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Microsoft often fails with CSVs actually. I've found I can't copy/paste from Sql Server Management Studio into Excel if you have a mismatched double-quote in a cell - it fails silently and garbles your data.

That was embarrassing.

The CSV format is so messy that even big corporate implementations will have subtle bugs like that. Do not trust it.
But then poor publishers might be forced to abandon their terrible ways! How undemocratic of you to suggest that! ;-)
Nine Hundred Grandmothers, by R.A. Lafferty (out of print except for "The Books of Sand")

Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon, free at http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028/last-and-first-men

Accelerando, by Charles Stross, free at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

The Doubter's Companion, by John Ralston Saul, http://www.amazon.com/The-Doubters-Companion-Dictionary-Aggr...
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So we need to make a new dating app that matches you by your credit score?
This is just speculation. No evidence or sources were cited in this article.
Interesting that everyone automatically defaults to Greg Egan when thinking of hard mind-bending sci-fi that explores concepts like these. I don't even remember how I got into Greg Egan, but do you have any other favorite authors who play with concepts like these?

In my head, Greg Egan is filed under the "Math-Fi" directory, as that's what I generally associate him with but he's very well versed in pretty much everything (Biology, Physics, etc).
> I want my currency backed by the economic and military might of the state

You realize that this means you're actively supporting murder, surveillance, and debt slavery built on the backs of the unborn, right? Sure it's easier to just go with the status quo currency flow, but that doesn't make it the most ethical or moral choice.
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Sorry, we had to turn off the automatic reload because of performance issues ;-) But thanks for the recommendation, it's a really cool effect!
How much more efficient? Aren't most of the promises of automated cars predicated on having dedicated highways, forbidding hands-on driving? Is that ever likely to happen inside of a decade? And once we do get there, is the earned capacity from full automation going to equal other options, in both cost and efficiency, that we could be pursuing now?

I don't think it's reasonable to block real progress with illusory claims that in a decade or two, cars may finally stop killing people and ruining the environment.
These marketing names get sillier and sillier. Pretty much every resistive touchscreen was already "3D" years ago.
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Indeed. A bit misleading. As this is the usual Docker but with control from your browser. Vs. Docker running inside your browser!
Not only do they have an app, but i remember their webpage being unreachable on my iPad a couple years ago because they had a full-page interstitial ad for their app, and dismissing it sent you into a redirect loop.
They had their own set of issues, but not even close to the anything goes of undefined behaviour across C compilers.

That was actually a reason why many of us embraced Java.

C compilers were between K&R and C89.

C++ compilers were even worse with the standard still ongoing.

These other languages suffered from not being adopted by OS vendors and as you remember, back then we used to pay for compilers. So not being part of the official OS compilers was a burden to adoption.

Java being C++ like, more consistent behaviour and free (as beer) won the hearts of many.
>So, the Germans would use early atomic weapons as battlefield tactical weapons?

Pre-Trinity, pre-Hiroshima most people had no idea what a nuclear weapon could do. You can tell a general twenty kilotons of TNT, but he isn't going to believe it until he sees it. See also: the Davy Crockett tactial nuke.

>There's a million ways that could go wrong,

Another thing that everyone knows, now. Remember, we used to do atmospheric testing of the things mere tens of miles from populated areas. https://imgur.com/gallery/8j0VRkn
Apps are only popular because we don't do mobile web good enough.
Most of the mobile web is either a banner asking download the app, or tons of adds with no room for content.
Perhaps, but isn't it also true that the US government itself now constitutes a very large part of the bond market? Rarely do I ever hear the term bond vigilantes any more, maybe because there no longer is such a thing, except perhaps under extreme circumstances.
very true!
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I hope people will also lay down sugar amount of apple, bagel, etc food next to these coke/dew/etc bottles of soda drinks. =)

Thing is - most of products in US has label stating clearly amount of calories and major contributors. It is SUPER easy to find approximate amount to which you need to stick. But people still over do it two/three/more times.

