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I've always disagreed with the statement that elegant engineering is art. The purpose of art is to convey a statement or emotion while engineering is to deliver the best possible solution within a pile of constraints. Scientific and engineering findings should not be seen as anything more than the outcomes of a puzzle. Although 2 engineers may arrive at slightly different results it is easy to score them and select the correct path. In art this is not possible as both artists are conveying their message, not presenting a solution.
I found flights to Gran Canaria on flychecker at € 511
Ha, yesterday I counted the number of words and/or links they fit onto a mobile page. Forty! The page is almost all whitespace. Sweet, margin-padding whitespace.
> In fact, the real moral of the story is that the tech press is almost entirely bullshit, and that is mostly to be avoided.

Any interaction I've had with the tech press from the "written about" side of things (or reading about close friends) has given me less and less faith in what I read about those I don't know.
Absolutely. I also liked the way in some cases the inhabitants saw the border as a sort of political nuisance that got in the way of things getting done - e.g. dispatching ambulances to pick up ill people and take them to the nearest hospital, instead of simply the nearest hospital in whichever country they were located at the time.
I agree on all points, just the worst camera imaginable.
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How do you know I haven't? Besides, I said "most of the time". There are obviously important applications for mmap.
Possibly, but Bin Laden wasn't the one with the bomb strapped on. He was more akin to a king sending peasants to die.

It is a fact though that lower economical areas have more crime and less opportunity. It would be harder to recruit the foot soldiers. It will always be the plebs that have the power to continue or end it, and one way they might choose to end it is because they have a comfortable life.

Look at Brazil, the inequality there, on the lower end human life means nothing. In conditions like that crime, terror, desperation will make people do anything to survive.

While I agree this ideology is different, most strong ideologies arise out of a lack of economic options.

If suddenly your house got bombed, members of your family died, and you lost the ability to survive economically, you'd probably survive however you can even if that means blowing something up for money for your family. People aren't born suicide bombers or terrorists, the environment around them forms that.

I am simply saying one known way to win hearts and minds is to help economically and give options to people susceptible to it. I am not saying poor people are terrorists, I am saying terrorism (or at least desperation crime) can grow in lower economical areas for recruiting more easily, and the only way to combat that is with better economics and opportunity. The same happens in inner cities with gangs, high unemployment etc. [1][2]

Equally decisive in determining crime rates are the more invisible barriers to crime set up by social norms and social cohesion. Indeed, one of the most robust statistical patterns known is that crime rates tend to go up with rising economic inequality, which itself tends to go along with erosion of social trust.

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-01-06/want-to-fig...

[2] http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/crimwage.htm
I'm really curious in this.
Would you mind linking me to some papers that compare hedge funds risk adjusted returns versus the index funds, or the market?
538 did such an analysis [here](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-perfect-bond-movie-s...)
Brendan would have had to jump through the hoops to work with 18F, including the SAM validation. Unless you are talking about working directly for 18F as a federal employee, which would have different levels of requirements.
These have periodically been $10 on sale but have much higher specs than most other $10 phones.

Twice the memory at 1gb and the screen is something like 800x400

But they are locked to verizon 3g network, not gsm and definitely not lte.
>> are there good computers museums where you can see these machines?

How about a good place to donate one? I've still got my Interact (1978) and its original box. I think I've also got a fair number of issues of "Interaction" which was a Detroit area users newsletter produced by (I think) Steve Cook. Mine also has the extra 2K rom monitor program by Walt Henderson. It really is collecting dust but it powered up last time I tried many years ago. I'd make the effort to gather all this up if I thought it would be going to a good home.
> Where people are not economically well off, these will happen, people are terrorists for a reason and it wasn't because their life was great.

I agree that social and economic context is relevant, but its very not a simple "when people are not economically well off, these will happen"; not only are many terrorists well off (both in local and global terms), lots of regions which are poor aren't breeding grounds for terrorism, either of the local or international varieties.

