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The US spends yearly US$26.4 billion of collected taxes on medical research. If as you say, we got to choose a system, patents of naturally-occurring compounds or state funded research, does that mean that the state can by issuing this patent save $26.4 billion and put that money somewhere else?

Its not a "choose a system" kind of deal. It never has been. It always been state funded research + investment supported by patents + university funds + non-profit funds + additional government funded incentives. The question we should ask is if this specific incentive is needed together with all the other incentives in order to create a end user product that will saves lives sometime in the future.
Don't agree. FB growing fast yes, but Google's revenue still dwarfs FB.
FB is walled garden, in the long run, there always fail, the open web platform will prevail.
I will never use FB as my window into the world of events and news.
Microsoft is still has some power, they have embraced the open web and are even collaborating with Google, Eg Typescript Angular2, to counter the FB threat, I'm sure also that Apple and Samsung will be hostile to FB dominence.
Also new recent web standards, esp web components, will finally enable the web to be an application platform.
I think that even private-sector-developed drugs rely on publicly-funded research.

Worst is when American companies charge U.S. customers higher prices than overseas consumers for drugs that were developed using USA-taxpayer-funded research.
> Whenever one introduces a typeclass constraint to a function, one can only assume that the function exhibits uniform behavior up to the differences introduced by different instances of the typeclass.

Of course.

> Would you say that the fact that "instance Ord Word" and "instance Ord Int" are non-isomorphic is a problem? After all, the types themselves are isomorphic!

It's already bad enough, but at least the existence of non-uniform behavior is evident in a type signature containing type class constraints. OTOH, type families are sneaky, because they don't look any different from normal type constructors or synonyms.
Get an inflatable ball chair; alternate with standing. Office chairs cultivate poor posture, and should be avoided.
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PDF full text is at [1]. Looks like it is legitimately published by the principal author's university.

[1] http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/61282/1/What%20makes%20work%20meanin...
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2 sounds like Buggs Bunny banging on a warhead screaming "Dud!"
I think the most interesting thing about this move is the open sourcing of their tools.

I've been using LaunchKit since near the beginning and love what they've been doing. It's great the service isn't just closing down today.
ITT: people not understanding how much of an outlier 2015 has been.
By the way, last quarter Apple mad ~8bln in profits. Facebook made half of that. During the whole 2015.

Just to set things in perspective.
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I've read this years before, but reading it now I can't help to feel it very relevant to current state of Polish (and probably not only Polish) democracy.

There is minority, but growing "cultural Catholics" that don't particulary care about the dekalog, anticonception and all that, but will leash on you for "LGBT propaganda", demand that Catholic symbols are prominent everywhere, and Islam/whatever other symbols are removed.

They consider the current pope "too leftist" because he quotes Jesus on refuges. They "are not antisemitist, but these damn Jews control Poland". It's connected with Polish nationalism, EU-scepticism, and outright racism sometimes, and for a few years already it's "cool" to be a nationalist in 15-25 age group.

They are also persuaded nationalism is the default state, in each country, and it's only the leftist media conspiracy that covers that up.

And these people are actively encouraged by current conservative government (probably with their noses held, but what that changes?) because they are the obvious demographics that can help them against the main centro-liberal opposition parties.

Their propaganda is anti-intellectual, refers to "common sense" against scientific theories, ignores all subtle distinctions and paints very "we vs them" world, calls everybody disagreeing with them "traitors", and sees a conspiracy of Soros and leftist behind everything.

It's very sad to see how bad political luck and cynism can undo so much progress in so short time.
Some of those "horrible" accents are some of the oldest accents in the UK.
And the French have "raison d'être", literally, "reason for being". Maybe part of the problem is that the language of business does not have a strong idiom for this.
Google oauth goes down as well, one of the last ones was even discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526775
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They also claim their security theater works, they can claim whatever they want.
Pretty much nobody in a business is there for the purpose of making a profit. You might think that was the point, but a moment's thought will make it obvious that literally everyone except the few actual shareholders is there for their own reasons. So it devolves into small-ape-tribe politics, dominance, etc. (And nerds are in no way immune to this.) This is the same reason telecommuting is so hard to get firmly in place: bugger the business advantages, the manager doesn't have the sense of control.
I do agree, but I wouldn't include vector instructions in "simple RISC instructions".
I suppose you've been to Paris :-)

I was there, too, and I got the same impression as you. What a surprise when I later discovered how warmly welcomed you'll be anywhere else in France!
I believe it depends on the settings for that entry - from "auto log in", "auto fill", "fill in when selected from menu" to "require master password before filling in"
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The package you mentioned has about 200 imports. Compare that with the standard package. https://godoc.org/?q=Flag
That's refreshingly open and honest, thanks!
Has anyone got a good Github backup script that's actually robust? Something that will reliably go through all your company private repos and clone the lot. I've found a few, but they're all clunky and in serious need of adaptation. (e.g. https://gist.github.com/rodw/3073987 which is the best I've found so far.)