As much as I hate it, I think only high food costs will work. Problem is - how to keep it high enough to prevent abuse, but at the same time, keep lower income people access to enough nutrients.
That was not the Baidu attack. This was the piratebay DNS attack. In otherwords, anyone in China with a passing interest in naked ladies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10294779
David Simon's "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets"

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18956.Homicide

I wish it were required reading in at least all journalism school curriculums. It's a book about death and the most "exciting" part of police work but also one that reveals the banality and politically-motivated mechanics of such a system. I almost hesitate to call it "thought-provoking" because it, among other things, is just a great page-turner, though astonishingly completely non-fiction. I say "astonishingly" because Simon, according to him and the detectives he wrote about, had pretty much free reign to write what he wanted...there's no way such a book could be written today, as the police tactics that Simon describe, out of context, would likely cause a lot of outrage today.

As a bonus, reading "Homicide" will make all of the jargon in "The Wire" much more understandable. Many of the memorable incidents in "The Wire", including the very first scene, and scenes like the photocopier-used-as-lie-detector, come straight from "Homicide"
>> Even today, there's still a noticeable difference between JVM-based software and native software, although the exceptionally massive increase in computation power have rendered the differences easier to overlook in many cases.

Measurable I'd agree with, noticeable no, not really unless you mean startup time; otherwise the JVM is very fast once it's started, that isn't disputable.
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For python 3

python -m http.server
My apologies for not being more clear.

My point was that the way the US delivered nuclear weapons to Japan and the delivery mechanisms upon which Cold War and contemporary nuclear arsenals are optimized, is not the sole way in which nuclear weapons can be used for effect.

Continuing our conversation, the fact that using nuclear weapons carries a risk of retaliation has defined geopolitics for seventy years and is what has given us the term Mutually Assured Destruction.

I am not certain that the US and UK would have been tremendously invested in retribution in 1945 had the Nazi's had used atomics against the Soviets in the East. This feeling is based on the shape of post war real-politik toward many former Nazi's despite the atrocities that were actually committed.

Finally, the implication that Allied fire bombing was somehow less ruthless than chemical weapons does not resonate with me. My take is that white phosphorous is simply easier to turn into a reliable stockpilable weapon than poison gas [particularly given changes in air pressure and temperature that bombs in a bomber undergoe]. It is my opinion that the Allies actual use of atomics speaks to the no holds barred nature of their bombing campaign.
Well, not exactly. Tobacco advertising bans, aside from TV and radio, were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92990&page=1

You can ban it from TV and radio if there's a compelling government interest but even the head medical chied of the ADA says there is no definitive proof that sugar causes diabetes. (See my link above)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10256311
But those have almost nothing to do with using a VM. You can achieve them with your compiler by emitting overflow checks and fences where appropriate to match the defined model.
Yes, that's the repo. It's about 5% complete and the code is very ugly right now, but it's functional enough as a PoC :-)

Let me know if you want to contribute (even if it's not code). The most useful improvement on the todo list is to handle links properly. If you look at the image artifacts the tool generates in the demo you'll see two node.js runtimes...
I did read the article. I'm just confused about what the GGP comment about thermoplastic printers was about for an article that isn't about thermoplastic printers.
Yes - the Frisch Peierls memo was key...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch%E2%80%93Peierls_memoran...
That gives you the worst of both worlds, quite often: an ad banner for an app that's not available for your platform :(
Am I the only one that thinks a self driving car needs far more than a 'software update'? I would imagine it would need multiple redundant 360 degree sensor packages.

Supposedly the Google self driving cars analyze a gig of data per second so more processing power would likely be needed too. That is not to say the platform may not be a self driving car at some future date... Also one good software bug that loses lives might be enough to destroy Tesla financially as well as their reputation at this stage.
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Someone wrote up an example in Javascript. It is fairly simple, the event object has a force member which seems to range from 0-1.

This should be a standard, it really does change the way touch devices are used. I'm starting to dislike apps that don't have the "peek/pop" functionality (Instagram is the third party app that I use that has implemented it)

https://github.com/freinbichler/3d-touch
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10322866
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Mobile web doesn't come anywhere close to replicating the fluidity and functionality of a native app and it never will. Running a dedicated application designed for the system will always beat an application designed for the system on top of the system (web browser). I prefer native applications every time.
Require Facebook login - close enough.
I suspect consensus will be very very hard when it comes to food.
One quick FYI: the OP links to the Agloe's entry in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System database. The database is available as a bulk download here:

