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I can also relate to this article, it's a fairly accurate assessment of social/drinking culture in the UK at the time.

Couple of points...

"Alcohol makes many of us unpleasant: verbally abusive, angry, destructive."

That's a bit of a stretch. Yes you do get the 'angry drunk' phenomenon, but the number of drunken fights I've seen has been relatively small. I think this is different from place to place, there are cities where I know this is a bigger issue, but in general people tend to be more friendly when they're drunk.

"This generational difference isn’t just anecdotal. Young people are drinking less frequently, and more of them are teetotal. We don’t know why: it could be financial hardship, an increase in the proportion that don’t drink for religious reasons, or increased time spent online."

If I had to guess, I'd say it was the rise of importance in gym culture.
"Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete."

In other words, the US acted like a good government and helped the arts flourish, because it had a competition. It sounds like a joke, but in Us if you want to fund anything, you have to describe it as a weapon.

Write that open source software is a weapon against Chinese industry and you'll get CIA funding. Heh, after all Tor got funds from the Navy...
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I've liked more this article https://bitbucket.org/eric_t/modern-fortran/wiki/Home
And some UK Banks have had very high profile failures (the RBS fiasco) ie the CEO gets Grilled in parliament.
This has been done in '87 by Massalin: https://www.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Teaching/553/2011/Resou...

(both are brute force though, not solver-based)
From everything I've read about the industry for the last 15 years, this is all completely correct and serves to demonstrate why it's such a hard industry. Extremely high costs, low profit margins, fiendish competition, considerable regulation, and absolutely no guarantee that the new product you just invested billions in won't flop after you've done all the work.
The art that nobody wanted and that everybody, at the time, correctly judged as crap and garbage, was, then, forced upon people by the government.
I'll post the same thing I posted in the Bob Lutz on the Tesla thread with some amendments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457754

According to Bob Lutz having car dealerships is a pro. LOL, I am yet to talk to anybody who actually enjoyed the car dealership experience weather it's buying or servicing the car.
The whole car dealer enterprise is a rent seeking business. In many states you cannot have the manufacture sell the cars directly. That's changing slowly -- thanks to Tesla -- the dealer lobby is a big contributor in many local and state wide elections. The pricing for the automobile / features is not clear to begin with. It's to the point that there's many competing business that try to give you true car pricing. And, every step of the way the dealership tries to extract another fee / charge for you via various tactics like destination fees, myriad of financing fees, unneeded insurance (tire insurance, ones that overlap with the manufactures warranty).

Personally, I would love if the dealership model died. The alternative being ordering a car online and having it show up at home at a scheduled time. I imagine the same experience can be replicated the other way when the car needs servicing, schedule it online and have it picked up / drop it off and a point of aggregation of the car maker where they handle volume.

And before you tell me about the test drive and getting a feel for the car. Meh. Your fooling yourself if you think that a 15 minute test ride will tell you much about the cars performance, comfort or even layout. You will only learn that the seats are uncomfortable on a 3 hour trip once you take that 3 hour trip. If a test drive is really important to you, you should really rent the car for a couple days.

One could also make the argument that dealerships should go away based on their general discriminatory tendencies. Here's a recentish paper quantifying it: http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayres/Ayres%20Siegelman%20Race%... . The quantify how much more dealerships by different gender / race. The recent book named Phishing for Phools dedicates some time to this topic as well.
Preferred process:
- go online, pick a car you like, check out the colors
- go to a dealer
- (make a test drive)
- buy the car (down payment or whatever)
- dealer orders car
- dealer receives car and notifies buyer
- buyer picks up car (finalize transaction or whatever)

The only downside in this process is that you have to wait for the car to actually be produced and shipped to your dealer... I wouldn't have a problem with that
Of course it will. You think governments won't take that opportunity to track you under the guise of "tracking bad guys"? The same applies to the insurance black boxes that some want introduced.
I seem to recall that the laws were put in place, at least in part, to protect the dealers who were financing the manufactures, only to have the manufactures come in and sell directly once vehicles were ready.
Yep, that's interest rate - I checked with several bank sites before posting. This is due to volatile economy (war, corruption, all that) and higher risks for banks. You end up paying several times the price of the property. Like I said, almost everyone I know just puts aside 30-50% of their salary instead and buys at once when they save enough. 50% of 4k - and you effectively have only $2k to spend each month. Doesn't look that rosy compared to France, does it?

