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In fact, we have no way of knowing if that's already happening!

It could very well be that the best athletes are already just going where the money is, and we're getting those that have a burning desire to be in "The Olympics" rather than making a lot of money.

American Ninja Warrior (and the Japanese show that it came from) show some amazing athletes in every contest. If those people trained for the Olympics instead, I think they could be rather good at it. And many of them are just regular people who decided to try this crazy contest. Now that people have started training specifically for Ninja Warrior, the obstacles have gotten a lot harder. This year's are pretty hardcore, IMO.
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Think AR applications. Anything that requires accuracy that is not a "Pokemon Go" game would need that.
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Friendly reminder: Not voting can be a vote in and of itself. A vote of "no confidence".

True, voting for an alternative candidate will take a percentage of the votes away from Clinton or Trump, and having them win by a lower percentage would be a satisfying way to sock it to the system and send a message. (Although, knowing the media, if the stats started to look bad they would probably start reporting Clinton and Trump vote percentages only as percentages of the Clinton+Trump votes, rather than as percentages of all votes...)

But wouldn't it be wonderful if one of them "wins" the job by receiving support from only a small fraction of eligible voters? I think having a President elected by only 15-17% of eligible voters would send a pretty good message.
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Wait until it shifts underneath you while you're standing on it and see how that messes with your head. The first time I experienced a very minor earthquake the feeling did not leave me for weeks.
Did anyone really expect them to be any better than FIFA? Send the FBI in already.
HK is a modern, high-tech city with fast internet and easy access to everything, including a lot of the brands that we're used to in America (I understand the HK versions may be substantially different). It's reported to be very safe and very clean. English is an official language (though I read that only about 5% of locals have more than the most basic proficiency in it), which would make it easier to operate than other areas of Asia as signage in English is available, official business can be conducted in English, etc. It's a great base for further exploration of the region. There is a large and apparently vibrant community of American and English expats. There's a culture of hard work and there are very low taxes. The weather is not necessarily ideal, but reasonable. I also believe that there would be developmental benefits for my children, including but not limited to the opportunity to fully immerse in Cantonese

I have no input on your legal woes, but your points above are pretty accurate. It's a very easy, safe (excluding the air pollution) and convenient place to live. The only point I'd disagree with is in raising a family there, but I imagine that's a personal preference. I'd also suggest that Mandarin would be immensely more useful for your children than Cantonese.

I don't want to turn this into a discussion, so i wont reply here again, but I'd direct you to the following popular forum for expat families here, which should contain a lot of relevant information and where you can ask questions of other HK expats:

https://geoexpat.com/
Please for God's sake don't do this. (Unless you actually believe that Trump and Clinton are equally bad.) With a two-party system, staying home or voting a third-party/write-in is functionally identical to giving half a vote to the candidate who represents you the least.

Yes, this is fucked up, and yes, it needs to change. Voting for Ed Snowden will not change it.
> That aside honestly I don't see why anyone would bother to even do it for such low pay.

Aren't athletes routinely given room, board, gear, and free coaching from their governments? Aren't many events mainly for upper-class types anyway (events with horses or expensive winter gear, for example)?

If making a living isn't a concern, prestige is a really nice job perk.
I'd be curious myself, but the argument against this type of competition is that it creates enormous pressure on competitors to do things that could have serious negative impacts on their long-term health for the sake of winning. Even if participants are adults of sound mind, it seems unethical to create a situation where people are encouraged to risk crippling or killing themselves in pursuit of fame, no?
I am loving Ramda. I started integrating it for my React project, and I love how my code started collapsing.
TCP congestion control is one of the main offenders in holding back high speed broadband. It can take minutes for TCP to discover the link bandwidth and a single lost packet can cut performance in half and the ramp back up to full speed may never happen.

Is congestion collapse still a risk on today's internet? Do we need such aggressive congestion control?
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But they aren't profitable yet. How does that work with negatives?
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> Isn't the Olympics reserved for amateurs (as in unpaid) athletes only?

