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To reuse the recent slogan, the only thing that changed is everything.

It's a new language with its own internal logic.

I used (and still use) Perl 5 because it made some specific things easy to make (various processing of data). I still don't know for which kind of tasks Perl 6 is the best choice. But maybe the language is simply too young for it to be obvious?
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To be fair Japanese writing is insane and they know it. It's far too difficult.
I agree with you. I think a chars functions isn't the best name in the sense that it returns the length of the string instead of a list of its individual characters.

It makes me wonder if this will be the case for other methods in the language.
Perl 6 is not different, its a new language. You don't transition from Perl 5 to Perl 6. You learn Perl 6 as a new language and use it.

That's completely different compared to the case of Python, where Python 3 is a continuation from Python 2. But breaks backwards compatibility with the entire ecosystem. Bulk of the language remains same, you are migrating non backwards compatible parts.
Eh, you're a bit off. You can find compiled quotes in lots of places, and individual quotes from any broker or dealer, so there are other systems that do this (maybe none that have exactly ALLQs same dealers giving quotes). But you're right saying that many times these prices are indicative quotes from dealers.
This doesn't require a huge database, but as interesting use, the games are used to generate chess-themed CAPTCHAs, example here: http://en.lichess.org/signup
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The biggest danger is the government believing they "solved" autonomous killing machines that kill people based on the NSA's mass spying apparatus, when in fact such robots could have many false positives. In fact, they already do that. It's just a human that pushes the button. When the decision will become automated, such strikes will grow 10 or 100 fold, just like the drone strikes increased "air strikes" by 100-1000x fold in the Middle East, too.

It's simple logic really. When it's easy and cheap, they'll just do a lot more of it, and with much more relaxed rules, because every single strike is not a huge deal (to them) anymore, so they can afford to kill "less important" targets, or even "false positives", because there are a lot more strikes where that one came from.
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> Reddit has major problems with its community and racism and sexism and the like

Do they though? Reddit's getting 200 million unique views every single month. That's approaching youtube/facebook levels of traffic. Reddit isn't a small community anymore. It's a massive website that represents everyone from all walks of life.

For example, you don't hear people claiming that facebook or youtube has a problem with "racism and sexism". Why is that the case, even though it does have a problem with those things? Because people expect it there due the sheer size of those sites. Well, reddit isn't some small community website any more. It's nearly the size of google/youtube and is about to overtake twitter in traffic. I think it's time we stop treating it like some small time website and start treating it like the behemoth it has become.
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I think it's great what you're doing (DDG is my default search engine). And I'm glad you're profitable so you can stay alive.

But I'd like to think that if you could find a way other than ads, you'd take it in a heartbeat, even if you made less profit, but as long as you could be self-sustaining. Is that true?

I have a very strong opinion about advertising and its effects on the web. I would love to hear your feedback on them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047706

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961025

I'm trying to spin up a movement to shift the web away from its reliance on ads. Let me know if you can be an advisor or resource for that. One day I might thank you in the way you thank all those other founders you listed above. :)
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Mostly correct, most financial and commodity institutions I've visited make heavy use of their (extremely expensive) keyboards.
I think this partly comes because the american system is so fragmented.

I believe that in places with centralized healthcare systems, there are people who are responsible to understand the new drugs, both at the level of the healthcare provider and the health ministry - and they guide doctors on what to prescribe.

This makes sense because they don't have a conflict of interest(unless bribed).
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I work for talkdesk - would be happy to talk and try to address your concerns re: smoke/mirrors. Certainly not what we're trying to do. I'm at james dot alonso at talkdesk.com.
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http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/salt/mcs-20... says solar salt is $50/ton ($0.05/kg). I doubt that's even break-even price after transport for a small scale producer if that's how much the commodity broker will resell it at. It's maybe same or less than the price of sand?
> That's just petty.

I think it's pretty fair actually - I don't want anyone (particularly children) to be forcibly vaccinated. But people should realize that choosing not to be vaccinated may cause harm to others and in that case it seems fair to be able to obtain compensation via the courts.
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> The default should not be for the state to force someone to...

I agree.

> The state should justify why they're doing it

And they do: herd immunity, which is supported by convincing scientific evidence.

