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I had a package delivered by LaserShip last week. The experience was fine for me, it was delivered around noon without damage. A women delivered the package and was driving what seemed to be her personal mini-van with a sticker on the side.
I have everything delivered to my office, as long as I can transport it home on my bike (i.e. no washing machines). Works very well for me, but apparently not every workplace encourages this. Here, the delivery guy brings the packages directly to my office ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Every time I've got something delivered by Amazon Logistics, it's actually been APC.

Oh, and it's shit. Order next day delivery at 9AM Monday? Delivered 7PM Tuesday! Get it Wednesday because the post room in my office closes at 6PM.
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The main idea behind the jury system is to provide a further check upon the power of government. Unless there is a system which does a better job of that, then, from the point of view of liberal government, there is no point in reviewing it.
The big problem with common core is the reform package into which it is embedded. The standards themselves are in most cases as well thought out as other alternatives. Sure you can find details to argue about, but that is universal. The textbooks and workbooks have some rough edges because of newness. The real problem is the rest of the package: high stakes tests with no direct educational purpose taking weeks of class time, not to mention valuable tine now going to test prep. Privitazation of the testing, and increasingly of the schools themselves. Dimunuation and disenfranchisement of the teaching profession. The big picture is industrialisation of public education. This entails a loss of quality in favor of uniformity and cheapness.
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So where does this lie on the antlr, Allen Short's parsley, PEG, spectrum? (very loosely speaking)

And how does it relate to the issues discusseed in Haberman's articles [0], [1], [2]? which can be considered a good survey of this field (although I'm open to other surveys if anyone can point out).

Also intersting (Terence Parr's talk, ANTLR creator) [3], Allen Short's talk [4].

[0] http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/07/ll-and-lr-parsing-demyst...

[1] http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-u...

[2] http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/09/ll-and-lr-in-context-why...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8p1voEiu8Q

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5X3ljCOFSY
> As for bakers, they don't just make bread and cake.

yet it's still their main product and they are stopping making it even though industrial bread is cheaper. So your point is ?
I'd love to build a SAAS so now I'm trying to figure out what type I'd like to create. Also doing research on everything involved from what tools to use to lessons learned from those before.
Can't you get it delivered to work?
why not both?

If you have a bunch of parcels in the boot of your car you deliver them when you are nearby on an Uber call or when you have no uber work.
I see the appeal for people looking to work, but as a customer I strongly prefer UPS, FedEx or USPS.

Last week I got a phone call: "Hi, are you home right now?"

It turns out it was actually an Amazon Logistics delivery person, but that still isn't a question I really want to answer over the phone to some random person.
i have had issues with that on one occasion too, now i remember.. (package was refused by the shop, went back to the depot for another day, changing the address to my home added another day etc etc.)
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Also, gentrification and the rights of workers in a sharing economy are still hot-button political issues in the Bay-area. Who's going to picket Amazon Flex in Indianapolis?
DigitalOcean (and probably others) have a pre-prepared web server VM you can spin up
Um, I think that diagram is wrong. The common core example I have seen would break the subtraction into "32 - 12" = "32 - 10 = 22 22 - 2 = 20"

Which is how almost every engineer I know would do the math in their head. If they didn't just go "30 - 10 or roughly 20" (obviously most engineers can do that simple a subtraction completely--but the number of times I estimate something by lopping off everything except the leading digit is quite high).

Note that this is teaching "estimation" almost by osmosis. The "standard" procedure of starting from the least significant digit and "borrowing" obscures estimation.
If you thought SL was complicated, try HiFi for a new level of complexity craziness.
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Well, since you decided to discuss it anyway... :)

Basic income is wealth redistribution function. There is a massive income inequality problem in the US (a trivial google search will reveal, if you aren't aware of already), and a basic income would rebalance taxes as well as replace some other social programs in order to pay for it. See this reddit post for more info about income inequality and taxes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/3mqnyg/how_inc...
Just to add to that, even if there wasn't such a negative connotation I think that the repetition of the phrase throughout the text is just plain awkward\ungainly
"That part is an oxymoron because radioactive waste decays."

Its a hazard until the waste decays. If the waste takes a long time to decay then its a long-term hazard. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24k years, for example. Other transuranic isotopes have half-lives measured in hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of years.

I agree with you about industrial waste, though.
It is not hard to read the code words of the modern gestalt in its ever-increasing uniformity. The defense that the code words weren't really meant "that way" is ever-more feeble.

