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I cannot endorse this idea enough.

Paul Tudor (I don't know why anybody calls him Mr Jones. Anybody who has ever dealt with his firm calls him Paul Tudor)
knows what everybody else in finance knows: you're dealing with people who have money, and when you have money, there are many, many, people trying to solicit your interest. This is not about the blog writing style, your deep intellect, your pitch. It's about "I get 10 really smart people 10x per hour trying to communicate with me (including my own employees). My bandwith is limited. You have 10 seconds. Get my attention".

This issue is less about tech, than about the basics of trying to get through to the wealthy/privileged in what is the biggest, most brutally competitive communication arena. Literally everybody wants Paul Tudor's attention. He's a financial genius, but he's just a man with a limited attention span and dozens of solicitations per hour. Make sure your 10 seconds count.

I was a fixed income strategist for many years. Realizing that there were 30 PDFs from my competitors hitting the target's inbox every hour, my successful strategy was to do what none of them were doing: sit back, really think about what was the essence of my piece that was different from the first principal component of everybody's obvious chatter, summarize that in a single line, and put that into the subject.
I don't think anyone says prisons should be inhumane in order to punish criminals.

Huh? People say it all of the time, at least in the U. S. Prison rape is just a given with no visible attempts at fixing it, and $DEITY help the prison official or politician proposing putting in TV, or keeping the prison library updated lest they be labelled as "coddling" prisoners.

Maybe we just have vastly different points of view, but I find your statement to be outlandish enough that I assume that I've misunderstood what you're saying.
Nomad is another scheduler released by hashicorp. This probably wasn't available when the article was written but I am curious how it would compare to the others.

https://www.nomadproject.io
vi can be so elegant.

For us emacsen you can do a (what-cursor-position &optional DETAIL) which is usually bound to Ctl-x =

I don't think it will be nearly this clean to add it to the modeline, but I'll take a look.
> It's really difficult to do the right thing here.

There is a fairly good solution to this for things like code editors and URLs or search strings in browsers: If a string contains a non-ASCII code point that is a homograph for an ASCII character, swap the text and background colors.
> US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years (it's OK, they survived)

Those are some old beavers.
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Statistics are subject to manipulation of the definitions. Not saying this is happening here, but for instance, if you put ticky-tack new offenses on the books that are easily enforceable, then the crime _rate_ will "plummet" while not actually addressing existing problems.

We should not take definitions at face value.
> Better to string it out and win than finish it up quick and lose.

In practice, it's the defense that will string out a case hoping that the plaintiff runs out of money before the case reaches judgment on the merits. Plaintiffs want to win quick, or at least lose quick before they invest too much in the case.
Along the other explanations maybe the camera man was happy to do the say 2-day hike out. But wasn't happy hiking in for 2 days carrying multiple beavers. I'm guessing they won't take kindly to being in a box for 2 days and would require feeding etc enroute. Plus it's a lot of extra weight

So all in all hiking in with beavers could be a bit of a nightmare.
>Approval to go ahead is expected from Germany’s nuclear regulators by the end of this month.

How could the approval of a previously unknown reactor type actually mean anything? Is it going to be something pointless like "Reactor contains no fissionable material. So OK!"?
I didn't know about positive/negative polarity types of discharges, thanks!

Also, having Cloud to Butt extension installed made reading that Wikipedia quote quite interesting...
Yes. A good CI will blow up any malicious pull requests provided you are using a compiled language. Or if interpreted, you need sufficient code coverage that your tests will blow up
So did IBM when they bought them. The reality hasn't matched that impression.
As I understand it, the brakes in modern gasoline powered cars often need vacuum and when the throttle is wide open (high acceleration) the engine will generate very little if any vacuum, so the assist which normally provides high braking power is not present and this can drastically reduce the braking ability of the car.

Some cars have a sensor to detect if you are overlapping the throttle and brakes and will cut the throttle if the brake pedal is detected as being pressed. This can frustrate people who attempt to match revs on downshifts in manual transmission cars.
"it seems like a risky theory of social change."

It implicitly and falsely assumes that everybody will agree on what the solution is. In the presence of differences brought on not merely by "false consciousness" but by legitimate differences in opinions and desires, it fails the basic Kantian imperative to not do something that breaks society if everybody does it, because it means that everybody who disagrees with some policy, which is always somebody, should try to break things, rather than fix things. In the local vernacular, this "scales poorly".

