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Constraint programming is a fascinating area that I loved at university. There have been a few times where I've thought it would be a useful way to solve a problem since, but brute force always won through. Is anyone out there using it in anger? If so, in what sort of spaces / companies?
To be fair, there would be a relatively easy way to test for support to implement a fallback.

var el = document.createElement("input");
el.type = "time";
var supported = (el.type == "time");

If only there wasn't a bug on firefox mobile that would return "text" even if the input field type is supported.

... mhmmm webdevelopment...
Brytlyt's CEO, Richard Heyns, was recently interviewed by Business Reporter to discuss the options available today for companies looking to get real-time insights and extract huge value from their data assets by using GPU-powered databases. Here's the video and article in its entirety.
That doesn't make much sense. Why would you override USER'S PREFERRED LOCALE just because your website language is something else?
It's probably referring to policy iteration[1].

It works by iterating two steps:

- Keep the policy $\pi$ fixed, and determine the $Q$ values for that policy

- Keep the $Q$ value estimates fixed, and create a policy $\pi'$ such that

-- $\pi'(s) = \arg\max_a Q(s,a)$ for the ordinary greedy algorithm,

-- $\pi'(s,a) \propto \exp Q(s, a)$ if using greedy soft-max.

[1] - Lecture 3 of http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html
Not sure if I understand right to get to that circular orbital velocity 70% of escape velocity is required so since it's still in orbit it still has that 70% then is 1% enough or do you need the other 30%? And even if it's just 1% that's probably a lot with regard to mass shed from off the pad.

Laser space brooms haha. Or drone ion thrusters that can latch onto things and push them. Not sure if there is an exothermic rocket that is electric with high impulse (not take forever)

The drone thrusters is from the show The Expanse haha
I've never even read that book, but I probably should.

As it's described in the article, I see many parallels with today's anonymised internet culture - we can be someone else, someone who doesn't have to fear any consequences for what he says,
we can lie on the internet to (try to) form other's perception of ourselves, thus being whoever we want to be.

But ultimately it's still the same person making those decisions, typing those words and decepting those other people, who may not be all that honest themselves.

Not to be compared with murder, obviously, but I feel like the same principle applies.
I got a scholarship to Flatiron, should I go?
I got a 50% scholarship to the online full stack web development course at Flatiron, but I'm unsure if it's worth the cost?

For the past month or so I've been working on their community bootcamp which has been good so far. And I believe my progress on there is why I was offered a scholarship.

I don't care about the job guarantee + I don't qualify for it because I'm 18.

Would appreciate your opinions on the school and their curriculum. I am aware of the lawsuit against them.
I created the MS account through the web interface, and didn't link it with the pc. I've just checked and the pc is still using it's local account with no sign of the MS account from the web (which is as it should be).

Thanks for your suggestion. Based on that I've checked the profile for the address book on skype and apparently the test account email is not shown.

I did talk with Skype support, and they wouldn't do anything. They've clearly been trained what to say about this issue, and to not even begin to attempt to do anything to resolve it.

I'm think I will create my own luck here, and migrate away from Skype fully, and MS as much as I can, because of these abusive Dark Patterns, the tricking users into things they don't want while hoovering up personal information are too prevalent in MS now.

For any readers who aren't familiar with the issues, there are a number of writeups and arstechnica is a good source -
the big and clear events are the win 10 upgrade dialog, the tricks to make the local PC account harder to use when installing Windows, and this latest example of linking separate accounts without asking while breaking the usual boundaries of web pages isolation from other things on your PC and not allowing unlinking of the accounts forcibly and unexpectedly linked.

It's part of a pattern of abusive behaviour from Dark Patterns of UX, and I expect them to continue exploiting their customers in these ways. So I'm going to create my own luck by removing as much of their influence from my life as possible. Starting with skype :)

(Edited for a grammar fix.)
Then it sounds like there is a strong incentive to keep that camera on!

When cops' word weighs more than yours in a court of law, this requires an equivalent check against that power by only making it weigh that much when there is corroborating evidence (i.e., video proof).
I'm sorry to sound disrespectful, but I find it hard to believe that within an hour you did the research to go from "I just thought of X" to being able to make large-scale statements like "The low rates are from incumbent majority populations".

Do you have references that support your statement?

Especially as the reference I gave concerned people on the dole in England, most of whom are members of the "incumbent majority population".

"This choice is irrespective of the income braket"

Yet if you look at rich people, with more than enough income to hire nannies, au pairs, and the like, and who don't need to work at all, you still don't see them as a group having more children.
They may be aware that Apple has even more retained earnings and when the next big thing comes along they will need every cent to be able to compete.
I didn't like it when Gmail did it either, and removed tabs almost immediately.

