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I can see why you have this mantra, but doesn't this approach lead to programming in Scala as if it were Java (aka "you can program in Java in any language"), which results in unidiomatic code?
This is cool, but it seems to think snapbacks are not allowed: http://i.imgur.com/HdOOpIr.png
It's not like he did something really bad, like illegally access a website.
This is true. Someone in a low paid job used to be able to work overtime (often at a premium) or get a second job.

The current system disincentives old fashioned hard work as any extra money earned equates to a drop in benefits received.
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Inserting a sorted list into another sorted list can be O(n).
> Additionally, when I voiced objections to returning the vested equity, they brought up the fact that they may start a new company on the same idea and reset the entire equity metrics altogether. Is this common?

Not if you have investors...
It's called the intensité (du courant) in French, which might explain the I in the equations, instead of an expected C or A.
It's a partial solution, not in the sense that it improves anything by itself, but in the sense that combined with getting other countries to stop sharing data with the US, it would prevent Europeans from being spied on by the US.
You've had a perl6 pull request outstanding for a while. The differences are far too big to list simply though. Ultimately Perl6 uses Rationals by default, not Floats.
I suppose not. I'm just used to compensation and responsibilities being tied closely to promotions. There just needs to be some way that the organization regularly recognizes people for doing a good job, so however that materializes is fine.
What on earth are you talking about?

There is an entire, rich, enormous field of law called products liability that is precisely about holding manufacturers accountable for the performance of their products post sale. Everything from toaster ovens to home furnaces to nuclear reactors.

> If we applied the same logic to other industries, there wouldn't be a firearm manufacturer left in the USA.

We do. I'm going to ignore the statement about gun manufacturers - because lets be serious, that is hugely politically loaded, and the only reason this already isn't a thing is due to a recent act of congress making it illegal to sue gun manufacturers for the damage their guns cause, which is very likely to be repealed in the near future - but in literally every other industry this happens all the goddamned time. Car manufacturers are sued constantly, as are the manufacturers of tools and appliances, home builders, makers of factory equipment, and even the companies that make the factories and power plants themselves.

I am just... shocked. America is rife with manufacturers getting sued for the use and misuse of their products, including their downstream modification by their users, on literally a daily basis. The entire plaintiff's bar is based around this. There is a massive, multibillion - and not single billions, tens of billions - industry around the diligence behind product testing, the insurance against lawsuits in products liabilities, and the lawsuits themselves, all targeted at domestic and foreign manufacturers of everything ranging from paperclips to airplanes. I literally - literally - have a dear friend who makes his living suing aircraft and aircraft component manufacturers for products liability resulting from aviation disasters. I literally have another colleague who had a rich career of representing class action plaintiffs in everything from malfunctioning car parts to injuries caused by pharmaceuticals.

What planet do you live on?

Edit: please note that manufacturer liability also applies to foreseeable post-sale modifications: http://www.cassiday.com/maa-dri-productliability/

This is America. You can sue people for shit.
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Is it also our civic duty to pay the taxes to these state actors? Asking because this tactic seems a bit like striking at the branches, rather than the root.
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Exactly. Competition keeps capital gains taxes reasonable, but that doesn't apply to earned income tax.

CGT is a mildly progressive 30-33 % here. If the government were trying to get 60 % which is my marginal tax rate for earned income, their revenue would likely plummet because there would not be much sense in showing capital gains in this country. Anyone selling a business etc would move to that great tax haven, Sweden, for the year when they sell.

For us workers, the best tax planning option is to switch earnings to non-taxable form like working for ourselves.

E.g. if I want to have a new garden shed, I don't pay someone to build it. I take unpaid leave from work and build it myself. This way, the tax office pays most of my garden shed. This country has probably the most expensive carpenters you can think of...
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I've recently become a Jeep enthusiast. There's a fairly limited amount of off-road trails and rock crawling locations on the East Coast. I can only imagine that there's tons of great places to wheel given the amount of mining that happened around here. Another tourism opportunity - likely would only make a small dent, but interesting nonetheless.
I'm interested in how technically difficult building an actual nuclear weapon would be if you got your hands on one of these samples. The idea that crazy islamic extremists could one day get their hands on this uranium and cause significant, extended damage is truly terrifying.
hahahah :)
It would straight up fund criminals in the US. Kinda like welfare currently does. (mostly drug dealers)
>> ... by criticising their opinions in public, at
>> a conference or in a seminar ...
>
> How is this being a "jerk"? This is what academia is
> supposed to be all about - you publish, others
> criticize

Criticizing people's results and conclusions in an argumented way in an article is perfectly "academical". Asking them question after their presentation is OK too. Criticizing them harshly in public when they presents their work and asking them to answer immediately to your objections is maybe not the best way to approach truth.
A double can hold 15-17 significant base 10 digits. The exponent can be +-10^308 (11 bits for the exponent, 52 bits for the fraction, 1 bit for the sign).
See also:

http://cs.furman.edu/digitaldomain/more/ch6/dec_frac_to_bin....

