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As an American who has lived in the UK for 10 years now, I can only say: bollocks!

The fact that the Royal Family even still exists and still has significant political power is the foundation of the UK's more rigid social structure / social hierarchy than in America - figureheads like the Royal Family and the President are, first and foremost, symbols and from this, society's psychosocial framework is derived. Perhaps it is only my projections / being an American, but I get twinges that deep down, the English unconsciously still believe the Royal Family and the unelected de-facto aristocracy like David Cameron are inherently -better human beings- than the rest of the populace. [Downton Abbey was complete nonsense] America is not founded upon such a notion and the fact that even an idiot like Donald Trump can be president says something. (Yeah, something in the machinery broke down.... the dust filter?). But living here has made me appreciate aspects of America I never much was aware of back home though.

The GOP however seem to want to turn America into something like ... well, god only knows these days. They certainly believe 90% of Americans exist only for the benefit of the top 10%. Trump is their version of the Shock Doctrine and we need to take how Italy finally got rid of Berlusconi into account if we want to get rid of Trump pronto.

Stephen Fry does not understand America's symbols either. Our "Royal Family" is the Constitution and I would certainly rather have an inanimate object be that symbol (of the ideals of the society etc) than a actual human being. Otherwise the chances of personality cults etc - Chavez, Stalin, Putin... - increases. And there is a personality cult around the Queen, however benign. And ... Trump has always tried to create and rely upon a personality cult for his BS. America is falling for it, it seems.
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This is only the tip of the iceberg from what I've heard. He's rather well known in circles around Twitter for his harassment and there are several texts I've seen firsthand showing far worse harassment. He preemptively posted this not knowing what they'd disclose in the paper and I'll bet he's breathing easy now that it's "only" this face touch.
What many people don't seem to consider is that it is not about the battery. Even revolutionary changes in battery capacity won't offset the fact that you need electricity to charge them. If you replace your cars with electric ones, your electricity needs are gonna skyrocket.

Hydroelectric plants cannot radically increase their output. Nor you can create new dams at will. Nuclear plants are being dialed back. So the only viable option is to burn fossil fuels in power plants to generate enough electricity.

So essentially you are shifting from burning fossil fuels in small engines to burning them in large plants. Efficiency concerns aside, how does this actually change the status quo? The only benefit of electric cars is being negated. If you bring efficiency into consideration, you might actually end up burning more fuel.

Unless you invent new power generation techniques that do not use fossil fuels and can generate the required amount of electricity, electric cars are basically a hipster dream. Sounds good, but doesn't actually work.
The point I was trying to make was that the discourse is so dogmatic it's as if people live in alternate universes.

People can't even mention certain topics because the word you use to describe the topic reveals which "side" you are on (e.g. the "Muslim ban").
Even the claims that the naloxone is to deter injection of the drug is suspect at best. It's most likely that this new combination was simply an easy way to get approval and obtain a patent.
Again, it's private and for profit, but it's not market based. It's just a big ball of bureaucracy, unintended consequences, and corruption (at least in the sense that the system isn't following its intended purposes). If it were market based, there would be a trivially discoverable price for commodity operations and such.

How much does it cost for a skin cancer screening in Topeka? It depends? Well, that's a routine procedure that isn't really offered in the open market. It should just have published (and even advertised!) prices so normal consumers can shop around for quality screenings at fair prices.

I'm very critical of the American healthcare system, if that wasn't clear. But its failings are certainly not being too market based or too unregulated.
The downside of going straight for TS is that it's a bit more work to figure out how to build and debug (with sourcemaps) if you're not too familiar with front-end development.

On the other hand the upside, and a very big one, is that if you set up the relatively simple TS build process, you automatically get all the ES2015+ stuff for free, even without needing to figure out Webpack and Babel and the like (with some caveats front-end-wise, primarily Promises and Fetch).
This is pretty common in the reputation management arena too.

Say, for example, you have some criminal charge like assault and it shows up for google searches of your fairly unique name.

A reputation management company can flood the internet with other content containing similar keywords, but a positive context. And links to the content that raise it up the ranks, burying negative info down off the front page of the Google results.

"Frank Billingsly Assaults High Prices by..."

