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Ask HN: Is this a Python bug?
The run method below never executes in Python 3.5:

from threading import Thread

import time

class MyThread(Thread):

def __init__(self):

Thread.__init__(self)

def run(self):
while True:
print("Forever")
time.sleep(10)

return

yield from None

if __name__ == '__main__':

mt = MyThread()

mt.start()

mt.join()
What if it actually does work?

All of the accusations I've read revolve around everything but the the actual science, e.g. not classifying their containers as Class II, instead of Class I.
Share same opinion as @lucb1e, that title is misleading.

Google's role is not surprising nor understood as a privacy watchdog on this context, the company is complying (better or worse) with a right provided to EU citizens.

An example of true privacy watchdog (besides the others already mentioned) would be the FSFE or Julia Reda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Reda
Or they could be speaking from experience, because back in the day when webforums where the place to make online communities, as they grew beyond a certain size this sort of thing became THE bottleneck, especially for large threads.

I empirically know this was an issue back then. I also agree it's something a DB engine should handle, and I do hope that databases do a better job today.

So instead of calling out "premature optimization", maybe instead come with a practical example of a DB engine that properly handles this?
> US¢ 3/Kwh ($30/MWh).

$30/MWh seems to be very very cheap. That is half the price of the lowest bid in India. Is there a source for that number?
ryanlol is correct though. If you open source just the end-to-end crypto part, it doesn't mean that the there's no backdoor elsewhere - it could easily leak the keys or whole conversations.

The second problem is - you don't know if that source is what ended up in the binary.

So yeah, unless you can compile the whole thing yourself, it should not be considered secure.
What do you mean by "user's rights" and by "sent"? Why shouldn't it be possible? If the TOS and app allow and enable it, it can be done.

This sounds no different from, say, Snapchat, except that the deletion is triggered by the sender instead of by a timer.
I suspect so, too :-)
No, not at all. see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520789

Solar and wind is for the majority not subsidized in India.

What you are referring to is the Min of New and Renewable Energy offering a VGF "viability gap funding" for certain very large projects termed UMPPs (Ultra Mega Power Plants) of 1000-4000MW. These are few and take-up has been poor due to the execution complexities.

India is adding 15-20k MW of Solar and 10k MW of Wind per year - the vast majority of which is completely unsubsidized. State electricity distributors tender for plants, and private developers bid a tariff they feel will support their ROI.

Apart from the US and its PTC structure, most of the huge capacity additions happening in wind and solar in Europe, Asia, Africa, China and India are happening from pure private unsubsidized auctions for power.
Apache Beam wants to be the uber api for big data
And your employment situation?

I'm the same as you, once again back in the career change cycle.

There's really no corporation out there who wants a generalist unless you're the CEO perhaps, but you have to be an expert to get there.

I'm pretty sure generalists were just meant to be merchants / small business owners but those opportunities have dwindled away in our modern economy.
Well if 1 and 3 are the truth then you are certainly right.
It's not so much that it failed to gain traction. It was the default window manager through most of the Gnome 1 era. I used to write plugins and themes for it. What happened was that it was very slow to transition to GTK2, and so was not a great fit for Gnome 2. At the same time, the Gnome core devs were pushing for more simplicity in the user interface and the development stack, so pushed for Metacity, the less configurable C-based window manager you mention.

The neat thing about Sawfish was that its design was very similar to that of Emacs -- an application-specific lisp interpreter with domain-specific C primitives, coupled with higher-level implementation in lisp. Sawfish lisp was also very similar to Emacs lisp.
Finally! I've been manually downloading my statements to plug into an account aggregator for way too long now (yes I know about yodlee integration, am I ever going to put every single password into it? Hell no).
Mine is changed for Heroku, but it only prepends. I've never seen $PATH be rearranged.
I think it's reasonable to allow senders to revoke a sent message, particularly if it was sent just a short period of time ago. The only assurance you would have that this works is if both sender/receiver are on the same system. The question is a little trickier if the receiver has read the message. And, I agree, that after some period of time, particularly after the receiver has read the message, the message should be inviolate on the receivers side.
Nah, it's terrible. And I'm not only referring to RT English - I find RT Arabic equally difficult to watch to be frank.
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I've got a weird question: if it became feasible to do lots of mining on other planets and bring it back to Earth, at what point will it be a problem where the mass of material on Earth starts to become a problem?

Odd question I know, but I've often wondered this.
How hackers eavesdropped on a US Congressman using only his phone number
I agree the non-negotiation was a major compromise. However it was, as I am told, basically required to get the ACA passed at all.

