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I've clearly not mentioned What Computers Still Can't Do in comments enough to make What Computers Still Can't Do appear on this list, which is a shame as I love What Computers Still Can't Do, and What Computers Still Can't Do is very relevant to this community of programmers with much technical skill, but little philosophical background.
I swore off HSBC years ago when they wronged me. Short version: They sold my account to another bank (!) that had a nearest branch 100+ miles away(!), and wouldn't let me opt out or close my account before the transfer!

Long version:

I had a personal (not company) bank account with HSBC, but the closed my local branch and informed me that my account would be transferred to a different bank. I had no idea they could do that, especially since HSBC itself wasn't closing. But it gets worse: The nearest branch of the bank they would transfer my account to was not even within my state but the next state over, 100+ miles away, and I don't own a car. So that would not do, at all.

I saw received a notification about this just a few days before the transfer would happen. I went to an HSBC branch to ask about it and found out they supposedly had sent an opt out form a month or two earlier, which I never received. The only thing I got was what they sent a few days before the switch, which included "welcome to your new bank" material. Since the switch hadn't happened yet, I asked to opt out, and was told that wasn't possible. So then I asked to close my account, and was told they couldn't do that! My account was still and HSBC account, but they refused to let me close my account! The branch manager told me I had to close my account with the new bank after the transfer. I could not comprehend how I was standing in an HSBC bank, with an HSBC account, and they would not let me close my account. Made no sense to me at all. So I did the only thing left I could think of: I withdrew all of my money in that account and opened up a new bank account with another bank down the road.

I called the bank that HSBC had sold my account to to cancel the account, but they wouldn't let me since it wasn't their account yet (of course). So I waited a few days and called them again to cancel the account. They wouldn't let me. I was told I had to go to a bank branch and cancel it in person. I explained the whole situation about the unstoppable account transfer and the fact that I was not going to rent a car and travel 100+ miles just to cancel an account with no money in it (which I needed to cancel since they would charge low-balance fees). And I was told the same thing. I ended up having to call them several times over the course of the next few days before I managed to get them to cancel my account and undo the low-balance fees I was charged. About a week later I had the paper documentation of account closure that I made them send me, thereby finally ending my tale and cementing HSBC as a company I will never ever do business with again in any fashion.
The Sahara is in Africa and the Himalayas are in Asia. So not much effect I presume. You probably mean the Gobi desert.
Maybe, maybe not. You certainly frame your definition as if you believe it to be the only one. I believe that libertarians often frame their arguments as concerning freedom, as we in the west tend to believe freedom is unequivocally the best thing. It's the hidden assumptions and definitions about freedom as defined in libertarian thought which I find interesting, and biased.
Bookmarked, thanks. I'll be sure to try gluu again and giving it its own server if u2f becomes a requirement, or if I need any of the other features it offers.
I was referring to this:

>>It is impossible to be serious in a space dominated by liars as they will outcompete you every time.

And making the point that the space will be dominated by the competent and honest in the long run if left to its own devices.

My comment was explaining why I believe that would be the long-term outcome.
Some alternatives for quick scaling up and down:

- finding some big consumers (like aluminium smelters) that can scale down.

- batteries (both as scalable consumers and suppliers); widespread electric car usage might accidentally help her
What's the problem? You have to trust Cloudflare, but that's no different from having to trust GitHub. Cloudflare's "Flexible SSL" option does have the problem that the connection between Cloudflare and GitHub is not secure, but this tutorial doesn't recommend that; instead, it recommends a setup wherein Cloudflare validates the *.github.io certificate, so the full path is authenticated.
It's not like Vue has been implemented in Angular. All the ass-kicking frameworks are built on W3C standards.
>how pandas behaves with slicing, and copy vs view semantics are totally different from vanilla python, and are confusing enough coming from vanilla python

Can you give a few examples of this?
> Buying a stock on the secondary stock market is not investing in the economy.

Of course it is. Buying a piece of a company is investing in it.