"Bailing Out My Sailboat, by Frank Billingsly"

And, of course, also content without those keywords, but with the name.
Keybase is a free, open source security app
At ISC17 they had these at the Gigabyte booth....with multi-GPU configs (see GPGPU on top).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4tfh1u3NMxnTThSdEswR2o1SXc...
With respect to #4, men marrying "down" has historically been the biggest contributor to social mobility.
And also threatening to black men because of the threatened white men.
"forcing all children to..." is never an answer
It depends on what you mean by a client. If your world view doesn't extend beyond a browser, then no. However, I would still use it in client applications on servers, desktops, and Android phones.
This is eye opening to see the tricks used all in getting you to give someone your money.
Actually he doesn't.
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Awful lot of defensive green names popping up in this thread. Upstream there's one with obscure knowledge of the PR industry.

Just a coincidence though, right?
Vegas is renown as a low cost travel destination, $5 prime rib, cheap liquor, cheap hotels, but you need to avoid the strip. There is a big immigrant population and there is no shortage of awesome cheap food minutes away.
gravity isn't waves, I think that was an overly simplistic description, but the explanation for noise does stand to reason, imho.
Trump received 3 million fewer votes than his leading opponent. A series of technicalities elected Trump, not the majority of U.S. voters.
Perhaps the benefit of the Trump presidency will be the average American wakes up to how non-important the President is in of itself and that the important thing is the process of politics, or the unspoken norms that Trump is demolishing, or ... something more abstract than the position and whoever is the current inhabitant. That was sort of the point of the American Revolution and all the ideals America is supposed to embody. [i.e. the progressive libtard ones, not the regressive pseudo-conservative aka almost fascist ones Trump is a symbol of]
recent discussion on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588308
Statically typed languages increase productivity by catching errors early, but decrease productivity by making users jump through hoops.

e.g. at one end of the spectrum is Java, which everything has to be a class. Even if you want to write a function, it has to be expressed as a static method in a class. In Java it's just not possible to implement ideas in the most obvious way, it has to be done in the Java way.

Conversely, TypeScript was designed to work with JavaScript (which is very dynamic), so it has a very capable structural type system. The productivity penalty is negligible.
i'm sorry, but this response is so meaningless it's basically just 'fuck you'. you could say it in response to absolutely anything regarding women.
I wonder how many innocent people we'll end up condemning with this posture. It's not like history lacks any examples that demonstrates that this is exactly what happens when you get tough and prosecutorial. You're pretty much sanctioning a pitchfork and torch attitude and that evolves into mobs that are often wrong.

These days it feels like we've learn nothing from stories like the Scarlet Letter that describe a time from our history where we treated women how you now propose that we treat men. Neither gender deserves this.
The original Stepstone Objective-C compiler compiled to C, so, no, assembly is not required. On the other hand, it is an optimization that would help a lot. I still wonder if hardware acceleration would have been possible in Apple's A-series of chips.
I agree with this attitude. My point was that 'privilege' is a loaded word these days. It doesn't convey this attitude. At least not to me.
God, I have such mixed feelings after viewing the product overview video on their site.

On the one hand, you can't deny the wins that comes from bullshit-free operations - no installing, no permissions, no need to deal with sysadmins to approve a new program[0], and updates do themselves. Files are backed up and trivially shared across devices.

On the other hand, you're now locked in to a vendor system, with vendor software doing file management, version control and sharing. You need constant access to Internet to do anything at all.

Then there's also issue of performance. I actually registered for a free personal account and started playing with this software. I saw more-less what I expected: it kinda works, like most such web tools kinda work - good enough to do something, but laggy and slow enough to piss me off if I were to spend more than 10 minutes designing anything in it.

--

I can understand all the cloud nonsense (though I prefer regular files, thank you very much). But from the quick experience, the application would feel much better if it was a desktop/mobile native program, not a webapp. It's like with Google Office suite - looks cool to have it in a browser and it sorta can help with the basic things, but try to build a reasonably-sized document, spreadsheet or slideshow, and the performance drop will make you tear your hair out.

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[0] - How security is done on work machines is ridiculous, though it's a separate topic. I'll just leave this: https://xkcd.com/1200/.
In those republics that role often fufils the role of the monarch, I think.
To those who don't know: this is obviously written in jest. It's a bit of fun light entertainment, a fantasy.

If a humorous movie was made with this premise, would you be taking it this seriously?
I've heard bad things about this fish, but I've had it raw as sushi a few times and nothing bad has happened.
Well that sounds amazing!
That's per the spec[1], enjoyably:

Note that when such software is used, numbers that are
integers and are in the range [-(2**53)+1, (2**53)-1]
are interoperable in the sense that implementations will
agree exactly on their numeric values.

2^53 is only 9007199254740990, so it's not too hard to exceed that, particularly in things like twitter status ids.

The recommended use is to have big numbers as strings, since it's the only way to reliably pass them around. (Yes, this is kind of horrible.)

