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Just to be precise, while his feat is incredible, you can't really make this correlation with the WR in 200m (any age), and even less use the absolute difference. The main reason is that the pool of people able to participate is way smaller as age increases.

Also, you are using outdoor times as a reference (the best time for indoor 200m is 19.92, Frankie Fredericks). Frankie Fredericks is the only person that ran 200m indoors under 20 seconds.

And I am extremely impressed by the feat that this man just did; most people would be happy to just reach 95; and those that do reach 95, being able to walk.
german translation to "the Blank Slate. The Modern Denial of Human Nature." -Steven Pinker - opens me a new view into Hell of Live

german Book "Darm mit Charm" - Giuelia Enders - Never laught so often by reading a Science book about my bowel.

"The angry Smile" - Jody E. Long, Nicholas J. Long, Signe Whitson - in 2014 i discovered passive agressive behavior arround and against me. But all Books I found since, had the one solution "get around them - do not talk to them - get rid of them" but if you need to work with passive agressive behavior, that isn't what you need. So this book gives me the hinds to hack this behavior.
Thanks for the link.

Before starting this project, we actually bought an old commercial serial terminal server, but ran into multiple issues with it.

One of them was a hardware issue where the vendor suggested the only fix was to replace the entire CPU.

Another is that these devices are so old by now that the software is full of security holes that will never be addressed.

Hence, I’m a bit sceptical of commercial serial terminal servers now :).
Well, you call those "voluntary" but how is that going to work in practice? Being/wanting to take new members into the community is at odds with people knowing each other well (and being able to rely on one another). If people can voluntarily enter/exit any region/community they want, what prevents criminals to just leave without justice? And if not, it goes against the idea of being voluntary member of the community.

I think there needs to be some balance of these two opposing forces. At minimum, I would love to see these anarchist ideas backed up by some computer model.
Unscientific? By "people" I take it you mean me. I didn't see you cite any research either.

Obviously restaurants had an interest in food safety. You're being a little silly with your sarcasm. The question is whether food was as safe as we (citizens) wanted, and whether food safety would improve with government regulation. I suspect the answers were "No" and "Yes", respectively.

Take recent issues at Chipotle for example. Without government intervention, they easily might decide that it's cheaper to pay marketers and public relations experts than to improve the safety of their supply chain and service.
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It's pretty slow - I just finished it and put it up on Heroku so there's a lot of work to be done but I figured I'd show it off for xmas anyway :)
Exactly — I’ve been running a couple of Raspberry Pis in a read-only setup ever since they were released, and they are still working fine with the same SD card and filesystem :).
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> one of the things that pushed me to look into the BSDs

This doesn't make sense for somebody already familiar with Gentoo and OpenRC.
It's literally in the article linked...
I believe the parent is referreing to the fact that the specific age range is not specified. Eg. is this 90-99 (my guess), 70+ or "exactly 95", etc.
Have you considered using bottled water with the optimum level of minerals for your espresso machine?
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Midway through my browsing I just noted HN colors have changed.

Happy Holidays!
I'd prefer a 8-48 port version at <$50/port.
Huh...have you traveled to other parts of the world? Look at an apartment building in Japan or China, those are all over the wall and is the de-facto AC solution.

Really, installation takes less than an hour and the rest of the world think Americans are bizarre with the window units.
A friendly exchange is a cooperative reallocation of resources. Thus money is as I said, a medium/technology for reallocation. You seem to think being a medium of exchange is mutually exclusive with being a means of allocating resources. On the contrary, media of exchange is a subset of technologies for allocating resources.

Despite how much you dislike it, it seems that the government can in fact decide what you do with your money. For example, hiring an assassin is illegal. I'm sure we'd all agree that banning conspiracy to murder is not a violation of your rights. Thus your "freedom" to spend your money according to your wishes is limited by the safety of other citizens, with as loose a definition for "safety" as we like.
I doubt that a desalination plant can run on plastic currency, or that such plastic could run a plant 'forever'.
To expand a little on this, the article shows the parsed AST:

{
type: 'function',
value: 'defn',
children: [
{ type: 'function_name', value: 'average' },
{ type: 'arguments', children: [
{ value: 'x' },
{ value: 'y'}
]
},
{ type: 'function', value: '/', children: [...] }
]
}

The parenthesis-based surface syntax is directly translated into the above, which is IMO more verbose and contains no additional information. On the other hand, it is valid Javascript data.

So it looks like it is equivalent to manipulate the above form. Now, suppose you want to define a function which returns a form which performs a function call. We won't use macros, but simply a function that builds an AST. We can't write Javascript directly with this parser, so let's say there are primitive Lispy functions to build equivalent javascript trees:

(defn my-funcall ()
(js%hash (js%kv "type" "function")
(js%kv "value" "my-fn")
(js%kv "children"
(js%vector
(js%hash
(js%kv "value" 3))))))

... whereas, a lisp-based approach would be:

(defn my-function (list 'my-fun 3))
And what if they want a lot of users? How do they know which are legitimate?
We actually considered that as an alternative in the beginning, i.e. use a bunch of usb2serial adapters on a 1U rack-mountable USB hub.

