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Yes, indeed, the "магазин" or the "гастраном" :) I also still remember the experience of having to bring a 3 liter pickle jar to buy milk from a barrel on wheels. It's funny because sometime we would see the barrel pull up, but we wouldn't know what they were selling. Could be mil, could be beer, could be kvas (not sure how to translate). We would rush in, because what ever it was, it's better than nothing ;)

I also remember a really funny story from my friends dead about his visit to Cuba. He went there in the early 80s, I am guessing. He went there with a delegation on some kind of diplomatic mission. Up on arrival he bent over to pick up his bag, and, as luck would have it, ripped his pants. Now, as you might imagine, being a proper Soviet and all, he was only traveling with that one pair of dress pants. So he asked their translator if there is any way they could go to a store of some kind to purchase another pair, before his fancy diplomatic meeting.

So they went to the store, supposedly the main fashion store in the center of the city. When asked, the clerk told them: "Oh, no, we haven't had dress pants in for at least 3 weeks." My friends dead, desperate, asked: "Well, what about just needle and some thread?" Clerk: "Well, we have thread, but needle? Hmm, we haven't had those in years now." Eventually they ended up finding a seamstress who fixed the pants, but it was all very hush hush, because it was a crime for her to offer a private service, or for them to solicit it.

Yeah, so communism rocks indeed :)
> Really I was thinking of it as a distinct timezone that must be tracked. Whether the DST and non-DST versions label themselves as such, the representation used to track time must distinguish whether DST is active or not to display the correct local time. Really, when I say store local time + timezone, I mean local time plus identifier that gets you to the same unique timezone representation in your medium (python, in this case).

I guess that's my point: the IANA identifier is a well-known way to serialize a TZ, but doesn't include DST flags because they're not relevant. I think if you wanted to store something like a Python tzinfo object, the easiest way is just storing (local time, offset from UTC); (maybe (local time, offset from UTC, IANA TZ ID), if you want to keep the TZ)

tzinfo's don't really have a defining quality in Python, I've found. You can end up — depending on libraries used — with two tzinfos that both conceptually are "UTC", but don't compare equal…

Now that I've thought about it again, I'm not entirely sure that the DST flag + TZ name by itself is sufficient, mostly in the case of a TZ deciding to change their offset.

> just always convert to UTC and store that. It changes the problem from one of data fidelity to display

The right thing to do, and for the right reasons.
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Arguably it's because websites (or more to the point web applications) are becoming more complex

In my experience, the widely-used ones tend to be fairly sane for the most part, and can often be used without having to delve too much into the complexity unless you need to - which I think is the important bit
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> their children, who are known to have increased likelihood of stress disorders

They started here because laymen had already noticed a pattern. Has anything similar been noticed in descendants of Palestinians? Does New York even have enough potential subjects for them to do the same study?
>Wait, retard is a pejorative now?

It's fairly well-documented[0], and the GitHub incident in particular has been discussed on HN at length[1]. I think I gave the exclusion that if you're talking about it in a context that's socially acceptable (e.g. critiquing the use of the word, or as you point out discussing it medically), then I imagine that's fine (but I don't know, and I'm not about to test GitHub on how readily they'd censor content in a gray area).

This point about whether a site is yours or not is a red herring. For the purposes of technicality, you could argue that you don't really own your online presence unless you own the servers and the service providing access (per example: Wikileaks used Amazon's S3 service until AWS dropped them[2]). For the purposes of this discussion, however, it suffices to say that you "own" your online presence if your front page (absent a personal site, your profile pages on social networking sites) is determined by you rather than potentially influenced by friends (e.g. tagging you in a photo at a party).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retard_(pejorative)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/
It is generally excellent. We've been using NYT recipes for many years, and only very rarely had misses from it. It does sometimes ask for things that are a bit unreasonable, though - the one we made last night asked us to whip 4 tablespoons of heavy cream before folding it in, as well as making our own "corn broth".
There was also a big issue of huge cooperation of the clergy. Don't know the concrete numbers but Anne Applebaum explains it in her "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe".

Our catholic church was the most penetrated one in the whole Warsaw pact.

This means people literally didn't have anyone to trust. Just try to imagine that. Three generations of people shaped by this feeling, ending up completely paranoid or indifferent/escapist.
Here's Larry recently speaking with Jason at This Week in Startups about his campaign, really fascinating stuff:

http://thisweekinstartups.com/larry-lessig-referendum-presid...
Apparently, it's pretty rare for skilled workers to even earn 100% of minimum wage. The median income for Venezuela is approximately 60% below minimum wage. In black market exchange rates, that equates to approximately $2 USD per month.