> Buy that logic, high-frequency traders are investing in the economy.

And they are - even if they hold a particular stock for a millisecond. The aggregate invested across the market is what matters.

It's a bit like calculus. All those infinitesimal bits add up to real amounts.

> That doesn't follow from what I said.

Maybe you can explain why banks offer free checking.
Turbines are about as dangerous as windows. Although you can alleviate that with stickers. https://abcbirds.org/program/glass-collisions/
Show HN: ETH Ads, Ethereum advertising network
Hydro scales quickly and cheaply (run-time, not capex.)
you too can be in one of those situations. Humans aren't at their rational best all the times.
Coal isn't really any better than nuclear, and can take days to ramp up. Natural gas makes up virtually all fossil peaker plants and most load-following plants.
I can't tell if this was a joke or not, I'm assuming that it is.

If not: Redux works the same way for React Native as it does for React or anything else.
But what happens if you have a place like the North Sea surrounded by facilities for deploying oil rigs and associated infrastructure, for the oil to run out? There is considerable sunk cost in the infrastructure and with some subsidies to keep yards busy (as such things are needed for national security reasons) it all becomes a lot easier.
“Can computers think?” “No But”
The Korean War Will Be an A.I. War of Machines
Yup. Investment flows to where the most returns are, and taxes loom large in such calculations. But that isn't the point here, which is it is invested, not stuffed in a mattress.
Burning man at Burning Man (2017)
This looks similar to AT-TLS (application transparent TLS) on IBM mainframes.
Sadly, spec link is broken.
Infowars?

Really?

Do we have a more credible source than deleted comments on reddit interpreted by infowars?
An annotated digest of the top “Hacker” “News” posts
Seems ok to me. If anything we ought to be removing some of the energy we're so enthusiastically adding to the atmosphere.
I just completed a 3 day water-only fast, eating breakfast yesterday morning. The reason I fast is not like what is being described here, but more as a way of reminding my body that hunger is not going to kill me and to be more mindful about what I eat.

One comment on the article, on the third day of fasting, I did not feel great like Libin describes: "I woke up on the third day feeling better than I had in 20 years." I probably over-did it with exercise though, playing Ultimate that morning on a hot turf field, then cycling around town. I've done a 2-day fast prior, and that was much more tolerable. I will probably continue with those, about 4 times per year.
Fascism.
>Hasn't this already been forecasted as part of a regular cycle? All of those tech yupsters in SF will eventually start families (maybe later than sooner), and will move back to the suburbs to have kids instead of deal with the space/schooling issues of the city.

Only this doesn't make any more sense now than it did sense.

People are born every year, not in spurts.

Thus the flux of "tech yupsters" coming into SF should be as constant as those getting married and going to the suburbs -- keeping the state steady.

If that isn't the case, it's not because "those tech yupsters eventually started family" (which every generation does at some point anyway), but because the influx of young tech people to SF had peaked at some point in the past.
wow... if you don't get it, then P=NP. you did it.

you're all idiots.
Lamy Safari [1] is generally considered a good "starter" pen. I love them and they aren't too expensive. It is big enough that it is hard to lose, so if you keep it for like a year or two+, it'll end up being cheaper than ballpoints.

You might want to look at different nibs though, to find the right amount of fineness you want.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Lamy-Safari-Fountain-Pen-Charcoal/d...
Me three, I was expecting an interesting read on microphones and loudpeakers...
We started with the topic of the price of wind energy, and now we're into generic political controversy with no steps in-between. Do you see how that takes us from a concrete discussion into tedious flamewar territory?

The guidelines ask us not to do that, and also not to complain about voting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It will be interesting to see where that goes in terms of codifying universal standards. "Existing on a list of 'terrorists' managed by certain nation states" is probably too politically biased. Case in point, the U.N. has passed many resolutions condemning Israel's aggression and violence against civilians. Also you could argue the U.S. drone assassination program induces terror in populations, just as China flying killer drones over San Francisco would to us. Even if they only meant to target, say, violent Neo-Nazis. The lack of fair trial, the collateral damage, the hum of the ever-present drones, the idea that you could be wiped out on the street at any moment.. it's terrifying.

