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> Whenever someone uses that word, I like the code or the application in question.

Then either they are not describing something unpythonic or you can't visualize how better the code would look if it was pythonic.

> "Pythonic" seems to mean using magic until an application works in 99% of the cases, satisfies some superficial criteria of readability to those intimately familiar with it and is utterly un-debuggable for those who aren't.

Not at all, it's usually exactly the opposite. Open a python shell and type "import this", if Python code satisfies a large enough number of those then it's Pythonic.

The first six pretty much sum it up:

> Beautiful is better than ugly.

> Explicit is better than implicit.

> Simple is better than complex.

> Complex is better than complicated.

> Flat is better than nested.

> Sparse is better than dense.

Words to live by. They all help improve debugging and readability.
The description of the "missing motor" sounds more like the motor-transmission assembly. Since the identification plate on the motor looks standard, if they find an identical part number, it may be for the motor only. Is there any chance of getting clear pictures or the motor-transmission from numerous angles (and including all identifying marks)?
What do you say? Shall we divide the task among a few of us and type this up? (Or do people perhaps do this with OCR nowadays?) Would there be enough interest in having these letters in searchable form to motivate the effort?
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Saving you a click, it's PHP.
Core issue I see is that there are different types of innovation, some are in the right direction, some are in the wrong direction, and most are just something new.

First step to an innovative culture is to not trying to make everyone the same, which is likely one of the most basic ingredients of real change. Next is to help people be innovative in a way that's what is need; mainly see thinking like this at successful advance R&D labs.
The rich will capitalize on that and will create endless waves of constructing and reconstructing 'social housing'. They will become super rich and will form a layer with vested interest in maintaining hundreds of thousands being poor. This is France.
As someone who dreams of one day making it therI, this scares the crap out of me and makes me feel like everything I know and have worked for isn't possible. It's really disappointing to hear that this is the interview style as I struggle coding with people watching and judging every little thing that I do.
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Because in the end, the "government" is the only thing maintaining some order. There is no civilization without it - and anyone that tells you differently just can't visualize where "government" exists in their example.

When the rules of society get out of whack, government can either help solve the issue, or double down on bad policies. When they do the latter, they eventually become chapters in history books.

Yes, certain (many) actors in government now are reinforcing the problems, but to solve many of them at scale, you need government to be involved, if not in charge.
Mortgage paymenets are almost entirely interest in the early years. So in many cases there's little difference.

Rental real estate works on leverage to a greater degree than is possible with stocks. Most banks won't make loans to invest in the stock market. They will make loans for investment property. So if you have $100,000 you can buy maybe 4 or 5 $100,000 rental properties, and have your tenants pay off the loans. Not as likely that you can take $100,000 and buy $400,000 - $500,000 of stocks, at least not as an unsophisticated individual investor.
The new FDA label standard would likely require the cupcakes to either treat the package as a serving or list the calories for both 1 cake and the entire package.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments...
> Does "unjust and dysfunctional" = "u r a fag"?

I would say referring to a person or set of people as unjust is a little bit of a category error, like saying "gravity is purple".

The correct thing is probably to chalk this up to lazy writing (it's not the only grammatical error in the piece) and interpret the author as actually meaning "A society or legal framework that allows rent seeking behavior is unjust and dysfunctional."

If we can agree approximately on criteria for "justice" and "dysfunctionality" (probably involving fairness and sustainability in one way or another) then this is a claim that's amenable to rational discussion and debate, and maybe even a little bit testable empirically.
Well who does the measurement to determine the percent error? Presumably it would be the government or some lab at the request of the government, so food manufacturers could just use that same lab.
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I think it is assumed that whomever is reading knows how to program an animation using their choice of framework/library/whatever, and that the most common method for dealing with these is pixels in a grid. So, the budding game developer (the audience), knows that a pair of numbers (x,y) are used to represent position. Indeed, most hello-world style tutorials for SDL, Allegro, GameMaker etc are concerned with getting something on the screen at a certain location.
It's an anti-pattern, not a dark pattern.
Exactly. I saw such things with my own eyes.
How could a company ever sell stock to raise capital, if the people who bought that stock didn't have a functioning market to resell it on?

It could be a lifetime or time-limited right to a dividend, with voting rights attached. This would prioritise sustainable profit generation with a long-term view, and eliminate the current malaise of seeking short-term spikes in share price.
Oklahoma Makes the Poor Poorer
Well if Graal is faster why is it not made part JDK distribution.
But one key part is still missing and volunteers are still searching for it.

