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> A house around 30 years old is worthless

Living in a city which city center was (re-) build between the 16th and 17th century, the 30 years till worthless puzzles me.

Even the house I live in is over 100 years old and in excellent condition.

Why do houses loose their value so rapidly in Tokyo?
I clarified that now, thanks. Multiple use cases e.g. selecting datapoints for training or testing as well as to analyze statistical properties of specific datasets. So retrieving individual datapoints should be possible as well. Once datapoints are written they will not get updated, if labeling takes place it would probably be done in another structure that gets linked to the datapoint.
I have used fuzz testing to make my Bezier intersection library more robust against edge cases. The test would try to find all intersections between a random pair of curves that lie within certain bounds (you probably know that there can be up to nine intersections between two cubic Bezier curves). At the beginning it failed at approx. 1 in 100,000 randomly generated curve pairs, now I am at a point where there is not a single failure in a billion test.

My problem was how to decide if a test failed, because this would not be a crash, but failing to find an intersection between the curves. So I compared against an existing library which uses a completely different algorithm, which means the other library fails at other test cases than my own library. If the results in a test case were different, one must have failed and by testing against the found intersections I could easily decide which one.
It's fairly nice but indeed rather implicit. I would kill for a postgres setting where feeding (an evaluated) NULL to the where clause logs a warning. This would force developers to coalesce (at least on top level) and think about the null case when applicable.
It is our collective karma, to outsource cruelty to industrial animal farming.

Even though I have become mostly vegetarian, it is quite tempting to buy meat for the convenience and the fact that sometimes it is much cheaper than fresh vegetables (at least in the west).

Human progress and social evolution has somehow come with greater compassion for fellow beings. Will our coming generations value compassion in itself and will that affect the way we eat/farm.

Will an advanced alien visitor be shocked by our animal farming or will will they hunt us down for meat. I guess we should expect either based on our own behaviour.
Yeah this is a strange one, my brain reads "helps" as a noun here, it takes an extra beat for it to infill a ghost noun between "little" and "helps" ("every little bit helps")
Good ideas, would love to try to organize an introvert and healthy hackhaton ...
I’m not doubting you, but I don’t see where in the App Store rules it forbids JIT, other than the prohibition of running third-party code. Emulation and interpretation are allowed — if the code is first- or second- party.

Educational apps are an interesting exception, but as I quoted in my patent comment, JavaScript is the other major one.

So I wonder if JIT compilation and execution is possible under the rules in JavaScript? (Again, is that even feasible?)
> This is not Apple overruling the government. Germany is perfectly free to ban Apple products. They did not.

That makes no sense. Maybe, in theory, if you had five years to play with, Germany could move towards restricting Apple products.

In practice the window of opportunity to affect the course of this epidemic using technology is weeks or months. That restricts your options to using existing infrastructure; realistically that means working with Apple or Google.

Germany could ban Apple and Google products, but that would leave them nothing to work with.

This is going to raise questions about national security and sovereignty going forward. I suspect this will be a subject of controversy after the pandemic dies down.
Because it turns out big corporations that use multirepos tend to be even less efficient (about versioning) than those that use monorepos.

What are those far simpler, better, more open alternatives?
In the UK, there are plenty of young Asian boys in prison on "Terrorist related" offences: basically watching the wrong sort of videos online.
ECC plays the role of a checksum too.
What Pixar movies can teach us about Scrum values
Most of the issues in north west Tassie are related to the Ruby Princess, which is just a massive scandal that hopefully we'll learn from in the future.
Don’t agree, unless you only did read the first 1/4 of my comment?
I like that citation, where is it from?
I suspect theoretical energy generation efficiency is in disproportion to the difference in potentials (IIRC the hotter something is, the more efficiently you can extract energy from it - not more energy, but more in proportion - but IANAexpert).

So while dams may catch rain efficiently, if they were 10x higher perhaps the extra potential energy usable is more than 10x
Here's a nice video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6oNxckjEiE
>two parallel slightly different UI toolkits and SDKs, one of which makes vastly more money.

And one which has a longer history. Should every Cocoa application be written in UIKit to continue working?
You two are saying the same thing.
And how do you find these books, pictures, and music? Someone has to deliver book X in front of your eyes and song Y close to your ears so you select these instead of millions of other books, pictures, and music.
here's the guide on how to play in a CTF

https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/intro/find.html

for space comms, search "site:nasa.gov satellite"
There is an equivalent for Ruby too in case you're interested.
If this blaming goes on, the next Mohamed Zaki is going to be pressured by his managers to just treat the patients. Working on on isolating a possible new virus can wait, treating the patients has the highest priority. Sounds good when put that way. As a side effect, the virus will pop up in several countries before it's really known, so blaming isn't as easy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndro...
To be fair, the post does not say that. It says that it's "one of the papers significant to the author" - a subjective ranking.
On the ATO calls, too many! It's interesting to note a news article about someone spoofing messages to phones claiming they are due to the app already. I actually think the idea of the app isn't a bad one (well at least once the blue tooth issues are properly fixed), but mixing the phone number and the app as a communication channel is already showing how it can cause problems.
> In British "quite good" is similar to "particularly good". In American it's more like "OK"

Something similar happened between Spanish Spanish and Argentinian Spanish.

