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Same, and I started in the Eclipse fad, with eclipse plugin being a thing, before I knew how to program emacs (beside default config). The day I realize how general lisp was and how dynamic emacs was I had to pause for a minute.

Last winter I had to use Eclipse (for scala), one day of mild use trigger nasty wrist pain (I play music, I'm used to pushing the mechanics, that was more). And people say emacs causes RSI ;)

Also the Eclipse crowd is completely off the user side. It's all about tech. Microsoft might be better, I didn't use VS since ages. IDEA is said to be really great at ergonomics. But rarely someone brings a lot to the table. (the only recent thing I noticed was parinfer, ambitious and useful). Also people underestimate what a elisp can do when used correctly. See yasnippet, of Fuco litable.el.
TV is now to the smartphone what radio was to the TV. It still a viable marketing tool in some instances but has lost most of its power. Facebook is the new NBC. Twitch is the new ESPN (e sports are growinf like crazy). There is an amazing opportunity for those who recognize this and evolve their approach to fit the different mediums.
So those include modifying user posts without displaying it has been modified by mod? Reddit posts has been used in court as evidence.
Yes. As did lexical scope exist before Scheme. However, the scheme implementation was directly inspired by CL. As are (and I forgot to add this) our object systems.
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I as comparing the NUC systems. Kinda weird to compare CPU prices when you can't buy the CPU as an individual, and those that can buy them typically get better pricing.

What an end user can buy is a NUC, the iris 580 is something like $650 list, $575 street. The Iris 540 version is $400 list, and around $340 (but often with a "free" 8GB ram.

Iris seems generally a failure on the desktop, but seems fairly popular in mini pc's and laptops. Apparently the NUC was one of the few success stories in pc desktops for the last year or two.
I have nothing to add to this other than I literally recite "The Jumblies" to my son every night to put him to sleep, and its the only thing that works.

I can see why the poem struck such a chord with Donald Crowhurst, though. The regret of those that didn't go and experience "the hills of the Chankly Bore" is what frames the ending.

I'm sure he read the poem to his son, too, and I could understand why the journey would have scared them both.

I thoroughly recommend Samuel West's reading from CBeebies if you are able to find it.
I love this example the most. It's the exception that proves the rule.

If you need to dig this hard to find something interesting with a probability of 1, that's pretty good evidence that the vast majority of interesting statements are not of the true/false variety.

Although I don't find it interesting, I am open-minded enough to ... embrace.. the .. uh.. diversity of the world, that allows some people, to find that interesting.
Thousands of internal Google apps (most of the important ones we use day-to-day) run on App Engine. Many external apps do too - https://plus.google.com/107043289104010976501/posts/VYybt1BC... talks about developers.google.com, for example.

That doesn't help though, as Googlers learn to write apps the Google way (massively horizontally scalable, managed NoSQL data service), which looks very much like App Engine. Outside, people still wanted to run their relational databases and large VMs, and App Engine didn't let them do that. That's why we came out with Compute Engine.
The best way I've found to learn powerpoint to identify 'good' powerpoint slides, and then try and recreate the slides yourself from scratch. My top tip in general is to use the Align and Distribute feature to manage the layout; you'll be surprised how much of a difference it makes!
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Because sometimes people feel free to talk if they are anonymous.

By calling the account "throwaway*" it tells people that this person is a regular and delibrately using a pseudonym
So far we have benchmarked situations where dataset > RAM or >> RAM. I think it is an interesting point to also analyze the case when dataset < RAM, to see how efficiently both systems manage the caches, query planning etc. Stay tuned and thanks for the suggestion! :)
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one sweet trick is to design each slide as an image in photoshop. looks much better.
visiond appears to be linked against libgsl.so. To my understanding, distributing a binary blob using the GNU Scientific Library is against the license of this library. That written there does not seem to be any symbol used from libgsl.so.
Think you're looking at this story the wrong way; Its not about the fault but the bug hunting process.

I propose:

TL:DR - They had a strange hard to identify bug, but used a limited data set and interesting techniques to quickly find the esoteric cause of the problem.
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The premise of the article is not that a 500,000 drop is significant by itself. It is that ESPN has huge contractual costs to teams/leagues to carry sports over the next several years that cost enough that they need (for example) 85,000,000 subscribers minimum in order to pay their overhead costs.

So it is not a 500,000 loss against 90,000,000 total, it is a 500,000 loss against a buffer of 5,000,000 [1] extra beyond the minimum subscriber point they require to bring in enough money to pay their obligations. 500k against 5M is a 10% reduction in their buffer zone in one month.
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Or politicians could catch a glimmer of the future & put some tax dollars towards:

* battery factories
* electric car incentives
* open source car sharing / planning services. (get rid of the 30% uber tax meanwhile steering people towards shared services)
* carbon taxes

it's been said a million times, but may as well keep saying it.

it'll fix the problem for good. no more wars. less environmental destruction.

