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>>There are a few decent fight scenes that happen from time to time in modern action films. Haywire is really good, for one.

Some of Jet Li's work in the early 2000s is good as well.
Self-determination is a fundamental human right, by the philosophy of the Enlightenment at least.

That's very misleading. Persons have rights. Countries haven't. United Nations chart acknowledged collective right to self determination in the case of colonized countries as a way to give freedom to millions of individuals living in countries that were controled by western rich countries by force. But by no means a country has claimed ever that there's a general right for an arbitrary territory to secede if its inhabitants decide so by voting. There is overwhelming evidence against that alledged "right". No country would accept that. What about yours? What do you think will happen if a region of your country decides to hold a vote to leave the rest?
Yes I understand that and the outdoors activities have no appeal to me.

I’ve lived in Michigan, Texas, Washington, California. The weather in California is dramatically better than the others, but on balance I would much rather give up 3+ hrs of commuting a day for 1hr where some of that is in a humid subway station.

If you haven’t lived in the humid areas of Texas, you don’t know that it’s much worse than NYC/Boston/etc in summer. Rather than 85-90 with 85% humidity, think 104 with 85+% humidity. With virtually zero culture. And continual rain throughout the otherwise mild winter.
The tea culture definitely isn't weaker than coffee culture on the worldwide stage, not to a meaningful extent anyway.

One important difference is that tea never had the kinds of accessibility problems that coffee had. Specifically, the kinds of accessibility problems that technology solves, because you can get a very good cup of tea with just attentive steeping.

With coffee, you more or less need hardware of some kind, so it's a question of how fancy that hardware is. With tea, the base case is either a teabag or loose leaf in a cup/pot.
I went through "Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming" and think it's probably the best Python (or any programming language?) book I've tried.

Not sure if a book is what you meant by guide.
Even with the hostile environment in the US, I suspect China is far more hostile. I don't see China retaining top talent--these individuals might simply go to Europe, Canada, Japan or elsewhere.
>>That is my favorite fight scene in my limited knowledge of his oeuvre

It is excellent. If you are interested in watching more and you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend the Wheels on Meals fight vs. Benny Urquidez
Ohh really !! You should probably leave India then. BTW why bother speaking English ? Why not speak Malayalam everywhere ?
It seems more likely to me that compulsory education conducted entirely in a "national language" is the culprit here. How many of these stories involve "we were beaten for talking in $LANGUAGE at school"?
If you've done something illegal you can be assessed all sorts of penalties. But if you've come by your money legally, it's your money. It's not society's money. And it doesn't belong to your fellow citizens because, well, they want it.
This is what makes middle America laugh at SV... meanwhile, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305086 about funding for breast pump startups (a product actually used by millions that people expect to pay money for, which hasn't improved significantly in decades).

As other commenters say clearly what the breast pump startups need is a blockchain.
> Democracy is supposed to be more involved than* showing up every 4-5 years

Which biases democracy into "Rule by the people who can show up more often than once every 4-5 years and keep up professionally with developments in the meantime", which would be wealthy private interests.

Agree with throw2016's assessment, this issue and crony capitalism/rule by the wealthy are inextricably linked.

> whereas most people can barely be counted on to show up

Because most people on the wealth curve get edged out on the means. Inextricably linked.
I bet self driving cars are first adopted enmasse in Asian cities (primarily Chinese ones) given need. Even though the driving (and pedestrian) habits seem to imply otherwise, the chance to optimize limited road infrastructure will just be too juicy for the politicians to pass up. In fact, lots of companies are working on self driving cars in china right now for this reason (also, it’s much more likely given china’s autocratic government).
Catalonia finally declared independence – but Spain vows it won’t last long
You can have tree-shaking right now, with rollup.js. You can also have purely transpiled isomorphic component library (no runtime download) running at near vanillajs speeds with svelte.js.
Noted and thank you for the constructive feedback. Various people in the OCaml community are working on some of these and we might contribute to some of these missing pieces as well.
They run trial balloons all over, especially in small venues they can then expand to larger levels.

They promoted a law in a Montana town that would have allowed corporations to vote in the municipal elections.
Yeah, it definitely feels like Google has gotten into this phase of a monopoly where you just stop trying. It was specifically Google that used to have all kinds of advanced user thingamabobs, now they actively make it harder on advanced users.
Using image recognition !
When is Purescript going to get rid of the need for Bower? That's a pretty significant turn-off for most folks :(
Thanks! Stay tuned for for a deluge of new guide content: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe/pull/416

We've been super busy getting the book finished but we want to make sure that we've also got everything someone needs to get going available in the docs.
non-javascript url:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?_escaped_fra...
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You emphasize the 70K, but the Brisbane Baylands proposal in your link is for 4,400 units.
Obliterated is appropriate.

