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Long term, perhaps. With the right technology you could skim Helium out of the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn.

As long as natural gas continues to be extracted, there's likely to be sufficient Helium production from Earthly sources for the foreseeable future. It mostly just requires the right equipment on wells.
> I've never been sure uglify and other minification was actually a great idea for this reason. The gains are marginal if you're using gzip

Smaller JS parses faster. gzip doesn't affect parse time.
I would LOVE this - it would be such a great way to jump into real world context for what's happening in startups. What hackers are working on seems better to me than discussing the latest funding news.
Oh wow, mklinux is still around... http://www.mklinux.org/

Sorry this really has nothing to do with the video, just that the tangental thought of linux on mach made me wonder and I was pleasantly surprised.
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Funny you mentioning L4... based on the HN title, my first thought/hope was someone got seL4 running with the NetBSD userland.
The problem isn't an issue of deviant opinion, I'm sure many feel as you do, the issue is the distance between the original statement and the emotion driven conclusion you've leapt to. It looks like nobody else has interpreted it the way you have, or at least hasn't felt as strong a sense of righteous indignation.

I'd probably reflect on the 'offense as a human' bit as well, leave yourself some spectrum of offense as a buffer - or else you'll be left unable to describe your emotions for the real offenses to humanity. Like how one time I saw a pack of feral dogs tear a human corpse apart after it had been left on the street for a few days, that was offensive to me as a human. Luckily for me I had reserved that category of offense, otherwise my brain might have popped out like a jack in the box upon having my prior threshold of inhumanity, a stale candy apple served to me at the county fair, surpassed.
Weak refs are actually going in??? I got the impression they were dead because TC39 disliked them so much.
Fundamentally there is no chemical on Earth we could ever truly run out of, we could always endothermically synthesize anything in the worst case scenario.

Problem is that is insanely expensive. The more expensive resources are, the lower their utility to the market. We use helium and oil now to enable a lot of essential and hard to replace technologies, but if the price starts spiraling out of control due to diminishing availability (and it has / will in both cases) the increasing price limits your ability to use the resource for useful purposes.

Its not really about conservationism at all. Its long term strategic economic thinking. Doing stuff with non-renewable resources that is barely useful (fuel inefficient cars or party balloons) means when we want to do more useful things with these resources later, diminished availability might make it much more expensive later on.

I imagine to most people having plastics, MRI machines, and modern agriculture is more important than having to recharge an electric car or put an alternative heavier gas in their party balloons. If the price of these resources starts spiraling as the cheap supply runs out, the costs of the former skyrocket, and we do not have easy alternatives for them yet like we do a lot of modern oil and helium habits.
No, it's not just that you "can" extract argon from the air, it's that we do, a lot. It's widely industrially available. If Argon were a suitable replacement for Helium it would be used instead due to its vastly lower cost, wider availability, and easier handling.

From this we can conclude that Argon is not a suitable replacement for the current uses of Helium. People pay a premium to use Helium today, and that speaks to the fact that Helium has unique properties that are highly advantageous.
So has Ruby joined the ranks of languages that formally cannot be parsed due to the halting problem?

I know Perl is in that category.
I don't think there's any other way than working with talented people. It shows you what they're better at than you are, and (maybe) what you're better at than they are. I did all this stuff and I thought I was pretty hot shit, until I joined the team I'm on now.

You have to find out what you don't know that you don't know, and it's really hard to do that on your own.
Well, the whole point of science is to falsify past theories and produce better theories. So of course the majority of scientific theories will end up being wrong at some point.

So it's pointless to try to rebuke the "scientists always end up being wrong" like of argument. If anything, I think scientists should just bite the bullet. Theory proven wrong? That's proof that science works!
Would be great to learn more about solutions you've seen in the wild since it seems like you have a lot of experience on this topic. If you have time for a chat my email is in my profile (tried to find you but shostack is ambiguous :)
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Even if the entire world were using the same amount of energy per capita as the United States, and all of that was supplied via fusion reactors, the Helium produced by those reactors would be significantly lower than current levels of Helium usage.
I was trying to install minix 3.3 for fun and ran into a bug in the e1000 driver that caused VirtualBox to throw up. It's fixed already, but not in 3.3:

https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...

virtio seems to be working.
WebAssembly has so far been a joint effort among Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and a few other folks. I’m sorry the work was done via a private github account at first, but that was a temporary measure to help the several big companies reach consensus and buy into the long-term cooperative game that must be played to pull this off.

So, the effort to get buy-in from the big companies that matter has been going on for some time, and now that we've done that, here's the result: Every big company that matters except Apple.

