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I tend to buy from a UK vendor who I found out about through favourable magazine reviews. The last few times I ordered from them, they offered no-OS options (which in practise meant a preinstalled but non-activated Windows, and Windows reinstallation media provided).
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Another article about how the science does not support such genetic difference between the sexes, got just flagged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14997523
You suggest Britain is an unlikely candidate, merely because there are other options?

Wouldn't it be much easier to criticize the notion that one country built the modern world?
Good question! The primary reason is that I just learned that. It does seem like a problem!

The second reason is that I want to know more about what's happening. As mentioned up-thread, I'm not a huge fan of university degree credentialism. I myself gave up finishing my master's after determining that there was nothing that it would gain me; it would not open any opportunities in life that I cared about. Given the fact that the tech industry seems to celebrate people (usually men) dropping out of college and becoming rockstars in a startup, is it possible that men are leaving college because they determine that spending more tuition money won't help them, but fewer women are confident of that? If so, then that's definitely an inequality, but the direction of the inequality and the ways to solve it are quite different from a naive reading of the facts.

This hypothesis would also explain the GPA difference: if we believe that some fraction of men doing well in college drop out, but women doing equally well tend to finish their degree, that would explain why the average GPA tends to be lower among men as time goes on.

Again, to be clear, I have no information about this; as mentioned I didn't know this until you brought it up. I'm hypothesizing, that's all. Certainly another hypothesis is "men are being pushed out of college for some reason." We'd need more data, for instance, information on what those men who drop out end up doing.

The third reason is that my selfish motivation is raising the quality of my potential coworkers, and my energy to care about all possible injustices in the world is limited. If there's a phenomenon of, say, men dropping out of college and joining a tech firm and becoming a mediocre coworker, then I will care somewhat immediately. If there are men dropping out who would be stellar performers and excellent teammates had they only finished their degree, I will also care. If there are men dropping out and going to some other industry because they're not good enough for tech, well, I'm sad about that and I wish we could retain and train them (I do genuinely believe that training + willingness to learn is way more important than innate ability), but it's not the highest-priority problem.

But this is all off-topic; do you agree that I've provided some data to argue that my hypothesis (that an 80/20 applicant pool is likely not to have an 80/20 split in qualified applicants) is at least within the realm of possibility?
Wikipedia lists him as a founder?
I doubt you would need all 3000 sq ft of roof to be solar.
Tesla's sales of model s's seem to have peaked at a level where the model s may never have a net profit margin. (manipulated gross margin figures not withstanding)

If the market isn't big enough the company isn't viable.

Personally I think the long run place of private cars in a TaaS world is questionable.
Only true if you look at designer roofs.

I got 30 year shingles on my roof last year. About 2000 square feet (I know roofs are measured in squares but I forgot the square number). Cost like $6500 installed. Solar city roof is like 45k.

Sure it looks better. And if you compare it to a 25k nice looking roof, the math is way better. But tons of us do not have 25k roofs, we have 5-10k roofs..
Sorry, that was a viral image this week :)

https://twitter.com/johnmclarkejr/status/74106144399966617
I resent Linus being bad-mouthed. Only because he is kinda famous his occasional rant is published everywhere. Normally he's a very laid back and reasonable guy. He's definitely not someone who is toxic in the workplace.
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Same here. Somewhen last year I realized that buying on Amazon is becoming stressful with so many questionable sellers. Unfortunately Newegg and Walmart have gone in similar direction. For camera stuff Adorama and BH are still reliable but fir other stuff it's difficult to find a good seller.
Sparking a myth about a man who could not forget
Interesting. I'm not sure how to read that balance sheet. For the sake of argument let's say that there's $2.3T is federal bank deposits and $1.5T cash in circulation. If it's all used as reserve balances then that's a total of $38T in bank deposits outstanding. $6T taxing power a year is still not small compared to this!
Except in language(s) that default to the global scope without declaration. I admit it though - if the compiler doesn't, a static analysis tool will do my point is shaky.

I'm not passionately for implicit declarations. I just don't see it as a make or break, stupid idea that the OP made it out to be.

If I had a choice, I would prefer explicit, with compiler errors when not declared up scope as opposed to implicit declaration in the global scope.
Bull. The same holds for junior devs.
That takes away most of the reasons for using Amazon.
Telling climate scientists that you know better is smug.
I could agree with you on gdb's user interface. However, working on embedded hardware, plain gdb and it's architecture-specific forks|variants have been the least fiddly things to use.

