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> My definition of an object is "an ADT that gets to 'decide', using private runtime state, what to do in response to any/all attempts to interact with it."
Which makes for a very simple test: if something is an object, you should be able to send it a message that makes it change its mind about what messages it accepts after that.

I'm not sure these are equivalent criterion.

In Java and C++, the "dispatch matrix" is defined at compile time, and it is stored at runtime, and the object itself does determine the contents of that matrix. So these languages do clearly meet your first criterion. But also, clearly, not the second.

I guess the objection you might raise is "any/all messages", with "modify your dispatch matrix" being a reasonable message. But there will always be some message that cannot be implemented by the object; we can certainly code up some Goedelian thing inside of a core OO calculus. But for any concrete OO language, something more reasonable than that probable exists.

So then the question is where -- not if -- we draw the line on "any/all messages". And I'm not sure that drawing that line south of Ruby but north of Java makes a lot of sense.
Driving is still being seated and not doing much (even less so with automatic gears). Not a very active, err, activity, so why would it "get the blood moving" that much?

I may state the obvious, but it's about the blood moving inside the body and to the brain and such, not about mere movement of blood, body and all along with the vehicle to some destination.
Yes, you're right that it isn't a "coffee house". The coffee house game is played expertly in philly by several places each of which serves up excellent coffee: Joe, Elixr, La Colombe, Rival, and a few more. Depending on the time of day, they're decidedly not the kind of independent coffee-house vibe the author was going for. La Colombe, for example, is branching out beyond just having a few coffee houses in a few cities-- they're marketing product as well.
> it's not a neutral thing or a victimless crime like drug consumption

Then we ban it. We're not banning the speech; we're banning the child abuse. Take a look (figuratively, not necessarily literally) at loli/shota hentai - that's legal (at least here in the USA) because real people are not being harmed. Actual CP with actual children is banned because real people are being harmed. It's not suppression of free speech; it's protection against abuse.
I'm amazed by the powerline-command prompt. Shiny things seem to draw my attention a bit too much.
For people with back pain, for example, sitting incorrectly or for prolonged periods of time can cause certain muscle to not activate when they're supposed to. I recently went through physical therapy for this in which my range of motion was increased due to flexibility exercises. All humans have a "basic" range of motion, but your effective range of motion can in fact be affected by things such as sitting too much.

And you could argue humans were designed by evolution. I don't think the OP meant some alien in a garage sat down and just drew up what humans should be.
The more boring these "rocket successfully lands" stories get, the more exciting they paradoxically become.
I want Google to launch and support the products I like, and not shut them down while I still enjoy using them.

I'd also like them to have a clear and unambiguous strategy so I can cleanly move from one product to the next when they do phase out a product.

But, "people in Hell want ice water," as they say.
I believe that I have elevated wasting time to an art form. For decades I only worked 4 days a week, even for large corporations, and spent my extra day off on my sailboat or at the beach. I am fairly busy right now, but I am still taking two short hikes today, morning and late afternoon with two groups of friends.

A recent book I bought written by Cal Newport "Deep Work" inspires me to keep my habits, with some refinements.

I pay a price for taking lots of time off: "leaving money on the table." For me it is worth it.
Yeah, it's sad. It's the Worse is Better effect combined with momentum of legacy systems. You have to reuse things that have momentum to increase odds of your own thing having momentum. Three examples coming to mind were C++ building on C, successors using C-like syntax, and a number of languages integrating Java or .NET libraries. Those clean-slating solid concepts usually didn't go anywhere.
Interesting. There is such a place in Austin, Texas [0]. Its my go to coffeeshop for working remotely as its rather empty during the day, and I wondered how they remain in business. But they're quite popular as a gelato/bar later in the evening and I believe that is where they make their most profits.

[0]: Dolce Vita, they don't have a website, but here is a link to them on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dolce+Vita/@30.3043196,-97...
Yes. I wrote "has".
> tools that are slightly cool but nobody will use.

It seems like this project could be quite useful for learning, though.
Even if they don't have any precautions at the moment, if that happens they could introduce them.
Wet blanket? Its a false dichotomy - don't have to actually do one thing before another; can do them all at once. You can be sure folks are working hard on the problem of transporting humans across space.
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That site shows no activity for me (and I use an Android phone, Gmail, and other Google products all the time).
Wow! What amazing work being done by SpaceX.
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The way I see it: in general, people seem to form groups and care more about people in those groups than about those outside. What groups people form in their mind seems to be a pretty individual thing, depedent on the way one sees themselves in the world, but there are always groups and they always seem to be ordered.

