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It's the easiest way to justify the accelerating administrators incomes. And they say they have to do it to maintain the competitive advantage, over other schools that are doing the exact same thing.

See UC Davis, where they are building a huge new Art Museum, to compete with the one being built right now in Berkeley. Here's the thing, UC Davis is NOT an art school. It's an ag school and should be focusing its resources on that. But no, building an art museum justifies the salaries of all the people that are involved.
And Idris even enables a type-safe version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBck2Zngjo

So if you mismatch the types you'll get a compile time error instead of a run time error.
I couldn't think of anything immediately Evil for that case and wanted to check I wasn't missing something :) The others definitely have badness if you aren't expecting it.

I'm quite surprised objective-c doesn't warn by default if you try to a potentially lossy conversion without an explicit cast.
That's a good point. Many suggested LISP needed that and would get more traction. Two example in that direction, Racket and Clojure, are kicking butt with one even mainstreaming. So, maybe major Schemes and CL's need to do that just a tad more.
Look, I think quite highly of myself... but 30 seconds of my attention is not worth 30 seconds of Obama's attention to the average person. "We're having a conversation here" isn't impolite, and a no one has a right to a random stranger's attention.
Houses in rich neighborhoods have pools, and fancy pools with leaks may be cheaper to pay the crazy water charges than to have it repaired right away.

I'm not defending the person, just pointing out that the excessive water usage really isn't that excessive and could be caused by any number of things.
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I cannot say whether this is the right choice for others.

An off grid, self reliant lifestyle is very attractive to me. This is my counter argument for myself.
Just one word "Mind Blowing". Complicated feelings of programmers and why we do what we do is explained in simple words.
so this is just a bit of glue code for imagemagick/ffmpeg that I use to generate my blog.

Last time I was on HN there was some interest in what I was using for the backend, so I cleaned up the code a bit and put it on github
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So let's just officially immunize them?
thought it said Recreational Meth for a second there
Using your distributions package manager you'll get the older versions. I'm guessing you're using Ubuntu? Better off just compiling from source.
Or how energy dense fat is if you ignore the conversion efficiency. For this calculation they also assume the whole volume of the battery is filled with fat.

Humans actually aren't that efficient in terms of conversion of chemical energy to mechanical work. Muscle is about 14-27% efficient at converting chemical energy to work, which is about as good as a combustion heat engine.

Now in terms of motion planning, image recognition, and "cognition," humans tend to be more energy efficient than machines.
Let's put together a bunch of what you said, because you are indeed so close to guessing, and I don't doubt you can, as a fellow anarchist.

Behavior patterns of Group X (that is then passed on to other groups):

- being a special and isolated group from the rest of human kind

- having suffered uniquely

- having unique significance

- pulling the special-group card all the time (say, to stifle criticism)

- believing other groups are assaulting them on all fronts (say, like a paranoia towards an outgroup)

- attempting grand standing on their being the most oppressed by society (say, by discussing on a TV show whether their suffering was the most awful of all)

- never admitting they are wrong on something (say, in History, where if you disagree with their version, it can only be because you might hate them)

I gave you many hints but as you can tell, the hints come from your posts. You are so spot on. But now you must guess, who is Group X who is influencing other groups to adopt this same behavior?
I'm not a node or npm apologist but it is seriously time Microsoft update what it considers a reasonable maximum PATH length for Windows to something that makes sense for this era of computing (as well as the tiny ass box you type it into)

We are on a roll with resizable terminals that reflow text in Windows 10 though so I won't push my luck.
For someone wanting to tinker but not being great at electronics project, what is the easiest way to:
- Play with the chip (testing interfaces, deploying code etc)
- "Deploy" it (ie. connect it to ground power, via 230v-USB connector or similar?
not really, everything i've used so far is pretty interoperable with whatever. The exception I guess would be their metaservices that do logging and auditing of AWS services, but the SDK is pretty developed to let you shove, say, S3 into whatever you want.

I'm open to be corrected on this but I don't think it's good to confuse "our different offerings have lots of interoperable synergy" with "it's fucking impossible to migrate off this"
Here's a med student's two cents: I doubt it simply because you can't realistically prevent deceleration injury to the internal organs.

With an egg drop, you pretty much just have to worry about the integrity of the shell, but with a person there are a lot more factors at play. The first example I can think of off the top of my head is in MVAs. Modern cars are designed to absorb a lot of the momentum from collisions and minimize injury to passengers, but that isn't always enough to save lives.

You're not a solid body. You are basically a big blob of salt water that happens to contain some hard bones and ligaments mixed in with vulnerable organs. Even if you can protect the blob, those organs can still move around inside it.

