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It's just as complex with salespeople. What about Alice and Bob visiting the customer together for two presentations and then Bob closes the deal on the third presentation he does alone. What if Alice lives in Kansas and meets Charlie the Customer in Europe on vacation, should the European sales guy Marco get a piece of the action?
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I see. The difference, then, between that situation and the situation where I provide a real number named as the sum of an infinite series is that in the latter case I may be able to provide also the modulus of convergence, thus proving that the number is a constructive real number [0]. This is different from a situation where I have a number defined non-constructively and no series is known that converges on the number.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28mathematics%...
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1.4 billion people, just have to nitpick on that.
I wonder if this will be unconditional Internet. Over the last few months the government switched off Internet in two states.

--edit--
Its back again before someone points it out
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It pretty much is all I care about. And I respect that you disagree. Such moderation calls are far from obvious even to me, and must seem obviously wrong from many angles.

But you're in the minority in thinking that TempleOS doesn't belong on HN at all. Terry and his work are something that a lot of HN users care about, sympathize with, etc. No doubt some of the interest is just gawking and the pseudo-debates we invariably get about it are a scourge, but I don't think it would be fair to just ban the subject completely. Certainly many legit HN users would be upset if we did. So it's likely to remain one of those uncomfortable grey areas with no agreement and no clear solution.
So did Apple to Google. Actually I was forced to use Baidu with Siri, I have complained many times, email/phone/twitter, but nothing changed yet.
That sounds really fascinating and educational. Could you possibly provide some more details or examples of how you accomplished that in C?
I can confirm this. I have an acquiantance who is a medic, far away from Norway. He's in the same boat. A few years ago, when they switched to their new system, he mentioned to me that one of the reasons he's so unhappy with the new system is that he cannot talk to the patient while looking up his information. He has to stop and focus on the screen. This introduces some bouts of awkward silence which is all the more unpleasant when the guy you're talking to is worried about his health.
> the dude uses sockpuppets

I haven't seen evidence of that. There's no question that the community interest is genuine.
> Is it really just a fun project? Or is Netflix trying to use this as the nose of the camel to get into the house automation business?

I doubt they would piggyback on others' home automation systems and standards if that were their goal.
IronRouter tries to be a lot more thing than just a router. It had controllers, which are basically encapsulates your data for a specific route. There are things which a router shouldn't really bother with. Having said that, you can still use IronRouter as just a router and not use the extra bells and whistles that comes with it.

I'm still using it in one of my projects and haven't had any issues, perhaps because I'm not using more advanced features provided by it.
> Get your head out of your ass.

That violates the HN guidelines badly. Please don't. We ban accounts that do it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Surely that's only on the assumption that the debt can actually be serviced, let alone paid back.
That article still mentions the use of mud pulse telemetry, though.

Considering the low bandwith of mud, pulling a cable all the way down is probably not an option, or else it would already be done. I wonder if it's possible to use a relay of short-range wireless transmitters, with heavy error correction?

Bandwidth of mud telemetry is 'up to' 40 bps or 250 with compression, according to this: http://www.bakerhughes.com/products-and-services/drilling/dr...
> A floppy copy workstation in 2015. The retro handset is just there for giggles.

As a norwegian, I have to say its good to see these guys have a sense of humour about their (honestly) pointless work :)
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> I recall watching cashiers operating similar ones at various stores

One of which was probably Elkjøp, the Dixons in the North? They have a text based system in-store for looking up stock. I occasionally work on a product that is similar to Elkjøp's and also for retail, and although we have a web version of the text based legacy system many users still use the text-based system because it is fast, has no pictures to wait on and all major functionality is mapped to F-keys.

The F-keys are a major boost for users, even on the web-based port (same back end (COBOL) ported frontend to GUI). When we get new employees they almost always suggest remapping shortcuts from function keys to ctrl-shift-something, which is a stupid idea for 4 reasons:

1. you now have a new key combination to learn

2. the new combination requires pressing more keys that just a single F-key

3. shortcuts in the browser are predefined and now we have to override them (as we do for F1=help, but less often)

4. the function keys are there for exacltly the reason we use them

I completely understand why doctors and others, like in retail, want to continue using text based systems. No CSS painting, no complicated layouts, no ditractons.

