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> These contracts are enforced by math. Breaking them isn't a possibility.

Math cannot "enforce" a contract, it can't even understand the terms of the agreement, much less enforce it.

> We're in the beginning stages of seeing our traditional corporations and nation states morphing into something new and barely recognizable.

This kind of hyperbolic nonsense strains credulity.
U.S. Discloses Saudi Holdings of Treasuries for First Time
Having driven through multiple DUI checkpoints while stoned I can attest that this is not true.
Works great with a slight East Indian accent!
Was federal data really needed to determine stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones? I thought it would be known that drunk driving is more dangerous than stoned driving.
The difference, of course, is that being good at basketball is not necessary to live a happy and fulfilling life.

In contrast, being perceived as creepy and unattractive is a great way to be socially isolated and depressed your whole life.
They're also granted monopolies. Monopolies are the biggest scenario where unionization makes sense to me, since it's a much bigger imbalance of power (nowhere else for the worker to go).
It's culturally and historically richer than almost anywhere else in the US.

I love Pittsburgh. But cities like Cincinnati and St. Louis and Nashville deserve a seat at that table, too. In general, the rust belt gets a bad rap. It's full of old, interesting cities that are packed with cultural institutions and fascinating history. They deserve a lot more attention than they get.
Just like hermit crabs when a slightly bigger shell is available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ#t=1m33s
Doesn't seem to be dissuading high-rise construction much in LA.
Very cool. I'm interested in that 180 degree spin they do soon after lift off - is it to stabilise the rocket, or is there some other technical reason they perform that manoeuvre?
Ten fingers not needed for fast typing, study shows
It is my main browser. Last week there was an update that bricked it. I had to redownload it from apple.com ignorer to get it to work. Other than that it is very good, can't really tell the difference between it, webkit nightly, and reg safari (I don't dev on bleeding-edge though).
It's a long process to check all the boxes for what makes a good proposal, so the fact that Slock.it had such a head start on any other potential proposers is more than a bit suspect. Perhaps there should be a proposal to lock all funds for, say, 45 days so there can be enough of a competitive environment for proposals?
5ng/ml is absolutely ridiculous. 5ng/ml is down in the noise of even a very sensitive test, and waaaay under the noise floor for more common EMIT tests. That's a law meant to let a prosecutor throw anyone under the bus when he wants to.
Arguably this is more on-topic than the rest of the thread.
> while lending it the HR resources of the core.

"HR resources" is redundant.
You can't really compare a single municipality to several that collectively equal it's size. The latter case has a whole lot of more localized and conflicting political interests that serve to hold back the area as a whole.
Look, honestly most cops have better things to do than arrest a person walking home from a bar and not bothering anyone. Yeah public intoxication is a thing and there are a few dick cops who will, but for the most part you don't have to worry about it. The cops around here don't arrest for public intox or even weed possession anymore because they know it will get bargained down to a fine and maybe court supervision (though if you are causing other problems or being an asshole they might). This is firsthand from a local cop. They just have a lot more serious things to worry about.
Dad had adopted a (basically) ketogenic diet. He wasn't obsessively strict about it, he'd cheat, but he did a pretty good job of avoiding cheap complex carbs like bread/pasta.

In all honesty, I'm pretty touchy about alternative cancer treatments. Probably too touchy. :) I watched Dad choke down blended flaxseed and cottage cheese. I had to talk him out of handing over what little money he and Mom had to some charlatan who claimed to be able to cure cancer with sound waves. And he was also pitched this "cancer lives on sugar, starve the cancer" horsecrap. It was all complete bullshit and he fucking died right when the doctor told me he would after Dad was diagnosed.

There are vampires and leaches out there selling fraudulent hope to the desperate. It's amazing to watch them crawl out of the woodwork.
I would also add that they have not provided a comprehensive list of infected apps or any way to stop them from being uploaded in the future.

It's possible you are still compromised from another app. Looks like next steps are getting a tool out to check that.
BAC is only a legal standard, not a physiological standard.
True, although Caddy is a web server, not a TLS certificate tool.

... I've got one of those up my sleeves for next year.
Check out Google's excellent Android security review [1]. Google is pretty effective at keeping harmful apps out of the the Play Store; if you don't sideload apps less than 0.15% devices had malware.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/source.android.com...
Interesting, I wonder what your team would think of you recording the audio of internal company meetings and sending it to a third party...
The costs he is citing are fixed. They don't have anything to do with zoning or past decisions by San Francisco.
Yeah, but the poster above us talking about the degree to which someone is stoned, not just true/false. Relying purely on human judgement is not a good idea for something like that. Especially considering all of the abuses police commit already. If all they need to do is judge you're too stoned without any quantifying test, that's not good.
That first booster separation was ballistically balletically brilliant!
Anyone have an HTML5 video?
Businesses are built from the ground up to succeed in the business they are already in. Any entrepreneur who's built one, or anyone who oversees operations of a company knows that each component has a specific purpose, and the process of ensuring they all work and click is painstakingly tedious, fragile, and requires maintenance overhead (the guy overseeing operations is one of them).

