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I've been coding in Python for 8 years now and only this year came up against this behavior. I had a good long laugh after realizing what had just eaten up my previous couple hours.

I actually figured it out by printing out the id of the object being modified in my code, and when seeing it was the same had to really scratch my head. Default args are initialized when the function (or similarly, class) is defined, not when executed.
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This is what I was looking for. Except, none of them support big screens (size of a kindle or A4 paper). Also, E-Ink doesnt seem to sell those big screen to hobbyist...
Edit: I was transcribing this when you were, apparently; but here's mine, in case we caught different things.

1:23 Tower: tells a departing helicopter to depart 2 mi straight out, turn right, squawk a certain signifier on its altimeter (standard practice), and approves a frequency change (also standard practice);

1:28 Tower: cuts out briefly and then says "..is closed, San Francisco Tower."

1:31 Tower: silence, then starts to tell a Horizon flight something and the Asiana pilot cuts in with [hard to hear, best guess]"San Francisco?" Also, Sounds to me like they put Asiana 214 on a priority channel over other flight traffic, or that the tower cut itself/other pilots off when they saw/heard Asiana 214 was speaking.

1:36 Tower: Asiana 214 Heavy, San Francisco Tower

1:37 Asiana 214: [unintelligible, but my best guess: This, uh..., how much is this, uh, where is, uh,... uh,..."]

1:42 Horizon 635: 635 is going around

1:43 Tower: Horizon 635, fly heading 265, maintain 3100

1:46 Horizon 635: 265, 3100, Horizon 635

1:49: Asiana 214 [garbled]: San Francisco?

1:52 Tower: Asiana 214 Heavy, emergency vehicles are responding; they have everyone on their way.

1:56 Asiana 214: [garbled, definitely a few words and then a static burst]

1:58 Tower: Skywest 5452, San Francisco Tower, go around.

2:00 Skywest 5452: Go around, Skywest 5452

2:30 Tower: Skywest 5452, fly heading 280, maintain 3000.

2:07 Skywest 5452: 280 at 3000, Skywest 5452

2:10 Tower: Horizon 635, fly heading 265, maintain 3100.

2:14 Horizon 635: Yessir, 265, 3100, Horizon 635.

2:17 Tower: Contract North Cal departure 135.1.

2:19 Horizon 635: 35.1, Horizon 635.

2:22 Tower: Skywest 5452, contact North Cal departure 135.1.

2:26 Skywest 5452: 35 1.

2:28 Skywest 6389: 6389 We'll go to San Jose.

2:30 Tower: Skywest 6389, Roger. And, uh, contact North Cal departure.

2:34 Skywest 6389 [garbled]: What's the... frequency for that?

2:36 Tower [garbled at start]: [garbled] point 1, Skywest 6389.

2:39 Tower [garbled at start]: Rescue three three, San Francisco Tower, proceed to the scene, cross runway; [garbled, maybe "Rescue"] eleven, San Francisco Tower, proceed as requested, cross all [garbled, "runways"?]

2:46 Rescue 11: San Francisco Tower, [garbled, maybe "Rescue 33"] and Rescue 11, cleared to one.

2:50 Tower: Rescue 33, Rescue 11, roger.

2:54 Tower: [garbled] Foxtrot, San Francisco Tower

[end transcript]
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Apparently I was doing this simultaneously with you; oops.
It's best practice to immediately lock someone out from all accounts if they are leaving on bad terms. You don't want them to be sending nasty emails to customers or to delete company data. It almost never happens but sometimes someone snaps and creates a big mess.

You should come and maybe bring something nice for the people you enjoyed working with. Make sure you have a talk with the project managers boss and tell him why you are leaving. Furthermore you should act professional so don't involve your colleagues. It's nasty but it's between you, him and his boss. Your colleagues will figure it out anyway.

Best of luck finding a new job!
I hope we see a proper event loop for 7.5.
And now all but 1 accounted for.
If you can't find any cities how are you going to evaluate the rest of the features? I'm not going to play "guess the city".
Don't get me wrong: I'm very concerned about big tech companies having all our data as well, and I would love to see stronger laws protecting privacy. But the difference is this: Google doesn't hold a monopoly on violence. They might do all sorts of douchey things with what what they learn, but they're not going to throw anyone into a concrete cage.
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Also, kudos to the tower. It is seriously an amazing thing they do, and to stay cool and calm and efficient all during a crash, to keep the rest of the traffic clear and headed in the right direction.
I think Congress recently went in the opposite direction.
I think that yes, it's the lack of a fixed pivot point.

The inverted pendulum case (as approximated when balancing a pencil on its tip) can be reduced to a single object resting on the surface of a frictionless sphere, under the influence of gravity. At the precise top of the sphere, it can stay stationary. Perturb it even slightly, and it begins to accelerate away.

