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Common Lisp does have syntax for vectors, they're written #(1 2 3). It doesn't have literal syntax for hash tables, but it's a trivial read-macro if you can't live without it (although alists have some other nice properties like easy shadowing/popping of bindings, and the kind of associations you would want to write as literals are generally small enough that their O(n) lookup isn't a problem).

CLTL2 gives a rationale for using #(...) instead of [...] for vectors:

Many people have suggested that brackets be used to notate vectors, as [a b c] instead of #(a b c). This notation would be shorter, perhaps more readable, and certainly in accord with cultural conventions in other parts of computer science and mathematics. However, to preserve the usefulness of the user-definable macro-character feature of the function read, it is necessary to leave some characters to the user for this purpose. Experience in MacLisp has shown that users, especially implementors of languages for use in artificial intelligence research, often want to define special kinds of brackets. Therefore Common Lisp avoids using brackets and braces for any syntactic purpose.
As I said for many people it is a deliberate decision not to use Windows 10. Like any technical decision, it involves tradeoffs. The same was true when Windows 8 came out. And the popular media was filled with stories about how bad it was and how great Windows 7 was.

That's what I was prepared for when I installed Windows 8 and when I started using it I thought there was no way I would be productive. Then after about the first two hours or so, I decided to try the tutorials and within three hours of finishing the install over Windows 7, I was fully productive, because all the fuss about no start menu was about not knowing how to press the start key on the keyboard.

With Windows 10, I use |Settings| to set what I want and don't have much trouble and when I do, I just turn it off. Compared to my smartphone, it's a relatively high level of privacy. Though none of it is really private since someone resolves my DNS requests and my ISP routes packets before they get out of the building...not dissimilar to my wireless provider's access. And when I take my smartphone out and about, all kinds of beacons can ping it and ID it and most phones default to automatically connecting to whatever network there is.
The European Union has a similar. A European Citizens Initiative has been available since the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon. If 1 million EU citizens (~0.2% of the population) sign it, the European Commission must respond, maybe with legislation. It hasn't been used much though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens%27_Initiativ...
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jklh, especially handy when you use plugins like NERDTree.

I use vim with a couple dozen plugins as my main text editor every day.
I find it interesting that Dell decided to take the company off the stock market so they could focus on the long term.

You get all these perverse incentives towards the short term via the board and the CEOs they pick (never mind the whole stock option bonuses etc the CEOs are offered).
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> The name suggests otherwise.

Do not underestimate the power of someone to make a business selling the feeling that your not part of a business!
It's kind of crazy to put an important security feature that has been requested 6 years ago on the back burner for "general user experience". Especially when your major competition supports it.
If you mean using shared_ptr everywhere, then 1) this would be extremely non-idiomatic C++, 2) you can still forget to do so, and 3) the moment you do, the language makes it ridiculously easy to implicitly copy something.
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It doesn't really help, though. When a student fails to learn something, it doesn't do any good to sit around wondering what "kind of learner" they are. You need to figure out what actually stopped then from learning. Students need to be able to learn from the world they live in, not from some meticulously sterilized learning laboratory.

If you can't learn from a lecture, you need to solve that problem by figuring out how to actually change yourself to learn from a lecture, not by avoiding lectures. You need to understand what can actually be learned from a lecture and what needs additional outside experience.
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perhaps thats not disappearing though, merely hiding. I mean, being a cash in hand bike courier isn't going to set up a pension fund, is it? Old age is a long way off when you are 25, but it comes along eventually
Heh, don't sweat it. Just driving the point you've made further (that such an assumption can backfire).
Any immigrant heavy country would be a good choice, and maybe you can find one where the government isn't quite so intent on tracking down "illegals". I think the US would be getting harder thanks to the RealID act, online citizenship checks, etc...

It might be easier to move to a country that's a little more corrupt so you can bribe your way into the system. Maybe Italy or Greece or a former Soviet country. You need to find a balance between cities big enough to disappear in and cities where the law enforcement doesn't give a shit as long as you grease the wheels a bit.
> The Mac/PC pricing thing was one travel site, and to my knowledge, this practice is limited to travel booking sites. Amazon prices may often be algorithmically adjusted, but not per-user.

