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I am well aware of the purpose of gas. What I have not seen is any argument (from @drdeca or anyone else) that gas materially simplifies the problem of verifying that a contract behaves properly (from your perspective, as one of the parties to the contract) in all circumstances. The fact that it will always halt is only a tiny step along that road, and if it halts as a result of running out of gas, that is strong evidence that it has not worked as intended.

An example may be useful. Suppose I tell you that I have written an Ethereum contract whereby people can loan me money, and after a year, I will pay them back double. Before you enter into one such contract with me, I hope it would cross your mind to wonder if I might actually be running a Ponzi scheme. Don't worry, I say, Ethereum has this gas feature that means the transaction will always halt. How much more confident should that information make you feel?

As for your alternatives, gas is essentially the same as limiting the time of computation. If backwards jumps were disallowed, the language would not be even approximately Turing-equivalent.
Maybe they stopped transmitting because a bacterium ate all their room-temperature superconductors.
I wasn’t and still am not trying to be rude – it looks like a neat class, the pages at http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/lecture-intro/ are filled with lovely examples, it’s clear a bunch of work has gone into the library, and it’s great to release code as open source – but I still don’t quite understand.

SVG already has a certain kind of “scene graph”. It’s made up of nested groups of objects in the DOM, where each group can accept an affine transformation via a 3x3 matrix (or an explicit rotation, translation, or scale). Like the rest of SVG, working with this can be done either declaratively or procedurally.

Is the goal of this library to be low-level building blocks on top of which students will build a more abstracted / higher-level library?

(P.S. With respect to color, I strongly urge everyone to avoid HSL/HSV to the extent possible (I wrote most of this Wikipedia page if that gives me any credibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV). These color models are a trivially thin shim over RGB, and are not directly relevant to human color vision. Working with them is unintuitive and tends to lead artists to severe misconceptions. Itten’s color theory is no better: Itten was a dabbler and a mystic who ignored the known color science of his time and mostly just made stuff up without much apparent reasoning – in my opinion much less capable with color than other Bauhaus artists such as Paul Klee or Wassily Kandinsky or teachers such as Josef Albers. Albers was a great teacher because (unlike the didactic Itten) he didn’t try to impose his vision, but built his pedagogy around making students learn for themselves through direct experience doing studies with colored paper.

Better is to use a system more aligned with the dimensions of human color perception, such as the Munsell color system, CIELAB, or CIECAM02. If you want a Javascript implementation of the latter, I put one up at https://github.com/jrus/chromatist a few years ago. But there are also several javascript libraries around for interacting with the simpler CIELAB and CIELUV models.

If you have questions about human color vision, color reproduction technologies, color models, etc. feel free to email me, I’ve spent several years studying those in great depth, and would be happy to recommend books or other resources.)
"As soon as you are making a schema for JSON you've eliminated XML with no good justification"

Sure, if you don't consider "human-readable" a good justification. Some of us do.
I'd be interested in more book suggestions.
It only took one click to find that demo from your link.

https://www.unrealengine.com/showcase/epic-citadel/
Previously, why didn't they have a reference gram instead of a kilogram? Seems like it'd be easier to create and maintain, and transport.
I think there is a point to that.

But I am almost tempted to add github users to that list too. Recently I see a lot of young guys who seem to have forgotten that you can write algorithms yourself and instead they will spend hours and days looking for something on github.
Of course, like it is perfectly reasonable not to want to do any job. My point was that the military is a valid option that many people do not think about.
Oh wow, your site is exactly what I needed. I've got diff programs, but they focus more on differences over a full line, instead of word by word. But I write stories and have a bunch of ooooold versions that I always wanted to compare on a word by word basis, and your website should save me some significant time comparing those.
The UI designs are cool, however I noticed they misspelled Tempe Terra in some of the maps. I like these kind of videos and the UI designs in many movies are interesting. The ones in Oblivion were especially great. You can find it here: http://gmunk.com/OBLIVION-GFX.
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A radar returns a vector of measurements along the line of sight of the beam. These are in-range measurements from a particular position and time. SAR stitches together a series of these in-range measurements taken at different positions and times to create a single 2D image of the static elements of a scene.
After watching the video and looking at the pricing it feels like Microsoft wants its customers to pay for several windows password hash issues that Microsoft should have fixed a long time ago.
This could significantly help local businesses stay competitive in the face of services like single-merchant delivery services such as Amazon Prime and Spoon Rocket.

It's worth noting Uber Rush is also integrating with a few other services such as delivery.com and ChowNow [0].

