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I don't read as much as I used to, and when I really think about it I get regretful. I definitely read more than 1-4 books/year, but I just don't have the time to devote to it anymore.

I strongly prefer actual books, but I've been doing a lot of reading on my iphone over the past few years due to being able to read when I have spots of downtime (waiting on oil change, for example).
In addition to what the other commenters have said, you can press the "solution" button to see what the final rhombus should look like, and whether yours falls exactly on it.
It was probably a novel application when it was first implemented in emacs 1985-ish (going by the bytecomp.el header comment by JWZ). First editor bytecode? First lisp bytecode? First interpreter bytecode?

O-code predates it by a couple decades for general purpose compilation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-code
Lateralization of brain function
OS update vs upgrade — not sure if there's a difference but I'm also referring to the ~4 GB macOS Sierra installer.
I used to do accounting for a restaurant and I would disagree with you and say with the move to modern Point Of Sale software restaurants not doing this would be the exception now. We checked this every pay period to make sure servers were at or over the proper hourly wage because it is illegal to pay them less.

Florida based for reference, tips are self reported here too but our POS system would automatically transfer tip amounts when a credit card was the payment method. So our payroll system already has that amount. Then we had an electronic time clock where servers scanned their hand to clock in\out, and it was set to prompt them for declared cash tips. It was a nicer restaurant (avg check a bit over 100$). Occasionally a server wouldn't declare enough tips to hit minimum wage for a pay period and the first thing HR would do is check to make sure they were declaring cash tips. In 5 years working there I can't remember a single time a server was actually under minimum wage for a pay period, they just weren't declaring cash tips because CC tips usually covered it.

I have been out of hospitality for a few years but I am seeing even smaller places with POS systems run on Ipads. I would assume since we live in the future these have similar features to the ancient 'micros' brand POS system we used and could integrate with quickbooks or better accounting software to run payroll and do these calculations.

P.S. for any server (or employee anywhere for that matter) who thinks their company is doing something illegal you don't have to even talk to your manager/boss/owner, just call the Department of Labor they pay people to fix these problems for you.
I'm curious to what ratio an abusive regime is affected by general sanctions vs the populace under its authoritarian control. Sad to see so many people living in poverty from a dictator, then sanctions, then an invasion, now ISIS (And a dam apparently).

I don't know what the solution is, but that area of the world just cannot find peace.
Thank you very much for the expert information. but that still doesn't make sense to me. The article states they have two control gates and a spillway. (one gate previously defunct but now repaired)
So, shouldn't it be possible to block off the turbines and open the control gates instead, so that the total flow stays (roughly) the same?

Moreover, if the dam is indeed that easy to destabilize, letting ISIS control the load seems equivalent to handing them a big red "trigger flood" button for use at their discretion. Sure, right now it's in their interest to keep the dam intact - because they still control many parts of Mossul and need the electricity. But "scorched earth" is not exactly a new concept and if the operation in Mossul continues as planned and ISIS is driven out, they could decide to cut the lines on their end to deliberately cause mechanical failures.
Most people I've talked to in person an online that do hot shotting use a few different load boards already. however they all stay away from sites like uship and stay with places that have a higher barrier to entry.
Why all the downvotes? Seems like a valid point.
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I don't see why the Koran (quran, cough cough) should tell you something about terrorism. It is the Muslim's holy book, not the terrorist's holy book.

For my discussion, I simply used the Merriam-Webster dictionary[0]. It says "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion". You are correct, their final objective is not to just scare people but to get something else. But I believe the immediate objective of the terror action is to scare people so to get to their final objective.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrorism
Some of these are objectively good, such as world literacy increasing, less pollution in the atmosphere or survival rates increasing for endangered species.

Then it lost me with "Oh and smoking bans are good and global human population increases are good and also drilling=evil corporations so banning it across the board=good"

Those are debatable. Not very politically neutral is it.
Wow, this looks really cool. Looks like something you could do while exercising, like with a stationary bike or treadmill.
Yes, but it's 74 Google+ likes, or at least that's what an online converter would have me believe: http://i.imgur.com/9xIW1wr.png
like others have said, I assume it's a combination of my hispanic last name and as a general interview technique to see how I react.
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A Neutral Code of Conduct That Protects Ideological Diversity
Great, thanks for sharing your experience :)
Amazon is also wading into this logistics space, so they will be head to head. https://logistics.amazon.com They have a lead; they're already into aviation:
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/amazon...

It's going to be a spectacular, automated race to the bottom. The losers are going to be the 10 million professional drivers in the old trucking and taxi businesses.
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To me, the base assumption that the TSA has anything to do with security is just wrong. The TSA did the following.