The most recent examples I've stumbled upon were System Workbench for STM32 and Atollic Studio debugging relatively recent STM32F7 series. When the debugging from IDE doesn't work, it's very hard to see where the problem is (is the hardware interface service started? with the correct parameters? does it have access to hardware USB device? did it even succeed flashing the firmware?)
Funny, I did the same a few weeks ago. The idea is still fascinating.
This was what we did before gifs. Then gifs came along and we stopped. Funny to see it again... as an innovation! Remember history, because it repeats.
My comment was to support the parent comment asking why the grandparent comment expressed surprised that a boat was invented before the wheel.

I don't understand what the point of your comment is.

The first humans in the Americas didn't need to cross an ocean. They needed to follow the shoreline. Even now the Bering Straight is only 90 km across. As the article points out, during the Ice Age, when the sea was lower, it was all land, known as Beringia. There was no "cross-sea or cross-ocean migration".

We know humans 60,000+ years ago could cross the Weber Line, which was also at least some 90 km wide, to get from Sunda to Sahul (which includes modern Australia). This migration to the Americas would have been easier than that.

Regarding male dominated society, hunter-gatherer cultures tend to be egalitarian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer#Social_and_eco... . One hypothesis is that male dominated culture is a result of agriculture, and specifically the horse and plow. http://voxeu.org/article/modern-gender-roles-and-ancient-far... . However, I this is a topic I know little about. I bring it up as an example of why I am confused about the point of your comment and where you're coming from.
I don't think it's just cycle infrastructure. In the UK we seem unable to do all infrastructure, it's not an engineering problem because as another comment has pointed out we have world class scientists and engineers, it must be a political and management problem. Compared to countries such as the Netherlands and Germany, we seem to just bodge our infrastructure rather than properly design it.

I think a large part of the problem comes from not having enough people with science/engineering backgrounds at high levels within politics, the civil service and local authorities. There is also the fact that science/engineering lacks respect and prestige in the UK.
> IMO we should focus less on distinct cycling routes, and more on making road junctions safer for cyclists.

While it's no big deal for experienced cyclists, mixing with motor traffic on busy roads is a big psychological barrier for those who are new and less-experienced.

For that reason, distinct cycle lanes, when built to a sufficiently high standard, result in significant increases in cycle uptake. More cyclists on the road means more safety for everyone, because drivers are more likely to look out for (and behave more considerately towards) cyclists when there are more of them about and cycling becomes "normalised".

Of course, none of this is an excuse for building crappy, useless cycle lanes. We have enough of those in the UK. Thankfully things are improving: London is worlds away from where it was even 5 years ago thanks to investments in infrastructure that is genuinely safe and useful.

Hopefully some of the best new cycle infrastructure there (the new Cycle Superhighway along Victoria Embankment to Tower Hill, for example) can serve as a model for future investments in other UK cities.
No, I am not curious. I know exactly why I am being downvoted.

HN'ers sometimes need to lighten up a bit. A little humor among thousands of serious comments (many not useful) is not going to bring down HN and it is incorrect to assume it doesn't add any substance. My comment was not crass, sarcastic, degrading or mean. It was appreciating the commenter's sense of humor in a harmless way.
try long path tool program
ConqueGDB in vim is my jam.
Upstream story at Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-surface-idUSKBN1...
Awesome suggestions. I'll try to see if it's possible.
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We've had forklifts for decades and plenty of people still enter power lifting competitions.
What about when they both think they're the more powerful, or both think they're the lesser?
There are only three comments so far so small sample size but am I the only one who actually likes working in GDB?

Then again, I also use Vim as an IDE. But so do a lot of folks here.
It is an unfortunate misconception that statistical probability can be used to predict the future.

Any time you extend a statistical model temporally it immediately becomes mathematically invalid since probabilistic statistics are only valid for a fixed population at a fixed moment in time.

Unfortunately business and government is rife with people predicting the future based on statistical models that have no more mathematical validity than reading tea leaves.
It is not productive because it is a (relative) non-issue. It's like the way a small number of "wedge issues" dominate the political agenda so that we have the same hand-wringing discussions for decades.

If Google was not bestride the world like a Colossus, and if it wasn't sucking the air out of the web and everything else, then women could go work for some other company and it would be Google's loss.

Silicon Valley isn't capable of having a discussion about "we can't build any housing" or "we import large numbers of male immigrants" or "we can't locate offices in the other 49 1/2 states", or "we can't house the homeless", or "we don't hire anybody over thirty".