Cars would actually be cheaper this way, if you wanted to bother owning one. way less maintenance. car pretty much lasts forever, just swap out the battery pack now & then.
This post tries to dispel any belief that docker swarm is not production-ready :P
What's 100x worse is folks that take a 300-500 lumen flashlight then put it in flash mode to save the battery. Practically blinding everyone else on the road.

As part of my public duty I switch my 1000 lumen flashlight into flash mode which often causes audible complaints. It does seem to get my point across.
I don't know for smartwatches in general, but for Fitbit people like to track their sleep and also not leave steps uncounted, so there's really no good time to recharge.
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I would suggest looking at presentations like the one you want to give.

That last bit is important. I see academics trying to emulate Steve Jobs, not realising the Steve Jobs style doesn't work when you have genuinely technically difficult material to get across.
I'd have thought that's a more valuable '+1' than a correct fizzbuzz answer - shows the candidate can recognise a common pattern in a problem, and know the name from being interested enough to hang out on HN, SO, or whatever.
> could we expect workers demanding higher salaries in the near future too?

How?

The wedge is already driven between skilled professionals who can compete on the international market, and therefore have price-setting ability, versus people who have no market power and can be squeezed and threatened with the unemployment regime. Unskilled or marginal workers may end up starving.

No, this is the Greece effect. Trade balance has been terrible for years. Now the financial services industry is under threat. While there's a lot of negative things you could say about them, at least they've brought in foreign money to keep the accounts balanced. In order for the balance of trade to recover, imports have to fall. This means that the part of your living standards which depends on imports (including Azure) is going to fall.
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> battery life. It would give me literally no advantage. I take my watch off when I go to sleep

Can't do that if you're using the watch for sleep tracking.

I've got into the habit of putting mine (an Apple Watch Series 2) on charge when I get up and leaving it there till I'm about to leave.

Other than the odd top-up (if I've been using the Workout app and thus the heart rate sensor), no problems. More battery life would be good though - if it used to be worse with the original AW, it's not hard to see how that would be a problem.
If I ever try Emacs again, I'll have a look. In the past I've found clang-based plugins seem to have a half-life of about 6 months.. while Emacs might live forever if your plugins don't, then you are relearning a bunch of things anyway.

PS at first i thought your URL was some kind of joke I didn't get, until I clicked it and found it linked to a genuine project.
Tough one. I know exactly what you mean, I know I have been "there" many times, but I surely would not be able to retrieve any of those stories from memory even if my life depended on it.

We seem to condition ourselves to quickly forget the excitement because even the most epic bughunt will tend make you lonely if accidentally used for conversation in polite society.
There appears to be some merit to what you're proposing. But what about long-term issues, such as climate change, etc. How are a group of people going to convince a large enough group to pay money for it, and who is going to enforce it?

Also, things that don't affect majority of people will probably never get enough funding. For example blindness. How many blind people do you know? And do you think anyone is going to be convinced that a single kickstarter-type campaign is going to solve it? I imagine even the most motivated donors will start considering dropping out after 2 decades of spending money when they've produced no measurable results to curing blindness (or paralysis, cancer, etc).

EDIT: In fact, the more I think about it, the more it becomes obvious this sort of system couldn't work on a massive scale (such as a scale necessary to do what a government does). Each person is probably only going to be able to comprehend the need to address perhaps hundreds of specific issues. But my guess is that governments, in total, deal with probably 10's of thousands if not more different types of issues on a daily basis. Not only that but those issues that a citizen does comprehend, will he / she need to keep up with how each issue is being addressed? After all, otherwise I'm potentially just throwing money down a rat hole. Sounds like more than just a full-time job on its own. How would one find enough time to do that and still make money to bring home to their families, etc..
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the service worker always has lower social status than the person they serve

I'm not sure about that. Does a doctor have a lower social status than his patient? Does a politician have lower status than his constituents? Does a banker have lower status than the one applying for a loan?
One of the great functions of a smart watch (or other fitness wearable) is sleep tracking. If you have to take it off overnight, you can't do that.

I charge my Pebble once a week. Before that, wearing a bog-standard digital watch, I took it off ~never.
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Should you secure your Active Directory by tracking historical changes?
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It's not just tech good which are getting ~20% price increases but general goods like food, DIY, curtain and everything really, as companies start restocking they have no choices but to increase prices.
This is China. We don't give a fuck about licenses
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Damn that was exciting.

