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Not only were only 1-2% of high school grads going to college, but the proportion finishing high school was lower as well. And all this was okay by the lights of the time.

Malthus got a "bad reputation" because Malthus made a prediction of a continued state of affairs that was very wrong. The prediction itself became dangerous. Color (organic) chemistry met agricultural production, engines replaced muscle and what happened was quite the opposite of Malthus' prediction. You can see the effects of this in the 1920s during the famine in Soviet climes.
Because at least it's a really high tech bank based on that, the tech that the bank creates in house is irrelevant to the public, and they could even do business without it or even without computers, albeit much less effectively.

Whereas Uber is all about their client app, GSP tracking, etc. Without that they wouldn't be Uber but a large taxi company.
The athletes could stop participating. A boycott of the best ones should have a great impact of what the IOC can charge.
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How many people really voted against him, though?

The media thought that everyone not voting for him was voting against him. They assumed that once the field narrowed voters would rally around another candidate and defeat Trump. That never happened. If the voters' goal was to beat Trump, they would have done it.

By that logic, Obama had a record number of votes "against" him too, with 19,585,539 (53%) "against" him in a 3 man race, compared to Trump with 17,151,110 (55%) "against" him in a 5 man race.
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> Because those 91% of the people could easily ignore the Democratic and Republican candidates if they were terrible (which seems to be the case this year), and just vote for another party's candidate in the general election.

Israel had proportional voting with a 1% electoral threshold (given there are 120 seats in the Knesset it's almost the natural threshold). They eventually raised the threshold more and more (3.25% now I think) because of the hyper-fragmentation which meant niche parties holding the coalition hostage.

The degree to which a given electoral system represents voter preferences is highly election-specific. People are also usually not polled on their detailed preferences so it's hard to empirically determine which one is most likely to maximize the representation of voter preferences in a given country.

Also the complexity of optimal voting strategies across electoral systems is different. An argument can be made that the simplest is the best.
Say last year in Poland the mainstream consensus was that there's going to be a big coalition of all the parties against the biggest one. But some of the minority parties under-performed while the big one overperfomed giving the big one majority rule with just 37.58% of votes. If you'd redo the elections even the same week you'd probably end up with a much different result.
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The domain could be quite valuable not only because of the 4-letter length but also because it's an old domain with lots of links all over the 1.0 web.
There's no concept of a secondary index. An index is an index. Some are unique indexes, which force each value to be unique, some are not.

Primary Key is essentially syntactic sugar for not null and a unique index.
I wonder if google maps and OSM will be more accurate before or after the change. (I guess after, be because the maps are probably based on satellite images)
There's some misinformation here. They are certainly a contract, and are handled as such in law suits. In fact, one mechanism by which they are sometimes invalidated is called "contract of adhesion", which of course cannot happen if they are not a contract in the first place. [0] However, even then, being ruled a "contract of adhesion" simply allows clauses of a contract to be ruled invalid based on a much tighter set of criteria. The fact that the EULA is a contract itself will still stand. [1]

Also, every contract may contain clauses which may be ruled unenforceable. This is not an unknown, and is why every contract has a severability clause. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract#Contrac...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enf...

Specifically: "No court has ruled on the validity of EULAs generally; decisions are limited to particular provisions and terms."

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severability
Whoa... this is all over the place. The imagery suggests this is a tutorial for 6-8 year olds, but the language would be incomprehensible to any child under the age of 16.

The design is also pretty cluttered -- no child under the age of 16 is going to have the patience to get through those huge walls of text.

This should really be called 'Functional Programming for Teenagers, Maybe, or College Kids Who Don't Know How to Program'.

Do any of the developers have ANY experience in childhood education at all???
Railroads were privately funded for the most part, same story with phone networks, same story with electricity. Universities and public education are debatable as to whether they actually fuel growth.
Also known as the "precision" hole, and getting meanings right hole, with profound impact on what we think and do.
This is very sad... When I was 16 ('97), I sold my first Mac shareware tools and games through them. I still remember my dad asking me why someone was sending me checks in US dollars (I'm from Chile). His face got only weirder when I told him: "internet stuff, dad... I'm selling stuff through internet".
Do you know you can mount a remote filesystem using sshfs? It changed my life a few years back. Super easy to use and no need to have the functionality built into the editor, which in my opinion, isn't where this functionality belongs anyway.
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No idea, but I suspect they were all real. The risk of anyone assuming some were fake - and thus thinking the US was bluffing - would have been too high.
These stories are horrific.
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Using panopticlick, system fonts seem to be worth a lot as well, which is strange to me as i feel like very few people ever touch their system fonts? or do they change with different OS updates/patches?
91% are not engaged supporters of the two candidates that were nominated. Each nominee can claim no more than 9% of the population as having demonstrated engagement with their campaign.

