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>>>>>>>> It's sad that for most of the world cheap enough electric self driving cars will come faster than good public transport (emphasis added)

>>>>>>> I'm not sure why you think cheap enough electric self driving cars can't be public transport.

This is the context in which my post was placed. I'm not sure why you've chosen to limit the scope to the Bay Area. The poster I was arguing with was claiming that space is the deciding factor and the hands-down-answered-long-ago-reason why electric cars have no place whatever in public transportation.

Unless you are arguing that people should commute by bicycle in Minnesota winters, we're not really arguing here.
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Note that the split between inner and outer display type (which I presume is what it means by short-hand—a term normally defined as one property that sets multiple properties, rather than one property that takes multiple values) isn't implemented anywhere yet, as far as I'm aware.
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The record correctors are quick to point out that you aren't allowed to identify them, its part of the script they get whether or not its really a rule here.
Mayan is strictly CVC and CV? I always assumed that Chinese remained logographic because of the phonology's quick shift to CVC within a thousand years or so of the script's invention. Reading a lot of Baxter and Sagart's papers and monographs I've come to remember many of the Old Chinese reconstructions, but it would have been a nightmare for a farmer to learn.
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No more Java EE?
They're more like an escrow than like the PRC. China could halt trading or eliminate a stock permanently, th DTC cannot. Anything it can/could do to cause permanent damage could be reversed by regulatory bodies and/or the government.
If you don't want the parenthesis then why not use reverse polish notation?
What use-cases work with which basically boil down to what you're trying to: flexbox does layout in a single dimensions, and grid does layout in two dimensions.

If you're trying to implement something with layout constraints in both dimensions, you want grid. If you're not, you can probably use grid, but flexbox is likely easier.
Hi, this is a variation of a previous product (still existing) that we built. It's a low cost, smart way to share server images that you store on our cloud. You can share servers with anyone, pretty much by emailing them a hyperlink. It would be great to hear thoughts and feedback from the HN crew!
Bitcoin now a payment option for Uber in Argentina following deal with Xapo
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Technically hotspot GC might do more work in same amount of time but Go's GC makes some performance guarantees like <10ms STW phase which hotspot do not claim or offers for large heaps.
With most of her email statements proven to be lies, how many other lies is she knitting at us?
Anecdotal evidence: A friend of mine managed to get high by just imagining himself smoking weed. He believes, though, that this would not have been possible if he hadn't smoked actual weed before.
Not doable, it was something like this:

https://www.google.com.br/maps/@-30.0309088,-51.2269515,3a,7...
Although apparently in Spain if you receive a sentence less than two years, you do not serve jail time - it's just a suspended sentence.

Unlikely to see the inside of a cell unless he does anything else!
This issue of scientists being OK with totally non-scientific processes is all too common. When I was an academic my Department used to make an enormous fuss about the year to year jitter in student teaching evaluations. My colleagues (all scientists) would sit around discussing why they were a heroes because their evaluation went up 10% from last year or what they had to change because it went down 10%. I used to just sit there thinking if this sort of analysis was in a paper they were reviewing they would have ripped the authors to shreds.

Peer review fails on all levels. It does not functions as a source of quality control (everything gets published eventually) and even worse it rarely improves the quality of the paper being reviewed. I have published dozens of papers over the years and on only one occasion has the review process improved the paper - in most cases the reviewers demands made the papers worse by forcing me to remove important information or include irrelevant details (citing the reviewers publications mostly).
The approaches to GC are difficult to compare, and Java offers a selection of garbage collectors. Overall, the Java collectors are very sophisticated and tuned over years, so in principle are excellent. The downside is, that the Java language itself puts a lot of stress on the GC. The biggest problem is, that Java offers no "value" types beyond the builtin int, double,... So everything else has to be allocated as a separate object and pointed to via references. The GC then has to trace all these references, which takes time. While a collection of the youngest generation in Java is extremely fast, a global GC can take quite some time.

Go on the other side has structs as values, so the memory layout is much easier for the GC. Go always performs full GCs, but mostly running in parallel with the application, a GC cycle only requires a stop-the-world phase of a few milliseconds (for multi gigabyte heaps).

All these numbers of course depend a lot on what your application is doing, but overall Go seems to be doing very well with its newest iterations of the GC.
To be honest this has been going on ever since the first day random OEMs started shipping X86-based machines. There's really nothing to admit.

Back then we had Amibios, Pheonix bios etc etc, but these days we call it "UEFI" and "firmware" and everyone gets up in arms about it.
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> It's more than what you see in Linux. For example in Linux you have system packages, packages that are in distro repo,

System packages are packages in the distro repo, so those are the same thing.