I didn't say liberty should be violated by default. We are no longer in a default position -- the argument has already been made and it is apparent that vaccination is justified as a social good. As a member of a society, sometimes social good takes priority over individual liberty. My argument is that if people still want to reject it, they need to explain why their liberty should come before others' health. (This is a rhetorical request I don't expect someone will be able to convince me of, though some may hold this view.)
The last thing you said is probably the most accurate of the comments so far :) Most simply don't have time / can't be bothered to make these changes when the system works fine as it has for 15 years and you have $5mm PNL swings each day.
Compelling to do good things and compelling to prevent bad things are a duality. They're equivalent in their effects, and you can easily transform one to the other. Punishing people for doing wrong is compelling them to receive a punishment deemed good. "Thou must go to jail."

"Personal autonomy. Your body, your choice."

That's a nice slogan, but it isn't actually realized anywhere. It's always your choice when there's a clear advantage -- that is, when the state doesn't "know best" about your body. And it absolutely reserves the right control your body for the greater good.

"Can the state compel everyone to be a vegan unless they can show proof of a medical condition that would make it unworkable?"

They can if there is good evidence to show a vegan diet is strictly superior to all others.

So for a more appropriate example, it can compel you to use a seatbelt in an automobile, because there are real social costs to not doing so. It doesn't matter if you want to take a risk, once you go to the hospital, you are utilizing a public resource. And the state has a responsibility to ensure those resources are available and used efficiently, which means preventing unnecessary emergencies. (Like what would occur if you contracted something like polio.)
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method length

Perl 6 does not have a length function. See chars or elems.
If they would have converted the school shooting story to a funny gif or an image demeaning to women, I'm sure it would have trended to the top of reddit within seconds.
They do really cool stuff with with data, including puzzle generation. lichess is worth checking out.
Don't you think web push shall soon bury newsletters?
It's at the same URL as the live stream:

http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event

But yeah there should be a big link right on the front of Microsoft.com to watch the recorded event.
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Am I correct to assume this movie makes no mention of his systematic illegal wage suppression?
As someone who has been on the front page of Reddit multiple times, it's incredibly important for the person who manage the post, and for the community.
This is exactly right, and isn't a new problem either - it's literally always been the case.

I would almost argue that public debate doesn't really matter - it's always just a small handful of activists who get things changed (for better or worse).
True. And we should also target doctors that give shitty treatment as a result of such shenanigans.
Bit distasteful, no?
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Interesting... This function from your project:
https://github.com/qsantos/spyce/blob/master/cext/orbit.c#L8...

Looks somewhat similar to what I did a few years ago in a now-abandoned project of mine:
https://github.com/rikusalminen/libkepler/blob/master/src/ke...

Did you by any chance, happen to look at my code for reference? Or are they somewhat similar just out of coincidence and similar naming conventions? If you did, in fact, look at my project for reference, I'm glad to have helped!

Just for comparison, here's the orbit determination from initial conditions code from a newer project of mine. It doesn't compute the classical orbital directly, because that tends to add numerical error (ie. first you compute inclination using acos() and a moment later you compute the orientation matrix using cos(inclination)).

https://github.com/rikusalminen/twobody/blob/master/include/...

You can, of course, get the classical elements from the orbit, they are useful for presenting human-readable numbers.
Because they enjoy it, and it helps develop hand-eye coordination and small hand muscles. :)

edit: Also, I thought I'd read that coloring things as an adult helped release stress.
length is gone. See:

http://design.perl6.org/S29.html#Obsolete_Functions

"length()

This word is banned in Perl 6. You must specify units. In practice, this probably means you want Str.chars(), although it could be Str.bytes(), or even something else. See S32-setting-library/String for details."
Obligatory "use HMAC over random tokens": https://neosmart.net/blog/2015/using-hmac-signatures-to-avoi...
"the only remaining endemic WPV1 strains are now restricted to Pakistan and Afghanistan."

Not mentioned is that this is likely due to the hunt for Osama bin Laden: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacci...
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I generally agree with LordKano, and in the same positions of having been vaccinated myself and my kids. At the same time I really don't like state-mandated vaccines. For philosophical reasons first of all ("Your body, your choice"). But also for practical, as it presents a great possibility of abuse; as an example impagine corrupt officials mandating unnecessary vaccination of BigPharma's profit.

> If you don't get vaccinated, and you get sick, then you infect everyone else. You don't have the right to choose to infect other people.

I would NOT be against public schools mandating vaccines in order for children to attend school. Same for places of employment.
>That is, the unwritten rules about what was politically possible.

I've spoken with some of the people named in this thread and I think this is probably the most concise explanation for some of the questions being raised on Lehman v AIG.
Hardly - if you are not using HTTPS in the first place then sending the hash across the wire instead of the password are the least of your worries.
When it comes to blades, I'd rather be called "incompetent" than dead. a quick youtube or liveleak search shows more than a few of these 'competent' police getting killed.
Would be cool if you could rotate the charts in all 3 axes, especially the scatterplot.

