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rebuilding doesn't have to destroy its historical value -- Osaka Castle has fallen and has been rebuilt several times in its 600 year history, most recently it was destroyed by WWII bombing raids (well, it was a 1930's era reconstruction that was destroyed) and was reconstructed in the mid 1990's and is still a historical site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_Castle
Not sure about Apple but I like that all the companies linked are all supporters of NN. Almost as if a public face, NN, and a private face, think tanks to overturn privacy laws.
I can’t provide one, but maybe I can deduce what the author was trying to say.

Religion obviously causes biases, and those biases could inhibit scientific process.

In popular culture, most people think of scientists as atheists and that they try to disprove one side vs. comparing them in an unbiased fashion.
That's a good point. Perhaps we need to just use things that are well understood.

The moon is about 350,000 to 400,000 km away. By my estimate (of other people's estimate), we're looking at a spot in the sky roughly the size of a dime (US 10-cent coin) on the moon.

I think my reptilian brain understands the distance of the moon and the size of a dime.
Oh China has plenty history and destruction, just take one example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace

It's a royal palace that was pillaged and burnt down, that would require unmeasurable amount of money to restore.
_The AWK Programming Language_ ( https://smile.amazon.com/AWK-Programming-Language-Alfred-Aho... ) is one of the best programming books, on any language, in my opinion. Worth reading even if you don't use awk. In less than 200 pages it covers an introduction to the language, through to implementing a relational database, recursive-descent parsing, and graph-based algorithms.

For gawk, the manual covers the gaps between the language introduced in the book and the latest implementation.
But for caves this is easy, you just add a door. Notre Dame is the grand centerpiece around which Paris has been built and re-built. There is no way it's going to be encased in a warehouse with bus tours to a replica somewhere.
>! But for many severe weather events that actively harm property and life,

Fuck planes amirite?
> Everything gets a T-shirt size. Roughly, "small" is no more than a couple person-days, "medium" is no more than a couple person-weeks, "large" is no more than a couple person-months.

That's pretty much exactly what I've ended up using on past projects - a little more fine grained (start at a half day, went up to months), but that was my approach as well, and if I didn't know everything it went up a size.
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Among other reasons, the city is in the heart of karst country [0], which is to say that most of the deep rock under it is water-soluble Limestone. Everything dug below the city needs to be carefully managed to avoid cave-ins, sinkholes, water problems, etc.

(This geographical topology is also why for instance Mammoth Cave National Park is nearby, and has one of the largest known and explored cave systems in North America.)

The city has a very robust utility pole grid and almost all of its infrastructure has always been on utility poles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst

ETA: Which is also to say that utility poles were not just the only other option, they were the only sustainable option period in this city, with this climate, and this geography. Google knew that going in to the project and still decided to try something different that history should have convinced them was doomed to fail.
I see. It's definitely complementary, indeed.
I think it depends on what percent of the Ebola affected territories are anti-vaxx.

I think they might be against it for animistic reasons.
UK Parliament's report has a sample agreement that Facebook had with companies that whitelisted them and gave them extended access to user data when they publicly represented that the APIs had been deprecated
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Soli uses radar, so the scale of minority report is achievable. It's just that the target use case with soli is geared towards gesturing at your mobile device.
Theoretical advances require failures of existing worldviews.

They either don't make accurate predictions or explanations, or they fail to account for phenomena.

Science is the internalisation of expecting, admitting, and embracing error.
Sure, as long as the rushed buggy insecure software doesn't accelerate all the cars into the traffic jam.
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I think you misread my comment. I'm agreeing with you on the importance of being able to inspect the code and I'm strongly against black boxes.

Where I don't agree with you is that open-source === free and community driven. There are a myriad of hybrid models where a for-profit company releases the code, yet doesn't accept pull requests from the community.

The all-or-nothing attitude that you just showed is actually a very good argument for those who are against open-sourcing within a company like ours. Do you really think a company will go from commercial to GPL in one step because: "freedom is not a spectrum"?
EU law fixes minimum rights for 'gig economy' workers
I did some fact checking. As per www.imf.org:

US General government total expenditure as Percent of GDP - %35.2 (2016)

China General government total expenditure as Percent of GDP - %31.9 (2016)
May's plan absolutely does not call for a permanent customs union. That's rather been one the larger sticking points. It's what the opposition party, Labour, wants but can't get.
> BTW, I see a 20% performance jump from rg-0.10 to rg-11.0 for a single file benchmark. What are the key differences between these two versions?

I don't know. It would be easier to explain if I could more easily see what actual commands are being run. Your README just has you running `./all_tests`, but I want to see the actual command line invocations so that I can reproduce them. I'm also not sure which benchmark in particular you're referring to, so I don't know which corpus to use. Look at ripgrep's README for an example of what I mean. All the inputs are carefully specified and the commands being run are clear. You can even see the raw commands for the full benchmark suite: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite...

