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I lived in Singapore for 2.5 years. The single most important reason for me to leave was... Are you ready to laugh at me? The weather.

Not just the weather per se, but all that follows. No outdoor activities (unless you want to profusely sweat), no strolling around (unless you are ok with sweating), etc.

Other than that, Singapore is a great place and rapidly rising.

Some aspects of how the government handle things might be debatable, but the results are way better than in any other "free democracy". And reality is that democracies are not what we think they are. They're not free, and money rules.
Probably because carbon isn't actually pure carbon
Anyone considering using vi should be warned away by this practice of "disagreement by downvoting". If they do it here, imagine what they would do to a bug report!
The book "Inside the AS/400" has some really cool exposition on the unique aspects of the AS/400. If I remember right, the disks and memory are in a single address space, and of course, there is a relational database built in to the operating system.

I have seen the binary translation in action: it was required when POWER6 machines came out. On a POWER5 machine, I remember it taking around 20 minutes for an application that was around 20 MB zipped, but for software licensing reasons not all of the server models exposed the full performance of the processor, so that might not be representative. And at any rate, like the OP said, it's a one time thing, and then the translated version is kept.
That's good to know.

Just out of curiosity, do you know how that interacts with indecency laws? Like for example if someone is having sex in their home but someone is able to see it from the sidewalk through a crack in the curtains? This is purely hypothetical of course.
Wasn't Firefox recently called out for including proprietary integration from Pocket and Hello on their new versions by default which cannot be removed but only disabled? [1]

I wonder if I should just switch back to IE6 that has no microphone and webcam support, but then there is ActiveX! :(

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172126
In Denmark we sell our wind power to Norway when there is too much and buy it back when there is no wind. How can that be you might ask! The Norwegians are a clever bunch you see - they pump water when electricity is cheap and let it run backwards when the price is high. With dams holding back two years of water flow surely you are in a position to do the same.
Solar and wind are decent, and I agree that we should build more, and reaching carbon neutrality is a great goal.

However, since you care about this subject, I feel compelled to point out that:

- Neither produce power all the time (i.e. at night for solar), and can be transiently unreliable (i.e. weather). This is OK if all you care about is moving water around from one large reservoir to another, but less so for anything else.

- Both are (currently, granted) much more expensive than nuclear if you care about generating large amounts of power.

- They both kill about 5x more people than nuclear (deaths/injuries per tWh), even taking into account nuclear waste disposal.

Subsidizing rooftop solar is one of the stupider things we have done as a society. Subsidizing large plants makes a lot more sense, since at least large scale solar plants are somewhat safe.
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>His channel is a lot of fun.

Checked it out and I agree. I have to wonder, though, if his money shrinking experiment is such a good idea. Isn't that sort of treatment of currency prohibited by law?
There was a discussion on the SG startup scene two weeks ago. In general to me it was not very positive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9642665
I think the environmental cost people wonder about for wind is regarding Newton's third law. If we harness the wind, what is the effect on the rest of the system?
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Yep, and there was a big fat warning in the documentation saying that they had full access to the repo. Couple this with being able to be used on only a single repo - github blocks other repos from using the same key - and you may as well just make a normal github account for your deploy system and manage it that way...

It's weird that they didn't have an option to write only for tags. "CI build X"...
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What do you think about pass [1]?

[1] - http://www.passwordstore.org/
I went to an interesting seminar on UK defamation law as it relates to the UK, given by an experienced barrister. He didn't mention much about hate speech, so I don't know if it's relevant. Notes and slides from the seminar are here: http://francisdavey.github.io/defamation/ and I highly recommend reading them, very interesting! It basically looks like a UK operator now has a fair amount of protection if they take reasonable actions.
Fine, let's be picky. Pushing a new tag onto an existing commit is a vastly smaller privilege than being able to push objects and point branches at them.
This is done often in GPU drivers mostly via patching shaders, related http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driv...
You can actually build a working cell phone today with an Arduino, check out this guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/arduin-o-phone-arduino-powered-di... The guts of it are based on Adafruit's FONA board which uses a SIM800 GSM & GPRS chip to talk to the cell network.
Can you limit the user permissions to only affect tags? Otherwise, I'm not seeing the advantage.

From what I can tell, there's no write:tags scope: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes
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> While crucial, an open governance model by itself does not guarantee long-term success. We’ll need to balance the needs of the strong developer community with those of the users

Correct me if I am wrong but aren't "developers" the very users of Node.js?

> and encourage a vibrant ecosystem of technology and service providers to ensure the bright future we all envision.

He speaks about the "goal" without detailing the strategy. In short, he throws platitudes at the readers without effectively bringing anything interesting.

