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The reason why I suspected you to troll was that you said that Android were no more open than iOS, while in fact it is and I assume that everybody here knows that. For example, one can install Firefox on Android while on iOS one can only install a different UI for the apple-delivered browser. Also, on most Android devices you can easily replace the operating system while on devices with iOS you mostly can't. Apple imprisons its customers.

In the spirit of friendship and goodwill, my name is Christian Weinz.

I didn't compile my operating system nor the apps that I run. I run cyanogenmod without gapps, and I am preparing to compile own version to remove some features of cyanogenmod I don't like. I use a firewall to block most apps access to the internet. I trust that there are people behind the fdroid app manager that oppose strongly to spy on its users.
John Chisolm is a not a good prosecutor.

He seems to have little issue with using the states prosecutorial apparatus for political ends. I think in general John Doe & no-knock, kick-in warrants are an abomination, but to use them for basically political harassment is beyond the pale.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750225/Report-Cryin...
Well that's the only metric that most of us should be considering...whether or not someone considers that they have more to learn. If they don't, they will never be great. But anyone who wants to learn can become a good programmer, and being called a 'bad' programmer early on just because they haven't reached that competency yet is the problem that we're really talking about.
You're referring to packages that most people will never ever use, or have heard of.

What you should be referring to is http://py3readiness.org/ — which shows the opposite picture. Above 80% of the most popular packages are available on Python 3.
In his capacity as a columnist for Bloomberg View, he's no kind of reporter; that's literally not his job. He's a pundit. Some BV writers (most notably Matt Levine) do a fair amount of reporting for their columns, but many of them do nothing but digest other news sources and then opine on them.

That seems to be what happened in this piece, which betrays no evidence of being informed by any of the court filings.
> everything is destined to become decentralized as processing power increases.

No, centralisation proceeds because the hashing is subject to economies of scale.

If processing power increases, it increases for all players.
I find the article quite disingenuous given it doesn't admit the reality of the situation. If California stops being used to farm cash crops for export outside of California [as it is currently], the "water problem" will mysteriously vanish overnight. Even with droughts.

http://aic.ucdavis.edu/pub/exports.html

http://ajed.assembly.ca.gov/sites/ajed.assembly.ca.gov/files...

> In 2013, the total amount of agriculture and livestock products exported from California to the world totaled $13.7 billion.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

> By all accounts the current water crisis is far more urgent in the sprawling fields of the Central Valley. And that’s bad news for those of us who enjoy eating daily. Two simple facts explain why: California is the most productive agricultural state in the union, and agriculture uses 80 percent of California’s water. In a year with practically none of the stuff, that’s enough to send ripple effects throughout the country.

> Almonds alone use about 10 percent of California’s total water supply each year. That’s nuts. But almonds are also the state’s most lucrative exported agricultural product, with California producing 80 percent of the world’s supply. Alfalfa hay requires even more water, about 15 percent of the state’s supply. About 70 percent of alfalfa grown in California is used in dairies, and a good portion of the rest is exported to land-poor Asian countries like Japan. Yep, that’s right: In the middle of a drought, farmers are shipping fresh hay across the Pacific Ocean. The water that’s locked up in exported hay amounts to about 100 billion gallons per year—enough to supply 1 million families with drinking water for a year.
Just a guess but if you're talking about tap water costs raising those would hit the poorest the worst. Secondly if they raise them high enough it becomes better financially to purchase bottled water (which I assume wouldn't rise in price as much as the companies producing that are global businesses and a spike in demand in one area shouldn't affect the overall pricing too much) - again not a problem for those that can afford it.
I'm in a similar place with regards to Docker versus Rocket, but I'm not a big fan of CoreOS right now. I think it's got some real neat ideas, but in my experience with it "everything in a container" is as yet unmanageable at scale. And I'm very uncomfortable with signing over the entirety of my infrastructure to a small company whose--venture-backed, which makes me extremely uncomfortable when it comes to running my platform and infrastructure--goals are not clear to me. (I have less of a beef with, say, Chef, with much more of a history and more generally understood goals and a business model, but I'm still not super comfortable with them, either.)

I also don't much care for etcd, because IMO Zookeeper's rep for complexity is hugely overblown and most folks end up re-implementing Zookeeper poorly in etcd, but that's a side thing.

All that said, I agree with you that Rocket is a much, much better idea and design, and that despite my misgivings about their corporate goals CoreOS is a way more serious project from a security standpoint than Docker. I'm excited to see this, if only because I think Rocket will pick up some dV from this.
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> In an earlier comment I was able to construct a Nim program that exhibited very different behavior in debug and optimized builds, using nothing but GC'd pointers.

