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Aside from the fact that dumping garbage in a public park and leaving your lights on are not even remotely close in terms of impact, it's important to point out that one actually serves a utility.

Having lived in cities where electricity is extremely expensive and lights are scarce, I can vouch for the value of light (particularly in poorer, urban areas) during night time. Perhaps you cannot appreciate lit roadways and sidewalks until you've experienced their absence.
Well there were 14,000+ comments on the thread. If they were quickly deleting a lot of stuff they could accidentally delete some things.
If you look at the jobs listings on the website of SBNY (the author of this TechCrunch article works for SBNY), you'll notice that there are no jobs listed in Toronto...The job listings are for companies SBNY invested in. SEems like the Toronto investments are doing really well (sarcasm)
Sounds like you ran into one of the spam prevention mechanisms. I've done the same thing before, and usually as long as you do some editing and don't just copy/paste the answer it should let it thru. Or sometimes I leave a comment with a link to the other answer so people can find it.

Sorry you had a bad experience with the site. I hope you try contributing again in the future if you get a chance.
It's not in Markham. It's on the other side of Steeles, over 50 feet away from Markham ;-)
Indeed. I really can't understand why people look up to the worst of Japan's Lost Decades economy.
Personally I think it makes going out in the wilderness special.

If it was always there we wouldn't appreciate it.
Hey zohaibility, thank you so much for your comment. I'll make sure to get it up on Github soon. I need to clean up the source with good comments first. Thank you for the reminder, that a great idea!
And I specifically dismiss the idea that the Constitution governs the people. It is the document by which the people (attempted to) govern the Feds. And it provides a mechanism by which the people (including those who are generations removed) can change those laws under which the Feds operate, as well as a way to impose the changes without needing Federal cooperation.
Whether the people have adequately enforced their authority, or made appropriate updates to that law, are entirely separate questions, and certainly subject to vigorous debate.
Ask HN: Startup downsizing and moving farther away
I live 5 min walk from work where I am junior devops. The company let go 80% of team because they were running out of monies. It was decide in public vote by employee to move location that will be mayve one hour away for me. It more expensive for company, but closer for 60% company.

I'm confused. Is normal for new office locations to be a public vote by employee? What would you do?
No. 50% for housing is a non starter.
I strongly agree with some of the things you say and strongly disagree with others, but we're not here to discuss the relative merits of static analysis (I'm not talking about deductively proving correctness) vs. type systems. We're talking about the relative merits of rewriting each one of the billions of lines of C code out there in Rust vs. using verification tools, in order to increase our confidence in the safety of the code. The argument isn't even about the quality of the result but the cost/benefit of the approach.
One of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time – Gravity – doesn't really have good guys or bad guys; just a crappy situation.

For those that haven't seen it, it's pretty much only worth seeing in theaters, in 3D.
"Domino's mobile app which will count down 10 seconds before sending an order for the customer's favorite pizza or previous order."

My favorite pizza? If it can get me a pizza from Franny's in Brooklyn in 30 minutes, I'd be pretty impressed.
Considering the TSA was formed in 2001, I would have thought they wouldn't need to "bring TSA into the 21st century".
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The Banana and Elevator demos did not specify/verify temporal properties so I suspect it doesn't support specifying temporal formulas at the moment (the T in TLA+). This means it can be used to check correctness properties but not liveness properties. Despite this limitation I believe this is a fantastic tool as it makes writing specs way more approachable.
Do you think it's fair to compare a startup with established multinational companies that have profits and a serious track record? These investors are presumably investing in something, not writing a blank cheque. I could go start a space mining company tomorrow, with a view towards building a space shuttle that was powered by a single drop of oil but I would assume that I would have some trouble raising capital without some kind of verification of my claims.
DNA that's hundreds of thousands of years old has been recovered [1]. Sorry for the non academic link but the number I've always been told was just under a million years, this seems reasonable at first blush.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49366487/ns/technology_and_science...
Why Haskell? What made you choose Haskell?
Frankly, I'm OK with trading off massive economic growth and reduction of human misery, including conquering darkness itself, in exchange for having to take a trip out to the country if you want to go stargazing.
Oh, that's a "micro apartment?" It looks the same size as my San Francisco Soma apartment, or perhaps slightly larger. I don't have any of the fancy specialized furniture either, so my queen sized bed, wardrobe, and desk take up most of the room.
I'm sorry, I still don't understand the connection. Aliens buried the flowers under the tundra in the ice age? Why bring it up?
You forget that as you move out, talent moves in as well!

