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The SF Chronicle did a great exposé on the bay bridge earlier this year. The Chronicle explains how the committee that selected the bridge was made up of specialists in fields only tangentially related to the job at hand — seismic experts, building engineers and architects. These people had not designed bridges before, and chose the design based on aesthetics, not practicality. When given a choice between two bridges: a conventional cable-stayed one at $1.5B and an experimental self-anchored suspension at $1.7B, they chose the attention-grabbing bridge over the practical one. This led to the enormous cost overruns we see today.

Note that the bridge isn't unsafe, the modern span is much, much safer than the old WW2 era span. The new bridge won't collapse in an earthquake. However, because of design failures and shoddy construction, it will last much shorter than planned.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-s-troubles-...
I tried to read this article, but after a few paragraphs I still didn't know why I should care about this guy, so I stopped reading.
> But it's only three hours of celestial navigation — so students won't be skilled with sextants.

Looks like they won't even get a sextant out of its box
Very intresting. This is what I've got when trying to post it on facebook:

You can't post this because it has a blocked link
The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe:

http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-partys-over-eu...

Please remove this link to continue.
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In a project I tried both chord and sente and settled on chord. Chord was much simpler.

It was a point to point system. Sente seemed to have better support for point to multipoint (like a chat app). It was overkill for what we were doing and chord fit the bill nicely.

https://github.com/jarohen/chord
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Thank you. For any other searchers, Jaybo [0] says this in Episode 0202 [1] of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (not "Star Wars: Clone Wars" - an earlier series, of which I thought my encyclopedic knowledge had failed me, spurring my question).

[0] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaybo_Hood
[1] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mystery_of_a_Thousand_Moons
Windows 7 marketshare is now under 5%?

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Checked it, indeed it is blocked.
http://i.imgsafe.org/d64b8e5.png
There is joke in Poland that goes like this:

Polish minister goes to France to meet his counterpart. They meet in an amazing office and he asks his french college
- How did you get money to build this?
- Can you see the bridge outside the window?
- Yes.
- 500 mln on paper, built it for 250. Voilà.

After a year they meet again in Poland in even bigger an more magnificent building. French minister ask:
- How did you get money?
- Can you see the bridge outside the window?
- No.
- Voilà.
The direct quote from the article: the report does not say who fired the missile
Ok, now I see that you are complaining that the JSON Schema language is not strong enough. In this case I think people should create better new schame languages for JSON, as I find that the JSON syntax is better suited to data than XML, which is better suited to marked up text. (maps, arrays and atomic literals are fundamental data concepts, while tags, attributes, free text are closer to mark-up. )
Wolves also returned (naturally I believe) to Denmark last year:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/denmark/112...
Exactly. It is very easy to fool yourself when your entire career is on the line if you don't.
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Is this really a good strategy? I'm sure it works in a lots of cases, but reading the paper (https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/papers/hogwildTR.pdf) I wonder if they wouldn't often be better served by a faster locking scheme.

If the collisions truly are rare, an optimized optimistic CAS nonblocking locking scheme seems like it shouldn't add much overhead. At least in the relatively common case of a single CPU with a shared L3, I'm surprised that locking would be the bottleneck.
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Surely not. The example given was a faulty throttle on a car. If that breach of warranty results in serious injury or damage to others, I suspect you'd want more than a refund.
On Firefox, the maximum number of digits that yield values different to 1 are:

javascript:alert(1.000000000000001);
Yes. This was the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994554. Wrote them an email, was hired a week later and still work there.
The thing with XML is it's actually much lower level. There are no types inferred by an XML document. It's literally just chunks of data. JSON defines strings, boolean, maps, arrays, numbers.

It's conceptually easier to think about JSON with simple data sets but it's terribly inflexible and you have to think about how things are represented inside strings. A couple of thought exercises on JSON:

1. How do you represent an image inside JSON?

2. How do you represent a reference to another part of the data in JSON (consider a DAG for example)?

3. How do you represent an ordered set or an unordered set in JSON?

4. How do you represent an unsigned value in JSON?
This is one reason why lynx are often suggested as a first big predator to reintroduce. They keep to forests, while sheep graze on open ground. Sheep can be protected with fences (keeping them from spreading too thin), livestock guardian dogs, and active shepherding. Farmers just resent the effort.
This is a good idea I hadn't thought of. Thanks!
Well, it's completely orthogonal, really. Capsule makes it very easy to package and deploy single-app servlet containers (like, say, Jetty), but if you wanted to you could also package JBoss as a single capsule JAR. If it can run on the JVM -- it can be packaged with Capsule (and if not, let us know and we'll fix it!)
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> The fact is living in apartments is very common all across Continental Europe

I had to google what a "Brutalist architecture" is. Turns out it's somewhat similar to how Central and Eastern Europe countries look like as a whole: socialists governments used to love this style and were building tons of these. It's now extremely common. Wikipedia says that 1/3 of Czechs live in buildings like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Dlhe_die...

