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No, it wouldn't. The program is called clasp. Renaming it to potassco is like renaming Microsoft Excel to Microsoft Office. It's also years older than the LISP clasp. And finally, the program is an amazing piece of technology and state-of-the-art in its scientific field.
What I don't understand about the Decentralized Autonomous Organization
Is caffeine really addicting?

I mean, I can quit it any time, but I feel like shit. I can choose not to drink it, I don't get any cravings, but I just feel tired and get headaches more frequently. So I choose to drink coffee. But it's a choice...
Would it be too insane of an idea to go do a local full rebuild of .NET, now that it's open source? If Microsoft can get "[Build|Passing]", surely you can too... :P

Build .NET, prove the issue still exists with the local build, then add new instrumentation to the GC routines inside .NET's runtime.

Instrumentation never killed anybody... and if this issue persists too much longer...

I can't deny that it's a crazy idea though.
I agree that 'Asia' includes very very different cultures. Asia really should really be divided into smaller chunks.
be floored ^1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle

^1 and don't fall for phy PR
That's sort of where it went wrong. You offer video streaming rates and now people think, cool, tv, let's turn it on all day.

If you offer data rates where you can afford to offer fair use, then each year you can offer higher data rates. Which is what people like.

Where I live, I see this problem mostly on mobile. You see telcos offer insanely high 4G data rates and a data limit that is low enough that you can burn through that in a couple of minutes.

The net result is that nobody cares anymore. In general, people don't want to keep track of their uses. It makes for a poor experience.
Why does the customer have to know how much Groupon is getting?
R replaced SPSS.

Octave replaced Mathlab.

Python based libraries are somewhere in between.

Julia with Jupyter will probably replace Mathematica, LabVIEW and Mathcad (and unify all of the above) with a powerful native language and environment.
I use L-Theanine and straight caffeine pills (100mg) as my preferred source of caffeine, it works very well. You get the alertness of caffeine without the annoying jittery feeling side effects.
Crawling Wikipedia for Piano ancestors was very interesting.
>MTV could have grown with the teenagers for the 1990s and now be a music channel for people in their 40s.

The "could have grown" isn't supported by evidence. The author appears to be unaware of economic realities:

1) record labels wanted MTV to start pay royalties instead of historically getting music videos for free

2) youtube didn't exist in 1981-2005 [1]

3) music's general decline audience attention (video games, web surfing, etc) and discretionary spending ($$$ peaked in 1999)

[1] Why Doesn't MTV Play Music Videos Anymore? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysyZF-DZFY
But climbs you don't get payed for can be just as (or more) rewarding/challenging.
The problem is, we do not know if it in fact happened on that day, or it was deliberately made appear more dramatic by claiming it has happened on that day.
Technically, all rock climbing walls are interactive, aren't they?
How did I just know what video this was before I clicked it..
> 5 cups of coffee per day is going to get most people moving.

You could even hypothesise that people who live more hectic lives (and thus move more) are likely to drink more coffee.
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So like, why isn't there a company that offers a non-evil alternative to Comcast yet? Or, how would I go about starting this company?
Is it me or is it odd, that a reader called "Hyphen" doesn't seem to offer hyphenation? Especially as the screenshot shown on the page shows rather large spacing used for block setting the text.
10 years ago would have been 5.04 to 5.10. You did very well to only have that one issue to sort out! Thinks are so much better one decade later.
Internet explorer. A custom CMS. And sometimes some of the posted data is missing... On a single POS. And because data ath end of form is optional, system can't even figure out that something went wrong, it just silently discards it.