[0] https://rush.uber.com/how-it-works
That's some rather motivated sounding reasoning. If it's so common, why is it only this one star where we see the pattern?
The point is, it's rare and the effect would be short lived.

Also, I don't think just any passing star would produce the effect they're talking about. They mentioned the star being significantly dimmed by matter that must be very close. A star passing through the Oort cloud wouldn't have done that, it would throw a few (maybe thousands?) comets closer in, but not into a tight orbit around the sun.

I don't think you're really giving enough credit to how rare this scenario is.
This looks very nice. Is there any plans for an API/client protocol? Web client is all well and good, but I'd want to have a solid console client, as well as some command line tools (eg: "echo "Some message" | xmpp user@host -- where the equivalent for Mattermost would allow to set the topic, or message a group via a bot etc.)?
Not that this hasn't generated good talking points, but I was there at the workshop the OP mentioned and Fred's remark was very much said in passing to a small group of people during a break and he didn't seem to be making an intentionally negative remark. He certainly wasn't stating it as instructional fact.
I think brilliant or even innovative should not be the same thing as patentable. The (possible impossible) standard should be "would someone else have come up with this." In both of those example, I think the answer is almost certainly yes.

Give 100 UI designers a touch screen and ask them to design a few unlock mechanisms each, I think you will get a slide to unlock pretty quickly. On click purchase (is this a troll) is basically saving billing and shipping details.
> You see plenty of older people, people with kids, kids themselves, etc. biking around in the Netherlands or Denmark. This is because they have good support for biking, such that people 8 - 80 can bike around town.

In Japan I saw an elderly lady (easily 85+) pull a very nice moving dismount from her bicycle at an intersection.
This is true and a fair point. You might say that even video games have been around long enough that we can start to name the "classics" (though we might judge more about the game than the music -- maybe this is like how some classical music we perform alone now, originated from opera etc.) On the other hand, the article does mention newer games like Halo and Mass Effect. So it would be more sensible to complain about hearing Mass Effect when you wanted Mozart.
From my understanding it isn't that great. But Kotlin works well and it's far better at those things than Java. Theres also Clojure but I don't know how well supported it is. Running both of those on iOS is also possible via RoboVM - no need to wait for a good Swift on Android solution.
At no point did I say everyone should join, but given the down votes my point stands that for some reason it is looked down upon. Joining the military can be a great option for many people.
Interesting, company I work for has had Epicodus interns, when interviewing there were two women and two men that applied for my company for an internship. Seemed like they're doing well to get women into to tech, as a 50/50 split is pretty unusual.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"

Does anyone feel that this might be stretching it?
Or Denmark. Lots of Danish men's brands, including lots of tall sizes, many of them are actually made in Denmark. The current USD/EUR exchange rate makes the prices decent.

And if you can't find high quality mens wear there you not trying enough.

Example: http://www.norseprojects.com/store/mens-aw15/knitwear/aw15-v... . These guys even give you 20% off if you're shipping out the EU. And pro-tip current pick to pay in DKK instead of USD, your credit card will give you a better exchange rate (even with fees).
The base measure for the KG was originally the gram, wiki has a good explanation why it was changed.
I'd rather have it the other way around: start from a solution that works (like Mattermost) and progressively plug XMPP into it. Mattermost and its friends have the huge advantage of having everything built-in and well working together, and if you take a good look at it XMPP should be more like a "compatibility protocol" on top of a working solution.
That means the second axis is generated by measuring the distance (slant range) from the antenna to each point. right ?
Keeping good contacts with old coworkers seems to work, my friends believes in me and my capabilities, so they referred me in their existing company many times(even though I was not looking for change).
https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat is open source and supports XMPP as well. Tried it, it's very slick.
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Compile to native code?

Java isn't married with a JIT, there are quite a few commercial AOT compilers.

Even Oracle is finally planning to add one after Java 9.
To get the perfect fit, can't you just get something off the shelf, and then take them to someone to have them tailored to fit you?
Wow, sorry for slightly going on a tangent, but this is really cool. Imagine all the products had a single syntactic guide to follow. Underlying tech may differ, but a uniform process for creation. There are a million flaws with this, but just a thought.

And can I just add — WOOOOOO!! Okay. Sorry.
You can beat scala and approach c in python, with python syntax, using numba. It compiles numerical python code.
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Correct, escape if # is not followed by whitespace. Mattermost markdown is based on GitLab Flavored Markdown: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/6-4-stable/doc/...
> Designing cities around people, not a way to transport them, is missing from this approach.