"It looks like an electric motor in black casing with two shafts on each side, which drive the gears of the Lorenz machine," explains volunteer John Wetter.

Volunteers hope the public will look out for it and if all else fails are hoping someone might want to build them a new one until they find it.

If it's just a dual-shaft motor with nothing else special about it, fortunately those are widely available:

http://www.surpluscenter.com/New-Arrivals/1600-RPM-115-VAC-D...
Good catch. I'm not sure where I got this idea that schizophrenia is more likely to develop in high-IQ individuals, but that's what I thought.
On a related note, when a 10^19 or
above event hits a densely populated
area, there's a decent sized ionization
column near the center of the shower
that could likely lead to cancer.
Theres probably 100 to 1000 or so
events like that in an area the size
of the Bay Area.

Ha! Oh man. That'd be the best alert a smart phone could ever show me.

*beep*
You've just been irradiated by powerful
cosmic rays from outer space. Your risk
factor for certain forms of cancer has
increased by 0.013%.

I really would want to know if I was suddenly showered by cosmic rays, and my location within the crowd-sourced area-of-effect, but I wonder if an app could transmit it's sensor noise to a central server, and receive accurate results aggregated from all other app instances very quickly. I figure there'd be a lag of maybe a couple of hours or more.

Reminds me of this other site, which provides air quality stats:

https://plumelabs.com
>Everyone has a job

I visited cuba in 1998 for a few weeks. I was staying with a family who hosted visitors like my father and myself for a little extra foreign currency on the side. The father of the family that we were staying with was a chief economist in Castro's government.

I will never forget riding the elevator at the university in Havana. There was a woman whose job it was to press the buttons in the elevator after you told her what floor you wanted to go to. She was there every day.

I can't imagine that was a very fulfilling job for her, as there was clearly no point as people could just press the buttons themselves.

Jobs still need to be productive on some level
Wow. You need to read some behavioral genetics. Let me know if you care to. I'll give you references. They've found g heritable in primates other than humans as well.

The amount of work we do to believe that biology is not a factor is stunning. This is what a 'cultural taboo' looks like.
...but in the world of software, everyone wants programs that work better. The very rich have no short term interest in a system that's hard to game. Therefore they're going to use their considerable influence to prevent just that.
I was able to build the PDF on Fedora 23 [1]. Ended up with no front page but the content is there. Not sure if it's supposed to be like that or not.

I also attempted to build the ePub and HTML versions but that didn't work. Commented about this on issue #134 [2].

[1]: https://github.com/aosabook/500lines/files/288427/500L_pdf.z...

[2]: https://github.com/aosabook/500lines/issues/134
>In this specific case the state acts at the behest of those who fill out a USPS Form 1500.

That is "people" "censoring". This really isn't as complex or difficult as you're trying to make it be.
For one thing, it means contributors' work sat there for up to three years – not something that would make me want to contribute.

For another, any bugfixes/improvements that had been requested by the community were inaccessible on a release branch, even after they were committed – this sounds extremely frustrating.

Most libraries out there are "just working" – doesn't mean they can't ship improvements, and most do – typically no more irregularly than every 6mo.
My argument wasn't absolute. Many, many incumbents have blocked important social change. Exxon is a classic energy example (covering up climate change once they knew it was happening). Another is the maker of TurboTax blocking reforms to the US tax filing system because it would have killed their product.

Sometimes big industries suffer due to policy decisions. Sometimes they take advantage of change and make money. Sometimes they use their money to fight the change instead.

Oil companies happen to fall into the last category with no sign things will change.
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This article is made up of 95% fluff and 4% content, and 1% the word "Keynesian".

And even that 4% content has no logic, just trying to deceive readers using lots of confusing/dubious expressions.

"Since then I’ve gotten a college degree, come within striking distance of finishing grad school, and acquired a number of practical and social skills I simply didn’t have as a teenager."

> So basically if you trim it down it means "I became and adult and went to college". (I had to re-read to realize "come within striking distance of finishing grad school" means nothing. "Acquired a number of ..." also means nothing because that's the definition of growing up. I acquired number of practical and social skills too. And so did everyone else.)

As for the content itself, this person needs to learn a lot more than some esoteric economics theory books and some blog posts about startups, before criticizing how startups work. It's all based on shallow understanding of how things work.
We already have that. Is called videogames. We can have a war between 2 or more parties using them.