It's not as though the list of the four big companies that matter is too long to reasonably be expected to name the fourth, and the name of the fourth is not webkit.org or Fil Pizlo.

So, it seems to be either an "Oops, we accidentally left one of the four out of this important announcement," or there is still enough of a problem with Apple that we decided not to delay the announcement any longer to wait for them.
imh's explanation is good, but it's also worth considering a very common example of this. Consider two groups of people where one group engages in some activity and another does not. Measure a dozen things about those people. Then report only on the one that positively (or negatively) correlates with group membership as if it was the only thing you measured.

This generates an unrealistically high statistical significance (unrealististically low p-value) because the question should not be, "What are the odds these two things are correlated by chance" but "What are the odds that any of of these things is correlated by chance with this other thing?"

The significance of the result is far below the reported p-value from an analysis that assumes only one thing was investigated. You frequently see incorrect p-values of this kind even when the researchers acknowledge they tested for multiple things.
Of course, but that's selfish and damaging in the long term. It's a long term social investment.

You could also get a better score on a test by cheating, but there's a reason you shouldn't do that, and it's not "I might get caught."
True, there's always been bad science.

The increase in retractions can mean either that (1) there's more bad science now than there was before, or (2) we've got better at spotting bad science. Without further evidence, it's difficult to tell which one is the case. Perhaps it's a mix of both.
Well, it's not there yet.

That being said, I don't particularly like the overloading of `!=` there. I like the idea of a shortcut meaning "call this function and get the error value", but I wouldn't use `!=` for it.

Perhaps take a page from Lua's book and use `_` as a throwaway variable. So `a = foo()`, or `a,b = foo()`, or `_,b = foo()`.
a time frame is assumed in my equation. Calculating conversions and ad spend over a time frame is easy if you have your analytics tracking set up properly.
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I don't see your point. On Debian, which has the most traditional package manager in the world, I can still easily install several versions of Python at the same time.

I'm not even sure what you mean by "your version of python is now tied to your email client and can't be upgraded separately". As long as the deps for each package are satisfied, either one can be upgraded.
So I should give up on JS programming, go back to C/C#/C++/Java/Swift and have them generate wasm? Kinda sad, I like JS. But I like performance too.

Is there a possibility for JS tooling? Babel etc? Or any compile-to-JS language like CoffeeScript, TypeScript etc being able to emit/convert to wasm?

Or maybe I'm missing the whole point of this? :)
So your position is that the purpose of the law is largely to protect incumbents? As with matters ranging from racial segregation to the 55 MPH national speed limit, the only way these types of laws ever change is by widespread civil disobedience.
I don't think she was aware that the corporate office was working towards obsoleting her.

I eventually found the exact same lamp at Fred Meyer.

One time I went to pay my AT&T bill. "Use the kiosk" they said. "No I want to pay in cash." "We can take cash but there's a fifteen dollar service charge for that."

"I just took the bus twenty miles so you will have a job."
r/dailyprogrammer is a good resource too, not only for small "projects" but also seeing how others have attempted them. It does have the issue of the top voted answers being in Brainfuck, Haskell, Lisp, Assembly, and a slew of other impractical(? for lack of a better word) languages though.
No. Just no. There is absolutely nothing in this ruling that justifies your rant. Uber is not special, they are not doing anything unique, and as such do not justify having special treatment under the law.

Your point isn't wrong, but I suspect you weren't speaking up when the taxi companies bought these laws in the first place.
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>My current Arch install doesn't have Python (because I don't need to),

That still doesn't explain why installing python is such a big deal for you, or why your desire to not install python is stronger than your desire to install mutt.
If the government oppressed you, you can kick out your congressman

Pull the other one. It has a bell attached!

If Uber oppresses you, you take Lyft instead. FTFY.
As someone who sits 10m away from the Conda team, I would support this so much.
This is actually a good idea. Those spam referers really grind my gears.

I feel like it's just a Google bug though. But they don't seem to want to fix it.
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FWIW, this is exactly the same problem we had with making it possible for Embind to allow passing C++ functions into setTimeout.

We'd need to synthesize a JavaScript function that holds a wrapper object for the C++ function, and that wrapper object would need to be deallocated when the timer is done. For general callbacks, this is a hard problem, and finalizers would provide a clean way to solve it.
Funny, I was more thinking http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Doug_Stamper

sans the sketchiness, of course. :P
> its marketing that gets the credit while the company sells throttled service as "unlimited," but its legal that takes the blame when the FTC fines the company $100 million for that practice.

That's possible; AT&T legal might have advised against advertising the service as "unlimited" but been overruled. I'd be really surprised if AT&T didn't have a policy where every advertisement goes through legal review.

