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Evolution proceeds without regard for complexity, efficiency, or anything else for that matter, except survival. I think the most common misconception about evolution is that it is not a system of "best" but rather "just good enough".

For example, do you like your lungs? They work pretty well, right? But how long can you hold your breath under water? Obviously cetaceans have much better lungs that humans, but that's because our lungs are just good enough for running around on a savannah. If we were forced to dive to incredible depths to search for our food, we'd need to evolve better lungs, as the cetaceans have done.

Before the dolphins get to smug, though, they don't have the best lungs either. The title of best lungs goes to the birds. Whereas all other air breathing animals have bidirectional flow in their lungs, birds have evolved a system of continuous unidirectional flow. Turns out that bidirectional flow is not good enough at high altitudes with an extremely high metabolic rate.

As for what makes Biology and Medicine difficult, I think the answer is: time. That is, aside from dealing with systems composed of more moving parts than physics or chemistry, biology is also less open to direct manipulation and experiments take, on average, much longer for the amount of information gained. Eventually, though, I don't doubt that we will understand biology as well as we understand the other two. At the moment we're in the "alchemy" stage of biological research. We have a sense that there are units of action and rules governing these units, but we don't know what those units are or how they interact. A rock you dig up from the ground is, also, a rather complex system difficult to understand until you have knowledge of chemicals, molecules, bonding, etc. We just need to figure out what the "atoms" of biology are.
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What does this have to do with Rust?! Especially to the This week in Rust column?
I feel like this is the equivalent argument of "the internet will never support streaming video" from so many years ago. That is not to say that I agree or disagree with the result, but rather that you are trying to fit a new technology into way too broad a category. In twenty or some odd years, we might have the capability for computers to understand "if you mow my lawn I'll pay you $20." But lets leave that aside for now. The question really is: are there problems for which this technology can work? What immediately comes to mind is automated billing. Bills can easily be automatically paid with something like bitcoin. Now, if we extend that to performance based billing, we have something similar to what the OP was talking about: the contract can verify the performance and conduct the payments accordingly. Other areas where this might apply: loans, paying your share of the rent, or auction sites. In short, it has potential. That is not to say that it will replace written contracts any time soon, but rather that I think that it has the potential to do so sometime in the future.
Yeah, in a fairy land where resources are non-scarce and are conjured by the government from nothing, it would work fairly well. I've been taught about this is the soviet school, where they explained me the communism is right around the corner and it would look exactly like that. In the real world, meanwhile, everything consumed has to be produced, and if you want power, cars, manufacturing and farming, somebody has to manufacture and farm it. So for you to get it for free means somebody has to produce it and then either gift it to you or you will take it away by force. Last time I checked giving away cars wasn't that popular (if I'm wrong please tell me where I can pick up my free Tesla) so I guess you'd have to take these cars by force. Why would then the manufacturers keep producing them is a mystery to me.
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Another example would be people calling Ayn Rand a hypocrite for accepting social security. Where do they think that money originally came from?
IMHO, this is a ruse. Only Gox knows if they are going under or not. By playing up the trend of bad news, they are forcing down the prices of Gox BTC which they can buy up at extremely generous prices.

The more they make it look like they are screwed, the cheaper people will sell. Thus they can keep this facade up for months. As long as they don't go under, they profit.
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These messages would almost certainly be subject to a legal hold, even if no-one's actually started formal proceedings yet. Removing them from public view on Twitter is probably fine from a legal standpoint, deleting them entirely would be a very bad idea.
Nokia forks Android
Would be glad to do so :)
To be clear here: when broadcasting your transaction to the network, somebody can reissue your transaction with a different ID, but they cannot change the inputs and outputs.

There are other ways to track transactions other than the txid, for example by tracking a unique output address. A normalized hash routine has been added recently: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3656#issuecomment-35...
Haha I'm an MD and I like doing that because of the immediate results :-)
Check out the recent update to this YouTube video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1YsMlrfF0

Apparently liquidity problems and solvency problems are different problems, who knew.
The advice so far is very sound; I will add this as well. In the future, work with a contract, and never work without one again. This first thing to do in future projects is define the scope and make sure that both you and the client are in agreeance on what will be delivered and when for how much.