The maximum surveyed income, according to SalaryExplorer, is 72,000 bolivars per month, which amounts to approximately 10x minimum wage, or around $100 a month.

Given the median though, one assumes that is an extreme outlier.
People know how to work. Work gets done despite the lack of these "enabling" social tools, or even despite their presence.

Of course it does. But does it get done as well, or as effectively, or as efficiently without a certain level of technological support? Would you want to work in a company that didn't use any technological capabilities for collaboration? No email, no IM, no document sharing of any sort, etc? I mean, printing out documents and sending them via one of those old-style interoffice memo envelopes ought to be enough for anybody, right?

The thing is, not every company needs the same kind of technological capabilities, because they don't all have the same issues. If you're in a 10 person startup where everybody sits in one room, a lot of knowledge sharing is done by just speaking out loud and everybody hears you. If you're in a 32,000 person company with offices spread around 80 countries, it's a lot harder to make sure that everybody knows everything they need to know, and knows it in a timely manner. And there are "serendipitous communications" that will never happen without some technological help, as you have employees who will almost certainly never meet in person. Or if they do, it'll be once every couple of years.

Tooling can be beneficial, it's just important to understand that no tool is a panacea. Also, no tool(s)
can fix a toxic company culture, or broken processes. These are reasons some companies deploy technological tools to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing, and don't see the expected benefits.

(Disclaimer: I'm totally biased, as my company makes "enterprise social software". Take everything I say with a grain of salt as you see fit.)
They also have great write-up detailing their use of CRFs to extract structured data from recipes.

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structur...
Fortunately, there a few of these paradises still available.

Productivity and creativity vary a great deal. It is only fair that compensation varies a great deal too.

We have systems to day that make it possible to deliver value to millions of people. Those who create and make use of those systems are the ones creating that value.

Those who do not don't have some inherent right to what others have produced. But they do get a great many things for a lot less money because of those technologies. And many things that wouldn't exist at all without them.

Which is why even the poor are better off escaping from communism and the foot traffic usually indicates that.
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"...surfing boats with handmade sails." ??

I've read about this many times before. They were using windsurfers and were part of a local windsurfing club. Germans say "Windsurfbrett", literally wind-surf-board. I don't know where the author got the boats language. It's more than semantics. Boats are something you sit 'in' rather than 'on' a board and that makes a big difference in cold water.

Story + interviews (in german) + pics showing gear.
http://cdn2.surfertoday.com/windsurfing/11355-the-greatest-w...

Fyi. The big stealth advantage of a windsurfer is that, with the sail flat on the water, the entire craft is only a couple inches high. In any waves you cannot see them until you are right on top. Hard for search and rescue, but excellent if you want to hide until the cops move away. They have been used for smuggling.
> It's hard for the typical "hard-core capitalist / free-market guy" to understand, but I consistently argue that regardless of where the money flows as long as passionate people are able to sustain a comfortable living studying what they love, there will always be amazing breakthroughs in all fields, regardless of "market forces".

You have ample evidence of what is accomplished without market forces: The Internet, Web, email, Linux, Firefox, Newton, Einstein, almost all science, every political and social idea and movement, everything done by almost any soldier (who give their lives without the pull of market forces), parent, friend, mentor, etc. (EDIT: I forgot NASA and most other explorers!)

The idea that people only act due to market forces and selfishness is obviously absurd, a simplistic ideology used by some to rationalize their own greed.
The fluctuations of the stock markets are extensively covered in the mainstream media. According to HN guidelines (see link at the bottom of the page):

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

So a post on HN such as "Dow down 530 points" (or even "Apple down 3%") would probably get flagged by a lot of people.
The article covers it although not in detail.

Having lived thru it, the article quote "Conservative concern over the decay of family values" is pretty accurate. Some of the content being an intentional parody of family values talking points doesn't win friends, although it can be very funny. This extends to the modern day, nothing some like more than using what they describe as academic degeneracy to gain points.
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Now tell me again how copyright is compatible with any reasonable idea of free speech?

Once you're done with that, tell me how I can tell what speech is legal and what speech isn't, without consulting a specialist lawyer.
Are you seriously suggesting that people living in the US have it worse than in the communist bloc?
Thanks, but no Producthunt would be a place where one would go after they have launched the product. I am at the IDEA stage, and want to discuss the idea. See what other people think about it.
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Having used QNX for a robot vehicle, I'm very aware of what "real time" means. If the computers didn't send an update to steering and throttle every 100ms, at 125ms a hardware stall timer cut the throttle and slammed on the brakes.