So to say "they have money and smart people, they can do anything, why not innovate" is completely ignoring how businesses grow, come to fruition, and ultimately profit.

Google's profit mainly comes from Adwords. Their history involves entrepreneurship, an awesome search engine, a new philosophy for a top page, and a ton of innovation. They even kept their innovative (and academic) roots for as long as they could in the form of Google Labs, which one can only assume they had high hopes for considering the talent they had and the amount of freedom they gave them. But it was no Bell Labs or an IBM in their heyday. It shut down in 2011, because the business arm couldn't justify it. They didn't need hobby projects. Google needed bigger and faster innovation to meet the scale of their resources and potential returns to match, so they focused more on phones, cars, AI, and robots. And now they exercise true big corporate innovation. Innovation is bought. They buy it, work on it, then sell it if it doesn't work out (as they did with their headless robotic dogs).

Big corporations cannot pay entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurs under their umbrella. No one can. They can pay researchers to do research, engineers to build things, and designers to come up with new products and services. But entrepreneurs are not for hire. The moment they're hired, they stop being true entrepreneurs. But their companies are often for sale -- the business they built from the ground up to succeed in the specific business they're in (or just for IP if they're a technology play). And innovation is easy to measure when it's already there for sale in front of you.
It's quite unlikely you've heard of Eckart Wintzen [1]. He was leading one of the fastest growing software engineering companies in the 70's and 80's called BSO using a 'cell management', where sub-companies have a set maximum size of 50 and need to split afterwards. I worked for a company called Topicus [2] in the Netherlands which followed a similar philosophy for a while.

[1] http://www.extent.nl/about-us/people/eckart/
[2] http://www.topicus.nl
Yeah, this extract does feel a little out of place and almost like a dig at Go. I'm sure it is not but a little clarification wouldn't go amiss.

To my knowledge Dropbox's backend is migrating (slowly) from Python to Go (new default), with Rust for some specialist features where the memory management model is preferable.
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Exactly. I "learned" QBasic when I was 5-6 and it was really exciting because it was the actual language that implemented some of the games I liked playing. Kids like to learn about the real world. They can tell when you give them something simplified and they often don't like it.
> HR resources" is redundant.

No, its not. It does expand out to have a repeated word, but the reference is different (the HR resources -- Human Resources resources -- are resources dedicated to the Human Resources function.)
Can someone point me to an sample smart contract?
> Currencies are a collective delusion: they're valuable because other people think they are valuable.

This is not true of most currencies. Most currencies are valuable because governments force you to pay them on threat of imprisonment. Bitcoin does not have this feature and therefore, yes, it's hard to see what its fundamental value is.
I'm not sure I understand the relevance? Neither are rust libraries.
Does anyone know if a bootable BASIC interpreter written in x86 asm exists? If not, it might be a fun project.
No. It's native code, with the native runtime embedded in C.
Has HBR recently changed its page layout? There is a 20% top bar, that hides a few lines of text when I hit page down. I couldn't finish the article, too frustrated with that POC top bar.
Be Brave with Your Data
IIRC, in most jurisdictions, that's all they need to do with alcohol to arrest. Blood/breath results are additional evidence which will aid with conviction, since there is an prima facie legal limit as well as a prohibition on driving while impaired do to alcohol regardless of BAC, but most jurisdictions also prohibit driving while impaired with any substance, whether or not that substance is one for which a prima facie limit has been established.
The Map That Changed the Middle East (1916)
Perhaps there's room for a rust equivalent of cdecl, a tool to map rust to plain English descriptions, offering a gradual onramp to the syntax.

This kind of thing seems silly to experts but could raise the rate at which folks make it through language learning funnel.
Boosting housing by building vertically is virtually unlimited.

The trickier part is supplying the added people with water, electricity, gas, food, and other supplies without augmenting infrastructure (which is failing left and right as it is) and convincing them to never travel out of or into the city using its already-at-capacity freeways and rail.
How creative Muslims use memes
I've been using D in production at work. I can't say that it'll never happen, but it's up against some very strong competition, and given its age, I'm not optimistic about it catching up.

D has been going for a long time, and still needs a decent more work before I'd call it mature. Its garbage collector still has global locks around every allocation and scan. On top of that, I've had memory leaks where it turned out that some anonymous closure just wasn't being released by the garbage collector. The fix for that memory leak was giving the anonymous closure a name to eliminate the environment capture.

