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I think it is quite possible in some cases due to the modularisation. I have already done that with in my D3 v3 projects. For example I used the d3.stratify method that is part of the d3-hierarchy module.
Hidden in the article is an example how moralizing destroys soul:

> Abortion has been illegal in Poland for some time, but the governing party wants to tighten restrictions on abortion by investigating every miscarriage as a potential crime.

One day, you are "pro life", and the next day, you are happy to harrass people in terrible life situation.
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I wonder how accurate the estimate is for the size of the find? They say it was "independently verified", but if they were paying the bill for that verification they might have simply gotten what they wanted to hear.
Sorry for the fuzzy vocabulary. TBH I wasn't even convinced I understood taylor series correctly. A quick search on wikipedia hint at that derivation is used sometimes; derivative; differentiation etc etc.

About the point:

d(n)(x^n.dx)
= n d(n-1)(x^(n-1).dx)
= (n * (n-1 * (...)))
= n! * x
hence the 1/n! term.
Bots for #Brexit?
“It has been a bloodbath”: Branson talks Brexit
Transparency in devAcademy
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WRT to depreciation and maintenance costs, its telling that the worlds most successful retailer with enormous experience and information about their former stores, tends to demolish and rebuild rather than remodel. I mean they do HGTV style remodels where they throw a coat of paint up and rearrange the shelves and pat themselves on the back, but after two decades of deteriorating roof and obsolete HVAC and inefficient lighting and the parking lot needs a total replacement, its just time to demolish and start over.

Walmart likes money. If they could remodel an old store into ... anything ... at a profit, they would. They don't. That says something about the anticipated lifetime of most of the schemes. Also explains why the contemporary examples are new or recent but walmart is an old company. All the alternative ideas tried a decade ago have long since failed so there's nothing to talk about except the more recent experiments that haven't run out of money yet.

Remember a failed walmart is where the worlds most successful retailer could not or could no longer make a buck, for whatever reason. "I'm gonna outdo walmart at running a retail operation" is very unlikely for any value of retail operation.

A side issue is the architecture and design of the building fixes in concrete and steel a certain minimum annual revenue per sq ft below which the structure and system has to fail sooner or later due to lack of income. Its easier to make a small store that generates a higher rate per sq but is limited in size, or a large market that generates a low per sq rate. That would imply whatever the newly built building looks like, its not going to look like a walmart because its already determined that doesn't work at that location.
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Slowdown signs in San Francisco tech boom
The extra 30 seconds per person to answer this question, I imagine.
Hollywood is way ahead of you.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I'd be curious about alternate land-ownership structures or incentives that make people view housing more as a service than as a good store of value

Land as a store of value is related, but different than housing as a store of value, especially in cities.
What if the number of padding bytes is a function of the contents?
Were you serving something that had to live in the database, or were you serving cached copies that didn't actually need to be updated or read within a transaction? There's a crucial difference there. The moment you are required to access the database at all, the equation changes (which is usually true for data validation, inserts, updates or deletes, and constraint management). If all you're doing is reading static data, there's no need to touch the database more than once and you can do much better. Moreover, if all you need is causal or eventual consistency (for application-specific reasons), you can use databases that provide those semantics. In pretty much all cases, once you've chosen the correct database / semantics for your use case, you'll be better off from a performance perspective with stored procedures; 1:N doesn't really enter into it because databases can run with their own isolated state on multiple nodes just as well as applications can (indeed, there are some caching systems built around this observation)!
Awesome experience. We were already incorporated in India and had gone through a month long process of back and forth to finally get the company registered. Scanning copies, attaching it to emails. Re-sending the documents when something was a miss. Lot of pain.

While in stripe it was a breeze. We got incorporated + a bank account in 3 days, I guess. Signatures were online, no hardcopy or anything. (and the 15K aws credits)

edit: Hey @cmadan, my email is <my_username>@gmail.com
That's literally the first paragraph in the article, keep reading. Also, I think you misunderstood it.

> if you are going to make a lot of state changes, having them all happen inline does have advantages; you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing.

The horror he refers to is not inlining, it's dealing with stateful logic. If you are doing state it's better to be aware of the horror making it explicit by inlining rather than hiding the state changes via passing and receiving in functions.

I'm pretty sure he's advocating for inlining one-off functions.
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Seems reasonable and would certainly explain my issues. I wonder if Bluetooth 5 will help that in any way.
Hmm. It might be possible, though it doesn’t sound like a great idea to have both D3 3.x and the D3 4.0 default bundle loaded simultaneously, since there will be a lot of overlap. A better strategy might be to load just the new modules you want to use. Like if you just want the new force layout, then load d3-force: https://github.com/d3/d3-force

But it might be best to just migrate to 4.0. I know the changelist is long, but it might not be as hard as you think to migrate. And you can always send your questions to the d3-js Google group or d3.js on Stack Overflow and I’ll try to help.
You're absolutely correct, but largely when someone thinks of fruit yogurt they largely think of those cone-shaped packages.