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-6
MPL is my go-to graphing tool, but admittedly it's probably because I learned it first and now it's a habit. Almost every Python / Jupyter tutorial starts you out with MPL. But there are two things I like about it:

1. Easy to embed MPL graphics in Tkinter GUI's. Granted, my programs are not intended to be professional looking, but if I want to write stand alone software, e.g., for an automated experiment or industrial test, it invariably needs one or two graphs in a dialog.

2. If what you want is a static graph (no interaction), that's what MPL produces. With other packages that I've tried, every graph is its own JavaScript program running in the browser. A Jupyer notebook with dozens of graphs begins to hog down my computer.
I mean there's also a couple other things that differentiates McClure's situation. He's also married. He seems to have accelerated the harassment immediately. Obviously I don't know the details, but it doesn't seem like he was just asking her out on a date. And if he did then clearly she wasn't receptive and he should have stopped. I think it's pretty easy to see that there's a clear violation on McClure's side.
What has your experience with kotlin and js been? Kotlin appeals to me a lot more than typescript and seems more practical than reasonml.
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You most definitely can get pharmaceutically pure heroin, it's used in many countries in hospitals every minute of every day, just not in the US because of its scary name.

Some countries even give it to addicts instead of buprenorphine/methadone.
This doesn't seem plausible to me; it will take him through his first term to fill a critical mass of these positions; he'll be in his way out before he gets there.
>>>And it's increasingly expensive

Especially when you have a family, one night out is equivalent to a weeks worth of groceries. Cooking at home is the easiest way to stretch your money, if you can find the time.
Yes but that part needs a 10th grade understanding of science.
Hey, how do you track your meals?

I'm working on an app (Bitesnap) to help people keep track of their diet. At some point we'd like to add more features to help users figure out what's causing their dietary issues.
No true Scotsman all up in here.
That sounds like a lot of work.

I've seen "founders" with a Wordpress template :)
same here. thanks for stopping by!
What I wanted to point out is that typically a C struct is what you need. The common case is static keys and static value types but dynamic values.

What are interesting use cases for more dynamic (i.e. non-fixed set of keys / types)?

I mean, if you need something super-abstract and flexible, you are unlikely to need a built-in convenient syntax to hardcode such values.
Oh. But these days most JS projects are in some task runner anyway.
I'm not sure "likely enough to confirm" is going to go over all that well with many merchants, particularly when that chart shows the price-per-byte jumps all over the place rapidly.
Let's hope so that he doesn't have time, but I think people are fooling themselves by thinking he will get voted out of a second mandate. If he lasts that long without an impeachment, history tells us that it's highly improbable that he loses the election for the 2nd term.
By hiring exclusively men, or exclusively women.
I would also reccomend 'The Unwinding' by George Packer.
ignoring the circadian rythm like that might cause depression in the long term. For me the deepest and most refreshing sleep is between 4am and 7 pm. So if I would want to make that trick for starting the day work, I'd have to wake before it starts or after it ends.
One of the things well known at that time is the notification/control menu which was not available in official ios (the official one sucks). I even heard at some point that apple hired the guy that worked on the app for jailbroken iOS to help work on that...not sure if true story.
Common Lisp's restarts are not restartable processes in the Erlang sense. They are part of a facility for suspending execution of a thread of control when it encounters an error, modifying the dynamic state of the process during the suspension, and resuming execution afterward.

When an error occurs in a Common Lisp program the runtime signals a __condition__. A condition is an instance of a class that represents unexpected or otherwise exceptional situations that can arise during execution. When a condition is signaled, control searches for a registered handler that matches the type of the signaled condition. If one is found then control passes to the matching handler. If none is found then control passes to the default handler, which by default starts an interactive repl called a breakloop__.

The breakloop has access to the full dynamic state of the suspended computation, including all local and dynamic variables and all pending functions on the stack. From the breakloop a programmer can alter variable values and redefine functions and classes. For example, if you conclude that the error happened because of an incorrect function definition, you can redefine the function and tell the breakloop to resume execution as if the new definition had been called instead of the original one.

A __restart__ in this context is an option for continuing execution. Common Lisp's condition system offers the programmer the ability to choose from among available restarts in a breakloop, or to write a handler that will make the choice automatically when a condition is signaled, and it also offers the ability to define custom restarts.
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Why is there no automated feature to get a downloads MD5 checksum and check it on completion in any modern browser?
An instance of mixed-type maps*

Elsewhere one would have to define a struct/class and them create an instance.