Yeah why worry about it if it's only happening on travel booking sites? I mean, these practices would never be taken up by big companies with lots of data to really tailor prices per-user.
Paid for supercharging, where I live, is still cheaper than petrol. Filling at home is about 1/5 of the price per km compared to an BMW 330i. If I would have to do paid for supercharging it would still be less than half of the price for a petrol km. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/6ddqln/fuel_co...
Beyond skills, look for team-fit. Will this individual be accretive to the larger organization? Probe for motivation-- What are their personal/professional goals?

Justin Gunggol of QASymphony put together a solid list of tester interview questions > https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/20-best-software-tester-inte...
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Or if you make the mistake of changing all of your light bulbs for Bluetooth LED light bulbs. Have to fight to turn on the damn lights on all the time.
I wish Google would open source / standardize their implementation of green threads ("fibers" as they're called internally). You basically write linear programs with those (with proper stack traces etc) and they're cooperatively concurrent in user space, possibly over a fixed size preemptively concurrent kernel thread pool. Very nifty and simplifies things a lot. Never seen anything like it on the outside.
My Prius Prime has two speedometers, an on/off HUP in the lower left field of view, and the sort-of-centered display common to all Prius-es.
> Is change.org a for-profit enterprise?

By their own description, no, though they are identical to one in at least superficial legal form (I don't know if their corporate governing documents do anything to address this.) Note that not-for-profit is not a crisp legal category ("nonprofit" is a term used for specific tax classification which requires a number of other qualifications and accepting a number of behavioral restrictions, including on political activity, on top of being not operated for profit.)
So, how should kids be taught? Since learning styles are a myth, would it be okay to skip in-person lessons entirely and just move everyone to individual text-based book learning?

After all, it looks like the idea that "someone might learn better in person" or "by discussing things with peers" is complete bunk, and one method should be sufficient for everyone.
Income isn't the only thing that can be taxed.

Sales taxes, value-added taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, tariffs...
I'm a professional attention engineer. After getting my PhD in NeuroEconomic I built two tools that I think are going to be really important in the coming attention wars.

I strongly agree with the author about the importance of an individual autonomy over attention. I also agree with the author that these tools create an opportunity to empower individual autonomy to a degree never seen before. And I get out of bed everyday to make sure that these tools are used that way.

My tools:

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I think the reason for this might be because a lot of machine learning research and practice takes place outside of academia. Maybe there isn't the same pressure to publish in official sounding places.

And people outside of academia often don't have access to journal publications. Who wants to spend $30 per paper? That's just obscene. The arxiv link is accessible everywhere, will never go away (probably), and can be updated as the authors revise the paper. Why not cite it?
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I feel that's a cop-out. A fully self-driving world is easily 5 years away, and even then why would I not want relevant info in front of me?
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I did not mean to imply it was a foolish choice. Rather, I meant that it is often a deliberate choice that includes technical tradeoffs and this is one of them. The fact that 7 and 8 are still supported makes Windows more stable than Android or iOS. My intuition is that Windows 10 collects less telemetry than either of those and that what telemetry it collects that cannot be turned off is shared with fewer parties than a mobile device.
"a $1,500 USD bike that can be connected to smartphones via bluetooth and track rider statistics, such as route and speed, in real-time."

So it's a bike with built in GPS? That connects to my phone, which also has GPS? What the heck. What am I missing that makes this product not such an obviously dumb idea? What can this do that I can't accomplish with a mobile app, or with a smart watch strapped to the handlebars?
100% agree. I've swapped bike computers 5-6x over the last 5 years. First road bike I ever bought is still compatible with all of them.

Presumably the investors saw something I'm missing, but I think the price point ($1300) is really high for a fully integrated system.
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Why is this front page worthy?

Uber has had these features for a while now. As someone else mentioned, Didi has had these features too. 71 upvotes so far. This just further reinforces my view that there is an active voting ring on HN manipulating Uber and Lyft stories in Lyft's favor, which is ironic since many of the comments on such stories talk about Uber being shady.

Throwaway because I fully expect the voting ring people to downvote this.

Downvoters and those who upvoted this story, please leave a comment explaining why this is front page worthy.
Have they? I dont remember ever seeing that. Just that there will only be one screen, and everyone assumed all info would be there.
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Anecdotally, bad trips do not cause bad feelings after a trip. The overall feeling of improved outlook can result even after a truly harrowing experience.

