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> 1. Lawyers and justice systems generally lag societal opinion, not lead it.

> 2. s/societal opinion/technology/ as well.

2 is usually a feature: if lawyers, justice systems, and regulators in general could keep up with technology well enough to attempt to regulate it before it grew far enough, we'd be even more screwed than we already are. One of the few things helping us is that technology is hard to suppress, and by the time regulators notice it, it's at least sometimes big enough and popular enough to fight back. It's too easy to silently crush a technology nobody knows about or cares about.
The posting title misrepresents the contents.

What the document actually says is that the HIV infection rate among the studied group (age 15-49) dropped 16%, not 40%. See page 39 of the document (page 59 of the PDF).

The AIDS-related death rate dropped 40%, but that's a different criterion -- one made possible by better modern medical care, especially antiretroviral drugs.
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Back to the topic, here's an explanation http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2005/04/why-danish-programmers-a...
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"no language detects integer overflow by default because the processors make it slow"

Not quite 'no'. Of course there are languages that that dynamically switch to bignums, but I doubt that is what you mean.
Swift does detect overflow (by aborting, IIRC). https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...:

"If you try to insert a number into an integer constant or variable that cannot hold that value, by default Swift reports an error rather than allowing an invalid value to be created. This behavior gives extra safety when you work with numbers that are too large or too small."
So to make 80% of the income qualifications you can make 72k a year and still qualify. Not bad.

Glad Lucas is sticking it to those Marin county NIMBYs.
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Apprently you haven't being using Python 3 much. It reduces the numbers of ways to do stuff a lot.

- class stuff(object) vs class stuff;
- range vs xrange;
- itertools.izip vs zip;
- itertools.imap vs map;
- itertools.ifilter vs filter;
- dict.items vs dict.iteritems vs dict.viewitems;
- dict.items vs dict.itervalues vs dict.viewvalues;
- dict.items vs dict.iterkeys vs dict.viewkeys;
- __cmp__ vs __eq__ + __gt__;
- sorted(cmp) vs sorted(key);

They didn't fallout from the philosophy. They have been pragmatic and tried to balance the language design : gaining modern features vs making a robust base vs pleasing the legacy crowd. Is. Is. Very. Hard.

And yes, we would all prefer to have less way to format. Would it mean I would prefer NOT to have fstring ? Certainly not, it's a great feature. We can't live in the past because it will make us not stand perfectly to the ideal we have.

Real life is not ideal.

But merging Python 2 and 3 ?

With the string model completly reworked, that would be apocaliptic. Most people don't realize how deep the unicode change has been.

I have been dev and teaching Python 2 and 3 for years. The amount of problems linked to UnicodeDecodeError dropped by 90% after the switch.

Not because Python 2 model didn't work.

Because nobody understand text.

Most dev don't understand what text is. They just want to format string. That's what Python 3 helps to do, and it does it well.

Mixing both would be like mixing olive oil and vanilla ice. Great on their own way, but use them together all you'll get a terrible meal.
Yes. "Practicality beats purity". This part of the zen of Python, too many people forget about it.

People forget that Python is also about readability, and ease of code exploration is the shell. Fstring is a feature to make that even better.
Objects were never intended to run in shared space. The only real OOP done today by the original definition is your interaction with your DB via SQL.

So now we jump trough hoops to isolate things that are extremely resistant to isolation.
The more unequal societies tend to be less socially coherent and less interested in pushing universal whatever. So it's probably a chicken-egg problem, and the standard way to address a problem like that is to fix both ends at once, little by little.

If the rich are the primary actors against social and economic progress ("universal whatever") and are powerful enough to prevent it, what makes you think we have any chance at stripping them of their wealth? It's akin to attacking the enemy's main castle in order to weaken their small fort. Why not just attack the small fort? If you win against the main castle, then your theory that the small fort was too strong must have been false.

In many cases (not all, it's probably not the case of Y combinator kind of people), the wealthiest got where they are by abusing the poor.

If that's true, why don't we just target those abusers?
An excellent summary of her best work, which is unfortunately not very well known. It is great to have the whole of her argument in one short post.
"Fire fast" is the horrible advice that has made Netflix and companies with similar policies a very stressful place to work at.

