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You could divide (in your head) contract and implementation details. Contract - what "unit" should do, e.g. factorial function should compute factorial for given numbers. But how exactly this is done is implementation detail (will be used recursion? do/while loop? will there be result caching?)

The trick is to omit implementation details from testing, because implementation can change, but after all fact(4) should return 24 no matter what.

So it's useful to think in categories of contract given unit should fulfill instead of testing everything for the sake of testing.
my reading is that by 'delimited continuations', white-flame is just referring to explicit closures and function calls. which lets you build up event-driven machines in any language that supports closures.

the distinction is that in scheme, where (at least in the standard implementation) each function call takes an implicit continuation and the code is everted using a bulk cps-transform before being interpreted or further compiled.

in this later case, its possible to use call/cc to create a continuation at any point in a 'normal' program, without having to construct the control flow explicitly. its this 'continuations everywhere' approach that can burden the runtime with a lot of consequences, possibly even precluding the use of a stack at all depending on the implementation.

in the former case you can basically do by-hand cps or event-handling in anything. asm, C, c++, python (3), go, js..
riskMi is probably from CA Technologies RiskMinder™.
How about:

A community has the right to transparency in the forces that govern it.

The principle may seem familiar, but it is not currently applied in a broad sense; Facebook's News Feed algorithm, which can swing elections, is secret. So is Hacker News's. Our behaviour is carefully shaped and we are not allowed to know how.
I understand what you're saying and agree with you in general, but I think you're missing a large part of the picture. In general, women have far better options for ending a marriage than men - as of 2006, 3.6% of alimony recipients were men, for example.

> If your partner started to abuse you, would you rather be the homemaker or the person whose name is on the paychecks?

In that circumstance, I'd rather be a woman. While it's very difficult to find anything resembling an unbiased source, it seems apparent that it is substantially more difficult for a man to seek law enforcement intervention as a victim of domestic abuse.
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If only Brendan Eich had ended up "doing Scheme" in Netscape as he was originally recruited to! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786720)
If you use Heroku for production, using it for CI too means that a lot of the annoying configuration pieces involved in getting CI to match production exactly disappear.

In my opinion CircleCI's configuration UX is actually really poor—compared to what it could be, and what Heroku provides.

In CircleCI, you're configuring against a moving target installation of binaries, and whenever CircleCI decides to upgrade Postgres or Redis or whatever, your tests start failing and you don't know why. Then you have to try to figure out how they've configured the services, and what it will take to use Postgres 9.5.3 instead of 9.6.1—big hassle.

Then there's the little UX things—in CircleCI you can't read the config vars you've set previously from the interface, which means you have to go through the super tedious process running a new build, SSH'ing into it, and then reading them from there, just to remember what user your Postgres connection URI uses.

On top of that CircleCI's documentation is much worse than Heroku's, so re-learning how to do all the random configuration things you need to do each time is more difficult than it could be.

I think anything that reduces time spent messing with CI servers is a big plus, because that work is usually the most frustrating work there is. $10/mo is nothing compared to wasting a day dealing with CI configuration every once in a while.
It's unproductive to discuss political labels. It's sufficient to say this is a case where regulation was helpful - as are most cases involving protecting common resources.

Issues are independent from each other. Continuing to discuss each point as it fits into the frameworks of the popular ideologies only serves to polarize when productive change requires unification.
Thank you. I have already solved this problem.
fivethirtyeight.com, weren't these the folks that predicted Hillary winning in a landslide? I'll read this article with a grain of salt.

edit: Not sure why this is being downvoted. I'm just pointing out that the title is misleading and maybe should be changed to "Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought, Or Not". I think "An Analysis of Atheists in America" would be a more appropriate title.
1740 is good!
Well, mostly, it's because they're not mass-produced. The type that I collect are made from polyurethane resin, which has to be handcast in silicone rubber molds.

Each doll is made of 15+ individually cast pieces (at minimum - two feet, two calves, two thighs, two hands, two forearms, two upper arms, torso, head and headcap, and that is for a single-jointed doll with a one-piece torso, many dolls will also have extra knee, elbow, wrist, and ankle pieces, and the torso may be in two or three pieces instead of one).

Those pieces then have to be hand-finished (removal of extra flashing material, sometimes elastic channels drilled for the stringing if that was not already included in the mold, sometimes full seam sanding), and assembled with elastic and metal hooks.

The silicone molds are only good for about 10-20 castings before they start having enough wear and tear to reduce the quality of the resulting doll, so a lot of the material cost is actually in the silicone (platinum-cure silicone is much more expensive than resin). New molds then must be made off of the original master sculpture.

