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8 Initiatives to Increase Your Business Growth Curve
I'm currently at that 6 month point in my exercise program for about the 5th time. Anybody have any hints for pushing through it?
My inner pedant screams at this kind of message. If I'm seeing this message, I've already visited the website.
And it gets another dose after 1066 because the Normans were really former Vikings who adopted a Romance language and the Norman language contains a lot of Norse words in addition to Latinate ones.
From what I've experienced and read about, it seems the best approach is not to create/destroy objects at run time since it can be an expensive operation and cause frame rate issues. It's better to hide them and build as many as you can when the app is started up.
Being right for the wrong reasons doesn't win you any points.

If you had questioned the prior method's claims and techniques yesterday based on this same sort of "what about this obvious problem?" then you would have had the same response and deservedly so.

If I declare that the Earth is round because I drew a circle on a piece of paper, I can't wave away criticism of my method just because the result is correct.
Yes, but it's very simple and very common to use a VPN to circumvent their block on voip services, whereas I do not know of a way to use a VPN to rape someone, so I went with what I found to be the more reasonable example.
All interesting, but don't really seem to be "the moment".
Show HN: A better way to pipe curl into sh
Your comment didn't read like an ode on the scientific method to me. Instead, I saw a cheap dismissal of the research in it. And the article even addresses your concerns:

> "They're using an indirect method," he said. "We're using a direct measurement and we're measuring from a mineral that has actually trapped atmosphere. It's a huge step forward, really."

The previous number was an estimate derived from other, indirect findings. In other words, "given what we know, 2.x% O₂ seems most likely and plausible" versus "we dug up some salt with air from the time trapped in it, and measured 10.9% O₂". So they did exactly what you're referring to: questioning previous results and giving evidence to support their claims. And yet you question their results without providing any evidence. Your criticism boils down to "well this isn't what we used to believe". How else could science progress if not by surpassing what was previously known or accepted as the best answer to date?

Science is about questioning stuff, coming up with new ideas and backing them up with evidence, not about making dismissive comments on the internet.
So how does one avoid this trap?

I've occasionally thought of using a DSL for some business logic, presumably the best way is to at least use an existing language (like Tcl) and provide business-specific verbs in it?
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Obviously it won't block js if js is technically required to render the page, leaving you open to security risks and compromising your privacy.
Uh, no, EU is very much concerned with day to day operation of its member countries. It's just incompetent to react to any extrnal stimuli not coming out of its own bureaucracy.
It also doesn't do much to account for differences between libraries. A small, poorly funded library is probably going to be less interesting than a large, well funded library.
Turkey is not a free country any more.

One thing to do is actually voting with your wallet. For example, stop flying Turkish Airlines which is currently flooding the market with cheap tickets.
You'll get better results showing no attitude at all. Just asking straight questions can result in people revealing good information.
I'm not sure how much you know about Gulen movement. It is an identical copy of Opus Dei. They have been building their secret network since 1970s. Gulenist people have all critical positions in Turkey. 50% of high-ranked officers in military accused of being part of this group and now arrested. Even though I'm not a supporter of Erdogan, this coup thing is very serious and unfortunately I have to stand with Erdogan. Because it is about our national security. Gulenist people have schools not only in Turkey but also all around the world. Russia passed a law to close all the schools related to Gulenist Movement. Guess what? Because these schools are gateway for CIA. Turkey and USA have contradictory strategies across the middle east. Fethullah Gulen is the leader of Gulenist Movement and now lives in USA. He born in Turkey and he is primary school graduate in this context. There is no way for him to get a green card in US. Anyway, He is supported by invisible government in US or by someone or some groups. How's that possible a turkish guy who has primary school diploma can build schools all over the world and gain thousands of supporters ? I have never seen this entrepreneurship spirit in TR.

As we are turkish people, we want him to be extradited to Turkey. He will come and defend himself in the court.
Everyone who thinks they understand a topic should try to conduct a lecture with this method. It's so hard to not fall back on "because that's the way it is" or make declarations of truth. The effort involved in getting your audience to think though a subject often reveals how little careful thought we've put in ourselves.
The text however refers to it as an equation, and that's not an equation.
Lots of them run on visual basic too.
Also here is beeper messages that somehow wikileaks got a hold of.

https://911.wikileaks.org/
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose blood is running money!
Sony’s PlayStation division accounted for 78% of its Q1 2016 profits
Aren't online bookstores real bookstores?
Took me a while to realize that PHB = pointy haired boss.
Seeking goals and life satisfaction outside of work.

I generally enjoy my development work at bigcorp, but I found my mood swinging hard based on whether or not I was intellectually engaged at the office. If I wasn't working on something interesting and making progress, I became very sluggish and unmotivated outside of work as well.

