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I did say it was a forced example ;)

Even assuming you implemented it their way, their code isn't very concise. In the snippet you pasted, "self.method" could be replaced with "method" for example without changing anything
In other words, American banks extort their customers to go into debt with them early and often.
Stress?
Yeah and what adverse impact is it going to have on economic growth when incentives are taken away from long term investments and towards short term consumption that would be stimulated by welfare payments to the general population? What adverse impact would it have on the economy 1, 5, 10 years out? The U.S. economic engine is a wonderfully effective thing and among the best modern marvels. Taking 20% of that arbitrarily and twisting it into something else could have deep consequences.
Romanian here and also a software engineer. It is correct, we are a developing country, except for some cities, where the quality of life is equal to the cities in western europe, but they are a few. Also, the IT sector makes about 6%/7% of Romania's GDP and it has only 150k IT workers where the population is 19 mil (2014) with a rate of ~200k people leaving the country every year since then. I'm still here but don't know for how long tho.
The Wikipedia article is pretty light on details and in some cases even inaccurate. Even though only in Romania the regime change was violent, it doesn't mean that in other countries protesters were not initially arrested and/or beaten by the police/regime forces. I know this from first hand experience because I've lived in those times. In the GDR protesters were arrested and beaten. Even in Czechoslovakia a protest was crushed by the police. In Poland is was mostly nonviolent because they started to weaken the regime since 1980 mainly through strikes and worker's protests. The breakup of Yugoslavia led to the Balkan wars. In Romania people were shot dead in the street, something the wikipedia article fails to mention. You can read a more accurate description of the Romanian 1989 revolution here:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/exhibits/unique-experience-of-roman...

The NSF (PDSR/PSDR after that, currently PSD) mentioned in the introduction is the continuator of the Romanian Communist Party. They're the ones who siezed power and split into or infiltrated most if not all mainstream political parties. They're also the ones currenly in power. The current protests are also against them.
I stopped going to meetups because they felt like glorified networking groups where I never really found any value, solid connections, or a reason to go back. I tried both speaking and attending.
Did you have your spine (esp cervical) examined, for the possibility of Vagus nerve compression?
I feel immensely grateful for being alive at a time when something like this could have been diagnosed (if I may be allowed a pun) in a heartbeat, but at the same time I cannot help but wonder about the ailments that our machines cannot see and our knowledge cannot diagnose yet.
I agree - HN is an echo chamber. A few patterns:
1. Generally left leaning politically
2. HN prefers SQL db to MongoDB, despite Mongo's suitability to certain use cases
3. GPL == Holy. Somehow all software should be given away with the most copyleft license one can apply. Yet, the GPL hardliners gather in droves here - a website that isn't open source, run by a VC company whose mission is to make money, mostly off software. Ironic
If accidentally clicking or dragging results in messing up their settings, I'd say the problem is a brittle user interface, not normal people having problems configuring their surroundings. If normal people cannot use the user interface, then the user interface has a design failure ("bug"), by definition. (Unless the intended audience is not normal people, but if that is the case for Linux, we shouldn't be installing Linux for normal users.)
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This references his "google platform rant". The original discussion for that post can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876

Since the original was deleted, you can find it under the "Originally shared by" section in https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
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Upvoted you, so this is just a little nitpicky suggestion: your comment would've had more power and less whine if you had omitted the "Sorry. I said it."
Thanks, that makes sense, the family is the center of love. Good background and perspective. I still think for the sake of storytelling there's a lot to be gained by the inclusion of romantic interests. There was just Hector. Look at wall-e and eve, the couple in Up, Ratatouille, Toy Story; most Pixar movies before they became part of Disney?
High school is stressful and focuses on repetition, not creative thinking. After-school buxiban cram schools are common. But then university is a joke. People are generally quite smart, but I think that has more to do with their interaction with the outside world (no internet censorship and lots of people joining Working Holiday or study abroad programmes) instead of school.

Taiwan requires people to give up their previous citizenship to become Taiwanese. But people who were born Taiwanese can take on other nationalities.

AQI in Kaohsiung is over 150 today. Sydney is 20. It's better than China or India, but I still have to wear an N95 mask when I go outside, or I'll cough and my sinuses will dry up.
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The banks that collapsed during the last crisis are not the kind of banks that take deposits and give out loans. They were the kind of non-banking businesses that you talk about.

