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You don't actually need to label them you just need all the prisoners to be able to memorize which name is associated with which box, Alice's box is the first on the left, Bob's the second etc... Then when Zach. Z. Z. Vanderwall opens "his box" and finds the name Bob he follows procedure.

You need a minimal perfect hash function but it's a thing that can be done, especially because prisoners in these sort of conundrums always have fantastic memories and mental math facility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function#Minimal_...
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Is this really necessary? If you get this worked up about contact from a recruiter, I imagine you also might write back to every piece of direct mail junk mail telling them how your interests don't align and to please stop contacting you.

Why not just delete it or reply no thank you? Google is a massive company, and unless they are specifically head-hunting you, it's not fair to expect them to even spend 5 minutes going through your personal site. You're going to get picked up by automated scripts for big hiring campaigns. Accept it, and don't waste time or mental energy getting frustrated or mad about it.
U just wrote comment on international site. You are interactinwith people from all over the world all the time on international websites, idk what borders u tryingto break? Other than censorship and lack of iernet access.
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> It is a thing. We know how to study correlations between brain activity and conscious experience. The hard problem involves figuring out how brain activity causes conscious experience.

Actually the hard problem is figuring out how anything can cause conscious experience/qualia. The insurmountable difficulty is explaining how first-hand knowledge can be explained with only third-hand knowledge. The only resolution for something like scientific materialism is to deny that first-hand knowledge actually exists, and consciousness is a fully third-hand knowledge system giving the illusion of first-hand knowledge [1]

[1] http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...
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Thanks so much for this! I know very little about Tk.

Besides antialiasing on a canvas, does antialiasing also work in text in labels, buttons, etc? Can I get in Tk all the fonts I can get in a Mac? Is Helvetica there?

Why can't I find on the web screenshots of Tk apps running on Mac OS X? Is the only way to get Tk to look good on a Mac using Tile http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/macosx.html ?

From what I'm reading now there might be 4 options: Tk, wxWindows, QT, and a custom "thin layer".
"Like @ewindisch already said, we do not want to encourage this client-side behavior. The pain induced by requiring the flag as a daemon flag, is so that people actually set up TLS on their registry. Otherwise there's no incentive. Thanks for your understanding."

This was a reply by @tiborvass in https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8887

Can you possibly get any more dismissive?
Neither. He reject them both.

When you can't attribute meaning to anything, Camus says, according to some of my self-interpretation, that you have to live while accepting the triviality of it all. Live while acknowledging death is a perfectly valid alternative and nothing is really stopping you committing suicide. But only when you are on that edge are you truly living,
In my experience, there is no joy without faith.
> I mean, this sort of scepticism is applicable if you don't have consciousness yourself. Do you not see, hear, smell, think or otherwise perceive?

The OP is suggesting that experience isn't first-hand knowledge the way it appears to be. Certainly he agrees that we appear to have first-hand knowledge, but this appearance is only a cosmetic illusion, a trick that lends some adaptive advantage. Something like: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...
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Against the backdrop of Google X's success (or lack thereof), what do you think about Facebook Building 8? Does it have a chance? Is it too early to tell?
I just read a bunch of reasons to learn proper auto-maintenance to keep my current vehicles running for as long as possible.
My takeaway from this is to treat China like a partner not an opportunity.

"China is not easy. It’s tough for everyone, no matter if one is foreign or not." Experiences will vary greatly between individuals, but in China there is this extra component that is often called regulation, but it's more than that.

I think of it more as a helicopter parent that is always quantifying, evaluating and adjusting.

By making China a partner those evaluations and adjustments should suit your mutual objectives as opposed to presenting deliberate obstacles.
5 years out of college; seem to be coming to a similar conclusion...
1. These are high school students.

2. My mother, with an English degree, went into programming in her early 20s through a training program at her job. That was nearly 40 years ago, and she's still going.

Programming is largely a monoculture that looks down on people who are dissimilar (for example: who didn't program as a child, or decided to enter the field in college), and actively discourages them from continuing by assuming the worst about their capabilities.
> it's much harder to get right than it seems

I'm not disputing this but I've yet to see a clear explanation why it's harder to get right than it seems.

I want to understand, precisely, what makes this hard.
I loved the idea of MotionLoft, FWIW
This part 3. The previous posts make it pretty clearly that he did the "polite no, thank you." before.
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People like you are part of the reason it takes science so long to move forward in areas that contain mysteries. You say there's nothing to argue against, yet you are making an argument anyway, proving that there is, in fact, something to argue about. You are arguing against a very strange and specific version of what is called "the hard problem". At the heart of the hard problem is a simple question: how can we causally explain conscious experience? It's very convenient to say "oh it's just complexity. Done." But that doesn't solve anything and it's not particularly helpful. It leaves many questions unanswered. Why does consciousness seem to be unitary? Why does only a small portion of the information reach conscious awareness? Whence the feeling of free will? You should feel free to ignore these and many more questions, but to dismiss the inquiry entirely is, bluntly, stupid.

