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Yeah, just because one tiny fraction edge case might be affected, we should do absolutely nothing. The status quo of land ownership being an enabler of a rentier class pales in significance to the plight of subsistence farmers, which I have a hard time believing exist in any substantial number in developed countries.

It's not like we could define classes of protected persons to balance out such effects?

But no, it's better to do absolutely nothing on the off chance someone, somewhere might be negatively affected in the next millennium.

Better the devil we know, right? No matter the imbalance and injustice to society, property rights and protection of capital derived from ownership, are sacrosanct.

I hear this argument all the time, and without fail it's a Boomer who benefited from massive capital gains, or someone who bought when it was low. The Fuck You, Got Mine crowd.

FWIW, I'm a homeowner, so in theory if I didn't care that we're creating a disenfranchised group on a massive scale, I should be against such a tax.

But don't come here and pretend you really care at all about this contrived population of people who would suffer unduly.
Familiarize yourself with the bulk P2P lawsuits, they're doing everything in their power to cut costs.
No, the point of that style of password is that you choose the words randomly. Random words are just easier to remember than random characters.
Not really, there is no fitness function, there is only some implicit selection pressure. Remember, a single individual is a single password(a string). The program does not keep track of how many viable offspring a parent produces. All an organism does is have sex with other strings in the hope of producing viable offspring(another cracked password). This carries the genetic information on to the next generation while the older generation keeps dying indiscriminatingly, whether they were fit or not since there is no fitness function.
Yes, elementary algebra.

Where I taught, they gave the incoming freshmen a math test, and the kids were put into Calculus, Algebra, or a "remedial" math course. Algebra was the lowest level course that could be offered by an accredited college, and the "remedial" kids eventually had to pass Algebra.

This was a large state university, so the kids came in with a wide range of skills, from a state where there is a lot of variation in how math is taught in high school. They were bright, affluent kids. Many of them had taken algebra and even calculus, had gotten good grades, but had not really learned those subjects well enough to skip them in college.

I had pretty much the same thoughts as you express, but as the semester progressed, I developed the opinion that these kids had been screwed by the system and still deserved a chance. They were not going to be engineers. Most of my students were planning to major in psychology or business.
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Most people are happy they can barely use their browser and have probably never seen any of these menus. They won't even think about opening the Preferences window to look around and they definitely won't consider that they could configure the fonts used by websites.
George advocated a land value tax; that is a tax on the unimproved value of the land.

This might seem like a minor difference but it actually isn't, because taxes generally cause changes in behaviour. Sometimes those changes are desirable: Carbon taxes, "sin" taxes, etc. More often the change is undesirable (as when we tax investment, wages, or consumption). (And, very frequently, those changes in behaviour results in the actual burden of the tax shifting. Payroll taxes are levied on businesses, but nobody actually thinks they pay them.)

Tax housing, and you'll get less housing. Since people like housing (that's why they build it), that's considered a Bad Thing. Tax land, and you'll...get the same amount of land. With a few very minor exceptions, the amount of land is fixed. No distortions, no deadweight costs, and no real ability to shift the economic burden of the tax.
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the magazine itself may be out of copyright but not necessarily all of its content. for example stories would revert to the writers copyright, which is how writers make more money off of successful stories going in anthologies etc.
The NP-complete problem here is merely used as a intensive benchmark. It's still just "bruteforcing" the solution.
Here is a more detailed explanation of how and when they are related and when not: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9238326/system-call-and-c...
Except it's almost certainly not up to me.

Oh, you use Autodesk products, you'll need Windows for that.

"We created a shared Word doc / PowerPoint in OneDrive for the report" - only editable with MS Office.

My choice is work or no work.
Not true for Portugal too. For my PhD I got a scholarship of 980€/month (too much below standard market rates for software engineers around here) and was not considered full time worker, so I had no benefits, no insurance, nada, zip.

Although I consider it to be one of the best times that I had, in professional terms I didn't got much from it unfortunately..
From the contents of Galaxy, and the output of Asimov, I have to say I agree with your grandfather 100%.
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While I think this rant is valid. Many people care more about look then readability. If it looks boring, they might not read it. So I think it's up to the client to do the font override, etc.
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Reduce requires that functions be pure (no side effects). Immutable.js is one way to enforce this but ithe is not required.

The examples mostly use things like the spread operator and Object.assign.
Ask HN: Is it normal to outgrow your interests?
I'm still pretty young (low twenties), but I notice as the years go on my interests (computing and non-computing related) change dramatically. I think back to my old hobbies and have zero residual interest in them - this makes me worry; what happens when there's no new areas to become interested in (or at least no low-hanging fruit). Has anyone come across the same issue?
a trite and inaccurate article that equates all of silicon valley to data exploiters and tax evaders.
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not only that, loss of features like named urls...
The same "modern web" that mostly fails at doing web for lack of progressive enhancement.

