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I, uh… have the distinction of being one of three men to have exterminated such a creature. I was with the C.I.A. in Vietnam. A UFO was sighted for five nights over Hanoi. The marines shot it down and brought it to us. Maybe… it didn't know what a gun was or perhaps they don't show emotion but that… innocent and blank expression as I pulled the trigger has haunted me… until I found you. That's why I come to you, Mr. Mulder, and will continue to come to you to atone for what I've done.
Facebook asking for government photo ID is part of its actual verification procedure.
To be honest, they have been fighting encryption since the 30's.
Sounds like the sugar cookie test is a way of filtering out people who won't blindly accept arbitrary rules from authority.
One of the things you could try is planning a lunch or dinner or trek or some other activity that is enjoyable and sort-of informal-ish. Invite 1-2 of your founder friends and ask them to bring 1-2 of their friends along. Make sure the group doesn't become so large that members subdivide into subgroups. This way not only you, but your other founder friends can expand their network. And, if on the off chance that someone doesn't get along well with someone else, they still have someone in the group to enjoy the fun activity with.
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965784
Most violent people do not have mental illness.

You cause harm to people with mental illness when you ignorantly link violence to mental illness.
I find this incredibly interesting.

Your second link made me laugh, both because the blogger guessed that I was admiring a specific photo and the gradual reveal of the true level of the incompetence on display.
My main problem when debating an issue with people, I believe are horribly wrong, is that people I generally feel that way about, simply aren't very intellectually curious. They are set in their ways and not willing to actually spend any brainpower understanding your argument or the depth of the problem.

Another common problem is that we use different associations or interpretations of a word.

E.g. I find discussing politics with Americans quite difficult because Americans have redefined the meaning of conservative, liberal, socialism and capitalism to a large degree.

Socialism e.g. seems to imply command economy and dictatorship, while capitalism seems to automatically imply freedom and democracy rather than merely describing an economic system.

This applies to many things e.g. when discussing programming languages, advocates of OOP programming tend to assume that encapsulation and polymorphism is uniquely OO concepts.
While looking into this coin, I saw that next month they are going to release another one with a red polymer ring, and plan to have 4 more designs with different colors until 2021 (so 6 different designs in total).

But so far only as collector coins.
Apple is certainly aware of it at least, they've sued one of the sellers on Amazon http://www.computerworld.com/article/3133627/technology-law-...
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I learnt Scala from Odersky's "Programming in Scala" and can fully recommend it. I didn't have any functional language experience beforehand.
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dot com? Why?
I kinda hoped that they'd include something like an RFID chip with something like a certificate inside, signed by the royal mint (Turkish government recently switched IDs to something like that).

That'd allow verifying every single new coin (unless it is damaged to the level of breaking the rfid chip, but I suppose that's not that easy).

It'd also enable tracking. I kinda regret that idea now. BUT if used responsibly, that can significantly reduce the counterfeiting by the means of somehow cloning the RFID chip (which wouldn't be simple if done properly -- there aren't any successful attacks on proper implementations of stuff like mifare desfire EV1/EV2 afaik). A coin was used on a market on london on 10am and with an ATM on Glasgow on 10:30am? Yeah, flag that coin down.
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If they decide to become independent now, it'll be because of Brexit. Same goes for Northern Ireland (which will take some time).
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For any interested in the related costs:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/19/cost-new-pound...

Seems like there are £45m worth of counterfeit coins in circulation, but the switch may cost over £100 million.

____

EDIT: The percent of fake coins in circulation appears to be in flux, which makes me wonder what methods they use to estimate the fakes in circulation, if they use controls like injecting known fakes into the count to see if they are spotted, if the sample is truly random, the maths is correct, etc.:

1% 2004 [1]

3.03% May 2014 [2]

2.55% May 2015 [2]

Of note is that the Royal Mint states in the 2016 annual report that the last survey for fakes was in May 2015, but the report was issued in July 2016, which means at least as of that date they failed to do the annual survey; or at least publish the results.[3]

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10707540/...

[2] http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/counterfeit-one-p...

[3] http://www.royalmint.com/~/media/Files/AnnualReports/ar_2015...
I like this because it explains my boss.
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No i cant even do any of that and thats the point.

Instead of lulling people into the believe that human culture on its own can change things perhaps the time was better spent on the things that actually help. You havent provided anything but an emotional argument that culture can solve this, nor is there any evidence in history which points to this.

