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Let Sydney be emblematic of city planning and nanny statism gone awry (as it always does).
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Also to clarify, the licence is $1000 for the first purchase. Subsequently, you only have to pay the maintenance fees of about usd 200 per year to remain eligible for support and upgrades. You can still continue using the latest version you were on in perpetuity.
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Maybe I am being idealistic, but I think the sentiment in the discussion concerns not only the ideal coding techniques themselves, but also the bigger picture of business needs. That is, if we took the approach of keeping code in somewhat decent shape, we would end up, in the long run, producing the whole system more efficiently, and reducing the TCO of the system for the user and the business.

I certainly hope that the discussion is not only about making the lives of the programmers easier.
The current astronauts generate significant interest in STEM in school children. For example, Tim Peake took a bag of seeds to space. When he gets down they're going to send the seeds to schools along with some seeds that didn't go to space. Children are going to run experiments growing and comparing both sets of seeds.

Reaction from children is along the lines of "this is so cool; I want to work in space stuff".
So you don't even build dynamic queries in the stored procedures themselves (e.g. with string concatenations and EXECUTE)?

That's where I usually get fed up with stored procedures, as pseudo-ADA ain't a nice language for list and string manipulation. I'd rather do that in a language better suited, and that quickly leads to query builders…
That's Kings Cross, and the figures were quick high for assaults. Kings Cross isn't even a gazetted area.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/16/assaults-in-k...

The sheer number of assaults being treated at St Vincent's Hospital caused the head of the emergency department to describe it as a warzone. Someone of that stature doesn't say this sort of thing lightly!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-26/professor-gordian-fuld...
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Ive done a Tableau Server rollout at a previous client, and iirc, we were easily able to run it as a managed service account. (Microsoft AD)

Any specific difficulties you faced with this..?
He's the guy who makes sure that you don't die when you get assaulted in Kings Cross. He runs the Emergency Department at St Vincent's Hospital, which is right across from that area.

HTH.
I actually learned enough git to be dangerous by reading "Learn Rails by Example." And some TDD, and some Heroku, and some Bootstrap, all as side-effects from the main dish. Quite an eye-opener.

Thank you for all your work!
It has always been this violent. However, community attitudes have changed, we no longer accept that alcohol-fueled violence is acceptable. It used to be, and isn't any more.

It used to be acceptable in Sydney to drive home drunk. If you admitted you drove home drunk now, you'd be rightly pilloried.
Moralising against the moralists, huh?

There are far too many assaults caused by alcohol, and the levels of alcoholism and domestic violence caused by alcohol in Australia is a real problem.
This comment explains everything. Let me guess, you live in the Northern suburbs?
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This article is just common sense. In every area there are people who pursue excellence and people who are slackers. People who look hard for optimal solutions given the constraints, and people who try to sell whatever they write as "smart solutions".

Web development is very transparent and in the spotlight these days, so it's exposed to a lot of criticism. I wonder how many cases of "smart programming" do we have in C code-bases around the world...
How much for licensing the server itself?
Forgive my ignorance, but has telemarketing always been going on in the States? Does it depend on the State? Why does the register not work? Is there no organisation that hands out fines? What's going on that you can not protect yourself against intrusion in your own home/life?
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>ruined the productivity and general health of a very large number of people.

Please, can you elaborate on this?
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>> it nails the database schema into your Rust code

On the contrary, the purpose of an ORM is to let your code be a schema for your database. This is my personal use case for an ORM; I want persistence but am not overly concerned with the database. There are plenty of use cases [1] where a schema update from outside is unlikely or impossible. In these cases, there is a very low cost for (by way of an ORM) tightly coupling your code to your schema.

Also, an ORM lets somebody else worry about sanitisation, and database specific-code. It can abstract away the choice of database, another very valuable feature. I think that the example you quote is actually a poor demonstration of the value of an ORM. The other ones on the linked page are far better :)

[1] A program running on only one machine, like an Android app or a music player on Linux desktops etc
http://flexboxgrid.com/ has a nice set of fatures and is an easy transition if you're coming from Bootstrap.

We've included it into our own starter pack, and I believe that the new Foundation framework uses it as well.
That's not what I'd call a bug that "crept in". Surface Book I bought crashed unprovoked _several times a day_. That's deliberately shipping a completely faulty product that any self-respecting customer will take right back to the store. Which I did.
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Sure but there are 2 scenarios here.

ONE:
You don't use stripe and save all you customer info locally and procces it some other way

TWO:
You use stripe and never store any CC info on your server.