No. Look at any of the sports that have large followings outside the Olympics: Soccer, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, etc.
It has been of questionable utility since the decline in fertility began before the policy was implemented. In fact, the policy was conceived to counteract Mao's pro-natalist policy where a large(r) population was supposed to be a hedge against nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Well I didn't actually present any dilemma - you're imagining that. I just asked if you thought we should also vote for all other ministers to see how many votes you thought we should have. I didn't say those were the only two options.

I'm in favour of regularly electing a representative and then letting them get on with it. I favour simplicity and I think too many votes on different issues gets in the way of a coherent government.

If people can't name their MP then that's their business. Perhaps they're focusing their time and energy on something they believe is more important. Maybe they're curing cancer while we argue politics. Who knows.
The #Voice_gender section is particularly interesting.

There's a lot of mythology floating around the ham radio and general EE community about the signal to noise ratio effects on various forms of modulation vs singing voice, such that sopranos have a natural SNR advantage on SSB and AM modulation but deep bass singer/speakers have a natural advantage over FM. Being primarily based on old wives tales I might have it backward and its interesting to contemplate the probably unstudied (at least in public journals?) effect over various cell phone and internet conferencing voice codecs.

There is a huge human factors problem missed in the article where are you trying to get attention or just provide a manufacturer CYA service. The first time an annunciator chimes out low altitude, that might be useful if the crew are not paying attention, but if the pilot and copilot are desperately trying to shout over the loud annunciator while they try to restart the engines its mostly just interfering with doing their job. Which has all kinds of smart phone UI implications, are you trying to bring something to the users attention like a ringtone, or merely be obnoxious (for ad purposes, I suppose?)
Love this kind of material. Myself and many other people have been collecting it in https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
Click on "x minutes ago", reply there.
Cycling already did this by just not enforcing strict rules until drugs were already endemic in the sport.

At the extreme end you get the death of the athletes.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/19/us/stamina-building-drug-l...

I'd love to believe the sport was now clean.
Given that IPv6 doesn't normally use NAT (and for IPv4, it's NAT, not firewalls, is the primary source of problems why non-TCP/UDP protocols don't work in practice) it's a possibility that it would be okay.

IPv6 adoption is a problem, though. I think despite all IANA efforts to push v6, we'll be stuck with IPv4 for long years.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188144
> such low rewards

I think you have a different idea about what a reward is than athletes do. Being among the best athletes in the world, and being able to just perform their favorite sport is probably the reward to them, otherwise they wouldn't have made it there anyway.
Negotiation may not relate directly to sitting at a keyboard typing code, but the underlying skill is critical to the profession.

Trying to land the projects you want? You're negotiating. Talking the PM into reducing scope to hit a deadline? Negotiating. Angling for a big promotion? Negotiating.

It's not a bad thing, just human nature.
If more people were supporting Johnson he'd get on the debate stage and actually stand a shot. It's non-sense that people are saying they won't vote for him now when they don't have to decide till Nov 7th. Support him now and if he doesn't poll well enough after the debates go do your never X vote.
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> How easy was that!!?

;)

The problem comes mostly from lisp's dislike for text (my personal opinion). Lisps work best when everything is a list, always. As soon as you cross the boundary into... Well.. Anything else , really, you need a little bit of ugly glue.

That's why it's so ugly, in case anyone was about to make the "ermagerd if lisp is so great explain this..." comment. :)

[edit: which, btw, is not to lisp's credit, imho.]
> People might scoff at that, call it lazy, but people ARE lazy.

Or they're just tired because they have two part time jobs (while looking for something more regular), kids, and a pile of chores they've been putting off.
I remember playing with logo on MO5. The teacher used a TO7. IIRC we managed to get some geometrical figures using loops, like eg a "square-y spiral."
Is packet loss in the real world random or correlated?