This intrigued me so I found the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050999
But to widely varying degrees. This kind of problem is a direct consequence of having a relatively weak and dynamic type system (or other semantics that mean you might as well have).

Plenty of people have warned about this kind of danger for a very long time. However, there seems to be a significant subset of the web development community that only has experience with languages like JS and PHP and to a lesser extent other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, who simply fail to realise how many of these bugs should have been entirely prevented by using better tools by now. The usual counter seems to be something about unit tests, at which point anyone following the discussion who actually knows anything about type systems and the wider world of programming languages dies a little inside.

It is entirely fair to criticise bad tools for being bad, particularly in specific ways and with clearly identified problems that can result as in this case. It's bad enough that we are stuck with JS for front-end web development these days, but there aren't many good arguments for using something as bad as PHP on the back-end in 2015.
yeah, its kind of people stopping Bill Gates to help with Polio eradication since he is not helping with rest of the diseases. (Apparently nobody is doing that, thank god.)
It's both parody and satire isn't it really. It's a deliberately absurd take on a car review so I feel both are appropriate.
I know I'm not the only one old enough to remember that we already tried to apply this argument in the late 90s?

That left us with countless completely incompetent programmers, most of whom left the industry after Y2K and the burst of the bubble. Those who stuck around now largely make up the bulk unemployed IT workers whining about how there can not possibly be any shortage because nobody wants to hire them.

We've already put the talentless to work in massive numbers, and not only did we as an industry pay the price, it didn't do the por sods much good either.

Also, all of these arguments about mediocre programmes, 10x programmers, gender based discrimination etcetera only serves to distract and intimidate, because they have nothing to do with the fundamental question. Nobody is arguing that a having a talent for something is the only thing that matters when it comes to how good a programmer you become, or that it has anything to do with gender.

Bringing it up only serves to pre-emptively make anybody trying to make a counterargument look like an arrogant, sexist douche. My instinct tells me that people trying to make a point that way already know they're wrong.
Absolutely.
I current have the Acer 720p (4g RAM) w/ Codestarter's Ubuntu (https://github.com/codestarterorg/ubuntu-chromebook-installe...).

I added my own ~230 GB SSD because the default SSD is a bit small for programming.

Great form-factor.
Great Battery.
Perfect for leisurely coding.
Definitely one of the best computers/laptops I've used.
It is an issue because it suggests that both code and requirements were not adequately reviewed. Unless the requirements explicitly stated that the generators would never run for more that 2^31 x 100th of second allowing that counter to overflow without coping properly with it is a failure.

I have some production code that uses ints as serial numbers with a factory method that just hands out the next one in sequence, however, I take care to ensure that there will be no negative consequences if they roll over (they exist only in debug builds).
Taking the source code driving a 9-figure financial services practice at one of the world's largest investment banks, one that happens to pay you a salary that is notably generous even for tech, and relaying it to your new employer, a competitive firm that happens to have just 3x'd your salary, is simply not analogous to "don't copy that floppy".

This wasn't King's Quest.
By itself it's not exotic. Using it in molten state to cook things is exotic, yes.

Lithium clearly exists in nature. Elemental lithium might not, but they don't make the batteries from that either.

Molten salt also explodes on contact with water.

A charge controller is unnecessary. It's just a cheap way to improve efficiency. The bucket of salt would have a similar controller.

Also since price isn't a part of the equation for whether it's exotic, feel free to mentally replace the lithium ion battery with a lead acid one, made out of utterly boring materials and full of water.
Not really an option. It's typically street parking. I'd seriously consider an affordable and nice to drive EV but my range threshold is probably 200 miles--at least 150. Otherwise, there would be too much "Do I have enough range?" fiddling for my common use cases--especially once the battery degrades a bit.
Yes, rkt App Container runtime is based on cgroups and namespaces. Same as runtimes of Docker, lmctfy, systemd-nspawn, lxc or (almost) any other container technology for Linux.
The big difference is on specification of images. rkt introduced the App Container specification for its images: https://github.com/appc/spec/blob/master/SPEC.md#image-archi...
Being able to turn the autofollow setting off and post about stuff you care about without worrying about alienating the people who follows you seems very liberating.
Did you build with optimizations enabled (./mach build --release)?
It's called "courtesy" on the subway, but the analogous traits are "empathy" and "earnestness" in general discourse. My point was less about the specific trait and more that often times we can encourage/evoke the traits we want to see in others by first developing and portraying them in ourselves. I guess I am looking at the grey area between someone being unfair to you and someone who is misunderstanding you. I think that trying to empathize and understand the "other" often results in finding out that someone isn't actually being "unfair" to us, but rather, is actually "misunderstanding" us. That working point can give way to deeper understanding in a conversation/venture that might have otherwise been discarded because of "irreconcilable differences."
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I agree. He's strung together a bunch of anecdotes and currently-voguish facts, without doing his homework and calling our attention to the most important effects. He has no real POV about how this plays out, he just seesaws between optimism about creative solutions and worry.

