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Ok, did not watch the video completely but it seems mostly about the low pressure requirements. It seems that the author does not realize that hyperloop is not a vacuum tube but a low-pressure environment. Actually the pod depends on surrounding air to create the air cushion it drives on.

Also, the way to mitigate earthquakes and thermal expansion are (albeit vaguely) mentioned in the alpha document: the tube rests on pylons and the overall structure deforms slightly.

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...
/...they needed to modify the molecule.. because the initial patent on rapamycin expired in 1992. The company would need a novel compound to market it in oncology./

So they had a good drug candidate already but needed to tweak it because of the vagaries of IP law.

What a ridiculous situation. Has anyone devised a Shkreli-proof solution to this public policy issue?
> If you ignore warnings that are benign, over time there will be more and more warnings and it becomes harder and harder to notice new warnings that are bugs

I -Wno-XYZ the common ones that I don't feel are issues

> > I wonder if the argument for/against -Werror is really the difference between the beliefs "a compiler warning is probably a problem in my code" vs "a compiler warning is probably a problem in the compiler"

> Compilers are remarkable pieces of software, in the last 4 years or so I can remember 3 compiler bugs I found in Clang and GCC and all were segfaults not incorrect warnings. That's after running Clang and GCC thousands of times on hundreds of projects. So as a rule of thumb if the compiler reports a warning it's correct.

What I mean is that, for example, gcc warning me about "if(x = y)" is a problem in gcc, as it's generating superfluous output for my correct, intended input
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1-1's will continue until moral improves.
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I am a complete introvert and was more fearful of public speaking than probably anyone you know. That's why I joined toastmasters which was supremely challenging at first, but through repeated desensitization (i.e., practice) you become less fearful. Public speaking is still not my favorite thing, but at least it is not limiting my personal and professional growth. I can now give talks at conferences without having a complete panic attack. There are other benefits too like practicing your extemporaneous speaking skills (table topics for you TMs out there) such that you sound cogent even when someone catches you off guard.
As expected. Pokemon Go proves that Nintendo has tremendous potential to monetize its IP on mobile in the coming years, but investors expected short term bang for the buck.

I can guarantee you Nintendo, as a tightly controlled company, could care less about this volatility.
I am of the view that anyone who finds an exploit should (generally) do what they feel would have the best result. This would incentivize organisations to create payouts (prizes) for non-public exploits, and it would allow concerned citizens to force a change from generally unmovable bureaucracies.
Another Bart hack; If you fly in to SFO and don't mind walking a few blocks to the San Bruno Bart station you can save about $4.60 each way. For some reason the SFO stop costs a lot extra. The easiest way is to continue on the sky tram to the rental car place. When you get off its a quick half a mile walk over San Bruno ave to Huntington.
As they say at TMs, every club is different and you have to check out a few before finding one you like.
>Has anyone devised a Shkreli-proof solution to this public policy issue?

A tax on pharma profits which can be offset by both R&D on un-patentable medicine and production of out-of-patent medicine. This would go to fund (along with public funds) open drug research with statutory public domain results.
Irrelevant if true. A Trump, Clinton or Johnson administration cannot reverse trends in the middle east that threaten Russia's southwest border. Russian energy fortunes will not improve as pressure from alternative energy and shale/sands sources is irreversible. Global deflation across most commodities will continue to sap income from Russia's natural resources, at least until China can somehow rebalance its economy. I believe all of this is apparent to Russia, and that like other governments they well understand that global stability is essential to their economic prosperity and domestic order. If Russia must involve itself in US Politics in some manner, they would do well to get behind whichever candidate can contribute to global stability. Even if it means a return to 1990's US hegemony - a time that was very good for many Russia.
So the final image is composed of other images pieced together? This makes me feel like the final product is closer to an illusion than what the insect would look like at higher zoom levels. Regardless the outcome was stunning
And drones are still not yet commercially viable, VR is not yet amazing and in the hands of consumers / widely applicable outside of gaming, and autonomous vehicles are currently hyped-up versions of adaptive cruise control. We're still probably 10 years away for drones and autonomous driving, and 2-5 for VR in terms of large mainstream impact (possibly much longer for truly autonomous cars, depending on AI advancements, laws, etc...I wouldn't be surprised if it's more like 25-30 years until it's the norm).
According to the bulk of the response I saw on African Twitter when this was announced, the simpler (and much cheaper) thing to do would be to remove visa restrictions for anyone with an African passport.
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> It forces your whole project into a box

