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Some types of controls can make it worse. A physical barrier, for instance, could result in (and has at other crushes) people being crushed against the barricade itself. You need to control the inflow to the traffic channels, because the people at the back don't know they're killing people. They'll press not realizing the impact of their decision. The people in the middle and, possibly, the front have nowhere to go.
Yes, they are deep cycle car batteries. It's perfect for an outdoor solar install since they don't leak everywhere if they break while also being good at constant charge and discharging.

If this is incorrect please correct me.
"Not a single one of them has been even remotely suspicious or embarrassing, so it hardly seems likely. After all, why delete innocuous emails?"

Her poll numbers haven't been dropping over nothing. There were emails found that raised serious concerns regarding pay for play as well as over 30 Benghazi emails found that weren't turned over. Clearly these things are having impact in the polling.
Thank you, I learned something new.
that moment when you realize that different people use the same words differently depending on their political agenda...
Having taken Kratom several times, I don't know what all the fluster is about. It worked as a mild stimulant for me (similar to coffee) and helped with headaches. That's about it. Maybe other people have had different experiences with it, but for me, Kratom is more along the lines of coffee and aspirin than it is marijuana (which I don't think should be outlawed either).

I think people should actually experience the substance before allowing their knees to jerk with wanton abandon.
Got the book, thanks! You have some of the exact information I've been looking for.
Thank you, I learned something new. I do think trawling would be a better metaphor, but my correction is also wrong.
Show HN: Test ReactNative apps simultaneously on multiple devices and screen sizes
It's not a lie, though.

It just means they saw some value in the product but didn't feel enough motivation to actually follow through and signup/use the product.

This is similar in many ways to someone answering "it's too expensive". The value prop is either not strong enough, not being marketed well enough, too complicated to start using... or the product is solving a pain point that people don't care enough about to build a business around it. Which is a serious question the OP needs to ask themselves. Unless their traffic<costs>conversion rate ratio is sufficient.

You can't expect customers to articulate that everytime (10-20% seems about right to me) because most people aren't actually thinking their actions through when visiting a landing page. Especially when it's via an ad... not something they searched out on Google or via referral.

Even if they did tell you they wouldn't necessarily know why... because you're assuming it was a rational thought process, or something they spent time thinking through, which is rarely the case. Books about how customers acting 'irrational' [1] are very useful at explaining this and are important to always be considering when doing marketing/UX design.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expand...
Yes it's manufacturer for the first year (or two possibly) and after that it falls to the retailer.
people aren't eating it for its nutritional value. don't be ridiculous. it's being taken for medicinal purposes.
We are mobilizing. We have email and phone call campaigns going, and the petition (which may be more useful than other petitions people have seen since it qualifies under the third condition under which this decision can be fought by the DEA). There is a national march in Washington DC on the 13th. We are trying.
GoDaddy acquires Serbia's ManageWP, a multi-site WordPress management tool
>the management hierarchies of the Stone Age //

We have the same general primary social structure - certain people have control of a lot more of the resources than others and don't want to cede that control.

Is there any wonder that we have those structures in organisations whose focus is "making a profit", ie ensuring unequal distribution of resources by increasing the control of resources for those who already have the most.
My point is that the distribution of developer ages at your work place is not an indication of age-discrimination, not that age-discrimination doesn't exist.
The Oatmeal: “Unhappy”
No, it's not cheap at all, because buying the physical chips is not the end of it. For some laptops - like macbook air - there is a limit of how much they support, and it's not that high. Some models are not even upgradable - they just have soldered-in 8G and that's it.

> you need to close some tabs

This comment is really not contributing anything to the matter. Obviously everybody could think of closing tabs without you advising to do so, and if they don't, it may be because they want these tabs around. I regularly keep a lot of tabs around because this is my work pattern.
Emacs users will recognize many of the readline defaults -- unsurprisingly, given both are GNU software.

I use "yank-last-arg" most often, which is M-. by default.

$ mkdir abcd
$ cd <M-.>

On Zsh, I have M-, bound to "copy-earlier-word", which makes M-. M-, M-, cycle through the arguments to the previous command.

In reading the manpage for Bash, which doesn't have this function, I've just found "history-search-backward", which searches through history to find commands based on what you've already typed. That will come in useful!

$ bind '"\er":history-search-backward'
$ bind <M-r>

(Note that M-r is bound to "revert-line" by default, but I doubt I'll use that.)