I've never argued for souls or anything immaterial, I simply think we haven't fully understood or explained the nature of consciousness.
"About a month in, our interim leader returned to Korea, and a woman was brought in who had worked at several video game companies.
She used to know our CEO’s in college. She was kind, thoughtful, and attentive. I knew the company would eat her alive.

After our boss departed, I took over a few of his duties. One of them was “viral marketer.” I was now creating ad campaigns on Facebook in an attempt to bring monthly active users to the site.

I had no training. I was acting on one hunch and instinct after another. Yet, I was good.

A month or two passed without incident, and then we lost a team member. Unable to withstand the workload and the move, she left to be with her boyfriend. We all made fun of her for it."

Seems like the "other side of the story" from Tess. Doesn't make her look any better...

http://theunderemployedlife.com/working-start-almost-killed-...
> I might be pushing an already over-touted product

Yes.

> the Flow Hive seems to simplify much of the harvesting

Probably true if you have just a few hives.

> I understand some purists are against the notion of "factory honey" but I imagine these style of hives will dominate the market in years to come.

Never heard "factory honey" as an argument against the flow hive. There's lots of bad arguments out there against the flow hive, but there's one really good one: it's super-expensive. I'm still waiting on more real-world info to judge, but I'm pretty skeptical that the mechanism can hold up after multiple seasons of bee-abuse.
Why is Tk getting long in the tooth? This comment believes Tk is as good as wkWindows and QT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12380456
Hi, you can in principle monetize by listing the printer on 3Dhubs. However my experience is that just listing the printer will not be enough to get a flow of orders. You will need to advertise your hub somehow.
Hey man, I feel the exact sane way. Though I usually don't care enough to actually get Licenses and stuff, because I don't give enough of a damn to get them.

I've done tons of extremely stupid things just to do them, but I genuinely don't care or really give a shit. They're just "things" that I've done. I've never really understood how people genuinely enjoy things like skiing, hiking, skydiving. Ive done them just fine and meh.
Yep, it would appear that their current Marketing Manager "Jessica" spent a stint working in ROK for a startup.
For the record, he did so at the age of 67, facing both failing health and the loss of that which he seemed value most (his ability to write). While you can argue (with no small amount of validity) that his life choices contributed to this decline, his decision to take leave of life seems consistent with his views expressed herein on being true to oneself and one's calling, and he does seem to have fit plenty of life into those 67 years...
People can write whatever they like in their blogs, that's kinda the point of them.
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> it's not fair to expect them to even spend 5 minutes going through your personal site.

If a company wants to hire me, I expect them to spend hours going through my site and assess my previous open source work, and how and why I might be fit for them, etc.

If they don't do at least that, there's nothing for me there.

And yeah, Google is spamming me too, like the author of the article.
What do you mean it's outside the bounds of science? Surely there can be a physical explanation that we simply haven't been clever enough to discover yet? That's all I'm saying.
'local' is pretty fluid in this context. If you can route from A to B without leaving the provider's network, it's 'local enough' for this usage. So if they have their own trunks from one city to the next, customers within the entire country could be 'local enough'. If they use someone else's backbone between cities, then 'local enough' would just be each city.

They're not actually concerned with physical distance, the number of hops, etc. It's simply the case that if they keep it entirely within the provider's network, the traffic costs the provider nothing. This is a huge win for the provider, so it's logical to 'share the win' with the end-customer to encourage such behaviour.
There's an unwritten rule that says that if you program Go, whether you love it or hate it, you must ensure everybody knows about it. It would just be irresponsible otherwise.
> But if I saw a re-creation of Slack or Gmail that is comprehensive and actually looks and feels like the real thing, and handles errors correctly, and handles off-line mode, and has the performance of the original and is open source

I think many people would throw money at an open source Slack or Google.
An awesome "miniseries" of podcasts re. gaming by Robert Ashley called a life well wasted. http://alifewellwasted.com/podcast/

It is a shame he stopped. They were so well produced and fantastic to listen to.
Wow... good find!

