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As mentioned in the ticket, the original implementation is BSD.

Your last point is not the only thing that matters though.
If the runtime already ships with packages X, there is no point in shipping your own implementation.

(Which is exactly what Scala/Scala.js does with math stuff: it reuses BigInteger from the runtime on the JVM, but ships its own implementation with Scala.js.)
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If you are worried about two languages...

>28 October 2015: Discovered Rust, a functional language that is not only type-safe and fast, but also has threads and binds easily to C on Linux and Windows. Looks like a good target.
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impact on who? Doens't the very idea of impact require some sort of mind to understand the impact? In a world with no observers there wouldn't be any event's because there wouldn't be any perspectives to interpret it from.
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That's exactly what is happening with putting cameras on cops and their cars.
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I personally would like just a comment in situations like that; not necessarily commented out code. If someone else had tried that and committed in the past, could link to the revision number in the comment.
I think the more important story here is that Walgreens has halted their partnership with Theranos.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-scrutinizes-theranos-t...
True, it gets confusing, but tertiary to my mind means postgrad. But yeah, I meant college/university was rare before the post war period. And people thought and still consider it an achievement meriting praise.
Yes - it's getting there and you can help it get there sooner by donating http://pypy.org/py3donate.html
And what about in emergency situations? Do you really want to make people wait 2 weeks for disaster relief funds?
Rather hire somebody who can resolve bugs and focus on the specific objectives and values, within given time-frames of a particular project than somebody who never writes code that might be "poorly indented, poorly named, and poorly scoped.", or containing commented out code also.
I don't answer un-recognized calls, especially toll-free originators. I think it's entirely reasonable and they are always free to leave a voicemail.
Rackspace has been patching their Xen stuff for a little over a week now.

It's nice having a multi-region / multi-provider setup otherwise the typical Rackspace reboot window (much like UPS deliveries or the cable guy) would've been a pain in the ass.
I'm/we are also moving everything to 3.4, since we want all the nice things.
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To the society as a whole. To kind of amplify jerf's comment, think in terms of a society "spending" people, rather than "employing" people. You (the society) only have so many people; if you don't have to spend them on solar, you can spend them on other worthwhile things.
IANAP, but that argument strikes me as circular - you are presupposing that inertia works the way we are used to in order to figure out which astronaut is rotating.

But imagine two astronauts in empty space and let's turn one upside down stacking them head to head, or helmet to helmet. Now spin one of them around his vertical axis [1].

The situation looks completely symmetric to both of them. Why should the relative speed of rotation change if one of them extends or retracts his limbs but not if the other one does the same thing? What breaks the symmetry of the situation in absence of any other matter in the universe that could be used as a preferred frame of reference for defining spinning versus being at rest?

[1] I am not sure if you could do that, but I tend to say no. One of the astronauts would have to try to spin the other one which should make himself spin in the opposite direction, conservation of angular momentum. Ad hoc it seems like you could establish a preferred frame of reference, a frame of zero angular momentum this way.
There are too many people on the planet to start with, and 1/6 of them is in China. The effect that they are having on the environment (both in "nature" and in their own living spaces) is atrocious, but there are too many people to reasonably switch to a sustainable model. Additionally, if you account for the fact that a gigantic portion of their land is basically uninhabitable (the Gobi Desert), they have an unreal population density (among non-trivial sovereign nations). If their population keeps expanding unchecked, they'll stop being able to feed everyone.
And then keep reading and try to figure out how to pay for a packet and a chamber sealer while hiding it from the wife/girlfriend.

Such a fantastic book about cooking.
What's "safer" (or less safe) about different transport protocols, when you're carrying Internet traffic?
> You said criminal record - which driving offenses are.

In many jurisdictions, most moving violations are civil offenses, not criminal offenses; they have only fines and administrative penalties (not imprisonment or loss of protected liberty) as punishment and have only the civil "preponderance of the evidence" standard of proof rather than the criminal "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard.

But this varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and in some they are minor crimes rather than civil violations.
If everyone loved it so much. They'd likely be complaining and asking for one too. And company didn't want to fork over buying new ones for everyone.

It's some form of socialism of something I think. Instead of helping everyone we penelize the 1?
Is that the email I should send my bank account and routing number to?
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While that's true, I've never seen a system that will randomize the spoofed number on every call. We regularly see the same number show up on our caller-ID for weeks on end. In fact, in one case the "I'm calling from Windows" people had their caller ID changed to "DO NOT PICK UP" for a few days, I'm guess by a disgruntled employee.

