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You may enjoy this image from XKCD then:

http://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/87/radar_aircraft.png
The results suggest that women don't advance in their careers beyond a certain point without learning to interrupt, at least in this male-dominated tech setting.

I don't see this. I see that as a person acquires more status they a) feel more confident in interrupting, and/or b) others are more lenient in allowing them to interrupt.

I think one would have to follow someone over time as they move up (or not) to see if their interrupting contributes to advancement or is a side-effect of advancing.

That said, I have a gut feeling that to get ahead you need the ability to persuade, and often this means interrupting to make yourself heard. But, more generally, people need to watch to see what is an effective style for their environment and learn it, and not just cargo-cult certain behavior.
I completely agree with everything you said. Exactly how are we disagreeing?

My point is that MS should open source .NET. With a good governance process (super dictatorial no problem! Just be open so we can chip in). It's good for them and for us .NET devs. There's nothing to lose. Like you write, there's a lot of things great about .NET. But being closed source is a disadvantage.
Cool! What kind of mapping engine did you use? Google Map Engine? CartoDB?

The bounded view works nicely.

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I actually found an earlier version of this paper in my teachers room (published 1979). It's AI Memo 519 (the linked paper is 591A) and I can't find a reference to this anywhere. I even emailed Stallman and he couldn't remember when it was first published (he thought that it was published in 1981 first to).

I uploaded it to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/MITAIMemo519
My teacher suspects he got it from a guy that used to work at MIT at the time (can't remember the name). I have not been able to find it anywhere else, even the AI memo archive doesn't have it (http://publications.csail.mit.edu/ai/browse/0500browse.shtml). Anyone able to shed some light?
Reminds me of the xkcd color experiment:

http://xkcd.com/color/rgb/

http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
> I'd say that F#, OCaml, and Scala are all more accessible than Haskell just due to their placing less of a cognitive burden on the beginner.

I think that this is largely a documentation issue rather than a language issue; that is, while certainly its a language issue -- a strength -- that implementing things with a strong basis in (e.g.) category theory is facilitated in Haskell, its a documentation issue that many things implemented in Haskell libraries are not explained in a manner accessible to programmers who don't have that kind of background.
Nah,
the remote worker are paid too less then actual on-site work.

PS: I'm remote worker.
Likewise the Sega Master System used a Z80 as its CPU; later, Sega used it for the Genesis / Mega Drive's sound management processor (plus a Yamaha synthesizer). If you plugged in the Power Base Converter, the Z80 would become the CPU and let you play Master System games.
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In isolation I agree, but it's tricky with globalization. For example my read of Greece is that it has too many mom-and-pop businesses which, even though they work 60-hour weeks, cannot compete with an efficient, modern German or Dutch company whose workers work a strict 40-hour week but in a well-managed Enterprise. Of course there are other big differences as well, corruption being one of them, but I think the cultural difference in company sizes is a big one: Greeks mostly want to work for themselves or in family businesses, whereas a typical German "small business" (as in the famous Mittelstand) has more like 50 employees (often 100-200), not <10. An economy built on tiny family businesses can't compete with a more modern economy built on Enterprises (in the sense of a corporation with division of labor, employees, professional operations & business management, etc.). SMEs in the 50-200 range are ok, but the tiny family businesses and one-person shops have trouble, and an economy dominated by those has few jobs and a poor economic base.
When someone else submits the same URL within a given time period, it instead counts as an upvote on the first instance of that story. Might just be that a few folks posted this URL and bumped yours to the top.
I'll just leave this here:
http://xkcd.com/378/
you remember the name of that Project in kickstarter?

Thanks.
Great comment. Excellent insight. And like you say, don't hold your breath on Clinkle.
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Lyft covers insurance for their drivers while the fare is on. The driver's personal insurance is normal for a personal vehicle doing personal work. Now, if someone tries to go after that private insurance from an accident during a fare, that private insurance company will deny the claim and they may drop the person from the policy/raise rates if the person lied about using the vehicle for business purposes. I'm not sure they'd get that rate if they answered "Yes" to business purposes for the vehicle.
I didn't make it, I'm just the op.
Isn't cancer much easier to diagnose than mental illness? I think the complexity of mental illness is why we struggle, as a society, to properly understand and deal with it.

That being said I agree that drawing a line is difficult and possibly counter productive. When dealing with people's lives it can lead to more confusion than it helps explain.
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Thank you for posting it on HN.

Its fascinating to see Sassoon's private position. Its an interesting frame to his public opposition.

I'm aware his branch of the family had no power, yet given his background I still found some entries shocking if not somewhat conspiratorial in the fullness of their expression.
For instance, entered just before the "Soldiers Declaration":

"The rulers of England have always relied on the ignorance and patient credulity of the crowd. If the crowd could see into their cynical hearts it would lynch the dictators"
[Image 8. Journal, 19 June 1917-6 July 1917].
It was clearly fradulent. From the TR article:

"Harvesting ambient radio waves can collect on the order of tens of microwatts of power. But sending data over Wi-Fi requires at least tens of thousands of times more power [..]"
I wasn't going to wade into the object-level CRUD app discussion because it seems beside the point, but I can't possibly disagree more about Python somehow being better suited for the domain because of "flexibility". Python is not more flexible than Haskell in any meaningful way.

The only possible argument against static typing comes in the form of a program that won't typecheck, but should. This is the only type of "flexibility" that Python could win at, with regard to type systems. Please, show me a practical example of such a program. I've asked a dozen people for one, and nobody has ever followed through.

The only other argument against Haskell's "flexibility" I can think of would be against purity, but that argument doesn't fly either. Any competent Haskell programmer can work easily with state, IO, etc, and I've never run into an effectful task in practice that takes meaningfully longer to do in Haskell than in Python.