And arguing about trickle-anything is irrelevant if you start with nothing to trickle in any direction, and then ensure that there continues to be nothing to trickle in any direction. You can't redistribute what isn't there.

But the real point of my message is that Detroit is huge. Geographically it's much bigger than San Francisco. You can drive for 20-30 minutes at full highway speeds starting in Detroit and still be in Detroit. There's a few shoots coming up, yes, but they are still pretty small compared to what needs to be there for the city to shed its current reputation.
> Not to execute vicious murderers, rapists & traitors is a profound miscarriage of justice.

> Not to murder murderers, ... is a profound miscarriage of justice.

There, FTFY.
One of the reasons I hesitate to use Amazon Now is that big "suggested tip" field. I don't tip the UPS delivery person, why should I tip my Amazon Now delivery person? What's been the norm for you all?
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And even if it was required (Say there were 3 states) it's an obvious smell to have a field in a type that is used only in one "state" of the object. The presence of such a field is the most obvious clue that one needs a new class for that state.
I assume so, since they consider their employees contractors.
My point is it's a pretty terrible example for you to pick. Baking is not a low-skill menial job. It's certainly not first in line in the "jobs that will get replaced by a machine" domino line.
Aside from that it seems like a horrible waste of non-renewal energy source to let someone drive to an address just to deliver one package.
Ah, the famous British customer service experience.
Phillip is a great guy, no question.

Being at RealNetworks would seem more a like downside to me. I hated that product with a passion! I think RealNetworks has the distinction of being the only technical product I have ever disliked that much.
have you switched delivery to neighbour on the day? i have, to a direct neighbour, and the new date given was 24hrs later. I eventually cancelled delivery of that package because it still wasn't with me 4 days later.
Generally i've had poor experiences with DPD, just like any other.
I would also like to add that large scale bread production is already mostly automated. You will still have local bakeries because fresh bread is nice, and the automation needs large factory halls that are unlikely to be near your home or match your schedule.
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How easy is it to deal with raw memory in rust? That's the main reason for using C in my opinion.
You'd be absolutely astounded at the number of vector calculus students at highly regarded universities who:

* identify a rote procedure to apply when a problem of a particular form is seen

* execute the rote procedure

* come up with "<equation here> / 0"

* ... and then turn the thing in anyways.
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Yes. The resolution and dynamic range you can get with modern gear is pretty impressive. Check out images.google.com with terms like "gamma spectrum". Also different kinds of particles. Also you can zap things with neutrons (and other things) and the reactions tend to be rather unique.

Given a large enough amount of money to outfit a lab, its very fast and easy to tell whats inside an unshielded box. If its a thick enough shielded box, exact minimal design probably classified, then you'll have to crack the box open or stick a sensor in a hole.

Its trickling down to consumer level. Junkyards can now afford an x-ray zapper than analyzes the exact metal alloy of scrap that comes in. Its interesting that when I was a kid things like FLIRs and xray analyzers were very star trek, but within my lifetime they're going to be nearly consumer goods. If you thought police visual cameras and airport xray scanners were controversial, wait until every podunk police dept has 500 FLIR cameras on lampposts and every car that drives by is remotely analyzed for drug or gun or explosive signatures all for your "safety".
That would be very reasonable. But it never happens here, that's why I said it's a different market, and that's why I also lied.
Bullshit question obtains bullshit answer.

I guess in a perfect world I would have said something along the lines "I'm not allowed to/I'm not confortable revealing that information", or if I really had balls I would have said the truth and STILL ask for 50% more.

But I feel I would never have gotten 50% without lying, which is kind of sad.
Up/Down have come to mean North/South in the way many people speak in English (US-centric? Not certain how other English speaking countries handle this). I think that's what GP post was referring to.

That it's actually referring to upriver/downriver in the case of Egypt is lost on those who aren't more closely familiar with the geography. It makes sense once explained, but it's non-obvious if you've become accustomed to up and down being synonymous with North and South.

Side note: There's a discussion about Common Core math and a comment by DanBC about how students may correctly fill out many math worksheets without developing any actual understanding just by coincidence (some idiosyncratic algorithm or method that's technically wrong, but happens to work for the worksheets). The same thing happens with language. If people only encounter an idiom in a limited context, they may come to misunderstand what the idiom actually expresses. In this case that it's not strictly the cardinal directions, but the direction of the rivers.
We don't, and that's a shame. They /can/ be used to breed plutonium, or they can me used to transmute into non-proliferation concerned materials. (Plutonium may be an interm step still; you'll need to read further on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle)

France does this still actually, but we do not. Too toxic an issue. (no pun intended.)

