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likely go find the committee it came from, however this bill is being crafted with the President's blessing. don't think the Democrats in Congress agree to anything that he doesn't. There may be times where you can "see that one didn't" but its the same on both aisles, when the bet is sure they can afford to allow members who need a boost back home to "act" defiant.

otherwise, the establishment gets what the establishment wants. Keep voting those incumbents back in and it will always be so. Hence one reason why the Republican Presidential side of the race is so interesting, those who aren't the system or are seen as bucking it are front and center. Sadly Bernie was quickly pushed to the side as there was never going to be a choice there
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I'm home shopping at the moment, and my mortgage broker told me that he noticed a large hike in mortgage rates, is that due to this announcement and that I should wait a few weeks before locking in a rate?
http://www.foodchainsfilm.com/

Watch this - and tell me whats cheaper, robots or mexican slaves.
Because as soon as you can get a risk free rate of return, (savings) then why would someone invest in a half brained start up that has a low probability of any return, when you could get a risk free return.

The FED has reduced interest rates to drive spending in startups, lending, housing market, and the stock market.

But don't worry, .5% is only a start, we have a ways to go before Unicorns start to starve.
increasing the minimum wage

Be careful what you wish for: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/how...

legislation increasing entitlements such as social security

Expected to run structural deficits by a certain point. Theoretically speaking, an endogenously determined fiat money system doesn't really have "government debt" what with it being the sovereign issuer of debt to begin with, but in reality politics and the economy don't exist in frictionless vacuums and there are political costs to pork barreling, logrolling, unsound investments and so forth.
> No, the equivalence you've drawn between long-term renters who happen to qualify for housing vouchers and people who stay for a few nights in a house while traveling is the illogical argument.

They are both groups of people who some folks wish to exclude as neighbours, and others wish to include as neighbours, in both cases presumably based on desirability or undesirability qua neighbours.

I've explained my reasoning (which is that I think short-term renters are more likely to be of a similar social class as their neighbours than are those who qualify for housing vouchers, and that I view local class homogeneity as a social good); it's hardly illogical, although you are of course free to disagree with it.
Trying to speed up binary search
Europe is made of many independent countries with different regulations and different operators.

In France it's €30 for triple-play, €20 for Internet only, but less than 50% have access to optical fiber. For more than half it's still ADSL. It works great if you live close to the telephone exchange, otherwise it can be very slow.
So could the holographic principle be stated as "the number of bits in a volume is bound by the enclosing area and reaching that bound converts the volume into a black hole"?
>the one who has built it admits that he has no idea what it is doing

When did he do that?
To be honest, if I'd make a language, I would make something like C++, break backward compatibility with C, but just much simpler and more beginner friendly.

No templates, but standard maps, sets, arrays. Both compiled and interpreted. No virtual functions. Clean, simple syntax close to C, but with all the nicer stuff C++ brought along, like lambdas.

C++ is industrial-strong, but sometimes it seems it's not taught because it's too expert, in favor of java or C# while C/C++ is the language that should be taught.

I don't understand languages like rust and go which introduce a non trivial new syntax. Why not keep the C flavor ? I don't see how people are going to adopt languages like that. There should be a statically compiled language which has the same philosophy of python.
> 1. That is a rather idealistic view of the world. Standards are typically set by committees comprised of multiple parties, and all entities have an agenda. Sometimes its self-interest, sometimes it's just something like "all things being equal, we prefer doing things this way", but it undoubtedly influences the outcome.

Certainly; however, making any such change needs to come with arguments that convince others and drive towards consensus, rather than political machinations to manufacture consensus.

When someone proposes a change software project, they doubtless have some reason for proposing that change. However, projects don't typically pay attention to reasons like "we need this change to support our product", or "this makes our internal processes easier", or "without this change our business model collapses". And they certainly don't accept arguments like "if you ignore what's wrong with this patch, I'll [insert reciprocation here]". A change has to come with arguments for why it's the right thing for the project, not just why it's the right thing for the person proposing the patch.

> 2. Regarding OOXML, maybe the actual problem could be stated as, "the vast majority of the world's official documentation is in a proprietary format and we want to make it open in a way that doesn't inconvenience the millions of users of the existing files, because otherwise nobody would use the new format." Regardless of whether there were dirty politics, what would the best solution to that look like?

