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I mean that this functional approach implements any variant of GoL. Here functional is not intended as "functional programming" but as the closest way I found in programming to express topological concepts.

By identifying the GoL to a set of functions, find an implementation of a variant of GoL is like solving an equation where you are looking for the right functions.
Japan has a lot of overseas assets, so to some extent foreign workers will pay for Japanese retirees. It may not be enough though.
No company has to pay 68% employer wage taxes in Europe. I'm saying that as an employer who has looked into this at some point to figure out if there was any major advantage to running a company in one country or another, the bigger differentiator is simply that in some countries wages are simply far lower than in others.

Tax havens (not heavens) exist as a form of legal arbitrage and allow those with lots of money to dodge taxes at the expense of those without and as such are a real problem.

Nike and Google combined paid less tax in NL last year than I did, which is quite wrong given their massive turnover and profits.

http://qz.com/240511/heres-how-much-tax-google-paid-on-its-e...

Not exploring outer space is the equivalent of shutting down one of the more productive avenues of basic research, if you took away all of the spin-offs of space research from your house it would dramatically change your quality of life.

Your NATO/UN start-up link makes no sense, the EU governments are very much complicit in the spying scandal.

The Scandinavian model can only be compared to other models if you wish to criticize it meaningfully, your anecdote is meaningless, a better alternative will certainly be given more consideration.
I'm already writing Agar.io clone in Meteor and was about to publish article how to implement it.

Damn it :-), you got it first.
So the spdy directive also does http/2? I seem to remember looking for HTTP/2 support in NGINX and finding that they only support it in the commercial version?
You are not ready for immortality.
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We all need birth rate below the replacement rate as well as an increase in the quality of the citizen (good education, safe environment, stimulating activities).
They make money and it can be a competitive space. Making them non-profit could be unfair competition for a lot of other companies!
Unless an application is pretty poorly written, anything that is safe to self-tune isn't a configuration option in the first place. The crux of the issue is that the system/application doesn't have enough perspective to understand if it should self-tune one direction or the other.

For example, if an app runs out of file descriptors, is that happening because of normal conditions or is something wrong? Increasing the max blindly until the issue goes away is rarely the right answer.

Each self-tuning app would have to have logic more complex than the business logic itself to understand how it will interact in the environment it's running in (other apps, hardware, expected traffic bursts, etc).

This entire article is pretty shallow on the things it attacks. Take the following: "Why does the JVM still need messing around GC settings to get acceptable performance/memory usage?"

The answer to this should be obvious to anyone that has developed high-performance Java apps. There is no possible way for the garbage collector to understand what your application is doing to guess the optimal times to interrupt and collect. Unless your app is a tiny state machine, the garbage collector trying to self-tune based on runtime behavior is going to make your performance worthlessly unpredictable.
What's the point of doing all of this in order to use desktop HDDs in servers? Why not just use WD RE4s?
There's also profile-sync-daemon [0] that moves browser profiles into a ramdisk to save writing to/from the SSD all the time.

I think a copy-on-write filesystem like btrfs would be better on SSDs because they do not change written data but rather write to a new area on the drive, requiring less erases on the SSD's side.

There's also F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) which has been in the Linux kernel for a while now that specifically targets flash based drives.

Though I agree that most of these optimizations do not seem necessary on modern SSDs.

[0] https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon
I cant understand why I haven't built a massive dong tower in mine-craft yet?
This is bad advice imo. A SSD offers small capacity for a big price. It is a bad match for preserving data.
Its advantage is its speed, especially in seek times, but also on read/write operations.

If one wants to “get his money back” the best way is to utilize the SSD to its fullest instead of trying to preserve it for ten years. Write on it as much as you can. Use it to make your system faster. Use it to hide your setup's shortcomings.

Couple years back, I had only 8GB of RAM on my system. The first thing I did when I got a SSD was to put the swap on it. The zero-seek times (compared to HDDs) made the dreaded swap operations almost imperceptible. What worths more? The SSD or the ability to do my work without hinders?

Other bad advice in the article:

- Use noatime: this is old, use relatime.
- Do not use btrfs: compression, deduplication, COW, snapshots etc are very useful for the small sized SSDs
- Do not enable hibernation: Maybe we should return to windows '98
- Disable browser cache: facepalm, just try browsing like this...

Ommited advice from the article:

- Use part of the SSD as a cache for your HDDs (native support by LVM)

In short: do not try to protect your SSD. Try to kill it as fast as possible. :)
A robotic analogue is tuning PID loops. There exists loads of literature on the subject, but it turns out that it's quite hard, despite the relatively simplicity of the control law [1]. It's the underlying dynamics that results in no golden rule of PID tuning if you start the system from a random state.

