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> 93.9% of Icelanders younger than 25 believed the world was created in the big bang, 6.1% either had no opinion or thought it had come into existence through some other means and 0.0% believed it had been created by God.

Why are those exclusive? Once you believe there is an omnipotent god, and basically not understandable by the human mind, then his delivery mechanisms can be anything. Big Bang can be just "the way" god created the Universe.

I would say religion is compatible with anything: since it is not based on reason, it can not conflict with any other human discipline. Which is (if you ask me), by design.
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a light-colored Vs a dark colored box might help in that regard as well with exposure to sunlight.
> Aren't frameworks supposed to prevent this type of thing exactly?

I'm generalizing, but frameworks reduce program complexity when applied in a thoughtful way to a suitable problem space. If you adopt a framework that isn't suitable to your particular problem, or adopt one that is suitable but fail to learn to use it properly, you will probably increase complexity.

When I said that it was a failure on the part of the person, I meant that there is a possibility that the people responsible for rewriting probably did a bad job at choosing a framework for their problem (perhaps it was too big and complicated?), or maybe they chose a suitable framework but didn't do a good job of implementing it (perhaps they tried to code in their old style?).

> If there's no guarantee, how do we ensure that we don't create an even bigger nightmare code structure when using frameworks? This risk has to be understood before framework choices are made.

This is obvious and I don't believe I made any argument to the contrary. Just like choosing any tool, one must understand it first to make good use of it.
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Your "clerks" are usually academics, actually.
How about a plain box in some relevant color (sakura blossom pink? :) ), hand-stamped with the Candy Japan logo?

In my mind's eye, that'd remain classy enough not to be creepy/cringy/embarrassing (as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11641715 complains), but would also have sort of a personal touch to it.

Having a couple rubber stamps made and stamping each box during packaging wouldn't probably cost an awful lot...
A white ball of fire. And then there it is...resting! Beautiful!
By the way, are you aware of the keypresses that move the cursor by a word at a time? In particular, <M-Left Arrow> and <M-B> should each move backward by a word. You should be able to go <Up Arrow> <M-Left Arrow> <C-W> [type operation] <Space> <Return>. You might have to enable alt as meta key on an OS X terminal (which is obviously not the case here), or disable alt as referring to file menus on Linux (which may be the case here). Prefixing a command with ESC also works as a meta key, though I'd find it ergonomically intolerable.
I remember seeing a video where he said he didn't care one way or the other about the technical merits and that it seemed good enough, but he did have serious concerns about the attitude of the developers about other people's technical issues when using it.
Kent Beck who created much of XP, is quite sarcastic in what he writes at times. I think it's meant to be sort of sarcastic tongue and cheek sort of title so giggling at it is probably the right response. XP is not extreme at all, in fact it's quite reasonable.
It would probably be cheaper AND would feel more "authentic".

After all, his main edge over the local japanese stores is authenticity. The fact that it comes "directly" from Japan.
This declares Agile dead without explaining specifically why. From what I gather, Agile is "dead" because no one actually does Agile, and only takes the "grab bag" of Agile terms without going fully Agile.

If no one's doing Agile, how could it be dead, since it was never alive? Maybe we should start trying to actually "do" Agile, to see if it might work, since no one's ever tried it yet, according to this blog.
For those wondering, this isn't a simple repeat of CRS8 which landed on a drone ship about a month ago. CRS8 was a mission to low earth orbit which left the first stage with plenty of fuel to effect a landing. The landing was made as slow as possible and limited only by how low a single engine could be throttled. The re-entry burn which slows the rocket down before the landing burn was also more agressive.

This mission was to launch JCSAT-14 to geosynchronous orbit which requires the falcon 9 to move the already heavy satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. That meant the first stage had to do a lot more work and was left with a lot less fuel as a result. Therefore, the re-entry burn was less aggressive, the first stage came in with twice the speed, and SpaceX needed to do a far harder landing with three engines lit in the quicker and riskier suicide burn. Somehow, despite playing down expectations, they managed an even more precise landing than last time.
It isn't mere intelligence that we seek but _human_ intelligence. NN research will more likely than not culminate in something akin to, say, dog or horse intelligence or features of intelligence share by all species, rather than the (desired) human intelligence.

I see nothing in NN research that is quintessentially human (although there may be circuitry that is unique to humans that has not yet been revealed, this will most likely be uncovered by brain science rather than NN research IMO) and so I believe NNs are not the right level of approach to AI.
Dr. Fair is an interesting character, she is well versed in Urdu and Punjabi and has travelled Pakistan. Probably few people in US who knows Pakistan very intimately. She is not a political scientist but I think she is into studying languages. Many policy makers including State department do not have depth, at least are more exposed to English press in foreign countries which tend to be "liberal" than their native counterparts, ex. Al Jazeera English is not as loco as Al Jazeera Arabic. So, they get a filtered liberal view, Dr. Fair was able to access the "Greenbook" that military publication by Pak Army for Pak Army consumption, and translate it, and there are major major gaps between the narrative told to the state department vs, what Pakistani Generals and Cadre are talking among themselves.