> and 3rd party repo all sorting configuration and startup scripts in /etc.

Stuff you compile/install from random sources on the internet will place its stuff wherever the upstream decided to place it. The same will happen if you compile that software on FreeBSD. If you're thinking of ports, those are patched to install to the usual places, exactly the same as the packages in the linux distribution repositories.

FreeBSD's base system is very neat and well-organised, and they have an impressive ports tree with ports that integrate fairly well for the most part. But that doesn't extend to third-party software, and it seems silly to include that in a comparison on the linux side.
It's more a lamentation than a mistake.
Oh, don't be suprised. The attitudes were cavalier at best, criminally moronic (or downright despicable) at worst
Usa of the western countries has the worst track record. (Injecting people with plutonium, irradiating prisoners and troops, etc etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Environmental_con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Flats_Plant
The british didn't want to install air filters in this one at first - they were an addon in the very last stages of construction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Environmental_con...
Open-source Python library for A/B testing
I agree that the word "different" isn't the best word.

These are a physical equivalent of Dark Patterns (user interfaces designed to trick people).
Another very nice feature of Go is, that since 1.5, the whole runtime, including the GC is written in Go itself. So every Go developer can look at the implementation. The GC itself is surprisingly small amount of code.
Good list! A few suggested tweaks:

Veblen goods clearly exist, but the evidence for the existence of Giffen goods is much more suspect. (Did the poor really eat more bread because the price of bread rose, or because there was an across-the-board increase in the price of all kinds of food?)

The Precautionary Principle is not just dangerous or harmful, but guaranteed suicide; as things stand right now, we are all under a death sentence. It needs to be replaced by the Proactionary Principle, which recognizes that we need to keep making progress and putting on the brakes is something that needs to be justified by evidence.

Any list that has sections for both business and programming needs some entry for the very common fallacy that you can get more done by working more hours; in reality, you get less done in a sixty-hour week than a forty-hour one. (Maybe more in the first such week, but the balance goes negative after that.)

The distinction between fixed and growth mindset is well and good as far as it goes, but when we encourage the latter, we need to beware of the fallacious version that assumes we can conjure a market into existence by our own efforts. You can't become a movie star or an astronaut no matter how hard you try, not because you lack innate talent, but because the market for those jobs is much smaller than the number of people who want to do them.
I disagree because "practically policy" is not policy.

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/tu-quoque/
How We Fixed the Raspberry Pi GPU for Containers
The main issue I had with milestones is that you could not rename them. Have they fixed that one too?
Big Brother is listening as well as watching
- No alpha (aka can't beat the market): you can only consistently beat the market if you're far better at financial analysis than a lot of people who do it every day all day. So don't bother trying.

I'd argue that you can have alpha if you are better informed than everybody else. Financial analysis is the craft that comes after that. So yes, if all you have is financial analysis don't bother trying to beat the market. But if you have some unique insight, some information that the market doesn't have or doesn't see, then with some added financial analysis on top you do have an advantage that you can use to generate alpha.
How we reindexed 36B docs in 5 days within the same Elasticsearch cluster
Importing csv is very messy in excel.

A VBA import routine will always run in the US locale. However, csv files containing dates formatted according to other locales will have their days and months switched as long as the day is not bigger than 12.
Here's a blog post on Zappr explaining its origins and more about how it works: https://tech.zalando.de/blog/zappr--enhancing-your-github-wo...
Damn... 27 myself and here I am, moving pixels around on web applications for customers that don't know what they want.
Posted earlier without the random hash in the URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040349
Alaa Abd El Fattah Must Be Released Says UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Another strong point for the JVM is the availability of alternate implementations from several vendors. Is this possible for Go say in the future?
A & B are mapped on respectively A/Q and W/Z/B, space and backspace are Select, and enter is Start.
It cannot possibly be a good user experience to use SSH via a web browser. Good for emergencies, sure, but not for day to day work.
As I responded to titzer, my comments here are about "the world" and whether electric cars have a place in public transit. As I've already mentioned, bicycles have a place, but that place is not everywhere at all times.

I'm aghast at how hostile I feel some of the responses have been. I am for multiple forms of transit, and I think public electric have a place that other forms don't quite fill. I think the Google self-driving bicycle (which is awesome) is a strong argument in favor of electric cars having such a place. Just imagine a vehicle roughly the size of a bike, but enclosed instead. :)

But the "cars" could be many shapes and sizes, intended for different passenger and cargo loads.
Comment proving HN superiority over other pathetic news websites.
I merged the whole thing into a single PDF:

http://ohuiginn.net/docs/chilcot/chilcot_report.pdf

6417 pages -- enjoy!
I think Michael Seibel says it himself somewhere else - yes you do want smart money. But the reality for 95% of the time you just need money. The founders make or break the company, and optimizing for just the best investors is optimizing for the 5%.