THEN:
Your server is hacked. In ONE, you lose customer CC info because it is stored on your server. In TWO, you do NOT. Sure they can redirect you to a fake payment page, but that will get noticed quickly and damage will be limited to "phished" users not your entire user base.
My issue is that we even need laws to deal with this, people can have horrible neighbours (you must remember the fence wars saga), what's to stop your horrible neighbour from making your life painful because you grill up some food once in a while.
> The truth is that even the experts don’t completely understand how neural nets work.

That is not understanding.
Interesting, recently there was a study posted on HN that it depends on genetics whether or not someone becomes violent when drunk. Australia started as a prison colony, maybe there is a connection there?
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I don't understand what this has to do with anything. (and for the record, no, I don't, not eastern suburbs either).
Of course the heavy handedness of the Star Hotel has been long forgotten; now of course they boil the frog slower, so instead of riots we now have malaise and the brain drain.

In the end there will still be loss, but this time it won't be accompanied regeneration. In time Sydney will become a financial / service sector equivalent of Port Kembla unless the ship is turned around.
This a 100 times.

And thanks for reminding me to read the Hitchhikers Guide again!
It is a supply-demand equilibrium, it's just that tenants aren't fungible. Even Homo Economicus would pay a premium for a more reliable tenant.
And if it's a proprietary piece of software and you don't have the source code? Or you do have the source, but the build process is too convoluted to figure out?
VoIP that's very hard to trace is the problem. And it's not unique to the US.
This is truly horrible, but I have to say that I'd rather have the government use proportionate force on bad players instead of using it on business owners to have them enforce some reactionary laws and in the process limiting the freedoms of the majority.

The state has the monopoly on enforcing rules and it should not fear forcing citizens to comply.

If the state for some reason cannot uphold order anymore then we are back at having survival of the fittest and might makes right on the streets.

I'm not defending trigger happy police men, but in this particular case police should have been watching this area and arrest and later charge everyone that hit somebody random in the head for attempted manslaughter, even if the victim didn't suffer any enduring damage.

I believe this would have sent a message.
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When I started out with PHP (cica 2000) it was just another scripting language to make stuff happen on web pages and it was easier to work with than perl.

In 2003, Rasmus who created PHP said: "I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way".

PHP has since been developed into a fully fledged programming language borrowing many of its traits from Perl, C, C++, Java, Tcl.

Now at PHP7, having two major versions since 2000, I can say with some confidence that PHP is a "real programming" language.
If it's from your provider, yes, they absolutely can. Because on their side, the number links to a "specific person/account", and they will charge to that, or add the service to that.
So you're looking at about 4 deaths a year. To put that in context, in 2012[1] 26 Australians died from falling off a chair and 58 died falling while getting out of bed. The gold standard for these kind of comparisons, lightning strikes, gets 5-10 Australians a year[2].

There is a problem with drinking and violence in Australia, but at the same time, 90 people over 13 years isn't all that many; by itself, it shouldn't be used to argue for new laws.

[1] http://www.news.com.au/national/the-weird-ways-australians-d...

[2] https://www.australiawidefirstaid.com.au/lightning-strikes/
“I’m unemployable now as a result of getting to the top of the tree”

This shows a lack of understanding of the market and poor self-awareness for someone who claims to be at the top of the tree.

The average company is looking to employ someone who will do the same job cheaper.

In order to earn more, it's necessary to identify employers who are willing to pay a premium for convenience or for an unusually skilled or experienced worker, and be aware of those before getting laid off.

This man seems particularly aggrieved that he lost a role to a "young woman with five years experience". A white man should not and does not automatically trump a woman - if he costs more (which he doesn't actually know for sure) then that's his problem.
Since most proportional fonts have somewhat similar widths, probably not. But if you just look at the longest string (or use a non-proportional font) there will be four roman numbers of equal length/width.
This comment got me thinking: in some applications, Euclidean distance between feature vectors acts as a good proxy for adjacency/similarity. For such applications, an isometry from R^n to R^2 or R^3 should in principle preserve the meaning of adjacency. A quick Google yields [0, 1] a technique for quasi-isometric, and isometric dimensionality reduction. This should mitigate artefacts of adjacency, or non-adjacency, as it were. In other words, you might be able to actually pull off good 2D projections of high dimensional data and still see meaningful relationships.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomap

[1] https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-083.pdf
I still diagram flowcharts. Usually to convey to one of my internal customers how we envision interfacing with a 3rd party system or solving some complex business logic.