For this project, the blame is entirely on yourself. That is not meant to be harsh. No contract, you were not clear on what you were doing but took the job and did not set expectations correctly. This is a learning experience - communicate where you are with the project to the client on a regular basis from now on.
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I think the solution to the distribution challenge is already here: mobile money. It's huge in Kenya and on the rise here in Rwanda and other neighbouring countries. Bitcoin would serve only to get the remittance to an in-country distributor, at which point it would be converted to local currency and delivered via mobile money.
Personally built and programmed by the said billionaire? Well, if he can personally produce, program and control an army of robots, he will be godlike. But then he also can produce an army of manufacturing plants to satisfy basically every need of the population. Why be a most hated being in the universe if he can be the most loved one?
For me the web are the network protocols and the browser should stay as document platform.

Too much pain with web development projects since the .com days.
not sure if I get the point, working from home increases the work motivation? Work from home makes you work less?
Actually it's related to my laziness (and hopefully others had that too) to write to-do list because of these two things :

1. It will become a long list (when reaching 10 or more items) and it made me psychologically "lazy" to write more or mark some item as "done".
2. I just realised that it's best to focus on one thing and make it done as soon as possible rather than seeing a long to-do list.

Any thoughts? :)
Nimrod, like D, does great things in terms of metaprogramming and static code generation whilst providing a GC that abstracts away from memory management. Rust on the other hand thrusts memory management into the programmers face, excelling at providing safe, deterministic control over allocation and a relatively advanced type system compared to the incumbent systems programming languages. Nimrod and D seem like worthy alternatives to Go and C#, where as Rust is providing a much needed alternative to the venerable C and C++ languages that have dominated systems progamming for the last forty years.

It seems to me like a marketing failure that Nimrod and D seem to be attempting to go after the low level systems programming domains when they should really be competing at a higher level of abstraction.
It always strikes me how often we hear that folks either won't go to the doctor to get something looked at, or they go to the doc and get the answer and then simply aren't compliant. If it's broken, fix it. I've never understood the logic behind avoiding the doc.
The vim code base is around 300K lines of C code.

I found this hard to believe, so I ran it through cloc:

----------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
----------------------------------------------------
C 113 33366 61819 285817
vim script 1186 22871 32599 145700
C/C++ Header 63 3175 4626 19735

Slightly more than 300k, but still mightily impressive.
Anyone else think this is weird being reported by the BBC?
So far I've seen all the experiments conducted in remote places with extremely poor people having no experience with welfare state. What I'd like is to see something like that somewhere in Chicago. I.e. remove all fringe benefits, monetize them and convert to cash payments, and see how that goes. I suspect the result would be much different.
'I consider what this person subtly implied once as breaking an arbitrary set of rules I've constructed in my head and therefore will disregard their past and future work' -- this sounds a lot more childish to me than subtly calling Lennart an idiot due to him doing things one would consider idiocy.

And if you think someone is an idiot, there aren't ways to communicate that without calling them an idiot. If you can't call them an idiot, you can't speak of their actions as idiocy and in the end you can't communicate your thoughts, which is as good as not having them in the first place -- we enter a newspeak kind of situation.

It may be due to all the years spent on 4chan and the experience developed thence, but at some point it falls on you as a listener to actually listen to what a person is saying rather than how they're saying it, or getting your knickers out of alignment due to a tongue-in-cheek comment.
A lot herbal remedies are actually working well. Valerian root is a great anxiolytic, st. Johns worth is a weak antidepressant etc. Yes, homeopathy section is indeed questionable, but I do not see a reason to claim that Whole Foods is all pseudoscience.
I'm well aware that poker is a zero sum game, at least as far as the exchange of money is concerned. That being said, that doesn't mean that playing professionally provides no value to society. As with any game or sport, there's a certain entertainment value provided to those that play as well as those that watch. Even those players that never make it on tv help to provide the foundation for the ecosystem needed to provide the entertainment on a global level, in the same manner that minor league sporting athletes help support the majors.

All that being said, the entire reason I was devoting time and effort to my side projects was the belief that I could derive more meaning from life doing something other than poker. I was already trying to transition to something new. Black Friday just gave me a giant kick in the ass.

Also, poker is not gambling, at least not the way I play.
Interesting post, but please don't preface submission titles with "Show HN:", especially if it's not some personal project.
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Similar happenings here in India. Everyone honks for every 10th breath they take while driving.
Interestingly enough, I just checked a system with Snow Leopard using Safari and Firefox and it seems that both do not have this vulnerability.

