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I have witnessed the folks on this site being nitty, but this is just a whole new level. Because a company gave all of their employees the day off, they have to either take their website down or be called hypocrites by some HN user...? How on earth is this a remotely sensible position to take?
I'm sure both of them would come over with a decent offer :)
Everything is an object in Ruby. E.g. you can do "42.to_s(16)" to convert 42 to base 16.

That includes nil, true, false (instances of NilClass, TrueClass and FalseClass respectively).

A common way of explicitly checking for nil, as opposed to nil or false is to do "foo.nil?", for example, which explicitly calls the method nil? on foo, which will usually return false for objects other than nil (nothing stops you from overriding it if you want your class to pretend to be nil - e.g. maybe I'd want my "Maybe" class to return true for "nil?" if the value it holds is nil).

As for the example the whole point is that like my naive "Maybe" implementation, this new operator would check if the target is nil before trying to call a method. Unlike my naive implementation, it doesn't need to wrap objects, and it can short-circuit evaluation if it meets a nil (you can implement versions that will short-circuit evaluation too, but I can't see any obvious ways of both letting you short-circuit and getting "clean" syntax if you want to support method arguments).
I find the factoid about the imperial palace hard to believe. Can you point me at some source/supporting evidence?
The hardware is not holding us back, it is the way that the software is being developed.

Keep in mind that Apple made the Macintosh in 1984 and had to use a lot of expensive hardware to get the GUI to work. Then a year later GEOS was developed for the Commodore 64 that made almost the same GUI and apps for a fraction of the cost of a Macintosh.

When Windows was released in 1985 it ran on 8088 DOS PCs.

Over the years Windows and Macintoshes have added feature after feature and require state of the art systems in order to function properly. Most people don't even need the functions that got added, and it slows down things with each feature added.

I like the fact that GNU/Linux can run on older hardware with less RAM and run faster as well. It is developed differently than Windows or Mac OSX is developed.

When I had a Commodore 64 in the 1980s, I got laughed at by people who had an Apple II or IBM PC, but we could only afford a Commodore 64 because our family was poor. The C64 BASIC was primitive, but it forced me to learn machine language to get stuff to work.
If these lot spend two minutes to understand that code at the end, I'd not depend them for my code. He's just processed some text, that's all, don't bother reading.
Inbox is NOT using Polymer in any way. But the reason why it's so resource heavy is because of it's huge DOM Tree.

Web Components to the rescue!
You can literally apply this same logic to any form of discrimination:

Paid less because of your gender? What good does complaining do? I suggest you work harder.

Injustly stripped of your property? What good does complaining do? I suggest you start a business.

Forced to sit in the back of the bus? What good does complaining do? I suggest you exercise more so you can walk longer.

Profiled by the police based on your skin color? What good does complaining do? I suggest you dress better.

Ostracised from society because you're gay? What good does complaining do? I suggest you hide it better.

Assaulted because of your religion? What good does complaining do? I suggest you learn to fight.

You should understand that behind every complaint is an implicit call for collective action, which is the only way to solve problems these types of problems. Dismissing these grievances, like you're doing here, has the affect of discouraging not only the person being discriminated against, but also other victims. Even if you aren't doing it consciously, your attitude smothers attempts at collective action maintains the status quo of discrimination.
This is how maps should work. They all seem entirely responsive on my 18 month old mobile.
Unsure of what the goal was, here is my objective reaction:

- Navigation was a mystery. How is creations different from software? What is precisouses? I have to click to truly know.

- The site is almost 90% layout and navigation, with maybe 10% from content. I spent most of my time fiddling with the moving menus than I did learning anything about you.

- The additional backwards, up, forward navigation seemed confusing and unnecessary if you went through the trouble of implementing pushState, which you did.

- Copy and paste didn't work anywhere

The node navigation and geometry seems pretty cool, but it probably has more practical applications than a personal website. Content-wise, what I saw could have been better represented as a feed.
The script type is a possibility but you have to make it work. I've forgotten the details.
You're welcome to make that argument in the producer's room. I'm sure many are. You're dead in the water though, if you lead with, "you're going to make less money, but you might make more in the future."

And remember where Damon came from. It was a self-written, self-starring but extremely clever screenplay. Nothing can stop an ambitious asian from doing the same thing and working his or her way up.
As many times as the world has come close to nuclear war and mutually assured destruction since the end of WW2, it's actually one of the most reassuring things about humanity that people refused orders to fire missiles every time

If you accept the account in the linked story, this episode itself is a counterexample:

"...the situation of one launch crew was particularly stark: All its targets were in Russia. Its launch officer, a lieutenant, did not acknowledge the authority of the senior field officer—i.e. Capt. Bassett—to override the now-repeated order of the major. The second launch officer at that site reported to Bassett that the lieutenant had ordered his crew to proceed with the launch of its missiles..."
and it was built by people who weren't obese! Obesity is now the biggest cause of pregnancy complications.

http://www.acog.org/Resources-And-Publications/Committee-Opi...