And one of the reasons for the crisis was “shadow banking”, because many home loans were not really given by banks (some were directly created by other institutions, some were first created by banks but then packaged and sold). The subprime crisis would not have happened, at least to the same extent, if loans had been kept in the balance sheets of banks.
The author just confirmed, the if-statement does nothing: https://github.com/carld/micro-lisp/issues/9
What kind of cutoff are we talking about?
I think you are erecting a straw man here. The article

1: identifies a set of social norms which it names "thar".

2: Asserts that these norms tend to occur together (i.e. a society in which individuals primary allegience is to a family or clan is likely to find it acceptable to kill in vengance and be paranoid about female sexuality)

3: Argues that these social norms are generated by poverty, and simultaneously likely to perpetuate poverty, thereby creating a vicious circle.

4: Considers the possibility that our society could develop a similar culture in the future.

You claim that the author believes that this is something that cannot be extricated from the societies that practice it, but I cannot see such a claim in the text. In fact the writers concern about the possible descent of western societies into thar would seem to put the lie to your claim: if a society can descend into thar then it can also climb out of it.

If you say that all "cultural" critique is actually racism in disguise then you make it impossible to consider any aspect of how a culture might affect the prosperity and well-being of its members. This can only be justified if you believe that culture has no impact on prosperity and well-being. If it does have an impact then it becomes necessary to consider which cultural norms promote prosperity and well-being and to criticise those that prevent it.
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I feel you on the boring parts of F1.
This, coupled with the idiotic halo they just have to put on the cars next year will mean that I spend my weekends a bit differently.

But, to the matter at hand, the vid only seems to be blocked when it is embedded on websites.
I had a "watch this on youtube" link in the message and when I clicked there it took me to youtube.com and the vid started playing. Whatever the reasoning is to block embedded vids but not the vid altogether is beyond me. But then again, so is uglyfying the car with apendages that make it look like a flipflop...
"if we can get the benefits of capitalism when most equity is owned by a passive investment fund like an index tracker, then what's the problem with the state owning all the equity in that tracker, and redistributing the proceeds to the population?"

This is the "fixed amount of wealth" fallacy, wherein the author regards the amount of wealth in the society as an invariant, rather than a variable.

The only reason that equity exists at all is because of the efforts of people who created it (and thus own it). Without those efforts, there would be no equity for the state to own. Without a promise of owning that equity, nobody has a reason to make those efforts. Thus, any state policy to "own all the equity" also removes the reason that equity exists in the first place.

And now you're in the Soviet Union; enjoy eating your two bananas every year, because nobody has a reason to bring you any more.
What's coming in 6.0? If this is 5.2 It seems something much bigger is in the work.
This is one of those catchy but actually unverified memes that gets endlessly propagated.

"Nevertheless, I believe that a world-champion-level Go machine can be built within 10 years" - Feng-Hsiung Hsu, 2007 (researcher who worked on Deep Blue). https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cracking-go
Can you give me a concrete example of a higher order computation in TLA? For example, can you show me how to construct a computation that runs another computation over all elements of a list?
Yeah, just don't try to disable one extension or your desktop will freeze for a few minutes.

Damn, I love javascript on the desktop.
"Extremely deep" is an understatement. It's long, deep and plodding enough as to be completely inaccessible to any but the most dedicated, and you have to be willing to spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours by the time it's over, going through it.

I love and appreciate what he's trying to do, but it's overkill.
This book is very good at explaining the underlying mathematics and models used to create modern near-realtime 3D renderings today, like games.

There are several sites that teach OpenGL, which is one of the main APIs today:

* https://learnopengl.com

* http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/beginners-tutorials/tutorial-...

* https://open.gl
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I believe they are talking about aftermarket steering locks that fit onto the steering well such as https://i.imgur.com/C2rIjyq.jpg

They were fairly common in the U.K. Back when car security was even worse as it is right now.

The non keyless steering locks can usually be defeated with a few swift hammer blows to the lock cylinder to dislodge the locking pin from the steering column.

Now that’s not to say these after market locks are “secure” as they two have their weeknesses (cut the steering wheel and slide the lock off, use of cheap locks on the device, etc) but they give a visual deterrent to people just driving past and deciding to take your car.
They spend everything they earn, plus more, on R&D. The whole goal of SpaceX is to get to Mars. No one else would take them there so they want to build spaceships and rockets that will. To fund that they build the Dragon 9 and are working on their satellite internet constellation. Everything SpaceX does is meant to fund getting to Mars. So they could potentially be cash positive, but Mars.
It's software rendering, whether the implementation uses winapi or something else is irrelevant.
We thought of stress, but my life is actually quite great by most metrics - I don't have to work, great family, I was doing sports, eating decently well.
There's no shortcut to mastery. Following Casey's will get you half way there, much more so than the many quick "tutorials" you'll find elsewhere.
Interesting point but I still don't really agree.

