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> it would probably have worse wealth distribution than the US since it still has lower mobility and maybe even worse than some emerging and developing markets.

But higher taxes for the rich and more redistributive social policies. So I'm not convinced.
The problem on HN is a very American centric view with startups. While I cannot profess to Europe having a large number of startup founders it is a long way off to put of a entrepreneurship in Europe in its entirety.

There's the founders of Skype (also TransferWise and their other endeavours), the founders of Spotify too, SAP, Richard Branson (not tech), Ikea, Inditex, Ferrero, Wirecard, LVMH... but there are lot in their own categories. The list is actually quite long, albeit lacking in the tech sector.

Culture in Europe is not to be overly audacious with being a 'one man' business. The leaders of businesses don't take centre stage, the business itself does. This is probably why their businesses are known far better than they are personally.

It is at opposites with American businesses where older, inherited business tend to have this trait, for instance one cannot even find a picture of anyone who runs the Mars company easily. Young ones on the other hand put their founders at centre stage.

Your description or thoughts of European entrepreneurs are somewhat extreme.
Nope, I wasn't trying to assert that they are. My point was just that you can 'predict' depression to a limited extent by knowing where people live, and that the features of (outdoor, unfiltered) photos are a proxy for where people live. That's a pattern that applies at the country level, without controlling for anything.

S.A.D. is a thing, and there's an argument that depression risk is higher in cold, sunless places, but I'll leave more-knowledgeable people than me to have that discussion.
Ingvar Kamprad, Liliale Bennencourt...there are plenty, if fewer per capita than the US.
As long as we have superconductors, but we don't. It is currently impossible to move a megawatt[1] from Europe to the US over wires. Software has Amdahl's law, and electricity has Ohm's law. Even the smallest resistance adds up over distance and that translates into energy lost as heat. Early electrical engineers will say "But wait, we can raise the voltage, and that will reduce the current for the same amount of power!" which you can, but there is another constant, called the dielectric constant which is the point at which a voltage will "jump the gap" across an insulator to get to the other side. So you can't raise the voltage high enough in this cable to reduce current without it then jumping past any insulator you have into the ground.

There are examples of "fixed loss" systems where your loss is independent of distance, one of those is to use your excess power to make a long chain hydrocarbon and then transport the hydrocarbon by supertanker and then burn it to convert it back into electricity. You could also simply charge giant battery ships which would then head over to the destination and discharge (this is another electricity -> chemical ... chemical -> electricity transaction)

[1] I realize that is imprecise, the definition I'm using is put a megawatt of electrical power "in" (power cables) in Paris and pull a megawatt "out" of the other end in New York.
> In a real street fight situation you also don't know if the guy is going to shank you, so most arguments about "which style is best" kind of go out the window at that point.

Well, appeal to non-lethal sport competitions to settle those arguments go out the window, but martial styles intended for real use (including lots where the unarmed subset has been popular in sport) tend to teach both techniques for dealing with armed opponents and techniques for using weapons (including, often, things that stand in for improvised weapons) -- because that's a pretty big factor in serious fights. Purely unarmed intended-for-use-in-anger martial arts are a rarity.
The bigger deal is, How do you deal with the ablation problem at those speeds? Given the likely density of H in interstellar space, erosion is your primary problem.
The probes would each be only a few grams, so they'd have about 10^13 J of relativistic kinetic energy, or a half kilotons of TNT equivalent. This can be compared with the 15 kilotons for the (small, by modern standard) Little Boy atomic bomb. So it's probably noticeable for any inhabitants in the area, depending on how the energy is dissipated in the atmosphere, but still quite small on the scale of a planet.
It's not a coincidence that we can see in the 390 to 700 nm part of the spectrum. These are the wavelengths that pass through water most easily[1]. Any alien lifeforms which started their evolution in (illuminated) water could be expected to be sensitive to the same slice of the spectrum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_absorption_by_...
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If it is not brain dead obvious (to others, not the designer) what needs to be entered into each field without any prompting then you need labels.

Do this: Remove all the placeholders. Now ask someone else to fill in the form. If they don't know what to do you need labels, not placeholders.
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I've read them--- how and why are you reminded of them by this story?
My hope is that, by then, we'd be using 256-bit blocks so we don't need to worry about it.
No one except mathematicians and type theorists are using HoTT, where every programmer in existence is using first-order and sometimes second-order logic. I think it should be obvious which is more appropriate if this is supposed to be an introduction.