I discovered indoor bouldering (rock climbing low to the ground over thick pads; no ropes/harnesses/training required) a couple years ago and it's been a revelation. I talked about it in an old HN thread about exercise [1]. It's a great source of goals, steady improvement, and overall "doing something besides work." I have since expanded to top-rope climbing (taller walls, ropes, harness), which is also ton of fun.

Baking is fun too. I have never enjoyed cooking very much, but baking caters to the engineering mindset: very focused and rewards preparation and attention to detail. Baking, at least at the amateur "I want to make something tasty" level, has fewer "patterns" than cooking and more subtle variations on those patterns, which means you can bake lots of different things without having to find some new piece of equipment or exotic ingredient every time you try something. And baked treats are fun to give to friends.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9354393
You and I may not like it, but the vast majority of the population supports the views and policies of the AKP and Erdogan. Democracy means the government can be controlled by unreasonable politicians, but it's not a dictatorship. If anything it's probably a bug in the political system in how a majority number of seats can control so much despite a considerable number of opposing seats in parliament.

Switzerland has a direct democracy where, if the population were to vote for it, they would pass all kinds of crazy policies. This is in contrast to the UK where people now believe the referandum means the government has to embark on an EU-exit process. They don't, because the UK is not a direct democracy. If Front Nationale ruled France and pushed discriminatory policies, would we call Le Penne a dictator as well?

Speaking of Ataturk, back when he introduced the reforms, some of it was unsupported by parts of the electorate, just as some of Edogan's policies are. Democracy means what the majority votes for wins, unless there's some rigging like in US, Russia, or probably Turkey as well. I mean, if votes can be rigged in the US and any and all objection is silenced by friends in the Supreme Court, then what do you expect from Russia or Turkey, really?

Isn't the current situation in Turkey just another case of shock doctrine, as unfortunately happens annually all over the globe?
I have an incredibly oversimplified way of thinking about things that I'm wondering if somebody can poke holes in:

GPL is for applications (ie. complete products), BSD/MIT-alike are for libraries (ie. standalone components used to build complete products.)

Most of the language in the GPL is incredibly problematic for library use. What does linking really mean? Is a "derived work" of a library anything that uses the library? Or is it a derived work only if I change the library itself and not release the patch? Ok, so there's the LGPL to disambiguate that... so for the common case of libraries, use the LGPL, got it.

But wait, that doesn't really make sense. What is the LGPL guarding against that make it any better than MIT/BSD? Are they thinking corporations are going to do something like patch GTK and not release the patch? That's incredibly unlikely. It's a huge burden to maintain a downstream patch of a library. Moreover, any patch you're likely to make to a library like (for instance) GTK is probably general purpose, and would be an abstraction violation to place any of your business logic in it, right?

If I'm a library writer, what is the motivation to use LGPL or GPL? LGPL doesn't seem much more protective than MIT/BSD in this case, except it prevents the contrived scenario of someone wanting to create proprietary patches to the library itself. And GPL only makes sense if I want to ensure nothing other than other GPL software can link against it (maybe useful for dual licensing like Qt? Or libraries that want to only exist in linux distros...)

Now on the application side, all the language in the GPL starts to make a lot more sense. Linking doesn't really make sense for complete applications like web browsers and photo editors, so it's ok that it's ambiguous (nobody's likely to link to the GIMP.) The GPL seems to be written with the assumption that a derived work would look like a re-distribution of some existing open source product with some proprietary changes, which is certainly evil. Generally it's a really good idea to use GPL here to prevent that. For complete products like applications, it's hard to imagine why you wouldn't want those protections if you're the copyright holder.

You could go even farther with the logic by saying the only real point of using GPL for libraries would be to help cause more proliferation of GPL'd applications, which is what the vision of the GPL seems to be aimed towards: protecting the user by ensuring they can see the code behind the applications they run.
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”

— Donald Knuth

(https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf)
There's another problem where a teacher makes a false generalization, maybe due to lack of expertise, and attempts to teach by writing an article about it.
FBI probes hacking of Democratic DCCC
as a business that has to turn a profit, of course you will not pay significantly more than you have to. Base Salaries are demand and supply driven which also means that if i can pay more, i can also get more skilled/experienced people for that money.
It couldn't. It had no nose...
It's a common sentiment. [Ernest Rutherford](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford) is known for the quote "If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid it is probably not very good physics. "; the point being that if you can't find and explainable version of your theory, you don't really understand your theory yourself. There are also (potentially apocryphal) stories of Rutherford talking over his work with the cleaning staff as means to help himself make his own theories clearer -- the challenge of explaining it was useful in understanding it.
> That 0.1% (that someone bothered to hand optimize the memory access patterns for) might be the only one really needing that cache.

