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Poetry is about painting images with words. Often poetry will do this by not saying what is actually happening or the thought it intends to create in the reader.

A program is written to perform math, and it is generally considered bad to waste space with needless things. It doesn't aid the reader or the compiler or the execution to add unused variables. It's really bad in a program to do things in an unclear way.

Poetry can have ambiguities, good software can't.

They do both share some amount of necessity of context. Both often have abstraction. I would say poetry is kind of a playful use of language, whereas programming is really more of a clever use of math.
How is that very safe? Presumably were looking at this unreviewed web app instead of what they were looking at before.
10 to 80 years seems pretty reasonable since most are used beyond that point -- and then come along with a bunch of extra benefits like being safer, more precise with HVAC, etc.
7 interesting apps for the Apple TV on launch day
Define "most". All of India, All of China, All of Japan, and every related country does not associate that symbol with Nazis. They are on every map as they mark hospitals in those countries.
I am not sure if dnscrypt helps much, but it at least makes them work a bit harder. Here is a guide for getting off your ISP's DNS and encrypting the traffic:

http://blog.lowsnr.net/2014/08/08/dns-privacy-using-opennic-...
I was not fired and they asked me to say. But I was too unhappy and going crazy.
Upgraded all windows machines to Windows 10. I'm so happy now. Much better. People that say "i moved to linux", we all did this at a point in time But like all Apple users, "I don't have time to troubleshoot, I need to get things done". Windows 10 did this for me till now. Everything works out of the box, no problem.
How Many People Take Credit for Writing a Hit Song?
To be clear, v4.2 is the stable dependable target that most users should be using as their target. Developers that want to track new development and new features and have more flexibility can move up to v5. Next year at around this time, v6 will become the new stable target. The actual number of breaking changes between v4 and v6 are likely to be quite small -- things that work in v4 should continue to work in v6 and beyond really. So the best advice I can give is: if you are developing modules for developers to use in their applications, you'll want to primarily target v4 for now but keep an eye on where v5 is going and use that as your beta channel for new development going forward.
You mean: in that there is no tangible limit to the supply of fossil fuels and any local scarcity is due to economics and politics?

I'm looking at you Organization of Potato Exporting Countries.
The Invention of Pad Thai
How is this obvious?
As I said, in this context, it means flexibility, but that flexibility must be tempered with composibility.

Think about how programs become bloated. What helps the core Unix command line tools avoid this fate?
Naw. I like the extra light in the afternoon. I'd vote for permanent double daylight savings time.
So what happens with the $15k that gets spent on the watch or the $X00k on the condo? The sellers aren't burying the resources in the ground, they're spending it on other stuff, like jet vacations, a low mpg vehicle, a big home in the country, etc.
Chainfire Releases Root for Android 6.0 Without Modifying /system
Doesn't work with joe.
I think the reasoning goes something like this: The anus should be assumed to be an unclean portion of the body, with the exception of directly after washing it with soap and water, and should always be treated under that assumption. By using paper in between the hand and anus when wiping you are attempting to avoid cross contamination with the hands, which is a part of the body that is understood to be much cleaner. Simply avoiding contact between the two areas is the most direct route to maintain this distinction. Washing your hands with soap and water after wiping serves as a further action to maintain the usefulness of the hands.

You will notice that I highlighted soap above, I do this because I believe it is the key factor often missed in discussions like this. You can argue that hand + water can make your anus appear cleaner than hand + paper, but without soap it is at best marginally more sanitary for your anus, and significantly less sanitary for your hand. There is a reason we clean our bodies with soap and water, not just water.
Coffee in a bag is the most hilarious thing in NYC. And the coffee is awful, of course.

I decided to give up paper coffee cups a few years ago. Now if I'm in a hurry I just order an espresso and drink it on the spot, or if I'm not I order a drip coffee and spend a few minutes relaxing and drinking it.

Of course, NYC has a bad relationship with the environment. They love trash there.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-worlds-most-wasteful-me...
Seems like a great opportunity to set up a crowdfunding model. Put proposed film up on Kickstarter, if it gets the necessary backing out it comes, otherwise it sits in the vault for a while longer.
Why would it be evil? It is merely self-defense.

No, locking up a dangerous person so that they are unable to harm society is self defense. Treating them inhumanely is at best petty vengeance.
But they don't wash their butt.

An analogy I always like was whether you'd be happy enough wiping your hand with a paper towel if you accidentally tripped and put your hand in dog feces.
Here's some examples:

* Telnav Scout: a typical GPS/navigation app. I guess figure using OpenStreetMaps is better than their proprietary data, and they don't want to be competing with Google and depending on Google for data at the same time.