Let's say you slam into another car head-on. The frame of your car absorbs a good bit of the energy, but your body still "wants" to keep going forward. Then your seat belt stops your thorax, but your heart and major vessels keep going and slam into your ribs, sternum, etc. Best case scenario, you'll walk away with a minor myocardial contusion and possibly develop a dysrhythmia, but if you're not so lucky, your descending aorta may actually be ripped by your ligamentum arteriosum and you'll mostly likely bleed out.

Your head isn't as restrained as your thorax in a car, but even if it were your brain can still move around and slam into your skull (which can lead to traumatic brain injuries like concussion, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral laceration, etc.).
If you're using a gas generator you're not being off-grid. You still depend on society to provide you with gas. You are just being inefficient.
Easier to sell, borrower is, to the best of their knowledge, complete and not taking on any new loans.

Plus, as mentioned above, it sets the interest rate for all the loans. I'm not sure how often at a more or less favorable rate, and if that's part of the incentive, to consolidate lower interest loans into a large higher interest one. I could definitely see them pushing this at different times, which was also something that came up in the article, that available repayment options were withheld when they were favorable to the banks and servicers.
Wow. I'm a college student, but I still feel like a kid. This seems to pretty much sum up every reason I decided not to study computer science and make a career as a developer. I love computing, but I have just gotten tired of the billions of js frameworks and wars about how everything anyone tries to do is wrong. Little printf strikes too close to home. This is a fantastic piece of writing.
Node jumped from v0.x to v4.x when iojs merged back into node (something like a month ago)
Unfortunately, I don't live near UCLA (Does anyone know of a similar program in the Boston area?).

However, I have found that it is not too hard to learn advanced math without the help of an instructor. A couple math-inclined co-workers and I have been reading Topology by Munkres. Since it is such a popular textbook, there are plenty of solutions to exercises online. Working with other people makes it easier to ask questions if you are confused, and also helps me stay motivated.
> Who is the group X that started the routine of saying "we are group X and we are special and isolated from the rest of human kind because of our unique suffering and/or significance"?

No one knows -- that pattern is evidenced as far back as recorded history goes pretty much everywhere in the world; its definitely older than writing, and quite possibly as old as the ability to communicate sophisticated enough concepts to express it.
> Yet, even if you follow all the rules and wear a survival suit (which I don't think is required), it's still a highly risky endeavour.

Absolutely, yes. No one would argue that this is not a massive risk. It's risky, and there are lots of regulations that make it safer.

But just because it's risky doesn't mean it should be illegal, which is what OP seems to be implying. It's a risk, but ferry pilots do a lot of smart things to mitigate that risk.

Aviation in general is a risk, which is why we have massive tomes of rules [0] that make it safe. And even if you follow every rule to the letter, bad things can still sometimes happen that are completely out of your control. Weather could go south in a hurry, or you could have a mechanical issue and lose an engine. How you deal with those issues will decide whether you live or die.

It's risky, but it's not illegal. With a properly trained pilot and a properly maintained airplane, those risks can be controlled. Part of being a good pilot is about minimizing risk wherever you can and being ready for anything that can possibly happen in the sky.

FWIW, I would not even dream of doing a flight that long over water, and I have massive amounts of respect for those who do. Hell, I never fly further from shore than I could glide if I lost my engine. The thought of being alone in a Cessna over the North Atlantic without being able to see the shore scares the hell out of me.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/FAR-AIM-2015-Regulations-Aeronautical/...
I have a manager and I greatly value his ability to communicate with the stakeholders and CEO, as I have little desire to do so. Ours is not a tech company, however. I'm happy to delegate the paperwork and PR to him, I certainly don't want to do it, and consider our pay differential the price of happiness. Sure I could do it, but why?

Why do you care about the success of the technical products you're working on? Aren't you aware that it's going to mainly hinge on the quality of the marketing? Do you want to take responsibility for marketing too? If so you should really go to YC and found a company.
I can vouch for spaced-repetition being an excellent training tool. It isn't just for words though. My uses for it range from individual terms to small training exercises. When I find a new solution to a problem I have, I often make a spaced-repetition card for it. You can learn a lot by making a daily habit of it.
Most planes aren't designed to be disassembled, and you would be paying for a complete structural rebuild while paying a certificated mechanic's hourly rate.
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I don't think that means "we're screwed." Perhaps npm can now use this LTS as a baseline for v3, since you can upgrade npm separately from Node.
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Companies make use of education roads and other infrastructure and in the UK not having to provide health benefits.
This might have been a good article had it not been for the pretentious, holier-than-thou introduction. Apparently enjoying the fruits of a modern life make you a mindless drone compared to the "contemporary fine artist" who lives on a boat or someone living in a forest re-inventing the wheel for every modern necessity.
Most were very supportive, especially David and Adam who are mentioned in the post, but not 100% of our investors were completely bought in. One concern that was brought up I mentioned in the article--it could be a big distraction to uproot the entire team and move to California for three months, when we already had some traction and a team in New York.

