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Someone taught me, years ago, some technique (don't remember the name) where you would move all the tasks to begin in the last possible day.

Then, study the critical path to exclude all those "extra fat" that everybody includes in each task, assuring that the critical path is really critical, without hiding days/hours that would lead to procrastination in the critical path. Save it to an "emergency buffer".

Review if something else became the critical path. Repeat until stability arises.

Now, manage it, use your buffer when required, always take care if something else becomes the critical path (as everything will begin in the last possible time).

And, even if something becomes critical path and takes more time than required,
you have some buffer...
I'm pretty sure the algorithm already does something like that.
"He has to have the files printed out, and then the ladies take pictures of them and store them that way. Anything that allows people to search by name is verboten."

If that is the only issue, I would construct a database that maps (gun type, serial number) to physical location ((microfiche, page, row) or (binder, page, row)). That should speed up look ups by (gun type, serial number) tremendously, but still would require one to go through all physical data to search by name.
You may have heard of the Golden Rule, which usually means "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." But there's a slightly different version which runs: "He who has the gold makes the rules".

This is the case in funding the US Department of Defense. The overall budget is set by the Congress (and subdivided innumerable times afterwards by the DoD agencies and departments), so saying that civilians control the military in the US is both true in the operational sense (the military is part of the Executive Branch, and thus under the President, a civilian), but also in a financial sense.

More info about the US budget process (which bears a strong resemblance to making sausage..) can be found here:

http://budget.house.gov/budgetprocess/
He said in 62 and 64 characters respectively.
I'm not sure when hyperinflation entered the discussion, but it'd be more accurate to say that hyperinflation has historically been caused by those two factors.

We're in completely uncharted economic waters with QE/ZIRP, and I can think of several scenarios where increasingly more insane central bank intervention decimates the value of currency:

-The decision is made to monetize the debt

-Another 2008-scenario prompts helicopter money

-A large enough minority of people simply lose faith in the monetary system and rapidly spend their dollars

All that being said, I don't think we're anywhere close to a hyperinflationary environment, and you can definitely have a problem with the Fed and our system of money sans hyperinflation worries.
Python's csv module uses an internal module _csv which is written in C. So I'm not sure it's all that surprising that a Go implementation is a bit slower.
This makes perfect sense to me. If the government is required to present a warrant in order to enter a home and seize a computer to search for files, why should they be able to ignore the Constitution when it comes to data stored in the cloud?

I like the analogy to safety deposit boxes quoted in the article. Cloud storage has a lot of parallels when you think about it. Current data collection practices would then be comparable to the government going into a bank and looking inside the contents of every safety deposit box. All while not informing any of the bank's customers and putting a gag order on the bank from doing so.
> I believe the OP's exercise was to do the division manually not mentally.

That's equally useless.

Why would I try to figure out the result manually when I have a computer in my pocket at all times? If anything, doing things manually when we have computers seems weirder.
Noted, thanks. I didn't say it wasn't worth discussing. So, straw man?
You should contribute this knowledge to the GitHub issue.
The Easter Islanders were not hit just by consequences of deforestation, but simultaneously by invasive rat species and overpopulation, while being one of the most remote islands in the world.

Plenty of other island nations have seen similar mass deforestation, like Iceland, Sicily and New Zealand, without disastrous consequences.

I'm not saying we should all party on and waste all we can, but this nonsense of "we need five planets" etc. is just that, nonsense. It muddies up the debate, especially when it's based on an arbitrarily weighted sum of different ecological impacts to compute a "total footprint".
I never finished college. If it's not important to, it's not important. You know what's important to you. I'm confident you can recover from this. Do the kind of work that makes you happy. Find things you enjoy.
The military is under civilian control in the sense that oversight is held by civilians giving some guidance/orders to the Joint Chiefs of Staff via the various branch Secretaries and the Secretary of Defense, and is head at the top by the President, but otherwise the military answers to an internal chain of command, where the Secretaries and the President are the only civilians at the top. The word control may not be the best descriptor of this relationship.
Your appeal to authority hasn't addressed a single one of my quite valid arguments. I created an account several days ago using my real name and real email to discuss real issues I was having with the moderation here.
Exactly. Trust someone that has survived their 20's. I now ask "So, how many times have you done this?"

I really admire the focus and patience. Back in the 70's, my inspiration was Royal Robins. I like the idea of leaving no trace on the rock. Not sure what modern bolts are like.
Citizens have indirect... kinda control... in a way over the military.

The "Commander in Chief" (President) has somewhat wide berth of power over the military and can somewhat do what they want with the military. Congress has some checks for what the Commander in Chief can do, but traditionally the CiC has been able to basically send troops to wherever whenever.

