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If negative mass experiences an attractive force (that is, one that adds momentum toward the source of the force), doesn't that push it away? After all, with negative mass, the momentum vector and the velocity vector point in opposite directions.
6 dead, dozens hurt in Italian club stampede
Cats kill mice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
No, it's designed. It's just not designed the way everyone expects a computer language to be designed. It was designed by a linguist. He produced a language with some of the flexibility (and messiness) of human languages, which is completely foreign as a goal to other languages.

One of the places this shows up to me is being able to say "it" (in essence). That is, we humans, when talking to each other, we say things like "Read in a line of input. If it looks like an XML tag, pass it to the XML handler function". But you can't talk to a computer that way. The computer says, in effect, "Read in a line of input from where? And put it where? And what do you mean 'if it ends in a newline'? If what ends in a newline?"

But in Perl, you can write it just like the humans say it, and Perl says, "Well, you didn't say where to read the input from, so I assume I should read it from the standard place (which is perfectly well defined in Perl). You didn't say where to put the line of input, so I'll put it in the default variable. You didn't say what to check to see if it looks like an XML tag, so I will check the default variable." The default variable, essentially, plays the role of "it" in human language.

And the whole language is like that. There are shortcuts that work most of the time, and precise ways of saying things that work when the shortcut isn't what you want. And what the shortcut does is well defined (in the docs; it can be very opaque in code).

None of this makes Perl an ideal language. But it has a perspective on language that is (as far as I can tell) unique among programming languages. It is only fair to judge the coherence of the design within the framework of what Perl is trying to be.
50? That would be nice. For any given forward-thinking issue, I consider us lucky to have a handful of innovators at the state level. Now, when a crisis of some sort comes around, lawmakers from others states will start to pay attention. Ideally, at that point, they will evaluate and adapt other state experiments. In practice, it depends on the timing, committees, etc. Sorry to sound a bit cynical, but really my take-away message is this: if you care about an issue, get involved one way or the other in lobbying for your cause (I'm assuming here that HN people are well-informed, even if we have different policy prescriptions).
I'm in favor of having more goat posts on hacker news. They're the hackers of the animal world.
This article is the first time I’ve read something abou Steve that makes me think, “I would totally love to work for Steve”

It’s the parts about how Steve conducts reviews. I feel like too many people beat around the bush, when asked a question they get flustered and make stuff up. I actually kinda enjoy being put on the spot. Say I don’t have an answer or give my personal opinion, or be open and honest, or have to come up with ideas and such. I don’t get flustered or bothered if I’m yelled at. I’ve had bosses that I think are worse than what Steve is sometimes described as. But damn if I haven’t enjoyed those reviews or design sessions.
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/05/25/amd_epyc...
as someone born in america it amazes me that america sticks its head in the sand while china creams them through embracing tech. this is old tech that is already underused in america
TFA mentions Brookley Borne's efforts to blow the whistle on the risky financial instruments behind the financial collapse.

Frontline on PBS did an excellent episode looking at her efforts to regulate derivatives under the Clinton administration.

>"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says.

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/warning/
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It was ADVENT with a gui interface.
Titan 3D Robotics has a extruder that claims to be able to print 1 pound of filament an hour which for ABS would be able 400 cm^3 (I think?)

I believe it's water cooled but still looks to be using traditional heater cartridges.

Specs: http://www.titan3drobotics.com/atlas/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKPKIGcrlFU
PDEP/PEXT are the big ones, they are extremely important for real-time sensor and event processing (plus a few other things like join parallelization). Those instructions let you trivially compute ad hoc intersections between arbitrary and mixed dimensionality constraints in high dimensionality spaces that would lead to some very ugly and much slower code in pure C++. Also useful for massively parallel graph analytics. Ironically, the instructions were not designed for this purpose. We are talking about a 10x improvement in throughput, it isn't trivial.

I lived in the HPC world prior to the existence of these instructions. I wouldn't want to go back. I used to design insanely complex and inscrutable bit-twiddling libraries to achieve the result of what is a handful of instructions now. It is one of the very few intrinsics I can't live without for most of the high-performance codes I write. The only other non-standard instructions with similar value are the AES intrinsics (which are useful for more than encryption).

Vector instruction support is important but more spotty in its value, at least in my case. I have applications where I expect the details of vector performance will matter but I have insufficient data thus far. Early AVX implementations were marginal but I could see use cases for AVX-512, though I have no anecdotal data to support that conjecture.
This is a real problem. If you are hiring coders you have to have a couple people in the team go deep on coding chops to ferret out the charlatans. Personally I like to show people a piece of code from a big system they've never seen and let them walk me through what it does and what they would change to make it work better. Some teams I work with also give 'homework' exercises, which I believe is fairer than trying to do it in front of somebody else. (Unless that's how you actually write code on a day to day basis.)