Exactly! What a lot of bike activists seem to be missing is that bikes are just one part of this. Bikes are a means to an end. The goal is human friendly cities not bike friendly cities. Facilities for pedestrians are as important as facilities for cyclists. The relationship of cars to bikes is similar to the relationship of bikes to pedestrians. If you look at well designed cities they have a pedestrian focused centre, then around that a bike and car focused area. In Amsterdam you aren't allowed to bike in shopping streets. (I'm using Amsterdam as an example because it's known internationally, but as far as dutch cities go it's not that good, neither for pedestrians nor for cyclists).

Beyond that the atmosphere is important. If you want people to spend time walking and biking around cities you need safety yes, but that's just the start. Would you enjoy walking or biking around a city with massively wide and straight streets that go on for kilometers? I don't think so. You need cosy streets with shops and squares with bars with terraces and trees and parks and nice architecture. The livable space of a city shouldn't just be the inside of its buildings, and what's outside is just a way of getting to those buildings. The outside should itself be a livable space.
I have to use Windows for some things, very irregularly. It's not worth my time to learn to use Powershell.
Another important feature is stream-oriented caching of values. Essentially some range of opcodes in the stream language are reserved for referring to a cache of recently seen values. It's a "dynamic" encoding feature that's super beneficial for common payloads, like JSON API responses with lots of similar keys. This is something a protobuf/thrift-like should steal, as it can often be more efficient than vanilla field-number + value encoding.
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Some even assert the anatomy of men and women are different! Even successful people can harbor such ideas. Hard to overcome.

A public confession of thoughcrime is an important first step, combined with consequences of some sort.
I am a bit confused on why a public research university would want to have and assert its patents. Isn't the research done by a public university in public domain?
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UIs in movies are not designed to be useful or usable; rather, they are designed to add to the storytelling and atmosphere.

(It is for this reason that it is typically quite ill advised to port UI concepts from movies into real world applications).
The default terminal got a bit better in Windows 10. I've been trying to run stock for the last few weeks (rather than installing ConEmu (https://conemu.github.io/), which is what I used on Windows 7) and it's been mostly okay. They've still got a long way to go, but at least Copy and Paste finally works.
The Chrome blog post says:

"Switching an HTTP site to HTTPS can initially result in mixed content, which is undesirable in the long term but important for debugging the migration. During this process the site may not be fully secured, but it will usually not be less secure than before."
U$ 240 / month is not cheap, and I'd seriously consider an alternative or asking for a discount, but it's nowhere near the price of an office in Sao Paulo or Porto Alegre (I live in Uruguay and was looking for office space in Sao Paulo earlier this year).

If you have to pay for customers, then it's way too expensive.

I've seen a remote-based company put Slack to VERY good use, integrating it very tightly with their development process, I believe it definitely pays itself then.

If it's just a glorified IRC/XMPP, then definitely not.
A few thoughts:

- They say this is terrible for television, but I bet they love it! I wasn't aware of this tournament until this story. TV tries its best to manufacture strife and drama.

- In Go you simply aren't allowed to repeat a position (ko). I wonder how profoundly it would change chess if you simply weren't allowed threefold repetition. Or if you weren't allowed it within the first x moves?

- What if a draw earned you 0.4 points instead of 0.5? Maybe that doesn't matter with so few games, or does it?
Norvig uses the term level of wealth to describe what's being exchanged. I think that covers wealth being created (or destroyed, which, y'know, also happens, eh?)
Not bad, but IMO still pretty standard HUD-like user interface. There are thousands of kits for getting a nice kickstart designing those, in vector or VFX [0]. What I like the most is the typography.

[0] http://videohive.net/item/quantum-hud-infographic/8678174?re...
The only thing that struck me as silly was Donald Glover's laptop flashing a huge "CALCULATIONS CORRECT" dialog. I did notice at one point something that looked very similar to Lisp code on a screen in the Hermes.
If you don't what Slack is you are not the target audience for this tool, and that's ok.
> Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish an
> alternative interpretation of the light pattern. SETI researchers have long
> suggested that we might be able to detect distant extraterrestrial
> civilizations, by looking for enormous technological artifacts orbiting
> other stars. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern
> is consistent with a “swarm of megastructures,” perhaps stellar-light
> collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.

I guess the theory is that an advanced civilization would be building particle accelerators on the scale of solar systems, or maybe constructing wormholes?
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Don't pay your taxes? They'll issue a levy or a lien or garnish your paycheck. That's not "a man with a gun". That's a totally non-violent way to collect their taxes.