In terms of actual citizen power over the military, no. Everyday citizens have no power or direct say in the military.
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Before going to solutions, people need to be made aware of it first.

Take any "introduction to programming" course, and it is likely to include a question on: "swap two variables without using a third variable". When basic algebra is the simplest way to solve it, you also need to point out of the obvious case of integer overflow.

When I asked my professor why I wasn't graded for using the XOR-swap for solving that question, his reply was "we do not expect students to know this".
How about Java? It is quite funny Java version is much faster than Python version even when Python version does use C ? Something fishy going on.
I wrote CAD software for a while and became an expert in Trig ... I have to say that the point where a branch of mathematics becomes intuitive is a real epiphany. I also used mathe pretty heavily working on QAM modulator designs for the cable television industry. And yet in almost thirty-five years of engineering I really only remember using Calculus once (to adjust some tables we used to calculate Bessel filter component values).
Not a straw man at all. Effectiveness should be simple to show and for safety they're not asking for perfect proof of safety just that it doesn't cause long term effects which is done a lot with animal studies. Hundreds of products go through FDA safety testing it's not some impossible test.

Also these aren't the same soaps used in hospitals. Hospital soaps are much harsher and use different chemicals.
>So why does Microsoft have to do something other companies aren't doing either?

The bigger the market share, the bigger commitment to users. Microsoft doesn't "have" to ensure their older OSes work on newer chips. That sentiment is just another way of indicating that the userbase may take action (like choose to keep systems even longer, leading to MSFT having to support Win7 even further into legacy than they did for XP).

As well, consider the enterprise customers who are entrenched in Win7 but absolutely need new machines for expansion, but can't commit to replacing all machines. What was simply buying new machines now turns into supporting a new OS in addition.
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No. It's just the poster's belief masquerading as fact (with helpful quantification: 'vast majority', 'dozen or fewer').
I'll look into that.

I minimize the usage of my windows machine usage to steam and gmail and a handful of gaming websites. Nothing out of the ordinary is spying on me. But I'm far more concerned by my OS spying on me than whatever details some JS can pick up. Hell, I have my ext4 fs mounted on windows. In Windows 10, that means it can index and beam that info back to the mothership.
Yeah, all the DOS backwards compatibility is delivered by the BIOS. Which, in form of legacy CSMs, even exists on modern UEFI machines.
I don't think the answer is that simple. Perhaps there's a key optimization that the Go team didn't consider.
Sorry, but this story gets nowhere near the real reasons for the inflation reduction.

The major and most important change on the Brazilian government to achieve this was the LRF - Lei da Responsabilidade Fiscal, "Fiscal Responsibility Law" in English (free translation).

With these law, federal, state and municipal governments, which added much more oversight and control to public spending, requiring budget increases to go through congress, forbidding "money printing" practices and also requiring detailed accounting records to be submitted to a branch of the judiciary (TCU) for approval.

I could go on and write a huge document here, there's a lot of historical questions involved too. If anyone is interested in more details please let me know.
A good idea, but I think it's common knowledge.

Lots of modules in the stdlib are written in C.
AFAIK the requirement for 10.7 is just 64-bit support, the requirements for 10.8 are higher.
I think it's less about wanting to drop support for old hardware than it is a panic-stricken move because Windows 10 is not compelling on its own.
ultimately it's of academic interest - the end user doesn't care what precisely is going on under the hood.
Argentina did something similar in the 90s. Not with precious metals, but with a strong currency (the dollar). It did stop inflation, but, after a decade, it had to be abandoned, because it was too restrictive. Of course, if politicians would have been less corrupt, or better at making decisions, maybe it would have worked longer.
Doesn't work anymore. At least not outside the US.
That's quite an extraordinary claim. Do you have any actual evidence to support it?
VAT isn't a sales tax. But yes, it's moving the entire taxation of companies to the sales tax level.

The US already have sales taxes, at least in some places. The US generally, as is my understanding, doesn't have a VAT. VAT is a consumption tax, sales taxes are taxing the sellers purchase.

The differers is very subtle.
"Tesla burned through $611 million in cash in the first half of this year and $2.2 billion last year..." Can someone explain WHY this company wants to buy SolarCity?
The java one doesn't do as much as the python one: `line.split(',')` doesn't handle quoted commas, escape characters, different csv separators, etc.
First, I appreciate you qualifying the rhetorical nature of your post.

The costs and benefits are clear. It's more expensive than other options because is comes with additional risk. In the trenches you are forced to go beyond theory and compare apples to oranges.