These functions are all listed, with explanations, in the Bash and Zsh manpages.

Edit: As I see from another comment, a binding for "history-search-backward" to the Page Up key is in /etc/inputrc on Debian and derivatives.
People who think you are paying such a low amount -- you're not. Your employer is paying it for you. That would have gone to salary instead. Check your W-2.
It looks like you can read and write data via the instruction bus --- which you'd have to, as e.g. SRAM0 is only available on the instruction bus. It claims to be Harvard architecture, but both buses access the same memory, so it's really von Neumann architecture. So I'm not really sure what the difference is. Is it just that they took a Harvard architecture processor core and mostly wired both buses to the same memory? (And as you say, the reversed mapping of SRAM1 is just weird.)

Also, if I read this correctly, you can use a non-addressable storage device (like SPI flash) and it'll demand load it via a cache? That's amazing.

In short: I really like it. Sensible processors are so dull.
So many useful (and utterly undiscoverable) tidbits of knowledge in this thread! Thanks!
It generates SIGINFO on BSD. Which is even more useful and lets long running programs display progress of their choosing. E.g. how far has this big file copy come along?

On Linux, some programs (e.g. dd) actually do the same in SIGUSR1. I don't think it's possible to bind a key to sending USR1 so if you start a long dd you have to run the kill1 -USR from another shell. Or an awkward ^Z, then`kill -USR1 $(jobs -p)` then `fg`.
EpiPen maker Mylan may have used illegal deals with schools to price gouge
You can gradually migrate to another non-compromised key. Generate new key, add HPKP headers for both compromised and non-compromised key, keep it long enough so all users who got bad HPKP headers will get new ones, then replace certificate and set HPKP header to include only new keys.
two-thousanders? Not sure if anybody actually says that
The problem is you have no - absolutely no - right to influence policy and business decisions; decisions that vastly overwhelm the impact your good or bad coding will have on the value produced by the company.

I had to look up anarcho-syndicalism and no I don't think that's what I mean. I mean democratic participation of the whole company in the decisions affecting the whole company.

Edit: unfair to say no influence. Fair to say no "right" to an influence.
I'm not arguing for prohibition (schedule 1). I'm saying that we should make it schedule 2 (which would allow federal funding for medical research), study it in detail (since it's a relatively un-researched drug) and come up with guidelines around how to use it safely.

Your #2 is anecdotal evidence. Not saying it's wrong and that Kratom has no benefits; but this is exactly why more study is needed. In the meantime, we have to keep the snake oil salesmen at bay.
I am similarly put off by yoga, which as practiced currently is not an "ancient tradition" but a bizarre relic of 19th century Indian nationalism[0]

Some people find the woo motivating, but I find it to be a distraction. I want my exercise regimen woo-free, thank you very much.

[0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/2989a78a-ee94-...
Sending arbitrary packages via airlines I can't see being anything other than a security and customer service nightmare. Even without airlines actively fighting it (and with good reason) there is little possibility this will take off.
Add this flag to it -fdiagnostics-color=always

If you dont want to mess with gcc flags in all your projects, add the GCC_COLORS env variable to your shell, like just export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'` to your ~/.bashrc or other shell rc.
In addition to its other uses, given the anecdotal reports of kratom’s usefulness in treating opioid addiction—which I’ve seen in a few close friends—I believe we have an ethical obligation to oppose this ban and encourage further research.

I’ve never touched opioids before—a friend gaped when I told them that I threw away perfectly good Vicodin after getting my wisdom teeth out! But I have used kratom occasionally for a few months, and it’s been an incredible relief of nerve pain, anxiety, sleeplessness, and desire to drink alcohol. I hope that it continues to be available to people who need it much more than I do.
I don't think it's an inverter. It looks like a subtraction (which is even weirder). Here's the example they give:

0x3FFE_0000 accesses the least significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFFC.
0x3FFE_0001 accesses the second least significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFFC.
0x3FFE_0002 accesses the second most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFFC.
0x3FFE_0003 accesses the most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFFC.
0x3FFE_0004 accesses the least significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFF8.
0x3FFE_0005 accesses the second least significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFF8.
0x3FFE_0006 accesses the second most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFF8.
0x3FFE_0007 accesses the most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400B_FFF8.
……
0x3FFF_FFF8 accesses the least significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0004.
0x3FFF_FFF9 accesses the second least significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0004.
0x3FFF_FFFA accesses the second most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0004.
0x3FFF_FFFB accesses the most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0004.
0x3FFF_FFFC accesses the least significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0000.
0x3FFF_FFFD accesses the second most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0000.
0x3FFF_FFFE accesses the second most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0000.
0x3FFF_FFFF accesses the most significant byte in the word accessed by 0x400A_0000.
> they can just cancel in Komet

What is `:q!` if not "just cancel[ling]"?