Treat the old binary document format and representation as the legacy format it was, without giving it a veneer of "standardization". Add features and capabilities to the existing ODF standard, rather than creating a new competing one; likewise, in the various sub-formats, pay attention to existing standards rather than inventing new ones. Migrate to that format as the native format, not just as an export mechanism. Discourage people from saving in the old binary formats. Provide the rendering engine and parsing code of the old office suite as an Open Source library to handle legacy documents. Provide migration tools that actually cross-check things like pagination with the legacy document renderer, to confirm the fidelity of the conversion; collaboratively improve those tools until they achieve maximum fidelity on all available documents. Then, people can migrate new or edited documents with reasonable fidelity, get perfect fidelity for historical documents, and interchange documents with no compatibility issues.

That would not necessarily serve the goals of any one office suite vendor, but it would help move the world's documents to an open, standard, interchangeable format.
I agree that the first question is a very interesting one. I would be interested in the answer myself.

I made it clear however that I was going to answer a different question: did the Julia team wrote Python benchmarks the best way for Python?

That's all what the post is about: how to run Python code faster.

I will need way more Julia experience to be able to even think about answering the first question. The only thing I am 100% sure is that these micro benchmarks do not help answering that question.
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Sign of the times I guess.
You assume it's for safety, but it's more likely to be a case that the car can't handle at all and simply stops.

For instance, if there's some kind of minor obstruction, a human may decide to drive over it or go into the oncoming lane or get out and pick it up or follow an officer's instructions.
> ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way)

No, it hasn't

> simplistic component based approach.

"Simplistic"

> Unlike React, Google does not really treat Angular as a first-class citizen because they have such split focus and conflicting React like library for web components called Polymer. They provide some resources, but nowhere near the amount of resources that Facebook throws behind React and React Native.

Facebook does one thing. Google does many things.
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The same thing is happening all over the industry. Things are growing organically in all kinds of directions, new technologies appearing at a rate and order of magnitude higher that anything that was happening 10 years ago. It is making it much harder to say current and the net benefit (so far) appears to be negative (I still can't believe that node.js made this terrible untyped language take over the world). I am hoping something good comes out of this, but it is certainly not the nice and cozy industry we knew and loved 10-15-20 years ago. Oh well, it too will pass.
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> Who is the credentialing agent for your name?

Legally, the State, who go so far as to issue official documents indicating one's legal name.

In some jurisdictions it is perfectly legal to assume additional names, of course.
How do you suggest a formally agreed-upon compromise without merging two separate topics into one bill?
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Although my epilepsy is well-controlled, a breakthrough seizure is still a possibility. An app like this could really help me out of a tough spot. Cheers to you for building it!

For many patients, it's important to record how long their seizures last - to escalate/911 if needed, and also after the fact to aid diagnosis and treatment. I could see this app playing a role there too. After the event, the Pebble might prompt the wearer/responder whether to log it as a seizure, which would (mostly) automate the seizure log recommended by Epilepsy Society.
"Built a self driving car" set the bar way too high for what this guy did
Facebook partners with Uber for ride-hailing service via Messenger app
It means staying on a set course. Not the same thing, right?
With all due respect, just ask any fat cat on Wall St. about the Fed or the role of central banks in the economy and he would assert that those institutions are essential for the global economy to function correctly and they are really upapologitically capitalists and they wear the label as a badge of honor.
I assumed you meant behaviorism, but used your words. Behaviorism is bunk.
You don't, you just knit new ones, download the pattern, do a little programming, solder some electronics and configure your remote and VOILA! New SOCKS!
I can't speak for all of them but I'm up at 3-4 ever day because work starts at 4 and I have two non consecutive days off so on my days off if I sleep in I can't get back to sleep early enough that night. Which means that yeah on my days off I'm waking up and leisuring by 4 am.
This will have an impact on the flow of money to VC's, which will have an impact on the flow of burnable cash to unprofitable startups. No more $1.5 million rounds for apps like Yo [1] (the investor community should be embarrassed and horrified that this kind of thing was getting financed anyway).

Winter is indeed coming for those that don't have a business model, and that's a good thing.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/yo-raises-15-million-at-a-5-1...
Mail them the data; its surprisingly efficient.
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For what it's worth, w.r.t. your first point you can get part of the way there by creating a .npmrc in your project with "save-exact=true". Even if it doesn't protect you from higher order dependencies that violate semver, it will peg all saved dependencies to an exact version (even by other engineers). But alas, even that sometimes doesn't give you any guarantees with the (albeit rare) force publish. Better than nothing, though.
Recruitment scheme?
So if I delete my YikYak account today will I still be employable in the future?
Nobody created anything great by first fully appreciating the size and difficulty of their endeavor. I would say, underestimating a problem, and overestimating one's skills are crucial to innovation and progress.
Using my legal name means that my family, that stalks and harasses me, can easily find me and use it as a medium for continuing to do so. Changing my legal name means that I would have to contact at least a dozen other entities which can be more or less as psychologically draining as the court process. Atop that, they have in the past hired sleezy private investigators which have pulled info from credit agencies so they could find and harass me. By being pseudonymous, I avoid all of those issues.