1. It let the people feel better post 911

2. It created low skill minimum wage jobs to boost employment numbers.

3. It increased Gov. control over traveling with increased internal data on the movement of legitimate citizens.

4.surved to create the most intricate theater around.

The only thing that, since 911 has stopped anything, has been onboard citizen action and stronger doors to the cockpit.
It was in the context of building trust, basically "go away and work on another project so we know who you are before you can touch our holy code".

That guy came in with a great attitude and approach, he pretty much got told to pack it.
I agree with you - there's a fine line between being genuinely helpful and nice to doing it just because they want tips and most places cross it.
> I find it difficult to write useful bash commands that I will reuse later.

Try to avoid "pre-judging" the usefulness of scripts. As another commented mentioned, something as simple as:

ls -l

may be useful to you. It also helps establish the habit of editing (saving) the script before you execute it.

So just write some scripts and see if you use them again. You will probably end up with too many, but that's ok, because you can remove the unnecessary ones later, and you'll have gotten extra practice creating the scripts in the first place.

> Maybe I should learn a scripting programming language.

That's really your preference based on your need for portability (i.e. minimizing the dependencies required to run the script.) Using Python or Perl is perfectly fine for these scripts, but they do require that the system has one of those languages installed. If you're doing a lot of work on machines that you do not administer, it's more likely that Bash is already there.
The problem with using lazy data structures for storing things is that deletes don't necessarily free up storage. Fingertrees are fine when you need to store a collection in order to implement some algorithm (and being persistent makes it useful if this algorithm has to backtrack), but they aren't so good for backing a collection that changes over time, like the set of currently connected sockets in a network service.
> The package wouldn’t be complete without the entire process being much slower than the old card swipe. What took a second or two before now seems to take millennia.

Now that I recalled, most of my chipped POS transactions have been indeed a few seconds slower than swipes. I wonder if that's caused by the data encryption/decryption? Embedded hardwares are very capable theses days, I am surprised to see that's the case though. Can someone with expertise on this issue explain?
What would generally happen if you tried that in a place that stated they didn't accept tips in the UK would probably be that you'd be smiled at, your money would go in a charity tin and the server would make a mental note to serve you last next time. I suspect your ego would then simply reject the obviously bad service you received the next time and you would convince yourself that you had somehow benefited rather than accept that your previous actions were arrogant, culturally imperialistic and unwise.
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In China, "Uber for trucking" services have off over the last year or two. The largest player, Huochebang, has registered more than 2 million drivers and is doing ~100,000 orders per day. They don't charge anything for using the platform and make money by selling other services to drivers.
I think it's also too new in battery tech for this to happen. Batteries need to become more like a commodity everyone thinks is interchangeable before this becomes truly viable.

If I own my car (and battery) I probably take pretty good care of it. Who is to say I'm swapping with a battery that has been poorly cared for? This anxiety alone (justified or not) means a lot of owners won't currently do this. Tesla "tried" to solve this - but if I have to plan ahead for when I want to do a swap it's again a hugely useless service. The entire reason battery swaps would exist, is to make charging an afterthought non-issue.

Basically I can see once electric cars get to be the majority and battery tech drives prices down this happening more - probably starts out more like a battery service/extended warranty plan where you pay a monthly fee for a certain guaranteed performance. Then this company will develop the repair/service infrastructure to be positioned to take advantage of any standardized battery swap tech for their customers.

It's fun to think about the new markets here, but right now battery packs are more like pets than cattle.
does it have a lens profile database? these are tedious to do manually.
And in addition: the efficiency of a petrol-engine is much lower than an electric engine. So you perhaps only take in half of the fuel, if it gets you just as far you have what you need, isn't it?
Fedex was held liable for mislabelling thousands of employers as contractors when they were not.

"FedEx has settled a long-running dispute with FedEx Ground California drivers. The class settlement will create a $228 million fund to resolve claims by over 2,000 FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery pickup and delivery drivers. Some claims date back to 2000 and some extend through 2007. The settlement must still be approved by the Ninth Circuit, but assuming court approval, will end one chapter in a bitter dispute."

"In this case, the Ninth Circuit said that FedEx controlled the drivers and that they were independent contractors in name only. It was a major blow to FedEx, which has fought about its so-called independent contractor model of operation for many years. The financial benefit of the contract arrangement was big. For years, FedEx has been able to shift to its drivers the costs of FedEx branded trucks, FedEx branded uniforms, FedEx scanners, fuel, maintenance, insurance, and more. Drivers were not provided pay for missed meals, rest periods, overtime compensation, etc."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/06/16/fedex-sett...
In theory I totally agree with the concept of using secure defaults.

