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The "tier" thing pisses me off. Lots of "top tier" people go to "third tier" universities for various reasons. Eg, financial, family commitments, non-traditional circumstances, etc.

I was accepted to a top tier CS uni, but did not get financial aid. I came from a blue collar family with parents born in the depression era. So we saved every penny. Every dime my parents had went into paying off their (tiny) mortgage on their (equally tiny) house. Yet, back in the 80s, that was counted as an asset in the financial aid process. So I ended up going to a 2nd/3rd tier local state university on an academic scholarship, then a top tier place for grad school (fully funded).

It all worked out in the end, and I wound up at Google. While there, they tried to get me to go on a recruiting trip to my grad school. I demurred, and said I'd prefer to go to my undergrad school. So they signed me up to do outreach to long tail universities. Rather than sending people on site, like for Stanford, MIT, etc, this turned out to be a Google hangouts chat with multiple different state universities. It was better than nothing, but it was nothing like the effort they put into recruiting from the "top tier" places. I think they may be missing a lot of good people.
the last left wing fake news was JFK and the missile gap, good luck.
The old phone line here has a similar problem. The bandwidth goes to shit when the weather turn bad. Likely there is a crack somewhere and a combo of wind and Dian gets inside.
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Clojure for the Brave and True is, in my opinion, more substantial than _why's Poignant Guide. It moves faster, guides you through some real (if small) projects, and the whimsical tone is really just some flavoring rather than the whole focus of the book. _why's guide really seems only to be incidentally about programming in Ruby because it's focus is being some kind of crazy postmodern deconstruction of programming tutorials, while Clojure for the Brave and True is the inverse, if that makes sense.

I think it's a good introduction, and as someone who's programmed in a lot of languages over the years it was accessible without being too dumbed-down. The style certainly isn't to everyone's taste, of course.
> We completely understand every native app has a different feel.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think you're missing the point here. Users may like having separate tools to help them differentiate between different communication tasks. I don't think that trying to manage a bunch of messaging apps is a pain point for most/all people.
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Now consider that in human history, about 40% of men were able to breed. So 30% of the population goes extinct every generation without passing on genes, assuming all women reproduce. So with a few hundred iterations of this kind of 70:30 split, you could see how evolution could happen quite quickly even under normal circumstances.
But in practice, theories are only hypotheses, which at best can just be falsified ;)
Where are all the pro fake news people ?
First time hearing this story, and also just discovered `units` which I really love :)
Ugh EU passports look so bad with that butt ugly bordeaux color :D
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I use Spacemacs for Clojure at the moment and I quite enjoy it. My only problem is there doesn't seem to be a way to insert a newline in the repl without submitting the line for evaluation (I want to be able to structure a function definition for readability, for example, rather than having to have a single huge line).

I did also have to stop smart-parens from auto-closing backticks, but that was a simple fix.
You omitted the best proposal. Link to wayback machine since the images does'nt seem to resolve on original site anymore.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150518212006/http://buzzit.no/...

Edit: Saturday-night-whisky spelling mistake.
Yeah, I’ve found Haskell a pleasure to work with for writing compilers. There’s no single thing, just a combination of language features and libraries. The bulk of a compiler is transforming trees of stuff, which Haskell makes very easy, and it nudges you pretty strongly in the direction of making code testable and refactorable.

I don’t have any particular recommendations. Mostly I’ve just been figuring things out as I go along, reading papers and asking for help. I’d written compilers & interpreters before, but got into using Haskell for it with Write Yourself a Scheme[1]. I’ve also heard good things about Implementing a JIT Compiled Language with Haskell and LLVM[2].

[1]: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...

[2]: http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/
Ask HN: Should I join Amazon? Why? Or Why not?
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Interesting that this is a standard use-case for ActiveRecord [0] and does not include any built-in protection against SQL injection. You can pass a hash of symbols into the method, but there is no safe way to pass string arguments with sanitizing them yourself.

[0] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#or...
Oh okay. Would be interesting to look into the compression they use... I wonder if it's open.
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Not this again. Someone will always make a post about earning a ridiculous salary that will ruin my entire week. I just don't believe people can add 800k of value to an organisation.
I understand. You carry your experiences on your back, in your mind.

I wonder if you COULD document that in a physical way though, maybe build a website using a free host like Wix.com loaded with photos from around the world, organized chronologically by country.

That would be amazing. Maybe even organize a speech about "What I have learned by traveling the world" (with cool photos)

Even if you didn't take photos, you could find photos of the places you lived at on Google.

I think many people would be interested by a talk like that.

I appreciate your experience, and I think employers would also.