Let me control what I see and how I see it. Provide me the tools to move things into other 'feeds' if I want to, but don't force me into using these tools. Otherwise, give me what I've asked for (posts, emails, etc) in the order I've received them.
Coinbase is not the only company doing this. This is actually best practice.
I can set them, all right. Somebody else then needs to read them, though...and has to take care not to assume that LANG===LC_TIME===LC_DATE. Sadly, I do not see that happening; in most cases, the apps are picking one locale setting, seemingly at random, and using it for all the other locale settings.
You're confusing language and locale and that's going to be equally confusing to your users.

I read web content in several languages and expect date formats in ALL applications my application to follow my OS locale which is Finnish.

My Windows operating system is in English, yet my locale is Finnish, so that the date format is Finnish. This is the standard way of using locales. Why would web sites be any different?
Worldwide every single country has over 20% of the population is Obese excluding possibility Sudan and South Sudan which lacks data and is in the middle of a war.

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A904?lang=en

India for example seems low by comparison, but the rate is still up more than 20% since 1975. 18.5% for adults in 1975 vs 21.8% in 2016. Even Ethiopia the lowest country in the world is over 20.6 vs 17.7%.
Ok so hunger isn't a problem because people in Europe are generally well-fed? This follows the same line of reasoning as the one you are using now.
This is all absolutely correct, but what I feel it misses is that the mythic power of the story lies in our enjoying it, reading it naively. In other words we deliberately read it ourselves in repressed mode. If we read it the first time with the kind of clarity suggested here then we don't actually feel its power: we are merely interested - rather than complicit.
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Isn't engine breaking a thing that most people do or at least learn? Or can't you engine break with an automatic?
dd/mm/yyyy is indeed what I'll complain about: that's as unclear as possible. Did the author mean dd.mm.yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy?
I ordered my Ampera-E 11 months ago. Last time I heard anything at all was 5 months ago. Sent a email to my seller couple of weeks ago - nada. Norwegian electric car forums are full of similar stories.

Now they've stopped taking new orders for Ampera-E (as of last week).

I might have to cancel and get the Hyundai Kona instead if this continues..
I know everyone's ticked off about the "US defaults" but it's released in a development / testing browser, not the typical Firefox release. They'll likely do adjustments based on feedback. I hope it becomes configurable. Definitely easier than importing some external libraries though.

Given how this was setup in a nightly release they're very likely to start out "a little broken."

Really glad this is finally being added, I'm sure there's other features some of us wouldn't mind in HTML out of the box.

Update: Realized it's released on nightly not "Developer's" edition.
And the idea is all the passengers would be on the bus so they would delay departure if the bus was delayed?

I don't think it would help much to put the check-in in the city centre though - getting into a city centre is just as prone to delay as getting to an airport, and I'd still need to leave hours for that possibility.
> calorie-heavy with no real benefit

Wtf does that even mean?! You mainly eat to get your calories... the calories are your main intended benefit, that's mainly why you eat, to get your fuel to burn. It's like the stupid phrase "empty calories". Also, the calories that you need to burn, will inevitably deal damage to your body in the process of being burn (free radicals -> aging, cancer etc.) and that's unavoidable.

But you can try to find the least damaging combination of source of calories (like at least don't mix high-fat with high-sugar in the same meal), and yeah, also so get your vitamins micronutrients, fibers etc. that you also need besides those calories.

And I agree with you too :) ...Lustig's paranoia is way over the top, especially when he gets to comparing fructose with alcohol (we're not cats and dogs - 'carnivores', we're 'rotten-and-occasionally-toxic-fruit eating monkeys', we can take our liquor and drugs as long as we don't overdo it :P), or calling it "toxic" or "poison".
I like that it is plural, 'universes'
Keeping the details of your security setup secret or obscure is not security through obscurity.

Security trough obscurity is using the secrecy of your security setup as a pillar of that security.

It's perfectly sane to keep the details secret even if those details themselves don't form part of your security.
A thought: The slightest design flaw or manufacturing flaw in a microprocessor or memory chip can reduce its value to zero. Generally, flaws in software are easier to correct and don't have the same catastrophic effect on value.
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>No, you're not, unless dictionaries have started specifying what percentage of the population should have the right to vote in order to qualify as a "democracy."

Everyone agrees that there's some requirement. A country of 1 million where 1 person has the vote isn't a democracy. You're right that a dictionary isn't the place to look to find out where to draw the line, but the line certainly has to be drawn somewhere. I'd say most people would agree that a society where people are systematically disenfranchised based on race, property and gender is not democratic.