In addition to that it should be pointed out that the number of engaged voters who voted for a different candidate for nomination is almost as large as the number of engaged voters who voted for the winning nominee.

There is a fundamental problem with the nominating process. Neither nominee has solid ground to claim that they represent the preferences of anything besides a small fraction of the electorate.
Voting for a third party is pointless. You might as well just stay home if you're going to do that. You might feel better about voting libertarian or writing in Snowden, but it doesn't actually do anything. You're voting as if the system worked differently than it does. It's about as useful and productive as removing all the free() calls from your C code because you think that C really should have garbage collection.
I'm curious:

> 4) Process the GPS observations each day/week/whatever, along with a (potentially less dense) set of measurements contributed by the rest of the world to compute satellite ephemerides.
> 5) Make the resulting ephemerides publicly available, so people can realize high precision measurements in your datum, by combining with their own GPS measurements.

Wouldn't it be easier to publish the translation between WGS84 coordinates and your coordinates instead of publishing the whole ephemeris so that the existing broadcast ephemeris could be used and s so that your users wouldn't have to download a new ephemeris as often?
> As an economist I think: "Well but people are using it to make above minimum wage money, so it seems to be working".

Not just the dismal science, but the incurious science!

There's a lot that economists could work with here, if they were so inclined. Standard market doctrine requires perfect information. What's the impact of infomation asymmetry? What does 'perfect' information really mean in this context, or any context? It it really a market between riders and drivers, or a two-sided market?

The entire article is about market power and price setting. How about looking at that in other industries?
>Many people do use them as interchangeable machines.

For small values of "many".
> Unless this is an argument for literally direct democracy why do we need to vote separately for the prime minister? Do you want to vote for every minister individually? There are more than a hundred so it may take a while.

This is a textbook example of a "False Dilemma"-type fallacy. Either don't vote for the PM or vote for "more than a hundred" ministers. Those aren't the only two options and you know that.

A vote for a PM could, implicitly, be a vote for the ministers that the PM would select. You select the PM, the PM selects their ministers and cabinet, that gives the public more Democratic power.

> I think in UK politics talking about apathy and ignorance is often a nice way to talk about other people's ignorance of your better opinions, and their apathy for your better ideas.

Three quarters of people 'cannot name their local MP'[0].

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-22555659
The problem with strategic voting arguments are several:

1) There is a clear value to voting Green in terms of building the party. The more people vote Green, the more visible the success of the party, the better they do in future elections. Not all of what happens in an election need be about winning the current contest.

2) The idea of a linear political spectrum with candidates neatly arranged from 'good' to 'worse' to 'bad' is bunkum. In particular Libertarians are an obvious divergence from this model (and often emphasize this), and this strategic voting argument makes zero sense in their case. Greens also are generally quite different from Democrats ideologically (notably on war); the idea that a Democrat is a 'better compromise' is vulgar to many.

3) If a party wants your votes, generally they should take up the positions you favor, not refuse to countenance them on the belief that duty requires you to vote for them.

4) Mitt Romney is looking pretty good right now, even compared to Clinton.
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Voting for the least worst option is the essence of democracy. You make a compromise and find a common ground.
The masses that contribute the attention that makes advertising attractive would have little idea if you subbed in second tier athletes. Just keep telling human interest stories and praising them for being great.
This post has a provocative headline, but I don't see anything of substance here. For example: "The fact is that innovation was a little different in the 20th century. It's not easy (now) to come up with greater and different things," IBM exec Nicholas Donofrio said.

Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, one year later.
Wow. Must be a culture clash or something. Let's both just have a nice day, then.
Have you used this on actual kids? I feel you would learn very quickly from them.

