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I have mild Tourette's, which has thankfully gotten milder in adulthood. It was the most pronounced in grade school. Minor facial tics, the occasional head jerk, and some subvocalized echolalia that took me years to be able to notice myself doing. I'm kind of shocked it's still so misunderstood by society at large.
The essay opens on a horrible false dichotomy.

No, full employment alone won't solve the problems of inequality that the essay very capably outlines.

But full employment may be necessary anyway, because having the sense of being needed and being useful may be an important factor to many people's well-being. Full employment is really just another way of saying that everyone can get this sense of being needed/useful via employment.
I'm not against welfare. I was responding to his assertion that he feels no obligation to work, even if jobs are available.
So it turns out the SEC lets you use even things like Twitter to give out information, as long as it can go to every shareholder at the same time [I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER, IGNORE ME].

see: https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/13...
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Indeed, but if it were based on raw votes then we'd probably not have had Mrs Clinton vs Mr Trump in 2016 because the timeline would have branched in 2000 based on the same metric.

It's an interesting example of arguing against a cause that's only relevant because of the effect it caused previously.
Sources in my prior comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039415
Conterfeit products? There are brand owners who will have any resellers of their products removed. They threaten to shut down my store. Meanwhile it's easy to find a counterfeit iPod. Nobody seems to care.
Well if you want to learn the science, you can just pick up a science book. I know many users here have good suggestions. But if you are specifically looking for scientific computing those generally talk about code basics. There are also numeric programming books. If you're trying to get into those studies I suggest going through a numerics book because the techniques will be similar among any of the code. But you'll have to spend time learning the non-coding parts as well. In science coding is just a tool.
Do we speak a different language? Because again I just do not understand how any of what you're saying follows.

Yes, I use C. Is the programming language telling me to use this or that? No, I am telling it to do this or that.

And no, I am not using it because somebody told me to. I am using it because (as I said above), I like it, I enjoy using it, I am good with it, and feel like it's a good fit for the values I hold. Opinions shared by other people may have affected my perception, but I am not using the language because somebody tells me to.
The author is apparently a Ph.D. student in Sociology at NYU. The article looks like an opinion piece, not a scholarly commentary on Jane Jacobs' work, but I haven't read the entire article yet.

http://sociology.as.nyu.edu/object/soc.maxhollerancandidate
This new release looks just great. Looking forward to how much time this is going to save me.
The 'AND?" is you said corporations don't give you "creative freedom", but talked about "crossing its boundaries" of " the one project you've been assigned".

The freedom of "creative freedom" usually means the freedom to be creative in you projects. Not having to focus on one particular project is a different thing. Even in a startup, which might be less silo-ed, actions on individual tasks needn't allow more creativity than in a large corporation.

For example, I might have to leave infrastructure up to another team, rather than building it myself, but that doesn't mean I can't be creative in the work I am assigned, it just has to be focused on that assigned task.
Broadly maybe yes, but much of that infrastructure pays for itself because of the volume that goes through it. That includes processing plants as well as gas stations.

To take gas stations as an example, if 25% die off, that increases the everyday inconvenience of filling up gas, which may push X number of people to buy an EV over an ICE even considering the fuel cost. So then there will be even less volume, and more gas stations will close, so you will have a death spiral. Ironically it may become harder to fill up gas than to charge your EV.

Not saying this is what's going to happen, rather pointing out that the death of oil will be complex and it will be beautiful. :D
You don't think you have any duty to try not to live off welfare, as long as not many people do it?
The fact is, the US's population distribution rules out direct democracy as a fair solution. We need the EC. It's true that the EC gives the hayseeds in the flyover states a disproportionate voice in government. But without it, the so-called coastal elites in a few large cities would be absolute dictators. If another civil war is what you want, that sounds like a good way to make one happen at some point.

Like the poster near the beginning of the thread said, the problem isn't really who wields Federal power, or who decides; the problem is that there's too much of it.
In my experience, people who want to have access to economical transport without sinking money into depreciating assets take a bus. If they have to have a car and don't have money to buy a new/almost new car, they buy a car that's 10 years old and drive that. I think people who own a car now won't be tempted to switch to a small non-personal-space vehicle even if it's much cheaper - if they cared about cheaper transport, there were already other options available, and they didn't pick them. They drive cars because they need them. And if those people who now use public transport decide to take cheap self driving pods, then the traffic problem gets worse, not better.
That's what people are talking about?

Nobody is seriously saying, "let's change the rules now so Hillary wins!" Some people are calling for electors to not vote for Trump, but at least that's part of the original intent for the electoral college (and it's not likely to happen anyways).

But lots of people are saying, "This system is obviously broken since the will of the majority was not enacted, let's fix it."

