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The only reason Ireland's unemployment fell is because of emigration.

The economy is a disaster, especially for young people, home repossessions are just getting started by the banks (who were the actual ones bailed out, wrecking the economy by driving government debt through the roof.) The actual situation on the ground is grim, despite what the official figures might tell you.

Source: Irish person who emigrated.
During my PhD I wrote similar software to manage a large number of lab instruments and perform experiments in a reproducible fashion. The code is online on Github:

The general-purpose part:
https://github.com/adewes/pyview

Specific components for my experiments:
https://github.com/adewes/python-qubit-setup

The idea was to create an MVC-like framework where you could create and instantiate instruments, bundle them together into a system and use them to perform measurements. The data from the measurements would be saved in a text-based format and enriched with the meta-data about the state of the whole system (in order to make it reproducible).

Your work seems to go in the same direction and seems to be very interesting! I think there is definitely a need for a system like this in Python, although it is a difficult problem since the requirements vary quite a bit as a function of the research field that you're in.
A lot of people who understand basic biology may resent associating biology as PUA.

> proto-PUA nonsense

And what's wrong with getting better at talking girls?

Why discount a whole group prima facie?

A lot of guys with no clue and deep frustration talking to girls attack PUA without knowing it. I'm interested in seeing why you cast it away.
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That doesn't really address my comment. It's still just an assertion that that is an intentional trigger. The op article similarly makes this assertion but there is no supporting evidence that I saw.
But it isn't even comparable. I've tried switching to Firefox, but the text reflow sucks badly.
The main challenge I've observed with DSLs is maintaining and growing them over time. It's not unusual for a DSL to grow organically based on individual use cases that seem like a good idea, and the end result is a language that's not quite consistent or orthogonal.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" is the rallying cry of those who only have to deal with a small number of libraries/languages/tools/systems, and don't realise the true externalities of having to memorise hundreds to thousands of special cases. Small consistent languages are good languages.
But you can't comment or reply with it?
I like this a lot more (still no solution for comments though): http://hn.premii.com/
i had no idea about free diving until i read the OP. Natalia, the subject, who was one of the handful of world elites, and had been for many years, had a couple of years before (2013) descended to a depth of 418 feet, and ascended back to the surface under her own power--no supplemental oxygen, used at anytime. Absolutely amazing. I had no idea humans could do that--with or without training.
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>What this tutorial is lacking:

Any hints about what makes Chapel special and useful. A short section with links to relevant parts of the full documentation that highlights what one might use Chapel for. I saw some nice features but nothing that really struck me as decisive.

As gberger says, that should go at the top of the page.
Touchpad I completely agree but why keyboard?

For me it finally feels great to write -- low profile keys with great separation. I personally feel clumsy on most desktop keyboard because of their sloped keys.
Isn't everyone?
Funny thing is, text reflow worked perfectly in every WebView browser on Android under Google broke it:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378
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Ask HN: I'm looking for examples of primarily text/typography driven sites
What sites do you know of that have great typography and very very little else?

As a reference:
http://practicaltypography.com
http://doubleyourecommerce.com
http://daringfireball.net

To a lesser extent:
http://owltastic.com
We have a similar scheme in Belfast now but the hold-funds requirement is a disincentive for people with debit cards.

Since you have to log in to your bank beforehand and pre-fund the card it eliminates spontaneity.

I see few tourists using them either.
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It does seem like this technology is either old or just a decade or two too late. Aren't there ways nowadays of generating 3D models from 2D sketches that would serve better for this kind of intuitive topology animation?
I'm 100% certain. I checked it intentionally once, and accidentally another time. As I understand it the trick was to decline the "Overdraft Protection" shit that every bank was pushing many, many years ago.
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It's worth pointing out that the idea to have automata make music predates Lovelace. Music making automata were a staple of the renaissance. For example the mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, when visiting the "Kunstkammer" of Rudolf II in 1598, was amazed at an automaton representing a drummer who could "beat his drum with
greater self-assurance than a live one" [1].

Incidentally, Kepler corresponded with Wilhelm Schickard on the latter's "arithmeticum organum", the first ever proper mechanical calulator (could do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

Automating creativity was very much an idea with much currency in the renaissance. Indeed some of the key advances in mechanical automata, which later evolved into computers, where driven by the desire to automate creativity [2]. The "conceptual leap" that some people lazily ascribe to Lovelace, wasn't hers!

[1] Jessica Wolfe, "Humanism, machinery, and Renaissance literature".

