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Undecidability is a consequence of the vast range of askable questions.

For practically any system you can come up with questions that have an answer that can't be computed in the generic case. It isn't even a case of number of possible solutions - it can be a case of how long it takes to parse the very question itself.
I'm not from Mumbai, but from Chennai and have worked in Bangalore. I do speak other languages, English is the one I'm most fluent in. I don't wear this as a badge of pride, it's just the reality.

I do agree that there could be a little bit of a cultural disconnect, accent could be an issue as well. Although it's surprising that those "fluent in English" would have no ideas about stress, intonation, etc but I digress. I wouldn't class myself as a native speaker, only one who is able to communicate properly with a native speaker.
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I think that maybe you should start from some fundamental questions like why one should at all want to write in a functional programming language (immutable data, pure functions etc, and perhaps you have to learn it first by yourself).

If your child already understands some OOP concepts like objects, classes, you could approach it from that perspective, that is, functions are special case of classes (and then explain why we want this). The whole Clojure language on top of JVM is built on this idea, so why not.
This is an interesting thought, but the same incentive exists in ad based revenue sites today, and I don't really see it getting worse. If anything, I'm going to be more careful to click on things I am more certain to find interesting - a bit more restraint will be involved.
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Me too, I prefer unity + auto-hide taskbar. At first there were some reservations until it got familiar, now anything else doesn't cut it. I hope they don't abandon it or change it drastically as is so often the way these things go.

Re Ubuntu, it helps that it works exceptionally well on anything remotely modern (6 year old PC here with SSD, won't be upgrading until it dies), and it is getting incrementally better with each release.
LOL - totally. However, their interface actually looked sexy compared to expensify. But epensify works and I can use it on desktop....that's the killer. The mobile app is awesome for capturing but I like desktop for putting together reports.

Ultimately - I believe in Expensify's VISION - which is to GET RID OF EXPENSE REPORTS!

That's why I'll stick with Expensify - and I'm now at my third company that I am bringing it into....that is how software expands its footprint. By excited users bringing it into new businesses.
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Check out WeChat. They have a lot of work to do, but they're basically embracing this idea of a universal language for all computing tasks.

In their case, it's centered around messaging but can cover a wide range of uses.
> Is there ever going to be a reason for people to move in the future?

Yes.

> It seems to me like it would be climate-based instead of for work as it was in the past.

There may be some point in the future where geography is irrelevant to economic prospects, but that's quite some way off still.

> What new industry is going to cause that many people to re-locate these days?

Even without new regionally concentrated industries (which may still occur and draw people in, but are hard to predict), the collapse of existing regionally-dominant industries will cause people to move for economic reasons -- maybe not all to the same place, but out from places experiencing that kind of collapse to places that aren't.
As a long time member of the Rust community (since the beginning of 2013), I don't see much improvement, if at all. I wonder why we have different perception of the issue.
A part of those chip's appeal was integrated GPUs. Not everyone wanted to buy discrete GPUs and Intel's own IGPs of early '00s were rather poor.
When you create an install, the system creates a WP admin account, and then has you reset the password using WP's built in password reset function. Any installs with an active "original" admin account need to be updated.

Your customer portal password (used to access all your intals/billing etc.) will also need to be reset.
He's a close second (Cruz is a distant 3rd) in the betting odds.

https://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-ie/betting/politics/us-presi...
Yeah, I skimmed it and it looks mostly wrong, and you explain the outside observables:

AMD created an utterly dominating lead in server space in 2004-5, continuing the P6 microarchitecture approach while the Intel NetBurst (Pentium 4) microarchitecture failed when it coincided with the end of Dennard scaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling it might have worked if they'd been able to make the 5-10 GHz parts on the roadmap).

Plus the per chip on chip local memory controllers and Hypertransport ccNUMA approach scaled much, much better than Intel's one front side bus (all CPUs hitting the same northbridge memory controller).

