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It'd be neat if you could recall what IBM's programming language is called.

It does seem to be the case that a lot of things can be interpreted multiple different ways, which does require people to precisely state what they want.

I think a classic example if a house-cleaning robot told to keep the house as clean as possible, only for that robot to then try to murder the residents after correctly determining that the residents are a primary source of uncleanliness.

Within the system's own logic, I have to be super-careful to precisely specify exactly what I want something to do, much as someone working in any other system has to be careful to specify exactly what the code's supposed to do in its various use cases. But with user-facing applications, it'll tend to assume some default assumptions. For example, if you hire someone to clean your house and tell them to keep it as clean as possible, obviously they know not to murder people to accomplish that goal, as that intent has been communicated through other channels.

However, this also proves to be beneficial in a lot of cases. For example, if you say, "Go buy eggs from the store", but don't clarify which store, that can be interpreted multiple ways. Still, say that the first store happens to be out of eggs; then, it's good that a valid alternative interpretation exists, as the first attempt at interpretation wasn't viable.
Until recently, I didn't think I have a problem with GMail spam filtering.

Then I looked at what was in my Spam folder. I haven't looked into it for a long time before, because, well, Google has trained me that their spam filtering "just works".

I now try to check it at least once a week. The amount of false positives was staggering, and some of it was important.
Yes, Germany has deposits on bottles and cans. E.g. small plastic coke bottles will have something like a 15c deposit. People tend to leave them around for homeless people to collect when they are on the go. It's a nice thing to do. All super markets have collection points where you get your deposit back as a receipt that you can cash in when paying for your groceries. The system works pretty well and it's pretty common for homeless people to show up there with bags full of bottles that they've collected.

They have another system at big beer festivals and beer gardens where people prefer to drink their beverages in glasses. Beer in plastic cups is just not acceptable here. These glasses have a deposit as well and you swap them for a clean and full one when you get a new drink and when you are done you get your deposit back when you return the glass.

This could work for coffee cups too. Just charge a dollar or so for a proper mug and simply put them in the dishwasher when people return them and give them a clean one. Only charge the deposit when they don't return one. Drinking from a proper mug is a superior drinking experience in any case.
I applaud your diligence. I'm trying to do what you are doing and fail tertibly. I pretty much get cold (in the cold season) each time I'm going to get groceries or eat at Ikea.
This is nonsense, I grew up in Scotland and travelled widely and I’ve never seen such a notice.
This is a funny question because most successful open source software seems to be a clone of existing software. E.g. gimp/Photoshop, inkscape/Illustrator and libre office/office. Of course the nice part is that as an OSS developer, you don't have to think about the requirements and specification and even the UI of the software because that has already been done.
I think it’s actually $15, and Stripe actually pays this if you win.

But my point is that merchants should love PayPal for this, and consumers don’t realize it’s chargebacks that are > PayPal claims when it comes to consumer friendliness.

Though even paypal claims are easily won by consumers if you’re willing to commit light fraud/perjury.
It means they set the page up in such a way that all the classes/ID's are hashes are unique on every page load. This means you cannot have display filtering rules for these things (at least, not easily).

Truly top-tier malice also puts tracking logic behind a reverse proxy that delivers randomised URLs, so you also cannot filter network requests.
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ICANN is considering removing price caps on .org domains
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I had to refresh parts of that knowledge recently in connection with a very simple problem that has a complex algorithmic solution: given a finite set of points on a 2D plane find the minimum radius disc that covers all points.

Even for the 3 points case the solution is not 100% trivial.
> It's not anyone's god-given right to be able to get every media ever released

People used to say exactly that about music, and then Spotify came around - along with multiple DRM-free download stores. Now these things are very much seen as "God-given rights" by many.

Yes, video is especially complicated because of how costly it is to create in the first place - this is why the closest thing to a plausible solution is going to come in the form of disruption from below. Some sort of "Netflix 2.0", focusing on a somewhat more heavily-curated experience than YT does today, and skimping on challenging technical details - maybe not even providing full-HD content of any sort! Vimeo could easily enter that space.
I don't think any modern phones do this for anything but 'hidden' networks.