But enough sidetracking, as ekianjo said, using a script to load the font is unnecessarily adding to its fragility and simply fails for those without javascript.

This modern web core technology being a security liability[1], invasive of privacy[2] and the facilitator of modern annoyances that gets in the way of the user, (ads, interstitial space, ...) it is an expected response from the user to disable it or restrict it to the actual domain serving the page.

[1]: http://thehackernews.com/2016/01/javascript-ransomware-malwa...
[2]: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ and http://evenbettermotherfucking.website/
I'm actually looking for an alternative to Reddit-like communities. I understand that upvotes and downvotes encourage good content theoretically. But that is only if the guidelines of voting are followed.

The guidelines seem to only be followed when a subreddit community is below a certain amount of participants. When a subreddit gets larger and more popular, the voting system creates a predictable, boring, and fascist echo chamber.

When I think about it, the voting on content (the threads) is a very different thing than the voting on the comments inside the threads. Most of the silencing of dissenters and upvoting of the like-minded happen in the comments sections. The voting on the content is a bit less biased, because usually things get downvoted only if they're lame or don't belong in the subreddit.

Any thoughts on how to solve the fascism problem while also encouraging good behavior and good content?
Yes hugely similar to me. When I think of the things that I was passionate about even 3 years ago, I'm sure a different person now.

I'm in my late 30s now, but I'd say don't worry, there is always something new to be interested or excited by!
It will only be exposed automatically if you mark it public, i.e., 'string public greeting'
You're right. To disambiguate, I was saying the pragmatic/economic effect "dominates", which economists use to imply being stronger, not even necessarily by much, but enough to override culture at the margin.

> all of these factors are core to what attracts significantly large groups of people to cities

And these things can change. Or more precisely, technological or social shifts may change these preferences drastically, which is why real estate and land ownership in general has a black-swan style long-tail risk, which is seldom mentioned.

Primary draws of the city may become weaker with better technology. And we might find [more striking and concrete evidence for] significant drawbacks, especially in term of health effects.
This is not true. Just because modern scholars pretend it is, doesn't make it so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_theory
First, I don't care if LTV is technically regressive, I care if political opponents of LTV can claim it is, and they can.

Second, I actually included meaningful comparisons. My hedge fund gets taxed the same per sqft as the coffee shop in the same building (probably less, because the storefront property is more valuable, a 56th floor coffeeshop doesn't get the same foot traffic as the street level one, my hedge fund works equally well whatever floor it's on). Also, I'd put my back office operation in SC, which is great for me and SC, but looks a lot like me dodging my fair share. This might be economically efficient but it's not politically efficient.

Googles datacentres are in the same industrial zones as those factories. Google's offices are right next to malls and cinemas who would get billion-dollar tax bills if Google were to be taxed "fairly".
Because that method has it's own problems too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot
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Your analysis indicates that you're stuck on the dimension of individuality vs collectivism whereby libertarian solutions would somehow be inferior to socialist ones.

The real problems in Somalia lie along dimensions of corruption and violence. The biggest gains that they could make as a society would be to reduce the value of corruption and violence as a means to an end. Possibly that reduction comes in the form of free markets that create a vibrant economy that their people become incentivized to protect. Possibly, some more socialist democratic processes could take hold that appeals to their cultural tendencies to help one another. Probably some mixture of those forces could help to create a new Somalian society.
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Wait, how are we defining trolling? I'd say this kid went above and beyond what would be "trolling." Trolling is trying to get a rise out of people on a discussion board or twitter or similar. Trolling is not encouraging terrorists to bomb American cities.
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Somewhat related: LiveMail doesn't work reliably with Yahoo Mail.

I was trying to fix email for a friend recently. Her UK ISP's email service is a rebranded Yahoo Mail account.

It works fine on her iPad, but LiveMail in Win7 (she doesn't want Win10) regularly chokes on attachments.

Turns out LiveMail can't cope if there's spam in a Yahoo trash account. And this bug has been around for years now.

Not sure if incompetence, corporate dementia, or some nefarious plot to get users to switch to <whatever Microsoft's mail service is called this year.>

Either way, I suggested she switch to Gmail.
Interesting theory here:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorde...

