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Your theory is inconsistent with the history of timekeeping:

> I think that in the days before clocks, when the sundial was the most sophisticated timepiece, this could have worked quite well.

Actually it's quite hard to figure out when "sunrise" occurs: it's not an instantaneous event, plus it's hard to calculate as an abstract (when would the sun peek over the horizon on an ideal billiard-ball planet); in the real world there are atmospherics, mountains etc. Plus for all these reasons it's hard to measure when you're close.

On the other hand noon is easy with a sundial as that's when the shadow "disappears" (really: "is shortest" on most of the planet) except of course on rainy days. You can see the shadow shorten, see noon, and see it expand again. It's literally a 0 in the curve.

The use of a nighttime sextant (or astrolabe that was on HN recently) is a way of transforming that calculation (known fixed angle) to other stars or times.

So it was the clock that made the time of sunrise work: if you could synchronise your clock to noon on D0 you could then use the clock to index into your ephemeris to figure out times of other celestial events post D0-noon.

Also, pre-clock, hours were not fixed duration, they were 12 divisions of the day. Minutes and seconds were post-clock inventions.
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I was in a stats department for grad school. My assistantship load was nominally 20 hours, but I managed to teach a course as a GI in probably ~10 hours/week (doing my own grading). It took more time commitment if it was my first time teaching the course, and when I had to write/grade exams.

I'd imagine my experience wasn't an uncommon one.
Good lord. Why integration tests?

I think the biggest thing you can do to write more integration tests is to just stop mocking so much stuff.

Okay. The biggest problem I see with people trying to write unit tests is that they don’t want to change how they write code. They just want tests for it. It’s like watching an OO person try their hardest to write OO code in a functional language.

So they try to write E2E tests which work for about 5 or 6 quarters and then fall apart like a cheap bookcase. If you can find a new job before then, you never have to learn to write good tests!

I agree with the author that the trick is to stop using mocks all the time, but you don’t have to write integration tests to get rid of mocks. You have to write better code.

Usually if I have a unit test with more than one mock it’s bcause I’m too invested in the current shape of the code and I need to cleave the function in two, or change the structure of he question asked (eg, remake two methods into two other methods).

Almost always when I accept that the code is wrong, I end up with clearer code and easier tests.

Unit tests run faster, are written faster, and not only can they be fixed faster, they can be deleted and rewritten if the requirements change. The most painful thing to watch by far is someone spending hours trying to recycle an old test because they spent 3 hours on it last time and they’ll be damned if they’re going to just delete it now.
one person / leader of the supposed "free world".... same same
Easy availability of gcc 7.2 on CentOS 6 is kind of a big deal.
Anaconda has his own mechanism to create a virtual environment. You use the conda command to create a new virtual environment: https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.h...
Snapchat has also avoided the GMO debate, by not being food.
Yeah, I'm not sure companies understand why people liked Snapchat in the first place. It's all about ephemeral interactions. It's not a news platform and it's certainly not a video streaming service or whatever they were trying to do with the stories.
Because we’re not trading figurines or pretty pebbles here, but homes, a Primary Necessity that we humans need for survival.

Therefore we need to consider other subtleties to the act of trading such assets: how are my assets impinging on other assets nearby? Is it butt-ugly, does it fit the local decor, does it drive insane density in the neighborhood, does it drive prices displacing neighbors at an unsustainable pace, does it disrupt the local community, anonymizing neighborly relations, does it damage residents’ way of life?

You see, to not about money alone
There is a huge amount of CUDA middleware while there is very little for OpenCL. In the case of deep learning, there's cuDNN which is highly optimized and used by all major frameworks. AMD has promised something equivalent, but a first version is very unlikely to have the same scope and features. (Nvidia probably does a large amount of dog fooding given their deep learning based automobile efforts.)

Using anything but Nvidia for deep learning is a great idea if you want to get noticed for not using Nvidia for deep learning, but it wouldn't be the smart thing to do if you want to actually get something done.
The OP is hardly advocating encroachment on green spaces. The OP was pointing out the folly in attempting to mitigate one class of house buyers, when the zoning is egregiously sparse for a metropolitan area.

Auckland is adding apartments, albeit not at a sufficient rate. Their rents are high enough to make building them profitable. What does that say? It means that local resident demand is high enough to support investment of high-density residential areas.

Auckland's demand is significantly fueled by speculative investors, to be sure. What props up the house prices are the Kiwi families moving to Auckland for better work opportunities.

What Sydney and Melbourne are experiencing is a lack of rental support for their high house prices. That cannot be sustainable.
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They are trying to increase the productivity of the stock crew when the store is closed, enabling them to shed a couple of relatively expensive overnight stockers per store. These robots won't be operated during business hours, but take over or make easier some of those stocker duties.