In practice, however, I have seen far too many developers spend hour after hour trying to unwind a byzantine labyrinth of iptables and strange network configurations, weird firewall rules and corporate policies, never mind mangled DNS, to think that the correct solution is merely "secure defaults".

At the end of the day, developers get paid to "make it work" and unfortunately that strongly incentivizes the "open by default" configuration mindset.
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> random search

Or in other words, ignore concerns about profiling and implement an Israeli style security operation.

I think it has a lot to be said for it. Profiling + politeness + a firm boundary on mandate (e.g. no drug convictions by airport security) doesn't seem that bad. Especially compared to what amounts to the same thing except with a vast security army of more poorly trained agents.

Ethnically profiling selection without ethnically profiling assumption isn't a nuance I'd trust the average TSA agent to perform well.
Ask HN: Where you ask for help?
I have an idea that i want to make an app of. But i want to know where i should ask for help. Questions that i want to ask belongs to programming langauge, idea validation, marketing. Would you suggest me some resources?
Lucasfilm Addresses CGI Character Controversy
Linux uses linked lists because it is simple to code. That linked lists are slow doesn't matter very much because there are lots of slow parts in Linux that are a better use of attention.

Doom moved to vectors (arrays) because linked lists are slow, and because there wasn't enough other slow parts that needed attention.
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What's Bootstrap?
This! I have never heard a compelling explanation of this. It gets doubly weird with alcohol in the equation. A group of 4 shares a $60 dollar bottle of wine with dinner. The waiter/ress brings a bottle and pours 4 glasses. If that doesn't kill the bottle they leave it and often the guests refill on their own.

= $12 tip

A table of 4 gets 4 glasses of pop $2.50 each, each a different kind. The waiter/ress brings 4 full glasses to the table, and then goes back and forth filling them for each individual.

= $2.00 tip

What?!
> This sounds like a program that was designed to fail so they could say that they tried

You're getting downvotes, but I think that's accurate. Tesla built a battery swap station in order to qualify for extra ZEV credits worth millions of dollars that California was offering as an incentive to develop an EV that could be charged as fast as gasoline cars. They met the bare minimum requirements to qualify for those credits, and the station was likely never used by anyone other than a few reporters, then quickly closed after the credits were earned.

The station was "opened" in a way that seems to me designed to ensure nobody would use it: you had to be invited to take your car there, you had to call several days ahead of the time you wanted to do so to make a reservation, you had to pay $80 for the privilege, and you might not get your own battery back. The swap station was located across the street from a Supercharger where you could simply pull in without a reservation and quick charge your car for free.
> Drilling a second tunnel just to let water out is probably not considered economical.

Economical relative to what? The projected losses if half the populated area of the country is flooded?
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Any experience using RawTherapee also? Just an hobbyist myself and moving away from the Mac platform so figuring out the best alternatives.
> So it looks like what we're building here is the beginnings of a travel tax

We already have a travel tax, every airline ticket you buy you pay 5.60 per one-way flight directly to the TSA. It was never about security, the TSA is a government funded employment program.
You really should consider reading Ian M Banks's Culture series novels if you like that. He's widely considered to be the best sci-fi author in the UK (He's scottish).

I'd certainly put the culture series close to par with Ender's Game and the Dune novels. They're most excellent.
Bay Area House Values Hit a Record High at the End of 2016
I received the adabox second box just before Christmas. Its a ton of stuff, I feel I got far more than my $60 worth although of course its stuff they selected not stuff I selected. I did not sign up in time to get the first box, so I can't comment on the first box. I think the first box was something with RGB LEDs, looks interesting.

The second box is "make a robot" with a feather which is an adafruit thing which is a custom arduino with on board bluetooth. It looks extremely easy to me, but I am not a noob to either electronics or mechanics. Its a nice little set, everything you need to mess around with a little robot.

Its "make a robot" in the post 1990s sense of a robot is a homemade RC car with homemade UI. Not make a robot in the pre 1990s sense of its possibly a stationary arm, or its autonomous, or it does something other than be a possibly weaponized RC car. So its a rather basic homemade RC car, OK cool.

Needless to say with the holiday obligations I've done nothing with it other than watch the videos and paw it all over and there's no way I'm going to get to mess with it due to obligations etc until well after the new year.