Additionally, pretty much everyone I interact with knows me by my "fake" name. Forcing me to switch to that would result in a lot of friends not being able to find me. Yes, if you grew up in a "typical" family you don't have these issues, but there are a lot of people who have damn good reason for not wanting to have another outlet for people to continue abusing us.
I cost justified a tesla that way. How much I spent on gas gong to mountain view, plus time in the carpool lane, but time I rent it in getaround. Blah Blah Blah. Doesn't mean it is right or worth it.
NASA budget increase
Look, its just that it's all so complex. These must be emergent phenomena of something deeper - otherwise you have a universe which pops into existence fully formed with these particular properties, this particular family of particles and forces. These experiments are a bit like 3d scanning a tree in millimeter detail and then declaring that you have a perfect knowledge of trees. Don't get me wrong this is very important stuff, we need this knowledge to find the underlying systems. But it creates a degree of philosophical unease in the sensitive individual. For me it seems necessary to say that if this universe is all that exists, it must necessarily exist from first principles. My hunch is that what we are seeing is the population dynamics of all possible systems of interacting elements - or atleast a tiny little piece of it.
What is this going to do to interest payments on the national debt? Will this put a squeeze on spending? Cause tax increases? Or will it be business as usual and the fed buy as many bonds as needed?

In the latter case, I think that will cause inflation to pick up unless we can export it all out the trade deficit.
Assortative mating is returning to Gilded Age levels
, servant walking 20 paces in front carrying red flag.
Although you're not wrong. Excel is the killer app.
Word is ALSO the killer app for heavy lifting writing papers etc. It's the program I suffered the least in during my uni years, and I tried them ___ALL___.

As an investment analyst for VC, I also need to make A LOT of powerpoint presentations. Not a lot of slides, but I need to convey complex points in a short amount of slides. This makes me push Powerpoint to its limits and it also comes with no REAL competition elsewhere, I've tried __every alternative__. Nothing comes close to the robustness of MS Office, unfortunately.
Any examples of programs which has started out as an app in an app store, and then expanded into an app store of its own, and then the app store had swallowed the original app store?
They're "capitalists" as long as they have a thumb on the scale, but they're not really capitalists who would cheer a true free market in currency.
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This is the exact wrong idea. Frankly, consumer-ready self-driving cars should be prohibited from changing into "manual mode" without a user request. And the manufacturer should be liable for an at-fault accident in auto-drive mode. Until these conditions can be satisfied, self-driving cars are simply not ready for prime time.

The proposed rule will lead to proliferation of shoddy "99%" software designed around an expectation that a human can take over at a moment's notice. But humans don't work that way, so any such exceptional condition will likely result in a crash. The only acceptable failure procedure for a self-driving car is to stop.
Legitimate: yes. Worthy of concern: absolutely not.
I argue my ideas only need to hold water for another 10-30 years, depending on if technology advancement keeps up.

Japan's been running structural deficits for decades, and still has a very high quality of life.

> but in reality politics and the economy don't exist in frictionless vacuums and there are political costs to pork barreling, logrolling, unsound investments and so forth.

As basic minimum income solves this without the messy politics surrounding it.
You missed the pun opportunity...

This is pretty darn awesome! (Darning socks?)

:)
Trying to find the proof of abrkn's theorem
I am really, really interested in the work your team did. Do you have links to your body of work that I could sift through?
Agree, but I'm sure Musk has a tremendous amount of respect for Hotz not only turning down millions to forge his own path, but also for simply executing. Hotz is putting his money where his mouth is and that is something Elon has a lot of first hand experience with.
If consumers don't have the money to purchase the goods/services they desire, nothing is going to happen.
Maybe it's because fitness is a good 'safer' arena to enter and test sensors and algorithms before jumping straight into medical devices.. especially considering how the FDA feels about such devices.
75% joke; 25% cool christmas present suggestion.
> It doesn't seem like you read her article. Or you don't understand the distinction between fine art and design.

Is this just a very convoluted way of saying that you disagree? The parent post addresses a point made in the article, and I don't see anything in it tackling the distinction between art and design in such a way that you could possibly infer the parent's grasp of it.

> Its not for the critic to work out the intentions of the artist / designer.

Yes it is, if the critic thinks that it is an important merit in judging the work. Sometimes in galleries the artist will write a blurb about their ideas and motivations or general background, and most designers work under circumstances where they have to justify their design choices to someone else, and if not, the critic might ask the artist/designer what they intended or suppose an intention. In both cases the intentions may as well be irrelevant if the work produces the desired effect.