".1 (decimal) = .00011001100110011 . . . (base 2)"

Notice the repeating pattern? The exact number must have infinite number of binary digits. Wherever you cut (whichever fixed number of bits you want to keep) you lose something.
Perhaps they found a nuclear landmine and defeated the 1950's anti-tamper mechanisms.
I'm happy I live in a country that has taxes, because I like the improved quality of life that comes from having utilities and public services like streets and water. Civil forfeiture hurts the quality of life for everyone except the cops.
It is done from time to time on Hacker News during a significant death in the computer/hacker world.

There was similarly one done for John McCarthy years ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20111025011711/http://news.ycombi...
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People doing regular work have to do physical labour, cognitive labour, emotional labour. People getting welfare or charity generally still have to, at minimum, do emotional labour, looking suitably pitiful before the handout and then suitably grateful after. And often physical and cognitive labour as well, filling in forms, schlepping to mandatory signing-on, etc. This is why welfare is demotivating. People reasonably feel they have already done the work, they as feel drained as if they were in a job. They know that if they don't do the things, the welfare vanishes.

Whether it's a job or welfare, everyone in our current system is scrabbling. And so everyone is stuck in a scarcity mindset.

Basic income is different. There is no scrabbling needed, not even emotional work, it just arrives. And so I expect that will flip people from a scarcity mindset to a leisure mindset. They won't be slacking, because slacking is a way of scrabbling. They'll want to do something, although without the need for a day job any more, that might be more towards the creative side. Some will "retire" on BI and write their novel or go back to university. Others will want to work to make more than the BI.

Expect a period of labour shortage, manufacturing turning to robots in reaction, a surge of cultural product such as has never been seen, and mass education with a broadening of the scope of people's interest into "blue sky" non employable fields.
Nitpick: the 64 bit double type has a mantissa of 52 bits, but there's a 1 implied in front, so the precision is 53 bits.
No one would argue illegally obtained money cannot be confiscated. A bank robber cannot keep his stolen money, or someone selling stolen goods, or a drug dealer. The trouble with civil asset forfeiture, as its properly known, is that the burden of proof has been shifted to the accused. So, instead of the state having to prove your money is illegally obtained, or that any crime was committed, you have to prove there was not.

For a small amount of money, it is not worth it to some people to invest the time and money to sue the state to get the money back. For those that can afford a lawyer and a lawsuit, there is (Constitutional) due process.

The remedy lies with the legislatures to add a criminal element, to reverse the burden of proof, and to add an interest penalty to losing agencies.

As for the article, it is a novel idea. I would think that the amount and type of official corruption would be a better indicator of a state in decline.
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You think Mercenaries are good based on a book written by a mercenary?

Thats like believing GMO corn is good based on a book by Monsato. Or that fracking is good based on a book by some company that builds fracking equipment
There are other NP-complete problems, where really hard instances are a lot more rare.
A lot of that going around lately...
RethinkDB took all the good parts of MongoDB and added proper engineering.

https://www.rethinkdb.com/
I checked the date on the article - it feels like it was copied off a Geocities page.
>> But when you get right down to it, there are a lot of places where the economy is based on resource extraction, and I have a hard time envisioning what the people living in those places are going to do if the brighter, greener future comes to pass.

There aren't going to be nearly as many people living in those places. Like the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath people will move to greener pastures. We can make that transition easier or harder, but there's not much we can do to prevent it altogether and we probably shouldn't even if we could.
It is curious -- it's not like enriching Uranium is easy. It's a very expensive process with incredibly low yields if I understand it correctly.
Speaking of which, how does a fully autonomous car know it's getting pulled over? Does it have some algorithm to detect police lights?
Well, that's just the issue. I have no problem with Electron apps as an idea, but they're often coupled with extremely slow rendering. You can tell immediately.

For instance, in Slack, which is more or less an Electron app / browser in a box, I can easily get it down to <5 fps just by posting a snippet or going too far in scrollback. Resizing the window is beyond painful, etc., etc. It all seems unbelievably unnecessary - why should a chat program, literally text on a screen, perform like this on a top-of-the-line quad-core i7 system?
> "a lot of people become lazy and don't want to work, why would they when they get money for just sitting on their hands"

Every person in Australia over 22 and under retirement age can get extremely generous welfare, forever. It doesn't matter if you've never had a job, etc. etc.