I can't say when this was introduced, but if it is in Mavericks, it must have gotten there sometime between Lion and Mountain Lion.
They overlap... I just switched to Time Warner from Comcast.
Code reviews and comprehensive test suites for critical code would have prevented this and many other kinds of mistakes besides.
Ah. I knew the date to file your claim with the DOJ had already passed so I assumed (incorrectly it seems) that the refunds had already been processed. Thanks for the correction!
Thank you for this comment, I was about to post something very similar. The thing about hyperinflation is that people are hypnotized by the many zeros that are involved and ignore the underlying root causes.

Zimbabwe suffered economically for reasons entirely unrelated to hyperinflation. Hyperinflation was just a kind of release valve for the economic mess that already existed before it started. Had Zimbabwe used Bitcoin at the time [0], the well-intended but badly implemented land reform would still have caused economic collapse and wide-spread suffering. The symptoms would have been slightly different, but they would have been just as bad.

The same could be said for the Weimar republic hyperinflation of the 1920s, by the way. Hyperinflation was a release valve for the economic problems that Germany was already in, and ultimately helped demonstrate that the war debts imposed from World War I were onerous and should be forgiven. Arguably, using Bitcoin would have made the long-term situation worse for Germany back then.

[0] Obviously completely hypothetical since Bitcoin did not exist, but that's beside the point.
Tax reasons are the most common source of fringe benefits. As you mentioned, in Israel, a company car is a commonplace benefit among hitech workers, while in the US it is almost unheard of - because of the differences in how this benefit (and cars in general) are taxed. Though with recent change in Israel's tax code this became less popular, but some decade ago a company-provided car was an assumed part of the standard benefits package.

However, we have been talking about housing being provided by employer because there's no other means to get housing, so this is completely different case - here company cars are the function of government-introduced tax law, not of prices of the cars.
“Major investors will have the right to participate on a pro rata basis in subsequent issuances of equity securities

Explanation:

Allows current investors to retain their current ownership percentage in future financing rounds.”

Is this right? My understanding was that pro-rata = if an investor owns (say) 20% of a company, then they get to participate with up to 20% of the total of any subsequent financing. This may or may not maintain them at their original 20%.
That will depend on which way the extension developers go after that. If they all flock to neoVim then it will soon be the case that you have to use neoVim in order to use the best extensions.
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> Lesson two: TCP is evil.

Does this mean WebSockets are unusable for most type of multiplayer games?
when you reapplied with the same startup, how much did you tweak the idea or was it mostly just a change of interview strategy? In other words, why did you reapply thinking that you will have have a better chance to get in than last time?
Here is a link to the press release:
http://press.nokia.com/2014/02/24/nokia-connects-the-next-bi...
Can you expand? does globally measured optimisations mean the whole site saw a 1% rise after we did x? why is that different to a/B testing?
موعد وتوقيت مباراة الشباب واستقلال طهران دوري ابطال اسيا 25-2-2014
Oh wow. I see 3 possibilities:

1. Mt Gox is going under, probably this week.

2. These people are utterly clueless about public relations and how the public perceives their actions.

3. This is all a big prank. You've been punked.
What's more, governments usually don't wake up one morning and decide to start hyperinflation out of the blue. Instead, hyperinflation is usually the result of economic disasters that came before.

In fact, I would "fix" what you wrote, because the fiscal disasters are typically a required precondition for the monetary disasters. When using Bitcoin, the countries might be limited to fiscal disasters, but - as the example of Greece shows - those are the real problem anyway.
XVT had a two fold problem, half was the poor internet implementation but the other half was that the product didn't fulfill the genre's expectations.

Its predecessors (Tie Fight and X-Wing before it) had large, complex and well written story lines which following engaging missions paths. This was 80% of the game, as the graphics were relatively poor compared to sprite-based shooters of the time.

I remember the deep disappointment of booting XVT for the first time and realizing it had no story, and a terrible UX. I was launched into an offline lobby and only had the option to play some very uninteresting and un-engaging missions.

Put that on top of a completely unplayable multiplayer mode, it ended being a poor decision to make a game based on a technology they couldn't support -- when a perfectly valid offline story mode would have made up for it fine. So instead they charged another 49.99 on top of 69.99 for an add-on (and people complain about IAP) that gave the features the original box promised.
There's one major problem: software updater itself is vulnerable. So in theory the only way to get a clean system is to download a fresh, fixed installer via a channel that's not affected and reinstall. What a mess.
The advice was to actively drain your emotional response. Rather than fight your feeling, work to quiet all of your feelings - be like Spock.

You won't reduce them to nothing, but you will get them under control enough that you can then steer them just as you are saying. Otherwise your aversion feelings are overwhelming and it's impossible to steer as you say.

Your steering technique is good. I like it.
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I don't know about other people but I can tell you my reason.

