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We live in a time when people who are to the right of Reagan are at times described un-ironically as "liberal".

It concerns me that people can consider the economist "left-leaning", it shows how far to the right the U.S. (and with it much of the world) has shifted.

The U.S. was way ahead of the rest of the world on this, and has always been a lot more conservative than Europe, but it's cultural influence has had the effect of moving Europe to the right by painting the middle ground as "left wing" so Europe makes concessions on things like privatisation of infrastructure (e.g. for better or worse privatisation of telecommunications in Europe in the 80s was pushed by the US).

It hasn't been all bad of course, part of the reason the recent election result is so painful is because progressive poltics has made a huge amount of progress.

In 25 years the US has gone from racist, homophobic and dealing with the effects of prohibition (the "war on drugs") to the society we have now which is dealing with it's issue of race far better than Europe (which continues to bury it's head in the sand over the issue), allowing gay marriage, serving in the military regardless of (open) sexual preference, and de-criminalising or legalising cannabis.

The US has faced up and is dealing with it's racism problem. Europe always saw itself as "nowhere near as bad as the US", which was true when the US had lynchings. And there is still plenty of work to the done in the US particularly around the justice system and other institutional effects which lead back to social injustice. But the trajectory is there for the US, while in Europe it feels like racism is a growing problem which isn't being tackled at all.

So it's understandable that people who were already set in their ways 25 years ago (indeed many current voters were approaching retirement 25 years ago) see the modern world and react with horror at all the progress.

Trump said he's going to "win so much we'll be sick and tired of winning", well Trump isn't a winner, progressives should be shouting that Trump is weak if he's tired of winning because he's won an election or two, because progressives have been winning for 25 years and we're not going to get tired of winning any time soon.

So the dramatic shift to the right has to been in context. The sky isn't going to fall but while huge progress has been made on social issues; on issues such as economic policy, policing and commercial rights there has been a slow constant erosion and shift to the right.

So the shift to the right socially is dangerous because reversing canoe from paddling upstream against a right-wing under-current will act as an enabler where you can quickly find yourself in shit creek without a paddle.
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That's what RSS is for, no? Keeps the subscription under your control, you don't have to share anything with anyone, you can unsubscribe easily and it's trivial to anonymize through a reader that caches/proxies the requests.

Perfect for the end user. Not so perfect for the spam industry, of course, but whenever those guys get to decide how something on the internet should work it always turns ugly, so that really has to stop.
Do these guys not get ticketed (and/or have their bikes impounded)? NYC (& NY as a whole, but NYC was first) have outlawed E-Bikes.
So should this be patentable?

Regardless of whether it's a good idea, is it novel, and non-obvious?
Sadly, I could not find the original paper, but we studied this in my security class. Google allows add-on extensions in google docs that are untrusted. They do this by transforming un-safe behaviors in the source javascript to safe, contained behaviors in the plugin that actually runs. This technology could be adapted for this project as well.
There's not a whole lot of energy to recover -- most of the eBike's energy is spent fighting wind resistance, so there's not much left to recover when you're slowing to a stop at a stop sign.

Long descents where there is significant energy to recover are not that common for most riders.
E.g. in the Gorilla paper you probably could implement their compression algorithms from what they've written there

I actually don't think I understand well enough.....

The high-level overviews are interesting if you plan on writing an entire similar system, or to understand pain points in an existing one you have

This seems valuable as well

I generally just don't know how to grok CS papers well. Thus, I can't say what value I expect to gain, if I'm always gaining zero value.
How do you handle error messages? Can you make functions, methods or their parameters generic? Can you dynamically link generics?
What happened to having at least a working prototype before you can file a patent? Can I patent deep sea warehouses (with pipelines linking them to continents) just because I have the idea?
Many have been kicked out of the industry and off-shored or attrited away.

Banks, Fortune 100 and government had lots of these folks 15 years ago.
It is amazing how much objectionable content they put in that game while still maintaining a satirical black comedy tone instead of a "trying too hard" feel. The tagline was "it's only as violent as you are!" as it is possible to complete all your tasks without violence.

At one point, it has you protecting the developers of the game from anti-violent video game protestors who want to solve their problems with violence.

You can use cats as suppressors for your weapon.

You can urinate at will, and can discover you're infected with gonorrhea, for which you can get medicine.

Really, a great game for those with an open sense of humor. Postal 2 is a great example of why games shouldn't be censored.
And every blog (and not only blog) asks me to subscribe to their newsletter before i even read the article.

