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Clarity of communication is not the goal here, perspective is.

When Darwin realized that we were in fact just an extension of the animals he found a new perspective that was very helpful to understand the world around us. It wasn't that evolution is true, it's just the best model we to explain biology.

That perspective is immensely useful for all sorts of applications and thats what Mensvoort is trying to do.

You are indirecting repeating the same argument the people who opposed his theories did. Making humans part of the animal kingdom hurt communication. Of course the question is whats the point of that communication?
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> For example, using it sleep tracking, or for waking you via vibration (as not to disturb your partner)

Yes, the pebble is great for that.

> or even just allowing your phone to detect that you're asleep so it can turn on do-not-disturb.

Wouldn't it just be able to detect that if you plug it in at night?
The show went downhill after that stopped showing the "build" part of the myth and just showing the results. The editors should have recognized that; since their "experiments" were hardly "scientific", they should have focused on the how are we going to prove this, to lay a framework for someone to improve upon their technique.

But all in all, it was a great run. Hats off to a job done well [enough].
Soybeans and corn have many uses and produce many sub-products (oils, tofu, corn starch, corn meal, animal feed, even as raw material for plastics, bio-fuels, etc.) Broccoli is pretty much just something people might eat a few ounces of a couple times a week.
Although is view in that book always felt slightly theistic. And so I was not surprised when I heard an interview him recently where I realized he is somehow spiritual in his thinking.
People might believe that, but it isn't actually true.

If anything the opposite is true because when your only market is local you can't be sure to sell everything right away, so you pick it earlier to give yourself extra time to sell it.
C+= was hounded off many other public git hosting services, and even a few days ago when one reappeared, is was hounded anew. Much hard feeling amongst the parodied.
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Similar to https://www.worldpackers.com which is a Brazilian startup.
> Why not let that person have the job?

For the same reason we have minimum wage laws. Pitting workers against each other in a race to the bottom leads to unsustainably, exploitatively low wages.
I'm pretty sure all Engineers in Canada get to wear the iron ring, including Software Engineers.
On the other hand, as an article I read recently pointed out, there is a faddish "why not ask for gluten-free" component to the phenomenon, and while full-service restaurants can often (and at great inconvenience) accommodate the small part of the population that has true and significant reactions to ingredients, they're not equipped to handle a huge percentage of their customers asking for changes (which will often require them to use totally separate prep, storage, and mise en place) just because it's a trendy thing to ask for.

The concern then is that restaurants will stop accommodating (because they simply can't afford to) altogether, and people with serious health issues will just have to eat elsewhere, which sucks.
Pretty interesting. For reference, here is a link to The Ocean Cleanup (the group doing the work):

http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
My interpretation is they intended to say something about "MP3 players" and failed.

Which is a shame, because the notion that flash memory's organization of semiconductor charges into bits is only temporary and will randomize itself over time, is sort of important to consumers. At the process sizes in modern flash memory, it was shocking to me to find out that all three of the others will last longer.
I'm not opposing his theory, I'm opposing his language.
I hadn't looked at this from that perspective. That's a great point! =)

The only thing I'd add is that 5-10 years ago, a startup salary was a big cut from a BigCo salary. Like maybe 30-50% lower. These days, the difference between a startup salary and a Google salary might be something like $125k vs $150k -- and $125k is already enough money for taking vacations or having a down payment after 5-10 years of saving. Perhaps if there's a downturn, startup salaries will become low again, but that's not the case right now.
> Notably, his research was partly funded by the Department of Homeland Security and can be accessed only by D.H.S.-approved researchers.

Glad to see the NY Times is uncritically supportive of denying to the public knowledge of our information infrastructure.
Related https://publicobject.com/2015/11/06/flatbuffers-arent-fast-t...
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Funny, I've been working on a little fun side project to embed a Z-Machine inside a Skype For Business chat bot.

Limited as interactive fiction is as a medium, its really impressive how immersive an experience can be created with technology as simple as plain ASCII text. You don't need photorealistic, PBR graphics to make a fun, engaging game.

The Z-Machine itself is a pretty remarkable piece of technology, especially given the very limited capabilities of the PCs it was implemented for. Reading the spec[1] has been very interesting.

[1] http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/index....
I generally agree with what you've said, but a performance penalty is definitely still possible by crossing a cache-line boundary - I would assume unaligned accesses are just as fast as aligned ones only when the value itself is still contained within the same cache-line. But with that said, I think you're right in that the performance here isn't really the big deal - the portability reasons alone are enough to justify making sure the returned pointer is correctly aligned.
Restricting serialization to JSON-like objects loses the benefit of being able to "serialize objects". (However, having that separate internal format for data may well be a better way to go, in general.)