For that matter, the tooling around things like taking heap snapshots and profiling is rather painful -- there are no good runtime tracing solutions, and the memory profiler built into the GC breaks down allocations by type, and not by allocation site, which is generally not all that useful. Valgrind dies when I try to debug invalid memory use in C code bound to D. Symbols in the local stack frame are spotty in gdb. And, in general, debugging support could stand to be much better.

The threading library (std.concurrency) can't send objects between threads without lots of lying to the type system to make things happy: You can't send shared references by default (we've hacked around this at work, still need to upstream the patch), and you can't send unshared references unless they're immutable. Sounds ok from a safety perspective until you realize that D is built around mutable objects, and there's no way to declare a value class.

There are lots of things to like about D, but I would be very antsy about using D for a system that I had to rely on in any critical capacity, as things stand. At least, not without a willingness to commit to changing the libraries and runtime.

I haven't used Go, Swift, or Rust in production enough to have an opinion on them and their production readiness.
I don't know about you, but I answer "yes" to a lot of questions I don't understand.
I started hacking C around 14/15.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't know what is hard.
Well, there aren't many solution out of this hole. If you need another language, you might have to write (and control) the compiler yourself. As in, if the code generator (or anything else) goes wrong, you can correct it.

<sarcasm> Now this might require a little bit more work. </sarcasm>
Not sure what you mean. Other duplicate posts have "[dupe]" added to their title, so why the hassle this time?
Twitter is optimized for superficial reading. Some ideas are more complicated than a one-liner.
Why does it need to grow? Maybe growth is limited, and when it's not, it's dangerous.
May be ask them to split interview into two days. I have done it before and I don't think it negatively impacted anything.
Ask HN: Trying to remember name of startup that did named entity recognition
So I'm trying to remember the name of this startup/web service (that I believe was acquired by Google in like 2010) that let you add a bunch of things you liked, and it knew how to disambiguate them.

There was a search bar, and if you searched for something like Warpaint, it would show: Warpaint (band) - kinda like Wikipedia does, but at a much finer-grained level.

Does anyone remember what this was? Or does anyone know if there's an API that offers a similar service?

I love getting recommendations - be it for movies, albums, songs, podcasts etc, I've been wanting to make an app for myself that lets me add these cool things I'm being recommended. Sure I could use a note-taking app, but it would be nice if it could detect "Disco//very" as a song by the band Warpaint, which can then let me pretti-fy and link to Spotify and so on.
Golang: The annoying remote import path
Also, need to take into account how Western-centric the study of linguistics and multilingualism is. There are many countries in Africa and Southeast Asia, where people are multilingual in everyday settings. This multilingualism might not include English, just 2 different languages in that country.

It would be good to study the effect multilingualism has in such cases.

Having said that, having learnt 3 languages to the point of fluency I felt very challenged and improved my analytical skills, where you understand how tense/grammar structures differ in the same languages and what effect this has on semantics
W.L. Gore and associates does something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._Gore_and_Associates

(The company is famous for Gore-Tex. The structure is famous in part because Malcolm Gladwell used it as an example in his discussion of Dunbar's number in The Tipping Point. But I guess it was studied lots before then.)
Scratch is a great idea, but it's a pity that the current implementation is Flash-only. The HTML5 repo has not seen any work in 2 years:

https://github.com/LLK/scratch-html5

Is it really impossible to have Scratch without Flash?

I want to play this Scratch game without Flash:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/63476480/
It's for the guidance system, it only pitches on one axis so they roll around to the correct heading before they pitch over. On the older Soyuz variants they physically rotated the launch pad. This is because the engine gimbal better in certain directions due to the design.

I'm not sure if other rockets do this, but I'd expect the Atlas V does due to the engine configuration. The Space Shuttle also did, but for aerodynamic reasons.
Reminds me of 2013 when William Bennett (S.F. Symphony's principal oboist) passed away during a performance.

"As he fell, he held his oboe aloft long enough for one of the orchestra's violinists to take it from him."

http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/S-F-Symphony-oboist-has-...
Does anyone else scroll through this and immediately conclude that $100m of ETH is just asking to be stolen from this "DAO"? 11KB of bytecodes.... Could it be possible for that much code to actually be bug-free? And if someone exploits a bug, how could you possibly fix it?
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> Research shows that children as young as 5 can grasp computational thinking concepts, so why not go there?

"computational thinking concepts"

What are they? I ask this in all seriousness.

Why are there no links to the talked about studies in the article? Or are they there and I missed them?
> Concision is Twitter's only real point of differentiation.

Really, the size is an artifact of the early importance of SMS as a mechanism for Twitter. If SMS isn't important to Twitter anymore, I can see why it makes sense to reconsider the limit.