Basically applying reason to religion might end badly if religion is not weak enough to die in the process.
To repeat myself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11189332
The queue structure is one of my own ideas. It is possible that it has been done before, but I did not check. There does not seem to be a lot of research on this topic. That being said, it is a nice toy problem to explore genetic algorithms and diversity.

Regarding the stack approach, I would suspect that new genetic information would immediately be lost since a new organism dies before having much chance to produce offspring. In the off chance it manages to produce offspring, those offspring would also be lost almost immediately since they get popped first.

If you are really curious, you can change line 163 in vivarium.cpp from a pop_front() to a pop_back() to see what happens.
There are several types of academic writers, for sure. Some are amazingly clear in their writing. Those people are fantastic, and really do help to advance the spread of new ideas.

But some (many) use long words and convoluted sentences, seemingly for no reason other than to make their reader feel less intelligent. I know someone in the latter category; while he's a very bright guy, I haven't the foggiest idea what he's saying in any of his papers.

Which does indeed demonstrate that a PhD doesn't necessarily make you a great writer. I had been writing professionally for a decade before I started my PhD, and this had far more to do with my clarity of writing than any feedback I got in grad school.

And of course, don't forget the gibberish, automatically generated papers that were accepted: http://www.ibtimes.com/fake-research-papers-how-did-more-120...
>Modern programming practice emphasizes tests, which is great. However, not all kinds of tests can be written so far.

I don't think this is true in practice. It's just that a lot of scenarios people need tests for aren't easy to replicate and most people end up not bothering and relying upon manual checking instead.
Why don't you try to proxy it by setting up an interview with him. Come to HN with the story of "I'm going to interview the Minister of Telecom in Somalia: What should I ask him?"

Collect the questions and then later post the full interview somewhere that you can then reference in another post to HN.
> Go has regexps, and a very good implementation at it.

In my experience, porting code from Perl to Go, Go's regexp package is vastly inferior to Perl's, in multiple areas, speed, memory, unicode handling (eg: \b works on ascii-only in Go), etc. For example, for some large regexps handling url blacklists, reduced programmatically with Perl's awesome regexp assembly tools, I had to rely on PCRE in the end, Go just could not cope with that (not even the c++ re2). I do avoid regexps, regexps are usually best avoided, and all that, but there are areas in which they are by far the best option. In those areas, I postulate, from my own experience, that Perl's implementation is king. Speed, memory usage, Unicode.
That's kinda illegal unless you upgrade the existing ticket yourself and not change the airline it was booked with.
Large equipment like fans could generate such frequencies. As they've been linked to ghost sightings in humans, I wouldn't be surprised if chickens got spooked by a similar effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound#Suggested_relations...
DFT in particular is a trap - the field is simply not respected by other physicists for a variety of reasons too complicated to get into here. I dabbled in it at first but was able to switch to hard condensed matter because I managed to pull off passing a QFT course in my first year of grad school which combined with solving some experimentalist's problems got the requisite professors to at least listen to me. A lot of DFT people end up as soft money research assistant professors or switched to staff support scientist positions (if they don't drop out and become programmers) because the perception is they never came up with any ideas of their own - they just executed other people's codes. Leave the field to the J-1s.
>Tests should be optimized for readability foremost. For example, most people try and make their tests DRY (which is an abuse of DRY because it should only apply to concepts, not code, but I digress)

That's wrong on so many levels. DRY applies to code.

>while they should instead be making them DAMP. Each test should be able tell a story without jumping up and down around the file and outside the file. It's a lot more dangerous to misunderstand a test than it is to have a little bit of code duplication in your tests.

This is a problem with Gherkin. Gherkin is not particularly well suited to making tests that are both DRY and readable due to its syntax.
The state plane coordinate systems use NAD27 or NAD83 (plus improvements).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Plane_Coordinate_System

The flattening of an orange peel you mention is more about projection, a datum is a mathematical description of the earth that maps out how geographic coordinates will vary. Given geographic coordinates, a projection system is needed to display them on a flat surface (or really any surface that doesn't match the shape of the geographic coordinate system).

Differences between datums do arise from different modeling choices and should be accounted for when translating coordinates, but as the fine article discusses, the offsets in GCJ-02 are algorithmic and are not a refinement of WGS84, they obscure true location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...
How fast can it go? And alternatively, how fast can it go with hashcat?

This looks awesome, but without the GPU speed advantage I'm not sure how well it'll fare against the almost 80GH/s I can do on my desktop with cudahashcat.
> I also wish one could simply add a link to a font-file in the <head>-element and be done with it.

You know you can do just that, don't you ?[1].