This becomes immensely helpful for the incredibly lazy with one off object definitions and wrapper types. If you introduce a class definition alongside an instance, you're now forced to manage two peices of code. The class definition and instance definition. In this case they're coupled which aides maintenance in my experience.
This isn't actually that complicated. There are seven billion people in the world, you choose one of the ones that you aren't professionally compromised with to date. Period.

Life is full of situations where you have to choose between two competing positive values. It's part of being an adult.
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Thank you for the advice - I'm moving (to the coast). I'm just staying in here for my education (college and post-graduate degree).

What is sad was the town I'm living in is a college town, and I can't imagine it being uninviting before I moved here. I used to live in a smaller college town, and while it was really really small, I didn't feel that way.
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Yes, it would be questionable, but not in the same sense as the situations being discussed here.

In general, workplace romance (even among 'equals') is fraught with these complications.
During my younger years I spent a summer working in a hotel with restaurant, doing hard manual labour for a pittance. What surprised me was what went on in the en-suite toilets of the hotel rooms. The guests had eaten very expensive meals during the previous evening and on the 'Bristol poo scale' I would say that things had usually got to the diarrhoea end of the chart.

The culprit? Nouvelle Cuisine.

Absolutely no corners were cut in the kitchen, there were no bad practices whatsoever. Everyone took pride in their work and there were never any problems with inspections from the authorities or reviewers. The kitchen and the restaurant were horror story free. Yet the toilets told their own story.

We did get one bad review from a guest that had to be 'torn out of the book', this was actually a very good review in that the guest had taken time to look at the food served from a nutrition point of view. Turns out that Nouvelle Cuisine is not all it is cracked up to be, it might look pretty on TV but in reality it is not what you want to be eating. Too much of the food was highly processed.

For instance, take the humble pea. Normal people eat peas that come out of the freezer to be boiled/steamed and then served. However, in Nouvelle Cuisine (at this anecdotal hotel) were 'fresh', in their pods. The peas would be shelled, then the outer skin of each pea would be removed. Then the peas would be shoved through some sieve to make some type of mush. This would go on hours before tea-time, for some lackey in the kitchen it was a major chore taking hours to do. I never was one to partake in these silly foods but I imagine those peas sat around all day - albeit covered with clingfilm and in the refrigerator - to then be heated/served somehow with the silly and expensive luxury dead animal stuff.

I would be surprised if it was these glorified mushy peas that resulted in the in-toilet explosions, however, strange food upsets people's guts if they are not used to strange food.

The clientele did not get absolutely trolleyed, there was never any signs of rooms trashed by partying and I was surprised people didn't make mention of gut problems.
Nitpick but the website preview images are not resized from the originals well so the text and edges in them are all jagged.
You are mixing the financial and technical successes...

Look at the mess of wordpress code. It's an abomaly and security history proves how it was never a technical success.
I have to admit, I was not familiar with this limitation. Thanks for pointing it out.

And I'd go from "kind of horrible" to just "horrible".

Integral bit limits are an implementation detail that every language has a way to overcome - they shouldn't be built into an encoding spec.
You'll need to understand JavaScript. One of the things I like about TypeScript is that it tries to 'fit' JavaScript, but the consequence is that you need to understand JavaScript to be proficient in TypeScript.

That said, I suspect it won't be too difficult, and quite worth your while, to learn 'idiomatic JavaScript' if you have experience with at least one other language. And especially with ES6 (which is 'included' in TS), if you have any experience with Ruby or Python you'll be fine with JS and it might even be a relatively pleasant experience.
> He’s in Berlin currently, where on a recent day in a working-class neighborhood he didn’t see a single homeless person.

Is this really such a remarkable thing in America?
Seriously? Why? Do they expect young supermodels to date them?
Offer something in exchange for emails. Maybe a short tutorial packaged in a PDF?
> I guess my history is almost opposite while achieving similar results. However, I get bunched in the same group and expected to feel privileged and guilty.

My history was also the opposite, and I do not like getting bunched in with privileged.

I've had a job since I could push a lawn mower up and down the street at the age of 12 or 13. In HS, I worked overnights in a grocery store during the summers. My family only had 1 car, so during the school year I had to get up at 5am and take my mom to work so I could go to work right after school. Then I would pick her up on my break and go back to work. I didn't have a computer at my house until I was a freshman in college, and it just happened to be during that time when they gave everyone credit cards (I guess that was lucky?).

The point is that people get to where they are in life all sorts of ways. Some win the lottery, some work their ass off, but most get there through some combination of both.