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TDD can help with this. I more often than not, will write a unit test or functional test first, then work on the code for that test where I'm just running that one test until it succeeds. After I have individual parts working, I will integrate everything, which again will just be another integration test run from the IDE.

I realize this isn't always possible, and is probably easier to do in a managed language, but you can cut down on iteration times by mostly forcing the IDE to do incremental compiles. You can work in real-time on code that might take tens of minutes for a full build.

TDD is fun.
At least with a direct debit, my bank has a list of companies authorized to pull money from my account (they are all supposed to have a signed direct debit agreement on file) and I can revoke from my bank's website. Is there something similar in the US?
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Yes, this is what I was referring to when I mentioned "massive additional organic nutrient input". Unfortunately the authors experiment design isn't sufficient to show that this is the case since again there are other factors at play. But it's certainly a possibility.
Until the permafrost melts and starts pouring methane and CO2 into the atmosphere, which we can't stop without an equally insane plan
To see how a game works out I recommend checking out itemJP's YouTube channel (he posts a ton of roleplaying games played amongst twitch personalities).

To see a masterclass of it check out Critical Roll on geek and sundry (D&D played by a bunch of professional voice a actors).
Not to mention the fact that although Kensington and Chelsea council has been Conservative since forever, the same cladding was also found on blocks in Labour council areas.

Sadly, a lot of the narrative around the disaster and the resultant protests have been pushed by people like the Socialist Workers Party and their ilk.
I'm sorry but everything you said doesn't make any sense in context of hardware design.

There are two ways in which the nodes of your design can obtain new values:
- Through a clock edge
- Through an asynchronous event like the reset

Your expression for that initial value doesn't represent any of those. You need to have an initial state on your design in order to have the proper initial conditions. And that initial state is the reset.
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The story about Kim Wall and Peter Madsen who is suspected of murdering her
The Turbulent Life of One of America’s Last Snake-Handling Preachers
I would say that not using asynchronous reset is very very advice. Sometimes the clock is not even available to the system in the beginning of execution.
Monolith "megacities" may become practical, and even necessary, in interplanetary colonization:

We may not be able to simply build anywhere we wish on a given planet, and the horizontal sprawl of "traditional" cities in unexplored and potentially hostile environments would be risky.

Having a single place for spaceships/landers to dock at/orbit over, right next to the facilities for refueling, cargo transfer, storage, processing, distribution etc. would be desirable, so more-or-less vertical megastructures may be more practical there.
Why morality is both unsemantic and unpragmatic
> I stayed silent as I watched my colleagues lie through their teeth to the customer: claiming, for example, that a range of functions were already mature and in series production when in reality they were little more than vapourware at that point.

I worked for a guy like that. When I finally decided to call it quits he got physical (chased me through the company premises with an iron bar, not kidding).

Nowadays I would tell someone like that to fuck off at the first sign of such behavior, when I was young I could still be bullied.

The frustrating part of all this is that I did some of my best work for this asshole, simply because he'd promise the impossible to the customers and would then rely on me to get his ass out of the fire, which I inevitably found a way to do. Even so, it wore me out to the point where I had serious physical side effects from the stress and it messed up a lot of my private relationships.

After that I took it easy and ran a start-up of my own. It seemed like a vacation in comparison and only became stressful when it took off in a manner that we had never foreseen. Still, the stress levels never even approached what happened in those few years at that earlier company.
>They have an independent responsibilty to make sure the building is safe.

As far as I understand it that's only true since 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_Reform_(Fire_Safety...
Researchers observe dynamical quantum phase transitions
How? Building in 3-dimensions is less efficient than 2D? What else would you rather do with all that vacant airspace above our sprawling cities?
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When was the last time you were alone in the grand city? Without food, water and home…

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The Interval Bar, spiritual home of the Long Now Foundation, hosts a library consisting of several collections of must have books for the far future. https://theinterval.org/ If you are in San Francisco, it's a excellent place to drink with an interesting clientèle. On Fridays the food trucks gather in the Fort Mason parking area so there is something to do after solving the world's problems. Greens, the iconic vegetarian restaurant, is next door.
> If HL would have been a EA game

It was! I know EA are the go-to bad guy in these comparisons, but EA is the distributing publisher for physical copies of Valve games, and Valve are on record as loving working with EA.
>You can bicker a whole day of keeping people out and travel bans but you need to ask yourself what is one of the reasons we have them in the first place.

Because they know you're a soft touch? How many 30 year old "Syrian children" from Pakistan and North Africa are you going to settle before you realize most of the people coming to Europe are coming for the free benefits and not because they're fleeing war? Shouldn't Syria be pretty much empty by now?

