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That's an easy question to ask if you know the screen aspect and resolution. What if you don't know either or both? The question suddenly shifts to "Where do I want things on screens?" and suddenly it's not about library anymore.
To question your assessment I tested it on my own machine:

python3 -m timeit -s 'x = 8' 'x in range(1000)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.405 usec per loop
python3 -m timeit -s 'x = 8' '0 <= x < 1000'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0742 usec per loop
python3 -m timeit -s 'x = 8' 'x in range(100000)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.405 usec per loop
python3 -m timeit -s 'x = 1123' 'x in range(100000)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.415 usec per loop
python3 -m timeit -s 'x = 1123' '0 <= x < 100000'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0745 usec per loop

While 0<=x<10 seems to be 5 times faster, both seem to be independent of the actual chosen values.
I've known about it for a long time, and several times I've tried to read about them and figure out what exactly they do. "pharmaceutical benefits management." Okay, not sure what that actually means. I figure it's just another business / industry that exists solely because of the disastrous healthcare system in America, and would not otherwise be needed if the government managed pharmaceutical access so everyone has access to them.
Backyard in this context means something more akin to neighborhood/city/etc. as opposed to patch of green behoind hous

Many property rights are limited in various ways--often by zoning in the case of land. And, typically, those limitations would be known at the time of purchase. Most would agree some level of zoning is reasonable; no incinerators or drilling for oil in residential neighborhoods for example.

I actually agree that excessive permitting processes that block otherwise allowed development are often a problem. But some level of zoning (whatever you call it) is effectively required for a functioning city or other community.
The first think I asked myself was 'How do they make money!' there are no ads, I found this on Quora and it made a lot of sense:
https://www.quora.com/How-does-unsplash-com-make-money
People who self identify as British rather than English, Scots etc. actually seem to be in the minority:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24302914

"What emerges from the census results is that, while a majority of people in England, Scotland and Wales pick English (60%), Scottish (62%) or Welsh (58%) as their sole identity, younger and more diverse communities show higher proportions selecting a British identity."

Edit: I'm a Scot - seems natural for people to describe themselves as English, Welsh etc. and relatively few people I've known got it confused with Ireland (apart from the US VCs who invested in our UK-based startup and thought we were in Ireland and we actually worried that if we corrected them they might not invest... this was ~20 years ago).
You just pointed out that the rules of bicycle races, as a class, are intensely concerned with what counts as a bicycle. This is a question of similarity.

More, it just illustrates my point that it is nonsensical to claim that "technology is not allowed to play a dominant role" in cycling. All of those rules are concerned with which technologies are required in a race (say, wheels), which are allowed, and which are forbidden. If you eliminated technology from cycling, cycling wouldn't exist. If you took an anything-goes approach, cycling again wouldn't exist -- you'd have racing, but nothing anyone would recognize as a bicycle.

And so immense amounts of attention and effort are devoted to the question of which technologies to use. Using the wrong one will get you disqualified. Abstaining from the wrong one will get you disqualified. The technological decisions made by rules committees govern the performance of the racers, and everyone knows and acknowledges that. This is a dominant role for technology. If you divide cycling as a sport into several parts, and one of those parts includes "technology", that part is much more important than every other part combined can be.
The issue is for _new_ plants, not so much for replacement plants. These older plants can be used for base load where necessary; and in places like developed OECD nations which are seeing reductions in electricity generation year on year (not so much population growth, heavy industries moving to cheaper developing nations), the need for base load is going down.
And English football fans: "Eng-err-land", "Two world wars and one world cup" etc.
Prof Ruina? I loved his class.
My take-away was that for all the work on the hardware and experience, it will be the people that solve the interactive tooling challenge that will open the flood-gates to mass-market MR/VR/AR.
ValidatorJS/A quick validator implementation
Ideally it would be possible to use third party clients to connect, and so anyone could use a fully open source solution if they wanted.
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Me and my team are struggling to get more signups to our API platform. So far we’ve managed to collect ~50. 5 of them tested our software thoroughly and seem to be really interested in buying the subscription. One of the channels that works good for us is just content e.g. on posts Stack Overflow or our profile at Programmable Web. However we get the feeling this is not the fastest way to attract new leads.

