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> There is nothing actionable in the news; next to no utility

For long term money planning, where to put your money, which areas of the world have problems, the news are important. You can skip your local gossip, but knowing what happens in the world is important for long term planning.
Thanks for this.

Life has got me down a bit at the moment, and I wasn't aware of this book -- so thank you for the pointer.
It mentions that its tiny, not FAST. It even says that you should use clojure if you want a fast implementation.

Performance is not the focus of the project.
However startup time is probably a lot better than that of Clojure.
She gives him the choice to steer clear of them, or to risk his life and that of his party to listen to them. He decided to take the risky road just for the sake of knowledge, which was a powerful message in prehistoric Greece. Again, it is so ingrained in today's culture that it seems trivial.

> nor is he seeking knowledge except that short incident

Well let us just agree to disagree here. Most of the episodes boil down to "The gang lands to get (rest/food/water), Odysseus wants to know more about the place, many die".
Just look at Book Nine: the Lotus Eaters and Polyphemus incidents are totally Odysseus' fault. There was no need at all to explore these lands.

> And frankly, I dont think he really represents something you should strive for.

I agree with you: while in the antiquity he has been regarded as a model, today Odysseus represents who we actually are, as beings torn between knowledge and suffering.
In my view, these kind of actionable news you can get from reading the news once a month or (my favourite) from The Economist every weekend.
This is so cool: that exact movie is an another one in my short "amazing Soviet movies" list. I still remember the first time I saw it. I was a teenager, it was a summer. I was on my way out, but the movie started and I decided to see what it's about. I don't think I moved for the entire duration of it. It was so different and so captivating.
There is 100% support on the mobile web across Safari and Chrome.
In fact it's readily available with English subtitles:

https://sovietmoviesonline.com/comedy/87-sobache-serdce.html
or
https://www.reelhouse.org/vintagefilmclub/the-heart-of-a-dog...

To each according to their need etc.
One of the best books I have read.
Yes I read daily. I also feed my kids pizza and ice cream from time to time and let them stay up past 8 last night. THERE IS A COST TO NEGLECTING MY PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
Also, Detroit is a really weird case. It's a city that picked at a 1.9M population and was sized to handle that.

Then it fell to a 0.7M population.

When your city infrastructure and services are sized for 2 to 3 times your population, said population cannot sustain these infrastructure and services, and it's also really difficult to scale down these.

This is in sharp contrast with Chinese cities that are nearly all growing at a fast rate, maybe too fast in fact.

I'm aware it's an over simplification, but it illustrates the twos are not really comparable.
Don't be afraid actually read the article.

None of it is specific to custom web fonts (@font-face). Rather, it is about text spacing, indentation, justification, etc.
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Amen to that !
He said the data and code will be made public about a year back. Anybody knows if it is available now ?
This is the worst article i ever read. Its suggestive, and it point to 2014. Its just trying to get viewers.
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I disagree strongly that reading the news is necessary for investing successfully. Do you have evidence or arguments? Since your position contradicts research by Nobel prize winner Gene Fama, I'd be curious to see the evidence for the other side of the argument.
As an honest question, how well does this apply to Hackernews? I know that BBC News is bad for my health and does nothing for my career. Holistically I'm not sure about hn.
> Starbucks gets a lot of flack, from a lot of directions, but it's worth noting that companies go that could contribute a lot to this problem, they do a lot to promote better usage patterns.

In that case, I do apologize. I have never in my life gone to a Starbucks, but my point was avoiding one-time use devices of any kind, regardless of what convenience it may bring, with the exception of when it is truly necessary (such as medical packaging).

However, do note that this also includes whatever one-time devices the company themselves use to run their service.

It would be a quite standard PR stunt to present visible environmentally friendly options (that potentially largely go unused), while not doing anything at all to the less visible parts of the company.
Uh, you are hardcore shaming.
I find Reed–Solomon error correction and forward error coding mind blowing.
You seem to be suggesting that the point of decentralisation is to avoid legislation and regulation. While this might be true for Silk Road and other criminal transactions, that does not seem to me to be a valid argument for running a prediction market on blockchain software.

Blockchain as a technology has a valid use-case where you cannot trust a third party to manage a centralised database and where you need an immutable history of events. I can just about buy into putting transactions for real-world things (eg property) onto a blockchain - after all its a lot easier to prove you own something in the case of a dispute if you can show on a distributed and trusted event log that you were the last person to purchase it than it is to dig out some old documentation and prove its not forged.