Never figured out what problems that particular IE had, but the workaround was simple... I added an extra hidden input field just to check if all was sent. The theory was that at least operator could repost the form if it went wrong - however, it never did again. Thank you IE for your obscure bugs and nonstandard behaviour! Rip. </rant>
We don’t know if Odysseus existed at all, and if he did many of the fantastic events in his journey obviously didn’t literally happen. Regardless, assuming the speculative interpretation of gods as planet locations in the sky is correct, this gives us a pretty good way to date the Trojan war. (Which we also don’t have conclusive proof happened, but anyway.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad)
Anonymous has released a list with more than 9,000 ISIS members
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A Number's life: A different take on 2048/three's formula
Hi Guys,

The rules are simple: you can move, combine and divide numbers and your goal is to complete all the conditions in the level. Looks simple right? See it for yourself on iOS and Android

iOS : http://apple.co/1YjJ1Gc

Android : http://bit.ly/1XdxQMB
We like your work. Well done.

I'll put a class of teenagers who study fine art on it next week for a break from their Maths class. I'm in the UK, and all 16+ year old students who failed their school maths exam (called a GCSE, standard for all students in England) are now required to retake it when they go onto college. That isn't astoundingly popular with the students so we are always on the lookout for visually attractive and engaging stuff to try. I have 12 PCs in a flexible learning area....

...its just that the coordinate system you are using has a vertical axis that is flipped compared with the usual Maths convention. I know that one goes back to BASIC days but it still means a minor discontinuity with Maths. I do warn students that conventions (e.g. BODMAS vs RPN) are just conventions, there is no intrinsic reason why they are that way, so we'll just go with it.
If we were to require but not have one leap second a year into perpetuity, it would take 1000 years to drift 1/4h off from true time.

That's 1000 years of more regular, workable time. And I'd hope in 1000 years people would have adjusted to the small offset.

Plus, one hour-big adjustment every 4000 years is certainly easier than 4000 second-long adjustments every year, if they really haven't gotten used to it by then. Note that 4000 years ago we hadn't an alphabet - no doubt we'll be thought of on equal footings.
I don't doubt the story's plausibility, but I'm left wondering how the student could have replaced the compiler with his own. Usually you need root in order to mess around with the system like that.
Just want to tell my experience here. Last Tuesday, I ordered a Cappuccino (strong). And I lit up a cigarette with it. Just after few minutes coming back to my work desk, I felt extreme headache and I fell from my seat unconscious. I was taken to a hospital near by and the doctor said your blood pressure is way higher than normal. (160/100) precisely. I believe that happened because of excess nicotine because I had no history of such blood pressure problem. I might be wrong but that was the case.
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As do Europe. Many different culutres and politics.

France pretend to cap work at 35h/week, next to it is Switzerland where we have 20 days of vacation and 42h/week.
Have you played around with running a Tor node in the past? Some websites have block lists that automatically block known Tor IPs and it's possible that you ended up on a list like that.
Ask HN: Will TV survive?
I've been thinking about it a lot lately. If you take a look at what netflix is doing, and how amazon and yahoo are trying to follow suit.

Does this mean that producers like HBO will die out, because they show a new episode only once a week.
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How does one define 'robustness' in this case?
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The EU country that works the most is... Greece.
No they will adapt. HBO GO is an example of HBO transforming. Hulu, and the like will surely follow suit.
EDIT: s/self[ -]worth/self-worth and intrinsic worth/
The whole thing with california reminds me of the story about that one civilization in the pacific - "what were they thinking when they cut down the last tree ?"

Water exists until it doesn't.
>>> What a cluster.. see kay. ... Law propagates more law.

Law is a kind of emergent system. As Justice Holmes famously said, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." [1]

>>> That is why we have legalese.

The term legalese covers a lot of ground. We need to distinguish between the different genera (TIL that's the plural of genus).

Some legalese is simply a compact system of shorthand. Such systems evolve in every field; for example, the shorthand terms edge case and corner case in software. Busy professionals expect their colleagues to know the shorthand.

Some legalese, especially the archaic kind, can be used in an attempt to mystify and awe nonlawyers, especially less-educated ones. Good lawyers try to avoid doing that.

(Footnote: In bar-association circles there's been a persistent move toward plain language; try a Google search for "plain language vs. legalese.")