Why not do this (or just use only robots). For the same reason when you read "videogames for real wars" and instantly see how stupid is it.
Just out of curiosity, who is that "someone"?
who checks the obscure and difficult tables

I'm not sure exactly which tables you're referring to here, but if you mean tables showing nutritional details beyond the mere number of calories: Being able to look up how many grams of carbohydrate they're consuming is a incredibly important for type 1 diabetics.
Anger is more likely to trigger fear in other people. Anger is also more likely to lead to action, and therefore possibly mistakes. Being sad is just safer for the business.

But I agree there should just be a protocol for handling both and neither should be a big deal. Management should want to take time to sort either out.
And if you end up with more than one AS due to a merge, you usually pick one them as your primary and connect the other ones to it, then announce their prefixes from your primary, ie. your primary AS becomes transit for your other ones. That way you only have to maintain one external border.
And quite targeted native advertising at that - without being British and having no experience with the ISPs in the article, I actually can't tell who it's advertising for. Possibly Tata, in which case it's even more targeted (advertising to ISPs and big corps?)
What do you mean 'knocked out'? The social justice maintenance system in the USSR worked. There were no rich, but your honest labour and intellectual efforts were properly rewarded there up to end of the 60-ies. That was foundation for prosperity of the 80-ies. But elites betrayed the country and in 90-ies it was over.
Oh, I already do that. Thought my statement was plain enough.
I know a lot of people like poke fun at "RAS syndrome" but how would you write this phrase without using a redundant acronym?

"Built a few other SaaS services since then"

Would it be "Built a few other SaaSes since then"? "Built a few other Software as a Services since then"? "Built a few other SaaServices since then"? "Built a few other services following the SaaS model since then"?

I can't think of a way that doesn't sound more contrived than the original.
Haha! I just tried Vector on iOS and apparently moved about in such a way that I accidentally triggered the greatest notification message:

> You seem to be shaking the phone in frustration. Would you like to submit a bug report?
> false claims???

Explain the false part please.
What in particular are you looking to learn?
That was really frustrating. As a UK Web developer at the time, I understood the ruling as preventing the use of client-side tracking technology without an opt-in; this would have included tracking cookies, supercookies, web beacons, etc., but wouldn't include non-tracking uses required for functionality, like "remember me" tickboxes.

It looked like a good first step to tackling rampant privacy violation, but at the last moment the Information Commissioner caved in to bullshit claims that the ruling would cause the collapse of all Web businesses. The enforcement was changed from "not allowed unless opted-in" into "visiting a site counts as opting in".

The end result is not only completely ineffective, as it basically changes nothing; it's also resulted in the profileration of ridiculous "by using our site you agree to our use of cookies" messages, which just annoy without doing anything.
It does. I meant testing as in a process, not as in its specific purpose (and even then it's still ambiguous in English).
This is very poorly researched and written article.

We don't need "Zero point energy", we need a more efficient form of energy compared to Fossil Fuels which have been the driver of the economy. It's quite likely that leaps in Solar, Battery and Nuclear will allow us to "upgrade" civilization.

Energy is also only one part of the society/economy, the other part is cognitive/computation. The emergence of networked world along with AI and Sensing, will provide civilization with another leap in terms of efficiency.

The idea that "if there was something to be discovered (or businesses that would need to be started), it would have been already discovered" is completely wrong. Rather technological inventions allow us to build more efficient system that would not have been previously feasible.

This article reminds me of the socialists who despise Green Revolution, claiming it was a "Technological Solution" to problem of hunger (and inequality) in India, etc. and would rather have preferred mass revolutions and social change with "equitable" distribution. All the while enjoying privileges that come with living in a developed country.
I've yet to try a VR headset but because I have very different vision in one way to the other 3D films simply don't work for me. I can watch them but I only see them in 2D, my experience with Google Cardboard was the same, so sadly I don't think I'm ever going to get to experience what others do.
Did you live there?
We all have.
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It's "They bring you up to do like you daddy ..."
What are good methods to fight bullshit at work? Conversely, what are the bad methods to fight bullshit at work?

