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I don't think this discussion is getting us anywhere. You are simply claiming the opposite of the GP, without any facts.

Facts are that electricity in Germany is much more expensive compared to countries without an Energiewende. This is not a positive for German industry, plain and simple.

Germany currently has low unemployment and high prosperity because it's executing it's own Marshallplan. Lending trillions to other EU states, and getting that money back through selling cars to them. German cars are known for many good things, but their price is not one of them. The same goes for many other German products. German industrial automation. No complaints about the quality (well, a little, but certainly much better than the competition. Though it would be great if German engineering firms met this little thing called "English", and gave manuals in more than one language with their things). The price, however, WTF.
It's probably fair to say that the lidar systems they use can see things. It generates a real time 3d map of the world, which is a lot easier to sort into obstruction/road than 2d sensor data.

The problem is that it doesn't work very well in the rain.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. The rewriting happens in GHC, but it's the application programmer who creates the rules. So, stream fusion isn't implemented by the compiler AFAIK.
Does anyone remember that awful Schwarzenegger movie, the Sixth Day? It seems like the cars could work like the ones from the movie at the current stage. Basically they take over for the long, boring part of the ride and then hand control over for the trickier local bits. That way, when I make the long trip to my parents' house or my in laws, for example, I can hand over control for the parts where I might get tired, distracted by my son, etc. That capability would be a huge win for me.
No, commonly the key to "some claims about the real world" is independence. Then can apply, with meager assumptions, say, the weak law of large numbers (which we do prove), that is, take an average. Also sometimes can make some "claims' based on conditional independence (which my axioms give us the ability to define) and apply, say, the martingale convergence theorem.
Fix for old version or not to fix?
One thing I have found vital is keeping track of what I'm doing each day: productive hours, weight lost/gained, etc.

I personally find when I know these things, it's much easier to not kid myself into how well I'm doing, and what changes I make are improving matters.

I'm not sure how much building a game on top of that helps, but I think the basic concept of tracking is important and if this helps people accomplish that, great.
What part of "server containing medical data about thousands of patients." indicates to you that lives were not at stake?

edit - the folk saying that this guy was stupid for doing anything are completely irresponsible.
Whoa, I wrote down some notes for a very similar idea yesterday. My take on it was more of a service, that let you spin up a page quickly, including things like email signups, analytics, and a domain name.
Do you work at Stack Exchange?

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes...
Ironically, Firefox supports the unprefixed backface-visibility property, but the demo only sets the -webkit- prefixed version.
No it is better to do absolutely nothing, and quietly divest yourself from them because that's not illegal.

But what we really need are some damn whistleblower protections for cybersecurity - buzz-wordy enough for government funding and command centers, but no actual help for the people who want to help because it feels like the right thing to do.
The specialised maps are far too noisy for human navigators to use.
I have never truly understood the German decision and I have been pro-nuclear due to its reliability and safety over wind.

However you've really answered the major reason of why nuclear cannot work:

>* centralization of electricity production in few monopoly-like companies with zero competition

If history has taught us anything its that the concentration of power is not a good thing.
Probably at the point of not voting in the people who make those laws in the first place.
Funnily enough, my lava lite quite very reliably after a couple hours. It will run normally for a while, and then it will just have a big blob in the bottom.

I suspect that there somehow is not enough heat being dissipated at the top. I had toyed with the idea of 3D printing a heat sink, but my design would have cost about $100 USD.

I actually have a USB temperature probe, it would be simple enough to just plot the temp over time and see what's going on.
I would get some detailed reporting. Perhaps try a few alternate solutions on a couple of pages to see how they compare. A 50% commissions seems steep and you should probably implement some internal tagging or event monitoring so you can double check counts.

Overall I'd be inclined to try alternate plugin solutions over running your own server as it come with time management and generally businesses (I can know your so take it with a pinch of salt) are best spend specialising on what they do. If you want some direct cash you can always try to sell some page takeover or other sponsored events if requested.
If you read through the article, it does say he uses rebars. They go into the empty space in between the walls, to be filled with additional concrete. And watching the video, there seems to be horizontally lied wires as well.
Double it with each layer. Double your estimate for each individual task, then when you've got the whole Gantt chart built for the iteration, double that.
It has to be travel. Where and how is personal preference but you only get a few big break opportunities in life so take it while you can.
I've been giving estimates for a decade, and still feel like I'm winging it every time. Planning poker definitely works, provided you understand the requirements, and by 'understand' i don't mean you have read a spec document, but that you understand the customer's business problem and have figured out how the proposed solution aims to solve it. Sadly most large projects don't have the time in their pre-sales estimation phase for the team that produces the estimate to build an understanding of the whole problem domain. Paradoxically this low confidence in the estimate will tempt the sales team to cut it even further, since they interpret uncertainty as a liberty to seek the low bound (or even lower).