I've always been perplexed though at the 10,000 year requirement of the repository, as if envisioning all progress stopped for that period of time. Would this not be considered an interim step if, one hundred years from now, we found an economically sound alternative not available earlier?

I am not suggesting for a moment that this become a "kick the can" solution, but rather, the issue of nuclear waste is an ongoing project of management, not simply "stick in the ground for 10,000 years." If it turns out that in 200 years, we still do not have a better way of dealing with it, then take it out of the vault and put it in a better one.
> cashiers are getting extincted little by little,

Cashiers are still alive and well in Japan, thank you for asking.

> Supermarkets all have self checkin

Not everywhere and even where there is i see way more people queuing for the cashier queue than going for self checking but maybe it's different the Californian world or wherever you are living.

> ovens and breads in EVERY supermarket

I'm obviously talking about local breadshops in cities. they are alive and well, once again, and not going bankrupt. Quality still matters.

> train systems in many countries have automated lines

Yes, but how many have automated trains ? it's technically possible for a long time yet trains are still driven by people. It's way more simple to automate a train than a car yet it's not happening. Strange, huh ?

I'm just making observations based on real life - the world has not massively been robotised since the 90s (it has certainly happened in many manufacturing plants but the "worker"/"human face" is very resilient when it comes to local services).
I like what the Austrian post started to do. You buy a post locker once, place it on the outside of your house/flat and the post starts putting packages in there and throws the one-time use pin into your mail.
Having moved from Australia to the UK, I can tell you the delivery services I've used so far (Yodel, DPD etc) are far superior than any service in Australia. They even deliver on Saturdays and Sundays. That's amazing.
> he big problem with common core is the reform package into which it is embedded. [...] The real problem is the rest of the package: high stakes tests with no direct educational purpose taking weeks of class time, not to mention valuable tine now going to test prep. Privitazation of the testing, and increasingly of the schools themselves.

None of that has anything to do with Common Core, and, AFAICT, politically, the groups that most oppose Common Core are the groups that have most supported the policies that have done the most to produce the effects you complain about.
If I'm understanding you correctly -- mileage rate pay is a business expense for which you are reimbursed, and aren't considered pay. They are (I believe) tax exempt.
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In my opinion and from the comments I think that encoding one state is not a problem either in C# or F#. Now assume we have to add an additional state to a user and all proposed subclassing solutions in C# turn out to be what they are: not optimal.

My biggest problem with OO is, that it only allows us to structure code in a one dimensional way (inheritance) but in reality we will face more complex scenarios. and even this way is increasingly discouraged: composition over inheritance...
> Teachers will complain about absolutely every change that's imposed on them.

Often for good reason. Remember "new math"? Most of my math textbooks as a kid had things about ordinality and arithmetic in non-base 10 (generally base-12--why?--I have no idea) down as far as like Grades 4 or 5. It turns out that if you don't have a very clear grasp of your own arithmetic, you can't change bases very easily.

Teachers who have been around for 20+ years have seen bad education fads through several cycles.
This is what the post office should be doing. We'll deliver your mail to wherever your phone is or you want it for that day.

I hate buying something from someone online (eBay for instance) and then they ship USPS. If I can't let the mailman into my apartment they won't leave the packages. So then I end up having to sit in line at the post office on Saturday morning and hope they can find the package for me and pick it up.
You are right, inheritance is perfectly applicable to the example from the article, basically because the example is very simple.

The idea is that in more complex scenarios the best practice is to prefer composition over inheritance because modelling every single piece of state with subclasses would be sloppy and unmaintainable.

That is where design-by-contract (or simply put guard clauses) usually come into play.
Well...don't forget these projections are basically based on assumptions. At the moment (despite the revisionist science being promoted by NOAA) there's an almost 20 year hiatus which remains unexplained. Some highly informed scientists are convinced that climate sensitivity is substantially lower than theorized by most modelers.

That said, there is a win/win solution - a widespread rollout of nuclear power generation. This should be combined with significant investment in new, safer nuclear approaches centered around molten salt reactors.