>It's important to know their history, if for no other reason so you can avoid having boring conversations like this one.

I do know the history, despite your suggestions to the contrary -- which to be honest are a bit patronizing.

>Also, note how ridiculous your use of the term "modern usage" is here.

I mean the usage of the word today, which is what's relevant. Perhaps I should have said 'present usage'. (I have to say though, I think it is quite common to contrast the 'modern' usage of a word with its differing usage decades earlier, even if this isn't strictly consistent with a historian's usage of the word 'modern'.)
In case you're wondering why this hasn't got much discussion, here are a few comments from an earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486582
A few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486582
And oh the fun you'll have when you try to use a keyboard! (Nope nope nope, everyone clicks, you with the keyboard don't matter, and you with the screenreader just go away already)
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AR re-skinnable pets.

I want my chihuahua to have horse hooves.

And a dragon mask.
This is dead on target.

It's also why I found the TV series _Angel_ (the _Buffy_ spin-off) so unsatisfying. There is a truly fascinating story to be told about a vampire whose soul has been restored to him, and who is always at war with his own evil nature. But _Angel_ is not it. Instead, the eponymous character is essentially entirely good except when some supernatural agency transforms him back into Angelus, his evil form. All the conflict is externalised.

That's a particularly surprising and disappointing mis-step given _Angel_'s provenance. Joss Whedon is exactly the kind of person who I'd have expected to be interested in exploring the _inherent_ contradictions within the Angel character, and showing how they are analogous to the questions that we all face.
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Well my philosophy is that it is likely that you are right. Indeed, there is a high chance that there is no hope for the human race and no point in trying to save it, given that it is evil and doesn't deserve to be saved anyways. However, given that we are the only life in the known universe, this leads to a nihilistic conclusion. The nice thing about nihilistic conclusions is that they are like wildcards. They say nothing about what one should and should not do. If there is no hope and no point, there is no reason not to try, because trying is no worse than not trying. There is no reason not to hope, because hoping is no worse than not hoping. Basically, nihilistic conclusions should have no effect on the reasoning of a rational person. So even if there is %99.99 chance that everything is hopeless and meaningless, we can disregard that %99.99 and focus on the %0.01 chance of hope.

That is why I am hopeful, that a mars colony could be an eye opener for us. Because hope is the only meaningful possibility.

Imagine that you find yourself paralyzed, unable to feel, and blind. You can hear nothing, feel nothing, and see nothing. And you see a randomly blinking light. You are quite sure that the blinking is random. Would you try to find sense in the pattern of blinking? You are %99.99 sure that it is random. But why should that certainly dissuade you from trying to find a pattern? Would any rational person not try?
That is interesting, where did you learn about the longer term history of insurance? It sounds like it would make a good book.
Article is from 2016. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570606
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Reactors? The article doesn't mention any reactors.

If you're talking about radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) used on spacecraft, they are limited to deep space (Voyager, Cassini, etc) and long duration planetary missions (Curiosity rover) only. Only a handful of 1960's military satellites used RTGs on Earth orbit [0].

RTGs also tend to be rather small, the environmental impact of the small amount of Pu-238 shouldn't be very large (compared to nuclear testing or nuclear incidents for example). There may be Hydrazine (propellant) or other nasty environmental hazards on spacecraft that would be more significant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
The reference to "la serenissima" is simply ludicrous, yet I see more and more often such things (in other countries as well).

When people are unhappy with the present (for any possible reason, like being "just average", which is not necessarily a bad thing, among one of them), they look back to the past, to some "glorious times".

However, they only look at the most successful moment[s], they never wonder how things built up, how they got lost, etc. It's much easier, because this way you can blame it on someone else, instead of rolling up your sleeves and work to create a (more) decent environment.
Because all dates in paragraphs and tables will use the Norwegian date format while forms will use the date format of the visitor. Having two date formats on the same page can be very confusing, especially if one is D/M/Y and the other is M/D/Y.
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Yes, all passengers would be on the buses and if a bus was delayed they would delay the plane.

Oops, I forgot that in the US you don't have subways. Here in Europe, there are never, ever, delays going to the city center.
The 2010's version of this is a well-educated, well-raised, mild-mannered, socially-liberal, employed, tech-savvy millennial who starts on 4chan, moves on to /r/redpill and /r/mensrights, graduates to trolling and doxxing women on twitter, all for the LULZ.

Eventually his freedom to "act as he can't in real life" leads to electing Donald Trump and a full on embracement of the alt-right agenda.
True there's no sandboxing by default on a typical linux desktop but I think the key difference between the linux distributions and Android security models is that your linux distribution is supposed to run trusted free software whereas your Android device is probably going to run some proprieatary untrusted apps.

