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Isn't it technically twice... the Neanderthals? whom possibly would have gone onto further technological advancements had we not out competed them for resources?

These observations don't discount the possibility that life is incredibly pervasive throughout the universe, yet on each planet that harbours life it is natural that just one species reaches dominances to make observation about Life, The Universe, and Everything, such as we are making... but are still ultimately prevented from becoming Type III civilisations by physical constraints (i.e. interstellar flight is impossible) and therefore the Great Filter lies before us.
We are so special, the only intelligent species in the galaxy etc reminds me of the sun revolves around earth statement a few hundred years ago, the fact is we don't have the technology to explore even the closest stars, even our own solar system is unexplored, think europa, so making statements about life in the universe based only on one planet is science fiction.
Im guessing making somwhat radical decision that are not backwards compatible.

However, Python 2/3 is a better example for breaking backwards compatibility.
- Even if it sends out probes, those probes generally fall into the gravity wells of the planets they are sent to over the millions of years.

But then wouldn't we have possibly observed these probes? Maybe they have visited our planet, just so long ago such that any evidence of their arrival has decayed...
I know that the title should be as close to the original title possible, but this title is too generic. What about "Wesnoth game needs your help as a volunteer developer"?

Edit: Found a current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946668 (193 points, 6 hours ago, 60 comments)
This app is for Facebook users only, don't bother downloading it if you're not on Facebook.
I can only imagine this going horribly wrong. Like when Explorers visited cultures which had been isolated from the rest of the world, not having developed antibodies against a simple flue and getting infected.
Sounds a good idea, social TV in general sounds good, but think I just would find it annoying. "What, another toilet break!".

Zeebox/Beamly also had/have some good social features but I think they even struggled for people to actually use it. After the initial curiosity people just want to veg in front of the box. I think. http://beamly.com
emscripten would like to have a word with you. Also, Javascript is one of the most heavily optimized dynamic languages in existence, and has orders of magnitude more code and programmers using/written in it, than java, scala, ruby, lua, etc. Rewriting any game in javascript is imho a great idea. (I am a C/C++ game developer with ~25 years of experience.)
A good start in answering these question is to look for life in our own solar system. Maybe it is not as rare as we think.
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> based on just lazy vs eager evaluation.

It's not "just", it's fundamental. We're talking about an efficient implementation, remember? And therefore the underlying execution semantics is the single most important thing for classifying languages. The rest that you listed is very high level, consider it syntax sugar. It is all lowered down long before any of the important optimisations start to kick in.

> So we can see a lot in common there.

Not that much. Just think of the deeply fundamental difference between SECD and, say, STG.
There are lots of good lessons in history as well. Remember that trends in computing tend to be cyclic (for instance: centralization/decentralization).
Yeah, while I'm a big Buffett fan I think he called that one wrong. I don't think macro is his strong point.
If the "German Euro" was to split from the "not German Euro" tomorrow as the CHF unpegged recently, do you think it would trade higher or lower than it trades now? What would happen to Audi and VW if it was to trade twice as high?
That sounds extremely interesting.

Are you considering invite-only for these, or simply running them in the same way as Show HN?
Code has been released to: https://github.com/jacquesmattheij/remoteresources have fun.
I tend to believe that molecular technology and AI are the great filter. Just picture the situation we find ourselves in: We are stuff made from the rules of the pattern generating system that we call our universe. We are figuring out the rules and we are continuously improving our tools to manipulate stuff at an ever lower level. Once we can easily manipulate the building blocks our existence is based on, it opens the door to such a tremendously large number of ways how things can go wrong that the probability of self-destruction comes very close to 1. It would require an extremely high intelligence to deal with all these failure modes, something that an biochemistry-based evolutionary process is highly unlikely to bring forth. The problem is basically that figuring the rules out is much easier than using them safely. The invention of AI makes our tools to manipulate matter vastly more dangerous, for example, intelligent gray goo would be smart enough to not immediately eat away its basis for existence and to plan ahead instead of just executing a simple rule set.
Archived site, seems to be down right now: https://archive.is/J8MIR
Whoa there. First off, don't use the Shuttle or ISS as the yard stick for "manned spaceflight", they are some of the most expensive programs for the least results in history and are not representative of what can be done with manned spaceflight.

