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I lived a no car life, where I walked to work, the store, everywhere. I have also lived the drive a long distance life.

My favorite is my current life... easy parking right in my driveway, short drives to stores with ample parking, short drive commute to work with ample parking.

Walking is great, but lugging groceries sucks, even if the store is close. It sucked when I lived in an apartment where I parked in a parking lot and had to walk my groceries from the car up to the elevator to my apartment.

A car is just easier, assuming light traffic, short drives, and good parking.
I guess I’m just generalizing semi-weekly from semi-annual. Do people actual my use the term bi-weekly to mean twice a week? I understand confusing bi-annual to mean twice a year because years can be evenly split in two and bi-annual would thus mean every six months. But weeks, being 7 days long, don’t naturally get cut in half. If you heard someone use the phrase bi-weekly and the context implied twice a week, what would that even mean to you? It seems to me that someone would always say the exact days of the week they meant.
When you win the game, you stop playing
I regularly use it to pay for gift cards on cardcash for an additional 2% discount. It makes a lot of sense for sites selling items highly prone to fraud or with thin margins.
Suppose the custom cake bakery owner is black, and a customer asks for a cake with a confederate flag design?

This is a fun game! Suppose the baker is Muslim and you ask for a cake with a cartoon of The Prophet? Wouldn’t that make you the bigot?

My point is you can contrive any example here to get the conclusion you want.
Yeah, maybe. The thing is, there are a lot of independent observations that match up really really well with the hypothesis, "there's a bunch of matter around that only interacts with us via gravity". If our models are off, they would have to be off in exactly the right way to affect our observations of gravitational forces but not really anything else. Which may very well be the case--or it may be the case that baryonic matter isn't really the end-all be-all of the universe and we're just a bunch of baryonic chauvinists for thinking so because that's what we're made of ;)

Obviously, nobody knows for sure yet. But I would caution most fellow laymen not to rely too heavily on the intuition that says, "dark matter? pffft!" or even, "but what about all of those observations that didn't match Newtonian dynamics?". Physicists (including the author here!) are generally smart enough to have thought of those objections themselves, which is why they've spent decades trying really hard to disprove the notion of "dark matter" by compiling all of these anomalous observations. Sometimes the universe is just unintuitive, at least to dumb apes like us.

I'm not saying you can't have a hunch that we're just doing the math wrong somehow; I just wouldn't be overly confident that's the case just yet.
Yes, absolutely. Public and private companies. And also some specific technologies.

Edit: let me give you a simple example. In late 2005 I proposed an investment to a wealthy relative: buy $100,000 of GOOG and $100,000 of BIDU. Any loss would be covered by me as debt, to be repaid over the next 10 years, with a stop-loss at -50% ($100,000). Any gain would be split half and half. Hold it for 10 years, then sell.
Unfortunately my relative didn't accept.
Baidu did 30x in 10 years. Google did ~6x.
> "I will not sell you that cake because you're gay" is the issue, not the type of cake.

This contradicts everything I've read about the case.
The baker disagreed with gay marriage, not being gay.
To suggest that the baker wouldn't have sold any cake to a gay customer is ridiculous.
The downside to using a mutable reference instead of passing around ownership is just that it would be awkward.

You'd have to write two extra lines of code to set up y and z separately from calling add(), and you'd have to make them mutable which is an extra mental burden.

And an immutable reference is bad because it would force extra objects to be allocated, wasting time and cache space.
It's solving a much much bigger problem than electronic payments (which was never really a problem in the first place unless you're overly concerned about privacy). We have a major problem with inflation in this world, you can't just put your money somewhere and have it retain its value anymore and it hasn't been like that for years, we're forced to play the stock market game which just consolidates power to big corporations and leaves a lot of people all over the world left behind - bitcoin actually solves that problem, and just to drive that point home, if you'd invested in bitcoin and held during just about any given 365 day period throughout its ten year lifespan you'd have likely beaten the stock market in gains by a lot, that helps a ton of people, especially young people who are saddled by debt. We have countries that have no reliable form of currency at all, again bitcoin solves that problem.

I agree with some of the sentiment of the article, bitcoin's energy consumption is something to keep an eye on and if we can seamlessly move to an algorithm that's greener then so be it but you have to realize the tremendous amount of good that bitcoin is doing for the world and will likely continue to do as it becomes scarcer and scarcer, don't knock a technology that can single handedly lift a continent like Africa out of poverty.