What's not to like about inexpensive, pollution-free power? If done correctly, nuclear should drive electricity prices towards five cents per KWH, far below the price achievable with solar or wind for the foreseeable future.
I've recently looked at one of the current "Common Core" textbooks for freshmen math in my sibling's school district in California. It is very different from the style of learning I was accustomed to. The textbooks I had introduced a new topic in some introduction pages, gave practice examples, and then a few pages of exercises of increasing difficulty.

In contrast "Integrated Learning 1" by CPM takes a very different approach. It is very much continuous where the "text" of a topic is interwoven with a couple problems to do. Class room exercises and experiments constitute a lot of the main lessons. This is in contrast to Khan Academy where the progression of math knowledge is easily understandable and the step-by-step approach for learning by example and doing is emphasized.

I was a bit taken aback by this approach. I can see it possibly working better in a class room setting. However I did most of my learning by reading. I'm also concerned that this approach will make it more difficult for students to catch up if their previous math education was not great as this continuous flow style doesn't lay out which topics to study.

I'm not sure, but I'm not currently convinced. I'll be seeing how my younger sibling fares next semester, especially as our parents are not great at math and his education has some large holes in it (which we are working on). Thankfully he really enjoys Khan Academy so I anticipate him using that more if Common Core falls short.
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Then don't license your works to a third party website so they can be displayed on said site. Simple.
This probably already exists. I don't believe they'd need to fry the brain, just explode it or titrate certain drugs.
I wish I knew! I've used Google Play, iTunes Connect (i.e. the App Store), the Amazon Appstore, and the Humble Mobile Bundle.

iTunes Connect is overall a bit nicer to work with (but often fails with completely incomprehensible errors, usually involving certificates and code signing). The new "app slicing" thing Apple are rolling out sounds very good. On the downside, it's a very closed system. Apple don't want you to script or automate anything, they want you to use their tools, of which some are slick and some are very rough.

Amazon's store is similar to Google Play but much worse overall. Their web app is very clunky. Good: no APK size limit, so no expansion files needed! Bad: big APKs need to be uploaded via SFTP(!??). No clever binary deltas or anything as far as I can tell, just massive uploads and downloads for everyone.

In the Humble Bundle, a lot of the work is done manually. That sounds bad but they've actually been a real pleasure to work with. It's great when you're doing a Humble release of an existing game; do a few code tweaks if necessary, upload to Dropbox and mail them a link + hash. I don't think they do anything fancy in their back-end, though (and they probably don't have enough engineering capacity to do so).

I'd be interested to hear how Steam compares.
You have to use `unsafe`, but you can do anything you can do in C. Raw pointers are the primary mechanism, same as C pointers http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/raw-pointers.html
> Wealth redistribution

Well you spelled it, you need a communist like system to do that (i.e. take money through taxes, redistribute it through massive inefficiencies, and make sure politicians get their hefty share when the money flows).

Inequality is a false problem. It's a problem if people get poorer, but all indicators for the past 50 years show that everyone is getting richer, while rich ones are getting richer faster (which is obvious why, when you have more capital you are much more likely to increase it faster). As long as even the modest classes are getting richer every generation, everyone's life is improving.
They are already using bike messengers in Manhattan (maybe elsewhere) for Amazon Now's 1 hour delivery. I'm guessing they just hire out to LazerShip or some other currier service, and give them Amazon jackets.
Sometimes you're sending via SMTP, sometimes via MailGun. If you don't remember to call GetMailPolicySingleton()->SetSendingMechanism() before every email.send() you end up using whatever policy was set last.
"The Grid[0] harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more - and automatically shape them into a custom website unique to you"

Seems like a good use of AI.

[0] https://thegrid.io/
Thanks! I'm familiar with the term, and I have a copy of the Benford book that I bought when it was published. The sections on the WIPP marker and the Cassini message are particularly interesting.
There are Rust OS projects with nothing but some assembly and then Rust code, so it shouldn't be strictly required.
I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know how he got visual effect exactly as the one on HN on his blog? It looks very nice.
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What does "too little, too late" mean? Is Android now doomed?

Android updates have been incremental updates for three years now (introduced at the 2012 I/O, and immediately enabled). Your point on that is confused in any case -- why can't it do delta updates (it does...), and why can't the developer do it, but also why does the developer have to do it? You're incredibly complaining about a situation you invented.

And larger APKs are a problem because now the ridiculously easy tools that Google already provides (generating thin binaries for varied targets is extraordinarily simple. A bug regarding expansion files...what is the point of even linking that?) will somehow be unused?

Your post is a very poorly informed rant. I have no idea how it sits on the top.