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Completely agree. However I first read the Elements of Style. In 2 days of reading Strunk & White I unlearned 3 years of high school English. Later I read Zinsser and found him to be saying the same things. But a lot of people say that Zinsser's take is easier to read.
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I like that idea a lot. I know there are some government requirements that a CEO or CFO sign off on various paperwork. In a holocracy, you could have those be roles that one of the Principles energizes.
So ultimately we have a choice between losing human rights protections to China, or losing human rights protections to corporations. Thanks, Obama.
A classic. Should have (2005) in the title. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416589 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825809

And a follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279453
I tended to find that a few things were likely to go wrong and simply changing the git workflow scripts to account for those things was enough.

If things went wrong, people could come to me. That often resulted in me fixing their problem and fixing the script to ensure that kind of problem didn't happen again - after which people stopped coming to me because they didn't have problems.

Basically it was like releasing software.

>I submit this must be because people came out of the course without really understanding the tool.

I submit that not everybody needs to be an expert in the tool. Non-programmers can actually help a lot with writing stuff that needs to be version controlled with code - e.g. writing test scripts, updating translations, various configurations, etc.
Thanks. I was trying to show it started off unproductive and went into a constructive chat about Haskell type and value level functions, but this was also a lazy test of if people are interested in the conversational format. I think the result is maybe? I want to make a socratic dialogue style presentation of some ideas in FP, I don't have much interest in saying OOP is terrible, because I don't have much interest in talking about OOP.
I find this whole thing incomprehensible.

Obama is for it, but Warren,Hillary,Trump,Stein are not for it.

Bernie supporters don't trust Hillary to be against it.
McAuliffe said Hillary is actually for it.

Assange and Wikileaks say it will lead to the fascist rule of the oligarchy controlling every small part of our lives.

Then there the whole eff stance on it.https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

I find it all so mind boggling.
I could upgrade to Anniversary with 32GB even with Office installed and without moving system files to the sd card. To get the required 16GB free I have moved all non-system files like downloads and music to the sd card, enabled disk-wide compression, removed all temporary files and disabled hibernation and swap (enabled them after).
Isn't legislation supposed to define what a crime is, not application by the police ..?

>So far, two men have been arrested for public order offences and actual bodily harm in incidents classified as misogynist. //

Isn't that 'just' ABH then?

I don't get these classifications, why is it different if a person is sexually assaulted if that person is a woman, surely a sexual assault is a vile crime no matter who it is perpetrated on; why then is it important to classify it as 'hate' if it's a man raping a woman but not some other way (eg male homosexual rape, say).

Why these designations; if you useful hateful language towards me and I'm Afro-Caribbean, why is that different to if I'm Polish? Surely they're both hateful actions and in neither case should my race define how I'm treated by the police or how severe the action against me is considered to be??
People with peerages traditionally sign with only one name. I think that's what happened here with Elizabeth, Countess Warren. She did inherit the title from Earl Warren, right?

(The real answer here is that The Hill is for political insiders so as soon as you saw the words Warren and TPP, they assumed you knew the subject.)
That's a terrible piece of writing. It reads like the canned essays sold to students. It mentions all the checklist items from the syllabus but has little to say.

The article starts out by referencing "American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers", which, he says, is is challenging Francis Fukuyama's view of the world. Nobody needed to do that in 2015. Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" came out in 1992. Fukuyama was writing about the world situation at the time, which looked good. The USSR had come apart non-violently, the US and Russia were getting along, there were no major wars in progress, and liberal democracy seemed triumphant. Fukuyama thought that "history", seen as battles and conflicts, might be over, and things would settle down.

By 2015, nobody needed to put effort into arguing against that idea.

Then the author goes off in another direction, arguing that American literature has an imperial bent. There was a time when British literature certainly did. Read Kipling's tales of India under the Raj. There were periods when American literature did. Jules Verne goes over the top on that in "From the Earth to the Moon". Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe" took that path. But now? Not so much. The bent in serious American literature today seems to be guilt. Serious books have to be about racism, sexism, gay problems, homelessness, ecological damage, or something similar that readers of serious literature can feel guilty about. Take a look at this week's lead books in the New York Times Review of Books.[1] Guilt is a predominant theme.

Then the author rants about individualist orthodoxy. To see individualist orthodoxy, look at popular movies. Almost always, there is a hero, who, through their own individual acts, accomplishes something important. History rarely reads like that. Books, which have more space and time than a movie, tend not to be as hero-focused. If they are, the author has dreams of selling the movie rights.