I'm a NYT subscriber, so I'm pre-disposed to their viewpoints and style, but this column is really junky.
Well, for one, water prices are not really set by a free market. Residential water providers are monopolies regulated by the local governments. They're not allowed to jack up their rates as it would hurt the poor. In San Juan Capistrano, the plaintiffs recently won a suit against tiered pricing on the argument that the water cannot be sold at a cost greater than the cost of providing it.

Agricultural interests with senior water rights have a legal right to a much greater amount of water at much lower cost. Those with riparian rights (upstream) have the right to take as much water as they can use.

There are hundreds of reasons why it's not as simple as "turn this knob to raise price".
> I remember this comment, but I didn't remember it achieving UB in debug code.. I'll look through the history and take another look.

It's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050999
I took a stab at solving this problem with a programming language called Radian: [http://www.radian-lang.org/]

It is based on the observation that SSA is functional programming, and there is a well-defined process for transforming imperative code into SSA, so why not reverse the process and develop a functional language with imperative-looking, Python-like syntax?

The goal was to automatically extract parallelism from for-loops, internally converting them into map-reduce processes which could be spread across multiple cores, and that worked out pretty well. In absence of a marketing effort, however, a userbase never developed, and I haven't done any work on the project in a couple of years.
> If the state is artificially keeping the price low

Hint: The State doesn't have control over the price. Its mostly be extracted via privately owned water rights.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2014/09/18/ca-laws-restr...

> “With the stroke of his pen, the Governor changed over 100 years of water laws – without the people’s input. This is not the democracy Californians deserve.” – State Senator Jim Nielsen

> In the midst of drought and heightened overdrafting problems, California passed legislation allowing the state to control and regulate the use of groundwater on privately-owned land. Citizens, previously free to use whatever water was underneath their own land, are now preparing to challenge this governmental undermining of their property rights in court.

Private property owners were engaging in unsustainable behavior for their economic benefit is basically why this is a problem. Proper planning and not burning through reserves to grow almonds/alfalfa/etc for export would have prevented the issue from getting this bad.
If the real internet is inherently better than this aol 2.0, shouldn't simple market forces choose the internet as the winner?
Newbie here. There is a prototype or probe of concept of ActivPass available?
Much of the water consumed is not even metered. And not just that taken from wells.
I'm pretty much with you. If and when the prophesied $30,000 200-mile EV happens, it'll really change the game.

I do see a lot of Leafs charging around here in various places, so it does seem like a reasonably practical alternative for many. I get nervous if I have to charge away from home, myself.
We don't know that, because PHP 7 isn't out yet, but also PHP 7 doesn't change in breaking ways. All of the language warts that plagued 4 and 5 are still around.
The original engineer who came up with the code has laid out several key areas that need serious reworking within the documentation. The code base is a few years old and 30% of it is deprecated. In order to implement the new features, the code base will have to be refactored to better accommodate those features since the current code base has no such ability to accommodate such features.
Emacs + Org-mode
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I'm not making excuses.

I've tried very hard at some things and failed miserably. I've tired hard at some things and had great results that surprised even me. Those are facts.

It is correct that I can't do things that I don't have the ability to do. There's plenty of things people can't do but that doesn't mean everything someone can't do can't be learned. I can't run a 10k but I'm sure I can if I wanted to, tried, and trained for one I could. There was a time I couldn't write a line of code but that didn't stop me from learning or trying.