The idea that types express propositions in first- or second-order logic about a program one is writing is sufficiently general for every programmer to understand the proper scope of type checking. Types-as-sets is simply false as an introductory concept.
> The bottom line is that the typical FPGA can only be programmed a fixed number of times

This is only true if the configuration is rewritten to flash every time the device is reconfigured, which would not be typical. Any design which depended on reconfiguring an FPGA frequently would reconfigure the device directly using JTAG or active serial programming, or would switch between multiple configurations in flash.

I personally have several FPGA development boards which I've reconfigured hundreds of times. There is effectively no limit to the number of times a device can be reconfigured; the configuration is stored in SRAM, which has no write limit.
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Naive question, but wouldn't this work only with ECC-enabled graphics cards like NVidia Quadros? Possibly that's the only reasonable choice for servers, but the price is much higher.
The JS community is considerably larger than all other programming communities, and better at promoting (and documenting) its tools/libraries/frameworks (a lot of these tools come with beautiful landing pages, docs and demos).

That shouldn't be seen as a mark against the technology. Nobody is forcing you to switch tools.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent story by the Intercept which released some more slides from the Snowden cache.

One of the slides (this one here:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3031643-CNO-Course-E... - see slide 9) has an ip address on it.

Curious, I did a reverse lookup on the IP and found it to belong to a Singapore government agency. (It seems to be a generic verizon IP now - is there an easy way to see the history of whois records?)

Given the timing of the release of the slide and the new policy, it's plausible that the two are related.
Are there really numerous possibilities? I know about Alcubierre, what are the others?
Not to derail, but the #1 reason cops reach for their weapons is because they fear a suspect has a weapon. Its a split-second, life-or-death choice. No amount of martial arts training will change that.
That doesn't really take away from the finding though. This is obviously not meant to be a thorough analysis of what opcodes a compiler "knows" (he could have just looked at the source code for gnu cc if that were the case), but rather a quick and dirty hack showing the opcodes in actual use. Furthermore, I would assume that handwritten or inlined asm is an insignificant portion of all the opcodes in bin, making it statistically irrelevant for the pie chart. Also, handwritten asm could only add opcodes to the count of unique opcodes in bin, meaning those 200 are not only not used by the compiler, but also not used in handwritten code.
Frying every piece of electronics on the ground below the ship when you fire it up, and every satellite visible above the horizon, would be bad PR.

You could potentially boost it far away from Earth by more conventional means before turning on the nukes, but suddenly it becomes a far larger and more difficult thing.
There is a strong field exploring this subject, but it's called 'software verification'. Here's a paper on automated defect detection [0], which is effectively a study on how to write good tests.

[0] https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/mutation-effect...
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Probably some interesting weather patterns there as well.

If by "interesting" you mean constant hurricane force convective flows going 24/7 between a scorching hell and frozen wastelands.

Before there was soil, or sky, or any green thing, there was only the gaping abyss of Ginnungagap. This chaos of perfect silence and darkness lay between the homeland of elemental fire, Muspelheim, and the homeland of elemental ice, Niflheim.

http://norse-mythology.org/tales/norse-creation-myth/

Perhaps it could be "the chaos of perfect silence," because the wind noises generated would render any unprotected human ears deaf within minutes?
The host PC does all the database accesses and the FPGAs do the processing (search, filter, etc.) on the fly. Therefore there is no problem with updates.
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Add the Broussard ramscoop, magnetically deflect the atoms into an accelerator and expel them to add to your propulsion.
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Statically typed languages. Personally, java or C#.
Some extra context: here's Maurer [1, §4], in 1991, describing the same property exploited here, on a generic class of CBC-like functions. Also, Knudsen [2, §4.4] on his 1994 PhD thesis. I believe Schneier et al.'s 'Practical Cryptography' also mentioned this. The Sweet32 paper only mentions papers from 2011 and 2012, so one might be mislead to believe this was something relatively new.

[1] https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46416-6_39

[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dpb.v23i485.6978
I agree completely but I guess I also don't mind it. But I also wouldn't mind "The Art of Woodworking: Tables You Can Build Yourself" - I suppose it depends on your tolerance for buzz words. I'm bombarded with them all day long so perhaps my tolerance is growing.
"You are a hard-working person, and it will take you far in life" -- personal, general, permanent feedback that promotes a growth mindset.
I appreciate this post. I definitely lack knowledge on the stuff you described, sadly...
I was under the impression that outside the AUR, Arch is primarily based on binary distribution.
> Ops wins should just be assumed, though

They should be, but often they are not I. It is mostly about "Look how fast it runs on my laptop, it means we can have millions of requests on a large server". I've heard people quote Techempower benchmarks as their reason to picking a language / library vs another.
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I'm all for a blockchain (or ripple or whatever) type solution replacing today's antiquated setup.