* Humanitarian Organizations (HOT): it turns out that you can get volunteers to trace maps from satellite imagery for remote places that have no other maps.

* Backcountry/mountaineering: a lot of places in the mountains are poorly mapped in Google Maps. OSM is a lot easier to edit, and supports a lot more features when it comes to describing terrain and whatnot.
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> Would you ever consider rubbing yourself with paper a valid realistic alternative to showering?

Yes, all the time, for many classes of uncleanliness. Pants and paper towels are amazing. I'm careful with your wording, though -- those are an alternative, not a substitute, and especially an alternative for right now. If I had infinite time I'd love to take a full shower after every crap. If I worked up the slightest sweat bead on my forehead, I'd love to go shower and cool down immediately rather than rub against my shirt or a paper towel and continuing with what I was doing.

One day I might get a fancy Japanese toilet. For now, wiping is a fine alternative to a full shower and even in the gross cases of not washing hands afterwards you're still going to be less likely to spread disease than you would be in a culture where touching things with the left hand is frowned upon. As you say, I can be sure about one, and it's the most important one from a public health standpoint given that the other even if not super clean is contained until shower time.
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It seems being a fortran/assembly programmer is just a small part of whats needed.

What they seem to need are engineers that can teach themselves quite deep domain knowledge of the voyagers to figure out how they work, reverse engineer the hardware and software that arn't documented. (and eventually do some programming, mainly on old ground based code, and certainly without bricking the probes if the flight software needs to be altered).
I don't quite agree with your complaints.

Regarding #2, what do you consider the problem with representing arbitrary precision decimals as numbers? That your javascript json parser converts json numbers to 64-bit floats? I'm not sure that that is really a problem with FHIR - see e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/json-bigint . Or is the problem that exponents aren't allowed?

About #3, how would you standardise addresses? ISO has been at it for several years and still not produced a standard. See e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4840928/iso-standard-stre... for relevant links.

Your fourth complaint is plain invalid. A period consists of two dateTimes, both of which specify time zones.

Number one and five I can somewhat sympathise with, though.
A number of people thought it was important software including the Chief Operating Officer who immediately had it put to use in the Realtime Crime Center. It was the Captain who didn't want to have a checklist. My bosses, bosses, boss at the time tried to get the Captain to agree to a structure that would allow stuff like this to be developed but the captain refused.
> Level 1 Market Data corresponds to trade and price data... Price, bid, ask, trade price, trade quantity

That's not correct. What you describe is simply a trade that appears on the Time & Sales (aka "the tape"). Level 1 represents the inside quote, meaning the highest bid and lowest offer. Level 2 represents the combined highest bids and lowest offers of all market participants (which obviously includes the L1 data).
> Is Apple really that much more expensive?

I think for directly comparable hardware its not much more expensive, but:

1) the entry price is higher -- to get a minimally functional Apple laptop or desktop you're paying more than any of the alternatives.

2) the smaller number of Apple models compared to any major PC maker (much less the union of all PC makers) means that, unless your hardware preferences happen to match perfectly to an Apple model, you're often able to find a PC that matches your preferences less expensively simply because you are unlikely to have to overshoot your target as far as with Apple.
http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ is missing the first few paragraphs from http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive//3.06/xanadu_pr.html

That being said, great work!
Ironically, just this week I had several cases of attempting to install Python modules with pip, and every error that came up had to do with compiling parts. Then I used apt-get to install binary packages and they all installed just fine, in 1/10 the time.
And this sort of retributive thinking has nothing to do with "feelings of moral superiority"?

The only argument that makes sense is the one that gets the best results, and it turns out treating people like subhuman trash has rather negative results in the long run.
Observing that the two (wonderful!) recitations as of yet are affiliated with perl, I am wondering what's up with the rest...
Yes, that's what hit me from thaumasiotes' comment.

But anonymity (or at least, pseudonymity) is the issue here.

It's possible that their policy is different for accounts created via their Tor onion service https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/. But I haven't tested whether they require mobile text authentication, ID, etc. There's a thread on tor-talk.
PopMech makes it sound more arcane thane it might be: it's not that much out of the ordinary to know (or learn) assembly and Fortran or to have to work with computers that have 64K RAM (some modern microcontrollers have less[1]) I imagine it would be as hard as it sounds if they would require a specialist with years of experience in their particular dialect of Fortran and some particular assembler, expecting them to be productive right away. But it looks to me that they just have a peculiar setup and need someone who is able and willing to learn it - that's a situation plenty of companies have.