Which is probably representative to the whole former Eastern Bloc. Here in Poland these building were being built from 1950-ties to early 1990-ties, non-stop, one after another, district after district, city (and, to a lesser degree, town and village too!) after city.

I've lived all my life in one or another of those. They are old, very badly constructed and ugly as hell, but they are inhabitable and they provide homes for millions of people. It's somewhat gross to hear your neighbour peeing at night, but it somewhat "works" - you have a cheap shelter for really many people close to city centres.

I don't really want to make any point, I just wanted to provide some context to your statement about how common living in apartments is on this side of the Berlin wall.
from decimal import Decimal
n = Decimal("1.0000000000000000000000000000001")

just because float is the default, doesn't mean you have to use it. JSON doesn't have anything else, though.
"Forest" used to mean hunting preserve before it was retconned to mean "a lot of trees".
With so many Uber drivers on the road, it's definitely a good thing. However the fear is that an Uber driver who has an iPhone and uses Facebook might get three alerts. If every app on a person's phone would start raising amber alerts, people might start disabling these alerts.

Hopefully there will be a way in future to consolidate these alerts so that people are not over whelmed.
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Perhaps US politicians should then consider being a Safe Harbour for data themselves. I'm sure that if the US would not have, for example, used their anti-terror apparatus to spy on foreign oil companies [0] and have some more respect for other countries [1] (most NSA criticism focuses on US citizens), things might have been different. I'm very glad the EU is standing up for itself, it should do the same when it comes to TTIP.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/07/eu-us-dip...
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Moxie Marlinspike's documentary "Hold fast" (2010) [1] inspired me to learn how to use a sextant. Most of the sextants you can get on eBay these days are just for decoration, however.

[1] "Hold Fast: Stories of maniac sailors, anarchist castaways, and the voyage of the S/V Pestilence..." https://vimeo.com/15351476
Their paying version is actually quite acceptably priced really, so if I was a reader, I'd probably already be paying...

What irritates me is all the others who think they all deserve £9.99 a month. Everyone wants £9.99 a month, even for services/sites you might use twice a month or less.

The sooner they realize it's not acceptable for users to have 5 or 8 of these going, and they need to readjust their prices, the better they will be...
> all the positive discrimination is doing is countering the negative prejudices

IMHO positive discrimination might only reinforce those prejudices.

"Haha, look at those women, they need a head start!"

"Damm, women are so weak they need lower standards to join the firefighters."

"Women need their own separate tournaments because they couldn't even face the worst male team."

All things I heard.

I'm pretty sure there is discrimination around. I'm just not sure positive discrimination helps at all, or only makes us feel like we're doing something.

On the other hand, female-only tournaments (like in some sports) encourage the underrepresented gender to participate, since they're more likely to succeed and feel like they can achieve something, and then maybe get to the same level as males in the long run.

It's a complex problem, though. Teenage females are, on average, slower when running than their male counterparts, and this won't change no matter how much positive discrimination you throw at it. I feel like a bigot just by saying it but, hey, I think it's true and it's been proven (e.g. soccer USWNT scrimmaged against the U-17 USMNT and was beaten 8-2, purely by physical advantage). Sometimes life itself discriminates and IMHO we have to accept it too. Maybe positive discrimination is the only way to work around it? How are we going to get rid of the biological discrimination, to then then get rid of the positive discrimination? I don't think we can. I think we just have to accept it and normalize it and be fine with each person having different aptitudes and traits.

Unfortunately I don't have any alternative methods to get rid of negative discrimination :( I like to think this is an education issue that will get fixed over generations and, in my eyes, it's indeed slowly getting fixed (unless some event sets the progress back, like it's happened in history multiple times... that's what we'd have to work against.)

I like to think my country (Spain) is pretty progressive on getting rid of discrimination, be it gay, female, racial, etc. I think we've come a long way on getting rid of it, and I think education (e.g. TV shows including gay people) was the only factor that helped. I mention gay people because we're one of the most progressive countries on that regard and, indeed, the problem wasn't solved by positive discrimination but, simply, by normalization.