We decided to go for serial ports because that ultimately is less clutter in the rack, i.e. the usb2serial adapters “go into” the unit instead, and you get to use rj45 connectors instead of bulky db-9 connectors.

That said, of course a generic usb hub could satisfy more use-cases. What’s yours?
Please don't feed trolls. Instead, just flag the comment.

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> Actually I'm quite curious how it's possible that Singapore had good water. From geography alone I would assume it's water would be bad.

It's an interesting subject to read about. Here are some links:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...

* http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/singapores...

* http://www.dw.com/en/singapores-toilet-to-tap-concept/a-1690...
In my experience, Amsterdam has the best tap water. I haven't found a mineral water that tastes that good.
Yes, but will it fully support third party clients?
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Yeah in Australia the markings of a spider or "rock spider" are usually inflicted upon paedophiles forcefully. I'm not sure of the penalty but as a subgroup of criminals within Australian jails paedophiles have been known to have a hard time.
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A caption on the video says it's the over-95 age group.
s/email/mozilla email/

Thanks for the reference ;)
Hah! Yeah I've definitely been bitten by this but, I've also been bitten in general by systems that are nonsensical and impossible to understand. The difference in the rc case is that I have a chance at reimplementing it in a sane way, probably given a few hours. I have no hope of understanding systemd in months, let alone replacing it or modifying it in hours.

There's a real genius in implementing the init system as a bunch of scripts. I sympathize with devs who have to maintain... 4 (?) different scripts for different systems, and boot times are definitely better. But the major issues were "hey I'd like to maintain fewer scripts, I wish my desktop booted faster, and having some way to list dependencies in my startup script would be nice", and I just don't think that "OK, we can fix that by completely overhauling system logging, daemons, configuration and management in 100,000s LOC of completely new, non-portable C code" was a reasonable response.
I mean tapping the external SPI connection at that point. You can't encrypt the first stage that gets loaded into the CPU, so you would simply replace that with your rootkit and then continue as normal until the user types the decryption key into the now-compromised device.
Great puzzle, too bad it doesn't have a single solution...
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The formats exist already, and the ATSs use them: cf HRXML.

The problem - poorly solved by Burning Glass, Daxtra, TextKernel, Sovren et al is converting documents applicants pass in to those formats.
It's an acquired taste. I grew up in an area with very hard water. Whenever I drink tapwater that isn't hard as rocks, I get disappointed. It's just so...bland.
Just came back from Singapore. The water is nice indeed. Hasn't a chalky taste. I found the water in New York (Manhattan) too chalky as well.

This is the water purification setup near my home, Rotterdam, the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGw8FH3I58. I guess it's a setup like everywhere else. Of course the Dutch have a name in the water industry, so there might be more reason to do it right than in other countries.

Still, there are plenty of things to improve.

- The systems for sewerage and surface water / rain are not separated everywhere for example.

- The "Hoogheemraadschap" responsible for keeping surface water clean is the oldest political system in Holland. At first sight a nice idea, but do we really have to democratically elect these people? What about firefighters, police officers, army generals?

- A friend of mine organizes a yearly swimming event in the Maas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse). It's still not as clean as it could be though. The industry, for example Sitech, dumps chemicals in the water and institutions like the one above don't fine fast and high enough.

If you're Dutch you can watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99WW9ALModY
The other Books that are not so live changing this Year:
- "Fitness für den Kopf mit Superlearning" - Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder (not much news, but good)

- "Menschen lesen" - Joe Navarro (not much news, but good)

- "Intros und Extros" - Sylvia Löhken (now I'm clear - I am an Intro" :)

- "Lassen Sie Ihr Hirn nicht unbeaufsichtigt" - Christine Strenger - (nice book about how to remember things, but I decided that it is not my way to remember. Need to fix my memory to real things)

- "Thinking, Fast and Slow" - Daniel Kahneman - ( something about thinking I descoverd 20 years ago by my selve)

- "Assertiveness at work" - Ken Back, Kate Back ( The way I walk now to Hack passive agressive behavior )

- "Emotional Vampires at Work" - Albert J. Bernstein - (Helped me to discover the passive agressive behavior I never noticed as what it is before.)