I understand that this is a PR but a couple lines would have been welcomed. You know, to ensure that we can envision "this bright future"!
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> Neither produce power all the time (i.e. at night for solar), and can be transiently unreliable (i.e. weather). This is OK if all you care about is moving water around from one large reservoir to another, but less so for anything else.

As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, utility scale battery storage, or home storage if you prefer (Tesla PowerWall).

> Both are (currently, granted) much more expensive than nuclear if you care about generating large amounts of power.

Both are already cheaper than nuclear without subsidies, to the point where Exelon (who operates the largest US fleet of commercial nuclear generators has to pay consumers to take their power 10-20% of the time due to wind generation).

> They both kill about 5x more people than nuclear (deaths/injuries per tWh), even taking into account nuclear waste disposal.

I concede that utility solar and wind are safer than rooftop solar. I'd argue you can make installing solar on roofs pretty damn safe if you follow OSHA guidelines.
816 microseconds seems a bit off for Django, even under worst conditions I got way way better results on VPC's...
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The Internet is a lot like Ancient Egypt, people write on walls and worship cats
You can make all the foolish laws you like and there will still be data and cameras everywhere in public places. Where the data comes from is irrelevant, it will be available.

Edit: Are you going to ban cameras in public places? Facebook? Cellphones? Satellites?
I'm not going to argue with you, but please stop talking about something you clearly know nothing about.

For anyone else that reads this thread, chickens are smart animals with complex social lives. See this excerpt from "Are Chickens Smarter Than Toddlers?":

In 1996, I discovered Dr. Lesley Rogers’s book The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken (1995) in the Beltsville, Maryland Agricultural Library outside Washington, DC. I sat on the floor of the stacks, reading it in tears, because Rogers was affirming that birds are intelligent beings, and that prejudice, not science, says otherwise. She said, “it is now clear that birds have cognitive capacities equivalent to those of mammals” (p. 17). She said, “With increased knowledge of the behaviour and cognitive abilities of the chicken has come the realization that the chicken is not an inferior species to be treated merely as a food source” (p. 213).

She explained that a chick “hatches with a well-developed brain, immediately able to make decisions and to form memories” (p. 118). Of battery cages for hens and all forms of industrial conditions for chickens, she said: “In no way can these living conditions meet the demands of a complex nervous system designed to form a multitude of memories and to make complex decisions” (p. 218). Citing recent demonstrations of complex cognition in birds including chickens and others once denigrated by mainstream scientists as “unquestionably low in the scale of avian evolution,” Rogers called for more research in the field of comparative cognition, given how recent studies had “thrown the fallacies of previous assumptions about the inferiority of avian cognition into sharp relief” (p. 218).

I was ecstatic. A bona fide avian scientist was saying what I already knew to be true about birds, and about chickens in particular, in forthright language that could be quoted without ellipses. She spoke of “the cognitive demands of the hitherto underestimated chicken brain” (p. 213).

The chicken’s brain is equipped to enable it to meet the complex demands of the natural world in which this brain took shape. There is a fit between the total mental system of the chicken and the tropical forest habitat in which chickens evolved. Chickens have thrived for tens of thousands of years within the complex ecology of their forest world – a world that is reflected in their genetic makeup. The neurophysiology of the chicken embodies a system of interactions between the genetic, hormonal and environmental factors that figure in the developing embryo and express themselves in the adult bird.

http://www.upc-online.org/thinking/are_chickens_smarter.html
> if alcohol was cheaper non-liberalized tech companies could go there assured of happy workers.

Are you asserting something more subtle than "alcohol guarantees happiness" here? It isn't very clear.
Why would you ever want to move here?

You think the NHS is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Too bad it is not the unit files one should worry about, but the continued scope creep of the systemd project.

by the time one want to move from systemd to nosh, or anything more limited in scope, one may have face the rebuilding of Linux user space from the ground up.
Thank you! Also, I found a slightly better link, not directly to the PDF but to a page with the abstract and other info:

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/publication7166-abstract...
Another relevant article hinting at this development: http://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-raising-money-fo...

The impetus behind a growth equity fund, according to the article, would be to provide "long-term capital that allows startups to continue to operate in beta [sic, I assume -- they probably mean privately] without having to go public."

I can see why this approach would make sense for optimistic investors who are familiar with the impatience of public market investors with the kind of moonshot, long-term investments that are game-changing but don't pay off during next quarter's earning call.

