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The Spectrum +3 . Also, was my first computer.
Andreas bought Sinclair, because Sinclair lost a lot of money, trying to get his "electric car"
Yes, I see it as a pun on e.g. object-oriented programming taken to absurdity.

Ever since learning of Homespring I've wanted to create another metaphor-oriented language around a different metaphor. Clearly the learning curve for Homespring is caused by people not knowing enough about fish farming. The right metaphor for most cultures is clearly agriculture.
That's not what Toshiba pays - that's the salary headhunters use to take engineers away from Toshiba.
A good way to distinguish a mainframe from a supercomputer would be served with... a car analogy.

A race car is often uncomfortable and hard to drive. You need to be physically fit to drive it. Supercomputers are the race cars of computers. You need to do crazy tricks to extract their maximum theoretical performance. Mainframes, however, are more suitable to run common tasks, are easier to drive and generally more reliable. A mainframe like a 360/195 would be somewhat like a BMW M-series. Its performance is impressive, but you don't need to practice your whole life not to kill yourself in one.
It's really too bad they didn't stick with it.

Mozilla is exactly the company I most trust to guide the software that is going on my phone, and the browser I use. I'm not sure they would make it today even if they tried, the management and the goals of the project were what drove it into the ground IMO. They might have done better if they focused on the high margin cell phone market -- grab the blackberry and privacy conscious market who have money to blow.

At least we got a faster/better FF out of it -- then again so many sites are chrome optimized (and don't necessarily even test FF) that I'm a little worried.

Android is open source but doesn't feel like it in practice (especially if you buy a vendor build)... And it's surprisingly hard to find a vendor that will just give you a phone that can be easily wiped to put stock android on.
No EU beurocratic shithole is going to be good for startups.
Disappointing it does not mention Convex Computer, which:

-produced the world's first commercially available gallium arsenide supercomputer, the Convex C3

-owned the minisupercomputer market from ~1986 through its end in 1995

-built the first commercially successful flat address space, cache coherent massively parallel processor the SPP1000 series in '94
The „Voxel Space“ engine from the 90th has only very little to do with what we call voxel today. It it basically a raycasting engine for height maps [0]. It is very limited. You can‘t look up and down more than 20 degrees and you can‘t even render houses, cars or trees.

[0] https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace
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It sounds like you have to spend a lot of time proving that what you are doing qualifies for these bonuses. Seems mostly like a haven for those who have the connections and know-how to get through the approval process.
The linked article is from 2010, but I think it’s still as good and valid today as it was then.

Thanks!
Free market? How is it a free market if you can't even find out the price before you pay? The Republicans are no help, but not because they purport to believe in free markets.
What do you make of the following:

"the Democrat-controlled House and Senate committees adopted nearly 190 Republican amendments while writing the legislation, according to data compiled by The New York Times."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/21/us/health-car...
Those are great points, but mostly municipal, not organic or community oriented.

Toronto is very civic, the busses run, it 'has everything', it's 'safe', the cops are ok, etc etc..

But communities are organic, you can't just invent them out of nowhere, or construct them.

To boot - the waterfront is rather close to a massive highway, and downtown traffic etc. - tough place to do something from scratch.
The third party can fill a very useful niche: when your current party has let you down, but you also don't want to support the other extreme of the political spectrum, you can vote third party.

This has no analogy in hotellings law proper. But imagine the beach had two entrances: one at 1/4 down the beach, and one 3/4 down the beach; there are more beach goers near an entrance than farther away from it. We also recognize that a beach goer is less likely to get ice cream the farther away from the ice cream stand they are. Then we will see something similar as before, with the vendors moving closer and closer together. But now they stop before they reach the center, because if they get to far from the entrance they will start losing customers. This explains why political candidates are not precisely identical, just similar: they are each catering to a block of more extreme voter.

Now we add a third entrance somewhere in between the first two: what happens? We would expect three vendors to emerge, one for each entrance, all with a tendency towards their second closest entrance. This is analogous to three political parties, with two being more similar to each other than the third, as we sometimes see outside the US.

In short: the political parties in the US are particular to the politics and distribution of the voters there, and efforts to paint this as inevitable given FPTP are severely overstated.
No, common sense says people and companies will chose providers with best coverage at lowest price. Insurance companies does have huge incentive to lower the premiums. I think the article is simply not well researched. The guy thinks of insurance company as middlemen who negotiates for him. That’s true only to an extent because insurance company does have to build a network. If they miss out on big players like NYU then their lower premiums are pointless. The most flexibility customers want is to chose any doctor they want. Hospitals have taken advantage of this since long and negotiatons are not simple for insurance company to build their network. Medicare is different beast.
The author of the article mistook the importance of environment interactivity, considering that the learning algorithm is the key difference.