Even if concision is a positive differentiator, there's no reason a limit based on SMS's limitations must be treated as unalterable.
> Personally, I think there's a massive economic explosion waiting to happen in making programming tools more accessible to average people

It's called Excel.
Snowden does not have access to anything he leaked any more. He physically turned everything over before he left Hong Kong and did not bring copies with him to Russia. Since he's undoubtedly under surveillance in Russia, there's not any safe way for him to review anything.
Only the other day I started keeping track of stuff for kids here:

http://taoofmac.com/space/dev/Kids

(my kids are moving on from Scratch, and we eventually settled on Python, but I'm keeping tabs on other options)
> Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers.

For a certain kind of reader.
Who would enforce their private control in a society where there is no legal concept of private property?
I don't know about you, but I'm not going to willingly send all my personal conversations and a mass of data about my living space over the internet to be analyzed by a third party...

So this will never happen in my household unless I control the data, and it is stored/analyzed locally.
I don't think a lot of people realize that when twitter was new, one of the main use cases was sending an SMS to 40404 to post.
Are staggered roll outs of security patches bad?
Real question. I avoided Twitter for years, and finally bit the bullet recently.

The problem is my feed is out of control. Is there a way to filter it?

For example, I want to only match the travel deals by regex (my city), the politics stuff by popularity, etc.

I was under the impression that Twitter closed off their API to 3ed parties, so maybe this is no longer possible.

On a side note, my current company recently switched to a MicroService framework based on Twitter Finagle / Finatra. At first, I was grumpy (damn Hipsters, another failure a la Node and Mongo), but as I learn more about it and Scala, I'm really impressed!
Not sure about exposing Swift to C itself, while Rust has a clear "call from C" story.

I think that's what was referred to.
Honestly, if they only designed to scale and did not anticipate iterating on the product, they deserve to fail. My guess is that this not a trivial change but worth the effort.
I know they're different politically - I'm comparing the results, which are terrible.
This is what, some kind of head's up display? Looks nice I guess, but as someone who has wanted a decent heads up display for ages and ages, I'm not going to get excited about anything without a price tag and at least an initial release. This doesn't even seem to show a prototype of the thing.
> Teachers in Texas are all paid the same based on years of service.

Do you have a source for this? The first thing I found on google was an article[0] which indicates teacher pay in Texas varies both with respect to location and subject taught (although admittedly not by much).

[0] http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20150627-...
This question is one of the FAQ from here: https://geektimes.ru/post/275878/
google-translate:
Despite the fact that the missile from a distance it seems symmetrical, for management it has a clear "up", "down", "left" and "right". After starting the rocket should be developed in the so-called guidance plane. At Baikonur launch pad rotates, because in the 50's analogue systems are not able to so active spinning. On a more modern launch sites in Kourou on the "East" there is no need to do this, the rocket itself rotates. Depending on the position of the launch pad and launch trajectory angle of rotation may be different, according to the video to start at a very similar sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 98 ° to Kourou it turns out approximately 90 °, to the "East" in the region of 180 °
Because is you fail a "field sobriety test", it doesn't matter if you fail a breathalyzer, you get arrested for DUI/DWI anyway. So they do the field sobriety test first, then the breathalyzer after, so they have two chances of having a reason to arrest you.
> If your lifestyle makes you a danger to others, then you need to change your lifestyle. If that implies moving to a large city, then that trumps your desire to remain in a small municipality.

Sorry—desire? Some people may chose to live in small municipalities, some don't chose. Some are forced to by their way of life (e.g. consider the people who grow your food).

I don't live in a small municipality. I'm merely pointing out the fact that your way of life is merely one way of living and is totally ignorant of the reality of many other people's experiences.
> Twitter is optimized for readers,

Twitter is optimized for SMS.
According to the I-9 form, submission of required information is voluntary, though an employer may be later be applied penalties if they are unable to prove that they determined eligibility.
Too many overconfident anecdotal HBR 'instructive stories' remind me of the old adage 'an economist is someone who can tell you a thousand ways to make love but has never actually met a member of their opposite sex'...the authors often appear to be hackademics, VC bag handlers and other theorists with little practical experience...
But I know my alphabet backwards. If sober, and I state it perfectly, will they think I'm drunk?
The point is that they don't care about the US, or France, or Hong Kong, or Zimbabwe.

Also, the individual owners of DAO are not known and are entirely bearer assets. You and I could Shapeshift some bitcoin to Ether right now, exchange for DAO tokens, vote on proposals for the DAO that eventually cause a gigantic oil disaster and whatever unlimited liability a court finds for shareholders will stall forever because they can neither find the shareholder or freeze the assets on the DAO.
Absolutely true- things are more competitive now in large part because a much larger segment of the population gets a shot at it. I'm not saying things are objectively worse on a social level, far from it... but they were more relaxed. We could have both.
<"As far as the law goes, Tesla did everything correctly.">

"If the facts aren't on your side, argue the law."