Even in India - the few members of animist religions in the nort east often feel poorly when having to deal with the more advanced religions like Christianity/Hinduism/Islam - there’s a level of outreach, funding, polish, prep, conversion techniques and arguments - essentially human pleasing sophistication, that other religions just have not had the time or resources to develop.

You see similar things happen with food and fruits.
Cornerstone and IDEXX? I think you're mixing something up. Cornerstone is a product, IDEXX is the vendor.

The software is almost secondary for IDEXX, though. They're primarily a national chain of veterinary labs -- bloodwork, tissue sample analysis, that sort of thing -- so they've got some pretty huge hooks into the industry.
What a vapid article
Same person ruined my favorite restaurant because there were not AHA compliant. The plaintiff never actually even patronized the restaurant!
And it's your opinion that Google's machine learning is going to be unable to learn to do this better than the average Duluthian? Come on :)
For me, Facebook is just messenger - a fancy Rolodex. A way to get in touch with period you don't talk to often enough to always have their updated contract information. Get caught up and move the conversation elsewhere as soon as I can — be it WhatsApp or signal.

I can't trust the feed to show me everything in a reverse chronological order so it is worthless to me.

In hindsight, I must agree that WhatsApp was a good buy and probably a good thing for Facebook to own.
Hindi is taught is schools...its you who dint gave it importance its not about what benefits you get from speaking Hindi..its more about what most states prefer to interact in.

Out of 39 states 20 prefer interacting in Hindi..even when they all have different mother tongue. Its just the minority south states prefer speaking in there languages which doesn't matter to other as no migrates there( non existent)
Isn't this just a natural evolution following the fact that we're optimizing how to make money instead of optimizing how to make ... "good"? As long as we fight over the resources we want and need we're going to have technology applied by people in ways to optimize their own share. In a global market with little regulation, ethics very quickly gets thrown aside unless that said ethics is important to the consumers. Since in this case it's even difficult to see the ethical problem, how can it be improved without changing the first principle of operation (I.e. that we optimize making money I.e. our own share of resources.)?
But the syntax adds a layer of obfuscation over the mechanics of currying. I thought we were getting somewhere with Elm, Purescript, and Reason adopting it and making it more widely known, but then we've gone a step backward again. I kind of feel like we need better communication and education rather than just doing a band-aid fix that only helps folks in the short term. :(

Did you consider having a 'beginner mode' Reason, then flipping a switch to compare it to compare it to the non-parened version is?
Good teabags aren't even that bad. After all they're still basically tea seeped in hot water. You can also buy plenty of inexpensive infusers which aren't necessarily a lot better than teabags but the cost is a bit lower. And you can have basically open inserts you can put in cups. So plenty of ways to make tea quickly and easily with quality that is, for the most part, indistinguishable from tea pots.
Movie is "Wheels on Meals", for anyone curious.

> The film's title was supposed to be Meals on Wheels. Superstitious Golden Harvest executives however demanded the title change because their two previous films with titles began with the letter 'M' – Megaforce and Menage A Trois – were both box office flops.
I'm guessing it's blocked on OCaml. I'm excited about modular implicits, but it's the same story there...
I give credit where it's due: In 1959 this was a breaktrough; made easy for non-technical people to support business operations using code that was easy to write, easy to understand, massively better than assembly in this regard. Also, record definition and manipulation was an innovation in itself (in an era without RDBMS), not to mention the builtin support for "accounting" decimal arithmetic. It was really "Batteries-Included".

But programming evolved and Cobol did not evolve at the speed of the times. In 1968 (Cobol-68) it was already outdated compared to IBM PL/1 (a big monster of a language, similar but much more powerful).

And in 2017, "Try COBOL"? You mean, try a language where I need to deal with record access as if I were rolling my own DBMS system, with almost no module support, and copious need for copy/paste of code at every file (little chance of code reuse)? Where separation of concerns is almost zero?

No, i think writing in INTERCAL-72, Brainf_ck or LOLCODE would be more fun.
The ones I've had do. Disappointingly so.
Nothing in my comment was anti growth, the only thing you can point to that's close was anti freeway expansion. And freeway expansion does not ultimately solve congestion. Without massive billion dollar road changes, widening freeways, as is proposed right now in pdx, just shifts the congestion around. We can look at a dozen large metro areas with 16 lane freeways and commute times are still insane. Pump that money into dedicated separate bike ways, increased mass transit, both in the city and to the suburbs. Increase urban density to avoid car commutes.