My point however is that I highly doubt that it's the trust issues between financial institutions that is the primary driving force behind this implementation.
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> Your client will inevitably ask you to style an icon and you won't be able to.

It's not that you can't style it, it's that you can only style _the entire image_. Which means it's a perfectly good replacement for icon fonts since "styling" an icon font is limited to changing the size and color. You can do that and more with an SVG included via <use>.
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The USA's social mobility is much worse than the EU's, though. If you're born in the bottom 20% by household income your chance of making it to the top 20% is lower. The proportion of billionaires who inherited their wealth doesn't make any odds to the economic mobility of an ordinary person. It is ridiculous to go from "Overall, heirs and heiresses make up about half of Western Europe's billionaires" to claim "The lack of social mobility is more of a concern" in Europe.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-america...

> The study confirms previous findings that America’s social mobility is low compared with many European countries. (In Denmark, a poor child has twice as much chance of making it to the top quintile as in America.)
I wonder if Google should put some time/effort into making a better (ideally free to use) screen reader? They seem to have pretty advanced technology for finding the human-relevant parts of a web page.
I think what's missing here is that the product is sticky for a number of people and spending on user acquisition costs are likely to go down. Each company essentially takes a 10% rake on every game and I'd imagine these companies will be profitable in the long. I don't think legal issues will destroy these companies as it's really only a matter of time before sports gambling becomes legal across the US and New York is already letting these companies continue to operate this year.

I don't believe the issue around small numbers of players making all of the money is important. As someone who uses both platforms for fun, I find I'm willing and many of my friends are willing to lose a bit of money each week as it makes the games far more entertaining to watch when you have a rooting interest. Many of the sports leagues and ESPN realize this which is why you saw them invest in these companies. Fantasy leads to more engagement with the sports and daily fantasy leads to even more engagement.

Daily fantasy is not for everyone, but it'll likely maintain a core number of users, many of whom use both FanDuel and DraftKings. Acquisition costs will be less important in the future and provided that fixed costs such as legal fees decrease in the coming years, these companies will become stable and profitable.
postmortem culture -- when something goes wrong, it isn't your fault, and it isn't anyone else's fault, but it's an opportunity to build a better system.
Typically you only program them a handful of times. (first release of logic, then re-programming for updates if there are any)

Once a logic structure is in place, it's just a matter of passing signals/data through the FPGA.
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I don't know what it was like in America, but as a kid in New Zealand during the 80's/90's Apple was synonymous with desktop computers in an education setting. My understanding is that Apple deliberately targeted the education sector. Aren't Google just doing the same thing? My wife is a teacher in the US and has only ever been issued macbooks so I assume Apple is still a big player in education, but it's a lot cheaper to hand out 20 chromebooks to a classroom than it is to do the same with Apple products.
I've worked with large C++ projects and large C# projects (both at large software corporations) and the code was not particularly less unwieldy than an equivalent Python projects I've worked on.

I think static typing alone doesn't make managing complexity easier.

I'd like to know what other features people think Python is lacking that make it much worse than C# or Java when handling large projects.
Ingvar Kamprad: from Scandinavian Peninsula, not continental Europe.

Liliale Bennencourt: heiress.
> There are type systems that are more advanced than ML's. Does that mean that ML's type system is not type safe? No, because the term type safe has no agreed upon meaning! It is, as I said to begin with, a subjective value judgment. It means simply a type system which you find comfortable and trust.

It's not about power. It's about fulfilling your promises. For instance, neither ML nor Go promises to prevent you from trying to use files after closing them. But C++ and Rust do, and it turns out only Rust actually fulfills this promise.

Go is actually type safe for single-threaded use. However, it doesn't deliver on its promise of safe concurrency. If you send an object to another goroutine, say, via a channel, nothing prevents you from mutating the same object from both the sender and the receiver, without any sort of concurrency control.

Of course, a corollary of all the above is that type safety buys you different things in different languages.
Maybe he is an investor...
> I'd say that not having 360 degree vision is a terrible shortcoming

Well now you're just being silly :)

>Do not underestimate the power of a takedown to the cement

I'm aware. I practiced Aikido for 10 years and BJJ for a year. BJJ doesn't really practice throwing with power, rather, it's usually a setup to disabling through grappling techniques. While I would readily admit Aikido is less martially effective overall (fairly tied to the traditional attacks & style of Japanese martial arts, which are often not practical), something that is explicitly trained for is fighting multiple opponents, throwing people into other people and throwing with power.
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That's how I see programming in general.