To dismiss Dr. Fair as some kind of wing-nut, conspiracy theorist (say Zaid Hamid) is insane. You may disagree with her conclusions, but that woman has put some major major work in the field.

She has become such a threat that she was banned from entering Pakistan and one General actually threatened her with Gang Rape (according to her).
I don't like most of the top #1 hits. Averaging the masses of people will give average music.
A few months ago Elon said they were at least initially looking at June or July for a re-fly.
Love how the autobalance on the cameras cut almost everything to black so you could not see the rocket at first, until it emerged from the darkness.
US kettles take forever because they run at half power 15A @ 110V vs 13A @ 240V. In the UK the kettle will be boiled by the time you put teabags in all the cups and get the milk out.

Never order tea while out in the US, you'll get a cup of cooling water with a teabag in a paper sachet by the side...
I tried to implement similar thing so I kudo people for completing it. What is actually very useful IMO is being to use this in vulnerability testing. All the automated pentesting tools I know of can only touch the very basic vulnerability in a blackbox way. Imagine you can capture some sample traffic coming into your web server. Now most requests go through very similar routes. Rarely you will find a user hitting page X from page Y especially if page Y is some API people rarely would use or protected. You can also use the sample traffic and learn if there are any potential malicious payload. It's like putting up a real firewall I guess.
This is sometimes the case, but the most popular cards on the market are indeed single chip ASIC solutions.

Also, don't forget that small FPGAs like those from Lattice Semi are very cheap these days and find a lot of use specifically in obscure IO interfacing tasks.
Actually, my point was, the amount of money was not the point of the article, but being the richest man yet having a less comfortable life was.
The other issue is how much of it can be readily automated. Managing drug interactions will likely be able to be handled by AI software. Even dispensing can be done more tightly and efficiently with an automafed process. The medical lab tech field is going the same way.
OK, there's some data but were's the insight? If millennial move out, does that mean that as the current population ages out, post-millennials all stick around / move in or does it mean they'll become dead zones of old people? A vibrant environment needs a mix of ages (and other demographics).
So I think the main issue is how the buyer might perceive the packaging. If a coworker has issues... I think the coworker has issues. It's like someone finding Barbie offensive (for other than body image issues). I can't see it. Are these people who whisper and shuffle when they buy condoms or feminine products at the checkout counter? Do they wrap their wine or beer in brown bags? It's hard to imagine this person.
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New York's "Bitcoin License" slows down Bitcoin development and makes startups go somewhere else. London and Zug (Switzerland) are much more crypto-friendly. New York might be missing a big opportunity here.
> A petname is a name that can be freely chosen by the user. This results in non-unique name-value mappings as www.bob.gnu to one user might be www.friend.gnu for someone else.

If names aren't fixed, how do you (for example) link from one website to another? Or share a name with another user?

One of the advantages of the public DNS system, with unique, canonical names, is that the same name should mean the same thing to everyone.
those poor extra-ordinary Americans, the Amish, who are leading similar lives to their ancestors 100 years ago, free from the burdens of 21st century technology...

Richer but not necessarily more contented.
For Linux it only really needs to reboot for kernel updates. If you don't update your kernel often, then you could do updates every day and not have to reboot at all.

At home I run Arch Linux, and I do updates almost every day. Usually my uptime can easily be measured in weeks.

At work I have Windows 7 on my laptop. I have to restart my laptop twice a week at a minimum, because every tiny fucking update requires a restart. And if I don't then it nags like a little bitch every 2-4 hours and breaks my concentration. And if you take too long then it forces the update and your work is lost. I hate having to close all my apps every 2 days and wait for ages while it restarts. From a user's perspective, Windows is the shittiest desktop experience available in a corporate environment.

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No. The user might use his control to make his computer less secure. Then it does't have security. And in real life, most user do exactly this when they have the option easily available. Most viruses spread through user control. Users choose to run programs which are viruses. Users choose to not upgrade their insecure software. Those are pretty much the main ways viruses spread.
Holy smokes, that sounds all to familiar..

We recently lost two or three bigger costumers because of stuff like this.. No one talked to the actual users.. The program was full of functions, workflows and solving problems no user wanted to get solved.

They just never used the programs only for situations like : we have (another new useless feature, please test)
Sometimes these things get too extreme, but they do have valid reasons.