So I think a database would help if it could be updated in near-real time. If 100 people across the country get a call from the same bogus number, it could get added immediately and stop thousands more calls from going out that night, at least.
I used to get bread from a old school French baker in downtown Dallas of all places. I don't know where he gets his wheat (he mills it himself) but the bread was like nothing I've ever eaten. One time I ate half a loaf for dinner with nothing on it at all, it's so tasty.
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How can SciPy be fast if it is written in an interpreted language like Python?

Actually, the time-critical loops are usually implemented in C or Fortran. Much of SciPy is a thin layer of code on top of the scientific routines that are freely available at http://www.netlib.org/. Netlib is a huge repository of incredibly valuable and robust scientific algorithms written in C and Fortran. It would be silly to rewrite these algorithms and would take years to debug them. SciPy uses a variety of methods to generate “wrappers” around these algorithms so that they can be used in Python. Some wrappers were generated by hand coding them in C. The rest were generated using either SWIG or f2py. Some of the newer contributions to SciPy are either written entirely or wrapped with Cython.

A second answer is that for difficult problems, a better algorithm can make a tremendous difference in the time it takes to solve a problem. So using scipy’s built-in algorithms may be much faster than a simple algorithm coded in C.

http://www.scipy.org/scipylib/faq.html#how-can-scipy-be-fast...
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I wish this site had an RSS feed. I'd subscribe right now.
As an aside, consumption of bread is strongly correlated with tooth decay. Whole wheat has only a slightly smaller correlation.
Pretty much precisely this. Though my crap phone doesn't have a whitelist feature (it _does_ offer number blocking).

I'm headed toward likely having burner phones I use intermittently for convenience, and some digital service, preferably self-hosted, for other comms. If the telcos don't get a handle on phone spam, they're going to relegate themselves to utter irrelevance all the faster.

Burner dumbphone (with whitelist if at all possible), tablet + VOIP + text-to-voice messaging, etc., _not_ on mainstream commercial OS.
> If you increase GDP you can give your people healthier/better lives.

Sort of. You'll still bump up against physical system constraints, at least until we're swimming in an excess of renewable, clean energy.

It would take many Earth's worth of resources to have the quality of life American's have. Clean energy goes a long way to solving that, but again, physical systems have limitations.
You chose way of punishment. It is better to split work into 3 parts: 2/3, 2/9, and 1/9, and assign 2/3 to winner, 2/9 to second winner, and 1/9 to third winner. In this case whole ecosystem will grow around these auctions, which will produce into better market and lower prices automagically.
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>"Don't make the mistake of aligning morals/ethics with the law. "

I'm an anarcho-capitalist, so I don't align my morals/ethics with the law. All I'm implying is that being a convicted criminal, to some extent, is an undesirable property of individuals you want near your safe area.

>"There are plenty of good people who get labeled criminals and plenty of people would really should have a criminal record but avoided it."

You have to assume the process by which they were convicted was reasonable for the suggested idea. If that's not the case then of course you shouldn't give too-much weight to being convicted. Again, it's up to the individuals how they wish to restrict access to their private property. Some will take this as a good signal for exclusion, others (like you, perhaps) will not.
Evolution doesn't have a direction, it's an explanation of a thing that happens. Diversity in the gene pool is almost certainly a plus for the long-term survival of the species, but it's marginal, must like everything that would determine the long-term survival of the species.

Almost all diseases that happen after a species' reproductive age is very difficult to select out either in a positive or negative way unless it happens to be strongly genetically linked (either through sharing genes or being very close on a chromosome) to a different positive or negative trait. Even then in the long run the survival of that trait will be dominated by its independent characteristics.

The way to flip this around is that you could also look at the "survival" of the disease, disorder, etc. Not that we WANT these to survive, but they either will or won't. If a disease causes death 100% of the time at age 2 and provides no other benefits in the carrier / recessive trait it tends not to last in the gene pool for very long.
>In Firefox, use about:config to change the following:

Don't those settings have any adverse effect on any web services you use, such as say Gmail or any finance-related site you use, such as say Amazon? Everything works the same as before (except for now not getting ads and wasting bandwidth)? Pretty good if so. Not familiar with this area, hence asking.
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You're backwards. The problem with year-round daylight savings in Boston (which, personally, I'd prefer) is kids going to school in the dark in the winter. Boston's both relatively northernly and very far east in a timezone because eastern time wraps up the northeast-jutting coast of the US to avoid New England being in its own timezone. [Edit: It wouldn't be in its own timezone; it would be in Atlantic time, which is used in parts of Canada. But it would put Boston in a different timezone from NYC and other major east coast cities.]
Is there a way to try it for free? I find that I learn horribly via online tutorials and would never pay unless it was something I would actually use and learn from. Being able to trial the methods of teaching are fundamental to me ever spending a dollar.
And if you can afford having two olympic swimming pools, you can probably also afford the solar installation.