Now we’re wondering how to get in touch with software developers or CTOs at larger scale. We’ve submitted our product to Show HN, it’s even got to the first page but we ended up with poor signup rate. We’d like to ask for feedback on other developer communities related to e-commerce before we start cold emails. Do you know any?
Managing host keys is much more than just dumping at some point in time all
the certificates in some directory, even if under version control. Servers are
(can be) deployed and ramped down and reinstalled and moved from network to
network all the time, and not always by you nor by somebody who cares about
your configuration management system, which leads to plenty of fun in tracking
what keys the servers have and should have.
Even if I were to accept your logic, what's ridiculous about that?
Apple Car to be built by Magna in Austria, will be for car-sharing
>Mining on Earth leads to conflicts on Earth, so what's the difference?

The difference is that conspiracy theorists and others will fear that an asteroid would be used to destroy a major city.

But we've got to learn how to deflect asteroids anyhow, in order to save the Earth. So some international body formed out of NASA should start crashing them into the Moon, or into parking orbit around the Moon.

We can then offer mining rights to any company which is simply able to get up there. Presto. There'll be a lunar base within decades!
If you type www.google.com it finds it not dangerous... Strange.
The interesting thing is that authorship position fights are field specific. In the biological sciences the big fights are over who gets to go last. You might think who cares, but grants are handed out on track record and track record in the biological sciences is who is last (assuming you aren't first). When your chance of getting a grant funded (and hence your entire career) is under 10% you will get some amazing fights.
It's really incredible to be part of the security industry and know how widely used these things are as part of private investigations. At a rough guess I would say at least a third utilise them in some way.
Note that if you are planning to use the latest InfluxDB 0.12 version with Grafana, you must go with the new Grafana 3.0 beta version as the older Grafana versions have issues with the newer InfluxDB versions: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#...
Google tracking store visits to 10,000 UK retailers
Managing Alert Noise from Your Network Monitoring System
I wonder if we "took out" the leadership, how long we would leave things as they are to allow people to adjust. How much of shock would it be to tell people they can go and visit any country, call anyone, learn about other cultures without fear of arrest
Because semantics. The location of the "next" page is a property of the entire page, and therefore belongs in the head (similarly, so does the title of the page). It's not a property that may be present in any of the links (or other elements) of the page.

There's a whole lot of advantages that follow, but aren't quite reasons why (e.g. like a physical book, I don't need to read the page itself to figure out where the next page is), but it follows from applying the semantics of webpage (meta) data in a consistent manner.

(except for a CYOA book)
Well, if there is an employee shortage ...
may contain nuts? :)
Could you disable such motors with an EMP or so?
Node Hero – Your First Node.js HTTP Server
Yes, these are frameworks which are worth enough to talk about. I prefer Angular but used React as well
Apple Updates MacBook with Latest Processors, Longer Battery Life
> The West's less overt tactics are arguably more effective than Soviet-style propaganda because they're less obvious.

America has pretty overt propaganda, e.g. the Pentagon paying the NFL millions to 'salute the troops'.

As a non-American, seeing young children reciting the pledge of allegiance in unison is downright creepy. I'm guessing Americans do not have alternative experiences and hence consider it to be normal. I'm guessing the same applies to Koreans growing up in Korea: it's normal. I'm not suggesting the levels of propaganda are in the same ball-park.
I'm always fascinated to read about North Korea. I feel so incredibly bad for the people who live there, who either know how bad things are (and can't do anything about it) or don't know (and thus don't care). In some ways, the latter group is probably better off.

(A great book: Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick, about life in North Korea and what it's like to escape to the West.)

It's amazing to see what North Korea will do to keep its own citizens in the dark, and to try to make things look amazing to foreigners -- only to fail spectacularly.

The attempts to erase traces of the metro cars' German origins reminds me of the department stores I've read about in Pyongyang, in which people enter and exit without buying anything, only to return minutes later, in order to give foreigners the illusion of a great commercial success.

All countries engage in propaganda and patriotism to some degree, but North Korea really takes the cake here. I hope that its citizens will one day be able to gain more freedom and financial security, but that somehow seems unlikely in the near future.
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Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, it is rudimentary for now -- it's a prototype after all. There's only one 'financial philosophy' built in to the algorithm, and it's quite conservative about lowering risk. But we think in the future it'll be useful to be able to switch philosophies with a single click.

Regarding life insurance, it only recommends it if you have a spouse, partner, or children. If not, it explicitly says, "Life Insurance: Until you have a spouse, a partner, or kids you probably do not need life insurance." If you're seeing something different it's a bug. I'd love a screenshot if you have one: victor@nickelhq.com
I use the label "British" rather reluctantly. I've spent 3/4 of my life in England and 1/4 in Scotland, so it seems like an accurate descriptor, but I'd rather claim to be Scottish if I can claim to be anything. "Britain" is a concept linked inextricably to the UK's imperial history, for me.
>The enhanced delete feature, meanwhile, has been in the app for a while, but is part of the company’s is a way for users to wipe a conversation not just on their end, but on that of the recipient’s phone. You can think of this as Viber’s answer to ephemeral messaging, but with a more manual approach.

