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What are some examples of "huge classes, massive coupling and very little cohesion"? Barring a few example like NSString UIKit Additions, I thought it's well thought out.
Better than nothing, but not that efficient. I took the tour of the somewhat mis-named Dinorwig Power Station (really a pumped storage facility) in Snowdonia, Wales. The figures they quoted there put it at about 75% efficiency. It's not really supposed to be for 24-hour power smoothing, more for rapid response to sudden demand; it's a lot faster to open a valve on a turbine than to stoke up a coal plant, and for some spikes (such as the example they quoted on the tour, when everyone puts the kettle on when Coronation Street finishes) you have a 30-second window or so. However, as demand has increased it's being used more and more, and the more it's used the more power we're wasting.

Interestingly, it does not use a dam. There's a natural lake at the bottom of a mountain and a man-made reservoir at the top, and the entire pumping facility is completely inside the mountain; it's not at all obvious that there's anything there at all from the outside. I think about that whenever people moan about the environmental impact, or flooding valleys.
Can you give me some examples or pointers to websites? I am interested in alternative pain treatments, because my condition still gives me a fair amount of pain, and I am open to trying new things :)
I'm not arguing against your ability to pick something else.

What I see, however, in most of the opposition to systemd is that most who criticise it don't understand these design considerations and often aren't even aware of the problems involved.

This is why they keep coming up. If most people designed systems that took care of these things in other ways, it wouldn't be so much of an issue. But most people don't. E.g. the fact that most Linux distros for the longest time kept running critical system services straight from init scripts with no process manager or other restart logic is a good example.
There have been points in the last few years when the volume got to the point of people asking to have a list specifically for job postings to prevent other stuff being drowned out.
How was going to work on the oxy? I had surgery a few months ago and stopped taking them after 2 days because I couldn't focus (or really think clearly) after taking a dose.
So what was it
Are US Courts “Going Dark”?
Where are they getting money
Howto colonize the moon, build CN tower size rail gun and rail gun the parts to build another rail gun CN tower on the moon

you know what would be funny if they make a CN tower size rail gun and rail gun materials to the moon to build the same thing LOL

did scientists rule out rail guns ?
In Silicon Valley, European schools aren't really considered among the top 10 engineering schools. I'm not saying that's right, just telling you what the perception is.
The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion
Like or dislike, you would be the first to die in 99% of societies, human or otherwise.

This may get downvoted but don't shoot the messenger. You can't "hate" something that just "is".
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I was doing web development at the time, and I too found it hard to focus, especially on deeper problems - e.g. visualising deep stack traces or class hierarchies. I was able function, but it definitely required more conscious effort
I actually find Swift and Rust to be pretty similar in how they approach things from the end-user perspective, (I think of Swift as application-level Rust), it's just that Rust targets a different market which involves quite a bit more complexity in its domain, which is reflected in the language where needed.
Wanting to be financially independent doesn't necessarily mean you want to completely stop working. It just means you want to choose how you spend your time.
bile salt malabsorption
In 1971, more than half of Alberta’s boreal forest by area was classified as regenerating or young, and a third was “immature.” By 2011 more than 40 per cent had become “mature” and more than 20 per cent “overmature,” a category all but absent earlier.

This change is because of aggressive fire suppression. Before these major wildfire suppression efforts, boreal forests historically burned on an average cycle ranging from 50 to 200 years as a result of lightning and human-caused wildfires.

In 2011, an out of control wild fire burned the town of Slave Lake and four nearby communities. A prescient 2012 Alberta report on that disaster blamed rigorous wildfire suppression, stating:

"
due to reduced wildfire activity, forests of Alberta are aging, which ultimately changes ecosystems and is beginning to increase the risk of large and potentially costly catastrophic wildfires.
"

http://wildfire.alberta.ca/wildfire-prevention-enforcement/w...

The report, while 95 pages, makes for compelling and moving reading, even without the context of the ongoing disaster near Fort McMurray.
I'm sure he will thank you for it later...
ExxonMobil and FuelCell Energy Pursue Novel Carbonate Cells for Carbon Capture
Recruiting drivers is also fairly expensive. I've seen a ton of "Get $500 to start driving for <service>" all over the place. I'm sure similar campaigns are being run in China as well.
50% of Devices Draw Power Even When Off
Think bulshit artist but with brains
A beginner should be made to learn something only if they get an advantage out of it in readability or type safety or performance or something else. I don't see that being the case for pre- and post-increment. If anything, I find:

i += 1;
String name = names[i];

more readable than

String name = names[++i];

where I have to pause and remind myself of pre- and post- increment and which one is being used here and mentally translate the code into the above version.