From the bottom of the linked press release, which summarizes the overall investigation:

"In particular, I thank the engineers and data scientists from DSTA and GovTech respectively, without whom we would not have been able to theorise the possibility of a faulty train, and identify PV46."

A "steely eyed missile man" moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aaron
If you read histories quoting original sources its also used in literature at the time Pg Woodhouse.
IANAL but example taxable transactions might be to sell bitcoins for a gain, or to use appreciated bitcoins in a barter transaction. Losses are also taxable transactions, but in a good way.

Mining is awkward, since I believe mined coins are taxed as income on the day they are mined, even if you don't transact.

Best to talk to an accountant, of course, and not rely on the advice of a random HN commenter like me.
It's in the press release linked from the article.
> but I've heard some people say half the point of paying for cable way back in the day was so you _didn't_ get ads.

There were at least three reasons.

1) In most markets, there were a grand total of 3-4 major stations. If one lived in one of the larger market then there might have been one or two extra PBS stations. Cable marketed 25 or 35 or 40 channels to the existing 3-6.

2) In a lot of locations, analog reception was terrible (ghosting, static, etc.). Cable marketed a crystal clear picture as an alternative to the ghosts and static.

3) Fewer commercials. Yes, in the early beginning, they did indeed have fewer commercial breaks. Some channels had none, or only had a 4-5 minute break between programs. Those days from cable's start are long gone today.

While cable did market itself early on as 'less commercial breaks', #1 and #2 above were likely the larger draw, and with the costs then (mid 1970's) of $20-30/month appearing smaller than today's $150+/month cost, it was a somewhat easy sale.
See above for my reply.

As for dynamic scope being in R1RS, actually, yes. Sorry. That came from MACLisp, not CL.
If you have solely single employees that might work.

The total cost for "gold" plan for an employee with a family can be easily $1500-$2000+ a month.
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My guess is also no.
Also, if you order in large amounts test constantly because it's pretty simple to send good stuff for the first few shipments
http://gazit.me/2012/12/05/designing-presentations.html
This is great. I like it a lot. This is a great sample app to learn Aurelia.
That injections wells ( not fracking - although they are related, hydrocarbon extraction activities ) cause earthquakes is still in the hypothesis phase.
As a Pebble user, I sleep with my watch on as it wakes me up in a much gentler way than any audio alarm does.

However, having a week long charge is also about more than just being able to avoid charging it at night. It also means that the remaining battery capacity (wear, age) will matter less. Is your battery dying, with only 50% of the design capacity left? Who cares, the watch still lasts for days. Not only that - the slow discharge also means that the battery will take ages to even experience reduced capacity.

The Apple Watch, on the other hand, sprints through the battery charges, and will both be completely intolerant to reduced battery capacity and reach reduced battery capacity faster.

... So yeah. It matters.
India and China have 1/3 of the world population. The US is less than 5% so it doesn't matter, except we use 20% of the oil. China is already the largest car market and India is rising. China gets over 70% of its electricity from coal.

That's great that China is developing solar and wind. Hopefully, it breaks into the double digits in 10 years. We have a long way to go, and we're on a clock.
Always happy when a Things I Won't Work With pops up on HN.

Lowe's writing is a delight.
I always wonder why people always use libraries when building software but never use templates when making presentations. Graphics and transitions are extremely important when presenting, so why not build on top of other people's work ?

I highly recommend using templates. You can get some really good ones here (from 5 to 30 dollars)[1] or for free using google.

[1] https://graphicriver.net/category/presentation-templates/pow...
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I bought a secondhand Pebble Classic last year. I think they really hit the sweet spot in the market - the battery life is a key feature for me as I don't want to be forever charging my watch the same way I charge my smartphone. Taking it off for an hour to do dishes or something is long enough to charge it up for a week.

The screen is surprisingly crisp and runs at a high enough frame rate for animations. And it's always on, so unlike many watches you don't have to move your wrist at all to wake it up. The vibrating alert is brilliant, and I have a watch face that buzzes whenever bluetooth disconnects, which has stopped me leaving home without my phone many times.

I like the square shape of the Classic watch, since it doesn't draw much attention and can be passed off as just another digital watch. Sure, it looks a lot cheaper than it actually is, but if you're concerned about your stuff being stolen, this is a great thing.

I like the Pebble most because it does what a smartwatch should do, which is extend the smartphone - it doesn't try to be a phone on its own. The hardware is great. The haptic motor failed after about a year, but the watch wasn't new when I bought it, and when I enquired about repairs, Pebble replaced the whole watch free of charge.