The algebraic approach, in this context, is similar to a superclass naming its subclasses (rather than a subclass naming its superclasses as java does). I'm not sure, but I suspect this open-world choice is deliberate, allowing extensibility. Java is very attentive to security considerations elsewhere. It also would be a too-dramatic change for mainstream OO programming languages.

A third approach is explicitly closed-world: naming the set of classes permitted for deserialization, as per some other commenters. e.g. JAXB does this by necessity, for binding to XML Schema's algebraic type system.
Yes. It's not the exact same produce. The very best produce doesn't travel at all.

If you live in a major US city, go to one of the top restaurants in it sometime for dinner, and ask your server a lot of questions about where the vegetables come from. Chances are they don't come from big purveyors; most will come from farms with names you can write down, and probably buy direct from --- but not from your supermarket, and definitely not from a supplier anywhere more than 150 miles away.

Sometimes these are gold-speaker-cable kinds of differences, and sometimes they're real differences that you'd have to train your palate to detect (and so why would you want to do that?), but sometimes they are huge differences, products you simply have to live in the region and buy at the right time of year to get.
So... it's just one of these [1] with the firmware pre-flashed?

https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/KGPED16...
And many places it's a hellish experience because before they kick you out of the country you get to spend some time in an immigration holding center which tend to be rather horrifying accommodations. Unlucky enough to get nabbed before a long holiday weekend? 3 or 4 days packed in with all sorts of people awaiting deportation, confined to your one square meter of space, with a hole in the floor for a toilet, and food unfit for human consumption. All you get from it is a story for a blog post.
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If only we could italicise words in titles. Alas.
Both of your questions would be answered by reading the aforementioned books and by learning more about personal finance.

Also:
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance
Oh sure. That's definitely why it exists. It's also helped push out founder hostile terms. Founders are all better off because a few formed a union.
The Economist has a shockingly good record of doing good journalism. We need more magazines like this, especially covering the tech world.
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When Texas Instruments exited, it's likely neither Google nor anyone else had the proper legal agreements in place to force the release or licensing of the appropriate code/patents to ensure continued updates. After this rather large debacle which affected numerous manufacturers in the mobile industry, I'd wager that's now part of all of them.

Don't forget that even without an exit, sometimes OEMs don't update drivers, leaving manufacturers to drop support far earlier than they should in the lifespan of a product. Case in point, the 2008 Apple Macbook. It only had 32-bit graphics drivers. So, that meant it couldn't run the 64-bit-only OS X Mountain Lion released just 4 years later in 2012. I found this all out firsthand supporting my girlfriend's problematic 2008 Macbook (which also had notoriously bad connections to the LCD panel).
I do agree that anyone who calls himself an intellectual is probably a pompous idiot, but I'm mixed regarding calling other people intellectuals.

The definition of "intellectual," as I see it, seems to be "Someone who studies society and proposes solutions for its problems." In and of itself, I think that this is a completely neutral concept, and I can name plenty of people who occupy that position. The issue is that intelligence (which is required to be an intellectual) is an intrinsically desirable trait, meaning that someone who is smart (even if they are nothing else) is often seen as more desirable or worth more than a less smart individual. More importantly, having this position implies leadership. If you're going to propose solutions, you're not very good at your job if no one is actually listening to you. And since we value leaders over followers, it follows that intellectuals are considered more valuable.

This means that calling someone an intellectual doesn't just define them as "someone who studies society and proposes solutions for its problems" - it defines them as someone who has insight regarding society and proposes worthwhile solutions for its problems.

This makes things weird. I can still call a shitty artist an artist. I can still call a shitty programmer a programmer. But when I call someone an intellectual, it's making a positive judgment regarding his ideas. After all, a shitty intellectual is just a guy with stupid ideas. And who am I, Omegaham, a random electron microscope technician from Oregon, to say that Noam Chomsky or Thomas Sowell has worthwhile ideas? I mean, I have opinions, but saying so definitively is way above my pay grade.

As a result, the term is so screwed up by connotation that I tend to use "intellectual" exactly the same as you - sarcastically. For me, an "intellectual" is "someone who would call himself an intellectual," with all of the misguided arrogance that doing so implies.
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Here's some background on the allegations: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-... The final three paragraphs are a pretty good summary of the holes in the story.

Timeline: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11949341 Note that between March and August of this year, Swedish prosecutors couldn't be bothered to come to London to question him, allowing most of the charges against him to expire. This in spite of them finally compromising on that, precisely beause the cases would soon expire.