That doesn't mean people don't give a shit about anything outside their closest clique! It only means that groups have different relative importance to an individual; for instance, when your family member is sick, you might temporarily stop attending the soup kitchen and spend that time helping the sick kin.

My point is that such "ordering of care" is part of our firmware, and because capitalism is compatible with that, it's easy to implement by humans - in the same way the basic concept of private property seems to be also a part of our firmware, and more extreme parts of communism being incompatible with that meant people started to work against the system.

Basically, if your system aligns well with natural tendencies of humans, it's easier to make it work. Corollary to that is that you should design your systems to work with natural tendencies of humans, instead of trying to change those tendencies directly.
Social media firms must face heavy fines over extremist content – MPs
Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole
> The top management consultancies, the top investment banks and private equity groups are full of HBS grads. You think they all would have got these jobs without going through the HBS process, networking with their peers and alumni who end up working for these same companies, interning, and getting the HBS seal of approval?

Well yeah, absolutely. HBS is full of analysts and consultants from those firms and institutions taking a pit stop on their way to partner.

I find it fascinating how many people here are eager to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about when I'm the one with firsthand experience..
I accept this point and admit to be a little bit biased, since I learned a lot about ARM disassembly by reverse engineering code that runs on an ARMv5 ("ancient" by your standards) core.
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
"our brain must survey the surrounding environment, construct a mental map of the world, settle on a way forward"

A colleague in my phd program went on the job market this year with research that is related to this, especially to the connection between writing and walking discussed in the final paragraph.

In a nutshell, his theory and experimental evidence suggest that we use the same cognitive mechanisms to process real maps as we do abstract maps. In particular, he shows that we often have mental "landmarks." He focuses on number lines as maps, and suggests that the round numbers behave like landmarks. He shows that all of the known cognitive signatures of the way we process landmarks on, say, a road-trip are present for these abstract landmarks.

He shows the same thing with textures in the context of anchoring and adjusting (we anchor on an initial texture and use it as a cognitive landmark.)

To me, his theory is extremely compelling and explains a lot. It makes sense that our brains, as our environments have become more complex, have adapted to use spatial cognition to process the abstract.

EDIT: Here is a link to his CV: http://marketingphdjobs.org/sites/default/files/Gaurav%20Jai.... The paper I'm talking about is called "Presence of Numerical Landmarks and Their Effects on Judgments." He hasn't posted it on the web, I'll see if I can get a copy from him and post it (if he's ok with me doing so.)
Wall-e unit for compressing blocks and leaving a heap.
VCs fund vaporware all the time - the track record of blockchain investments is about $1.5 billion in, $0 out, per http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-venture-capital/ - so this is hardly an implausible statement.
You are doing great work.

But what I cannot understand is, how you still recommend stuff like $$ in a new beginners guide in 2017.

I had several moments in this tutorial where I thought: Oh, god. This got deprecated 20 years ago.
We operate over a range of gravitational pulls today. Unfortunately its only 1% (from equator to pole). But that's something.
Torrents contain information. Blocking torrent aggregators directly undermines access to information.
>The term is used "to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare
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I have a decent idea for it, shoot me an email j<dot>curcio<at>me<dot>com.
I do go with my people to the supermarket and then eat later at my desk...which is in an proper office room. With doors and stuff.

I mean, sure there are people who did not grew up with proper hygiene education and such but, please, this is not everyone. I want my keyboard clean because I work on it. I know when to wash my hands. I'm not 5.

And yes, it's a social thing too. I worked for several companies in Germany in almost all of them the dining room at 12 was a horrible gossip melting point. To me it's social pressure. I'm not even hungry at 12. I also don't want to have my break being filled with the latest office gossip. It's terrible...

So as you see. Sometimes it's just a different perspective and probably it's not the same everywhere.
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It's not that cord-cutters are a bad thing, but isn't that the crux of ESPN's financial woes? Nearly everyone and their mama had cable about a decade ago. No matter if you were a 4 person family, living off campus where utilities were covered, or in the military - people had cable. If you were fancy, you had satellite programming. Then cord-cutting happened.

It is the fault of cord-cutters, because they aren't subsidizing the cost of ESPN for people who want to watch ESPN. Then ESPN could not pivot quickly enough to stop the bleeding. So yeah, ESPN is getting money from people who are interested in sports, but it is because cord-cutters had enough.
> it being just uncomfortable enough for people not to stay too long.

OMG this is so true. I suspect their tables and arrangement may also be designed for this, as I've never felt too comfortable working from any starbucks (they are usually too small for me).