I collaborate with a bunch of super-talented creative people here and all of us are new to the city. Just because Toronto-born people leave doesn't mean Toronto has a talent shortage :D
Cool idea but terrible name. No one will ever be able to google this.
They must have realized that Theranos is going to sue no matter what happens.
Generate callgraphs for Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD kernel function calls
This is a useful tool for understanding linux/Unix kernel code.

https://github.com/vonnyfly/kernel_visualization
Link: https://github.com/vonnyfly/kernel_visualization
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I wanted to check my phone less, and one thing that helped was setting the screen to grayscale (iOS: Settings > General > Accessibility ). When things are less shiny, you're less inclined to compulsively have a look. Tip from The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/480240/adventures-in-...
3 years ago I moved away from the state capital (Adelaide, South Australia) to a 100,000-ish people city in another state (Launceston, Tasmania). Haven't looked back. I'm paying $1100 a month for a three bedroom house. I live 10 minute drive from the city centre. Work is 1.5k away (about a mile). Looking to buy a place similar to the one we're renting for around the $220,000 mark, which is three years income for me. Any place I wanted to live in Adelaide was way out of my price range.

Screw the big cities.
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Another startling Glassdoor review that seems planted by the company:

'Cons
Not a con, more of a note -

It is a start up environment, which means that it is very fast and dynamic. It calls for a lot of hard work and creativity. Theranos is not for someone who is set in his or her ways, or for someone who is simply looking for a 9-5.'
Astroturfing Glassfoor should be considered fraud. It's giving information to potential employees while omitting material information (that the company is the oposter) for purposes which financially benefit the company and its backers.
Dang, I appreciate where you're coming from, and understand your sentiment. However, as a pathologist, and having sworn to defend the US Constitution for over 20 years, and having visited a number of the countries he mentioned, I'm inclined to not disagree with the poster. And I am inclined to suggest that killing people for profit is the best single basis for righteous fury.
Last I looked at NY, you could pay $2100/month for a much larger renovated East village studio. $2500 would get you a 1bhk easy.

Unless prices have skyrocketed in the last year, this is pretty dumb.
It depends on the location. In large cities and urban areas sure it makes sense, but outside there is really little need for street lighting.

I'm from a village (~350 people) that to this day still doesn't have street lights and it's great - if you go out at night you just carry a torch. Any nights when it's clear you get a great view of the Milky Way (although there are some large towns ~15 miles away so it could be better).

The roads in the area are all unlit too, so anytime I drive on a main road or motorway with street lights (outside populated areas) it makes me cringe.
+ 1 on this. It reminds me to the two systems that Daniel Kahneman talks about in his book: Thinking Fast and Slow. The human brain is only good at multitasking simple things. You can only perform one complex task at a time.
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I use notebooks for general notes, ideas, sketches, todo lists. Also make notes on stuff that I finally gotten to work, e.g. scripts, etc.

Early in a project I use a pre-punched pad and file the pages into a ring binder, under categories, topics. Once the project is well underway, I tend to use those pages to write up the detailed documentation in files which are stored in the same directory hierarchy as the source and other files.
Bernie Madoff held the SEC at bay for years because of who he knew. What makes this any different?
"Living alone" is more "social collapse" than "social innovation". But New York has long been a leader in social collapse.
But the Constitution, once ratified, superceded and contravened most of the Articles of Confederation.
> ... we now pass most (more than 95%) of the upstream numpy test suite. We can build and run scipy and matplotlib as well. Most of the failures have to do with (ab) use of the C-API, for instance writing to a read-only pointer obtained from PyString_AsString().

Wow, that is just a huge accomplishment, congratulations PyPy team!
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I haven't used FF for years, but when I did I used 'NoScript' for that & it worked well. There's a few variants of it for added functionality, too.
it is legitimate. it legitimately protects consumers from fraud. apologies if consumer protection annoys you.
The original question (not the blog post, but the question) was "I've been looking for the list Python format characters for a good 30 minutes. I can't find any. ... I need a list with them along with a description if possible please."

