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Can someone who is knowledgeable on the topic enlighten me?

I was under the impression (very possibly mistaken) that you couldn't depict human or animal forms in Islamic Art/Architecture and hence the prevalence of amazingly intricate geometry and calligraphy adorning Mosques.

However I see some elaborate murals with human and animal depictions in the 5th and 9th photos in the article.

Am I mistaken in my assumption? Are there restrictions on what can or cannot be depicted in Islamic Art?
"The Big Short" Scion Fund managers restricted withdrawals, too.

[ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/business/09insider.html ]

Either way, chaos created opportunity and Scion investors might feel lucky that they were locked in the castle.

The subprime mortgage market finally imploded causing the Great Recession.

If you are confident of credit crisis, perhaps you can do your own shorting.
Really neat. Reminded me of a live stream video conference system I built for an embedded systems course a long time ago: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/classes/2009/4840/repor...

As far as I remember, bandwidth was moreorless unlimited. It was nasty syncing issues I remember giving me nightmares.
Locking the doors is always a risky proposition. On the one hand it avoids fire sales, on the other it makes other investors nervous. Great scene in "its a wonderful life" when their was a run on the Bailey Building and Loan where George Bailey (James Stewart) explains the "60 days" rule. And the people who "sold their shares" for 50 cents on the dollar to the evil banker across the street.
Ask HN: Free/unpaid pilots for SaaS product
We are a very early stage company (~4 months) trying to find traction.

Is it a good idea to do a free/unpaid pilot for a SaaS product (there is a bunch of custom build that is required)? If so what would be some recommendations on how to structure one?
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previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129148

I am personally most interested in how to arrange a software to software pigdin for negotiating communication. Beside the obvious, like the dialtone handshake.
A clause like this could actually make sense for negotiation. Consider the following two hypothetical deals from Yahoo's perspective:

- $375M/year to Mozilla, with the clause to keep paying for 3 more years if Mozilla doesn't want to do business with Yahoo's new owner.

- $450M/year to Mozilla, with no such clause.

The former seems like the smarter deal for Yahoo to make if they want to focus on being successful rather than on being bought. It only sounds problematic if you start focusing primarily on getting acquired.
I don't think these ideas are mutually incompatible with your lifestyle. Sounds like these things do, in fact, bring you joy.
I haven't experienced crashes but I've had trouble finding certain people. Not sure if that's an android specific issue.
it's amazing they ever got anything to fly
VS Code has always been my go-to for small projects, so I'm very happy to see tabs. Their absence made it impossible to use for large projects.
I'm not sure why they'd reject the deal if Aol buys them, given that the Mozilla foundation owes its existence to Aol.
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That's not quite a valid analogy in my books, because either you have BPA in a water bottle or you don't. In contrast, "customers don't want pollution" isn't quite accurate - it's better described as "customers don't want pollution near them". To this end, you just dump the pollution elsewhere, where your customers aren't.

Pollution is a global problem though, so this isn't a solution that works yet it's absolutely what the free market would decide.
This is super cool. Love the quantity goal - I think that's super important, as opposed to "I want to make the perfect game." Would love to experiment like this with something like 100 products (digital / physical) in 5 years, or some similar time period.
BF1942 is still the best game ever, though 64 player servers were not practical. 32 player games were amazing fun. I hope I can one day find its spiritual successor.
Where "exotic" = "high risk".

These funds are far less liquid than most, because they're structured to offer a small amount of floating capital to cover normal withdrawals, and a much larger pool of highly illiquid capital trapped in high-value commercial properties which can take months or years to sell.

So these are among the riskiest of all funds.

They're a very niche interest for experienced investors. Historically they've offered much higher returns than the market average, but clearly that's over now.

The situation isn't quite analogous to a bank run, because these funds are very peripheral and not structural.

But a bank run isn't impossible. The UK desperately needs a renegotiated trade agreement with the EU to clarify the UK's position - and that's not going to happen any time soon.

As one US investor said, no one in their right mind is going to go anywhere near the British economy until this is settled.
I'm not sure whether or not the stereotype is true. The point is you are forced to acknowledge a pretty unpopular belief to defend this idea. And that the kind of people super concerned about disparate impact are usually not the kind of people that believe that. And I think that if you do acknowledge there are differences, the argument that it's unfair and wrong is much less strong.

In any case the link you posted earlier suggested it could be explained by different rates of numeracy and literacy. Which sound like obvious proxies for IQ. If you gave people an IQ test, or at least literacy or numeracy test, this would probably eliminate any racist bias.

> I said doing so with the same accuracy as models which are "racist" is worth billions.