People are often quick to typecast languages into some role that seems to fit. Haskell is rigid and mathematical, Python is flexible and readable, etc. These impressions rarely come close to capturing the reality, and in this case end up being downright misleading.

If I'm starting developing a web application from scratch, with zero libraries available to me, I'm picking Haskell without a shadow of a doubt.
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Because NYC is bigger than just Manhattan. In fact, Manhattan is bigger than just Manhattan below 96th St ;)

In the wealthy side of Manhattan the city is swarming with cabs. In Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and even Harlem, Washington Heights, etc, cabs can be hard to come by.

UberX is also cheaper than a cab nowadays with the recent price drop.

I disagree with billmalarky below about the experience being better though. Uber's drivers are almost always considerably less experienced than cab drivers. I've lost count of the number of times I've sat in an immobile Uber while the driver futzes with some shitty GPS unit so he knows where the hell to actually go. Also lost count of how many times an Uber driver couldn't find his way to the Manhattan Bridge on-ramp. These are things that are second-nature to cab drivers.

When I get into a cab I might get a surly guy who's yakking on the phone the whole way, but I'll get to my destination quickly, and cheaply. When I get into an Uber I'm almost guaranteed to get someone who is polite, genial, and doesn't really know where they're going. I'll take the former, thanks.
"Show HN" is intended for things you've made:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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Beautiful formatting and diagrams.
from 10000 feet, cherry picking in git is "get me this single commit from that branch", in darcs it's "get me this commit and every other needed to get it to apply correctly in this one".
For many, the flexibility of Bitcoin in terms of what sorts of scripts can be executed with transactions is much of the appeal. I'm of the opinion, however, that it represents Bitcoin's greatest weakness.

In order for bitcoins to be useful for money, it must be possible to determine how many bitcoins I have, or, more exactly, how many I have available to spend. The fact that there is a language associated with bitcoin redemption, and the redemption happens at the time of the creation of the outbound transaction makes this very difficult to determine.

So, more clearly, if I want to spend some coins that have been nominally sent to me, at the time that I attempt to send them to another address, I have to have all the information necessary to redeem the coins that were sent to me, for each instance of an incoming transaction to my address.

If this sounds complicated, it is because it is. Ethereum, one of the many post-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies, does a much better job of this on the pure currency side -- spending coins at an address to which I have the private key is just a matter of saying how many coins I want to send and where. Ethereum, unfortunately (in my mind) complicates this with a much more sophisticated language that lives in a side-chain.

I think the ultimate Bitcoin successor (or modifications to the Bitcoin protocol itself) will have to prune down the scope of allowed transactions, rather than expanding it. This isn't just a question of the "my grandmother won't be able use it" -- although having an unspendable incoming transaction from the "publishers bitclearing house" for a million bitcoins will definitely be a bit offputting.

In the end, even for a sophisticated user, it will be nearly impossible to present a view of how many bitcoins you have available to spend. This is why the core devs have been very reluctant to allow different kinds of scripts; multisig is the first real expansion.

Colored coins, while kind of fun, live outside the blockchain, so don't really bother me. It's basically the equivalent of a (for example) car saying "anyone who holds a dollar bill with serial number xxxxxx from year yyyy can start the engine", in a world where it is impossible to forge dollar bills (as is the case with bitcoins).
First couple of tests from English to Spanish worked great. My first thought: the Babelfish from Hitchhiker's Guide is probably only a few years away. Pair this with WordLens on a mobile device and we start breaking down barriers.
Why wasn't the DLL signed? Is this not a thing?
Jacobulous: Your comments are very interesting, can you point to some good resource (book/site/etc) to learn about such things?
Thanks for falling back to "Whatever.. my opinion is better than yours."

It's always a treat to see the resilience of subjective convictions on display.
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Why are you posting from the whoishiring account? Did you also just post this Ask HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8121340 ?
Quoting "# of federal register pages" is like quoting "number of source lines of code." It's not a good metric for understanding the scope of what a program does.

The increase in the number of federal register pages is a response to court cases in the 1970's that made it easier to challenge federal administrative agency actions on the basis that they were inadequately justified. The 1935 Administrative Procedure Act requires agencies to accompany regulations with a "concise general statement" in the Federal Register. From 1935 to the 1970's, that's precisely what they were, even when the substantive regulations had far-reaching scope.

In the 1970's there was a trend of increased judicial scrutiny of agency actions, centering on the agency's explanations and rationales for new regulations. Sometime in the 1960's, economic cost-benefit analysis also became a fixture of agency action. Thus, the page count of the federal register exploded, as the "concise general statement" became exhaustive rationales filled with the results of studies, cost-balancing analysis, etc.

The end result is that agencies like the NLRB have vastly less actual power than they did decades ago, but to exercise what little power they have, they must detail every bit of reasoning and evidence behind a rule in the Federal Register, to fortify the new rule against challenges in court. Modern agencies have to slavishly justify every little action, whereas agencies of the 1930's-1960's could impose sweeping regulations of industries without so much as a cost-benefit study.

The "greatly increased compliance costs" narrative is garbage. One would assume that if compliance costs were increasing, legal costs would increase too. Yet, the opposite is true: the legal sector's share of real GDP has shrunk from over 2% in the 1970's to 1.3% today: http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55044cbaf88340168e5077.... Indeed, that understates the decrease. Finance is a very legal-intensive industry, and makes up a much larger fraction of the economy than it did in the 1970's. Thus, the decrease in legal expenditures in the non-finance sectors must have been even larger.

Now, legal expenditures are not necessarily the same as regulatory compliance costs, but one would imagine the two are highly correlated. And the trend is totally in the opposite direction from the "greatly increased compliance costs" narrative.