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Those places must have great weather, because Toronto is mostly sun and climate is moderated by the lake
Yes. Otherwise, you wouldn't have noticed we're after you.
Would have to agree there. The salaries in Toronto are far, far lower than a comparable on the US West Coast. If you can get a public sector job at a university though, you might be laughing. Although, public sector jobs will suck the creativity right out of your veins like a vampire..
> I could be convinced otherwise, but in my experience Toronto is simply the best with respect to diversity, interesting people interacting and getting along, and being a fantastic mix of cultures from literally all over the globe.

> I didn't really explore the other boroughs much

Maybe that's why you think that :-)
IMO, it would be more interesting to see it done top-down, instead of bottom-up. That is, instead of starting with rewriting `strlen`, why not start with rewriting `getaddrinfo`? That would be a very interesting project because you could write `getaddrinfo` with a safe Rust API (i.e. one that doesn't require using `unsafe` to call it), and then wrap it in an `unsafe` function that exports the unsafe C `getaddrinfo` function. This could arguably then be an improvement on the musl code.
I guess I never thought that there is a thing like "picturing a year". A year is a year to me, you have calendars to keep track of appointments and events, but that's pretty much all I see.
As far as I can tell, virtually all UK banks issue Visa Debit cards nowadays. Certainly Halifax, HSBC (First Direct), Natwest, Santander, Lloyds and RBS do which covers most of the population.

In the past a lot of cards were Switch, which became Maestro and then everyone dumped it for Visa.

Fortunately we still have the Link system where you're not charged for using an ATM that doesn't belong to your bank. cough Canada cough.
As someone actively working in this space for the past 3 years, I have a few observations on Bitcoin's price movements:

* The only parameter that in any way is correlating to Bitcoin's price is it's transaction count over time. In fact, if you take out Bitcoin's extreme price spikes they almost completely match up. number of transactions should go through the roof one the Lightning Network is functional.

* The only real world application of Bitcoin that I have seen so far has been 1) Black markets; 2) International money transfer (it's faster to do Bank-Exchange-Bitcoin-Exchange-Bank in most cases than direct bank to bank transfers. That should tell you something about the current state of banking.

* Using market caps for a commodity is ridiculous. The only meaningful parameters to track is nr of transactions, depth of order books globally, nr of exchanges in countries.

Side note: I don't hold any crypto currencies anymore. I don't invest in things which I can't have direction over.
Elaborate is pretty overselling what Musk actually released. It was back of the envelope level engineering and some drawings in that architectural-sketchy style.
In the 1980's a 80286 would have been toward the high end of x86 systems. The 80386 started shipping in bulk in 1986 and the Compaq DeskPro 386 and IBM PS/2 Model 80 were well north of $5000 in 1987 and the "prosumer" PS/2 was the Model 60 with a 80286 when the line was released.

Even in the late 1980's 8088 based systems were pretty typical and why IBM included the PS/2 25 and 30 in its initial product line.
I wish.. I just spent 5 years of minimum wage grad school so my pockets are not that deep.
SETI – The Next Ten Years
It's (edit: almost) the same since Nick posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006.
People also feel very guilty for not filling every waking moment of their time with some task. I can spend a weekend doing nearly nothing and not feel an ounce of guilt. I won't do it every weekend, my house would fall into disrepair. But sometimes you just need that weekend off.
The Secret Otaku Society
The wizarding world is portrayed as backward, stagnant and racist, in contrast to the muggles, who make continuous progress.
You have to immigrate like all the other immigrants, but since you are German, the permanent resident quota is barely used for your nationality. The USA creates a quota system for green cards and then splits them up on a nationality basis. India, China and the Philippines have a long lineup for visas.

The USA creates a quota/lineup system on a per country basis.

You have 3 basic options:

1. Work at a European office for a year, transfer on an L visa, apply for a green card once your in the USA.

2. Apply for an H1-B around march/april, see if you made the lottery, get your visa in october, apply for a green card once your in the usa.

3. Work at a European office for X years, apply for a green card outside of the USA, starting immediately while your working there, wait until you get a green card, move to the USA. It took about a 1 year to 1.5 years for a former coworker to do it this way.

O-1 & E visas are too special case to think about for the most part. And there is always getting married to a US citizen.
Understanding GenServer with Elixir
"Good evolution" is essentially devoting the maximum amount of (usually very limited) resources towards successful procreation and rearing offspring.

Hence the "features" or "redundancy" which would otherwise consume resources and not significantly affect procreation chances (like your cave example) eventually get selected against and disappear.

"Good Engineering" on the other hand usually devotes additional resources to redundancy, fault-tolerances, which do not necessarily offer a competitive advantage in procreation.
It is rather about which party is going to get their "cut" of the payment action. I doubt Walmart's prices go down by 2.7% if they were to renegotiate credit card fees to be the same as debit card fees. But regardless I think the crying foul is overall better because people should know that credit card fees are excessive, and maybe they should pay more attention.