A single person gets $1046/mo

With children is $1200/mo

http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink...

Are Australians sitting around on their hands? Some are, sure, but the vast majority don't want to live the life that ~$1k/mo buys.
I am brand new to Go am trying to learn it together with my bright, but young (6 year old) son. Can anyone recommend some good introductory resources for to better learn the basic concepts and scoring? While general gameplay seems relatively straight-forward, I've found there seem to be a variety of rules and I don't understand the algorithm for scoring and determining the winner.
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I'm not sure what position you're arguing here. But if it is that chest-puffing confrontational behaviour is less common or less effective at "winning fights" in areas which lack clear-cut standards of proof I think the opposite is the case.
Dear god, they chose the two cheapest upstream providers on the market [1]. It's a shame they didn't pick up a higher quality carrier to handle the majority of their traffic.

[1] http://bgp.he.net/AS394141#_asinfo
"Edward Snowden Explains How to Fix the Internet"

Much love for Snowden. He is a personal hero of mine. I think he should be a personal hero of yours. I think we should have statues of the guy.

Just as Snowden didn't want the story to be about him, to be a personality piece, when he released the trove of information which shook the privacy world to its core, I think he'd agree that any response to this new information should not be focused on or directed toward what he personally endorses by virtue of him as a 'personality'.

Unfortunately, the conversation has largely focused on the technical/technology dimension, while the policy and political dimensions have not seen the same engagement by their respective members. In fact, Snowden has been used by political parties as a proxy piece in disagreements regarding East-West relations. And if technology is the answer, then the general public, almost by definition, does not have a place in the discussion.
The do seem to live in a capsule, out there in some parallel universe.
Given this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_..., NK, Pakistan, India, Israel... To say nothing of the others... Every individual in every step in the supply chain is beyond corruption? Or blackmail? The door doesn't even need to be left open.
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That rate is at least partly because Troy has genuine competition between two cable internet providers (Comcast and WowWay).
Try changing the cell to show as many floating points as possible (in Numbers it was to set it to "Automatic").
Often ships sit loaded for months on end (sometimes due to customs or duties / ownership issues). There's also a proximity issue. If a loaded ship is sitting close to the states but in international waters, it's easier to get the load back into the states. If you leave the cargo in a storage facility somewhere you still have to pay for the storage, and in addition the transit + time when you actually want to use/sell/offload it.
I was going to mention Haskell as being similar. Lots of custom infix operators. On the one hand, once you know a library's custom operators it can make for very clean code, but it can be tough to read code for a library you don't know. I guess it's mitigated a bit by the fact that a lot of Haskell operators generalize well, so the same symbols tend to be used to do something similar, but it can be abused.
But what set of idiot justices decided that the police can stop you, see you have $10k in your trunk, and then take it even though you tell them it is from your savings and you're on the way to buy a car?
That's easy enough to change later if their upstreams struggle to meet demand. Once they have the last mile finished, the rest is much easier by comparison.
But still no transactions over multiple documents (at least in the same shard)?
Or torrent movies
> You can argue, and I would largely agree, that this is actually part of MongoDB's brilliant marketing strategy, of sacrificing engineering quality in order to get to market faster and build a hype machine, with the idea that the engineering will follow later.

Author nearly lost me here with this logic. Placing Marketing ahead of quality in something that is supposed to store a very valuable asset (data) is near insanity.

I get the mindset of "break fast", "release often", etc. in terms of customer facing features, but in something that is supposed to be a core part of your foundation, stability is if utmost importance. Otherwise nothing else works - and you lose customers, business, opportunities - because you can't look them up later.

Its not "brilliant marketing", its just marketing.
The author's reference to Morris' high-end/low-end classification of states and absolute preference for centralization seems simplistic and out of touch with economic research on the topic.

I think Elinor Ostrom (the only female recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics to date) provides a much more useful framework for evaluating institutional design. In some cases centralization works and in others decentralization is preferable, but a very important component that gets left out of Morris' dichotomy is the role that jurisdictional overlap plays in forcing centralized and decentralized institutions to compete against each other and ultimately provide better outcomes than either could independently.
Take humans out of that equation and I would agree. Otherwise, that kind of thinking gets people killed. Which, I suppose, you don't care about since you are more concerned over the minute details of the economy.
> Why are sane people okay with having their property rights violated by taxation but not by confiscation?