The point that the parent post is making is that letting the intentions be knows is purely for the benefit of those interested in judging a work on other merits than those conveyed by the work itself. In design, that is usually totally beside the point. The purpose of a visual design is to convey some sort of information, and that information usually isn't the intention itself (a classic counter-example is that of a button that says "Click here!"). As a designer I might produce a cluttered, ugly looking chart to convey the idea that the underlying data is really complex. As a work to be judged, that might be interesting to know, but as a design it might as well have fulfilled its purpose perfectly without ever explicitly mentioning it.
First I read "heavy boson" and thought that sounded kinda metal, so it would be cool if they named it that, but then I misread "whale boy", which is even better, so I'm calling it now. Next heavy higgs boson will be called Whale Boy.
> I would love someone knowledgeable to give an estimate, but I would guess you need at least a handful (10+?1000+?) of examples of each edge case (involving bicycles, pedestrians, weird road designs, street signs, and so on)

The problem is: there are new edgecases born every day.

Consider, for example, an accident where the cops have set up flares. How often do you come across one of those? Very rarely, I imagine. And even if you did come across it in your training set: how does the ML know that you are following the cops' signals, and not just randomly switching lanes? That the flares are a critical signal?
Netflix and heat?
CastAR will return $1M in Kickstarter money and postpone shipments
It's almost as if we need a "Congressional Versioning System" rimshot.

At least we're finally getting open bill status data as XML, without having to rely on GovTrack scraping the Federal Register.
It happens on Apple TV (previous generation) as well, but it seems to be consistent and it will do it after about 2 hours.
>I listen to a huge assortment of retrocomputing related podcasts

Interesting. I like to dabble a bit in retrocomputing in my free time (mainly older languages, some of which I've used before, others not). Looked at that list of podcasts. A majority seem to be for games, which I'm not much into - I only play a few, sometimes. Only a few, like "retro computing roundtable", seem like they may be about more general computing topics. Do you know if any others are?
But it does imply a disc, as in a circular thing. SSDs are very square looking discs...
> Can you imagine the horror?

About the same as something falls from the sky and crushes a child. Unlikely enough that I don't waste my time thinking about it. The self-driving cars are more cautious than in all situations and ceases to be a killing machine and acts like what it is. A transport device. Even with the possibility of error, I am supremely confident that a self-driving car is more competent than the average driver. The legislation is out of touch with reality, as usual.
Pretty big generalization there. There are 20+ CSU's and 10 UC's in California. You really going to paint 30 schools with such broad strokes in one state alone, plus the rest of the US?
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/lawmakers-have-snuck-cisa-i...
Back in the day (2000) I worked in a branch of Books, etc. A chain, mostly London based, with some airport branches, soon before their takeover by Borders.

When I started working there it worked like the current waterstones in a way, as we, at branch level, saw the publisher's reps and chose the stock for our branch. Only the big 3 for 2 promos came from head office... Then it all changed and we were left with stock that wouldn't shift - 20 copies of a Bjork book in a small branch in the City is an example I remember...

Then Borders took over thinking selling books is the same as selling baked beans. By then I was working in the head office getting more and more disillusioned... Honestly, I'm not surprised Borders went down as it tried to follow the B&N system of huge branches in out of town locations...
The only real space battle station so far
The fact that we can borrow at 3% for 30 years and we don't use this to invest in productive infrastructure assets is insane.
Maybe it's the closest to the Manhattan project or Apollo program that Europe has had.
Ask HN: What non-computer activities do you do?
For the past 2 years, I've been working quite a lot and didn't had time or mood for other activities. Even when doing something else, was often thinking about work. I realize that life goes by and more and more often I ask myself what's the purpose, why keep working?

Looking for inspiration: what non-computer activities do you do that captivate and fulfill you? Preferably with other people, as I already work alone.
For example, from my experience:
* walking in the park while listening to good sci-fi audiobooks
* running
* wall climbing (I gave up after a month, didn't like it that much)
* hiking (harder to find partners, plus I need to solve some emails even during weekend)
* tennis
* piano lessons

One thing that often turns me off is seeing others which do that activity for quite some time and are already good at it (I'm 35 years old), while I'm just starting and seem incapable in comparison.

Thanks so much.
I'm one of those people. Falling asleep on the couch under a big blanket, and waking up every hour or so to catch a few seconds of some Star Trek TNG is a pretty profound sort of comfort for me.

It reminds me of watching old James Bond marathons with my dad when I was a little kid, and falling asleep during them.
I currently pay for iKiteSurf and this could be a viable alternative if it's accurate. iKSurf does actually place miniature weather stations at kite beaches though, so it might be hard to match that accuracy.