Something has to be on the agenda, however, because otherwise it would be clear that politics has completely broken down, so they've got to pick the oldest and most eternal conflict of man and womankind.
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Made a search in amazon for Cooker and was shown bulbs. http://i.imgur.com/LJfjyML.png

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This is getting ridiculous.

Today morning we had a bulb burnt out and we discussed about buying it next time we go out.But nobody at home did any search relating to a bulb.

Then after an early lunch - I thought we need a new cooker to ease cooking.

So I made a search to find cooker - I am shown bulbs as sponsor ads covering > 50% of webpage.

I don't carry a smartphone. Wife does and she has amazon app installed on her mobile. And today she was using kindle-fire too.

====

So how did Amazon deduce I need a bulb today!

Did app listen or kindle-fire ?

Seriously, what is going on ?
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Is there a game where you can train AI who need cooperate/teamplay for win?

I am not interested in Pve(player vs environement) games,

I would like a game where i can program a team of bots, playing against another team of bots.

CounterStrike GO competitive 5v5 games would be awesome, unfortunately is it not an option, as a big hardware setup will be needed, (3d game) Thank you
Dota too would be great,

If there is nothing out there i will make my game, no nice graphics, everyone could program, watch compete 5 bots vs 5 bots 2d csgo :)
MJPEG is indeed much better for this. It uses less bandwidth (GIFs have no compression) and less browser memory (old frames can be discarded). When I was at globo.com, we developed this to serve animated thumbnails for live video streams: https://github.com/jbochi/live_thumb
I've noticed most HN comments transformed from being discussions about the _content_ of the article to comments discussing the _topic_ of the article being posted, not sure if this is healthy, but the risk is HN becoming an echo chamber where people discuss opinions, and the posts becoming just topic triggers. We'll see how it evolves.
I think buying from Amazon itself is relatively OK, I'd have hard time believing Amazon would run any scams. But third party sellers, given no customer service beyond robots and robot-like script readers... yep, better to steer clear.
Hilariously, in a sad way, that speech from Hillary was full of compassion and good ideas for "Trump voters" and it was spun, entirely falsley as the moment of sneering condescension.

People repeated all the time that Hillary had no solution for these people, when she did. She literally described it in the paragraph of that speech that that line was taken from.

That's why I don't blame the voters, but blame the people who spread the propaganda like that. Even people on HN appear to be stupid enough to fall for it (or cynical enough to spread it). So really, what hope is there for facts and reality to triumph?

The missing context:

"Look, we have serious economic problems in many parts of our country. And Roland is absolutely right. Instead of dividing people the way Donald Trump does, let's reunite around policies that will bring jobs and opportunities to all these underserved poor communities.

So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?

And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.

Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.

So whether it's coal country or Indian country or poor urban areas, there is a lot of poverty in America. We have gone backwards. We were moving in the right direction. In the '90s, more people were lifted out of poverty than any time in recent history.

Because of the terrible economic policies of the Bush administration, President Obama was left with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and people fell back into poverty because they lost jobs, they lost homes, they lost opportunities, and hope.

So I am passionate about this, which is why I have put forward specific plans about how we incentivize more jobs, more investment in poor communities, and put people to work."

Imagine being so cynical as misrepresent a multi billion dollar offer of help to a struggling community.
Looks interesting. Now, if only I could get combined manual/automatic debugging in CDT.
Exactly and the languages don't express that practice. We get design patterns / DI and maxims like composition over inheritance. Our languages still make it easier to inherit than to compose despite all that.

Plus, my wider point was that in the real world, which is the inspiration for OOP, the taxonomy is artificial and placed onto an object. The taxonomy isn't an inherent part of the object (i.e Dog extends Canidae). The taxonomy is given to an object based on its composition separately i.e a dog is a dog because of some property x, y and z and just so happens that X, y are what makes Canid a Canid and X is what makes a carnivore a carnivore.
Vasectomies are permanent enough. Quibbling over failure rates and the possibility of expensively restoring fertility doesn't really change the fact that coercing defendants into getting them is problematic.

"We'll reduce your jail time if you do X" is functionally the same thing as "We'll increase your jail time if you don't do X".
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Browsing through twitter or fb can't really be considered reading..
This is a strained, nitpicky point: if you want to get ultra-specific, and look only at the pool of Google applicants, you’re out of luck: only Google HR has tail accept/reject percentages, and they are not sharing. Further, the data is meaninglessly skewed, as Google tries much harder to find women applicants than men.