With the rocket, the object is essentially resting on a flat frictionless plane. If you tilt it a bit, then it begins to slide away, but the acceleration is always proportional to the initial perturbation. This is because the rocket always remains in the same orientation, and so the force always comes from the same direction. That, in turn, is because the rocket engine moves along with the rest of the rocket, rather than being a fixed point in space.

Think about it another way: without external support, and ignoring the influence of the atmosphere, a rocket is in free fall. The fact that it's accelerating to counter the force of gravity doesn't change that fact. Again ignoring the atmosphere, a rocket firing with 1g of thrust counteracting gravity behaves the same as a rocket firing with 1g of thrust in empty space. The second case is obviously not unstable (what would it be unstable with respect to?) and so the first case isn't either.

Adding the atmosphere back in, I could be way off here, but I think what little effect it would have at low speeds would be beneficial. Since the goal is not to move, the drag from the atmosphere will help make sure that happens. Since the rocket is more or less of a uniform shape, that drag shouldn't end up applying much of a torque either.

Edit: forgot to mention, I'm afraid I don't have pointers to articles. I've collected this stuff through various readings and thought over the years and don't have anything specific to point to. I think I first learned about Goddard's pendulum mistake in high school physics, for example.
Android flaw leaves 99% of devices vulnerable to hackers
>and the federal government recently began allowing merchants to charge a credit card fee. If a taco cost $1.50 with my smartphone, or $1.75 with my credit card, I know how I'd pay.

And I know how the law would be changed in a moment's notice, if the banks found this scheme looses them money.
The accepted explanation seems wrong to me. Whether or not functions are first class objects or not, the behavior of def is a matter of design choice and in this case the wrong choice has been made. All the rationales are broken -- they're uncommon use cases and perfectly easy to implement without the behavior, i like Python but this is a wart.
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Any "right" can be revoked by someone with a bigger gun.
It's actually cherry picking, not confirmation bias.
Sure we could. This is just like Siri, you tell it what you want, she asks for clarifications, a conversation you have with the computer until...bam, you get what you want.

I would think we could do much of this already if we tried, but there are a lot of things on my list to do until I get to that.
Lincoln is a strange touchstone. While we encourage or at least tolerate the Czechs and Slovaks to go their separate ways for the mere sake of self-determination, it's heresy to suggest we might be better off with a separate Republic of Texas.
What is deperimeterization?
You are right that the "largely ineffable" feeling needs to be cashed out. But I use that phrase largely because the psychology of UI interactions and usability that would justify my like of Unity is a new, inexact, and developing science. So, I'm starting with the basic observation that after giving Unity a try, it grew on me, as it did with others, to the point where we actually prefer something new. Part of it is increased simplicity. Another part is more screen space. Another part is that the OS doesn't get in your way (like KDE does). Another part of it is that is the tendency to place things of importance in the upper left which is, in our Western culture, where we tend to start looking for things (like when reading a book).

As far as evolution is concerned, my point is that I often notice, say, when Facebook changes their interface that users complain because they have to learn something new -- they are lazy, but if you force them into something, they may end up preferring it later. It is true that we shouldn't redesign things if they work well. But the way things are designed the first time may not be the best possible way.

The new features in Unity might not be molded by some process like natural selection. But there is some argument to made that it is. Creating one platform for all devices and levels of users would have enormous advantages, and is a response triggered by changed in the computing environment -- mainly, the widespread use of touch phones and tablets.

Aside from that, all I can say is that Ubuntu does do some user testing, and I hope they are listening to their users. They also have to take some chances and try out new things and see what users respond to. But I agree that their interface changes should respond to real needs, not imagined needs.
Not thrilled about putting financial data on a web app. Excel is a very useful (private) way to figure out red vs. green. Just my $.02!
I highly recommend Kevin Simler's "Consciousness: An Outside View" for a richer take on the politics of drugs: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/07/01/consciousness-an-outsid... (Obviously, The Wire also.)

But yes, both the WoD and WoT employ similar tactics: disproportionate power and violence under the guise of safety, while downplaying the human and financial costs to a broader public who is mostly insulated from the reality of the situation.

In both cases, I don't think the motivations for doing so are singular; there's a little racism in there, a little classism, a little jingoism, a good helping of perverse financial incentives, and perhaps most insidiously, Just Because We Can. (See "Lord of War" or "Thank You For Smoking": people like doing what they're good at.)
Those who fought against state secession were motivated by wanting to preserve the Union and resolve the slavery question, not by wanting to preserve the North and destroy the South.