I realize doing benchmarks right is a lot of work. So if you just have a particular command for me to try and compare performance, then I'd be happy to just do that.

> Note that the matched lines may not the same for a search pattern

Indeed. ;-) That's exactly why I asked. That's a really important UX concern IMO.
> Uber for

Yes now gimme my billion in VC funding.
> nowadays the vast majority of what the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) does isn’t what’s usually considered math

I wonder how much of actual Mathematica use is outside of mathematics.

The new AsymptoticSum and AsymptoticSolve functions sound useful though!
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Oh, cool! I'd love for someone to make a more fully-baked version of this. Get some good audiobook narrators and voice actors, and add sound effects and stuff!

Smart assistants, ironically, feel like the perfect medium for "text" adventure games to have a resurgence.
>You’ll end up getting a lot of ads for apps and services you potentially already own, which is the “downside”.

Thanks for the clarification.

I don't mind that. I usually get product recs from things like Wirecutter. I much prefer the model where a site I trust recommends a product, then get a referral bonus when I buy it on Amazon than tracking my web history to "nudge" me.

Since iOS can't let me use extensions, many of the tools I use to protect my privacy (adblocker, JS whitelisting, etc) aren't doable on iOS. So even small hacks like this are interesting to me.
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Wouldn't c have to be infinite for "no time to pass", since light is still traversing space at a finite speed?
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Never works. Management will just use your lowest estimate.

So you pad that and realize its the same as your high estimate, so you just give them that instead ... then they complain its too high ... rinse repeat. Unless you stand you ground.
more likely people who care either way are the exception.
The only real one I can remember off the top of my head, where facebook giving access to data didnt turn out to be userbase hands over data on themselves and friend, was the Netflix and some others getting access to private messages. And even there, it wasnt nefarious, it was facebook trying to extend people features, like being able to send their friends spotify songs.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18147616/facebook-user-d...
People in charge like it because it's cheaper. It means less excess capacity is needed.
Interestingly enough, the k expression for the "write access" email is valid in K4.
Computer latency from 1977-2017 (2017)
I was able to solve almost everything in Zork except the bell, book, & candle puzzle. I only discovered the answer a couple of years later when they revealed the solution in the Zork books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork_books

I finished the game after that.
Um...if you read what I wrote, this is essentially what I said.
No compromise would be reasonable. You either preserve the cathedral, modernize it, or build the skyscraper (this one won't happen, so we can safely discuss it). Anything in between would be worse than the extrema for everybody.
Wasn't Embraer bought by Boeing?
Can best buy do in store pickup?

(Ex: I order online and the item is waiting for me rather than hunting through shelves)

If so I may consider cancelling prime, between that and Target offering free shipping to Red Card holders.
Mithril works seamlessly with Mobx, you just call m.redraw in autorun(). I actually think that just underlines the strength of Mithril. No need for a special wrapper library to support other modules.
Huh... got halfway down the article before realizing having this shit on my screen at work wasn't a great look.
Estonia is a place for independent minds
Like a human, a building standing in bad weather prefers to have a broad waterproof hat, a windproof coat, and dry boots.

Which is to say a roof without leaks, walls without holes, and a foundation with good drainage.
Why would they? In those days if you didn't keep your head down, it would've been chopped off.
sandboxing may not be perfect, but it provides an important layer of protection. it takes effort to break out of a sandbox.

if the protections that sandboxing offered were so flimsy as to be a false sense of security, that would be an argument against sandboxing. but that does not seem to be the situation we're in.
No? I am not saying those weather events don't exist - I am saying that there is a very large class of weather events that happen with high frequency, and affect life on the ground significantly, and those include severe thunderstorms that could have early detection through smartphones.

Planes and aviation could have major assistance in planning and adjusting to weather events if a phone network were actively in use as well.

Last second info re: waiting for planes to take off due to weather delays is one of my primary frustrations. It hurts a lot of people and companies to have last-second changes to forecasts and I would like to reduce that pain point by providing further advance notice of likelihood of severe weather in an area. This can be done (partially) with phone sensors.
Something doesn't have to be surprising for people to legitimately protest against it. The existence of Facebook isn't a result of some democratic consensus, it's some dude's get-rich scheme that's happened to have popped off.
The Scythians occupied the West Central Asian steppe, which is where the Proto-Indo-Europeans originated around 5000BC. Yamnaya and Steppe Hunter Gatherer DNA averages around 30-40% in the British isles, so this folktale isn't completely inaccurate.
Property-based tests do this at runtime too (and they catch far more bugs than you'd imagine going into it).
I got 15 months old, he loves music videos (Baby Shark is theme music of my life right now). Right now, he is easy to distract, so if he get on phone or TV, we will redirect him to play. We also try never to be on phone in front of him. I read on Kindle but he gets bored with Kindle quickly.