What better answer is there than a link to the documentation that has that list? In this case, I don't really care if the person posting the question put any research on their own. They specifically asked for a dump of everything, and got what they asked for. If that wasn't helpful, perhaps they need to ask a different question.
"It is a fine line between lying and hustling."

You just highlighted why I think "hustle" is a terrible word for the startup community to embrace. Google's dictionary (appears to be the Oxford dictionary) includes the definition "a fraud or swindle / to obtain illicitly or by forceful action". The Cambridge dictionary lists "A dishonest way of making money / to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally".

By those definitions, there is no fine line - they're the same thing.
If the DNA in a seed is still in good enough shape to support blooming after being frozen 30,000 years, perhaps a seed frozen in a meteorite [1] could also survive long enough to be spread between solar systems.

[1] maybe after glancing off a planet or created by the collision of two large objects
What do you do for work that afforded you the ability to be employed in two depressed job markets like Adelaide and Launceston?
For those who want to see such a mental experiment to be visualized for convenience, read these two books:

"The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein

These two give two radically different, perspectives of what such a society, with implicit rules and norms basically enforced by on-the-spot consensus, might look like.

(Note, I'm not saying that societies depicted in these books are likely, or even possible. It's fiction, after all, and arguably utopian fiction at that. But it does help in putting a more concrete image to the abstract concept of anarchism.)
whether they are similar enough to cause confusion is for the court to decide. in any case it's close enough for citi group to potentially lose the trademark if they don't challenge
Hey, Bjorn Lynne! One of the classic demoscene musicians --- known as Dr. Awesome. I have a tonne of his CDs.

...also, I see that someone has deleted his Wikipedia page. Sigh.
Or without paying a fee. Which is currently $2,350.

(Ironically, you have to pay more to renounce US citizenship, then you have to pay in all the various filing fees etc when acquiring citizenship through naturalization.)
Ah, but this was somatic (fruit placental) tissue rather than germ that was viable.
Over the last year there was a situation where a player was using and sharing Nash "charts" for no limit on Pokerstars. Originally PS had allowed the software, but decided to change its police since it was more than just a preflop starting hand chart.

I believe the charts were used in headsup SNGs, which makes sense since it eliminates a lot of variables in solving for game theory optimal plays, and a lot of the play is shortstacked. And if a human can look at a chart and click a button, then so can a piece of software.

More here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/3rd-part...

I've also talked to a few players who suspect there exist bots in headsup cash games that avoid playing regular winning players.

So I don't know if there are any 100% true general no limit bots, but there's definitely some automated play going on.
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Maybe the plot was sort of wuxia-ish? I haven't seen the movie so could be compleeeetely off base here, I was just trying to imagine what about the trailer I saw could map onto something that worked surprisingly well in China.
Not quite - Walgreens believes that the CMS punishment, which is expected in the next two weeks, will be sufficiently harsh enough that it will win a case against Theranos. If they lost the case, they could have potentially been on the hook for hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in damages (i.e. so much money that even with the incredibly bad press of not severing the deal sooner, it still made more sense to keep the deal until things got to where they are now).

https://twitter.com/joshdickson40/status/742154076851408898
I remember reading this out of curiosity about 3rd grade, in the US about 8-9 years old. I read the sequel right after, enjoying that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphereland It triggered a life long interest in geometry and classical philosophical documents.
not trying to be dramatic. haha. i am mainly just excited about clojure but this has been a bit of a contentious debate which gives one pause when first getting their feet wet in a new ecosystem.
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I guess another way to think about it is that irrational fears remain irrational even if they turn out to be true. If you don't have a reasonable justification for your fears, then it is purely a coincidence that the fears happen to be true.
Pretty typical. A lot of startups that are going down the tube (or were always awful) end up with horrible reviews on glassdoor. That makes it harder for their recruiters to do their job, so they pad it with extremely obvious fake reviews to compensate.
I opted out of the constitution (a document memorializing the passing of a debt from one party to another) when I expatriated. Best decision I ever made.

Some of you should go read a first-year law student's book on contracts, then come back to read this link. You'll have a drastic shift in mindset and understanding.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll let the recruiters know.
Some symbols are. Not all.
Since you don't want to do the research, here's one reference: http://tinyurl.com/h8gms26
Man I've gotta say that despite all the bad news this really bums me out. I love being able to run down to Walgreens, order my own blood tests, and get the results without a doctor or a big hassle.
In this particular case, it is, but it's not necessarily the case. For example, here's what Thomas Jefferson had to say on a similar subject:

"The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here on the elementary principles of society has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof.--I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
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On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be indeed if every form of government were so perfectly contrived that the will of the majority could always be obtained fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves. Their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils. Bribery corrupts them. Personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents: and other impediments arise so as to prove to every practical man that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal."

