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I'll second this. I started out not using modules, but figured I'd migrate things over to using them as and when it would make things tidier. I never migrated things.

Modules are really neat but I don't think they're a sensible starting point if you're not doing a lot of repetition or don't exactly know what you need to build yet.
Basic capitalistic economic theory says that you must seek to maximize profits long term.

If you allow fake accounts to flourish, you tarnish your brand and hurt your platform in the long term.

Of course, theory is one thing but the people in charge of making decisions might have no motivation to prioritize the long term viability of the company if they themselves don't really care about the company and the shareholders but just want to extract maximum amounts of value for themselves...
I think 99%, 90% and 88% market share count as a monopoly

"Intel has more than 99 percent market share in servers, and its chips are in more than 90 percent of laptops and 88 percent of desktops sold."[1]

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/microsoft...
That was Solomon, not David.
Again, different keyboards, even QWERTY keyboards, have different layouts. Look at laptops... no single brand has the same keyboard layout for each year's model. It's really f!@#$ing annoying actually.
"The Department of Agriculture has found that for only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years of age is increasing."

When was the first time?

I couldn't find that out, but I did find https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resou... which shows that in 2012 there were 109,119 "principle operators" in the age range 25-34 and 106,735 in the 2007 census.

Not much growth, but it is growth. There was bigger growth in the 55 and older categories.

And the average age of principle operator when up by a year between 2007 and 2012. It's increased every census of agriculture, and is now 58.3 years, compared to 50.5 years in 1982.

To go along with that,"In 2012, the number of new farmers who have been on their current operation less than ten years was down 20 percent from 2007."
The “cut the baby in half” was Solomon. If you’re looking for stories in the Bible where David is the bad guy, check out 2 Samuel 11. It’s all about how David murders a dude so he can commit adultery with the dudes wife.
Me:
Started taking computer science courses but I struggled a lot. My thoughts at the end of my graduation was there's just not enough time to cram in all the information and skills they asked out of me but luckily, I graduated. If I could turn back the clock, I'd just Google for resources myself to learn programming, databases, and all and have chosen a different major to do instead.

Advice:
Start with a high level programming language like Python or Ruby. Google to your heart's content.
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I think 'Law of Leaky Abstractions' is overrated. Abstractions always leak, the question is whether it is part of the API and explained or not. Another example that is not indices: async/await is a leak of the underlying implementation and inner working.
I don't care about people paying for extra followers. If that makes you feel special, be my guest. What I very much do care about is these bots that are being used by foreign nations and other bad actors to influence our national conversations and even our cultural zeitgeist. To propose a variant on Newton's third, for each powerful positive innovation, there is an equally powerful negative consequence. I wonder what can be done to stop this.
How exceptionally Baudrillardian, or maybe the word is meta.

A class, in their search for authenticity, have "gentrified" the authentic experiences -- and hardships -- of an originating lower class into trendy symbols.

The social metamorphosis is complete when the symbol replaces the experience entirely, to the annoyance of the originating class; in part because the experience was a symbol of their own identity.

The effect is then highlighted in language ostensibly for the gentrifying class, on a virtual property catering to the same, and posted for discussion on another such virtual property.

Finally, like the author who pretentiously signals a more authentic worldview through the symbolic understanding and condemnation of the effect, so this poster signals the same through bemused expression of its symbolic and recursive nature.
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That same quote made me roll my eyes. You would literally be laughed out of an undergraduate English class if you made that claim. I guess Beowulf and The Odyssey weren't moral face-offs?
Looking a few things up:

Grendel from Beowulf apparently is a descendant of Cain (from the Bible), the first murderer.

Perhaps its not so much that "bad guys weren't in these ancient stories", its that "bad guys weren't human anymore". If you were a bad guy, you literally turn into a monster, or a demon, or a devil, or an Oni... or a troll.

Today, we have stories where humans can play the bad guy.
I'm sorry, what? You don't like YAML because it uses whitespace as a delimiter instead of curly braces? That is probably the least important feature that YAML adds for CF templates.

YAML, despite its warts, is much more readable and maintainable for CF templates than JSON, particularly when you are doing non-trivial things and need to use a lot of intrinsic functions and string manipulation. Or you want to put comments in your template.

I've worked on huge JSON and huge YAML CF templates (I'm talking templates that are thousands of lines long--in YAML). YAML is without a doubt easier to maintain.

I can't recommend any CF libraries for generating templates either, unless you want to wait around for new CloudFormation features to be implemented or suffer from half-broken existing implementations (or waste time hunting down bugs and submitting patches). Sometimes it makes sense to use a template engine like Jinja or ERB. But I'd stay away from libraries that generate CF templates--they're mired with missing edge cases and they're mostly an unnecessary dependency.
> Are you implying it somehow is meaningfully different?