Imperative languages already have a way of specifying execution order: it's the order of statements in your file. Let's reuse that rather than making things more complex.
> It's quite simple: Don't do drugs.

Why not? Because they can be dangerous and require precautions to be taken before use? Should I stop driving cars too?
Everyone Can Learn How to Sell (Even If You Aren't a Salesperson)
This. There are always caveats in an experiment. The fact that they are mentioned in the article is a sign of good reporting by the WSJ.
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learning how to win and lose is an important life lesson

The life lesson I got from it was that winning leads to social exclusion, from both peers and teachers. So yes, I learned to not (openly) compete any more.
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> If someone attacks you from Nigeria, there are no lawyers that can help you.

This statement is all shades of Wrong. In Nigeria at least, I know you can easily report to the Country's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is currently doing a very good job of getting back foreign stolen money through internet scams.
Happy Anniversary Atom. I switched from Sublime over a year ago and love it.

Never had an issue with slow performance, and I am using it on an 8 year old MacBook Pro, lol.

Then again, I keep my plugins to a minimum (around 10 or 12 I think), and I also tend to keep my code in small files of around 100 - 400 lines of code per file. I routinely work in 6 to 10 open files at once, but never had a slowness issue.

The 2 or 3 occassions where I've had to open a humongous log file, I've just resorted to TextEdit or Sublime...
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Always thought the added latency came from GDDR5. Good to know.
DOOM E1M1 music comparison on various sound cards – Part 1
What does it say?
You mean whatever their sex? Gender is such a strange term.
Something they don't mention is lithium supply. According to the Financial Times[1], that's a big problem for them:

> Tesla will need about 24,000 tonnes annually of lithium hydroxide, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, out of a market last year of 50,000 tonnes.

> more than 70 per cent of which is found in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Due to growth in demand for electric batteries, the global lithium market is approaching a shortage, with no new supply coming on stream next year, say analysts. At the same time, battery factories being built in China are set to increase demand for lithium.

> So far two companies have announced supply deals with Tesla, and neither is expected to produce substantial amounts of lithium until after 2020.

> “The current strategy seems to be no direct investment but leveraging the Tesla name by signing ‘contingent’ contracts at unachievably low prices with junior mining companies who have never produced lithium chemicals,”

> Albemarle of Baton Rouge, FMC Lithium of Philadelphia and SQM of Chile, the big producers of lithium, have not been willing to supply at the prices Tesla has demanded.

[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4a924a64-99df-11e5-987b-d6cde...

(To get around paywall, google "lithium supply tesla" and take the top result.)
Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TsL0HyVq4g
I'm genuinely confused as to the satirical nature of this comment. If you're being serious, can you please substantiate your claims with a links to relevant research?
> someone with Doctor Professor in their title

Or Doctor Doctor Professor
> who is stationed permanently onsite at the client

Not really necessary. The distinction between FDEs and product engineers is that the FDE work is focused on a single deployment, whereas a product engineer works on a single product and is once-removed from actual clients.

Where the FDE spends time and what products he works on depends on the client requirements.
> Many people are inappropriately given opiates by their doctors to treat long term pain.

While I am sure this is true in many cases, my personal experience was the opposite. I had significant nerve pain after an accident, which kept me from being able to sleep or focus on anything very well.

The physician I saw after my hospitalization was apparently worried I was trying to satisfy a drug-craving? So instead of giving me a pain-killer gave me a prescription for an anti-depressant (which potentially treats nerve pain at 4X the normal dose used to treat depression) - withdrawal from that was extremely bad and certainly much worse than anything I've experienced after pain-killers.
Nvidia  Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series: 1080 and 1070 Arrive in May and June
I'm not saying they shouldn't. There's nothing wrong with it per se. I'm saying it seems bizarre from my viewpoint, and that it seems like a cultural quirk.

> I'd sure as hell be chanting something.

The question isn't whether or not there'd be celebration, but whether or not that celebration would involve chanting a country name or similar. As I wrote: Cheering and clapping and bringing the champagne out, sure. Chanting a country name? To me that's something people to at football (soccer) matches, and that would seem ridiculously out of place.

Company settings or not, I have never chanted a country name in any setting, or been present while it's been going on other than people doing it to stereotype Americans.
This is probably a much better source:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-liberty-reserve-plead...

Thought Bloomberg is well known to quickly publish 2 sentence articles to get an entry in google for breaking news and then back fill the story as it gets more details.

If you haven't heard of the bank in question, Liberty Reserve was bank that was heavily used to launder black market money. You could open an account with an email address, and no other documentation, deposit bitcoins, and then pull out your holdings in the form of cash or gold.