Besides, there was a country which kept migrants bottled up in Africa until France and the UK decided to settle old scores.

>Military spending is also not about the bill but funding the American military complex by forcing shoddy products (JSF) to other countries. I know this is the reason why this country is still debating about replacing our old F16 fleet.

Nobody's forcing you to do anything. You could buy from the Swedes, or the French, or even the Russians. And no, the JSF is not a "shoddy" product. It's just too expensive. Do you expect the US will bomb your country if you don't buy it? Don't buy it.

>America is not perfect in that regards that they only brings safety to the world or they do everything because they have high moral values.

Nobody's claiming to be perfect. All I'm saying is we're wasting money protecting Europeans who are perfectly capable of defending themselves. Europeans who refuse to spend more than a token amount on defense and then expect the US to "take the lead" whenever something bad happens. If it were up to me you'd be on your own.
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On FPGAs there is a third way for a register to get new values: FPGA configuration. When FPGA is re/configured initial values specified (like in previous post) will be set as value of FF.

BTW This Xilinx white paper is a good read about FPGA resets. https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp...
You say "simple modifications to tickets", but give no examples. Are you just repeating your earlier accusation of charging for name changes?

At any rate, you just spoke to to someone who didn't know the company policies well enough, Alaska doesn't charge for name changes due to marriage. It's actually the only exception AFAIK. You have to present some paperwork as proof, but it can be done. You just happened to talk to someone who was not aware this exception existed. You could have asked to talk to someone else.

Also, consistent long lines at LAX & SEA? Do you have any suggestion on how the airline has any control over how quickly they can check people in?

Most airlines these days charge for bags, especially for domestic flights.

I don't come to the US often, but in my limited experience I've had a better flight on Alaska than the majority of US based airline providers.
Survivor bias seems to be a thing in Pro Sports

Not everybody can get to 10k hours without getting hurt and/or managing to work through it
I'm really not surprised. Cardboard is very prone to inducing nausea as there's not any attempt to ensure decent latency.

Daydream/GearVR is the base level for mobile VR and even they are much more disorientating than PC VR due to the lack of positional head tracking.

Currently it's Vive/Rift or don't bother calling it VR as far as I'm concerned. We'll see what Microsoft and the standalone Daydream with inside-out tracking bring to the table.
For what it's worth I flew with them two days ago and they were still announcing the 20 min bag guarantee. My bags didn't take long either
Protests are only effective if they affect economic structures.

One of the most effective protests in Indian history was the Gandhi-led boycott of British-made goods. This directly impacted British economic structures.

A handful of people blocking a highway for a few hours isn't going to impact anything much.
Fortifying Macros (2010) [pdf]
Why do you feel so strongly about it? I'm curious about your definition of "failure". It sounds very final.
It is not only about money, technology, infrastructure and people for keeping it running also play an important role.
Serious question: how reliable are the figures from China? How can we trust they aren't fudging the numbers, either at the local level or the national level?
Show HN: A utility library for JavaFX
This library abstracts some of the verbosity of JavaFX common operations and provides more intuitive and off-the-shelf functionalities on top of the main framework.

I started this as a toy project for practicing Java 8 and see how FX GUI looked like, then I expanded on it a little, following a small corporate project.
I'm not a huge open source contributor since most of my work is done in the dark of said (non-US) corporate world, so there's surely room for improvement, both in the code, in the features and in the github presentation.
Any feedback is welcome.
Calif. Catholic school removes ‘alienating’ religious statues
How Mobile Apps Will Be a Game Changer for Restaurants
I watched a gameplay video and I didn't get what's special about the controls in Climbey. Care to explain?
Ask HN: A place where technical and business people can meet?
Is there some sort of a website / subreddit / facebook group, where a technical person can meet a business one to discuss a start-up idea, and find a potential co-founder?
I'm thinking particualrly about graduates from engineering and business schools.
If I wasn't averse to paying flagship prices I'd be a HTC customer. They deserve credit for the innovation they brought to smartphones pre-iPhone and they've never released a stinker (I'll give the Dream a free pass for being a v1)

But mid-range is where it's at, unless you're Samsung or Apple. There's not room for two premium brands and I don't have a need for an $800 device when the $400 devices are so good.
It could be because of the peak time HN and PH created yesterday.
We had to queue all new URLs so that URLs that we once processed (almost all of the top 1M websites) work fine.
There were also minor downtimes between server upgrades.
I would summarise the article's arguments as follows:

A state-owned, and state-managed block of apartments burned, causing a horrible loss of life due to a string of horrible decisions made by state employees and politicians. This is clearly the fault of corporations, capitalism, and politicians who were not involved in the decisions. Also, Thatcher. And Americans. Especially Silicon Valley. And Republicans.