I'll take four keystrokes over <move hand to mouse>, <move mouse to button>, <click button> (and a debatable <move hand back to keyboard>). Even if you count that as 3v4, the keystrokes are quicker than the mouse movements.

I get that not everyone wants to deal with vim, and may use a GUI editor for other stuff - but for something as small and specific as git commits, I really don't understand why you'd want to install something new; for what, a button?
> Also, I'm guessing that these structures are only effective in firms like Valve: a small number of experienced employees, no hard deadlines, and lots of specialists who know how to best allocate their time

Are they that effective at Valve though? Seems it's not bad enough to cause the company serious damage but are they doing much nowadays? Yes there's the Vive but that's in partnership with HTC who may be providing a lot of the top-level direction.

I get the feeling Valve is coasting along on the Steam cash cow and could be doing a lot more with the people and resources they have available.
you seem to be arguing that the necessity for controls to counteract systemic racism are evidence that the racism does not exist. That's a total contradiction.

You're also holding up the trades as the potential high point that black folk can aspire to, which (no disrespect to the trades as they are extremely important) seems more than a little racist itself. Electrician is a great job, but isn't it curious that you didn't mention top level management executive, lawyer, knowledge worker, doctor, engineer...
You're right, sparse coding is not new -- and neither is the idea of greedy layer-wise training.

But if this works as advertised, these guys must be doing something new.
"From February 2014 to July 2016, over 55,000 kilograms of kratom material were encountered by law enforcement at various ports of entry within the United States. Additionally, another 57,000+ kilograms of kratom material offered for import into the United States between 2014 and 2016 are awaiting an FDA admissibility decision. Together, this material is enough to produce over 12 million doses of kratom." [1]

Seizure rates are very low for drug shipments, so we're likely talking about about hundred of thousands of people who're using kratom, which has risen dramatically in the past year.

[1] https://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2016/hq083016.shtml
> Apple seems to be putting form ahead of function these days.

I don't want to start a flame war here but I would be interested in the numbers of broken screens. I make it a habit to ask friends with shattered iPhone screens how often they dripped it w/o breaking and most tell me they never dropped it before
One wonders if this is a poorly translated explanation for a little-endian architecture. When accessed as data it comes back big-endian but when accessed as instructions it is interpreted as little-endian?

I could imagine a hack like this where the CPU logic came from one vendor that had the opposite byte order than a previous CPU, and yet one wanted to keep some level of compatibility between them.
Right; there has to be a middle ground between "zero regulation" and "total prohibition". Schedule 1 classification effectively prevents research, which is a bad idea. But likewise, no regulation means this stuff will start showing up in bodegas with all sorts of claims attached to it and very little quality control -- a bad idea for a substance that is known to be capable of causing death in large quantities.

There has to be a middle ground.
Some rightwing pundits call Patreon “hipster welfare”
People aren't taking it to get high.
Oh nice, pleased to hear it!
You wouldn't. That application makes no sense.
before you speak on this subject, try 2 weeks in UTC 24. You'll have a whole blog article waiting to write. Everyone should try this vs. just think about it.
I confirm, it is my keyboard (Swifkey) who creates those issues, it works smoothly with the default one. Thank you for your explanations and sorry if my feedback was a bit harsh :)
Re: ROI, I was just generally referring to the fact that many advertisers, large and small, deploy campaigns with the goal of gaining likes/shares etc. Brand advertisers count ROI this way, along with small businesses that have no other way to measure ROI other than with metrics such as likes, shares, and follows.

BTW, I am not the only person that feels this way about Facebook ads. I can't find the link atm but a study I read a year or so ago indicated that less than 6℅ of FB advertisers are showing a positive (cash) ROI.
The problem with most of these is not adjusting for cohort changes. For instance, in the SAT example, the author writes:

> In the 1980s, the Reagan administration seized on a report called A Nation at Risk, which claimed that the US was on the verge of collapse due to its falling SAT scores.