What if someone who is amazing at their job is going through a divorce and underperforming? Would you fire the "not doer"? There is no way for you to know what's going on in one's personal life and that can impact their performance heavily.

If your tolerance is just a few weeks to fire someone it's just immoral.
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Secret patents also work for patents filed by people outside the government, so the secret patent concept already existed. + if a patent loses the secret status, the inventor gets the credit (and maybe even a royalty share) for it.
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Peter Thiel, for one. You haven't noticed on HN and other startup circles the idealization of the college dropout who becomes a startup founder?
I suspect if you work there, you have to report all patentable ideas
>The only real reason I can see for them to be patents at all is so that way if someone else invents the same thing and tries to patent it.

That's pretty much the case it gives the NSA a heads up that some tech which is similar to what the NSA has been working on is now in the commercial sector, while I'm sure that the NSA goes trough patents that are filed this method gives them better assurance even if the patent office is usually quite bad at flagging patent collisions.
It also protects the NSA from patent claims from the industry in case they add their tech to their TTP.

The other use of this is that some patents might not be secret for the life of the patent in which case they can be added to the NSA's technology transfer program and licensed.
@decorator
def decorated

Is doing:

decorated = decorator(decorated)

The switch is implicit too. It's syntaxic sugar to gain a pratical and elegant syntax for a common use case.

It's not going to introduce vulnerability.
It's going to make your code easier to write and read.
It's going to make bug easier to spot in formating.
It's going to make shell sessions easier.
Last I looked Visual Works smalltalk had weird license schemes that involved perpetual royalties [1]. When I used to work in business/enterprise software (no longer, thank FSM) this was an instant deal killer, especially for small businesses.

Any information on how this was dealt with on this project would be greatly appreciated.

[1] http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/pricing/
More recent research on networks of producers (for example Birmingham, northern Italian textile firms, and silicon valley) supports her analysis in many respects.
Interesting. Thanks!

> * RS permits all sorts of passthroughs direct to the tenants in the building... city bonds, water bonds, capital improvements, maintenance cost increases, increases in the cost to service the landlord's debt...

Sounds like a good lawyer / accountant should make rent control toothless for the landlord?
>I can't tell if this is a serious comment...

It was :-)

Thank you for the number.
So first off, it's always cool to have built and released something, so congrats on that, but these are the questions I'm left with as a potential user:

1. What's different about this setup? What can I do that I either can't with a standard webserver setup or would be more cumbersome that way?
2. Why "files within files", what's different about that compared to directories and index files?What can I do that I either can't with a standard directory structure or would be more cumbersome that way?

If I wanted plain text at the moment + scripts, any standard webserver + CGI would give me that right now and I could host it immediately on a large number of hosts (or on my own). So for people like me who would go "ooh, plain text and unix sounds nice" it'd be good to see a set of reasons why what we'd currently do would be improved using this.
GCHQ invented RSA encryption first, and independently. Had they patented it, when someone else discovered it they'd have had licensing options.
keyword is "preferably".

Also "Simple is better than complex", "practicality beats purity" and "Readability counts".

The zen is not the bible, you don't get to cherrypick the stuff you want to make your case.

Plus, they are just guide lines, in the end, you have a debate in the python dev mailing list with reasonable people making their case.
"Under MAME license" is unfortunately a showstopper for FOSS. Particularly unfortunate because MAME itself has started the process of moving away from that license and towards a FOSS license (see https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/README.md#licens...).

Do you know if the authors of that code would consider releasing it under a FOSS-compatible license (e.g. MIT, LGPL, or GPL, depending on preferences about copyleft)? Failing that, do you know if a FOSS library exists to read and write the IPF image format?
During my recent job search I ran some companies operating on the "better to reject 100 top-tier people than hire one not-top-tier person" philosophy. Mostly this is Google, FB and companies trying to model their hiring on Google and FB.