(see http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch2s23.h... for the full text of the letter, which includes his reasoning for that 19 years figure)

Now, Jefferson was certainly extremely liberal (in the original meaning of the word), but hardly an anarchist.

Also of interest is that he thought that the same logic applies to establishing a meaningful duration of copyright and patents.
What if it's not a tradeoff we need to make? What if you can have both a dark sky and a thriving civilization?
Because its where everyone else is headed; Japan simply got there first.
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edit: I guess lots of people just live where they were born, or move to a bigger place for the education / work opportunities, or the lifestyle. Then there's the sea-changers and tree-changers. I think I've undergone a tree-change.
At the very least I presume you'd acknowledge that the U.S. Constitution lists crimes including treason, counterfeiting, and piracy. I can't think of a more canonical way to "govern the people" than a state actor specifying criminal sanctions that can include the punishment of death...
Your grandfather probably came from a shop where engineers were encouraged or required to write everything down as they discovered problems and worked on solutions. Those notes became critically important when the patent applications were started. Some larger companies even provided nice leather-bound blank books for the engineers to use and keep on their shelves for later reference.

Capturing ideas and visualizing your problems is something they don't teach you in IT school. Over my career I've leaned that an on-hand notebook is way more useful than carrying a laptop around. I can sketch out ideas, graph out signals, and do dozens of other things quickly and silently. It's a lot less intrusive in meetings. Plus, you can doodle.

I've used everything from pocket steno books to college spiral notebooks. Moleskines are nice, but way too expensive.

My current go-to notebook is a college notebook I picked up in Germany for a couple of Euro. It's the right size (not a toy steno book and not a massive 8x10 binder). Side-spiral bound is critical, you can fold it open on a desk without taking up twice the space. Grid paper is killer for mapping out things out. A nice touch is the microperfed edges.

Looks like they're on Amazon but in packs of 5. Still, not a bad deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Landre-100050630-Wood-Free-Perforat...
I haven't got a lot of love for the FDA and their regulations, but if you are going to break them then at least have science on your side. It is one thing to not complete the 12th form that was identical to the previous 11 forms, but it is another thing to provide wrong diagnoses to real patients. I would be a lot more supportive of Theranos if they actually were competent.
They are absolutely padded and padding is even encouraged at some places. Even companies like FB do it.
Yes, I know that, but we are talking about bounds checks! In many places where there is simple iteration, a C compiler would be able to prove no over/underflow, and where the pattern isn't so straightforward, a Rust rewrite would be even more expensive. Now, I don't know how many times I need to say it, but I have no doubts that Rust is "interesting for this kind of work". I absolutely fucking love Rust! I am just seriously questioning the economic sense of rewriting every piece of legacy code out there (billions of LOC!) whenever a new language comes along in an effort to improve its safety/correctness just because we know that there are probably lots of bugs in there somewhere. Draining the ocean with a spoon is guaranteed to find every piece of sunken treasure, but it's probably not the approach with the greatest bang-for-the-buck.

What would you say if in ten years people would say, "Ugh, Rust?! That hardly guarantees any interesting properties. Fine, it ensures there are no data races and dangling pointers, but does it make sure the library/program does what they're supposed to? Let's rewrite every line of code out there in Idris or ATS! That would be the best use of our time!" Whenever a library needs to be replaced -- either it doesn't serve modern requirements, it's hard to maintain and needs to undergo changes, or it is simply shown to be broken beyond repair, by all means -- write it in Rust! Gradually, there will be more and more Rust code out there, which is no doubt much better than C code. But a wholesale rewrite?
It's a lovely idea. But in history's many examples of labor being replaced by technology, none of them have ended up with former workers owning the new means of production. Forces against individual ownership include:

- capital is cheaper for companies than individuals
- companies can use technology more efficiently than individuals
- companies have longer planning horizons than individuals

Perhaps the outcome with robots would be different. But I haven't seen a convincing explanation why this might happen.