While I think its quite likely that desperation frequently plays a role in people deciding to become terrorist foot soldiers (the kind of people who become leaders without first being foot soldiers are probably driven by different forces), I don't think mere poverty is enough (poverty may in some cases be a component, though.)
if you use Zenefits for HR/Benefits, they will know everything they need to determine your deductions and taxes. This makes it simple or them to run everything for you in 'self-driving' mode. All the changes you make in Zenefits are reflected in your payroll automatically

The custom experience where you can go in and configure things specifically for payroll without making those changes in Zenefits, that's the one they're charging for
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, for One, Welcomes Our New AI Overlords
I develop a number of backtesting systems and algortihms and the article is spot on but lacks to address far more sophisticated backtesting systems that include running once on sample data. These are the best algos.
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So the solution is to provide drugs that somehow deaden random neurons in somewhat random parts of the brain, and hope they don't cause massive side effects down the line?

Just like that dental article a few days ago, doesn't the current psychiatric medicine seem like using a backhoe on a flower pot? Sure, you move the soil, but you trash the porch.
There have been many comments that this is well presented? I think it's interesting, but mostly unreadable. The text over images is hard to read, and there are places where text is actually partially behind an image... not good.
I often have intense fantasies about conversations with personal mentors, historical figures and/or deities (what would Buddha say? How about Einstein? etc). Obviously I can't reproduce their thoughts, but knowing a little about them, I can try to think like them

Surely they're not as visceral or reflexive as the author's voices. But I have always found value in empathizing with fantasized mentors, which has given me confidence in my opinions.
No evidence was found of wrong-doing at the Climate Research Unit. The only result was it provided a source of comments to be taken out of context by climate sceptics. Which is exactly what Lamar Smith is hoping to achieve here.
OK, clearly some Julia fans down-voted my comment, perhaps because they misunderstood it. I was trying to say something about human psychology. We can admit that it is silly, but we can't pretend that it doesn't exist. This may be a bigger deal than they realize.

Programming languages are used primarily by humans, which means they must be designed with human psychology in mind. Today, Julia would have (even) more community support if not for this seemingly inconsequential decision. The fact that it seems to be succeeding anyway is largely in spite of, not because of, this design choice.
Seriously, I'm quite baffled at the idea that OCaml would be technically demanding. I was taught OCaml in college, along with C, Java, C++, and Prolog.

Ocaml was easier than even Java. Much less demanding than the minefield that is C++. And it certainly doesn't require more education. A different education, that's for sure, but not more.

As for requiring a stronger understanding of math… Languages like OCaml just don't pretend that programming is not math. So it tends to scare away those who fled math in the first place. C++ and Java are just as mathy (if not more, just see the sheer size of the specifications), but they don't really tell you.

<Grumpy Dijkstra> Programming should have been of the applied mathematics department, not the electronic engineering one. </Grumpy Dijkstra>
I would imagine that it is easier on Githubs end to configure a repo to render one way or another rather than to conditionally render it based on the current user.
thx @nosequel, I've got this book and have to re-read it asking that question. What I was thinking was a book more along the lines of specifically defining the characteristics then giving examples.
Coming in java 9: http://download.java.net/jdk9/docs/api/java/util/Optional.ht...
Ask HN: If the US was at war, would it pay the coupon on its bonds to the enemy?
Assuming the answer is no, would the financial markets consider that a default?
Though sometimes I refer to Graham as PG when commenting on Hacker News, I consciously try not to because I've not met him and I try to separate the feeling of intimacy that stems from having constructed a virtual Paul Graham from the actual person I have not met. Within the context of Y Combinator it probably makes a lot of sense, but on Hacker News, it draws a bit of a circle around insiders and outsiders. I don't think it's intentional, but I don't think it's particularly constructive either.

Not knowing what "PG" means can be taken at face value. People can still write amazing comments and submit great news items without knowing or caring who "PG" signifies.

I think you make a fair point. Hacker News is constantly growing and Paul Graham has been less active for many months and since Sam Altman became the public face of Y Combinator, Graham has been less visible and the ability to recognize all the Ycombinator partners by Hacker News user name isn't particularly valuable.
I agree it's uncommon. I disagree it's technically more demanding, even though that's the folklore surrounding FP (technically more demanding than what, anyway?). The need for programming paradigms is seldom "obvious", but I'd say the need for software with fewer bugs and good performance, written in a language developers enjoy using, should be self-evident.
This isn't true. Prokaryotes do not have membrane-bound organelles resulting from an ancestral symbiotic relationship.

(You might be able to found some weird exception to the rule out here. This is a generalization -- nothing in biology shocks me anymore.)

Even for unicellular eukaryotes, it would be incorrect to claim they're separate organisms from their membrane-bound organelles just because of the organelle's evolutionary origin.

Unicellular organisms really are "unitary."