Again, I'm not advocating anti growth, I'm saying if it's done slapshod we'll be having the same conversations about PDX in ten years as we do San Fran now. 1.5 hour commutes for people living 10 miles or less from work.
I don't think people would remember them better if completely random. Rather, I think if they're completely random, people might correctly assume they can't, and remain appropriately skeptical; if they include a vanity prefix, people seem likely to remember the vanity prefix and somewhat less likely to pay attention to the rest.
I had similar experience with Elm. I didn't have app like Messenger, but it takes a little longer to start, but it is rock solid and refactoring is a breeze.
Did you notice no one cares about your comment ?...its makes no sense without any references
You don't get it. You are confusing lack of bias/prejudice with rationality, which is incorrect with regard to any coherent belief system. Your ignorance is harmful and you should try to learn something about the issues that you comment on. I can point you towards resources if you are interested; message me.
I’m attending a memorial a memorial service for my uncle this weekend. He set sail a year ago to fulfill his life long dream of sailing around the world alone. He did not have the required experience or reliable enough equipment. Some months ago his wife received distressing text messages, sent via a cumbersome satellite communications system, indicating he was boarded by pirates. In fact we believe now he was suffering delusions from dehydration after his water purifier failed. We received no further communications. The Coast Guard coordinated a search based on his last known location in the Pacific. Nothing was found of him or his ship. A judge later reviewed the communications and letters from experienced sailors, and signed a death certificate.

And now this is the second story about someone lost at sea being rescued that I’ve stumbled upon today. It’s a good read, thanks for sharing. I suppose it’s good to be able to have some hope that perhaps my uncle could show up on a remote island one day, though it’s also hard. At a certain point though you have to accept the odds, find a way to grieve. Sadly, I already have experience with this as a cousin of mine went spear fishing alone one day in the ocean and never returned to shore. That was years ago and no sign of him has ever been found/identified since.
So the info from people I know who live in Longmont, was that Comcast was as sleazy as their reputation in dealing with the city.

Comcast executives said in statements to city council that it was physically impossible to deliver higher bandwidth over the existing cable. Edit to add: now over the existing cable they are offering higher speeds. YES, that same cable that pre competition, they stated could not handle higherspeeds.

When Longmont decided to proceed with their own network, lots of FUD from Comcast both before it was successfully delivered and after, but everyone who has it, loves it. And it very rarely goes down.

Comcast then tried to say that they had exclusive contracts with the landlords... but under CO law such restrictions placed on tenants are illegal.

Etc. Etc.
How is it a change for good? Just seems like Google Search is becoming even clumsier for bilingual people.

Sometimes I want results in my mother-tongue, sometimes I want results in English. And I expect my search engine to have a way to quickly specify that without going into the settings each time.
Please stop playing semantics: the central government has the power to trigger a Constitution change to allow for referendums. So far it has refused.

It has the power to send police to stop voting in a non-legal referendum, and it has done exactly so.
$1,000 tea infuser startup Teforia shuts down
There were also plans to fill in most of the Bay as well. After all, "all those pesky wetlands are just wasted space!"
It's almost like people communicate their experience with words and not benchmarks. The horror!
Yeah, it's lame, but I guess we're lucky that GQ is still around.
"chinese" isn't one language. It's a set of many languages which share some grammar and a common logographic script

I don't think that's true for any chinese languages other than mandarin and cantonese. I've been in Taiwan for the past few weeks and dipped my toes into Hokkien/Taiwanese/Souther Min, and the situation there is fascinating. In every day normal situations it's never written, if two native hokkien speakers want to send an email or text it will be done in mandarin. In the rare occasion Hokkien is written, it will be done haphazardly. Sometimes you'll choose a mandarin character that kind of means the same thing as a hokkien morpheme, and sometimes they'll choose the mandarin character that kind of sounds the same the same as a hokkien morpheme. Native speakers will be able to read this, but often struggle.

I have read that people used to be able to write Hokkien in characters, but that's lost now. I'm confidently told by native speakers today that the language has no written component (沒有文字). There's romanisation system that seems to be able to represent every sound prefectly, and more has actually been written in romanised hokkien than by any other methods, but Taiwanese people have a bit of a phobia of the latin alphabet, and no one uses it.
Tea pots are good for heating water, but not the best for steeping tea.
The problems you mention aren't related
to transpilation or even JavaScript. They're due to TypeScript being a backwards-compatible superset of JS.

TS is, among other things, JS plus type annotations, but it also relies on the same underlying type system as JS, and TS types, as I understand it, are completely erased at runtime. For example, interfaces don't exist in JS, and classes are prototype-based. So it inherits those flaws, and doesn't patch over them with some kind of runtime, and you end up with a leaky abstraction.