Then, if you bought the doll with a face up, an artist hand paints the doll's features with pastels and acrylic paints. And if you bought it blank, you will have to either paint the face yourself or commission someone to do so eventually, as blank dolls really don't have anything in the way of features - imagine a 3d model with no textures applied.

So that's just the incremental cost of each individual doll. On top of that you have to pay for artist development time of new sculpts, marketing and websites, translators if you want to be able to sell your dolls worldwide, all other other usual overhead costs of running any sort of business, etc.

Edit: Also, I don't know if most people really realize the size of some of these dolls. The ones I have that start broaching the $1k mark are anywhere from 65-72cm tall, and weigh as much as 10 lbs. One of mine is 80cm tall, meant to represent a 12ish year old girl in 1:2 scale. She's so big I buy her shoes from the toddler department, not a doll shop.
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You sound like someone who's got theirs, so screw everyone else right? Scumbag.
Google has one too, they don't use it outside of domains.google and one other though.
Do you remember the context in which Steve Ballmer used this?
How much does each degree rake in per semester, and how many staff are required to run that semester, It would be very interesting to see the flow of money into a university and where it is actually spent.
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My '87 Camaro weighed 3300lb. The equivalent model today weighs 3700lb. A '77 weighed 3500.

My 2001 corvette weighs 3040lb dry, a new Z06 is 3700.

Tell me again how things are lighter?
I prefer narrow columns for reading personally. Snap the article window to the side and scale it down for maximum enjoyment.
In theory, you can organize a public company around any principles you want.

And then, when other people buy a controlling interest in your company, they are just as free to change it. Public companies do what a majority of their shareholders want, and people who buy stock are overwhelmingly interested in profit.
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Seems like lots of people dismiss spinners as a fad or silly. They are a fad. But I celebrate the fact that they are generally simple mechanical objects that feel good in the hand. Not a doll, not a cheap molded plastic toy (ugh, Shopkins), not an electronic lump of stuff that will eventually leech into a landfill. (Yes, I know there are LED spinners, but that has it's own simple coolness.)

I have enjoyed having ball bearings, bearing races, and random bike parts to play with over the years - I don't see this as all that different in concept.

School disruption is another matter. Our kids can only share them at recess.
Boost is 100% confidential. People talk about complex power grabs and political situations all the time. For Boost to work well, people need to be able to trust it with Information thy want confidential.
It's a shame that in closing the door to the pernicious "meta nitpicking", whatever that is, the possibility for constructive analysis of how HN's algorithms shape and mould the behaviour of its dedicated community has also been removed.
Perhaps they'd want to avoid getting a thousand calls every day?

Besides, this would be more useful for smaller businesses that don't ship as often.
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> If we wish to kill him while still being in a society where we won't get killed ourselves kill them in secret in a method that makes it as likely as possible that you won't get caught while publicly supporting laws forbidding murder.

If this was normalised then there would be more murdering and we would still be more likely to be murdered ourselves. It's rational that we don't want the world to be like this.
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I'd add something else to that list that is closely connected: trust.

It's a concept that so permeates our culture that it often goes overlooked. So much is dependent on people simply behaving "good", even when it's not in their best interest at that very moment, and even when nobody's looking.

Societies are like one big, endless game of Scissors/Paper/Stone played over a slow connection: everyone has boundless opportunities to cheat, but either by training, habit, morality, or good analysis, they almost always take the high road. Because if only say 1% start to think only in terms of self-advancement, they, and everyone else, will soon run out of partners to play.
One day you'll be so intent on checking dents on other peoples cars you will cause an accident yourself! My theory is that people should be looking at traffic, not at the detailing on someone else's vehicle.
Boost is _not_ a bot -- it's a team of AI-enhanced, real-life career coaches. Think Facebook's M.
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Lichess does not use standard rating system. I think it uses Glicko.

A 1740 on lichess would be around 1600 in standard ELO (which itself is not a bad rating)
> Except that some illnesses like cancer are avoidable

Sorry?
The new ones seem...poofier...larger...maybe less dense?

Less mass per cubic meter?
My parents are paying for my college, but I'm 22 now and 2 quarters into a second run at college. The first go around I went on the state of Washington's dime (Running Start, only had to pay $200 in fees plus books), and had a spotty experience with a GPA to match (3.9 in one class, 0.0 in another).

This go around I fully researched what I needed to take, and plotted my course in the most economical way possible. Currently at North Seattle College we're talking about a bit under $1700 a quarter in costs for 15 credit hours, which will increase to $5,530 at UW Bothell 3 quarters from now.

I am wholly unenthusiastic for this significant price bump, but at the very least my parents have decided to fund my second attempt, so hopefully, come late 2019 I'll have an Applied Computing degree or better (depending how Calc 2 goes...). Gonna spend $41k, mainly paying UW so I can get my damn receipt.