"A real start up company is populated by a shark tank full of thieves, corrupt business people, unscrupulous investors, and fickle employees" WTF? So you're not a 'real start up' unless you've got a bunch of corrupt criminals running the show?
That honestly sound like a solution to problem that no honest person/company would even have.
Thank god I could solve "Love in Kleptopia". Would have been embarrassing being a founder of a security company.
I have to agree with the other comments here that there doesn't seem to be much utility and there are already tools that do this. Additionally, without doing the work for you I don't see how you are doing this any new or interesting way.

To take this to a constructive place, maybe this is more of a Show HN thing, rather than a release, where you show your interesting code.
There's a word for that. Leasing. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/business/auto-leasing-gain...
You have to know that you're making a hugely stretch of an argument, I mean none of the "C replacement" languages really expect to replace C so completely that there will be no more C code written or no C compiler that runs on modern hardware in 20 years - you have to realise that's not what they mean by "replace".

It's meant as in "replace for the majority of modern use cases, where the power of C is needed, but a better language is desired" (or some variation thereof) and if it does come to it...meaning a language will replace C so completely that there'll be no C in sight in 20 years time, (hard to believe), then it'll probably be so, because we figured out how to not depend on C and go on without it.
> a seemingly difficult problem can be solved trivially with standard tools found on most Unix-like operating systems like GNU/Linux

You forget how difficult is getting to the point where you can "trivially" solve problems at the command line. For one you need to be aware of the tools' existence and then understand their functions and how they cooperate and fit in together.
You unfollowed them back in revenge, of course.
Really? Chat apps are still a thing? I thought the hype is over... oh, the article is from March.
> Google is a massive company, and unless they are specifically head-hunting you, it's not fair to expect them to even spend 5 minutes going through your personal site.

Every time I see someone bring up this rough point the time gets shorter. "I'm important, I don't have 5 minutes to look at your personal page!" or some variant of that. It's ridiculous.

If I'm reaching out to someone to start hiring, I'd be looking at personal pages, github pages, looking through their code, etc. The only reason you wouldn't is if you don't actually give a shit and you're just working through a list of candidates and trying to get your conversion rate up.

Plus someone who goes around recruiting without looking at WHO they're recruiting is not somebody I'd work for...
What other tools?
Doesn't really matter, the internet never forgets... http://imgur.com/a/3XLIw
Recruiting is a sales process just like any other. No one would ever say it's unfair to expect a business developer to spend 5 minutes researching a prospect just because he/she sells for a big firm and doesn't have the time.

Come on. This is their JOB.
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I never understood why interpretations of QM which violate non-locality like pilot wave theory are frowned upon. Fields are non-local by definition.
Sure...brain activity is included within "anything". Since brains are the only thing we know of that do this successfully, it's where people start.

Graziano has thought about this a lot, but his view is one of many that all have about equal explanatory power. Why would materialism/physicalism require that first hand knowledge not exist? If consciousness is explainable in terms of physical processes, then first hand knowledge would exist and be part of that process. Can first and third hand knowledge not coexist?
He's really taking that Shakespeare quote out of context. It's about suicide not striving towards goals.
When a company has just started, they may have not set this up.

You can invoice the company. It's not a big deal.

Again - of all flags - lack of pay stubs is the least of them if it's just a garage startup with 3-ish people.

The actual exchange of money is 100x a stronger indicator of health than the presence of a stub.
I suspect that Oberon wants you to roll out your own text library. It's actually how C probably wants you to roll out your own string library, too, because "C strings" are no better than Oberon's text facilities. The problem is that nobody knows how you want to work with your strings. There doesn't seem to be "the one correct way" to work with texts. Gauche Scheme, for example, has an interesting take on strings (http://practical-scheme.net/docs/ILC2003.html): backing arrays are shared and substrings are O(1), semantics for Scheme strings is observed - mutability is still possible but expensive, thus also gently discouraging the programmer from using it.
At least for cross-domain URLs.
I would love to see a comparison to C, C++, Ada, Rust, maybe Cyclone. After reading the page I can't find an answer why Zig is better than any of established languages. (Haven't read comments yet)

Speaking of readability... well, still smells like C. And multiline string syntax is weird. :)
>Do they still have vans in the UK that driving around looking for un-taxed TV?