The drug companies were represented by Billy Tauzin [1] who, as I am told by insiders that worked directly with him, was able to get the Pharmacos to not fight the ACA. Their support was not just critical, but a necessary factor in getting anything done.

It was a trade-off, whether or not is was worth it is hard to know.

As for your own care, I am sorry to hear about the lack of insurance. Some states (for often historical market reasons) make it hard for providers to sell or even give medications to their patients, which is also part of this problem.

If you look around, there are occasionally 'Direct Primary Care' providers or community clinics that stock generics for their own patients and will provide them at no or low-cost. Many organizations and states have processes for the uninsured to obtain medications at low cost as well. If you find a clinic with PCPs who are mission-driven, and they are out there, they perhaps can help you enroll.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tauzin
Would open sourcing the Whatsapp client hurt Whatsapp in any significant way?

I mean, sure, there could be "Whatsapp clones" (aren't there already?!), but wouldn't Whatsapp still benefit from the phone number user base it has, thus maintaining a certain lock-in on its users from which it already benefits?
I think the point is that they're attempting to make the shops look busy, but it's a ham-fisted/incompetent failure (they recirculate the same "shoppers", nobody buys anything)
Wow, that's really unexpected. I thought every school in the country started the day with the pledge.
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And I can assure you that the situation is similar with journals owned by Wiley, Springer, and Elsevier, for examples.
Just a guess...because it's an election year? And there are a number of important races coming up in the next few days, including the New York Primaries? Got to spin up the Truther/Birther/Bengazi constituency.
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No, the story that I read indicated that the North Koreans brought Western visitors to a department store, to demonstrate how great North Korea's economy was.

This Western visitor noticed that after people exited the store, they immediately entered again, to give an illusion of a busy store -- when in fact, nothing was actually being purchased.

(I can't remember if the shoppers were using money or taking things out of the store, but I have to assume that they were. I wish that I could find this story, which was quite fascinating.)

My point is that the North Korean government was so inept at propaganda that their attempts to demonstrate economic stability and power were laughably transparent.
Think about the explosion in scientific understanding, world commerce and enlightenment values that came with the expansion of the British empire. Then think about the explosion of world commerce and related technological advances that came from colonising North America. We're still feeling those benefits wash over us as a species. Then think about what happens when we reach a tipping point where exploiting and colonising near Earth space becomes commercially viable. Like war, rapid expansion into virgin territories can be at once chaotic, uncontrollable and radically socially, technologically and economically invigorating.
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Oh, a liar's paradox. Maybe it's this very page that is deceptive. In which case none of google.com is deceptive, but this page is.
Perhaps you're simply projecting those feelings because of what you know and heard about NK. I'd wager that the citizens don't live much differently in the day-to-day than you or I do, setting aside the propaganda and obsession with the Great Leader (lol) of course.
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It's the NY Post. Not exactly a bastion of journalistic excellence. It's one "Bat Boy" away from being the Inquirer.
I use histogram.py from https://github.com/bitly/data_hacks all the time...
It's the same thing people complain about wrt unfree software, e.g. Kindle deleting purchased books remotely if they were uploaded by someone without the rights to the book.

The difference with snapshot is that their whole gimmick was the deleting thing. You had no expectation of permanency. But I'm sure many use Viber with the expectation that they'll be able to access old communications; after all, it's on their own device.

Sure, they have the right to do it, in the same way that Gmail could implement the same anti feature, in the same way Amazon had the right to delete books. But that just causes me not to use them, just like I'd stop using Gmail if they did that. (I still use a Kindle, but I've only ever purchased one book, and read it right away. I'm not dependent on them not deleting my books.)
I understand, that makes sense. What a clearly stupid decision on the government's part. It would have been much better if the stores were simply empty. Thanks for clarifying.
That's something only the consumer cares about. As noted, the orgs above the pharmacy divide them into 30 and 90 day groups, with different policies and prices for each.

Also, some retail pharmacies will do the 90 day benefits thing as well as the normal 30 days, I get the impression this is better for some benefits managers than setting up their own mail order pharmacy or contracting with someone like Express Scripts. If I remember correctly, the Humana only Wal-Mart plan does this, as well as others (I learn about this sort of thing every year when I examine Medicare Part D plans and chose one for the next year).
yep, it's built on d3.js with custom animations and transitions
I've been using Thumbor[1] on an EC2 instance and once OpenCV is installed the face & feature detection has been great. Combined with a similar style of "put the transforms in the URL" on demand method of serving images it's been awesome.

[1]: http://thumbor.org/
Photographs are pretty much as detailed as a painting could be. Writing and poetry however is like a 5 minute sketch where you can fill in the details based on your current state.
> You have to ban things that are outright bad for athletes.