Isn't that the point? Since Elm is a pure, strongly typed language, it introduces a lot of constraints. You can't mutate anything, there are no side effects (only declared effects captured by the type system), and the only architecture you can use is "The Elm Architecture". However, those restrictions will keep your code sane and the compiler almost guarantees that your code will work. It's a pretty fair trade-off if you ask me.
it seems to me that the goal is delivering a working unit... requiring the operator to "just plug it into your lab supply" isn't feasible.

before you yell at me, i've been pointing out the ignorant hypocrisy in others for over 30 years. the thing is, codewritinfool is an ignorant hypocrite. i didn't even need my microscope.
I'm of somewhat mixed minds on the question myself, though the fact that Rockefeller organised the industry for his own company's, and his own personal, benefit, gives strong pause.

As to the price of oil, I can pretty much guarantee you it would have been far lower, though also quite probably much more volatile. I've posted a few times recently on the Texas Railroad Commission and general tendencies throughout the history of oil, and other extractive industries, for either monopolies, consortia, cabals, or government controls (or some mix of the above) to form to limit extractive activity and drive prices up.

I have concerns about private appropriation of the fruits of this activity. I'm also fairly convinced that oil prices are set low by the market. By something on the order of a millionfold.

Why and what to do about that is a longer comment.

As to the particulars of Standard Oil, the company arranged for rebates, intercepted (and occasionally changed) competitor's communications, engaged in what are now entirely illegal, and were seen then as highly immoral, business practices, and much more. The industry as a whole tended to be organised around such practices, and if it weren't John D. it would likely have been someone else who'd have emerged. He played the game best and/or had some early lucky streaks.

But I really cannot support the methods he used. If power is to accrue, let it be channeled through the democratic mechanisms for managing it: government. Not privately held corporations.

Fuller expansion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12140195
Also swirl (similar exercises to teach yourself R)

http://swirlstats.com/students.html
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I opened the data of 430+ remote companies in remotebase.io to public.
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American in China here. I can answer this:

>Do you need someone to verify your ID to get a WeChat account with a wallet?

I set this up a while ago but I don't recall an explicit ID checking step. There might be something going on behind the scenes since your wechat account is closely tied to your phone number.

>I don't think it would be legal to implement something like that in North America without ID checks and a money transmission license, no?

Oh the irony that in this respect China is a libertarian paradise. The PRC isn't as paternalistic. They don't really make laws to stop people from taking personal risks.

>What are the fees?

Transferring to/from the bank is .05% I think. Transferring wallet to wallet is free.

If they are zero, how does WeChat make money on the feature?

I think right now the plan is still to run at break-even and/or loss until alipay dies. otoh with a sizeable amount of money sitting in their virtual wallets, tencent can effectively become a bank and do fractional reserve banking. Right now I'm just speculating.

>I honestly don't see any innovation here, the tech is dirt simple.

Often people on this forum are so concerned with the gears that they've missed the point of the car. End users don't care if the tech is literally built from sticks and stones. IMO there is a great wealth of good business ideas that require very little technical innovation. But programmers don't want to work on something which feels beneath them.

>It's just too difficult to do in the US because of the PATRIOT act, greedy banks, and overzealous AML regulations.

I agree completely. If the US keeps these arcane laws, other countries will bury us. I'm doing my part to change this situation by voting for..... oh shit.
While I agree, within the same context, I want to point out that right next to rasterization you have shaders, which are a poster child for functional programming.

A vertex shader just transforms an input vertex (and some other inputs) into an output vertex, and a fragment shader just transforms an input fragment (and some other inputs) into an output fragment. This is done at a scale so massively parallel that we have dedicated hardware for it, because your CPU doesn't have enough parallelism.

Sure, HLSL and GLSL are locally procedural. The most recent fancy versions ofo them even allow for some shared state mutation within a thread wave, useful for certain niche uses. But in in their traditional contexts? I find even local mutation for most use cases to merely be a source of bugs and obfuscation via poor naming. And most of the built-in functions are pure.
The specific problem described in the "encapsulation" section is solved in modern C++ (11/14) by std::unique_ptr. While this may seem like a trivial quibble, I think it's part of why I find modern C++ quite tolerable despite disliking almost every other "object-oriented" language.
Why, yes, it does.