What seems to be becoming more common outside of that world is a trial period as a contractor, which seems to have a bit less feel-bad if it doesn't turn into full-time employment (and also usually gives you more time to search for another job if you think/know it isn't going to work out).
I don't know if functional languages are much better in preventing abstraction abuses. I mean, a triple indirect function, an incredibly pointless (aka point free) chain of applications, a heavy reliance on data flow, can make the program difficult to understand, and in some languages (the lazy ones), stepwise debugging is difficult.
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The idea that a Theory of the Program cannot be conveyed from one programmer to another but other means that apprenticeship seems to fit quite well with the experience of most programmers. While "program text and documentation" might not be enough, it would be interesting to understand what kind of documentation best supports Theory Building for new programmers coming into an existing project. It is my understanding the Literate Programming is thought by its proponents to be superior to traditional code/documentation in this regard.
But you can't send the new emoji over basic SMS, because SMS, uses a variant of UTF-16 from the era when people thought 16 bits was big enough. (So do Java and Windows, although there are hacks in both to get past 2 bytes.)
The new emoji are all up in the astral planes, beyond 2 bytes.
FYI "public sector" specifically means the government (eg. the NSA is in the public sector).
> Sounds like a good lawyer / accountant should make rent control toothless for the landlord?

Potentially, kinda, yeah. There are some limits (depending on how many buildings the landlord controls) on how much of an increase can be imposed how frequently [0], but if you're sufficiently nasty and clever, you could squeeze substantially more out of your tenants than a naive understanding of the RS ordinances would lead one to expect.

[0] Though, for things like municipal bonds, legally mandated retrofitting, and water cost increases, there are -IIRC- no limits.
The strawman is that if discrimination did not exist, pay would be equal.
I don't see it that way. I'd rather pay $100 a year to avoid going to chains like Best Buy, Target, Bed Bath, Walmart, what have you. Not only are those places inconvenient compared to online shopping but their products are often inferior, overpriced, or both. Frankly 2 day shipping is awesome, $8/month is totally worth the convenience, no tricks involved.

Similarly, does Starbucks trick me when it charges $2.25 for a coffee that I could brew myself for $0.15? Sometimes the convenience is worth it. Amazon Prime makes shopping extremely convenient!
No, I'm just aware of them because those buildings are near me. There's a public jogging trail around that big complex.
The game crashed. You were not kicked. The game is 16 years old, it happens. Much less than it used to, and someday maybe it won't happen at all.
Tagging is done to carry information about data type. Like to mark that float64 is actually a 32-bit integer.

Traps (CPU exceptions, such as traditional FPU exceptions like division by zero) usually involve kernel mode context switch. So if you trap on tag, the performance for tagged values will probably be 3-5 orders of magnitude slower. That's a lot.
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The author was able to give one example of a firm successfully being more profitable, and that because someone in a hiring role had a deep-seated belief that female marginal product was equal to male marginal product (or at least, not as much lower as female wages from male)

That's not what Greenspan thought at all. Greenspan thought you can get a $100k economist for only $80k. That belief is completely orthogonal to the distribution of employee quality.

I don't think Indian developers are "equal" to American developers - I think they are (on average) a lot worse. (The bottom of the Indian developer market is a lot lower than the bottom of the US market, and the top of the Indian market tends to migrate west.) I also think I can get a $150k data scientist for $70k if I look hard enough.

Further, given current rhetoric about pay in the tech industry, it may be unconscionable (or if you wish to be cynical, "it may lead to sufficient bad PR that it will blow away any positive results") to focus recruiting on an undervalued group but also continue to underpay them. So there may not actually be an arbitrage opportunity; any employer that would want to recruit an undervalued group may feel compelled to not act on the arbitrage as far as possible

Interesting hypothesis; social barriers created by social justice types actually cause inequality to persist.
Or perhaps with sufficient tax revenue in its coffers, the federal government would be able to properly fund NASA, or a Manhattan Project aimed at reducing oil dependency.
"PEP-0498 tries to improve this situation by offering something that has been common to other languages like Ruby, Scala and Perl for quite some time: Interpolated strings."

P3 '.format 'is fine, the only problem I have is forgetting the last ')' and vim picks this up. Is interpolation that good to introduce another way of doing things?
> There's a lot of neat libraries out there and papers to read.