Good interview processes reflect complementary broad and deep concerns. It's kind of analogous to the way a strong team is better than the sum its parts.
It all comes down to your definition of "we". In short, this is either a collective preference problem (e.g. not enough people care or pay attention) or a collective action problem (if you believe that at least collective intent exists).

More specifically, a common theme in public policy analysis is agenda setting. Unfortunately, in many situations, the agenda is so crowded with priorities that only crises cut through. For more context, see "The Public Policy Primer: Managing the Policy Process" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8727263-the-public-polic...)
>As another person mentioned, your email contents aren't used to target ads

Yea, companies have never lied to users before, right? You're still trusting a company that is notorious for snooping and tracking folks to make a quick buck.
Yeah. I don't disagree with the op.

But advertisements nuissance are not the reason. They are so easily dealt with by using adblock.nin some incarnation.
IIRC, it was a survey of at least almost a hundred economists and 80% said by 2020.

I also read reasonings by Roubini who predicted the 2008 Great Recession correctly and Martin Feldstein at Harvard. They sounded quite convincing.

Interestingly, I did not encounter any opinion by an economist that it is unlikely to occur before 2020.

The flurry of upcoming IPOs is also partial evidence of what top VCs and executives at major tech startups think.
Minneapolis ends single family zoning
Any luck using GMail with other IMAP accounts? I guess I assumed that was possible...
AMD, Nvidia
حضور خبرنگاران و نویسندگان گردشگری اسپانیا در ایران
It does not. That's like comparing apple orchards to single oranges. But if you want to just compare print volumes then the paper claims ~127cm^3/hr build rate in a prototype system with a peak extrusion rate of twice that.
I'd expect that cotton clothes should be digestible to ruminants; it's just cellulose for which they have enzymes.

A goat might be able to get some calories out of a pair of Levi's.
“Definitely?” I see articles on Lyft targeting an early/mid 2019 IPO at least as far back as August, months before the correction.
I'm using Inbox for its last 4 months, I've tried a bunch of other ones and none of them are close to as good IMO. I'll miss it.
I find Google's email search to be pretty fantastic, to be honest. It's never failed me, even when I had to search years and gigabytes of emails.
There’s a reason why the founders quit even after Facebook bought them.

Facebook is a growth at any cost kind of company. They really wouldn’t have listened to him even if he joined Facebook in the first place.

The messenger on Android sends all your text messages and phone logs to Facebook. Mark approved that in the name of growth.

There’s absolute no way Whatsapp would have been invented at Facebook. Facebook only bought it because it could have been a serious threat to their dominance.
I think if Discord ditched some of the gamer aesthetic (or had a pseudo-internationalizion setting to replace the meme-y loading screens strings with a reminder to turn in my TPS report by Friday) they'd get a lot more use in corporate environments
Perl 6 is for people who are very smart and have a great spirit in seeking and having fun in programming, I really
admire that. That's my thought after two failed attempts (each lasted about two days) to learn it in 2012 and 2014. I felt the use of sigils, syntax oddities and the cleverness were beyond my ability to master the language. I should mention in 1998 I used (modified it a little bit) Selena Sol's shopping cart script. Since then I have only written a few small Perl 5 scripts, am not familiar with recent development. To learn Perl 6 today, what kind of practice projects/applications, or approaches, one can use?
Take a look at posteo.de for ad-free email with a strong focus on privacy. It’s also way cheaper than the lowest plan that Fastmail has. Posteo is a private company, doesn’t take investor funding and has been profitable.

There are a couple of things I don’t like about Posteo (as a customer):

1. It recycles deleted addresses/aliases after six months and makes them avaiufor someone else to claim and use. Ideally, this should be never done to protect customers. Fastmail also recycles deleted addresses/emails within a few months (sooner than Posteo does, IIRC).

2. It provides only two aliases in the base pricing and additional aliases (if many are required) will increase the cost. Fastmail provides 600 aliases in every plan! So if you’re heavy on aliases, Fastmail would be cheaper.

Other providers similar to this that I haven’t subscribed to, but you can read up on or try, are mailfence (has a free plan as well), runbox and mailbox.org. All of them have been around for quite sometime and also provide IMAP access (which is important if you want to migrate email content from one provider to another).
I'm convinced this wouldn't happen. At this speed, only direct collisions of nuclei would do anything. The ball would pass through the air and bat as if they weren't there... and I don't believe it would deposit an appreciable amount of energy at any particular place...

If you think I'm wrong, just think about how far high energy protons (cosmic rays) travel through our atmosphere before they lose their energy. Each atom of the baseball has a good probability of flying through the air for a substantial distance before interacting with anything at all.
I studied photography and one of the teachers was blunt about quality and talent to the point of rudeness. He'd tell people they wouldn't even make a photographer's arsehole, let alone a photographer.