To beat the dino game, the author played the "write a game AI" game. That's a much harder game, which is going to take a while to beat. The general gameplaying work being done at the moment stands a good chance (e.g. DeepMind's Atari playing system, AIXI approximations, etc.), although I still think Nomic is a harder game to beat than Go ;)

After that, we can start playing the "write an AI generator" game. The fun never stops!
Uh, no. You took it upon yourself to be some kind of a hero with this and projected meanings that are not there. I don't feel shitty about your sarcasm and contempt, though I understand that you would like it if I somehow feel some suffering here over it. However, argumentation by contempt is not a persuasive rhetorical technique. I asked you why, to see whether you understand your own motivations.

Setting aside the posturing and seriously answering what you asked: I don't have an answer to "what is the role of martial art in modern society". Lots of people have asked that. I see people who have answered "what is the role of martial art in my life" to their satisfaction, but nothing is clear about the role of martial art in the modern society.

I notice when discussion goes around in circles -- the same pattern of arguments that happen across the years over different forums. For example, TMA vs MMA; what is reality-based or evidence-based fighting; whether you really need to be able to fight on the streets. There are also whole swathes of modernist anachronistic views that don't jive with traditional teachings (even if traditional teachings appears out-moded in modern societies).
Workweek structure (the 9 to 5)
You do have an option of not working/interviewing for the big 4 or "wannabes".
This is a known paradox, I forget what it's called though. The concept is that it's arguable that any long-term space travel is pointless because there will always be a faster ship surpassing it as the originating civilization improves its technology, and so on for that faster ship. So, it's irrational to ever launch anything...
I have no idea what this article is trying to get across, but I can share one thing I use Instagram location search for: surf conditions.

There are a few spots (that will remain nameless) I like to surf that are kinda in the middle of nowhere. Wind forecasts for them are usually off, and it's a big commitment to drive there myself just to find it ripped up by the wind.

These spots are, however, really popular for tourists driving down the coast. It's really easy to search Instagram, find a bunch of selfies in front of the ocean, and know what the wind was doing ~30m ago.
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> The problem with Psychiatry is that it treats symptoms, not causes.

No, the problem is that we know a lot more about symptoms than causes, so we diagnose by and treat symptoms, which may or may not be treating causes (though many treatments are chosen because they treat something that there is at least a plausible hypothesis is the cause of the symptoms, and the fact that they have efficacy in treating the symptoms is at least suggestive evidence that both the hypothesized cause is correct and that it is being treated.)

This is also far less different than lots of other areas of medicine that critics of psychiatry try to make it out to be.
Why would a civilization be exactly 500 years ahead of us? While evolution is a powerful trend, I think there's so much randomness about... when their planet cooled off enough (and had enough alkaline vents) to support abiogenesis, when bacteria form eukaryotes, when eukaryotes become multi-cellular, when life moves out of the oceans, when plant-like organisms start producing fruit leading to animals that take advantage of the high-energy food source and are able to develop smart brains---

all of these events could happen +/- a million years from eachother. And that's assuming that their evolution of life followed a similar path! So worrying about a race having 500 years on us is just... a worry based on so many wrong assumptions.
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If you lump this in with all of the other effects IE has had on internet standards over the years, then it is accurate enough.
Interesting, thought I would argue that's not Yoga as a martial art, rather as a component of training. We don't say jogging is a martial art even though most every professional fighter has jogging as part of their regimen.

Tai Chi on the other hand used to be a martial art and essentially moved into the same space as Yoga.
Apple uses BSD grep for basically the same reason FreeBSD uses BSD grep: GNU grep is GPL, and new versions are GPL v3.
Well storage doesn't have to be batteries, if you have excess power you can pump water up hill and then use hydro-electric generation to get it back, and this is done in some places. But it needs water (can be problematic) and a large height difference (also problematic).

There was a really clever German idea to have giant concrete cylinders that sat on top of a hydraulic fluid (could be water, could be something else) and excess energy would pump in fluid, raising the cylinder, and then excess energy draw would drain fluid through a generator. It has the advantage that it can be built locally without the need for a big height difference. But you need a lot of them for serious base load compensation.
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Short answer: Of course it's not!

Slightly longer: The brain almost certainly does not use it, as BP uses nonlocal feedback. Somehow the brain works anyway (well, for a given meaning of "works" ;-), ergo: No BP needed.
From what I saw, for many of them the "top posts" were just the most recent posts.

Maybe beautiful people travel more? Maybe they use instagram more?
Cool so it's an "eyeball" planet? http://nautil.us/blog/forget-earth_likewell-first-find-alien...
Actually, your best defense is to be able to identify the troll (which is difficult!) because if you can show "bad faith" on their part in court that really helps your case.