That's one charitable interpretation of this decision, if it's true -- Y Combinator wants to counteract the abundance of hedge fund money pouring into this space (with attendant expectations of a near-term public liquidity event) with strategic capital and a longer time horizon.
That's not turnabout. Turnabout would be consumers getting access to all the data on the people behind the tracking, so that we can stalk them the way they're stalking us. I want the full data of every store location Carl Szabo has visited and every product he's picked up and looked at for the last ten years, timestamped and digitized in an easy-to-mine format.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I want to get an SMS alert when he enters a store. Can't forget this part. :D
IANAL.

My understanding is that it comes down to a "reasonable person" doctrine - i.e. would a reasonable person consider the location to be private.

Another way of thinking about it is if there is a reasonable chance that you will be seen by people engaging in normal everyday activities.

Personally, I would say that peeking through a small gap in the curtains would not qualify as normal behavior. Someone doing that is clearly snooping.

On the other end of the spectrum, having sex in front of a window that fronts a public sidewalk with no curtains would pretty clearly be public indecency.
I doubt CCTV anywhere in the world would come anywhere close to the level of coverage that London has.

But the plainclothes policemen are everywhere, and they'll fine you on the spot if you're found breaking the rules. There are booths all around the city where you can pay your fine. In New York you can buy a souvenir t-shirt that says "I <3 NY". The equivalent sold on the streets of Singapore reads "Singapore is a 'fine' city".

Us HN privacy/freedom types would hate that, but I loved the fact that my wife felt safe walking alone at night through a city she'd only spent 2 days in.
What is the difference between paravirtualized KVM and fully virtualized KVM? I thought KVM has always been fully virtualized which is why it is capable of running any OS.

Is KVM paravirtualizaton a new feature?
I did a Google Spreadsheet powered mail merge, printing N copies of a document with a different name and address subbed in, using an HTML page.

I know this election survey page was all backed by Google Spreadsheet, too: http://tritag.ca/election2014/ I'm not the author, but I understand it made it very easy to cut and paste in candidates' answers on the specific issues from a survey which was circulated by email.
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Disclaimer: I'm Joyent's CTO and I work for Scott. Normally I wouldn't comment on something on which I'm so obviously conflicted, but the record needs to be set straight on this point: Scott was taken entirely out of context by the reporter. In reference to the node.js incubator, the reporter (reasonably) asked about io.js. As an attempt at humor (albeit perhaps an ill advised one), Scott responded with: "IO.js -- what's that?" When there was an awkward silence, it was instantly clear to Scott that his attempt at humor had fallen flat -- and it was immediately clarified to the reporter that it was a joke: that he obviously knew what io.js was, and that the emphasis of the program was on node.js. That the reporter published the quote anyway (implying that Scott didn't, in fact, know what io.js was) was to take Scott grossly out of context. When we later asked ReadWriteWeb to clarify that Scott had been taken out of context, they flatly refused -- which is unfortunate, because it has resulted in heaps of undeserved abuse. (Many who have been involved with io.js have, in fact, gone out of their way to praise working with Scott.[1][2])

Now if I may inject my personal (if biased) opinion: the objective of the reporter was not to get the facts straight in this case, but rather to get eyeballs on the page -- ginning conflict if and as necessary. This is unfortunate, but it's not at all a surprise. It should also serve as a warning to all who engage with those who write about current events for a living: some (many, in fact) hold themselves up as journalists and work hard to get the story right -- but not all do, and one must be very careful, especially when attempting humor that might be deliberately taken out of context!

[1] https://twitter.com/mikeal/status/555572909247574017

[2] https://twitter.com/dshaw/status/610821802466639873
This is great.

I've seen a modern OS for 6128 but I can't find the link.

There is this kind of spirit in the Forth language. I try to build something around it.
Couldn't you create a new user, give it access to those chosen repositories, and then use the API to access them with read-only permissions?
There's simply no time to do it right, I love that argument. It's usually the reason for all the problems I wrestle.
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But it's not 1934 any more. Germany can ban hate speech. But ISIS, or Iran, or some nutjob in America can crank out the exact same speech, in German, on a web site that Germans can freely access. Now what does the German ban do? It prevents Germans from saying such things, but not from reading them.

The only way to stop Germans from reading such things is to have a Great Firewall of Germany. But that has consequences too...
Password Safe [1] was designed by Bruce Schneier, that could fit the bill. It seems to have done quite well in the paper cited by xenophonf in [2], too.

[1] http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727522
Can you please cite where you read that proprietary blobs are used? IIRC the Pocket client is open-source, and so is the Hello client (it's basically a webapp that uses WebRTC)
This presumes you had sanity to save, which sounds really professional I guess. You wouldn't want to port a code base as a way to learn go and have fun that's not PC for some reason.