I'm open to the idea that there's a larger context which is important to understand, but I'm somewhat sceptical of a conclusion so tidy as "every onewho directly caused this is innocent; everyone I disagree with is actually to blame".
If GIMP is pushing to multi-threading I wounder what's the motivation to stick to C as a main language.
White House Release Instructions for Military Transgender Policy
If your jaw didn't hit the floor, then it was either poorly set up or the choice of demo content was bad. My immediate reaction to trying to Rift CV1 was to open my wallet.
You can get fresh water from any salt water supply, which is plentiful. Countries like Dubai, Singapore do just fine pulling large amounts of their potable water from the ocean.
No?

The atmosphere is more transparent to sunlight than to IR, thanks to greenhouse gases.

That's why absorbent roofs heat the Earth more than reflective roofs.
> But I can list a dozen incredibly good gaming experiences in VR off the top of my head. I rarely touch non-VR games now.

Could you actually do it please?
Congrats Anu and team!
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You're twisting and simplifying this greatly.

It is in fact elements of the state that have been vilifying the poor.

The state put in place the systems that mean the lowest bidder gets the job. The companies put the cladding in place then saved money further by not using the flame retardant cladding.

Making this to state vs private doesn't make sense, when both are part of the system that caused this.

The comment is so far from reality, it reminds me of one of the funniest things I've heard some Americans say on a train, near London; Kid: "Do British people love the government", Dad: "Yes they do". I almost spat out my coffee, it was such a hilarious misrepresentation.
Yup.

Reading the article, one would think the idea of using lower cost materials on a construction project was a cunning idea conceived by Margaret Thatcher in 1979. It isn't, people substitute cheaper materials on their own very expensive properties all the time, and if councils are really preoccupied with saving money over all else they wouldn't have spent £9m on refurbishing Grenfell in the first place. (If you've ever lived in a comparable building, you'll understand why fitting insulating cladding was thought to be a good idea...)

There are serious questions to be asked about an architectural design which apparently involved flammable lining products in close proximity, a chimney of air and no firegapping between stories should or could have been identified as a fire hazard, there are questions about how it was installed, and questions about whether the council's poor communications with the residents over fire safety contributed to fewer evacuations (one of their big concerns was apparently concerns over a gas pipe in the stairwell which appears to be one of the few things that didn't go seriously wrong). And there are wider questions about whether standard instructions to stay put are appropriate for the building are appropriate and whether regulations ought to be changed to require mineral wool insulation and/or sprinklers on tall buildings in future.

It's also not a bad time to raise questions about cutting firemen numbers in London even though it isn't thought that lack of manpower to tackle the blaze was a problem.

But crudely reducing it to a "bad neoliberals hate poor people" to score opportunistic political points actually works against learning those lessons. Poor implementation Grenfell's refurbishment programme is no more a scathing indictment of "neoliberalism" than Ronan Point's collapse was a scathing indictment of the desire of the government to take the lead in housebuilding following WWII. The construction industry did learn from that one.

(Ironically, to the extent that "neoliberalism", or Thatcherite housing policy, was particularly relevant to this tower block, it was in having the effect of passing some of the leases into the hands of relatively wealthy private owners who had every interest in the building surviving to make a fortune on selling the flats in a few years' time)
I am probably an exception on HN. I live in a London tower block, on the 19th floor.

The block I am in was subject to a BBC documentary a decade ago for being a high fire risk building.

The containment measures originally designed into the building have long been compromised by short-term upgrades to kitchens and bathrooms. The service riser is now a chimney that freely joins every flat in a vertical quarter of the building into a single contiguous fire channel.

We have no sprinklers, we have a single fire escape, but there is no fire alarm. The theory is that containment will hold and so it is best that people stay put. That the emergency services will need to come up the fire escape, and this is why Grenfell residents stayed put. But even were people to orderly try and use it, there is no means to raise the alarm.

Internal fire doors do not create a seal. Internal doors in the flats have been removed over time and not replaced by the landlord (the council).

Central heating was removed and replaced with a communal oil burner for a radiator system. The central heating ducts remain, joining flats vertically, joining rooms of flats, filled with dust and not sealed off.

Simply put, I live in a death trap.

I am more fortunate than my neighbours. Despite having been homeless when I was younger, I now have a salary that allows me to save for a deposit and to find another place to live. But London rents being what they are I cannot move now and still save for a deposit... if I did I would be consigning myself to never own the property in which I live.