(I am really tempted to say that Marxists are prone to this, but it would be an over-specific adjective. Truth is, almost everybody "knows" that deep down, everybody else is secretly really like them, and it's just a lack of knowledge or external influence that leads to apparently disagreements. However, the evidence overwhelmingly contradicts this belief. Even in the presence of hostile external actions or lack of knowledge, well, how do you know that you are not the one lacking knowledge or subject to external influence? And many people's value systems legitimately differ.)
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> I believe that the law enforcement strategy is a concentration on drug dealers

I don't think that's right [0]:

"[M]arijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana."

So more than 44% of all drug arrests between 2001-2010 were for possession. It may be that blacks arrested for possession carried much more than whites because they were dealing and whites were just using. I haven't been able to find any numbers on that.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers
I'm leaning toward Kubernetes because that's what fabric8.io has chosen. The others may be great, but I'm not really interested in writing a lot of glue code to make them work well with Jenkins/Gerrit/Nexus/Slack/Docker/Chaos Monkey/OpenShift the way Fabric8 has.
No the freedom that any programm has full rights of $HOME, to access the network, to manipulate everything that the user under it runs also can.
Theia (planet)
(1) All persons shall be equal before the law.
(2) Except the person looks like a petty criminal
I love the idea, and it's just the kind of thing I'm paranoid enough to own, but the price is a bit up there. Hoping it comes down over time. But if I owned a restaurant, I'd be all over this, in a "Break Glass" kind of case.
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Oh, please don't write like journalists :

Something is definitely true

The thing that non-one thought was true is now definitely true. Or that's what researchers at somewhere say in a new report.

The report by the It's True Foundation ....
Ask HN: What's the best Search+Filtering reusable UX component out there?
I really like how AngelList (https://angel.co/jobs) and F6S (https://www.f6s.com/jobs) allow you to search for startups/jobs. The fact that you can select a filter and then it gets displayed as a tag inside the search box.

I'd like to have that kind of control for searching hotels for the project that I'm working on, and can't stop thinking where is that Search+Filtering control used from, since both AngelList and F6S use it.

Does anybody know what Search+Filtering control AngelList and F6S use?
Also, is there even a better alternative to that control for searching in a list of items, while allowing users to filter based on different things? I've looked at Semantic and Bootstrap and nothing even comes close.

Thanks a lot!
A writing course mostly is writing a lot and getting feedback.
I guess it's different in the US, but I've never felt like I was in danger around European police.
Wow, it seems so obvious now.
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> My successful strategy was to sit back, really think about what was the essence of my piece, summarize that in a single line, and put that into the subject.

Any chance you remember exemplar subject lines? This technique also applies to blog post titles which eventually appear in micro-blog tweets, HN story headlines, and presentation titles.
"Snap decision makers" .. in some circumstances, such as during deadline-approaching, clock-ticking, actual "print schedules", are quite appropriate for some forms of industry, methinks.

Perhaps there are different models for different schedules?
In fact, white are more likely than blacks to deal drugs [0]:

"Whites were about 45 percent more likely than blacks to sell drugs in 1980, according to an analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth by economist Robert Fairlie. This was consistent with a 1989 survey of youth in Boston. My own analysis of data from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 6.6 percent of white adolescents and young adults (aged 12 to 25) sold drugs, compared to just 5.0 percent of blacks (a 32 percent difference)."

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/w...
Considering that I was forced to pay $60 a year to support this channel that I never watched while I had cable - ultimately being one of the reasons I ditched cable entirely - I can't get too broken up over this.
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So you are claiming that schools are forcing people to commit crimes?
While I agree with your implied conclusion, I don't think your questions completely get us to that answer.

It's possible that despite private prisons being a small minority, with a small minority of the prisoners, they wield a disproportionate influence on the system. That is, in lobbying for whatever policies benefit them, they're willing to accept the result of grossly overburdening the entire system, taking that as collateral damage so that their little corner of it will always be full.

Again, I don't think that's the case. But it could be.
Test or staged shot is likely. That was common, and probably still is. Here is an interesting collection from the Met.

http://aperture.org/blog/grand-illusions-staged-photography-...
There's no vaccine for malaria. You have to either invent one (I'm sure there are people trying) or try some other strategy.
Also note that in both absolute numbers and relative to total population, the number of people incarcerated in the US has been going down for the last several years.
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Good point. In fairness though, that began with a $100k challenge to Intellectual Ventures, and they came up with the idea. Gates then gave them $1m to continue developing it with the idea it could be used to protect large areas.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/laser_mpsquito_repel...

