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Does the French public complain that "nothing gets passed" like the Australian public does? I am a massive fan of that system. It has stopped dangerous legislation from being passed. Not all of it, and not enough, but some, and that's better than none.
> The company finds top-notch freelance developers, designers, and project managers with pedigrees from MIT, CalTech, Google, and Stripe, and only accepts 5% of applicants.

Why would such individuals be willing to work as a contractor for this company in a great enough number and at a low enough rate to make this model scalable and profitable? Something doesn't add up here.
You picked an interesting one, Shovel Knight, because its graphics engine actually emulates how the NES graphics chip works (with a few enhancements). That gives it a look that stands out from a lot of others.

Super Meat Boy is an example of the visual sameness in my opinion. It looks exactly like Broforce or Super Time Force Ultra or a million others. The aesthetic seems to be 256 color VGA with really tiny sprites. It doesn't really remind me of anything or look inspired by anything in particular IMO.
It also ignores the question of what economic growth is. Infinite economic growth does not mean infinite potatoes. Infinite economic growth means infinite increase in perceived worth of stuff we make. That's eminently doable. I mean, growth has shifted to services long ago.

We can't make infinite potatoes, but that's not required for infinite growth.
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I may be missing something, but isn't a quine trivial when you use a language that allows for file I/O (which I believe Fortran does have)? Or is the point of the "challenge" to avoid using file I/O?
I was wondering why that first "sentence" wasn't a sentence.

"E-Prime (short for English-Prime, sometimes denoted É or E′), a prescriptive prescribes a version of the English language which excludes all forms of the verb to be."
Most H-bomb designs have a (fusion) boosted fission primary, then a fusion secondary that has itself a boosted fission "spark-plug", then fusion then fission of the secondary tamper by the neutrons from the secondary fusion stage - with this latter fission stage contributing most of the energy.
I don't understand these problems.

The size of our population grows and, because of scientific advance, the amount one person produces increases too.

As long as non of those two factors becomes negative, everything should work fine.

The only problem I see in the future is, that we converted too much of earths bio mass to humans before we are able to get to other planets.
hey

I really dont know what is goin on with this stuff, seems like this fintech is everywhere nowadays,

I like it normal simple casual
I've heard Patrick make that very assertion.
Perhaps you should read the short story "The Country of the Blind" by HG Wells. http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/3/ To wit: a society generally lacking in a sense thinks those with that extra sense insane.
Great perspective. Thanks for posting.
Don't you think Pakistan has shown these facilities to the US Government? I believe the US is ready to destroy them, or surgically invade, if IS were poised to gain access to them.
> They really are a marvellous thing; my favourite example would be the construction of truly responsive interfaces, tweaked for optimality at many levels and continuous, rather than just things with three or four breakpoints; with preprocessors, it’s tedious and painful;

Anything with preprocessors is tedious and painful, yet I've been hand-writing fluidly responsive layouts for years without predefined 'breakpoint' jumps in the design. What is it about CSS variables that allowed you to change your style?
More so than the field, the order will depend on the editors and journal in my experience. Anecdotally, in the field I work in (Material Science/Condensed Matter Physics) I have written and read papers in all different orders but the order seen in this paper is pretty normal to me. You want people to get through your work (abstract, intro, results) and then the nitty gritty details come later for the people that want to use your work for something more than an interesting read.
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TLDR: "CSS appears to be Turing complete. Sorry for wasting your time :)"
> ...build a more egalitarian society

Except nobody knows how and so far all attempts at this failed. I think we have better chances in hoping for fusion power than working model of communism.
No? As an Asian student I have seen countless people try to push their children to exercise arithmetic skills because they believe that does good to their brains. However, it only misleads children to hate "math" and sometimes even their lives based on this the most important subject again and again. Moreover, children would wholly waste their exercised brain on the ruined confidence because some of them just cannot "recite" the patterns well among questions in tests, because you're required to answer too much questions during too short time, which means if you cannot recite the solution patterns from textbook and calculate the answers right at first time, you barely have no chance to try it again. Even those who did excellently in those high-school tests will face another crash at the beginning of university, because the "real math" no matter cares your arithmetic skills, but your abstract thinking and the feeling to grab and deduct rules from axiom. After all, except those real geniuses can conquer these two very different requirements and continuously get payback from that, I don't see any benefits from focusing on arithmetic with so high-strength training.
There are bombs where a fission stage ignites a fusion stage which sends neutrons to start another fission reaction.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon#Summary