The day he handed back one of my photographs and said "Congratulations, you're now a photographer's arsehole" was a good one.
While I can see the logic in the argument I think it doesn't reflect in reality. For example they are miles ahead in stem cell research because they pursue technological advancement with much less concern about morals and regulation at the research phase.
Haha, That was more depressing than imagined.
Buy a bunch of self driving cars and deploy in a city. No chicken egg there either.
Wouldn't it be a quarter of a tenth of 1%?
Well, fortunately I'm not trying to convince you ;-). You can choose to believe it or not, I'm just relating my own absurd experience with spam calls.

At this point I'm ready to throw the towel in on the POTS network and move it all onto the data network. The ILECs have proven unwilling to address the problem and now their network has turned to crap. On my cell phone I can deal with it by whitelisting, but my desk phone is not so advanced.
Having failed the on-site’s with several “big” companies this year these anecdotes resonate with me.
"highly problematic to introduce negative inertial masses .... This fits badly with our observations."

Science news is not scarce. Click-bait titles aren't either. There's no shortage of catchy on-paper theories that 1)are not backed by evidence, 2) make no predictions.

Cosmology has a big problem, and thrashing around in desperation is not becoming.
Thanks for explaining that design logic a lot more clearly. I figured out what the code did, but understanding the why was very helpful.
Steve Jobs is the exception. Most CEOs aren’t that smart.
You can easily do programming problems without algorithm questions.
Random idea: HTTP Basic TOS. Just like HTTP Basic Auth, but instead of presenting the user with a login form it presents you with legalese.
Yes but the question is whether you can have two timezones for the same event, such as for a flight across time zones. For Google Calendar this has been the case for awhile.
Well, perhaps some hypothetical "you" uses them:) To be clear, I run 100% genuine Bourne-family shells on unix-like systems, and merely visit MS-land for sightseeing;)
Yes, and messages make one more unique, no?
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As a programmer, I leave a small portion of code uncommitted at the end of the day.

Next day, I just look at the git diff, and I'm mentally back right where I left.
A lot of spaghetti inline JS code means it's incompatible with any site with a sane Content-Security-Policy. I'm glad I switched to Hugo, now I need to migrate my wife's blogs.
They're not close to profitable. Recent quarterly losses:

Q1: $601 million net loss
Q2: $891 million net loss
Q3: $1.07 billion net loss

I'm not an accountant, but I'm not sure how this can go well for them.
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They've committed to supporting the classic editor until 2022.
I'm aware of all that history. The part I'm asking about is whether his exit plan was Apple and when that exit plan went with the other option the company was not viable.

This is very common for "startups" founded by executives who come from a company they know is failing to execute on something critical.

Be smells like this.
Can you give an example of a language that is similarly precise with less verbosity, while still being comprehensible?

Perl 6 is alarmingly concise in a lot of cases (hyper-operators come to mind), so it's super weird to see it called verbose. I'd wager that the ideal, or at least shortest, Perl 6 solution to most problems is shorter than most other languages...I don't know if it's necessarily more readable (you have to know a lot of the language to read really concise Perl 6 code, and there are many new concepts for most developers), but it's definitely not verbose.

Int:D, Int:U, etc. provide information about types. They aren't arbitrary extra boilerplate. Every language with types specifies them in somewhat comparable ways. Perl 6 has gradual typing, you can use as much or as little of it as you want, and as suits your problem domain. You don't need those types, but if you use them well, you can do things more concisely...e.g. for multi-method dispatch based on type of arguments.

given/when are keywords. Every language has keywords, and sometimes they'll be new ones that you haven't seen in other languages.

Sigils, again, provide additional information, both to the reader and the compiler. Perl 6 is probably an improvement, or at least simplification, over Perl 5 in that the sigil is constant and doesn't reflect the usage. e.g. in Perl 5, when you want a single element of an array, you use $name[1], but when you want the whole array you use @name. The idea (sort of) being that $ is singular (a "scalar" value), while @ is plural. Some people don't like sigils, but I don't see any point in re-litigating it 30 years on. Perl has sigils. That's just how it do. Some like it, some don't. Enough Perl developers like it that it's never gone away.
“If I’m getting upset, I’m probably wrong.”

Perfect centrist mindset.
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While I certainly agree that single family zoning has led to awful commutes and an untenable housing shortage, and while I approve of eliminating single family housing restrictions, I politely assert that protecting neighborhoods from incompatible higher density development was a legitimate motivation in addition to the motivation to exclude "undesirables". Higher density housing can destroy a neighborhood's quality of life. What is needed is thoughtful development not unlicensed development in the name of social justice. This is not an easy thing to accomplish. One hopes the authorities can set aside divisive rhetoric and deal thoughtfully with the conflicting aspects of the problem.
It is true that many good things come out of failures. There's a lot of value in trying and _not_ succeeding.

