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>I don't drink, or party, so that wasn't part of the fun for me -- but it seemed like most of the other people on the ship were there for that reason.
>The only thing that I didn't like were the people on the ship,

You were on the wrong ship. Let me guess, Carnival?

Different cruise lines cater to different crowds. To get the best cruise experience, it's important to realize this and select a cruise line that lines up well with your expectations and that you'll fit into well.

Carnival caters to the drunks and partiers. There's a reason that every time you hear about some drunk cruise-goer falling overboard, it's a Carnival ship. You never hear about this with, for instance, Disney Cruises, or Norwegian or Royal Caribbean.

I've only been on one cruise, Norwegian, about 9 years ago. It was pretty fun overall, though I'm not wild about doing it again for various reasons. But I did not see much drinking or partying, even in the casino. The crowd was pretty tame, so I can't say I disliked the people on the ship at all. A lot of them seemed to be Germans actually. The ports of call were fun (it was a Caribbean cruise) for the most part, and there was an interesting event on the ship one day where some artwork was being shown (maybe sold, I forget now), and they showed a video of a short film that was a collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali which was really interesting to watch. At the time, it was supposedly only recently released IIRC.

The dining experience varies a lot between cruise lines too. Now remember a lot of my information is almost a decade old, but at the time, Norwegian had very open dining rules: basically you could go to the buffets whenever they were open (which were pretty generous hours) and grab free food, and sit anywhere you like. The dining rooms cost more and needed a reservation, but you could do the whole cruise at the buffets for nothing. By contrast, I was told that on Royal Caribbean, there was assigned seating and assigned eating times, so unless you were part of a group, you usually ended up stuck eating with strangers you didn't know. On Norwegian, alcohol was pretty expensive, so I didn't see people drinking much. I was told that on Carnival, alcohol was free or cheap, so that would explain drunkenness on those ships.

Anyway, do your research on cruise lines and their policies and pricing before you go, and look at what kind of crowds they cater to, and also what kind of on-board events they'll have. You're likely to have a much more pleasant experience if you pick carefully.
Everyone works differently. My problem is that if I start mixing as soon as I introduce a new synth, I get really obsessive and perfectionist over it and lose the big picture.

At the moment, I try to just do some light sound design and mixing while building the track, then do the full mixing at the end.
Also, the 4.79 MB CSS should be a giveaway...
I agree, this is awesome. Their post yesterday hinted at something, and I honestly didn't think it would be this exciting. I can't wait to use it.
this is my near exact strategy as well, except for holding a balance of 1,00,000... damn that's impressive.
That does look nice, looks like they've come quite a way very quickly too. Still a little put off by the idea of host PHP apps for such critical systems but hats probably my internal bias towards using Ruby/Python/Go.
Honestly, I feel like OO has been a net harm to the practice. It is a useful code reuse pattern but I feel like it has gotten far too much play.
While your area may of course be quite dense, England (the most densely inhabited part of the UK) is about 2.3% built on.

The problem is not immigrants.
Ban education discrimination against job applicants. (Except for jobs which require certification).

Right now, there is no drawback for an employer requiring a bachelor's degree for a job that has no use for it. Putting an end to this practice will stop the pointless rat race.

Alternatively, cap student loans, and put lower boundaries on what % of tuition goes towards instruction. Most tuition funds do not go towards education, and there is a lot of pressure for universities to spend them on building Potemkin villages.
Bitwig looks amazing, especially its scriptability - thank you for sharing.
The Wildest Predictions for Oil Prices in 2016
Countminsketch – an apporximate frequency counter Redis module
All Random in hon and dota is played on the standard map with standard rules. Each player gets a random hero chosen from the entire pool. The only restriction is no duplicates. This mode can be played from the very first game on a brand new account.

ARAM in League is totally different. It's not even available to players until they have purchased/unlocked enough champions to have a pool, a situation that could take a very long time to resolve for players who have no money to buy them.

You gave an estimate of 60 hours for a new player to try all 120 heroes in hon or dota. That could be accomplished in one week by a dedicated new player. How many hours do you think it'd take to unlock every champion in league? Thousands upon thousands, at least.

Edit: I'd also like to point out that in hon/dota you get to play a hero at their full power and effectiveness from the very beginning. This means that a veteran of one game who switches to another is not at a disadvantage, unlike a new player to league playing against people who have played long enough to max out their summoner level, runes, and masteries.
At 4:00 you can see that not much of the world has actually changed other than having tracking markers added everywhere: https://imgur.com/ffgbpjb.

So the tech depicted here is actually less advanced than we what we have today (Hololens etc are all trackerless). Other than having a compact form for glasses this kind of reality is achievable in just a couple more years.