Additionally, spaceflight is not just about scientific research. Manned spaceflight is not just about exploration, it's also about colonization. At the end of the day space is just a place, a place where we live, though we have been restricted to a tiny corner of it for most of human history. We can do manned spaceflight cost effectively (orders of magnitude better than the Shuttle, ISS, or Apollo), and as our technology improves our capabilities will only increase while costs fall.
Code released to:

https://github.com/jacquesmattheij/remoteresources
Metal decays fast enough, but not only that the Earth's crust moves and most of the planet is water. It's like looking for a small piece of metal that was here say 10 million years ago, is very rusted and probably at the bottom of the ocean. And even if they send probes, it's not as if they or we send a million of them. We send a few, and they are expensive, and they are easily lost.
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> users accessing the file and locking it

I'd say that having such a file on a network location accessible by your users is a pretty bad idea. As always, a proper develop/test/release process should be in place, otherwise great confusion about the actual revision of a "Excel Program" in production will ensue with absolute certainty.

Treating it as a binary blob doesn't preclude one from implementing at least a basic form of revision control. You'll not be able to create useful diffs between revisions, but at least one can identify them.
Nvidia Pascal will have a massive memory bus, four 8-hi HBM2 memory stacks
[Link to the ActiveState Example]

http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.3/pywin32/html/co...
What is the purpose of colonization? Compared to colonizing Antarctica, for example, or the bottom of the sea?

If we can do human spaceflight orders of magnitude cheaper than all attempts to date, that's great news. But I'll believe it when I see it.
"It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet earth in the next 100 years, let alone the next 1000 or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket or on one planet. Getting a portion of the human race permanently off the planet is imperative for our future as a species."
- Stephen Hawking
Don't post paywalled articles. We're better than that.
Yet we have no idea how to build a self-sustaining colony of human beings anywhere other than planet earth. And even here it does not seem to be the case that we are self-sustaining, hence the need to leave the planet in the first place.

A much better statement should be we need to create a self-sustaining civilization here on Earth at any cost. Don't take it easy, it's no longer business as usual.
It seems unfair to lay the blame for this situation on the US government. After all, I expect most US government spending goes to domestic recipients, not to imports.

Asking for the US government to reduce its deficit is also not likely to be productive: It would certainly reduce US GDP and destroy jobs, but it's unclear how that would help balance international trade.

It is also not a good idea to ask for mechanisms to accumulate "national wealth" in the form of foreign assets, because (as the Euro crisis shows so clearly) that is a strategy that cannot be applied universally.

In the end, I suspect Buffett is right that some kind of tariff is required to "punish" the bad behavior of Thriftville.
Kontena does not replace Docker. It's a management and orchestration layer on the top of Docker. With Kontena you can manage and deploy your Docker applications.

Kontena applications can be described in YAML file (kontena.yml). Kontena.yml extends docker-compose.yml format by introducing some new attributes only supported in Kontena, for example scale of a service and deploy specific attributes.

A Service definition describes the container image, networking, scaling and stateful/stateless attributes for your application. Services may be linked together to create desired architecture. Each service is automatically assigned with internal DNS address that can be used inside your application for inter-Service communications.

The summary of Kontena key features:

* Scheduler with affinity filtering

* Built-in private Docker image registry

* Remote VPN access for workload services

* Virtual Networking Built-In

* Ready made load-balancing service

* Log and statistics aggregation with streaming

* Access control and roles for Kontena users
That DNA gains dominance proves very little. It stands to reason that in the primordial soup, once one self-replicating molecular biology came into existence it pretty quickly consumed all the elements any others would need.

Moreover, life on Earth proves little about the nature of life anywhere else - for example what type of self-replicating biology might exist in the high pressure environment of a gas giant? We don't know, but all the components are there and there's plenty of energy so why not?

The reason Earth-like's are interesting is because we know what we're looking for when we go looking for life on them. They're a sure thing to expend limited resources on.
So, there is not much information on the website yet, but this is basically a full stack for mobiles, based on Wayland and Kwin for the UI and Ofono for the phone part.

The reference implementation is based on Ubuntu Touch, and use libhybris to get hw support. However, it's different from UT, by the fact that it's not using Mir, but Wayland directly through Kwin.

It seems to run Ubuntu Touch applications, X11 applications, KDE/QML ones and Jolla/Sailfish/Nemo ones. They seem to have Android apps on the roadmap too.

Except the drivers (through libhybris), everything is open source and numerous KDE/QML apps can run without modifications. It can also run without libhybris if you have kernel DRM.

The distribution is based on Kubuntu, and so far it works only on the Nexus 5.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492835
perhaps you should
a) search for something exciting beyond your job,
b) use your expertise for something new i.e. building your own company.
I don't think Hawking's primary concern was in the self-sustaining sense, rather with the more immediate threats as in the 'asteroid/epidemic/natural disaster' sense.

Hawking believes humanity needs to figure out space colonization ASAP.
Care to comment a bit further on exactly what you mean... I am interested.

