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i try to never let it slip at work that i went to college for graphic design, can shoot great photography, am very proficient in photoshop, do UI/UX design and edit video as well... the things i really dislike doing on a professional level but love to do in my spare time, i don't let on about at work, don't want to muddy the waters. the places where i did let it slip, ended up wanting me to do all that kind of stuff so they didn't have to outsource it or go to another team.
Hospitals and pharmacies are accepting the older bills for a longer window.
Awesome to see this in the comments. The Expanse does a neat job of working through some socio-political thought experiments.
> I want to end all involuntary treatments

Are you sure you have thought through all implications? I mean, getting locked up sounds pretty scary, but there are a lot of other scary stories that can happen if you really ban the whole concept of involuntary treatments.
This is a good reminder that once you deal with different compilers and operating systems a lot of assumptions don't work anymore.
Hey it's you! there's quite a bit that has been achieved by successive Indian govts on shoe string budgets.

We've had the green and white revolutions, the IITs and other edu programs, large medical programs, ISRO (and the sensing tech that comes with it).

This is from a once impoverished country which later had to deal with the fallout of weaker institutions, brain drain and corruption/dacoity/booth capturing and a whole host of problems that include terrorism and war.

Post 1991, once the economy improved there's been significant improvement in out fortunes/tax kitty allowing for many other improvements (not to mention economic freedom).

This argument comes up very often, even in other countries and its spurious on the facts (Indian facts above), and on the logic - taxation is not a choice.

Don't forget it's a chicken and egg issue as well - without funding you don't get services, which makes you blame the govt and not want to give them more funding.
I wonder how much it would cost for the entire NES catalog, or even if they would be able to do that (b/c of licensing issues). I feel like if I bought this thing I would think about some game from my childhood and it wouldn't be included.
Great, thanks for the taking the time to reply.
I build a Donald Trump text to speech engine: http://jungle.horse

Maybe we could combine efforts in the future. :)

edit: As an aside, I don't understand how the HN algorithm works. I posted my submission to HN [1] and it rose to the top of "show". I told my coworkers I posted (a few of them upvoted it), and it slipped off. Weird. :|

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12902889
That's a pretty reductionist characterization of GP's point. IMO, they're not saying information shouldn't be used to effect political change in the abstract - but that it should be available when available, not when politically expedient.

The issue most critics seem to have in this thread and elsewhere with Wikileaks' actions aren't the leaks, but the timing just weeks before the election. I can't honestly say if that's agenda or just the timing in which they received the information, but if they sat on the info before releasing it, that definitely belies some specific political agenda rather than the broader and widely-supported goal of "information should be free".
The problem with interstellar travel is that the distances are so huge that there is a high probability of having a catastrophic crash. Particularly at the speeds required.
Indeed that's exactly why I'd not want to do it full-time!

I do it frequently enough to make me happy, and I'm lucky enough to get paid for it, in my small niches. But I've no interest in the rest of the stuff that I'd have to do if I needed to fund my life (rather just fund new camera-toys/lighting gear every month or two.)
Real world things in C that may bite you:

(a) char may be signed or unsigned so

char a, b;
...
short c = (short (a) << 8 | b);

will not work to construct a 16-bit value from two 8-bit values.

(b) NULL is not a useful macro. For example,

printf ("%p", NULL);

can have unexpected results.

Those things mentioned in the article? Outside of DSPs and GPUs, you can ignore them.
> You can insert a gene into any crop. That crop can be diverse or not. It's completely independent.

You missed my point. Genetic modification does not come for free. So the varieties which are chosen for modification will be only a small subset of the varieties in existence. Hence you shrink the size of the set of crops with an economic interest.
You're not kidding. They didn't even put a black border around the words. I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed yet as well; wouldn't an editor or someone catch that?
Early vacuum systems where actually using steam that was then condensed. So, it's not particularly high and only a 'pure' vacuum for relevant purposes.

Don't forget vacuum cleaners are hardly high vacuum systems.
That may be a typo. Macs have a feature that automatically converts ' and " into ‘ and “ called "smart quotes." It's innocuous most of the time and maybe even welcome, but can be a real pain when trying to share a command with someone (who is probably going to copy and paste it, receive an error and not know why).
Earth's politicians scapegoat the Martians for being the cause of all their problems, then strike first once they discover them working on nukes.
If this does even half as well as I expect, they would be insane not to do an SNES one. N64 and Gamecube are more interesting as, while both platforms had some good games, 1) the controllers were absurd, and 2) they don't have the same nostalgia feel with a wider audience that the first 2 Nintendo consoles do.

