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Innovation in philosophy I guess can be redefining something new, something that hasn't been redefined countless times already.

Redefining free will? So last-millenium...

Cool story though!
It's all fun and games until you say

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and pass that to a function that is silently expecting a length and other stuff in front of it. Calling these things "pointers" is a bit of a promotion from what they really are. Naming them "char*" or whatever is pretty dangerous if you ever do pointer movement.

Seriously, if you want descriptors and typed blobs, just make up a struct for what you want and pass it around. Say what you mean. Lying like this is going to hurt you.
When I say "widespread" I'm thinking of being relatively constant for centuries. The sad thing is that war probably is adaptive on some horrific level. I'd trouble naming a country that hasn't survived a war in its past and which has been around for at least a couple centuries.
It should be pointed out that 'banning guns' is a loaded phrase when talking about gun laws.

Here in Australia gun laws removed stigma about gun ownership and we proudly have more guns than ever http://louderwithcrowder.com/australian-gun-ownership-rises-... (linking to a pro gun blog so you can laugh at how they try to claim more guns in law abiding hands as a failure of gun control laws).

I suspect this kind of thing is why gun laws are the way they are in America. Whereas I see it as a nuanced debate akin to driving regulations Americans seem to view it as 'banning guns' vs 'not banning guns'.
You don't have to take funding if you're starting a company...
Book Recommendation: There's an absolutely stellar book on Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Descartes and several other brilliant people written in a very readable fashion. It's called 'What Galileo Saw' and it's by Lawrence Lipking. Perhaps my favourite book.
It's a slang I use to mean for various of things :-) like aliases. I am an infrastructure person.

Actually google.com.cn is not a CNAME to google.com.hk. You have to click on the image they put on .cn which redirects you to .hk.
That's all I get when I press download on the official putty website. I have sophos endpoint security and control, version 10.3 installed.
PostgreSQL Locking Revealed
+1 - I was hunting for this to make the same point. Your Header is exactly how I would expect it to be done.
Hey, at least they're trying to use math! ;) It does make me fear for our justice system, but people are people, and I've realized they're no different anywhere really. The right education can limit our faults but only to a degree.

I also believe that the government very likely has been influenced by American lobbying in the Assange case. The U.S. Is Sweden's largest export outside the EU, and obviously a large importer as well, therefore highly susceptible to pressure.
Yes. I instinctively expect the worst when I see the words 'concerned parents' in the news.
The 16-bit v/s 8-bit Blind Listening Test, Part 2
I never understood the sentiment of valuing babies over all else. To me it always seemed obvious that fresh college graduates are most valuable to society, since we just finished investing a ton of money into them. Babies on the other hand are easily replaced.

I get this is mainly an emotional argument, but it's still startling to me how opposite it is to the purely economic argument I made above. In fact usually people think I'm just trolling when I'm stating my opinion on the matter but I'm dead serious.
There was a time in the US where people were widely prescribed benzodiazepines for general use but doctors are generally more reluctant to prescribe them now because their long-term affects are now now well known.

Benzos work very, very well in the short term however they are usually counterproductive in the long term.

They are still used in acute medical settings. For things like drug withdraw in a medical facility and for medical procedures such as colonoscopies. They are a component in twilight anesthesia. For example, I was prescribed a benzodiazepine in an emergency room to get me to sleep because I was staying overnight in that ER however they are very rarely prescribed for insomnia at home (anymore).[1]

I'm sure Sweden uses them in acute medical settings as well because they are very effective in that role.

[1] Nonbenzodiazepine medicines known as "Z drugs" are now the widely prescribed insomnia medicines despite their downfalls and risk of dependence.
I also don't want to be rude, but you are missing a really key factor: support. Companies will always pay a premium, especially with something as critical as hosting for support. It is not a race to the bottom, it is a race to build a superior brand experience.

Would I rather go with a $30 plan with a server in an insecure building on an earthquake fault line, or pay $60 for a server in fort nox with excellent support.

Side note: I was looking at Liuqid Web the other day and saw they offer guaranteed 60 second phone support for all plans.
For us, attending Web Summit was worth it. We were there as "Alpha" and gained a lot of attention although we did not do much for it but standing there and "waiting". Interesting people came by and now we have a lot of contacts to follow up which was our goal.

Of course it was super crowded but for me the very worst part of it was, that the internet was super unstable and crashed every few seconds. This is a shame for a format like this.
This is my normal mode of operation :) I use it on my phone, desktop, and laptop for pretty much everything.
How Kroger is beating the competition
Can't the value end up negative if you factor in taxes? Or is that only if you goof up?
Most of this article reads to me like a description of a foreign country, or an alternate universe. Maybe it is my own experience which is not representative, rather than the article, but I don't see parents having trouble criticizing their children when there's cause for it or admitting that they sometimes want to do things without their children.