I won't pretend it's a clear-cut case in either direction, but the supicion that he's being unjustly targeted certainly has merit. The victims go to the police, days later, to try to foce him to take an STD test(?) -- the police can't do that, but here have a rape case as a consolation (which of course instantly leaks to the press. And the discussion between the two women about selling their story to the press was just a joke, naturally.) Then the Swedish prosecutors close and re-open the case, the UK spends millions guarding the man, Sweden won't come and question him in the UK (which could be a valid position on sovereignty, but they had finally said they would come to the UK!), and the UK stops guarding him. Yeah, there's definitely nothing fishy here! All the resources spent here have nothing to do with the man in question being an enemy to the United States and their allies. /s

Some of this may be a case of international bureaucratic bumbling being indistuingishable from malicious conspiracy.

I'm open to hearing the other side if I'm missing things. Assange doesn't sound like a very pleasant person, he was probably at the least stupid to get himself ensnared in this, is now by definition an outlaw, and this narrative would be a convenient way to re-cast himself as the victim if he's not. But that's orthogonal to whether he is a rapist.
You could have made the same argument with Darwin back then. Thats my point.

Creating another word doesn't provide the perspective he is trying to achieve. His challenge isn't going to be clarity but like Darwin to get people even to accept the idea that it's the same.
Cars are made with stamping presses and assembly lines; you also need a foundry to cast the engine blocks. All these things are expensive and take quite a while to set up.

OTOH, pick and place machines are fairly cheap and can be installed quickly; the R&D to make a phone is huge, but once you're done you can set up production almost anywhere in relatively little time. Obviously it'll be easier if you're close to your PCB and plastic suppliers.
Those are hardly "African" in any sense a modern American would think of.

Really? "An african society is any society that grew in Africa, excluding the most technologically and economically developed ones, therefore African societies were undeveloped. This is true because technologically and economically advanced africans aren't africans in any sense a modern American would think of."

Last I heard, the Celts and Goths were barbarians during those times too. Those are true Europeans. Europe was undeveloped and backwards until the 10th century. Romans and Greeks were technologically and economically advanced but they live in a different climate, demographics, and cultural affinities across and extreme geographic barrier. It's the Goths and Celts who were really the forbears of today's Europeans. There must be something strange about Europeans that caused them to be backwards for so many centuries until the Romans civilised them, compared to, say Chinese, or Egyptians, who've developed advanced societies since before 1000BC.

Ridiculously biased, don't you think?
HN is not the place for this, you need to talk to a therapist or counsellor
Looks like this on Chrome Ubuntu. I'm not impressed

http://imgur.com/KlHdZ47
We already get paid in equity. Our 401(k) plans tend to be invested in stocks. I work for a public company, and could move 100% of my 401(k) into my employer's stock if I wanted to. What mainly distinguishes my situation is that I get paid enough to have money to invest.

But for people who work for private companies, equity gets to be more tricky, for instance due to varying levels of seniority, "golden" shares, and so forth. From what I've read on HN, my impression is that the senior shareholders screw the junior shareholders. Also, it may be impossible to figure out the value of such a company, i.e., for anybody to know what they're really getting paid.
McDonalds needs to do more than use antibiotic-free chicken. The back of the house for its 36,000 restaurants currently looks like a mini-factory serving fried frozen patties and french fries. It needs to look more like a kitchen serving freshly prepared meals with locally sourced vegetables and grains — and it still needs to taste great and be affordable.

I would have to disagree. Nobody has ever gone to McDonald's for healthy food. McDonald's growth was fueled by its reputation for quick service, clean (usually) restaurants, tasty food, consistency (a Big Mac is a Big Mac in New York or California) and low price.

IMHO McDonald's needs to dump about half of its menu. Focus on basic, good-tasting fast food, and making it fast again. Bring back the beef tallow for frying, those french fries tasted great. Chasing the organic, vegan, whole-grains market is a losing strategy. The McDonald's customer is not part of the market segment that cares about any of that.
The one thing that could actually make the browser decent is the one thing they delay. Naturally. So frustrating.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087

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And also open source. I've run my own sentry installation several times instead of paying for the SaaS one.
This is anecdotal, and not a very controversial opinion, but many people in my family and group of friends are sociology majors. After watching them grow and knowing them pre and post degree, I can without a doubt say that education is beneficial. What you learn is unimportant. Becoming acquainted with the process of learning is the true benefit of education.
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I thought the same thing. "But does it really?"
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Regarding IRC, I just wish Freenode hadn't blocked Tor and discontinued previous Tor access methods[0], so can't really be used at all.

