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Ask HN: Can calc() be faster than static %
I just made a little test to compare how slow calc() is comparing to an assigned % width.

But my test would show that calc() is much more faster. I can't believe it and think I made a mistake somewhere.

If you have the time please checkout and point where I made a mistake. If there's no mistake I would say calc() is truly much faster.

git: https://github.com/batjaa/compare-calc
The bond low income families form in a local area due to their shared struggle.
Okay except it's clearly a huge joke, and refers to Burning Man principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=159&v=PO_r6ndZRZY
It's trivial to get a cert for HTTPS. That doesn't tell me if the people behind the site are trustworthy, security conscious or going to be around in a year's time

I know that the dotcom doesn't do that either, it's not a rational thing - just a thing
How many swimming pools are there in Oslo?
Yeah, most won't really become devs, but they'll gain some newfound technical literacy and some respect for what devs do full-time.

It's important in these situations to look outside of the context and just see what's actually happening: people are learning. And that has more positives than negatives I'm sure.
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>Can you give an example of a country where the laws are hard to break unintentionally or otherwise?

Any country without a jumbled mess of a legal system?

www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842
> once you've cleaned stables a dozen times spaghetti code is the red flag of incompetence and the correlation is there.

Question is, where's the incompetence?

Yup, like any profession, there are developers out there who just suck.

But the same is true of middle and senior company management. Can you honestly say you've never cut a corner because some incompetent manager mismanaged the schedule or customer expectations and then forced you to compromise quality in order to meet an absurd date?

And in any organization with that type of management, those issues are rarely isolated. Any one manager can do a little damage, but when an organization is dysfunctional, well-meaning coders on the ground may be forced to compromise code quality time and time again in order to deal with unrealistic schedules.

Think of it like a professional sports team. Sometimes, yeah, the players just suck. But a bad coach or general manager can have an outsized effect on an organization.

Now, I would never claim that all bad code is a product of bad management. Again, some folks just suck at their job. But speaking as a guy in middle management, I'd be willing to believe at least half of the bad code lying around in the real world is a product of an incompetent management structure.

Getting back to the article, that would represent the kind of hidden incentive that would cause an outsider to assume developer incompetence, even though the reality is very much different.
I disagree about the strawman. You would deny the victims concrete existing evidence of the accused's wrong doing--solely for the purpose of protecting the general public from some potential or abstract future harm. I disagree that this denial is actually necessary for preventing the potential or abstract future harm.
Apparently not, which is a shame.
I have a (possibly) dumb question. Did the Japanese also have a prohibition on the ownership on easy to use ranged weapons for peasants the same way the Europeans did (specifically crossbows)?
How I slept my way to #1 on Product Hunt
> Not hard enough to Google for it, apparently...

I have but it's still difficult to get accurate information. Adjustments for cost of living. Factoring in benefits vs non-benefits.

The link you provided still doesn't answer the question of union vs non-union at companies with equivalent market dominance.

Programmers and engineers are sort of the basis for this since pay and benefits have been increasing constantly with supply and demand.
I don't understand your comment. You say "we waste 30%", but then say "hospitals charge". Who's the "we" who's wasting 30%, and why are startups trying to sell something to prevent X to the people who make money from X, rather than to the people who lose money from X?
Agreed for the most part.

I guess Zweihanders were ultimately still "too short" for real warfare though. Practically speaking, by the late 1500s or so, people only used Halberds and Polearms (ie: English 18-foot Pikes and whatnot). So perhaps it is more accurate to say that Zweihanders were not "unwieldy enough". In any case, Zweihanders only saw use in a period of one century or so... from the late 1400s through the mid 1500s.

With that said, Pier Gerlofs Donia's Zweihander was 6.6kg (~15 lbs) and 2.15m (7 feet) long. Zweihanders definitely could go above and beyond 3kg.

As far as Yari, yes, that is the most glaring omission in the article. Fortunately, the Naginata (arguably a kind of Yari) has representation.
Stop using JSONP, please! Instead, just support CORS.
Vlog 100 is Cars, Beachlife and all things Malibu crazy
Very true! Non ecommerce sites suffer just as badly as their users when an executive decision is made to increase the amount of advertising on their pages.

I wonder if the increase in adverts is based on someone thinking that it will pay for their site's cost or if they're doing it with the mindset that advertising is their business model rather than providing interesting content.
>quantitative disciplines

i.e. not Arts, History or Literature :)
It's not just ACOs. CMS is also changing the reimbursement structure to penalize hospitals that have unnecessary readmissions.

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-paymen...
>"who take the privilege of international travel"

The "privilege" huh?
I don't drink soda, and I've never had anyone comment.