The author goes on and on, in various directions, but doesn't get anywhere. If the author took one of their ideas and developed it, they might have said something.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/section/books
I just checked your links and gotta admit, you're right. Although, still I don't see why this has been posted "three" times before!

I think HN should add a URL checker in the submit page.
I think I meant monetocracy: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Monetocracy , https://votesmart.org/public-statement/1043156/the-super-pac... . I thought I was guilty of a neologism but apparently the term has been in use since 2012 afaict.
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it's the same book as in the article.
I missed the original postings so it's nice to see this for the first time. That would be difficult if HN didn't allow reposts. Though I can understand if I had seen it already.
> Since all the matters topologically
> is number of edges and sides, ...

That turns out not to be the case. A torus with a hole and a sphere with a hole both have two sides and one edge.

A Klein Bottle with a hole also has one side and one edge, and is not a Möbius strip.

So that's not enough, and might not be right.
I think that can't be because a torus doesn't an edge, and the figure clearly still has one
It doesn't, but you can feed the content through a digital timestamping system
It seems a bit disingenuous to describe it as $10k in savings when it first passes through the hands of a bunch of bankers and merchants who get to force the worker to buy various goods and services at vastly inflated prices.
Please please please come to GoG. I'll buy it wherever it comes out and I can play it (Vita/PS3/Windows/Linux(!) ) Just don't bother too hard on Vita; I'll never be able to play it on mine.
> then we discovered "ring species" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species) which threw a monkey wrench into what was once a simple definition

Well, ok, we documented some ring species. That had no effect on the biological species concept, though. It never satisfied the transitive property.
Sustaining interest is also important. If you look at stories and stand up sets, there's an alternation between tension and release. In an argument, a challenging statement creates tension; resolving it is release. Meanwhile, with each such scene or joke, background is implicitly built up for a larger payoff later on.

Another aspect of this is explicitly addressing counter-arguments that arise in the reader's mind. If left dangling too long, the doubt is annoying for the reader. One problem is you don't know which specific counter-argument each specific reader is thinking of. So you corral them. You implicitly provoke this counter-argument, so when you address it, it's satisfying for the reader. By deliberately leaving open this specific counter-argument, and subtly suggesting it, you only have to deal with that specific one, at that point, for all readers. You lead them to objections, then resolve them.

Finally, if you finish a "scene" with another question, it propels the reader into the next stage of the argument.

BTW if you're not writing, but talking to one person, a crucial part of leading them to your conclusion is to find out where they are. Like giving directions to someone who's lost, they won't make sense if you don't know where they are. For an argument, it's their current view, what issues concern them, what perspective they have, and perhaps what misunderstandings they have. To convince, you should listen more than talk.

NB. All this is a lot of work, and mostly I can't be bothered.
Steve Yegge's response:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...
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I'm thinking part of the problem is that you end up with a layer cake of recovery partitions. HP's then MS's, etc. I ended up deleting and resizing partitions on mine to get me the extra space needed to get it usable.
This is why I mentioned the time horizon in my original statement. I also mentioned the opportunity for new businesses (startups) that will hopefully blaze new trails while these enterpri-corpses continue down their path of decline.
aoh also wrote the very awesome Radamsa fuzzing engine in it - https://github.com/aoh/radamsa
For some basic tips, I have found the site "foxtype.com" to be very good. It analyses your text for politeness and conciseness it asks you to rephrase text.

-- (now, this is the foxtype suggested text)

For some basic tips, the site "foxtype.com" to be good. It analyses text for politeness and conciseness and it suggests alternatives to phrases.
Thanks so much for posting this. I probably would have missed out on the content otherwise, and it's a fantastic survey. I hadn't seen the 2005 result that decomposing programs doesn't make them easier to prove!
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I am only responding because I didn't know what "the City" means because I don't work in the financial sector
That's my fear and why I will never again pay my rent through them. If they go under, I'm out $1350.
depends on how they defined "knowingly". DMCA clearly defined this, but without some specific legislative definition of what constitutes knowledge it's open to interpretation which is a dangerous ambiguity.

Perhaps I could send a message somehow to some Google exed to remove a bunch of links that are to illegal content, wait 2 weeks then claim that was sufficient notice for them to be aware of the content and therefore meet requirement #2.

To be fair, I didn't dig to see if this second requirement is clearly defined.
That post's link is borken.
4% is the withdrawal rate, not the return rate. You want the return rate to be higher, ideally at around 7% real returns. You accomplish that by investing most of it in the stock market. You have to withdraw less than the return rate in order to manage risk so that you survive periods of bad returns.
I don't see how. One gives you guarantees, one is a lie. I've done a lot of both, the OO model is strictly inferior in almost every way.
No more MVC for me, I will use MVA
Hey - I'm one of the co-founders.