Yes, well sorta if you say you don't own a TV you'll get an inspection sometime within a period of 1-2 years.
The problem in the UK now is that if you have anything with the BBC player on it you have to pay the TV license also.
IIRC they also changed the rules regarding TV and now every screen above a certain size is considered a TV because a lot of people were buying flat screens that don't have a tuner installed or removing the tuner to not have to pay the license.
For anyone who wonders the cost of the license is 145£ a year that's more than some low cost TV's would go on sales like Boxing Day.
In my personal experience, I agree, it's a misunderstanding of what happiness is, that causes people to miss the mark when trying to find it. Happiness isn't something you find, it's something you make. The universe is meaningless, it exists, devoid of any reason of its own, and yet, it exists. Your job, when trying to become a happy person, is to find your own meaning, and work at that, until you master it.
A few years ago I used the Chrome remote interface and was very slow comparing to embedding a web control object for automation. How does it work now?
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Great article, but why Python? I would have thought a proper functional language like Rust or Scala would have been more appropriate.
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I wish Twitter really had a way to filter subscriptions by "channels". If you tweet about databases and I subscribe because you did, I don't want to get photos of your daughter's birthday, your wedding, your favorite gang-star rap music, or your opinion about Hillary or Trump. I ended up un-following a lot of prominent devs because of this.

If Twitter had a way to filter followed people messages by keyword or hashtag It would lead to a healthier environment on that platform. Unfortunately since Twitter basically locked access to its API, writing a fully featured client with that capability isn't even a viable alternative for the terrible UX ...
I thought that it was true about vi(m).

A vi(m) user must always let others know about it.
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Wow, what an overreaction. Just politely reply no.
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It's been getting more and more attention especially since many recent QM simulation experiments kinda show that pilot waves are a real phenomena.
Well it's certainly better than what they were doing before, trying to look like the iAPX 432 with their memory segments and all that stuff.
You said that you don't think the hard problem is a thing. The "hard problem" is simply a general question: how can we explain our subjective conscious experiences in terms of physical processes? That's a question which is well formed, interesting, and probably has an answer which we simply haven't been clever enough to find yet.
Great idea, though it probably comes to description of things like 'robot'.

To be more precise, from the article I understood that this is a 'soft equivalent of a simple electronic oscillator'.

So, probably, I will not call this a robot (but probably we would never have heard of this if not the click-baity title), but it's neat idea which could be worked on further.
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Modern amateur language designers usually are not aware of decades of research and breakthroughs in old-timer's languages, such as Algol, Scheme, Common Lisp, Standard ML and recently Haskell. They miss the beautiful specialized syntactic sugars in Standard ML (for defining and calling curried functions), Octave/Matlab matrix syntax, and the beautiful Common Lisp's looping and SETF macros, which inspired Python's for loop syntax for iterable collections and assignment operator overloading. Instead of spending time to learn and understand pros and cons and nuances they rush headlong to implement everything from scratch.

Really smart guys, however, are trying to leverage old-school languages, to climb on the shoulders of Titans.

David Moon created the PLOT language that leverages Lisps http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT3/ , Rich Hickey did almost the same with Clojure. Scala has been a leverage of Standard ML, similar to Ocaml. Now Swift is trying to distillate Scala, at least in terms of standard idioms and syntax choices. Julia has been build upon the big ideas from CLOS.

Python incorporated lots of good ideas and bits of syntax and managed to balance the syntax and unify semantics and since 3.5+ earned reputation of a well-designed language (clear, balanced, complementing each other semantics from the Lisp world, and carefully chosen syntax). It is also famous for its culture.

So, for those who wish to change the world by developing a new language, it might be a good idea to look at Standard ML and its derivatives and try to relax some constraints and balance the syntax according to modern conventions.

I personally would prefer to start from David Moon's PLOT3 and, perhaps, try to marry it with some lightweight type-system based with optional annotations.

Btw, Haskell's choice of not mixing type information and function definitions and use annotations with its own DSL for types is a really big idea. It reduces cognitive load, makes code extremely readable, and in general, it seems, the best of both worlds. Python's optional type annotations are clever, but less elegant.
Or maybe find a social engineering hack by way of which you can make others follow you (without them realizing it, of course).
Which is really the only choice in existentialism. You are the one out of your realm..not the letter.
Dual boot is less secure than two separate machines.
Back in the old days I was able to capture and pass data from one OS to another via non-volatile CMOS registers on diskless machines.
that actually sounds like a lot of effort
Agriculture is only around 10,000 years old (give or take, at least one tribe on the planet hasn't invented it yet). This is like saying nothing invented in the meantime since now (written language, most of math) is "technology"?
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I wouldn't say that I "got" Ulysses, but I made it through and enjoyed it.

That would be my recommendation — not to worry about "getting" it, and just read and enjoy the words on the page, particularly the way they sound. The prose in Ulysses is song-like, it can pull you into a trance. (Much like the _Odyssey_.) Obviously sometimes you have to look up a word, but sometimes it's better to let it go and lose yourself in the effect.

I don't know if I'd push myself through to read it nowadays, though. I am more willing to give up on a book now.
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I guess that's true.