;-)
I enjoyed it, too! It reminded me of the Sburb loading screen from Homestuck: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002037
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I'm mystified at the conclusions drawn by the data; islanders changed at what age they tended to have children.

There's absolutely no discussion of cultural impact whatsoever as a cause; these islanders were not cut off from the rest of the world; they speak French for goodness sake!

Despite this omission, there's much talk of cultural changes on the island now that tourism is a big thing, so it's on the radar of the journalist.

I just don't understand how you can jump to 'groundbreaking change in genetic theory' from 'birth dates changed'.

I'm not even that against the proposal -- if I look at what selective breeding can do in say dogs, it makes sense to me that environment would encourage rapid genetic changes at times. Fine; but this article neither proves that genetic changes are the cause here, nor even attempts to provide an environmental explanation that could cause such a shift.
Sounds like they are in the wrong time zone. Also, if children are being raped at 4pm, they will be probably be raped at 3pm as well.
I live in Britain and "git" is not synonymous with "idiot". An idiot is someone who lacks intelligence, or behaves as such. A git is anyone whose behaviour is quite bothersome, perhaps with intent.
Military = "government contracting connections"

Legal Boies = "government regulatory connections"

Engineering = passing the Bechtel test. [That one is a bad joke, sorry]
Interesting read. Collaborative data could revolutionize how humans interact with the world. A cooperative model can eliminate redundancy and optimize the finite resources we have. Predictive medical diagnosis and personalized treatment, less roads and infrastructure, nations pooling resources and information and a united growth strategy.

This comes with privacy concerns. I don't want to wave my hands at them, because they are very real, but our world is very very public already. Vehicle data is much less likely to be the linchpin in an exploitation and tracking model. Cellphones, employment information and social graphs can paint a much more granular picture. I am really long on sharing DNA information as it has the biggest upside, but as one would expect, has the biggest risks.

People use cars much differently than they used:

* ride sharing

* less younger people owning vehicles

* urbanization eliminating regular driving

* real-time communication limiting travel needs

* everyone being broke as fuck (me)

So I imagine it will be non-trivial to do this soon if society begins to share cars on the grid Uber/lyft etc, and more privately among family members. The upside would be less need for infrastructure, ability to predict and deploy infrastructure, repairs and improvements and the holy of all holies:

Routing traffic sanely on the 405 in LA or the LIE in NY and evenly distributing it as much as possible.

So, I am not worried about it. It is net worth it in my opinion. The new VPN is going to be a 64' classic without even a tape player.
Very informative, thank you. With regards to the quarantine facilities, ebola showed us that this can be a very touchy subject - the Americans/Europeans swooping in and locking people away. Perhaps the fact that TB is more readily treatable, and that patients will generally recover, will help the situation.
A company doesn't need to be purely altruistic to 1) publicly contribute to an open source project and 2) effectively 'win' a government contract. Given the simplicity of the task in question, one could choose to take it on as a reasonable business development expense.
Power corrupts.
He could just be changing his user agent to normalize it.
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Ecosystems have carrying capacities. There is only so much water and arable land. There are only so many resources in the mines/oil wells waiting to be extracted.

Technology (like GMOs) can help you make incrementally more efficient use of those resources, but not as fast as unbounded exponential population growth.

At some point, the average standard of living has to come crashing down. The biologically necessary quantity of food and water is not available for everyone. Even with unlimited labor to supply factories, there are no more raw materials to make gadgets and medicine out of.

A country in that situation has basically one reasonable course of action: kill the neighbors and take their resources.

China is arguably being a good world citizen by trying not to put itself in that position.

You may find this statist interference with a natural process distasteful, but consider the alternative: only the fittest get to survive.
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"Regulation is always a bad thing."

I know, right? I long for the days in which companies could dump whatever sludge they wanted in the water, and where meatpackers could let the rats roam free over the half rotted meat they were going to grind into sausage.
I thought Project Loon switched from wifi to LTE last year.
"Royalists" have been a phenomena everywhere. Then again population of a country is able to change it's mind.