So nice strawman, but I think I just burnt it down.
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Not sure if your analogy is really proving what you want it to. The iPhone is still a small minority of phones in use worldwide.
" Welfare checks aren't fairy money, they're money that came out of other people's paychecks."

That's true, but I increasingly don't mind. It's also money that came from your own paycheck if you were a high earner in the past.
Tesla is already beginning to end free charging. Any car ordered after 31/12/2016 will be limited to 400 kWh (~1000 miles) of free charging per year, after that you have to pay. 1000 miles is around 10% of the distance most cars go in a year. And reserved != ordered, so this limit applies to all Model 3s.
"everybody it [is] fully satisfied with what they have and there's nothing more that they'd buy if they had more money."

That's the idea. Let's for the moment, just assume that AI and robots and some other technologies are ridiculously productive sometime in the future and we solve all sorts of problems and have the resources to provide everyone with everything they want.

At that point it's not a question of giving everyone jobs it's a question of whether or not we decide to distribute our plentiful resources (and a question of, should we?).

Of course, I don't think the time has arrived yet for all this to happen. But as mentioned earlier, I do think it is going to happen (if we don't have some horrible nuclear war or some other megadisaster that kills everyone first)
>>> Also, the polar ice caps are doomed :)

I really don't see why that sentence deserves a smiley. Ice caps doomed seems to mean a lot of unexpected, including threatening, consequences for me and you.
My experience with ReSharper is pretty similar, but it should be noted that we're a vanishingly small fraction of the market for ReSharper. =)
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> because Spencer is in fact a white supremacist

Ethnonationalism is to Suprematism as Socialism is to Communism.

> does in fact have strong anti-Semitic views

He does like Israel a lot. Uses words like 'role model' and 'poster child'.

Spencer is deliberately pressing the buttons that trigger Democrats. 'Misapprehending' is the entire point of his recent exercises. The post-election trauma requires a new Devil since Trump is more subdued/presidential and lo'.

In return he gets half hour interviews at NPR and CNN to explain his platform...

Maybe you should take care for that fifth column tptacek!
Solar wind strips that atmosphere very slowly over geological timescales. If we terraform Mars, then we probably have the technology to replenish it faster than that loss.
There will always be work maybe not paid work, but there's always work to do. A lot of "work" will be automated by robots, and even if we get AI and don't have to "work" ourself, we will still invent work, but we will not work because we need to, we will work because we want to.
It's actually very convenient to store it in water.

RIP Stan Meyer.
In Wellington our commuter trains have always been electric. Auckland has finally caught up :) We still have electric trolley buses, but sadly their days are numbered. Apparently keeping up the overhead electric infrastructure is too expensive.
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Well, I don't even consider calling names an argument. It's a cop-out, and it usually shows they have nothing else to counter with.

A perfect argument would indeed require both sides to show the evidence, to use logical constructs, to refute the opposing ideas. And some definitely try.
I did the same thing for a color app I built for adjusting CSS values using a color wheel.

Dealing with color is tricky, I'm sure I made a lot of mistakes..

One interesting bug I think I found is with NSColor/UIColor. If you set the hue for a color, and then proceed to drop the saturation/brightness to 100%/0%, it'll wipe out the hue when you change the saturation/brightness back to sensible values. It could just be something with color spaces that I don't understand, but it seems like a bug to me (data is destroyed).

I read a lot about color working on that app, and it is a pretty deep subject. You can read all about the science aspects of color, light spectrums etc. Then you read something else and realize that color is just a human sense, that is all about perception and not set in stone. All the color spaces and representations seem to have their flaws and certain adjustments don't match expectations.

To summarize I tried to learn and understand color, but in the end it all seems like a mess. I don't have an academic background, so maybe this is just a lack of understanding.
So, to put this all in context, a small ISO will do at least a billion in payment processing a month, and there are more than a few hundred small ISOs. If Stripe really isn't hitting anywhere near $1 billion a month, I'm not sure how they will maintain their ISO relationship with the platform they use (First Data, Elavon, Chase Paymentech, Tsys, etc) or their relationship with their underwriting bank.