Then, from the outside, AMD just sat on its laurels, giving Intel enough time to get their act together from all their self-inflicted wounds and take advantage of their process lead. The K10 microarchitecture was late, and shipments had to be paused due to a nasty TLB bug which didn't help their credibility. Intel's QPI copy of the Hypertransport ccNUMA concept shipping a year, year and half later was probably the final nail in the coffin.
>In the same way that a parent getting angry can sometimes be more effective than a parent logically dishing out an appropriate punishment

There is no way to know if that statement is ever true.
It took long enough for the home page to load that I wondered whether it is broken. That's not a good message for a company that makes software tools. From a perspective of graphic design and branding it is pretty busy. As an immediate fix I'd use all logos from clients only in black and white and reserve the use of color for my own message. The generous use of gradients in logos creates an already dated look.
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Lots of money out there, but you can't make it by fixing your own needs and expecting that design to work for bigcorps. Really it's two different product spaces.

You need big money development, meaning big money firms. I'd just prefer to let them do it, and move on to some other promising niche. I'll develop my app for me, because no other app will do it the way I need it done, and not try to productize it, it's a waste of time.
How do I get one? What's the price on the tin?
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I think this is a good article, but I don't like it when someone uses just one experience to generalize about something as broad as whether someone should or should not build a mobile app.
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I used to work for a Y Combinator backed company as a full stack web dev when I was 15. I recently developed an iOS game as a weekend project. A few months ago I had a job offer from Twitter but they couldn't sponsor visa as I was under 18. Right now I am developing an iOS social dating app for a client. When I was around 9 - 10 years old, I started experimenting with linux which I very much enjoyed, so I decided to start a game hosting service that made me around $2k back then.

Now that the senior year of high school is approaching, I am starting to check out a few colleges. I really like Stanfords curriculum, so I am considering applying there. Any suggestions about any other university or college things I should keep in mind while applying to maximise my options?

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Totally agree, I'm planning a similar route as well (albeit at American institutions). It's sad how stereotypes affect others who don't necessarily conform to them.
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I wasn't think the US, particularly amongst the general population, particularly cared if the UK was invaded. There was strong anti-British sentiment, further boosted by the UK effectively defaulting on its WW1 war debts to the US, much of which came out of "ordinary" Americans' pockets.

:) "perl harbor", very HN typo ...
That's way better than my first thought (tur.bot)
I did say the top of the wing reduced a downward force, unlike the skipping stone theory. But, that's not lift.

Do you think individual air molecules are going to magically hold the top of the wing and pull?

Now, you can use an inaccurate model of what's going on. And mathematically it looks like the top of a wing provides lift. But, physically that's not what is happening.

PS: This is only an issue, because we think an aircraft as zero forces acting on it when it's sitting still on a runway. Instead of being under ~2100 pounds of force per square foot on all sides from air.
10% of the contributers are only known by username. It's not unreasonable to assume that those are disproportionally woman. The real gender ratio could be the same as the gender ratio of the industry overall.

In any case, with just 150 contributers it's hard to make any statistically significant statement.
As a related aside, this is why designers splash their logos all over clothing and accessories. The name and logo are protectable on their own, the rest of the "look and feel" of the article is not, but the whole article is protectable when combined.
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I have only recently begun running (18 months) and in that time I have completed multiple halfs, with my first full in January (actually a 2 day: half followed by a full). My goal is to beging doing the 5 day desert ultras.

To date it have been an interest learning experience/experiment.

I used to eat Paleo, without any exercise I was fairly ripped. I dropped Paleo a year ago to incorporate carbs, over the year I have gained 15-20 lbs due to change in diet, while my overall intake has remained about the same. I don't think this is unusual for new distance runner who don't change diets as generally runners will need to increase intake to the point it exceeds what people burn.

Training in tropical weather (Miami) I have run into the issue of heat stroke a few times. This is completely distinct from dehydration and pushes me to train at night.

I developed compartment syndrome and subsequently (thru trial and error) discovered a topical treatment that does not cure but prevents the symptoms. Whereas the only solution that appears anywhere online for this phenomenon is surgery. I would love the opportunity to formally test my topical treatment in an official clinical lab setting.

Diatance running no doubt has odd effects on the body (short term and longe term) but from the just based anecdotally on the hundreds of 60-70 years olds I see in these races who have been running for decades I think it's a good bet overall distance running has a net positive impact on quality of life.
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https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion exists, although more a parody of HN itself.
>Might be peanuts to them but it seems like an opportunity for some in-house streamlining to fully exercise dead properties.