You're assuming all those things are bad for the athletes.
Just last week, thyroid tumors were reclassified and are no longer considered cancer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/health/thyroid-tumor-cance...]

From the article 'Instead of calling it “encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma,” they now call it “noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features,” or NIFTP. The word “carcinoma” is gone.'.
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As awful as North Korea is, I am _really_ impressed at the cleanliness of the subway station in the photos.

Not a scrap of litter, no graffiti, no sketchy people and probably doesn't even smell like piss. Floors are obviously meticulously scrubbed.

Kudos to North Korea! (OK, I know its an oppressive hellhole, but goddamn the subways are clean).

Meanwhile, in NYC, we have viral video of a rat dragging Pizza down stairs in a subway.
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You shouldn't be concerned about unanimity. You should be concerned if it is true or not.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgXjY3cWIAAVfCM.jpg:large

Unfortunately we can't run experiments on this question. Every city is unique, and people tend to think very special.
Military drones are also at least partially overseen by a pilot as well.

When we've mastered the automation of cars, then we can start turning our eyes to be able to handle planes as well. Just like cars, automating clear and calm days is relatively simple; but most days are neither clear nor calm.
Harvard student team claims victory in mech-warfare robot competition
> I mean, sure, there could be "Whatsapp clones" (aren't there already?!)

Sounds funny if you consider that Whatsapp itself is just a branded deployment of FOSS XMPP server Ejabberd, with feature of federation taken away. Plus a client app implementation, of course.
Apple's MacBook gets faster processors, longer battery life, and rose gold color
Just like their attempts to pass off two stations as a real Metro.
Pyongyang's metro would make a great setting for that hypothetical "Koreans invade Moscow" movie that no one seems to be filming.
In this sense, it's actually a blessing that we're inclined to feel so satisfied seeing justice done by a third party.

Maybe, but the schadenfreude is going to boil over if we ever get to see Holmes being perp-walked in her black turtleneck.
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Really great presentation.
yeah, because the current one sucks, i must know it, i use it and it hate it.
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There's a wide variety of ways that easy access to space could help the ecology. Battery technology at the moment needs a lot of rare earths, which could be obtained in space. Mining activities in space are mining activities not occuring on Earth's surface. Solar power may be augmentable using space technologies. Any high-pollution industry that can be moved to space is either polluting something already clinically sterile (remember pollution is not "intrinsically bad", that's a cognitive shortcut that works on a planet with life in every cubic centimeter, pollution is bad because of what it does to life; really, if there's no "life", there's no "pollution"), or "polluting" into something that will just be blown away on the solar wind, which makes it irrelevant. Easy access to space also enables some ways of controlling climate change; I've always preferred the space mirror approach to manipulating the climate because it's so fantastically controllable, unlike almost all other proposals to try to fix it here on Earth. (If you get it wrong, you can stop.)

Also, before you trot out the tired old "oh, we never thought we'd finish polluting the ocean"... first, run the math, it's very different, and second, the universe is already terminally polluted, in the sense that nothing much can live there until we go out and clean some space out. There's no life out there, not within anywhere we can get in your lifetime. It can't get any more uninhabitable than it already is.
If it hasn't been delivered to the user's device, fine. Once it's been delivered, it shouldn't be modified.

I suppose I might be OK with individual exceptions to this rule, if some sensitive message was sent, after going through customer service. It certainly shouldn't be a one click to delete.
Wow. This looks really cool.
It is a feature http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26595895/return-and-yield...
facebook - microsoft for the next 50 years.
Also 4331 URLs removed from Google index [1] because of DMCA requests sent to Google:
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright...

[1] http://domainstats.io/tools/dmca
As a fellow cycling commuter, I agree with your sentiment,but I would argue that the rules of cycling racing now prevent a much more innovative environment that could trickle down to us commuters. In particular, the frame shape limits that keep everything as a double diamond. For efficient human power, the best designs are usually recumbents, but very little money has gone into that area because recumbents are not allowed in races.
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Actual press release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160419005558/en/Appl...
Yes, here in the USA, too, Right isn't an economic position. Hence the rise of Donald Mussolini Trump.
> We are proposing the name EfficiencySanitizer, or "esan" for short, to
refer to this suite of dynamic instrumentation tools for improving program
efficiency. As we have a number of different tools that share quite a bit
of their implementation we plan to consider them sub-tools under the
EfficiencySanitizer umbrella, rather than adding a whole bunch of separate
instrumentation and runtime library components.

> While these tools are not addressing correctness issues like other
sanitizers, they will be sharing a lot of the existing sanitizer runtime
library support code. Furthermore, users are already familiar with the
sanitizer brand, and it seems better to extend that concept rather than add
some new term.