>>> This is why we can't have nice things!

Law evolved as an alternative to the rule of the strongest. On the whole, law is sustainable and scalable, more or less. We imperfect humans actually follow it, mostly, notwithstanding our tendency to pursue our individual desires.

If you think you know of a better system, please feel free to run for office and try to persuade the rest of us to implement it. And remember the brute fact that we humans are loss-averse [2]; that's one big reason why persuading people to go along with political reform can be so difficult.

(You could always try the Daesh approach [3], but that's likely to get you locked up or killed, and it'd be like trying to rewrite your code from scratch [4] --- you'd lose so much codified knowledge of workable ways of handling edge cases and corner cases.)

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

[3] http://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/9734894/daesh-isis-isil

[4] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Lots of universities are slowly switching to Jupyter as the primary computational environment.
> ...when you’re approaching an airport and an air traffic controller is giving you your initial clearance, he’s going to tell you where he wants you, what altitude he wants you at, what speed he wants you at, what heading he wants you on, until you intercept the localiser for the runway you’re going to land on. So he’s going to give you about six pieces of information in a single sentence. You need to be ready to accept that information and understand it. If you’re not it’s going to come at you like arglebargle and you’re going to be saying please repeat please repeat please repeat. Well he doesn’t have time to do that because there may be fifteen aircraft in the pattern so please repeat is an extraordinary request in many circumstances.

Why isn't this information transmitted digitally? Fire it off in a sideband of the radio transmission, or even just as a half-second modem bleep in the audio track. You keep the voice communication for redundancy and backwards compatibility for planes that don't have the equipment, but having the information actually appear on your console is surely highly desirable?

...actually, isn't this technology already available, so that ATC can give commands to planes flying on full autopilot?
Another simple approach is that the 'cultural context' of coffee drinkers, and the perception of oneself as productive, is going to lead to a more healthy nutrition & lifestyle, to fit the pattern. I believe people naturally are harmonious in their behavior.
Yes, I think that coffee-consumption could simply be a label that brings in other lifestyle factors. However, even among the non-smokers, the meta-study did find a difference between no-coffee and moderate-coffee groups. That may be pointing towards some of those 1000 compounds for further study...
Being a nonprofit cuts you off capital. Investors are reluctant to fund nonprofits, which aren't going to generate value for them.

It's okay if a company doesn't need capital, but even tech firms take $50-100M a year to grow.

Again, if your sector consists of nonprofits, you may do fine. But IT and finance are for profit industries, with rare exceptions.
Well, to ensure uniqueness you always need coordination. If using UUIDv1, you need to ensure your MAC addresses are not cloned. UUIDv4, you need to ensure the generated IDs are not duplicated by ensuring you have not generated each ID before. Sounds like you've missed a critical step here.

UUIDv1 is pretty much your best bet here because it's the least pain in the ass. 36 chars are hardly any less suitable for the use cases you mention than 22 chars. UUIDv1 can survive on a poor PRNG, so your reason for updating library isn't really valid. Sure there's a small amount of maintenance, but I'd expect a developer with solid experience and knowledge to almost immediately understand that (even) a 10 line homebaked solution is likely to cause more issues than a standardised algorithm developed specifically for this purpose.

"10 lines of JavaScript" isn't really what you wrote now, is it?

As for your other use cases, CSPRNG! If you need something to be unbiased, a PRNG just doesn't work. In fact, PRNGs pretty much never work for anything that needs anything. They exist for convenience only.
When and how did it become that way? If it happened in the late 1800s, then that's still many generations ago. If it happened before 1857, as an imported loan word through other Polynesian speakers, then it even fits in with the context.

What did they call the place before the English came? The Wikipedia entry says "The islands were historically known by the inhabitants as “jolet jen Anij” (Gifts from God)", though the citation is to http://www.pacificrisa.org/places/republic-of-the-marshall-i... which says "The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is historically referred to in folklore as “jolet jen Anij” (gifts from God)." But names from folklore can be different than actual names (eg, "The Promised Land"/"Land of Israel"), and what little evidence I found suggests that is the case here.