I don't know what you're asking. Different from what?

You think the fact that your friends have never heard that Mozilla is a non-profit contradicts what I wrote? I did not say that most people know that Mozilla is a non-profit. I didn't even say that most technical people would know that.
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I’m constantly amazed there isn’t a more standardized “transliteration” of APL into a slightly more verbose form that can be written easily on a conventional QWERTY keyboard (yes, I get it, APL devotees love the information density, but as this letter points out wacky keyboard requirements pose a pretty significant adoption barrier).

Is there some major “modern” language or library that I’m unaware is actually an APL in QWERTY clothing? I’d love to give it a try.
Ugggh, so easy to get the various kings confused. Ah well.
I read an industry analyst -- unfortunately I've lost the link -- who claims Intel is in a more precarious position than most of us think. The claim is basically that Intel's big lead is process technology, and to maintain that, they spend billions on fabs. To do that, they have to sell a lot of processors to distribute those costs. And they most likely couldn't afford to maintain that process lead if all they sell is datacenter chips because there wouldn't be enough volume.
Somewhat reminds me of this hoax from over a decade ago: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002875.h...
> Also, are you sure your WM won't be updated to work with Wayland..?

Window managers are inherently specific to the X11 ecosystem. They interact with the X server on a low level that doesn't translate over to Wayland. See also: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_11
A few years ago I grabbed a free ebook of Grimm stories from Project Gutenberg for light bedtime reading. There are several there, based on different translations and containing different subsets of the stories. This one seems to be the most complete: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5314

I was surprised by how many of the stories fell under one of these templates:

• Main character in story is cruel and dishonest. This brings him wealth, power, love, and/or happiness.

• Main character in story is victimized by someone cruel and dishonest. Responds by finding someone weak and/or stupid that he can victimize in order to boost his wealth or position back to what they were originally.

It was very hard in most of the stories to find anyone who could be described as what we would call a "good guy".
Yes, basic capitalistic economic theory is wrong. Many companies will do whatever it takes to maximize short term profits, as long as they can reasonably get away with that (i.e., not go to jail).
Sounds like BS to me; why would the demand be low? EV demand in general is crazy, everything which is produced seem to sell instantly, and it grows by 50+% a year. No overstocking is possible for the many years to come. And Model 3 in particular seem to not be worse than most other models existing on the market today.
Please consider using ESR 52 instead of 56. ESR 52 gets security patches until June 2018.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2017/10/04/firefox-s...
In Beowulf the antagonist is a monster, she at least gives a corollary in the Arthur legendarium. Also, who is portrayed as being evil in the Odyssey? The only two examples I can think of are the suitors and Polyphemus, but the text refers to Odysseus being cunning against these foes rather than “morally justified”. Odysseus even plays the suitors game, because in that culture their behavior is justified. Honestly I think Odysseus is one of the most morally ambiguous characters in all of literature, he’s practically the first anti-hero, to use him as a counter example seems like a huge stretch to me.
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possible technologically wise, but over exposure is a real aspect of artist management, often bands are contracted not to release music, to enable pent up demand to be released at the timing choice of the publisher.
> Turn-by-leaning doesn't exist, it's an illusion. It works because when you lean, you are pushing a bit on the handle bar.

If one is riding without holding the handlebar, one can make the bicycle go to the left or right depending on which way one leans, which in essence changes the center-of-gravity. The handlebar will turn in the expected direction as well.

> Pushing the handle bar in the direction of your turn makes it go to the opposite direction

This appears to be counterintuitive. When turning right, for example, I would have to push the left side of the handlebar away from myself, and, at the same time, pull the right side of the handlebar towards myself. The front wheel will then point in the intended direction of travel, and the bike will lean toward the side I'm turning.

> I am utterly amazed at the general confusion in this thread coming from both motorcycle and bicycle riders.

It's probably because most people, myself included, have not had formal training in bicycle/motorcycle handling skills. And they learn through experience (which probably leads to the problems in obstable avoidance that you describe).

Edit:
s/handle/handling/
I think they were expecting something more sinister or nefarious to pop up from the investigation, but it didn’t. So they ran a long piece without much of a point, but with some cool animations and random celebs sprinkled in for the outrage factor.
From the article:

"In an email, Mr. Leal said that buying followers for his business generated more than enough new revenue to pay for the expense. He was not worried about being penalized by Twitter, Mr. Leal said. “Countless public figures, companies, music acts, etc. purchase followers,” he wrote. “If Twitter was to purge everyone who did so there would be hardly any of them on it.”
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I used to be a sound engineer for live shows. I could imagine high speed cameras being used to replace instrument microphones in live performances one day, much like optical mice replaced the roller ball style.