Yet, it's not politically correct to critique a fat mother (but you can tell her to stop drinking, etc.)
> Both languages discourage the use of these constructs, but they exist for good reasons.

Curious, what are your good reasons for fromJust in Haskell?
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You're conducting this conversation in a manner I find to be vocalizing the precise feelings I've had about CISA and CISPA, and especially, EFF.
It looks like you downloaded the file using bittorrent. They could have detected the IP address from that, and using a list of IPs owned by Digital Ocean, sent a notice to DO based on that.
You can't get upset every time someone is being obtuse on the Internet.
I checked one of the feeds [1]. It's just a list of existing articles, by NYT writers, that don't have meta data. That's not what the NYT article is about. To make the meta tagging work you have to also strip down the article into each individual news event. For example, imagine a list of NYT articles about Yoko Ono. Almost every article about her will mention that she was married to John Lennon, and that he died in 1980. In an article you have to repeat this information because you assume that the physical paper was thrown out each day. But in a news database these events would be separate data events, and would not be repeated. Vox is the same - they still use articles, not data in their place.

[1]http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g...
I haven't seen this before and am not a lawyer.

1. I would contact an attorney.

Some quick thoughts, but always consult your attorney first before taking any actions.

2. Would NOT access the settlement offer, have your attorney check it out if he recommends it from his computer/IP.

3. Delete and scrub your droplet at Digital Ocean.

4. Maybe delete your Digital Ocean account and open a new one under a new email or use linode for a while.

I expect if you remove your droplet and aren't active on that IP and don't host any of their files or torrent activity in the future this might go away.

Good luck with it.
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What's our obsession with Steve Jobs all about?
REI is not a dicount retailer. So high volume at dirt cheap prices is not their business pLan, like say a Walmart.
Trust me they do. At my local store (relatively small compared to other cities) there are people lined up around the street.
Am I the only one who read the headline like:
"People should stop writing articles about the future of news, it's not a thing."
Planning? paper sketching screens listing fields, notes on features you want etc.

Started... most of mine are data oriented so I usually start with entry screens, maybe a little bit of creating some inital DB tables first.
I wouldn't pay out of pocket, but I don't mind viewing ads.
From what I remember, the local REI-located very close to Frys-never got insane levels of Black Friday traffic. Also several years ago went to a diff REI on Black Friday, wasn't overwhelmed.
The accident defense is not intended to be used repeatedly...
The article is published by the same group that's building tools to help with this exact problem. [1]

[1] http://nytlabs.com/projects/editor.html
What apparently a lot of people fails to understand is that the IARC list reflects is how sure we are that a substance is carcinogenic, but not how much it raises the risk of cancer.

So we can equally be sure that plutonium and bacon are a risk for health. But we also know that eating plutonium is more dangerous than bacon.
Yep. Same story here. Cleaner didn't show up and Handy refused to refund my cleaning fee because the cleaner had attempted to contact me. (Apparently Handy does not find it relevant that I never received a call, nobody ever came to my house, and I am paying for cleaning not a phone call.) Eventually, after much back and forth, their customer service people simply stopped responding.

Against my better judgment, I attempted to book through them again the next week. Cleaner didn't show up and would not answer his/her phone.

On numerous prior visits the cleaner was very late and/or did a very poor job. Handy doesn't care.

This is a truly terrible service--one of the worst experiences I've ever had with a company.
> What makes you say this?

Hollywood greedy practices

> Have you ever lived in California?

Honestly, no
REI changed their return policy from effectively "forever" to one year. Sounds like perhaps that move gives them the freedom to pay all their employees for a day during their slow season.
Let's put this another way: if the data suggest a false positive rate of 90%, does that constitute an effective test?
You'd be surprised a lot of outdoor people go do things the day after thanksgiving because they have off. Last year I went trout fishing and it was unexpectedly crowded.
An engine wouldn't dilute the Tesla brand necessarily, but it wouldn't make any sense. Tesla's laser focus is a good thing.
Compose all the things! It's definitely reassuring to see that this is the attitude of the people who are building the standards for the future of the web.
If its any consolation, the Soviet Union was grossly outmatched in strategic weapons in 1962. An all out war wouldn't have ended civilization (or probably most of the US, realistically).Things would've been more worrisome later on in the Cold War.
Yep, thats what Thumbtack.com does.
"Doing business this time of year" is not the same as "has well-known huge annual sales events on one specific day during this time of year." Like the grandparent post, REI wasn't what came to mind when I thought of stores on Black Friday; instead I think Walmart, Best Buy, Sears, etc.
another one not on the list is that any padding specified in % is always % of width.

though this oddity/hack allows to responsively & proportionally scale images and backgrounds.
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You do know that India is in Asia, right? Also, Sikhs more often than not are Indians. Sikhism just like many of the world's other religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) was born in India.
When I was in retail I loved working Black Friday - the day went by fast, and you could usually snag overtime.
The benefit is the unifed interface.