Can you please link those? Because I will move into a house in the middle of the year and I do already have a concept for life form detection based on sonar and 16X4 pixel IR thermal array (MLX90620 / MLX90621).
Like you said, I meant the local equivalent to the American IRS. I actually picked up this way of writing here on HN :).
You'll have to remove more than "modern" agriculture, considering that the world population passed 100 million over 2500 years ago [1].

[1] https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpo...
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the answer to your questions:

yes, yes, and yes.

but there is one more factor:

Asians have way higher IQs than whites.
Apparently they are now operating these programs from overseas somehow trying to avoid u.s jurisdiction. I presume by setting up a friendly country (5 eyes) for the same data then using their data. Ted Cruz mentioned in a recent Republican debate now 100% of telephone meta data is collected and the Senate Foreign Affairs chair went crazy saying he was going to prosecute him for giving that information out. Things are worse not better.
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It's kinda refreshing to see a assembly(/ programming) language which isn't based on English for once. Personally as a non-native speaker, writing code in anything else than English seems unnatural. But that probably just have to do with the culture and environment in which I've learned to program. I started out self-taught, which meant all my sources were in English. Here in Denmark, the first introduction to programming my class-mates got was through Gymnasium (HTX), where when talking about programming concepts they would be translated to their Danish equivalent. It just sounded to wrong to me, but there's nothing that dictates that English should be the standard, other than that's the current spoken international language in the Western world, which has been more or less the forefront in this field so far.

And it might not be so far fetched that in the future significant programming languages might use another natural languages. I wouldn't see surprised to see engineers from China to develop programming languages for example that have a chance to be in Chinese.
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You may have heard about something called maps though. Google maps.
It means the marginal tax rate for each dollar a person spends in a year increases with the number of dollars they spend.

An example of a progressive consumption tax bracket:

Dollars spent, marginal tax rate.

$0-$5000: 0%

$5001-$10000: 10%

$10001-$30000: 15%

$30001-$80000: 27%

$80000-$120000: 35%

$150000+: 40%.

So if a person spends $15000 a year, they have to pay an additional $1250 in tax.

They can spend on food, clothes, luxury boats, and are taxed according to the number of dollars they spend.

I don't see how that is regressive in anyway.

This way, as long as the spending of two people are the same, a person who makes and spends $20k a year, and a person who makes $80k and spends $20k a year, and works 5x harder, are both taxed at the same rate. This removes the disincentive to work hard while being frugal.

You can also pair this with a "Universal Basic Income" later on - e.g. first $10000 of spending in a year is -100% tax, meaning completely subsidised by the government.

Welfare could be means-tested on spending rather than income, so folks don't have to worry about losing welfare when they get a job.
Maybe it's about the money? There's this running gag in various movies and works of literature, that the world-protecting super-secret agency supports itself from the income generated by patents on (often alien in origin) technology. Isn't this a real example? :).
I got to level three but the program is blank and I can't find any documentation as to what the "special" instructions are.
Survivor bias in action.
Anyway - never listen to a man that has stroke it big first time. Listen to a man that has failed a couple of times and then succeeded.
Good point. Will definitely do this.
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> The majority of companies funded back then were e-commerce plays focused around selling the same items you buy offline for less money and making up the difference with VC money.

Shit. This is exactly the Indian startup scene at the moment.
Really hard problem to solve.

Maybe with technology advances such as telepresence robots location will matter less, so cities will have to start competing against each other?

On the other hand, the whole software industry which can be perform from any office with the internet is so heavily condensed in San Francisco...
Why are you assuming that "survival without modern technology" means living as hunter gatherers?

What the site means by surviving without modern technology is surviving and rebuilding a civilization with the level of technology available in the early 19th century. The Earth's carrying capacity at that level of technology is easily over a billion.
Your answer is still unreal to me given I expected them to be ancient history by now.
Wouldn't Yiddish have worked just the same though? Did Arab coalition intelligence speak German or Yiddish?
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Don't make pathetic grammar and spelling mistakes with or without Tor.