Though I am inclined to agree with you, and have found your posts here extremely illuminating, I am going to play devil's advocate for a moment. The argument I have heard is not that those fighting for the Union wanted to "destroy" the south, but that they wanted to subjugate it economically. While I don't think I could be persuaded that that was the sole motivation and that the slavery issue was nothing more than a cynical cover for it, I could perhaps imagine that there was some degree of truth to it nonetheless. What do you think of this?
More on this, if anybody else is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy
As a newbie to Python, my biggest issue when coming up to speed on a new project is chasing down the types of arguments to and return values from functions. Previously I was a Java programmer and while I don't miss its verbosity, I do miss how I always knew what types I was working with. Does anybody have any tips that make this easier?
> They already force retailers to not give discounts for using cash.

The contracts actually say that merchants cannot add a surcharge for paying with a credit card. It's still okay to give a 3% discount off the final sale price for paying cash, or a 10% discount, or whatever they feel like. As far as I know these contracts are intended to mirror the laws about cash: you can't ask for 3% more because somebody wants to pay with cash, since cash is legal tender.
I think your info on ICBM accuracy may be a bit out of date. Some searching around shows modern American missiles with a CEP of 100 meters or better. I'm not quite sure how to translate a CEP (50% chance of landing in the circle) to a 90% figure, but I wouldn't think it would be a factor of 5.

(I specified American because the Soviets and Russians have historically lagged behind here, and it looks like that's still the case. I don't know what the story is for other ICBM-equipped powers. The Soviets compensated for their lesser accuracy by fielding larger bombs.)

Also keep in mind that the major factor limiting ICBM accuracy these days is the need to be completely self contained, since they're intended to operate in the middle of World War III, and no external navigation sources can be counted on. Slap a JDAM guidance system on the warhead and your ICBM can deliver it to within whatever square meter you're most interested in.

ICBMs armed with conventional bombs have been considered, since accuracy can be enough for that to work now. As far as I know, the only reasons these haven't been deployed are cost (using up an entire ICBM to deliver a chemical bomb seems wasteful) and, probably more importantly, the fact that there's no way to tell whether a given ICBM is carrying a nuclear warhead or not, thus the strong possibility that using such a weapon could trigger a nuclear war by accident. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike
Turns out quite a few of the passengers were Chinese nationals, like about 2/3. Probably tourists. So there might have been some language issue.
Seems like a cool idea but I'd be worried for the workers who have to dig up the pavement as titanium dioxide dust is classified as potentially carcinogenic. Perhaps the quantities in use are very small?
This is another reason events in Egypt is moving SO FAST.

Instead of printing a poster decrying Morsy regime and hanging it on a wall in the dark, you just text your friends how you think Morsy sucks. And that's how the revolution got started.
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Neat, I didn't realize it had a name, let alone a Wikipedia entry. Thanks!
The Green Tea Press books are great; and free.

Think Python: How To Think Like a Computer Scientist http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python : http://www.greenteapress.com/compmod/

Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers : http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats/index.html
If you've got time for a network call, there's http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ (There's another lab somewhere measuring quantum fluctuations in a vacuum that I think also provides access to random numbers. Edit: Here it is: http://qrng.anu.edu.au/index.php)
Or purposely invented Homo Sapiens just so we could kill it.
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According to Wikipedia [1], the more conventional abbrevation for "the" in Old English was "þe." ("þ" [thorn] generally transcribes as "th," with "ð" as "dh.") On the other hand, the article for ð indicates that when making puns on the word "the" in Icelandic, one would use "ðe."

In either case, I don't think a separate symbol for "the' would really be useful unless, unless it signified a return to the use of þ or ð for additional words like "þat," "þey," "þere," and so on. (I have never been the biggest fan of the ampersand.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The#Definite_article

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%90
The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians
Don't vote him up yet. Visa/Mastercard programs like Simple still have to be backed by a bank. If you scroll to the bottom you'll see it's backed by "The Bankcorp Bank."

Or maybe that's irrelevant to what you're saying, but it needs to be said.
http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
>Don't you see? These type of thinking is what has gotten western countries (including Japan) into this crisis in the first place.

Huh? If anything it was the exact opposite: giving in to the greed of an uncontrolled financial sector, BS credit products, rampant privatisation, corporate interests and the like.
The similarity was drawn to hashing algorithms (which function to produce a message digest or checksum given a message as input), not to cipher algorithms (which perform encryption to ciphertext given one or more keys and a plaintext as input).

A lot of people have responded suggesting there is no way to combine PRNGs to offset the risk of a single PRNG's potential compromise, however I have not seen any citations to this effect and it does really make logical sense to me. Arguments tend to fall back to table-thumping on mathematical proofs, which is a demonstrably naieve way of building a secure system if, for example, your mathematical process, computational platform or side-channel security assumptions are outmoded by an attacker.
Your optimism on this seems unfounded in my opinion.