[2] Douglas Summers Stay, "Machinamenta: The thousand year quest to build a creative machine". Associated blog: http://machinamenta.blogspot.com
The second article suggests GitHub has a similar problem and the first says that SourceForge has an opt-in policy. I can obviously understand people wanting to boycott SF but no-one is talking about avoiding GH downloads. Did I miss an element of this story?
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I'm surprised you have such a strongly negative reaction.

"Volunteering holidays can do more harm than good" is not a new concept, and isn't particularly controversial. Floods of rich white low-skilled western volunteers with continual churn are not what is needed in most situations. This is especially true if those volunteers over-estimate their skills and ability to make any real difference.

2010: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/gapyear/8107555/Volun...

2010: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/nov/14/orphans...

2013: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22294205
Cheers! I had done a cmd-f for "profit" and had no hits.
I have a somewhat analogous background.

I went into Waterloo Computer Engineering wanting to work in computer hardware. I quickly found out that hardware was not only insanely complex and difficult to learn, but also really, really boring (just my subjective opinion, I hope nobody takes this personally).

Thankfully, I had the option of specializing in either hardware or software in my program. I ended up choosing the latter and couldn't be happier with my choice.

Having gone through this experience has given me a new appreciation for all the incredibly smart people working on hardware. Without their hard work and innovations, our software industry wouldn't even exist.

Although if I could go back and choose a major again, I'd probably go with either Software Engineering or CompSci, because all the time I spent struggling on hardware courses could have been better spent on building up a better foundation in CompSci theory in a program with more focus.
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I guess the main difference is that it is SF themselves that add some of the crapware in binaries distributed by them. As far as I know, Github have never done that.

That people may upload malware to their github repo is quite different.
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REST isn't RPC-like, though it's not uncommon for RPC-like APIs done with HTTP to be incorrectly described as 'REST APIs'.
What cost is there? This benchmark shows almost the same performance for ECC memory: http://www.techspot.com/article/845-ddr3-ram-vs-ecc-memory/
I know many libertarians here will not like this comment, and it is slightly OT, but I don't like charity. Charity is like weather, very unreliable and you don't want modern economy rely on it (and often when needed, there is actually too little charity). I think every society needs proper social assistance/redistribution mechanisms; unfortunately, this is difficult (if not impossible) to do without "coercion" (but I don't consider taxes to be a bad thing).

In addition, I consider charity to be very condescending. It makes recipient dependent, in terms of power relations, on donor. Many wealthy people use charity to rationalize their empire building, and that's a symptom of this power dynamics.

For example, I do find Linus Torvalds lot more charitable than Bill Gates. Gates took money from one group of people (having them buy Windows) and used this power to decide to give it to other group of people based on what he thought is important. Torvalds just left the money on the table, so the society could decide what to do with them. Even though I agree that Gates' choices what to do with money are really good, Torvalds did pretty much the same without the power grab. In other words, we are led to believe that Gates' actions are better just because we can measure them (in terms of money spent), but it's not obvious that is really the case.

(Just to quickly clarify - I am not against transfer of consumption pie to people like Gates, I am against transfer of power they have in the society. Money can designate both, unfortunately.)

Ultimately, I think charity is just a device for people to believe they are better than they really are. If you absolutely have to do it, do it anonymously without much ceremony, don't rationalize any power grabs with it (for example, don't avoid paying taxes just in order to put the money to charity), and let the recipient decide on their own what they want to do with the money.

I guess the disagreements will come down to whether or not you trust the society to do the right thing. But if you don't trust the society, why would you want to be charitable at all?

Although this should be read with caution. The above only makes sense in reasonably democratic societies. Then building a charity, with someone's name attached, is a non-transparent power grab from what should be a transparent democratic process. But in undemocratic society, there is really no difference, and it may as well be better for a different wealthy individual to decide. So in a sense the above is a first-world problem; charity is, in my view, simply inferior technology compared to democratic consensus.

Finally (libertarians listen!), I think there are technology solutions that could help to avoid relying on government only, but they are not much pursued.
Maybe it would just bottom out when hitting stones and the friction would make it stop.
The distinction between medium-rare and medium-well is a lot more important than rare and medium-rare. First, very few people want truly rare burgers. Second, it's not particularly smart to eat rare burgers anywhere. Unless you're in an at-risk category you'll still be very unlikely to die from eating rare burgers, but your rate of getting ill will be much higher than it's worth.