Technological progress brought us in this situation, technological progress can get us out of it.

The problem is not the individual consumer but the whole system that supports them and that wont be going anywhere as most people dont have the luxury of spending time planting or meditating.

Anecdotes on people changing is not anything but a great story. Of course people change but your argument need them to change in exactly the same way which is exactly the wrong way to understand humans. We aren't rational agents.
Agree with your analysis and opinion.

And we need all this new cruft because the current situation is insufficiently complex.
That's a really unfair comparison, there's way more going on in a tight space in the BW pic.

Especially since if anything dense clustering of units is way more common in SC2 because the pathing is more efficient.
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This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure of the feasibility. Wouldn't the salt water lake simply keep increasing in salinity as the water evaporated? I know that desalination is mentioned in the article, but it's unlikely to be efficient solution to this since it is either very expensive to build (reverse osmosis) or requires lots of input energy.

Also, salt water is more corrosive so pipeline components probably won't last as long changing the economics of the project.
Nobody cares about original SC, it was very poorly balanced. There was no real counter to mutas and Terran bio without medics was bad.
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I've been blogging for a couple of decades at this point. Yes, it has definitely gotten harder to attract an audience.

It does depend on the sort of blog you're running, though. Information-heavy blogs addressing actual urgent needs still do OK if they're appropriately promoted. More opinion-focused blogs do much less well unless they're very unusual in some way.

(Sweeping statements, obviously.)
Hopefully a long time, unless you are happy with your spending being mediated and controlled by a third party.
"There is a strong relationship between metabolic rate—the rate at which we’re taking in oxygen and burning up food—and lifespan."

I thought this was disproved. Anyone care to clarify?
I was told that Hackney has the greatest concentration of fake pound coins.(no source on that)

Have received many in my time.

Machines don't like them

They seem to be not quite straight.
How much of that is humans? The Tor network is smaller, so I'd expect crawlers to make more passes.
Just googling for some related ideas I found:

1) The Axel age, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age,
2) The concept of liminarity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality

I think Hume ideas, http://www.iep.utm.edu/hume/, for example about utilitarity, and his idea that there is no permanent self. Obvious, is your dynamic self is shaped by rituals then you can apply practice makes perfect techniques. A recent comment about good study habits suggested small time habits better than a strict but non-real schedule that in the end you are not going to adhere to. Also there is a very old book, whose name I cannot recall now, about Chinese culture and the art of living, in which the main insight is that Chinese culture is not about a formal system of rules, but about embracing nature and learning practical skills, that is you learn to live your life by living (repl) read (sensor model) eval (action model) print (show off yourself in society and take liability of your acts) and loop (think about how to improve). In the interview the interviewer notes that the author use the words great, good question, ...

So my takeaway is that a professor of 101 philosophy should motivate (positively) students to question their assumptions , that's the role of philosophy, and that is good to sell books. On the other hand, a bad cop is needed to say students that they know nothing and that perhaps this book, beyond motivating them to think about philosophy, is null. But the ultimate role of philosophy is to make you think by yourself, so a null thing can be a good think, the media is the message.

Edit: Recalled the book name: Author Lin Yutang, China - The Art of Living. Don't follow if you need a pay check.
Kind of an old reply, but I should honestly test that- encoding on a CPU only environment compared to one with a GPU with specialized support takes around 4-5x more, but I didn't test decoding yet on a CPU only environment yet.
But if I see that right, your Blog doesn't have comments (the one linked in your profile). How is that supposed to feel otherwise if those are not enabled?
I was curious how much the penny costs to mint as to put your number into context. Only to find the Royal Mint won't release per coin detail since they mint other coins not for the UK it's classed as a commercial secret. Which means for all the effort put into our currency we might actually be turning a profit on the capability.

ref: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/costs_per_unit_of_min...
So there was no point in doing it? This seems super weird for a financial institution that should be looking at hard data; maybe they did some analysis about the increasing ease of forgery?
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Except none of that speaks to the flawed nature of the experiment. This is ideological junk that refuses to die.
Have you considered video blogging instead of a text based blog? If you are anything like me you are reluctant to put yourself in front of a camera because let's face it, most of us visiting HN are probably not fashionistas with the best hairdos but I have considered it because I think this is increasingly a more popular way to blog. Video blogs offer greater accessibility and appeal to the laziness of human beings (including myself) with respect to attention required.