For what it's worth, the embassy of the Marshall Islands in DC at http://www.rmiembassyus.org/History.htm says:

> 500 BC - 2000 BC (approx.) - The first Micronesian navigators arrive in the Marshalls, calling the atolls Aelon Kein Ad (Our Islands).

though without a written language it's surely hard to know the words used 2500 years ago.

And in 'The Sea - The Marshallese World' by Dirk H.R. Spennemann at http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/culture/SeaNavigat... :

> The Marshallese had no perception of the atolls of the Marshall Islands as a geographical entity differentiated from other entities. They called them Aelon Kein Ad, "our atolls" and called themselves accordingly: Armij Aelon Kein, "people of these islands". [3]

Where [3] is "Senfft 1903", which appears to be 'Die Marshall-Insulaner' by Arno Senfft.

I'm willing to say that 115 years counts as "for generations".

I'm also curious how they picked up that pidgin use of English given they were a German Protectorate at this time, and before that were assigned Spanish sovereignty? Can you explain this process?
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Why do I need to sign in to my Microsoft account to view this page?
Popular fiction can make use of religious or historical elements without the purpose being to communicate religion or history. Consider the impression a future archeologist will have if the most accessible record of our culture is Netflix.
This looks really good. I'm not reading anything epub length on my phone but if I were, I'd give this a shot. Big thumbs up for a great product page as well. So many people screw this up. Two problems I noticed with the website:

- No way to see the price of the app without clicking on the App Store button. Maybe this was intentional?

- "Personalize your reading experience" part has three different screenshots showing three different styles. White on black and black on white styles show the same part of the book while white on blue (is that the name of that color?) shows a different part. No one will probably notice that, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to point out.

Any plans to make a Mac version?
When I read the topic my first thought was "customers!"
Don't take away my "for" loop from me.. It is the magical thing that brought me to computer science :)
So... What happens if the interviewee doesn't go the way interviewer expects? Like, what if I answer with this:

bin(x ^ (x >> 1))

Most often interviewers get quite irritated if interviewer comes up with a much simplier and a faster solution than what was intended.
The race for security: can VMs and containers really compete?
Geektrust – Curated opportunities. For the curious developer
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Great article. I really miss the days when I used to run to my university library ever week to read the latest issue of Aviation Week. A few of us regulars used to wait for the magazine and formed an informal discussion circle and do calculations similar to what they describe in the article.
Ehh, not quite.

I was working on a dev server (which was pretty identical to the prod servers), vmhost/kvm/ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

One day I'm staging my updates, to make sure they work when I go to prod.. I do my apt-get and reboot into the new kernel.. but- nothing can be mounted.
No developers can work either, they depend on that machine..

I'm looking at it and I can mount the drives from busybox after the kernel panics.. No idea what's going on.

I'm asking around in #ubuntu on freenode, since googling is getting me nowhere. 'Just reinstall it' they say.

'Sometimes it's better not to know why these things happen'

:|

I found the issue, some person was smart enough to think lvm2 was called 'lvm' and then initramfs all my previous kernels during the upgrade procedure- so I couldn't boot into old kernels either.

Lost a day of dev time (although it was only 3 developers and me)
You don't believe but you give no reasoning for this "belief". Actually Bidet Toilet Seats are nice for sure but they are expensive; to buy, install and maintain. A much lower cost alternative is the Hand Bidet Sprayer. It requires no new plumbing and actually does a better job cleaning you. If you've never tried both of these the Hand Bidet Sprayer provides a much stronger water flow and more control of where it sprays than the fixed "spray wand" in the bidet toilet seat which is more like a weak water fountain. You can also use the Hand Bidet Sprayer to spray water up inside to help with constipation and hemorrhoids. See bathroomsprayers.com.
Another story about ubuntu; and this time I'm the idiot;

When you're a sysadmin who's only dealt with one type of linux for a long time you forget what the different distro's do.. there really isn't that much, naming conventions/subtle commands etc;

But, apt's packages have the nature of 'always run the latest service if upgraded', a notion that does not exist in centos/rhel/fedora/bsd etc;

So, apt-get upgrade on our production database server means the server goes away for a while; not 'the packages are available to be used when you restart the service at midnight'*

:p oops.
forgive me for saying, I'm not a coder, I'm a sysadmin.