Usually, the mean, when combined with standard deviation, is an excellent predictor of relative abundance at the tails.

Google is like a co-ed NBA team who is struggling to find enough seven foot tall female players, and then firing the person who attempted to explain why.
The website is unusable on mobile - too much animation pretty much killed Chrome and scrolling resulted in very gradual stuttering down through the pages segments.
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But 10000 hour rule isn't about being competent. It's about being an expert.

> Formerly a software developer, I was able to install, configure, and hack together a workable WooCommerce/WordPress PHP/MySQL CMS that generated content and still is our main shop, selling millions of dollars of merchandise per year.

But anyone could really do that just following simple online guides/examples. CMS is child's play especially when you didn't even build one from scratch but just pieced ready made software together.

> I used to work retail and retail management when I was young and putting myself through high school and college. Lessons about stocking, shipping, marketing, sales, logistics - all transferred into my online retail business.

Sure, but you aren't an expert in any of those.

Of course cross domain knowledge helps but I think you are missing the point of the 10000 hour rule. It was a rule to make you an expert, not a jack of all trades.
You would likely be better off waiting longer than 8 hours to be rescued; inhaling a bunch of radioactive dust is likely going to be a much worse death than being vaporized by heat, or smashed to death by the blast wave.
Black Swans are the error rate of your predictions (the real error rather than your prediction of your error rate) not existential proof that prediction is always doomed.

After all, if Black Swans were common enough to make prediction a fool's errand most of the time, the bird of that name would never have led to the book of that name, because everyone would be predicting their failure to predict things.
No they are not exactly the same.

From the link you posted: "all uses of the name within the block are treated as references to the current block"

The Python folks call them "late binding closures" and they are frequently discussed as "gotchas".

Essentially lexically scoped variables are captured as references to mutable state. Java did not make this mistake, perhaps because they had Guy Steele (of Scheme fame) on the committee. It is a questionable default that ultimately just destroys ones ability to reason about programs.
ClojureScript talk, 26:52 is the demo but the whole video is worth watching and key to understanding how it works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-I5ldi2aJTI
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He mentions this in his longer talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9Fkq1e6sg
There is almost zero long-distance biking infrastructure in the DFW metroplex, and drivers tend to be hostile to bicyclists. When I biked (casually and recreationally), I would stay on the sidewalks as much as I could, when they existed - which largely limited me to suburban and semi-urban areas.

There do exist huge and long bike trails, but they only connect arbitrary points of the city - imagine New York, but with all but two subway lines suddenly removed.
Hey HN.

Spent the past 3 years in my spare time building / perfecting this, with a small overhaul halfway adding swiping and multi language support (you can have several languages active at the same time, not having to switch manually).

Would love to hear your thoughts on it, and also curious if your muscle memory has stayed intact ;)

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Don't humans usually use voice chat in competitive Dota? I.e. a out-of-game channel (as well as several in game channels such as minimap pings).
To verify your suspicions do the following with your wife: start chatting around the room while her phone is near and say lines such as "we need new treadmill", "a nice cheap treadmill", "a professional treadmill" and do so sporadically, not sequentially to make it obvious and see how it goes.

You have got me curious now lol.

Keep us posted mate, good luck!
As far as I can trace it, this quote originates from the Illuminatus Trilogy and is actually "True communication...".
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My company makes a DAS(distributed Antenna System) product with an embedded web interface. All of our web sites have C/C++ cgi back ends. There are more makefiles in the Web folder than the whole rest of system. It is quite mind boggling. But the engineer that has control over this area is stuck in the 90s.
FWIW, I have some colleagues who are researching how to reduce energy usage in buildings. It's a lot harder than you would assume just based on pure math, since you have to take Jevon's paradox [1] and other "psychological" effects into account. I.e. when energy gets cheaper, you use more of it.

In my area (same latitude as Anchorage, ~ 65% of the incoming solar energy as in San Francisco), they calculated that solar roof panels on a typical house doesn't break even over a 25 year period, you're still thousands of dollars in the red.

Only the "cheap" air-to-air heat pumps (AC in reverse) and solar heating of your hot water give good ROI. What both these have in common is that the purchase and installation cost is much lower than e.g. rooftop solar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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While I do think it is a stupid idea, whether or not it's make or break will of course depend on what else the laguage has to offer and what the alternatives are.

I've used JavaScript and PHP in the past (and even enjoyed it!), never mind all the misfeatures of said languages. What bugs me though is that language designers keep making the same mistakes over and over again...