Does it serve a practical function? Sure. I don't think that validates it as primary financing.

And what happened to organic growth and sacrifice?
Yeah, calling from python introduces a layer of inefficiency.
So, the problem in Canada is that those policies are left up to each hospital or health unit to decide, and there doesn't appear to be a consensus (which is weird)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hospital-er-call-help-1.368630...
Do you not follow the news? It was all over a few months ago. Here: https://www.google.com/search?q=muslim+girls+denied+citizens...

As of the story breaking at the end of June, they had not yet been expelled from Switzerland, but we both know what "denied citizenship" means.
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They did implement something like this a few months ago. Rising new comments are randomly shown on the frontpage. Try refreshing the frontpage a few times and you'll see various submissions with ~5 upvotes appearing and disappearing at random.

I agree it could be better though, and I like the idea of putting them in a highlighted section rather than randomly sprinkling them in the middle of the page where they don't stand out.
It was. Kinda like the opposite of Ballmers "Developers, developers, developers!" The people that helped them become big got shafted and now no longer trust Twitter management. What a surprise...
Coming from a semi-security IT background I always assume there are forces out there who see everything (in the great scheme of internet things). It doesn't make it better any way. Just helps me cope with how everything is screwed up these days.
That's a defining characteristic of Twitter. If it doesn't work for you, there are lots of other places for you posts. For me, the brevity is the what I like about Twitter.

I think complaining about message length on Twitter is like complaining that you can't place video calls on Instagram.
It's as if there's more to software quality than the choice of tools.
Just went on a charter a few weeks ago for snapper. Probably the best way to go if you enjoy fishing and find a good boat - you can easily come back with 40+ pounds of fish for around $100. Same with Speckled trout.
Hacker news is concise bc its just one page unlike Reddit which requires users to find the best subreddits which people don't have time for
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Why would any business stop operating in a country when they can simply raise prices to cover the tax? Everyone else will have to raise prices as well so nobody would be at a competitive disadvantage.
In much the same way that humans do. Eventually, we'll come to realize that very little separates humans from other forms of life.
... Should be the official Nautilus tagline. It certainly seems to be their governing principle. Well, actually, that's forgetting "needlessly overwritten"
If you think Saudi Arabia is a good example of how nations should be run, then something is very wrong with your priorities.
While the author has a point, I use CloudFlare because i believe, to a large extent, it protects me from criminal or nafarious activity.
Not necessarily. Whatever vegans eat today still contributes to cruelty to animals to some extent (like animals used for farming, animals killed in the process of growing and harvesting plants, etc.). Being vegan is about causing significantly lesser harm and doing things that many may consider inconvenient.

Even if plants are shown to suffer from pain, if one is inclined to reduce suffering, it still makes sense to eat plants directly than feed them to animals and eat those animals. The conversion inefficiency is of the order of five times or higher - that is, to produce a unit quantity of meat, at least fives times that amount of plants have to be fed to the animals (this is a very general and inaccurate figure - depending on what one compares, this could be very different and be a lot higher too). In general, eating animals still kills significantly more plants than eating plants directly.

Of course, if plants are irrefutably shown to suffer pain, then there will be more focus over time in finding alternatives to eating them, like synthetic food. Whatever be the approach, it's impossible for anyone to exist without causing harm to others (intentionally or unintentionally). Doing nothing (possibly claiming hopelessness or futility) is not better than doing something.
Software development depends on Chinese pollution. It's difficult to say what the cost of software would be if we had to pay full price for the externalities involved in computer manufacturing.
HelloWorld.java runs in about 50msec on my machine.

However, there are lots of crap desktop apps written in Java that don't care about startup time. You can write apps with bad startup time in any language: look at OpenOffice (C++).
Ask HN: Breadth vs. Value in product design
Paul Graham's 5th piece of advice in his post "Startups in 13 Sentences" was "Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent."

But it seems many startups go broad to start (Reddit, Mint.com, Google) and have succeeded, so how would a startup founder decide whether to go broad with their design vs targeting a particular user segment?
There's nothing mysterious about the Java version... that's not a CSV parser. The other two things are truly CSV parsers. (Inasmuch as there is such a thing for such an ill-defined format. (No, the RFC is not determinative.))

It's easy to be faster if you do fundamentally less. Not necessarily wrong, depending on your task, but it's not comparable.
Every two years, a third of the senate is elected for a six year term. So no senate election can express the will of the entire nation.
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Which might all end up being in the US.

Meaning Austrian people pay money to a US corporation, the money is lost from the Austrian circulation, and won’t be taxable either.