Just because one senator (without an opposed supermajority) could theoretically indefinitely delay a nomination to the FCC, it has never happened. Has it?

In the example you gave, Grassley put Rosenworcel and Pai's nominations on hold for a time. Notice he did this to one person from each party simultaneously and still allowed both to be confirmed after a little while. Mitch was a big fan of Pai so there is no doubt they could have scraped 60 votes together to get the two through if he hadn't relented.

I asked for examples where the nominee was "withdrawn or otherwise not accepted" and you gave me one where they blocked all nominations, regardless of party or point of view, for only a few months due to a personal dispute.

Everything points to what I said originally which is that the majority party gets 3 FCC nominees, the minority party gets 2 FCC nominees, and they traditionally all get approved due to the "gentleman's agreement" as you call it. While no one has 60 votes in the Senate right now, many FCC nominees have sailed through for the minority party even though the majority party had 60 votes to stop any nomination holds from the minority.
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Huh? It’s a market. Not the biggest market, but a real market that spends billions, has extreme needs in some cases, and influences well-trained people who become decision makers in other markets.

Why is it not reality?
No. But my PCP's theory is that the excess gas triggers the vagus nerve. Thanks for the idea, though. One more thing to eliminate by testing.
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It came to this after Silicon Valley was thrown into a moral panic over the tools they had built wasn't just for Tunis and Cairo, for Obama and Ron Paul, but also for Brexit and Trump.

Moral panics are never productive, but this won't be the time we learn this either.
You've listed a few things as not being honor, that I would have called honor. Could you say what you do mean by honor?
I highly doubt that "safer" is correct; on average, buses have fewer deaths per km traveled.

Uber drivers are generally decent drivers, but they're still not as well trained as bus drivers, they're more likely to be distracted by e.g. fiddling with the uber or map apps on their phone.

Unless you have numbers specifically about uber's fleet being significantly safer than typical drivers, your claim goes against the results of recent studies finding busses and rails safer than cars.
Even so, that does not protect them. Every designer I worked made sure to get and document the license for the images used.

Copyright is not a small thing, as the MPAA likes to remind everyone.

Also, maybe there is something bigger here: maybe someone scraped the image and resells them through shutterstock.

In any case, the owner is way within his rights. Why not insist on them? If the rubber band was on the other claw, Netflix would not hesitate.
No fever, no headaches, no joint/muscle pains, no swollen lymph nodes. So probably not.
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I realize both other replies to this comment are just reiterating how amazing a resource handmadehero is, but I thought it still needed another voice.

It's really an amazing look at how the sausage is made through every single step. Even if you've done a significant amount of games work, I'd still recommend working your way through it.

My only caveat is there's so much useful stuff, it's hard to get through it all. It's all time well spent, though.
>better get used to it.

I can’t stand this trope. It borders on nihilism. Yeah I get it, the economy is global and it’s difficult if not impossible to put the car back in the bag. But I’d challenge anyone to justify that it was good for middle class families in this country to price out Family owned mom and pop shops across the nation so you can save $.79 on 39 different brands of toothpaste at Walmart. That is not “great”.
For the past, oh, 10 years or so, it feels like every time I try a new release of one of the prominent Linux DEs, I keep going back to Xfce after a short while, because it "just works", can be customized exactly how I want it to be, and doesn't try to break my flow with every major release, because someone in UX has a new Grand Unifying Theory of What Users Really Want (Even if They Don't Know It).
Personal experience: I've lost 4lb per months for the last 6 months with no cooking. I'm lazy so I just use microwavable food: 3mn to prepare, I know the number of calories so I can easily stay under my target.

Even with not microwaved but easily made, pre-made soups or veggies are easy to heat and more filing.

Even eating only snacks I can stay under 1.5k per day by just not eating anything on the side.

