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Let's not get into faith vs reason. I can accuse of you being closed to reasonable arguments since it is plain you haven't read or responded to specific points I have made, or are caught up on the news.

You need a PAN card as of Nov 17. No other card will do:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Centre-further-opens-t...

Your figure of 10 lakhs has no basis in fact. The threshold is 2.5 lakhs. You can't divide 10 lakhs into four family members (including yourself) with 2.5 lakhs each and be under the limit. This is not how income tax is computed. This kind of trick invites every depositee to be prosecuted under the Prohibition of Benami Property Act:

http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/all-...

You can't even deposit more than 2.5 lakhs (cumulative) without a PAN card even if you had opened an account before. 20% of the country has PAN cards so far. What are the rest to do? Is there a guarantee that new cards will be issued in time to new applicants? Approx. time in the past has been 3 weeks to issue a PAN card. Edit: The deadline to deposit old notes is Dec 30. What choice do people without PAN cards have? Play dodge between the deadline and the issuance of a new PAN card, or find their nearest new-currency-launderer (changing old notes for new illegally, for a premium) and take a 30% hit on their savings, a percentage which will only go up as the deadline approaches?
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Actually some kinda does:

"Garbage collection is simulating a computer with an infinite amount of memory".
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100809-00/?p=...

We both agree, I'm just using this as a pretext to share this intriguing piece of knowledge. I find the concept much more intuitive than "getting back unused memory".

Especially when you look at the 90% memory usage on your OS, it still make sense with the "infinite memory simulation" definition.
I'm traveling in Vietnam and the local friends that I've made all agree that the most liberalizing / westernizing force is Vietnamese-American Facebook friends. It seems like just the passive influence of friends living in a different culture can have an impact. I wonder if the same thing would happen over time in China?

As it stands it's kinda tough to maintain past friendships that I've made traveling in China. As soon as I stopped using WeChat, all those friendships died.
I haven't read the paper but based on your extract are such improper models more susceptible to black swan events? I'd suspect a more clinical model might actually be even more susceptible (more variables means a greater chance of some variables being wrong and/or missing correlations between variables which would amplify a wing variable to a greater degree) but I'm curious if this aspect had been explored.
Even C has to deal with this.

But is there any C11 compiler out there that will refuse to compile C99?
Live in a liberal area sometime and experience the excuses and lack of action around heroin addicts and meth heads and their criminal activities for the next fix or based off their current hit...

Don't those same problems exist in conservative areas too? I grew up in a small town in a pretty conservative state and I saw many more serious drug problems up close there than I ever see now in a mid-sized city in a very liberal state.
I think you're being a bit hyperbolic, HN uses the same mechanism (shadow banning) for moderation.
Without statutory protection it's a race to the bottom. We can't expect everyone to just duke it out in the courts to sort everything out. Clearly that gives yet another advantage to big pocketed corporations. But it seems the US prefers it this way.
The STL is generally nice, I agree, and I really miss the separation of algorithms and containers in every other language.

Generally, however, I'm not really a fan the ‘generic programming’ paradigm the STL (and boost) are based around. In C++ it quickly leads to an explosion of complexity.

And as for the best part of C++, RAII and sparing use of templates. ;-)
Thats why i always save the qr codes to an encrypted image on my HD.
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NSA probably did buy some SUN workstations. They'd buy a few of anything in those days.

I was at an aerospace company that made satellites and ground stations back then, and we had a few Sun workstations in the early 1980s. One had a TV-resolution color display in addition to the black and white display. Someone ported an orbital elements program plotting program for satellite orbits and positions, and the positions of the ground stations, providing a real-time display. An Air Force general was visiting, and demanded that the entire machine be immediately moved over to the USAF Satellite Control Facility (the old "blue cube" in Sunnyvale), which was still running on the 1960s technology used by NASA for Apollo. This was done, and the in-house machine was replaced at USAF expense.
I don't understand the down votes. In Australia, directors are personally liable if they allow their company to trade while insolvent. Good place to start.
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I've used the same basic concept for accepting payment-received notifications (from a http redirect based payment gateway):

Read the transaction ID from the request body, and store it (with a date/time) in a table. A periodic process later checks them, and uses the payment service's API to validate the payment is valid and take appropriate action.
Is this really manipulation or is it just sexual selection for bravery/aggression/dominance? Are the female monkeys being disingenuous with their attentions or are they sincere? When I read some of the criteria for manipulation on Wikipedia [0] it seems to me like a pretty high bar to show these sorts of behaviours in monkeys.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_manipulation
> Over the years I've stayed with the easiest-to-learn stable IDEs/text editors. Yes, I know there are really powerful tools with arcane commands (Vim, EMACS, etc), but I don't want to have to stop what I'm doing to learn new tools. I want to code, not tinker with desktop tools or arcane text editors

Wut? both of those editors make coding so much more easier and the rest of the stuff is just a cop out imo
>It's kind of depressing to see where the world is going,, where the world bends to the will of state actors eventually. Given a long enough timeframe any draconian law can be made the new normal and I think that is what is happening.

