up at arbitration. (This is pretty severe level of dispute.) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitra...

PEDIT: I mean, just look at the article talk for "Mexican-American War" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mexican%E2%80%93American_... - roughly 21,000 words.}

And that's about –,— and -. Now imagine how editors behave over contentious issues. (What are those islands called and who do they belong to? is a good example.)
"For existing Android users, the next step after signing in is to restore your Android settings and apps"
I don't know who is really doing this or what the impact will be but let's pretend for a moment that the chinese government is responsible. They are largely funding our government. We need each other.

I wonder if a serious problem with the world is due to secrets that allow some to have power over others. For example, a company with a patent on a drug that costs $80K has power over those who will die without it. If you can't afford it, have you seriously harmed the company if you violate the patent to manufacture it in a 3rd world country for people who could never pay for the drug. When is human life more important that a company's right to a patent (or information)?

The chinese have a serious problem in the form of several hundred million people who need to be moved out of poverty. To help them get there they seem to be mining a precious resource: information in 1st world countries. Is this different (or worse) than 1st world countries mining precious resources in the 3rd world?

What is the net result? China will use this information to make itself wealthy enough to buy more of our goods? China will acquire the ability to make our goods cheaper than we can make them and force us to work harder?

I'm not saying "stealing" is "right" but it seems to be an important way all 1st world countries became richer. The notion of "right" is suspect given that history is written by the winner.
Futures in .NET are tasks and the Fork/Join framework is TPL (Task Parallel Library).

Async/await allows developers to write code that looks sequential, but is rewritten by the compiler into a sequence of coroutines built on top of TPL, while taking care error propagation happens correctly.
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Not much. People who don't use it will find significant entrenchment in what they already have. Its not easy to switch to. People who do use it may see a cost reduction with cheaper deployment platforms and cheaper tools.

There may be a few people who pull bits of it in but I suspect that bad memories and some of the real nasty portability problems (perf counters, COM, services, registry, config, iis tie in etc) will be a lot of friction and a barrier to entry.

(I say this as someone who writes c# for a living)
mostly a matter of making bitwise & arithmetic operations in parallel over integers (shift, xor, add etc..)
They made it like that for the mobile readers obviously. Ideally you'd want responsive design so it doesn't need to stay full width even on wide computer/tablet screens, but if you can't do that then you have to give priority to the iPhones. For some reason.
Thanks. Interesting to see Huawei on the list.
I saw an article on migrating android phones earlier today: http://lifehacker.com/5843206/how-to-upgrade-to-a-new-androi...
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Ah ah nope, and that arised fast (issue #4) ;)

But definitely, if you find it useless, then it certainly is for you! I was just telling why others could find it useful :)
>Or just take your same machine tool and make a metal gun?

Even in the infancy of the technology home 3D printers are already far more common than home mill/lathe setups and require far less skill to use. With the growing success of Dark-markets (even with the recent raids) there will be a growing move to design illicit goods specifically for mailing (even now this is done for drugs). It’s far easier to get a bullet with integrated barrel through UK customs than it is to get an entire gun.

All of this is being discussed with a heavy US bias. In some parts of the world homemade guns are a serious problem-

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/06/16/australian-pol...

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/11/21/revolving-shot...

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/08/25/homemade-semi-...

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/09/16/south-american...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/441342/northern-pen-gu...

3D printing has the potential to significantly lower the level of skill required to make them. I’m saying this as someone who knows the level of skill required- I learned metal work hand-scraping surface plates and using a shaper to cut cams, moved onto CNC and now use 3D printers. I give classes on 3D printing, am active in the community and a huge fan of the technology. No, we should not be hysterical about it but we also should not blindly say decreasing the level of skill required to build firearms is something we can safely ignore.
This I consider to be a Bad Thing. The reason being that by allowing them this comfortable linus-blanket of ignorance, we give them an opportunity to vilify and regulate 3d printers despite the 3d printer being no more important to the construction of the workings of the firearm than hammers, screwdrivers or bits of wood. The 3d printer is part of this deadly firearm the same way "Lucky Charms" are part of this nutritious breakfast.

I do NOT want to be anywhere near the "war on 3d printing", "permits" and inspections for 3d printer owners, county "stickers" for my stepper motors or anything even remotely along those lines.
Have you read the implementation of the python collection types (list, map, etc.)?
Rather ironic that someone has an advantage over Google for universal search.
Proxy wars..
I've still to meet someone using it. Everyone uses aws; you hear people complaining about google compute's problems; I even hear people using eucalyptus. I've never met anyone using openstack (and I've been to aws conferences).
Regarding the 400ft limit in software: Has it got some sort of radar altimeter or does it just assume the launch point is the ground and will not travel 400ft above that?
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Why use templating at all? Just use virtual DOM:
https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

Server-side rendering example:
https://github.com/Raynos/mercury/blob/master/examples/serve...