Are these things so effective that everyone uses them?
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Maybe the problem is that you don't know how few will allow it, before you add it to the site. When you know that nobody cares, all the work is already done and removing the feature would actually require some more effort.
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I've gotten to a point where doing Open Source can be a way to relax. Some nights I'll put on some good music I can code to, have tea or a scotch, and tinker around without the pressure of getting something done on any particular timeline.
I think the part that cracked me up the most was Boll's dying words: "I hate video games!".
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According to http://www.bicycling.com/racing/tour-de-france/you-versus-a-... (turn off the speakers before clicking) pro sprinters max out at 1500 W and the average power of a pro on a Tour de France climb is 400 W. So, what's this need to get 3500 W from an ebike? Maybe a motor bike would be a better and safer choice.
Feather is awesome, and I really hope that Dask (http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/) can eventually integrate it so that we have a lightweight way to write to/from disk in parallel.
Irrelevant grammatical nitpick: I think the word you're looking for is "jibe", not "jive". From M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe

verb: to be in accord
>The failure modes of software are not as well understood, but are rarely life threatening.

Well, it's not life threatening, but what do you think will happen if every month your credit-card stops working for a few days because of a Windows/Linux regression?
So I was right, it's a generated thing (obviously, a tool cannot provide the
description nor usage examples).
I'm skeptical about trying to find perfect neutrality. Getting reporting (and opinion) from several different POVs seems better to me. It's a fair amount of effort though.

Foreign papers are a good way to get a different perspective. Especially important when the topic is US foreign policy. I like British and Australian ones.

I wish I had a sane US conservative media outlet to recommend. Surely there is one? For the libertarian angle on current events, reason.com is a decent substitute. But that's mostly opinion, not news reporting.
Ehhh, it depends. If you're being a perfectionist and constantly trying to find the "best" solution, that'll make you burn out too. Certainly do your work in the design phase rather than code phase as it saves you time overall, but don't obsess over unreachable "perfect code".

And sometimes you just have to shut up and ship.
I always found it funny that European students at my university were shocked that we really did play beer pong with red solo cups in the States. Some of them even took a cup home as a souvenir.
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I run Slack in it's own Chrome Window via the Add to Desktop Feature in the Chrome options menu. With Notifications Enabled it is a viable replacement to the desktop app.

Slack's Desktop app is built on Electron, so it's a second installation of Chrome anyways.
How much you pay should be determined by the market and how much profit each person contributes the company. Instead managers have driven this figure down to the point where salaries don't in any way reflect the value being generated, and does not even match inflation. That's because the market isn't working, instead the managers are deciding and since they are all in implicit collusion with each other the market does not have the chance to actually work. The recent debacle of agreeing not to poach between the big 5 companies was explicit proof of this sort of thing occurring explicitly instead of implicitly. But it's managers who determine the pay structure not the market.

And they keep on keeping it low by complaining about lack of workers. Getting H1Bs in to the country. Forcing pro immigration policies when the local population does not have job. It's all a conceited effort to diminish salaries.

And they really are not affected by how it impacts their company. Company has billions sitting in the bank. As long as H/R does its job, i.e. keeping the salaries low, none of these sorts of people get fired. So they keep on. The work doesn't get done, but the CEO doesn't care. Enough profit is being generated, enough costs are being cut. Who cares if the economy has to pay for this sort of thing. It's not the people who are actually making the decisions.

Small businesses depend on money from big companies paid out to employees to thrive. If they don't have it small business does not get done. But it's not as if that affects the managers making the decisions, so they keep on.
> cant use average living condition as a source for validating whether living conditions are getting better on average

...sorry, but what you just wrote doesn't make any kind of logical sense
Why would you ride a 40km/hr eBike on a deserted highway with 150km between towns when you could ride a 100km/hr+ electric motorcycle?

If you have to travel long distances, an eBike is probably not the right vehicle unless you're just out for the ride to enjoy the scenery, and if that's the case, is 25km/hr really a problem?
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I've often wondered how other people deal with the questions of existence. What is real, after all?

My dad had an old saying:

"There's shit you can do shit about, and there's shit you can't do shit about".

Definitely can't do anything about whether we are in VR right now, or whether or not we actually exist.
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But Apple, or any other similar multinational, claims no responsibility for any abuse of workers or economic laws, because it's not them it's Foxconn. The same as their explicit statements in the article, and the article's emphasis, that all these dealings are with partner companies. It allows Apple et. al to stay at least one remove from abuse, bribery, corruption, pollution, etc.

It's the same when companies hire contracting agencies to run their warehouse operations. It's not Amazon's policies, it's the staffing/contracting/warehousing agency, who run operations according to Amazon's rules and just get it done, however they will. "Now be sure you don't abuse your workers while keeping to schedule and standards, wink wink."