If a degree weren't so important when it comes to getting a job, I'd likely go without, but the earnings hit in the Seattle market is so severe that it makes sense to invest in a degree. $60k to $80k w/o a degree, versus $120k with a degree is pretty clear cut.

I assume at some point I'll end up financially supporting my parents, but that is (hopefully) ~18 years away. Supposedly there have good pensions & have saved a bit, but who really knows?
Try to tell that to an Ontarian.
That's why comments should mostly indicate the why of a design/architecture choice that was made, not what the code is doing.
> (Then again, having a recourse does not rely on mingling)

"Mingling" is somewhat important because so much of our sense of right and wrong is shaped not by laws, or even popular culture, but by people we consider our "peers", and whose respect we want to earn.
Nope, they were the ones getting flack for giving trump an absurdly high (30%) chance of winning.
And the scary thing is how many large trucks and SUVs are sold without the hardware necessary to tow a trailer. It's absurd to buy something like a Suburban with a V8 that doesn't even have the potential to be burdened with the kind of load that would differentiate it from a van.
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Count me in the "worst" bucket. I liked the first four books (and, oddly, the sixth).
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I still don't understand why information should be elided from judges during sentencing. If public officials use data to worsen issues like recidivism rather than improve them, then those officials should be removed. If a judge can't be trusted to act responsibly and morally with accurate information about a defendant then why would we even begin to think that they're competent?

It's just the reality of how the justice system works. We have trust in the approximation of justice that the judiciary provides and constantly struggle to improve that judiciary.
There's a stigma if you're capable of paying for all or part of college and you don't. But if you can't there isn't.

But I do think its a good idea to have them pay for some of it regardless - either loan repayment after graduation or by working while going to school. My parents floated the idea of me working my first year but I didn't want to. I had 18 hrs of class and there was too much course work since it was designed to weed people out to worry about making some small hourly on a part-time job. I paid a year of school after I graduated.
I recommend taking some time to read what they publish rather than what you may have heard they publish. 538 consistently pushes for proper interpretation of stats and predictions—particularly uncertainty percentages, which is often not the case in other publications, even those that reproduce stats sourced from 538.

In particular, the primary numbers 538 published for the 2016 election were chances of winning, which can easily be misinterpreted as percentage of the vote. As of Nov 8, they had Clinton having a 71% chance of winning (with Trump at 27%), with 302 electoral votes, and 48.5% of the popular vote. This isn't a landslide prediction, and the 71% chance of winning is much lower than what was reported in many other publications.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

In the submitted article, they're quite careful in their language in support of the title, which purposefully includes the operative word "may". This is in keeping with what I've come to expect from 538.
Not much info other than several 3rd party tools not working. Is it really banned, or just broken by an Amazon side change?
The health benefits from riding bikes more than offset the dangers, especially when they're not forced to share lanes with road tanks piloted by people who don't take their driving responsibility seriously. Driving cars don't yield the same benefits. When you take that into account, driving is much more hazardous to your health.

Also, forcing cities to accommodate cars via zoning has lead to a huge host of problems, from making centers that are no longer walkable, and destroying the social fabric of the city that used to happen via face to face interactions. Anywhere there is fast traffic, people no longer want to walk, because it's incredibly stressful being near speeding cars.

If you want a visible demonstration of the difference, visit some small pre-car cities in Italy, the public places are wonderful, and you can see people bumping into each other and chatting all the time. People walk everywhere. Compare with the sprawling wastelands of asphalt we've created, including on some of the most expensive parking lots in the world in Silicon Valley.
But we don't have to normalize every thing we do. This whole "act in a way that everything you do will become normalized" doesn't work because the rational person realizes that not everything they do will be normalized and acts accordingly.

This can be found in Neithzche's philosophy when he talks about master and slave ethics. Neithzche said that slaves will follow what custom dictates, but masters will make their own ethics. This seems abhorrent to me, however, in a world without a God dictating things and a hell for bad people, I must admit it is rational.

Also the "act in a way that you would will all your actions be normalized" has already been proposed by Kant and has shown to not be workable as an ethical system. (Here's an article explaining why

https://tigerpapers.net/2011/10/21/kants-morality/)
The point is that his surviving wife wouldn't have to scrape by on social security, and that he wouldn't have had to have burned through his entire nest egg even if he was buying a house, cars, and spending $100K/yr + 12 years of medical expenses and long-term care.