That issue – of global profits all being moved into the US or taxhavens – has happened for many years now, and is severely hurting the economies of many countries.
I run the benchmark using PyPy (which doesn't have this C extension) and got a result about 20% slower compared to CPython (ie. still faster than Go).

EDIT. I also did a funny thing and replaced the CPython C _csv.so extensions with pure Python version _csv.py, from PyPy. It run about 80 (eighty) times slower. It shows what wonders does JIT do (at least to some code).
The java source is using str.split(',') which is completely different than Python's offering of dialect/delimiter/etc https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/csv.py#L24
while we're at correcting things:

it's celsius not celsium :)
What? Why -0.9?
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According to the US Department of Labor: "Employment of software developers is projected to grow 17 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations. The main reason for the rapid growth is a large increase in the demand for computer software." [1] Then again, that same page also claims the median salary for a software developer is $100K...

From what I have seen, many companies do indeed complain about a shortage of developers, yet their actions are completely at odds with this.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...
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That's the first half of the argument. The second half is why and how the NSA then set the 27 year old up to get searched by the FBI.
The problem is that software works the same every time, hardware doesn't have to (for example, if there was some kind of wear in the umbilical, for example).
What do you mean by "too diverse"?

He probably means that the "Lowest Common Denominator" level is too low. Probably not that, even, after a more careful analysis. More like the average is pulled too low, because the "Level" is weighted by volume, and the loudest voices are often the stupidest.
That's the thing though, if wikipedia is to be believed, and testosterone is the hormone most often used, we do know the end effects of consuming it. Sure, testosterone is an insanely powerful hormone, but it's not like the effects of it on humans is misunderstood or harmful.

I'm trying to imagine how much damage could be wrought at even large amounts of tilapia
(at least from the hormonal aspect...).
Ditto - I thought I switched to various apps because HN didn't offer comment subtree collapsing. Mea culpa.
I guess for me it just feels like Reddit requires more effort than HN. I have an account on Reddit but I really am in read-only mode because it looks like I would have a lot of friction to any action.
In many cases, because they preferred that to being killed. Are you not aware of what's going on in the Middle East right now?
The empirical and phenomenological observations across centuries and cultures by different mindfulness practitioners about the nature of the human mind are not to be dismissed so easily, even if they have had varying levels of rigour in their discipline.
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ok . there are already 2000+ submissions.I think changing the form now will pollute the data.
Left Digg some years ago for Reddit. Left Reddit couple years ago for HN. The hive mind echo chamber drove me away from each.
Again, what's your point? Skydiving is super safe. There, are you happy?

What you just cited is both irrelevant and not a statistic. Getting stung by bees doesn't typically result in injury or death, so who cares how likely it is relative to anything?

Neither lightning strikes nor bee stings are "activities" per se, it's not something you choose to do. It's more fair to compare skydiving to motocross. But people don't accidentally skydive, so comparing to lightning strikes and bee stings is meaningless.
Doctors seem to be unwilling to admit that they don't know something.
HN is narrowly focused. Narrow focus leads to higher quality. Higher quality keeps people around.
The Java code is defective. It's not checking for double quotes. The CSV format allows for commas inside column values by surrounding with double quotes, and then you can also put double quotes within such values by escaping them as double double quotes. Fix those defects and the Java code will be a little slower.

With modern JVMs, Java can occasionally actually be faster than native compiled languages due to dynamic optimization at runtime.
Yeah, this is what 5g 'promises' to solve (I've heard about applications in Singapore and NY), despite the fact that no one has actually defined what 5g is.
See also the "How do you use HN?" thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418891

My main reason why I like HN over Reddit is not what HN has, but what it not has: inlined GIFs, avatar images, signature lines, etc. Focus on content > all for me.

Reddit has great content, but it never clicked for me like HN did (maybe because I can remember Usenet and still like mailing lists). But things can change, e.g. if HN gets user hostile with ads or "features"...
They are two entirely different situations. Non-techie enteprise users have no afinity for their processors, only the applications they rely on and the interface they're familiar with.
That ain't that different than most rural US.

And I'm not sure 7000 is considered very rural in Finland, Vaala is probably less than half than that and I'm not sure how "rural" in the grand scheme of things that it is, it's not Iceland where you can have 50 people and be considered a town.
HN has a critical mass of readers. There is something to knowing that you are reading the same stuff as the Big Boys - a watercooler effect. Even if there is interesting stuff on Reddit, it's not the stuff industry leaders are reading and thinking...or at least that's the perception become reality.
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Multiple conflicting people about where their packages are coming from? What's the chance there is a wharehouse but they can't list it for obvious tax purposes. They might be subcontracting to another company?