Rent is cheap - I pay about $500/mo for a 1 bedroom apt in the city center. 10 minutes of walk to the office. The price of that place? - about $200k. That's one of the reasons we don't have a proper rental business: it just doesn't make sense.
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Chorus already is open source: https://github.com/Chorus/chorus
That's got to be a car under development cover. Now as to whether that's Ive is pretty questionable.

Apparently Apple were in talks with BMW to make a car based on their i3 so you'd suspect the Apple car might look a bit like that and there is some similarity

i3: http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/2014-bmw-i3-leaked_10...

prototype thing: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSWVwEMUYAEtB8r.jpg
I looked at your nod on the HN page: https://news.ycombinator.com/security.html

>The site name display for stories was vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack.

How is that sort of thing mitigated?
I could not agree more.

I have been doing project work for big chemical companies in the past 8 years. The full project description is usually less than 20 lines and I work hand in hand with my customers to get the project done the way they want. I am talking about complex thermodynamic modelling and HPC code here. The kind of thing where you basically need a PhD in the scientific area + a full stack understanding of programming to do it right.

They outsource the work to me and they are really happy at the end.
looks very similar to citus data https://www.citusdata.com/ which has also MPP architecture and based on PostgreSql
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It would be the honest thing to do, but I doubt it's the ideal for investors.
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and this is why people should cheer when Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on how to run the government instead of buying into the line that divisiveness is bad.

because when they get along we lose.
Well, mine has Abyssinia on it, in a nice shade of pink, and a large chunks of inland Africa are just this big old white expanse with some pictures of funky looking lions. Antarctica is made of brass as there's nothing important down there.

It's 1860something, when the last bits of terra incognita were being mopped up. Like to be reminded that only recently there was still wonder and mystery in the world.
In the Netherlands, you go to the dealer and order a car. The car gets built to order, unless it's in inventory at a nearby dealer. The way it works in the US sounds needlessly complicated to me.
It could however mean that GOG doesn't need any terms for how to achieve it, allowing them to have patches created and updated for use on arbitary systems without asking for permission, once they already have permission for redistribution.

So if they got permission to sell a version that can run on Windows, then they could later on patch it to make it run on Linux and other systems as well.
I love GOG, but that list is frustrating, when so many of the top items on that list are games that they will never get rights to.

Blizzard is never going to give away their back catalog (they'd sell it themselves). Neither is Valve. Nor, most likely, is EA, with their awful Origin service.

Then there are all of the newer games that you can find anywhere... Obviously, they've got to make money and focus on what pays the bills, but it makes me happier when I see abandonware and unavailable games get legitimate releases on there, compared to when its something already on Steam.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/07/empl...

I would theorize there's no shortage of biochemists or lab techs. The graphs seem to show a gradual increase in unemployment and a gradual decrease in employment for life sciences PHD grads. 2010 was a crossover year where afterwards less than 1 in 5 grads will get a job but more than 1 in 5 will be unemployed. This doesn't count underemployment; a biochem PHD working as a waitress is technically employed.

If only the upper 20th percentile of the grads currently get jobs, lowering one companies standards to accept the 21st percentile of grads is still pretty far along the right side of the bell curve... they'll do fine. Regardless of the details, its hard to describe a market where 80% don't have industry jobs as being limited by the labor pool.
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So, I just got diagnosed with 4 disks pinching my spinal column. My neck vertebrae is completely lost it's curve. Not surprising since i've been computerizing since i was 12. I'm 40 now, and need to 're-align'. It's already producing pain, numbness in 1 finger, and weakness in the arm.

I have a feeling that MANY of you hear suffer from the same thing.
If not yet.. you may soon. ( more info : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TffT8b3Ych4 )

So how did you beat it? How long did it take? Any long-lasting tips would be appreciated.

cheers
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A lot of violence in the UK has links to alcohol.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/f...
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TIL what a homograph attack is. [1] Thanks.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
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Additional note for those, who don't know:

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (familiar as HSBC) was funded after the Second Opium War to finance the opium trade. Also other trade, but the focus was to service the drug dealers and then move profits back to Britain.