That said, I agree that downing a bunch of psychotropics is probably not going to some OP's problems.
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The extra syntax in this case is all about static typing (and in the case of Rust, exacerbated by having lifetimes as part of the type).

> But Rust's type system has no good way to implicitly figure out the full type of a lambda by its signature, so if you want to pass one around you need to specify its whole type signature twice, once in the expression itself and then again in the signature of the function that will receive or return it.

Rust has no problem figuring out the type of the lambda. But the type of the lambda is anonymous, and unique to that particular lambda. That type is guaranteed to implement the Fn trait, so that's what you specify when you need to return it. You don't need to specify it twice, however - I'm not sure how that follows from the snippet above?

And C++ has the same exact problem: C++ lambdas also each have their own unique type. However, C++ doesn't have traits at all. In C++, if you want to return a lambda, you'd use std::function, which is roughly analogous to Rust's Box<> for functions in this case - you can't just return the lambda directly (well, you can, but only in a context where the return type is implicit and can be inferred from usage - e.g. when returning from another lambda).
If it is ever going to be used under human control, particularly on public highways, it needs basic information displayed in a proper above-the-wheel driver display, especially speed information.
The Gregory Hays translation of Aurelius' Meditations is especially good.
It's worth nothing that this may be your primary point, but that does not necessarily extend to the whole. Netflix has region-locked content that is often most easily accessed by leveraging VPNs. ISPs will have greater trouble selling off your meaningful browsing data if it's going through a VPN. And so on.
Anecdotally, bad trips do not cause bad feelings after a trip. The overall feeling of improved outlook can result even after a truly harrowing experience.

That said, I agree that downing a bunch of psychotropics is probably not going to solve OP's problems.
I spent $1400 on mine a few years back. A nice touring bike that is also good for commuting. And on top of that, I've added a dynamo hub, lights, reflective paint, switched out the fenders (twice), and other customizations. But then, I put more miles on the bike than I do on our car, so it's totally worth it for me.

On the other hand, I'd never buy this Vanhawk unless I could be certain, for instance, that the electronics would withstand New England winters (I can tell you that ordinary cycle computers do not!). I gave up replacing them because what they tell you is not needed for commuting. I know the route, I know how long it takes, I do it every day. Also, there doesn't seem to be bosses for racks or water bottle holders, which I consider pretty essential.
Well to be completely honest the screen on the Model 3 [0] looks to be about the same height as the dash cluster on the Prius [1]. Or at least it's close enough that the shorter half of the population won't notice.

But again, either way I'm confident that Tesla is going to be within regulation. They are already getting so much scrutiny/bikeshedding about the center display, I can't imagine them not following the required laws. With so much attention on it, it'd be silly to have it all get fucked up by not having the screen positioned a few inches differently.

[0] https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/model-3-interio...

[1] http://ourautoexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2405-Toy...
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“We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas,”

rubbish. trust me, not everyone is an unrecognized genius.
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It doesn't matter how many ethics courses are offered and taken.

The only thing I ever retweeted on my otherwise completely empty and unused Twitter account so that I could copy and paste it when needed:

"For evil to triumph, all that is required is for good men to respond rationally to incentives."

You learn all your basic ethics during early childhood, not in university courses. Most of the rest is the quote above. University classes talk to and train parts of the brain whose involvement in the ethics of your decisions is minimal.
"UBI is based on the assumption that everyone will take basic income money and use it responsibly."

I don't think UBI advocates are assuming anything of the sort. Of course some people are going to spend it on booze and drugs. How is that different from the system we have now, where some people spend their welfare money on...booze and drugs?
> ... has to do with this. Can you explain?

I think we might be talking about two different kinds of unreliable.

When you hire me to do a job, or I agree to build something for you, or something along those lines. When that happens, I will stop at nothing until it's done. I might be off in my estimate of how long it takes, and I might come back to you and suggest a revised plan if I think new information significantly changes the scope/cost of the project. But in the end, it will be done.

You can rely on me to take things to completion.

But you'd be a fool to rely on me to answer your email within 1 hour, or a day, sometimes at all. You wouldn't want to rely on me to pick up the phone when you call. And you definitely don't want to rely on me to make it to drinks or dinner exactly on time. Unless there's a very hard external deadline (like theatre tickets), I'm probably going to be a few minutes late.

And you wouldn't want to rely on me to, say, buy your airplane tickets. Or random little things like that. I'll get around to doing "Random low priority task" at some point maybe. Don't rely on me for those.