As others have pointed out in those large projects it's better not to make up-front estimates and just build as much value as possible for a fixed cost, using agile principles. However, that's typically not how large software projects are sold (or bought). Fixed price almost always means fixed scope. I'd like to know of any large software project sold to a customer in truly agile fashion (no fixed scope determined in advance). To me it sounds like a software development unicorn: you hear about it, but you're never the one building it.
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It seems like you're confusing Bayes' Theorem with Bayesian statistics. Bayes probably wasn't a Bayesian, and everybody uses Bayes' theorem.
To quote Humpty Dumpty:

"When I use a word, it means just what
I choose it to mean — neither more nor
less."

If the author chooses to define proof in a different way, and chooses not to use "proof" in the same sense that mathematicians use the term, and then goes on to tell them they're not producing proofs at all, is he surprised that they get annoyed at him?

As always, XKCD gets there:

Communicating badly then acting smug when
you're misunderstood is not cleverness.

-- http://xkcd.com/169/
Interesting. I'm not well versed in these things yet, but I've seen:

forall r . (f r -> r) -> r

before. Am I right in saying it's the type of a catamorphism? In which case, yes, it makes total sense that your `Mu` type is equivalent to the (possibly) more usual:

newtype Mu f = Mu (f (Mu f))
Long term, I don't see much value in dropping down another gravity well. The astroid belt might only mass 4% of the moon, but mining even 1% of the moon or earth is vary difficult unless you start dumping mass into space.

As to the bennifits on the long term, aka 100,000+ years. It's less a question of economics but possibility. Can we have an independent space based economy and there is plenty of energy and raw materials so justifying no is difficult.
The journalist's twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/writingadam
This is why you never end up hiring good developers
If you knew the manager of a big box electronics store in the 90's it was not hard to come by a large variety of computer parts.

The scene in 40 year old virgin where they destroy all the returns is pretty accurate to what is supposed to happen. What actually happens is they only destroy like a quarter of it.
> This is a very strange way to run a news blog.

He doesn't seem to realize all that matters to the blog is getting page views...
We have so much technical debt I can no longer estimate with any accuracy. Something that should take half a day takes a week. Most of the week is cleaning up all of the crap in the code, and then spend a couple hours writing the few lines of code that solve the business requirement.
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When you say passive, does that mean you are doing covered calls, or something else?
.subtractY(vector)
.multiplyY(scalar)

that bothers me a bit

.rotate(angle)
.rotateBy(angle)

that seems to be a bit... of a weird default? rotate and rotateTo would be more expected personally
it's sad that institutions act this way. I also stumbled upon a rather nasty vulnerability in the website of a largish company. I left it as is, without notifying anyone, precisely because I didn't want any trouble.

if I found it by accident, I'm sure malicious actors can find it as well.
As a Canadian: It is unfortunately not just the US where internet service prices are ridiculously high, but all of North America.
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Why do you oppose federalism so? If the rustic uneducated hicks of Chattanooga want to handle internet service differently than the brilliant elites of Philadelphia, in this system they're supposed to be free to do so. Perhaps eventually it will be more clear that Chattanooga has better ideas and policies than the geniuses in the telcos' pocket have. Even then, a federalist would not suggest laws enforcing the new consensus.
That's the theory but remember how badly journalism has been mismanaged into a death spiral. This article smells of someone with less experience (i.e. cheaper) being told to churn out a certain number of stories a week, given less support for editing and fact checking than they'd have had a generation ago, and – most importantly – they'd better sound interesting so people click and boost page views and as impressions.
In case I understand your concern, here's how I address it: We like something like probability theory because in practice it works great for saying that some roulette wheel is crooked, for confidence intervals on measurements, ..., for various stochastic processes and their power spectra, e.g., for the 3 degree K background radiation. Roughly we know quite well what we want in our probability theory.

From what we know we want in our probability theory, we're essentially pushed into the axioms whether we like it or not. Or, the axioms are basically what the heck we need in order to talk about probability. E.g., we want to talk about events, say, event A, so that we can consider the probability of events, say, P(A), the probability of A. And given event B, we want to be able to consider the new event A or B.

So, if in our foundations we have that events A and B are subsets of the set of trials Omega, then the new event A or B is just the set union of sets A and B. So, we want to be able to consider the new event A or B so go ahead and accept the set theory because it lets us get what we want. So, basically we got pushed into the set theory.