I am not sure what will happen when his attention span increases and start demanding for us to turn on TV.
Use Amazon Web Services or Azure. Using severless methods you can do astonishing things in the free tier.

Recently I had an empire of web sites that cost about $200 a month to run. I used Cloudfront, Lambda and a few related technologies to make that more of a $20 a month bill.
Gigabucks and megabucks is how I’ll be talking of money from now on.
Yes, it all should have been obvious. But the Brexiters campaigned for it on the promise that they would secure every benefit of EU membership without having to put up with the perceived downsides, and they did this quite vocally. So now much of the opposition to May's plan come from within her own party which does not want to be seen as having failed to deliver on promises that were never realistic to begin with.
There are agreed principles for the conservation of buildings. Three basic ones are:

a) Replace like with like (don't change materials or construction techniques)

b) Make any repair work obvious (don't try to pass new fabric off as original)

c) Repairs should be reversible.

It's a complicated field, but the general spirit is that when a building needs to be repaired, you try to make the new elements match as closely as possible to the way the structure was when it was first built. You don't say "we know better than the medieval masons, so we'll use reinforced concrete instead of stone" because that wouldn't be a restoration. It would turn the building into a hybrid of old and new technology, when what everyone wants is to experience the old way of building.

There's also an element of arrogance in trying to improve on medieval architecture—most people would agree that architecture, as an art, isn't something that progresses inexorably like science. The cathedrals are already as good as architecture gets. "Updating" a medieval structure to use the trendy structural technologies of the 21st century is a barbaric idea, because it is literally a case of destroying or interfering with an irreplaceable artefact.

Obviously, not every old structure has to be treated with kid gloves as a priceless artefact. But I hope you can see what I'm getting at when I say that "best practice" in building conservation means not acting as if you know better than the original builders. It's a case of respecting the original design and not messing with it for the sake of employing modern technology.
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Yeah, that's the real problem. The idea that encryption is only safe for users if the site is registered with " authority(ies) " is one of the biggest delusions going right now. Politics of fear.
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There's a 30 day trial, I might grab that just to play around with.
I think that professors judge their own generation by their peer group, and the current generation by their classes.
It doesn't matter if Verizon lets you download 10G a second if the average 10G/month data plan costs hundreds
Still don't understand why they don't have a good JSON REST API story. It's like they have no expectation of Mathematica ever being useful in a server based production environment.
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> most EU countries are not spending the required 2% of GDP on army

Because the 2% requirement doesn't kick in for another 5 years.
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You really need to go to Barcelona and see the Sagrada Familia. It will make you smile.
Some of those items on the list are sending up red flags to me. The weapon use is purely because it heats skin; if you apply a million times less energy for a million times as long, the danger level from heat is zero. When it can't penetrate skin, it does make sense to classify head skin exposure the same as foot skin exposure.

The thing about sweat glands is interesting. And sadly I have no idea how to evaluate the quality of the studies linked.
When I first heard of sites like JD.com and Alibaba, I visited out of curiosity and noped out fast. The UX was horrible, the sites were a jumbled mess, and I'd see the same product marked up at different prices, and a bunch of fake-seeming reviews. "Thank God we have Amazon here", I thought.

Tried searching for bluetooth headphones on Amazon Canada (which has a much smaller selection than the US site). It was almost exactly as I remember the old Chinese ecommerce site. Wall-to-wall rows of indistinguishable products, 500+ 5 star reviews for each, many of which are obviously for other products.

Lately, the Prime app hasn't even been working on my PS3, so it might be time to start moving back to brick and mortar for my purchases.
I think it's that as well as the fact that they are a private company and don't do as much "contracting" in a sense. They aren't handed a gigantic set of legaleze requirements from the customer (the government).

Unless they do- I don't work there but it seems like they build their product, make sure it can lift X mass to orbit well, and if anyone needs shit lifted into orbit they just goto SpaceX. Far less bloat.
One useful hack is to use the DuckDuckGo bang command "!fake" to check the fakespot rating for a listing.

If you have DDG set as your default browser you can just prepend "!fake" (no quotes) before the url and get a breakdown on the review authenticity.

(Interestingly sometimes even AmazonBasics products have a bad fakespot rating...)
Was anyone else impacted by TangoCard this week?
I've been happily using the TangoCard API to offer gift cards to my customers since October 2016. It has "just worked" and I have had zero issues until this last week, when they deprecated their /V1/ API endpoints. The way I learned about it was through one of my customers reporting a "301 Moved Permanently" message when she was trying to manage her gift cards through my system.