I'm surprised it ran as long as it did, from 2006 to 2013. There was one of the bulge bracket banks, I think Goldman, who put out a note about the bank where they speculated that it was an CIA front for trying to track the flow of black market cash. I'll try and see if I still have the research note around.
What a boringly one-sided article.
It appears he did not make a public statement groundlessly tying Trump to this incident, but rather did so in a Facebook post (private communication to friends). I find that far less objectionable.

Also, no statement about a politician rises to the level of "deserving" to be removed from a plane.
I fractured my tibia recently and the urgent care gave me a short prescription for Percocet (which contains oxycodone like Oxycontin and also acetaminophen). I didn't end up picking it up as I don't have a car and mobility is understandably limited when you've fractured your tibia, but the past the first day the pain wasn't bad enough to need it anyway, and ibuprofen sufficed. And I am a wimpy person who does not do well with pushing through pain.

I think we need to re-evaluate how often we're prescribing this stuff. Experiencing pain has a limited risk potential in most people, especially when the pain is linked to a temporary condition. The potential for addiction has nearly unlimited risk. Much better in my opinion for someone to suffer through temporary pain using over-the-counter pain meds than risk throwing your life away to drug addiction.
>I couldn't focus (or really think clearly) after taking a dose

This might sound dumb, but I think part of it might depend on your experience with recreational drug use. The effects of Oxy are...off-putting if you don't know what to expect, and I'd agree that it might mess with your "focus". But, personally, I've found altered mental states to increase focus, once you can "harness" it.

Note: I'm not advocating experimenting with OxyContin, as it has serious physically addictive properties.
I know duck is all about the trust but couldn't they have picked some non encryption/security OSS projects. It sort of reminds of the brief period where all these sustainability/eco startups where picked for awards or help.
Liquidity events are simply opportunities to convert some of the stock options to cash, at current FMV.
It Depends What You Study, Not Where
No, I did not know that site. Thanks!
Which seems really weird to me - education isn't a competition it's a collaboration with the teacher and the other students.

This mindset seems harmful to me as I see it playing out with my kids "teacher X set this homework and will tell me off if I don't do it" rather than "teacher X set this homework and I'll not understand the subject as well if I don't do it". The kids think the homework is "for the teacher" rather than for them.

Education is supposed to be an opportunity not a sentence or conflict, isn't it?
It strongly implies he received favoritism in hiring after a Purdue drug was approved. It's a revolving door problem between regulators and industries they regulate.
Ask HN: AOL – geocities – friendster – myspace – Facebook – who's next?
Tesla has yet to transition from a product first to a manufacturing first kind of company. Entry level cars are much more shaped by manufacturing possibilities rather than consumer demand. It's not unreasonable to assume that the Model 3 will be sold at a loss and then it will be a question about how much longer investors are willing to pour money into Tesla rather than how many cars they can sell. I'd buy a Tesla - it's a bargain. Unlike the stock.
> Overall, I sense that men avoid competition much more than women do.

Seriously? The inherent drive in men to compete/take risks is why people advocate for "leveling the playing field" when it comes to pay, promotions, etc.
It should be clarified that this is an op-ed. The author does not cite any hard facts, and the primary argument seems to be that the author believes that only Toyota's methods are the methods that work, and because Tesla isn't doing what Toyota did, but has ambitious goals, it will fail.
For extrapolating the results to the entire Earth population? Let's see, that would require a cross-generational study across a number of different societies, across different schools and classrooms, from different socio-economic situations, and with an equal number of control groups.

So we're looking at a minimum of 4 (test moments across 25 years) * 4 (societies) * 5 (schools across socio-economic areas) * 2 (classes per school) * 2 (test + control group) * 30 (pupils per class) =~ 10000 test subjects.
It is the appearance of impropriety, straight out of any corporate anti-bribery ethics training. In this case, it appears they offered a cushy job to a government official in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment, leading a very lucrative business. It appears dirty but maybe can't be proven.
Worst case scenario, wouldn't it be conceivable that the guy who built a car and space rocket company from scratch now creates/buy a lithium mining and/or battery making company to be able to supply Tesla different projects (cars, powerwall)?
Palantir T-shirts are super convenient. I don't care at all that someone else is wearing the same t-shirt, if it means I don't have to go clothes shopping.
Given this evidence, will physicians who increased dosages rather than frequencies lose their licenses -- as they ought to? Physicians decide what is best for their patients. Choosing what is best for a company rather than the patient is a serious breach of ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_%28politics%29
There are at least a few aspects of the language (eg, the special case for the first argument passed to a method) which would be completely bizarre decisions if not for the Objective-C compatibility requirements. Though I think they're tweaking that a bit.
I was hoping they would have dumped him mid flight. Would've served him right... two timing basterds.
Medically reasonable alternatives have been on the market since 1950 (hydrocodone for example). Patents didn't drive the use of Oxycontin.