Despite the theme of the video I am looking forward to it. The first decade of having the internet sucked too with geocities design and crazy popups/viruses on every click. But I wouldn't choose an alternate reality where the internet didn't exist at all.

We should be more optimistic that all of these UI issues will be figured out once it actually gets adoption.
Breakfast became "magical" to me when I started eating high-protein breakfasts - basically eggs and bacon or sausage instead of cereal. The years I ate cereal for breakfast, I was battling to stay awake until lunch time. I felt so sleepy in class. Years later I moved to San Francisco and started eating eggs almost every day in SoMa cafes. I could not believe the difference. I was wide awake and had so much more energy.
There are unique URLs for each document type, and they are also different per platform (web/iOS/android). So, yes bookmarks are great, but it's helpful to have all the necessary links in one place.
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In addition to the burning, there are the effects of planting fields with non-gmo sugar beets. I don't think we can have the sugar production without sugar beets, and the old version either requires hand-weeding or more chemicals to be able to have a good harvest. Often those chemicals do more environmental harm than good.

The problem with telling folks not to burn the fields is the same problem the sugar beet folks run into when told to hand weed the fields. It costs more and is harder work.
Putting in the request now for HN to update their API to provide this: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

I figure since a comment of mine sparked 'saved comments' being a thing that lightning could strike twice...but then I guess the API would need to allow authentication for private data.
Had exactly the same reaction.

Quick google yields: https://github.com/kyletns/quick-docs

Bit involved to set up, but does the trick.

@flinner - would you be prepared to host something similar as an improvement on the bookmarks?
Hmmm... They give out an option of PHP or .NET, not sure I'd really like to run either of those?
Agreed. I fast before working out in the morning, and usually break the fast by noon. On weekends I'll often eat breakfast and then fast the rest of the day.

I'm a woman, and on birth control, so fasting doesn't mess with my hormones so much, but I read that women tend to respond to fasting with heightened color vision and vivid sensorial experiences, which I can anecdotally confirm.

That said, I can only practice intermittent fasting for one to two days at a time before it starts negatively affecting my workouts and attention span.
that is why I have different email address for newsletters. Let them spam.
I hear you on expressiveness of using the language. Of course (and as you mention) the strength of restricting the expressiveness is that it becomes decidable in some amount of acceptable time for most programs.

I agree with your last sentiment but I don't think it has to be any less "formal" than something like Coq. I just think we shouldn't be so concerned with proving all properties of a program before running. And then we can turn the knob to adjust how much to prove during vs. before running.
I get the feeling we need a 'gogs of a webmail app'
The funny thing is that even the first article you linked to was published on 3/26/2008. Just after being acquired by TATA.

> well, you can do googling all day and spitting out all those craps about TATA, nothing is going to come out of this, moreover this discussion will fan out to other unrelated topic.

That's precisely what you just did: "googling all day and spitting out all those craps about TATA". You made a stupid point about TATA not selling it's cars in any country other than India's neighbors and asked me to prove you otherwise. When I called you out on that, you now on the back-foot and instead talk about the "crappiness" of the car and the temporary "declining" sales in the US. You talk about "hilariously being on the verge of another bail out" but I can link you to a more recent article (5 Jan 2016) on Jaguar Land Rover sales picking up in the US by 30%: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/01/05/jaguar-l...

The real issue is that you just choose to use outdated links that fit your discourse.
> Right now, there is no drawback for an employer requiring a bachelor's degree for a job that has no use for it.

Increase an employer's taxes commensurate with the cost of the education for the workers they hire. If you truly need workers with bachelors, masters, PhDs, you pay for the cost. Internalize the externality.
Probably impossible politically and even difficult operationally, but cutting off the federal funds would go a long way towards getting these institutions to get competitive.

Texas has been piloting programs that grant BA's for $10K. Not per year, all in (https://www.texastribune.org/2013/01/30/guide-getting-one-te...). If Texas can do it, why not more schools.

There will always be a place for elite educational institutions, the Rolls Royce of higher ed, but there should be a Toyota Corolla equivalent as well. This program in Texas proves that it is possible.
> It has been found that children who skip breakfast are more likely to be overweight than children who eat two breakfasts.

What if overweight children are more likely to skip breakfast?
I'm excited for this, seems like GitLab is moving more into a all-in-one solution, compared to Github that focuses on "social coding", whatever that now means.

So to try out this new feature (together with the pipelines), I tried setting up a simple project that uses a docker image to serve a simple html page.