Why is Docker moving so fast?
"Bigger pool" maybe, but the average "JavaScript programmer" is less talented than the average C++ programmer and less likely to be aware of the performance issues abstracted away by JavaScript, which was designed "to make the monkey dance when you moused over it".
Well then what would be the point? Any thing that can cut off the life support mechanism of the Earth to the Astronauts or the colony, would mean their survival was no longer guaranteed.
We're not going to find out by not continuing to invest in manned missions though
It is actually great to look back on investment advice a few years after it was made to see how the advice lines up with reality. If you do this a bit you become both a better investor and more cynical person :)
What Kotlin still misses is somehow a good testing ability, to test it via Java Test Suites seems strange.

Also I still miss a good build tool. I mean Maven really sucks, Gradle is kind of okai, but there is no support of autoreload project on change (like sbt has via sbt-revolver or playframework internals) however that is mostly helping web development.

Also some other things aren't really written out, like threading or some kind of Akka stuff. Also these days a language needs Dependency Injection, a good Integration with JSR330 would be great.

Also for some functional workflows something like pattern matching would be great and a @tailrec annotation like scala.

And please, for gods sake, remove labels and break/while.
Interesting, but in most circumstances I think this falls into the "too clever" category. As with most of C++'s weirder features, you really only want to use them when you absolutely have to.

std::shared_ptr is already something that should only be used sparingly. Not because refcounting adds a tiny bit of overhead, but because it can easily lead to confusion about who owns what. If you use the aliasing constructor, it's even more confusing.
"So, if the company were liquidated,tomorrow, it would bring $20B.

Good luck with that. "

Comments on WSJ are always interesting.
> Regarding long term immigration, I thought gaijins could never secure PR or citizenship (i.e. residence not tied to work) unlike in say the US (Green Card) or Singapore (PR, PEP) to name two.

Permanent Residency is easy to obtain in Japan as long as you do the time (which is as low as 3 years if you have a native spouse). Gaining citizenship is also not a problem, but they don't allow dual citizenship (meaning you have to give up your original citizenship), which makes it a very unattractive option.

Japan has issues attracting educated foreign labour, but it has nothing to do with immigration but rather to do with language barriers, a very poor work environment, and in tech in particular, absolutely noncompetitive wages.
Are there plans to expand hardware options? Is there a donate option? I can't wait to stop dealing with running Android.
This is true. The one thing about wine compared to other collectibles is wine is perishable. It really is much more like speculating on agricultural commodities like corn or pork bellies than buying other collectables like antiques or artwork.

The super rich (and the not so super rich like myself) do like good wine. The problem with wine is once you know and appreciate good wine it is hard not to spend to what you can afford. I guess I am lucky in that I can find at least a few wines I like under $20.
I would recommend ELEIKO, they cost ten times more, but will also hold for fifty years. If you can come over old ELEIKO bars and discs, it will be a bargain!
I'm not convinced at all that we can turn things around. Most likely scenario is that we will just keep growing, there will be a massive die-off at some point, and then the remaining humans will ensure survival of the species.
That the current thinking and evidence on abiogenesis says that this all happened very very early in the earths history would lead me to believe that abiogenesis is probably quite common. The existence of only DNA based life forms, given we now have good evidence that other chemical elements could have become the bases of dna (as opted to g c t and a) would also tend to indicate that it was probably just the 'winner' of that early evolutionary arms race, i.e. What chemical formula can reproduce the fastest under those early conditions
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I would image it should be able to run on Ubuntu phones. Also, and I'm guessing here, Tizen devices, if we ever get them.
I assume in his quote when he means "Getting a portion of the human race permanently...", he means resource independence from Earth, which would be the point.
Food variability is a large factor. I eat the same food, in differing quantities, every day. Total prep time per week is around 2 hours on Sunday, plus .5-1 hour per each other day. The health and financial benefits I get make it well worth my time.
For others it might not be worth the effort.
Just watch a video of an olypmic weightlifting competition or training session (there's plenty on youtube). You'll see these bars being dropped -- in fact you'll basically never see them lowered under control after a snatch or clean and jerk.

Yes these they are designed to be dropped. Your friend should: ensure they have proper bumper plates, ensure they have a proper lifting platform, factor in the cost of replacing the bars when worn out to their cash flow models.

EDIT and like the other guys said actually buy quality branded olympic bars. (Rather than e.g. power lifting bars which will not be intended for dropping.)
Code of the Rails ToDo tutorial application
The GeoNames Country Information table has a "Postal Code Regex" column that you might find interesting: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt
And that, I have no idea, sorry. :D

I guess that if it works with Ubuntu Touch, like Nexus 4 or the Meizu.
why does this get posted periodically? is it in order to remind people who are running startups that they may be going under but that it might not always be immediately obvious, especially to the untrained eye?
Focus on getting any life at all surviving off planet. We can build up to primates from there.
I should point out that I would suggest using the solution to the quadratic residue problem as a key for a Blum Blum Shub stream cipher to encrypt the hash chains and the message, so that portion of the system only relies on square roots and quadratic residues modulo a Blum integer. (Using the quadratic residue solution as a key for AES-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1035 would open you up to weaknesses in those ciphers, and in this case the slowness of Blum Blum Shub isn't a problem.)