As an adult, I can only speak for myself, and although this is nice, I think it is comparable to the functional programming programs for adults out there (for instance, Microsoft's online F# tutorial, or Coursera's Scala tutorial). The pictures and things aren't making it easier for me. I don't know if it will be different for kids.
Functional programming is already extremely abstract, and children (and many adults) have a very difficult time with abstraction. You should find a way to make these lessons into some sort of story. Perhaps each chapter contributes to some overall program. All the abstract math-for-math's sake will be REALLY unappealing to most children, guaranteed.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. You are pointing out the biggest issue with the current political system in the US. It's de-facto a two party system. We could fix this by making it either a parliamentary system or changing the voting method to approval voting. With approval voting we wouldn't even need a primary and neither Trump nor Hilary would be anywhere near the Whitehouse, since they both had negative approval ratings during the primary.
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So why does the USA still have first past the post presidential voting? Is someone, anyone, in the government pushing for this to change? It seems painfully obvious to anyone paying attention that switching to a better voting system where you can still vote for 3rd party candidates and not have your vote go to waste would be a huge improvement.
CQRS doesn't imply event sourcing. CQRS works fine with the standard RDBMS workflow.
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Neither works: psql is the bundled postgres shell and (pl/)pgsql is posgres's procedural SQL extension (inspired by Oracle/s pl/sql) so both are pretty ambiguous.
That's because Uber UK is a pure support office, at least that's what their lawywers and accountants argue.

The real company in Luxembourg.
Johnson is not a very good libertarian, ironically.
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Given the current popularity of mixed martial arts competitions, and the profitability of professional fighting, I'm surprised that they haven't brought back pankration with IMMAF amateur rules.
When you are literally a laser death cancer beam, it's probably best to assume that the hardware the software is controlling is actively trying to resist you and that the software controlling the hardware is actively trying to kill a patient.
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I'm not convinced this is a general principle like "war on..." Moonshots are intrinsically unlikely, and I suppose we shouldn't expect lots of ancillary benefits (if you get those, it's "fundamental research" instead of a moonshot).

But I don't think there's any requirement that moonshots be heavily financed, or otherwise carry net-negative expectation. They may not be the best social expenditure of funds, but those expenditures (typically attacking acute poverty) aren't realistically competing with moonshots for funding. Throwing a trickle of funding at long-odds projects seems like a worthwhile idea - I'll bet there are 100 different large-upside projects out there with a 1% chance of success.
That aside honestly I don't see why anyone would bother to even do it for such low pay.

Being in the Olympics sound prestigious but I wouldn’t bother putting the effort for such low rewards.
>Regarding investment in higher-education, it was relatively ok and feasible to give Government subsidies for all the students attending university when only 1%-2% of the students finishing high-school were going to university (I think that happened up until the mid-50s, but maybe I'm wrong), but once you've got 30-50% of the students finishing high-school going to university then the money just isn't there anymore.

Well, other countries like Germany etc can do it just fine, so...
I was sad to see OMAP go as well. I had been working with it since OMAP1 and it did have some nice features. Sitara is pretty much an OMAP without the video DSP so I'm guessing TI just couldn't find a road into the handset market since Apple and Samsung were locking it all up.

I've since switched to the NXP/Freescale iMX family and it's pretty similar in a lot of ways.
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AFAIK, that is just the Android HAL. I can't imagine that part using much memory.
If you want your vote to have any chance of affecting the outcome you have to pick the dem or the gop because one of them will win. Nobody else can afford to win. A lot has to change before our votes really mean anything, and nobody in power has incentive to make those changes.
It depends on how that imagery has been rectified. If they were aligned to match up with the previous system, then any info derived from them would show the offset.
You may certainly boycott the farce— among other options.
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Isn't that his point? 500 years ago, nobody would be willing to hire Steven Hawking. Period. He simply isn't capable of doing anything resembling what they would have considered work, even with the use of the modern tools he uses to interact with the world. Today, however, he is able to be a completely productive member of society because the work we need to do is completely different – and the work we need to do 500 years from now will unlikely resemble much of what we do today.
You're right that it is an opportunity for attention. What seems to actually happen is that a bunch of people who really don't know what they're doing get a bunch of publicity, recruits, and potentially funding and tech-transfer, while we're sitting here with working systems running in production, not getting much. If you look at AI papers that try to touch programs, they have a tendency to not even cite work from the PL community that does the exact same thing but better. It's kinda like how if you Google "fitness," you're guaranteed to get really bad advice for all your results -- the people who actually know about fitness have lost the PR battle.

In short, you can say "it's just a label," but that's not a reason not to fight the battle over words.
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Emacs can do this using the built-in tramp-mode.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
They usually provide their own customizations also they are very keen in exchanging devices for a contract renewal for those customers on contracts.
Isn't the appeal created by the media though?