TCP's head-of-line blocking problem goes away if packet loss turns out to be correlated — lose a packet belonging to one stream within the connection, and you're going to lose packets belonging to other streams as well, so QUIC doesn't help.

Is packet loss in the real world random or correlated?
Exactly. If they really want to fund expensive content, which is not produced by private media, then focus on things like documentaries. I don't mean the stuff that's broadcast on current day Discovery or History channels, but the stuff ZDF and BBC show where unsurprisingly a disproportionately large amount are synchronized-to-German BBC productions. It seems that the Brits do it better.

I also agree about theater and opera, though the tickets for those aren't cheap and you don't get a free ticket just because you paid for public broadcasts.
I think what's absurd is that we have a highly polarized political landscape that combined wit the voting system leads to a two party system. That could be easily changed by switching to approval voting. Neither Hilary nor Trump would be close to being viable candidates, since they both had bad approval ratings. As it is now everyone is just voting against the candidate they are most scared of.

What's even more absurd is that the actual votes are being counted on a per-state basis. If someone where to design the system from scratch nowadays nobody would even come up with a system that dumb. Just count all the votes. What's the point of involving states at all in a federal election? It shouldn't matter in a federal election if I live in California or Georgia. It's absurd that it does!
Do you mind sharing what your wife does? I was recently in Phnom Penh and really liked it.
> it seems unethical to create a situation where people are encouraged to risk crippling or killing themselves in pursuit of fame, no?

But think of the millions you could make! Donald Trump could be the host! Make sports great again!
>Honestly, I find it horrifying people feel the need to vote for the "least worst option".

I think this is highly dependent on "how bad" the two mainstream options are. There are plenty people who think there is a legitimate concern that a Trump presidency could lead to nuclear war or some other kind of national disaster. If you believe this is a real possibility it comes much easier to empathize with voting for the "least bad option".

TL;DR I dislike Regan, but in a Regan vs Hitler election I would vote for Regan rather than a 3rd party I was actually more aligned with to try to ensure Hitler did not rise to power.
It's difficult to make construction in the USA cheaper without greater acceptance of prefabrication and panelization in the residential sector and lowering of permitting costs.
The more technology creeps into sports performance the less interested I become. There's a spectrum that goes from nutrition and fabric technology at one end to transhumanism at the other.

I don't really mind performance being increased by advances in nutrition or training methods. I start to get a little turned off by drag reducing suits that let you swim faster, because the apples to apples comparisons get murkier. Once we get into doping and prosthetic limbs that outperform natural ones you just lose me entirely. If it's a competition for cyborgs, then say so.
This strategy makes sense in battleground states but what about in the opposite case (say hawaii (very D) or wyoming (very R)) - I'd argue that by voting for the third party candidate is the better option as you are unlikely to change the outcome of the election one way or the other - but you reduce the mandate of the winner that you are less aligned with, and by marginally improving the showing of the third party, make it more likely that mainstream candidates will want to address issues of concern to a newly visible voting block?
To the other comments here saying voting third party is the worst possible option, no, it's not. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. Furthermore, it's putting a two vote differential between evil and a third party candidate that has to be 'undone' by someone willing to vote third party (-1 third party you didn't vote for, +1 for evil). If you are saying you have to choose between two bad candidates, you are implying you would choose a better option if one existed. If you don't think the third party candidate is a better option, that's fine, don't vote third party, but if you think the major party options are evil, the just don't vote. Then at least you aren't voting for evil that needs to be undone by someone willing to vote third party.
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It all depends on the specifics. How much complexity will software checks add? In a lot of cases the lifetime cost of spec'ing a hard failsafe may be cheaper than designing, implementing and supporting a soft one. Then there's the whole issue of software false positives/negatives vs hardware failures

At some level you can no longer abstract away the situation and the system has to perform as a system. You can write soft controls all you want but if hard controls are present in the spec and something that's not likely to change there becomes a point where chasing down every little problem and checking for every possible error is no longer cost effective. Nobody cares if you write Mars rover tier code for a bulldozer and spending the resources doing is wasteful if your competitors aren't also spending the resources. Obviously you can write total crap that's outside the acceptable range toward the other end.

