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Wouldn't spraying water into air with sulfur oxides just create acid rain?
Euler's Identity is often explained in terms of mysterious language as well. Like, e^i*pi = -1 makes a lot more sense when you consider the exponential function as "proportional growth", i as "sideways", and pi as "halfway around a circle" - all Euler's Identity does is rephrase "going halfway around a circle" in terms of continuous and proportional sideways growth.
Serious question: Was that really a serious question?
> Why aren't the coal-burning energy utility companies paying for them, out of pocket?

Because no-one has the power to make them, I think. If it's easier (and probably cheaper) to take measures to address the problem yourself than it is to force compliance, then that's the sensible way to go.
Alternate title: "I analyzed 48 SaaS pricing pages, and quoted someone off of Quora."
Not too relevant, but Firefox has gotten significantly slower in my computer in the past few versions, to the point that I will most likely switch to Chrome again. I barely have any extensions and it's never been slower than what I have now.
"It is well known that Santa lives in Korvatunturi, Finland."

Thank you.
Paid you a great compliment in my main comment. This...

"a% of b = b% of a?"

Seems like a bit of a cheat as it's too obvious. I did 25% of a 100 to keep it simple as we use quarters and dollars a lot. Also can visualize it as a rectangle or stack of boxes that I take one chunk out of. Maybe use word "whole" or phrase "all of" for 100% to make 2nd part more obvious. I took a chunk out of all of that stack. All of this chunk equals the chunk I took. See? Too obvious. Stay on the harder shit like e, trig, etc.

"Trig functions (sine, cosine, tan, etc.) are actually themselves percentages. A sine of .95 means you are at 95% of your maximum height (where the max is the hypotenuse)."

Boom! Excellent example. I understood it almost entirely in equations back when I did it. Outside of some examples with trees and stuff we rarely got to sit on what the terms mean. So, let's see if I follow that.

So, a sine of 0.95 is like putting a protractor on a picture of a right triangle and marking a chunk of it that goes 95% to the top of that? If I did it visually, that is. Looking up the other two's definitions I found someone already did the visual thing I was attempting although not quite there yet in presentation (see pictures w/ angles):

http://www.mathsisfun.com/sine-cosine-tangent.html

SO, if we do it visually on those pics, does the percentage the sine represents start as a line coming from bottom-right to hypoteneuse? And where do the other two start? Or is my intuition screwing with me? ;)
> I'm not even sure that printers where ever that great. Printers seems like devices that sort of peaked 40 years ago. Since then they have gradually decreased in quality. Printing 1000+ pages a day seems to be a little much to ask from many printers, they simply wear out to quickly. The whole process of looping paper around inside something that fits on a desk (sort of), combined with cheap plastic parts is a receipt for disaster.

If you get an old LaserJet they're industrial beasts. But no-one wants to pay money for a printer, so we end up with two markets: the very expensive, but good, professional printers, and the domestic horrible printers.

If you're printing 2 reams a day you can afford to invest in a decent printer.

> Why are there even multiple trays, we only ever need to print on standard A4 paper?

You only need that. A bunch of offices need to print on A4, and C5 envelopes, and sometimes A5 and sometimes on labels.
welcome to open sores, where eggplant emoticons get you banned from github and Furfox values hipster node.js developers more than the original core, c++ devs
That might explain why even naughty children get presents from Santa every year. MongoDB.
This might be a stupid question, but if they're using their own values, wouldn't this have triggered issues during a FIPS assessment?

ScreenOS has been FIPS-140 validated a couple of times in the last 10 years...
The turbopumps that pump fuel into the main engines are basically mini rocket engines. They even contribute a small amount of thrust. So it's possible that the rocket could be redesigned so that the center return/hover engine could also be a fuel pump for the outer ring of main engines. However, this introduces a single point of failure for the main mission of launching payloads.
In this case I'm skeptical. SIZE_MAX may trigger integer overflow, but smaller values are still potential buffer overflows. It would have to be a rather contrived or pathological case in order for the integer overflow to be exploitable.

That, and programs shouldn't be using strncpy or strncat anyway, at least 99% of the time.
> Enterprise customers just want to buy. Jason says
> that price doesn’t matter for enterprises. More than
> 80 percent of the time, they just want to get set up
> with a solution as efficiently as possible. Price
> comes after features.

That's ... misleading.

Software is often not just purchased by an enterprise all at once. More frequently, some team with a small budget decides it would be useful to use tool X. Someone with a company card is put upon to purchase a license for the 5 people in the team. Other teams get interested, and start using it. Costs get to the point where it needs to be sent to procurement, at which point, it becomes an enterprise software deal. But it didn't start that way - it started with some small team who are price sensitive trialing it...
Presumably, they have some preexisting database that maps email addresses to personal information. Their Privacy page, however, is not transparent how exactly they got this data:

> Broadly speaking, we collect information in three ways: (1) when you provide it directly to us, (2) when we obtain information about you or your company through trusted third parties or indexing systems, and (3) passively through technology such as “cookies”.