If you reach out to us at feedback@onradpad.com we can overnight a new check if necessary right away. We've only had 2 other reports so far of checks not going through.

You can also message me on twitter @tylergalpin
The L in HSL stands for lightness, and is similar to the L in Lab which also stands for lightness. Lab is meant to better represent how humans perceive color, but it's not inherently better for removing ambient lighting compared to HSL. The main difference between HSL and Lab is how good they are at distinguishing specific colors, and Lab tends to work better for things regarding human perception. I've always had better luck with HSL than Lab, but I tend to just try every color space when approaching a new problem.

Also, removing glare and other lighting abnormalities is one of the banes of computer vision. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has figured out a good way to do it yet (although I've seen some promising work on dealing with occlusion, which you could use to overcome moderate glare with proper segmentation).
I couldn't agree more with that. The formal education is great but doesn't give you the practical street-skills you need. Post-grad degrees prepare you for a career in academia. Being CEO (or really any other position that matters) requires cross-functional thinking. Most popular route between engineering <=> business is usually business analytics[0].

The article does feel a bit click-baity when you consider how broadly the concept can be applied. Everyone should really think out of the box ... be curious about the bigger picture. Don't be a drone, etc ... so in the end not sure what I read :-)

[0] https://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/10/31/the-role-of-...
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One could argue that we could add should, but we don't. We just think 23 million people can only support two news papers. That way we can claim there isn't a monopoly.
The best analysis comes from actual expert in international trade: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/opinion/krugman-no-big-dea...
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Also interesting is the relation between Solomonoff induction and Kolmogorov Complexity.
Yeah I think a problem with this article is that hints at what you can do in topology, but it doesn't really explicitly tell you what all the rules of the game are.
Seamless "filesystem integration" -- which includes the Finder badging -- was central to what made Dropbox a novel product.

It's also a very useful feature that served people well.
Anyone who stereotypes the practices of the best developers is kidding themselves. Some of the best developers I know only know C.

In reality there are roughly two types of tech: staples and new ones. Staples are around for a long time, but HN tends to focus on new ones. The thing is, even our modern staples came from a much larger set of new pieces of tech.

What this means is, that if you're using a piece of tech that has been popular for at least 20 years, you're probably good for at least the next 20. If you keep switching to the new hotness, you will have to keep doing that because you are most likely learning stuff that won't stay around.
There has been previous work that was similar to what I think you mean (and predates AprilTags) [1]. The idea is to use markers that are grids, with each cell colored either red, green or blue; tag detection is then done by finding the rectangular region of the image over which the average of the RGB contrast function [2] is maximised. Thus tags are detected based on color without having to do edge detection across the whole image.

[1]: http://www.alexwg.org/publications/ProcSPIE_6623-662304.pdf

[2]: at a single pixel, this is sqrt((r-g)^2 + (g-b)^2 + (r-b)^2))
Also here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469117

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467063

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467015 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12465255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12461461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12461156 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12456938 (2 comments)
Yeah, geographical mobility is the dark side of this scheme. For theater people, for example, even crossing over from Chicago to New York is extremely difficult. And it doesn't matter how much goodwill you've built in Omaha, that won't get you hired in Chicago unless one of your Omaha friends goes first. It's really important to go to school and start your career in the place you want to end it, because in a new city, if you can find work, you're probably going back to entry level for a while. Even worse in seniority-based union hiring halls.

This is partly why the Bay Area is what it is for software.

I'm sorry you experienced this. It sucks. I wish you luck getting back on your feet in Australia.
That's actually a good point.

On a sidenote, I get a weird feeling from HN's simple UI/UX. On one hand, it feels like the old CLI machines that put the focus on "content" - kinda like "do one thing and do it right".

On the other hand, reading all the comments, getting notified for replies on comments, etc. is really hard. In this day and age, one would wonder if HN really hates JS (well, except for the upvote button).
I know you, "dabblers and blowhards" guy :) I don't agree with you, but I am aware of you.
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And how do you store the carry bits (this machine only has 2 bits of state)? Or do you encode carries by pure branching?
are you and your parent referring to me by "they" (as a gender-neutral term)?

What I meant with my comment is that a pretty clear example of copyright would be, for example, hosting and including the copyrighted content. (If the content is literally on the hosting server - posting full text is obviously an example of this. Hosting full images is another example.)

A less clear example would be hotlinking. (So that the pictures are loaded and shown by the browser, and it appears to be part of the article, but is in fact an offsite image anchor.)