I'd prefer it if merchants could and would line item the exact fee for my specific card for this specific transation, as a line item, just like sales tax.
> seems to create an us vs. them mentality

No, it simply recognizes a situation which already exists, because different nations have different laws and economies. If you want a world hegemony, it's up to you to find a route that doesn't inordinately harm specific groups (e.g. US workers) while transferring value to others (e.g. US companies and arbitrage groups.)

> If you abstract a skilled worker to be a countrys "resource"

Oh? Seems to create a "people don't matter because they're just objects" mentality :P

> In the end US consumers would be better off by having more/better choices.

Unemployed or underemployed consumers never have more/better choices.
America's deadly gun addiction, by the numbers
However, that's tax fraud and carries a risk of significant penalties.

But there are other reasons for preferring cash. For instance, a bank or authorities cannot quite as easily shut down your business if it runs on cash money, compared to having everything in bank which can be confiscated instantly, on-line.
From the conclusion:

"I Know First has created an algorithm that is able to make accurate predictions of the stock market and has been able to use it to greatly increase the return on investments for their clients."

Which sort of begs the question as to why you would need clients, since you have an algorithm that makes accurate predictions of the stock market. Once you had that, I'm not sure why you'd go looking for clients - I'd think you would just print money.
> and lots of video compression algorithms will turn smooth gradients into blocky messes that would benefit from dithering.

More accurately: Either you have a 10bit-per-channel video (or better) which has smooth gradients which will need dithering when rendering to an 8bit-per-channel display.

Or you have 8bit video (more common) which will have to be passed through a debanding filter first. But then how do you get the debanded result onto the screen without reintroducing the banding? By dithering it.
Wait, do y'all just ignore the part about "outsourcing, and cheap foreign labor"?
Not sure if we should change the URL to the first article you've linked to; it's by the same author, but from 2014, and perhaps there's new information in the current post. Perhaps we'll just take "physics" out of the title above.
This is why "interrupted" and "incomplete" are often valid error states.
Check about:memory. It's probably not Firefox but the websites.
>Seasteading

Or Patchwork.
Nope. If you really think that, you'd totally support the merchant putting the exact cost of the credit card transaction on the receipt. Free markets require all parties have all information, but right now this is largely obfuscated so people aren't making informed choices.
> With credit, it's the banks money that gets stolen

Regardless of debit or credit the CC company always has responsibility if there is fraud. With debit I might risk having an empty account for a longer period of time after an incident though (Refunds might take a while).

> How do you pay the rent?

I'd use credit.
Jailed 0.3 (sandboxes untrusted code) works in recent versions of major browsers
For me, Google Maps Navigation. Having real-time routing and traffic updates without paying a fortune for a fancy SatNav is wonderful.
I think it very well could be.

However, I would imagine (not having looked at the problem in depth) that one would want to be able to use things like Vec<T> or CString from the Rust standard library when implementing a DNS resolver. Since the Rust standard library depends on libc, I'm not sure how one would properly allow the Rust symbols to replace the linked-in libc symbols while still depending on the rest of libc. Maybe it's not an issue? Maybe there's some magic which could be done?

Nonetheless, I mostly started doing this to see if it could be done, not to prove any point (although I'd love it if a point is proven along the way), so a bottom-up approach with #![no_std] was the easiest way to prevent any sort of cyclic dependencies and/or linker issues.
You can roll back most real side effects like network I/O, console output it just depends on details such as protocol and framebuffer type. You also handle errors at the point of issue, not exceptions.

The issue with separating by process is you have to flush the TLB on context switches.
Users are flagging these stories. They flagged the Prince stories too. This is all in keeping with the HN guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The exceptions, of course, would be stories that also gratify intellectual curiosity. That's sadly not the case here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The reason people feel that way is because we’ve been conditioned to think the “right way” to build apps is by making everything a native screen.

This is exactly the issue, isn't it? People weren't told to hate webviews, but conditioned. They've been conditioned by years of experience with webviews and webview-based apps being vaguely shitty. They might not even be able to tell you precisely why. It can manifest as a vague sense that something's not quite right, like working in an office with crappy lighting or the first hints of unexpected fatigue as an infection works its way into your system. You can't debunk that kind of association; you have to create new experiences and new conditioning.
Elixir restful framework
iPhone Future
This abstraction works fantastically well in QnX, a system used in production the world over so I see absolutely no reason why it wouldn't work in plan9.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11886114 and marked it off-topic.
The article doesn't get the concern of the curlers right.