The robot will scan the shelves in a pattern, followed by a stocker with a cart to collect all the misplaced items. It will print shelf labels, without the need for a stocker to use a cumbersome printer relatively slowly.

It also to me seems it might be a way for them to in-house inventory control services like RGIS, using robots to replace human counters. If it can detect misplaced items, one day it might be able to count placed items.
Someone having ties to companies is equivalent to corruption?

I'm not doing free research, you're going to have to mention one example of corruption.
Sure, there are a some that would be disadvantaged (new home buyers that end up in negative equity would also be in a bad situation) but they're dwarfed by those that benefit. A government with the nerve to crash the market through sane taxation would be able to reap a sufficient dividend to compensate those genuinely disadvantaged through negative equity, but it seems unlikely to happen.
That seems strange, and the example you give is less applicable than one might first think.

A letter is private correspondence; the date it is written is essentially the date it is published. A manifesto, on the other hand, could be considered a public document, and so its date of publishing may not necessarily be the date it was written.

I get that it was written a while ago and only made available for public consumption recently. However, appending a date to the article name signals to most users that the article is an older article that may have been previously posted. This is the part that's confusing, and I think masks what is essentially a new document in the eyes of the public.
Go north enough (or south enough) and you get this as part of your winter time weather forecast:

Sunrise: January 29th
You could build yourself an Arduino Phone.

Here’s such a build, but Googling “Arduino Phone” will get you many iterations:

http://www.instructables.com/id/ArduinoPhone-20-an-Open-Sour...
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Ah, right, I forgot about that. Here you can't "swipe or insert chip, wait, sign, put back card, put back wallet" before everything is scanned, since you validate the total before inserting the PIN, so we can't save much time by avoiding self-checkout.
That doesn't make sense. As soon as the developer wrote the code (I.e. fixed it in tangible form) he had copyright in it. Copyright cannot be transferred except by a specific written transfer, which doesn't exist in this case.
Some tabloid is already writing an article "First alien nudes from outer space discovered".
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those companies gathered tons of information without even asking people first. and why would this service require the sensitive information to be stored at all, let alone in plain text?
I work in a company where quite a few of the developers simply are incapable of writing anything but integration-tests.

The reason? They don’t “believe” in unit-tests. They don’t think unit-testing “works in the real world”.

They absolutely fail to accept that they need to write their code differently for automated testing to work well.

How do you change such a mindset?
OK, a company decides it won't pay your pension anymore then - identical scenario.
I agree that his actions as communications minister that contributed to this were horrible, but being given communications minister was essentially a punishment for crossing the line.

(1) The NBN falls under the portfolio, and the government knew they would have to deal with controlling the ever increasing costs of the program, which were hugely underestimated by Labour, and
(2) The person in the role of Communications minister would take the blame for the public realisation that the costs were going out of control and had to be cut.
(3) Any cut would result in a poorer NBN, because that's what cutting costs when you're building any product/service does.

So he was essentially handed that flaming pile of dog shit by Abbott, probably to lower the chance that Turnbull would ever be able to wrestle back power.

Turnbull's solution was to get the private sector to pay for a part of the network (FTTN instead of FTTH). So, costs would be managed, the 2020 target was still reachable, and it leaves the NBN open to improve the network to FTTH later on.

What could Turnbull have done better?

The bigger problem of the NBN is its business model, which charges Telcos for bandwidth on a total downloads basis rather than on a % use basis. This is what causes the poor service of the NBN. This could have been dealt with by Rudd, by using a different model for the NBN, as discussed above, but Turnbull couldn't do anything about that.
Agreed that the relevant factor is the "real" demand absent the additional demand from speculation, but what reason do we have to think that "they" (which includes me) want it that way? Some do, and they're the ones with the money and influence, but "they" are not a monolith and have a range of opinions.

Auckland does appear to have legitimate supply constraints even absent demand (see articles with families living in tents, cars, etc in this first world country) and the geography does put constraints on efficient sprawl.
Between tractors and artificial fertilizer, feeding everyone has been a solved problem for a very long time now.

Dousing fields with glyphosate and dicamba has more to do with maintaining the dense crop monocultures we use in industrial agriculture than feeding the poor.
You could easily make your own using the hn api and something like nexmo to send yourself an sms
Currently I use phantomjs via selenium hub for a product and would like to migrate to chrome but couldn't much information on how to run a chrome cluster. So it will be great if you can shed some light on how you have set this up.
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The new BC government was planning to implement such a tax. Until they were elected, now no one really knows.
> Does this imply that Amazon will be in the place to negotiate drug prices?