Personally speaking I would be more likely to follow your technical vlog channel on YouTube rather than a text based blog. The problem for the blogger is the increased production value investment required compared with a text blog. Not only do you have to create the script, you must edit video and do other things that are probably not your primary interest. Code snippets become screen share videos etc. I think this can make video blogging highly time consuming but if done right it's probably easier to get views. Text blogs are appealing because it's all you need to do is write the content and put it up. We coders like the idea of writing code and putting it up and getting success but anyone who's started a startup and made something knows that never works, there's a whole bunch of other 'business stuff' that needs to be done in the same way a vlog requires more 'production stuff' to be done.
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Your note about it's an american/english thing is quite interesting. I live not far from you and I shall say that I relate to your opinion quite well. The important thing is to know one's own personal worth and learn to feel comfortable with it...
Fortunately the domain name is rather less ambiguous and primed me for the weak pun. I'm ... glad(?) that the wordplay survived the marketeering sessions and civil service vetting.

BTW: dodecahedron is the solid object, dodecagon is the 12-sided polygon. D&D style dice as currency would be pretty awesome but it might make it difficult to resolve dilemmas using pocket change.
Supply and demand does if the jobs are also mostly in the big cities
Of course, we can't be really sure if you pay the orkers, one might say that at the same time you pay them and you don't.
It's impossible to say, TA never took off and so never had a large competitive scene like SC/BW had, and so you can't really evaluate its balance. And the balance is probably the most legendary thing about Starcraft 1, that it was so well-balanced even though each faction was radically different.
Agreed. If you're looking for easy extensibility, a simple core and a flexible GUI, I can't imagine what could put VSCode above emacs, except for the button marked "sort by CPU usage"
I work on a market stall in London at the weekends. In my experience it's probably higher than that, you get given some really ropey ones but everyone just treats them normally because there's so many in circulation the banks don't even bother to reject them. I can totally see why they're replacing it.
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Good points.

With the former blog, I had the social part mostly down since I told every person I could about it, and sometimes wrote 4 posts per day, and this eventually helped with search. There was never a newsletter but many signed up to receive posts in their inbox.

The biggest problem is the age-old one: if the right people saw the blog(s) then it'd be more of a hit. Since I mostly write for pleasure, as I mentioned in another comment, I don't need huge quantities of people reading what I write, but it'd sure be nice to be appreciated (to go from 1-10 views per day up to 100). With the old blog, I'd be "disappointed" if I only got 500 views per day. Now I'd be happy with 75-100.

I'll look at how to reinforce the pillars you mention. Thanks
There's an appearance of conflict of interest, and you are not the only one to make this accusation. But this is a red herring.

It was also brought up on the related Reddit thread. Someone surmised this might be "motivated by the direct competition."

To which rszrama (Ryan Szarma) said "As a co-founder of Platform.sh, I know with absolute certainty this is not the case."

Assuming Ryan knows more than both of us, and he would be in a position to gain from making such a claim -- it's important to note he emphatically said NO.

https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/60y9mq/larry_garfie...
Fun fact: the expansion didn't even have its own CD key.
Yes, but "components" as a concept actually works. Why do you think we keep seeing attempt after attempt to bring the concept into the browser UI ?

Software development with components as building blocks maps well to our mental model of how you build things and is extremely productive. Despite the amount of grief that drag and drop GUI builders receive for being too simple, not being explicit MVC, etc., you won't find a better way to allow new developers to learn how to use a tool and be immediately productive with smaller projects. The Delphi and Visual Studio IDEs had it 100% right in this regard. That's why you see so many LOB applications from the late 90's, early 2000's still kicking around that used Delphi's VCL/Visual Studio's WinForms. They got out of the way and allowed people with in-depth business knowledge to create actual solutions. In the long run, isn't that the most important measure ?

I will agree with you on ORMs, though. There's never been more of a case of "putting a square peg in a round hole". Sometimes, the best you can do with disparate systems is to just talk the language of the system that you're interfacing with and stop trying to make it be something that it isn't. Put another way: if your "avoidance" code ends up being 50% more complicated than your "direct" code, and prevents the developer from understanding how the whole interaction occurs, then you've committed a grievous error in architecture. There are ways to make such interfacing easier without making it be completely different. For example, with SQL one of the most difficult things to deal with is result set binding/retrieval, and this was solved rather early on with classes/components that eliminated the complexity of doing so with APIs like ODBC. We should have stopped there.
Grocers do discount short-dated products. Look for the sticker that says "manager's special".
Not that strange. Think of the magazine as being paid for by the marketing budget.
They're releasing the original (sans graphics improvements) as completely free soon.
This sounds like one of those things that's not a problem but becomes unfixable when it is a problem. Like you say it's the scale required.
It looks like a nicer version of the 1 euro coin. I like that the coin isn't round but 12-sided, which will certainly help visually impaired people use the coin. I wonder if they will introduce a new 6-sided 50p coin.
Yeah... who wants to talk to someone who's always trying to close you?