>It's also sad to see the internet become a tool to control entire populations and have them see and experience the world in a way that is convenient for state actors. And every effort to circumvent state control gets regulated before going mainstream. Eg- Look at Bitcoin, the calls for KYC norms, asking customer data. Another example is Tor, numerous attempts to unmask users.

I agree, and I have a question. What do you tell people when you don't use Facebook? I don't feel like supporting this, but is there a good way to sum this up for people that are non-informed (shit does that sound pretentious? Trying to think of a better way to put it. I think most people would not approve of Facebook and this associated trend you discuss, if they knew more about it)?
But this is not some random guy lying about lack of scientific consensus. There actually is a lack of scientific consensus.

And it's harder to be sure about aloe from anecdotes. The question is not whether aloe does anything, the question at hand is whether it's better than any other kind of thickened water. Most people are not doing this comparison.
Fresh out of my first year of computer science, I had fumbled my through some graph traversal algorithms. The guy (who I still remember!), said "Look, you seem like a smart guy, but it doesn't seem like you've done very much programming". I.e. I could figure out the problem, I just couldn't implement it very quickly or well.

He was right (and obviously. Like I said, one year of university). I took it to heart, and practiced programming. Nailed my next interviews. :)

I've never had any other constructive feedback from an interview, and at more than one company, I've been given specific instructions not to provide it (by the recruiting team).
The author completely misunderstands the following:

- The concept of Turing completeness

- What static typing is

- Why strings are not the same thing as byte arrays

- That the distinction between strings/bytes is a fix for a problem exists with Python 2, not something that's "broken" in Python 3.

I understand why people might still use Python 2 if they have a legacy codebase to maintain, or need certain libraries that for whatever reason have not yet been ported to Python 3. However, if you're just beginning Python programming, or starting a completely new project in the language then none of that matters - you might as well just start with latest version.

The one point he gets right is that they should have maintained backwards compatibility by allowing Python 2 modules to run on the Python 3 VM. That was a major fuckup, the implications of which should be a lesson to every language designer of what to never do. It's sad to see the developers of Angular make essentially the same mistake.
Red Hat enterprise desktop, I also have Gnome 3 and tried Webstorm recently and was very disappointed.
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Can you explain the odd looking connections to the decoder that appear in V2 and onwards? It's not entirely obvious to me from the description how the attention is applied.

In the first part of the decoder rollout, the diagram connects the (concatenated?) output of the encoder into the middle(?) of the first output of the decoder rollout. In what sense?

For the second rollout of the decoder the diagram shows 3 arrows going into the LSTM cell, what is that (left-facing) arrow on the right side doing?
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Glad to hear, I actually love Jetbrains products but since the fonts have been pretty bad it was impossible for me to use the product.

I will try the latest version out!

EDIT: How do I start it with that version?
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The question is, do people in China really need Facebook now? I used to live in China and I still have lots of connections there, none of my friends are using Facebook-like social network services. People are using Wechat (a mobile-based semi-private social network), weibo (a Twitter clone with more features), and Zhihu (a Quora clone), and a zillion live streaming share sites. All the Facebook clone sites in China are dying.

That being said, I agree that this is still an evil move for Facebook.
Hmm, good point. Yes, I have to enter the key to use the iOS app. I don't know how that works but guessing it would be better to encrypt then upload... but if they did that I'd have to download then decrypt. Sucks for phones.
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This reminds me I should give https://wakatime.com/ another try ...
>> They need to be able to read other people's code to decipher and debug the coding style they are seeing

>> They need to understand other styles so they can form their own

After 15 years of working professionally, I kindly have to disagree to a fair extent. It turns out that most - if not all - developers are not very good at writing clean code. Including (especially?) seniors who think they write the best code on their team. The code you're having the juniors dig through to tweak/maintain is probably terrible code that should not be used as a shining example of anything good. They're more likely to pick up someone else's bad habits than learn something useful.

It took me a very, very long time to realize that it's simply a matter of fact that no two developers think alike, and that any set of developers could argue all day as to why each other's code is ugly, unmaintainable, etc. There are extremely few instances where one implementation of any problem is "better" or "worse" than another - we simply think differently. My code will always be "smelly" to you, and your code will always be "smelly" to me.

