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> On the first day of my Economics 101 class I was introduced to "economic man" or to make it more academic "Homo economicus."

Of all criticisms you could make, this is pretty iffy. Did you complain in your physics class when they said "calculate speed of an object and assume no air resistance"? Or when they tell you to "consider it as a point mass"?

Here they are making the assumptions they work with apparent. You can't define exactly how people are, so we need to make some assumptions. That lets us clarify where and when these things might work or not work, and possibly look for explanations when our results are completely wrong. Imagine if they were to teach the same material, without the disclaimer "this only works if you make the assumption of homo economicus".

Any science works with models, and we need to define those models to be able to determine if they are useful or not.

"The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat." --Norbert Wiener
To learn good form, have a long stick and hold it against your upper and lower spine, standing up. Now bend your knees and hips, but without the stick ever leaving your spine. Go as low as you can to increase flexibility. When you go go down, breathe in and trigger your abdomen muscles. Try different stances, like wide or narrow between your feet, to something that feels natural to you. When you start using the bar, don't use any protection, just find a position that feels nice, usually on the shoulder blades. You'll get used to it!
If they paid 160k, they might get the type of teacher who could deliver the goods, and who would love their job. There would be competition for these jobs because people could afford to take them.
I'd agree that a $999 laptop should come with 8GB or more of RAM, but 4GB isnt really so small. I'm not sure what common workload (I'm not talking about a typical HN user, who often has VM's or memory hungry development needs) you think needs >4GB. I opened 10 tabs in Chrome (the most memory hungry browser), streamed a show in the Netflix Win10 store app (the most memory hungry version of Netflix streaming I'm aware of), and opened a document in Word and Excel. Well under 4GB usage.

As an additional anecdote, I do IT on our office work computers and they rarely crack 2GB usage. Again, there is no reason a $999 laptop should only come with 4GB RAM, but a $500 one? I don't see why not.
holy shit, good name!
The fun thing about it, is that Spielberg directs the movie. (Also, the book should lend itself to a movie adaption.)
As someone that lives here ... I can identify with this article completely. Cmu and Pittsburgh are both doing very well right now. It's an exciting plan to be for multiple reasons.
I'll take one. No, make it two.
Maybe I'm not following the conversation correctly, but plenty of US libraries lend digital copies of books, audiobooks, movies, tv shows, etc.
If you're just using it for something like coding and browsing the web is it good enough?
Don't they count minorities as Americans or do the minorities in the USA don't speak their native language or aren't there minorities? How is it possible to say that it is rare in the USA to be bilingual?

At least in Europe and the Middle East, most countries have large minorities that speak the local and native language since early age and learn English on top of it. So trilingual or even more languages is pretty common thing.
Similar approach, I think, by Russ Cox: https://research.swtch.com/ftoa

Starts with an int->string conversion, then does the rest with string manipulation - strings, of course, being bignums with a somewhat wasteful BCD representation.
Ah the free market at work.

Are these patents enforceable in India? Seems like the US patent system might really hinder US tech development outside of Amazon here.
The component parts they use are inherently problematic. You put enough metal in the body, it causes metal poisoning. This is a fundamental problem. You solve it by moving to other materials entirely. Other materials that have some hope of working tend to be more organic, and then we aren't talking cyborg-like outcomes anymore. We are talking some other paradigm.

So, I don't see it.
Only in the case of a disputed between the buyer and seller where arbitrage is needed.
Just out of curiosity, what are your top shows of the past few years if you find those to be overrated?
I don't think this is a good idea. I don't like c++, many people don't, so if we're making something better, why make it depend on c++? Why not use a completely _new_ language, like D or nim?
> 1. using := instead of = is straigh up worse. No way i'd use 2 characters instead of 1 for an operator that common.

Maybe you have mistaken := as the assign operator? It rather is for local variable declaration:

foo := xy

becomes

auto foo = xy;

so it's 2 characters instead of 7 :)

> 2.i don't think the eventuality of bugs really justifies the repetition of public and private at EVERY SINGLE variable, that's a lot of repetitions

Good point. My thinking was that Java/C# seem to be fine with that decision. Also the : after public/protected/private clashes with Coffee++'s Python-like scopes.

> 4. (also a lot of other minor things that don't add meaning, like (int argc, char argv) that really shouldn't be there)

The reason for keeping stuff like (int argc, char argv) is that I want this to be used in C++ projects in the sense that you could have some Coffee++ files and some C++ files together with the only difference, that your build system translates the Coffee++ files to C++ before compiling. But I'm open to replacing other annoyances of C++. Maybe

int main(std::vector<std::string> foo):

could be translated into

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
std::vector<std::string> foo;
for (int i = 0; i < argc; ++i) {
foo.emplace_back(argv[i]);
}

;)
Bilingualism in Canada is very common among French-English languages, and depending on what part of the country you live in, your exposure to both languages can be fairly even.