However, it seems like it's not possible to build/push from the CI system (unless you setup a self-hosted runner) which kind of leaves this "Container Registry" without value, because I still need to manually build/push my images from one machine...
Very true. I've also had the opposite experience. Bad speakers/headphones can hide flaws. On good headphones, sibilant frequencies, compression artifacts, and muddy bass can all become really apparent and annoying.
Street parking solutions are being proposed. Many streets already have power to the street (street lamps and similar street furniture) and chargers become the new parking meter. Also, there's experiments in street-installed inductive chargers (like the wireless chargers you can buy for many phones these days) and even companies exploring the logical extreme of street-level inductive chargers the "power road" (where the car can draw an inductive charge even while driving), which seems unlikely to be pragmatic but still interesting to experiment with.
Cool! Currently we don't have the tools to accept requests automatically. Still, we're closely monitoring the search terms/expressions users make that return no (or close to no) results.

We try to be as reactive as possible, so feel free to contact us (bottom left of sidebar) and ask for what you need!
For the past year or so I've gotten into watch repair. Small tools, fine motor skills, mechanical wonder at what people were doing 100 years ago. Highly recommended, but be warned...it addictive.
It is entirely possible. However, assholes will do it because they find they can have control over things. And still others, like myself, will do it despite not really wanting to. I find it's extremely easy to "shut down" things in a discussion like that, and make other people not want to speak, even though I don't want to. It's much more difficult to take a bit of time, rethink how I'm going to say something, and try to phrase it in a way that still encourages people to talk about ideas.
IPv6 excuses
If you want/need to run a very particular version of Linux software, then maybe a Chromebook's not for you. But many thousands of people successfully run all kinds of Linux software that works just fine inside the Crouton environment. I didn't and wouldn't say you're a bizarre edge case, but xbmc is being far more picky about versions than it needs to be and that's not ChromeOS's or Crouton's fault. It's unreasonable to criticize the platform because it didn't satisfy your one use case, and it certainly does nothing to refute my original point that ChromeOS isn't just for newbies.
There are some folks that won't be swayed. I find a thread in the anti-gmo's that equate Monsanto is bad, therefore GMOs must be bad as well. There is a similar line with the "organic" produce folks... organic methods can be bad for the environment yet they are thinking it is better practices.

However, in this case, folks have to read carefully and do stuff. In addition, it seems government and health organizations are no longer backing up the anti-gmo stuff as much as they were. Which is a victory in rationality.
What courses form the mathatical basis for writing compilers? Discrete Math and the like?
I've never been so sad as when I read the New Yorker profile[1] of the creator of Soylent. Most people understand that food can be extremely healthful, and is a crucial part of culture and social bonding.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/12/the-end-of-food
Oh, sorry, I agree. I thought you were disagreeing with parent; saying "it doesn't run arbitrary executables, it only runs linux executables".

Although actually, I see what you mean now. D'oh. Windows was so far out of my mind I wasn't even thinking of it as a distinction to be made.
Getting "Error 520 Ray ID: 2a7abc492b210ef7 • 2016-05-23 18:58:55 UTC"
> Since February of last year, 1,281 other hosts have also registered with the city. However, that number is a far reach from the 7,046 hosts that Airbnb acknowledges are listing more than 9,000 properties in San Francisco. That means at least 82 percent of hosts are breaking the law.

I agree that Airbnb hosts not following regulations are probably contributing to the supply crisis. But 9000 properties? Isn't SF in need of 10s of thousands of units if not even more than that to match demand?

I think SF's ineptitude around permits, zoning, and the "not in my backyard" mentality is a way bigger issue.
I'm not so sure. My understanding is the big tech companies hire engineers on a rolling basis and basically take everyone they like.

They're not approaching it for the frame of satisfying a requisition for a specific role with the best of the N applicants for it on X date, they're picking up talent as quickly as possible and then sorting out where to place people after the hire/no-hire decision is made.
Edit: Whoops wrong thread. :)
Instead of taxing through their employers, why not just tax higher-educated employees directly?
> Right now, there is no drawback for an employer requiring a bachelor's degree

Erm... how about fewer applicants and higher wages?

The average bachelor graduate will demand higher wages than the average high-school graduate. The market is demanding higher education for some reason. If you think its immoral that's one thing... but its completely different to argue that there is "no drawback".

Walmart isn't asking for bachelor degrees to fill in their "Walmart Greeter" or "Walmart Cashier" positions.
TERRIBLY hard to send anything to the sun. Stuff does not just "falls" there, you have to cancel the enormous translation speed that the Earth has.

Plus, putting the stuff on top of a highly energetic vehicle is not the safest thing we can do with it.
Simple Made Easy is a really great talk.
I really want my aerospace engineers to be able to do math...

Universities accredit them, so companies don't have to spend their money doing it (via a ridiculous number of interviews). Interviewing is already one of the largest sinks of money for a largish company, no need to make it worse.