Curling has recently undergone a similar transformation that other sports have gone through over recent decades: the sport has become a lot more athletic. Of course, the sweepers and the thrower play important roles in the outcome of the shot. But with newer sweeping technology, the need for the curlers to be as athletic has diminished, making the training that people like Brad Jacobs and such have done effectively meaningless.

Curling is much like golf; its a game thats supposed to be a mental battle as much as a physical one. And not just in terms of strategy, but also in terms of consistency and focus and effort.
2048 or somewhere around that is the time when all of the ocean ecosystems will be completely destroyed.

we're living in some crazy times.
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The reason for slower bank-to-bank over international borders is probably more related to managing liability than it is to inefficiency.
To be fair, you did say:

> Criticism of Sanders seems to be limited to his existence and his belief in his own positions.

...which seems unfair to anyone who might criticize him on any other grounds.

> A major problem with spectator politics is listening to people only to the extent that it takes to place them in or out of the tribe, and then responding in a reflexive way.

We are in agreement then.
Re Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's post:

"Regarding this morning's scripture posting on social media, be assured that the post was not done in response to last night's tragedy," the statement said. "The post was designed and scheduled last Thursday...We regret the unfortunate timing of these posts and ask everyone to join us in praying for the people of Orlando in this awful time."

http://www.people.com/article/texas-dan-patrick-tweets-bible...
I doubt New York has a better food scene than Toronto
The regulators are why the Taxi system sucks.

They're controlled by the Taxi industry, as predicted by Regulatory Capture theory.
>>I'm pretty sure Austin's goal was to protect the taxi magnates by putting their competition out of business.

This is pure nonsense. The fingerprint requirements are nothing new. Taxi companies have been following them for years. Uber and Lyft simply did not think they should be treated as taxi services, and threw a hissy fit when the City of Austin decided otherwise.

Furthermore, Uber and Lyft were not "put out of business." In fact, they continued to operate in Austin for two years after the law was passed. They left only when they failed to repeal the law. Also keep in mind they spent over $8 million on the public relations and lobbying campaign to get the law repealed. So yeah, make no mistake: they have plenty of money, and the only reason they left was as a way of saying "fuck you" to Austin.
Is Arc used for anything else besides powering HN?
Powershell the language is ok, Powershell the interactive shell is still lacking. Here's what I still need:

* usable tab-completion: scrolling through all available cmdlets is a poor substitute, and usually increases my keypresses instead of decreasing it.

* workable history editing: if I edit a previous command, I must remember to never use tab completion again, because pressing <tab> halfway in a command erases everything following the cursor

* consistent interface: In a powershell shell window, I can use left mouse button to select and copy, right mouse button to paste. In command shell window, I must use right mouse button to select "Mark" in context menu before even left-mouse selection works. In powershell ISE, left mouse button selects but does not copy, right mouse button still opens a context menu.
> How long has MUSL been in development?

A bit more than 5 years. The initial public release was 0.5.0 in February 2011: http://www.musl-libc.org/oldversions.html
Some people prefer the Google authenticator app, do to it being more secure, and not relying on cellular connection(I.e. wifi instead).
Stack Overflow and Discouraging Beginners
Obviously in certain circumstances only - few of us here would censor Charlie Hebdo.

We only care about discomfort that we think is reasonable, or more accurately, not a lie designed to control the actions of others.

In this case, most people agree that sexualizing the workplace is a strong negative and are in agreement with you. But as a general rule, you'd have much less support.
Just found out that pricing has not been determined yet. Maybe that's why it's not linked.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0213-lost-or-stolen-cr...

For consumers, credit vs debit is in theory about the same, in practice it's slightly different. The main difference though is consumer vs business. A business debit card attached to a checking account, is the same problem with fraud as the checking account itself, the burden is almost entirely on the business not the bank.
I'm surprised this post hasn't been flagged as too political yet.
Zero unless you write some analysis that is worth reading.

Honestly... There isn't much worth reading out there beyond platitudes and... the occasional insightful blog post. For the latter, sign me up for whatever. For everything else, I honestly couldn't care less if anything or anyone is earning money. Journalism has killed itself long ago with abysmal analysis or opinion masquerading as news. The whole profession deserves to go extinct.
That doesn't really make sense, and is an inaccurate representation of what happened and why. I wasn't in Austin while this was going down, but I know a lot of folks involved in city government (and I have more harsh words to say about the city's government than most people in many areas).

Uber/Lyft is who wanted special treatment; not the other way around. Every company/individual that sells rides in Austin follows roughly the same rules (with some tweaks to suit the mode of transit): cabs, electric cabs, pedicabs, etc. They all do the same background check and fingerprinting process.