The whole computer stack is similarly complex, but higher dimension and it's not clear what metric you would tune against (it would be application specific). Not that I think it's impossible, lots of regions of computer science are self-adaptive (TCP, splay tree). Its just the ensemble is a mega chaotic space. Maybe someone will hook up a DBN and skynet it soon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller#Loop_tuning
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Anyone can do this, because it isn't socially acceptable to play as an adult, the only people you would encounter already in the water would be children.
Would still be interesting the see the implementation differences
Exactly.

€ and Schengen erase currency and national boundaries. They rock! Whenever I travel to a country within the EU that is not in the €-zone I cringe.

While cultures and mentalities _do_ indeed vary quite a lot let that be seen as a _good_ and healthy thing.

I consider myself European first, British Islander second.

Have to figure out what other boundaries can be erased while at the same time respecting difference. More integration and yet more federation at the same time. The EU could pour money into pre-third level foreign language learning and into machine translation projects? That'd be cool.
That's a knife that could cut both ways, I realize that that is mostly theoretical at this point but just like China has these countries over a barrel the reverse is also true, if they banded together they could put a serious dent in the Chinese economy.
Isn't treating autism same as treating homosexuality?
Nowhere in my post did I say "more please." To say humans should roll over and intentionally go extinct is not the solution just as much as exhausting all resources. Somehow, we will find how to thrive.
No wilder than Greece and Cyprus or the UK and the Falklands.
http://imgur.com/a/0LWnW

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/37l02h/the_two_wi...
The mathematical theory the study space is Topology.
A definition of a topology of a space is given by, starting from an underlying set, the definition of the open intervals (there are also other ways, this is the most used one) which gives the notion of continuous functions.
Another approach to define a topology is by defining a distance which gives a metric space and the definition of open intervals.
Any variant of the GoL I have seen is discrete, every cell has distance one from its adjacent cell. It is the adjacence notion that defines the nearness, hence the space.
That is the math that I applyed, to deduce that when you define a function getNeighboursOf, you are actually defining the shape of the space, and also its set (the counter image of the function).
I once saw a segment on a US chat show about a man who get breast implants, as a bet. (Not gay, not trans.) When he took his shirt off on camera they commented on the fact that he had to have two little round stickers over his nipples for censorship reasons.
A diminishing population only has negative consequences for an economy in the short term, right? In the end, less people means less money needs to be made to sustain a certain standard of living.
Wasn't there a Linux kernel contributor with a medical background who used to push unsuccessfully for it to have more self-tuning/homeostatic behaviour? (It wasn't Greg Kroah-Hartmann was it?)
Interesting also that the fact that it was Louis Armstrong made them contemplate this on a level that they would never have for a lesser god or an ordinary individual. So much for the justice is blind mantra. Following up on a competitor trying to harm Armstrong is already quite a nice show of solidarity between musicians and on top of that shows the police's willingness to have the law used in matters of economics where the party doing the reporting (or anybody else for that matter) suffered no harm at all from the alleged crime.
I would argue that preferring to reuse the same space of the SSD instead of using new space as you propose (cow, et al.) is the better approach. This way you don't need to use trim that much and the SSD will anyway write it into a different place.

It should be noted that while an SSD can't write before erasing it will actually not even attempt that. The SSD maintains a mapping from LBA to physical flash chip and offset and will write to a completely different place. It will then mark the old location as unused and erase it when it can spare some time and power.
Danny Choo did a post on this: http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/26963/Japan+Underground+Bic...

Looks like you can find one of these in Shinagawa
Does any of these PDF making solutions properly support RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew?
Agree, the answer to the question was not articulated properly.

Right at the beginning they should have said that the hole is for "releasing the moisture from the air gap and stop (most) fog or frost from forming on the window."

The hole actually dilutes the safety wee bit: "In the extraordinarily unlikely event that the outer pane fails, the middle pane takes over. And yes, in that case, there would be a small leak of air through the breather hole—but nothing the aircraft’s pressurization system couldn’t easily cope with."

TL;DR: Aircraft window hole compromises safety to improve the view :-)
I'm in Tokyo and I've never seen one before :) but I might start looking just to try it out.
We don't have a drinking age in Italy. If we do, I've never seen it enforced in my life. :)
That actually Google Docs slides in presentation mode. I'm... not a fan.

If you find yourself having to interact with these a lot, which I do, you might find it useful to click on the cogwheel icon at the bottom of the screen and select 'Open in editor'. That gives you a completely different and IMO much easier to read view of the same document:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7QXGYOLCh4fcUq0jDdD...
They are cheaper, obviously
You said it better than I could.

I would add that the EU is not standing still at all. It is making moves on a number of these fronts.

Havens: The Irish/Dutch loophole is being closed. Switzerland and Lichtenstein and others are coming under ever increasing scrutiny[1]. But you probably already know this.