Just before WWI lot's of European intelligentsia favored communism. Same happened before WWII with fascism. It is still completely possible that spread of democracy is just multinational fashion trend. And something else will come after it.

For any given moment, it's even probable that majority of some country does not want democracy. There are ~200 countries and several somewhat convincing ideologies.
The problem isn't really population per se, it's population growth. China instituted the one-child policy so they could slow down their population growth to more manageable levels.

We could have 10 billion people on this planet and we'd be fine, so long as we were resource-efficient.
>> But this article feels like 50% uninspired travel diary...

Exactly. Could have done with something half the length (and twice as informative).
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I'd go with 'honest' and 'blunt'.
...And stupid me, I tried to electrolyse _very_ salty water using household AC when I was in primary school. I manage to fill tiny bottles with potentially dangerous gaseous mix and leave foul smelling faintly green gas in the room (chlorine surely). Thankfully the worst that happened was a blown fuse. I was of course planning to make a hydrogen powered rocket missed the part about cryo... something :)
>spouses?

wives
> there are too many people on the planet to start with

Earth doesn't have too many people. The people inhabiting it are just, currently, quite wasteful with resources.
How does the keyboard and mouse not fall off the table when the unit is reclining? Are they magnatised or something?

Also does the unit support 2/3 monitors? I saw videos on youtube with a laptop. How about using a desktop?

Would have to first use it for an extended period of time first rather than putting down the required $$$.
Is $1 a large project?
Got it.
I also have not received any response yet.
Do they send either a rejection or approval letter to everybody ?
Would it help if we triggered a new round of bidding after every failure, disqualifying anyone who won previous bids?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10465342
I use a standing desk because sitting all day is terrible for my back, after years and years I had massive amounts of lower back pain and a fairly awful anterior pelvic tilt (APT). Couple that with my otherwise sedentary lifestyle and poor family genetics pre-disposed to back issues and it's not looking pretty for me.

It's taken nearly a year of strengthening my back through heavy lifting in the gym (squats, deadlifts, rows, and weighted pull-ups mainly) to finally see some kind of resemblance of my APT clearing up.

I'd imagine that laying down all day would only be marginally better at best. It might even be worse...I don't know for sure, but I do know that I used to get pretty bad back pain if I stayed in bed or lied on the couch too long.
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Sure. But we've yet to see any competitor affect Twitch's dominance in gaming by any real margin, so it seems unlikely that people who have been using it exclusively for gaming will be turned off when other things become available. I mean, they have a dedicated viewer base which won't really care what Twitch does with their homepage. It's like Amazon expanding from just selling books to selling everything. People looking for books are still gonna keep going there.
Good point. I didn't consider that he might have just been speaking about the profitability of his own sector, I had assumed he meant that we as a society should look kindly on solar power for the reason that it employs a lot of people.
> Evolution requires survival of the fittest to still be a thing

The definition of 'fittest' is not set in stone.
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I think you're right. I just hope it stays that way.
I beg to differ: the guarantees functional programming and data immutability offer are exactly the sorts of guarantees needed for scalable parallelisation.

LOC is not a useful metric for the utility of a program, in fact the reverse is true in terms of maintainability and places for bugs to hide.

This chap claims to write very robust programs, entirely functionally that are worth billions in their operation.

http://logicaltypes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/pure-functional-p...
If a variation doesn't have an impact on reproductive success, then by evolution's terms, it is not a bad variation, it's just a variation. Variation in general - genetic diversity - is good in that it insulates the species as a whole against specific shocks.
All space time clocks may run at GMT+00 with no regional differences.

Actually we may remove time zones all together too. So the day time of 3pm will be different everywhere. For calendar months and seasons we already have it like that, in both hemispheres. The only issue is backward incompatibility with legacy movies, books who talk about breakfast at 8am. Similarly, a love song which talks about April/May being a sunny warm time sounds weird in southern hemipshere. Let's get rid of Roman legacy code in our civilization :)
Not sure if this has been raised somewhere else in this thread, but if prosecutor didn't disclose evidence, did the defense also not know about the evidence, considering it was the child of the accused. Is the balance of power in favor of prosecution?

Also, now that the the accused in the case has been declared not guilty, will there be an investigation into who actually committed the murder?
A quick remark: you may want to lose the autofocus on the call to action input field.

On mobile (tablet) it automatically pops up the keyboard, between that and the cookies disclaimer it hides almost the whole page.