If it exists, then it should be mentioned - there's no point in hiding it or whitewashing it. I certainly didn't take it as supporting age discrimination, just a mention that it's a real thing that affects market desirability.
This is only three quaters true. The rules of any funding commmitee will include public outreach, and getting yourself published in the popular really will help you get your next grant.

But all that often has an artificial feel to it, and day to day the job of scientists is to explain things too, and compete with, one another.
I wonder if they make available the research they've done on dead projects, like the vertical farming, failed because they couldn't get staple crops to grow well enough.
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In the US, the requirements are looser. If you have Global Entry, you basically just need to apply, pay a fee, and state your business purpose for needing it in an interview.

The APEC card granted to US citizens doesn't allow for visa-free entry like most other countries do though. It basically just gives you access to faster immigration lanes.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/us-apec...
> What I mean is that, for example, gcc warning me about "if(x = y)" is a problem in gcc, as it's generating superfluous output for my correct, intended input

FWIW, it's now automatic for me to write if((x = y)) if that's actually what I meant. Or if (type x = y).
This reminds me of an article on wired[1] where someone hacked into hosts that were hooked into legacy X.25 networks. And just like mainframes and COBOL, there are not very many engineers who understand X.25 networks today, and hence had a very relaxed security posture.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/maksym-igor-popov-fbi/
Pretty sure ZSNES is written in x86 assembly, so it wouldn't run all that well on Raspberry Pi, which is using ARM CPU considering that you would need to emulate an emulator.
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Schengen is nice but not all that important. The single market is what is really important economically and that requires something like the EU.
>I'm a front-end dev and I got into Clojure and Elm because of some books/libraries for functional programming in Javascript. It's doubtful I would've ever had enough interest to learn if no one in those communities made an effort to translate some of their concepts into a language that I already use.

That's the way most front-end devs learn new things. People talk about FP attitude here, but it is no-www attitude actually.
True. I shoulda added "so to speak", since this is a still more extreme approach and might simply break any compiler/language combination we have, as you say.
> User count should not ever be exponential of customer counts.

This is what you wrote. Why make this proclamation? Why should free users be limited regardless of whether they derive value from the service and are ok with being "the product"? The ethics of a company and the value they provide to a user are all subjective and thus you cannot state that the company is unethical or the users are being exploited as a rule. This is why your statement does not make sense.

> Strawman ... I have turned down an offer at Google because I couldn't reconcile the bad stuff. I wish more people agreed with me, but I don't say that those who don't are illogical. They simply have different values. That is OK if you value diversity.

This is actually a good example of a strawman argument - and completely irrelevant to the discussion. I'm not calling you illogical and I don't see how diversity has anything to do with this. You've made a statement and I explained why it doesn't make sense (see above). You're still free to say it and I'm still glad you did as it led to this discussion.

Please focus on the arguments instead of being so defensive and using these passive accusations.
A more serious objection is that many structures used in functional programming have associated equational laws, which JavaScript provides a very poor medium to formulate - never mind actually prove. The ability to query the physical identity of every object makes the equational theory of JavaScript objects completely trivial: every object is equal to itself (physically in memory) and nothing else.
IMHO, in a realistic survival situation, unless you already live in an extremely remote area, like hundreds of miles from even a small city, the other survivors are going to be a much more immediate concern. Unless of course whatever the disaster is results in immediate casualties in the 95%+ range in all major cities, and you somehow survive this.

There would be a huge number of people in the area and no prospect of feeding all of them. They would all be very determined indeed, and many would have their own guns. Everyone would either starve, die at the hands of raiders/thieves, or become raiders and thieves themselves, and thus have plenty of supplies from whoever did prepare. Having a gun would help, but more important would be to have a large group with military-like organization strong enough to stand up to the stresses involved in surviving such an apocalypse. If you already have that or can make it/become part of it, you'll survive. If you don't, then your guns probably won't help you much, no matter how fancy they are and how much ammo you have.

So IMHO, to realistically prep, you'd have to either live way, way out in the boonies already, already be part of some kind of warlord militia in our current mostly peaceful world (a street gang might do it), or just accept that this is basically never going to happen anyways.
I wouldn't doubt that Google participates in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database of child porn hashes in order to identify and shut down accounts with illegal images in their Google Drive or Gmail.

If this is the case, I wonder if this opens up an attack vector against a targeted account.