Does anyone else think this is a violation of users' rights? If I've been sent a message, it shouldn't be possible for the server to delete it. I could screenshot everything, or run a tweak that saves everything.

Imagine if Gmail started allowing senders to remove email they've already sent and has been delivered.
In cycling culture, some things are definitely legal or illegal, but there's a considerable grey area of "don't take the piss". It's technically illegal to draft team cars, but you'll only get penalised if you're a jersey contender or you're being blatant about it. The sticky bottle and the magic spanner are the stuff of cycling lore.

That attitude partly explains the historical prevalence of doping. There was no honour in using drugs to win a race, but there was no dishonour in using drugs just to get through a tour. Nobody minded very much if a domestique took a few pep pills. Doping only really became a major issue after the Festina affair, when it transpired that leading riders from a successful team were systematically doping to win races.
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It actually reminded me a bit of Beijing, which is hardly authoritarian in that way. "Tired" is the right classification, the subway is just a way from here to there, and usually means the beginning or end of a long day.
Pushing Ahead on Concurrency for Java EE 8
That has been my experience. The conventional wisdom is often "don't worry about optimization, the compiler will do a better job of it than you," and while it is true that the compiler will do many things I wouldn't have thought to have done, my experience has been that one can still often improve upon the compiler's results through careful micro-optimization as illustrated in TFA.
It certainly would not work in London where council tax (effectively residential property tax) is a maximum of a couple of £k per year. Even if you had 100% discount, for someone in a £3m flat (common), it's nothing. They simply would not care.
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As a Scot, it is sometimes much easier to identify as being Scottish in many parts of the world. People tend to be slightly warmer to you when they find out you are from Scotland and not just Britain.

I guess years of colonialism still makes being British slightly tarred.

For example visiting America, people are interested enough if you are from the UK but if you mention specifically Scotland they instantly start getting much more excited.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526056
>The need for "baseload", "storage", or "the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow" are red herrings. They are not relevant.

They aren't red herrings they are poor excuses when used as a reason to not to expand renewable but they aren't without their merit.

We need to improve energy storage considerably to be able to push renewables to be actually a major part of the electric grid.

A a major part is a very important definition here because they need to be dependable, it's nice when you have a headlines that Denmark has reached 90% of it's energy production with wind for period X but we also need to put it into perspective that it was only a few hours in a single day on a specific year.

Solar and wind are being constantly improved it's true but we also need massive improvements in energy storage as well as to renew our interests in better and safer nuclear reactors to actually drive out Fossil Fuel completely and have an abundance of energy that could be used to improve everything around it.

Our energy goals shouldn't be aimed at something comparable to fossil fuel we should find ways to produce 10 times what we produce now in a cheap, reliable and environmentally sound fashion.
If we have an abundance of electricity many other things can improve, we can stop sucking out out underground water and make desalination cheap for everyone, we can grow more crops faster reducing the amount of food, we can produce more at lower costs.

Energy is a much larger bottleneck than people assume, especially to developing countries, better energy production, better grids mean that everyone in Africa can get a water purified, an AC and a fridge, it also means that we can start treating the sewage which is a problem now in many parts of Africa where NGO's gave them a water pump and forgot that they also need plumbing and septic treatment facilities.

So while you might claim that solar and wind are here in a massive way, we haven't even touched the tip of the iceberg as far as energy production goes and where we should be. And sadly too many people in the environmental lobbies want to cut down on energy production rather than to increase it 10 fold.
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I rather think there is a decent point in there, but on closer inspection this argument that the ownership of property should give you unfettered ability to do whatever you want falls apart.

If the person next door wants to run a private, non-commercial meat processing plant (abattoir) then I think it's fair to object. If they wanted to setup a rifle range that ran throughout the day and night, this would also be a valid objection.

Or more likely, if they were hoarders who cause a health hazard to neighbouring properties, then they eventually don't have the right to unfettered freedom at the expense of everyone else in the community.

Case in point: in Bondi, Sydney there was a case where a family of hoarders caused such problems that there was a massive health risk to the entire suburb. They were forced to allow the council to cleanup their home.[1] That is fair enough.

In any society, individual rights are important. However, there is a limit, even to holding property. There must be some controls over what you can do on your private property to ensure that the greater community is not adversely affected.

1. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/city-east/bobolas...
Your link is paywalled unfortunately?