Now a Voyager computer itself looks like a peculiar piece of technology in itself - is it one of a kind? If so, who made an assembler and Fortran compiler for it? Unfortunately, the article (or any others I googled up) doesn't go into that. Is there a description of Voyager computer publicly available?

So far, I find it the most marvelous that a tape recorder is alive and well after 40 years of regular usage: the computer memory of the day was not nearly enough to hold scientific data, so it's being written on a 8-track tape recorder, sent to Earth and then overwritten again, in a loop. Still, even with minimial usage, I have trouble imagining how a single tape reel could last 40 years of regular use. In space.

[1] List of common microcontrollers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_microcontroller...

STM32 F0: http://www.st.com/stm32f0
If we're counting anecdata, the amount of junk mail I receive could probably fit into a shopping bag.

The amount of gifts + wrapping I get could probably fit into three, but I also make it pretty clear that I don't really need material gifts.

My job is a fucking disaster, I drank at least twelve cans of carbonated water today, and I currently have literally six at my desk, not all of which are empty. I wish we had a soda fountain.
No remote app support for the new Apple TV
So it's ok for the police to get a warrant and track a person's internet usage in real time but it's not ok for them to get a warrant to view a person's browser history?

This is seriously the illogical nonsense this place has devolved to at any mention of surveillance of any kind on Hacker News, even when it involves warrants.
I don't see how Vulkan will solve this. The problem has nothing to do with software. It has to do with the issue that GPUs are not preemptable. If you ask them to draw 100000000 fullscreen polygons they are stuck drawing 100000000 fullscreen polygons even if that will take it 30 minutes.

Most modern OSes monitor the GPU and if it doesn't return in a few seconds they reboot the GPU. Windows started doing that in Windows 7. OSX not until recently. Not sure if Linux does it.

The only real solution is someone making preemptable GPUs
I was in China recently and went into a temple with several Buddhas with swastikas on them. My Chinese wife turned to me and said, in a confused way, "isn't that the Nazi symbol?"

I have no idea how representative that is, of course.
I like good 3rd party font choices.

Edit: Sorry, that was snarky and offers little value. I am generally a fan of creative web typography. I like the fact that we can use fonts beyond Times New Roman on the web. That said, I think that the headline font used on Wired is excruciatingly awful. Ten bucks that says if you did a survey of Wired readers, a sizable majority would agree with me.

What sucks is that there is no financial incentive to change the headline font: you're not going to make more money by changing the font, which means that none of the business people at Wired will ever force ac change. So everyone who visits a Wired.com page has to suffer through your design director's bad font choice. :(
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It's much more than that. "No one goes there any more; it's too crowded" implies that the place is so successful that tastemakers look elsewhere, while they're still in fact booked solid every single night. Klout, MySpace, and horsecarts are no longer used by any significant fraction of the population (if they ever were). Of the three, MySpace is actually the most relevant; it's found a modestly sizeable niche (bands). Klout's relevance is at best an order of magnitude smaller and probably much less than that. Horsecarts are still popular among the Amish, Mennonites, and similar sects but in most of the world are no longer used by anyone and have become totally irrelevant. Just like Klout. In neither case is there some sort of anti-popularity bias going on. They're just plain dead outside of a very tiny nostalgic fan base.
And one way to improve standardized test scores would be killing low-achieving students, but you don't see schools doing that despite the funding incentive.

Even ignoring the moral issue, after all most prison administrators are indeed human, there's just no way to game it without getting caught. You might take out a few, but that would barely impact recidivism rates at any prison. We're talking about thousands of prisoners here, and a recidivism rate that hovers around 75%. That'd be hundreds of deaths to meaningfully impact a prison's recidivism rate. I don't care how powerful you are, you aren't going to kill hundreds of people all linked by a very identifiable thread and get away with it.
Companies spend lots of money there, so they believe it does work. Samsung built an ice skating facility directly in front of the courthouse. http://mix931fm.com/yes-you-can-ice-skate-in-east-texas/
Thank you. That's a helpful reply.

However, I gave up my car years ago and mostly walk everywhere. I occasionally take public transit. Also, I cannot find a supporting article, but my understanding is that horse and cart are still used to help harvest maple sugar because heavy vehicles like modern trucks would crush the tree roots and thereby damage or kill the trees.

So, Klout is dead. Long live Klout.