Most of the article is handwaving. The one part of it that's actually based on a specific event is the writer who got persecuted after saying she loved her husband more than her children. But this is the standard sort of nonsense that happens any time anything catches the attention of fringe crazies. Do something with national reach, and if 0.01% of your audience thinks you're a scumbag for it, you will suffer even if their opinion is not representative. You could write an essay about how chocolate is delicious and you'd still end up getting hated on, no doubt with lots of references to Indonesian fires and such. But there is no American chocolate crisis.
Well Fox News did air a story last year during a major snow blizzard where the newscasters said this was evidence that global warming was not happening... So it's not hard to see why people have this perception of how Fox News deals with stuff like this.
Yes. Along with politicians and police, lawyers and judges are able to operate above the law. People don't talk much about it, but judges get away with some crazy stuff. A little transparency would be great for the whole system.

On the other hand, if big business starts using this kind of analysis to always beat the little guy in court, that would be pretty shitty. There is already a big imbalance in legal power, and something like this could make it much worse.
An unconstrained `join` is indeed the product of two queries, and a `union all` can be used to get their sum as well. This is in the query language. But what I need is sums and products in the table language.

There is a functor from the category of tables to the category of queries, which maps every table `foo` to the query `select * from foo`, however, a table isn't the same thing as a query: table fields may contain user-entered data, whereas query fields are always computed from table fields.

To give a concrete example, consider a database with two primitive tables, `male` and `female`. A primitive table is “independent” in the sense that you can add or remove rows from it at will. In other words, a primitive table behaves just like a normal SQL table.

Now define the derived table `person` as the sum of `male` and `female`. Because `person` is derived, you don't explicitly add or remove rows from it. Instead, every time you add or remove a `male` or `female`, a corresponding `person` also gets added or removed.

What I want is the ability to add the field `name` to the `person` table directly, without it existing in either `male` or `female`. You can't do this in SQL. The situation is similar for products.
Since it doesn't have a screen I don't think you can call it a smart watch.

It does seem like it could appeal to some people who don't need the convenience of reading a text or app notification from a regular smart watch.
The US government wouldn't, but wouldn't it only take one? Iceland might do it.
This does seem a little extreme. I don't know many parents that are so child centric that they "have nothing left to say to each other".

On the other hand if you compare parenting in th 1970s there does seem to be something to the argument that parenting went from an occupation to a professional sport, where people compete at it. I object more to the tiger parenting where kids have to be at the top of their class, get in to MIT or Stanford, all that pressure. It's not healthy.
a month ago(o) i mused on the potential applications of understanding why ramanujan was examining 'the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways'

what a great investigation

(o) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394669
Babies are full of potential. Fresh college graduates...let's be honest...are less so.
I loved this article.

If you haven't seen it before, here's the '94 strip being mentioned:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTPKWqhUAAAtZco.png:large

And here's my personal favorite strip:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTPRUASUEAEY9Cb.png:large
Usually they don't need to count. In general working hours are stipulated in the contract, so if they find someone in the office outside the hours they have stipulated in the contract the managers better have a good explanation....
Then, if they consider the evidence is enough there's an official investigation where they can search for emails/phone call logs/documents that attest that the employees were working or asked to work outside of "working hours" and a trial takes place.
In my current workplace there are no such strict rules, but if management finds someone working noticeably more than 40h a week they'll want to know why that person needs more time than the rest to do his job. I guess that's as weird for non Europeans as working >40h a week is for them.
Junk Food Isn't to Blame for America's Obesity Epidemic
None of the embedded photos is showing properly. Perhaps change link to http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/08/nazi-gold-train...?
No, colonies and indentured servants are a better description at the level of control, power, and military that supports it:

http://www.projectcensored.org/the-global-1-exposing-the-tra...

It's been going on a long time. General Butler, who got Medal of Honor twice & led many wars, straight up said in his confession (War is a Racket) they hit countries to enforce American capitalism while pretending it was about liberty, etc. I can also direct you to some resources covering how much people in Iraq and Afghanistan appreciate how America doesn't do imperialism any more. Oh, wait, I don't know any...

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
I don't understand this at all. Blame divorce on kids? What?

If anything, the American spending habits are killing the American marriage. Financial issues are the source of countless divorces.
How can we even know the answer to that question?

