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I'm saying I've invested a lot of money in a platform that touts itself as the best and user friendly. My recent personal experiences has shown that it is not. Hence, I refuse to pay the luxury tax on an item that does not provide me a good experience. Their tagline is "it just does". Sorry, no, it doesn't.

I saved ~$500 when purchasing the flagship phone of another platform, so even if the experience is poor, I have an extra $500 in the bank.

Also - the Samsung S8 gives you very fine control on throttling the CPU to save power.
I'm surprised to not hear an engineer's memory as an important correlator to skill. I find that working memory especially (or the lack thereof) really can hinder my performance when dealing with a complex problem. Sometimes I think it is THE defining factor!
While yet another vehicle type that interferes with sidewalk use (sidewalks exist alongside roads specifically for the purpose of supporting pedestrian traffic) may need regulation to address it, but the chaperone rule seems counterproductive.

It seems to me that the better rule would be that delivery robots need to be (or, more likely, be carried by) road vehicles, and only transit the sidewalk for a limited distance as necessary to transition from the road to do the destination building.

The geographic and numerical restrictions in this regulation might make sense for exceptions to that limited-sidewalk-distance rule, but I can't see a good purpose for the chaperone rule.
FWIW, the second note was added on 10 November, or 3 days after the letter was originally posted.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171110000911/http://www.cs.vu....
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That was my first thought - the web page is copyrighted code.

Unfortunately, expect to see more of this happening with the useful idiot Pai running the FCC.
> Assets you can reasonably call "currency" and assets you speculatively buy and hold seem like fundamentally incompatible categories.

This is a new opinion on money that didn't exist 200 years ago.

For all the things that economists have to say about how terrible deflationary assets are at being a currency, economists fail to admit that gold and silver ran the world for thousands of years.

Using assets as a currency has its pros and cons. But it is absolutely not "completely unworkable", as many modern economists like to claim, as demonstrated by the fact that it DID work for the vast majority of human civilization.
In the changelog (https://airma.sh/changelog) it says today (10th Dec 17) was the first release.
Yeah, but that doesn't imply any racist angle. When you say "happy to serve whites", the word "whites" is yours and yours alone.
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> I read a story in a newspaper or hear one on television that isn't some form of salacious gossip or eye catching spectacle.

I am not American and can't comment on all of the stations but I know PBS has neither of those. Likewise similar public broadcasters do tend to be more serious and moderate in their reporting: BBC (UK), Deutsche Welle (Germany), ABC/SBS (Australia) etc

Unfortunately in a competitive media landscape you need viewers. And humans are just wired to respond to gossip and spectacles.
> Forks are a good thing,I wish devuan great success so people like myself won't have to whine about systemd all the time.

The real issue with systemd is that there simply aren't enough volunteers (both individuals and companies) out there willing to contribute. In short, since gnome is pretty much developed by RedHat and systemd is developed by RedHat, gnome is tied into systemd.

If there was enough of a community around gnome that RedHat wouldn't be able to pull it wherever they want, gnome wouldn't have been able to be that coupled with systemd. The issue is that debian simply doesn't have the manpower needed to de-systemd gnome.
Why the `var`s everywhere in the example? They should really be `const`s
In your "security" section you completely skipped over the distro's process for deciding when to patch and when to push/outsource to upstream. Especially given that you're discussing Debian that's a glaring omission.
"Cleanfeed" for me instantly triggers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_sy...
Is it entirely P2P? It seems like it has use cases for streaming audio and video, where low-latency is desired and dropped packets are acceptable.
I don't care of it's critical or not, I don't care what the issue is, a carrier should not inject code into a webpage it serves, PERIOD. I didn't knowingly opt into this, and I don't have a feasible alternative where I live. This should NOT be allowed, it's a security and privacy risk, and who knows what that JavaScript is actually doing or what vulnerabilities it opens up for malicious advertisers whose scripts are also on the page.

This should be ILLEGAL, I don't give a crap about "getting the government out of our lives", well guess what, they need to step in and prevent these slimy "business" practices from happening or punish the corporations trying to exploit their captive audience.
Let's not sugar coat the language by referring to them as franchise rights, they're state-sanctioned monopolies.
It's gone up in price by a factor of 21 this year. What are you even talking about.
THE comboy of bitcoinity fame? I'm honored.

I remember donating back in the day!
For those who believe in the existence of socialization of gender roles from early childhood (as described by sociologists like Emily Kane in "The Gender Trap") this is a good thing.