It really doesn't help that so many things are advertised as healthy-low-fat stuff either. Fat in large quantities isn't the best, but replacing all the fat with sugars is much worse.
>what can you really do about it?

You can write articles for popular online news sites that inform people.

The generalizations made in the article are completely valid for the audience they're targeting: specifically, the x% of Americans who are at increased risk of a heart attack because of the government subsidies you mentioned, as well as their own addiction to sugar.

Can you speak to exactly why the specific regulations mentioned -- the ones that were allegedly successful in Mexico -- won't work or are otherwise harmful?

FTA:

>The key interventions they implemented included taxing soda, banning junk food television advertising, and eliminating processed foods, junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages from schools. More than 15 countries have targeted sugar-sweetened beverages by taxing them — a strategy that’s proven successful.

All of these sound completely reasonable to me.

Can you provide some counter evidence to the NIH study cited in the article? [0]

[0]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19759377

Is it not possible that perhaps government regulation and the elimination/reduction of corn subsidies could be reasonable steps to take?

Sugar is addictive. The availability of low-sugar products is as relevant to the sugar addict as the presence of a basketball hoop is to a heroin addict. Sure, the heroin addict could spend his time playing basketball instead of shooting up, but that doesn't make heroin intervention an unreasonable solution.
Interesting and sounds reasonable. I wonder if Bluetooth 5 will help in this regard.
I love my country[1] Europe which is secular, hedonistic, sexually liberated and with gender equality. I want to preserve it that way.

[1] I do think of it that way.
I have a higher up comment but cryogen free magnets exist now. They still need water and electricity but much cheaper than the cost of helium (ant the cost of the nitrogen around the helium).
I don't think the scale of these places are fully appreciated. Your local enlistment could be a few hundred gigabytes and that is only the head revision of stuff you work with daily. Keeping more than just the current revision around is a lot of data for even a beefy workstation.
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Java and Ruby at work, depending on the project.
I think it is certainly worthwhile, and I've already used one of your new features in the d3-hierarchy package (d3.stratify) in a d3 v3 project. I think the general improvements are enough to warrant the breaking changes. I think you will see a brief period of a python 2/3 syndrome, but I think it will pass quickly.

Thank you for working so hard on this Mike!
I can also recommend Shortcat (https://shortcatapp.com) for these and other cases!
I always assumed the floating robots in Fallout used super-strong Nuclear Helium to keep afloat.
> Things like Testing Fix-it and Documentation Fix-it days were awesome.

Can you elaborate on this? Are they just days where the team goes "Ok, no need to stress about new features today, let's just catch on on test coverage / documentation" ? If so, that sounds pretty wonderful.
I think it's a familiarity problem. I felt the same at one time, but once I became more familiar with the operations, I found the stream API much easier to scan.

I was asked at work to explain why I prefer the stream library - other developers have lagged a bit on usage.

The first reason is, the method calls are designed to only do so much, and are named after what they're designed to do. Filter is for filtering. Map is for mapping. I can read the first word of each line to get an idea of what it's doing (filter sort map).

Another bigger reason for me is: you know exactly what code is generating those transaction ids. If you are interested in how the transaction ids are generated, it is damn obvious which code you need to look at. And if you aren't interested in how the transaction ids are generated, it is damn obvious which code you can safely ignore.

In comparison, what does a for loop do? It does all sorts of things, oftentimes several different things at once. As such, I leave for loops for more involved processing, and use the stream API for straightforward transformations.
The safety question is really empirical: statistically, are you safer in a self-driving car or not. I believe that, even currently, self-driving cars are statistically safer. (the main reason for this, btw, is that it drives slowly. It doesn't exceed 25 mph or 30 mph. This will go up as it demonstrates safety.)

Some risks -- other people -- are the same in either case. The difference in risk is the driver.

But that answers the general question of safety. In your specific case, the question might better answered by: how safe a driver are you?
I've never understood why you need CSS, I just do it all in VRML
Fructose is linked to liver problems, and also creates far more glycation end-products than glucose (which could very well be part of the atherosclerosis explanation).

One problem is that glucose without fructose really doesn't taste very good at all. One option might be replacing sugars entirely with sugar alcohols with low intestinal distress, like erythritol.