Space: ESA[2], Galileo[3]. Note that Galileo is a ESA project, which would be like NASA building/funding GPS. Civilian rather than military.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100783858 "Europe's Vanishing Tax Havens"

[2] http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_history/Forty...

[3] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/The_future_-_Ga...
I'm pretty sure that the SSD performs wear leveling regardless of whether you're overwriting an existing file or creating a new copy. Just because you're logically rewriting the contents of a file doesn't mean the SSD will store the new contents in the same physical location.
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It has a huge impact on long term quality of infrastructure and an immediate impact on social security (pensions especially).

Infrastructure needs a certain population density in order to be maintained and since countries usually do not give up territory when their population drops the number of people available as a tax bas dictates that if the quantities of infrastructure remain the same that the quality should decrease.

Canada would be lot more efficient for instance if it moved all of its population to the west coast but of course that's not an option for many practical reasons.
What they were mainly after was employment as jazzmen, though: IIRC (I'm not an expert) the main connection was originally the shadiness of many nightclub venues, especially during Prohibition.
Woman tosses rare Apple computer worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
"It wasn't until a few weeks later that workers at the recycling centre opened the boxes to discover an Apple I (one) computer inside, one of only 200 or so vintage Apple computers made in the late ^Steve Jobs^ garage in 1976."

Slowly, Woz is be written out of the creation of Apple.
F2FS is for direct NAND access, if you do it over an SSD that already has an FTL (flash translation layer) you'll gain nothing and only cost extra writes.
The debt of Japan is so huge (to put it in relative terms, Greece's debt is nothing compared to it) that they would need half of the developed world to cater to it.
I assume that the commenter specifically meant this part:

> Currently it takes 1.2 earths' worth of resources to support the earth's population

... which obviously isn't true since the earth's worth of resources currently supports its population.
For a while there was really confusing Facebook blocks of any images of mothers breast feeding their children but no blocks of beheading videos.

It was weird.
In Osaka the standard is just to drop your bicycle on the side of the street, to the point that people can't walk anymore on that side :P
I do not remember resistor color codes and I could use a violent and sexist mnemonic if you don't mind sharing.

In astronomy, the spectral classes of stars are "oh be a fine girl, kiss me" but even that mnemonic is inappropriate for some classrooms these days.
Caps are definitely advantageous for the note holder. The increase the discount if the cap is exceeded.

If you're an investor willing to do a bunch of $500K no-cap deals I know a lot of founders who'd like your phone number.
Therefore there was very little support to take care of very young children. For well educated couples this leaves an extremely small window in which you can have children.

Moreover, there are very few day cares that accept children after three months (which is pretty normal in The Netherlands and probably most other Western countries). This creates the perception of having to choose between a career and children (in some fields, leaving for a few years is a high-impact career choice). Luckily, things seem to be changing slowly:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/law-goes-into-ef...

There are tax incentives to have children (e.g. we wouldn't lose much income if my wife decided to stop working), unfortunately it seems that the conservative government (CDU/CSU) does not seem to be realize that most modern people don't want to live the 'man works, wife stays home with the children until they are 18'-lifestyle.

Another problem is that employers are not very flexible towards reducing the work week. Fortunately, our employer was flexible, allowing my wife to work four days. But I hear that it's hard in general for e.g. husband & wife to both work four days.
The windows weren't quite square panes, they were slightly rounded, but not enough.

Another issue the Comet had were the engines buried in the wings, which makes them less accessible for servicing and more dangerous to the aircraft in the event of failure/explosion.
Well, time to automate everything then.
I suggest you don't pick cipher and encryption parameters by hand, and instead use a full encryption solution designed for this use case.

An example is using dm-crypt and LUKS. If you don't want to have a dedicated encrypted partition, you can mount a file with a loop device. For example, see it here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_a_n...

It will use AES by default in XTS mode. (the default was changed because of CBC malleability attacks).

Anyway, compared to AES, ChaCha is simpler, don't suffer from timing attacks, and don't require a mode of operation. There's nothing wrong with using it for data at rest.
As I've commented elsewhere, there are plenty of other studies.

Eg. Moss-Racusin et al (2012) which found that female students applying for jobs were seen as less competent than male students with identical application materials.
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Thanks.

Agreed that Europe (as EU) needs to think global, act local. Need to realise that helping our neighbours helps ourselves. Witness the ongoing tragedy of mass death of migrants.

Regarding borders, if we tried to improve things _over there_ then they wouldn't want to create terror or mass immigrate over _over here_. There's only one thing wrong with democracy at the barrel of a gun and combating terrorism with drones. It does not achieve what you want it to achieve.
> Why does the JVM still need messing around GC settings to get acceptable performance/memory usage?