Is the advertisement value really worth this abuse of "sanitizer"? This is not a sanitizer.
The processor connecting you to a LAN doesn't actually care what "cloud" you decide to connect to. My guess is that the point of this infrastructure option is to optimize for the worker bees, in which case a super-reliable network connectivity (thin client) would be valued for its ability to not slow down from the outside world's "cloud".
1.0001 is very close to 1. But if the rules say that the the value must be between 0 and 1 then the similarity doesn't matter. Only the rules, as interpreted by the judges, matter for the decision of if a motor or a monkey is allowed in the given race.

I believe you do not understand what "dominate" means in this thread. It's clear that technology is an essential component, not only for the bike, as you mentioned, but also the paved roads. It's clear that humans are an essential component, not only as a power source but also the efforts of many to develop better training methods.

It's also clear that the legal system is an important component, since the force of law helps keep people off the otherwise public roads during the races.

All of these are essential. Do you consider them all to be dominate?

I don't. Most people don't watch a bike race to see how well the road is maintained, or look at the barricades set up, or marvel at the supply chain to support a cyclist from stop to stop.

No, most of them are there to watch the riders, and to a lesser extent the gear. The Lugano charter makes it explicit that a UCI goal is to reflect a certain historical and sociological understanding of what cycling should be. It even says that the technology used should be subordinate to the physical qualities of the rider.

You can use a different interpretation of what "dominate" means, but note that your objection was an interpretation of a summary by jdietrich, who also provided a reference to the source document. Your interpretation since then is not compatible to the source document.

In my opinion, you misunderstood jdietrich's comment from the start and continue to argue against a viewpoint and interpretation that no one actually asserts.
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"Click-bait" is another one of those terms that gets thrown around too far regularly these days. MOST headlines are "click-bait" both online and in print. Headlines are supposed to grab your interest whether because of the topic itself, through clever wordplay (as the Economist tends to do), or through perhaps less scrupulous means. If a headline is deceptive or otherwise is misleading people (subject to the limitations of a short headline), say so explicitly--don't default to click-bait.
Misinformed. Please see my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11524691

and these links would be helpful

http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/re_futures/

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/03/02/base-load-power-is-a-myt...

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/08/rmi-blows-lid-baseload-p...

http://rameznaam.com/2016/01/31/how-far-can-renewables-go-pr...
An MMO server could be set up in 50 years with bots taking the place of most of the players to a mostly convincing degree, although I think the knowledge that those are just bots and not real players would be just as unsatisfying then as it is today. If AI advances well enough, the bot-players could provide the drama elements and story lines currently created by players, but then we're basically looking at a derivative work instead of preserving the original work.
Is this something you can partner with shopify or something and add as a plug-in. or other type communities? stripe adn others have partner directories. what about zapier and itff? can you get integrated with them?
so crypto was on their roadmap but gifs weren't
No, Dr Hunt (see link in cousin). I actually only had him as a tutor but didn't want to complicate things.
Its not relevant to people who are prepared to sacrifice convenience for cost. Especially if night-time prices are directly linked to supply. Smarter devices will become available that use energy when its cheaply available. Long time storage will improve and spread the load, probably from smaller to larger scale. Base load is really an artefact of system and usage inefficiencies, not some inherent problem with renewables.
And what if you can't imagine doing one thing for longer than say a couple of years? What if you could never get "feels" for that?
So basically now Telegram is the only app not doing it by default?
I think the parent meant the cache tables of each node are empty (not many users yet), so the tested apps will be able to have relatively large cache tables on those nodes, since they aren't getting LRU'd out by other users.

So the cache table for a tested app is fuller because the cache table overall is emptier.
That's your opinion and not at all fact. Solaris really? What year is it 1999? I know nobody that uses "illumos / SmartOS with Solaris zones" nor do I ever recall seeing it as a skill that either established companies or start ups are looking for.
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Google already keeps copies of copyrighted web pages for its Internet search engine. This is the same thing, but for books, isn't it?
And, as of 9:00 AM Eastern, attempting to click on "Buy" gets you the following:
- "The page you’re looking for can’t be found."
you might reach out to ecommerce blogs and offer to write an article for them. http://pitchbox.com/ offers a service to help.
If by "sane" you mean "tedious and manual", sure... ;)

There's a scale of how manage-y window managers are. Oldschool floating WMs are very manual in that you have to position and size each window on your own. i3 improves a lot on that by offering some automation, as long as the user still provides the basic idea of where to split and so on. Other WMs like xmonad, dwm et al. automatically position and size windows according to pre-defined layouts, which can be tweaked dynamically.