Edit: A biologist should always be humble. I just thinking of lichens, which are "composite organisms" consisting of fungi, bacteria, and algae, which can be an instance of what you're getting at. Still, some organisms really are "unitary."
You misunderstood -- she was mortified that the reporter's story focused only on that.
> Look at Brazil, the inequality there, on the lower end human life means nothing. In conditions like that crime, terror, desperation will make people do anything to survive.

For god's sake France is not Brazil ! In France one earns more money doing nothing living on welfare than the minimum wage in Portugal, and the cost of living is not that higher, so no, please stop.

> Possibly, but Bin Laden wasn't the one with the bomb strapped on.

Exactly, and the poor folk in middle wasn't the one blowing himself up in that theater. Someone who has never experienced true poverty did kill 100+ people. Someone born in France who got free healthcare, free college, and a ton of welfare paid by hardworking people blew himself up. So the poverty argument is B-LLSH-T .
Why should we build an empathy machine?
> I think we also have to address the zealots in every "disenfranchised" group that might start killing us. Not sure how to do that.

Stop disenfranchising groups?
i know most people talk about the technical aspect of things, but i got to hand it to you, that's an amazing name
plus, what does the page transition effect bring? its not like its sophisticated (like any bending, or modelling of a flexible plane required to make it look paper like)

what was the point?
But the verdict isn't completely in on that.

http://androidforums.com/threads/lg-306g-running-android.900...

http://tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/2014_04_01_archive.html
Random Services has some nice online materials.

http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/index.html
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> In a raw democracy if the majority did not observe Kosher or Halal, that nation would not see an issue with making it illegal.

The thing is, you can't "oberve" kosher or halal unless you actually believe in them.

I'm neither jewish nor muslim, but I was brought up christian, so here's an example I'm familiar with: if a priest sprinkled my food with holy water, my only concern would be hygiene; if the water was clean and he hadn't, say, used it to wash his flock's feet beforeheand, then I could care less. Or I might mind if the food was such that sprinkling water over it could make it worse somehow- I can't think of an example.

The point is, I don't believe in the supernatural. Some people do and they insist on imbuing real-world stuff with supernatural meaning. As long as the way they choose to do so has no real-world, tangible effect on me then I don't care, they can knock themselves out.

In short: people can believe anything they like about our common lives. As long as it's supernatural, it doesn't affect me. It's not real. I don't care about what's not real.

Accordingly, I don't see why halal and kosher should be made illegal. People should be free to believe in the supernatural if they so choose. Why would a democracy impose a specific set of beliefs on its people? In what sense would you say that such a democracy could be considered "unregulated" (let alone a democracy in the first place)?
For a lot of people, having "newer" software isn't really a goal in itself. I'd rather have the "second to latest" version of Android than the "latest" version of iOS.
Oh shit!

My freedom is now protected by icons, ugly as fuck
Great news! Excited to check it out
I'm having flashbacks to security vulnerability scans that have no concept of back-ported patches.
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Thanks! I will check out Kernel.

The ability to restrict the environment is key. Creating a DSL in standard Lisp would create a more powerful environment: the DSL would include all Lisp features plus the domain features.
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I understand why you might arrive at that conclusion, but think about another level: What did Jessica Livingston lose or miss out on by not promoting herself to the public?

I would argue that she missed out on nothing that matters.
>Humans produce immense amounts of CO2, CO2 in the atmosphere increases the temperature of the planet. It's as simple as that.

CO2 is a green house gas - good job mr. high-school physicist - now show me the temperature projections along with human CO2 production graphs and estimated impacts and error margins and past model prediction performances vs measured data. You know the actual things that matter for policy implications. See that's where things go beyond high school.
Does it have a way to filter by carrier? The same phone on Verizon will really lag on updates because they're control freaks.
If you're doing mobile dev, this is the phone you should be doing your user testing on.

Unless your target audience is exclusively wealthy people who run only recent iOS devices. In which case, carry on.

But if you are building something that needs to be widely available then this should be one of the devices on which you do extensive testing.
It depends which medications you're talking about, and which conditions you're treating with them. A lot of them are more like using a shovel on a flowerpot. Still not precisely the right tool, but they get the job done and the porch is still in good shape.
> You shouldn't have to buy phones direct from Google

> My iPad 3

You do realize that you've undermined your point here right?
Excellent read. Especially interesting trying to figure out all of the behind the scenes reasons for writing this essay, timing, content, etc.