Alternatively, Homer might have nodded in the AT&T legal department, especially if Homer was in fact a junior attorney.

Self-cite: A few years ago I pulled together a collection of marketing words and phrases to avoid or rephrase, culled from a large corpus of advertising reviews I did for a large company. [1]

The AT&T situation illustrates the truth of a rule of thumb mentioned in that collection: All categorical statements are bad — including this one.

[1] http://www.oncontracts.com/marketing-legal-review-some-words...
Aw, just when it was getting good, it cuts off for the next episode, where the table has an index. This episode only covers what happens with no index.

It gets really interesting when the query involves multiple tables and indices, and the query optimizer has a choice of strategies. You don't really get the benefits of a full SQL query engine until you ask it to do something hard.
This might be a random point, but I'm curious if DDG will have to change their branding to be accepted beyond the tech space into mainstream searching.

I feel like "duck duck go" is too long for the avg american to grasp or use in an ongoing convo when compared to "google", "bing" or "yahoo."

I can't see people saying "just duck duck go it." Maybe something like DDG or "duckduck"instead?

Maybe that's just me...
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Your equation doesn't actually capture human behavior, you know.
From the site of the company that makes most of Nintendo's dev equipment, there was a gang writer that the cartridge plugged into.

https://intsys.co.jp/english/tools/index.html
> So has Ruby joined the ranks of languages that formally cannot be parsed due to the halting problem?

No I don't think anyone has suggested that, have they?
There was a cartridge programmer that you plugged the cart into.
The leadership was able to increase their compensation 42% over the course of a year last year so, if that's what their focus is for this year, then maybe they are by cutting these folks, reducing costs, etc for whatever metrics get them more cash.
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Bitium is hiring a DevOps Engineer! Santa Monica Startup with lots of potential. Dream job for right Dev Ops Guru.
Which by the way has practical advantages. While the child takes a bit longer to learn those languages, it configures her brain in a particular way that makes it possible to think effortlessly in both languages, from the start.

I suspect, (but don't know) this even facilitates the learning of other languages, later on.
See also:
https://developers.yubico.com/PGP/ -- OpenPGP/GnuPG support
https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/ -- PKCS certificates
Can't DDG use session-only cookies to link Q, Q' and Q"? Or would that be considered a breach of their privacy rules?
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You will likely have seen advanced developers recommending it. But it is meant to teach routine daily stuff like how to name variables, lay out functions, why we want abstraction layers, and the like. And it really is aimed at people who may know nothing about code construction.
I am 100% on the side of Linus Torvalds when it comes to microkernels.[0]

I will concede that in some instances a microkernel may outperform a monolithic kernel in stability or performance or both. I am not the least bit excited about any progress made in microkernels, I feel that it can only result in much more closed systems that are easier to implement in ways that make them harder to modify. This is why I wish for Hurd to continue to fail.

[0]: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html
It's always increase your ad send, the solution is never to decrease the budget. A macro view seems like the best place to start. Also the anlysis is never based on profit it seems to be a ratio of gross rev and medis cost. There are other variable costs like cost of goods sold that must be considered. If cost of conversion is $15 and it generated $60 in rev wow we have a winner but the COG is $45 oops we made no money.
So a picture isn't a picture until you look at it?

Whether or not people should care, some people do care. If Debian has to edit what you distribute to remove proprietary parts of it, you're probably not distributing something that is open source (which means 100% open source).
Well, there is http://ddg.gg, which is "four characters shorter than google.com!" [1] The transitive verb "to google" has been generalized to searching the web, just as "to photoshop" being diluted to digitally editing a photo.

[1]: https://duck.co/help/company/short-domain
I agree 100%. Moving from "Proving theories of computation" and "Syntax to think about computing" to "Projects" is actually a big step. At my undergrad you could graduate with a BA in CS without making the leap. (With a BS you wound up having to get more practical)

I think this is a great idea for him. I'm glad that he's taking CS education seriously. We all benefit.
The usual rule applies here: if a story hasn't had much attention yet, a small number of reposts is ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
QNX achieved it years before MINIX existed.
You are assuming a false dichotomy. There's a third possibility: what with a big four-letter-acronym developer conference and lots of other spinning plates, the full buy-in to include the company name didn't make the deadline set to get everyone else on board.

Since Fil opened a webkit bug to implement wasm, I would at least hedge my false-dichotomy bet and avoid getting my mad on. Free advice, take it or leave it.

(The first paragraph is actually me telling you pretty much what happened. Same thing as with WHATWG launch in 2004, BTW. Does not mean "OMG there is something WRONG and only TRULY SHINY COMPANY noticed and OBJECTED". Yeesh.)
Because they have the depth of experience that is otherwise unavailable except by months or years of hard-fought struggle.