But the JIT is a self-tuning system! Here you are.
The reason to use a convertible note is because the parties can't agree on a valuation at which to issue equity. They _can_ agree that the angel should get at least x% of the company, and from this they can calculate the valuation cap.

A note issued without a cap limits the upside of the angel in exactly the situations when his/her investment has helped the company increase its valuation the most.

Anyway, this post isn't about that. It's about ensuring that liquidation preferences are limited to 1x, which seems reasonable, especially if the note has a coupon.
I, too, would ban Darkwing Duck; but for simply being terminally irritating, rather than any supposed incitement to kill.

Or maybe it would incite people to want to kill Darkwing Duck...
It's fine as long as people know what they are doing is ridiculous. I have a friend who both tries to hyper mile and as well as prevent any wear on his brakes on his Diesel VW Golf TDI. As in, his objective is to never, ever touch his brakes, or accelerate (significantly). He plans out his highway on-ramps to avoid sudden acceleration, rarely passes, and gauges stop-lights blocks in advance to reduce braking.

Is this needed in a modern car, or does it make driving said care more pleasurable, (or, for that matter, safe?) No, in call cases. But, he takes a particular pleasure about taking his vehicle into the dealer (free, once a year), and at 75,000 miles being told that his brakes look like they've got 10,000 miles on them.

So, if you read the advice on SSDs in this (ridiculous to some) vein, then It's a fun read.
Prohibition is just another form of the same.

When the adult population of a country craves something that is (potentially) bad for it then that's an education issue and a medical issue, not a criminal issue.

As the son of an alcoholic I've seen up close what alcohol can do to an individual, even so making it an illegal substance would just have jacked up the budget and risked run-ins with the law (more than there already were).

I don't smoke pot, don't drink alcohol, in general am a pretty boring person (especially when it comes to imbibing mind altering substances in company other than sweet tea) but I support those who do feel the need to do any or all of the above simply because society could not function if all these people were behind bars and every one of them has the reins of their lives firmly in their own hands. It's all about choices and mentality, making these things crimes is not helping anybody and simply drives the problems underground and creates a fertile ground for organized crime to flourish on.
Well, the nation was founded by a bunch of Puritans. I believe that much of their fundamentalist worldview has persisted, largely unchanged, through the centuries since.
> The accession of Turkey to the EU needs to happen soon.

With Erdogan behaving like a little dictator more and more, this can not ever happen. Turkey is getting more and more Islamistic and less European every day.
Version control is really cool for this sort of information. Unfortunately, pass leaks information in filenames, which is a pretty big problem for some uses. In my opinion, the version control needs to be built into the application to avoid all the potential side channel information leaks.
Is there an upper limit to how large a portion of the adult population of a country can be in jail before that country collapses?
Off topic, but I find it amusing that the title says, "Italian boy...", the image caption says, "The teenager..." and then the photo is of a middle aged man.
Maybe you know about usenet. Of course, usenet is dead. However, one of the last groups to die was comp.lang.lisp, which is an instructive example in this context.

I submit that what, or rather who, kept comp.lang.lisp alive for so long beyond most of the rest of usenet was a guy named Eric Naggum. He may not have identified the sociopath aspect, but did have the entitled MOPs in his crosshairs and kept them out with (sometimes utterly brilliant, btw) flamage.

Sadly, comp.lang.lisp also points to something not mentioned in the linked post: Entitled MOPs and sociopaths will not just silently accept their exclusion.

When excluded, they attack, possibly indirectly through other venues. To this day, in an astonishing number of online discussions of Lisp culture, you're apt to find attacks on comp.lang.lisp in general, or Erik Naggum in particular, for the high crime of having once excluded (for example) an entitled MOP who wanted his homework done by comp.lang.lisp.
Probably not but I can't see why "to be killed by famine" is a relevant point here (A lot of alive germans had experienced the fear to be killed by famine in their past, that's for sure, as many other people that was children in the wars and postwars).

Today 7 millions of germans live with minijobs and for most of them is its only source of income. I don't really see those people reproducting like bunnies, but well... I can be wrong. Is a different kind of poverty, not the classic one.

> Excessive population growth can be dangerous to the species

I guess that you don't encourage the reproduction of this people?. Again, this is not the point here. We are trying to understant why germans have a low natality, not if this is convenient or not for the rest of the planet.
I wonder how Meteor's performance would hold up for a game like this.
It is still a very different mechanism.

It is still a very different social construct.

Sorry, but polygamy doesn't get to ride the coattails of gay marriage for free. Despite the howls from conservatives, this slope isn't inherently slippery. You have to change minds before you can discuss changing laws. (And besides, I thought we all agreed the anthrozoologists were next in line? Then NAMBLA. Wait your turn.)