"(3) The fusion fuel of the secondary stage may be surrounded by depleted uranium or natural uranium, whose U-238 is not fissile and cannot sustain a chain reaction, but which is fissionable when bombarded by the high-energy neutrons released by fusion in the secondary stage. This process provides considerable energy yield (as much as half of the total yield in large devices), but is not considered a tertiary "stage". Tertiary stages are further fusion stages (see below), which have been only rarely used, and then only in the most powerful bombs ever made."
For me, a book should get one free pass on which they can build a plausible, self-consistent universe. If that one pass is "awesome, friendly AI with near-perfect dominance over spacetime" (The Culture), well, OK, fine. Just stick to it, then. (Spoiler: In Look to Windward, the Culture is blamed for some lesser culture's war, as the Culture did it by accident. This seemed so implausible I thought it was going to be a plot twist.) -- Yes I know the Culture isn't hard sci-fi (unless you just assume Minds exist and can do all that stuff), but it's the most uplifting stuff I've read. A perfect idea of how civilization should be. It literally affects my mood in a very positive way when I read them.

But if every other chapter there's some new damn "thing" that doesn't seem to make sense in-universe then I feel like I'm just being snowed. There was some book I was reading with new words every other page. Then, on some space ship, "janitor rats" appear, that are rats, but somehow cybernetically linked to the ship over time or some such nonsense. For no apparent reason other than to have cyber rats. Nope.

Greg Egan is the master of making it perfect, holy shit. His books can be a bit hard to get through. I know I didn't fully understand them, then I found out he has said that you shouldn't expect to read a book without a pencil and paper to take notes. Some of the books even have tutorial videos, explaining his [alternative] physics or such.
Another case for duck typing... (a shameless rubyist)
United States really need more advanced space explorations.

It is good that many other nations such as Russia, China, Japan, and India have recently been visiting such interest. But their quests are really dwarfed in terms of technology and vision.

The race against Soviet Union was what drove United States to its great height. Instead of spending resources on policing the world, space exploration is really the way to go. Investment allocation on intellectual capital through space exploration must be prioritized so that we can bring the best out of human civilization.
I think its kinda bull...
I'm genuinely more afraid of the people who are afraid right now than I am of the people who they think I should be afraid of. The anti-Muslim rhetoric (e.g. yelling "All Muslims are terrorists" at town meetings) scares the hell out of me. How easily could that attitude be shifted towards any arbitrary group with just one or two tragic events?
I think the "damage"-causing one is the ghostsec; "The Group" does work with law enforcement/intel.

It might actually be better to have a little chaos in there. That may make the situation harder to game and predict.
Humanity's ability to produce sufficient food is likely capable of outstripping population growth for a long, long time. For example, over the last 80 years, corn yields in bushels per acre have increased 6 fold in the US [0], where the population has less than tripled. Kansas wheat yields have tripled from 12 to 36 bushels over the same period [1]. Granted, we eat much more varied diet than corn and wheat, but we've also managed to bring the cost of feeding ourselves down as the population has increased. Per-capita spending (as a % of income) on food in the US has dropped 43% since 1960 [2], which may indicate that the productivity of the food industry is increasing relative to population growth. (have to factor in per-capita income, which I don't have time for...).

What's more relevant to me is that nations with the most mature economies also have the lowest population growth rates. 35 of 241 nations have negative population growth, including Japan, Germany, Poland and Russia. The US has less than 1% growth [3].

So it seems that all things being equal, the Earth's population will trend asymptotically to some maximum due to human nature, and not out of control into crisis, unless it is somehow self-imposed by politics. And it seems likely to me that we'll be able to feed all those people by means of increasing productivity in agriculture and distribution.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/08/16/a-bri...

[1] http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Kansas/Publicat...

[2] http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/detail.a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...
Congratulations, it takes a lot of work and time to get this far and launch a set of polished features like this.

Consumer identity offers a very large market segment to sell to and is growing very quickly as an area of focus in enterprises that provide technology to earn dollars from their customers. For those of you unfamiliar with identity management, think of loginbox as twilio for authentication. Historically, companies like Janrain and Gigya have dominated this segment and have focused on selling into Marketing teams with IT as a supporting buyer. Companies like OneLogin are building consumer identity features like this to compliment their internal SSO and provide unification of identities across external and internal user groups.

The name of the game is uptime, be prepared to handle any and all conversations/questions around your architecture, technical operations, strategic decisions to support uptime, and what makes you unique.

Identity is based on open protocols, SAML, OpenID Connect, JWT's etc.. so products start to look very similar, differentiation is difficult but still possible, you'll need to craft your story early or find yourself constantly answering "How are you different from vendor X?".