I believe many people have something or another that is extremely difficult to impossible for them to learn no matter how hard they try and its different for everyone. Most people don't have an interest in trying things that don't come naturally to them so many times people don't experience that so they can't imagine someone else experiencing it.
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You're right that generally "Asian" would be used more for countries like India/Pakistan than China/Japan/etc. but, at least in the south of England, there's no dearth. Oriental restaurants and takeaways that I've seen have nearly all been run by east Asians (I couldn't 100% say I always know from which country, but imagine largely inline with the cuisine they're serving) - in Oxford, London, Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton.. and that's been my same experience pretty much anywhere else I've been in the UK. But could well be different up north for example.
People here are commenting that he stole code. That that's why Goldman is prosecuting but what constitutes stealing code? I mean the definition is "loosey-goosey-bullshit" at best. I used to work building trading algorithms; there is no clear legal consensus on what constitutes "stealing" code. If I just remember all the code because I have some kind of special photographic memory is that stealing? If I created the code, it's in my mind. I mean if you hire someone from a firm where they currently are part of the reason you're hiring them is because they have a particular area of expertise and definitely know what their current employer's code in this area looks like. That's WHY you hire them, so they can do awesome stuff for you instead. The point of the article is that in doing this kind of crap Goldman makes it extremely uncertain for programmers who go to work there if they will be able to go and work somewhere else exporting the skill set and tangible knowledge of code they acquired at Goldman to a new workplace. This uncertainty makes programmers NOT want to work for Goldman and will definitely kill Goldman. Bershidsky has got it right.
Show HN: Jsonf a simple tool to reformat JSON in a pipe-friendly way
Refactor, there are 3 modules that cause 75% of the crashes.
S/O to everybody who thought this was an open sourcing of Javascript utilities for collections that power G+
If a 15 year old internal combustion engine design can do an 800 mile range, I don't think its unreasonable for electric cars to get there, especially with as fast as Tesla is coming up with improvements to electric cars.

But let us consider advantages to an 800 mile range. Even within the urban core, where a 100 mile range is enough for a few days of commuting along with an emergency reserve, an 800 mile range is going to mean far less-frequent charges, just as it means far less frequent fill-ups for a combustion-powered car. That's less strain on the owner's wallet, and less strain on the electrical grid. These advantages are felt even more acutely by those who don't live and commute in the urban core, be it in the suburbs, outer edge of a metro area, or rural area proper. Not everyone can or wants to live in a densely-packed urban area, and for those who don't, a vehicle with a long range is very practical.

An extended driving range also makes longer road trips less expensive and more practical. A full day's drive with fuel/charge to spare? Yes, please. And even if you think that such is a silly thing which no person should rightly desire from their personal transport when air travel (and airprort security theater) is available, consider another application: Trucks.

Large, long-haul cargo trucks (semis) are one of the main means of transporting goods quickly across the US, and are one of the main consumers of petroleum-based fuels. They get that range by having large fuel tanks -- 100 US gallons or more. Now, imagine if electric car tech can make a compact hatchback go 800 miles/charge, what that could do when scaled up to large trucks. If you want do something about the consumption of petroleum fuels and consequent emissions in the US, getting trucks with the same or superior range on electric power is a good place to focus.
Thats actually a fantastic idea. No better way to trust something than to try it out. Please do it and let me know if it works for you.
> Even if you are a regular internet user, but some of your friends are on internet.org, you can only use communication, collaboration or social networking apps that are on internet.org.

But before internet.org, you couldn't even communicate with them.
Pretty impressive feat!
How Chromium validates email addresses entered in input fields with type=“email”
No, that was the wrong approach. Back then we believed that solving AI means being strong on logic and rules, with data being a secondary aspect. Nowadays we do the exact opposite: data is king, and the rules are expected to somehow emerge from it.
I posted a reference because I didn't expect you to take my word for it. Perhaps you can do the same?
Water costs less than a half cent per gallon. Water could double, triple or quadruple in price and still be 'affordable' for the poor to drink. It certainly would not cause them to drink bottled water, which is like 10,000x more expensive- But, Shorter showers and no more watered lawns? Absolutely. But if all it takes to survive for a family of four to have clean drinking water is 5 cents, i think you might be claiming it impacts the poor a little bit too far.
The perception that many people have about the Valley is that these clueless young engineers are either bad at math or forgot to ask how many shares were outstanding, and that's why they throw down 60-hour weeks with a sub-1% slice. From my experience in the Valley, that isn't it. Most of these young engineers (accurately) perceive that their likelihood of getting rich of their tiny option allocations is very low.

What the clueless young engineers tend to overestimate is their likelihood of being a founder in the next go 'round. They're smart enough to realize that their option grants won't make them rich, but they think that if they work 70 hours per week, they'll be promoted rapidly and getting personal introductions to investors, from the CEO, inside of two years. Of course, that's rarely how it happens. If everyone could hop into the founder ranks just by working hard, who would be left to be the employees on 0.05%? The Valley doesn't mislead young people about their equity grants (because that would be illegal) so much as it tends to mislead them about reporting structure, project allocation, and expected career trajectory. Consequently, you have a lot of startups where on a team of 10 people, you have 6 people who think that they're the boss (because of implicit promises made to them in the hiring process).
I've wondered if cargo ships couldn't use the very salty water as a source of electricity (ion gradient), slowly draining the saltier water as it traverses the ocean.
I haven't seen The Big Lebowski so you could well be right, but are you possibly thinking of Ocean's XX (can't remember which number) instead?