Or when ag companies buy tomatoes, for example, from Mexico, where the tomatoes are grown in healthier conditions than the workers live. Occasionally the abuse of these ag workers will surface, and companies like Walmart will point to yet other third party companies that they outsource compliance and certification to. "Our compliance partner has made a complaint to our ag partners, and it's all good."
The ubiquitous lack of secure longer term jobs like Einstein's civil service job at the patent office -- he was not a post-doc -- make deeper conceptual analysis of the outstanding problems in physics today difficult, probably impossible.

This seems completely wrong. Why would more secure longer term jobs help with the advancement of physics? Gone are the days where the "low-hanging fruit" of physics still existed such that a patent clerk could have the time and resources to tackle an open problem. Furthermore, we have a whole system where people are literally paid to think about physics all day. Why would anything else be better for the advancement of physics?
The Hulseman's live close to where I grew up and I went to school with his kids. Super nice family.
Glad I uninstalled clash of clans for this very reason
I didn't take that implication away from the author's overall post or the specific sentence that you're referencing. I find it odd that anyone would. For someone to write enough words to be so specific as to remove all ambiguity would not make for interesting reading. Instead I choose to interpret the meaning of their limited words charitably.
Education is perhaps more important for preventing crime and violence than police and courts are. Remember, police and courts just deal with the crime; they don't prevent it like having a proper education and employment does.
Probably because they don't read it and think it is the cookie notification.
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Yes, just like we should have decided social media laws in the age of MySpace. /s
Sorry, but we seem to be talking completely at cross-purposes here.

My previous comment was not really about the realities of civil engineering. It was about how absurd civil engineering would be, if the routine maintenance done in that context failed as often and as spectacularly as software updates do.

To be more blunt about it: Organisations don't want software that updates itself frequently and fallibly, because they simply can't afford to have basic functionality going out of service every few weeks, complete and possibly permanent loss of compatibility with critical services from time to time, and the design and UI changing at random in ways that are confusing to users.
The FT is probably the most serious, neutral, fact checked newspaper you can find. And if you read it frequently enough, there will always be articles that try to explain basic concepts to the non initiated. I'd say it's worth making it a daily read for 6 months.

I find the Economist very politically motivated and stopped reading it.
Well, I'd be all for a rewrite. But doing so, we're throwing all existing Xwindows code down a drain. I'm not liking that, at all.

I also want network transparency. Right now, I can run a Windows program remotely, via X and WINE. I can't do that on Windows proper without a whole lot of setup on a Windows Server (I've done it). Yeah, X may be slow. It may have crappy security model. But in the end, it's better than what MS has and better than what Mac has.

I could imagine something different. Go back to core principles, and write a server using current design paradigm and knowledge of hardware. Get the server side running, and well. Write an emulation layer that will allow existing X apps to use it. And then start porting from X to.. say, Ywindows. :)

(Then again, I wished that DRM existed for Linux, so the graphical subsystem could have its own top, memory manager, process scheduler, and such. Then that would have set up Linux to be the dominant force in computation. Alas, it never happened that way.)
impl Trait is what I'm thinking of, yeah.
Lame showers, dishwashers that don't work, and dirty clothes
Big c9sdk[0] fan here. I don't have high hope, because last time I tried atom on my i7 it ran like a dog.

[0]: https://github.com/c9/core
My son was born with a health condition that would have killed him 75 years ago. He's now perfectly healthy.

Those numbers on childhood mortality are staggering. Hundreds of millions of people have been spared the life-altering grief of losing a child. Let's hope we can drive that number down to 0.
But, the data is not arguing about averages... It's showing that the for the vast majority of people on Earth, life has been getting steadily better for a hundred years. If anything, it's showing that the benefits are getting unevenly distributed in favor of the world's poorest. It's just that there's so many of them that that's still spread pretty thin.

The amount of digging for "Sure... but... I can still think up problems in the world!" in these comments is pretty incredible. Try to be happy for the vast majority of people on Earth --even if we are not living in a universal idealized utopia.
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Everything was pretty standard until I got to the price. This robot is a nice improvement, but there's already many good collaborative robots (i.e. http://preciseautomation.com/PF400.html).

But if they can actually hit the price point it will be game changing:

"Another factor that will make Franka stand out is cost. At the time of this writing, the robot was available for preorder at a yet-to-be-confirmed price of €9,900, or about $10,500. That’s a startlingly low figure for such a capable robotic arm. For comparison, Rethink’s Sawyer sells for $29,000, and Universal Robots’ best-selling UR5 costs even more, at $35,000."