Am I wrong?
This is very interesting to me as an amateur pianist trying to learn Bach. Could you give an explanation of what good and bad contrapuntal playing sound like or direct me to some references?
This was my first submission here, but is it really helpful to change the title of a published research paper? Just because some commenters didn't like it, and at the cost of this discussion now being harder to find when people google the paper?
Availability of content on Amazon and iTunes is very country specific. In my country, there are no TV shows available at all, and the movie selection isn't stellar either. Half the stuff I want to watch just isn't available for purchase at all.

And availability keeps changing! You want to buy a movie that was available last week, and it's gone!

It's so frustrating...
I'm not sure that my social skills is good enough for you to imitiate, but I would do one of the following.

I could tell such a person that I'm busy and have no time for a conversation. Without explaining him what his personal traits bothers me. I would say something like "I need to work now, have no time to chat, sorry, maybe next time".

If it is unacceptable for some reason, I would tell it without words, by playing a role of busy person with his mind on something else, honestly trying to be nice but having no spare mental capacity to do it good. At the same time I'll try to aviod to show him any emotion, because it may reinforce his behaviour. Just imagine that there are a lot of things going on your mind, you are thinking right now some complex thoughts that are not related to the conversation with this guy, and the conversation doesn't really prevent you from thinking, despite you are trying (not very hard) to be nice.

A few months of such a one way conversations and he will find something else to teach.
Bless their souls. Our farmers are treated terribly along with the animals. It's good to see a man doing good work for them.
I'm guessing that you two are having a communication problem as it is highly unlikely that a "senior colleague" can't understand simple logic.

To be clear, I'm not saying that the problem is entirely yours, but in most communication problems, the blame lies with both parties. I'd suggest involving a third party (another colleague) in your conversations and allow them to moderate the discussion.

In my experience a third party can quickly see where the communication is breaking down, even when it's not apparent to the two people attempting to communicate.
I'd like to implement some sort of RFID system where workers have to check out coffee mugs with their phones and can be held responsible if they don't end up in the dishwasher (or better, be rewarded if they end up in the dishwasher) :-)
A case of a picture is worth a thousand words. Wikipedia has a nice illustration of the first few Triangle Centers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_center#/media/File:Tr...
> It's not anyone's god-given right to be able to get every media ever released

It's also not media producers god given right to gouge customers and have the government enforce a monopoly on their products, or to even exist. Ideally we can reach a compromise that suits everyone, but at the moment it's media companies that are over reaching, they'll even happily gimp their own products so that pirated versions are better.
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One reason is that such freedom is prone to foreign interference. It's obvious if you look at local medias in TW and HK.

Democracy is not a taboo in the mainland, at least in academia. The government has also done a few democratization experiments in small villages and cities, but results were unpromising. Democratization in China is inevitable since the economic miracle won't last forever, the hard part is to figure out how to make sure the process of democratization keeps the country unified and brings prosperity, I remember there are even a few foreign professors working on this issue in Peking or Tsinghua University.
There is always a new component to success.

Facebook's was a social graph. Google's were big analytics.
Uber's a new terrible business model.
Microsoft's was coopting so many good ideas to build a software ecosystem.
Apple was the same with hardware.

And sometimes the space is just free for the taking, given strong enough budget. That's how DTP and CAD, electronics design and 3D graphics were almost duopolized. (And by better part libraries.)

Sound and video editing are a bit more competitive, but not a lot.
Why are online casino slots so popular?
Did you know that the online slots are rolled out by the online casino software developers?
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Why do you think that online slots happen to be such popular?
The simple reason for online gaming slots being popular is it’s availability on the online sites. Most of the popular online casino brands hosts the online gaming slots very frequently. Online gaming slots are released according to the player demands of course.
How do you learn to play online slots readily?
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Hey all. I've been trying for some years now to be more proactive in posting beginner-friendly tutorials for some of the things I've felt are less accessible in my field.

This is part 2 of a 2 part tutorial showing how to enable TOTP and SSH keys (instead of passwords) on Raspberry Pi and Linux in general.

I've tried to balance between explaining thoroughly for those that wish to learn and a concise tutorial that can be skipped to for those who don't.

Feedback on the style and content would be appreciated. Issues can be raised on GitHub (link is on the blog).
In my country (oz) there's been a general trend toward byo cups, mainly pushed through via a brand: keep cup [0]. To my knowledge it started several years ago in Melbourne and spread to the other cities. Many coffee shops these days have either keep cups, white labelled keep cups, or other style.
Now that baristas are used to it, it's less of a hassle for them and is pretty much accepted in lots of places. In my area, maybe one in 5 customers bring their own... Many shops also give a discount for byo because their cost of a cup is gone.