There is an argument that applies to prediction markets, which is that you might not trust the market to actually pay out your winning contracts (though believing in this relies on a distrust of the regulators and court system). Augur is not actually solving this problem though, as neither oracle contracts nor the market owner defining the settlement conditions are trustworthy, and when you have user-defined markets such as "Does God Exist?" there is huge scope for arguing about the true outcome. At least with the centralised case you have an organisation with a reputation to maintain, that is therefore motivated to police and administrate the markets properly.

You might also argue for long-running markets that the company running the market might collapse and be unable to pay out, but in the case of crypto there is simply a parallel that your currency could simply collapse and be worthless by the time your contract paid out. Given the volatility of most ETH and REP, your winnings are likely to either be dwarfed by gains in the currency or destroyed by a collapse in the currency.

Prediction markets that trade using real money are gambling, and hence are controlled by various regulators. In addition, certain markets can also catch the attention of other regulators, for example if a market involves speculation on financial instruments or commodities. There are certain ways to avoid this, such as restructuring the incentives; for example, a market using credits instead of real money and run as a competition where the most successful players receive monetary prizes does not constitute gambling. Obviously in this case the players are not risking their own money, and this relates back to my previous points about subsidising prediction markets in exchange for valuable information. The regulation issues should be dealt with in an ethical way by developing the technology and working with regulators and not by avoiding the issue via decentralised blockchains.
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Did Google pay off the Camry driver? If I was pushed into an accident by a car with company decals and a sensor suite on top [1], I'd definitely include this when reporting the accident. It's an incredible story, and I'm not sure whether I say that in it's literal or figurative meaning. (Note that the author of the article is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer-price winning journalist - so it's not just a story posted by some dude on his blog).

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cdgQpa1pUUE/maxresdefault.jpg (This is the type of cars they had in 2012).
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This is a bit misleading. If the integrand is analytic, then the Gauss quadrature converges geometrically.

For example with f(x) = sqrt(1 + sin(x)) and you approximate integral f(x) dx from -1 to 1 with n Gauss points, then the the convergence is geometric:

n | approx
1 | 2.0-------------
2 | 1.9172----------
3 | 1.917703--------
4 | 1.917702153-----
5 | 1.917702154417--
6 | 1.91770215441681

But with a function that is not differentiable such as g(x) = |x|, there is definitely not geometric convergence.

n | approx
1 | 0.0-----------
10 | 1.007---------
100 | 1.00008-------
1000 | 1.0000008-----
> Between Cygnus/Red Hat and Mozilla, I've worked for open-source-based companies for 7 years of my career, and never once heard or believed "open source" in lowercase to mean "OSI-approved."

That bullshit.

If that wasn't the case then Microsoft's Shared Source licenses could also be considered "open source", licenses which completely restricted commercial usage. Thankfully the world did not fall in that trap.

Without a working legal definition, the term "open source" becomes (1) meaningless and (2) a legal minefield.

Basically you've been spoiled by OSI approved licensing because our industry rejected anything else. We could've had a different industry and yes, all those bullshit projects on GitHub without a license are a legal minefield.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography
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> the news are important

Not daily news.
>> There are Lisp-based Prolog implementations which can parse Edinburgh syntax and have a Lisp syntax variant.

I was talking specifically about the Prolog implementations given as exercises in Lisp textbooks. Those, usually, are incomplete, in the ways that I describe above. LispWorks for instance, seems to be a commercial product, so I'd expect it to be more complete.

I don't expect a Prolog-as-a-Lisp-exercise to go full-on and implement the Warren Abstract Machine. But, equally, I think the insistence of the other commenter, varjag, to the simplicity and even triviality of implementing Prolog as an exercise in Lisp textbooks is due to the fact that those exercises only implement the trivial parts.

>> Interested Lisp users are usually only looking for the reasoning features of Prolog (to include those in directly in programs) and not in the specific Prolog syntax. Sometimes, also to have Prolog-based parsing techniques in a Lisp program.

That's my intuition also- as encoded in the addendum to Greenspun's tenth rule. Tongue in cheek and all :)
Parent wasn't concerned about being picked on but not being able to participate in the culture of the other children without cable TV.

There's a big personal preference there about whether or not you want your kids (or you yourself regret being or not being) involved heavily in the mainstream pop culture of your peers as children.