I think the distinction here should be between dataset based learning and simulator based learning. The genetic algorithms mentioned in the article rely on a dynamic environment, not a static dataset. Given the dynamic environment (which is like an infinite dataset) gradient methods can learn just as well - look at AlphaGo for example. But when the model can't experiment / try new actions and see the effects, it can't separate causes from correlations.

You can extract only so much from a dataset, the model needs a way to cause and observe external effects. The environment could be the real world, a simulated world, a game, a meta neural net optimiser (AutoML), or any domain where the model can act and influence the path of learning and the environment by its previous actions.

I'm happy to see the boom in RL and simulator based learning in the last few years. It means we are on the right track.
(Here's a post describing some of the problems back in the day with Ruby's YAML and JSON: https://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/43394068341/ruby...

YAML is of course a format that is designed to instantiate objects as described in the source, rather than as checked by the destination, so I wouldn't want the world to adopt YAML instead of Java serialization.)
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The way I remember it is that it makes sense in loops that search for something in an iterable. Such loops break when they're successful, and so it makes sense for the code in the else clause to run when the loop was unsuccessful.
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I had the +2, the one with the cassette player.
perhaps my favourite history-of-tech book, edging out "dealers of lightning"
And it sounds like a common problem in the software industry.
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The author doesn't see it the same way:

"There are a bunch of techniques people typically consider being voxel-based. The oldest ones used in games were height-map based where the renderer interpreted a 2D map of height values to calculate boundary between the air and the ground in the scene. That‘s not truly a voxel-based approach as there‘s no volumetric data set in use (ie in Delta Force 1, Comanche, Outcast, and others)."
> There are, give or take, 65 million people in France. (Incidentally, this number is also, give or take, the amount of Americans who live in the most abject poverty seen in the developed world.)

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
That mainstream Dems would speak well of GWB

I don't understand this at all. Did you mean GHWB (#41) rather than GWB (#43)?
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Generally you can't be sure that the second statement does not also raise ImportError, where you do not want to catch it.
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> The term was coined by a homeopathic doctor with he perceived intent of siloing modern scientific medication and medical study rather than attributing the legitimacy it’s earned due to the accepted rigours of the scientific process.

The term was coined -- before 'medicine' became 'scientific' -- to point out the philosophical defects of 'heroic medicine', which used bloodletting, blister agents, mercury treatments, etc to punish the illness out of the patient. Allopathic doctors were commonly despised because they weren't helpful for many conditions.

Homeopathic philosophy was that the body can fix itself, if it were properly supported - clean environment, good diet, etc.
I did say "unless you use a break". I don't think this is very useful.
Doesn’t this come with perks like life long job security, retirement etc? I had heard that in Japan, working for a traditional company is like getting married.
>you need to believe that any worker acting exclusively by himself has the resources to enforce those laws

Yes because that’s how laws work, it’s up to the individual to enforce them...

Literally no laws work this way.
>"In many ways the ancient Indian civilization was much superior to Western civilization."

Which ways, specifically? Certainly not health nor longevity.

This rewrite of history to make ancient Hinduism appear much greater is very similar to the history rewrite currently happening in China, to retroactively make Han Chinese appear as a superior and united culture.
I wouldn't be surprised if it went father back. Farsi, another Indo European language has the -en/an ending, for human nouns. Child/Bache -> children/bachegan, brother/boradar -> brethren/boradaran,
Daughter/dokhtar -> dokhtaran. I'm not sure if they share the same derivations but seem related.
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It doesn't work for me. Segfaults, just prints the following:

Set current directory to /home/elronnd/slower_light
Found path: /home/elronnd/slower_light/A Slower Speed of Light.x86_64

Mono path[0] = '/home/elronnd/slower_light/A Slower Speed of Light_Data/Managed'

Mono path[1] = '/home/elronnd/slower_light/A Slower Speed of Light_Data/Mono'

Mono config path = '/home/elronnd/slower_light/A Slower Speed of Light_Data/Mono/etc'

zsh: abort (core dumped) ./A\ Slower\ Speed\ of\ Light.x86_64

Same thing for the 32-bit version. Windows version seems to work in wine, though.
Must do, actual Old Norse is similar to Old English and have similar plural endings and a generally similar grammar. Many irregular verbs share a common ancestor and are similar even today.

Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian have kept more of the insanely complex rules for pluralisation actually.
So how about the plurals of some words ending with "us", like fungus-fungi, but virus-viruses-not-virii and how about dingus-dingii-or-dinguses, doofus-doofii-or-doofuses and so forth?
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By Buckminster Fuller

I first read it when I was ~25 and it made me think about the way the world is, the historical reasons it is this way and how we can nudge it towards being better.