That's the thing. It is peanuts. And it's peanuts that would probably be distracting from their primary focus.

Someone at $LARGE_COMPUTER_COMPANY once basically told me that, for them, if something wasn't going to be a billion dollar business, it wasn't interesting. Sure, something smaller might nominally have a positive ROI, but if you factor in the distraction/opportunity cost/etc., they just couldn't afford to deal with yet another $50 million revenue opportunity.
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If you want a guess, I guess "in 2016".
I definitely know more women involved in Rust than I did a year ago [EDIT: in percentage terms, as well as absolute numbers], but this might just reflect my own awareness rather than any greater trend. I don't have any non-anecdotal evidence. Actual surveys of Rust developers/users would be useful.

Also, most of the people I know in the Rust community now are now "users" of the language, rather than people working on the compiler/platform itself. (This wasn't true for me a couple of years ago.) My impression is that the Rust community as a whole is growing and changing much faster than the compiler/internal developer population.
Drupal 8 just dropped a couple weeks ago and will do everything you just listed out of the box. The code under the hood appears to be vastly more pleasant and interesting to work with than any other PHP CMS I know of, including previous versions of Drupal.
I like the new website, but the logo screams the old Zune logo[0], especially when it's animated in the intro feature.

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Zune_log...
Who do they reserve them for? Deep pockets?
That's an interesting perspective. "Natural selection" for future citizens.
Whelp, time to update my small constellation of Django-related FreeBSD ports! Good work, guys!
I have no opinion on the logos, but what's up with that intro? is this 2001?
Yes.[1] The rest of the internet has been there for a while now. Many high quality web applications utilize javascript frameworks to render the majority of the page. If you use NoScript today, you should be able to reasonably expect most of the web to be broken and not lament it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JavaScript_libraries#W...
How long is "long"? What sort of time would we be talking about for 100KLOC projects?
To expand on what jordigh said: all these sorts of undecidability problems depend on a formal infinity. One of the infinities in this model (not sure if it's the crucial one) is that the Hamiltonian system is infinitely large in space. Finite systems, like the ones in the real world, don't have this problem.

These kind of results can sometimes be clarifying to help theorists who are deep in these abstractions from going down rabbit holes (e.g., by trying to construct an algorithm that always determines whether a system is gapped), but physical implications of this result are slight at best.

Toby Cubitt is a really smart guy and I congratulate him on the Nature paper. However, the attention this gets from the public is mostly because the paper manages to call on a bunch of sexy ideas in one place without (I think) actually adding anything profound. It's possible I'm missing something.
I'll take a look at it, thanks.
One of the overriding constraints on these sorts of video pipeline tasks is touching the input pixels as few times as possible. Every lossy transformation you do (cropping, scaling, color correction, transcoding) potentially introduces defects; and that's assuming that your lossless transformations (repackaging container formats, for instance) are bug-free.

I'd love to see some figures from Netflix' QC team; I bet at their scale they see all kinds of insane edge case problems.
I played No One Lives Forever 1+2 and its spinoff (Contract Jack) again in 2014. They are still superb games and run fine in Win7 x64 1080p.

Sadly, such long (40+ hours) single player first person shooter games that offered a innovative gameplay, very good story and humour are a thing of the past.

New games that focus on gameplay and learn why Deus Ex 1 and No One Lives Forever 1 were such outstanding games, would be great. But such games can only be created when creative game designers are let alone with enough cash, and no business people in sight.
Exactly. For example, two-letter .de domains are far more expensive than normal ones – which is how DB and VW got theirs.
I'm going to put in the lonely voice of support for the new design.
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A lot of people are talking about touch-screen support.

We don't want to dash anyone's expectations, but the release notes do advise: "your Apple Watch is sadly unlikely to provide a very good django CMS editing experience."
A great example of nominative determinism.
I wonder what's the price of ro.bot going to be.

EDIT: I should have read the rest of the comments before posting this.
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> So excuse me for having a hard time finding those old-school feminists that talks about equal rights. The only time I saw one was in a opinion piece a year ago where equal rights was described as the "old" feminism movement, and I saw a lot of hatred directed at her rather than support in the comments.