Far better, would removing the guaranteed loan payback the government provides. This would force universities to lower prices as students wouldn't be eligible for loans. Further, it increases the barrier to universities, meaning less people will have degrees and in turn companies would have an incentive to hire people without degrees. Plus people with degrees would get paid more (making it easier to pay off loans).

The whole issue is universities aren't having to deal with market forces. Add back in the incentives and it'll be 10x cheaper.
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I dunno, with a Tory government staying in the EU is a good idea. If we had a Green and/or Left socialist government then voting out may be more progressive.
The article should have mentioned the inflationary effects of foreign students. A lot of foreigners who study in the US are either A: loaded or B: backed by their home state. It has gotten to the point where foreign students are somewhat expected to come to subsidize American financial aid. Add in the article's woes: increasing value of a college degree, cuts in education budgets, and cutthroat competition leading to a state of constant expensive campus development all leads to an enormous bill just to keep the lights on.

The other aspect I take issue with is the farming out of federal loans to private companies. The US Department of Education doesn't need to make a profit on my federal student loans to exist, but my loan company does, and I'm stuck paying 6%. I have never seen a convincing argument as to why people like me are saddled with profit-seeking companies doing what should be a purely public service.
ngrep is awesome
Sanders does better than Clinton among moderates in matchup against Trump
Facebook "is dead"

Twittter "is dying"

Quora "is dead"

Foursquare "is dead"

Snapchat "is dead"

Instagram "is dead"

Most of the apps I use are dead or dying.
Machine Learning on Intel’s Platform
Do you know what part stood out the most to me? His difficulty getting access to scientific papers:

> Graduate school wasn’t much better. Medzhitov arrived at Moscow State University just as the Soviet regime collapsed. The university was broke, and Medzhitov didn’t have the equipment he needed to run experiments. “I was basically spending all of my time reading and thinking,” Medzhitov told me.

> Mostly, he thought about how our bodies perceive the outside world. We can recognise patterns of photons with our eyes and patterns of air vibrations with our ears. To Medzhitov, the immune system was another pattern recognition system – one that detected molecular signatures instead of light or sound.

> As Medzhitov searched for papers on this subject, he came across references to a 1989 essay written by Charles Janeway, an immunologist at Yale, titled ‘Approaching the Asymptote? Evolution and revolution in immunology’. Medzhitov was intrigued and used several months’ of his stipend to buy a reprint of the paper. It was worth the wait, because the paper exposed him to Janeway’s theories, and those theories would change his life.

Several months of stipend to buy a single paper?
I just created http://namestormy.com to solve a problem I had, which is finding relevant free domain names.

I've hacked it together one morning and in a few days it got featured on product hunt.

I have some features (like automatically filtering domain names without the paid api) rolling out soon and I hope that could make a nice passive income.
For other crimes, we accept various imperfections in the judicial system. After all, murder is really bad, and the facts that some murders go unsolved while others are pinned on innocents don't cause us to reconsider our laws against murder. The imperfections don't make the problems posed by murder worse for everyone than would not enforcing the laws at all. (Convicted innocents are an important exception, but let's set them aside in this discussion.)

I consider insider trading laws to be of a different nature. As mentioned above, these laws create a situation in which naive investors suffer more harm and self-serving executives reap more gain than they would in the absence of these laws. Without insider trading laws, new "inside" information would set off a race on the part of all knowledgeable insiders to profit from that information, thereby quickly informing the broader market. The positions of public firms would be much clearer, to every investor. Investors could still gain or lose money in the market, but executives could no longer structure their investments and incentive packages over the medium term so as to profit most directly from their inside knowledge.

In this new more permissive regime, I'm sure some executives would attempt some straight-up shareholder robbery. But the speed required to succeed at such schemes would make their actions obvious to the investing public, to prosecutors interested in charging more prosaic crimes like fraud, and to tort lawyers interested in breach of contract. After a time we'd have at least some executives who had been incentivized toward honesty enough to actually become generally honest.
That's an interesting idea (In that it reduces the amount of zero-training freeloading employers can do), but without other changes, I feel that it would make the problem worse - it would increase the guaranteed fire-hose of money that educational institutions will receive.

Limiting the firehose to departments that add economic value won't fix the other wasteful practices.
Isn't Steve Cohen a major investor in some Y Combinator companies?
Maybe one day they'll make a plugin that does the same that Roundcube and other PHP email clients are capable of doing, that would at least make it a little smoother to have as an all in one email client.
How difficult was the bug reporting process?

That is a good metric for a project.
Keep in mind millions of people are dying in Asia due to Japanese occupation during this time.

Shouldn't those lives count as well.

Ether way Truman was president of AMERICA, not the greater good
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Really depends on the use case. If you're trying to do streaming, spark will introduce some latency because it's based on micro-batching. Flink and Storm are better for low-latency scenarios.