If tech companies want to wade into this they would need to codify a standard that applies universally to all violent political actors. And, guess what, this comes up a lot in the U.N. and the militarily powerful nations tend to shy away from anything that might include what they do as "terrorism" or illegal. They tend to prefer blacklists they manage themselves over universal standards.
Sure, but that's nitpicking over terminology. The Kantonrechter still exists, the processes still exist it is just that they are now a department in the larger courts. But that doesn't change anything about the essence here.

Depending on what the situation really is in NL a lawyer might go for a 'kort geding'.
I see, thanks :-). You say that some parts (Media Kit) got rewritten, were the issues BeOS fixed later? Some (BMessage copying, multithreaded API) sound like design issues, do you think that they could affect Haiku despite being a from scratch rewrite?
>The OP didn't talk about academia, but the more prosaical use

I didn't constrain it to academia. I was quite clear in the fact it doesn't really exist anywhere. It doesn't exist because it's a complete mischaracterization. It's extremely frustrating that people, when confronted with this subject, will nitpick and somehow fail at basic reading comprehensions just to attempt to make a point. And then you get the classic e-logicians that want to try to use logical fallacies, when they're clearly very inexperienced in doing so in any kind of rigorous setting, just to devolve the conversation into a meta argument. I mean, I understand the normal human tendency to blockade uncomfortable discussions, but it's so ludicrously obvious when this subject gets brought up. On a "hacker" forum, of all things too.

>We are discussing tenets

Where? Because all that was done in the original post that I replied to was just repeating a talking point used to anchor a narrative into the conversation. They didn't address anyone's actual stated opinions/perspectives/tenets on this subject. I pointed out specifically and very directly where they started to act like they were going to tackle the subject, and then just immediately shifted gears.
It's weird that Chrome hasn't added this crucial browser feature.
Used to use Parkers and Watermans (Watermen?), got a Safari a few years ago and upgraded to a 2000 (rather more expensive piston-filler). Now I've got 3 (in a mix of nibs and stainless steel/Macrolan).
This is why syndicates exist. Not a problem at all. Edit: not the only reason why they exist :) but a major one. To explain a bit more: syndicates allow you to consolidate multiple investors (not necessarily acredited) in an investment vehicle that then owns a chunk of stock in the company.
We could have many, many more Chernobyl and Fukushima style disasters, and nuclear would still be safer than real-world coal.

(But that's an easy target to beat.)
Ah, I understand. I disagree with the analogy then. If the two consenting adults are not harming each other they can still be a liability to other people. Risk can be introduced indirectly even if no individual is directly harmed. How can you adjust your analogy to account for that?
I came up with a few non-tech names with CamelCase pre-NeXT. Quotes are almost all from Wikipedia. The oddest was "McMoRan Oil and Gas Company."

CiCi's pizza - "Joe Croce and Mike Cole founded Cicis in 1985". (That was also the year NeXT was founded.)

"In 1971, Nebraska Consolidated Mills changed its name to "ConAgra""

"CryoLife, Inc. incorporated in 1984 in Florida, was the first biomedical company to specialize in the ultra-low temperature preservation of human heart valves used for cardiac reconstruction, primarily in children born with heart defects."

Freeport-McMoRan - "In 1981, Freeport Minerals Company merged with the McMoRan Oil and Gas Company. The McMoRan Oil and Gas Company was founded in 1967 by three partners, William Kennon McWilliams Jr. ("Mc"), James Robert (Jim Bob) Moffett ("Mo"), who were both petroleum geologists, and Byron McLean Rankin, Jr. ("Ran"), ..."