The other reality is that majority of startups will fail to raise money. So unless you're truly hot s*, raise from anyone including so-called "dumb money" as long as they dont add negative value by pestering you or doing something similar.

Startups die cuz they can't raise or run out of money. Usually a symptom of something else, but don't die cuz you only chased smart money.
Well up until recently, Japan had the number 2 economy in the world. China just recently passed them so now it's all about China.

Due to their population size, there's a lot of potential but their economy is a giant mess. There are many separate huge bubbles forming in China right now, some larger than the U.S's largest economic bubble. Real estate and banking among them. Only, instead of popping organically as happens in every other economic system, the PRC has complete control of every facet so they just don't let it pop. Which causes it to grow even bigger. And that means when it does burst, it's going to come down a lot harder. They're putting off the inevitable. But they should realize that no economy can grow forever. It's never happened in 3,000 years of recorded history.

Japan never really suffered from this (oh they had bubbles, but they popped when they were supposed too) so I expect to see the country back in the number 2 spot when China's house of cards comes tumbling down. It will come tumbling down, that much is certain. The 'when', however, is not so clear. The PRC can do a lot to stave a collapse off, but I don't think it can do much about manufacturing moving out of the country, or people choosing other countries to have their cheap products made (Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, etc). That's one of the few things they can't stop and have little control over. And China relies on its cheap exports -- It's a massive part of the country's income. If that goes, not even the government can plug the hole. It will cause a cascade effect, allowing all those bubbles to pop. It will be a sight to behold.

Basically, China is different from Japan. In size, scope and because their economy operates differently since it's under the complete control of the government. Japan's economy was more "normal", if there is such a thing.
Why would borrowing the APIs enabling existing containerisation approaches have lead to large, far-reaching big bang code drops?
Hey, I'm red green color blind and much of this is difficult to read, but could be otherwise nice. Try outlining instead of solid fill. And having 2 different color sets can help with different color blindness types red/green and blue/yellow.
That table with the theft rates is weird, why use absolute numbers? What possible relevant information can be gleaned from that? All that table tells me is that the Toyota Corolla is a very common car in the US.

I would have loved to see a table with reported thefts per 1000 vehicles sold or something.
The funniest part is that, since his behavior is indistinguishable from his non-zombie variant, Philosophical Zombie will write long papers about how they have qualia but Philosophical Zombies don't.
Perhaps it's a question of incentives. What exactly do you get out of reading a quite complex piece of work and saying your opinion?

The closest I can come, as a non-academic, is perhaps reading other people's code.

It's bloody hard. You need to concentrate, and it's not like reading a newspaper article at all. Even small errors are not easy to spot, and it's even hard to know whether the code is structured in the way the comments say.

It somewhat makes sense to do the exercise if I have to be using the codebase. If I'm just commenting and giving a thumbs up/down, it's quite easy to reduce effort, come up with some generic comments, and see how the other reviewers do. Which is a recipe for letting errors through.
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So do this before you de-activate your FB account then?
Limitations section in Wikipedia sounds pretty scary.

The pipes with coolant will rupture, and from there Polonium-210 will be released into environment.
Or as michaelochurch likes to say, SV's CEOs are NYC's rejects.
Not that I agree with him.
So she spent four years doing a job she loved, building her credibility for the job she dreamed of probably since childhood, and she did it very well (or as you call it (derelict in her duty and expense of her oath of office). She ran shadow IT so she could do her job efficiently. The cost of it politically was a partisan outrage-scandal that didn't actually change anyone's opinion - those who hate on her would have hated on her anyway, and those who don't aren't interpreting this as treason.

I'd say she won.
Because a public bench should also be for sleeping and skating.
Stop bashing GMO foods, more than 100 Nobel laureates say
There is some artist working on this in a critical way that could have been quoted in the post:

- http://www.the-wabsite.com/works/relaxation-situationnelle

- http://www.the-wabsite.com/works/paris-a-place-to-stay

- http://www.the-wabsite.com/works/skate-anti-skate
Internships Are Not a Privilege
Building my first mobile app – Part 1: Calm before the storm and tragedy
I think that example is a bit unfair, teaching really isn't scientific when you get to the core of it. You cannot expect professors to be able to conduct double blind studies with student grades and so a more overarching non-scientific discussion is probably more amenable to actual improvement in performance.
Building my first mobile app – Part 2: Recovery and app inception
Building my first mobile app – Part 3: App released
The difference between locks/fences/car alarms and those benches is literally the difference between criminals and homeless people. All those designs are purposeful attempts at deterring a particular social group. The question to ask is when it's right to act this way.
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The more variety, the better! Apparently a lot of people love Unsplash, but how many...