If you're designing software to control a widget that moves and does stuff has a hard switch to prevent your widget's equivalent of an out of battery detonation you have to strike a balance between relying on it and introducing complexity from soft controls. Every aspect of the system is involved in making that determination.

If you've got a hard switch in most cases you may as well write a five line timeout controlled while loop that tries to perform the action and waits and tries again if there's no feedback indicating the action was performed. As long as nobody removes that switch and the code's dependency on it is very obviously documented then that simple unsafe code is probably better than more complex code that performs a redundant (redundant because you have a hard switch) check because the more complex code has more going on.
We did it that way until the early to mid twentieth century, when a populist backlash against that good ol' boys system led to more or less the primary setup we have now. It still varies a lot year to year and party to party.For instance, the Republicans' system was quite a bit more democratic than the Democrats' this year. (You can draw your own conclusions from that on the relative value of the two models.)

It's an odd hybrid where the parties are private organizations that can make their own decisions and rules, but their leadership elections are run by state apparatus. This (understandably) confuses people, to the point that most people seem to think of the parties as almost part of the governmental system.

As others have noted, this all goes back to our winner-take-all elections, which are a kind of original sin in our system, which we'll probably never be able to change. In other systems, which encourage more parties, it is much easier to abandon a party if you don't like the leaders they pick, so it is not as important to be invested in the actual process of picking those leaders.

The Atlantic had a really good article on some of these topics recently: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-amer...
This is similar to the difference between WGS84 and NAD83 (North American Datum 1983). WGS84 is defined by the average of stations world wide while NAD83 is defined in a way that it is relatively constant across North America. NAD83 initially matched WGS84 but their difference increases each year by a small amount (negligible for most consumer use). Of course there are other differences between NAD83 and WGS84 as well (reference ellipsoids) and often they are treated as the same by non-cartographers.
This hasn't been true for years, although there was a push back when professionals originally began entering.

Most countries pay athletes a fairly large sum if they medal as well.
Mainly because my specialty is collapsing and there are no jobs, so I would have to retrain in a different specialty. Of course, to be a PA I'd have to go through training as well, but the hours and stress would be a bit less. The stakes not as high.

I'm unlikely to do it though. The job market was only part of the reason I left. The field is so corrupt, political, and biased, the patients often so arrogant and defensive, I just hated the job.
Great Data-Visualization Narrative, despite the bad news . . .
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Spot on analysis. I tend to go with a concrete example: Florida in 2000.
A related project teaching basics using scheme is this one: http://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/spring2016/courses/b...
paired with the online IDE: http://www.wescheme.org/openEditor

it's nice because it starts off with a game, and walks the students through making it themselves.
70% of the globe is covered by Ocean which is minimally used. If we covered 10% of that with solar we get .7 * .1 * 196.9 * 10^6 mi * 2.59e+6 (miles to meters) * 100 watts/meter average * 20% efficiency ~= 713959400000000 watts / second. Or 100kw 24/7 per person for a population of 7 billion. That's plenty of energy cover loss of fossil fuel, and to upgrade everyone's lifestyle for the next billion years.

Granted, nothing keeps up with exponential growth. But, world population does not seem to be on that trajectory long term.
This is referring to who becomes candidate og Republican or Democratic parties. I am sure anyone can become presidential candidate in just the same way in the US - but not representing those parties.
Agreed. Right now my vote is for a specific major party candidate as possibly the least terrible that could win vs. an empty ballot in the presidential race.

Many will say vote for a third party; but because that vote will be purely symbolic, any third party candidate that I might vote for has a higher bar to reach than a major party candidate: the party and candidate stand to gain more from a decent showing than any abstract message of protest disconnected from the party/candidate. So, a third party candidate is not a sensible default when the major party choices suck... not voting is the sensible default in that case.