http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm

It's a fairly large (2.2M rows) and handy data file that can be used to extract geo-coordinates and metadata for U.S. geographical features, i.e. cities, states, counties, parks, even cemeteries, in lieu of hitting up a geocoder.
Blekko shipped an app -- izik -- which was extremely fluid even though it was actually a webpage. You and I probably have no idea which of the apparently native apps we use every day are actually webpages.
What about the case where you plan on using the app one time for a grand total of 30 seconds? Is the trouble of visiting the App Store, authenticating, installing, launching, allowing permissions and onboarding really worthwhile? Or is that a case for the web's dynamic runtime?
I find it sad that people feel it is acceptable to attack you personally, for this comment. It is your opinion and you are entitled to it, although apparently not on Hacker News.
The government is not doing "parenting". It is protecting from manipulation. Big difference.
TechCrunch, in fairness, doesn't beg the user to download the app.
... Tesla added a big sensor package to Model S over a year ago. It doesn't have LIDAR like Google's cars, but it is similar to sensor packages from other car companies that do lane-following and adaptive cruise control.
The problem of Xerox was that they research group produced things much beyond their ability to market and execute. Xerox executives thought about the world in terms of printers, not in terms of revolutionary computers. They could have made trillions of dollars if they had executives who truly understood and valued innovation.
The big catch is assuming that the team is big enough to put all the features into a variety of native apps.

It is possible that for a small team given the choice of one great web app or splitting time between Windows/OSx/iPhone/Android that the web app is superior.
Yeah, but maybe I just want to, you know, read an article and not replicate the fluidity and functionality of a native app. Reading articles worked just fine with NCSA Mosaic, I promise it works fine mith Mobile Safari too.
Email subscription popups ...those are annoying
TechCrunch now has a responsive layout, so forcing a desktop user agent does nothing.
And if you do the disaster rehearsal thing too many times without anything happening, i.e. cry wolf, the next time no one pays any attention, Katrina or Sandy hits, and a lot of people die that didn't need to.
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probably due to metabolism more so than activity
One of the other Germans at Farm Hall was closer to being right. He thought the Americans must have separated and enriched uranium, perhaps by building millions of mass spectrometers. The Manhattan Project tried something like that, building many huge "calutrons" which used magnetic separation to sort atoms by atomic weight. This is incredibly inefficient, but with enough money thrown at it, works. It was the Manhattan Project's plan B, in case the gaseous diffusion plants didn't work.

But the Germans never built any. They never built the huge industrial installations needed to separate uranium or make plutonium. The project never got beyond the lab stage. The Manhattan Project built several square miles of industrial plants. That was General Groves' contribution - he was a Corps of Engineers builder, had been in charge of building the Pentagon, and knew how to run a big project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calutron
He completely misread these features. Most self-driving taxis will be very small because most trips have few passengers. In a vehicle that will see as much use as a self-driving taxi, the fewer moving parts there are, the better -- you would rather have an extra door to get to the rear seats than seats moved by motors.

These are all natural evolutions of luxury car features.
If you can't measure what's important, then what you do measure becomes important
This is horribly anecdotal, since asian-american managers actually tend to be less likely to hire other asians, out of fear of looking like they are practicing favoritism toward "their own."

And your bias is probably one reason for why they constantly feel so overly self-conscious about that as well
This is why I'm super bullish on The Information (https://www.theinformation.com).
Do we choose our thoughts?
That statement in the article didn't make any sense to me. By my understanding it's a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. You can't take a process that creates waste heat and convert that into energy with less entropy, electricity in this case, and have less total resultant waste heat. Any physicists care to chime in?
"I think that what most Americans don't realise is that when people threaten to shut down the American government over women's healthcare - the craziness shakes up the risk calculus of the world and people start searching for alternatives. This is bad for America and it's bad for the world."

Great point, but I think Americans would mostly fall into two camps.

- Those who realize how bad it is, and are eternally frustrated at our politicians.

- Those who don't care about the world at large. (my feeling is due to lack of education, but that is my own bias)

But I really agree with you, political circus is the perfect way to put it.
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Similarly to the US's problems with gun violence. Other industrialised nations have implemented a solution to the problem of over-reliance on cars.
Look at Denmark. They faced similar issues in the 70's and have since methodically scaled back car infrastructure in favour of rail, cycling, walking, made possible by suitable city planning.

http://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/transport
I first learned about Agloe via this beautiful little record (CC BY-NC-SA). No affiliation but I figured I'd plug it here.

http://jkirkpearson.com/album/the-curious-appearance-of-aglo...
Also: Just because the publishing media has one of those apps, it doesn't mean that one of their writers can't express his dislike for those apps. If anything it proves that he has a certain independence from the business facing side and that's always good.
People are more likely to re-purchase a product if they like how it tastes. Sweeter = tastier.