Because these people are not egotistical, anti-social assholes, but contribute their share to society instead.
With enough uranium and no expectation of high efficiency it is probably not too hard to build a gun type device and I think very well doable by a terrorist group. The tricky part is doing it with little material and high efficiency. And of course a dirty bomb is trivial but also not nearly as scary as often portrait.
I used to resist the KiB/MiB/GiB nomenclature. But after seeing this problem everywhere, I've changed my mind.
The self-interest involved inherently says absolutely nothing about the argument being made. The only thing that does that, is the argument in question, it stands alone.

Anything else is bias no different than the kind you're trying to point at Monsanto or XYZ fracking company.
It's amazing, but at the same time it's OOP with a reprint anytime soon being unlikely. It would probably be very easy to rig up a print-and-play copy however.
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Nice booth babe.

The page is too slick to trust. And there are any number of open source port scanning tools.
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The problem with junk food is not just that it is lacking in essential nutrients. If that were the only problem, then Snickers bars and multivitamin supplements would be a healthy diet.

Junk food is unhealthy for a myriad of reasons, including the heavy use of sugars. Humans were not evolved to subsist on sugar and oil (and various corn-derived products), but that is a huge chunk of junk foods.

It is possible to eat fairly cheaply and still healthily, but it is not as cheap as eating unhealthily. It's also far more time consuming because cheaper healthy foods are uncooked and unprocessed, whereas cheaper unhealthy food are generally ready to eat.
> pursuit of the almighty dollar

Turns out, not having any of those almighty dollars ends up looking like this town - pretty bad.
If tailgating is dangerous, in the sense that it is involved in a collision, the law finds the tailgater responsible 99% of cases. It just isn't applied predictively.
> ... they shouldn't need a warrant to seize that gun.

Temporarily.

If they're not going to charge you, they should return the gun.

The alternative is to declare "gun free" zones near the location of all gun crimes. Not sure who did it? No problem! Take everyones guns.
Implicit parameters are not the same as implicit conversions.
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Floating point math is fun. Here's a post I did awhile back the deals with similar-ish shenanigans. https://medium.com/forrest-the-woods/perfect-prevention-of-i...
It is a stupid road. Built for speed, legistlated for slow. The road should be modified to make traffic calmer.
It does, and yes I think it is now considered an anti-pattern. The proper way (IMO) to extend libraries is to use type-classes.
It's pretty easy if you have resources. The hard part isn't building the bomb if you have weapons grade fissile material. The hard part is doing it without FVEY getting wind of it.
> I think we should have statues of the guy.

We sort of had at least one, but then the New York Parks Department covered it up, and later removed it altogether.

There's a certain irony in the picture of it happening, wherein the state worker steps on the eagle statue to put a muzzle over the Snowden statue.

http://brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ed-snowden-st...
"Property rights" aren't any natural rights. It's a societal agreement, and that agreement comes with strings attached. In your case you pay taxes, and your society holds everyone up to this bunch of collective agreements, including not taking away your property just willy-nilly (confiscation).
Someone asked recently on the mailing list if Lift is dead.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/liftweb/dA5NUjkqB-4
As far as books go, Scala for the Impatient is one of the few I'd recommend. The first half of it is available for free

https://www.typesafe.com/resources/e-book/scala-for-the-impa...
Nice poem, but I thought the part about it being flat was strange, since there's a mountain pass into Colorado just north of town, called Raton Pass. Maybe that was symbolism?
If you use Scala and mongodb, I highly recommend this DSL:

https://github.com/foursquare/rogue

Typesafe queries using SQL-like syntax. Particularly when used with the Spindle library (https://github.com/foursquare/spindle), this is best ORM I've ever used.
Do you know people who actually do this? I'm deeply uncomfortable when I get a new phone that doesn't have a CM / custom ROM out yet, because I need to be able to lock everything down myself. I assumed other tech literates did the same.
I really don't foresee any of these alternative JVM languages getting much traction in my industry (Defense/Aerospace).

I use Scala where I can at work (mostly smaller projects where I am the only developer and can thus get away with it), but every place I've worked over the last few years has been staffed with developers who are actively hostile to the thought of using any language other than Java. And right now, Java is king in the Defense industry. It's the new Ada, except I'd rather be coding in Ada than Java.

On my own side projects, I don't use Scala, because I would never choose to target the JVM for greenfield development. But that's just me.
you can program them with a url so when you tap an android phone it opens the url if NFC is turned on in the phone. You can also add a counter to the url
Can I set up a "test shop", which will not actually debit cards, but let me see how my future shop will look like?
Fantastic idea, terrible implementation. Too many slow steps walking through bare areas, clicking does unpredictable things... apparently now I have a super zoomed in view of a cabinet door?

A much better approach would be, instead of designed around me turning around, have it designed around the objects turning around?