Hard part appears to be finding one that does an organisation account well, not just a user.

What are other people here actually using?
More and more I get the feeling this is a result of some giant illusion of 'serverless fairy tale, ops skills and competent infrastructure people are no longer needed' a huge part of IT market tries to live in...
This is depressing. As an avid user of MomentJS for the past few years, my thanks and best wishes go out to Tim for starting such an awesome project. Let this be a wake up call for the open source community to realize just how undervalued open source devs are, and how much we take them for granted.
How can airlines get away with that? Is it a US thing?

In Europe you get the tracker code of any luggage that you have checked in.
135 is certainly not small, depending on the selection methods it can be a very good estimator of a much larger population.

Also a large amount of studies are done to show a potential area for further research which will involve larger populations when they are approved.
Most of the examples of company towns in this article are from the late nineteenth century onwards, when working and living conditions were already starting to improve. But it is worth looking at the earlier history of model villages[0], starting with New Lanark[1] established in 1786. These were founded at the very start of the industrial revolution, when working and living conditions were deteriorating following the mass migration from the countryside to the new industrial towns with their "dark satanic mills". In this context, the model villages were much more genuinely focussed on the social and humanitarian aspects than the later company towns. You could argue that model villages were more about proving that you could still treat people well and make a profit, whereas the later company towns were more focussed on simply trying to maximise profit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lanark
The score reminds me of Mass Effect and makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
Are we talking about the same people who always buy the cheapest thing while complaining that jobs left abroad? Good luck with that!
When you've lived long enough in Bergen, Norway you realize it rains very few other places in the world. It's just that locals around the world whine a lot ;-)

I love this (presumably automatic) characterization from:

https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-precipitatio...

"A lot of rain (rainy season) falls in the months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December."

Yeah, sounds about right.
13% for the state tax is huge, now add that to the U.S. Federal income tax as well, and see what your actual tax percentage is.
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Portland and Seattle are interesting though. It rains a lot, but it never seems to rain on you.

I walked to work in Portland for two years, and while the streets were normally wet and it had clearly been raining recently, there were only a handful of days where I actually got wet during the half hour I was walking. I never carried an umbrella.

Compare that to England, where the rain will wait until you're a few hundred yards out of your house, then attack from otherwise sunny skies to blast you from dead sideways with that particularly English tiny-dropped dense-yet-light-seeming rain that soaks your clothes completely in two minutes flat. Then it will stop and let you carry on to your destination wet.

You can never leave the house here unprepared.
> Google, through V8, Chromium, Chrome, Chrome OS, Android, and Dart, has a large say in the future of the web platform, browsers, apps, the future of Javascript, etc.

> Time and time again, Google has used their substantial influence and market share to make unilateral decisions affecting the web platform [1][2][3][4][5][6]; the individual merits of each decision notwithstanding, Google can do just about anything and it will affect enough of the userbase that others must compensate or follow suit.

Funny, that 15 years ago you could say the exact same thing about Microsoft. Google's increasingly like the old Microsoft.
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I prototyped this quickly for myself. I like to ease into meditation by listening to a song at the beginning, then 50 minutes of nothing and a song at the end.