I once used the phrase "a veces" in South America and I was corrected to "de vez en cuando". Both phrases mean "occasionally", but the first seems to me to be unfamiliar to South Americans. Maybe someone else can clarify exactly.
Use the plain HTML interface (no JS) and it's very fast. The option to disable it is at the bottom. You can of course enable it any time.
Bill Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/yond-cassius-has-l...
If you don't meet the criteria, presumably they'd rather you trade any hacks you find with a different interested party happy to pay for the information?!
Roof line guttering is only about 8 metres high on residential property. 8 meters doesn’t seem like much potential energy for something that weighs 1kg per litre “processed”, that energy source isn’t going to run anything interesting at all
I'd say the really exciting stuff happening in smartphones are the things going on with computational photography, like Apple's Deep Fusion. This is moving beyond the limitations of single lenses and single sensors and enabling some pretty impressive things.
French VC firms hold virtual office hours to give advice to startups
Thanks, that makes sense, and that's exactly what I felt the author was stuck on. They've spent decades trying to eradicate diseases (TB and HIV), so now they want to pursue another eradication program. It's attractive, I get why. But it's not applicable to a disease we can't cure and one with rapid gestation transmission.

It's somewhat ironic that this expert's own expertise is what stops him from listening to the real experts...
I'd say set them free.

But given the breeding of commercial chickens they'd simply not survive in the wild - not stop growing and after just days be unable to move, and easy prey.

If you're fortunate enough to have land, use it, even a balcony or window sill can be put to good use. There are plenty of guides on YouTube, and for a window sill no need to spend money on herbs again. For food or for leisure (or both) - if you like flowers grow some flowers!

And don't throw away potato skins, carrot tops, strings of beans, etc. Compost them, it really enriches the soil.
> Having separate repos only makes sense if they are maintained by separate teams with a well defined API

Agree! I've found that a multirepo setup only works if there's an obvious boundary. Similar to SOA, distributed monoliths - or distributed monorepos - are problematic.
Exactly. That’s one of the heuristic I use nowadays to filter things.

Does it have a good documentation?

Yes? Cool. I dive in head first.

No? Hard pass.
Australia Launches Contact-Tracing App
> Sure, whats causation and whats correlation, but its pretty clear

What? How is it clear? As you wrote yourself, correlation is not causation.
I gave up long ago. There are guidelines for everything but it takes 1000 times the so called established editors time to enforce them. Very few people are willing to take up tasks like that. Those who do might be unable to write articles which makes their review more of an outside look. I don't see a way to progress.

Its a kind of public secret that one should avoid working on topics where editors might disagree. I find those to be the more interesting ones.
I recently repaired the logic board on my 2013 MacBook Air by baking it in the oven to reflow the solder.
I thought I was being trolled when I first came across the advice on a forum but it worked!
However the fix only lasted around 2 weeks before the issue came back and the laptop wouldn’t turn on anymore.
Now I’m probably going to buy a second hand logic board off eBay and swap it out, they look to be selling for around £100
Fuzzing is not random testing though. It's directed random testing.
Interesting you mention "knot". What do you think of an utterly unfounded intuition that elementary particles are "knots", actually topological ones, on fields?
Also, this: https://imapapi.com/
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
I hear meditation helps.
Whats helped me is acting as if The Law of Attraction is real.
I started with programming as hobbyist. I never actually studied it (beside some basics which I already known when they teach me that).

I ended up writing CRUDs, various data converters and fixing bizzare bugs in legacy software. Slowly I lost interest in programming and I discovered that I am no longer interested in new tech. I completely missed javascript hype train for example.

But it's OK. It's just a job. I have other hobbies/friends to feel fullfilled.

Also - I keep programming as hobby. I just more interested WHAT I am doing instead HOW I am doing that (which is just usually easiest path).

For example - I really started digging into audio programming - basically coding my own VSTs in Csound/Cabbage. That's really interesting stuff and also sometimes very challenging, because it involves math which I am generally struggling with (I had diagnosed discalculia back at the school).