Everything seems very well selected and packed and looks fun. It looks quite expandable. Somewhere on my cluttered workbench I have a nice IMU/magnetometer/accelerometer I2C board and I think it would be fun to bolt on. It is not maxed out and cries out to be messed with and expanded. Its open loop motors, so I'd like to use a simple IMU board to close the loop so a 90 degree turn really is 90 degrees and so on. Also I could use the magnetometer to discipline the straight line such that its really straight not a curve with a large unknown radius. That'll probably be my first experiment on my own after I complete the official published experiments.

My decades of experience with boxes implies that if a company mostly sells "stuff" and occasionally offers a box or gift basket it'll be a great deal with overstocked items marked down as much as 50%, maybe more, but if its a "gift box company" the prices of the components (perhaps a cheese log or a summer sausage) will be marked UP at least 100% to 500%. So because adafruit is mostly a "stuff seller" and not a "box seller" the box price to retail component price ratio is awesome. There must be $120+ of retail price stuff in the $60 adabox. The thimble being a company focused on selling boxes, I would assume the price ratio will be more like the "sausage and cheese holiday gift box" biz where the box is at least 200% of retail component price. I would be happy to be surprised if thimble is in fact a good value, but observations of parallel businesses implies that would be quite an achievement if they pull it off.
Regrettably we found that the doors are as sturdy as promised in the real world last year with the suicide of that German pilot.
If you don't know either, the "learn Bootstrap" thing will be a much bigger deal than whether you learn 3 or 4.

This is doubly true if you don't know CSS in the first place.
Unfortunately, it is actually quite appropriate. It should be called what it is, serfdom, but that's really more splitting hairs. The tech industry will usher in a new form of feudalism.
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>the immediate objective of the terror action is to scare people so to get to their final objective.

I would like to understand this train of thinking because I don't see any consequence to scaring people. Online trolls don't accomplish any larger objective, for example. What do terrorists have in mind?

I am inclined to just think of them as trolls.
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I discovered The Atlantic when I was in high school and fell madly in love with it. It helped that it was ridiculously inexpensive, something like $14 for 2 years (yes, I'm old).

That magazine and The Economist (which I loved but couldn't afford a subscription to) kept me much better-informed than I am now, when I'm old and jaded and happier being ignorant.
They also support pulling data from zabbix, which can be super handy. :D
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It's good for extracting money from restaurant patrons :p

As for humanity, imo capitalism is the wrong model if we want to optimize for global happiness. Directionally, basic income seems better, though I'm sure the devil is in the details...
I'm so sick of the meme that 2016 is a bad year. It's just confirmation bias.
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It's unlikely that you'll hit those wait times due to other cars at the same supercharger, I think. Not all trips require a visit to a supercharger and unlike ICE, owners of electrical recharge daily at their homes.

It could happen for some popular routes, but it will be a minor nuisance and easily fixed with more supercharging stations on the routes that are more congested.
> financial interests of deep-pocketed local businesses like Google, etc.

I'm sorry, but Google isn't going to slip someone envelopes full of money. Here's a starter, if you want to read more: http://www.sfexaminer.com/new-details-political-corruption-c...
Used to like working on DOS. Many of the apps on it were very fast to use, as others have said.

And TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident programs) [1] were fun to use. I particularly liked Borland Sidekick (a multi-utility tool that could be popped up via a hot-key on top of whatever program you were running). [2] Sidekick sold tons of copies, I read.

Edit: According to the Wikipedia article below, "Sidekick sold more than 1 million copies in its first three years".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_stay_resident_pr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick
> easier and safer than hypothetically laying gasoline pipelines everywhere

Ironically, that's safer exactly because electricity won't give you those MW-scale powers.
Yes, in the USA you also have to destroy copies when you sell a movie or CD to someone. This is the whole point of copyright - to limit distribution. Otherwise running a rental service wouldn't be any different from hosting a download site.
Well, some things are awesome, which is a truly a relief from the normal "Everything sucks." that we get on a daily basis. I was glad to read through these.
I doubt that the 40% goes to the owner, it probably goes to the kitchen staff.
What can you show to prove you can program? Basically, you have to prove that you're a better bet than somebody local. So, build something on your own and leave it open source, then find postings that use those technologies and apply.
>my understanding is that self-driving cars can drive safely with considerably less spacing between cars

SDC's still need to maintain a safe stopping distance. The problem is really the opposite, human drivers drive too close, causing bunching, traffic jams, and collisions.
Я тоже люблю книги, Пётр* ! Kapitza is also a tipoff..

* : "I love books too, Peter". In reference to Peter Kapitza. I should get back to learning Russian.
Thanks. I think it’s fine :-)
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When the men were regularly active and ran, this lead to a healthful
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But when the men instead sat for 14 hours a day, running did not
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Inactivity altered the men’s physiology in ways that apparently
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