Some will make comparisons based on labels and change, but most will re-purchase and not consider alternatives.
Haha wussy or not, damn did I get a lot of bullet proof shit done with M2. Now I have to work with the modern version of PL1. The more keywords the better the language, right?
I was trying to figure out how this works algebraically, and I think I understand for polynomials (or power series) at least. Basically, for a really small number a, ai has the property that (ai)^2 is effectively zero, so one can think of this as working with the dual numbers themselves (i.e., throwing out the x^2 term and onward in a power series). The focus on analytic functions is then because they are representable by power series at each point. I think this is what lloda is referring to.
It's also because people don't take you seriously without one.

I recently made a webapp that works 100% as well as a native app (just as fluid & just as many features), but people wondered where the 'real app' was for Android and iOS.
I always thought: "Well, those apps, I don't know. I don't use webapps on the pc anymore, because the browser does everyting. And some day, the mobile browser will be just as good and no one will need those apps."

That was before peope discovered mobile ads, access to phonebook/email etc pp.

Maybe it'll change.
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Again, speech, press and privacy protections are orthogonal to a democratic process.

People forget, but the United States had strict censorship codes for all of the television, film and comic book industries (respectively - Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters, Hays Code and Comics Code Authority) entrenched for decades, by lobbyists and powerful trade associations. Then the Fairness Doctrine for radio broadcasts, without the repeal of which talk radio would have never flourished (I'll admit a mixed blessing, but important for free speech).

Our freedom of speech is actually greater now than it ever was, but to little avail.
I'm Asian too. I don't think it's because of raw intelligence. Asians work hard, but in a very confined way, and visible way. For example in high school, you work hard in school to get into a great college, your hard work is visible.

Scientific discovery and technological innovation takes more than hard work, it takes the willingness to be obsessed with specific and sometimes obscure fields and forfeit social prestige and stability. Neither of those things are praised by the Asian culture.
I don't really mind if "big water" is a thing, but I'd like to see better packaging for it. It's amazing how many people regularly drink bottled water instead of tap water.
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> intelligence community got a nice shake-up back in Church committee days

If this were true, one would have expected reforms and curtailment to have lasted at least a few generations. This situation seems more akin to a misbehaving child who apologizes only to appease, and carries right on with their activities.

Also, please note that pure democracy - people voting with their time/money/attention/data - is what has brought us this modern surveillance nightmare of Google/Facebook/etc.
Exactly, if you put it another way, it's a highly self-selecting group. They are well educated, highly motivated and driven, and are so focused on "making it" whatever that means, they are willing to move to a foreign country that has the promise of being "better".

My wife's parents fit that definition, and interestingly, all her uncles and aunts who came to America are over-performing here in America, and all the ones who stayed are underperforming in Asia.
I never understood how soda doesn't feel like it has 17 teaspoons of sugar in it because I've made lemonade with 2-3 teaspoons of sugar and it feels just as sweet.
No, and thank God for that. The only thing Rootless prevents is system modification like iOS jailbreak, i.e. prevents tinkering with the system with things like debugging running processes or modifying system files (for example, utilities that modify the UI theme don't work with Rootless). Most malware out there is not that sophisticated, does not try to modify the OS and can still happily live in any other location of the system, like any other program.
Well, you don't always have a water bottle and a place to fill it up from. That said, I agree that general societal pressure to reduce the number of pint/quart-size throwaway bottles is desirable in the same vein as reducing the use of throwaway plastic grocery bags. At the same time, given the choice between people buying bottles of water and bottles of soda, the former counts as progress in general and I'm not sure we want to discourage it.
He has to notice them first. With a normal red light, the car doesn't move, period.
If you've read Last and First Men, Lem wrote an review/essay of it: http://dpuadweb.depauw.edu/icronay_web/lem%20stapledon.html

(I've read the essay but not the work itself. It's quite thought-provoking itself, like most of Lem's writing.)
What if you were given 10X the amount of money you wanted to raise?
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