I am going to claim that it isn't. I think you underestimate the amount of speedup the cache gives you. Few applications require performance so little that they will tolerate a 50-100 times slowdown. Even if they could, who's to say the right 0.1% ends up optimized? You add a new function without profiling it, or a user has a slightly different use case than you do, and suddenly the hot path is waiting for main memory in every loop.
This was all decided a long time ago, general purpose caches won and scratch memory lost.

> You have to show them that the same application that used to do something in a given period of time does it now in less. That's how you sell.

Yes, that sounds like a swell idea. What is wrong with that?
Not all bookstores are equivalent; one Powell's should not be counted as equal to a small specialty shop. A better metric might be local retail book purchases per capita (in units, not currency).
Shame they only include cities; the town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales has 24 bookshops for 1,598 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay-on-Wye#Book_town
Those paleologisms were around long before reddit.
Library Genesis is pretty cool too, as is Project Gutenberg.
Continuum.io (the guys behind Anaconda and a lot of new python data libraries like blaze, numba, dask) do this kind of work as consultants.
It'll be very interesting to see how this develops. whilst I'm sure it'll attract criticism as being an inexact benchmark, I'd say that any progress is welcome.

From a security perspective, there's a well known "market for lemons" in software and if this can help address that, good!
Well, it was beta before.
I've got a simple way of implementing Rust's borrow checker in C. It's based on always nulling out old pointers rather than letting them dangle. Functions that take ownership of an argument demand a pointer-to-pointer, and then null out the caller's copy. When freeing memory which might've contained pointers, I assert that the entire thing is zeroed, to ensure it doesn't have any dangling pointers or leaks. Non-owning pointers are marked with const so they can't be freed.

This obviously tracks ownership at runtime, rather than compile time, but static analyzers are pretty good at tracking nulls, and optimizers minimize the runtime performance impact. The end result is very similar to Rust, albeit coming from the other direction.

At some point I'd like to write up a blog post with examples.
According to old-school philosophy of science truth could be discovered only by removing all the nonsense, as a remainder, not by pilling up nonsense on top of nonsense out of math and probabilities.

Probabilities, for example, are not applicable to partially observed, guessed and modeled phenomena. It should be a type-error.

As for math - existence of a concept as a mathematical abstraction does not imply its existence outside the realms of so-called collective consciousness. Projecting mathematical concepts onto physical phenomena which could not be observed is a way to create chimeras and to get lost in them.

Read some Hegel to see how it works.)
The problem is that, if you put mere reproduction as a goal, many scientists would see that as low hanging fruit to beef up the resume, so we'd get countless unnecessary "experiments".

I'd say the goal that gets credited should not be merely reproducing the results, but finding errors in the previous research. That would count as novel, and is something that is presently recognized as contribution. The only problem is that journals or conferences treat it as unattractive, so good luck publishing something of the kind...
1000 pages !!! That's too much for learning. Maybe to use as a guide.
Wow, this seems to address a bunch of problems I've experienced with protobuf in the past. Looks awesome!
That's fair. To the point, this person [0] doesn't seem to be having any issues with downvotes, even though the comment raises the same basic issue -- the reliability of the crystalline entrapment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12186872
The Detox Ransome Hacker Stole Democratic National Committee DB in 2015
Very odd article to me and not particularly fond of what it's reaching for as a concept. I mean, I think the premise being promoted is debatable from an Educational Research perspective, which I got familiar with in graduate school.

Honestly I kind of bristle at the implication being done at the bottom of basically letting a child/student/trainee wander through the forest of music in the name of learning abstraction the hard way, because, you know, experts aren't good teachers. With something like guitar, I'd argue anything but and expert makes a mediocre or even poor teacher because of the nature of the objective.

It's not against the rules to reply a student's question with "I don't know the exact answer to that, but I will get back to you" but I'd like to think those are infrequent asides in an otherwise useful exchange where the teacher/prof actually knows the ins and outs of things and can explain them because they had to learn them too.

Then we start getting into issues of diversity in learning styles and the conversation gets a lot more complex than what this piece asserts. Good food for thought and a neat topic, but I'd pass on endorsing its conclusion(s) as stated herein.
I don't think he was comparing Docker to VirtualBox.