Very much so. Amazon is clearly playing the monopsony card here, and has an opportunity to drive prices down.

Up too of course but Bezos has not shown any predilection for that to date.
Whereas in Linuxland, they've got a kernel, a billion side-projects that may or may not be widely used and they all want NVIDIA to conform the THEIR way of doing things, an angry Finnish gentleman who just shouts and swears at things he doesn't like, and a largely non-gaming and very fragmented user base that could be using any number of desktop environments/kernel versions/drivers etc.

There is one big elephant in the room here that you are missing and that is GPU computing. This is probably a big market for them now (Teslas go for a couple of thousand a pop) and the vast majority of it is on Linux. Their ecosystem with CUDA and CuDNN is pretty awesome, on the other hand, their driver has issues.

At any rate, it's a market that they cannot afford to lose. As OpenCL support for e.g. machine learning libraries such as Tensorflow is progressing they may not have a lock on the market as they have now.
dude what does that even have to do with this? identity will need to be taken care of in the absence of capcha, or else we will have an internet that cannot differentiate between a bot and a real person. think of all the websites and all the broad categories of websites that would be broken by that. is this not a problem in need of a solution?
Doesn't this has something to do with demographics? Most platforms have tried and expanded beyond the core social media demographics.

A lot of people, currently company included, still don't get Snapchat. While it might have younger audience and "engagement numbers" I am not sure if it is the place for fake news yet.

Turn this around to fake celebrity news or hoaxes and let's see how Snapchat fares.
A fairer comparison would be between autonomy vs British colony.
Also there were documented hotspots that were in excess of steel melting temperature. This was due to regular office debris being burnt quickly, thanks to the jet fuel that had catalyzed it when it sprayed out into the center and floors above and below the crash site. I read about this in the excellent 9/11 debunk series by Popular Mechanics.
TOS are usually there to keep the provider safe from such claims. By most TOS the user has close to zero rights. Legal people know what they are doing.
By not having news at all perhaps?

What a weird setup of an article.
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The post was on the front page of r/t_d, so I'm assuming it was fairly upvoted, and had plenty of comments from people supporting the spirit of the message. I remember linking it somewhere else on Reddit, to show just how vile the subreddit was (it was during one of the many discussions like this that try to portray r/t_d as a "high energy subreddit for fans only!")
Turns out jet fuel can catalyze fires that burn hotter than jet fuel.
It gave the Americans the chance to use it on the native Americans. The first concentration camps were American, not British.
Why not Ubuntu Touch/UBPorts?
If King's affairs are real then why are they not more widely known? I haven't seen any conclusive evidence other than Hoover's letter.
> For example, a tax on property matched with a deduction on income.

You mean income derived from the property? Seems like that could inflate rental prices, and shift the affordability problem to another set of people.

The state government in Victoria (Australia) is planning to tax vacant properties, but it's self reported and seems easy enough to dodge. At first the proposed measuring water usage to determine if the property was vacant, but then you can only tax as much as it would cost to leave a tap on.

http://www.sro.vic.gov.au/node/5816
Err Symbian was/is a smartphone platform...
Not really enough information to go on here. If there was something in the agreement prohibiting "derivative works" it would seem that TD Ameritrade could prevent the developer from making use of the service-derived product, but as you say, this shouldn't invalidate the developer's copyright or give ownership to TDA. The actual EULA text would have been useful here.
It should communicate with a microservice on port 7 in a RESTful way.
Good things EULAs are not enforceable in my country. No one ever reads them.
> The bundle size is large – true, it is a big overkill for a simple stop watch. Hundred megabytes size, however, is very reasonable for complex applications.

I dunno about this. That means with a complex app, you still have 100MB of VM. It makes me think of oh so many Java apps that all packaged their own version of the JRE. Anyone one dev could have 10 ~ 15 JREs or full JDKs on their machine at any one time, because everyone wants the stability of their tested JRE and not rely on the system one.

I just looked at the Slack executable on my Linux box. It's 61MB. The entire /usr/lib64/slack directory is 145MB (including the libnode.so which is 18MB by itself).

I know we have tons of disk space today, but we still should be concerned about these massive file sizes for such simple applications. Why does everything needs to be a web app, packaged for the desktop? How did we get to this point?
Behavior driven development (BDD) and test driven development (TDD) enable much faster coding when done well in my experience, and that includes full coverage fast unit tests, functional tests, benchmark tests, and integration tests.

Unit tests are worth their weight in gold for quickly finding issues, both in our team's code and especially in cases of subtle changes among language releases, or unanticipated input changes, or dependency changes that are supposed to work but don't.