That's why sandboxing is very necessary on Android and not so much on your linux box.

Now I agree you should sanbox everytime you can especially when linux is well capable of it, that's why I use firejail on my desktops so I get all the awesomeness of my favorite distributions AND strong sandboxing with real ease of use.
https://firejail.wordpress.com/

One cool trick is to hook "sudo firecfg" in your package manager post operations so whenever you install new software it get sanboxed if a firejail profile is available (which is generally true). There may be a smarter way to do just that though?

That xkcd post makes a very good point indeed (that's why everybody should lock whenever afk, encrypt and use strong passwords of course)
But I also think you should also worry about those backdoor issues:
https://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
They are planning on sequencing, etc. That is all great but honestly I think it is jumping the gun.

I am saying to simply count the cells, so we have the most basic of information. Work on this only really began in 2013...[1] From (quickly) reading their whitepaper it isn't clear to me whether they will even get the count data.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23829164
This article's premise is about how we are on the edge of new disruption. They seem to think it's all been done rather than we are now sitting on innovations that require an unwritten playbook. Kinda like google, smart phones, or Amazon/eBay in the beginning. The talent pool is small again and specialized. The story is far from written.
> What exactly would you use it for?

Give me an Android tablet, Bluetooth keyboard, this and Emacs...

And you’ll be surprised at what I can accomplish.

(You'll find patches to pretty big projects around the world which I've delivered this way :) )
We run a ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) server, with several hundred client machines. Unfortunately they changed their pricing model drastically a fee years back, and if it wasn't for the fact that we are grandfathered in with our existing licenses, it wouldn't be even a remotely viable solution.
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This wouldn't be a bad place to start.

https://scsanctions.un.org/consolidated/
The idea is that you are using the native field to listen for user events, so the ux shouldn’t change. You have to proxy click events since the element isn’t visible, but key presses work as usual.
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They could have let it to the users to decide if they want news or family posts. Then there is no conflict between them any more.
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This is actually a best practice and I believe Amazon also advises this. So it's not really something secret. For me as a customer it is good to know they follow these practices and communicate their understanding of it outwards.

For private projects I have been experimenten with how far I can go in open sourcing everything (including server configuration) and where you hit limits. Example project: https://gitlab.com/failmap/server

Diving into a project with a open source mindset really makes me think more about security topics from a different angle and find better solutions. Like reducing the secrets that must be known (and thus can leak), like user/database passwords. Instead of security by obscurity there is nothing to obscure.
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Minimum Viable Product

In fact these days, people kinda know what they want, but really only understand what they want when they have something in front of them. I'd go so far as to suggest you can over-engineer a solution too easily and then spend a lot of time refactoring it. YMMV
Meh Photobucket.
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That's what happens when we abandon protocols (RSS feeds) in favor of walled gardens.
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Today packaging is designed to be the minimal it can be. Less cost in production, less space use for transport, less weight, and tailored to the product inside.

If you use standard reusable sizes, cleaning and sanitazation requirements must come first, and it will inevitably be heavier as well.
If you’re interested in this, you might also be interested in the Crystal language.

> Crystal’s syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby’s, so it feels natural to read and easy to write, and has the added benefit of a lower learning curve for experienced Ruby devs.

> Crystal is statically type checked, so any type errors will be caught early by the compiler rather than fail on runtime. Moreover, and to keep the language clean, Crystal has built-in type inference, so most type annotations are unneeded.

https://crystal-lang.org
And there's countless cases where it all starter "autopilot disengaged ..."

I don't mind paying 1% of ticket cost to pilots when it's hundreds of life in question. It's very different when you have 500 passengers and 1 passenger in a 35k car.
A Cessna 172 is in the 1700lb range empty.
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The authors discusses intricate details of the language and yet fails to fix the obvious error in most code snippets:

error C3873: '0x201c': this character is not allowed as a first character of an identifier

error C2065: '“': undeclared identifier
Interesting you mention crimea and election influencing in the same post. There is a level of geo political games going on which are not in the best interests of civilians in any nation. We're long past the point of no return. The only hope is that through interconnectedness it becomes undesirable to wage war as to do so means attacking yourself. From that perspective we should encourage more investments from sources outside of our borders, especially those of our 'enemies' and we should be doing the same in foreign territories.
Because of the fact that software is seen as a cost center rather than as a means of production. If you were to factor quality in right at the start most projects would never be approved and so we try to 'fix' the problem at two minutes to twelve.

This is also a large factor in why software projects tend to overrun both in terms of time and budget (the other large factor is bad project management).