It means socialization in human civilization has weakened from the time up until the 1800s where women were only able to gain power through escaping their role as chattel via cloistering/religious mysticism (see "The Creation of Feminist Consciousness" by historian Gerda Lerner) to where the biological sex of a person does not so much preclude the very imagination of gaining positions of state power due to lifelong psychological terrorism (to use terms from Dworkin)

But that's not really even the tip of the iceberg, as Kane, Lerner, and of course Dworkin would agree...
Can you elaborate? I certainly didn't see tent encampments or beggars like I've seen in every major US city I've visited so far but it's possible I missed something.
"What is a RFC?", "What happens to the comments?", OK a specific RFC is the topic but it's like asking "What is the internet?". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments is much more appropriate resource for that level of question IMO.
And professors, deans, judges, economics advisors, ....
he didnt say "all folks on HN, without exception"
BTW, it does not recognize 4 simultanous key inputs on Firefox 57. Other than that, it is really cool game! Great job!
I would think the JS part of JSON would preclude any massive integers. It’s still an IEEE floating point at the end of the day, so your max is (2^53)-1
That is up to your keyboard hardware. Unfortunately, most consumer level keyboards can't handle that.
> It’s a sort of hybrid of a general purpose language and a DSL. Let’s call it a Specific Purpose Language, where the purpose in this case is “doing stuff to numbers”

While I do appreciate and like both APL and J, I wonder why the author does not (or does he?) use Python + Pandas for this type of calculations.
Considering it probably took many hours to evacuate them, that does sound pretty last-minute to me! If they had waited until the actual 'last-minute', the people might have died or gotten injured or sick being evacuated.
How odd. There is a meme in engineering circles that people who don't study math or science are somehow less able to think and reason. I wasn't aware of the sort of inverse you posit.

My personal experience on this is extremely lopsided: it's rare for me to encounter a non-techie who doesn't fawn embarrassingly at me when I tell them what my academic background is (physics) or gush over how smart and good at math I must be, etc., while on the other hand I hear from engineer peers all the time about how non-techies are dumb, incompetent, play politics, etc.
It is not good enough for a single country to block the internet. You need to shut off the ENTIRE internet, in order to stop bitcoin.

In your egypt example, a person could simply call up a trusted party, perhaps a family member, over the PHONE, and send their bitcoin that way.

And even if they don't have that, well they only have lost access to their bitcoin for the short period of time that the internet was shut down.

Come back and talk to me about how shutting down the internet is an "attack vector" once ANY country at all has shut it down for a decade, without massive holes forming in there "shutdown".

And seriously, if the world governments have done a complete shutdown of the world wide web, we have bigger problems. That is revolution time.
Howdy! I hope you get to enjoy their service. Just some notes from having been a customer for almost 2 years:

Be prepared for some growing pains. It took around a month or two for me to get close to link capacity for various reasons that were both issues with my hardware (needed a "real" router for 1gbps) and issues with the service. It took maybe 3 or 4 service tickets and multiple config changes on their end but I've not had issues since.

In the nearly 2 years as a customer they have switched networks twice, three times if you include Level 3 sale to CenturyLink. Around the switch to L3 to accommodate new growth CGNAT was deployed. I have no idea about actual numbers but districts would be behind only a handful of public IPv4 addresses across a large area. IPv6 is ready to go but until user experience is improved (too much IPv4 only on the web) they will not enforce. The $10 I mentioned in previous post for static IP was for people that already had accounts when this change occurred. New accounts have to pay $25/month. When I first switched from TWC they provided 2 public IP's so this was a bit of a downer. I received notice this past week that emergency maintenance was to take place next weekend which always makes me hold my breath as more expansion occurs.

They also I don't think service the northern, poorest part of the city. This could be due to lack of interest/knowledge that the service exists or part of the arrangement that TWC has contractually with the municipality (pure speculation). Also, there are certain areas that will not get service ever. It seems that buried utilities have the greatest impact on such decisions.
>I thought that AT&T was split once in the past to differentiate backbone and service providers - why not in the case of fiber?

So called unbundling was done, but in exchange, the backbone provider got a legal monopoly. Almost everywhere AT&T or Verizon lies fiber has competition, usually with a local cable company.
> Side note: I'm not convinced that the people operating the like farms are wealthy by western standards.

I completely agree -- click farming is a way for second-world people to make a living using third-world labor. In the short term, this benefits the surveillance companies at the expense of their clients. In the medium to long term, it probably costs their investors and helps inflate another tech bubble. Seriously shady folks (think Experian, but completely unregulated, at best) will buy the data when it bursts.
If you managed to load a JSON string into memory that contains a number that takes 32GiB of memory to store after parsing, I don't think you're worrying much about resources.
There are companies that do a combination of things: Real-time trading (manual, semi, auto), pricing (model-driven, or sourced), risk-management, etc. They can either provide their own prices using models, or apply prices from partners. The business is usually separated into discrete units which feed into each other, and outward to partners/customers.