On the down side: backend in COBOL in 2015 - you limit your pool of available talent.
> trains in India are faster, more frequent, and more reliable as well

A laughable claim. Trains in India are slow, late (but probably not more than in other countries), crowded, comparatively dirty, uncomfortable and they are often lacking basic safety measures.
I concur. When I see some spacecraft bearing the flag of one particular country, I feel something is missing, for I myself also feel part of quest for a greater understanding of our boundaries with outer space. A flag of the earth would create that sense of unity you referred to.
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Norwegian here. 7.5 hour work day, lunch included. We don't get paid as much as US software engineers, though. We are "salaried" in the sense that we have a fixed salary, but we also have strong protections in law that require companies to pay if they require more than 8 hours per day from an individual employee.

I think your question is pretty obvious; as long as salaried means "fixed price to squeeze out as much effort as possible" then obviously a large portion of profit-focused companies will do just (misguided or not; organizations are rarely super insightful in aggregate) that in the absence of legislation that discourages it.
My ex-girlfriend worked on sales optimization and this isn't how it worked at all, at least at her clients'.

Each geographical area had one salesperson and all sales in that area were attributed to that salesperson. It was very easy to calculate commissions.
> Dieselgate

Please don't use this name. Its ridiculous that the media use the "gate" suffix to indicate a scandal of some sort, I'd like to think HN reads/commenters can be slightly more intelligent than the average crowd-pleaser journalist.
For those of us who don't follow these things closely while the researchers involved are forming and confirming their theories, it's pretty big news.

But yes, science marches forward. Perhaps it'd march a bit faster with more funding, but so it goes.
I don't know if the dire state of your average computer program should be taken as an example for how healthcare could be improved.
Another interesting thing I have noticed in online discussions. Whenever it comes to putting more money in hands of the few generally considered "rich", one of the standard explanations is that they will invest and create more jobs. However, things which will put extra money in the hands of "ordinary" people; like reduction in high prices or a higher wage always comes with a threat of reduction in jobs. Money in the hands of ordinary people is almost always spent or invested, thus providing a large boost to the economy (perhaps after a short term of 6-12 months of lower employment due to the rise in cost of doing business).
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Well, one can use headless browser or simply fetch json file(s) directly (the one that is used as source for dynamic menu). The second way, uses a 'bit' less resources that can be used for scrapping itself and not for page rendering ;)
But yes, in few cases it might be maybe worth it...
I suspect the opposite. The Scientific American estimates the cost of rbinging a new drug to market is 2.5B and that number has doubled over the past 10 years[1]. We need to find a way to allow tighter feedback loops, better data flow and less regulation without purpose. We have amazing technology that allows continual monitoring of vital signs and rapid blood tests etc. If our laws could evolve with our technology we would be in great shape. That would, of course, require elected officials to be qualified in various disciplines, act in the public's best interest and not accept money from lobbyists.

[1]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cost-to-develop-ne...
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On networks like Univision, anchors like to speak neutral Spanish, or otherwise "pan-Latino" is this possible in English? I started wondering this after reading the profile on Jorge Ramos in the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/05/the-man-who-wouldnt-sit-down
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This cycle is just starting, check 2014 for a mpre accurate accounting, blisterpeanuts. Opensecrets.org is where I pull my data too. She took in four times that last term, and Google was her biggest sponsor.
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IT refers to Information Technology. CS refers to Computer Science. IT is an applied technical discipline concerned with using available technologies to manipulate data for organizational operations. In its pure form, CS is a theoretical field concerned with using computational tools to solve problems on top of a mathematical foundation.

Of course there is a vague line between certain branches of applied computer science and theoretical information technology where the terms become nebulous. Wikipedia has decent definitions of both if you're so interested.
> Use className instead of class in your jsx files people!

Why?
Rational Drug Pricing
It is better for rich people to have power than politicians. At least their wealth might have something to do with skill (creating a successful drug in the past, etc.)
We know that Enceladus and Europe have liquid water.
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The key is in "tightly knit workforce".