Imagine Facebook being replaced by the semantic web.
> But having an economy that uses currency X, but does much of its trade in currency Y, changes the dynamic compared to considering an economy in isolation, doesn't it?

Salaries are the deciding factor. Are swiss employment contracts set mainly in Francs or Euros?
The main reason we're ahead of these folks is because we went about our research a bit more methodical, not because we're smarter or more precise with our fingers.

If not for a handful of men and women we'd be stuck trying to find the philosophers stone.
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One year still seems like an overwhelmingly liberal return policy. They're just trying to find the balance between being fair to customers, and being taken advantage of as a rental agency.
Sorry Elon, Telsa autopilot release was reckless
For those who don't know, this fits really well into everything REI stands for. They are a Coop where you can join and as a shareholder a customer can make back a percentage of what they purchase. Both them, the products by vendors sold in their store and their competitors (LLBean, Patagonia) pride themselves on reuse by offering many loose warranties, these are often lifetime warranties.

As someone whose father worked retail for 30 years, and working several Black Fridays myself, I can't say I wasn't moved.
I was saying that the launch codes would only be available if the CP had received their own launch codes and there wouldn't be a list with the launch codes and lunch codes to make that error.
That change happened over two years ago, I doubt it has any relevancy to this choice.
http://www.thebubblebubble.com/japan-bubble/
Probably considering how badly people were taking advantage of the policy. Returning 10 year old socks because they got a hole.
I think you're talking about a "seamless" iframe.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...
This is begging the question.

These drone strikes seem to be used without regard for civilian casualties.

Are they state-sponsored terrorism?
I'm guessing that the targets know this, and so surround themselves with civilians in order to complicate these decisions.
That description is false.

More importantly, you have no standing to argue about what's appropriate on HN when you post dreck like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453898 in violation of the site's rules. I've asked you before to stop doing this. Please follow the rules from now on.
These terrorists didn't decide to become terrorists last year. These are people who grew up there, and who have had more or less the same views throughout their lives. So before you assume they MUST be blown up by a drone, post haste, consider what makes then a threat now? Or are they just fodder for the war machine? We have a quota to fill. Pilots to keep busy. Before we had drones to blow them up with what did we do? Maybe we did nothing 99% of the time, except in cases where a real threat could be determined. Maybe we can go back to that.

You ask "are you willing to send troops on the ground and live with US casualties?" No. No I'm not willing. Because it isn't necessary. I want to be shown this new kind of war has some material benefit. I see no evidence for that.
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Enjoy the outdoors.. in late November?
I think its a combination of a few factors:

1. Older candidates are more expensive. Tech isn't that hard to learn. You can get pretty good at a particular tech within 2 years of learning it. Why pay an older candidate tons of money, when you can hire a new one that is just as good?

2. Older candidates don't know the latest tech. They spend their evenings with their families / kids whereas young folk are constantly learning the latest stacks at home.

3. Older candidates don't pass the 'beer test' with young co-founders.
It confuses me how someone who founded the company and someone who starts 6 months after the company started are treated so differently when it comes to value in the company.
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This is a spurious comment but how neat to be blasted by photons which have travelled for billions of years.

I presume, if they're hitting the telescope they're probably hitting me (which does make me feel a little self centered).

I wonder how long they will keep traveling?

The cosmos have been super interesting lately with those weird formations orbiting one star and the SETI project being refocused on another after detecting a strange sequence of lights. (I am barely a lay man here so bear with me if I'm making an ass of myself astronomers). And of course the Mars rover and those beautiful shots of Pluto.

I look forward to a tremendous amount more. I've got a book on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and a beautiful illustrated copy of Stephen Hawking's most famous work (I cannot seem to remember the title). After Catch-22 I believe I'll check them out.

If anyone has any other suggestions for understanding the cosmos I'd be indebted.
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I think you're mixing up real (inflation/deflation-adjusted) and nominal (not inflation-adjusted).