This is the problem and the danger with how to make friends and influence people. People will see through you.
Made to look like the 1Euro coin to ease the transition to Euro currency in the future, I'm sure.
Cars are not optional for most people. They dont just buy them for fun, especially not in china, india and large part of europe. So the answer is no its not worth the cost.
That's simple. 2 possibilities:

- The religion has an official leader (for example the Pope for Catholics). He (and the hierarchy below him) gets to decide who is a true Catholic and who is not, and what the rules are. The line is clear.

- The religion has no official leader (Islam, protestants...). In this case you can't claim that terrorists are "not true Muslims". Pretty much anyone can self-identify as a Muslim. You can however fight against generalisations claiming for example that Muslims are terrorists, or in favor of terrorist action "by default" unless they shout their opposition loud enough.
Starcraft's graphics have aged considerably better than Total Annihilation's. Starcraft looks like classic pixel art where TA looks like 90s 3D.
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WC2 is actually an incredibly slow game. Like even BW is slow compared to SC2 (especially these days) but try going back to WC2 now and it'll feel downright glacial.
So why mention it at all?
No.

Getting page views for well written and original content (especially tech topics) is not hard, in fact there is a severe dearth of good technical writing. How often you post, how many sharing options you provide should not be what you optimize for. Optimize for writing original, well informed content that shows domain expertise. Such content has no problem attracting an audience. But the problem with writing such content is that it's pretty time consuming.

Let me share my own anecdata. Three of my posts got significant attention when I posted them to my blog, around 30k pageviews and now I get a few thousand views every month from search engines and people sharing my posts on social networks. I don't spend any time promoting it, only post to a couple of subreddits initially, that's it, (and HN where my posts did not gain traction so far) .

Posts :

https://www.ploggingdev.com/2017/01/multiprocessing-and-mult...

https://www.ploggingdev.com/2016/12/performance-measurement-...

https://www.ploggingdev.com/2016/12/analyzing-programming-la...

Especially the first post linked above has gotten most of the attention and now ranks on Google for python multiprocessing and multithreading related keywords. My blog is clearly not very popular by HN standards, but it has given me a good understanding of what type of content has no issue attracting attention as explained above.

Edit : You might find the following post by Nate interesting, it talks about how to choose topics to write about (among other things) : https://www.nateberkopec.com/blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self...
> I also noticed that the average session time is about 2 minutes, sometimes is just too short to read through a blog post. So I assume that people come there just to get a solution to a problem they have, not to read through all the text.

Does your website actively ping back to the server to determine how long a visitor remains on a page?
Fun fact: there's tons of office romances, and people fuck like rabbits while working in the same company all the time. Even in puritanical US (or especially there).

Heck, millions of people met at work and finally got married.

And, no, flirting is not the same as harassment.
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I believe it was possible in the past using URL parameters (e.g. complete=0 to disable auto-suggest) but it does not seem to work anymore.

Here it was documented in 2012:

https://airstraining.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/google-search-...

There are (or at least were) others with related effects.
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I actually really hope this will turn out to be true.

I'm unfamiliar with the processing power required to run this on a single image, let alone a video feed. Does anyone have any back of the napkin estimations that might show just how far away AR glasses are from this?
I work for a living in a company that creates products to calculate timetables and schedules for transport companies.

The schedules and timetables need to be exactly, defined according to a large number of requirements (hard constraints and weighted preferences).

While these exact schedules could be created through probabilistic means, the systematic approach of logic search provides more consistent results than a stochastic search, and the imperative programming style allows finer control over the search algorithm than what would be easy to achieve in a pure logic language.
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The main reason for doing it is that they don't want the public to lose faith in the "value" of the pound, which will eventually happen if forgeries become more abundant.
There is some kind of psychological cost too, since the money is only valued as much as people want to value it. Too much fakes might damage the brand more than the face value of the fake coins.