Additionally: How many of the people who do not pay these ransoms do you really think are hit again?
I'm not going to comment on the Assange case itself since I don't know the details, I'm not a lawyer, and there's so much misinformation out there that it must be almost impossible even for the prosecutors to keep track of what "the case" actually is, but... indeed, the swedish justice system is in many ways archaic. I guess unjust is the best word to describe it. Basically, it's a system that has evolved over time in a country with such low crime rates that simply being charged for a crime in itself is enough to make you guilty in the eyes of the court. If I'm not mistaken, I think Japan has a similar situation, and Japanese and Swedish culture seem strangely similar in other ways too. At least to this swede.
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I think that's the crux. Its core functionality (time keeping) is not nulled when you forget to charge. Also, battery life is 3 days (EDIT: 36 hours), apparently, so better than any other smartwatch out there! (EDIT: Except the pebble) Plus, it looks like it adds nothing to the current watch in terms of weight/volume!
It would be obvious to say that I haven't lived in every low-income neighbourhood, but I've lived in one. So, I'll list the least severe of my complaints and see whether you think they're not representative of low-income neighbourhoods.

I live in Canada, but feel free to comment on US / Commonwealth / Europe.

* Majority of students in elementary school's parents did not attend college.

* Less than a majority of high-school students continue to University

* Engineer, Doctor, or Lawyer is a very uncommon profession among my neighbours.

* Any non-domestic, non store-robbery, assault with a weapon (stabbing or shooting) within the neighbourhood within the last two years.
Some people really enjoy open floor plans and get a productivity boost out of them, particularly if they are often working as part of a small team or across multiple small teams. However, others much prefer and are more productive as solitary workers and would legitimately benefit from having stable offices. Sitting in an open area with your headphones on is not a serviceable substitute for an office. Accordingly, I think a mixed floor plan including both dedicated offices and some open space is ideal. I frankly don't understand why so many people tend to approach these as mutually exclusive things.
The Polar Bears of Hudson Bay
Equity, as a VC or a founder, is very important. You also have a good amount of control over where the company goes, your stake only gets diluted on your terms, and the company's behavior can be tweaked to make sure you get a good exit.

As an employee, getting a small amount of common stock, none of those things apply: In practice, if things aren't going wonderfully, it's pretty easy for you to end up with worthless options, even when the founders and VCs end up alright. Even when the company is doing fine, founders rethinking how much equity they really want employees to have is not unheard of. Any calculation you make doesn't matter, as you are at the mercy of other people.

You'd see valuing employee equity very differently we all had not heard of, or been a part of, those horror stories.
On the maths isn't it the same as having raised $3 million on a $10 million valuation? Of course if you start doing this you are going to find that you don't own much by the time you get to series A and you have managed to totally destroy any incentive for your team to build the business.
"If and only if" sounds strange to me too. Like asking if he's a knight when Pluto is a dwarf planet. And on second reading it looks like an awkward way to say And...

I think "Is one and only one of [A, B] true?" would be better. Or, (A ^ B).
Bravo! I occasionally mentor at startup events and I can't tell you how crazy it makes me when first-time entrepreneurs look down on getting revenue as some sort of grubby detail not quite worth their attention. I love it when people go after actual customer money; it forces them to pay careful attention to the heart of the business.

There is a risk, though. (I'm sure you know it already, but I mention it just to balance out my enthusiasm for others.) If a company's revenue is $0, investors can imagine anything they want. But if revenue is $1.39, investors may be subject to an anchoring bias [1]. I don't think that's a huge risk for companies that have a well-understood business model; if you are selling annual software subscriptions, it's pretty easy for investors to imagine scaling that up. But I think Twitter and Facebook were smart to avoid revenue for a long time because it let them sell the dream.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Are you sure this is not wasteful? I always thought you could align on any word (32 bits) on a 32-bit x86 CPU, but your max_align_t would be 64 bits long (because it includes a double as well).
I enjoy being snarky for my own benefit, and my time is extraordinarily cheap, so wasting it is little cost.
Not every day you see a major publication questioning natalism.

See also Judith Rich Harris' The Nurture Assumption: http://www.amazon.com/The-Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revise...
Founder equity isn't comparable to equity held by employees for the simple fact that employees have no control over the rules governing the equity.

Cash in the bank, on the other hand, is quite straightforward.
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People that claim open source has no security value seem to believe that just because you can't catch every vulnerability through public review, you may as well not bother at all.
That logic is obviously faulty, I can't imagine they would apply the same rationale to cancer screening.
I know some people will argue that FB can and should be able to set their own laws. I disagree. FB has reached such dominant status that behavior like this - blocking possible competitors should be fought by laws.
The Cyberthreat Under the Street
The Pebble is able to for a week without needing to be charged. https://help.getpebble.com/customer/portal/articles/1564016-...
The "already" reaction to a preferred stock price that's 2x the common stock price is misplaced. Preferred stock is always higher priced than common and that is not an unusual ratio for a late stage company.
Taken to an extreme.
PuTTY had a great VT100/xterm emulator long before any other free SSH option did. And it's a standalone app, no need for a giant Cygwin install.
1) This comparison to me says more about religion than it does about parenting. Unconditional love and devotion to your baby? The feeling is physical, and the baby is real. To be able to invoke the same feelings for a deity appears more magical to me than parenting, especially for those who have never experienced having a child.