A typical test of a real time OS such as QNX is to hook up a square wave generator to an interrupt input, and run a program which is activated by the interrupt. The program then turns on an output. The input and output signals are sent to an oscilloscope, so you can see the delay. In a true real time OS, there are no outliers where the delay is much longer than usual, even if there are other processes running.[1]

[1] http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0/index.jsp?topic=%2F...
> Once the market decides that it is a better/faster/cheaper tool than the competitive product/process/genome, you've got, what, 7~10 years? Maybe?

This assumes the "market" makes a good decision. It's not a God, it's just tool. Like any tool, it works well in some situations and not in others.

One thing it's not good at is allocating resources based on need rather than on wealth. What about the people who need the product but can't afford it? What about the innovations that are delayed, and the innovations based on those innovations, and all the people that would benefit from them?
At my first internship almost a decade ago, I spent a day and a half trying to fix up one of the free WYSIWYG editors out there. So many edge cases and weird bugs; and I was trying to hack in some new features. Lots of options, all 80% of what I needed.

My boss goes to to me "uh, use the company credit card and buy the nicest one you can find". What a waste of money, I thought. There's free ones out there!

"Think about how much you get paid. And then think about how much time and money you've spent trying to hack a free one to work."

WYSIWYG editors are insanely complex, with thousands of possible edge cases. I love Open Source, but for ~$50, paying for a good one is a steal. I wish more JS libraries cost a nominal fee; it'd give developers the means to do a more thorough job on them. And given the time savings, it'd actually be more cost efficient than "free".
Come on! Did you live through Soviet style communism? Please don't glorify that BS unless you have. A party functionary would be entitled to free servants to help them move, clean there garden, do all kinds of physical labor for them. Those servants were called enlisted soldiers. A party functionary would be entitled to a yearly, 3 month vacation on the black sea, where they would live, in a palace by the sea. And when I say a palace, I mean literally a fucking palace. There were very privileged people in the Soviet union. Now it's true that even those people would constantly live in fear, because on minute you could be on top, and the next you are dragged off by the secret police.

And guaranteed house? Like the house that my best friend grew up, with his mom, his dead, and his sister, all sleeping in the same bed in their 250 sqft studio.
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> What I think the field of genetic engineering may need in its future, is the equivalent of a Linus Torvalds in their field. Someone who will cut through the BS, and donate the overwhelming majority of their work / research to the public domain to prevent or reduce the possibility of some calamitous scenario from unfolding.

Didn't most research used to be published openly in scientific journals? Has that changed, or was that a golden age that never existed?

Based on my meager understanding, openly sharing research was one of Bacon's foundations of the Enlightenment and the scientific enterprise.
Your questions aren't specific for people working with CRISPR, but more generally relate to gene-editing.

Unfortunately, molecular biology and genetics are immensely complex, once you start looking in to them. There very rarely is a 1:1 correlation between one gene and one single function of impact on the entire organism (even for single celled organisms). Moreover, in many cases loss of one gene can be compensated by the function of one or multiple different protein(s).

To be fair, I haven't looked up any literature on computer models of how the change of one a single gene would influence the whole organism. However, that is a very complicated question. The closest analogy I can give you is "are there computer models how changing a resistor/capacitor will impact the quality of the picture of my TV?"
Frankly, it's often hard to tell how the (novel) change of a single gene will influence a single cell!

Regarding your second question: the data you want to collect is always related to the question your asking about the gene at hand. "How does loss of gene X impact cognitive capacity" would obviously require a completely different experimental set-up than asking "Which functional role does gene X fulfil in the immune system".

Sorry I can't give a more satisfying answer.

On a slightly related note, this article gives some insight on how biologists think and go about their experimental design and recording what they learn: http://math.arizona.edu/~jwatkins/canabiologistfixaradio.pdf
The futurist in me thinks the following: in a 100 years programs will program themselves. We'll just need a reliable way to tell them what to program.
I'm using this on a ecommerce platform http://shopkeeperplatform.com i'm working on . Summernote is pretty good : it's small, fast and very easy to integrate.