Regarding alcohol: I kind of understand the skepticism about people who don't drink. Drinking usually puts you in a more honest, less controlled, and less guarded condition, which makes drinking with other people almost a trust exercise. Not drinking at a pub is kind of like bringing your sword into a gathering where everyone else agreed to leave theirs' at the door.
one day at a time ;)

but seriously, that's how i do it. i never worry about the future, it'll be right. and if it's not it's not, no point worrying about what might be
Really? Is that the way some people reason about their competitors? Something like: "Oh, I guess they're just stupid and we're so smart."

Who in their right mind would do such a thing. Even if the competitors really are stupid (who knows?), it doesn't give you any advantage to assume that.
I like the way Google projects seem to use Google Docs for this sort of thing. I've noticed in the past docs come up for projects like Angular and Go. I'd like to hear more about some of these documentation policies if anyone knows anything.
I know next to nothing, but it seems that the situation became a huge absurdity where game devs had to write ugly hacks around OpenGL, that the graphics card drivers would have to interpret and optimize when and if it could. Double blind, the wrong way.

Vulkan aims at doing less but predictably so, devs will have more work to put in at first, but at least they understand what going on.

see this thread for a comparison demo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034574
I mean, I didn't mind learning it, in fact I can understand it pretty well on paper. But understanding spoken Dutch/Flemish was nearly impossible, and I could not make proper sentences for a conversation.

The people were very nice (like, almost Hot Fuzz nice :-D), probably why the few who berated my Dutch speaking abilities stood out :-)
Even in that example, wouldn't it be better to simply write

for i in range(1,4):
LIVE: Cosmonauts Taking Spacewalk Outside ISS
According to the article, he was very nearly fired in 1950s corporate culture.

Regardless of intent or results, pulling an unsanctioned literal stunt with hardware that represents the majority of your company's assets is going to be frowned upon.
Reading that article, I noticed a few things.

First, it's #4 on the list. On the other hand, #1 is "The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved".

Second, it sounds less like "the hacker ethic was created as a response to authoritarianism" (which is what OP asserts) and more like "authoritarianism is incompatible with the hacker ethic, so don't support it", which is a very different proposition.
Your question is a little strange on HN, so either...

It seemed that you were originally implying that people should necessarily get the nod over agriculture, and I was challenging that in the form of a question, and your reply is actually exactly the answer I was leading towards- I didn't expect to get it from you though :)

I read you wrong; I think we are on the same page.
Except "willing to carry pagers" is currently the basis of employment at Amazon, and not just for AWS but for whole chunks of their technical business. It's one of the many reasons why they have a pretty dire reputation (see plenty of discussions on here from former Amazon employees).

They also claim to have "customer obsession" as a leadership principle, this whole thread is an excellent example of that being failed in a big way.
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> No it's just that people don't want to pay for stuff on the internet, period. This is valid for all digital goods, music,books,movies,news and co. Whether there is competition or not it doesn't matter.

Hence why iTunes was a failure, let alone Netflix? Make it easy and the customers will come. (I was actually surprised that iTunes worked, and people were willing to pay as long as it was sufficiently convenient.) Just not enough for the massively greater creator pool, as talentless bozos like me can put music out there too.
This seems to be the case with a lot of things google is doing lately
yes, that I agree, it may break between iOS versions. i'm all ear to other approach if any
Granted, I'm only 30, so take my anecdotal experience as an older person with a grain of salt, but I've found that getting older isn't so hard as everyone seems to get nicer in their 30s. Life's easier when people are nicer.
Clients do background checks on consultants.
> Who cares if 'yuppies' 'gentrify' hacking.

Indeed, the term 'hacker' has survived the media's use/definition of it through the 80s and 90s as a "computer criminal." Today we distinguish between black hat and white hat, but the term "hacker" still applies.
In my experience, the only long-lasting change video games produce in the mind is the craving to play more video games. They are certainly addictive, but it's doubtful that they help mental health. Sure, people can use them to escape from the world and as a distraction from real mental health issues, but (again in my experience) that distraction works only while playing the video game and for a very short time afterwards.
Caffe2: An experimental refactoring of Caffe
>We're talking about the possibility of (a different kind of) life after physical death

I know what you're talking about. And it is still not possible because it's a vacuous assertion. (And there's no such thing as 'non-physical' death, so that qualifier doesn't do anything. The word 'physical' is, for the most part, useless.)

But why are you even talking about life after death? Why aren't you talking about the invisible giant crab that's eating you right now? Or the dream that you're going to wake up from? Or the existence of Hogwarts?

You simply can't argue "nobody can really know" to a rational person in a convincing way. A rational person then must conclude that it doesn't even matter -- You have to make decisions, and you can't make reliable decisions by cherry picking belief in one absurd thing over the trillions of other absurd things.