Of course, we could always work to become a less decadent society, but that won't happen.
Not sure I understand p2p car insurance. Pooling drivers together is already called insurance. Where you run into issues is each state has it's own insurance regulations. Also, new business underwriting is pretty risky. Underwriting/pricing is notoriously complicated. And lawyers love when you screw stuff up. Most of the time it could take 5-10 years to see if an insurance business is profitable.
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Yes; similarly, that a sinusoidal crosses zero twice in each period is obscured by a focus on the period itself.
>> Most of us don’t know that a serving of tomato sauce has more sugar than a serving of Oreo cookies

>Most store-bought jar sauce has sugar in it (and tastes gross). You can absolutely make sauce that doesn't have sugar in it, and some of the nicer jar sauces are that way also.

I don't think the article was necessarily talking about added-sugar sauce. It's not clear exactly how much a serving of tomato sauce is, but calorie for calorie tomato sauce (cooked tomato) does contain more sugar than Oreos.
I have to disagree.

I'm a programmer, but I'm not good at math. I know this. And yet, the Tau Day Manifesto explained the geometry of the circle to me more clearly and understandably than any of the math classes I've ever taken. And it's not just because it's a well-written work; the concept is genuinely simpler to understand.

Pi really is a pedagogical disaster, and tau really does help.
I saw it till about 23 minutes. The ERT did not seem like a secret organization to me. They left the building, which the NGOs had 'occupied' to go for lunch. Leaving all their documents for them to copy. Are there any ground breaking revelations after that (i.e. after 23 minutes)?

Also, in general, whats wrong with multinationals having a strong influence in the present world? They are the modern day 'kings' replacing their medieval counterparts. Of course I am not arguing for blanket powers for them at all. We of course have checks and balances like regulators/auditors/politicians. Even take the example of #Brexit, it happened didn't it? If corporations had absolute power it would not have.

The point is what's good for society in the long term? Who knows best? No easy answers. But I am willing to err on the side of doers (with checks and balances of course) rather than pure career politicians.
Are there currently methods where unknown public keys are passed to a userspace application to be verified? Or is this something that will be implemented in the future?
The way I interpret these contradictions is that words in ideology are largely instrumental. They achieve a goal that is seldom stated explicitly. That's how yu get aporia like pro-life bombings of abortion clinics and people promulgating family values that refuse to recognize certain families.
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"...winning the war by a landslide..."

When, exactly, would that be?
The mental overhead of mathing out how much I want to pay to take a piss would prevent me from ever bothering with it, I think.
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As near as I can tell, you are the only one discussing helium-3 and its shortage. Maybe everyone should be talking about helium-3, but unfortunately they are not. Suggestions?
No breakfast cereals are 75% sugar. The USDA Nutrient Database allows you to list breakfast cereals by sugar:

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/nutrients/report/nutrientsfrm?m...

The most sugary breakfast cereal is only 56% sugar. The database doesn't list every breakfast cereal sold, but it includes all the popular ones, and it's implausible that any could be so much more sugary than those included to be 75%.

Even a cereal where sugar is the main selling point (Kellogg's Frosted Flakes) is only 35% sugar.
No apology necessary; I appreciate both the expansion and the lack of attempt to slur by association - the latter, in particular, being something I've learned one can't expect every Hacker News commenter to forgo.
Plus with standard scripting languages you have to do a lot of backbone work too- load the file, parse the file, etc before you can ever get into doing any sort of computations. Plus excel is vastly easier to debug, thanks to it all being live.
> It wont be a huge difference in file size, but it will be smaller.

may be smaller, not all outputs will be smaller, this is true of all lossless compression algorithms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle
As someone who (after considerable deliberation) voted to Remain, and now feels that my country is being dragged to the edge of a very high precipice, this makes for interesting reading.

I sincerely hope that there will be an (unexpected) upside to leaving the EU, but I think that is a forlorn hope. Most of the people I have spoken to about it who voted to Leave have done so on the most narrow-minded of reasons - typically either "stop immigration" or "take our country back" - both of which are definitely in the "old view" of the world in this article. No-one I know of who voted Leave gave even a moment's thought to the immense amount of work needed to unpick 40 years of integration; to the practicalities of it that will mean it will be the work of Parliament for years to come to simply get to the point where we are today. I am someone who had severe reservations about the European project (i.e. the development into a plan for a superstate, rather than the originally presented idea of a common market), so I really hope that the information in this article turns out to be true, and that somehow the knuckle-dragging imbeciles that I saw on the news last night (Canvey Island piece, if anyone watched it?) have somehow created a masterstroke in political maneuvering which will at least give my step-kids a stab at a decent future. I know none of them think that is the case at the moment.
Or that somebody has successfully cloned an army of Haddaways.
Network administration frequently involves looking up the vendor info for numerous MAC addresses, as well as chasing MACs across a network over devices belonging to multiple vendors. Network gear vendors have zero standardization when it comes to the formats they use for displaying MAC addresses. Some use Linux colons, others don't. Cisco, for example: 'aabb.cc11.2233'

This makes copying and pasting MACs across multiple devices problematic. Looking up vendor info is also time consuming and usually involves a trip to the web browser with another copy/paste. There's not really any way to do any of this that isn't tedious, hence the inspiration for this project.

mac_format adds these functions to the right-click 'Services' menu on OS X, and provides a command line utility with the same functionality for CLI work and scripting.