BankAmericard - founded in 1958; became Visa. "In June 1970, Bank of America gave up control of the BankAmericard program. The various BankAmericard issuer banks took control of the program, creating National BankAmericard Inc. (NBI), an independent Delaware corporation which would be in charge of managing, promoting and developing the BankAmericard system within the United States."

"In 1965, the Pepsi-Cola Company merged with Frito-Lay, Inc. to become PepsiCo, Inc"

"Initially held as a private partnership, SeaWorld offered its stock publicly in 1968 enabling them to expand and open additional parks." (Elsewhere, "After temporarily going public in 1968 a mere four years after its founding, SeaWorld was bought by the Anheuser Busch Companies, Inc. and became its entertainment subsidiary.")

"In 1981, the company [Calgary Power] changed its name to its current name of TransAlta Corporation."

TransCanada - The company was founded in 1951 but I don't know if it was written "TransCanada" from the beginning. I did find https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19770728&id=... from 1977 saying "TransCanada", which is good enough to show it was pre-NeXT.
Interbase is similar in purpose and has a good reputation. Not free or open source though.
Trite and worthless. I've never yet seen a project that got perfect (or attempted to do so and ever shipped or delivered) and it is almost never a goal.

The tug of war is more often between putting unfinished things into production and some random deadline set by a person who knows nothing about the required amount of work to have a correct result. (Much less decent or maintainable.)
Not negotiable or adjustable too.

Even the sc(r)um approach of cutting features has limitations. At some point the customer will just be unhappy.
Hard not to see Uber/Lyft contributing to the idea that suburbs could be tolerable after all. Certainly changes the equation for me personally.
Not everyone pays a service charge (or factoring fee). My building doesn't have one

I pay council tax of 120/month. 400 a month is far too high for 2 people - according to the ons [0] the average for a family of 4 is 56.80 (which seems a little on the low side to me, but is definitely enough for 2 people) - we spend a little less than that on breakfast/lunch/ 7 days, and dinner 6 nights for 2, and that includes our non food shopping expenses (e.g. toiletries, cleaning products).

Not to mention, if you're feeding two people, then the second person in the house presumably has an income. Presuming a pension, that now means your income is 1280/month. Remember that you get free travel, discount on heating (which reduces your £100/month bills)
And if you want to move up toward the top of the heap without totally breaking the bank a Lamy 2000 is worth checking out. Great nib out of the box, but can be tuned to perfection for a bit more $$.
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Not true. Nuclear is fantastically expensive in every country regardless of regulations or NIMBYism. Regulatory expense is a minority problem that exacerbates the core issues.

The big problems are mostly competency. A nuclear plant requires huge parts from tons of companies all over the planet. People are always messing it up. The biggest issue is that this huge coordination problem makes everything take way longer, which means almost everyone involved with the plant is sitting around getting paid to do nothing. That's incredibly expensive when the project stretches over a decade.
Because hormones explains the ability to gain mass out of thin air.
My impression is that "crypto" slang comes from cryptocurrency enthusiasts themselves.
It was indeed mainly a question, followed by my assumption (which i meant to be used as a "pivot point"/anchor for a followup, not as a declaration for what happened). I didn't meant it to sound aggressive, it was more of an informal tone - basically what i'd say to someone in front of me.
The thing with microservices is that each one comes with a real cost, an amount of friction that gets contributed to your overall process flow. At some point, this frictive energy becomes intense enough that it jeopardizes the project.

I think "microservices" is a sane architectural pattern for some applications. The problem is that people polarize into one extreme or the other, and many attempts at a microservice implementation that I see would more rightly be classified "nanonservices"; things are broken up, almost at random, into tiny, disjunct, co-dependent pieces. This is a total nightmare scenario, and a monolith would undoubtedly be better.
SQLite had a very rigorous testing methodology to comply with aeronautics standards. Cloning the tests would be a decade worth of work. But cool idea nonetheless. https://sqlite.org/testing.html
I recently completed a "next generation" architecture prototype for a client using microservices (that part was specified by them).