- nerfhammer probably meant a nominal return of 5%, which when combined with 5% deflation is 0. But it seems more likely to me that the real return of any particular investment opportunity would remain relatively constant rather than the nominal return. I'm not too sure about this one

- I think that a majority of investment decisions (in dollar terms) are made by people not living paycheck-to-paycheck. I think you still might be right in practice, though

- If there's deflation of 2%, then to pay your employees the same amount in real terms, you have to cut their nominal pay by 2%, which people really dislike

- This point of nerfhammer I think is wrong. If the value of your stock holdings goes down by 2% every year, but keeps the same purchasing power, the only difference to you is that you don't pay any capital gains taxes

- Debts are usually measured in nominal terms, so if you have a loan that says $100 but that $100 is now worth 2% more than it was before, your debt has increased in real terms
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They only get fired if you find out. So the rational thing for them to do is spend part of the arbitraged amount on deceiving you. As long as they are spending less on deceiving you than the arbitraged amount, it is rational for them to do so. Ergo, rampant corruption.
I created a (non-technical) prototype of basically this exact idea a few years ago to get a better understanding of the economics. It's online if anyone wants to play with it:

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html

Basically the economics are insanely good if you're using this as an open source tool to create NYT-style articles, less so if you're Circa.

The people comparing this to the semantic web don't understand Zipf's Law, and just how slowly things actually change. E.g. we only get new data on adult literacy every 10 years. And the last data we have on antibiotic resistance for some bacteria/drugs is from the early 90s, and that's more the rule than the exception. Pretty much every single article about the U.S. is using the same set of a couple thousand facts, and most of those only get updated every ten years or so. There are a few exceptions like with federal arrest data that gets updated yearly, but that's pretty rare.

Basically if you're trying to do this using machine learning or any sort of algorithms, you're completely wasting your time and going down the wrong path. This is way easier to implement well than you think. (But again, not necessarily super profitable unless you own the NYT.)
I'm trying to construct the similar sentiments you are asking me to. Let me know if this is correct.

> I often can't relate with asian people. What they worry about and enjoy do nothing for me. This started from a young age (why is there chinese school on saturday? what is discipline by disappointment? no privacy?) and although I have many close asian friends, on a whole they are the minority in my friend groups.

I'm not sure why I would think that is racist.
Which X-Men software developer are you?
Is this the future of advertising, a whole 'article' dedicated to a peanut butter coated roasted corn snack, Apple, Amazon, the Jackson Five, talk about product placement. I would have really liked to read an article on the causes of childhood allergies ...
Not sure why openstack swift never went after apple's swift for using the same name. Swift, the opensource object store platform has been around for so many more years and is very well known in the tech world.
Anything that has a half-life of 500,000 years isn't very radioactive at all. The half life is directly related to the amount of harmful stuff it puts out.
Do you mean having all DOIs for all referenced papers included in the pdf metadata somehow? From my experience, authors don't know LaTeX well enough to do that. Half of them don't even read the submission guidelines that clearly say not to put page numbers on the camera-ready paper; they're never going to understand complicated metadata commands...
I say good for consumers calling them out on what obviously was a BS policy.
Sure, why not? Most people have the day off. It's a great time to get outside. Most locations aren't prone to snow just yet at that time of year.
No it's not dead - I use the Pebble and find it super handy.
All of your "read the fine-print" logic can be applied to Handy and Amex just as easily as to Handy and the customer.

eg:

If Handy doesn't like the deal where an Amex customer can request a chargeback for inadequate customer service then they shouldn't accept Amex as payment.
True, but you'd be surprised. Morocco has more than two dozen hydro stations, 460MW of pumped storage and there's still some unused capacity for future hydro projects. Hydro obviously isn't the future of electricity for Morocco, indeed there aren't enough rivers, but it's playing a substantial role today as part of the renewable energy mix, e.g. numbers from a few years ago show hydro generated twice as much electricity as all solar/wind.

http://www.iea.org/stats/WebGraphs/MOROCCO2.pdf

Take the recent solar project, Noor I, that's launching within a month. Its production is about 370GWH per year, hydro currently does something close to 1900 GWH.
The end readers don't have to use the tool. They could, but the most basic use case is writing the same type of articles for 10x cheaper, with better quality.
Use [Search Tools] => [All Results] => [Verbatim] that is a known issue for people who have been using Google Search for years. There are many discussions about this topic, like: https://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4744658.htm
I'm a club member here in NYC. Their store is beautiful, a wonderland for someone interested in outdoor activities (I get those feelings in bookstores, craft and building stores, and electronics stores as well). I was really happy to see this. My Mom always feels awful for black friday workers so it's a bit ingrained in me to feel bad when people are working when they could (should) have the opportunity to be enjoying holidays with family and friends.