By keeping a fixed object in view of the camera (e.g. a reflector on the stage), a camera could correct for its own vibrations and achieve perfect rejection of outside noise, unlike most microphones which have a cardioid pattern.

Probably a pipe dream, but cool idea.
The large gaps mean you need to continuously slow down for the people merging in - overall it decreases safety, IMO.
I mostly mean around the price point. A large portion of the cost of the ISS was launching it- $450m per Space Shuttle launch, dozens of launches to get all the components up.

If we wanted to replace the ISS today (or double it's size), the FH could bring the price point down considerably.
Reads like an advertorial for another news aggregator.
Try to find a real-life example of that, I’ve never been able to.
Depends on what your definition of computing is.

Are you going to say that Apple has a monopoly on all iPhones? Or are you going to take the more reasonable stance and realize that the iPhone / iPad is a competitor to Desktops / Laptops.
I'm not talking about closing gaps to prevent merges, but leaving a compromise between continuously merging traffic in front of you - requiring you to slow down continuously but randomly - vs maintaining a steady speed with a predictable buffer.
Yup. Almost every bit of 'trickery' people and companies use to promote themself or their works has been a thing since the days of internet forums and mailing lists. Whether that be sockpuppet accounts, fake reviews, fudging the stats counters or anything else.

The only reason it's seen as some 'new' thing is because many journalists seemingly didn't use the internet that much prior to the days of social media, and like many people online seem to think a lot of patterns are newer than they really are.
The US has being doing this for ages. The difference is that they used to pay mainstream media people in foreign countries to spread their vision of the world, and therefore poison the well of international news and commentary. Now the US is tasting a little bit of that in the form of social media, which is more polarized and difficult to control.
I'm a little worried about the two nearly synchronized landings not far from each other. Any interference between them and... well, we'd get a fireworks show.
I am not ashamed to admit that I felt the same way for a time. I don't know when things changed, but it started to click recently, and I actually like yaml. I guess that it helps that it has become rather ubiquitous in our build tools between cloud-init, puppet hieradata, and ansible roles/playbooks.

What hasn't been helpful is what others here and elsewhere have reminded me time and time again... "JSON is a subset of yaml"
> Citation needed.

There aren't any, I searched the last time the "Feynman Technique" was posted on HN and found that the term originated on Youtube [0] in 2011.

When challenged by a commenter for a source the Youtuber stated:

> The technique is inspired by Feynman, not used directly by him.

> I was inspired by the story I shared in the beginning to formulate

> his more informal approach into a method. You can see him talk

> about understanding the math ideas in his book "Surely You Must Be

> Joking, Mr. Feynman"

From there it appears that "inspired by" has transformed into "created by"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrNqSLPaZLc
I can't speak to the past, but going forward, information businesses don't need to last forever, they can be useful in "waves". See Myspace/Groupon. Both have fallen out of "favor" but the brands still have value to "late adopters" or maybe even better "those lost to tech". I think we'll see more info businesses do this wave approach that is not about building the next GE, but really about short term exponential capital growth.
To this day maintain that social media is a failed experiment and should be left behind in the dust for objective measurements.
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Thanks, that's what I thought. The article could be clearer about this.
They could also target availability of repair parts and tools (both the software kind and the electromechanical kind) rather than dictating design constraints.

More critically, repair information. Schematics and service manuals for Apple products get leaked pretty easily, and similarly for a lot of other products (notably laptops), but that's only because of largely lax security.

Compare this to the early computers (like the IBM PC) which came with the full set of schematics as well as things like BIOS source code.
>I wonder how long it will take to create a bot account indistinguishable from a real one.

They are already pervasive. That’s why I stopped using Twitter. It is literally impossible to tell if you are reacting to an actual human’s tweet, or just being manipulated by bots.
Yes, there are plenty of gray characters in Game of Thrones, but has Jon Snow done anything evil? Has Ramsay done anything good?

Afaik the show follows the general story line as planned by Martin.
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I just want to say that I LOVE the irony here. The party that has long pushed for States Rights is now, through their own federal-level decisions against the states, triggering states rights fights.
The worst case is when they manage to fix Spectre/Meltdown but then introduce a bunch of other errata in the process because they rushed it. The errata lists for modern processors are already disturbingly long, and this is for things that aren't "merely" timing side-channels but actual "not as designed" defects.
Hey all, inspired by cryptokitties we set out to make a more complex game, but one that also had a great focus on the UI and making it fun.

I'm happy to answer any questions about web development, ethereum development or any thing else!
I couldn't find that comic, but I found this one.