Another factor I've found, at least in Austin and outside the collegy areas: they're filled with Teenagers. This isn't bad in itself, except that they're often loud when in groups.
"A tax paid university should not be a third-world aid program."
> It pushes a lot of functionality normally fulfilled by a house (such as entertainment, eating, work, storage, etc.) onto the city at large - you live in the city, and just sleep in the house.

This is plainly false. You don't need much space to have a hot plate / microwave / small refrigerator (for food preparation and eating), a desk (where someone can put a laptop and entertain themselves / work), and some small amount of empty floor for storage.

I could do much more than just "sleep" in a 150 square foot unit -- in fact, I'd gladly spend most of my time inside doing any of {sleeping, working, eating, watching stuff on laptop, playing games}. Many other people could as well, and I am sure that most of those people would gladly pay less for rent in exchange for living in such housing.

To make what would otherwise be safe (with working sprinklers it's safe -- much safer than most housing in the US, in fact!) and serviceable housing illegal does not serve the interests of anyone -- especially not those who are poor.
How to Survive the Uprising of Automation
Wouldn't ESPN or other IPTV providers make these kinds of deals with ISPs though?

Stream one feed to the ISP and then let the ISP split it to all the interested subscribers from there?
This happened about 2 years ago? I'm curious if the legal scrutiny that happened about this time changed anything.

Example:

http://nypost.com/2014/10/13/restaurant-fights-yelps-alleged...
> I think the author's real issue is with the psychology of trapping yourself into feeling you must work at every moment and feeling guilty if you don't.

I would say that you need to grow as a person at every moment. This includes sleeping, walking in the park without thinking about work, learning themes unrelated to your professional occupation (humanities are great for software engineers), spending time with good people, and of course meditating.

There are almost universal time-wasters though, especially if you spent enough time with them in the past – online and other endless games, most of the movies and TV series, arguing on the Internet, etc.

When you have a subtle feeling that you have experienced it before – it's time to quit.
I got one after my doctor recommended it. He was jazzed about the Trek Desk, which is a small-ish folding desk that fits over most treadmills. It seems like a TV infomercial product, but it did what it said, and it was a cheap way to start and not have to buy a super heavy integrated treadmill desk.

I loved walking while I worked. I can't stand and work, my feet start to hurt surprisingly fast, but walking I can do all day. I felt better, and it cured my afternoon post-lunch crash, I no longer went through an hour of trying to stay awake. It helped my back feel better too. One hard part about using it for me is the constant stream of interruptions I have, people needing to talk to me during the day. I have to turn it on and off a lot. (The Trek Desk, btw, made it slightly harder to reach the start/stop buttons.)

Even with them being small, one of the biggest problems I had is the setup is still bulky. The treadmill takes a lot room in a small office. It's pretty noisy too, even just walking, so consider the noise if you're in a shared work space.
While I started watching the show and like it, I don't really think its timely or realistic for the united states at least. The only timely comparisons I see are in the middle east currently.

I find myself leaning towards McArdle's article here.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-25/no-the-ha...

A pretty good discussion here, that gave me food for thought.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14227241
Trust Science.
What is the difference between "passport" and "ticket" here?
I think the real test is if you're willing to let your employees adopt the same sort of schedule. I've yet to find an employer who is comfortable with this sort of schedule (I only expect 4-5 productive hours in the day) even if some enlightened managers will recognize that reality privately.

Would you allow high-value employees to put in high-quality 4 hour workdays? Why or why not?
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You can't really ship all of the grsec, because some compile time settings break userspace apps. Other options disable things you want on laptops, like power management registers. Basically your need to opt-in to grsec and you need to know what to configure afterwards. Or enable only selected few features and not get the whole protection.

The vast majority of features are 'set and forget'. Most will not break userland, or have extremely low FP rates. I can think of only one or two that have a high FP rate (integer overflow plugin) that would not be enabled by default. After all, these patches tend to make it into upstream under another name in ~10 years or so.

> On top of that, you can't use the latest kernel version until grsec is ported to it.

Not really a problem unless your distro updates to the latest version the night it's released, which most will not. Grsecurity's dev patch tends to be far, far ahead of whatever Ubuntu is using.

I ran it on an Ubuntu system with virtually all features enabled with little problem.
Is Donald Trump right about H-1B visa abuse?
Yes, that's my feeling too.