This is a disconcerting use of "secret sauce," particularly since email addresses have the same weight nowadays as usernames.
Me too. I was even a math geek but didn't understand most of it. I knew all the rules for equations plus heuristics for how to apply most of them. I can only imagine how much more effective I'd have been if there was a constant, parallel learning process focusing on intuitive understanding of all foundational concepts in various math branches.
Next year maybe... :-)
Actually, not better. Just "Not worse." The struts that were manufactured to spec were fine. The problem was with struts that weren't up to spec.
I agree. Here's a sample (first paragraph from this article):

Silicon Valley, which is known for putting whole
industries on notice, has quietly killed the design
agency. Or have they? While Silicon Valley isn't afraid
to eat its children, it's also thinking an internet
generation ahead as it produces hit after hit. So with
chaos comes clarity, then chaos. It's a cycle. Until
the next innovation.

There's more plot twists in this para than Christopher Nolan on Ritalin.
> Over the coming years the decline will come to eventually wrestle Firefox out of Mozilla's hands and into a normal open source project.

Please fork it.
Real serious question: this is a Christmas Fool joke?
I was hoping to say "or I'm one of the x% of people in the world that doesn't believe in Santa" -but I entirely failed to work out what percentage of the populus that actually is; Christianity was my fallback stat.

Whilst googling for that nonsense I did find a buzzfeed article [1] claiming that 43% of Americans believe in Santa and that 32% agree that "it's a verifiable fact that Santa Claus was white".

Wowzer... well, seems like it's time for me to get my coat, fill the pockets with bricks and try and imitate Jesus on a large body of water...

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/war-on-christmas-pol...
No, you're allowed to use your own values.

Also: FIPS validation isn't particularly meaningful. It's not like a serious crypto assessment.
India's pollution is as bad, if not worse: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/02/india-v...
Interestingly, I've discovered over the last few days that Christianity in the uk doesn't seem big in to Santa.

The few openly Christian people I know have all told their kids (4yo) that Santa isn't real. That's kinda ruined it for our kids.

Not judging, but I find it astoundingly hypocritical to dismiss one made up figure while religiously worshiping another!
I had never heard of quantum hacking, so went looking for more information. A !wiki search turned up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution#Quantu... . Do you know of any better / more comprehensive, layperson-accessible discussion?
I don't think that meets any of the three criteria:

> Not as noticeable to bystanders. Much more passive approach that can be maintained for as long as necessary.

> Not as likely to get the police called on you.
Well, I think there's a pretty solid argument for Santa being a stand-in Jesus, at least in our current conception of him. You're punished for evil and rewarded for nice and he's watching you all the time?

My understanding from listening to some guy on the radio, almost certainly on NPR, is that's a fairly modern conception. It's like they couldn't put the Christ back into Christmas, so they shoehorned St. Nick into Christ instead.
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It's for dust control, which is one source of the problem. Maybe not so much in Beijing.
So if there are idle connections in the pool, and a client asks for a connection, the library still tries to open a new connection?

And when it gets the pooled connection a few cycles later, it marks the new connection that is still being opened to be 'given away', which presumably means added to the pool?

Am I missing something?
My theory is that it's a problem with the very nature of "news" with human psychology.

In short it's that The News is about sensation, what's new, what's uncommon. It's not essential for any of us to read the news every day ultimately. If someone important happens we will hear from it on our other channels incidentally. I suspect that none of us actually enjoy reading the news or watching tv news.

So - a news startup which needs mass appeal to take off has to appeal to all the same users that currently consumes news, right? But, given the opportunity on the internet people tend to avoid the normal sensationalist news if they are getting it somewhere else, why should I want to go to a news aggregator?

I believe there to be the disconnect because it's about targeting the mass market - but it seems as if more niche sites with niche audiences tend to be more successful.

I also suspect that news aggegrators pitch by saying "look at all this news! See how many sources the news comes from! Witness how our solution makes it easier to consume" without addressing why someone consumes the news.
Windows does run on everything. It won't run plain old Intel Win32 binaries on everything, with good reason.

UWP is hardly a new standard. It's the continuation of the Windows Phone/Windows 8 APIs and WPF, which dates back to 2006.

I think the biggest issue is that on Win32 both code and developers are much, much more powerful. You can't make Steam for UWP, or an IDE, or something like AutoCad with its plugin support. Other than mobile support, there is little reason to use UWP over Win32 (perhaps with WPF).