Yay.
Dear HN,

A bit over two years ago, this community helped my brother and I take little more than a dream and a barely-working prototype [1] and turn it into a fledgling product that we were able to launch that same summer.

From Day 1, we wanted to empower designers to build complex database-driven websites visually, but it took us another 18 months of engineering to make this work the way we envisioned. We're incredibly proud to start rolling it out today, and would love to hear your feedback!

Cheers,
Vlad

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499
Woot! Nice throughput improvement over traditional LSM types with both read and write accelerated.
The principal of my high school in Georgia walked with crutches due to polio, so it's within our lifetimes. (I'm 40…)
I don't think you really mean "SF". What you are describing sounds like the tech industry, and even then a small slice of it. There are many women, and immigrant-hostile natives, and even immigrant-friendly natives for that matter, in the SF Bay Area.

It's a wonderful place to live actually, and to raise kids, as long as you can afford the cost of a good standard of living here.

And despite what the article connotes, most people in tech are not using illegal drugs frequently or ever.
That's true. And while it may not justify their sentences, those crack dealers also sold their deadly product to friends, fathers, sons, brothers, uncles nephews....
"massive website that has very real impacts on the media "

Top stories as of now that have real impacts on the media:
* This Lamborghini is hot
* Funny Face book picture
* My manager and I when the new intern showed up not wearing a bra
* cat picture
I'll take your outrage at face value and answer thusly: Adults can make decisions for themselves that you wouldn't make for yourself, and this is not only acceptable, it is vastly preferable to a world with only you making the decisions.
Facebook does have a problem with racism, not just that but the Germany's minister of justice and Angela Merkel have recently confronted Facebook about it.
Go check the front page of reddit and get back to me.
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For those not actually familiar with it, polio can spread into the spine and portions of the brain, killing neurons. This can cause paralysis and severe pain, and for some cases affect the ability to breathe. It was the original target of the March of Dimes, which helped provide support and (once available) vaccines.

Polio patients with breathing problems are where the "iron lung" was most widely used; it's basically a box or tube for the whole body except the head, with just enough seal and a timed low-level vacuum to allow the lungs to expand then contract when the low pressure is released.
Big win for public health. I'm sure the others won't be far behind.

In this same vein, go read the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on smallpox for a jolt of pride in human progress. "Smallpox WAS an infectious disease..."
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The spec: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-h...

SVG tags are banned. Isn't this taking the web a little backwards, seeing as interactive components like D3.js won't be supported?
And we've solved this problem ever since the invention of the "Mute this player" button.
The problem I have with thee sorts of debates is that fundamentals are very hard to argue against in principle. But in effect, practical "compromises" can often serve both goals better than a single purists solution.

I happen to believe in both liberty and public health.

In practice, vaccinations against infectious diseases need to hit certain percentages, not 100% of the population. With free vaccination, post natal health care, school programs and public education campaigns we can hit those numbers, and we do so regularly.

There's no need for the gross violation of freedom some people fear, locking up parents or declaring them unfit, tying people to a chair and needling them. Doing this voluntarily puts more onus on the system to be smart and high functioning, invest in education and making people comfortable with the whole thing. It increases the pressure to reduce side effects, inconvenience, cost, fear and any other barrier to getting kids vaccinated. Generally, the whole thing works better.

The fundamentalist is not serving principles more faithfully than the centrist or pragmatist. She's often just being argumentative and trying to be right to the detriment of her principles.

Declaring all state involvement or authority to be (equally?) coercive and violent is silly, thinking in discreet categories when the world of human beings is fuzzy. Ignoring people's agency in the decision to vaccinate them or their children is an obvious violation is a basic morally deafness.

I see comments like these from smart people who think more deeply about such things than the average person. It's baffling. Almost makes me think that the whole enterprise of moral philosophy and political philosophy is counter-productive. People fall into traps of vainly searching for consistency and leave their moral sense behind, with common sense far behind.