It could be said, that when they were caught servicing Mexican drug cartels, it was return to the roots.
It seems you are correct. However I remember having removed Ghostery from all of my Computers after reading their privacy policy. The current version looks to be fine.
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The clock test is quite poor IMHO, for the reason that the brain doesn't have to speed up uniformly. What if visual processing remains at normal speed, but decision making and other processes speeds up?
> Previously, estimates put the rate of change in a mitochondrial genome at about 2% per million years. At this pace, we should not have been able to spot a single mutation in just 50 years, but in fact we spotted two.'

Doesn't sound as spectacular as the rest of the article.
you got it :)
They also funded socialist literary magazines.

http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-sociali...
This would be great if it was just a download link but they make you use a horrid email thing.
> Have they tightened up the floating point semantics? Or do you still get different rounding behaviour on the JVM, dart and JS?

Doing so ought to be trivial if they haven't. Java has a mode where it uses doubles everywhere. JavaScript has Math.fround() for single-precision arithmetic.
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I think parent's point was about free apps that are just access points to a physical world service like airlines, hotels, Uber, Yelp, OpenTable, etc. I do suspect iPhone users spend more per capita generally because they're probably a wealthier demographic than Android. But I also suspect that overall marketshare is more relevant to the companies developing the apps in this case. (It's also somewhat beside the point though because everyone in this position is going to have an iOS and an Android app at a minumum.)
I find I can generally guide a conversation in the right direction, but I also find that I can never approach a project as though I'll be the person to tell the client when a project is done.

The client has to understand their product well enough to be able to tell me not only if / when it's done, but if it's not done they need to be able to explain precisely why it's not done. Not in a confrontational way, but in an exploratory way. As long as we continue to discover reasons to continue to work on the project, the expectation has to be that I'll continue to bill for the hours I put in.
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Hey HN, I am preparing to take on some freelance work have re-worked my CV/Resume/Portfolio.

Could I get some content criticisms? My goal is to move potential clients through the sales-funnel to begin a conversation about their projects.

Thanks!
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Massalin's superoptimizer required humans to check the correctness of optimizations. It also didn't generate parameterized peephole optimizations; it directly optimized concrete instruction sequences.
Don't you say the syntax isn't there to attract ruby fanboys, or else why not just use Erlang.
Some people can be nice drunks, though they are rare. Studies have determined that the one consistent behavioral change from being drunk, across continents and cultures, is an increase in aggression.
I've dealt with many outsourcers (TCS, Infosys, Accenture, IBM etc.) and WITHOUT EXCEPTION their business model is time and materials.
A large percentage of companies don't do their post-market surveillance, and the FDA has never even once revoked approval because of it. The whole FDA approval process is basically a scam.
The general case is that you are taking input from an untrusted source and later displaying it. You need to do two things: validate that it is the kind of data you are expecting, and scrub it of entities that might be a problem.

You can't do either one of these on the browser side because a bad actor can pretend to be your code and submit it without the checks. (For good clients, you can run a check that prevents them from making simple mistakes. You can't trust that, though.)

Validating that you have a correctly formatted URL is not too hard. You can even request the URL to make sure that it's reachable. But that doesn't tell you anything about the content, because evil people can't be trusted to turn on the evil flag in their packets. The safest case is to drop all submissions with IDNs; the next safest is to compile a list of homographs and drop anything with those; after that, you might keep a blacklist (which, unfortunately, can grow without reasonable bounds). You can outsource the blacklisting to centralized services checked via HTTPS API or DNS RBL or...
I had success with one outsourcing project where we had a dedicated project manager and a prototype. We asked the outsourcer to make an exact copy of the prototype for a different platform and had success.

I think if you are a good outsourcing shop, you want money to pay salaries, but you also want referrals and repeat business. So you want to do a good enough job. It's the same with every company struggling to meet payroll, except a little more distant. But with globally accessible reviews, the world is a smaller place nowadays.
> has some similarities to rails.

LOL
Uh, I thought it meant 'error'.. Only now I realize that it's referring to connection type.
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I looked for example projects in Ceylon with step-by-step info on how to setup/deploy:

* Hello World web application

* Simple online store implementation (authN, database access via ORM layer, logging)

* Todo MVC implementation

* RESTful/XML/SOAP web services

* RESTful/XML/SOAP clients

* Examples for writing AngularJS and React front-ends with Ceylon back-end services, with info on how to host such as to minimize and cache assets and server-side query caching and either side-loading or multi-table joined/extended data structures, updating and reading/accessing those data structures partially.