[0] https://au.keepcup.com/
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That's… exactly what the EU did, minus the legal mandate or adapter ban steps?

> In June 2009, many of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers signed an EC-sponsored memorandum of understanding (MoU), agreeing to make most new data-enabled mobile phones marketed in the European Union compatible with a to-be-specified common EPS. All signatories agreed to develop a common specification for the EPS "to allow for full compatibility and safety of chargers and mobile phones."

> […]

> The original Common EPS memorandum of understanding expired at the end of 2012. The Commission reported at the time that all of the fourteen MoU signatories, "have met their obligations under the MoU." Eight of the original MoU signatories signed a 2013 Letter of Intent (LoI) to extend the 2009 MoU another year and, in 2014, five of those companies (Apple, Blackberry, Huawei, Samsung and Sony) again signed a second Letter of Intent, effectively extending the MoU through the end of 2014.
Five years after moving to Switzerland. Why I am still here
And it's 100% a problem for people with coeliac disease
I don't understand why this isn't supported, we have several system users in our organisation to try and replicate this, but I would much rather use access tokens, certificates or api keys.
There's a perfectly acceptable solution to all of this that has been used many times in the past: Compulsory licensing. The same thing that happens with music broadcast on the radio for example.
https://puri.sm/faq/supported-networks/
> if it's not available in your market then either import it,

You're saying this is the moral and legal option, but the copyright holders lobbied hard to make this illegal. That's why there are no stores in my country offering imported DVDs for sale. It's illegal to import these if you're a business. I have to go to a foreign company and import the disc strictly for personal use.

So, I get a DVD / BluRay from a different region. How do I play this? The shop where I bought the player is forbidden, by law, from telling me how to convert my player into a multi-region player.

People aren't saying "I want this for free". They're saying "allow me to pay for it". They're also saying "the easier it is to pay for something the more people will pay for it".
Short-term sleep deprivation can be mediated to some degree with "catchup" sleep. It's the chronic sleep deprivation that will destroy you with absolutely no recourse.
I have worked at my nation's meteorological office and they (and I'd assume others do too) provide this service. They do this by running an ensemble (at our office, a population size of 50) with different starting conditions of numerical weather prediction models, rather than a single run. This will give you a confidence in the predictions of the numerical models. Besides general forecasting, they are also using this for hazard triggers so it can basically answer questions like "In the next 72 hours is there a 50% or greater chance that wind speeds will be higher than 30 knots at the biggest airport?".
There's definitely a niche waiting to be filled by AI-generated Instagram influencers. #thisinfluencerdoesnotexist
Fun little diss on Functional programming
Keep in mind that all the Pine64 hardware has a 3 month warranty [1] that requires shipping the faulty device back. This made me very hesitant to buy any of their stuff.

[1] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=443
"The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code." - Doug McIlroy

"[T]he meaning of negative code is taken to be similar to the famous Apple developer team anecdote (i.e., when a change in a program source makes the number of lines of code decrease ('negative' code), while its overall quality, readability or speed improves)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy

"When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project managers started requiring programmers to submit weekly forms reporting on the number of lines of code they had written. Bill Atkinson thought that was silly. For the week in which he had rewritten QuickDraw's region calculation routines to be six times faster and 2000 lines shorter, he put "-2000" on the form. After a few more weeks the managers stopped asking him to fill out the form, and he gladly complied." - http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Pete Kirkham
I think some proposals on the design include a barrier material around the reactor chamber that would capture the neutrons and thusly convert them to heat, which can be used to drive a turbine.

IIRC the aim was to find a material that would convert to a shortlived radioactive isotope instead of a long lived one, so you can simply remove the barrier and have it sit in a quiet place for a few years, then recycle it.
Forgot to mention: seagulls. I’m guessing other birds too, but seagulls mostly pick trash from landfills and carry it around. Especially the soda rings if it gets caught around their neck.
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Is there a similar thing, but with more RAM? 4GB seems to be the minimum for what I'm thinking about :/
Depends where exactly you are, I'd wager 50% of them are currently officially "take it as deposit or as buying" because they're often styled for the specific christmas market and vary from year to year. Not sure why people would collect those, but to each their own.
Self-driving cars: bigger road safety, less privacy
I guess it's possible that such places exist that have a private water supply - but in general tap water in Scotland is perfectly safe and tastes lovely. I've certainly never seen a sign anywhere in Scotland that warns about the tap water not being safe.
Reminds me of https://oeis.org/

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Something like this blog?: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php#.XMaxB-...
> I'm guessing that you two are having a communication problem as it is highly unlikely that a "senior colleague" can't understand simple logic.