What gets interesting is what games do they put on the SNES? I would dearly love to see stuff like FF 3/6 and CT on there, SMW... god building a list of 30 such games would take hours to trim down.
Personally, I do not really care what Kalium-the-person says or does.

But as long as you are donning the hat of Kalium-the-spokeperson-of-Science, you are displaying ignorance and comptept for human nature. You seem to confuse the fact that Science is able to get the material facts more or less right, with the assertation that people should automatically trust/obey what scientists say.

They did just that, during the 20th century... and then (some of) the scientist sold out to moneyed interests. They made claims that were not 100% supported by the facts, but they did it anyways because their sponsors asked for it very nicely. Then, when (some of) those claims turned out to be false... it was not the sponsors or the guilable individual scientists who received the hit to their reputations, Science-the-institution did.

So, people have reason to distrust. And the fact that you refuse to acknowledge that much and demand compliance because you happen to be donning a white labcoat makes all of us look bad.

You say that it is unfair that others only point to our mistakes and forget our successes. That's Standard-Operations-Procedure in politics, everybody does it. Heck, even you do the same, it is just that you don't notice.

So given that the other people are not going to listen to you... what's to do? Throw a tantrum? Or engage the others with the tools of the politician?
> Notice something about the title? Yeah, it isn’t Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! The game is exactly the same, but you fight a palette-swapped Tyson at the end — they made him white and changed his name to Mr. Dream. Sad, really, but how often did you even get that far? Turns out this is a great party game.

What a shame :( I wonder how much extra money it would have cost them for the licensing.
Are you looking to get involved in the patent-law field? You can apply your love for computers and as far as I understand, there's more job stability as well.
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His adult fiction and short stories are excellent, he also wrote erotic literature which is quite good too.
This is totally unrelated to capitalism as a structure and paradigm for an economy.

Let's momentarily set aside the issue of whether the US owed Iran 1.7B dollars. There are arguments on both sides but I want to point something out:

The cash payment was made at the same time as the release of four Americans by Iran's regime. The Obama administration has admitted that the cash was used as leverage in negotiating their release.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
> This is the boldest and probably most brilliant move by any Indian politician since liberalization of economy in 1990s.

This is not the first time this has happened. It happened in March 2014.

https://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=...
thank you for the link. It's at 12:28 in the talk where he mentions the firm is Conning, who used k for financial simulations for insurance. In this talk, he doesn't suggest he is working with other firms to replace k/q/kdb+.
I guess it's difficult to form an opinion without having actually used this novelty UI, but on the face of it I have the strong feeling it introduces more problems than it actually solves. Anybody who has actually used it care to comment?
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Yup I did. But I meant chakra. Thanks for clearing that up
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"...how is the world changing and what can I do about it? Only once you identify an environmental change and make sure you’re not late to market..."

"...There are no formulas to learning about changes early, but you can put yourself in a position to get unique insight. For example, you can learn about changes early because of your job or hobbies..."

"...Sometimes your unique background can make you aware of changes that other people can’t see..."
Nokia wasn't sitting still either, they just refused to be yet another brand repackaging a third party OS. In that sense, there is actually quite a lot of similarity: where Nokia was reluctant to repackage Android, car manufacturers are reluctant to give up their engines as the central value-adding component. An EV drivetrain is trivial except for the battery and the charging infrastructure, access to which is implicitly sold with each Tesla. Both of them are about as alien to a company that is good at making engines as becoming a Google, Amazon or Facebook would be.
It's really unfortunate about the controller cables. The length is roughly the same as the Wii classic controller.

I'm not much of a gamer anymore, but I recently fired up my Wii to play some old SNES games and I found the wii classic controller's cable length fairly annoying and that's simply tethered to the wireless Wii remote! I can't imagine playing with the Nintendo classic console pretty much in my lap.

Other than that, I really wish they had included the original Contra.
I do. Unfortunately some tools i use, only exist in blender. So every once in a while, i have to do the dantes journey thing and venture into the ux-underworld.

I wouldnt waste so much time on this, if it werent for this wasting so much of my time.
London here. Thought it was 10-20%

I asked a recruiter that placed me and he said he's usually taking 20-35% :D
sizeof(long) >= 4

sizeof(int) >= 2

sizeof(long) >= sizeof(int)

That's all you can expect.
Note that starting tomorrow, people will become progressively reluctant to accept those notes in retail transactions. It will become difficult for anyone with a hoard to exchange these notes for any other commodity.