It only takes being bitten a few times by rushing into a new tech and doing everything completely wrong from the start. The smart learn from their own mistakes, but the truly wise learn from others'.

This still holds true in JavaScript.
A fuller description of the post-decode uop cache (with pictures!) is here: http://www.realworldtech.com/haswell-cpu/2.

Note that there are two paths for instructions: one, from the L1 icache through the traditional decoders into the instruction queue, and another a post-decode cache directly into the instruction queue. There are numerous advantages to the cache, such as power saved by idling the decode logic, as well as bypassing the 16-byte fetch restriction (which has been a feature of the architecture since the Pentium Pro days).

The gist of the surprising behavior is that the processor cannot execute out of the uop cache if a given 32-byte (naturally aligned) section of code decodes to more than 3 lines of 6 uops each (with the catch being that a branch ends any given line). In that case it falls back to the traditional instruction fetch/decode. Depending on the alignment of branches, you may or may not run into this limitation on an otherwise identical sequence of instructions.
> Another example might be "if a field is included in a protocol and neither that layer nor a lower layer is encrypted with a key that you don't know, you can see the contents of the field by sniffing packets on the network segment". It might be challenging to find a citation for this claim!

The term of art here (as used in patent law, for instance) would be "person having ordinary skill in the art". Something like that (if you don't encrypt something in a network protocol, it can be sniffed) is "obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art".

But yeah, that does make it difficult to cite sources for them. And in particular, it's difficult to throw the book at someone who doesn't take those things as obvious when there's no such book.

Another "obvious" thing that I don't know a citation for: it's impossible to store a piece of information in a binary such that it cannot be read by a person who has a copy of that binary. (Practical corollary: there's no such thing as a piece of information that's too secret to include in an Open Source driver, but that can be included in a binary driver.)
There are several important lessons to learn from the Java bytecode format and members of the WebAssembly (including myself) do have experience here. In particular, JVM class files would be a poor fit for WebAssembly because:

1. They impose Java's class and primitive type model.
2. They allow irreducible control flow.
3. They aren't very compact. Lots of redundancy in constant pools across classes and still a lot of possibility for compression.
4. Verification of JVM class files is an expensive operation requiring control and dataflow analysis (see stackmaps added in the Java 7 class file format for rationale).
5. No notion of low-level memory access. WebAssembly specifically addresses this, exposing the notion of a native heap that can be bit-banged directly by applications.
So that means our rates are going up again.

So sick and tired of these hidden middle-class taxes.
That's true. I literally have 15 year old JS that still runs. It's not pretty, but it still works as expected.
Second the Benq. I'm using one with my macbook pro via miniDP. Great experience.
Because it's so inefficient relative to just pumping it out of oilfields, that it only makes sense when the price is quite high (hence the huge production pullback in response to recent price drops). Now I don't think we can just move off fossil fuels tomorrow, but we're clearly into an era of diminishing returns.
I know nothing about Golden Rice so I can't comment on that. I think the position I'm making is that it's likely that GMOs will be inferior for all the reasons already cited. If you're trying to be more profitable, you put nutrition in the back seat. If food is just a bunch of macrobiotic chemicals disregarding a looong history of natural selection with intricacies we've only begun to understand, chances are you will not "get it right" in terms of nutrition and health of the consuming organism.
I've no idea what you're on about, so for me it would just make you seem a little odd (sorry) -- and an overall negative impression.

You have to explain the reference in the question too, so I think you get that. After all, the best jokes are the ones that need explaining, right?!
No, if the coins are independent, the Bayesian is not fooled even when seeing only that coin. The argument was in my post above.

The inference in Bayes only depends on the data, and the flips of other coins doesn't make a difference if independent. Frequentist testing can depend on things like stopping rules and hypothesis tested, which aren't correlated to the actual truth and therefore should have zero effect on inference.

They can cherry pick and only show some flips of that coin, but then they really need to be outright lying or you'll ask why only some flips were reported.
Delaware C incorporation foreign co-founder might generate later troubles?
We are about to get incorporated in Delaware with a C corp. One cofounder is a green card holder about to become citizen, the other is on work visa (H1B). Can any of the paperwork related to the incorporation present future challenges when it comes to have the company sponsor a green card for the second cofounder? Or even just support the H1B so the other cofounder can be dedicated full time to the venture?
Interested in any ressources we can find. We plan on using Clerky, but unless I missed something it doesn't go that far into incorporation explanations. I feel like this kind of legal information is always so hard to find, even with hundreds of Delaware C corp in SF...