Full documentation as well as an installer script are on the Github page for the tool. Everything is open-source, suggestions and pull requests welcome!
Patiently waiting for App Engine to announce the same too.Just waiting..
No, forcing a version change using the excuse of security is not being supported. Ubuntu has security patches for 5 years and it's free. I pay for windows, give me my security patches.
A lot of spam filters filter everything that's not a common, or is a very new, tld.
That last sentence is pretty true of any combination of languages and it feels defensive.
>> Helium is produced naturally in any radio isotope that undergoes alpha decay.

Why not call it helium decay, since alpha particles are just helium nuclei? Or is this a case of "alpha particles" being named that before we knew what they are?
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Don't all sites derive a monetary benefit from the content - be it page view ads or valuation?
> That mandate of the EU is, and always was, to prevent WW3.

That's an interesting generational difference-of-view.

Growing up in the Cold War, to us it was NATO that kept the peace both within the western hemisphere and within Europe. Barring a couple of tantrums it even kept Turkey and Greece from going to war!

Best of all it didn't require much sacrifice of sovereignity other than perhaps bases for US forces and land for the pan-European fuel pipelines, plus keeping defence spending above the agreed thresholds.

The EEC was barely mentioned in terms of international relations and we only studied it in school in the context of trade and agricultural policy. But those who grew-up in the post-Maastricht Treaty period seem to have a wholly different view of what the EU is and wants to be, and a very much poorer view of NATO.

And I think that is reflected by the results of the UK referendum; to many of the Cold War generation the EU is an usurper, a bloated amorphous creature of indistinct purpose that evolved without their consent and seems to insert its tentacles into every aspect of their lives. Why does it exist, why is it needed and why can't it just focus on intra-European trade like it used to? Until those questions are answered there will always be people sceptical of the EU.
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Re [3]: I was not aware of that one. If it costs upwards of $300k it's beyond what I'd consider a personal risk, but it's very much something they should be looking to fix!
Yes, of course. What would be the alternative?
Using a random text generator http://pasted.co/encrypted.txt ( 10,002 bytes )

Then compressed it with winrar
http://pasted.co/compressed.rar ( 7,743 bytes )

Roughly 20% compression isnt meaningless- so I fail to see why you are just giving a flat 'no' when its obvious what you are saying is untrue.
That would add noise to the information the attacker gets, but ultimately the "output" length has to be correlated with the input length, so you can't ever get the amount of information the attacker gets down to zero which is what's needed to make a cipher secure.
> Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

Except every other BT device around you, just not yours.
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> If you're encrypting a document, then compressing it first may prevent leaks.

I think this is only true if you use a bad encryption algorithm where same plaintext blocks have the same ciphertext.
"I still cannot wrap my head around this. What merit does forcing internal code to update a dependancy have?"

It allows a push model instead of a pull one.

You can know everything you will break ahead of time.
More generally, you can know the impact of a change (performance, etc) before you make it.

Is it possible to do it without a mono-repo? Theoretically, yes, through some large federated something or other. These don't really exist ;)

Basically, it lets you have a library team that moves the world forward without causing pain (at least, for those reasons :P).
The Amazon Echo is kinda the same way. I paired to my phone once, and rarely use, so I often have to go to the Bluetooth settings on my iPhone and tap the Echo to connect, but every time I do, it works flawlessly.
> Many places in Europe have lower taxes than the US.

If you look at taxes that both countries have that can seem true in some places, but that's because European countries tend to have VATs and the US doesn't, so the rates on the shared taxes are often lower in Europe (also, the US tends to have more tax exceptions, so that the actual tax effective tax rates are lower than the nominal rates.) The US has the third lowest overall tax burden in the OECD, with only Chile and Mexico lower.
My point is that they pay with their soul (or you can call it "integrity"), up front, and then maybe achieve a questionable goal.
Fructose, if this video by Lustic is anything to go by:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Comparing calorie-dense food like Oreos to tomato sauce seems a bit disingenuous. Especially when the sugar in tomatoes is regular fructose and provokes no insulin response.
Why is the debate about "compress/encrypt then sign" vs "sign then compress/encrypt"?

Is there a non obvious problem with sign then compress/encrypt then sign again? (overcomplicated or unnecessary?)
@lisper

Stream ciphers.