You need a large volume to break even in this industry, and even more to turn a profit, hence why I'm shocked they haven't gone under due to lack of volume if they are really only doing $8 billion annually.
Why is it that the GPU always seems to be the failure point on mac notebooks? I've personally experienced the external gpu on the 2010, 2011, and 2014 models all fail right around the 3 year mark.
this is really nice. For all the news that you hear about ruby and rails, that is slow, that is bad, that everyone leave the language. I found it really nice. I do follow and see all the video conf regarding ruby, and I do hope that next year, jruby will be 3 times faster, and jruby+truffle will be able to run normal ruby gems.
As for ruby 3, to be 3 times faster, for that we wait and hope
I suppose it might be possible to tell when someone is incorrect about a perceived medical condition if you know them well, but I can't imagine meeting someone for the first time and telling them that they don't have a medical condition that they say they have (which has happened to me countless times over the years with my Tourette's). Given that I've been diagnosed by multiple doctors, this either means that they don't trust medicine or they think that I would lie about a medical diagnosis (again, without having met me before). Maybe you can understand why some people think it's reasonable to tell compete strangers that their medical diagnosis a sham or that they're liars, but I definitely can't.
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I think it's a fair analogy: most people don't have iPhones, but a huge portion of people have a smartphone. Tesla doesn't need to be the only source of electric cars, there are plenty more mainstream options.
> would you still be fine using Gmail?

Well, no. But I also wouldn't force others to stop using it too.

You want to know who is harmed by this? Those of us that read the subreddit but are not on Google Groups.
The models of the world inside the brain of many different animals. They sustain themselves

Even the models of the world in our own brains are not fully known to us, and we largely make use of them without interpretation.

Basically, any model that wasn't created by humans does not need human interpretation.
I commend you for helping your wife with social functions. I am often extremely shy and socially inept and I think it would help me a lot if somebody took me by the hand and helped me through those situations. Most people have no sympathy for this problem "Just go out there and have fun" is really bad advice.
The day I see a Linux distro put together as coherent an experience as OS X is the day I'll agree to that.

Even in it's supposed decline, OS X still manages to put together a more compelling UX story than every Linux distro I've ever tried.

I get that some people don't really care about the UX their OS provides as long as there's a terminal and deem GUIs as unproductive for those who "really know what they're doing" (I often hear something about moving from their keyboard to their mouse taking too long?) but to me it's paramount.

I spend a lot of my life using a computer and I need my desktop environment and the tools I use in it (GUI ones included) to feel like a joy to use, not something I'm trying to duck out of the way of to drop in to a terminal.
I think they WAY underestimate the number of electric vehicles by 2040. And WAY overestimate the total number of vehicles.
I'm Julia, the founder of Zidisha (YC W14 nonprofit). This is the first time in two years we've offered a loan fund that is designed to grow in value over time. I'd welcome feedback on the appeal of a compounding-value donation fund and on our implementation of it.
Has there been anyone gathering statistics on this? i.e. were there also pro-Clinton fake news sites that we didn't hear about? And what are the percentages like?

I don't know if a objective analysis of this is possible, but has anyone even tried?
Woah, Rosalind looks awesome- like project euler for bioinformatics. Thanks for sharing the link.
The things he lists to justify calling Wall Street that are real, however:

"
When I see, for example, that you’re making millions by laundering drug-cartel money (HSBC), or pushing bad paper on mutual fund managers (AIG, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, Citibank), or preying on low-income borrowers (Bank of America), or buying votes in Congress (all of the above) – just business as usual on Wall Street – while I’m barely making ends meet
"

So I wouldn't call it lazy when he flat out listed what they are doing to get put in that gangster category.
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Illegal to sell art to the Nazis, but also illegal to defraud the Nazis?
Someone who capably sets out to write their web application back-end in C most likely is aware of any security issues. If they exist in the finished product, their presence is going to be due to laziness, not ignorance.
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Ditto.

At this point in my career I can literally build anything that can be built. I have 100s of ideas. Why do I tech cofound with you for 25% equity vs just building my own idea for 100%?
Maybe, but it doesn't need to be useless labor. In the town I grew up in we had automated trash collection for a few years. The town eventually voted to get rid of the automated trash collectors because of jobs.

Seriously. People that did those jobs HATED their jobs. Now a group of people have a job again that they hate. Surely we can find something that fulfills their desire to be helpful without a completely unnecessary and unfulfilling job.
In a lot of scientific computing backwards compatibility is essential. Knowing Fortran in that world is still helpful, even if you only have a basic understanding it helps with common packages like LAPACK and ARPACK. In science the science is first and coding second. Coding is just the tool used to get the job done. Most people in the community adopted python2 because it was easier to use than C/Fortran in a lot of cases where speed wasn't critical. I can not tell you how much easier it is to read scientific python code than scientific C or Fortran code. So even though a lot of main packages are supported by 3 a lot of university and custom software isn't. Someone hands you code and asks you to improve on it, or make this model work, you don't rewrite the entire thing, you use what already works and build from there.
To be fair OP included the Mac Pro. If the top of the line product from Apple's macbook line can't cut it, maybe they shouldn't have abandoned the mac line so prematurely.
it does. All Shopify sales channels are included. Web, Pos, Native Apps SDK users, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Houzz, etc
Once you factor in the cost of the home charging station(and the required charging infra) and the battery and other electric components ,electric cars are(and will stay) more expensive ,meaningfully than ICE-cars. And ICE cars are much more reliable , they don't need an expensive battery swap every 5 years.