You have proven you can relate and survive in many different cultures and you are adaptable. I would imagine that would be valuable in an international position in a big company like Pagonia, or a safari travel company, or even a local company with a diverse workforce.
I built a matrix multiplier with these (plus a TRW multiplier chip) back in the day. Designed the instruction set and wrote the microcode to implement it. Got it running at 40MHz, which was pretty impressive in 1980. Good times.
> it wasn't necessarily useful as I couldn't get any information I didn't already know

Don't forget to read to the end...this isn't a 'spiritual' thing.
Chris Crawford's talk about Creativity and Game Design is also interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAX0trP3hIQ
I'd agree with author. I have noticed better battery life than the author, usually in the 9-11 hour range.

I tend to aggressively close tabs by habit so that likely helps. Rest of setup is running Atom, Mail, Outlook, and OneNote. Sprinkle compiling in there.

When I'm working on Windows stuff Via Parallels, I get around 5 hours of battery life which is waaaay better than I expected.
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"However, in the second trial the small claims cap of $10,000 is removed and the judge can potentially award much more money in damages to the plaintiff."

This is wrong. $10,000 is the absolute damages cap in small claims court and the small claims appeal (which is really just a new trial). See California Code of Civil Procedure Section 116.220 and 116.221. The exact same claim is simply heard in front of a new judicial officer. It is not possible to amend the claim to add more damages in the appeal. See California Code of Civil Procedure Section 116.770(d).

A judge could award another $1000 but only if the appeal was frivilous. See California Code of Civil Procedure 116.790. This happens rarely.

* I'm a CA licensed attorney and just happened to attend the temporary judge small claims training just a couple weeks ago.
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> why did religions change at that particular time?

Wait, what? Sounds cool and I'd love a source on that.
It is the same! It's a huge mistake, especially as a business owner, to not make that equivalence.
All good points.

I personally consider every time I get in the car to be a failure on my part that I regret. It takes some planning, but I get around mostly by walking, biking, and taking advantage of our regional bus system (which admittedly does not come very often). Other friends of mine commute by cross country skiing or by rowing when the weather makes it conducive.

There is a lot of great music in rural areas, especially live music. It helps if you develop an appreciation for fiddle music and sad songs about logging camps, the love that you lost, and really good dogs. Admittedly these may be acquired tastes.

Having close contacts in urban areas certainly helps on the income front, and I will admit is that a minimum of a three hour drive to the nearest major airport makes jetting off to speak or consult challenging.

I am definitely going to look into the ecological balance, because I that is something I cannot speak to. A lot of my neighbors have solar panels and are off the grid, but you could be right about that.
I don't even think it's necessarily a greed problem as much as a self interest problem, assuming its possible to make that distinction.

When I see people who constantly hold up urban high density housing development, in part to keep certain demographics from enjoying their neighborhoods, all the while enjoying the protection of limited property tax increases due to Prop 13 while still reaping the rewards of housing appreciation, I can make a case for myself that these people are being greedy and unethical.

On the other hand, if someone works hard, saves for years to make a down payment on a mortgage, services the debt of that mortgage for 20-30 years, and relies on their house as their primary investment, I can't really blame them for voting for policies that increase housing prices. I think this highlights why the issue will be so hard to solve. It's going to be very difficult to get people who have been paying into a mortgage under the assumption that housing is a safe investment to suddenly support policies that will result in real estate depreciation.
Get an airplane ticket, fly to China or Russia or Cayman Islands, cash a gazillion of bitcoins into any currency you want or gold bars or pebbles. Done!

Naturally, you'll have to shell out some "transaction fees" to some authorities, but that's just standard laundering thing.
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"Able to withstand over 4KN/m² of snow loading and wind speeds exceeding 31m/s"

http://www.solardome.co.uk/case-study/the-nature-house-north...
Aren't you showing necessity? If you transition from state A -> B , then X must hold. Where X is conservation of energy, charge, etc... It doesn't say anything about how long it takes to get from state A to state B. Or time existing per se, rather some relations that must hold between states. They don't actually have to hold, but you don't live in those invalid states. Similar to constructive light perhaps.

I remember the old boost mode on PCs where you could run your game 2x as fast by increasing the CPU clock speed (increasing game transitions relative to brain transitions), and yet the rules of the game still hold despite the game transitioning faster. Also making very hard to see/play (No turbo boost for the brain :)
The fundamental difference with Ford.

Even though most of the Ford employees are not devoting their full effort toward physically adding value to natural-resource-derived materials, some of them are, that's where the wealth is generated and the reason money comes in.

At a company with none of these type employees generating the profits, wealth originates from markets, not materials themselves.