Zoning should be obvious. Do you mind if I build a solid rocket factory next to your house, complete with test stand and storage of enough ammonium perchlorate to register on the Richter scale if it goes boom? (see the PEPCON disaster, which was 3 to 3.5 on the Richter scale)

Setbacks, minimum lot sizes, and maximum units per lot are needed for drainage. It costs lots more money to run storm drains.

Setback requirements keep your neighbors from blocking your view. Suppose you buy a house in a normal suburban place, 100 feet back from the road. Your neighbors decide to extend their houses or build new ones, going right up to the street. You'd be pissed that they blocked off most of your light. Manhatten even has similar requirements for skyscrapers, imposed after one wise guy built right up to the street and blocked out the Sun.

Minimum parking requirements stop all sorts of evil and unproductive behavior. In places without enough parking, much of the traffic is people driving around and around in search of parking. People hesitate to leave a good parking space. People doing business or living at one property will swipe the parking in front of a different property. Because of this swiping behavior, there is a huge disincentive to provide any parking at all.

Minimum road widths reduce driver stress. That stress increases heart attacks, divorce, and violence. Minimum road widths reduce fender-bender damage. Minimum road widths allow the movement of moving trucks, utility trucks, fire trucks, and garbage trucks.
USB Overdrive is as close as you'll get to a solution. This is the company that can't even make iTunes usable with 16 years of work.
So much good here Gary. Stick to your gut, get shit done and always keep growing. The moment you feel that you're not growing or not adding value move on. You know your purpose and you know your value, either grow it or establish it and move on to help others.
perhaps he or she was inspired to create an account by this submission!
There will be many comments pointing, "agile works great when implements the right way". While that might be true I'm willing to bet good money that agile has turned out to be really bad for 90%+ of the teams. I tried hard to save my org from agile and failed. Everything crashed and burned soon after.
If they did, they'd quit shortly after learning that, if they wanted to move around inside Apple, like to a different group, they have to interview and be evaluated just like an outsider. Apple is so secretive, people cannot even change groups.
Do you still code?
giving an in-depth af/pak primer would not help because most here on hn lack context. plus, if i were to recommend carlotta, or haqqani, or some such i would be accused of any number of biases. best to just give intro books and let the motivated readers dig through the footnotes and explore on their own.
Ah, so the title of the essay was click-bait.

Clever.
"To dismiss Dr. Fair as some kind of wing-nut...is insane."

Lucky me, I gave you no reason to doubt my sanity? I think you replied to the wrong comment.
rumor has it she told the general she didn't think he would be able to perform.
I don't believe C standardizes the ABI across all OS/hardware combinations. But some OS/hardware combinations are standardized; for example, there's the AMD64 ABI[1], which I think just about every operating system that runs on amd64 uses … except Windows.

[1]: http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf
They want to limit control in an environment they are asked to control.
The last of the summary bullets:
> Compatibility with DNS
Eh, I'm pretty sure most people in Japan would mutter 'hentai' if they saw that box on your desk. It's childish (at best), even by local standards.
I think it's mostly because real data science for deep insights or research-type work is actually difficult. The term "data scientist" has been watered down recently, it used to be reserved for those who developed the new statistical learning algorithms rather than just opened a machine learning toolbox like Weka or scikit. In general that requires a PhD or at least an M.S. in one of those fields with significant experience.
What happens when tech boom turns to bust
Perhaps, but one problem often seen in large orgs (I've been there personally twice, and heard many more stories from close colleagues) is that they adopt the agile methodology (sprints, stories, etc), without adopting the culture shift (shit does not get added into the middle of a sprint, ever) necessary to make it work.

Agile process without agile culture objectively isn't True Agile. It's worse than everything it sets out to solve with the alternatives.
How about an interactive C++ interpreter: https://root.cern.ch/cling

Also it's Gott im Himmel ;-) (unless it's a reference I didn't get)
I tasted American 'bread' once. :)

$.99 bread might possibly be a regression, flavour-wise.

You do craft some mighty fine bagels though!
Why "JOIN foo USING (bar)" shouldn't be used?
The answer to that is in the Zooko's Triangle link, give it a read.

But, in short: for a name to be useful in a global context, it has to be unambiguous or unique. If there isn't a centralized naming authority / registry, then that means that you can't be able to pick an arbitrary name. (If you could, you could just decide to use the same name as someone else, and now there's no way to figure out which one of you the name indicates.)
> The affluent and the talented are flooding into superstar cities and tech hubs, creating a vicious competition for space that is pushing out the young, the less advantaged, and those who do not own homes, reinforcing the deepening class divides in our cities.

The author managed to jump to this conclusion without actually offering any evidence for the claim, or even entertaining other explanations of the trends seen in the data.