I'm a bit of a student of failure. If we want to really dive into deep failure, someone mentioned Workplace OS, which was not just a terrible project but a terrible idea (in the same way that NT's original concept of multiple-OS-personalities was wrt: OS/2 16 bit, for example, and POSIX, just taken to an entirely more crazy level).

For truly fun crazy, one has to step away from OS projects to things like graphics (for example, Fahrenheit and Talisman).
From the headline, I assumed this was going to be an MIT writeup of Inkbit. Instead it seems to be another MIT group but at the opposite end of the quality spectrum (this is low-ish quality but super fast, while Inkbit is high quality and yet fast). Cool!
Myst was the only adventure game I abandoned playing. I just never felt immersed; rather it felt like a so-so puzzle game with a bit of window dressing.
Nice to see it posted here, I've been a happy user of FireHOL for a decade, if not more. For a while I was worried it was going to be abandoned, I'm really glad it wasn't.

I'm not a network guy but I was tasked with setting up some servers at a co-lo, including a box to act as the router. FireHOL was a godsend for helping me to setup the rules.

I haven't tried FireQOS yet, but I really want to play with it.
That's not their market though, and they seem to be quite fine with that. Their latest feature: buy games through the Discord client[0]. They know who they want using their product.

[0] https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36001265609...
Get out... what? It does not work that way. You can only sell when you have leverage. When you don't you take investment via private equity to bid your time.
Gaming pretty much died for a while in my book when these games got popular.

Thanks to games' inferiority complex and desire to look "more like movies", we temporarily ditched most of the things that made games unique in favor of a bunch of laughable full motion video.

Calling these games "interactive" was an extra kick in the teeth, as they were so much less "interactive" than even an early video game like Frogger, Pac-Man, or Robotron where you had multiple (or perhaps over a hundred, in Robotron's case) objects moving around the screen, in real time, at 60fps, each behaving according to its own rules.

Luckily, the industry eventually corrected itself and swung back to creating the kinds of highly kinetic experiences that are unique to the medium.
Even the basic lisp mode in Vim recognizes the difference. There is a :set lispwords=... list of symbols that are operators. They get indented like this:

(lispword a b c
d e f
g h)

whereas symbols not in the set like this:

(not-lispword a b c
d e f)

This is important so we don't end up with this:

(let ((x y))
form
form)

or, vice versa, this:

(list (item 1) (item 2)
(item 3) (item 4))
I feel the need to suggest the USA is not making chips. It are corporations doing it. The technology is, as if high priests guarding the sacret knowledge, kept secret. From the perspective of human progress it's a sad afair.
That's wrong. Political discrimination is illegal in certain states like California.

If someone's views on abortion are strongly dictated by their religious beliefs then I think it could be argued that it is religious discrimination. At the very least I could see it going to trial.
> You may also benefit from therapy.

One thing that therapists can do is recommend books.
I can recall seeing the back of the CD jewel case as a kid. The scenes were stunning! I can also recall the utter disappointment when it was not something you could walk through and it was point and click. Expectations were not managed well in my case, and I never gave the game a chance after that. It also didn't help that it was installed on a friend's computer, so access alongside boredom did not readily present itself to compel me to try again.
Ok. so what is the cause of this great recession? Nafta? China? What?
Except the resulting code will look nothing like “the humans say it”, and instead will be a cryptic charade requiring a ton of knowledge to decipher - ending up being neither natural language nor machine code.
It was well know that both uber and lyft were in competition to whomever would ipo first.

Im sure execs at uber are collectively yelling at their council for fucking this up and being second - it has an immediate color of their IPO being secondary, reactionary, rushed, etc and thus impacts their price accordingly.
They should compare speeds printing benches.
I want to say this as unequivocally as I can: the only good goat is a cooked goat.
Digital architecture in complex organisations
Microsoft gains the social kudos for speaking up (vaguely) about some "issue" or another. Meanwhile, actual development of the scenario will occur regardless.
> as long as they can charge reasonably quickly.

Commercial battery tech is going to have to improve a lot before this qualifier begins to hold.
It was certainly obvious to me, if I recall correctly.

The idea of asking sites not to track is just so pathetic. If you don't want to be tracked, you do whatever it takes to not be tracked. For example, I'm fine with everything about Mirimir being tracked, correlated, etc. But Mirimir is thoroughly compartmentalized from my meatspace stuff, and from other personas. And it's not really that hard. For most people, it would just mean running multiple VMs that connect via different VPNs.
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