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Matlab delegates a lot of heavy lifting to native routines like MKL and otherwise has a JIT for user code. For workloads which fit on a single workstation, it's usually a reasonable performer, for a lot less effort than the alternatives.

That said it costs too much and doesn't scale well to multimachine workloads. The language is also quite quirky by modern standards.
Well, it certainly makes for some people saying that bikes should be heavy so as to be better at ramming into cars. I have mixed feelings about your attitude to say the least.
The Baroque Cycle seems like it was a ton of fun to write, much less so to read.
> Given the past actions, one just doesn't know what the pricing will be in future,

There's no reason to worry that Apple will resume charging for OS X updates after so many years of giving them away and after shifting to more frequent but less substantial releases.
Even the executable is still lync.exe for Skype for Business.
This looks super interesting, thanks!
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I am curious about how may incidents are caused from people that consistently are a bit lazy, and how many are caused by people that make a one off mistake. It is a genuine question. The reason it comes to my mind is recently I was doing a three point turn (actually a 20 point turn) to get out of my drive way, as other cars had left me with almost no space to get out, part of this manouver involved me having to pump up onto the kerb when reversing, and just after doing it, I saw a little girl appear from behind my car on her scooter, she then stopped and looked at me. I didn't find out from her (she disappear shortly after) whether I had almost hit her, or not, but either way it shook me up a little, as I appreciate I could have so easily caused an accident, and I would say I am a very careful, cautious driver. In this particular scenario other road users had left the cars parked in a way that bumping up the kerb was my only option, but I simply didn't see this small girl, I think she came from behind a parked car, so I couldn't see her. Luckily no harm was done, but it shook me up a little. Hopefully it'll reduce my chances of having a similar incident in future as it'll make more more vigilent to my surroundings.
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Yes, of course, "The Spectator" home of the Bullingdon Eton clique to peddle their elitist propaganda against the working classes. I shalln't be wasting my time with that drivel.
A craftsman knows how to build with simplicity and maintainability. Its not about how many algorithms you know, or how many languages.

We are at a point in software development where algorithms in particular are commodities. Knowing WHEN/IF to apply them is much more critical. Just like knowing when or more importantly when not to optimize is critical.
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While you can add some interactivity without JavaScript, it doesn't necessarily mean you should do this.

If you ask yourself, what is the purpose of CSS vs JavaScript, you will see that this type of functionality probably falls outside the scope of what CSS is meant to do. Also it may take extra time to explain how this works to every new developer. Also accessibility.
I (also Dutch) also have never heard about this practice of using your right hand to open the left door. It's an interesting idea, but certainly not common practice. I have never in my entire life seen anyone open their door like that. People just know that you must start looking backwards first and then open the door slowly.
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I heard that someone determined a long-haired blonde wig to perform best in that regard.
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Yes, I think that is one of their main purposes. It basically takes the impact energy and distributes it over a larger area and over longer time, reducing the risk of permanent brain damage. This website has some charts of a lab experiment showing the difference in the energy spike felt by the brain. http://www.bhsi.org/general.htm
How can anyone complain about the most entertaining Presidential campaign season ever? Last night was quality entertainment.
Ask HN: More engineering puzzle games?
Like many of you, I've been chewing through SHENZHEN I/O since the day of release, and have lain awake at night, trying to find puzzle solutions. Also like many of you, I really enjoy Zachtronics style puzzle games (sometimes called engineering or design-based puzzle games), like SpaceChem, Shenzhen I/O, TIS-100, Guild of Alchemical Engineering, etc.

Does anybody have suggestions for other puzzle games of this sort?
> At the start of this review I said it was important to consider perspective because at the end of the day, I use Android devices. Doing the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus review is important, but also deeply disillusioning. With the iPhone 6s review I showed a number of clear and present issues in Android devices relative to the iPhone, and these issues continue to appear time and time again. More than ever it’s obvious to me that most companies in the Android ecosystem don’t really care about the details as an organization.