- Profile Books about: 1. Michel Foucault, 2. Jacques Derrida, 3. Villém Flusser

- "Theorie des kommunkativen Handelns Band1" - Jürgen Habermas (started Band 2 Book 2 month ago)

- "Super-Brain" Deepak Chopra, Rudolph E. Tanzi - ( uhhh... you need to find a better book, but easy to read)

- "Der Pychopath in mir -engl.:The Psychopath Inside" - James Fallon (nice Book - found some Psychopath around me and give them hinds now not to stumble)
BrowserID works by default with email but it has absolutely to dependency on email. It uses it for namespacing and bootstrapping, but nothing else.

So foo@bar.com may or may not have any MX records, all that is required is that bar.com can provide an assertion that you control foo@bar.com.

The way bar.com determines that is entirely up to bar.com, it can be a password, smart crypto card, local kerberos or Windows auth, 3-way auth involving your cat Rufus, etc...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona/Protocol_Overvie...
Well done for this guy, but the headline seems somewhat redundant.

Only someone who is older than 95 can break the record for the 95 and over age group. Ie that's like saying '2-legged man broke an Olympic record for X'.
"Her husband saw tears rolling down her face. I asked if she was in pain. The doctors said it didn't appear that her brain could even register pain."[5]
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> DTrace is similar to ptrace/strace in Linux

No. It's 10000× more. http://www.dtracebook.com/
It doesn’t have to be an email acc. Persona doesn’t actually have any dependency on email. Addresses that look like email (user@domain.tld) are just used for namespacing. The only requirement is that domain.tld can assert that you control user@domain.tld.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona/Protocol_Overvie...
They are, but they aren't like canteens -- you can't just empty one indefinitely and refill it arbitrarily later.

Aquifers can collapse into voids that should have water, and being full of fresh water helps prevent intrusion by saltwater near the coasts (this is happening in the Central Coast even now), or by fracking waste in fracked areas.
Why not?

What programmer doesn't think of the Turing test from time to time? :-)
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Yes, the ground acts as the filter.

There's a similar setup in Zurich, ground water is directly drinkable (iirc they oxygenate it a bit for test), while the lake water goes through sand filters (it is generally drinkable, but much better to remove particles).

Something weird I learned while visiting is that they put extra chalk on purpose to prevent pipes from deteriorating in old buildings (they experimented with lower amounts and had some troubles with leakage).
I seriously saw this and thought it might be the reason for the ruby-colored banner.

facepalm
I would like to see some kind of standard. Having multiple closed platforms is great for the profits of the companies that run said services, but the users are the ones that have to pay the price.

We've seen this already once with messaging systems. Remember AOL, MSN Messenger, ICQ, etc? Now, it's no better, just that the actor's names are different. Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, Wechat, Line.

Do we really want this to happen all over again? I certainly can see the appeal of a system like Slack. After all, we used it ourselves for a while until we decided that we didn't want the vendor lock-in, and instead started developing out own, open source system that implements lots of what Slack is, but that can be self-hosted by anyone.

I would love to see the makers of these kinds of applications to create some kind of standard around these systems.
"And if you had read the article you would have noticed that the second part of the vaccine plan was never administered."

That doesn't make vaccinations fake, regardless of what some Guardian editor decides to put in his headline.

"People are not vaccinating their children for all kinds of reasons, one of them is a distrust of authorities to have the best interest of their children at heart. For those people the cold hard proof that authorities are willing to use vaccination programs to further other ends is certainly not going to help swing them to the other side."

This is nonsense. Then again antivaxers aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, so they may see things that way.

My guess is that people don't want to vaccinate their kids simply because they perceive the potential negative risk from vaccinations to exceed potential gain.

They may distrust the government if they believe that the government wants to make sure there are no contagious diseases around but can accept a certain % of autism or whatever as a result. I don't think Bin Laden drive would make any difference for this calculus.
As a colorblind person, Happy Thursday.
One day to late for me, many countries (and the royal British family) are already celebrating christmas eve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve#Gift_giving

Oh, btw: Merry christmas :)
wow. Apparently nobody thought to see if it goes through latex gloves, and it apparently does in seconds! Current safety protocol is now "highly resistant, flexible, plastic-laminate gloves [...]. For increased protection, such thin gloves can be worn under long-cuffed, heavy-duty outer gloves made of, for example, neoprene." Or just not using dimethylmercury.
If a Python class overrides __getattr__() or has a complex deeper hierarchy of inheritance, pickle sometimes fails in spectacular ways. Sometimes the fixes were extremely painful and sort of nullified the purpose of having a __getattr__() in the first place. More importantly, the serialized data that pickle generates (1) is in python bytecode and is not easy to humanly reason with during debugging (2) a simple object will get inflated because of a deeper inheritance tree.

However by using marshmallow for serializing, I found the resultant JSON output a much more manageable output format to 'reason with'. In my specific case where the lifetime of a python object could be extended over multiple sessions and pass through the runtime -> save -> db -> load -> runtime barrier, JSON was a hugely meaningful choice. The project used a graph of connected Python objects whose relations & states needed to be retained over time and memory barriers.