If the system is set up a certain way, an email with a illegal image attachment could cause a google account to be closed and purged, with notification to law enforcement.

http://www.missingkids.com/Exploitation/Industry states
"Through the Hash Value Sharing Initiative, U.S. based Electronic Service Providers can partner with NCMEC to receive a list of MD5 hash values which represent the "worst of the worst" images of apparent child pornography."

as well as
"Major U.S. companies have implemented PhotoDNA, and the technology is helping them identify child pornography images on their servers that may have otherwise gone undetected."

Interestingly enough, if a provider is using just the MD5 database and not PhotoDNA, and someone could get one of the MD5 hashes of an illegal image, a bad actor could use a hash collision attach to make an innocuous image have the same MD5 hash.

Also, here is an article (from 2014 so it might be out of date) about which technologies google uses to identify child abuse images: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2461400/how-google-handles-ch...

From that article...
"Google itself compiles a database of images of possible abuse that have been brought to the company’s attention, sources close to the company said. Those images are then reviewed by a human employee. If confirmed to show abuse, the company assigns each image a unique digital fingerprint, which is entered into its database. "

That has to be the worst job ever.
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I don't think that they are deflecting anything.
Portugal.

Without a degree very few companies will bother.

In France, Germany and Switzerland one should at very least have a technical experience level and written references from past jobs.
Well thats one way to spin it
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Reading the GP made me immediately think of India as a counterexample, nice to see someone else did too. :)

India was never a "country" before the Brits, it was just a geographic region with some commonalities. Various empires have covered large swathes of India, but there wasn't any common identity. By being lumped into a single country by the British, India got this identity.

India has many problems but "regionalism" isn't one of them. It exists and causes issues every now and then, but not too much.

However, India has had a catalyst here as you mention. The first was having little choice in forming this union[1], and the second was the "common enemy" of the British bonding otherwise-distinct groups of people together.

Ironically, the country most Indians hate the most is Pakistan, despite it having been part of the "common identity" and having the same catalysts. Part of this is deliberate divide-and-conquer (divide-and-cripple, really, this was done after the country was conquered; during the independence process) by the British, part of it is simple religious hatred. Though India has a much nicer relationship with, say, Afghanistan (but some of the reasons for that involve Pakistan ... so it's nuanced).

So if India had never been a single nation and had to form an AU- or EU-like union, its quite possible that the relations between various regions would have been much more strained -- India-Pakistan relations are an example of how it could have gone. This is all speculation and Africa is very different anyway, so I'm not quite sure if this will be a problem there. I'm optimistic.

[1]: Though many leaders from the revolutionary movement have a hand in avoiding the fragmentation of some parts of India, which was on the table. But the common "Indian" identity existed before independence, due to being part of the same colony.
Awesome. I've checked out the Macaulay library a few times in the past looking for samples for electronic music. It's a great resource, and has features like rating by audio quality. Check out the unearthly vocalizations of various Oropendolas:

http://macaulaylibrary.org/search?&asset_format_id=1000&coll...

At around 0:25 in this recording is an example of what I mean, but each member of the genus has its own distinct calls/songs:

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/12830
In those intervening 8 years, Yahoo sold a big chunk of its BABA stock back to the company. If they kept the number of shares they had at the time Microsoft made the offer, that asset alone would be worth $48B today. If you add in the Yahoo! Japan holdings, the company would be worth at least $56B, even if the core Yahoo! business were worth nothing. It wouldn't have been a bad buy for Microsoft.
Even better in my experience: A work item to be triaged, generated when you add either.
Undeaded.
As I said in reply to that comment, the problem with the lack of transparency is that, how could an innocent person in Cooper's position defend themselves against accusations like that which could ruin their reputation?
I'm not so sure. In C++, most certainly a mainstream language, two copies of the complex number `2 + 3i` are equal to each other. In JavaScript, they're different. (Assuming you make two objects with fields `realPart` and `imaginaryPart`.) How can you do functional programming on a foundation where not even the most basic property of equality holds (every value is equal to itself)?

Remember that functions are mappings from values from a domain, into values from a codomain. A language whose treatment of compound values is as feeble as JavaScript's can't possibly constitute the right foundation for doing functional programming.
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>> It also said sales of Pokemon Go Plus, a Nintendo-produced accessory for the game, have already been factored into its existing profit forecast.

It's funny how the plunge, a singular event, is now news, rather than the trend over time. sure enough, last week it was the surge, another singular event... short term view presented in market news never stops amusing.
...so you run the servers you need for peak load 24/7? Ew. So much money just thrown away because "it's too complicated". We just scale based off of Network Out and only really spent a week finding the right threshold.