You necessarily lose some accuracy if you really think race is predictive. But you need not lose all of it. The current methods for removing bias just fuzz features that correlate with race. But there is a way to make sure a model doesn't learn to use features just as a proxy for race, but instead to predict how much they matter independent of race.
Well, 3 to 7 years of life is pretty good.
AOL doesn't seem any worse a choice than Yahoo, no; on the other hand, I can think of other companies they might want to reject doing business with, and they probably could too. Hence that clause had enough value to make it a point of negotiation, and it cost Yahoo less to offer that contingency clause than to offer more money.
I remember as a 14 year old reading André Lamothe's Windows Game Programming for Dummies. I think in one of the Appendices he has a tip, something like:

"Your first 10 games are going to suck, so get those out of the way as quickly as possible."

That advice has stuck with me through the years when learning new things. Don't freak out about perfection, just get something "finished". Repeat N times and watch yourself improve.

I guess this guy went for N=100. It would be cool to see an analysis, even by a friend, of his games to see at various points where he goes from derivative games to sparks of creativity to ruts and so on.
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I agree with this, but can someone really be held liable for something like this? I assume the painting did not come with a contract that states the artist/seller must always claim the work, from now to forever?
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Where are you getting the 40% figure from? Are you saying that Tibet(-ish) is 60% of the land area of China?
You never "screw up" by learning. For that matter, you learned a lot about javascript and asynchronous programming. Furthermore, you would probably now (more than the average programmer) appreciate the advances of ES6 and the promises/generator pattern.

As for what you "should" be using, there is no right or wrong answer. The biggest metric is whether or not the language is a good fit for the task. The only thing that JS is bad at, IMO, is CPU-intensive tasks. Aside from that, it may be perfectly adequate for the job.

The only other factors would be if there were a language that offered features (or libraries) that you need.
I have to admit that Bloomberg is the only online publication I would pay monthly for. Its content is _that good_.
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Meanwhile idiot Apple sits on their NFC api which can do all the same things as Android, except they're idiots and keep it to themselves. Meanwhile we struggle to get iBeacons to do anything even remotely useful to us.
Can a court really forbid you from doing such a thing? What if someone wants to create art but not be forced to put their name on it afterwards. This is just impossible?
Two points, one minor and one major:

1) Reddit and Infogami merged into Not a Bug, not reddit.

2) Musk acted as a cofounder after the merge; Swartz did not. Swartz stuck around for a couple months post-merge then disappeared. So if you want to call him a "reddit cofounder", you can only do so in the loosest terms possible. He wasn't there for the founding and he didn't put in the work, but it says "cofounder" on the company papers.
Introducing CARTO Builder (fka cartodb.com)
I'd suggest running an ad blocker for that modal, but that just renders the unusable (what the hell are they doing over there to pull that off?).
Interesting, I always thought they try to be a faithful port. In what ways do they differ?
You have no idea how happy it makes me to see a piece about Mike Will Made It on the frontpage of HN of all places.

Not only is he a Hip Hop producer (producers normally stay in the background), but he's a part of the ATL Trap movement which I wouldn't have expected anyone on HN to be tuned into.
The poor want the same things that everyone else want. If other families are not having goose by choice, they're going to perceive it as being a second-rate substitute.

It's a bit like getting a kid MegaBloks for his birthday. Yeah, he should be thankful that he got a gift at all. On the other hand, you should definitely try to give gifts that the receiver will actually like. That kid's probably not going to be happy if what he really wanted was blocks that fit together properly with his Lego, like the set that Sally got for her birthday.
Python's fairly unique OO reflection like abilities make it fairly hard to do things other than with pointers for any sort of object interaction imo.
I suspect it's highly hardware dependant. Most of the time laptops are made to run Windows or Mac OS, and Linux is an afterthought. So to me it's a miracle that it even works.

But quite frankly, half of the problem is people telling others that it's somehow their fault when it doesn't work. It's not, e.g. NVIDIA Optimus [0] [1]. There are even jokes about ACPI support on Linux [2]. It only takes a few bad experiences for people to shy away from a platform, which is a shame.

[0] http://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/the-state-of-nvidia-opt...
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus
[2] https://twitter.com/sadserver/status/721134795938357248
This game ate my life in college. My friends and I founded tribalwar.com in late 1999, and I spent the next 3 years learning how to code websites. I was never that great at the game, but the skills I learned coding websites led to my first professional job.
Full paper:

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/63794/1/document.pdf
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Even ETFs can have similar issues to mutual funds when the underlying asset is illiquid. ETFs will trade at an immense discount as the fund is sold faster than the underlying can be shorted. This happened to $JNK recently.
Was BPA removed from all plastic water bottles? I remember when BPA-free was trending. All the expensive designer water bottles slapped stickers all over saying they were BPA free. The cheaper bottles made no such assurances.