When there are no domain restrictions, computers have not proven very capable of comprehension. Look even at the comparatively simple domain of handwriting recognition.

More importantly, you entirely miss the problem that many times the human doesn't know exactly what he wants until he sees it.

As a software engineer, I have no fear my job will be replaced by computers talking to product managers.
Excellent reporting by Eric Lichtblau based on "current and former officials familiar with the court’s classified decisions". One key point:

In one of the court’s most important decisions, the judges have expanded the use in terrorism cases of a legal principle known as the “special needs” doctrine and carved out an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of a warrant for searches and seizures, the officials said.

The special needs doctrine was originally established in 1989 by the Supreme Court in a ruling allowing the drug testing of railway workers, finding that a minimal intrusion on privacy was justified by the government’s need to combat an overriding public danger. Applying that concept more broadly, the FISA judges have ruled that the N.S.A.’s collection and examination of Americans’ communications data to track possible terrorists does not run afoul of the Fourth Amendment, the officials said.
For me its all about the performance issues.

To design responsive web applications, you need to see the (browser) windows content on re-size. This is not default in Ubuntu/Unity, you cannot see a windows contents when you are resizing. You can enable it, but its slow and not very useful. The content in a window needs to re-flow fluidly and quickly, especially the browser.

Its as simple as that for me. Until Ubuntu has hardware accelerated window re-sizing, i simply cannot use it as a development platform. Responsive Webdesign isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and responsive apps/websites are a chore to effectively debug on Ubuntu compared to other OS's
Here are three resources for learning Python for Science :

http://scipy-lectures.github.io

https://github.com/jrjohansson/scientific-python-lectures

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes...
I've been consistently disappointed by UK retail/commercial banks' online services.

My "business" bank (Cater Allen) provides maximum 13 months electronic history. Anything else you have to call and ask nicely to pay £10 for a snail-mail printout.

Fully aware this would be a problem, I tried to do due diligence before signing up and there's nowhere to get a decent comparison, e.g. see feature matrixes and screenshots of the various offerings.

They'll spend millions on football sponsorship and inane TV ads, but none differentiate on the basis of first-class online services a la Simple. Whoever is cloning Simple, please do it fast!
So is Google's altruistic alternative to find ways to sabotage Adblock so it won't block anyone's ads? To create their own adblocker that doesn't block Google ads? Or just to pay Adblock to go away and stop blocking all ads?

Is there any action that Google could take that would appear ethical?

I do see your point that other advertisers are unlikely to have "acceptable" ads because they rely on flash and images, but shouldn't they have to make themselves competitive if they want to maintain a level playing field?

If this pushes advertising further away from flashing, shouting, animated ads then it sounds like a brighter future to me.
Also, https://www.wakari.io/gallery
Titanium Fills Vital Role for Boeing and Russia
- you can autohide the launcher so it only shows when your mouse hits the left side at an intensity of your choice

- you can disable the global menu

- Unity has aero snapping to the left and right, and can have it in every corner if you change Compiz settings
if I recall, this is how SQLAlchemy does default values that are functions.
There is a "Language Changes" section beginning on page 77 of the PDF. R7RS-small should be considered mostly as building upon R5RS. Some potentially major changes include the introduction of a record system (user-defined types--basically structs), bytevectors, parameters (variables with dynamic scope), an enshrining of Unicode (implementations don't have to provide all of it--they can even be just ASCII--but what subset they provide must be Unicode-compatible), and a library system (you can define a library that "export"s a specific set of identifiers, and you can "import" identifiers from a library, optionally renaming individual ones or prefixing them all).

There are also various fairly minor changes, such as giving "log" an optional second argument (being the base of the logarithm), requiring "write" to handle circular data structures, adding "when" and "unless" macros, and adding some utilities like "file-exists?", "delete-file", "get-environment-variable", and "command-line".
Appears to be from a heart attack.
Investment? LOL.

It's actually a shift from mass accumulation and "tax havens" (i.e taking the money outside the economy) to consumption which ignites the productive economy bottom-up.
The way the article conflates backbone link speed with end user connection speeds really irks me. For backbone link capacity, yes native 100G interfaces are a step forward, but not in the way most people are going to assume. 100G of capacity is not a significant amount, either in 1x100G or 10x10G, when you already have optical transport equipment that can mux over 5T of capacity onto a single fiber pair.

It is exciting the increases 100G coherent DWDM technologies bring in raising the capacity as well as the reach of transport systems.
This is absolutely, without any doubt, the stupidest, least intelligent and most ridiculous and sensationalist comment ever to appear on the internet, or to be expressed in any other form. What reasons do almost all countries have for wanting to see the US destroyed? What reasons do these countries that hate the US so much have to destroy the entirety of world trade? I can't believe this thought was formed in a human brain.