Change came from heroes setting example, not underdogs in need of help.
This quote hits close to home: “Basically at the onset of a project I think the higher ups prefer a dollar amount and schedule that doesn’t shock the public.”

When the people who are not knowledgeable about the actual details of the project require their expectations to be met, other expectations of theirs will not be met (the classic "fast, cheap, or good, choose two" joke). I like to say to people making unreasonable demands "Do you want to be disappointed now, or later?"
It looks like Transit can be late-bound - like JSON: you don't need to know or negotiate the schema ahead of the serialization.
Would the middle east also consider the difference positive?

Hell, the NATO bombings in Serbia happened just 15 years ago. That was pretty damn close to home for some of us. I have many friends who remember the bombings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

And 20 years ago NATO bombed a different part of Yugoslavia that was even closer to where I grew up.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force

I am really happy that Slovenia was able to secede from Yugoslavia without NATO bombings. Although I do remember hiding in the cellar one night when the sirens went off. Luckily no actual air raid occured.
This isn't just an impediment to businesses that deal in selling "sensitive private data". It's an impediment to any business that has any data about its customers (e.g. delivery addresses).

Unless I'm misunderstanding it?
>> As far as true nanotech goes, we've had it for about 4.5 billion years. It's called biology

Small nitpick. Earth is around 4.6 byo. Life, as far as anyone knows, is about one billion years younger.
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I agree that it's useful for a TV but the 21.5" iMac is too small for that anyway - however if you want to edit 4k video, it's super useful to have extra pixels to be able to display a full UHD image with some GUI elements surrounding it.
Firstly, you've misunderstood Ephesians 5 (and probably the rest of the letter).

Secondly, you're using an argument from silence based on one particular passage to misrepresent the Bible's view of polygamy. The Bible only has one perspicuous model of marriage.

Thirdly, you can't really slip a piece of paper between Paul (or Peter or James or John or any other apostle for that matter) and Jesus. They either stand or fall together. You can't pick or choose.

Actually, the more I study the various Epistles and Jesus' teaching, the more encouraged I am to see how remarkably harmonious it is. Not that this should surprise anyone, Jesus himself said of Paul: "This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel." (Acts 9:15).

You can't have the Father but reject his Son. You can't have the Son but reject his servants.
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RYA Yachtmaster course requires celestial navigation and some schools even require candidates to perform the navigation on the qualifying passage (couple hundred nm) without GPS.
I read it a couple of times, I think that's what he is saying why they chose that resolution.
The European mainland is big on intentional rewilding, but a lot of the time the animals simply walk. Britain, obviously, is kind of stuffed for that. (In fact, we have been since Doggerland flooded, which is why even at peak biodiversity in this interglacial, Britain was a bit short on wildlife compared to the continent.)
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It's not valid JSON to start with.
This may have been a bit of a discouraging post with respect to MSVC,
but do not worry — in a subsequent post we’ll take a look at MSVC-specific
constructs which, while not necessarily standard-compliant, are nevertheless
interesting and often quite usable

bah. Everything about the MSVC compiler is pretty much terrible.

Having some extra non standards compliant features in no way mitigates its terribleness.

The only good thing we can take from these articles is that yes, the guys at Microsoft have acknowledge how bad the situation is, and are actually trying to do something about it.

honestly? I'll believe it when I see it.

Breaking backwards compatibility is a nightmare because lots of libraries depend on the very particular way the MSVC compiler works; but that means you can't actually fix bugs.

So long story short, there's probably never going to be a 'good' version of MSVC. It'll pretty much be stuck with its peculiarities forever.

Maybe one day we'll get a 'new' compiler that can sit along the legacy one and actually compile, you know, the C++ standard. I'm not holding my breath, but hey, we can daydream...
As soon as you are making a schema for JSON you've eliminated XML with no good justification. More and more, people are re-inventing XML on top of JSON: schemas, namespace, the works.
JSON is great because when you don't need all the things that XML solves it's extremely succint and readable. Use any single copied feature from XML and it turns out being more verbose and less readable than XML.