The Clean Water Act applies to everyone equally. The market cares only about customers with money.
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For those looking for some open source HFT Java code, you may be interested in looking at some of the code in OpenHFT [1].

[1]: https://github.com/OpenHFT
Birth rates are definitely some of the lowest on the world in Germany. However, I think that has more to do with how important having family is seen. I also believe that the country being much less religious has to do with it as well.
This is my own interpretation of the point, but then again I've always been a bit spartan about owning stuff both out of not having space for it and an intentional desire to avoid things I don't need.

To me there's a deeper point here about not using material possessions as a crutch for finding happiness and purpose, because it's a common crutch and its effects are temporary at best. The same applies to other sources of unnecessary, self-inflicted complexity in your life.

Purging material possessions that you don't need seems like a useful conduit to reflect on a particularly common source of unnecessary, self-inflicted complexity.

So if you need those tools to pursue your hobbies or career, then great, you should probably have those tools. Then the point applies to you in two questions:

1. How about all of the stuff you might own that isn't about your hardware/software projects?

2. Do you really need all of those gadgets? Perhaps you do, but I'd bet that there's some amount of semi-justifiable redundancy in there because there's an inherent rush of pleasure that comes from acquiring cool gadgets.
>There's sun.misc.Unsafe, but that isn't available on every JVM implementation.

There's also talk about the possible removal of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9¹.

¹ http://blog.dripstat.com/removal-of-sun-misc-unsafe-a-disast...
For the love of God, stop saving my time
The cost is ~$100 more per container (from what I could find), so the whole system ends up costing $300 more, at least. Is it worth the color change?
I would call it roughly 5% of Alphabet's Q1 2016 revenue.
I think my pack rat tendencies come from the fact that I very frequently MacGyver stuff up in a hurry, so a lot of stuff I have I don't use, but having raw materials and tools around is usually handy, even if I don't know how they'll be useful in the future.
This is only important if you believe that racial stereotypes are true, but should be ignored. That if you control for education, income, region, etc, differences between races are still significant.

Disparate impact goes well beyond removing race as a feature. You sometimes can't use features that correlate with race, even if they are highly predictive. E.g. education.

It also has nothing to do with the profits of banks. Better prediction algorithms for loans mean less interest rates for people that are good borrowers, and less crippling debt to those that aren't. It has huge benefit to the economy and society.
That's hilarious.

I suppose the next step is for an artist to "authenticate" works s/he couldn't possibly have created and which aren't even in question.
Is a recording or transcript of the interview available?

> https://anewmap.com/

Yes, pretty hard to imagine. That said, it looks pretty interesting.
tl;dr: Lossy message queue + service discovery.
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Yes, my issue is just that creating a small library with a C API requires a lot of machinations that are going to turn off anyone who isn't really set on going with Rust. For OS development, standalone binaries, or Rust libraries, I think Rust is in excellent shape as it is.
Bugs in HFT code can lose a lot of money very quickly too, so I'd imagine that Java code being less bug prone than C or assembly is also a consideration.
Depending on what assurances and promises you've made to other people about the robustness of your current solution, I reckon there's a high likelyhood you haven't "screwed up" at all. You've investigated your problem space, found some workable solutions, and got some proof-of-concept code running.

Writing something in a language you know is always better than not writing anything in a "better" language that you don't know. For _you_, Javascript was the right language, at least for your initial explorations. You're now a long way ahead of where you started, with new-found knowledge about some of the edge case problems and implementation details that you never had when you started.

Javascript async is difficult (I'd hesitate to jump all the way to "retarded"), mostly because async itself is difficult (though, to be honest, a lot of people consider JS to have implemented it badly as well, but that's kind of secondary).

Having said that, there are going to be similar downsides to doing it in Python, Ruby, Haskel, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Befunge, Brainfuck, Assembler, Perl - that's why there isn't just one language, they all have different compromises, different learning curves, different support communities, different library availability and robustness, different expertise availability...

Try not to ask "how much have I screwed up?", but instead ask "what has this version taught me?", and "which of the decisions I made would I have made differently if I knew at the beginning what I knew now?"

Bottom line - your project _can_ be written in Javascrip. It's almost certainly significantly less complex than Gmail or Googlemaps. It just might take some very senior level Javascript developers to get there.

Don't think that jumping from college-project-level Javascript to I've-read-a-bit-about-it-level Ruby or Python is going to magically make the hard things easy though.
I think she's trying to buy more time with this decision. Think about it, she's not stupid, nor blind. She knows what she's doing and she screwed up with Starboard. She's trying to buy additional time with a rough contract like this. Who will want to buy Yahoo when they are on the hook for $1 Billion? No one, that's who. It's wise but...it might be too little too late.