[0]: https://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor
50 years means that if you are born in third world country you can retire in a rich country without emigrating.
I think all he's getting at is recent college grads have the highest Net Present Value. It's not a matter of sunk cost.
The github repo[0] for this was posted on HN a few days ago and garnered a bit of discussion[1].

[0] https://github.com/Tribler/self-compile-Android

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529021
You linked "Ancient Carthage" to support your point, so let me point out that the Carthaginians who fought against Rome were Phoenician colonists.

Africa north of the Sahara is part of the Mediterranean world. It shares population, culture, and trade with that world. It shares very little with black Africa.

Africa south of the Sahara is something completely different. If you say "Africa" today, that's what people will think of.
Businesses with experienced legal departments duping gullible individuals into giving up their right to trial is not comparable at all with individuals first considering then agreeing to resolve their issues between themselves out of court.

The NYT article discusses the former, not your example of the latter.
I currently live in UK

There's your issue. Tipping culture in the UK is very different to the US. Mainly because, as you say, they do not make below-living wages.

But within you example, I still don't see the distinction. Waiters can treat you badly or well - and you tip them accordingly. Delivery drivers can treat you badly or well - and you tip them accordingly.
In my instance it seemed to just be a LaunchPad link added to 'Users\[my user]\Applications\'.

Easy enough to remove but still worrying that Google thinks this is okay behaviour.
> It has run for years and years without stopping, charging or winding.

A small point of note - it has been wound. But not by hand. It has a rotor (i.e. weight) in it that spins when you move, and this winds the watch.

http://i.imgur.com/VWvlDgH.jpg

> I wonder if something similar would suffice for energy needs of a device like this with no screen to power?

When I looked into it this was not possible. But of course, now that I've said that, someone's going to figure out how to do it.

I think that the trick would be customized silicon so it would be as lower power as possible. You'd also want to use super-low-power wireless technology to link it to your phone, and I think that the speed would be the tradeoff.
I think we need to coin some new acronyms after this thread:

FCG: fresh college grads (natch)
LDE: lame-duck elderlies
BMPP: babies; max-potential persons
I disagree completely. The players in those markets are so big that they are constantly on the look out for differentiation. It just so happens that in the watch market analogue is worth more than digital (ie $30k for a fancy time telling watch and $350 for an apple watch). Digital watches have been big for a while and so they have a designated place in the market. Digital rings, shoes, bracelets... not so much.
There's no use in blotting out meaning. You can get more precision and (as he does) make a point as to the inadequacy of a concept - by establishing degrees. It's been done for ages in philosophy.
>That's the top comment. Embarrassing.

My experience on HN has been that the top comment in most threads is usually the most incendiary one, not the "best" one.
We've used it occasionally on a ~400GB table and it's worked perfectly for us too. We run it on EC2 i2.8xlarge instances and it finishes in under 2 hours. But it doesn't use very much CPU or I/O, so we could probably run it just as well on a smaller instance like an i2.2xlarge.

One downside is that you need enough free space on your disk to hold the packed copy of the table, so you need to run it before your disk gets too full. The last couple of times we've waited too long, so we've had to move the data to a larger host before we could repack it.
I think you’re sort of putting words in my mouth.

I didn’t say that I’m doing that. Nor, do I think it’s something anyone here should be doing.

That said, thinking that it doesn’t happen seems somewhat naïve.
For most services, quality and scale are tend to be two ends of the same (fuzzy) spectrum. It's very hard to achieve both.
Plus, Prince has resumed using his given name, so there is no need for the symbol or the who "artist formerly known as" thing.
Thanks for pointing this out; I think "procrastination" was a lazy label for that time category on my part and doesn't actually reflect what I'm doing.

As I mentioned in a parent (cousin-once-removed?) comment, the RescueTime statistics capture every moment I spend in front of my computer, not just when I'm in work mode. My actual work pattern is more like

- Wake up

- Bike 2 minutes to my office

- Work for 9-10 hours

- Bike home

- Do the things that I labeled "procrastination" (mostly reading things on the Internet)

This leaves me working a pretty normal schedule. I actually find I'm able to focus very well at work, since I'm really excited about my job and have a private office that screens out most distractions.
That situation exists, but it seems far from the majority situation for 2-income middle-class households.
Working for free is still working. It usually requires the right kind of visa and a work permit to remain legal. Do it on a tourist visa at your own risk.
Original article posted days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513371
Arbitration is great if the selection of arbiters is fair and influenced by both sides.

In many cases, the arbiters end up being cozier than appropriate with one side or another. Without a system that accounts for that or has sufficient transparency to discourage misbehavior, it doesn't work.