EDIT: fixed typo "tomorrows"
Would anybody else much rather get a raspberry pi and $30 in supplies to make it themself?
I wish they were in universal use. I'm constantly cleaning up a colleagues code where he's made many (now incorrect) assumptions about what "int", "short", "long" would mean. Even pointing him to the standard didn't help, I just got back his stock answer, "It works on X so why do we need to worry?" To which I reply, "Because we've changed architectures and compilers since then and now your code is frequently broken." You'd think he'd learn after a while, but some people are too stubborn.
Holy crap. It all make sense now. Thank you !
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900965
One of the most idiotic decisions ever - just wait and watch the anger on the streets in the coming days. India is not ready to be a cashless economy - it is eons away with its illiterate masses.
Alrighty! Thanks for the feedback!
I don't think that's a concern at all. Free speech is not a problem. The problem is that the Supreme Court has decided that "money is speech", and so corporate spending cannot be regulated. That's what needs fixing.
It's a card you can play once and will only work against small businesses like restaurants and other stores that deal in cash. The big fish will get away as they most likely already have their money laundered and converted to other assets. They wouldn't be holding all their cash in a garage somewhere like Walter White :)

I think the one of the big reasons (if not the only one) of doing this is to be able to introduce notes of higher denominations as an anti-corruption measure without having to answer the critics about the sorry state of the economy.

Nonetheless, a good one time move against the small time tax evader. This is not going to work long term obviously.

What the government needs to do is to give incentives to tax payers and considerably lower the taxes. Only then people will start paying them. I know it is a bit of a chicken and egg problem but it's the government that has to initiate the process.

I think Indians are among one of the highest taxed citizens in the world if you count direct+indirect taxes vs social welfare offered by the state.
Yeah, mailing in your absentee ballots together could work - I assume that the people on apps aren't doing that because it would be difficult for most people to travel to another state.

That said, anything that allows you to prove who you voted for is a flaw in the design of the voting system anyway, so to the extent that there are loopholes that allow this, one would hope that they will be fixed.

As for reputation - reputation systems rely on the ability to verify that something has already been completed. If you order something online and never receive it, you are able to complain and cause reputational damage to the seller. In the case of vote-swapping, you shouldn't ever be able to know whether or not the other person voted the way they said they did, so you never actually know that the other person is untrustworthy.
How do you figure out why no one else has solved that problem?
Too many CTR shills on reddit
So I spoke to economists friends asap - and while I share your views, the point added was that wealth is not stored as cash by most people, but as jewelry, assets, cattle and so on.
Awesome! Thanks for working on this project.
Nah. It's just a standard negotiation strategy.

If you want to stay, come back with a better offer and ask your company to match. Be prepared to leave if they don't want to.
An astounding inability to get a product to market in any sort of reasonable numbers.
No, "they" is always the bank (or whatever business manages the account). By "they deposit into it", I meant the bank adds funds to your account.

It doesn't matter whether you are a business owner; your bank account is still an asset to you and a liability to the bank.

Personal & business accounting are the same, except your only investor is yourself, so you don't have to manage capital accounts.
The ADS in 'ADS/CFT correspondence' stands for 'anti-de Sitter'. Any time you read someone talking about 'information on the boundary' of a bulk space, that's usually what they're working with.

I'm sure there's a way to transform everything to a de Sitter space, but i'm neither a mathematician nor a physicist, so I don't know how it's done...
Given the success rate of holding on to local colonies nearby on earth, my guess is it won't last and Mars would become independent at some point.
Yes, but that wasn't covered by the article. The title references post-speciation.
Cool that your daughter is willing to play retro games (I assume), I tried to get my teenage nephews to play FF7 and as soon as they saw the blocky graphics they noped the f out. Sigh.
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"Will VR be able to be a good replacement for a walk over the forest?"

Maybe in 200 years, when it's neurologically attached to our brains.

Until them, no :)
Or chimeracoder has made this up out of whole cloth and the law doesn't actually list him by name.

I was surprised by this, too, so I dug up the full text. The only places I can find Weinstein's name are in the letterhead and the signature on the cover letter. Search for yourself: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0004%20%...
Giving Mars an atmosphere is pretty much out of the question. Even digging a 20km deep hole in Hellas Planitia to achieve a pressure above the Armstrong limit is more plausible.
That's especially the case of consultancies.

They resell the human dude at a daily rate. Giving a raise is just lowering their margins.
I don't think it's a license issue, it was more of that Mike Tyson criminal convictions that caused Nintendo to replace him when they re released the game.
Eh. I was just talking to someone this weekend who was calling around trying to find a Bolt they could test drive but there're apparently in very tight supply. I think GM will do fine.
This law is only to serve interest of politicians, corporations and cartels.
Whilst Julia's foreign function interface is indeed good and it is really easy to call into C, the point is that Julia itself is as fast as C. So you don't need to write any C code to get performance, instead just tune the bottlenecks in Julia itself.