I'm scared of having developers with a little ops knowledge take over my job.

/devops/
Python 2.7.11rc1 released
The letter was written back in January. If it condemned the Paris attack that would be pretty impressive.

He did condemn the attacks when they actually happened though. It was even in the New York Times
Numpy/Scipy (and Julia, maybe) are taking this role. There's really no reason to use Matlab these days.
Say No to Samsung for production systems TBH.
"Can't reproduce" = "Works fine on my machine. No problem!"
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Pigeons perform well at spotting cancer on medical images after training
There seems to be Hyphenation support but not on by default. (I downloaded and tried.)
Minify your assets and push them to CDN
Ask HN: What is your editor/terminal font and color scheme?
Frankly, I can't tell anymore if the linked article is tongue in cheek. Enough HN for today.
Someone has been watching Applied Science.
wow! I didn't know he could do that to he helped me moved money from a cheating partner's bank account too. That guy is indeed crazy
That's interesting. I didn't.

Well, maybe this will be useful to someone https://archive.is/ZKgP
It is not the people, it is the whole working context, the type of businesses has a huge effect, demand hugely affects productivity, eg some businesses scale up with little extra effort (eg finance) so productivity appears to move as demand moves, while others do not.
Ask HN: Someone is interested in purchasing ownership of my plugin. Is a scam?
Some time ago I wrote a little plugin for WordPress, it is in the official repository and stats says it has 10000+ active installs. The other day someone sent me this email:

Hi [redacted],

We have been searching through Wordpress for some plugins of personal interest and came across yours. We are interested in discussing some of the details of your plugin and if you are available.

If we can come to an agreement then we would be interested in purchasing ownership of your plugin [redacted] on the wordpress.org repository.

We would be willing to pay $150.00 USD for every 1,000 installs.

This is a one time message, you will no longer receive any messages from us. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Let us know if your interested.

[redacted] Sales Team

It looks like an automated mail and obviously suspicious. Does anyone knows more about this? Is this a known scam pattern or what?
I don't know the episode I am recalling, but it was on QI. And they said that all their metal things were from meteorites.
I live in Sweden too, and I don't get your point. Swedish productivity per worker is up at the top in global terms. Much of Swedish society is set up to benefit workers, and in particular families. So, yes maybe a colleague wasn't at work for 12 months due to paternity or maternity leave. But that's great. Companies need to be structured so that no one worker is indispensible. Once you get your head around that, everything else is logical.
What do these people call the huge problem of Blackberry/WinMobile/Tizen/etc stores and there real lack of meaningful applications? Those have become niche devices and got pretty irrelevant.

Beside that even on iOS and especially Android (due to the bad inbuilt privacy control in <=5.1) many remove native apps like Facebook/Dropbox/Twitter/etc and rely on their web apps. Those run just as good and don't record the GPS, voice, upload photos and SMS, etc.
Roboto + Material from here" https://github.com/equinusocio/material-theme
I tried the full version and like how the app looks and works so far. The app seems to support ePub3 also (Marvin only supported ePub2 and Gerty is too social to my taste.)

I have few feedbacks:

- I wish the page doesn't fade when switching chapters. It interrupted the reading flow more than quite a bit.

- Would be amazing if the app could support CJK's vertical layout and page orientation. (I have never seen ePub reader app that did this right.)
So OSX implements a slightly modified nagle to remove the bad interaction between nagle and delayed acks?