It frustrates me that Fuller wrote the book nearly 50 years ago and all the same stupid crap continues to happen and humanity doesn't seem to be getting its collective shit together.

But then I remember the lessons from the book on why the world is like it is and how we can only nudge it slowly....

You can read it here: http://designsciencelab.com/resources/OperatingManual_BF.pdf

Edit to also mention; Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (as well as basically every other book he ever wrote).
I'm not sure what exactly that Playstation 2-looking tank in the video is supposed to do to convince me that voxels are the next big thing, but it's not doing it.
ANU made a relativistic ray tracer quite a while back and animated some videos of what would happen if you set the speed of light to ordinary human-scale speeds, which sadly seem to have vanished from the Internet.

http://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~cms130/TEE/site/tee/learni...
That’s true if your knowledge of their lines is 5 years old.
Exactly, the situation for us humans is that emotions are based on our perception of reality, and this perception might be (or, most likely, is) tainted. Lesswrong has some articles on emotions, which were very enlightening to me btw. Emotion is important to listen to! But instead of taking the easy way out of an emotion, like giving in to rage and hitting someone, or running away from a painful situation, we can stop to reflect what view of the world causes this emotion, and find a more rational way to find a more constructive way to deal with the problem at hand. That’s btw exactly what cognitive behavioral therapy is about. The hard part is to stop in your tracks and recognize situations that pull „the trigger“ for you.
Any idea how does qbasic and gwbasic compare here?
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Python 3 had it's first release in 2008, that thread was from 2009. Probably didn't even really think about it before then. (the more you know)
Funny, I actually like for-else because it can simplify loop exits.

First of all, the core of a linear search loop always has two exits: the break and the normal (unsuccessful) loop exit.

But in a lookup-or-insert pattern, a regular for loop has two possible states that the system can be in at the end of the loop. With a for-else loop, you can put the or-insert part into the else block, so that there is a simpler invariant: after the loop construct, the element always exists and has been found.

I was honestly surprised by all the negativity in this thread. To offer an alternative opinion, there have been plenty of times when I missed having for-else while writing C.
Sounds like the API's you're talking about are some flavour of RPC.

So rephrase your own question: what's wrong with RPC?
I'm pretty sure there are a few ways to do this: try inspecting the html of the page, you can find an xml url there. There used to be an 'export to rss' option buried somewhere in the sidebar, don't remember if that still works. On mobile so can't verify.

In regards to algorithmic hooks (nice shorthand, I'm borrowing that), there are various extensions available on the major browsers which block comments, the sidebar, videos loading in the player at the end of the video, etc.

I am finally quite happy with my defence kit, I should write about it somewhere. /r/nosurf has plenty of tips anyway.
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Voxels will be key for further VR immersion.

In a VR game, being able to look at things very close, and seeing smaller and smaller details almost infinitely, will help go a long way toward making things feel more real.

Think taking a break in an FPS, and kneeling down to see the blades of grass, and then closer to see dirt and pebbles, and even closer to maybe seeing ants.
> It is a legitimate alternate clause in the sense that it provides alternative behavior when the guard fails.

But the "guard fails" and the else is executed on every normal loop exit, except if the exit was done with break.

for a in range( 1,3 ):
print( a )
else:
print( "end" )

gives:

1
2
end

It's an "alternative" only when there's break. In all other cases it is executed.

Even naming it "nobreak" would be confusing as without break it is always executed at the end. The clearer naming would be approximately "on_every_nonbreak_end_of_for"
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You can actually use else for try statements. Doesn't answer question but it's something I learned relatively recently and may help some others.

try:
import uvloop
asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(uvloop.EventLoopPolicy)
except ImportError:
pass
else:
print("well that didn't work")
I am curious about the real number of founders in this thread?
It seems that most of the replies are focused on system criticism… and it's a completely false statement. Creating a startup in France is really easy to do if you do it well. Take an accountant and he will handle almost everything for you, from the creation to the run. Man Power is cheap compare to the USA.
The only limitation seems to be the motivation… and to become a founder you are going to need a lot of motivation !

So what are the difficulties:
1.	Market
2.	Money

The initial market is small. This means that you need to go directly to international business. We have Europe but the point is that Countries are a little bit too patriot.
From this point, addressing the USA market is really difficult without having a headquarter there, even with fully digitalized services and English native commercials. Don't know why but you can read Criteo founder's feedback on this point. Addressing China is almost impossible.
So here is the point: to address Europe and USA you need huge funds.