*edit: Nothing like defending bitcoin on Hacker News and getting downvoted to oblivion, hey rather than downvote why don't you point out exactly what you disagree with so we can have a discussion
If they need a response within an hour, then they need to indicate that (and ideally why) in their initial contact.

If they expected a response within an hour and didn't get it, they can call me or physically come to me.

I've told two of my bosses while being interviewed: Assume I'll check email only 3 times a day. Is that workable?

No one says "No" (even though it may not be workable).

One of my bosses actually suggested to me that I should have "office hours" and be available in those hours, and simply not respond all other hours.

It all depends on the need of the job. And most engineering/SW jobs do not need you to "be available to respond within an hour" for any request.
People have been saying that for 50 years, though.

C++ covers the whole spectrum from C-like, low-level programming to high-level, Python-like programming; which is why it dominates programming competitions, and manages to beat Haskell and OCaml at their own game in the ICFP. I think it's quite possible that C++ will evolve enough that it won't need being replaced at all. With the last and upcoming standards, C++ has gotten some inspiration from Python; it looks like it might also copy a few good ideas from Rust going forward.

Many historical criticisms of C++ have never been valid ("it's not elegant"), and the valid ones are being addressed: safer constructs, better tooling, improving support for modularization, better compile times, etc.
Never been especially convinced by the endurance hunting theory, as dogs are far better at it than we are, with much greater endurance. So why no bipedal Fido?
You know harry potter also deals with the same question in this chapter
Hi, I'm new and I'm installing and testing the Wazo Platform UC use case, based on:

http://www.wazo-platform.org/install

But I get a couple of errors.

where is the best place to search for help?
That's a very good movie. It's based on a superb novel [1] by the Australian writer and director Julia Leigh. The film captures the quiet, minimalist style of the book really well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunter_(Leigh_novel)
Doesn't necessarily need to be hosted, although given that people are fine with running Quickbooks or any other SaaS it's hard to see why they wouldn't be fine with ledger SaaS.

Can still make a case for licensing, though, depending on the features.

We built this for our internal accounting, it's a ledger service that enforced immutable double entry rules and can run as a container with a Postgres DB configured. https://github.com/realimage/qledger
Cyclists car ride very closely together quite safely, as all kinds of mass rides show. Relative speeds are close to zero, and cyclists generally have much better spatial awareness than cars.
Yes. Through lots of actions: By choosing ISP. By setting up my own router. By implementing a pihole. By configuring my OS.

No application has any business overriding any of those choices unasked, but should use what the OS provides.

Like every application does, except modern browsers which for some reason think they are special.

Here’s news for you: they’re not.
The whole gun debate is like people talking about how they should ban all the cars and everyone should use public transit.

It makes sense for urban population to think about banning all cars and only using public transit, but it's insane for rural population to consider that. The urban population hasn't owned a car in generations, so it doesn't even make sense to them why anyone would own a car. Most Europeans are urbanites, and have banned cars for over half a century, so they can't make sense why Americans are so hard set on their cars and give weird suggestions about how getting rid of cars vs public transportation is a prisoner's dilemma.
A bicycle is not half a wheel, it is two wheels. If bi-annual is twice a year, then why does the word semi-annual exist? And I’m American, we don’t use the word fortnight unless we’re pretending to be British.
So other accounting software provides mutable ? Square are you serious?
Just adding a authentication layer over it and calling immutable
I don't quite understand your question. if you're asking whether I think the Cherokees deserve a vote in the house, I say "yes".
Not fully understanding the mechanisms doesn't mean we shouldn't use it. If that was the case, anaesthesia should have already been abandoned quite emphatically.

Of course, caution is certainly warranted with such powerful tools, especially as we try to understand them better. But if they are effective and can be used safely in the right context, then we should use them. And we have indications that this is the case.

So we must proceed carefully forward. I'm so glad that the multi-decade blockade on research is finally lifting.
Without giving too much away, it's not from this universe.

You really should read it, it's one of the best books in the culture series and Banks was a phenomenal writer.

It also contains the Affront, a species that are almost comically awful and coined the term "outside context problem":

"The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbors were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests."
“You had a raging climate of eugenics which did not directly target preemies, but did directly target children who had severe disabilities. It was an environment where we only wanted to produce the fittest babies. That was a very strong cultural undercurrent. People just felt like these children were not worth saving.”