[1]: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/
The reason I left academia and didn't pursue a post doc was because the prospects of making $32k in New York while trying to pay off a student loan, to maybe get an assistant professor position one day, wasn't appealing. I invested over 10-years of my life up to that point, but I certainly wasn't entitled to a job and believe me, a PhD is often a huge Liability when you're looking for a job. If you're making 20 pounds a day working for Uber then turn off the meter and go do something else.
Property tax includes the value of what's ON the land, land tax is the value of just the unimproved empty lot. IE, the location.

Creating value on the land is yours to keep, capturing value the community created (the location value) should go to the community. Otherwise you profit and rent seek from value you didn't create.

That's the theory at least.
> it's actually the European system that's geared towards quick cheap labor for the PI's idea

Hmm I thought it was the other way around. In the UK PhD students rarely do work for their supervisors like teaching undergraduate courses, which seems to happen a lot in the US. When I started my PhD in the UK I was told I needed to come up with my own project from the start. I only did one paper that was sort of related to my supervisor's project, and I only did a hundred hours teaching over my entire PhD, and that was voluntary.

The other big difference between the US and UK PhD approaches is that in the UK a PhD student doesn't do any courses. Day one on the PhD is day one working towards their research project and thesis.
Legacy means "in production, making us money".
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Why is the major version still zero?

AFAIK React is used in production, and I can not find any alpha/beta labelling on their website either?
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ahem: Pouzin [1][3][4].

Cerf: Incidentally, just for the record, the sliding window
flow control for TCP came straight out of discussions with
Louie Pouzin [ph?] and his people at INRIA. So, in fact,
Gerard Le Lann [ph?], who was part of Louis Pouzin’s lab,
came to Stanford University in 1974 and participated in a
lot of the design work, and I remember Bob Metcalfe and
Le Lann and I sortof lying down of the living room in my house
in Palo Alto on this giant piece of paper, trying to sketch
what the state diagrams were for these protocols.

Nielson: Louis Pouzin arises all over the place?

Cerf: Absolutely. [2]

[1]: http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/Book/6/6.3-C...

[2]:http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

[3]:http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/155666

[4]:http://pouzinsociety.org/about
To be fair, there could be more done on the tax issue but the article was a hit job. And "United Square Ventures"? Seriously? Hard to have street cred writing when your butchering the name of one of the most well known VC forms.
> I will say that graduate school was one of the best periods of my life.

Results not typical (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8720640). It's surprising for me to read the author's account and not find even the smallest tidbit of the adversity and nonsensical friction that plagued my friends and I when we were in grad school.

At least the author is at least partially aware of why they had a good experience:

> I am privileged to have had a relatively supportive environment and few additional pressures. My experience is most likely to generalize for other computer science PhD students at top schools, where the funding situation tends to be good and advisors tend to give students a fair amount of freedom.
> The part about the federal law is still true but as far as I know, law enforcement in Colorado is not required nor can be forced to enforce federal law.

But the FBI can very well decide to prosecute federal crimes in states, even if the "crime" is legal under state law.
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This reminds me of Moby Dick
As Koolhaas points out in "Delirious New York", skyscrapers are a way of multiplying plot area. This does pose problems for a taxation scheme based on land use.
> 1) The perl cpan module doesn't resolve dependencies

What? CPAN absolutely does.

> 2) The cpan module has parsing errors when passing in a list of CPAN packages

Both from the commandline, and in CPAN itself can i install a list of modules as such:

cpan Data::Dumper Devel::Confess

install Data::Dumper Devel::Confess

> 3) You have to manually grep your perl code to see what modules it depends on

Or you can use a CPAN module for that.

> 4) Module installs take a long time since they can compile and unit test the code

Or you just install them like this, if you're confident in your system:

install Data::Dumper Devel::Confess

> 5) Non-interactive installs of CPAN modules requires digging in the docs

Non-interactive installs should be using your operating system's package manager, unless you have a special use-case, in which some doc digging is fine.

> 6) CPAN modules aren't used that heavily and can have bugs that would be caught in wider used modules.

You mean "Some CPAN modules".

> 7) Perl devs don't think twice about shelling out to an external binary (that may or may not be installed)

Again, some.

> 8) Even if regexs are not needed, inevitably the perl dev will use them since that's the perl hammer

Eh, fair enough.

> 9) You have to manually include the DataDumper package to debug data structs

Data::Dumper was first released with perl 5.005

> 10) You have to manually enable warnings and strict check, it's not on by default.

Same in JS, and similar with other languages.

> Anyhow, I think we've made a lot of progress since the 1990s. :)

Not really sure, the trolling culture seems to still be the same as back then.
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