For instance, the standard library of Julia [1] is written in Julia itself (and is very performant) and only calls into external C or Fortran libraries where there are well established code-bases (e.g. BLAS, FFTW). Compare this to, e.g., Python or R where much of the standard library is written in C.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/base
Do not believe in WhatsApp forwards.
My point is that you explicitly claimed that human interstellar travel is possible with current nuclear propulsion methods. Project Orion doesn't support this claim (since Dyson's models require a number of nuclear weapons several orders of magnitude larger that current stockpiles). Other similar projects don't support this claim either, since they use unmanned spacecraft. I referenced the Stross blog posts because finding a reasonable propulsion system is only one new technology that needs to be invented before human interstellar travel is possible.

If you have other sources (Wikipedia articles or otherwise) that suggest differently, please feel free to post them.
They are releasing the information for maximum impact to achieve the political change no argument there. Why not use strategy and tactics?
I use that a lot but I like both depending on what I'm doing. It also kills command+F3 which I use constantly
This is slightly different. All 500 and 1000 rupee notes in circulation right now are being demonetized. In previous cases demonetization was done for older currency over a longer period of time.
Oh man, when I was ten, the neighbor's kids had an NES, and we spent entire weekends in front of it. It did eventually die down when we discovered AD&D, but still - we spent a lot of time playing Mario Bros, Zelda, etc. The wave of nostalgia hitting me is irresistible.

Just checked: Amazon (in Germany) knows of this thing, but says it is not available. Does not list a price, either. :-(
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He was removed from the game because Nintendo didn't want to really be associated with him after the rape case conviction in the early 90s.
Ask HN: Is there a good text editor on Android?
I would like to switch from iOS to Android, the biggest thing that is stopping me is that I was unable to find a halfaway decent text editor.

I'm using Editorial on iOS and I'm extremely happy with it, so far nothing I've tried on Android comes even close. What do you guys use?
Frankly, I'd be surprised if anything ever suggested that Leibniz's colorful metaphysics was correct, even or incorrect.

Leibnizian monads are unextended and unable to act on one another (from §1 and §7 of the Monadology), which is to say that they're non-physical. On the other hand, as they're somehow supposed each to have a complete picture to the world (§56), they imply some form of non-locality. Which is to say that they're some very spooky things.

The thing that comes closest to Leibniz's monadology is the idea that the world is a simulation running inside a computer. But Leibniz's idea was more like that there is an arbitrarily large number of computers running the same simulation, while some of them also run artificial intelligences which just watch the simulation unfold.

Which is an idea I think can be fairly described as "completely nuts".
Who says black money is a major problem in India ?

I keep hearing this, and then I see no proof. Right now I see people conflating the unorganized sector with black money - and these are two separate things.

Any ideas where I could find supporting data from a major economic body ?
Mixing in PHEVs doesn't hurt anything. Just ignore those. The conclusion remains.
It'll come out to the same cost when you factor in the controller. This seems sturdier, includes all the games (legally), and can be easily resold when you inevitably get bored and realize you purchased a 30 year old console system.
I'm not sure they are terrible. Electrostatic describes charges at rest, capable of inducing a voltage across a dielectric. Electrodynamic describes charges in motion, capable of inducing a current across a conductor. They seem like apt descriptions to me.
Ah ok, guess that makes sense.
I guess it depends on how big the efficiency gain is, but afaik it's pretty big.
> The idea of designing city features that would have a real, dramatic impact on people's every day lives is really compelling to me.

Maybe you might want to go into urban water management? It is done both at an academic level (environmental engineering), governance level (the city's sewer and water supply planning organizations) and private level (e.g. companies building special-purpose solutions for urban water management).

Although you said you want to get rid of programming, keep in mind that your programming capabilities get you miles there. Most stuff is still done in Excel, etc. but the field is getting more and more technical, and cities start to plan and simulate their sewer and water supply systems with sophisticated simulators (e.g. SWMM or Epanet), so your knowledge might be well received.
The boundary is where racial demographics are closest to the national average, are you arguing that voter intimidation is more likely in places demographically similar to average national demographics and less likely in places statistically further from the average (either higher % white people or higher % non-white people than national average)?
No, I'm saying that he has to provide a better refutation of my point.

I do not agree that the graphs look identical.

What point am I trying to make, BTW?
We're talking base salary.

The $300k are usually accounting for stock and bonus.
In a quantum field theory, a wave implies a force carrying particle, does it not?
In that genre "SQL on Rails" is also quite funny.
> And I had to learn it the hard way too.

I'm worried. What blew up?
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FYI: It is still illegal at the federal level. This is causing all kinds of headaches for people growing it legally as part of a medical marijuana business (such as difficulty getting a bank account). So, this advice is not good advice anywhere in the US.
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