I shall see if it does any good for me.
After guilty plea, judge confused why prosecutors still want iPhone unlocked
Indeed, Windows 10 is "Windows as a Service", which does exactly that: it provides continuous mostly-small updates, so there's never another "big bang" update. Also, these free updates mean never having to pay for a big one.

Obviously people are bitching like mad about this. Some of the most vocal seem to resent every change in Windows since XP SP2.

People are also bitching about telemetry, even though both the success of new upgrades depends on it, and even though all this anonymous data is actually driving Windows 10's development (in the same way that it drives Gmail, Facebook etc).

I guess it's a fact of life that if you have 1.5 billion users, then the odd hundred million or so will find something to bitch about, whatever Microsoft does....
Sorry I didn't produce a production ready framework in 10 minutes.
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> So let's define species as groups of individual of a similar genotype. We were not able to define and measure genetic distances in the past, but now with the ability to read whole genomes, we can do just that.

How similar?

Consider the following: imagine that you assembled a gathering of all your ancestors in the male line for say, the past two million years. Let's say, for illustrative purposes, that the gap between each generation is twenty years. So you'd have 5 people to represent a century - you, your father, your grandfather, your great-grandfather, and your great-great grandfather. That makes 50 people per millennium, 500 people per ten thousand years, 5,000 people per hundred thousand years, and 50,000 people per million years. So two million years of ancestry gets you 100,000 people, the size of a small city, or about enough people to fit in the Rose Bowl stadium.

So really, not that many people in the grand scheme of things. Now line all those people up in order going all the way back to the first guy, who we'll just call Adam. The difference between Adam N and Adam N+1 is very small. There's no point at which you can say "Adam N is this species and Adam N+1 is that other species." But there's a hell of difference between you and Adam.

The same logic applies to life in general, the tree is just a lot bigger and messier and we're talking about distant cousins rather than ancestors, and some lines are extinct.

But going back to your proposed definition - similar genotype - we can have all kinds of bizarre situations. Say we require the genotype to be 99% similar. By this definition, we conclude that Adam M and N are the same species. We also come to the conclusion that Adam N and Adam O are the same species. But wait! Adam M and O are only 98% similar! What do we do - assign multiple species labels to the same individuals?

Species has proven a necessary and useful abstraction, but it nevertheless doesn't hold up well under scrutiny. That's fine, as long as we recognize its limitations.

> Then they are obviously not hugely different. Were we just comparing phenotypes when we decided to classify them as different species? Let's improve on that.

Genotypes certainly provide useful information, but they can also muddy the waters.

Assume that we take the definition of "any two organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring are the same species" as our preferred definition. (This has its own problems: for example, did you know mules sometimes are fertile, just not usually? Did you know it's conceivable that humans and chimpanzees can interbreed?) It is entirely possible for A and B to be distantly related genetically, yet able to interbreed, while A and C are closely related and unable to interbreed. "Can interbreed" is not necessarily a proxy for genetic distance.
There's absolutely no incentive to do that though. If you crash my computer you haven't stolen my passwords or got my browser history or installed a virus. All you've done is make sure I don't visit your webpage again.

As for GPU drivers being exposed WebGL is designed to cover that. Every input is checked, every bounds checked, shaders are re-written and drivers with bugs either worked around or banned.
The focus should be "let's find ways to ensure that people who want to take drugs have safe access to quality products".
>Given what Google has already demonstrated, its more likely we will see fully autonomous within 5 years. I'm betting less than that in a few test cities.

So, in other words, no. Not to pick on you but the scenario you (optimistically IMO) describe is that, on a test basis, under certain limited circumstances and locations, might be able to have fully autonomous vehicles. (Though if they're that limited, why would they be legally allowed on the streets?)

And highways actually seem like a more likely nearish-term scenario given that, aside from the occasional deer/moose, debris, and construction (which could presumably be dealt with in various ways) seems far more manageable than the typical city street.
My vimrc has

source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin

which maps Ctrl-z to undo.
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That building from the article I posted doesn't look like Triskelion.
... published as a Jupyter notebook of a LaTeX document of a markdown file containing Perl POD comments. ;)
The main reasons that someone would still choose Google, as I (a long-term OSM developer) see it:

- Address search. OSM has lousy address coverage.

- One single provider, works out of the box. OSM is much more flexible in the long run, but you can't just plug in an "OpenStreetMap API" and expect it to do everything for you. (That said, Mapbox is going a long way towards providing this.)

- Satellite imagery. (Again, you can get this from a reseller like Mapbox.)

- StreetView.

- Public transport directions.

- Familiarity.