For example: I just spend two days (!) inventing this little piece of code: f(k,n) = (k * n) - (k-1)
Have you ever used erlang as a distributed system in production?
Oh geez, some people have a lot more spare time than me
You should rename the title to 'snake game with free head streches'
why does blender become slower at times for no apparent reason
‘Immunity Passports’ Could Create a New Category of Privilege
why does blender at times become slower for no fucking apparent reason
Only google killed their reader, of course. feedly and inoreader are pretty popular RSS readers.
Analyst worries iPhone is facing '2nd recession' after 2019 annus horribilis
If you are interested in finding possible security holes, you could try finding prototype pollution bugs in basically any library that somehow handles user input. Utility libraries like lodash and underscore, argument parsers like yargs, minimist, others like moment, handlebars, DB/ODM tools like Mongoose, Knex, etc.

You'd look for code where input would be able to modify Object.prototype (or I guess some other constructor's prototype) unintentionally (and it's basically always unintentional).

Example of such vulnerability found in Minimist https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MINIMIST-559764

These issues are a constant pain in the JS ecosystem and you wouldn't be the only one using fuzzing to try to find them.
> raised and massacred living beings

Plants are also living beings...
Downvoted for stating a fact? What a joke.
It is, but there's a lot of gatekeeping going on. As a music collector and former what.cd member I'd love to join and contribute to Redacted, but I won't go through that interview process.
They didn't, only google reader. inoreader is a great one, so is feedly.
I first heard of Marcus Aurelius more than five years ago when I was reading a book called "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience", by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced as Me-High Chick-Sent-Me-High)—itself a book I highly recommend; he spent his entire career devoted to this topic. That made me wanted explore Stoicism to better understand what they said about human well-being and what the Greeks called "Eudaimonia" (flourishing). Although, I only began the deep-dive some two years ago.

How has it changed me? In many positive and enabling ways. It's an ongoing process, but it certainly made me more resilient, tranquil; ability to give better structure to my attention when in solitude; better ways to deal with setbacks; and to learn to "make correct use of mental impressions" (Epictetus' favorite way of describing the Stoic project), among others.
I'm not sure, I'd never 'Saints is winning'. 'Saints are winning' sounds correct, though. Even 'Arsenal is winning' sounds a bit wrong.

Whos winning? Arsenal are (team)

Whos winning? Ronnie O'Sullivan is (singular)

Disclosure: I am English.
That has a lot to do with the underlying language actually. This is purely anecdotal but react was the first framework I tried to learn. It was hard for many reasons. One Angular internship and one big vue project later, it was no longer hard. Everything just fell in place. It just clicked. The secret? My JS skills got way better.
Translation Proof Reading on Seoclerk
> The decline of manufacturing EMPLOYMENT (not value created) is also a big part of this.

I read a paper that said value created down everywhere except computer equipment. And even then that's probably an accounting fiction. The US is employing less people in manufacturing and we're making less stuff across the board.

The US makes me think of a description by a GI of a German Army surrendering at the end of WWII. First there was the top echelons, generals, their staff. Along with their wives and mistresses. Followed by the troops and equipment assigned to protect HQ. All in a state of perfect order. Followed by a rump army of totally broken men. And then nothing.

If you occupy the right position in US society you can believe everything is fine. If your a smart kid from a formerly working class family in Ohio, you know by the age of 12 that you need to escape.
You'd think in the era of patreon this would be solved by now in a manner that is opt in by users who have shown they are willing to pay for online content, or some other way that doesn't require intrusive paywalls or advertisement.
Block Closures 101 for Pharo
The problem is legacy and how codebases have grown in the past.

How would you deploy erlang given a system that has grown out of a legacy C++ codebase and needs to run on a mix of mobile devices, IoT embedded systems (some with less than 64 kB RAM), PCs and servers?

Some distributed systems are heterogenous and will probably always be.

Now, getting back to the main topic, any insights from erlang or otherwise how to troubleshoot said systems that are deployed to customers?
Makes sense. Though it seems that maybe the sports teams are (mostly) pluralized in the US?

From memory NBA, NFL, MLB use pluralized names but MLS and Indy Car Racing (or whatever it is called now) doesn't?
My experience with professional software development looks like this, in a loop:

Let's add a new button! How many story points is the button? (Insert 2-hour discussion about what a story point is) Okay, "Uncle Bob says" we need at least seven layers of code around it. Someone insists on doing it "TDD", even though the UI framework is not testable. Oops, the Agile Consultant broke Jira, it will be back up in two days. The PR gets stuck for days because of trailing whitespace violations. The button doesn't actually work, but the outsourced developer complains loudly until someone gives in and merges it. Review time!