An even less clear example would be a URL link. That is what we're reading about. But What if it's not clickable? (hxxp:// whatever(dot) whatever - replace hxxp with http and (dot) with . -- what then?)

An even less clear example is telling you explicitly what Google search to search for, and how you can know that you've found it. (e.g. words like "Search Google for leaked playboy pictures from 2011, and click on the first link, which should be a site named after a fish." - I'm making this up.)

But a less clear example still would be "It's easy to find. Just search for [vague reference but one that is clear enough]"

So you want to use the standard of "mens rea."

How can we REALLY judge what someone's reason might be?

For example, it could be that the real reason to report on something is so that interested readers might find it.

Example: "The Pirate Bay is now hosting the entire (name something)". It could be that the primary reason to say that is that it provides people information that they can immediately use to start infringing the copyright of (something).

But what if it's couched in any other report?

"What the fact that the pirate bay is hosting (something) says about democracy and our copyright laws"? Should that be an illegal post to make?

You understand what I'm saying. It's an extremely slippery slope.

But one very, very clear line is: "are you ACTUALLY yourself hosting the content"? Because if not, then there's an actual target to shut down.

I guess it's like the difference between selling drugs, and saying "you know you can just ask the kids hanging out on the corner of 6th and 8th streets, they'll hook you up." Whether that latter shows criminal conspiracy or whatever, it doesn't really matter - you can actually just shut down the kids, you don't have to shut down the free speech around it or judge mens rea.. . .
In 1945 there was a recommendation that a healthy adult should have about 2.5 liters of water intake a day, including water that is part of the food you eat.

Somehow the media managed to drop the last part, and recommended you drink at least 2l water a day. Or even more.

Source: http://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-no-evidence-we-need-to-d...

I know of no credible research that shows that drinking more than required to still thirst is beneficial in a healthy human.
I just can't believe Krugman because of a bunch of articles I've read about the secrecy involved.
I don't understand how any one actually knows anything about it.

http://www.vox.com/cards/trans-pacific-partnership/what-is-t...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/04/ttip-t...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/04/13/tpp_trans...
Sounds like it was based on "Microcosmic God" by
Theodore Sturgeon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_God
There's nothing I can argue about what you have said. I would love to see that change, I don't have any special desire of making women uncomfortable at their workplace and even less to feel myself uncomfortable around them. I would gladly put on practise any new idea on that purpose but many of the things I've seen lately don't look like they have that purpose or go beyond that, making us men to feel "threatened" (maybe that's no the right word but I think you get the idea).
> If they'd fix all the problems, what would be left to sell :)?

You can always introduce new ones and suddenly there is a whole market for next generation of accessories and "using lightning in 3-rd party devices"-fees.
Probably another law that will just be applied to the "little people".
Hey Tyler! Is RadPad having liquidity/financial difficulties? Or is this a technical hiccup?
Yeah...the "web" link didn't work from work, and I tried Google manually when I got home. I tend to forget the little tricks, because a paywall article is usually an insta-close. I've got a few friends with Note 7's though, talking big about how it's not going to affect them.
Thanks for commenting on this, I agree with almost everything you said, but I think that we should start taking at least some of his ideas seriously, because the way our world is going right now is totally disconnected from reality, it's unsustainable, and because of the way humans are organized today ( in rival countries ) we waste a lot of resources in nonsense if you ask me, for example the usa has a 600 billion military budget, if such money were put in research instead of making weapons that kill fellow humans efficiently, I really can't imagine what we could have accomplished, we should at least get along, and stop wasting money and human ingenuity in such nonsense.
There is hope that the tech IPO market is poised for recovery
Was anyone else bothered by the numerous type-os? I counted at least 10.
> How much tacit knowledge does that rely on?

It looks like you're criticizing the GP's praise of Idris' concise formal definition of its unsugared semantics. I wouldn't use such a formal definition for educating novices (like I think you're implying in your next sentence); I'd use it professionally to show that many desirable things--effect tracking, compile-time checking, and design-by-contract--derive from the same thing. Ken Iverson in his notes on mathematical notation says that one criterion for a good notation is "suggestibility"--the notation should suggest that other problems similar to those you found just now could be solved as well.

Whether formality is useful for novices, it is certainly useful for experts.
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Tcl is a better lisp than Ruby. Homoiconic. Yield and tailcall make it easy to implement FP idioms. Macros available if needed.
Are they the appropriate species?

There are more than just honey bees, and beekeepers don't often encourage the other kinds. But the other kinds are important for some major crops.

(I don't remember any more details, I saw a keynote at a conference about this.)

Edit: an overview from Wired https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/