A shame, because we really need to move on from Win32.
My biggest struggle was math for the same reasons. I had a lot of teachers that emphasized the memorization aspect of it. Thankfully, my math teachers got progressively better throughout my high school years or I'm not sure I would have made it through calculus at the university.

I probably would have struggled through history if I hadn't had an abnormal interest in subject. Two of my favorite things to read when I was bored were encyclopedias and reading ahead in my school history book. Guessing that probably helped me with lessening the struggle of memorizing history facts.
Isn’t it a little bit strange that the paper itself is writing about this, and presenting it as if it was a serious news story instead of a shameless plug for itself?

I can accept this for small, local papers, but this seems ludicrous.
> The human eye is a camera; the only real difference between your eye and your Canon is in material composition.

I think that another important difference is that Canon-recorded images can be stored, archived, and consulted indefinitely, and by anyone, whereas human-recorded images cannot.
Also, what kinds of attacks are they trying to catch here? The bullet points in the article seem like phishing scams. Phone verification doesn't seem like it would do much since a sophisticated adversary has probably also compromised the phone network as well.
I think you're overly optimistic with that estimate -- we'll have "driver assist" cars in 3 - 5 years that can navigate most roads in normal conditions, but will still need the driver to step in from time to time to help with unexpected conditions.

10 - 20 years is more likely for true self-driving cars that can operate completely without human control.
Love slate, switched to it after ShiftIt went unmaintained a few years back, though it looks like ShiftIt is back in active development. Slate config is really nice, you'll feel at home if you are used to setting up vim or tmux configs.
Are 'naughty' and 'nice' slated to be recognized conditions in the DSM-VI?
I think it would safer and more prudent to move away as quickly as possible from fossil fuels as primary fuel sources.
Yeah, the e article is awesome. Cleared up a lot of cobwebs in my brain..
This might make a good "show HN" post, if you are looking for feedback.
I think that's the minority of most Enterprise software deals, though. Typically it's sold to someone completely removed from the process (e.g., ServiceNow being sold to the CTO).
No. The lisp family is a real thing. They all share homoiconic syntax, singly linked lists as a primary data structure, and most of them support syntactic extension through macros.

While the validity of some of my examples may have been questionable, how is Plan 9 C not in the C family? and just TRY to compile ANSI C on a P9C compiler without significant modification.
So again, who are the bad guys because all three of those groups are responsible for such activities.
And by the time its reached procurement, price doesn't matter - they just want to buy.
Hacking with refugees
Thanks for the heads-up, and sorry about that. Was this on Safari? Removed smoothscroll.js. Is it working better now?
Windows 10 Mobile review: Windows on phones gets rebooted. Again
I can't reply to BuildTheRobots below, but the white Santa thing begins to get a little dark if you dive in. Black Peter and Saint Nicholas are where you start. Edit: I may be too harsh on the racism thing, but I'm not certain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
Yes, that's what I said. The parent was confused because previously he saw this book posted at the link I provided, and hadn't made the connection that the OP's link is the same.

Edit: when I said "this book" I was referring to the book linked to by the URL from the OP.
That is absolutely amazing. It reminds me of this table (though that's not really a woodworking project, more of a metal working project that is clothed in wood):

http://fletchertables.com/
I've felt the same, especially with the developer tools, but I started using Firefox developer edition, and it seems much, much faster, so I'm sure improvements are coming.
... Well, you can pass a string to exec into a command. in fact, unix has its own map like command based on this. It's called xargs.
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They may (or may not) be willing to pay in principle, but that principle is untested because they can access the content for free. Value is not equal to the price you pay, but the maximum price you would pay, if you had no other options.
"451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons"

I'm maybe more hopeless than you.
What about his commercial pilot license?
Yeah, of course you can get eye damage from a 1W laser. That article was specifically talking about class IIIa lasers which are 5mW or less.

Anything sold legally in the US as a "laser pointer" is going to be class IIIa.
Oh I would love one of these. That is a desk with panache.
The problems faced by Greece are from a lack of monetary sovereignty, but to equate it as somehow being like a gold standard simply on locus of control alone sounds more like a political talking point than anything else.
Working at a public university I can say the recent move towards "contact us" pricing without including ANY pricing information has led to us not being able to look at many products. The way it works in my state is unless the vendor is already licensed with the university I'm not allowed to contact the vendor except to get a quote. If you start to give me a sales pitch asking questions about needs I am going to cut you off and hang up because its illegal for me to work with the vendor prior to an agreement in place. If your product is over 25K then I have to conduct an RFP which then means your company gets to make a pitch on paper and good luck convincing your product that I want is better than no name product I've never heard of from Oracle/IBM because they can undercut you because procurement has no clue what features/setup costs will be additional in their product that isn't in yours. They just go with what is cheaper.