Suppose that low-income individuals start to take the SAT in 1980 whereas they didn't in 1970. The wrong way to analyze SAT scores is to evaluate:

sum over cohorts P(SAT Score | cohort, Y)

where Y is the year. For instance, you might compare the total average score in 1980 vs. 1970. Doing so will show a decrease in SAT score because of the increase in low-income individuals taking the SAT, not because the high-income individuals are doing worse. (This assumes that low-income people have less access to SAT training materials, and those training materials affect the score).

The correct way is to only compare scores within a cohort:

P(SAT Score | cohort, 1980) > P(SAT Score | cohort, 1970)

That is, did the same cohort do better in 1980 vs. 1970?

(There might still be some differences between the cohorts in 1980 vs. 1970. Maybe the low-income individuals who took it in 1970 had high confidence in school, whereas the 1980s kids were from a broader background.)
Actually, I don't care if she was or wasn't trying to hide something. That's so common these days and I'm cynical, so I expect politicians to be trying to do that.

It's the willful ignorance that troubles me. Someone had enough knowledge to set up a private email server. Either that someone didn't know that this was a bad idea (that's a problem), didn't speak up about it being a bad idea (that's a problem), or did speak up about it and was told to do it anyway because this way is "easier" (that's a big problem).

I expect my elected officials to either learn about what they are doing/using/voting on, or I expect them to get the opinion of experts in the field to advise them what to do/use/vote for. If they aren't, that's a really really big problem.

Maybe I should just get even more cynical, and just accept that we have a really really big problem.
I can't imagine how much he would worth now if he got any stock option like the employees of today's startups.
I don't know. "Eating up all my ram" seems perfectly acceptable to me at first glance. I purchase ram and use it in my computer for expressly this purpose: to improve the responsiveness and snappiness of programs.

Where do you draw the line at what's acceptable use of ram and what's not? I have 32G on my desktop, is it unacceptable that chrome is using 8G?
There is a certain logic in capitalism - farmers who are a successful are good at farming. The history of taking farms away from farmers and redistributing the land is usually bad.

So I have very few issues with "making a profit", it's just that "fire is needed in the engine room, to drive the steam engines and turn the wheels. But one does not invite fire up to the cockpit and let it steer". Democracy should choose where to steer. Capitalism can provide the engine room.
^-Q is your friend!
Analyzing iPhone step data using pandas timeseries, Rodeo, and ggplot
Just for some clarification on the VR side, the Vive is a partnership product between them and HTC. Valve did the R&D, and HTC did the manufacturing, adnd Valve helped Oculus get things off the ground as well. I'm not a gamer, so I can't speak to that world, but they are doing truly innovative things in VR.
Did you have a choice to the type of health insurance that you can choose from? 17.6% is ridiculously high by any standards.
anyone understand what exactly is the system broadcasting to the new DHCP server? I can't imagine any system is so bad to the point of sending anything more sensitive than a user name
But VR costs way more than $500, because the true cost is not just the VR headset itself but a new high-end graphics card to drive it.

After the headset, the graphics card(s), and a couple of the few VR games that are out, you're easily over $1,000.
The opposite of anarchy isn't fascism. Read the author's full paper, it's got a lot of insight into the workings of organizations in general.
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I don't think so, since cat is reading from massivefile, not from your tty.
People living in Mountain View or Sunnyvale have access to the same set of opportunities. Yet, median home prices in Palo Alto are 2.48M compared to 1.43M in Mountain View or 1.39M in Sunnyvale[1]. So the question still remains - why pay the price premium of >1M?

On most of the metrics except public schools, Palo Alto fares similar to nearby "cities". And while public schools in Palo Alto have higher ratings than Mountain View or Sunnyvale, you have the option of private schools (which are better than public schools in PA) for 20-25K/year, which still comes out to ~300K per child.

So I am still baffled by the price premiums one is willing to pay for a house in Palo Alto or Cupertino.

[1] http://www.zillow.com/palo-alto-ca/home-values/
http://www.zillow.com/sunnyvale-ca/home-values/
http://www.zillow.com/mountain-view-ca/home-values/

edit: I am using examples of MV/Sunnyvale only for those who like south bay due to weather/opportunities/current situation etc. Median home prices of >1M in those suburbs are still ridiculous, and someone considering moving to SFBA may benefit by exploring other parts of the world, if they are not tied to SFBA for whatever reason.