I don't know anything about Reason's JS interaction to say if it's similarly leaky.
Btw, speaking of algorithms, this post was at top 40 on https://news.ycombinator.com when my comment was added. Is that a global state or a personal state configured just for me? :-) (hoping for the former)
Donnie Yen is great
Kazakhstan and probably Russia as well require all TLS traffic to be opened by MITM devices. https://m.habrahabr.ru/post/303736/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843
https://www.google.co.il/amp/s/www.rbth.com/document/1033000...

i wonder if other governments are enacting similar rules in one form or the other....
You're using a dynamic language (bash) to invoke your statically-typed-language-compiler and then to also invoke the binary it produces.

But what's the difference to say, having just a single dynamically typed language with library functions "type-check-my-code", which returns an encapsulated value, and "run-my-typechecked-code" which takes the encapsulated value as input? The whole process happens at "runtime" here.

The artificial static/runtime boundary is introduced by the way Unix implements files and processes. All statically typed languages are effectively supersets of the language of Unix. In Unix we can treat each executable binary as a library function (except that we have a massive overhead for calling it). The designers of Unix were well aware of this which is why from the POV of bash, there's no distinction between invoking a binary and invoking another script written in bash.

How much of the Unix binary and process bloat is really necessary though to say, concatenate N files? Even someone writing a C program will avoid calling cat and instead implement it themselves, or call a library that does it. Perhaps we need to reconsider where the boundary between type checking and running code should be.
An initiative can modify statues

Statutes. Any strong hammer can modify a statue.

But seriously, yes, statute law or the state Constitution can be modified by initiative. The latter requires more qualifying signatures than the former, but once it's on the ballot, simple majority is all it takes.

But the status of cities also involves the city's charter (not all cities are charter cities, but most major ones are).
If you construct a community resource, you have a responsibility to the community. This transcends business interest, which is illegitimate and immoral. If you want to be a part of my life you need to be responsible.
Sadly, many users have accept language headers which don't correspond to what they actually want.
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Seriously :) Tea drinkers and gun owners equated in the same sentence :)!
And assuming it happened, how would California protect its borders from its neighbor US?

No, that way lies madness.
It's global. Hacker News doesn't personalise.
I speak Hindi, and I have studied in the south. I think the best argument to lance this boil is this

“Let’s speak Tamil or kannad. These states are doing supremely better than all of the Hindi speaking states. Obviously language has something to do with our success, and it would be wrong of us to keep it to ourselves when it should be used to help the nation.”

This short circuits enough wires, and is polite enough to not engage the depressing flame war that is sweeping such discussion.

It’s not logical, but most of this argument is not logical, the proof of which is too much for the margins of this comment.
That list doesn't count companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyerhaeuser

13 million acres of timberlands

(approximately the total of the top 9 listed there)

Weyerhaeuser is a bit of an outlier being the largest private landowner in the US.
I have UC that is mostly under control but have a relapse ever couple years, not a programmer but if you are looking for input maybe I can assist.

Thanks!
I'm not an expert in perception or autonomy, but I've always had a loose sense that winter driving would be an order of magnitude more complicated for autonomous vehicles. It had me worried: what if technology presents a future where the world is split up into industry regions based on climate? You have some serious costs associated with doing business in a region that has winter.

"Available in Canada (summer only)"

"Shipping to winter regions is far more expensive because we need to use human drivers half the year. So we generally avoid focusing on them."

Not a new problem. Geography has always strongly impacted industry. But interesting to think of it from this perspective.

I'm excited to see attempts to tackle the truly difficult form of autonomous driving.
It is a global state. Random strangers from around the world are now reading your comment.
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I ran into this problem many years ago when writing a memory allocator. Say you keep a list of free blocks. You don't keep them sorted, but you do keep track of how long the list is. You now need to find a block of at least size n but not much larger, and the free list is so long you'd rather not look through the whole thing for each allocation.

There are a bunch of ways to write memory allocators, but with the above constraints, it's the same problem.
A small elaboration. OpenImages v2 has 545 classes for object detection, and 5000 classes for image classification.
There was a big article about their success in SE Asia (including Cambodia and Myanmar) a few years ago, but I can’t find it ATM. Anyways, this page helps:

http://geeksincambodia.com/cambodias-2017-social-media-digit...

Chinese phones outside of china are generally sold with a straight google app stack. None of those Chinese services are localized in kmher!
Is there an alternative to prevent people from doing MITM attacks on mobile apps? With HPKP running, apps with Charles requires a rooted device.