* Examples for easily timestamping and userstamping models

* Examples for using testing frameworks: unit, integration, (web) acceptance

Here's what I found in looking for that:

* This hello world: http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/tour/basics/

* No Ceylon JS example at http://todomvc.com/ but this Todo list: https://github.com/vietj/cayla-mvvm/blob/master/source/io/ca...

* Two examples in what I assume is the official examples git repo at: https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon-examples containing N-queens and Game of Life only.

Also, I'd want to see benchmarks. Show me how much it is "like" performance of equivalent Java, Dart, and JS as is claimed by comparing to maybe a Play Framework app, the Dart example client-server https://www.dartlang.org/server/google-cloud-platform/app-en... , and a simple MEAN stack and/or full-stack example using ReactJS.

In addition to those examples, I'd want to see a larger community behind it with a variety of projects, e.g. specialized ORM, larger web app/services framework, simple web app/service framework each that have their own communities using it.

I think it is cool, but I don't think it is even in the same ballpark with solutions/combinations like Play+Scala, MEAN, Rails, Elixir+Phoenix, etc. for wide application in web/services.
I was nodding along until that last part, where it indicated that our best answer was to have the federal government extort states into behaving as they ought.
The research was actually male monkeys like toy trucks, females like dolls. Check out the cute monkey pics:

http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks...
It's possible (or should be possible, it was/is in the browser iCab) to block images depending on their size (and ads often are of the same size, e.g. banner ads). Sure, the browser has to start loading them, but after reading an image's metadata it can stop. And if the img tag contains the image's dimensions, even that can be skipped.
Yeah - I hear you. Converting 1000 lines was a BIG drag.

I did experiment with native and f2c versions - but when targeting for mobile it meant a bunch of Android and iOS packaging that was kinda irritating.

The specific code I targeted (3 body evolution using KS regularization, the triple code at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~sverre/web/pages/nbody.htm) was modest and not CPU intensive.

I'd love to do the same for NBODY6 and that would have to be native.

Look for an update to my ThreeBody app with this code (and a cool gallery of new 3B solutions) sometime late in the year.
Ask HN: Anyone used a PR person or company?
I've launched my startup's website (legendwearable.com) and I'm trying to do marketing in addition to product, operations etc but I need help.

Has anyone used a PR firm for their startup? If you have, would you recommend it?
What language has the quickest payback?
I've tried numerous times to pick up programming in my free time. I'm not dumb (actually smart when it comes to SAT tests) but I've always failed.

Looking back, I think what hurts me is the feedback loop. To get a job in programming would take 6 months+ of hard work. Sitting by the computer every night vs spending time on a hobby eventually becomes a hard decision. This is especially true when the coding becomes more tedious and I must reach out for help.

This time around I plan on hiring a tutor. Also I think it would be good to link it to easy odesk/freelance work. I plan on moving to a 3rd world country in two years, so its not unreasonable to assume that if I do good work it could provide a decent standard of living.

I'm more money-oriented than many people seem here (I don't have some cool side project I've been dying to build). I think it would be good to use odesk/freelancer as a motivator because:
1) Forced deadlines. I have several abandoned programming projects
2) Pay. This amounts to beer money in the States but it would help as I'm a student. But also for the potential to live abroad in the future.

Which is the best language or framework for this? PHP? Cakephp? I'm guessing something like wordpress or joomla, but could be wrong.

Again, the greatest threat of this is me spending a month reading a coding book, starting a side project and never finishing it before becoming proficient.
Yes - it's not uncommon to have to wait a few weeks to get your car delivered after purchase.
We rebuilt picloud as a foray into the getcarina.com space - https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpipe we're going to be bringing that back now that carina is landed.
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Do you have a link to it?
> needlessly complicated

Doesn't seem complicated to me. The US system just warehouses inventory on dealer lots. Maybe because it's feasible due to geography.

Allocating inventory based on prior year's sales is just a way to provide growth incentive to dealers. They don't make much money on new car sales but they do make money on the volume of retained service customers, which is indirectly related to the aggregate of new car sales from prior years. So to make money in the future, the car dealers need to expand new car sales today.

Increasing sales is what the manufacturer wants.

This all seems like a pretty nicely worked out system, if you ask me.
Why not just use mailinator.com to get around that?
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