But in lesser way, this applies to a lot of our social and commercial systems - we're spending energy to enforce large-scale coordination between people. That spending could be entirely avoided if we could trust one another more. I doubt that in the nearby future we'll be able to make humans more cooperative by default, but I think it's worth stopping to consider just on what exactly we're spending energy, and maybe if there are ways to avoid that.

In particular, I shake my head when I see people excited about new "trustless" systems that replace inter-personal trust with cryptography. It's not a victory, it's a defeat. Maybe necessary, but still a loss.
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>Cost of ingredients for pizza is low. There's a reason Papa John is a billionarie.

And it has almost nothing to do with low cost of ingredients.
Not only that - management should actively provide incentives for the more skilled devs to coach the less skilled ones, otherwise it just becomes extra work.
Has nobody in the conversation around the Flint crisis paid attention to Detroit Water's part in the issue? They terminated their contract when Flint decided it had long term plans to move and that termination forced the issue of finding an alternative water supply until the long term solution was ready.

If not for that, there never would have been a problem, Flint would have eventually had its long term new supply without ever needing an intermediate option.

When I sat down a finally looked over the details of this story it's the one glaring omission that I noticed from all of the news coverage.
Thanks for this feedback. Would images on the landing page be enough?

As for activity, it's minimal at the moment :-) But you can invite friends easily by sending them a personalised link that'll connect them to you as soon as they sign up, either just copy-pasted into a chat app or via email straight from the site.
It would be cool if it turned .\ into a greek lambda as well.
> the hurt of watching this series eventually results in something great.

As an alternative, you could read the news every day.
Not all interventions are good, but that doesn't mean there are no good interventions.
> PTI set the standard for what a lot of their programming has morphed into, but PTI worked because the guys on it were smart, took interesting angles, and the show was novel.

Slightly off-topic. I didn't watch a lot of ESPN when I had cable. When I did, it was mostly SportsCenter and PTI. Are you saying that PTI marking the beginning of ESPN's programming declination or that other opinion shows failed to capture what made PTI good. It really doesn't matter, but I'm genuinely interested in your opinion here.
WHy was the MBA a point of concern?
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Let me guess, you were downcasting everything to std_logic_vector? If you have to cast things all the time in VHDL you're not using it correctly.

But please enjoy (System)Verilog with it's random often undefined coercion, implicit wire declarations, non-deterministic simulation and lack of any meaningful compile-time checks. Honestly, as a huge Haskell fan, I can't believe you're a Haskell fan.
Sounds to me like he was working to live and not living to work. Honestly it sounds admirable.
If that broadcast was delayed to you by up to say, 10 minutes...would anyone have noticed or cared? Was there any other option to tune in? Would you have been getting scoring updates via push notifications on your phone? Would you have family and friends texting you with reactions during the game?
Similar idea, but uses LUA as inline language: https://github.com/HeinrichHartmann/luawk

```
> printf abc | luawk -p '_:gsub("a","A")'

Abc
```
The sooner we can get rid of both legy BIOS and EFI in favor of Coreboot or something like it, the better. My son's x86 based Chromebook boots to a login screen from cold power off in just a few seconds, and I've always attributed it to using Coreboot rather than BIOS.

I mostly don't care about boot times (which is saying a lot, as I do FreeBSD kernel development and reboot server class systems dozens of times a day sometimes), that's just a minor benefit of Coreboot. The legacy nature of BIOS and the complexity of EFI both freak me out from a security / stability point of view. And don't even get me started on the crappy server board vendor's java kvm / impi tools. Sigh. The whole crappy ecosystem is due for a disruption.
My local CU has been good to me.
I hope he replies! But in the meantime you can read https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses and find plenty of models to copy and leverage into your own thing. GL!
You don't have any fixed line service? In San Francisco?
I would say identity is core to objectness. Without identity, something is purely structural, only its value is relevant because it will not transition to another state later. Objects must be things you can manipulate. They have a presence beyond their values.
I don't think he acknowledged saying that, but he was also 19 at the time.
Huh? Lucene can index that many documents no problem.
Once we activate SegWit and get sidechains + LN, PayPal won't stand a chance.
> - Impossible to censor, decentralized news.

Until, as we saw with The DAO, the whales are in danger of losing money.
-1 has clear semantics? Hold my beer
I still find it almost unbelievable that supplying fake addresses for reviewers worked as often as it did in this case. One suspicion I had when reading about this was that maybe there is something particular to how the software works this journal used to manage reviews. Maybe it made it especially easy to just use the mail addresses the authors provided and send automatic mails, or maybe it hid the actual address by default.

Otherwise my only explanation would be that the editors simply didn't care at all.