EDIT: Let say it's not in the company DNA and that it's just some individuals behaviours.
When it comes to detecting radiation with smartphone, it is possible / known. Two friends of mine made it as a scientific projects when they are still in high-school:
https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2014/40/News%20Arti...
Agreed. 500 calories from chicken or a lean protein like crab is very different from 500 calories from a pastry. What should be highlighted is amount of sugar and carbohydrates, not total calories. Not every calorie is created equally. In fact, you could almost remove carbohydrates from your diet and be unaffected, but the same isn't true of protein and good fats.
Did somebody really manage to isolate some "IQ genes" and demonstrate that just changing them makes one dumber or smarter with no other effects?
Not really. Facebook rate-limits all requests. You would need a huge botnet to collect hundreds of millions of photos.
It's still more useful than what 90% of startups are doing, so I wouldn't complain about it. Being able to provide care and entertainment for pets in situations in which you can't be with them is not a bad thing.
Foreign "investments" in property are almost universally bad. I give you Vancouver, London, SF, and NYC as just a few examples. The very rich in other economies buy large amounts of "investment" property and do nothing other than drive up prices against - and out of step with - the local economy. This drives out the locals, and causes many actual residents to wonder how someone, even on a good salary, could afford a local property.

A lot of these foreign investments come from China. I don't know a solution - if I had buckets of money I'd love to have property abroad (although more for living, less as investment). I don't know what restricting local investments in property would do economically, but I know the current lack of restrictions cause terrible hurt to locals.
I don't see how russia proves anything. to me, what didn't work wasn't wealth redistribution, but planned economy. And planned economy has become mire viable since then, thanks to computers.
Using the sweeping assumptions embraced in this article, any 3D games which happen to cause motion sickness (due to the player having 'six degrees of freedom' in zero g) to a non-trivial proportion of players when played on a monitor or TV, such as Descent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game) prove unequivocally that 3D games 'will not work' on TVs or monitors.
If I was in the wealthy club, my biggest fear for myself, and my family would be one thing.

"I hope we don't turn into Mexico, where if you have a few assets; you literally run the risk of kidnapping for ransom, etc."

You couldn't give my enough money to worry about sitting in the park, or concerned if my kids are safe.

Plus, what fun is it going on vacation, a function, a party, a nice dinner, when the rest of society is struggling?

Another big drawback to wealth, you will never know if he/she loves you for you? You might think you know, but goodluck.

And don't get me started on rich kids! It's like giving them a loaded gun?

What's the point of all this wealth, if you need security, complex prenuptials, phoney friends, canieving family mebmers(middle, low class can be ruthless, immoral too.)

I live near a few 1 percenter's and they don't have better emotional lives. They don't need to worry about money, but they have some retched worries; I would never want.

(This op is falling a bit too quick? I just wonder sometimes? Censoring it will not make the sentiments go away?)
I actually believe you that your life is better than average, but you must have noticed that such statements are more often wishful thinking than a careful measurement. I suspect that's why people don't hang on your every word when you speak about it. We have no way to know if your life actually is great by my metrics.
The truth is there are a series of accounts that were made when the number of saved stories was limited. i.e. cb1 ... 18

It's true that creating series of 18 accounts just to make a concealed Nazi reference is pretty extreme, so maybe it's just a coincidence this time. False alarm guys, put away the pitchforks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cb18 2227 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cb17 2253 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cb16 2257 days ago

...

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cb3 2668 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cb2 2787 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cb1 No such user.

But wait, there is no cb1! We've caught him in his crafty lies. Since there are actually only 17 accounts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_SS_Panzergrenadier_Divisi...) his cover is blown. Unless he can immediately clear his name by somehow proving the existence a cb1 account created 8 years ago, we've (essentially) _proved_ that he is a Nazi who is not worthy of refutation!

For Europe as we know it to continue to exist it's population must be Europeans.

Less sarcastically, I think it would be better to debate the points he makes rather than dismissing him by shrieking "Nazi". Is Europe defined by its genetic heritage or its culture? Which is more important? Do the two go hand-in-hand? At what cost is it worth preserving either?

It's really absurd if every time you see the number 18 you shriek and go Nazi!!!

You tried to slip that last reference in at the end where no one would notice, but I saw it. Nazi!!!
To me, cities more than roads suggest the appropriate level of zoom for navigating because cities correlate to the density of the local road network. Without the cities there's no way of distinguishing between a highway passing through wilderness and one passing through `Super Walmarts = 1` sized towns.
I vaguely recall many alarming articles written about Wolfenstein 3D causing motion sickness (even some talking about how it was permanent somehow), and how big of a problem this would be for 3D shooters.

I'm sure we'll be fine eventually.
Is the bullshit built into the company's DNA? Some places I have worked have certain varieties of bullshit that have basically become company truths. If this is the case, then you really aren't going to fight it.
For a beginner in CTF, https://picoctf.com/ is also a good resource.
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