I'm very impressed with Pebble as a company and as a product, so I'm really disappointed and concerned about their future reading this article. For Fitbit to basically buy up Pebble for their software and patents smacks of gutting the company and discarding the shell. By discontinuing the watch itself, they're probably going at it backwards. I've had more problems with the software and the watch faces than I've ever had with the hardware - part of this was down to Android, but the Pebble app store used to be hideous even on a top-model phone. As ever, excellent hardware, abysmal software, but it's only the software that people (particularly other companies) care about. I'll be sad if Fitbit do follow through with their plans as detailed here.
I found an useful YT playlist.
Hope you enjoy it.
https://youtu.be/g5EX7dpoLiY?list=PLq-yuDBwPhRvOP9qGzQtQlK1v...

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You're right to ask. There's a trend.

In Ireland we have foolishly installed laws that made criticism of Mohammad or Jesus illegal.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/apr/11/why...

I don't enjoy their humour but I think this would prevent something like Charlie Hebdo from operating in my country.
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I've got a Kubota myself (B-7800). Very simple; I do all the maintenance on it with just basic shop tools.
Hi...forget PPT and use Paperpoint...ever noticed what people do when the ppt starts..they sit back, look for the number of slides and sit it through. With a Paperpoint you will see the opposit
Why would I use that? With Hosteurope I get 4 vCores, 6 GByte guranteed memory (burst to 12), 200 GByte SSD, traffic flat (but only 100 MBity/sec), monthly cacelable for 20 euros.
We started out delivering bot analytics to Slack and we'd get these alerts when our bot would fail. We really wanted to jump in and take over for the bot and we figured out a way we could do that without ever leaving Slack.

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I would suggest you check out Troy Grady [1]. I've been playing the guitar on-and-off for 33 years, and most of the 'off' has been because I've reached a hard limit for picking speed; my left hand has always been pretty good, but right hand and high-speed synchronisation has always been a problem, and I never fixed it, just got frustrated, stopped and then started again. While I teach for a living now, it wasn't until I saw what Troy Grady has analysed and offered that I started practicing properly again after years of neglect. While I have a LOT of work to do to get my right hand sorted, after a few months I'm starting to see glimpses of improvements, and being able to pick well.

If you're of my age (I'm similar age to Troy Grady, 45), then the free cracking the code videos on YouTube are a good watch anyway - entertaining as well as the story of playing guitar that I largely paralleled (but never found the solution that he did, alas, until now).

[1] http://troygrady.com/
Because the point of FizzBuzz is not to get a working FizzBuzz class that can be integrated into an application, it's to see if the candidate can actually produce a working version themselves.

Imagine you're hiring someone to do your taxes. Sure, you'd expect them to use a calculator to do all the hard addition/subtraction, or more likely spreadsheets. But if you asked them to add 5 and 3, and they said "I would use a calculator, this is a stupid question, I can't just tell you off the top of my head" then you're probably not going to hire them.

It's a super basic test of 'Can this person code themselves out a paper bag."
It requires "barrels-per-minute for hours" amounts of water. 100 BPM is unusually high for fracking. One acre-foot is about 7753 barrels.

The problem is that water is increasingly scarce in many parts where fracking is done for reasons outlined in the book "Cadillac Desert".
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I never liked when they "enhanced" the puck in hockey, but I think drawing the 10 yard mark on the football field is fantastic. It's remarkable to me how well that works.

In baseball, the ad behind home plate is often a digital one and when they show a replay, you can usually see the green rectangle. I'm also a fan of the pitch trackers in baseball (the box that shows where a pitch was relative to the strike zone rectangle). I've always wondered if the size of the pitch tracker box is different for each player?

The on-screen ads are annoying, but all the ads delivered by the announcers is getting a little much too. Every replay, highlight, and inning/period/quarter seems to be sponsored.
Pretty certain the BBC do regional news after the evening news broadcast.
> and in a mobile device OS and application SW are tightly coupled
I call bullshit. There's no reason Google can't update everything AOSP-y in /system - libc, libart, libwebkit etc.

That's not the point. Even if it were so, it's still responsibility of the manufacturer to integrate it in its own firmware and push the update with the carrier's approval.

You are comparing a laptop to a smartphone, which makes no sense, the smartphone has to connect to cellular network to be useful, and it's the carrier that establishes the rules for the update process.

I agree that it should work as you say for devices with no cellular connectivity, such as WiFi only tablets, where no other parties other than the OS and device manufacturers are involved.
Oh no, it's just swipes. We were designing for mobile, and desktop suffered O.o
Looks like I was wrong:

https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html