(To be clear, I was responding to the commenter's claim that burgers in Canada need to be "well cooked", not to the original story about a parisian ordering a rare burger.)
I don't think he means "costs" in the economic sense (i.e., more money regarding hosting costs), but a more general idea of cost. A guess: He claims that Apple's business is based on selling expensive stuff to a wealthy audience with lots of disposable income. By making its products more exclusive (that is, less open) Apple can get more money out of them. Selling cheap iWatches, in contrast, would be more open but would "cheapen" the brand, meaning they would lose status (and eventually money) in the long run.

As the "insulting your customers" bit, I'm not sure someone would qualify as such before actually paying for the product. If anything, the actual customers (those that paid for the book) come out of this post proud of themselves, which I find pretty clever.
It's surprising that the BEAM support for operations and management is very rarely mentioned. To me this is the key selling point for using BEAM vs JVM or something else.

Being able to open a remote console and do system introspection/tracing/profiling/debugging is a huge advantage when running in production. And all languages running on top of BEAM ofc get this for free.

In my experience, running JVM in production with tools like JProfiler/VisualVM/jconsole, etc. does not come close to the BEAM when trying to understand what is happening in the system.
On a small data center we have, running 6 V40z servers with 64gb of memory each, in a controlled environment at 25c, we register roughly one parity event a month per-system.

And that's ~6-7 years old memory, which is less dense than modern chips, in a ideal temperature environment (the racks are water-cooled), down in a basement.

You average laptop is never going to register less than that, considering you're carrying it around with less environmental shielding, overheat it, and so on.

In fact, with a laptop with 64gb of memory that has gbs of paged data in memory for weeks, the chances are greater that your laptop with linux will crash due to a random bitflip that goes unnoticed, as opposed to a kernel bug.

And there's simply no way to tell.
How about that?
It was sold for 2000 per BTC. Still 10 times higher!
There are a few non-Xeon Intel CPUs supporting ECC: http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&RetailSkuAvailable=...
To avoid this issue DSLs must be highly modular, which is easily achivable if you're implementing them as eDSLs on top of a meta-language (i.e., mixing DSLs is trivial and interop is not a problem).
From what I understand:

In flash you could only interpolate state between two key frames in a fixed level of freedom.

Their method allows the level of freedom to vary between key frames.

The video explains it visually.
A phenomenon I've noticed is some believing that containers solves configuration management. It's true that containers through being immutable means you don't have to worry about what cruft has built up from previous changes (which is a big win). That still leaves you with the core problem of how you manage your configs.

The core of configuration management is a) how you express the state of the world and b) how you move from state to state safely, with potentially hundreds of changes in flight at once. For the former I'm excited about projects like https://github.com/apmasell/flabbergast, and the latter is mostly a matter of breaking rollouts into individually rollbackable changes combined with good policy.
Ask HN: What are your mostly frueqented sites?
What are your favorite and most visited sites/forums? This should be an interesting discussion.
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No, this allows you to animate the splitting and merging of edges and vertices. I don't think flash supports that.
I'm asking because I wanted to expand the sites that I visit daily. More specifically, I want more sites that have good articles about software dev/current tech.
Agda, Coq etc is something I really want to learn someday. I'm already pretty proud that I finally can write some haskell, but this stuff is next level. I might give Idris a go first though, as it seems very similar to haskell in syntax.
From the slides:

AVA: http://www.avasecure.com/

Open Source Project: https://github.com/SafeStack/ava

It seems to be a project that tries to find vulnerable passwords via phishing and/or (maybe?) checking hacked password lists against automatically(?) found accounts.

But I don't really know - what it actually does isn't really written down anywhere.

Seems like it might be potentially interesting though.
Thank you for releasing this. I'll be trying it later today. The badges are very enticing :).

This project is in a crowded space (Python frameworks), and your README isn't selling it well. It's too heavy on the tell, and too light on the show. Ideally your opening section would be something like.

## pyexperiment

<badges>

pyexperiment is ... <1 line, maximum 2>. Here's an example:

<less than 10 lines of python>

Here's the result of running that command, complete with <top 3 features>

<less than 10 lines of command output>

Additionally pyexperiment gives you <another 3 features>, and more.

## Installation
...
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It is always a dilemma if one should criticize efficacy of good intentions. I think at some point it is necessary, even though it may come of as "whining for the sake of it".
In Buddhist meditation the initial exercise is almost always concentration meditation (samatha, breath meditation). This trains you in single pointed concentration, relaxing the mind on the object, skillfully dealing with distractions.

But that isn't the goal of Buddhist meditation, its the preliminary practice. You need those skills in order to release your fixation/concentration without just spacing out in a dull sleepiness.