The code that results from this madness is not better than Hackathon code, just bad in a different way. If anything, my last Hackathon has made me aware of how much I want to work for an effective company at some point in my life, so I guess it was worthwhile.
If they're less than 16 years old, they could easily be serious.
And yet people manage to starve anyways so I'd say the slack point isn't anywhere close to the waste point.
HN submit is instantly dead after posting
I created a new submit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22988461 but it is dead immediately. Is this some kind of spam protection or is gitlab.io sites blocked in general on HN?
yes, i tend to agree with the passion-part of this.

use your free time to do things that excite you, things that motivate you.

a job is a job. you need it to pay the bills. if you can do a job that pays well and you can work in reasonable comfort, appreciate it. there a terrible jobs out there, be glad you don't have to do those.

but you also need passion to avoid getting burned out. if you can't find it in your job, find it in your life, in your hobbies, in your relations.

your job should just be a means to an end. it should support your private life: food, a roof over your head, security and your passions.

maybe visit a therapist to work out what triggers and excites you.

a change of scenery (changing your job) might help for a short while, but unless you work on the underlying issue, the problem will catch up and follow you around.
I think that's subjunctive, right? Subjunctive in English is indeed really obscure... I seem to recall the rules being weird in English, but I think it was something along the lines of: you have to use subjunctive when the hypothetical would be outright impossible? (e.g. "If I were you") In your example it's unclear whether that's the case or not as it might depend on the context, so my understanding was it might need to be indicative in that case. I think that's a bit different from being conditional, though, right?
Take notes from publishers, and use social networks to send out links back to your blog. Best of both worlds.
> According to the Vedas, one's varna dharma is independent of one's family. I've said this in every single post in this thread.

Yet, every time you have been wrong((https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/a/4104). What vedas says about movement of varna is that it is permitted only if it is accepted by other community which is not practical due to the incentive structure i have already explained in my previous reply. The varna conversions are cited only in the stories from the hindu holy books, it is never an independent choice. And the rules are entirely different when it comes to the highest varna in the hierarchy(i.e priest). The priest must volunteer himself to change if he feels for 16 years he has not done the duties according to his varna(NOTE: The pronoun "he" is used intentionally. Because women is considered lower that the bottom of varna system) . Now do you see why the movement b/w varna never happened and not practical.

> I suspect based on your username (John) and your use of "Britisher" that you're a Christian in India, which is likely why you continue to spread ignorance

I am born to Hindu family, but i am an atheist turned antagonistic. My motivation is to make logical conversation and convince that getting rid of varna system is better for India and not undo the progress.

> your use of "Britisher"
What do you mean by this ?
Is that a correct sentence in either dialect? It doesn't sound well-formed to me!
Totally agree, I was on 4 hackatons and after first one it's all about competition. Only first hackaton was for fun.

On last one it was nightmare for me. I felt pain in my body everywhere.
Yes, in the same way as all Pascal apps had to be rewritten to the C API a long time ago, and all Mac OS 9 apps had to be rewritten as cocoa (NextStep), or all Objective-C apps will have to be rewritten as Swift as that is the new blessed SDK. In practice it won't be a huge burden as older apps will not be phased out for a long time - see the Objective-C to Swift transition - there will be a very long transition period.

I'm not saying this is great for developers, I'm saying it makes economic sense for Apple and the signs are they are moving in this direction.
The minimum daily intake of carbs for a human to remain healthy is zero. The minimum daily intake of oil is in fact, not zero, as oils are required for the basic functioning of a human.
Really interesting, tho I wish he cited or talked to some psychologists as well!

I wonder if the specific tools of war are a factor as well — the suddenness of explosions and bullets might provide a significantly more traumatic experience than spear sword and trebuchet, the pace of humvees and airplanes more shock than feet and horses.
People who live there or are servicing residents (deliveries etc) still have access, it's only through traffic that's disallowed. This is unlikely to add more than a few blocks to your journey.
Ah yes, we may as well add NP-completeness to this thread.
An awesome question. That is exactly what I have been wondering without being able to put it into words, and this is core of why the MW seems completely uselsess to me as a scientific theory. (As a philosophical one-maybe? But science?)
You have got to be kidding me!

Neither dialect says you have gotten to be kidding me, right?
No, but unless the French decide that they can force others countries to follow their laws, the only choice is between [French protection laws applied in France; French protection laws not applied abroad] and [French protection laws not applied in France; French protection laws not applied abroad].
The short answer: What exactly the "price" shown on the exchange website is depends on the exchange. Typically it's the last trade price or the mid price (average of best bid and offer). There really is no such thing as a single "price" because the price will depend on the quantity and direction you are transacting in.

Long answer: You need to understand how the Limit Order Book works. I wrote up something about this here [1]. It also goes into different definitions of price.

> If a very low-volume stock is listed at $4, and then I offer to buy a share for $100, does the NYSE suddenly start listing its price at $100?

If you trade actually absorbs the order book and pushes the asks to $100 then yes, that could be case depending on the exchange, but I'm not sure about NYSE specifically. Most likely that could never happen due to various hidden order types and HFT market makers though.

[1] https://www.tradientblog.com/2020/03/understanding-the-limit...
The goal of terrorism is not terror in itself (that's just mass murder), it's violence for a political purpose.