Yes, the US used to have quality control on people. Ellis Island was a quality control checkpoint for immigrants. The sick were rejected and sent back where they came from.
Misleading title. Better title: To keep data safe, companies must recruit
more women and men in cybersecurity.

Summary: Silicon Valley (HBO) Episode "The Lady" (2015)

Richard: All right, but just to be clear, our top priority is to hire the most qualified person available.

Dinesh: But it would be better if that person was a woman, even though the woman part of that statement is irrelevant.
I think there is a "I know it when I see it" type of argument to say, we will make the strongest effort possible to never censor anything that is not attempting to sell a product but we reserve the right to force advertisements to go through a specific channel.

For better or worse the types Of things which get called to be banned from a platform for being unacceptable speech rarely resemble the specific styles of advertising we classify as spam.

Another argument is let users be ther own spam control.have some idiot acquaintance from middle school who keeps spamming pyramid scheme and/or nazism? Fine, just unfriend them.

As long as you are given control over what content is pushed at you directly, there is no need to sensor the whole platform because of a specific undesirable.
> We have countries that have no reliable form of currency at all, again bitcoin solves that problem

Countries that don't have reliable forms of currency also don't have reliable power or internet access.
There shouldn't be locations more than a few blocks away that busses don't go to. In Berlin's, London's, or Tokyo's center for example you'd be hard pressed to find a place more than a few minutes walk from public transport.
And don't forget about the hard-working engineers of AMD who made that success possible.
But, since every criminal will still have a gun (or near enough for police to claim such), that just means you can never disarm police.
Thanks for the link. I’ve never heard of Wildar before; what an amazing character. Someone had a lot of fun writing that Wikipedia article:

“However, the story about Widlar bringing a goat to trim the lawn in front of his office, retold by The New York Times after his death,[14] was incorrect.[19] It was a sheep, not a goat;[68] Widlar brought her in his Mercedes-Benz convertible for just one day, which included a photo op for the local journalists.[19] According to Pease, Widlar abandoned her in the nearest bar;[19] according to Lojek the sheep was ‘mysteriously stolen’.[68]”
Reminds me of "Doctor Diagoras", a short story by Stanislaw Lem. Also known for the "Solaris" novel (adapted by Tarkovsky and Soderbergh)

We expect to find alien lifeforms out there, but plenty of species on Earth remain to be discovered and studied. And rediscovered: finding out we overlooked some particularly interesting/puzzling behavior in apparently boring species, whose research might lead to breakthroughs in genetics, computing, mathematics, etc.
Do all the emails go out at once?
It doesn't threaten anything. They've used Yahoo Groups as their provider to manage some discussions, now they'll have to switch provider. Stuff that happens every day.
That sounds somewhat plausible to me because it fulfills the criterion of something that would mess up our observations of gravitational force but nothing else. Is the n-body problem really so intractable we can't even handwave our way to an approximate answer that accounts for this stuff?
> Fun fact about terminal escape sequences: some of them are timing-dependent. If a byte arrives too slowly, it will do something different

As someone working on a couple of different VT100 emulations, can you provide an example of this? I'm curious now, as none of the specifications I've seen mention this that I can think of off the top of my head.
Cities change on decades long timelines. That's enough time for people to adjust.
Nonsense, the universe is only 6000 years old....

and it's a Libra.
Search as a service startup Algolia raises $110M
Anybody else remember when Halley's comet and Hale-Bopp were in the sky at the same time? It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen...
Based on the title alone, anyone who gets offended by this has not read what GitLab actually states in their "values" page.

In case you don't want to go dig for it here it is:
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#religion-and-polit...

TL;DR: it says that generally there shouldn't be discussions about religion or politics on PUBLIC forums, but that such discussions are OK in social context, like during coffee breaks. Also goes to say to keep in mind not to exclude people due to their minority political/religious views.

This seems very reasonable and this whole issue seems almost like a hit piece. GitLab hasn't done anything wrong, but since their world view isn't completely black and white like people-in-the-current-year should have according to the same people who get offended time after time from the most minute things (and even about things that happened decades ago) they must be bad.
and yet all you need is a simple phone and access to these satellites: https://blockstream.com/satellite/

I agree the infrastructure isn't there yet but problems with national currency is a government issue, infrastructure issues can usually be solved but governmental issues tend to be a lot harder and all countries that rely on fiat currency are subject to inflation
>Maybe the simpler model is enough to understand what is going on. Maybe a more complex model suffers from over-fitting and performs worse than the simpler model. It really depends.