Uber/Lyft wanted to do their own thing. The city said, no, you're going to have to do it the same way all of your competitors do it. Uber/Lyft spent nearly $10 million dollars (enough to pay for hundreds of thousands of fingerprint background checks, probably a decade worth of drivers) to do an end run around city council with a ballot proposition to not be subject to the same rules as their competitors. That proposition failed; badly.

Uber/Lyft left in a huff because they would not receive special treatment.

It is a remarkable act of rewriting history to claim that Uber/Lyft are being stifled by cab companies when they're only being asked to do what even the bicycle pedicab drivers do.

If they wanted a level playing field without those requirements (i.e. cabs, e-cabs, and pedicabs, would have also been exempt from that process and instead could use a private background check instead of the city process), I might have been on their side...and, so would the pedicabbers, e-cabbers, and probably the rest of Austin. What I saw was some spoiled brats at the helm of billion dollar valuation companies trying to get special treatment and throwing a tantrum when they didn't get it.

Also: The background check that Uber/Lyft claims prevents them from being able to operate at all in Austin costs about $40. And, both companies operate in other places that require similar processes (and every other company that provides rides in Austin does the same).

They're acting like entitled spoiled brats.
TD Canada Trust Access cards use Interac for in-person sales in Canada and Visa Debit for on-line and international sales.
ugh. changing the name will not make them better-looking.
All these accusations of trolling and astroturfing are completely off topic. If anyone is trying to derail the discussion here, it's you.
I don't think this particular case is an issue of the "mid-point". You can avoid giving opinions and focus on the facts. In fact many good news articles are almost entirely facts, with a little bit of opinions in a separate section.

Here is how I would outline this article:

- There is this group of people who shares the same idea who are thought to be crazy. (Intro)

- They have attracted some attention and grown in numbers recently. (Background)

- Medical experts who study them think they are delusional. (Mainstream view)

- This group of people denies such claims and provide personal recounts. (Alternative view)

The violent part is only boarder line related to the main issue as it was an exception. So it should only be briefly mentioned, instead of being given an entire section.
I read an editorial the other day about how the three remaining presidential candidates were disrespecting the voting public; Trump was cited for saying racist things, but insisting that they weren't racist, Clinton cited for saying things about her email server that contradicted what the State Department had found, and Sanders cited for insisting that he could possibly be the President.

And here's a part of the problem... those aren't the "three remaining presidential candidates". At the very least any discussion of the presidential election should include Gary Johnson, who is the only other candidate who will be, if I understand correctly, on the ballot in all 50 states. Not to mention he's a very popular former governor, whose running mate is also a popular former governor.

OK, look, I understand that Duverger's Law[1] says that our system will tend to favor a "two party system". But there isn't an ironclad law like, say, gravity, in play here. Third party candidates can and do win elections, and excluding them from the conversation just helps perpetuate the existing system.

Unfortunately, in most years, the media seem to try very hard to pointedly ignore/downplay third party candidates. This year is the first I can remember where the LP candidate is getting some serious, mostly non-biased, reasonable media coverage.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
> Such data is serially correlated (it's not good old iid) so already it looks like you have poisoned the test set with information from the training set.

Kind of. If it was that simple making money off of an autoregressive model would be trivial -> everyone would do it -> serial correlation would disappear.

I agree with your observation that figuring out what to feed the beast is one of the bigger challenges though. Case and point: train a mean reversion model on the last seven years of S&P data to buy dips and train a momentum model to buy higher highs. That equity curve would look very encouraging. Do it on a fifteen year basis, and not so much. Now the question becomes: how long of a lookback do you use when training your models? Chopping up data at random will mux out useful correlations. Subsetting into periods leads to poorly generalized models. Not fun.
Agreed, but the system you bemoan the dismantling of was basically a prison system by another name, and arguably less humane than what they have now.
> Teddy Wayne clearly hasn't discovered LifeProof cases.

Tangentially related but I hadn't discovered LifeProof cases prior to you mentioning it. These things look amazing. I'm ordering one for my phone right now. Less for using in the shower (I take really fast showers) and more for using in the rain and not worrying about an accidental drop in a puddle.

(And maybe I'm the outlier here but I don't want to go back to having a not-smartphone. I remember using flip phones like my StarTac as well my complete tank of a Nokia 3390--complete with Snake--but I also enjoy being able to e-mail and text with my friends and read books and play music all from one device. And I'm in my mid-30s so it's not like I've never lived when we didn't have smartphones.)
Try this 4x4 digital detox. Repeat every 4 months. Customize to your habits.

Prereq = Delete feed apps, turn off notifications

Day 1, 2 = No feeds, forums, news

Day 3 = Introduce News, forums limited to 2 slots of 15 mins

Day 4 = Introduce feeds limited to 1 slot of 20 min
This piece smacks of astro-turfing on behalf of Peter Thiel. The fact it's showing up on the front page of HN also smacks of astro-turfing.
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