Ford may appear to be a bureaucracy (because it is), but it is not a pure bureaucracy.

The non-material companies CAN be operated as pure bureaucracies, and the more pure, the greater degree that success comes from streamlined and efficient bureaucratic processes.

Companies like Ford might also need to have as streamlined and efficient bureaucratic processes as possible (simply because many types of bureaucracy can often be a dead weight).

For that reason, either type of company might also profit most when the smallest amount of bureaucracy actually is imposed on the fraction of employees who are devoting their full effort toward adding value, whether it is through materials processing, data processing, etc.

Even though facebook and Google might be making a profit on every piece of hardware they are involved in, that is not where significant amounts of their money comes from. They are huge but it didn't come from them creating wealth from scratch.

Market-dependence of course applies to either type of employment organization, but there are extremely different weightings between capital markets, materials markets, and sales markets between such diverse industries, depending on where the money is coming from at the time.

Ford & Morgan, Stanley also are large and successful companies that were founded before most anybody living was ever born.
Which is also huge, but everybody knows that.

There could still never have been companies like Morgan, Stanley until after companies like Ford were developing a need or desire for these service providers to exist.

Wealth is always traceable back to natural resources, whether renewable or not.
Yep, obviously.
The solution here is pretty simple: just don't connect your "smart" TV to the Internet.

Not only does this avoid malware/randomeare/becoming part of a botnet but it also avoids the stupid pop ups about "The terms and conditions [sobething you don't use, care about and probably didn't know existed] have changed. <OK|Cancel>".

If you're using DVRs, STBs, etc you're getting the same effect.

Connecting to the Internet gains you nothing.
Ask HN: How to maximize knowledge beforr starting grad school?
I'll be starting grad school (Master's) in Fall 17. I'm applying to CS with depth requirements in ML and NLP. What do I study in these 6-8 months to maximize my success in the MS program?

I work full time as a software developer
Before bitcoin and even now there are options such as liberty reserve and web money.
The prevailing winds in the regulatory climate do not seem to point towards a skyscraper construction boom anytime soon.

Over in technology, we're rapidly marching towards cheap household-scale solar panels and batteries, commodity autonomous driving technology, and cheap electric cars. Elon Musk's satellite constellation will deliver decent internet service regardless of the population density/economics needed to support fibre buildout. Telepresence is already good and keeps getting better.

The society coming down the line is one made of energy-independent prefab houses with no particular constraints on location (so they'll go to where land is cheapest), drastically improved freeway throughput (autonomous cars can pack much more densely), and car interiors not much different from small apartments (you'll be able to eat, sleep, and work while the computer drives).

So, as it gets easier to live farther from work, the economic incentives for everyone to cluster into a few square miles will diminish greatly.
I'm not too sure about that. I spent several years working closely with a massive group of physicians (40+ in the same specialty), where I routinely had to check medical reports before they went to clients.

While all very bright people, many of the physicians that attended middle-of-the-road medical schools and even one that went to a Caribbean medical school were much better than the couple Harvard trained docs we had.
There isn't a word at every point in the space. Is that your objection to calling it a vector space? I think of every point in space as representing subtle gradiations of concepts, only some of which are instantiated by words.
Thanks for the reddit link.

Not sure if that's laughable or not. The fact a PGP sig still hasn't been used since the date of the alleged "takeover" is a very strong point against complaisance.
I’m probably not writing another C backend. There is a convenient C parsing library for Haskell (language-c) that should let the compiler get all the information it needs from headers.

It will support frame pointers, but they might be a bit less useful than when debugging C, because Kitten guarantees tail-call optimisation. The ABI is fairly similar (not fully worked out yet), just a couple of register differences to separate the data stack from the call stack.

I’m still working out Kitten’s story for concurrency and parallelism. You’ll be able to easily spin up an OS thread if you want one, but I expect most code to use other approaches, like a green-thread library.
Compared to the code in the linked post, I guess I'm a lot more strongly in favour of type safety, which this solution has too. But as a bear of very little brain, I really must insist on no extra cognitive overhead while debugging!

Sadly there's no really good way of doing this in C, so whatever you do there's a tradeoff somewhere. You just have to decide what type of crap you want to put up with, and code accordingly ;)

(If you're working on your own, I do say this is a fair argument for at least giving C a go when you might otherwise have gone with C++. If you can come up with some stuff that doesn't annoy you in any way you care about, and you don't mind the fact that C lacks a few of C++'s creature comforts, you'll reap the benefit of hilariously better build times.)
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Agreed, my 2015 Samsung TV just got a flurry of new app updates before Xmas, including Amazon Video and Spotify that previously weren't available at all.
It's probably because of the span between consecutive I-frames (or intra-block sweeps if not using I-frames) in the video stream, but audio should switch "instantaneously" (within 1 frame).
Those are great, I've never seen them before. I can't decide whether I like the 500 or the 1000 krone note more.