That was my point: the people most active in online discussions do not necessarily represent a majority view. They are simply the most vocal. Talk to people around you - family, friends and coworkers. Does a significant proportion of them share these beliefs?

The people most likely to comment on matters like this in online discussions are people with extreme opinions on them.

I cannot comment on the swedish initiative as I'm not familiar with it.
This article skirts around the critical point that these are not actually refugees. They may have started their journey as a refugee, escaping some horrific conditions in their home country.

But then, they traveled through many European safe countries where they could (legally, should) have applied for asylum. And yet, they deliberately chose not to for whatever reason. Now that they are in Calais, they choose to stay there instead of applying for asylum in France. A refugee has no choice but to flee from where they are. These folk have had a choice for as long as their journey, and continue to do so as long as they are in France.

Side note: I do volunteer work for Syrian refugee children. There is a serious refugee problem in Europe, but this is not one of them. The UN quite rightly does not spend its limited resources here.
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"the product didn't seem like compelling standalone option but that would have done well as part of a larger solution"

The new approach as a Slack bot addresses that issue precisely. Lots of useful things aren't a compelling standalone solution. Slack bots and other in-messenger apps mean this kind of software can become part of a larger overall experience.

Don't know if Birdly will make it but their argument here is onto something.

https://www.getbirdly.com/
Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla by the LGBT movement because he supported this: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
You must not have seen Matthias Wandell make a vacuum cleaner using wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBxFNUWD2GQ.

Motors are everywhere if you look for them. I pulled one recently out of a garbage disposal that stopped working but the motor was still fine (some seals gave out and slicer was damaged as well).
I have tried omnisharp with every editor I can think of (Vim, Emacs, Atom on Ubuntu) and have never gotten it to work correctly, so I've given up. Maybe never is a strong word.. I think I had it working for a week until a new version broke it again.
>LGBT celebrates its differences. It welcomes everyone. It is open minded and tolerant.

While I find them more tolerant on average, this is not true of the entire group and they do not welcome everyone.

>Domestic violence. It's repeatedly reported as a man thing

Haven't recently studies found that lesbian couples are the most violent and among heterosexual couples the violence is far more equal than public perception?
But VS code has project support and debugging integration AFAIK.

That's the kind of things that really set IDE vs editor in terms of usability.
Yeah the master/slave thing pisses me off. They are words in the dictionary used to describe something and that is all.
Oh, I agree there are more women involved, but I attribute that to greater popularity of Rust. What I don't see is change in relative number, not absolute number.
I haven't yet watched your linked video fully but at 8:00 he mentions they used ffmpeg in 2013:

https://youtu.be/tQrsz3BrfwU?t=480
> While moral codes are often a huge part of religions they are also a huge part of other groups of society, such as animal rights groups, labour unions and even criminal organisations.

Very true indeed, but I think that religion still deserves particular attention because it's the most prominent institution that promotes believing claims without evidence as a virtue, in particular in the area of morality, which paves the way for others promoting their equally insupportable claims. Religion is the major obstacle that prevents people from understanding that what is moral is a scientific question that has just as much an objectively correct answer as the question whether jumping from a tall building will increase your well-being or not.
There's two components to this. I just asked the relevant people, they said "Six months is a safe guess, we hope sooner, we have ambitious plans, we'll see."

However, there's also something mentioned in this announcement: cargo-check. In terms of the "I'm building a project and I don't want my builds to be slow," I think that cargo-check might even be more important. cargo-check relies on an important insight: many times, when you're compiling, you don't actually care about producing a binary, you care that your code passes typechecking and other passes. cargo-check basically runs those things, and doesn't produce the final binary. Makes sense?
I heard about WeChat a long time ago, but I've done some research about them just the other day and I was amazed by the array of services and use cases they manage to cover.

I'm not a big fan of the way it's implemented (it's like nested web-based mini-apps), but it's much better than anything we have here in the West.
Hmmm... I would like it if Adobe hadn't already taken that "periodic element" icon style. But even then, the older icons were far more clear.
broadcast access is as cheap as the outrage it feeds.
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