The trick for most people starting is to not drink your calories: switch to 0% calorie sodas and replace sugar in coffee and tea with aspartame. No fruit juice and check calories as "0% added sugar" usually mean there are a lot of calories.
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Sounds similar to the ones in NYC and Israel. Nice place to hang out, terrible place to work.
Who knows, maybe they'll end up doing a different #3, put the cash in their pocket, while creators get paid with funny money. Lotsa scams as people try to catch the next bitcoin
Yeah gas might worsen this.. gas might even be caused by dysfunctional vagus though because this would prevent proper peristalsis. Try massaging your neck and see if that does anything, for better or worse.. won‘t cure it of course, but might hint in a direction.
I was a teenager when the G5 came out and instantly fell in love with the design. Could not afford one of course, so built many computers with Lian-Li cases over the years all inspired more or less by the G5.

They still make the best PC aluminium chassis for any form factor in my opinion, and I have fond memories of assembling HTPC:s, desktop workstations and "bookshelf cubes" for my friends and relatives, all using Lian-Li cases.

Many times more or less dead silent (again, impressed by my first experience with the G5), I remember going to some lengths with replacing fans on graphics cards, CPUs and using passive power supplies.

Today I use a Macbook Pro and just can't be bothered assembling any PC computers anymore. Should I ever want to though, finding the right case should be easy.
The well developed IT sector is mainly due to outside investors. If they leave because of the new tax code and the crusade agaist "multinationals", there won't be a developed IT sector any more.
Hey, thanks for showing me this. Sorry mate, this is my first post on HN- a friend recommended I frame my post this way. Could you point me to a link with all of the different HN post types and guidelines for them?
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This is the Emprata study from September of the comments.

Each side of the issue seems to have problems with credibility regarding the comments. Apparently, they are almost all fake, with anti-repeal having been from email addresses at pornhub, international email addresses, and FAKEMAILGENERATOR, and many pro-repeal having been duplicates.
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I upgraded to 17.10. I use an old small screen Thinkpad and Gnome 3 used the top third of the screen for menus! I tried all of the plugins to no avail. I switched back to Unity because I like to see my screen. I hope to see a gnome 3 extension to mimic the unified top bar thing
Discussion of that here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514990
You can immediately pay off your credit card balance if you so desire and credit cards (at least American ones) don't charge interest initially. So if you automatically have your credit card debit from your checking account each month there is literally no cost to you to use a credit card and only upside.

The merchant is already pricing in credit card fees into their prices, so you should go with the payment instrument that provides you the best protection and other perks — otherwise you are leaving value on the table.
Guys, any comments?

Anybody use it?
Ask HN: How did you scale yourself as an engineer?
I can not disagree more. Formula E is nothing like Formula 1. I was hoping it is, even considered going to the race nearby, but then I dug more into it. In reality: it's closer to go-karts than F1 or other "racing formulas".

I'm not saying it's not fun. The driver's talent is there (many ex-F1 guys there), it has an appeal of manufacturers, there's hi-tech involved. But the cars are small, slow, light, silent, and they are all the same (chassis and aero). Plus, the fan boost... Ugh.

With all the big marques coming in FE will only go up in, and I hope it'll someday mature to something akin to F1 combined with Teslas in ludicrous mode. For now: any comparison to F1 is not merited.
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> I’m glad you gave him the information he needs

He didn't. He posted it on HN, which is clearly the wrong path.
> Ok, maybe it hurts competitors, but how in the world does it mess with public transportation? ... If everyone starts using VC subsidized services...

If no one uses public transit, public transit will be hurt clearly.

The real risk though is that people who can afford uber start using it, public transit fails, and then uber increases its price since people have fewer options.

> Public transportation loses money. So

Public transit loses money in a narrow view of things. In the grand scheme though, it's paid for by tax dollars and is for the good of the public.

There have been a few studies that show accessible public transit is a huge factor in benefiting the poor[0].

The fact that it's subsidized by taxes (and thus moreso by the rich than the poor) is part of the reason it can benefit those people who aren't so well off.

If a VC subsidized service takes over, well, VC subsidization is a far less sustainable method of providing for the poor than taxes.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/upshot/transportation-eme...
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Nice one. There is a similar project using Mindstorms at http://mindcuber.com , which IMHO is the best Mindstorms project of all.
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I love that style. Does anyone know if there's anything similar for React/Redux? An alternative to using large boilerplates and having to customize it ...
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I'm amazed that such an interesting but politically incorrect article made it to the front page of HN. And I'm almost sure that in a few hours, when the most of the US wakes up, it will be flagged.
> I want the tab-support in Terminal app back. Why was it removed in Gnome3?

have you tried Ctrl+Shift+T?
(this opens a new tab on Fedora 27 with GNOME Terminal 3.26.2)
They'll leave behind plenty of educated IT engineers willing to work though.