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/2ba3d3962352679dc5b6027b21e4...

Rose is Evan's successor.
The official guidance regarding Vit C supplements is just that; they’re cheap and harmless, so why not?
Not in reality in the corporate space. Maybe AMD has a chance in commercial unless this destroys Intel but probably won't. Intel is the only x86 cpu I've seen my customers not have issues with. People are moving off power and sparc to x86 because of costs. These costs are not initial purchase but more of operations and maintenance. Applications are being less and less supported on non-x86 architecture. Arm is great but have not seen much movement into corporate. For x86, AMD has had stability issues for years running enterprise apps. I have made a lot of money troubleshooting issues for customers only to find out it's an execution bug on AMD. A lot of new software companies only support Intel cpu's as well. Why pay for making an HCL on two separate architectures when you really only need 1?
I think people telling stories like Star Wars choose to make the antagonists Capital-E-Evil because modern audiences are much less happy to root for people who are fighting a war if they aren't shown that the war is thoroughly justifiable.

A few hundred years ago you could happily put a character in a saga and have them go off on viking raids and kill any number of people whose only crime is living near the coast, and still put them forward as morally admirable.

Nowadays if you want to have your protagonists shooting at their enemies or hitting them with sharp bits of metal you basically have to choose between a good-vs-evil narrative or having only anti-heroes rather than plain heroes (and both choices are now common).

So I think this bit is pretty much backwards: «
Good guy/bad guy narratives might not possess any moral sophistication, but they do promote social stability, and they’re useful for getting people to sign up for armies and fight in wars with other nations.
»

What modern Good-vs-Evil narratives are collectively yelling at us is the idea that _only_ outright visible evil justifies making war.
Irrelevant to the content of the article, but I am such a fan of the direction the NYT has taken with their interactive articles. Breaking up long-winded articles via relevant images is no longer sufficient to maintain most readers' attention. The NYT may just reach their 10 million subscriber goal [1] via these very enjoyable (often scroll-triggered) animations and charts/graphics and I hope they continue with these efforts.

[1] https://digiday.com/media/new-york-times-enlisting-interacti...
Saying something isn’t decentralized in the crypto world can mean any of a number of things. The problem is that decentralization isn’t one specific thing that can be measured. There’s absolute centralization like a mainframe controlled by a single individual not connected to the outside world. Beyond that nothing else is absolute, there’s just varying degrees of decentralization.

You could have a slightly decentralized governance like a consortium that votes on how to manage the mainframe. You could have a distributed network of computers all managed by a single entity. Each of those have elements of centralization and decentralization. Within those categories there is varying levels of decentralization. For instance there could be a completely democratic organization that votes on how to manage the mainframe or more of a republic style where members vote on a person to manage the mainframe for them.

So, when someone says something isn’t decentralized in the crypto world they typically mean some element is centralized or is slightly less decentralized. For bitcoin you will see people say this in reference to large mining pools that have the power to control consensus to a certain extent. For NEM, they’re probably referring to the fact that the nodes that control the network are closed source. Since they are closed source that means one entity can control the direction of the network, and one can’t simply fork what they’re building.

I’m of the opinion that there will never be complete decentralization, and every project will have some degree is centralization. We’ll get better with time, but I think decentralization is an inherently intractable problem.
Vodka has a great many cooking applications as well. Most liquid "extracts" like vanilla extract are just vanilla beans that have been left to soak in a bottle of vodka for awhile. You could easily make your own that way.

The same method works for homemade liquers. Orange peel submerged in vodka for a month will make a flavorful orange liquer. And vodka added to a simple syrup (equal parts water and sugar boiled until the sugar dissolves) and coffee, left to age, will make a yummy homemade Kahlua.

Vodka's versatility is its greatest strength.
One of my biggest beefs with the Game of Thrones “there are no bad guys” assertion is the Wights. Seems to me they are George Martins Orcs.
It depends what you are looking for. A bot today might even have a real insight, just by the luck of mixing two random points together. Just look at the top picks of r/subredditsimulator.

But it won't be able to hold a longer conversation - that seems like a far ways off.
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While the efficiency of a command line is always sexy, but for data science in particular, where reproducibility is important and bugs are subtle and often don't cause a terminal error, it is worth it to sacrifice a little bit of code efficiency for code clarity in the long run by using an IDE/Notebook.
I'm less concerned about Intel's profits or its lost lawsuits. I'm wondering whether I shall receive any compensation for flawed CPUs, considering they're still under warranty.
The number of data points is a bit misleading. Unless I am interpreting it wrongly, it looks like less than 100 rats were actually used to look at the hazard rate? Most of the ~3000 rats were censored because they moved/euthanized for experiments?