On the other hand you give me up front on your website 1 user pricing I can take that public information and multiply it by the number we need, send it up the chain, make a convincing argument for sole sourcing, and then you will suddenly look like heroes with procurement because they were able to get it "so much cheaper" because I just multiplied what it cost for 1 * 30,000 (e.x.: number of students).
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I was on reddit pretty early on when it was mostly programming links and PG essays. There was a submission announcing "Startup News" and I clicked it and signed up. I searched to find the original announcement, this may be the first post:

https://www.reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_news_ycombinat...
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Very much this.

Successful product companies (usually) have a tight integration between "product" people, design, and engineering. Agencies, in my experience, prefer their design teams to be buffered from stakeholders via a PM. And the "stakeholders" are a very narrow segment of the team building the actual product. As an engineer, I struggled getting face-time with designers to work through challenges or things that were unaccounted for. Often times this was filtered through the design firms PM, who would maybe get back to me in a week or so. It was always an excruciatingly slow process and unless you were the one signing the checks it was like you did not have a voice.

Then there's the fact that agencies do not like something that's quite popular these days: Metrics-driven product development. I know certain "thought leaders" in the design community have made some sneering comments about this approach. Metrics don't exactly get me super excited, but if that's how your customers are working you should learn how to adapt and work with them.

I worked at two companies that made the transition from agency to in-house. Shortly after we brought on our first designer, productivity went up. We shipped stuff that made our customers happier than ever. Team morale improved. And it was cheaper. Win-win-win.
I'm not sure where that thinking ("...Enterprise customers just want to buy...") comes from. It happens a lot where I am asked to "come up with a plan, in broad strokes and ballpark figures, by Thursday" and if I can't come up with a cost for a service, I won't even consider it. I just don't have the time to spend to wait for a rep' to get back to me.
This is what happens when you let politics get in the way of programming. There is no evidence of a project that has not lost quality due to politics. Even GNU is often cited as being more complicated and bloated to its competitors. When the previews for Australis came out, I saw far ahead what it seems like no one else saw. I said that it would become something more locked down, reflecting the authoritarian attitude of hipster webdevs, which has been shown with the diminishing customization, and add-on signing. I said it would become a crappy rip-off of Chrome, which is what Australis made it. I said the good programmers would eventually be pushed out by webdevs who were not as good, and here Mozilla is making the Rust language, which is merely a crutch for people not good enough to use C++. So far all of my predictions have come true. There is still hope with Pale Moon, staying true to good design, however my message to you all is simple. Never let politics get in the way of quality software. Thank you.
Unless Santa has diversified rather far afield, I'm pretty sure his enterprise does not meet the definition of a Covered Entity[1].

[1] https://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_06.asp
People want to be reassured that they're doing the "right thing", that what they're doing is "correct" according to some external source of truth. It's no surprise that there's this much counterproductive parenting advice (even "praise effort, not results" is merely slightly less bad).

Anything other than "pay attention to the actual needs of the child" is probably the wrong direction to go. Like, if you try to praise effort instead of results, you're evaluating and judging things rather than searching for their needs. Seriously, though, stop reading and trying to follow parenting advice and pay attention to your goddamn child. Otherwise, you'll wind up doing the "right thing", praise effort, and fail to meet your child's actual needs until you've got a suicidal college student saying "well, it looks like I just didn't try hard enough."
> I [...] didn't say programming was, actually, the most creative.

Then you need to rephrase your question. In normal conversational English, "Is there any job more creative than programming?" implies that you consider programming to be the most creative job.

I think we should need to step back and define "creative" before we move on with this discussion. For me, being creative means doing things that have never been done in this way before. Writing a poem no-one has ever written, painting a picture no-one has ever painted, singing a song that has never been sung. The opposite of creativity is doing things "by the book". If I am just following a set of instructions, or applying a bunch of rules, that is not being creative.

Two examples: if I am cooking a meal from a cookery book, that is not very creative. But if I made the recipe up myself, it is. If I implement quick sort, that is not very creative - thousands of people have done it before me, there are plenty of instructions out there. On the other hand, if I come up with my own, original algorithm, that is being creative.

Being creative means exploring the universe of possibilities. The further away you get from the comfy planet of "it's-been-done-before", the more creative you are.
>You only need that. A bunch of offices need to print on A4, and C5 envelopes, and sometimes A5 and sometimes on labels.

I understand that. My point was that perhaps it would easier to build high quality printer dedicated to specific tasks. I would guess that the majority of printers in something like financial departs won't ever print on more than one type of paper.

Honestly I don't even feel that paying for the expensive printer, like high-end HPs, will get you above "okay". They still do weird stuff and the internal plastic parts will break easily.