TLDR: There is no reason to forgo obesity for vaccination or vaccination for freedom. People are motivated into these arguments by a desire to be right, not to help people be free or healthy.
I looked at the PDF. All I see is someone's opinion. Where is the data?
I used twitter quite a bit for a couple years, tried to be a good "pro user" that gets tons of value from the service by painstakingly curated my own feed, and eventually left because it was all too much. I'm interested in news, have little interest in my friends (on twitter that is; I like my friends more in real life) and zero interest in celebrities. If that makes me a "casual", oh well! Moments seems like a fantastic product to me, and might bring me back as a user.
Doc bug. Github issue is here https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/96

Fixing right now.
Complaining about verifiability when you want a validated grade for a class you've paid for is uncalled for.
Yet other police forces in the western world deal with similar knives, and larger, without resorting to killing the person with the weapon.

A quick youtube search shows police in England or Germany or etc subduing then arresting people with weapons.

Why can they do it while US police can't? It's because i) US police have much less training and ii) US police can use their guns almost with impunity. The fact that the US doesn't even bother to count the number of people killed by police should tell you something.
Furthermore, the obsession with mid-career salaries is misplaced. Four problems:

1. Focusing on the mid-career salaries can over-value college. Without longer-running longitudinal data, you're essentially just measuring whether colleges / universities provide people with skills that are in high demand in the decade or so following graduation. That says absolutely nothing about the critical back half of people's careers, when they should be earning more than ever and putting a lot of it away for retirement and/or funding the higher education (or business ventures etc.) of their children and/or investing in or starting new businesses.

2. It reeks of (bad) central planning. Is it any surprise that Software Engineers are in such short supply and Lawyers in such over-supply? People were just making "rational" choices when shying away from CS following the dot com bubble burst, and now we have a massive under-supply of skilled software engineers (and, conversely, an over-supply of other types of professions that were supposed to be highly paid). And in X years, everyone's going to shut up about STEM when there's a dip and it's hard to find a high paying job in software. And then we'll be asking why all these idiots are taking out loans to get degrees in CS.

3. Focusing on the mid-career under-values college. Many of the benefits of a well-rounded education -- improved writing, increased awareness of one's own culture and others' cultures, familiarity with different fields, interaction with people who have varying interests, deep connections to people who go into other industries -- are skills that pay dividents especially long after the mid-point in a career. The last one or two decades of a career are when employees are being paid for their insight, discipline, awareness of both the big picture and details, and ability to communicate in addition or even instead of rote technical skills that came from their major.

4. Salary is a poor indicator for the value-add of college at the societal level. If we're going to go down this (ill-advised) route, we should also be measuring things like health of family life, degree to which people contribute back to their community (by taking on voluntary leadership roles), etc.
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FWIW, I feel that the first paragraph in particular is eerily applicable to the punditocracy over the past 5 years or so with regard to both Putin and ISIS, and that gives this old essay especial interest at the present moment.
Doge is just a currently popular meme thing though. Although I stay away from stuff like this, I am pretty sure it is already 'over'.
FWIW, Brown University was doing research in this *Pad field (stylus-based input apps for domain specific notations) in the late 90s/2000s. I was a member of this group for a brief period of time. It's really exciting to see a resurgence in high quality pen computing with affordable, entry-level consumer hardware like the Surface 3.

Music Notepad (original): http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/music/home.html

Music Notepad (tabletpc):
http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/music/tpc.html

Mathpad:
(Commercialized) http://www.fluiditysoftware.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAFGONn4KoQ

Chempad:
http://pen.cs.brown.edu/research.html#chempad
The discussion in the article makes it seem like they are considering an adjustment for the fact that many users only view the front page, creating a somewhat artifactual disparity in votes received between front page and non-front page submissions.

Sounds like a plausible explanation, good intuition, and a good idea.
Both Facebook and Google have terms of service that ban large classes of abuse that Reddit explicitly permits (or at least permitted until very recent changes). Facebook doesn't allow a "Coontown" group, and Youtube will take down a similarly themed video or channel.

People on Facebook don't see content unless they're somehow connected with it, and Youtube comments, while garbage, are a tiny (or nonexistent) part of most people's interaction with the site.

Reddit is different. The entire site is comments, and at least in some cases, you have organized groups targeting people who weren't even aware of their existence (e.g., the brigading that got fatpeoplehate banned). It's completely fair to say that Reddit faces community problems that go above what Facebook and Google face. Twitter's probably the much better analogy, but PR wise at least, even Twitter's problems are dwarfed by the public perception of Reddit.
I don't care if it's opt-out, opt-in, opt-whatever. The infotainment system does not need this data. I want to connect my phone to my car radio, not my car radio to my car's ECU. If Android Auto needs GPS data, I have a perfectly good one on my phone (with "easy to manage" permissions).

Of course, this is a battle that's already lost.
Shouldn't this technology work just as well for accelerating non-mobile web pages?
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