But that's moot--the edit I made was because the $22M was based on a chronology problem in the original post. The ten year difference in retirement date from 1988 to 1998 is a much better explanation of the facts, and fits the OP's premise better.
I think It would be a hit to make one with a magnetic bearing. Anyone want to go in one that with?
Once the government enacts a solution, there is reduced incentive for the market to come up with a better solution.

For example, people want clean cars. Government mandates cleaner cars. Cars are now clean enough to make most people happy, but still somewhat dirty. If government didn't act, the overwhelming number of people who desired clean cars may have pushed the market to switch to electric cars. That's happening much more slowly now, because the solution the government implemented was "good enough" for most people.
there are compounds (deca, npp) that pretty much solve joint pain. It's unknown whether they actually stimulate collagen synthesis or just mask the pain, though
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Did you get the LT or Premier? Also, do you have a Level 2 EVSE at home? To me, the Premier version is the only version really worth getting (with the DC Fast charging port upgrade at the very least), but the price tag is a bit hard to look at, especially when thinking about the sale tax, dealership fees, registration fees, electrician fees for the EVSE installation (optional, but barely), etc. that go on top.
Happy to help - email is in my profile.
They're not shy about promoting it to me, either, and I have never purchased a book in that genre and never plan to.

I have accidentally purchased some fantasy novels with gratuitous sex scenes. I wish I hadn't, and I wish this was easier to avoid doing.

Unfortunately, to Amazon, and possibly to a lot of female authors, there doesn't seem to be a big difference between the "fantasy" and "romance" genres. Check out the bestsellers in "fantasy" sometime.
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Compared to C++ / C even old fortran is suprisingly pleasant to use, when you want to implement simple numerical algorithms, it feels a bit like a barebones matlab
Check out my implementation of comments parsing from the html, which is used in HNES: https://github.com/ibejoeb/HNES/commit/054fc4e626137aadef6f0...
I'd like to pre-order "Don't' Quit Your Day Job, the Rise & Fall of Etsy" if someone with inside knowledge is ready to write it.

I'm not an insider by any means but I've heard some fascinating stories over the years about how the company has coped (and failed to cope) with the trappings of success.
And you get to go in the HOV lanes as well!
From actually talking to CF, they're still at least a magnitude less expensive than Akamai.
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> Better Angels is way too dense for me to imagine it ever getting up towards the top of the bestseller lists.

If Oprah recommended a book, a lot of people would buy it even if they had no intention of reading it, and similarly for other major cultural figures.
> People will challenge a theist "who created god" but don't challenge "who/what created the Big Bang". For some reason ex nihilo is fine for the Universe but preposterous for a creator?

The big bang and what (if anything) cause it does get challenged and is challenged by serious scientists too. The current answer is we have absolutely no idea.

On the other hand, it's rare to see religous people acknowledge that gods (there is no logical reason for a single god) require a creator at all, it's a thought terminating proposition.
Am I crazy? I don't see an email in your profile.
I'm working on a tool that maintains an up to date archive of Hacker News and a companion tool to browse and search it. I'm not ready to release yet, but here is a dump of the stories, comments, and users from the Firebase API as a SQLite database with a full text search index: https://archive.org/details/hackernews-2017-05-18.db
The FCC under Pai has become an absolute joke. Unless a piano happens to fall on his and Trump's heads in some sort of freak accident, this crap is just going to keep happening. For whatever it's worth, there's a group of people trying to raise money to sue the FCC as sort of an alternate approach: http://www.irregulators.org
Was I in a coma the day that god clearly and unambiguously revealed himself to the world?
Right. Which is why when they do die from preventable causes it has such a large impact on average lifespan. If we want more humans alive for longer we should not ignore these high impact relatively low frequency dangers.

If you're under the age of 35, driving may very well be the most dangerous habit you have.
Talking about complex power grabs and political situation is a bit different than encouraging employees to upload confidential information, which is what I think tIONTamINariciA.

Would you consider adding anything to the UI to discourage your users from those potential lapses in judgement? And if not, what do you do to protect the sensitive information you may find in your hands?
Don't underestimate the power of compound interest. My dad tells me like this: Every time you take your kid to a fast food place, get him lemon water and put the soda money into the college fund. Small stuff like this really adds up over 18 years.
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I used to be like that about chess. Then one day it dawned on me that life was moving by while I was looking at chess boards and dreaming about chess. I quit realizing it was just another addiction. I play every now and then (very rarely, average < 2 games / year) and usually lose but have fun. But at the back of my mind I can immediately feel that obsession start up.

My next door neighbor of the time went on to having an ELO rating well in excess of 2400, back then he was already fearsome and part of the draw was to play against him and watch my own game improve as if by magic.
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Cultures without a national community tend to be conquered by those with. The Arabic word for this is Asabiyyah and was coined by the historian Ibn Khaldun.