We could debate all day about the possible existence of Hogwarts, but it would be stupid: we both know that it is a fiction, even though nobody can "prove for certain" that it isn't. We know this because the world we live in doesn't change if the existence of the thing changes. Nobody can make different decisions.

And when something fundamentally doesn't matter, that means it encodes no information about (non-mental) reality, and is thus meaningless, and can't be claimed to exist by default.

>I included Pascal's wager not for his conclusion but because it supports my assertion that one can not know what happens after physical death.

We know what happens after death. Many people have died, and you can look around and see what is happening right now. If you're talking about what happens to your subjective experiences afterward, then that's an experience singularity. A "north of the north pole" kind of absurdity. I don't suppose you're willing to argue that nobody knows if there's land north of the north pole, are you?

You don't see the circular reasoning involved in claiming that someone must actually visit north of the north pole to conclude it doesn't exist? So why should anyone have to return from life after death to know that it is fiction?
Ad tech continues to bury it's head in the sand if it's relying on the "obscurity" of manual AB downloads in iOS 9 as a safety net. AB is already a manual download affair and look at how that's working out for ad tech. Users are under no ethical obligation to support business models that rely on selling them out in dark alley auctions and stalking them everywhere they go. Because ad tech and associated publishers have failed at the most fundamental of UX principles - respect for users - it is in the predicament it is in now. I'm a big supporter of ad blocking.
The Stack Overflow Disease
This has been my solution, too. It's much faster than Dropbox.
>The point of being a hacker (in the traditional sense) is that your utility function is completely wack. You prefer to make the lights on the screen (and by proxy, the state of the registers)

Acquiring money is not the only way to profit; it's whatever your "utility function" is. Money is just an easy one to quantify and analyze.

If you spend 10 hours on Saturday freelancing for $130/hr versus spending 10 hour working on OSS versus fucking around with code, you are still applying your capital (time, skills, hardware/software) to obtain a profit (money, fulfillment, enjoyment).

That's what's great about capitalism: you get to choose how to apply your capital to obtain the outcomes you want, even those outcomes are not monetary.
Reading their abstract makes me cringe.

"The principle that mutations occur randomly with respect to the direction of evolutionary change has been challenged by the phenomenon of adaptive mutations. There is currently no entirely satisfactory theory to account for how a cell can selectively mutate certain genes in response to environmental signals. However, spontaneous mutations are initiated by quantum events such as the shift of a single proton (hydrogen atom) from one site to an adjacent one. We consider here the wave function describing the quantum state of the genome as being in a coherent linear superposition of states describing both the shifted and unshifted protons. Quantum coherence will be destroyed by the process of decoherence in which the quantum state of the genome becomes correlated (entangled) with its surroundings. Using a very simple model we estimate the decoherence times for protons within DNA and demonstrate that quantum coherence may be maintained for biological time-scales. Interaction of the coherent genome wave function with environments containing utilisable substrate will induce rapid decoherence and thereby destroy the superposition of mutant and non-mutant states. We show that this accelerated rate of decoherence may significantly increase the rate of production of the mutated state."

I'm no physicist but this smacks of total BS. We know that DNA codes for proteins chemically and no sort of "entangled wave function" is going to spontaneously change an A to a G, split or recombine a DNA molecule along a particular gene boundary, or cause a duplication.

The fact that some cells might generate more mutations in response to environment changes doesn't demand quantum weirdness. Did the authors ever think _maybe_ there is a good old enzyme inside cells that intentionally alters the DNA at particular locations, thereby generating mutations?

WTF...
True. The phrases 'mistaking the map for the territory' and 'eating the menu rather than the dinner' spring to mind.
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> but you can't break the cycle by just throwing money at people.

At least for those where money is currently the hindering factor you actually can. Financing students for example.

You also reduce the feedback loop to which you alluded. There are lots of factors where it might not be that obvious that it exists. Stress factors like poverty can greatly reduce mental capabilities for instance.

And in the end you make the lives of the poor people suck less with that money.
I don't know which AviationExplorer video you're referring to, but there's supposedly only one video of the maneuver so I assume the one in the article is the same thing.

I see quite a large pitch change there. The aircraft starts more or less level, then pulls up. While inverted it begins to move substantially nose down. As for heading, at the beginning of the video it's pointed well to the left, and at the end of the maneuver the fuselage is lined up with the camera.

Wikipedia is confused or imprecise. Either that "positive g force" refers to the force on the aircraft relative to the Earth, or it's just wrong. Reading through the original reference that statement comes from, I believe it's the former. The book says:

"...we have managed to substantially increase the angle of attack, to a point where the inverted wing is capable of maintaining altitude."