My co-founder is a woman and we have a somewhat similar dynamic: she doesn't write as much, doesn't like the publicity or argument that sometimes happens with a position in business: but at the end of the day she helps create a feeling of family in our team. I don't know if it is gender-based or just her personality, but it's nice to see someone in a similar (albeit much more successful) position getting some recognition.
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What did you mean to say here? I'm not following...
Something like Huffington Post owned by FB would be pretty powerful, and fit well within FB as an org and platform... The integration could be very clean given their understanding of your interests... there's already promoted articles, and other similar articles when you comment on something... adding in more FB control and integration could very well be a next step for them.
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I have this thing where I wake up at 5:00 AM and my internal monologue sounds like someone twisting the tuning knob back and forth on a radio. Anyone know a name for that?
Will be interesting to compare the comments here with those of 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5894438
It was there for me, just a prompt at the top with a short message and a green button. A quick reload later and there it is. Staggered roll out I suppose.
The malware must already have a way to make http requests because it is downloading curl via http.
Forgetting "us" vs "them" and the right-wing "99% muslims are evil" versus the left-wing "99% muslims are good", I've always been interested in the things people disavow when acts of evil are committed.

Violence, the loss of innocents, and all the very obvious unpleasantries: it's easy to denounce that all in times and places of peace. Everyone can agree that murder is wrong, and certainly no one wants to be seen as evil according the social climate.

The true test of honesty, and perhaps the beginning of any real reconciliation, is if the leaders of groups are willing to disavow the thoughts and words behind the acts. This applies to left, right, muslim, christian. It applies just as much to political ad campaigns drawing cross-hairs over their enemies, to the salafist clerics mongering extreme fundamentalism.

A leader cannot merely say, "this person is not us, because she or he has committed violence and we are not violent". Rather a leader must say "this person is not us because she or he has said bad things and had bad thoughts and we refuse to say those words or share the same thoughts."

Thoughts are the source of words, which are then the source of action: if a leader only attacks the lagging indicator, he or she may reveal their complicity.

Specifically regarding the article: Muslims in the U.S. are generally very good about attacking the source and not just the deed. The same does not appear to be true in Europe.
"She had the last word. Everything we did as an organization went through her first—who to fund, what to say to the public, how to deal with other companies, who to hire, everything."

Everything???

"She also hates fighting. She can't do it; she just shuts down."

Oh, so not everything.
The very idea that any foreigner living thousands miles away could better understand and solve complex problem local people struggling for decades(even centuries) makes me sick. So does the idea that any rational organisation would commit to decades long nation-building projects.

No matter how wealthy the rest of the world combined, we just don't have enough resource (including political capital to support long term commitment) to solve the mid-east problem, let alone various calculations every participating countries might entertains.
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The existence of people like Jessica is not just something the mainstream media needs to learn to acknowledge, but something feminists need to learn to acknowledge as well. There are successful women who don't like to fight. Which means if the public conversation about women consists of fighting, their voices will be silenced.

It's my impression (primarily from lurking) that the more nuanced, observant conversation tends to take place in less publicized fora, which while not exactly closed are at least so little publicized that they are not "public". Sometimes this is termed a "safe space", sometimes the essential characteristics are arranged without calling it that. Anyway the conversations are very much "here's my impression; it's different than yours but we can agree on at least these things" and "I'm sorry but that is just so far out of bounds that we'll have to part ways and not try to work this out". There's a conversation, but not a debate.

Maybe some would lament the "filter bubble" aspect of such an arrangement, because after all everyone should prefer to debate each point to death, but in fact not everyone does prefer that. (Of course, I do, but I'm slowly learning not to assume everyone else is like me.) It's tempting to put this all on "the feminists", but that is selling ourselves short. We can all listen without speaking, long enough to realize that feminism is not monolithic and that many feminists are aware of women like Livingston. The ignorance of the media and the Twitterati is a property of them, not of all of feminism. (Of course much of feminism is, for want of a better word, "masculine" in the sense of wanting to dialogue each point until we have a party line for everyone to toe, but much of feminism is not that.)
I think Google cares about the Nexus line but to me it seems like they aren't doing what Microsoft is doing with the Surface line (forcing quality via unbridled competition). Nexus seems more like a prod towards the "right way" since it's a partnership with manufacturers.