Anybody interested in any sport is already watching the world championship for that sport.

Journalists keeping track of the number of medals won by each country tells me that the Olympics is all about nationalism and has very little yo do with sports.
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To the sibling who said that voting for a third party accomplishes nothing, that is incorrect. If a third party receives 5% of the overall vote, that party's next presidential candidate becomes eligible to receive about $90M in federal funding for the following election cycle under the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.

http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/fund.shtml

Also, why can't I reply to siblings of this post?
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AKA: The Problem with First-Past-The-Post Voting

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
There would be a lot of heart attacks and cancers due the doping abuse. Not to mention the ethics. I'm not sure who would like to sponsor a such environment/event. Maybe the pharmaceutical industry but even for them would become damaging at some point.
I have always found polish notation simple because it is so consistent.

The problem seems like the problem with Clojure (instead of say Racket) would be the uninformative error messages.
Carrier firewall policies generally allow any outbound traffic. Some carriers in specific countries may have more restrictive policies for either regulatory or carrier-specific reasons, such as the United Arab Emirates Telecommunications Regulatory Authority mandating all VoIP services obtain licenses[1], resulting in specific blocks on VoIP traffic such as Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, etc.[2].

[1] https://www.tra.gov.ae/en/faq.aspx (check out the VOIP section)

[2] http://gulfbusiness.com/snapchat-voice-and-video-calling-blo...
The answer is simple: Don't take the deal. Do something else with your life. Until enough people do that, nothing will change.

I see it as a lot like "game programming"; the reason why game programming is the cesspit of our industry is that too many programmers become interested in programming because they played a lot of games and want to make them, thinking that making games is somehow more fun than other sorts of programming. Consequently whereas most people trying to hire programmers report having a hard time finding candidates, the big games companies have people busting down the doors to get in. Whereever you get gross labor oversupply like that, you're going to get the same treatment of labor.

The truth is that the athletes are replaceable cogs. Entire countries can drop out of the Olympics and the Olympics just go on anyhow. Athletes have even less leverage. Find a different dream, or pay the price. There's not much alternative; the odds of the Olympics being changed to pay athletes even a living wage are very, very long. The economics just don't favor it.

This isn't special to the Olympics; this is a general life principle. You get a set of options in life, with probability distributions over the costs & benefits... you don't have all that much power to change the choices. (Sometimes you can "make your own", in some sense, but you don't get much power to change the existing ones. Not... quite... none... but I wouldn't bet much on that.) You need to deal with that, because nobody is going to rescue if you choose a choice that involves costs you didn't really want to pay.
They may have been referring to something like this:

http://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ednext20064_68....
It is very unlikely the population of earth will continue to grow at 1%. In the best scenario, we will have worldwide development followed by a fall in fertility that it inevitably brings. In the more morbid ones, climate change, wars etc. will result in a large amount of the population getting destroyed.
> air conditioning

It's just a pet peeve of mine, but why is so much blame placed on air conditioning, when heating uses an order of magnitude more energy?
what is the appeal of "reaaally moderate" to you? 8 years of moderate, ineffectual government has been the Obama administration exactly.

just because Fox News accuses Obama of being a radical leftist doesn't make it even remotely close to true. Obama is precisely the kind of moderate you're asking for. It's gotten us nowhere.
The academic literature calls this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble... ; and there's a whole branch of economics looking at business organisation dating back to Coase.
Python has a "logo inspired" turtle in the standard lib: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/turtle.html

We played with it with my son and it brought back memories from the 80s when the French government made a big push on Logo in the schools.
Discussion of the book, including comments by the author:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610994
There's definitely a lot of that too. But sometimes I'll tell a casual user to check out the Google Location History page, and they're SHOCKED to see Google knows where they are all the time. Many people are basically apathetic about it, until they're confronted with the full scope of how they're being tracked.

This isn't to say Facebook is better, it's just far easier to surprise someone with Google because Google makes it possible for you to see what they know about you. It's safe to assume Facebook has the same information.
That's fine, but the IOC should allow the athlete's wear their own sponsorship's at the games then.. Let the athlete's earn their own money.
What do you mean by "going to the athletes"?

Isn't the Olympics reserved for amateurs (as in unpaid) athletes only?

Are the athletes receiving any money at the Olympics?