Edit: > Plus it seemed really fun. So, Go it was.

woot!
Which part is exaggerated?
this might also be an artifact of the development of browsers -- IE was a dominant force until relatively recent times, and browsers had to standardize what existed, then build carefully on top.

It may be the case that the techniques used were particularly robust, but it may also be the case that we've striven to keep them unbroken.
VSC is built on Electron (formerly Atom Shell), but does not use the same text editor as Atom. I hope the VSC editor is open sourced at some point.
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Keep in mind, it's your opinion that nuclear is right. Can I store concrete casks of spent fuel with a half life into the tens of thousands of years in your backyard? Because everyone else has said no, including the Nevada government.

Nuclear is "the right choice" up until someone needs to pay for it, or be liable for it, or responsible for it. Then the hand waving starts about how its all a "solved problem".
They probably meant CO2. Carbon has an atomic mass of 12 and each oxygen weighs 16. So if it's only emitting double the mass of CO2, then the rest is other kinds of gasses, or solid waste.
Says someone who has vested interest in it not get fixed.
This is a pet peeve of mine about all of this predictive big data stuff.

There's what people want, and there's what people want. The big assumption in the industry right now is that "what people REALLY want isn't necessarily the same as what they SAY they want".

But isn't that dreadfully cynical to put the emphasis on the "really want" side? Like - I want to eat healthy, but if a bowl of crappy chips were put in front of me, I'd probably eat some. That doesn't mean I don't want to eat healthy, though. It doesn't mean I REALLY want chips.

It's really just that they're invested in serving our urges rather than what we think of as important.

Think of it as our "better selves" versus our "worse selves". Couldn't they also make conclusions about what are better selves are, and suggest that sort of content?
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This would probably beat a pizza delivery job for teens, but I am really not sure this won't end in lawsuits.
Do you have a source on GA Premium being a driver behind the secure search change? Everything I've seen says that is not available to GAP customers.
At one of my clients I basically live in jupyter and emacs. One of my issues with jupyter is that I'm often in a mode where I'm doing development and some analysis. The browser client is pretty good for analysis but rough for development. Emacs is much better for development. Though this mode has a few rough edges, it appears to be coming along quite well.
This use case looks perfect for solar. Just have two smallish reservoirs, big enough to keep more or less a full-day worth of water for the canal, one at the river level and one at the high level. Then you don't even have to worry about not having solar power during the night.
It depends on a LOT of things, jurisdiction being the biggest part, so there's no universal answer, but cases like this should be indicative:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04...
Then BASIC is most awesome language.
Trillions of tree's blowing in the wind hasn't seemed to cause much issue.
An attacker may be able to read the unencrypted swap space on disk.
In this scenario it makes sense to encrypt passwords in memory and store the key in a locked page.
Due to the very nature of government, I don't believe it is possible to have a government that I completely trust.

There are different degrees of trust though, and I would like one with a higher degree of trust earned.
Correct me if I am wrong but aren't "developers" the very users of Node.js?

No. There are developers of nodejs. And then there are users of nodejs that use it to build other things.
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An emulator has run-time information, a translator does not.

That can be important information. For example, the translator might not figure out where data embedded in the code (for example a jump table) ends, and, consequently, continue translating from a point mid-way into a multi-byte instruction.

Translating code that generates code (as done in JIT engines or to speed up image processing kernels) also is a challenge; the best one realistically can do is to translate the existing code as-is and then call the translator at run time to do the translation. If that works, the 'call the translator' step may kill any performance that was won by generating code.

Of course, self-modifying code is a challenge, too.
> And industry reliance on non-portable software (Docker).

Docker is the new shiny kid on the block, but the industry is far from reliant on it. It's also a bit misleading to call the software non-portable in a Linux v FreeBSD debate - it's not that the software is non-portable, it's that it uses a feature that is not available in FreeBSD. In a contest about bragging rights, that's significant.
I'm curious about marketing costs for your app.

Did you simply release that app and customers come after?
Or did you have to pay a certain amount to acquire customers (i.e. paid advertising)?
Or did you acquire customers some other way?
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Outside of the privacy/security win for users and the PR win for Microsoft, it is likely to provide a business advantage depending on how they incorporate this data in Bing Ads.

Right now, you can get Bing organic query data in Google Analytics and other web analytics tools. This is invaluable to marketers, and even more so now that Google's organic data only shows up as "not provided."

If the Bing Ads team provides organic data within the Bing Ads platform like Google AdWords does, that is a reason to get people using their ad platform.

Not sure offhand if that data will exist in some form via Bing Webmaster Tools as well, but right now in Google land, the only two places you can get organic query data are AdWords and Webmaster Tools.