And when fuel is priced low it isn't more expensive than electricity.

So yes, an EV might have some extra benefits and some western consumers might be willing to pay more for that, others won't and especially not people at the 3rd world.

So only 10% global penetration rate unless there's some government incentive by 2040 and maybe longer seems likely.
> you could pay ~$5k/mo in rent forever and just leave when problems arise.

We saw our apartment kept raising our rent, and yet the housing market in the area was still recovering from the crash so we decided to buy.

> but if you taken that $1.5m (they go for much more[0]) and put it into index funds instead,

Granted most people don't have $1.5 probably. Going to the bank and asking for $1.5 to invest in the stock market might not work as well as going and asking for a home loan.

Also there interest paid on the home mortgage is tax deductible. That's another incentive.

Given that simply getting a $1.5 loan from a bank to do whatever investment doesn't work, most people think in terms of "what do I pay per month and what do I get for it". In some markets what people pay per month on a mortgage and a large house is less than what they'd pay in rent in a smaller apartment . And also rent could go up at any time. A fixed rate mortgage will stay the same.
Why on earth do you need so many open?!
> Under such a system, most people would be able to earn a living without having to rely on the use of the property of others to do so. Examples of people earning a living in this way would be farmers who own their own land and related machinery, plumbers who own their own tools, software developers who own their own computer

Nonsense. Our abundance is increased by specialization not a lack of it. Specialization and trade allow for higher-order goods to be used as inputs to produce lower-order goods. Farming doesn't just require a tractor and some land. You need fuel to run the tractor, other industries to come together to make the tractor, a merchant to purchase the tractor from, and on and on.

It does not follow that owning more things related to a trade will produce more things. The opposite is the case, it's cheaper for the farmer to buy the tractor than produce tractors himself.
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BCHS needs a higher level api that is simple to use.
I actually see np.dot(np.dot(x,y),z) as easier to read and remember. It is more explicit in what it is doing. Being explicit is a good thing.
Does @ work with numpy?
True, but the iPhone strongly influenced nearly every phone that came after it. It changed the industry.
Ask HN: Recommend a yoga exercise book for a scientific person
tl;dr: Can HN recommend a good self learning yoga exercise book that doesn't go too far into claims about curing cancer, toxin removal and energy flows?

backstory:
Working as a software developer I sit, or stay stationary, too much during each day. I walk 10km each day to work, alternate between standing (still stationary) and sitting, use a ergonomic keyboard, do resistance training a few times a week, and on top of all this take 42+°C hot baths couple of times a week but still I experience soreness in my back and limbs most days.
After trying yoga a few years back for the first time, and having a rather bad first experience with it (too much talk about energy flow, not enough stretching etc) and giving up on it, I just recently gave it another go and have been doing yoga for a month now.

And I am a completely new man! No more aches, tired shoulders and neck pain. The problem is though my current yoga teacher still wants to lapse into talking about the mental side, and often the very much sudo science, of yoga.
And this is really difficult for me to sit through, even though the classes are really packed with exercises and the teacher takes good care in teaching the correct posture and performance.

So I want to start slowly zone out my classes, and replace them with doing these exercises my self at home. And for that I need a book, that I can reference for posture and movement purposes.

Any one have suggestions?
I think we should allow people to express that living with somebody who has serious problems is very hard.
> Is the price double what it is from other retailers?

This is even worse in Canada. There appear to be tons of listings which consist solely of people finding things on Amazon.com that aren't on Amazon.ca and listing them for absurd prices. Example: a 4-pack of Kraft Dinner for $20 ($5/box), or a 12-pack for $48 ($4/box, a discount!).

Likewise, lots of people seem to take advantage of absurd shipping rates from American companies. I wanted to get my wife an iShower for her birthday, and while it was about a hundred bucks in the US (from them or Amazon.com), I was looking at $170+ Canadian from Amazon.ca (and this was when our currencies were almost at par). Tried to get it shipped from the US and the shipping was FedEx only, and it was something like $50-60 to get it shipped.

Now I order from Canadian retailers whenever I can, and I just get junk from Amazon when it's on sale.
Sure, but he should resign. Pizzagate is ridiculous, "spez is a pedo accusations" are ridiculous, but a CEO of a massive (user-wise) company silently and childishly editing their comments in a confusing way is also ridiculous.
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I think the argument is that the iPhone set the trend for what all phones looked and felt like (large, touchscreen-based devices that can run third party applications).

Saying that the iPhone is a small minority of phones is similar to saying that Tesla will have a small minority of vehicle sales, which is undoubtedly true, but doesn't portray the reality that a ton of other car manufacturers will be selling electric cars.