The team's complete support and unanimous decision to do YC made us more confident that rather than be a distraction, living in a house together in California would immensely improve our productivity and motivation. To commit ourselves to that, we decided as a team that we would work 13 out of 14 days during YC--we only took one day off every two weeks. In the end, we worked really hard but had a LOT of fun, and we accomplished so much more in those three months because we were living and working together. Also, missing the worst NYC winter on record while working in the sun was pretty nice.
You are smart. Good thinking. The best solutions, like this, should be available to us all.
Read to the end for the surprise.
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I'd vote for Android as well. It is backed by Google, there is a demand (I'm even seeing universities looking for Android developers these days) and it could put you close to the next big thing (e.g., wearables or whatever)
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In general checks cannot be trusted, no matter the bank it claims to be from.
If you commit a murder, the victim is dead and can't raise charges. You can still be prosecuted.
Do you have any more info on this type of existence or communities which have this?

As a vegan, programmer, and someone very interested in leaving in nature and off the grid this sound like a sort of unicorn heavenly existence that only existed in 21st century fairy tales.
You don't have to use FPTP to distort: There's been plenty of debate in Spain, which uses the D'Hondt method. There have always been more than two healthy parties, but ultimately only two get major representation, just like in an FPTP system. And unless we are applying the system to the entire country (which is not how it works), there's still a boost to regional parties.

A decade ago we saw two parties with pretty much the same number of votes, one of Catalonian nationalists, and a typical european leftist party. But the nationalists all got their votes in the same region, gaining very healthy representation overall, while the other party got less than a 5th of the seats, because all their voters do not live in the same place.

What we have to face is that ultimately, the way people are represented is an aesthetic, values-based choice. This doesn't mean that there isn't such thing as partisan gerrymandering (because there is), but that even if we let a computer decide representation, there's still more than one algorithm that is unaware of party affiliation, and each will favor different ideologies in different situations.
Personally, I don't think lock-in means "it's fucking impossible to migrate off this". It just means it will be sufficiently painful that it is a strong deterrent. A service can be great and still come with a lot of lock-in; it's just another trade-off to consider.
>I understand the spirit of exploration and fun that this was done with, however the author talks of using this in "production". This scares me.

Not all producton is critical.
My fiance and I left Chicago (and $1700/mo) in July for this kind of middle ground. I cross-referenced national fiber optic rollout with low population/rural areas and we found a few acres with 1gbps FTTH in the Lake of the Ozarks area. Our place came with an existing 2 bedroom home with existing private well and electric, all-in we bought for under 2 years worth of Chicago rent.

Our home is/was a bit of a fixer-upper, and it's harder to get help with labor here (it exists, but it's expensive). But one thing I've noticed is that learning plumbing/construction/mechanics has been way easier than learning software. You definitely sweat more though.

Turn-key housing here exists too, it just comes at more of a premium. Also, your social life is obviously impacted. You're probably well-advised to already have a family or s/o (or just are comfortable being alone).

All told, I think this is a great option if you're feeling trapped in your career but have stockpiled some cash. It probably doesn't require near as much money as you might think to make the jump.

For us it's exactly what we needed to focus on our startups without going the traditional VC route. We'd love to see more people going this route. Let me know if I can help.
I suspect you could scale the 'off grid' lifestyle to around 1/2 the US population without many issues. Web + FedEx means a lot of jobs can be done remotely. Consider plenty of teachers work remotely even if most people think of it as a face to face job. Even some doctors have started to work remotely let alone the classic 9/5 office worker.

Sure, city's are a far more efficient use of land and energy, but at least in the US we still have a lot of open space.

PS: My only gripe is people think of this as a 'green' lifestyle. Generally, living in a city high-rise and using public transit is far better for the environment.
Great comment. I would like to add that there is a world of difference between drudgery of tactile work and drudgery in office work.

Tactile work is more engaging and less stressful. It does not require constant multitasking or context switching. You concentrate. You also build up a certain skill at it, which allows you to feel good about what you're doing. (I.e. you go from just making nails to making good mails quickly.)