I developed a dozen microservices to mimic aspects of their existing applications and used Kafka as a message bus. The services rarely spoke directly to each other, but instead listened to events fired into the message bus and updated accordingly.

My biggest takeaway - the client should not use microservices, but could learn some other lessons from the prototype. Microservices make many things harder and the only benefit to them, in my opinion, is they can scale well. But if you're not working at Netflix scale, they're more trouble than they're worth.

What I did recommend:
- Build new applications API-first. By that, I mean your front end UI (assuming you have one) communicates to your backend via an API that can be exposed to the world. And assume it WILL be exposed to the world.

- Avoid bloat in your applications. Stop adding every possible feature to your existing app, and pay attention to when it's getting too big. This is mostly a gut/intuition feel, but you can tell it's a problem when your developers start to look like a deer in headlights when you discuss a new feature.

- (optional) Do create an enterprise message bus, and each application can fire events into the bus. This will help future-proof your organization, as new applications can be built to listen for events without having to understand the other systems.
I'd suggest trying out the Pilot Metropolitan, in a Medium nib.

It's not an _Amazing_ pen, but it's got a nice solid brass body, the quality control is very consistent), it's a nice consistent writer, and they sell on Amazon for ~$12.

It's my usual recommendation for a "gateway" pen.
Does no one care that thousands of birds get shredded every year regardless of endangered status?
Socialists start lots of wars.

Poland under communism became the most polluted country on the planet. Capitalism provides the surplus necessary to deal with pollution.
In MySQL's new protobuf-based protocol you can express expressions as Protobuf messages https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/x-protocol-messages-m...

This isn't usable for all sorts of all statements as, among other things, it's hard to maintain a stable API for all aspects. But might be useful for common cases. If there's more you need I'd be interested in a feature request!
(I'm working in MySQL's clients team)
Do you mean that it's #P and not a priori NP? Counting problems can sometimes be in NP by deciding whether the count is the correct one (with the right encoding, function problems can be thought of as a subset of decision problems).

A not too silly example is counting partitions: the number of ways of writing a positive integer as a sum of non-decreasing positive integers (like 5=3+2 or 5=4+1 or 5=2+2+1). There's a dynamic programming solution with running time within O(n^3), so it is definitely in NP.

In another comment you mention that finding a solution to n-queens is not NP because it's not a decision problem. I'm confused because I thought the solution would be the polynomial certificate to the problem "an nxn board can be filled with n mutually non-threatened queens."
Is this argument not implicit in any plan which precludes coverage for the insufficiently wealthy? Several of which the GOP has proposed in the past months?
Especially when garbage chains come in and replace mom n pops. Might as well be back in the suburban strip mall
Do you have a blog, or resources you you can link that helped you get there? I can't even make a 3 day day fast of caffeine... but I definitely see the benefits of fasting, so I'd like to try.
free·dom
ˈfrēdəm/
noun
the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
"we do have some freedom of choice"
I don't know why you're being downvoted.

When Computer Scientists talk about "fast" they generally mean that an algorithm is solvable in `n^k` steps, with `n` being based on the size of the input (1000 or 1000000 in your example) and `k` being a constant. Algorithms that follow that rule are called Polynomial, or P for short.

A lot of problems require more steps (e.g. `2^n` steps) as far as we know, but if you have a solution to the problem you can easily (with a P algorithm) verify that it is the correct solution. These are called NP problems.

One of the biggest questions in Computer Science is whether all NP problems also have a P algorithm (P=NP), or whether some problems will always require NP time (P≠NP)

This doesn't have a direct relation with "real" computer time (with modern computers a `2^n` algorithm is quite usable if your n is small enough), but it does mean that once your n becomes large enough and your problem is in NP, you can basically forget about finding an exact answer to your problem.
Why buy Disney today when you can buy Disney and Ford tomorrow?

As a shareholder, because that money could be put to productive use today, rather than waiting for a future which may not come. To my mind, that's why the pressure for Apple to pay a dividend finally built up to the point that Apple now pays dividends.