If you're maintaining altitude while inverted, you're not pulling positive gees relative to the airplane, but you are pulling positive gees relative to the Earth.

You can browse most of the chapter on aileron rolls in the book in question on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Aerobatics-Geza-Szurovy/dp/00706...
In my experience, Google didn't have a forced curve ranking then, either. I've been a manager at Google since 2007 or so (with a 3-year gap when I went walkabout 2011-2014), I've probably participated in calibration of many thousands of engineers (and other ladders), and I've never once heard of a calibration score being adjusted to fit some expectation that a certain number of employees needed to be ranked as underperformers.
And here I was excited thinking that they'd finally fixed the terrible performance and interface of the browser app.
I don't think this is a fair generalization. It might be correct to say 'many people think they want expensive things'.

I for one think you can keep your cedar floors and fancy wine. Maybe I'm just young but I really don't want that at all.
Make with Ada: From bits to music
You're not technically wrong, but having access to a computer (let alone a personal/home computer) in 77 was still quite a niche thing for society. I don't think it started becoming a 'thing' until 81-82 at least. Of course, this is my generation, but my own experience is that the numbers bear that out a bit. Having seen schools adopt computer labs in the 80s where they had none in the 70s tells me it was not until that time that more kids were getting access to computers in the first place.

But.. by the 90s-2000s, we saw the decline of the 'program something on this' computer style - turning on an Atari, Commodore or Apple II and you immediately were thrown in to "start typing in code" mode. The rise in accessible technologies seemed to turn the next generations largely in to application consumers, not developers. Probably have the same number of hacker/developers in each generation, but because 10x as many people used technology/computers of some sort, the aura of 'new frontier' seemed to go away some. And yeah, some of that may be because I got older, but I think there was something unique about the late 70s and early 80s with respect to computers/tech and how it affected those young generations lucky enough to have access to those machines...
This is reminiscent of the tactics tobacco companies used to keep selling cigarettes after research and experience started to suggest their products caused cancer.
4-Point Story Structure for Fundraising
Not sure where you heard this, but Australia's immigration policy is .. agressive .. at best.

It's a points based system, which is punitive of age and education.

30 years is the cut off for the 'easy', one year, restricted 'working holiday' visa that you may have been thinking of.

For regular immigration, you'll need a working visa, which requires your hiring company to handle the paperwork.

Likewise, if you're trying to immigrate without an already found job, with no college degree, the OP will find the point system probably weighing heavily against him.

One of the most flexible countries at the moment is Spain. The weather is great, the food is great, and it's a fun country.
A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622949
The point is a visual analogy can be jarring without meaning anything at all. 182 gallons of water is a lot of water. It's very visually jarring. But so what? Just because it's a lot of water doesn't really mean anything.
I'm a biophysicist. Almost most of my work uses entirely classical approximations to quantum (which themselves are parameterized using quantum chemistry and physics), I can assure you, that by definition, all biology is inherently quantum. The physics of hydrogen bonds practically guarantee it (to the extent we can make positive factual statements).

The biophysics of DNA mutation repair -- DNA mutations are a major contribution to genetic changes that lead to observable phenotypes -- are ultimately and firmly quantum. It's unclear at this point whether the quantum phenomena such as coherence or tunneling play any role, but the definition of "quantum" is much larger than just those phenomena. My intuition is that quantum tunnelling of electrons probably plays a role in the kinetics of DNA mutation repair, although this is purely speculative.

Further, some very interesting and mostly ignored experiments by Jackie Barton have demonstrated that the DNA backbone can be used to transmit information; the conjugated pi orbitals of the bases form a long-range, possibly coherent electron path(!) but it's not clear that these phenomena are relevant to evolution.
I'm 37. I keep getting new jobs on new technologies, but I don't think that really helps me see the larger problems. I'm a lot better at doing things than the 20 year olds I know are, even if they have some technical skills I haven't yet mastered.

What I have had luck with is in hanging out with people both older and younger than me. I am in a band with guys in their mid 60s (except the drummer, who is in his 70s... and his old band got together and was able to open up for the flaming lips this last may... how cool is that!!!).

These folks are older than my parents, but you can see how much longer you're going to live when you know that hey, people in their 70s are often still working on the same kinds of things that I work on.

It helped me realize that not only do I still (possibly) have another a whole other lifetime ahead of me to do a bunch of things that I wanted to do, but I can actually make progress even slowly if I work on things a bit every day...

it is a lot easier to spend a bit of time getting to really know a scale on the piano when you realize you still might have another 40 years to enjoy your fluency with it.

If you plan to keep getting better at things throughout your life and know that you may have the time to enjoy using a bunch of skills you acquire slowly, then that last half of a life appears to contain just as many possibilities as the first half.
I take it one day at a time