Perhaps there are other people who'd like to do this as well :)
Even with that setup, people normally don't bother to associate more than one set of credentials with their account. So you would have to institute a more-than-one credential practice.
There's also some work around the OS installer to implement a new menu where OS security features are turnable, it wasnt on the report, but I hope it gets to the 11.0-RELEASE.
This can work for special-purpose projects, but might become problematic in general: reprogramming the FPGA can be slow (on the order of 10s of milliseconds) and you don't necessarily want to include FPGA state as part of task state in the OS. You also need to be careful about thermal limits and power draw (especially when reconfiguring). I doubt current-generation FPGAs will land in anything smaller than a server for a long time. There, you can have semi-permanent accelerators according to the server's role, and a larger thermal budget.
It's not fossil-scm, but git-appraise restores some of the lost distributed'ness:

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

https://github.com/google/git-appraise-web

https://github.com/Nemo157/git-appraise-rs

And there's also http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/ (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/).
Also Natural Earth provides data in WGS84 which is an unprojected, geographic system. They are latitude and longitude and have pretty much nothing to do with Mercator projections.

edit: They used "azimuthal projection centered in each country". That's good!
Thanks for your reply! I don't share some of your opinions, but I appreciate your coherence. Up-vote ;-)
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I've been planning to do a static company page, deployed as a GH organisation page. Maybe I should have a fail over plan that can run off of S3 or something, and a short TTL on the DNS records...
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In Dublin, I think it's considered, if not rude, at least not the height of courtesy, to use an umbrella in dense areas where you will be bumping in to people and essentially pushing your water on to them.

However, my feeling is that the real lunacy here is having very narrow pavements (sidewalks) carrying dozens or hundreds of people while having streets, which might be carrying ten or twenty people along the same stretch of road in taxis (which most cars are in Dublin city centre on a weekday morning), get 8-10x as much space. (I am much more sympathetic to buses).
Pretty similar in Vancouver too, although I'd say "from Eastern Canada" rather than "tourist" -- the main tourism season is in the drier months.
Or an unstable sort (which none of grandparent's examples are, but aren't uncommon in naive implementations)
I feel like the most accurate predictions start as satire or comedy, not as serious bets. Satire plays to our gut instinct of what we suspect from the nature of future, and is shielded from technical criticism, so people feel more comfortable to take a stab at it without having to hedge.
And as we all know, backwards compatibility is a bitch!
Sounds like the problem there is that the Haskell typechecker assumes injectivity, not that it supports case-analysis.
Living legend is a meaningless oxymoron. He's a successful actor, full stop. He has made lots of movies, some good some complete crap. What "legitimate problem" does he have? Shallow "meme culture" has built him up just as they have done with Betty White, Chuck Norris and bacon. He seems to be a individual who cherishes his privacy and shuns celebrity culture and for this mainstream media brands him "an enigma." This "living legend" BS is also a very recent phenomenon, there was a good 10 to 12 year period between say "Groundhog Day" and "Lost in Translation"that nobody talked about him at all.
There's no letter-to-sound correspondence in English. English probably - at least compared with other European language - is one of the most irregular languages in terms of pronunciation:

http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/english1.html

This is simply due to the language having been heavily influenced by a host of other - quite different - languages over the centuries, Old Norse and French in particular.

There's also the interesting fact that as the first human language in history English is spoken by more non-native speakers than native speakers. Some linguists say we might very well see some sort of International English that's highly influenced by foreign accents.

In fact there already is such a variety although it's only used by a rather small group of people: The kind of English used by the European Union, its officials and bureaucrats. EU English is littered with bureaucratic expressions, loan words and false friends (particularly from French).
"The Information" is an excellent book with similar themes.
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Have you heard of the Arthur C. Clarke Award? It's an annual written sci-fi award from the UK, but it's a judged award. People who know lots of sci-fi read all the UK published SF in a year, and pick a winner. You can't win by just appealing to pop geek voting base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award
Me too, makes definitely more sense than the other way 'round.
The Unix command /bin/true (do nothing, exit with code zero) can be implemented as an empty file. When it's run, the kernel doesn't recognize it as binary code, so it gives it to /bin/sh to run.

There's at least two bugs in a zero-byte implementation of /bin/true: it's too slow and it uses too much memory.
Filtered milk already solved this problem, and sounds much easier and cheaper than this new process.
In UK normal filtered milk easy to find, but organic filtered milk impossible to find, is v annoying.
I always wonder why UK milk tastes so much fresher and better than supposedly fresh milk in Southern or Eastern Europe, anyone know why?
Oh wow I hadn't considered that, I remember those from years ago but had forgotten all about them! Cheers I'll definitely look into them
Have the bot revoke access to the things people do instead. Reset LDAP credentials or something. As long as it's a very quick and easy process to get access restored.
Actually it's reasonable that this person haven't given you the details. If he disclosed specific way he got in you'd probably patch it and carry on. Then he'd probably find another way to get in, disclosed it too, you'd patch it and it could turn into full-time (low/un)paid job for him. Not to mention that all of the holes found by him could earlier be exploited by someone else who could left something on your server.