Junior developers must be permitted to write new code from scratch. Whether it hits production as-is, or goes through weeks of refactoring, it's a must. No developer ever improved by only reading and maintaining other people's code. I have never met a developer who feels at home maintaining someone else's rushed garbage. And 80%+ of the code we write is rushed garbage to attain the 3 week mandatory deadline handed down by management even though we told them it would take 3 months.

There is a finite amount you can learn by reading other people's code. You might find specific idioms you admire and adopt, but you will not - and probably should not - try to conform to other developers' methods.

Not to mention, forcing new recruits to deal with everyone's legacy garbage is a surefire way to turn them off the industry before they've even begun. Let them code a small new feature; then sit down and find out what they did well and what needs improvement; truly tangible issues, not the typical "that's not how it's done" - which really only means "that's not how I would have done it".
many paramedics work for a private company for peanuts.

Public figures are still respected. I suppose it's less so because education is more common. The Gulf between a medical doctor and your average citizen was huge
>probably not warranted in many cases.

Ah but physicians prove my point - the state typically requires many years of education and licensing to be a physician - whether you use the skills learned or not.

>but they will likely always earn more money than me.

Probably so. In the US I think this is because physicians have been very good at getting the state to drastically limit who can practice medicine. There are nearly zero limitations who who can practice programming, and barely any limitations on engineering.

Think about it - if you needed a to pass an examination, get a license, and spend years on post-undergrad schooling & forced unpaid internships programmers would have very high salaries.
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Then you missed his crazy notion of what static typing is and his failure to understand the difference between a string and a byte sequence. It's incredible that someone who knows so dangerously little about Unicode has written a web server that is so popular in the Ruby community. It says something about the quality of the language's ecosystem.
The US doesn't "need" drug money to finance brutal dictators. It's currency is now backed by its military might. It can print as much as it wants and if you even think of trading OIL in another currency they invade and liberate your ass.

While it sounds good, it's pretty bullshit to say the war on drugs is about financing dictators.

It's fair to say that the CIA does have pet opium projects, with US ground troops playing guards for Afghan farmers. But that's a different thing.
We don't need doctors to point out that the War on Drugs is bound to perpetual failure. Don't even need a scholar. Anyone with two eyes wired to a working brain would reach the same conclusion. That being said, the more people speak up, the closer draws the day where we may transition drug policy into a saner state.

It's all rooted in good intentions, of course, as was the US ban on alcohol a century ago. But sometimes the road to mafias and murderous drug cartels is paved with good intentions. Time to wake up.
The problem here is that of course it is only the retailers that are being sued, i.e. the company itself. If the salesperson who bought the stuff and everyone up from there to the CEO was on the line plus all shareholders of the company, those people would very quickly make very sure that they don’t defraud their customers.
> But people talking about Turing completeness in a real programming language (usually in the form of "x is Turing complete, therefore you couldn't ask for more") almost always haven't got a clue.

There is a fun quote about that...

"There are those who tell us that any choice from among theoretically-equivalent alternatives is merely a question of taste. These are the people who bring up the Strong Church-Turing Thesis in discussions of programming languages meant for use by humans. They are malicious idiots. The only punishment which could stand a chance at reforming these miscreants into decent people would be a year or two at hard labor. And not just any kind of hard labor: specifically, carrying out long division using Roman numerals. A merciful tyrant would give these wretches the option of a firing squad. Those among these criminals against mathematics who prove unrepentant in their final hours would be asked to prove the Turing-equivalence of a spoon to a shovel as they dig their graves."

-- Stanislav Datskovskiy
"The future is here, just unevenly distributed... " and the cool thing for the rest of us is that the learning curves on solar, especially, and battery power are incredible, so some people adopting now hastens the day when it is here for the rest of us.
The author admits that the B2B & B2E tagline may have actual meaning. His example of a completely meaningless slogan is "“transforming the way people search and protect all the things they can’t live without”.

You don't need any technical knowledge to see that as indeed almost completely devoid of meaning.

This isn't a luddite. He's not criticizing self-driving cars or the cure for cancer. His issue is with the 90% of startups which are completely which could vanish at any moment without altering the course of history one bit.

It's not an appeal for standstill – it's a motivational speech to search for meaning.
From the article:

> Python 3 has been purposefully crippled to prevent Python 2's execution alongside Python 3 for someone's professional or ideological gain.

I can't tell if Zed's referring to python3 doing a fork()/exec() of a python2 not working correctly or if he wants/expects some kind of inter-language import or "linking" among files written for respective language versions. What's he getting at?