The funding is peanuts compared to what Gates has been spent on Malaria.. here's a couple of the press releases I could find for 2003 ($160m), 2005 (250m) and 2008 ($200m).

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2...

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2...

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2...
I was once asked by someone if my Facebook Page scraper tool could be used for scraping personally-identifiable data, because "we are doing a growth hacking experiment whereby we want to reach out to a number of FB pages in a systematic way."

Facebook prevents scraping user data via the API for exactly this reason.
Wow all the comments here seem negative. The guy is just saying that people should be clearer with their writing and getting to the point right away to avoid confusion.

If they're writing about a topic that's more complex, sure, the writing will need to be more complex. But there's nothing wrong with communicating simply if the subject allows it.
Also from Germany and heard the same stories about police in Bavaria. Bavaria is a lot more law and order than most other German states (some people compare this with the situation that Texas is a lot more law and order than most other US states; I really don't know whether this comparison fits or not).
100%. People don't have time to dig into things and then get to the thesis. Several short bullet points followed up with whatever supporting data. Anyone in Paul Tudor's position is going to have an excellent BS detector; they don't need a million and one supporting exhibits that need to be sifted through before getting to the point.
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Groan. Are we going to take every college philosophy exercise idea but scratch out "human" and replace it with "robot"?

What next - do we need to program airplanes to crash in order to avoid being used as weapons? Cars programmed to torture people to reveal where the nuclear bomb is hidden?

More useful, (re)read the Asimov robot series and the effects of the zeroth law of robotics.
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@sago There's a fair amount of this going on rightnow, that is, using mobile games to address anxiety. Partly because your phone is always there and having treatment options outside the hospital have historically been limited. Psychiatry is very different compared to other fields of medicine in that things tend to be difficult to measure objectively.
Thank you both for sharing those stories. I'm happy that you and your parents endured.

I sometimes see a person with a... specific way of walking on the streets of my city. Only recently a friend pointed out to me what disease caused that problem. I am grateful that my generation didn't have to experience it, to the point most people don't even know what the disease is and that it was a problem only so recently. People who helped this happen are true heroes of our times.

I was relieved to learn recently that we're 2/3 done with polio, only the last strain of the virus remaining. Here's to hoping it will be over soon, and then the next disease, and the next one after that!
I was using that as somewhat of a euphimism for the leader that doesn't know anything, but likes being correct and pretending he does. He does this by saying "let's do that", or worse, "I am going to tear up your memo and humiliate you by requiring you to take a class because you're wasting my time", which is pretty deep on the ego scale to say that to someone. It might be better to just reply "I'm having a little hard time following this part about X, can you summarize this and what would you decide?" or something.
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Yes, in a different way. Diego pushes the question of the underlying runtime environment down to Garden, so if you add a backend, Diego can drive it.
Very disappointed by the actual content of the video.
Indeed you can cobble together such a solution, but baked in integration at the framework level would be more interesting. If state is exposed at the scheduler level, than its much easier for all scheduler frameworks to take advantage of it.
Not sure if they needed super high quality galvos since the ones they used in the Form 1 were cheap Chinese light show ones. Still impressive to figure out all the magnetics etc. I wonder if the scanners or laser power are speed limiting for the machine.
I'm definitely not obsessed with programming. I can force myself to practice regularly, though. All it takes is discipline.

I wouldn't pursue it if it wasn't lucrative; that'd be irrational. But I'm not interested in money alone. I also want time, and the ability to create things that generate some sort of business value. Does an investment banker like what they do on a day-to-day basis? Plugging stuff into Excel? No, that's mind-numbing. But they get their satisfaction from seeing a deal that they participated in featured on WSJ.

I also want a hard skill. Being an "idea guy," doesn't cut it.
> Consumer cars & SUVs can go 0-60 in under 10 seconds in almost all cases, and the fact that the brake can overcome that acceleration is great, except it takes time

The actual data paints a different picture: http://media.caranddriver.com/images/media/51/braking-result...

That said people don't do well with surprises so while the car mechanically would have no trouble at all stopping very nearly as fast due to a wide open throttle, the driver is probably freaking out instead of just slamming on the brakes.

Also people suck at actually slamming on the brakes, regardless of the situation. It's not something people want to ever do. They'll hit the brakes, they just won't go anywhere close to really pushing that pedal to the floor.
So, there's obviously a miss on testing this here [1], but I wanted to make another point about the wisdom of embedding code that you cannot test, thinking that it would have no effect, with the expectation that at some arbitrary date in the future (which you don't control) it will change the visual appearance of your landing page to something else... that you haven't tested. When iOS 9 came out, it wasn't like people were just resubmitting their apps without ever running them once.