By sending just the proof he forces you to reconsider your approach to security and start from clean state.
I think it would be terrible for Rust design/evolution/policy be constrained with that kind of enterprise badness that basically bans crates.io, and crates.io is an awesomeaspect of the Rust ecosystem.
I am sorely tempted to just start tracking issues as YML or CSV + markdown files in an issues directory. That gets me all kinds of features that GH doesn't provide:

- offline issue management (bugs on a plane)

- issues associated with branches

- grep, awk, ack, sed

- all of the above, available to git hook scripts

The only thing he holding me back, is that I really want to get this right. This needs to become a standard, not "Dan's weird repo that no one understands".
"So this is the woman you're going to spend the rest of eternity with". Hoo boy
The injectivity assumption isn't unjustified - type constructors are injective.
I don't recognize France on spot 156. As for United States on spot 121, Netherlands on spot 93, Denmark on spot 97 etc. it looks like they have included all overseas territories. But it does look weird.
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No. It's the other way around.

SyStEmD depends on dbus. You can depend on dbus without depending on SyStEmD but you can't depend on SyStEmD without depending on dbus.
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Yeah this is perfect timing for us too, we go wide release in the next few months. It's so great to write ES6 and create a modular system. Our product is based on DDD and BDD, so we are able to take full advantage of a rich domain model with services and keep our view-models as light as they need to be. We also take heavy advantage of web components reuse and application events. There is still a lot of refactoring to do as Aurelia is coming into its own, but it is hands down the best dev platform for web apps I have ever seen. Angular2 is DOA and React is the ugliest anti-pattern to plague the web. Thank you to all the Aurelia community for baking this baby.
Someone has definitely been through my bag when I have been travelling in the US without anyone leaving a note. I can of course not tell if it was TSA or not.
On a sidenote... Bloomberg is using Google's new display typeface Space Mono, not only for headings!
Ask HN: Why should one upgrade or not upgrade to Windows 10?
The time is running out for the free upgrade. What are the reasons one should do the upgrade and what are the reasons one should skip the upgrade?

In my specific case I run Windows 8 very rarely in VirtualBox, so I wonder about the license implications for that.

I do understand that there are lots of articles of different degrees of credibility all around the web, I would just like to see the collective wisdom of HN readers to produce somewhat balanced arguments for both sides to help doing the decision.
I've seen the scenario where every time something goes wrong a new rule is handed down from on high, eventually you get to the point where you aren't allowed to prepare food in the kitchen or use the shower to have a shower or more importantly you aren't allowed to do the work you are there for.
I think RISC-V is showing that RISC ISAs can still compete in this space: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02318v1.pdf. RISC-V has extensibility of the ISA as a core feature, allowing for special-purpose accelerators and coprocessors as needed.
What's this weird capitalization?
So if you don't know what to do the solution is to download all the possible packages?Is there a user story/use case solved this way? The documentation for each package is available online so wouldn't make sense to actually read it before to download a package?
Trump gave birth to the words "low energy" to describe Jeb Bush and his followers really like to use the term.

Also, not specifically Trump, but alt-righters tend to use these words a lot:

* cuck

* cultural marxism

* cultural enrichment (sarcastically)

* religion of peace (sarcastically)

* traitor/treason

* rapefugee

* SJW (social justice warrior)

It just dawned on me that every single word I associate with the far right are used by them to describe their enemies.
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Is instant runoff like ranked choice?
Someday, maybe it's already happened, someone will market an umbrella drone that floats above your head. And something similar will happen.
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Stack fixes some things, but as am additional layer of abstraction leaves lots of problems in place.
The effect is pretty much insignificant compared to airplanes or rockets. The fact that the fuel being burned makes the truck (slightly) lighter has a negligible effect on fuel economy.
Windows may have been released 7 years ago, but it gets updates pretty frequently. Windows 7 has had the ability to install drivers from Windows updates for a few years now.

The linux comparison isn't recent either. That was the exact same procedure I had to do on an nVidia-stricken laptop (thankfully not mine) four years ago.
That's a good thing, but just like Tesla, they have to build lots of battery factories to do it. Or their suppliers have to. This process is underway, but unless there are massive projects happening right now that I'm not aware of, their production will be lagging Tesla's by a wide margin.
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