2) American parenting isn't killing marriage. Marriages are killed one at a time by the unique parents that choose to do so. And that's the problem with statistical conceptualizations. It rarely applies to you for those dealing with it at the present. Only in hindsight do the numbers compile anyway, so it really isn't all that helpful.

Anyone in a marriage knows that the will to be together is sacrosanct. Once two capable independent adults decide to part ways, nothing could be easier. The past could have been wonderful, and it's easy to feel good about what was good. But for many couples, divorce is the choice, and often a good choice for them. In other cultures, there are more bonds holding couples together. In the US, it's far easier to be independent or marry again. It's easier to live your life on your terms than on that of social perception or social dogma. Is this a good thing? Who are we to judge? If you feel the stats are tilted in the wrong direction, then we can try and tip it the other way with our own marriages. But "for the stats" is not usually what crosses our minds when we're not getting along.

This is a classic case of "is as does". Nothing is killing anything. This is the shape of the new American marriage.
If you can't picture the keyboard that would have been used, it is this one (the "space cadet keyboard"): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-ca...
In many "isolated" cultures, elderlies are actually considered more valuable than babies because of all their knowledge. When an old person passes away it is considered a great damage to the tribe, while losing a baby is meaningless since the baby didn't know anything.
> Babies on the other hand are easily replaced.

Someone has never had a baby.
>> Tsu users were creating fake accounts to boost their pages. Facebook says its users started reporting Tsu.co links as spam, which Facebook defines as "sending bulk messages, excessively posting links ... and sending friend requests to people you don't know personally."

TL;DR: tsu.co spams Facebook. Facebook brings the banhammer in the same way they ban every spammy app that does the same thing today, including removing posts of a lady who draws dogs and links to her tsu.co account. Tsu tries to play the victim.

Nothing to see here folks.
W00t! That's my old 256b C64 version of Conway's Game of Life :)

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=104384
How a plane crash is investigated
Depends. I'm curious if waterproof includes scuba-depths. I feel like it doesn't tend to
Similarly, an architect friend of mine is particularly annoyed that 'architect' has been almost entirely co-opted by the software industry.
Redefining words like this harms clarity of communication. Nature means things not designed or built by humans. Of course nothing on Earth has completely escaped the influence of man, but no ordinary person thinks a traffic jam is nature.

Van Mensvoort wants "nature" to mean "uncontrollable". This is doubly misleading, because not only does it include traffic jams (in car-favoring political climates like the US), even the most untouched wilderness is in practice controlled, as it only exists thanks to human civilization making laws to preserve it. The definition of "nature" becomes even more politicized than it already is, as whether something can be controlled or not is largely politics.

The traditional definition has its problems, but just because there's no clear boundary between nature and culture doesn't make the distinction meaningless. Van Mensvoort should coin a new word or phrase for his concept.
That's why you should try and use standard (or compiler-specific) version of max_align_t.
I was taught that if you're not early enough to get Class F stock then generally you're not going to realize any significant cash at an exit event. In the long run you'll see more money by foregoing the equity in favor of salary.
You could avoid having to raise a series A by slowing down your growth so you reach cash flow positivity. Unless your seed investors have a claw back clause there is not much they can do. Of course doing this will make it hard to raise more money in the future, but if you are clever about it you could hide this action by claiming you can't find suitable people, the right location, etc, etc.
Eh...

SELECT a.*, b.* FROM a CROSS JOIN b;

(SELECT 'a' AS tag, * FROM a) UNION (SELECT 'b' AS tag, * FROM b);
Well, most babies will become fresh college graduates (or not even that), so I'm not sure I really follow your line of thought.
I agree with your concerns about the article, but I'm not so worried about the phenomenon. The new money in a seed extension could be dumb money. But it also could be real validation of a pivot, where the first idea didn't work but the second, better informed one could.

I'd certainly prefer people taking multiple seed rounds to them taking a ton of money up front. Too much money is startup poison.
Yeah, I finally beat that by writing a fresh todo list each day with an estimate of how much time I will put in towards each entry today and when I expect to start (rather than how much it will take to complete it). Then I annotate it with when I actually start and stop and notes on why I didn't make my projected start time....

It quickly becomes very sobering reading and quickly made my todo lists drastically shorter to start with, and made me more careful about ensuring I rested enough..