After that you do various forms of insight meditation (vipassana) which can explore what the single pointed concentration is.

In Dzogchen there are alternating exercises of single-pointed concentration and then releasing the attention and observing all things (including observing the observer and the observation process). If a beginner observes "everything" they just get spaced out and dull minded. That's why you alternate the exercises.
I'm not following you. I'm thinking of things like https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/482 where core elements of a language don't behave in a predictable manner (in this case == has two distinct modes). That's a simple example, more structural issues can be compound by workarounds and lead to a lot of complexity growing over time.
They currently run Xeons, so that probably won't change.
It's not a great article, but there are really big problems with "voluntourism".

I lived in Nepal for 2 months, and met many "voluntourists". There was actually a strange kind of divide between the voluntourists, who had paid thousands of dollars to be able to teach at a school or work in an orphanage, and the people who found themselves in Nepal for a variety of reasons and wanted to do some good spontaneously. Simply put, the voluntourists didn't want to listen to any evidence that what they were doing was having a net negative effect on the local community.

But the problem is that voluntourists create profit opportunities for some really bad people. To put it succinctly, I just found this paragraph leading an article that discusses the problem [1]:

[...] volunteers in Nepal may be unknowingly contributing to a growing child trafficking industry that enables fake orphanages to secure revenue from foreigners while deliberately keeping children in destitute conditions.

I wanted to do some good while I was there, and met some volunteers of a local school (all of whom had paid to be there), and told them I'd had some ideas about how to teach computer literacy or programming to kids in Nepal. They hooked me up with someone that took me to the school so that I could talk with the principal, etc.

What I discovered was a group of people from the principal down to their computer teacher that were openly hostile and disrespectful toward me. This is too long of a story to get into here (maybe I should write a blog post about this), but what I realized later was that the school was a very well-oiled machine when it came to volunteers that were paying the school to teach English. But they didn't really know what to do with this guy that showed up offering to teach about computers, but wasn't paying anything.

My takeaway was that the for-profit volunteering industry must be crowding out some well-meaning individuals who don't offer (corrupt) incentives to the local organizations. At least this was my experience in Nepal.

[1] https://newmatilda.com/2014/03/04/fake-orphanages-profit-wes...
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You can type with an accent. Brits have various vocabulary, spelling, and idiom differences that might give them away (although to be fair, I probably wouldn't recognize a specifically British idiom if I saw it).

There are two points here: (1), I don't interact with very many people on the internet. I certainly don't use it to meet new people. And (2), I don't look for content aimed at (e.g.) an English audience. I read a large number of different bloggers, but it seems to have worked out that they're American. (John Derbyshire is English, but has lived in the US for years, and as far as I know has no intention to leave. Does he count?)
There is a legally enforced maximum wait time of 18 weeks for non urgent referrals.

http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Rightsandpledges/Waitingtim...

> You have the legal right to start your non-emergency NHS consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral, unless you choose to wait longer or it is clinically appropriate that you wait longer.

> If you want to go on a formulary hunt to see which drugs are not paid for by the NHS that are recommended under NCCN guidelines or spend your night frothing over pubmed searches be my guest.

You made the claim, you should back it up. You said that poor cancer outcomes on the NHS was caused by lack of access to new cancer meds. Your inability - over four posts - to name any drugs that are not available on the NHS is telling. Your choice to support your claim with an undetailed BBC report is odd. It certainly doesn't say what you think it says: poorer access to treatment is exactly what I describe in edit2 above.

> Yes, yes I know anecdotal experience and all that but I guess it's just a poisson distribution that everyone I've ever known met or heard of that has needed specialty care from the NHS has gone the route of private insurance for access to specialists.

What's your sample size? How do you counter the fact that there is legally enforced maximum waiting times in the NHS?

> but are clearly incensed that someone deigns to take issue with the NHS.

I criticise the NHS, in this thread. I am angry that someone continues to lie about the NHS, even after their lies have been debunked.
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I think you're missing my point. Physics did not give us merely equations, it is also gave us concepts such as force, temperature, energy and physical principles such as principle of conservation of energy, principle of relativity etc. (Floating-point number is a concept referring to implementation of rational numbers in computer engineering. I do not think it is relevant here.)
Not only maintaining and growing a DSL is challenging but also designing it at first. You need a lot of both domain and technical experience to achieve a half-decent result. That's why the "hype" around 2007 didn't lead to widespread practice. DSLs are costly.