India is quite capable of having unreliable power without solar. I agree that people should not be fobbed off with unreliable solutions, but that doesn't mean solar can't be a big part of the grid mix. It sounds like the activist microgrid was inadequate.

http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-what-is-the-real...

"It is believed that, out of the 70 million tonne of diesel consumed in the country per year, about 20% or 14 million tonne is used in captive power generation."
> we're all counting from the birth of Jesus

At some point people realized they got the year wrong for Jesus's supposed birth. But the reaction was, "eh, fuck it", so our calendar isn't really based even on that anymore.
Same as peer comments, this does not occur for me on any of my google accounts nor on an anonymous search. I think you may have adware.
"Far right", at least nowadays, in Europe has a very definite meaning that has little to do with economics (in that regard, "Far Right" parties tend to be the opposite than libertarian), but rather with their stance on immigration, religious, and social issues.
Being Scottish isn't important to me on a national identy level.

However saying you are Scottish when abroad as opposed to British tends to result in a much warmer reception.
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Note taking, hand or type?
The mosaics give it an oddly (ancient) Roman feel, which led me to wonder what a metro system built by the Romans would look like . . .
There is a staggering degree of beating-around-the-bush in these articles we've been seeing.
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To me your words sound very arrogant and condescending. But then again, it is probably because I have been brainwashed to think that way.
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Well, there's sporting events... like the World Cup or European Championships, there every national shouts their own country's name without awkward duality feelings (even Germans, I just checked with one to be sure =)
How much do you think a WhatsApp passive decryption bug would be worth? They don't seem to have a bug bounty, I wonder how much something would go for on the black market.
no, she is not impeached yet, the lower house voted to move forward with the request, meaning it will be sent to the senate now.
I agree with pretty much all you wrote - but I also don't think it's an actual counterargument. I never wrote that nation states should try to be fully independant as that is either futile or highly inefficient. However what India shows here is IMO a good example of a middle ground - you don't have to create everything from scratch, but it might be healthy to just mandate some percentage of vital infrastructure to be domestic, just as a reinsurance for when things go sour.
I don't think oolongCat is complaining about the existence of an opinion; it's what they do with it that counts. In the case of search, they demote you. In Chrome, they very nearly block access to your site. If a site really is dangerous, fair enough, but imagine being a false positive and not having much recourse!
I tried a bunch of searches, it seemed like both sites had their chrome links cleaned up. (or google bought all the bing adspace)

Bings pretopresult ad for firefox is still malware. Microsoft should be liable for this - http://imgur.com/b2VuRMP.jpg
Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet
It's not even clickbait. It's not sensationalist in any way really. It actually captures in a one sentence summary exactly what the article is about.

I honestly think that there should be a reporting mechanism for folks to complain about submarine articles, or click-bait headlines. So often I find that they aren't the case and it adds zero to any actual discourse around the subject matter itself.

I think if you have an issue with clickbait headlines you really should email the site admins/moderators. They are pretty good about getting back to you, mostly.
Hey, I am also thinking to work on something similar (as a side project). Do let me know if you want to collaborate.
Sure is dangerous sometimes for my work productivity...
What's arrogant and condescending about feeling bad for a country in which people don't have enough to eat, where every house needs to have pictures of the country's founder and his son, and in which punishments for even minor infractions involve entire families going to prison camps?
Not too strange though, several countries do this, although usually mixed with the Gregorian calendar. Japan uses both the Gregorian calendar and its own calendar where years are counted from the start of the reign of the reigning emperor. This year 2016 is Heisei 28; the year 1980 was Shōwa 55. This system is often used on formal documents and one's date of birth.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_crime
Solar is viable, you will be looking at a 6-7year payback on the system with interest, 36Lakhs is very high for a 30kW system. The prices should be in the range of 25-27L for an on grid system with a simple structure. Where in Tamil Nadu is this? Ping me if you are looking for more details(mail Id in profile), I work for a company that does solar installations.
>there is more than just national identity to hold people together.

What do you mean by that?
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> in which people enter and exit without buying anything, only to return minutes later, in order to give foreigners the illusion of a great commercial success

I don't get it. Foreigners see success in people who don't buy anything?
Apple’s MacBook Gets Faster Chips, Better Battery Life, Rose-Gold Finish
Why would you want to use two different services to store the same data, isnt it better to use one just with different augmentations?
Very interesting! Thanks a lot for sharing.

Though I agree with the previous comment. A third service to relay data from two services?

Have you personally used it? If that is the case, what do you think?
If you have the man power to do it, then please feel free. But on an active project, the advise to just not use C++ is not really ever something that can be practically achieved.