1.Money
2.Takes forever to get an appointment with any specialist
3.Busy schedule
4.Money
5.See 1and 4
"It" that is happening now is not "it" we were discussing. Clearly, if you're catering to migrant population, homeownership is not a good solution for them. It's like saying hotels exist in New York because nobody can afford a house in New York. That's not the reason - the reason is that whoever needs to live in New York for two weeks won't buy a house there, unless he's a crazy billionaire. Worker housing exists, but it does not exist because otherwise workers couldn't find a place to live and thus making workers enslaved by the housing owners. It exists because it is a cost-effective solution for providing housing needs of the temporary workers, and it is natural for the employer that needs the workers to take care of their housing in the most efficient manner - thus reducing both their own costs and costs for the workers. It has very little to do with housing affordability and workers somehow being "serfs".
No, this time he added in some vaguely homoerotic insinuations. His rant is evolving; maybe in another year or two it will reach full fledged conspiracy theory status.
I'm not qualified to say technically whether I think it's justified or not, but I'd say the reason you're looking for will be the first new graphical version of vim for OS X that is much better than MacVim.
This is excellent. I have been waiting for an open source btsync clone.
Do you have some sources to back up these claims, specifically in Zambia?
Shit I do all those things, I don't even know why...
Not in this case. Just unpopular. Perl6 is probably one of the most practical and modern(ish) languages out there.
He can't. There were more than one "How to" on MS homepage as to how to work around an issue until a fix was ready.

Even for trivial stuff. Why? Cause in a a giant corporation, even a hotfix takes ages to get through all QA.
NO! Please read up on the Belgacom hack.

Private citizens are now targets for the NSA and GCHQ because their personal vulnerabilities (and devices) can be used to compromise infrastructure that is used by "interesting" players.
And third, 5-inch Nokia XL. All priced 10 euros apart starting from 89€.
Super interesting.

How does this compare to Xopus? https://xopus.com/

Of course, Xopus is closed source, so that's a big difference already.
Allowed by whom? I.e. suppose I am labor 27 class employee, and I come to class 1 apartment and say "I will pay class 1 price, please rent it to me". Would I be rejected? What would be fueling this rejection? Who will be prohibiting me from selecting my own living arrangements? The parent post say housing allowance is common, who will be checking I spend my allowance on an apartment that matches my class and not instead rent a higher-class one?
Forked AOSP? So, getting apps from Ovi store?
Thank you for adding some context! I will be sure to read about these mechanics, and probably not understand a word...
pixl97 > nice analogy!
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I'm not sure why every Python lover has to be Perl troll. No seriously. The author is clearly a Python fan boy, and he can very well write a good technical article to illustrate Python's goodness. I'm sure we all can appreciate that. But you don't have to troll Perl endlessly to do that. Besides all that, I've been hearing this Perl is dead thing since what, 10 years? If that was really the case Perl should not only have died, but should have even been forgotten from our very memories.

Something tells me most Python lovers take Perl as a very serious competitor. Else they wouldn't be writing articles like these.

Python's big rise came after hipster crowds got web frameworks written in Python. If you use hibernate or spring in Java, you can only come to love Python's web frameworks. But that time is long gone now. The crowd went to newer languages like Scala and Go. For all practical popularity purposes. Perl and Python are the very same these days.

If you are really worried about popularity. Lets talk of Python's falling popularity compared to languages like Go and Scala.

>>By the late 2000s Python was not only the dominant alternative to Perl for many text parsing tasks typically associated with Perl

When it comes to serious text parsing work, Perl is still the only practical alternative you have. Ever checked upon Perl's Unicode capabilities?

>>2000 – present[/b] Perl 6 "in development"

The development of Perl 6 didn't start in 2000. And Perl 6 and Python aren't even in the same league for comparison.

However the author completely misses the point. I can sit on top of a high priority production issue, just have a big log file. If all I have is that- Perl has the tools to help me get my job done in a couple of hours. Call me back, when Python can help me do that.

>>Perl 6 has been an ongoing development since 2000. Yet after 14 years it is not officially done, making it the equivalent of Chinese Democracy for Guns N’ Roses

Comparing Perl 6 and Python's progress is a bit ridiculous. Merely the ambition and audacity of what Perl 6 is aiming to achieve is what Python would like to in the next 20-30 years of iterative development.

Perl 6 is not your usual language which aims a different syntactical style for decision and iterative statements and then calls it progress. A simple tour of the Perl 6 spec can help you on that.