Then, for the inner puzzle, I would use hash chains using a hash in the Blake family to generate a ChaCha20-Poly1305 key to encrypt the plaintext. Since Blake's round function is based on ChaCha20, this also reduces the number of different primitives you're relying on.

In the end, the cipher text would be doubly encrypted with Blum Blum Shub and ChaCha20-Poly1305, with keys being the solutions to repeated quadratic residue modulo a Blum integer and repeated hash chains using a hash from the Blake family. This minimizes the number of possible points of failure.
Does anyone know where to find IPO dates? I can't seem to find the day that the IPO will take place. In this case they didn't fully finish their filing, but other ones such as BOX, I didn't find out about the IPO until the actual day.
Rebol is a great language that I've been using for years and still am using now. It was unfortunate it wasn't open sourced soon, but in 2012, we finally saw Apache-licensed version. Carl Sassenrath (also author of AmigaOS) the disappeared from the Rebol development (he's now working on Roku) but the community took over the bug-fixing and development and the language still lives on. For the latest "community" version of Rebol, have a look at [1].

There is also Red language [2] that is heavily inspired by Rebol, but is not only interpreted and can be compiled also.

[1] https://github.com/metaeducation/ren-c

[2] http://www.red-lang.org
You can, but I think regular Unicode emojis are more portable, since most systems and browsers support them these days. No need for :fallbacks:.
I wanted to verify your comments about speed, and found this interview http://www.linuxexpres.cz/rozhovor/interview-david-white where the original developer says:

"However, I wanted to be able to develop Wesnoth quickly, using the latest technology and latest C++ features. Because of this I didn't spend much time focusing on things like minimizing the memory Wesnoth takes up, or trying to make it ultra-fast. This does limit its portability a little in that it is difficult to get working on systems with limited memory"
3 years if married, 10 years if not [1]... well, it's better than "not available" but still a significant impediment to starting a business! Nevertheless I was wrong, thanks for correcting.

[1] top DDG result: http://www.mondaiji.com/blog/japan/general/10171-life-in-jap...
It fits neatly into the guidelines, as it is not only important, but also highly useful and interesting information (I didn't know about IDR before). And well written.

You are simply mistaken if you think this is "Startup News".
After reading the article, even GM conceded that the Japanese production method was more efficient than the American "union wars" method.

Even on a level playing field (when GM cars were manufactured in the US at NUMMI), it was cheaper to build quality cars than to ship the crap GM was making and then repair it afterwards.

How does Toyota having a cost advantage result in GM spending more to build worse cars?

How does Toyota having a captive market with no competition result in them having BETTER cars rather than junkier cars (such as in the Soviet states)?

Your argument may make sense for "Why don't American cars sell as well as foreign cars?" but that wasn't the question. The question is about quality.
Fair play. I'm around so many people that have that I forget that most haven't.
Emoji is just Unicode, so putting "I :heart: you" instead of "I ❤️ you" in a Unicode text file is rather, shall we say, na:LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS:ve -- this shit belongs in the editor. As implemented by, for example and in no particular order: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-emoji,
https://github.com/kyuhi/vim-emoji-complete,
https://github.com/mattn/emoji-vim,
https://github.com/rhysd/github-complete.vim.

On the command line, the command line is the editor, so this program makes a lot of sense!
I agree completely. While we are definitely making progress, it is early days yet and we're still taking baby steps around the playpen of Earth. We haven't even toddled next door to our neighbor, Mars.

That said, it means there are lots and lots of exciting missions to look forward to as our technological abilities grow.
I don't understand this imperative at all. This planet was good enough for my grandpappy, and it's good enough for me.
"During that debate, I got defensive and acted like an asshole. At the time, I was woefully ignorant about software licensing, and I felt as though I was being backed into a corner and asked to accept something I didn’t fully understand. Instead of handling it in a measured, polite manner, I was a jerk. I made a mistake, and I paid dearly for it."

This something to keep in mind, stay calm. When you are agitated you don't think straight. What I don't understand is why Mullenweg and Pearson don't work together and increase the size of the market?

Having read this article, http://www.pearsonified.com/2015/07/truth-about-thesis-com.p... now I see why.
They should build in something like AngularJS, Backbone or Ember.
Evaluated it but decided to go with C# because it didn't fix a few issues i have with java, specifically generics over value types and structs.
Interesting. In some countries restricting access to the public domain is itself a crime. I wonder if there will ever be a test case here!