Experiencing more than just whatever is popular is important, but being very isolated can have effects as well. Whatever choices you make will have a strong impact, and there are very often not clear rights and wrongs.
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I think you've been spoiled by Open Source licenses, due to the people that actually fight for that definition.

Would you consider Microsoft's Shared Source licenses as being "open source"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Initiative#Restr...
Everyone games the mandatory safety reporting. Mostly by doing testing under the radar and/or outside California. Google has taken that a step further by counting disengagements (meaning instances of the system failing and having to be overriden by the driver) only when the system would definitely have crashed.
To be brutally honest, a lot of the negativity on HN probably isn't the best influence on your mental health. It's a trade-off between that and career benefits.
Yeah but why shy away from the fact that any of us could randomly die at any moment? It may not be pleasant to think about, but it's true. And important to be plan for in critical systems.
> most of the issues on the Github repository are written in French! What signal do you want to send?

The source of that website is the French law anyway, the code is just for reference, you have to understand French to do business in France.
In my experience they do their best to propagate the idea that Koreans believe this myth.

I have yet to meet a Korean who wouldn't defend fan death.

Maybe it is like the Australian drop-bear.
Indeed, Java's binary search had this bug for a while! It was found through automatic verification, by the way.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
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My personal guide about web typography:

Don't change the user's default text spacing, indentation, justification. Respect his and his system's choices.
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No, that is the median EQTP. The average is around 2250 euros/month EQTP.
There is a point where most the inhabitants of a shared flat vanish one after the other as if by magic, leaving only one of them behind.

Luckily, the footnotes point out the tiny clues in the text that tell the whole story: that tenant had denounced all of his flatmates to the secret police so he could keep the whole place for himself.
> but China is at war with it's population to control them

Did you forget about the drug war here in the USA?
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This suffers from the limitation of many generative music algorithms/tools in that you're locked into a key (in this case C major - no black notes are played at all), which makes it a cool toy and research project, but of no real use to anyone.

Most of what makes good music good (or interesting music interesting if you'd prefer) comes from harmonic interplay and shift. Bach was a master of this. If you listen to the unaccompanied 'cello suites[1] then what makes the music so fascinating is that even though only one note is being played at a time, the harmonic landscape is shifting and changing (often in 'unexpected' ways) all the time.

Doing this with algorithms and making it sound good is hard, and nobody's (afaik) done it well yet.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgG-0lOJjk
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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PSLQAlgorithm.html

With some clever tricks you can use it to "recover" a surd from a decimal

ie 1.4142135624 -> sqrt(2)
I find this comment and in fact the whole discussion here racist! It is just because that this is an Indian channel, people are bashing it!

It has songs like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3yfQnllfQ&t=140s) with a billion views! This means millions of kids are learning their first alphabets. My kid learnt her rhymes from this channel.

It is completely upto us parents as to how much screen time they get. My kid gets 40 mins everyday and no more. I decide what to watch and I watch with them.
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I met three 10X engineers in my life. They started early and therefore got a lot of practice in by the time they went to college (both professionally and with side projects).

You can watch a video from one of them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18214738
I think a key component here is just minimizing the meat-component of the diet.

Meat would not at all be a problem if produced in smaller amounts. The current level is just absurd waste (I would guess mostly to support fast-food production?), and we absolutely do not need this amount of meat in our diet.

It is, however, extremely nutritious, so a small meat consumption would both be sufficient and much more sustainable. Even just 1/10th of the current scale would likely reduce any problems to be insignificant.
And they did the Penguin 50 yr anniversary edition [1]. It has some useful notes at the end, too.

I found the notes in the Annotated Lolita [2] very helpful, unfortunately I haven't really found an annotated version of M&M (beyond what's in [1]).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0...
They also created a calculator if you speak French: https://embauche.beta.gouv.fr/. So the employer also pays the retirement, health insurance, unemployment benefits, work accidents and family benefits.
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As a very regular Requests user I'm pretty excited about Responder. There are times when I just want to stand up a 'glue' API, and this looks extremely convenient for that purpose. I've wasted too many hours futzing with flask+WSGI+nginx+ubuntu to want to stand up something with it on a whim.
Letters are too close. It is hard to read.

IMHO of course!
> (*) both support something like stash but in hg it is easier to avoid that.

Incidentally, using shelve in hg is the only way I've ever lost work in a VCS (I've made the same error in git as well, but a dropped stash can be found again).