Invoking the violent image of "a man with a gun" is a childish way to make the down-to-earth subject of tax collection into an emotional, fear-based thing.
And yet this same company requires that we apply specific standards to our web pages lest we be deranked on their search engine. :)
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I also don't get it.

What makes Swift better than other ML like languages for the mainstream developer is the tooling. e.g. Playgrounds and IDE support, and Apple forcing developers to adopt it (Objective-C had only a few WWDC sessions).

For anything else, Haskell, OCaml, Rust and even F# are better options, as they are more mature, already portable and lots of libraries to choose from.
First off, I'd like to mention that I don't think that sounds very unreasonable, so I'm not responding out of feeling offended. I am taking that as being a fairly reasonable position. I just currently think it is probably at least incomplete. Now on to the actual response:

What would be your view of a tournament which only allows people to enter if they have a different <x> than the majority of the winners of the "main" tournament during the last 5 years?

(Example: If <x> is gender, then if 3 men had won the "main tournament" in the last 5 years, then only people who are not men could enter the alternate tournament, and if 3 women had won the "main tournament" in the last 5 years, only people who are not women could enter the alternate tournament.

(If there was no most common <x> then the alternate tournament would not be run, because there would not be any eligible participants. For example if one year, the two semifinalists refuse to continue.)

Would you say that there should also be another alternative tournament in which participants are only eligible if they have the same <x> as the majority of winners of the "main tournament" over the last 5 years?

I agree that there is not /inherently/ a problem if one gender (or other quality) is more common in an activity, and that the problems are in the causes or effects of such a situation. But I am not certain that trying to apply pressure to make the ratio closer to equal can't be a good way to address whatever problem might be causing , or caused by, the ratio to be unequal. I'm not certain that doing that when there aren't problems related to the inequality in outcome causes any harm.

If someone decides they want to give money to left handed, or to right handed, people, what harm does that cause?
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Big public projects have overrun. Another one is the Boston Big Dig. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig. The estimated cost was $2.8 billion initially and scheduled to complete in 1998, but it was completed only in 2007 with $14.6 billion. It's estimated that the project will ultimately cost $22 billion, including interest, that will be paid off until 2038.
Babun and Vagrant together more or less completely solved the Development Problem for me on Windows.

I actually don't use Babun very heavily. I think of it as more of a basic, very pretty Unix-like glue. For the most part I just work inside a Vagrant VM launched from Babun. My workflow basically consists of using tmux and vim as an "IDE", so I actually find myself missing very little.
That is true for me. Work does a man in the middle to inspect all traffic and I get the red X a lot. Don't expect any privacy at work.
Heh. Let me tell you about my mother. She wrote numerical simulations of surface-to-surface missile trajectories in the 1950s - in octal. She thought life was great when she got an assembler.

She complained to me about these "dumb physicists" who couldn't get through their heads that changing a constant took ten minutes, but changing a formula took all day. Note well: These "dumb physicists" are literally rocket scientists.

I do pretty well at this computer stuff, with the tools I have available, but write numeric code in octal? I'm not sure that I've got what it takes to do that.
There are packages for that (web servers and such). Or you can call it from Java/Python/whatever.

Most R tasks that people use exit. Typical data science task is: gather data, apply an operation over said data, analyse results.
giovannibonetti's employees probably cost him "only" thousands of dollars per month, so his Slack bill would be 1/10th of an employee or so.
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I don't know why so many people complain about R documentation, I think it's pretty good. The PDFs are useless for sure, but you don't have to use that. Emacs displays documentation pages in a split window. Or you can use a web browser.

https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/packages.html
Just supposing we really are seeing the space construction projects of a distant civilization, it seems not impossible that ironically we might be seeing them before they can see us.
That means little without comparison to other bridges. Standing in an open wheat field is probably safer than a bridge, but how does the GGB compare to other bridges?

Also, a Richter 8.0 is a pretty damn hefty quake.
Love the last sentence.
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Too soon. Maybe in a couple of centuries, if there are any suitable hosts around by then, so they can properly exercise their biodefense whatevers.
> Generally speaking, the NDK makes sense only for a small percentage of apps, so in the general case Google advise against trying to write a whole Android app using the NDK.

Yep, it is easier to make languages target DEX than suffer the pain of the NDK.

They not only advise against it, they make it really uncomfortable for us to use it (vs iOS and WP experience).
Sounds like the "economists" didn't think too much the first time around.
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