Yes, exchanges support real-time trading, but not every company has all their models running in modern paradigms. It's not uncommon to find companies that run multiple VMs for the sole purpose of... running Excel calculations. Yes, this is exactly what it sounds like. A server that has a several, multi-meg Excel files in memory with external APIs that plug values into cells and read outputs. As I said, within the grand scheme of things, for sports who still run on legacy models, this is a major bottleneck. Remember, many of these companies were started in the 90s, and that's when these models were created. The people who created them are usually swallowed up by the financial industry and now come with a hefty price tag. So the question for the business is "Do we spend millions recreating these proven models and run the risk of them failing? Or do we simply just add another VM?"

At my company things have slowly started changing, but the new models (written in F#) still need a lot of work.
This is an excellent article to begin a discussion.

I have been thinking of communication as “Tiers of Compression”.

Tier 1 Compression. Languages structured in a way that you can create new words that offer an efficient, easily comprehended compression of information (e.g., German, Japanese, Chinese). The problem with these words is that they need to be disseminated to the general public.

Tier 2 Compression. Mythologies and stories as a more complex compression of information (general truths communicated implicitly vs explicitly laid out for the reader/listener). The problem with stories is storage and recall: They need to be stored (in the brain or in a book) and recalled (through root memorization or through search/discovery). There is also the problem with intended vs unintended interpretations, and multiple versions of the same story.

Tier 3 Compression. Within stories, symbols are a hyper-complex compression of information. The problem with symbols is that you have to learn (through culture or tribe) what the symbols mean before you can decode the meaning.
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Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you very much for the quick reply!
Right, ok so we're in a discussion about what "wildly" means :). Imo the rfc was mentioned, so a simple link to the wiki article would have been a polite reply.
I like Pascal for its simplicity and clean syntax.

The modern Pascal is not the same old language as in Borland's Turbo Pascal from the 80s, it's developing, it even has generics - see the "Modern Pascal Introduction" article[0] by Michalis Kamburelis.

Also, quickly (or rather rapidly, as in "RAD") creating truly native and cross-platform GUI applications using Lazarus IDE is the killer feature for me.

[0] - http://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html
This is not an "HN-ism". It is not proper to use quotation marks when paraphrasing. Doing so is explicitly attributing words to someone that they did not say.

> not how writing or paraphrasing works anywhere else

That's simply false.
If you want to use Reddit et al as your standard reference on the use of language and punctuation, have at it. But you can't reasonably expect every other forum to use that lowest common denominator. Railing against simple, longstanding house rules like this is just pointless contrarianism.
And then there's this guy. I suppose someone has to be.
Did you file that in the systemd issue tracker? I had a quick look and couldn't see a report there: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=i...

This could be an honest mistake. On my system, systemd-fsck-root.service and systemd-fsck@.service have `TimeoutSec = 0`, which I guess to mean "no timeout", but the systemd-fsck executable could have its own timeout. In any case, filing a bugreport sounds much easier than switching distributions.
> The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads

I've worked in the industry for a few years now and worked with hundreds of data scientists and for me this is not true. They are smart, no doubt, but they are on par with programmers. Majority aren't doing pure research but just applying the knowledge of others to new problems.

The best minds for me are still those in universities doing pure research. And that hasn't changed.
No, but if you separate the logic from the presentation you can use the LazWeb (or FclWeb, i don't remember) components to create a web-based frontend for the application. There is also a separate framework called Brooks that is supposedly more comprehensive, but i haven't tried that (and TBH i have only touched LazWeb/FclWeb only a little).
> There is only one lexicographic ordering of UTF8 strings.

Then why is LC_COLLATE still a thing?

Also, you don't get to second-guess a spec. If it does not specify everything that it needs to, it deserves the "half-baked" label.
Meanwhile, I tried 3 different browsers and can't get past the "enter your name" screen on mobile. Apparently native inputs are too dated to use.
Really fun! I was super excited to see that it also supports controllers but for some reason there is at least a one second delay between button presses on my xbox controller and the game :(
Oh please STFU
You are kinda right. Bond's don't directly increase / decrease the money supply but they can be used as a tool to indirectly do so.

In the US the Federal Reserve Bank buys and sells bonds (US Treasury Bills to be exact) as a way to increase / decrease the supply of money. It doesn't actually issue any bonds -- it just trades already issued US Treasury Bills.