I diagram a lot of things. Mostly for my benefit. I have struggled over the years with what symbol do I use for X but now I just pick a rectangle or predefined process rectangle and label it well. Diagramming helps me get my internal thoughts out and makes the systems I write better and less error prone.
The security group at the University of Cambridge has been working on a similar project for a few years now: https://mypico.org/
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Other countries, who drink more than us Aussies do and have zero lockout laws don't have the problems we apparently do with violence.
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From your link, the law may be nicknamed 'one punch', but the details aren't actually specific to a single punch - instead they are simply more severe a penalty if the person dies as a result of the assault, with a bizarre minimum if the offender was intoxicated (apparently if you think clearly about it beforehand, you're not as bad...)
> Incidentally, do you have any facts to back up that lockout laws are "sabotaging" the NSW economy?

Not the economy, but they're killing the nightlife and live music sector. You may not care about that, but I do.
Pretty much. How is this not just a mirror image of H-1B nonsense tech journalism? The whole point here is to gin up support for an increase in whatever immigration cap applies to nurses. I'll eat my hat if there's an actual shortage that couldn't be fixed with pay raises.
Did you miss the point where the poster said "had a FB account for a couple of hours"? I assume this means they deleted their account.
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Renters will increase the price knowing full well that people will double up. Also if the renters are ruthless they would directly tell you to have more people packed in an apartment to pay their price and if people are helpless they would have to cough up or find some other job in another state where you can live decently with lesser pay. Also a lot of shitty apartments will increase their rents which puts more pressure. This I feel is simple price discovery at work. This is why it is better for the company to spread itself in different places rather than hole up in a single place and pay very salaries which are not sustainable. I really don't understand start ups which are supposed to be tight on cash sitting on one of the costliest real estate and expect to be profitable.
Sounds like Norway. I'm not much into drinks but there is a long-running joke (?) here that you cannot pour spirit into wine (spurit up/strengthening the wine), but you can very well pour wine into spirit (watering out the spirit). I think it goes back to the 70ties.
>"It's made the web feel way, way smaller than it used to, and probably has made it smaller by starving small-but-relevant sites of traffic. "

That's the beauty of it (For Google, anyways). Now those small, traffic-starved sites are dependant on getting traffic via paid adwords. Either that, or they have to rely on "organic" social-media cruft in order to get anywhere meaningful.
I found learning Fusion 360 was painful. I'm dyslexic and need the big picture to understand how to put the individual pieces together. Fusion 360 uses terminology that is not defined anywhere. I worked with some of the support staff and they agreed that they lack this sort of documentation. It seems that some of the people I know that use Fusion 360 just hack around with it till they get it right. I don't have the time for that. Too many projects going at one time. I will ahve to look at OhShape. Thanks.
Just curious, did you fund your FU fund living in the current place?
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With a little more work:

cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/small
path-exclude=/usr/share/locale/*
path-exclude=/usr/share/man/*
path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*
path-exclude=/usr/share/info/*

Saves about 15MB. Removing wget saves 50MB or so, since it uses a large library (libicu52).

for p in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -d $'\t' -f 1); do echo $(du -kc /x $(for i in `dpkg-query -L $p`; do [[ -f $i ]] && echo $i; done) | tail -n 1 | cut -d $'\t' -f 1) $p; done | sort -n | tail
2676 libssl1.0.0:amd64
3084 tzdata
3152 libc-bin
3288 groff-base
3652 iptables
5224 coreutils
5660 perl-base
6036 udev
10308 libc6:amd64
13784 systemd

(Since I've removed things, `dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n'` isn't accurate.)

Compressing Apt indices saves another 20MB [1]

The system is now down to 123MB.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReducingDiskFootprint#Compress_files
Oh god, don't do it. Running E is a bitch, and incredibly expensive. To get L running over any kind of load, you need to do so many hacks.
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This does not give me a vote of confidence: http://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-security/
Tech hype is a little like old spontaneous combustion of some oily rags in the corner: No telling just when they might ignite, but when they do the result can be a big fire, for a short while.

Once the hype gets a flicker, there are good sources of more fuel to make the fire bigger. E.g., the situation is old, say, back to the movie Lawrence of Arabia where a news reporter was talking to Prince Faisal and said: "You want your story told, and I desperately want a story to tell.". So, tech people who want their story told get with tech journalists who desperately want a story to tell.

One such case doesn't mean very much, but once the fire starts, more techies and more journalists do the same because the fact that there are already lots of stories gives each new story some automatic credibility.

But, fairly soon the stories get to be about the same, with little visible progress (usual situation in reality), and interest falls, the bubble bursts, becomes yesterday's news. Then, the world moves on to another source of a hype conflagration, bubble, viral storm, whatever.

For AI, by 1985 DARPA funding at the MIT AI Lab had gotten AI going. There were expert systems and more. Lots of hype. In a few years, the fire went out, the bubble burst, and there was AI winter.