I don't know a ton on how to take a company private, especially after she's in a position she's in now but...if I were her, I'd leverage everything I had and take Yahoo private. Just like Dell did and turn the company around without all the public pressure.
Are you updating your "Assembly Language Step By Step" book any time soon?
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the "extreme circumstances" clause the same one used by Michael Burry prior to the 2008 crash (detailed in The Big Short)?

I don't think it's only British funds with this kind of language. It seems like standard boilerplate a lawyer would insert into the documents as a catch-all for anything unexpected (and misuse of it would be addressed with litigation)
You're speaking solely about the film. The book goes into great detail about this.
Oyo now sees one room booked every 3 seconds in India
OpenJDK is licensed under GPLv2 but it used to be available under commercial licenses as well. Kinda like how MySQL is GPL/commercial dual licensed.
I read about the 100 10 1 rule that came up in an article about game dev a while back, write down the first 100 ideas for games that come up, prototype the best 10, and then pick one to build.

edit: source, https://nickbentleygames.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/the-100-10...
They're not a particularly delicious bird IMO, which is frankly why other birds are more popular, such as duck. Goose is also extremely fatty, more so than duck, which makes it stupidly easy to cook badly.
Lockless structures is one of those rare cases where it is relevant. Not that I think Java is great for these (Java's atomics support is not great compared to C/C++ or even C#), but at least it's not the free-for-all that C/C++ used to enjoy.
Even if they were available, how much would a shotgun + rounds cost in the DPRK? Where are you getting your Cosmoline, and such? Maybe the first thing you do is sell your gun and buy as much rice as you can.
I realize the gravel vs. sand debate is a bit contentious, but I haven't had any blockage in the two months I have been running the system, despite claims of that the sand will become clogged within hours or days.

In fact, the sand media was the original aquaponics design.

References:

http://iavs.info/
http://aquaponicsnation.com/forums/topic/9039-integrated-aqu...
This is really bad advice. Surgical masks don't filter much of the air you breathe. They don't make a seal, so incoming air takes the easiest path: around the mask, rather than through the mask.
It was a hardware change. In those older CPU designs, the external clock signal was directly driving a state machine, so for as long as the clock was applied, the state machine would go.

It's important to realise that there was no good reason to have the ability to stop the CPU in those days - power consumption by the CPU itself was truly trivial compared to the memory and peripherals it was attached to, and those CPUs weren't really damaged or worn out by running continuously. Having the CPU spin in software when there was nothing else to do was perfectly fine.
You've probably previously added an exception in your browser (or possibly have the redirect cached).

Looks like you're using AWS for your cert. See step 3 on http://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/gs-acm-reque...

You need a cert with a Subject Alternative Name for www (or *, which is still free with aws).
I suspect that you can create art and release it anonymously, and nobody can force you to say you painted it. That would be covered in the US under freedom of speech, I think. On the other hand, claiming that you painted something that you didn't, or didn't paint something that you did, may be fraudulent?
They politely asked me to disable my ad blocker for them with a promise that they would be considerate about the ads they serve. I was more than happy to oblige.
It's not "we received a letter about you". If they get a NSL, then they _don't_ post the canary. That's a key difference, between action and inaction, and it's what the whole thing rests on.

Not that it's been tested in (non-secret) court.
I'm consistently impressed by Gitlab's direction, the openness of the team, and how responsive they are here on Hacker News. It takes a lot of dedication and discipline to be so consistent! So, I'm impressed by the consistency as well :)
I've been using it on my Mac since the post about it on here a few months ago and I've had no issues at all, though I haven't tried to do anything strange/difficult with it.
Didn't Netflix have some programs they'd call "monkeys" that randomly wreak havoc in their codebase / infrastructure? Is that related to this?
In Sunni Islam, your assumption is largely true today. The majority of contemporary Sunni Islam takes a negative view of images of humans or animals in religious contexts, or even in art in general. However, historically, that hasn't always been the uniform Sunni position, miniature painting was very popular in the Ottoman Empire even among Sunnis.

By contrast, Shi'a Islam tends to take a much more lenient view on this issue. In Sunni Islam, making images of Muhammad is considered gravely wrong, whereas many Shi'a authorities consider it permissible so long as the image is made out of respect and devotion.

Much of Sufism also takes a more lenient view of religious iconography.
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> You're basically describing a bank run [...]

A bank run is a very special case, and while it might have similarities, it pays to be cautious when drawing comparisons.

Bank runs are special because of the fractional reserve banking system.

(Usually its at this point that someone launches into a tirade vaguely conspiracy-theory-ish about fractional reserve banking system, and complains that money is debt, but I grok it)
If you are not logged in to Google, you get clean links. It's ironic that they treat less engaged users preferably.

The redirect links are fairly easy to trim. The real URL is at the end. So in the worst case, just snip it out.

I'm sure there are browser extensions that will do it for you.