In Docker 1.11 they used VirtualBox to host a Linux Docker Image to run containers. In 1.12 they switched to Microsoft's Hyper-V.
I'm not going to argue 'real', but the experiences are sure distinct.
Right? As usual, quality reporting from the Economist. Fun detail.
I cannot reply directly to wahsd, but: on the contrary, the ‘large and inviting Barnes & Noble’ offers a shallow selection that can be found online cheaper, while the ‘hole in the wall hoarder bookstore’ has a diverse stock.
Similar to what happened after June, 1989 in Beijing.
Given LastPass has pretty much one job to do, protect your passwords, I feel they should refund subscribers' money (a month or several months) everytime it's shown they haven't done their job. It's gotten to the point of being ridiculous how often I've come to HN and seen some new LastPass exploit. Once your password is compromised you could lose everything up till that point in time which was protected by that password. All your money in your bank account. All your photos in the cloud. The confidentiality of your IP. The secrecy of something in your personal life. In other words, it is accumulative. So really, if due to poor engineering on LastPass's behalf, if you loose it all at any point, you've really only been investing in a time bomb. You're making monthly investments in something growning more valuable each day until the day arrrives at which the value could drop to zero. Or worse, drop to zero and cost you. But LastPass seems to treat security issues as non-accumulative costs. Because for them, it isn't accumulative. They keep collecting subscription fees, adding new features, advertising to reach new customers, and maintaining a fundamentally broken product.
https://www.enthought.com/company/careers/ - I worked at Enthought and can vet for the team that works there.

https://www.continuum.io/join-us-empower-people-solve-worlds... - I haven't worked here personally but have heard good things.

Both are in Austin, Texas.
Docker for Windows is unfortunately a bit gimped right now:

- docker-compose isn't OS agnostic and as versions go forward Windows is lagging behind

- this uses Hyper-V which blocks both Virtualbox and Vmware from running
The 10k LOC behind this kind of belie the 'simple' adjective in the title. I guess this is simple if you are familiar with WebGL? Anyways, very cool stuff!
I wonder if we have Kickstarter to thank for this new advertising model
From the authors of "Why Science Needs Metaphysics" this rings a little hollow.

Nautilus is just a slightly less vitriolic version of the Aeon-class anti-science postmodernist blog. Like Aeon, it's garbage.
The 'convox start' dev environment enables Rails dev on Docker for Mac with a custom file sync strategy.

This is another case of simple solutions win... You can effectively rsync code changes without all the low level file system madness.

https://convox.com/blog/bidirectional-sync/
Yes, they're doing this with Linux too. I recall reading an announcement about 20kLoC worth of their patches to the Linux mainline kernel, in order to improve performance on Hyper-V.
I may have missed this. Can you provide a source?
France’s Groupe BPCE to Buy German Fintech Company Fidor Bank
A great course with a lot of materials is "Modern Binary
Exploitation"[1], also available on github[2].

[1] http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/binexp-spring2015/

[2] https://github.com/RPISEC/MBE
I keep running into this opinion, and as Turk who's a supporter of both secular and democratic rule, I feel I have to provide a counterpoint whenever it shows up.

As usual, Turkish politics is all about nuance. First of all, a coup benefits no one - previous coups perhaps brought short term "stability", but at the cost of the lives of many people jailed and executed without due process, and a lack of respect for the rule of law. They were pyrrhic victories at best, and set the stage for the current mass polarization of "secularists" and "islamists" that is causing so much unrest and strife. Back in the day, it also was "communists" once. Coups are not good or right, regardless of who they're orchestrated by. Lest you think

Lest you think the coups were mostly harmless, some examples of what happened were widespread (thousands) torture and arbitrary jailing, capital punishment, public hangings, repression of freedom of speech and books, purging of dissenting opinion from universities and government, special courts created to swiftly punish any opposition, repression of trade unions are just some of the results. Examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

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Having said that, to the actual point: The right-wing secular generals have been dismantled for the most part anyway. The prevailing theory is that the coup might have come from the supporters of Fettullah Gulen, who's for some reason seen as a harmless moderate in the West, but in Turkey he's not. It's never mentioned, for example, that his organization in Turkey runs "houses of light" (isik evleri) which serve as alternate housing for students who can't afford proper housing, where young children are gently groomed and selected for religious coercion and indoctrination, to then join the organization for life. They're given proper educations, jobs, business connections, in return for their service of course. Perhaps the Gulen schools in the US don't engage in that, probably because they know that won't fly there, and Gulen is relying on the US's protection against the Turkish government. Also not mentioned is that they worked with the Erdogan government when it was dismantling supporters of secularity from branches of government. What makes you think that these people would make for a better leadership than the current one?

More about Gulen recently:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/thinking-gulen-is-a-peacefu...

and also

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/07/turkey-cou...

Don't get me wrong, I don't like Erdogan and his group one bit, but a coup would not have been better by any measure.
Can you try to cite some actual evidence here instead of parroting what basically sounds like an insane conspiracy theory?

None of this justifies persecuting academics for conducting science and/or having not great opinions of their government. None of this is an excuse to throw away rule of law, and none of it justifies treating humans without basic dignities https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.independent.co.uk/ne...