I would love to hear more about the disillusioning part. As an Android user I want to stay with them but after playing around with the 7 and reading this review I'm actually much more impressed with this phone than when it initially came out. Especially after the release of the Google Pixel which was very underwhelming to me. I can't believe I'd say this but the iPhone 7 seems to provide a better value than the Pixel.
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Evergreen is the best Open Source Solution. They Georgia Libraries made their own after all the money and frustration using a closed source one.

https://evergreen-ils.org
Is it just me, or does this sound really insecure?
You're going to need to understand how the system works regardless. So you can spend the time learning how the internals of someone else's library works, or you can learn how to solve the problem and write your own. In my experience, there is rarely a difference between the two. But when I write my own code, I know how to make it integrate with all my other code better.
> Sadly true. If you haven't been practicing since before puberty, you will never be a professional classical performer.

This is correct about 99.999% of the time. The exception is when extreme levels of talent and interest are simultaneously involved.

Barry Tuckwell, one of the great virtuoso French hornists of the 20th century, started playing at 14 and was playing professionally within six months.

Hermann Baumann, another virtuoso French horn soloist, started playing when he was 17.

Anyway, I think that interest in programming before college is a likely indicator of independent interest and self-directed learning. I know a lot of folks majoring in CS or trying to get into development simply because it's a lot more lucrative than many other professions. Many(not all) of these folks don't have a genuine interest in programming which makes it unlikely that they will be effective developers.
HAHAHA! That was great.
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This is a minimal framework, customizable to its core. Any declaration you make will override the current one, see the docs. It's super fast, and works great on mobile.
With the personal network there is some assumption that the potential hire has some introduction and will consider (at least a little) the offer.

With the 100 emails in an Excel file approach, I guess most people will just send it to the spam folder.
Probably, but his point was about that ecosystem (iPhone or all?) becoming a wallet garden, and it did become one (sounds like he was referring to the phone one)
> Use a company domain name as opposed to a Gmail / Yahoo / Hotmail / AOL email address.

I've seen more and more professionals not do this so it is good to see it reiterated now

Sometimes I'm not sure how I want to be perceived : as a big firm or as an individual

Sometimes company emails scare people off, other times personal emails do
I'm questioning why you picked Cuba when most other developing countries are worse. I'm not saying it's great. I'm asking why you picked on the standard American boogieman country.

> "'Longevity' is not in any way a measure of the quality of healthcare" ...

Life expectancy and child mortality are two commonly used proxies for the quality of healthcare.

> "Can you tell me how many functional CT scanners they have in Cuba? They have one for Fidel & Co. but the economics of it imply the number is de-facto 0."

You cannot argue that it's simple economics. The US embargo also has an effect. As https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-cuba-u-s-relat... points out:

> Since 2003 more than three dozen companies, including Philips Electronics of North America Corp., have faced penalties due to violations of the travel embargo, according to the Congressional Research Service. The change could also mean more consistent medical scanning options for research. Direct imports of medical supplies from the U.S. have remained rare, and sometimes Cuba has run up against difficulties even getting spare parts. At one point, CT scanners, angiography and ultrasound equipment from Philips—technologies common in health care facilities around Cuba—were lying idle, leaving patients with few options for three years, according to The Lancet Neurology.

I contrast the SciAm statement that CT scanners are "common in health care facilities around Cuba" with your statement that is is de facto 0, based on purely economic reasons.

I found http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1215226 which says "A neurologist reports that his hospital got a CT scanner only 12 years ago." and http://www.martinews.com/a/cuba-sells-medical-services-100-c... shows a Siemens CT scanner at the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery of Havana. In 1997 Calixto Garcia also has a CT scannner, says http://dx.doi.org.sci-hub.cc/10.1016/S0735-6757(97)90143-1 .

I think it's safe to conclude that there is more than 1 scanner in Cuba.

> "There is absolutely no preponderance of Canadians going to Cuba for medical care"

Never said there was. Indeed, I said that many more went to India. One of those links suggested why - there are relatively few English speakers in Cuba.
How about a middle-aged career politician who is his major party's candidate to run the economy telling a small and sympathetic audience that he was a Marxist and the 2007/8 financial crash was an opportunity he'd been waiting for for a generation? That's an actual example from British politics, albeit an MP so known for making unfortunate remarks that there were probably journalists willing to manually trawl through weeks worth of footage of fringe meetings he attends to find the most outrageous ones, but there's no doubt a tool like this could yield better results.

For better and (mostly) for worse, dredging up muck from student days has been around since the dawn of politics, and at least in the UK we're comfortable enough about the fact people change for even a Conservative Party chairman to be willing to volunteer they were a radical Marxist in their teens. Being able to rapidly cross-reference everything a politician has said on record on a given subject in recent years is a new and far more useful way of subjecting them to scrutiny.