My favourite bilingual situations is seeing a child "complain/whine" to their grandparent in English while the grandparent tries to soothe the child in French. Both understanding each other perfectly.

Something that blew me away once was this one kid at church who spoke with a British accent--I believe he lived in Whales before moving to Canada. A week later I heard this same child speak with a perfect Québécois accent. I later found out his mom was from Montreal.
As a counterpoint, I wasn't really a child of the eighties but was familiar with a lot of the things in the book--wasn't hardcore into them because I was a young adult at the time. It wasn't a brilliantly written. But I found it more of "I'll just read one more chapter" than most things I've read for a while. Nostalgia I guess. Maybe I'm more of a sucker for that sort of thing than many. I did like it though.
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I still want a finger magnet, because having it inside your body next to your nerves makes it way more sensitive than any external device could be.

On the other hand, I'd much rather have a North Paw anklet (https://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/) than that implanted compass. I love the idea of using technology to augment my body and mind, but that doesn't necessarily require implantation.

On the third (cybernetic) hand, I totally understand the almost fetishistic excitement for full-on cyborgization. If I had to have a limb amputated, that would suck a lot, but getting to customize and show off a prosthetic would be a real silver lining for me. If I could electively replace a healthy hand or arm with a mechanical one that was categorically equal or superior, I would consider it. But I'd never accept a loss of real function just to look cool.
Celebs and the so called metropolitan elites or judges who might take issue with Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dace and the Barclay Brothers and thus put themselves in the presses firing lines
This user is a repeated defender of nazism - how is this permitted on a civilised forum like HN?
Yes, I read the article, that's why I said I came to the same conclusion ("wearables > implantables").

My 'ring' answer for magnet in finger was just an example of a counterpoint in such a debate between these two transhumanism approaches. I of course approve smart glasses, rings, bracelets, wearables, exoskeletons, etc. over implants, surgeries and metal bones (Wolverine from X-Men excluded ;). Of course nanites easily trump wearables but they are way too far into the future at this point I'd think.
I made a list of books I liked the look of, saved it to a text and then setup the script to run every hour ± a bit. Wasn't going to be any faster than I could read them! I don't recall ever being rate limited so I guess the strategy worked.
German energy company wants to build flow batteries in old natural gas caverns
No, that's the top 2000 of the people making over 120k. #2000 came in at around 510k EUR (~600k USD).
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It's a good description of the problems of ORM and their possible resolutions.

Personally, I prefer to interact with a relational database via a good query builder. The advantage of a query builder is that you inevitably end up with dozens of slightly different queries. With a query builder you can make a query just like another, but with slightly different constraints or joins or whatever you like.

You can then populate objects with said queries when it make sense, and do other non-objecty operations like reporting and search. The entire point of an object system is to reduce coupling, so IDK why people are so eager to tightly couple their programming model to storage.

But about the Vietnam part... really, that's a shocking analogy. The overlong, painfully US-centric military history part could be completely excised. I didn't even understand the title at first. Vietnam is not solely defined by America's failed attempt to ~~napalm it into submission~~ nobly preserve democracy.
> Do you really think a reddit/aggregator where you pay-per-upvote (via a subscription service, instead of fiverr like a normal person) is going to encourage long form articles?

Not necessarily long form articles. I don't think people will part with their money in exchange for something that doesn't have substance. I think it will encourage content that is helpful. Long form articles can help people understand things, Ethereum for example, in ways that a meme can't. In that way I think it will encourage long form articles, but more generally it will encourage helpful content.
Agreed. pg up/pg dn takes me to top of page/end of article in Chrome on a MBP
> I heard this same child speak with a perfect Québécois accent.

French speakers from France might blanch at calling it "perfect"
Isn't it a Young Adult book? That might explain why it didn't work for you. A lot of adult readers have commented (here and elsewhere) that they found it to be poorly written.
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I would not recommend a TV for gaming unless one happens to find latency benchmarks for the display. TV's tend to add enormous amounts of delay their buffering and pre-processing layers, latencies that really don't matter if you're displaying a movie.
Here are some possible explanation for the behaviour. There might be other urgent fires burning for the past week and he is getting nervous and trying to figure out whether he needs to reschedule. He also has to manage up and set expectations when the whole project is going to be done. He might be concerned you are gold plating an otherwise simple task. He might think you are stuck and trying to figure things out on your own. You could help him by letting him have a sense of where you are, and whether there is something more pressing that he needs to talk about. Perhaps he has access to people/equipment/money that can accelerate your work.
Real-Time Chat App with Dart on the Client and Server
A lot of us don't appreciate is as much as we should. Some of us do; I've spent time living in another country (and visiting many others), and I've spent a lot of time helping non-native English speakers struggle through technology documents that are only available in English.