At a high level, When the Fed wants to increase the money supply, it will buy bonds on the open market with money it creates out of thin air. To decrease the money supply, it sells bonds on the open market instead and pockets the cash--removing it from circulation.

Quantitative Easing is basically the same idea, only instead of short-term government bonds, the Fed purchases large-scale assets (like mortgage backed securities) instead.
Why? Because if the economy is shitty enough and the interest rates are almost at zero, the conventional methods of stimulating the economy stop working...

Macro-economics is pretty cool, actually.
Raymond Chen has got a video exactly regarding this!
(https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/One-Dev-Minute/One-Dev-Quest...)
Fun fact, I wrote my own JSON reader/writer in pure MATLAB, and it is also regex-based, and in many cases, it is faster than MATLAB's own, Mex-based JSON reader/writer: https://github.com/bastibe/transplant

There are few things as slow as non-vectorized MATLAB code. MATLAB's regex engine is pretty decent, actually, and supports quite a few fancy tricks. For example, I use the regex engine to find the start/end of all numbers and strings ahead of time, and for replacing escape sequences (even unicode escapes!) with their literal characters. The former is particularly important because otherwise, you'd have to manually iterate over characters until you find the end of strings or numbers, which is unacceptably slow in MATLAB.
The treatment of data seems very shallow. Data varies widely in value. I'm sure some companies will find hidden value in their data. Others will be disappointed. Often, holding onto data is not worth the risk. Consider why there are email retention policies and all the high-profile hacks last year.

If anything, this points to companies keeping better track of their data, understanding why they have it, and making rational decisions about what to collect and when to delete it.

Also, I expect that companies won't be allowed to make their own decisions about this - outsiders will make demands and this will eventually result in more regulation.
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For a couple of seconds until you spawn, you can click on the icon of the type of plane you want. The icons are on the left side of the screen.
As far as I am aware, it is possible to disable the public 'xfinitywifi' hotspot on all Comcast modems which provide this feature (I had a stint as a TSR relatively recently). Further, I believe this is a user-configurable setting on all CC modems. I personally have this feature disabled on my Arris 1682G, and this should be their most common model in most regions.
I don't think the OP post was being serious about replicators. It was a geek version of 'until money grows on trees'.

And then the next reply was saying we don't necessarily need replicators to solve this problem.
Absolutely not. Why would I offer to build someone else's castle without reward?

I'll gladly contribute to something everyone owns and has rights to, but under no circumstances will I do this for complete strangers that seek to capitalize upon my efforts. I only do that in exchange for a salary.
The Brits seemed to be fairly good towards each other :-D
what is the backend tech being used?
not all replies are a refutation or dispute with what was being said.
Really slow in the seattle area. Not sure if this is because of servers being overloaded right now.
What makes you think Korea is more weird and twisted than Japan?
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Oh we've had the conversation and she agrees with me, but then goes and buys it anyway and I don't judge her for it.

That's compromise that is.
Such a simple and good looking game. Fantastic! Gives you a sense of just how big our oceans are.
Should one be a generalist or an specialist in the current time frame?
Code search in bitbucket server is dismal. All punctuation characters are removed. This includes colons, full stops, braces and underscores. This makes it close to useless for searching source code.

Regarding global refactorings think new language features or library versions.
It does. I apologize.
How can an ISP seriously do this? Is the random domain even aware than comcast is injecting JS into their site?
> some people who are in the know about a very specific paper

This stuff isn't obscure just because you don't happen to know about it already. Chris Okasaki's publications have been cited over 1000 times, mostly for his PhD work -- those papers, especially on functional data structures and amortization analysis in lazy languages, are considered foundational for a whole research area in Computer Science.

> Is this some kind of Obi-wan Kenobi from a certain point of view stuff? Why is this so difficult to get a handle on?

Did you learn calculus overnight, or expect to understand a technical conversation about differential equations and Cauchy sequences without taking two years of classes or reading a couple of really thick books first? Why should this be any different?

> If a thing says immutable on the tin, and it's mutable, how is that purely functional? .... It seems to me that a data structure so amazing as being purely functional shouldn't be so easy to misunderstand as what we're seeing here. And it's clearly being misunderstood. And not only by me.

Sigh. Explaining it properly would involve a tour though the untyped lambda calculus, simply-typed lambda calculus and the Curry-Howard isomorphism, a discussion on denotational vs. operational semantics (Hoare logic, functional interpreters, type-preserving compilation, small-step vs large-step operational semantics, etc).

TL;DR: "purely functional" is a description of the program's meaning (in a technical sense), not its implementation.
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Calling all C preprocessor directives (like #include and #if) "macros" makes me skeptical. Is this usage common?