> git log shows you history depending on the checked out version

> hg log shows you the whole history of the branch, also after your checked out version. Knowing where you are is very valuable.

git can show this, too, if you ask for it. If you've checked out some ancestor of `branch-name`, then `git log branch-name` will show `HEAD` next to the commit you've checked out. A single commit can belong to multiple branches, so if git showed you commits after your checked out version, which branch should it show? All of them?

> git - linus wants you to edit commits until they are perfect

You can use a never-rebase workflow in git as well, but most people elect not to.
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Seeing what happened to the "Windrush generation", I wouldn't be so sure. This is a government with anti-immigration targets.
I attended a Russian poetry event by accident a couple of days ago. I didn't understand a thing but this made my whole experience of it even more beautiful. I could literally feel what the artists were talking about and the reactions of the crowd. I guess it had to do a little with the fact that they were expats and the Russian poetry probably reminded them at home, but the energy in the room was so intense. Later i spoke with one of the attendees and he explained that poetry (or literature in this case) is a way of connecting similair perspectives to life to people divided by the enormous distances in Russia. Thats why the people attending the event - even though they didnt know each other, had a great feeling of connection and were prone to expressing their patriotic emotions. To quote him: "I felt Russian for the first time in a long time tonight."And this is a great quote: "Literature can be a catalyst for change. But it can also be a safety valve for a release of tension and one that results in paralysis"
From the article: This allows the insurance companies to keep insurance costs down for both the insured and the insurers.

No! Mathematically the insurance business works the same as long as the average premiums cover the average costs for the pool. Identifying higher risk individuals and charging them more does nothing to lower the average cost as long as they continue to buy insurance. It only spreads the costs around differently.

That is, unless the idea is to make the cost so high for risky patients as to force them not to participate in the pool.

Which is I guess what they are saying. It does lower average premiums in the pool the only way mathematically possible, by forcing at-risk or sick patients out of coverage.

This raises average costs for the original pool (from before some patients were priced out) because those patients forced out will show up later at emergency rooms with expensive problems and no coverage. But that is no longer the insurance company's problem, so who cares.

Well at a society level there is no forcing people out other than death. So unless we can get enough sick people to die quickly and cheaply this system just forces higher costs on everyone.

Or maybe we could just cover everyone in one national pool without keeping a secret database of everyone's health history to use against them and gouge them more?
Though I agree with you, a warning could be issued.
We're in a weird situation here. In this thread, you're arguing that a programming language implemented in Lisp, which retains the syntax of Lisp, is a DSL, and so still just Lisp; but in the other thread, you're arguing that Prolog implemented in Lisp, with the syntax of Lisp, is not a DSL, but Prolog.

I recognise that the above comes across as an attempt at sophistry, again, but I sincerely think you are not being objective, with this line of thinking.
There is a difference between TV, Comics and Videogames that were all demonized in a similar way to this.

The difference is they all had a quality and decency barrier. YouTube videos are just made by random people with the absolute minimal of moderation. A kids TV show in the 90s wouldn't use an image of a woman dressed as Elsa cutting off her tongue with real scissors to try and clickbait children into watching it.

The actual video it's replaced with a gummy candy tongue, but the thumbnail it's her own tongue with real scissors and YouTube allowed this for months, it was an extremely popular video and channel.

and this is all before we get into the fact TV was consumed in the family room and tablets are solitary harder to control consumption.
curious at what size GPU becomes faster than CPU ? (taking into account memory transfer time..)
And they take your personal childhood memories into account and serve it with a dish that best reflects it.
MM will be fun if some one in Poland with no idea of labour law in the UK or USA makes a mistake :-)
> So honest Q here if you feel so strongly why haven't you got your Ceng / E status

I don't feel strongly about it. I don't need people to call me an engineer, because I'm not an engineer and I have no intention of being one.

I'm a software developer, which is very different.
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Wow, that would be a lot more than I would expect. Did you have a source for this number?
Gitlab is fine for me now in the UK... but it is not too uncommon for it to go down for a short time
Worker coops is a better match, producer coops are rather different as its the farm owners that are members not all their workers.
… And I think this has exactly been @bunderbunder's argument from the start? That the "definition" put forth by threeseed is naïve and could at best be usable on an amateur level, but as soon as you start having money involved, you really want a more in-depth/verbose/specific definition (like the one the OSI provides), rather than simply being "I can read (and thus modify) the source."
hi. would you consider js mining as a replacement for ads a bad thing (assuming from your response), maybe even shady?

would appreciate any additional feedback. thank you.
For people who have read it, what translation do you recommend?