This is less about the specific case of Trump's sex remarks (which was obviously a case of somebody knowing their secret video was dynamite and waiting for the right time to light the fuse) and more about the difficulty of establishing whether Trump was telling the truth about having opposed the Iraq war all along, which is where efficient search of stuff that's already in the public domain but not necessarily in the public consciousness comes in really, really useful.
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Another interesting aspect of the grid coloring approach is that one can pre-bake larger rooms within a maze, which is useful when adding a maze to a different style game, such as a first-person shooter or an RPG. Other features, which aren't provided by the standard Prim's Algorithm, such as 2.5D mazes (bridges and tunnels), or having more than one path to a given room, can be added after maze generation has been completed. A bridge, for instance, can be added by connecting two locations and adding a wall to block off one of the locations from the algorithmically defined path, if maze continuity is desired.

I played with using mazes as a way to find things that are quickly solved by machines but take some concentration from users, as a sort of anti-CAPTCHA test. Obviously, there are thousands of such potential tests, but mazes have an aesthetic appeal lacking, in say, "find the prime factors of this 128 bit number." A child can brute force a maze, as can any adult, given enough time. A machine breezes right through large mazes that could take hours for a human to solve by hand. When would such a test be useful? I'll leave that to the imagination of the reader.
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Seems like this could create a market for manufacturers to publish their test data on new drives.
I expected iPhone to be like Newton. But it ended up being a walled garden. I realised trading a bit of my freedom for convenient user interfaces was not a good plan in the long run, so I gave up on Mac and went back to Linux.

I thought Macs would become less open and less important for Apple in the future, with their marked shift to mobile.

I think it was the right decision. Almost a decade later, Macs still lack components I think are key for a developer. For example, they don't ship with a package manager.

I understand Apple's focus on mobile, since that's what brings most earnings, but as a developer freedom is very important to me. Not just from an ideological point of view. Also for convenience reasons. E.g., I cannot imagine going back to floating window managers. Getting a tiling one running on Mac is a bit of a hack. I prefer Arch, Nix and friends.
> Apps like WeChat are fairly notorious for holding wakelocks on Android and never really stopping background resource usage

I thought everyone went mad when they said this as I never encountered this issue, but I see it everywhere... The app that drains my Android is always Skype. That is also the app the drains my laptop and the reason I started using the web version but when that is on, Chrome drains my laptop. Wechat seriously does not come close and I use it a lot more...
In my opinion Pixel is a disappointment. iPhone 7 brought two features that I really like (waterproofing and a faster CPU) but screwed it up by removing the headphone jack. So I was really looking forward to the Pixel. But it has no water resistance, no wireless charging, a poor backplate design, and an uncompetitive starting price. So at this point I'm disappointed in both flagship launches of the year. I don't know what to get to replace my Nexus 5. Maybe I'll get an iPhone 6s, despite the ugly antenna bands.

I think if Apple kept the headphone jack and added wireless charging, they'd have a lot of very happy customers.
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You can't hide anything as we speak, when you sell your house you pay capital gains taxes on it if it increased in value.
Same goes for any other item.

Taxing "wealth" would means that the wealthy would keep being wealthy but the poor can never gain any wealth, this is what is effectively has been going in Europe since WW2 with the exception that there is a subclass of the "wealthy poor" in Europe, those who have inherited property and titles but effectively have no cash to uphold them.

Under this system you would penalize people who have savings, people who invest, and more importantly people who need to consume "more" such as people who are having kids because they need to buy a bigger house or a bigger car.

Under your system you also encourage grey and black market trading, and secondary economies that bypass the taxation system.

Taxing income is fair because it taxes what you get, taxing wealth is abysmal because it taxes what you have.
Wealth taxation would mean that any financial crisis where people lose their job would be 1000 times worse, it means that getting sick or wanting to leave work to raise children or to help parents would be impossible, it pushes people to effectively be slaves because you don't tax what they actively receive but have a regressive exponential tax on what they've accumulated in their entire lifetime effectively you tell people do not save, do not buy something which is too big, do not retire and work all your life otherwise you won't be able to afford what you already own.

You can't strip people off property they have already own, I can't even understand how would people come to think this system of taxation is reasonable, to the point of which I am beginning to question where people who post on HN live and how do they make their money.