My former lead got promoted to his position because he was literally the only guy who knew the language they wanted to use. He knew very little about the language and technology but took to the position because he obviously likes status.

The end result is him having "7+ years of experience with <pretty obscure language>", but he didn't even know some of the basics of it. On top of that he has this unfortunate defect/defense mechanism where anything he doesn't understand is automatically bad; even things that anyone versed in the domain would say are better than his homegrown solutions. You end up noticing this a lot, because there is a disproportionate amount of things he doesn't understand.

To put this into perspective: His solutions always involved some kind of raw string interpolation for SQL, even though there were plenty of flexible, good libraries that could safely abstract away issues with SQL query handling. If you asked him about it he'd say it "was hard to use" or some other useless thing.

I stopped working with him even before he left our company and even after we've parted ways I hear stories through the grapevine about people who thought he was a great, experienced developer and how they worked on a project with him and saw the truth.

Sometimes, people really just are garbage developers who somehow skated through on merits they didn't have.
Challenges remain for mobile technology in healhtcare usage in Africa
> This is a funny question because most successful open source software seems to be a clone of existing software

This is just wrong. None of the examples you mention are clones.
AFAIK the main issue is that people with disabilities usually require bendable straws.

Reusable and bendable typically makes the straw hard to clean.
I think you'll be interested in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_Foundation

In 2003, the organization was made public as the Methuselah Foundation at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association,[7] where they awarded the first Methuselah Mouse Prize to Andrej Bartke for his work on mice that lived the equivalent of 180 human years.
This service isn't built on top of the Unsplash API, in-fact, it predates it.
I'm linking to the recent HN post about Uber's "Based Web" so we can form a linked list of design systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758848 (see insomniacity's comment there for a bunch more)
Thank you. I've been waiting for a decentv write upb to gain confidence in this process.

I usually save a gpg .ASC of the private key a encoded in something I have confidence in but a pkcs12 with long passphrase might be better.
While I'm not trying to invalidate your point, it seems that given the size of 1MB sites you could have a backup of a few milions of websites for under $1[0]. Also, while the maximum size is 1mb not all sites would use all available quota so the actual average size will probably be lower than 1 megabyte driving the cost down even further. This means that that even without VS's or other investors a single person would be able to cover the costs of keeping those sites. Well, assuming there is a will to do so.

[0] For example,archive storage at OVH runs at 0.0026$ per GB, so having a backup of 4 million 1mb sites would cost 1.04$/month for three copies of data.
I see an article covering this story with both links. Google serves The Hill first, while Bing serves NYPost. On the whole, Google results seem to be better, although this may have something to do with the more detailed profile they have on me as their user.
> "to prove how clever you are"

I see this a lot and I just don't get it. Is a mechanic who uses air tools trying to "prove how clever he is"?

Knowing more than one tool allows you to choose the right tool for the job. Assuming arrogance and a motive of "proving cleverness" sounds like a great way to pick a fight.
Are you seriously trying to prove the expertise of Accenture Mexico by posting a link to Foursquare?
It's not broken. It's just hyped well beyond its constraints.
It is literally gibberish, for everyone.
Can you give (, perhaps anonymised) examples? This makes me wonder which of the new breeds of skyscraper are actually a lot less safe than perhaps older ones. I have read the same with cruise ships as we have seen with a disaster or two on those
When I was studying software engineering, "nearly correct" answers would get you the same grade as "complete gibberish" on purpose. Partially correct programs would have no more value than completely incorrect ones.

In retrospect, I think it was crucially important for students to learn the price of their mistakes. Most of my previous classmates are reputable engineers now.
They... uh... already are. A lot of the time.
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Go in my mini chat application. I will refine it as much as possible.

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Go with it. A huge part of experience is learning to work with people you don’t like. Don’t worry too much about who’s whose’s boss. Also try to assess whether he’s trying to tell you something right that you cannot understand yet.
From online CMS to static site generator: motivation and process
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