Use the right tool for the job.
Fun fact: all our perceptions of other people's emotion is "in our mind". Doesn't make the perception invalid.
The Lutheran Catechism differs from the Catholic on several points of theology, particularly the Lutheran orthogonality of salvation and sanctification [0], which are joint pursuits in Roman Catholicism. Regarding the nature of the hosts, Roman Catholics argue transubstantiation [1], and Lutherans speak "mu" to the question [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_fide

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_presence_of_Christ_in_the...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_presence_of_Christ_in_the...
The US is not known for applying laws to rich people.
I have much the same sentiment with SQLite. Much dismissed as a toy database, but absolutely appropriate for 99% of my clients - small and medium businesses, the same as mentioned in thread.
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The server side rendering looks really interesting (I've been getting into SVG for mobile web graphics). Are there other SVG libs that do server side rendering, or is this unique as it seems?
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Lack of wolves and bears has caused some interesting side effects in Southern England where I live. Namely, the deer population has exploded as their only predator is now the motorcar. It's pretty cool seeing massive flocks of them and the occasional close encounter on my mountain bike; I once fed one some lettuce from a sandwich.

On the other hand, they are eating all the woods, starting with the saplings which is causing real harm to the sustainability of forests.

Predictably, the notion of culling some is very controversial, especially from nature loving people. But the alternative is bringing back the wolves. The wolves will do lots of wolfy things like killing dogs and eating livestock and be equally controversial.

(edit: SPAG)
One reason for using something like Transit in browser-land is performance, believe it or not. According to tests we did (6+ months ago, so take with some salt) there was significantly less latency in deserializing Transit, which matters more than size on the wire in some cases. This is because Transit is just JSON with some semantics added, so in the simple case it's just a `JSON.parse` away from being a usable data structure in Javascript. Of course, if you actually want to make use of Transit features, you'll want a reader, but these can be made very performant (especially if you don't have to support all features) so latency can still be kept very low.

There are other reasons as well, but deserialization latency is a big one.
Yes, it's personal data, ie., data that identifies or allows for the identification of a person.
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Please report it to them - the more reports the better.
I think what is interesting is how they recognised a real issue in the potential for corruption/nepotism and designed this issue out of the selection process.

I also think it was quite interesting how they had a preference for existing businesses from a commitment point of view (and probably to prevent corruption) and how they now think this was wrong.

Will be interesting to see the results form Phases 2-4.
I know. This was intentional and I'm glad someone noticed it finally.

Run it through JSON lint ( http://jsonlint.com/ ), then fix the error (unquoted number text), then run it again and watch the data loss occur due to my original point...
> "Loosely speaking"

I would encourage you to read Jesus more closely, for example, the Sermon on the Mount:

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5

If you are sincerely interested in understanding things like the ceremonial law, civil law, moral law, Old Covenant, New Covenant, then I can point you to some excellent study guides and sermons.
It's not that they are unaware. I talked to Jon Callas of SilentCircle at MWC back in 2014 and he was totally aware of the isuue. Back then he argued that the BlackPhone 1 was a first generation product and they would solve the issue later on.
It's disappointing that they haven't managed to do so by now, but it's not completely surprising. The market for baseband chips (and their software) only has a few big players and it takes considerable resources to implement an LTE stack.
And in my city they’ve started live-streaming the operas and concerts to big video walls in multiple squares around the city, most of which in low-income areas.
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It's been removed.
Anyone have a copy/screenshot of this?
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> "I hope you don't wear any cotton/polyester blends."

That's an odd way to answer someone who's actually given you a thoughtful reply.
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The early Victorian era saw the greatest separation between the roles of the sexes in Western culture (they even had rooms for men and rooms for women), and is the source of modern sexism -- a notion which is often misunderstood by many (and viewed as accusatory, even though it is merely descriptive). At the core of Victorian sexism lies the notion (which had not been so pronounced, or well-formulated before) that women are to be treated well -- adored even -- but completely removed from all power. Their activities were to be limited to the domestic sphere (although that started slowly changing in the late 1840s), which was their domain. As this document says, a woman is to be well-treated, and even indulged -- but matters of importance are left for the husband alone. To this day, this is the core of most lines of feminism, and a cause of confusion to those who don't understand what modern sexism means. Some confuse sexism with misogyny -- which is disdain towards women -- while the two are separate. Sexism (at least in modern times) is a feature of a society where women are kept away from power, regardless of how respectfully they are treated. This is our heritage from the Victorian era.

As time went by, laws and traditions have changed as they always do -- slowly but surely -- and sexism (as well as racism) has become less overt and clear, but much of the essence -- less power for women -- sadly remains to this day (and this, too, will change, slowly but surely).
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