Is there really something that prevents you from executing python2 at the same time as python3? (I tried a simple program "os.system('python3 -c \'print ("hello")\'')" and it worked just fine.
Cool to see Ken Perlin's name on the paper. This seems like the kind of thing he might be into these days.
Now this is something which i don't understand. Is this really the best we got?

If you somehow get into a server with those hashed passwords, you'll probably try to mirror it and everything on the server, to figure out the hashing mechanism. So lets say, time is not an issue, also regarding long lasting APT's.

So what will you do with it? Why should you try brute force a million passwords, each one taking 2 hours to decrypt? No, you're smarter than that: Why not create a rainbow table of possible admin account, vips, state actor, etc. How many are those? 100? 1000?

Nice, you just reduced the search space by a factor of 1000.

That whole circus about hashing... I know, randomly salted hashing makes sense, but true secure password storage is a myth.
"I feel like I'm the only one who learned Python from the official site's tutorial page"

From Py1.52 I've done the same.

I wish every language was as well documented (Perl6 is pretty good) [0] as Py, especially the changes b/w versions. Rough order of reading: What's new, Tutorial, PEPs, Library references. Why is it good? It is canonical, pushed out as a release is done, comes with the install (cf: $ pydoc foo) and is free.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12889082
oh yeah, this one too:

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ISBN: 978-0-471-50336-1
720 pages
April 1991
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My point, didn't make it clear enough, if you point out issues like tracking needles (county exchange or pharmacy -- done through county ordering such), requesting enforcement of laws, etc. you end up being lectured that the city/county embraces best practices...

Question mental issues -- nothing we can do.
In China, two buttons need to be pressed at exactly the same time in order to launch China's backup Dystopian Idea-Holocaust.

Mark Zuckerberg, being the serial larcenist he is, flew to China, stole one of these buttons, and replaced Xi Jinping's alarm clock with the other button.
More and more use-cases will pop-up as the cost of solar tech slowly inches down.

When you consider it, most of our roofs are unused, and would make an ideal location for tiny panels + battery packs. Similarly new blocks of city development can be planned around a central panel+pack with housing surrounding it.
One major plus in the differences is that Python3 makes standard libraries always return text or bytes, instead of depending on the input to decide on the return type.

This( + no longer allowing "encoding" of bytes or "decoding" of unicode) means that you have a much higher chance of writing correct code when it comes to handling encodings.
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Can rust capitalize on LTO/PGO? Even if that's not quite ready for primetime, if we're spending 50% or more time in the LLVM backend, that certainly can be built with LTO/PGO.

Seems like it might be worth the trouble/bootstrapping challenge if it yields another ~5%.
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For those who started and perpetuated the WoD, it's been a resounding success.
For me, forks are like super stars. I have an order of magnitude more stars than forks.
While it's true, that jail is the extreme on the coercion scale, it's the lack of options and the vast difference in ramifications that is the real point between censorship and private discrimination.
There is a difference between fake and dangerous.
So - I think we basically agree with each other, that for a straightforward single round of a hash like SHA256, that a salt is now irrelevant (reason - a GPU cluster can check 10s of billions of passwords/second)

I think the point I was trying, and perhaps failing to make, is that the three PBKDFs - PBKDF2/BCRYPT/SCRYPT - all come with a salt anyways - so you don't really need to call them out.

What I guess I should have made explicit, (and I didn't) is that if all you are doing is a single round of a SHA - then adding a salt at the beginning isn't going to make that password any more secure. If it could fall to a Rainbow Table Lookup, then it will fall in pretty much the same amount of time to a password-cracker - on the order of milliseconds.
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the structure of health care in the united states makes it really difficult for doctors to not escalate to opiates for pain management. doctors are evaluated on patient satisfaction not on patient outcomes which incentivizes them to skip straight to opiates when faced with a patient who complains of pain and is unsatisfied with tylenol
? The hiring ads have always been part of the site at least since I joined.
While I agree that Trump's election being illegitimate is a narrative many (on the left) want to hear, I disagree with your characterization of the popular vote as irrelevant.

I think most Americans consider the electoral college a funny historical quirk and 'getting more votes' is the source of the mandate to rule. Except when popular vote splits happen in which case everyone remembers that we've got a bizarre system that very, very occasionally returns a different result than the popular vote.

Although, who knows. Of the 5 popular/electoral splits that have ever happened, 2 happened in the past 16 years. Maybe shifting demographics will preserve republican electoral competitiveness even if their fraction of the total vote shrinks.
I suppose that you can back your claims with sources, isn't?