Likewise I can claim that millennials are leaving because baby boomers have rigged the housing market in their favour, saddled them with debt by hollowing-out funding for education, placed an undue tax burden on them via property tax controls, and locked-out up to 80% of the rental market in some cities via rent control, which allows older generations to avoid participating in a fair market and massively inflates prices in the remaining 20%.

But no, it's talented people's fault, apparently.

When the previous generation has kicked away the ladder, why are we surprised that those following them can't climb upwards?
8 years technical work before and during college followed by 26 years at 13 companies in various engineering roles in and around San Francisco.

My regrets:

1. In the early 90's I walked away from a secure position as an early engineer at a pre-IPO company to try and start a different company with 5 of my college friends. A year later I had no company and no friends. Some people who stayed the course now have 2 more commas in their net worth than I do now.

2. About a decade later I tried again to start a company with a few former co-worker/friends. Things went about the same after two years - no company and no friends.

What I think I learned:

1. While I like to believe I'm so-so at managing technical risks I know I suck at assessing business risks.

2. Don't ever start a business with your "friends". Never start one with people who you don't absolutely trust.

3. You can take a huge hit if you give it your all and things don't work out. You can end up burned out, depressed, in debt and a personal life in shambles. You also miss out on opportunities you purposely ignored because you were too focused on success.

4. For someone like me who prefers being an individual contributor I think job hopping helps more then it hurts. I may have missed some management opportunities but I've gotten raises and promotions faster than those I know who stayed the course.

But overall so far I've had a great career. I may have missed my chance to hit a home run but no matter how weird things got I was fortunate to find interesting work and also contribute to open source efforts which I know benefit millions of people.
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Intro books != the standard literature? But more importantly there is more to Pakistani politics than the Af/Pak conflict. I dont understand why you continue to equate af/pak with the entirety of "the byzantine warren of pak politics."
That was a lot of steps. Not practical yet.
... On Mars!
To expand on this slightly the CRS8 (and OG2, the land landing) landing was done using only 1 engine, which even then was presumably throttled. This landing burn was done using 3 engines so they spend less time below terminal velocity, and thus use less fuel. The total deceleration should be ~40 m/s during the burn.
That has to be a joke. This has no hint of tentacles or sexualization that I see. It's a couple of youngish* people sharing or (long shot, if you take the greedy view) tugging over the box of sweets.

*The age is hard to tell, it's like trying to divine Buggs Bunny's age from his cartoons. But the age is irrelevant as it's two people with a box of sweets.
If I get to choose the age cohort that defines the word "millennial", I can probably get the data to say "millenials" have whatever migration pattern I desire.
Whoops - thanks for the correction.
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>Eh, I'm pretty sure most people in Japan would mutter 'hentai' if they saw that box on your desk.

You mean "kawaii," right?
i know the CTO. Great guy. Super happy to see this on front page of HN.
Perhaps. But not many people wants to live like an Amish.
Humans are social animals. When I buy things, I absolutely consider how that purchase will look to other people. it's one of the primary reasons why brands have value.

You might not like that the world works that way, but as a business it's wise to not deny reality.
No regrets, things have worked out well. Would have benefited from studied something other than finance - electrical eng., CS, or statistics. Spent my first 8 years doing fund analysis/risk mgmt and then managing a small team at a large firm -- that was a lot of smoke and mirrors disguised as science.

I started a personal care products manufacturing company with partners 2 years ago. I make less money (that will hopefully change in 1-3 years), but I make enough and I'm much happier. This wasnt the case until we recently picked up some very large customers. Business is tough -- I have a great team, but I should not have put so much trust in the veterans in the group. My advice (and what I would have done differently): if you're going to risk a lot of time/money on a project, know the whole project inside and out, start to finish, and the same for your sales channels. Don't let more experienced members say "don't worry, we have that part covered", no matter how successful they are or how long you've known them. Dig until you have every last detail, annoying partners and suppliers as much as necessary along the way. In fact, the more successful your partners are, the less they mind risking a lot of money, and the less ikely they are to spend sufficient time working through important details.
Disclaimer: MSFT employee here. My previous company was acquired by MSFT.

> Shouldn't the end user get to decide for themselves.

Not for the typical user who is not working in IT. None of my friends or relatives want to decide themselves about how their computer works. They just want their system to work and let them do their daily activities. Most of them use phones and tablets for much of their online stuff and they want the system to take care of itself.

Personally, I want to have full control of my system. But as the default sysadmin for my family and extended family, I dont have the time to maintain all those PCs, phones and tablets.
So... people are leaving places they can't afford to live? I'm not sure I see the problem - this isn't a new thing. I loved the town where I went to college, and stayed there a few years after graduation. But the combination of high housing costs and low wages meant I'd never buy a house if I stayed.

So I left and went somewhere that had a better CoL/wage ratio. That's life.