In many ways I find low-level manual tasks to feel more like "creative" office work.
This! USB is the only hope for a universal standard. It's already there for all personal items.
How does a European Schuko plug fall out? The only time I can remember such a thing happening in 30 years of living in Norway is with obsolete non-grounded sockets. My usual problem is that there is really very little to grab hold of on the Schuko/CEE plugs so that they can be hard to pull out.
It's not so hard. The easiest way to start is with the place you live. You just pick out the most notable aspects of different parts of the rooms and start matching items to them. Like anything else, it takes practice. Over time, that aether should clear right up.
Here is more information:

https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/

Specifically:

> Note that while it is possible that critical security and bug fixes may lead to semver-major changes landing within an LTS stream, such situations will be rare and will land as semver-minor bumps
>Having just started learning about and using node, I read this release note and then this made me say to myself, "What the fuck?"

If you've started learning node, then it probably makes sense to follow the community portals and news too. In which case you'd known about io.js and the 4.x thing.

In other words, get into the whole project / community / culture.
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is already unusable for malaria, except in combination with other drugs, because of high levels of resistance. This has been the case for years.
Hmm, interesting idea. Although I think I'd prefer to be more assertive in my emails rather than polite. Is there a way to get a score for that?
Any recommendations that aren't textbooks?

Even the Kindle version of that book is $100.
There's tutorials to manually or automatically derive parsers for whatever you can clearly define. LISP's syntax makes this trivial. From there, you just need a few functions and tree operations for interpreting/compiling. LISP is designed for tree operations with tutorials and code for those. From there, a GC and I/O with many examples in papers and on the web with doc's plus code. Additionally, there's a ton of LISP/Scheme interpreters to draw on.

Hard to imagine an easier one to interpret. Compiling isn't that difficult if you target C as it basically takes two techniques. Takes a few more to target native and you don't get that in 90 minutes like one Scheme-to-C compiler presentation.

What is your counter-example in terms of mainstream languages that's easier to lex, parse, interpret, compile, or link than LISP? Or even as easy? Even Wirth's languages are more complex and difficult to compile despite being brilliantly simple.
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This is really great! Is it open source? I couldn't see a license or anything in the readme so wasn't sure.
Sorry, sometimes I fumble the terms in English. What I meant was that the State may (or may not) prosecute the case, regardless of the wishes of the victim.

I suppose it's the State who "presses charges" in this case, but I believed that term was only used for the victim(s).
There's a referendum of public opinion after every election. Gore won his presidential election by about half a percent. We talked about it, but interest fizzled out.

If, in the future, that margin grows to a number that people care about, we can change the rules. The NPVIC* is probably the most direct way for that to happen.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
I think they fear that he has well-connected and organized supporters, something most other people fleeing don't have. And he has the benefit of time: he doesn't have to move until everything is perfect, because there is no way of catching up to him where is right now.

If you don't know when your target is going to move, how do you stop him from leaving UK waters before you even realize he isn't there anymore? Monitor every single boat moving on the Thames, 24/7? Search every ship leaving your jurisdiction?

Getting out probably isn't easy, but I would be surprised if there weren't quite a few people/organizations capable of doing it.
The UK tax office has been trying to fix loopholes.since transfer pricing abuse and offshore trusts started in the 19thC.

Non-dom has taken about 100 years to be scrapped which was creatively spawned by the Vesteys

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/08/non-dom-tax-s...
This is great news. A year ago we didn't know if Node would ever hit a 1.0 and now we have an LTS release. Congrats and thanks to everyone involved.
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> Or is freezing cold preferable to scorching hot?

I think so. It seems much easier to build things to handle the cold vs handle the heat.

You really just need fuel and insulation (for you and the house), and you can be quite comfortable.

Scorching heat though - there's really not a whole lot you can do except find shade and not move.
You can ignore all that and still make a career as a developer.

I started out as a physics major, largely because I didn't want to lock myself into a practical career at the beginning of college. Spent most of my college career avoiding my physics homework by learning lambda calculus, and Haskell, and compiler design, and all of the impractical side of computing. When it came to get a job, I dusted off my Java and got a job in a financial software startup. Left it after two years after discovering that I hated finance but actually liked both software and startups. I've made more tech switches than I can count since, but it's always "Well, what do I need to know to get a job that will pay me and give me interesting challenges?" rather than "What do I need to know?"

You can choose to avoid all the language/framework/editor wars about which is better. None of them are better; it's just some are better for certain circumstances.
In my view, talking about how much representation a state deserves doesn't even make sense. People should decide elections, not some semi-arbitrary geographical boundaries. In the house, people are fairly represented. In the senate, people in smaller states are unfairly over-represented.

It's a feature like an "install our app" popup on every random mobile site is a feature. Someone thought it was a good idea and did it intentionally, but I think it's awful and was done for bad reasons.