Edit: Here's an additional concept for the British Pound that I forgot to add to my above post.[1]

[1]http://www.travispurrington.com/-2022-british-pound-concept
Oh and by the way, the logfiles from most package servers provide an accurate description of what you're doing with your machine and a weak concept of identity.

Those "package servers" are distributed mirror networks with no central entity being able to read all the logs.
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IPv6 is indeed bad but:

- "federated instead of decentralized": I believe Matrix's federation implementation qualifies as decentralised. There's some centralisation (homeservers) but not much.

- "its end-to-end encryption is optional": I don't really see this as a problem. If you want it, you have it. If you don't, you don't. Sometimes end-to-end encryption isn't desirable, in a business environment where you need communications to be auditable for example.
Wow, I didn't realize that had continued past the second world war.
This was the most challenging aspect I experienced when running a company targeting small businesses for four years.

About 10% of your clients will be nightmares who will hold grudges over relatively small sums of money. No amount of contract language will save you from a user who has made use of the software for two years, decides that they're unsatisfied with it and files chargebacks for every payment made over that time.

Sadly, the most rational option is to acquiesce. Even "winning" a chargeback case is a loss, as most payment providers still charge you for the handling of the case and it is a black mark on your account, possibly putting you in danger of losing payment processing ability completely.
That's what libraries like sequel, SQLAlchemy or Jooq are for. I'm looking at implementing some crazy dynamic queries in a CRM system I'm prototyping right now and SQLAlchemy is my saving grace to avoid shooting myself in the foot.
Thanks, that is really interesting. Just last night, we were speculating what, besides general chaos, might be Russia's interest in Turnip, and fracking vs. oil came up.

It's kind of a baffling feeling, to be anti-fracking and to have to sort out what parts of your anti-fracking background information may have been derived from propaganda.
Wacky story, but this is very typical. They had unsecured wireless devices attached to thier network. A misconfigured device, misconfigured due to the hurricane, ended up causing internal problems. I muust ask, why was a wifi device so ready to connect to some random device? Be glad this wasnt a rogue device.
Really? Tell me how you would do the following with i3 or whatever tiling WM floats your boat. Have four terminal windows arranged in a grid, run a random gui program by typing the name of the program in one of those terminals and have the program open maximized. Close the program by using a quit command inside the program and have the terminals laid out in the grid again. And all this without having to use any window management/layout commands, keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures.
I think that's sound - and the "plumes" from the object would make sense as turbulence from its passage seen head-on.

I'd love to have a straightforward explanation to this mystery too, which was a few months before this was filmed, and has been an itch in my mind for the intervening years. http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption
You're omitting a major factor in this. Jobs.

I moved from Chicago to the Bay Area and while I'm not a developer, the opportunities are still night and day in terms of the job options, the pay, benefits, etc.

A cheap mortgage on a nice house in a good neighborhood means squat if there are not a lot of job options, or only ones a long commute away.

Personally I think the best thing to help this is make remote work more viable for non developer professions that don't have as much demand or leverage. This would enable more people to live in affordable areas if getting another remote job were comparable to living in a market flush with jobs.
Why? The only advantage I can see to running a multiplexer under ssh is that you can resume after disconnection. There are plenty of non-multiplexer based solutions for that. And you can have the same session locally or remotely if you terminal emulator locally, as long as the terminal emulator support sessions, which kitty does.
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From your other answer it sounds like that you know what the OP means? I'll bite anyway ...

The Wikipedia article on the gamma function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function

states that "The gamma function is defined for all complex numbers except the non-positive integers. For complex numbers with a positive real part, it is defined via a convergent improper integral ..."

So maybe that is what the OP means: the gamma function Γ(z) can be defined by via convergent improper integral for all complex numbers of z with real part greater than zero.

?

Wikipedia then points out that:

"This integral function is extended by analytic continuation to all complex numbers except the non-positive integers (where the function has simple poles), yielding the meromorphic function we call the gamma function."
It's always interesting watching discussions of class come up on HN. As someone who comes from a working class background/family, it astounds me how often people will respond with the idea that the tech industry/any kind of(generally college) education is some kind of meritocracy, or that the solution is to simply 'work harder'. Those are certainly nice sentiments, but far from reality(See, the Myth of Meritocracy[0]), and I'm overjoyed to see that others in this thread are providing other narratives and social situations.

[0]: http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v21/merit.htm
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