With a general HTTP REST API, I find that bundling all the related records of an entity in a single API call saves up the roundabout time for the client. In this case, instead of hand building a dict and then generating a json.dumps() I find using marshmallow a better choice - the declaration of the serializer itself, reflects the structure & the entity relations clearly.
Where I live (CH) they reinject water into the ground as they pump it, to preserve the aquifer levels.

iirc they have some kind of pressure monitoring.

The water there is already purified and clean (slowly went through rocks). It's actually super impressive to see the well, it is so clear that the water level is not visible, looks like it is totally empty.
Happy Holidays! I thought I was having a stroke.
Xmpp + a modern web client.

Honestly at this point any open source chat/IM system not building on xmpp or irc would need a pretty good reason why not
"Public drinking water is now so clean that it’s better than bottled water, says Mayor of Technical and Environmental Affairs Morten Kabell—and that’s without chlorine or other chemical processing (only aeration, pH adjustment, and filtration)."

How is pH adjustment not "chemical processing"?? How do they alkalinize water without adding alkaline electrolytes (Mg,K,Na, etc.) in chemical form?
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We can say it's for both Christmas and Ruby relesae. :)
I was at lake Toba a few years ago. The lake and the island inside the lake are so big you need a car to get around, and while driving around you can't try but wonder about the size of the explosion that created it. Makes you feel really very insignificant.
I would say this is quite reasonable. Since all developers regard this project as a hobby, they work on what interests them. And that is MacOS and Linux builds.
They don't say Windows will never be supported. Just that nobody stepped up to maintain that build or even provide bugreports. That person might be you :). If you care so much about it.
You can take showers and use the toilet and spend less than that.

My family's consumption is 105 litres (28 gallons) per person per day. And we don't really think about the water consumption but I think we use it abundantly; we do sports and naturally take daily showers, have sometimes guests who also use toilet, etc.
> Defintely something to note for future UX designs... but Persona, the service hosted by mozilla, is being decommissioned in late 2016.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.identity...
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The "offer" is a generic spam e-mail sent out to lots of places. Note the lack of mention of the Raspberry Pi, specifically, and the multiple links to the company's website.

This particular post is just blogspam anyways.
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I look at these colors, the black text on the red, the orange Y logo on the red, and I am thinking to myself -- "who looked at this and said -- 'looks good, deploy it!'", regardless of the occasion.
Other articles about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788174 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781284.
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I love how traditions get skewed as they pass through multi-national/-cultural lenses. I live in China, and any time I go into a 7-11 around this time of year they shout at me about "Christmas cakes". After a few half-hearted explanations on my part about how Christmas doesn't really involve cake (explaining pudding is just way beyond the pale), I finally figured out that the Chinese 7-11s are all run by a Japanese company (which explains why they're efficient and not depressing), and that the Japanese have decided that "Christmas cake" is a thing. And so, the Chinese have followed suit. You have to hand it to the Japanese -- they may transform your traditions into something unrecognizable, but they do it so thoroughly that you often start to suspect your own memory...
I work for a Japanese tech company, and I can't tell you how often I've been fed KFC or Christmas cake at the year-end gathering of my various social circles. The Western media exaggerates almost all of its news about Japan, but this is a case where the obsession is real.
Pandas are great. Looking forward to Dask.
In this particular situation you can developed two versions - one darker, one brighter - and blend them together in gimp. I don't really do such intrusive/creative editing.
I was literally just looking for something like this the other day. Amazing timing. Thanks OP!
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Ok, we replaced that with language from the subtitle.
wow this is gorgeous, it looks like it performs a function similar to http://www.easy68k.com/
I think it must be what one is used to. I am in Stockholm but visit Amsterdam often. I prefer Stockholm water.
As I am thinking about redesigning my own site and am searching for something less hacky then jekyll, something more in the term of flat files I was drawn to kirby [1] in the last weeks.
But as this need php and I loved the idea of static html files, I was not so sure. On the other hand, the admin-panel really was a nice touch.

So I kept mulling things in my head and saw lektor these days. From what I saw, this would could be a great alternative for my workflow and my goal of having flat html on the server.

So to cut an already long story at least a little bit short. Nice to see others enter the ecosystem and playing with it. Will have to take a closer look myself and start redesigning my page.

[1] http://getkirby.com/
For the record this works perfectly on an ubuntu 14.04 instance I tried it out on.

I had previously been playing around with bind configs to achieve the same thing but this is a much better solution.

I had a poke around on the website though and how to you get updates for the list?
Keep in mind this was written in 2007. I don't think all of that stuff is irrelevant by any means, though. Nine years later, the list might look somewhat different, but his point is that it's an indicator of intellectual curiosity, not things that are directly practical for the job the employer is offering.