We already live in a society where you effectively taxed for well over 50% of your income, where to buy a house you have to be endured to a bank for decades and you want to make this worse?
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Why is it ideal that someone has been coding before college? Simply because they have that many more years experience than everyone else. You may even be able to argue that coders are amongst the only people who have a non-negligible likelihood of starting the practice before college, I could believe this is the case.

I can also tell you that most the lawyers, bankers, consultants and doctors at my university will have been doing work experience + shadowing from around 14-15 years old. The even more ambitious ones will have been doing slightly more enterprising things (entering school/local/national entrepreneurial competitions), or reading around their interests, or joining/running societies.

When looking at the most successful people I know around me, what becomes apparent is that they started way earlier than everyone else. Look at Zuckerberg, he wrote Synapse when he was 16. It's unlikely you'll hire a Zuckerberg, but when someone started coding is a pretty reliable heuristic for how dependable they'll be in the job. Think of it as hiring a senior analyst to do an junior analyst's role, if you will...
They are implemented in the second codepen.
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Ok that makes more sense. But not sure why she would use an email that paints her partner in a bad light unless you knew the context.
You missed the 'bank calls in entire loan when they think the business is least capable of coming up with money at short notice, eg after major equipment expenditure.'
Funny. I ran across this survey I had to write a document structure analysis step for a document analysis pipeline recently. I thought of this paper in particular when watching https://vimeo.com/9270320 ("What We Actually Know About Software Development"), which I ran across on the recent thread on tech talks.

Not a computer scientist (barely a scientist at all!), so I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or not, but I was a little dismayed at the literature here. Is this quality of publication common? Is it getting better? The lack of experimental methods and reproducibility seems abominable.
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Yes, that's why I wrote 'mis-spelt.' I was making a point about their use of JavaScript to load fonts to display glyphs, which of course fails miserably if one has JavaScript disabled (as anyone who cares about privacy and security does).
> If we're talking about open-source (I can't see why not), you can just fork the library in question and adjust it to fulfill the missing 5%.

Depending on the situation this can mean having to understand lots of gory details of the implementation of the library. It is often easier to write an own implementation from scratch than having to understand these details and subtile interactions.

Typically "open source" just means that the source code is available under an OSI-compatible license and not that there is also a documentation available that guides you from barely understanding the library to understanding every implementation details that is necessary to do internal changes.
Sadly the only hardware feature I consider critical is available only in the Note:the stylus (I like painting).
Just an example how the value of a hardware feature does not depend on the quality of the feature but also on the utility for the user.
> I would say I'd just press my eyes tightly closed instinctively and press both brakes as hard as I can.

You probably don't have much experience if you write things like that :)
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What accessibility problems, specifically? It's all operable and navigable by keyboard. It could be further enhanced with ARIA tab panel attributes.
Speaking from my experience: I've just recently started to work with a phoneticist to improve my English accent and those lessons opened a whole new world of how people speak to me. I've started to discern a ton of new sounds, hearing things I'd never been able to hear before (e.g. how æn is almost a diphthong in American English). I hadn't any special training earlier in my life (I'm 26 now), so I think an ability to discern phonemes in a foreign language can be acquired while being an adult at least in some cases.
I think a system which relies on drivers to check blindspots for small, light vehicles while turning (when their attention is focussed on the large, heavy vehicles on the other side which can kill them) is broken.

Bikes are vehicles: they belong on the road, just like cars. They are slow vehicles, so they should take the rightmost lane. Cars should pass them on the left (switch the sides if you're in a certain countries), just as they would pass tractors or slow cars.

Putting cyclists where drivers are liable to miss them and doors are liable to strike them is madness.
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As the business they are willing to create did not succeed as expected, I think it will not be a problem for them to change the license to Apache v2, as the clients already are licensed under it. They pointed on the FAQ page, that the AGPL was chosen to balance the interest of their business, which used to sell a comercial version of RethinkDB.
I returned my 7+ as it's barely any different to the 6S+, and at £719 here in the UK for the 32GB model it was hard to stomach. £819 for 128GB model is now almost Macbook territory in my mind. I had barely any free space on the 32GB model, and using an adaptor for my headphones was annoying. The camera was good though.

A 64GB 6S+ is a much better proposition to me and will be my daily driver until I find something better. I've not noticed any difference since swapping.