The whole point of this unreliableness is so that you won't even ask. If I say I'm gonna do it, I'll do it, probably riiiight before the external deadline. But I'd prefer you don't even ask. And you'll be much less stressed about it if you don't.

Hell, I hire a VA for stuff like that because even I don't want to rely on myself to do such things.

The lateness, that's a bad habit. It comes from losing track of time when I go into deep work mode. It happens a lot and very easily.

The dropping of small things I consider low priority and/or irrelevant. Well that's just prioritization, if I'm working on something I think is important and there's no time left over for your email or message or phone call or random little task. Tough. I have a laundry list of my own little tasks that I also didn't get to.

> Are you at "Feynman"-level?

Probably not, but the US government does say I am an alien with exceptional ability in the arts or the sciences so there's that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> “Today almost all the prices that you see online are actually designed for you. Dynamic pricing is the art of squeezing every dollar out of your pocket.”

Is "almost all" actually true? I know that dynamic pricing capability is being built, and I have detected a few cases of it myself, but right now the actual prevalence seems really low.
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I think people are intentionally misleading by using a .org though. Otherwise, why not do a .com? Clearly they believe and/or know there's some sort of "social" aspect to it.
In Brazil too[0]. The numbers are different, but if a petition reaches a certain number of signatures our Congress has to lead to the plenary. You could use the official government website for that. Recently we had a Law called 10 mediated against the corruption[1] that followed this script. Unfortunately, our Congress has greatly changed the proposal. I participated actively in this campaign and I am participating in some other proposals that are being built. What I have discovered is that getting in touch with a congressman so that he or she will sponsor the proposal and defend it in its originality is much faster and with a higher success rate. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a possibility to prevent congressmen from altering the public petition and this allows they to transform something positive into something very bad.

[0]https://www12.senado.leg.br/ecidadania/principalmateria (in portuguese)
[1]http://www.dezmedidas.mpf.mp.br/campanha/documentos (in portuguese)
Vivaldi isn't open source but you can read the source code, which is better than nothing....

There is some debate inside Vivaldi about making it open source and it would be easy enough to do. I'd guess that it probably doesn't make economic sense while it has such a small market share, but I don't know if that's true.
Have you tried using the Wi-Fi Assist feature?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205296
The only use-case I have for a VPN at the moment is to go around the inevitable throttling that will happen when net neutrality goes away (in the US).
I have no reason to hide my browsing from the government. When I do (which I very much see as a possibility in the future), I will switch to something more anonymous.
I graduated with a CS degree last year and Computer Ethics was indeed a required course.
Strictly speaking, whether you're using the thread pool under the hood or not depends on the task scheduler, which is pluggable. The default one that new threads get is indeed going to dispatch to the thread pool (on different threads at that, not the same one). But it can be pretty much anything. Async/await doesn't really care about any of that, it just creates continuations for you, and hands them over to the scheduler.
Pour one out. They really changed their model a few times and that last configuration was pretty great. Food showed up faster than any of the regular restaurant delivery services and the menu was fairly diverse and tasty.
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You might be surprised at who actually dies, should things get bad enough that people are starving in the streets.

The French aristocracy circa 1789 was certainly surprised. Likewise the Russian aristocracy circa 1917.
+1, the idea in itself is nice, maybe - ideally - you could make some sort of "public" submission form ending up in a list , and then make into production the most voted/asked for, and - say - send a free print to the person submitting the most voted one weekly or monthly.

BTW, and as a side note, not all Patent images are reproducible free of charge, so the above list might need to have an additional field for it being public domain or otherwise, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_US_patent...

Another thing, I concur with the people that see the large print of the whatever commercial name as being a spoiler of some sort, the original title might be better, as an example the "Gameboy" patent title is(was):

http://www.google.com/patents/US5184830

"Compact hand-held video game system"
and the iPhone is "Electronic device":
https://www.google.com/patents/USD615083S1
which sound (at least to me) a lot better.

Just as an idea, you could then have the "Gameboy" printed on the back and an extract of the patent text, like the "Field of Invention" or however the summary.

Just for your information, there is something wrong in the iPhone one, is it May 4,2010 or June 5, 2008? (i.e. publishing date vs. filing date)
And the patent number is either USD615083 S1 or US D615083 S1, not just S.
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