The article is even about the supposed justification of choosing Oxycontin, the 12 hour dosing, not being sufficient or even harmful.
For a lot of people in that situation they are on social security and thus if they get even a minimum wage job, they lose some of their benefits and have to completely reapply if they some how lose their unstable minimum wage or whatever kind of job.
You'd be surprised to learn than hackers are more than computer guys (even in the original e.g. MIT sense), and systems are far more than computer systems.
Sex is the biology; Gender is the identity. Discrimations are based on gender, not sex. Women are told to wear pink dresses because of how our society see women (female gender), not because they have a vagina (female sex).
>they have no idea that the government is supposed to be supporting them.

>elect governments that will create sustainable wealth.

Some people would say that individuals create wealth, and the governments are systems that exist because of the existing levels of wealth in a society. If you want a "generous" government, then you first need a "prosperous" society. Which governments are you thinking of that create sustainable wealth? I'm curious to get a Kenyan perspective on private property rights (i.e. do you think that is a crucial step for creating a "wealthy" society).
If you want to provide for orphans it's probably more efficient and less distorting to do it somewhere other than the property tax code.
> So by the third time they tried to headhunt me, I just told them upfront that their system/HR would reject me because of my grades and it was not worth our time continuing the discussion.

One wonders how a company as rich as McKinsey could have such piss-poor data management. Why not, I dunno, check that the person you're headhunting is already in your database?
> it appears they offered a cushy job to a
> government official in exchange for favorable
> regulatory treatment

I suspect that that sentence is legally actionable as slander, as well as being an (apparently) completely baseless claim of illegal activity.
Why the World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Project 'ITER' May Never Succeed
IMO still a preferable situation than what we had before - which was displays coming out with hacked up interfaces because they needed more bandwidth than there were video cards capable of driving it.

Displays get to play catchup for a while. This is great - it means we can avoid stupid hacks like MST.
It's pretty crazy to see Purdue shills in the comments
Perhaps if I had gone to a better college I wouldn't start to smirk when the president of Harvard complains of organizations "in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values." University administration seems to impair the sense of irony and the ability to write sound prose.
Not really. The letters have to be truthful, not just "positive". You can sue former employers who are being dishonest despite using "positive" language.
Don't forget the 10% penalties on the retirement part. My guess is it was more than half of the $1m.
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This one is a huge mess: http://www.geocitiesforever.com/0d92d6d58a7f18c3a81060cf1c99...

This one is an experience: http://www.geocitiesforever.com/186fdd2501f72c7c9088678f1a06...
It's pretty crazy that the corporations can market to doctors with outright lies like this. Complete arrogance and ignorance of the complexities of drug interactions.
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I played with Geode and Debian some time ago (over one year, which means in the hazy past as far as I'm concerned --- not good with dates ;), and they were not supported already. I forgot the details and when it happened exactly, but they're not full 586 as expected by Debian i386 builds. Some needed instruction is missing.
> I did not realize that we were this close to Swift 3?!

WWDC is June 13-17, so they basically have to have something ready by then. Not so coincidentally, June 13 is "4-6 weeks later" from the May 12 date for making the release branch. Similarly, the late 2016 release for the final version of Swift 3.0 is probably actually mid September, since the version of Xcode with iOS 10 support has to ship before the next iPhone model.

Hurrah for marketing-driven release schedules.
This. Even though my employer provides descent insurance I still end up paying quite a bit more out of pocket then I did in Australia or Canada.

Having lived in many cities around the world, I can say if you're poor in the US, there aren't many options to get out of it. It could be said for many countries but US is the worlds largest economy. It's a solvable problem.

It's heart breaking to hear stories of people choosing to die than go to the hospital because the bills will kill them.
After what happened, doesn't it seem obvious that Pinboard in YCF wouldn't work out, 20k or no? So dang did the right thing by giving him the money, and Maciej donated it because he didn't want to win for the money (as be said repeatedly).
>"ignorantia juris non excusat"

It very much should, though. Especially with the over-abundance of stupid bureaucratic laws covering all aspects of life. And, that quote aside, that ignorantia is actually considered as an excuse by courts in judging certain cases, at least as a sign that no malicious intent was present.

Plus, it's not that different from the “They did not know it was impossible so they did it” Mark Twain quote.
* RNIB, The Royal National Institue for the Blind.

* RNLA, Royal National Lifeboat Association, - their members get my respect for literally risking their lives to rescue others. (Alongside other people such as firemen, mountain rescue teams, etc.)

* A specific cancer charity.