(1) mountainscapes

(2) cityscapes

(3) fields

(4) pretty girls standing in fields, and

(5) coffeshop patrons typing away on powered-off MacBooks

... does the world really need?

Especially when they all come with washed-out Instagram filters pre-applied.
OpenAPI framework for Python – Fast bootstraping of RESTful micro-services
It is certainly possible. There are already two Go implementations, the official one, and a gcc based one. And due to the fact that the whole Go implementation is available under BSD license, allows anyone without any license worries to fork a custom Go implementation.
No, I meant stresses other than parenthood. When you have to work 2 jobs, have to decide whether to use your paycheck to pay overdue bills or buy groceries, and never get enough sleep, it's quite difficult to remain rational while your child is acting irrationally. The stresses of parenthood (never enough sleep, worrying if you are doing the right thing) just exacerbates those. After all, we aren't robots. Emotional state is a tough thing to override.
A better, more neutral term would be 'topolect'. It's a better translation of the term 'fāngyán' (which is typically translated as 'dialect'), and blurs the line between the English terms 'dialect' and 'language'.
Hi there,

I'm one of the founders of Deekit - online whiteboard created for distributed teams. Not to do typical sells talk - in Deekit you can Draw, work with text, images and other content and everything is synced in real-time. We've made it extremely network efficient so remote workers with crappy connection could use it and also have a real-time collaboration with team.

We quite recently got an awesome honest review that you can check out: https://medium.com/working-remote-tips-apps-and-hacks/remote...

Should you give it a try - we'd really appreciate feedback and thoughts :)
"No timetable" probably means "no set hours to work on subject X". For me (Montessori-educated), that meant the week assignments for each group were written on the blackboard (like "do 3 reading exercises, two writing assignments, two math assignments and one geography"). We could choose to do these assignments alone or with others, at any time we wanted.

The only "timetable" we had was the set hours for doing swimming, music and sports with the whole class (and of course the school opening, closing and break times).
Hypothesis: peer-reviewed articles aren't rigorous

Prediction: a flawed article will pass peer-review

Testing: https://svpow.com/2013/10/03/john-bohannons-peer-review-stin...

Analysis: Peer review is not rigorous
Dehaze is a tool for photographers looking to grow on Instagram. It gives them tailored hashtags based on the style and location of the shot. Would love to hear any feedback!
Travel and Co-Working: Make Your Way to the Lisbon Web Summit
Here is a written example of differences between the Cantonese language and the Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) language when written in Chinese characters. I've seen many examples of signs or other written language in public places in Hong Kong that are incomprehensible to literate speakers of Mandarin, and some examples of written Taiwanese in Taiwan that are incomprehensible to people from anywhere else. How you might write the conversation

"Does he know how to speak Mandarin?

"No, he doesn't."

他會說普通話嗎？

他不會。

in Modern Standard Chinese characters contrasts with how you would write

"Does he know how to speak Cantonese?

"No, he doesn't."

佢識唔識講廣東話？

佢唔識。

in the Chinese characters used to write Cantonese. If you can see the Chinese characters at all as this is displayed on your screen, you should easily be able to see that many more words than "Mandarin" and "Cantonese" differ between those sentences in Chinese characters.
Ethereum lottery – uses Bitcoin blocks as a source of randomness
But isn't this just 'separation of concerns'? I'm not trying to say 'not my problem', but when the shopping centre is built, they're not primarily concerned about finding houses for the homeless - they want to make sure there are seats available for those who want to sit there temporarily.

Lots of public areas, like parks, will be funded by the private sector as a condition of approval for a big apartment building or something - I don't see anything wrong with them spending a minimal amount of effort to prevent 'antisocial behaviour' as well.
Peer review is broken not because the process of review is broken but because the peers are broken. Reviewers, like all academics, have screwed up incentives to get there name on as many papers as possible and those papers cited widely, regardless of the quality of the science involved. They will always find a way game the system to their benefit.

Recently heard about reviewers of a friend's paper blocking publication until the reviewer could publish his research on the same topic first. The whole system is just too screwed up to be fixed.
...since when?
14 year ex smoker here. 1 week of sweating hell and tic tacs followed by 3 months of hell and tic tacs and now I'm a few years free :) Not easy but just requires certitude.
Maybe you can use "Readable Lisp S-expressions".

http://readable.sourceforge.net/
It's no Unsplash... sorry.
Having watched the video this seems like something one could achieve with GNUCobol, mainframe modules ported to the hardware of your choice and using some frosting made of nodejs/<insert hype web tech>. Why don't I feel enthusiastic?