It feels more tedious at first if you try using hyperscript the same way as traditional templating language. However when you start using higher order functions and composing your templates from smaller functions, it becomes remarkably easy to keep DRY the code that produces the HTML in your app.
"with a toy lang, nobody(if sane) will hire you"

C# is the "toy lang"? How old are you exactly?
The aggregate pain and aggregate loss of using cash for transactions in a credit-card dominated world is much larger than the concentrated pain of replacing a credit card once a year. I make significantly more than $30 here and $20 there on rewards - on the order of $500+/year

Sign up for Mint, and quickly scan all of your transactions on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. It's a good idea anyway, so that you can easily account and keep track of how well you're doing at saving.
There is https://github.com/bwapi/bwapi, an API for brood war. Not sure what the current state is. But it seems possible to use it while still controlling the game yourself.
Ask HN: How do you explore your large no of starred github repos
I have around 1.5k github repo bookmarked. I don't find search tool provided by github good enough.

Do you know any better way for this ?
> "when a lab makes a mouse by in vitro fertilization, the animal will pick up microbes from its surrogate mother, which might differ greatly from those of its genetic mother"

Can the microbes be transplanted?
IOS 7 and 8 are all but flat. Translucency instead of shadows, but still. The iOS design needs to be perfected in many ways, but I think that the not-complete-flatness was nailed from the get go.
Doesn't look like it, and they actually promised a more advanced permission control at I/O this year.
Yes, I am aware of those ideas.
Actually, Relatively small birds have been known to penetrate the windshield of a Cessna and injure the pilot or even wreck the engine of a single engine of a jet like a BAE Hawk.

See video of a Canadian CT-155 Hawk (Not F-16 as titled)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN_Zl64OQEw

For an airliner like an Airbus A320, a small bird can damage the engine fan blades and require an expensive repair. If the bird goes through the core even minor damage becomes very expensive to fix.
I recently upgraded my Note 2 to a Note 4. One of the first things it asks when you first switch on the phone, is to log into your Google Account.
After that it asked a couple more questions. By the time the install wizard was done, most of my phone had been restored:
Apps
Contacts (including favourites)
Emails (they live in the cloud)
Photos
Music
Even things like WiFi passwords, preferred hotspots, etc.

I don't even think about backing up and restoring my Android device. It all just works.
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> The essential thing is "one person = one language"

I was told this by many people but I am not sure why they say this.

My wife and I always spoke a mixture (German/French) together so of course did so also with our kid (plus English/Spanish outside the house). He had no problem, and in school or was quite orthodox in regards to which language to speak with which person. But at home or with relatives and polyglot friends he would switch back and forth. His classmates seemed to be the same.

I have seen my mother, in her 70s, switch mid sentence when arguing with her brother. Then turn and speak to my father in English.
It would be useful if someone knowledgeable and critical could explain clearly the use of this language. The marketing blather doesn't give me much. I'm not a software engineer, so this just seems like a bunch of syntax wankery. I'm probably wrong, I'm just looking for a brief explanation as to why.
you'd have to have either a permanent installation or exquisite timing. again, the greatly narrows down attack surface. you might be able to surveil small lots of targets this way, but it would be harder than you think. Again, if your a stuxtnet-level target, you're not going to be safe...but that's not really most people...is it?

Your normal-ish executive will have the ability to work in places without LOS from non-credentialed personell (eg, high rise apartment, gated community, interior conference rooms, etc). The NSA or MI6 could of course rent the flat across the street, or have a sub-contractor con his way into employment, but this type of stuff is outside the remit of your basic opportunistic threat. And it leaves evidence and paper trails unless you are the mossad or cia whomever and can fake identities like passports, bank accounts, etc.
I agree, my grandmother has boxes full of photos that look like this.

Here's another example https://www.pinterest.com/pin/465911523921633003/
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That's the second time in this discussion that you've proposed paying money for an advantage over others in this not-even-released game. May I ask why you're so eager to win at this particular game?
Unlike Apple, Google isn't so keen on enforcing its patents. Do you really think Google doesn't have hundreds of search related patents that they could use against anything Apple does with search, including Siri?

Personally I prefer them not doing anything like that, though, because I'd like them to stay out of this vicious patent war circle. But it's a shame that means the war has to be one-sided. Apple and others can fire at them, but they can't fire back.
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NodeJS is very stable. Since JavaScript is asynchronous by design, NodeJS's performance is excellent.
Too much hassle when on the road.

If all of the 2-3 cards are used in the same places, they would be equally at risk of a problem.

The only way to manage the risk is to have a card that is rarely used, or cards that are separated by vendor risk.
I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the common thought would be that more guns = more crime. But according to the latest FBI study thats not the case. The cause of the dropping crime is due to many factors, but it definitely has not gone up even though there is greater access to firearms.