Conversely, there is occasional information that I can only find in Japanese (for example), but that doesn't happen often. Every time it does, it makes me wonder how many of my information sources don't have a direct analog in various other languages.
Reforming bail sounds like a good idea. I don't know why anyone would trust Harris on the issue, though.

If she wanted to shrink jails when she was California's Attorney General, she could have respected court orders requiring prisoners to be released.

Likewise, she could have stopped "defending convictions obtained by local prosecutors who inserted a false confession into the transcript of a police interrogation, lied under oath and withheld crucial evidence from the defense."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/magazine/kamala-harris-a-...
Given that neither a piercing nor a tattoo, nor the desire to have such things, cause suffering nor poor ability to function in life - one of the key features of a "pathological" disorder - I'd be inclined to disagree. I don't think that tech implants cause suffering nor poor ability to function in life either.
>I think you have to be insane to not travel. The learning opportunities it presents are unparalleled.

It depends on what you mean by 'travel'. I think spending anything less than a month in a place just makes it more like a visit to a theme park than anything enlightening.
Read the book. It's a light and fun assembly of 80's references (for a plot-based reason!) packaged inside a VR capture-the-flag adventure. My son read it a few weeks ago and enjoyed it while getting none of the references... we had a fun weekend chasing down arcades with video games from the book (Joust features at a key early plot point).

Could the film be better than the book? Hmmm... Can you think of any VR movie that's better than the book it's based on? I can't either.

I'm not optimistic about the movie, but what I like about the trailer is how they seemed to have licensed a fair bit of 80's nostalgia (I loved seeing the Iron Giant in there, the Delorean from BTTF, Freddy Kruger getting blasted) which is really the important trick for adapting this book. (i.e. I really hope they licensed Ultraman.)
Best thing you can do is make sure the developer track is separate from the management track. Then, it just depends on the size of the company. If you have a small team, then something like: Junior -> Senior -> Principal -> Distinguished
works quite well. No need to come up with something atypical, these roles / titles are tried and tested. If you have a larger team then you can just add I,II,and III to the above as well as having on the management side, eng manager, sr. eng manager, director, VP.
HN coming down hard on this one, unsurprisingly. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, having read it a couple months back, and am pretty stoked about the movie. I do however wish the trailer focused more on (or even mentioned) the hunt i.e. the entire plot of the book; the trailer looked visually good but was kind of boring. There were a few scenes I immediately recognized though and that was cool to see!
Hey Steve! Love what you're doing with the bank APIs!
The point would be something called broadening your outlook.
He said qc accent not fr accent. Unnecessary comment.
I found the site I linked, rtings.com, to be invaluable in getting the specifics of television lines and their capabilities and qualities. Different TVs will have varying levels of picture quality, and making sure you turn off (and can turn off) various settings that help a TV experience but hurt of computer monitor experience (motion blur, etc) is important. The one I chose had a fairly low display lag for 4k, and supported a "game mode" (which many do). It takes a bit of research to figure out what you should be looking for, but there are some good resources you can find by googling (articles, subreddits) that let you know what are likely the most important attributes in general, and you have to supplement that with your own specific needs.
I have used f.lux and redshift in the past. They can help reduce the eyestrain a little, and I guess they have a psychological effect around sleep, but they don't actually dim the light.
Public Breastfeeding is AWFUL
The hard part of removing GIL are the language semantics themselves. Replacing CPython's reference counting with some kind of tracing GC will still leave you with problem of coming up with low-overhead thread-safe dictionary implementation.
12 3 bit characters.
rtings.com has latency benchmarks for most that I saw, including separate ratings per display mode (1080p, 4k, 1080p game mode, etc). It was invaluable when I was researching what to buy.
"Protect, detect, and recover from malicious BIOS attacks using HP Sure Start with Dynamic Protection - the industry’s first self-healing BIOS that monitors and corrects BIOS corruption in real-time"

In the footnote, it says that it corrects BIOS corruption every 15 minutes. I'd be interested to see how this works and what technology they are using. What happens if my BIOS is corrupted within the 15 minute window and I reboot?
I considered the magnet but the problems are: it weakens over time, might break, might infect you, the scar tissue builds up and disables the feeling and it's still metal in you (MRI, etc.). Pain I'd not mind, it's a brief surgery after all, but some people mind surgeries too.
Wouldn't it imply that they're happy with the current audience of the language, and don't wish to extend it ?

nothing wrong with that, though.
You are correct. They think this way because they spend less than 5% of their time talking to other people, whereas the normal population spends bare minimum 30% of their time interacting with humans directly.
One thing I wish us native English speakers did was work on fixing English - spelling in particular, but also the irregular grammar. English is so much harder to learn that it needs to be.
> OK, so just to clarify, this is a for-profit project produced by a central party with no stated plan for monetization. That is IMHO dubious.