Also it deals with uploaded files a bit different because by default it encodes the file in base64 (instead of posting them separately to server).
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I always fail at converting measurements from US recipes because it looks like there are many different varieties of "cups" :) What is the best known conversion table fore recipes? (I live in Europe, usually ingredients are measured in grams and millilitres depending if they are dry or liquid).
What does this offer me that Numpy doesn't already offer, with the advantage of not having to learn a new language?
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The bit about getting a work permit is a little weird. At that time average monthly salary was ~$5. His Dutch parents could literally just send him lunch money, and it would be enough to for an upper class lifestyle at the time.

Flower/grape/whatever picking for a month in the west was enough to finance rest of the year.

It was as bad as in Greece right now, everything worth something got sold to multinationals for pennies on the dollar. All the famous polish brands absorbed into mcdonalds/cocacolas/pepsis of the world.
I'm not an expert on the topic, but this book[1] has an incredibly good and easy-to-understand introduction on the topic. It's ruby-based but the ideas apply to OO design in general.

[1] http://poodr.com
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Echoing others, the go-to source for democide tabulates an estimated 10,000 to 54,000 Poles killed by their government in the 1948 to 1987 period.
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If you're talking about the general problem, that society is bent in many different ways to favor large firms managed by professional executives and owned by clueless investors, then yes, I agree that financing is not the solution. At times I despair that any solution short of large-scale violence and reappropriation may be found. On the more particular issue of capital goods requiring up-front investment, don't lose hope. This phenomenon has inhered in the capitalist system for centuries, and certainly longer than "banks" as such have. Over that whole time, however, small nimble innovative firms have regularly thrived and even grown large, lax, and lethargic themselves.

Part of the problem is the assumption that banks control all business lending. (They love that otherwise smart people assume so!) I know an investor who is currently dissatisfied with real estate opportunities available to occupy his considerable wealth. For several years he has been financing, among other things, consumer purchase of water softeners. He actually has to hire someone to examine long lists of loans of several hundred to a thousand dollars! He would love to be able to help a few firms purchase a dozen self-driving tractors apiece, once insurers figure out how it will work.

Various entities have nibbled at the margins of "bank" business for decades now. This is not a phenomenon that will cease before banks themselves do. They only exist because we believe they must.
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> What about the people who need the product but can't afford it?

They can wait 7~10 years, no? Patents are not forever.

Is your theory that billions should be allocated (somehow) to researching a list of things that some people somewhere need with no prospect of recouping that expense? And, if so, of the thousands of things that people think they need, which ones get priority? Bill Gates may be doing some cool things in this direction, but he's not an infinite resource.
I usually use Google (or for things like oz, switch the units on my kitchen scales).
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It's so awesome, why didn't all these Western fans of it flock in while they still could is beyond me ;)

> Could be mil, could be beer, could be kvas (not sure how to translate)

Kwas seems to be just "kvass" in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass

It's more popular further to the East (than Poland), still I remember we'd brew it at home back in the day, as a little boy I liked to pretend it was beer

Speaking of beverages, everyone from the former Soviet bloc surely remembers these machines :)

http://img.interia.pl/biznes/nimg/1/k/Woda_saturatora_534387...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Saturato...
There aren't really different varieties of "cups". 1 cup is 8 fluid ounces, or ~237 mL.
Sweden will have a particularly tough time in coming years.

Why?

Sweden is already in pretty bad shape due to immigration. But a large part of the govt, and dominant information channels are intent on concealing that fact as much as possible for some reason, hard for some people to admit they were wrong I guess.

Shockingly enough, Sweden leads the world in rape and school arson.

Informative report on the horrible rape numbers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGedOGCrnQ

Last year the cost for fires in Sweden’s schools ended at about SEK one billion. 457 schools burned in 2009. About half of the fires were caused by arson. However, compared with 2008 fires in schools has decreased, that year 512 schools burned, also then half of them caused by arson.

http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5029

(Saying in both years that only half of that already large number were caused by arson seems a little suspect, that seems like a high rate for schools to be combusting from other factors. Well, maybe they are counting chemistry lab mishaps and the like, and the bulk of the cost is coming from schools actually being burned down in arson attacks.)

“I don’t know why anybody would want to burn our school,” Ms. Bromster said. “I can’t understand it. Maybe they are not so happy with life.”

The riots are not unprecedented here. In 2008 and 2010, immigrants clashed with the police in the southern port city of Malmo. But the past week’s arson attacks in Stockholm, the capital, and the spectacle of teenagers hurling stones at firefighters have left many Swedes wondering what went wrong in a society that has invested so heavily in helping the underprivileged.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/europe/swedens-riots...
I've recently been playing the old Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed, which made this a really enjoyable read, and actually a bit useful for what it says about the handling and weight distribution of different models.