Back during the Big Recession of 2008, my then-bosses announced that they were going to require mandatory unpaid timeoff* from every employee in order to minimize the number of positions being eliminated. That meeting had not even ended, and people was already bitching about how they were not going to be able to keep afloat their over-leveraged lifestyles, and how unfair it was for them to subsidize the non-unemployment of a bunch of losers. Apparently none of the complainers though they would end up on the loser side of things.

*Nothing devastating, lit. one or two days per month.
By that logic, just fire all the engineers - costs go down and the dollars brought in remain constant or increases - hence the company makes more profits.
Yes, lots of people go through college with poor reading skills, but more or less hours of English class, or language class, or whatever is called in US is not going to improve that.

In my country is the same thing: everytime an international study like PISA shows that we are very low in reading and math skills, politicians promise more hours of reading and math classes per week. Selling that it's easier than changing how these classes are teached.
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With regards to mobile device and Internet penetration in India:

http://yourstory.com/2015/07/mobile-internet-report-2015/
Windows 98 was available on floppy. I know, because I painfully installed it that way.

For me, floppies started failing when I didn't need to use them as often. The drive would get dusty from lack of use, and I'd put a disk in and it would be destroyed. I ended up using one floppy as a "cleaning disk" for the rare occasion when I needed to use the floppy. I'd attempt to do something on the disk and the activity would make it safe for the next disk I put in (generally).
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This comment shows ignorance at its best. Show me one source that has proof that (1)Chinese government was behind the attack, (2) Baidu was behind the attack.
Haven't really seen any food api's. It would be cool if it did exist though.. But I don't think Just-Eat like services will bite since you'll be driving traffic away from their website..
In this context, what's the difference between a "runtime" and a "VM" ? What does a "VM" have in addition to a "runtime" ?
Yep, rad crud development is exactly what Coils is for! :)
But the aims are the same. I'd change "infinitely" with "only slightly" here.
Because JSX is shorthand for the DOM, not for the HTML serialization of the DOM. In the DOM API (the official W3C one, not React's), the property name is className.
The variable isn't mutated, actually — it's rebound. See http://natescottwest.com/elixir-for-rubyists-part-2/, for example.
This is a symptom, not a problem. Drug prices are a good measure of how we are doing on healthcare policy and insurance regulation. It looks like poorly. It costs 2.5B dollars to develop a new drug. The regulatory hurdles are MASSIVE. We have a complicated and extremely compromised healthcare system
that is focused on providing insurance when it should have been providing better healthcare. There is no easy answer here, but companies are going to want to make profits and the system incentivizes them to spend money developing a few critical drugs, holding on to the patent and pricing it as high as possible, the dev costs are passed to the insurance companies which are passed on to you in premiums as well as inflation, as insurance companies operate much like a bank. This comes full circle into the role that banks play in lending and increasing the money supply.

Possible answers. Tighter fiscal policy, patent reform, smarter testing, looser regulations on known compounds, google x prize like gov't or private funding for cures, distributed computing using algorithms to evolve a cure (will be interesting to see what happens with that patent)

[0]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cost-to-develop-ne...
Looking over the anecdotes here, i find myself thinking that big pharma is just an example of the "profit uber alles" mentality that has been rampant in the corporate world since at least the 80s (if not before).

An interesting set of documentaries in that regard may be The Mayfair Set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayfair_Set

It recounts, from a British point of view, the rise of a type of finance capitalist that revolved around strip mining established companies.

I think part 3 touched on how by the time the people that started it got cold feet about it all, it had become institutionalized thanks to pension funds and similar.
When a future race digs up our ruins I wonder what they will think the social media buttons mean.
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It breaks HN's rules, and gets accounts penalized and banned. We want users to vote for stories that they personally find intellectually interesting—not because they or a friend has something to promote.
Facebook thinks Digital India Campaign means Internet.org - https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/3mo5m5/internetorgpr...
In 2005, my friends Dave and Adam built a pizza button in our dorm, it actually used the modem to send a fax to a local pizza place because that's all they had. Pushing the button ordered a cheese, but there were two auxiliary buttons underneath to select a topping via a Huffman code. (0 for pepperoni, 10 for sausage, 110 for anchovy, etc.)