If only physics departments everywhere would adopt this philosophy! Physics undergrads would then be liberated from the yoke of Einstein's relativity, let alone the tyranny of the mind-blowing quantum field theory with its insufferably complicated Feynman diagrams.

It does not depend. The simpler model in economics is fatally flawed, and is the one suffering from over-fitting (to a straight line, no less) and contributing to the bad reputation of economics as a "dismal science".

>> The SMD theorem guarantees, for example, that most market demand curves will NEVER satisfy the fundamental neoclassical "law" of demand.

>Does it really say that? Or simply that weird market demand curves are possible in a few exceptional situations?

Yes, it does.[0] The exceptional situations are precisely those that neoclassical economics assumes are the norm, namely, that there is only one agent and one commodity in the market.[1]

As soon as you have more than one agent/consumer in an economy, the mathematics will undermine the "law" of demand, because the inter-agent interactions would generate non-linear terms in the market demand function.

And once you have terms of higher order, the demand curve generated by that function will have sections that slope upwards, exactly what is being forbidden by the "law" of demand.

And we haven't yet taken into account the very real fact that multiple consumers cannot possibly have the same preferences. Or that these preferences can change with different levels of income.[2]

In short, neoclassical microeconomics only works in a communist economy of identical clones with identical preferences and incomes.

Oh, the irony.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenschein%E2%80%93Mantel%E2...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_agent

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homothetic_preferences
Children already play on the street in residential areas where traffic is basically nonexistent most of the day. Why do you think that this behavior won't extend to more streets if we ban 90% of the cars?
A machine where char is as large as int is unlikely in practice as it isn't very useful. C11 (at least) defines INT_MIN/MAX as covering at least the range of an int16_t type.

That said, the int promotion alone may be surprising / nonobvious to some people (it was to me, when I learned about it!).
Will it be feasible in the near future to run these equations, or is it a millions of years on a million supercomputers type of question?
> I think it's fair to question whether 50/50 should be the goal.

There's a very strong inverse correlation between a country's gender equality and female representation in STEM. I.e. countries like Algeria and the UAE have much higher female participation in tech than countries like Sweden and the Netherlands.

That doesn't necessarily mean that women in tech don't face discrimination or harassment. But it strongly suggests that discrimination isn't the primary driver of female under-representation in the industry.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
Don't know why you were downvoted. Excellent comment.
Thank you for the constructive reply and the link, it will certainly be useful. It is hard for me to properly respond, when this topic (sign language machine translation) comes up. You cannot encode sign language as text! You generally cannot understand what two people are talking about informally, if you don't know them. Oh well...
Those who got accepted already got it.
They maintain a blacklist though, called Google Safe Browsing. Perhaps Bitcoin sites should be added to that to prevent money laundering. Pornographers should be licensed, otherwise omitted from search results.

Too many adverse effects you say? Sorry, that's just the way it is, no use complaining.
So long as BTC is adequately carbon taxed, probably not.
Open Source Cloud Storage Software to Store Data
Elon Musk reportedly testified that he's low on cash, financially illiquid
Yes, yes. The spec is filled with anachronisms that are no longer pertinent in today's machines. char + char gets promoted to int every time in today's compilers. Try it out here: https://godbolt.org/z/V5HEvV
Disney: Bob Iger bets the company (and Hollywood's future) on streaming
I have a question about the keybase
Hello.

I am a user of Telegram and Keybase.

In the Telegram, we're using IFTTT to get the news we want through RSS. (I am receiving Twitter and news through IFTTT.)

By the way, I want to use IFTTT just like the Telegram in Keybase. Is there any way?

I can't program at all.

So I'm asking for your help.

Could you please make IFTTT available for the keybase?
I would argue all currencies are unreliable ,because they go down in value due increase of supply. Throwing 2-4% every year sounds awful
The might still have guns, but even crooks would be less likely to use them because they're less likely to encounter someone else with a gun, making them less likely to have to worry about the first mover advantage in that situation.

For robberies they probably don't even need one, just a sufficiently realistic replica.