For the next bubble, say, System-K (right, doesn't mean anything), print up some labels about System-K. Then order a gross of children's bubble bottles, right, soapy water with a plastic stick with a circle at the end good for blowing bubbles. Put the labels on the bottles and send them to various departments at Stanford, start up companies in Silicon Valley, VC firms on Sand Hill Road, and tech journalists. Then stand back and watch the media conflagration for System-K! So, get stories:

"System-K -- Next Big Thing"

"System-K Deep Background"

"Ex-Googlers Respond on System-K"

"System-K, Son of AI"

"Leading VC Talks about System-K"

"Silicon Valley Goes All in on System-K"

"System-K, Bigger Than the Internet"

"The First System-K Unicorn?"

"System-K Trending up"
And the user can manually force a lock, from the watch, overriding the proximity/signal strength. To intercept this the attacker would need to decipher the messages.

Not if the attacker stops the relay right after the PC is unlocked.
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"Graphics operations should be transparent, not hidden in
a GPU."

Is GPU programming opaque, I've not done any low level stuff? I imagine it's a whole bunch of different API calls, but based on triangles, rather than points and lines?

Could one write a simple GPU in code, for example, I wonder?
You could come down to Melbourne, it's got a very healthy nightlife and music scene. It has a little bit of wowserism happening at the moment (no new licenses for bars open past 1am anymore, for example, and some more restrictions on 'music pubs'), but as far as I'm aware, no legislation about timing requirements on mixed drinks (which sounds truly crazy). The main article reads like a horror story for nightlife.

It's a problem in Australian politics in general at the moment - there's a lot of conservative christian politicians in power at the federal level, and at some state levels, and they don't reflect modern australian values. One clear example is around gay marriage, which poll after poll shows the people overwhelmingly want (usually 70-80% support by respondents), but both major parties have too many conservative christians for that argument to fly. Same thing with late-night clubbing, methinks.

Still, it's better than it was 50 years ago when bars had to close at 6pm :)
> I don't know how to describe mobile. I believe it will be the tail of the so called computer era, not a next phase.

I agree with you, mobile is more of an extrapolation, or an evolution than an entirely new phase or era. We're into the point where English becomes imprecise to define where something is truly different.

And, I completely agree about the loop between being customer-driven and then finding out that it's just a short-term shift. The worst part is that it's fundamentally difficult to tell if something is a short-term trend or a long-term shift.

Where I was going was a much more limited view of 'trends', more like a season in the fashion market. Most businesses have to respond on an annual basis to what their customers wants - they can believe that something is a temporary trend, but can't afford not to respond.

Perhaps we're in violent agreement on the nature of trends, and divided by time-frame and response.
The alarm is only one year old, but I wouldn't be surprised if in 5 years the company would tell me they're obsolete and I have to buy the new ones to get better protection.
Links to a Slate article.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

There's also a correction in the Slate article:

Correction, Jan. 27, 2014: This article's headlines originally suggested that thousands of public schools in Louisiana and Tennessee are teaching creationism. While those schools are permitted to teach creationism, it is unclear how many are actually teaching it, and the headlines have been updated to reflect this.
Except extortion works for a while. So while the meek wait for their inheritance, they are being kicked from pillar to post.
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Is Hackpad failing to store data?
It seems at least 3 people have lost documents during the last 24 hours.

https://twitter.com/elaragon/status/695923087209005056
https://twitter.com/hamoid/status/695920607297462272
https://twitter.com/gugod/status/695891361539743744

I know it's not very smart to use Hackpad when their last tweet was from half year ago, the last public commit from 3 months ago. It's very likely been abandoned.

I was wondering if this has affected others.

If you have stuff there, it's probably a good idea to make a backup.
The stats are out there - and in short the pay is considered too low by most who would want to nurse to actually pursue a career - starts at 21k, tops out at 35k - and bursuries and grants for educational and training costs are unavailable for most - the means test requires you and your family to earn less than a living income to actually get funding.

Apocryphally, my other half wanted to be a nurse, but couldn't get any assistance to fund her studies. She went to work as a carer instead, which requires less in the way of qualifications, but if you're earning minimum wage and having to spend most of your income on fuel to reach your patients, it doesn't make sense to pursue.

No - nursing roles tend to be most readily fulfilled by those who have trained overseas, have a favourable purchasing parity power in their country of origin compared to the UK, and have a modest cost of living, what with that being prepared to work your nuts off to achieve your aspirations thing that has largely been washed out of the West. A growing number of folks seem to be waiting for lightning to strike, as everybody eventually wins the lottery or becomes a pop star.