I presume there are better APIs today :)
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True, but to be fair the parent said "not long ago" and this is quite the case, it was only ten years ago that we first observed vapour plumes on Enceladus, and I think Europa's subsurface ocean hypothesis started to gain traction around the same time. We live in exciting times.
The short, unsatisfying answer is that using `class` is deprecated in React, and has been for a while.

For a longer answer, take a look at the discussion of issue #4433 on github [1], especially the following comment by spicyj [2]:

> [...] We're sticking with className and htmlFor for a couple of reasons:

> First, we tend to look at HTML properties (like el.className = ...) when possible, as opposed to attributes (like el.setAttribute('class', ...)). Attributes are always string-typed, while properties can have any JavaScript object value, which gives more flexibility in some circumstances. One example is the .classList property, which arguably is a better fit for the data model than .className is. React doesn't support classList right now, but it certainly could. Given that React's className behaves like the HTML property of the same name, it makes sense to keep that name.

> Another reason is more forward-thinking. In the future, idiomatic React may use object destructuring to pick apart this.props. The react-future repo shows one example of how this could work. Even in modern browsers, this wouldn't work with class and for which are keywords and can't appear as standalone identifiers even though they can appear as property names.

> Third, our thinking is that JSX's primary advantage is the symmetry of matching closing tags which make code easier to read, not the direct resemblance to HTML or XML. It's convenient to copy/paste HTML directly, but other minor differences (in self-closing tags, for example) make this a losing battle and we have a HTML to JSX converter to help you anyway. Finally, to translate HTML to idiomatic React code, a fair amount of work is usually involved in breaking up the markup into components that make sense, so changing class to className is only a small part of that anyway.

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[1]: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/4433
[2]: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/4433#issuecomment-1...
I take Mark's point, though I have to wonder if some of it isn't traditional finance moving in on the VC's world and finding VCs are overpaid.

That said, the quoted article about how to lose weight, while inspirational, is a little bit delusional. The guy talks about working up to two hours in a gym. He's either exaggerating, wasting time, or wasting tons of effort. You can get seriously strong and in very good cardio shape in 4-5 60 to 75 minute strength workouts, plus 20 minute cardio workouts the off days. The secret, though, is you have to actually be busting ass during the time you're at the gym.

Two hour workouts are reserved for serious powerlifters and other strength athletes, and they're most likely on celltech, since your body simply doesn't recover quickly enough unless you're 17 years old.

Diet matters. So does sleep. But you don't have to live a monastic life.

#s 1,2,4 are spot on though. Weight comes from your mouth, not from the gym.
I don't follow you. Perhaps his critique was driven by petty jealousy -- who knows? But if he's right about what has actually driven scientific progress then his point stands.
No, we could always tell when my dog had gotten into something even before we found the evidence, because she'd be slinking around embodying the word "hangdog" from the moment we walked in the door. There's debate over whether this is actually guilt or simply anticipation of punishment, but there's no question that dogs know when they've done something they weren't supposed to do.
The proof for both is from this millenium (from Galileo and Cassini probes). To me it's still fairly recent. While I find the principle of induction does trivialize lot of mathematical calculations I cannot apply the same principle of non-wonderment to discoveries made in the material world.
nice, maybe users can submit a word, say "fucked up" and a related color value to add to your database
A 10 part documentary is being made by film director Noah Hutton, with each installment detailing the year-long workings of the project at the EPFL. Having started filming in 2009, the documentary is planned to be released in 2020, after the years of filming and editiang have finished. Regular contributions from Henry Markram and the rest of the team provide an insight into the Blue Brain Project, while similar research tasks across the world are touched on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project#Documentary

This is going to be very interesting.
hm. $2200 in the money I use, or so. hm. the xeon D is around half that just for the board and cpu (with four dimms, but also with 8 cores... presumably 8 more powerful cores) - and after that it's just a matter of sheet-metal and a psu, so if you can deal with half the dimms, the xeon d is lower capital cost. (I mean, you can spend a grand on a psu and a case, but you have to try pretty hard.) - but the real world power usage could make the difference. Hm. Things are often cheaper priced in USD, too.

So... yes. more research is required. But thanks! I wasn't aware that gigabyte was actually shipping it's arm stuff to mortals. Hm. I still don't see it in any of my usual (USian) channels; nothing on provantage. Still, pretty cool stuff.
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