A) They sent me no warning emails at all. Did any of you get one?
B) Their V2 is very different: routes are different and a lot of variables are camel case instead of snake case eg: cc_token is now creditCardToken.
C) They changed how money is represented. 100 used to be $1. Now it is $100. Further, every transaction used to always be in pennies. Now pennies are only sent if it is not zero. So never 100.00.
D) I found out on Friday the 12th. My complaint ticket seemed to be appropriately escalated. However, the support tech I was involved with was just then leaving on vacation AND the finance department was closed until Monday. So under no circumstances was I going to be up for at least 3 days. 3 days in which there was no way for my customers to access the money they rightfully should have had access to, and to which I was the target of their anger.

So for me? This has meant 2+ days worth of reprogramming at a time where I have a heavy work load. I'm still not sure what to do about consolidating all of the log files. I have searched HN and have not found mention of TangoCard in years. Are you folks using another vendor? Can anyone recommend a good/appropriate way for me to get my message to someone at their company that might actually be heard? eg: "Hey, I have lost very real time here because of your V1 cancellation without warning. How did anyone think this would be okay?".

Or am I wrong? Did I miss something? Is it okay to just force endpoints to go from V1 to V2 overnight without warning?
Action that goes against your current beliefs will help to instill new beliefs and overcome challenges.

So to answer "How to become confident and take risks?" - is to take risk without waiting to become confident first.

"True Power = Ability to Take Action" (Tony Robbins)
I'm all for Freedom Units... But honestly if you're doing aerospace you just use metric and that's all there is to it! Period.

This is true for almost all engineering. I use metric but it is annoying in PCB design because mils is the standard there and those are just Tiny Freedom Units.

I'd be in favor of switching to metric for USA, but I see no indication of that happening. But a company has a choice esp one the size of Boeing!
That all depends on how rural it is. Rural enough that a tower can cover enough houses to make it worth it or so rural enough you have almost as many towers as houses?

I spent a decade on various WISPs, even had one of their towers on my house (free connection + cash = very yes). It was a city with a mix of single family homes on small lots and townhomes/condos. Cable doesn't exist there, so WISP was the way to go. It was pretty good until Netfix got popular. It was bad in the evenings when everyone would sit down and turn on a show.

Now I'm in a very rural place, lots of hills, thick trees. Luckily there is a telephone/internet co-op who put in fiber. I think they realized with the distances they have to cover that WISP and copper were out. I've never seen fiber to such remote locations.

We only have one cell tower that covers us now, so I won't hold my breath for 5G.
A good share of notable cathedrals have burned in recent history, and some of them have been rebuilt using modern techniques (e.g. Chartres, one of the most notable french cathedrals now has a metallic structure to bear its roof). These new techniques are both elegant and a better fit, as they protect the building from a (likely) fire in the future.

Arguing that cathedrals' wooden roofs are built to last while we don't know how to build longer-lasting work is a very curious take on the situation.
The primary differences are 1. proper finger position and technique (mind your Ps and Qs); 2. better touch typing accuracy (see 1). Speed is probably roughly the same but with less backspacing. The staggered layout is weird; it's not natural at all and requires bizarre finger contortions designed to prevent mechanical typewriters from jamming. Ortholinear allows your fingers to move in perfectly straight lines, so it becomes incredibly easy to know exactly where a key should be without looking (honestly, can you type *$(@ without looking at your fingers?). Since we don't live in the 1890s, I think it's time to move on.

The biggest benefit is not exclusive to ortho, but fully programmable layouts have totally transformed the way I interact with the computer; I map space and enter to where my thumbs naturally rest, have momentary layer toggles on row four that allow me to type any shifted symbol from the home row (also numpad centered on jkl and arrows mapped to hjkl), and esc/ctrl on R3 C1 (caps lock). Most of the time I never move my fingers more than 1u from their home positions. In my experience ortholinear is easier to map since things like number pads are awkward on a staggered layout, and ortho R4 gives you the ability to toggle between six layers without moving your thumbs. I've arrived at such an efficient layout that I don't even use R1 and most of R4 at all.

Edit: you don't lose your ability to use a standard keyboard layout after learning ortho; it just feels like trading in your ferrari for a ford pinto.
The biggest thing preventing me from using 4G more has nothing to do with speed or coverage. It's the caps and pricing on bandwidth consumption. I doubt 5G is going to change that.
Sadly Mesa's software renderers seem to have topped out at OpenGL 3.3[1] :(

[1]: https://mesamatrix.net/#Version_OpenGL3.3-GLSL3.30
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