The payments integration looks great. Companies like segment.io and zapier have proven that ubiquity of integrations can provide huge wins for end users of your product. Start thinking about which ISV's will help propel you into customer bases you wouldn't be able to reach otherwise!!

double congrats!
Care to offer a summary for those of us that aren't fluent? :)
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Why username / password? On mobile this is a dead approach. See https://docs.fabric.io/android/digits/digits.html
I recall that people took the car more, and the plane less, in the aftermath of 9/11. At least partly due to the inconvenience caused by the new security measures at the airports.

5 years later, this increase in road traffic was estimated to kill as many people as were originally dead in the twin towers. Just because people chose the car a bit more, and the plane a bit less.
Indeed. However, this explanation is only given after the example has already made use of these registers. As I stated, just a very minor issue... :)
Not almost 10 illegal weapons at every raid. More than 10 raids for every illegal weapon.

Otherwise I agree with you they're likely not to have been evenly distributed, so you can assume there were far more than 10 raids for every raids that produced one or more weapons.
When I was in high school my mom (a marriage and family therapist) cajoled me into using something like E-Prime. I had to be really careful when making generalizations around her, and the big no-no was to say that something or someone "made me feel" a certain way. It was infuriating at the time but it certainly made me take responsibility for own my feelings and opinions. This experience probably influenced my decision to major in linguistics.
Accidentally read it as "The first proposal, according to Le Merde, would forbid free and shared Wi-Fi during a state of emergency."
Sure, but the work that the entire internet based the claim on until now was in fact not a proof at all. Which is the main point, for me at least.

Isn't it strange that Wikipedia, some CS professors and many, many other places didn't even take the time to look at the "proof" before announcing the "fact" that CSS was turing complete? I like my proofs a little more proofed than that :)

/Jonas
> JavaScript has shown us the value of designing new features in a way that they can be polyfilled or emulated via a preprocessor, so that features can gain adoption without developers having to wait for older browsers to die.

Funny you should mention that, I have such a polyfill to introduce Element Query syntax to all browsers IE8 and up, and one of the features we just added was the ability to use variables in your CSS supplied from JavaScript running on the page.

Demo: http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/MKWOWW

Oh, and we also added a $parent selector to CSS, just for giggles :)

http://github.com/eqcss/eqcss < it's under MIT so feel free to use it and build on it
The charts place the move-to-the-country stage of life at age 55+.
> It really is too bad that we are hardwired to suck at being corrected.

Why do you think that? Speak for yourself.

The foundation of human society is transmission of knowledge and skills. We spend a great deal of our time learning from others, which involves correction based on observation of others as well as instruction from others.

When people are receptive to being corrected, they are very good at being corrected. When they resist being corrected, they are very bad at it. Why do they resist? Probably because we often find ourselves in social situations where accepting criticism from others is considered submissive and a penalty to social standing.

People who consider each other equals tend to be very receptive to mutual correction.

People who are vying to be the dominant one in a relationship are very hostile towards being corrected.
The update is that burn happened and that it appears to have worked. They are watching the track to see what the orbit is. Nice job on their part of trying to the mission.
It seems these two groups (pro-settlers and FN) share fear of and hatred for Arabs/islam. This doen't make them any nicer, in my opinion. http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/130460/french-jewish-le...
> every person in the whole world would get a check for the princely sum of $8.57

This number is way off. That would mean there are only $60B in the entire world, whereas the Fed was until recently creating $85B per month to buy bonds.

Total worldwide wealth is around $241 trillion, which is $34k / person (which I don't think necessarily contradicts your actual point).
I was just looking after something like this the other day.

D3 is super for customization, but it's really really low-level.
The problem with this is that it sends unpleasant signals to the other developers.

If the SV developer's value to the company is the same but they get paid more, then you're saying to all the other developers who work there, "You produce enough value that we could pay you this much, but we don't want to. We prefer to pay you less, simply because we can."

This is, of course, their right, but that sort of thing tends to make people unhappy, and unhappy employees tend to be unproductive, and then gone.
You only have two sig figs at best for an engineering estimate you could get close by rounding up to 10x15 which is 150. The error on both terms is gonna round to about ten so subtract both error factors from the 1st order estimate and get about 150-10-10 aka a decent engineering estimate done in the head to two sig figs is 130. Thats not too far from a calculated answer, only a couple percent off, which is smaller than the measurement error.