So I must stay, and deal with the fire risk, manage it as best I can, whilst I save for a deposit.

If anyone ever wants to know why startups should have a market to permit existing shareholders to buy shares from employees holding options... this is it. Life gets in the way. I'm sitting on share options that could provide a transformational effect on my life, that could let me sleep at night and live in much lower stress levels. It's hard to give 100% to work when any night could be the night I am burned alive. I sleep fitfully, restlessly. I am so desperate for a way out... but it takes time, I only have a salary and the IPO is too long away (even if gets announced tomorrow).

Fire risks are real, the terrible neglect of housing is real, and it doesn't help everyone but if you're a founder and you want to know how to help someone... provide liquidity to your employees.
Yeah, I think you're reading that into it.
Australia's TYME set to disrupt South African banking sector
Netflix develops marijuana strains based on its original shows
Apps to do what? How many people do more with their phone than make calls and check social networks?
Self Sufficiency by John Seymour.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Complete-Book-Self-Sufficiency/...
I'd rather have the mail admin spend a moment or two putting in a rule that ignores autoreplies

e.g. in another response someone linked https://github.com/jpmckinney/multi_mail/wiki/Detecting-auto...
Writing a porn browser in Coq seems appropriate.
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Well, actually, let's explore the metaphor. Here's how I compose music.

First, I use a highly-flexible prototyping instrument to quickly iterate on melodic ideas. Normally this is either humming or whistling. "Our first instrument," as an instructor used to call it. I do this until the melody is catchy enough to start sticking in my mind. Then I'll look at alternate parts, like countermelodies, B/C sections, harmonies, or basslines. Each part gets repeated until it gets stuck in my head.

Then, I repeatedly hum/whistle each part like a disturbed rambler until I get home or to some other place where I can scribble the parts down onto paper. I used to be faster just typing out the Lilypond, but I'm out of practice with that whereas all musicians generally never stop having a short shitty hard-to-read staff-based shorthand.

Now, finally, I actually start playing the different parts on actual instruments, figuring out stuff like fingering for guitar or piano, rhythm and phrasing, filling out transition chords, etc. During this process, I play less and less of the song, drilling down to tiny fragments and setting up tiny local contexts for testing ornaments, phrasings, hits, etc.

If I'm gonna try to make the metaphor rigorous, there would be only one language, because the musical process happens entirely in one language. This language is small enough to write on a single piece of paper, fully contains all of its abstractions, has focused notation for specific instruments, and permits debugging any part of a program by cutting any contiguous subprogram out and turning that fragment into its own live environment.

I'd write a program first on a prototyping platform which is so lightweight that nearly any prototype program will run, and I'd use that to write out the entire first draft of my program. Then, I'd incrementally move pieces of my program transparently onto a more rigorously-precise framework which is more restrictive about types but makes it easier to compose modules and let them stay composed.

There is a point in time when composition is more about managing multiple parts at once and you won't actually want to listen to more than about 15s of your song at once, and you'll want your runtime to support your quest towards stability as a basis for tweaking the fine details of your song.
A Juice Company Dumped Orange Peels in a National Park
That's a very odd statement. This sort of thing is very efficient in terms of land use, energy use, and transportation costs. If anything, one might consider it too efficient in terms of required control -- having a sanitation worker strike would be absolutely disastrous for a million people at once. It needs much more attention paid to means of governance and politics than a regular city of a million people, because everyone is living in the same building.

It's not very good at growing food or producing energy, but those are not things that we expect cities to do today.
There's a bizarre lack of interest in CS in the psychology of usable systems - either for developers or for users - which takes into account practical requirements like cycle time.

A lot of CS seems to be story-telling: "This feature makes language X better/worse, because it just does, obviously" with no independent testing or peer review of language productivity and robustness in real work environments.
I do, and it isn't a problem. If you have the people needed to handle thousands of emails from customers a day, those same people can very easily filter a couple of hundred automated emails.

What actually is more of a problem is spam and unsolicited non-customer email. But still, it takes half a second to close them.
That's the point, looting doesn't solve anything.

If for an example, BLM would convince all the nurses to halt their job, all the firemen -- that would make a difference.

But by the look of it, BLM does not have the support of the average working class person. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not from the United States. The police killings are rare, especially when it comes to killing black people and the topic is only political.
The tea party was very astroturfed at the beginning -- how many of these protests were co-funded by investors in republican campaigns?

If funding to protests were correlated with funding to candidates (which in this case, it almost certainly is) then the variable with political consequences is "amount of campaign funding".
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