For an early Bitcoin whale, a few million is negligible for a product that could bring crypto to the masses and dramatically increase the value of their crypto investment portfolio.
I would argue that that is mostly because cryptocurrency developers are mostly incapable of reading CS papers, but that's neither here nor there.
I think I misunderstood your comment.
MSI NVIDIA GTX1080Ti GPU with USB-C: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/57725/msi-first-graphics-card-...
The issue is that dumb unemployed programmers love to hit the 'up' button on articles shitting on things they don't understand.
> The world would be a much better place if every person living in a developed country were forced to spend a year living in a different one

Not unless they also were forced to earnestly interact with the different culture. May also need to force them to be curious as well.

Lots of forcing should do the trick. Everyone's "solution" to every problem...
In the sense that it's not clear how openbazaar developers will earn money.
I am in my 40s and I thorouhly enjoyed the book. To each his own.
I was actually planning to start Snow Crash tonight, so that's funny. I liked Ready Player One quite a bit, so hopefully I enjoy Snow Crash even more. Any other good VR books? I also picked up Armada by the author of RPO, being a sucker for alien invasion sci-fi.
This implies that the bios can be corrupted - the bios shouldn't accept unsigned updates (without an in bios flag being switched first), even from a root-level user on the OS.
The people silencing you by fading you into the background do.
I get that. The wording was not misleading or ambiguous.

In my job, I have to deal with network problems of various kinds from time to time, and at the network layer, "online" has a specific meaning (Okay, actually several, depending on context), and that was what my brain came up with first.

Like I said, I was nitpicking.
I wanted to enjoy the book, but it was pretty sub-par. I admit it made me smirk when I "got" an 80's reference, but it also annoyed me how obvious it was that the book was deemed "great" just because of such a cheap, transpartent tactic.
I've had a boss like that and his boss didn't want to remove him because he would have to admit that he made the wrong choice in promoting him.
I didn't understand it.
People are talking about drugs or questioning that it is not exactly for free. But my big question, from the point of view of someone who has owned a small online store, is security for the buyer. In a completely p2p transaction, the biggest difficulty lies in the assurances that the two parties are completely satisfied with the deal. The first purchase is the most important move in any market, paying a premium so that everything goes well is not so bad.
IIRC, the python3.6 from testing was causing inconsistencies in the /lib packages shipped inside the virtualenv (like inconsistent versions would get imported). I'll definitely give your package a shot!
I understand they want to make it look clean, but they show no cords at all in most of the pictures. There's also no mention of battery life, so it must be powered.

If they're going to lie about the cords, what else are they lying about? Also $699?? WTF?
Looks kinda like a NUC
"HP Elite Slice is like no desktop you’ve ever seen"

Well, except for the Mac Mini, which it pretty much looks like.
What are the best technologies to help an English-speaking household even introduce other languages?
This comment isn't relevant.

Also, dude, you're gonna get caught up by the feds so fast.
This is the main reason yes. No amount of backhaul can change this.

There are 2 solutions to this problem.

1) Distributing a web of much smaller cells, lower power so much less devices are connected per node.

2) DIDO pCell technology developed by Artemis. All antennas transmit and the waveforms from each broadcast interfere around each receiver to create a valid signal for that signal device.

Both systems require loads of calculations by the broadcasters to either manage handoffs from each mini cell, or to calalate valid distributed broadcasts per each receiver.

This type of event would have been a great opportunity for Artemis to show off their tech.
Anyone else notice the vast majority of the photos show it on a desk without a single cord coming out of the back?
I am really interested in a consumer-clean modular desktop concept. Sometimes I feel like there needs to be something that will save the layman from the tablet virus.
It's a NUC with a USB port on the bottom.

(see: Intel NUC, Gigabyte BRIX, AsRock BeeBox, etc...)
Except for the 35W CPU's - so you can get a real quad-core i5/i7... but yeah, I don't see it moving well at this price.

(at least Apple admits up front that they're dual cores, unlike almost every other use of lie5/lie7's...)
Considering how old gold is its distribution is pretty slim

https://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/who-owns-worlds-gold/24...

And it's far from immune to being manipulated.

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1489601367.php
In Tunisia everyone grows up learning French and Arabic. Additionally most learn English in school.
Why is this trending? I saw one in the shop just last week, they aren't exactly new.
Many of the things the human body was optimized for aren't really that important in the modern world. E.g. I'd take a body (or brain...) that was 10 times stronger but required ten times more energy. Energy is abundant now.

Another serious downside is fragility. Sure it can self repair. But it's very slow and only works for minor damage. Id prefer to just swap out the broken part and fix it quickly.

And the whole fluid system is connected, so if a single part breaks it can drain the whole system. Not to mention the whole pain thing. It can't even extreme temperatures or environments at all.
Yes, but I could spend that time doing something else. It's opportunity cost.
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