Heck, even $15K vs the standard $30K would be a big improvement.
Rust is being used in a number of places in production for a wide variety of things: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html
I come from Canada, and I was shocked
Well, "algorithm" is just a way of saying "procedure", so a heuristic applies (IMO). I would accept a reasonable heuristic without much argument because the problem of random text is much harder...but honestly, if you got to this part, you've already passed the interview. A total flameout on this question is not even realizing that the storage scales with vocabulary size, instead of sequence length.

An exact solution to an unbounded sequence of purely random text probably does require unbounded memory (I say 'probably' only to hedge my bets here). But depending on the definition of "random", you can put pretty tight bounds on it and only be off by a little. I haven't done the math, but my gut says that a bloom filter, followed by incrementing counts only for positive hits from the filter, would scale well. There may be simpler approaches that make use of word length and the size of the latin alphabet (e.g. "all tokens of size N have 1/C(26,N) probability of colliding if letters are chosen from a uniform distribution, therefore...")

But again, if we actually had this conversation in an interview, there'd be no danger of not passing. Unless you were a jerk or something.
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Ask HN: What problem should I try to solve with ML?
I am a "hobbyist" (did a few projects) in the field, and I want to have some real world experience in my free time.
What is a problem that has good data to work with and will teach me a good amount of concepts and direct my mindset?

Thanks!
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What exactly is being figuratively slapped? And what exactly do you propose the compiler should do when the code is obviously wrong?
How can you be disingenuous if you don't know what you're talking about?
Let's talk roadmap–Rust's achievements in 2016 and goals for 2017 (podcast)
First, JavaScript and modern Java (Spring Boot etc.): To me those are still the most important technologies in B2B software.

Docker and microservices-related patterns and technologies in general: While not the silver bullet they're sometimes depicted to be microservices have some interesting characteristics beyond scalability alone.

Finally, Blockchain-related technologies (and decentralisation at large): There are interesting potential real-world applications beyond finance (supply chain management, for instance).
They were passed to me as a "here, I've got this person who needs work." It's not so much that I wasn't open to it as I generally just assumed finding semi-clones of myself (passionate about all-things computing, spends time outside of work on projects, etc) was the right way to build a team. The more teams I lead the more I realize how wrong that is, it's like trying to build a human body out of all eyes or hands.
I have messed with ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu and I have to say that I would not yet trust it in production. It's not as bullet proof as it needs to be and still under heavy dev. Not even at version 1.0 yet.
As rzzzt says, you can get Turbo Vision [1], which is the framework that Borland used for all their apps. Borland released the C++ source code in the public domain, and it's since been ported to a bunch of platforms, including Linux. Google Images has lots of screenshots [2].

It supports multiple overlapping windows, including modals, and since window rendering is based on buffers, it automatically supports things like region repaint and shadows; it comes with an extensible file editor that supports selection, clipboard and undo/redo; form validation; and even persistence (any UI widget, or set of widgets, can be written to disk and read back again).

It's quite an advanced object-oriented toolkit that's impressive even now, though it seems a bit insane today that they spent so much effort on something that could render only VGA's 80x25 characters.

Documentation is spotty, but it exists [3].

[1] http://tvision.sourceforge.net

[2] http://bit.ly/2iJuckO

[3] http://www.sigala.it/sergio/tvision/html/index.html
Strictly speaking true, but wantonly missing the point.

We're at a world economic point where it is literally cheaper to send chickens from USA to China, process them there, and send the product back to USA than to process them near the originating farm. It's not that hard (with suitable supply chain management, and accounting for economy of scale) to just send that half of my chicken to some guy in Indonesia.
> Silent explicit type conversions are essentially unsafe.

This is a contradiction, something cannot be both silent and explicit.
Oh hell yes. And Be prepared to talk about them. It is way more interesting than talking about hypotheticals
Admittedly I haven't been following this extremely closely, nor do I want to come off as an apologist, but has the Obama administration released, well, any evidence of that Russians were behind this? Or is it all being claimed secret in the interest of national security?
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Maybe the single player campaign but 3vPC multiplayer just sucks and will dc/hang easily.

Unfortunately the same holds true for 0AD as recommend by someone else.

But both still wonderful games.
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Are there any good feeds of newly written machine learning research papers that are worth reading and that is regularly updated?
I couldn't agree more with this. Cargo (and the general desire to think and work hard on ease-of-use) is a huge part of what makes Rust a pleasure. It alone would be enough for me to steer someone with experience in neither to Rust over C++ for lots and lots of use cases.
You might be interested in Fermart's Library:http://fermatslibrary.com