IMHO unit tests lead to better functional approaches, better long range maintainability, better security, and much better handling of corner cases.
Please point me to posts on those subreddits calling for a bloody revolution and the killing of the bourgeoisie? There's been this new meme circulating on right-wing circles that if you are not a card-carrying alt-righter then you must be - by necessity - Che Guevara's second coming. It's pretty disingenuous, and quite silly to be honest.
Mark Twain's financial struggles and goals were never framed or discussed in my American school education. Wonder what the children of our poorest families would aspire to given the truth of business? God forbid they try to emulate Mark Twain's path.
Clearly hardly any governments have read or paid attention to the "vast tonnages of reports and research over many decades" relating to fair & equitable housing supply or they wouldn't be resorting to the level of populist BS that is prevalent in the world today.
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Very nicely argued. Has that specific angle been covered by the mainstream media?

One aspect missing from that analysis that I'm curious about is demographics and immigration vs domestic population growth. Let's say there is major demand due to immigration - is that immigration needed, and I mean really needed? And does the value of why it's "needed" exceed the "cost" incurred by turning the marketplace of the largest single investment of most people's life into a f*cking Casino on steroids? And are you being honest about the numbers? Are you measuring it in an open and cooperative manner on an ongoing basis, or are you still working off of projections, perhaps because actually measuring performance would be "so racist". And then cherry picking from those estimates and presenting the preferred narratives that might serve the needs of a different set of entities, perhaps persuasive corporations with deep pockets and "public relations" agencies on their payroll, more than the needs of "the general public". (Pardon the horrendous sentence structure and run on sentences.)

Nah, an idea that crazy has to be a conspiracy theory. I mean, if you published reports that were so obviously based on cherry picked subsets of data, comparing apples and oranges, mismatched timeframes, why the propaganda would be so obvious, then general public would be outraged. Outraged!

You'd have to be a real nut to believe something that outlandish.
Spaces were only temporarily disabled; added back already in 5.0.1. It’s already been released.

Lots of software breaks with spaces though, and isn’t practical to patch at the distribution level. If you’re unfortunate enough to be using spaces, file issues with the upstream when things break and let them know.
I've spent enough time writing games in various GCed languages, and GC has been an issue in all of them. It's less about the optimization of the actual pause time and more about trying to make sure that things are as deterministic as possible for debugging's sake. Though the pause is of course an issue as well.
Oh my God. I wasted a year of my life on a COBOL project. It is easily the worst language I have ever used.
There is a reason that COBOL is a linguistic dead-end! Functions? Sensible limited variable scope? A decent approach to handling whitespace so that complex, nested branches make sense? COBOL doesn't even have these basics.

Want to declare a variable? You're gonna have to type weird stuff like this: `07 GreatVariableName PIC X(10).`

Oh yeah, and the compiler cost me $3k (great job, Micro Focus), on top of the Solaris machine I had to buy to run it. (This project happened to use `mmap()` via FFI, so it had to run on a Unix machine...)

Maybe I'm a bit bitter, but I will never touch another line of COBOL again.
Would you say being "anti-Jewish" is racist or bigoted?
@engagement

Wall Street does not claim to improve the world!?!?!?

At a very fundamental level, the whole premise of capital investment is such that it spurs economic growth and stability and thereby establishes a more accessible marketplace in order for consumers to achieve an increased "marginal utility of happiness".

Wall street flies the flag of investment banking and are by virtue implicit actors in "improving the world" through capital investment. I-banking firms are responsible for increasing gains for stakeholders, maintaining competitive pricing for consumers and optimizing performance of output and product. Therefore, the sentiment in question (although not explicitly phrased as "improving the world") does manifest itself in various ways through the marketing messages delivered by WS, and the promise has been fulfilled, more or less.

The end result of an improved world as such is evidenced by you typing on a computer designed in Cupertino, materials thereof industrially sourced from Africa, manufactured in China and delivered to you via Amazon, all of which required the assistance of Wall Street capital...
It's interesting. Oxygen poor fires that melt steel and last for months. http://archive.is/VrfXW
Disagree. It costs much more to build a house or apartment than it did 50 years ago. This is primarily because of changes in city requirement to make the houses safer.

I recently had a house burn down in a neighborhood with numerous $150k houses. Cost to rebuild a similar structure was over $200k. I got three bids and every contractor told me the cost was much higher than nearby existing properties because legally, the house would need to be built with different materials and different building requirements.
Lovely article. Best piece imho:

>And Twain wasn’t born “around the year 1835,” but during it—a strategic decision of the utmost significance, suggesting an alert and eager business mind operating even in utero.
Enumerations, Countable Structures, and Turing Degrees (1998) [pdf]