Money is easy to get at the beginning and you have a lot of public helps on this phase. Then it's more difficult (>2M€). VC market is clearly not as developed as in the USA. That where most of the startup ends… Best case, you will raise money in the USA and move there. Otherwise you are looking for an exit.

That will be my conclusion. France is a very cheap place to buy a startup ! (An no such bureaucratic barriers).
There are things which are provably impossible. No amount of future cleverness will change that. It is, for example, impossible to find three nonzero positive integers A, B and C for which the cube of A plus the cube of B equals the cube of C.
It's derived from KPMG's global tax tables for 2018, and confirmed from:

https://investinestonia.com/business-in-estonia/taxation/

Estonia's corporate income tax rate is not essentially zero, unless you plan to never distribute any profit. Otherwise it's 14-20%. It would be unusual for most businesses to never distribute profit.

Last year Estonia collected something like €368m in corporate income taxes. Or €283 per capita. Equal to about 4% of their budget. Not a huge sum, also not anywhere close to zero. In the US for 2018, corporate income taxes will be about 5% to 6% of tax revenue (4% to 5% of the budget). The US corporate income taxes collected, broken down on a per capita basis, will be around $650 to $700 for 2018, for comparison.

You can plainly see that Estonia collects corporate income taxes:

https://www.stat.ee/53719

https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-estonia.pdf

The primary unusual thing Estonia does, is not tax profit until distribution.
By the way, try also has an else clause that behaves like the one in if https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html
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"The Affordable Care Act kept profit margins in check by requiring companies to use at least 80 percent of the premiums for medical care. That’s good in theory but it actually contributes to rising health care costs. If the insurance company has accurately built high costs into the premium, it can make more money. Here’s how: Let’s say administrative expenses eat up about 17 percent of each premium dollar and around 3 percent is profit. Making a 3 percent profit is better if the company spends more."

Wow. Great example of free market distortions that don't work. Now if there was true competition in the field, a company would never be able to get away with this.
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Totally agree with the mandatory robotic cars and that we should make them more safe, thanks for the clarification!
They still get bored like that. My daughter demolished the universe in The Sims by getting them stuck in a loop, making and endless pile of grilled-cheese sandwiches.

Not on the same league as Asteroids on a TI calculator, I admit, but squarely in the realm of Computer Science.
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I had a similar experience, unfortunately. Call it pressure to establish, call it stress... the friendship was ruined. Thankfully, we did not even start, but we were about to.

I would also argue that starting with a distant family member is also not ideal.
Apply machine learning to the business of healthcare.
I didn't vote your comment down, but I would suspect it was this line:

> Because we’re starting to see a break down in trust in the western world too (for example with the anti-vaccination movement).

This sentence is borderline-sympathetic with the anti-vaccination crowd. The most down-voted comment I've ever posted at HN was somewhat anti-vaccination: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17059316

(I had chickenpox. Once. It was a very mild case. If the medical scientists cared about science, they'd try to figure out why children have varying levels of severity in their immunity-building experiences of chickenpox. But vaccines are perfectly safe (except for the children who definitely can't have them), so the official medical standard of care calls for vaccinating against everything as soon as possible.)
Thank god I'm moving away just as they're moving in. Why is Google not content to have its nose in its own customers' business?

Hopefully if I get some unincorporated land somewhere in New England, I won't have the "urbanists" knocking on my door with a bill to pay for all the "urbanism" they've so graciously done for me.
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Actually we have two common cases which make it harder to work with contractor.

1. If your contractor has just you as a client for a long time, if you stop the mission he can sue you for « economical dependance »

2. The real estate market does not let you rent without a solid employee contract, making it very hard to independent contractors to find a house.

The important market is not in contractors but rather in « contractors supporters », basically buying contractors time and selling it to big corporations.

These « middlemen » take the juridical risk, which make the big corporations accepting the contractors, and help the contractors finding missions.

These middlemen also take fees on missions.
This comment sounds a lot like hyperbole to me. People have a seat at the table, that’s how democracy works. People also have an incredible amount of entitlements and protection in the labor market. The labor laws in the west are generally quite good, most of the reasonable criticism you could direct at them comes down to enforcement. If you have a problem with them, then participate in your democracy.

In economies where minimum entitlements are sufficient to protect workers from exploitation, unions serve no useful purpose at all, they are simply leveling mechanisms. Meaning the do not protect workers from getting less than their worth, they simply pull people down and prevent people from advancing themselves beyond the average. Worst of all they make it nearly impossible to fire the incompetent, which itself seems like exploitation to me, forcing the component to pick up the slack of those who aren’t.