[1] I'm willing to buy that Windows represents a minority of browser share to Medium, although it still seems doubtful that it's such a small share that making visual changes to your global CSS doesn't merit testing on that OS. Was this just a line in some larger diff? "By the way, I changed all the fonts; works on localhost"?
That's the idea the article conveys, one of these should be next to every defibrillator (and defibs are seen in so many locations).
Miracles can be accomplished when people work together. That may sound trite but today many doubt it, insisting government can do nothing right, reducing funding for research and health programs, etc.
"A lot of people with positions of power think they are snap decision makers."

Are you familiar with Paul Tudor?
Semi-related question:

The author posted this image of him recreating the old System font as an OpenType vector font:

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*gwDg2tz2R22D...

The offset pixel on that look horrible, but they also look like a lot of the web fonts I see day-to-day when I have font smoothing disabled. Are modern fonts actually being designed like that for some reason?
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I agree with you, but I'd point out the legislative process in addition to elections as critical "relief valves" for anger.

If there is enough public pressure, it almost doesn't matter who is in office. Nixon signed the EPA into existence, for example.
> This will add a tremendous amount of cost to product development.

Not that many people are getting killed, so it's an acceptable tradeoff?
Now that you have revealed the secret, Hacker News will be banned in russia forever.
> If you are in a business suit and wearing a nice tie, regardless of skin color, you will be treated well.

I know just posting 'lol' would simply get me down voted but I have the urge to because it's just laughable.

Anyway there are plenty of examples where this is not the case.

Here's one of countless others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_98ojjIZDI

At 9:35 if you don't care about the rest.
YouTube Red is not a choice for creators. If you're a partner, you have to agree to the new terms or you're de-listed (videos go private). If you're not a partner, just a regular creator, then you're just part of YouTube Red. You don't get a choice.
Why did you take it down?
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If I walk up to a police officer and tell them I'm a threat to them I expect to get extra attention I probably won't like. Pretending like body language and other forms of communication don't send the same message is disingenuous.
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This concept is will known in the military as BLUF - bottom line up front. Not an abstract or introduction, putting the key recommendation or outcome at the beginning. It falls in and out of fashion but as with newspapers it helps you work out what you want to read further.
Today's browser development preference/"wisdom" is to always include the unprefixed CSS even if you include a vendor prefixed version. The reasoning for this is the realization that maybe vendor prefixes were a bad idea all along. For better or worse, there are a bunch of -webkit prefixed CSS terms that will likely live on the web "forever". So the decision has been (by Edge and Blink [Chrome, Opera], at least) that instead of vendor prefixes browsers should use experimental flags (that are off by default) and unprefixed CSS. (This way devs can still test and evaluate new features, but are much less likely to litter the web in the wild with such experimental features as they'd have to explain to users how to turn the flags on.)

Of course today's wisdom may also be tomorrow's folly and the winds could change again, but I think a lot of us would prefer to forget that vendor prefixes ever happened and not worry about prefixing/autoprefixing/prefix-fixing ever again, so I for one appreciate today's wisdom. Even if we do find weird edge cases in Apple's choices with regards to vendor prefixed CSS.
Upvoting you in the chance someone will see your reply. Sweeping controversial comments under the rug is bad for public debate, so to address your question and concerns, let me be clear that I was not accusing you of being a simpleton, I was "accusing" (word is a bit too strong for my liking, but it is somehow the right sentiment) you of framing the issue in simple terms that I don't think properly address the complexity of the issues at hand.

If the point was to try to understand the reasons for incarceration period, then fair enough, "people committing crimes" would be good enough an explanation. But I think the debate is more centered around "massive incarceration", which implies that there is something special about the rate of incarceration in the USA and that people are trying to understand why that is that the USA are putting so many people in prison for petty offenses, drug use and myriads of other controversial reasons. It also questions the reason why some minorities are so disproportionately represented in that carceral population and whether or not there is a system in place to target them specifically in the response to crime in the country.

I would like to apologize if the phrasing of my answer was a tad snarky, I just found that you were addressing the topic with way too broad a brush for an issue that is so extremely serious, far-reaching and bordering on institutional social management.
Stellarators are hardly a "previously unknown reactor type". They were just infeasible for a long time because the computational power to compute the shapes they need to be in wasn't there yet. The concept is many decades old.