The most important estimating still, after manipulation of sig figs is knowing which way to bend for the overall system. So say I'm tiling a kitchen floor or buying paver bricks for a modest sized patio. Well, some raw material is going to be too ugly to use and I'm going to screw up some of the trimming and cutting and I'm going to drop some, and the cost of the gasoline and time to drive out to the home center and buy one more (mismatched) tile or brick is very high, so in that scenario I'd buy the 10x15=150 tiles and hope thats enough (I'm feeling lucky today). On the other hand if I had 9 steel chains each rated (by whom? Static or dynamic loads? Point concentrations or perfectly (LOL) distributed?) to 1400 pounds each, I would round way down for safety's sake and not suspend more than 10 x 10 or 10000 pounds on that platform. Even if the chains are rated properly I only need to screw up or fail four of them and the thing crashes down.

Anyway for engineering purposes 9x14 is somewhere around 100 to 150.
If there is a problem with our economy it is much more likely that it is a case of suboptimal capital investment.

It's not like we lack goals and needs.

There is some hint to this in the ridiculous cash reserves held by some of the big dogs:

http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/04/27/194b-apple-ca...

They are probably trying very hard to make good use of that money but it is very likely that them being in charge of all that capital is not the most optimal way to generate growth. Each of them is only specialized in a select few markets so for this capital allocation to be optimal it would mean that there would need to be exponential growth in each single market in which the capital is currently held. That is much harder than having exponential growth overall.
I don't understand that use case. If you're happy using a JS value to update a style, what's wrong with just updating the style in JS? If you're concerned about performance then you can obviously do things like debouncing anything that changes the style, or you could use a MediaQueryListListener to fire an event your JS listens to when a user crosses over a media query breakpoint.

While it'll be fun to manipulate CSS properties using JS values, it doesn't seem necessary.
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There is a mistake in your calculation - the nominal DGP of the world is around $77.609 trillion which is $10,857 per capita. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy. Rich people really own the majority of wealth and the rest really is the 99% (Please note I am not saying that communism or idiocracy is a solution)
Created by the DLPAJ on December 1st, the report contains all the police measures that the police (and maybe French military, "gendarme"?) wish to see included in two bills currently being debated: one on the state of emergency and the other on anti-terrorism.
My money is on Ukrainian based on the handle. (Slovak would be a candidate too but less of a fit for "many programmers, etc")
The post from 1997 assumes /var/log is not vulnerable tampering; assumes that the syslogd or access to the socket or port it's writing to is not vulnerable to compromise; and assumes that all signifcant programs write to a log.

The world is much more familiar with UNIX in 2015; I trust that today no one would rely on /var/log.

My approach would be to look at periodic memory dumps and look for anomalies there.

And not to rely on the integrity of utilities stored the system that you are analyzing.
Well that escaladed quickly
And this is the left in power. It's going to get worse when the right and the extreme right get their turn.
Few if any things correlate better with crime than the population of young men.

Not that any but a 1st half of the 20th Century progressive would be happy with the possible mechanism you mention.
Maybe a bit offtopic, but could you elaborate on why you think infinite growth in a finite world is possible?

You addressed labor cost, but it is only (the easiest) one amongst several variables. You have effectively changed Porter's claim into: "... exponential growth can go on forever in an ever expanding world..." where your only concern is how to make economy grow faster than population.

Look at your China example. If the root cause of the one-child-policy were a hard biological fact of the human species - i.e. like if women would become sterile after their first successful pregnancy - instead of, well... policy, how would the Chinese government would respondo to the "expensive retirement-age cohort where people are living longer"? Follow the West model and invest in automation whenever feasible? Extend retirement age to 80+? Try to produce a genetically engineered a race of labourers with enhanced chances of having twin (or higher) pregnancies? Gun down the elderly, weak or disabled, and turn them into soylent green? The posibilities are many, but none come without hard tradeoffs and costs, and the ethical dilemas are head spinning.
There are many D3 wrappers for quick starting D3. dc.js is a good one.
How is that different than Zeno's Paradox?
I don't check HN on the weekends. Didn't know it was frontpaged. As such, I'm gonna just assume that "interesting" was genuine and not sarcastic -- have a good day!
Tablets are just the next step in replacing teachers with their exorbitant $40K salaries with half that number of $10/hr babysitters, so more money can be funneled to the companies providing the curriculum and testing.
Problems with Venus:

* Acid atmosphere and extreme winds

* No easy surface access -> No on-site resource extraction

* No magnetic field -> more radiation

* Larger delta-V requirement for a round trip

* We have no launch systems built for a launch while suspendend in the atmosphere

* Low water content

* Much less signs that suggest previous habitability (hence Mars is more interesting)