For more, if event A is 'the next flip of our fair coin comes up heads' and event B there is 'a magnitude 1 quake in SF 10 days from now', then we jump at saying that events A and B have nothing to do with each other and are independent so that we know that P(A and B) = P(A)P(B).

So, in practice, how do we justify independence? Sadly, in my view, mostly just intuitively as in the little example of coins and quakes I gave.

The axioms ask for a little more than we might, first cut, have believed we need to specify. E.g., so that we will have plenty of ability to take old events and create new ones, we want the events actually to form a sigma algebra. Next, so that we can talk about the event 'the coin never comes up heads', again we want a sigma algebra, and we want our probability P to be countably additive.

What about uncountably additive? Quickly we see that that causes us serious problems so don't ask for it.

Net, we really do like probability and its applications, say, to statistics, and the axioms I gave (thank you A. Kolmogorov and H. Lebesgue) are basically about the minimum we want. Really, we just get pushed into those axioms; if we like probability, and we do, then we don't have much choice but to accept those axioms. Curious universe we live in.
"But when somebody uses his mouse to click somewhere and expects something to change, things might get tough. If you're lucky, it's just a local action, like a dropdown menu that needs to open. If you're unlucky, it's some complex filter action on your data heavy app that causes three ajax requests and changes to seven models."

Reading this I start to think if isolated javascript components and a jquery pubsub system publishing the 'newclick' event from the server isn't simpler and more modular..
There are very different inhouse environments. Some are obsessed with metrics and "improving" results.
And for anyone considering writing to the source of the problem: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/ContactUs/
"If I'm the IT administrator who receives this message, then after reading the first two sentences, I've already jumped to the conclusion that this professor is the individual who compromised my server! 'Hi, I found security issues with your server, and now it's compromised!'

"Sure, once you've read the intro by the professor, the meaning is clear, but think of yourself as a sysadmin getting this email, without the context of 'I just found this, I had nothing to do with it' in your brain, and how are you going to react? Once the idea that the sender of this email is a hacker who broke into your server has entered your mind, it's going to be very hard to interpret it differently. Given that[...]"

I can't give you that. I've been a sysadmin, and I've gotten emails about things that were misconfigured. Without the intro, the meaning is clear. Even assuming that the professor had added the w00000t files as a PoC, the note is still a nice gesture and a tip, not an indication of terrorism. Interpreting it another way seems a sign of stupidity IMO.

The email starts with his name and place of work. If you read that and think that Sam Bowne, City College, San Fransisco is trying to destroy your servers, you may not be good at thinking.
Global cooling is an alarmist exaggeration.

The dailymail is not the most trustworthy source, but the discussion of the news reports about the subject is interesting.

Anyway, I'd like to see the scientific source. The images are interesting, are they satelite photos or some kind of simulation? I can't find the original report of the 2013 ice increase and the images.
RIP the free market new world order
And while we're being vague cranks, how about the parking on the street around the corner from my house? Is it allowed on weekdays or isn't it? At what time? I can never get a straight answer.
I would like to hear form someone that is good with statics what he/she thinks about this.
Thank you johndunhart for the advice, I will definitely take into account this in the next iteration of the product.
I like the fact that the article stated that no patient information had been accessed. How many times have you heard that line when news of a breach is made public? It makes me think that these folks would rather cover up a breach than actually take responsibility for it.
Think of it as a sort of prosthesis. Those of us with ADHD, for instance, have a sort of short-sightedness when it comes to time. Things like this can help by reinterpreting our lives a series of short-term actions that have immediate consequences, rather than actions that have consequences later on (which we are effectively blind to).
Are you saying there is a chance we go back to jQuery as the superior solution? :)
i used to be a big fan of this sort of stuff, but the better solution for many of the problems described is to avoid array resizing.

if std::vector is your bottleneck you have bigger problems i suspect.

reminds me a bit of eastl as well... which is much more comprehensive: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
Are you sure the handset-suction-cup thing wasn't just the average technology 30 years ago? Because while I was too young to know about that, I distinctly remember seeing it in use here in USA at that time.
If you have a streak of failures, wipe the slate clean and start with something smaller and simpler. For severe cases, it might be necessary to start with something as simple as "brush your teeth 1x a day" and NOTHING else. This can seem ridiculously juvenile, but I wasted years of my life making little progress because I thought small things were too trivial to be worth getting good at.
At a minimum the reporter could have googled Sam to find out he teaches security and the range of classes: http://samsclass.info/

... or applied some logic. Instead of contacting them directly he could have:

* broadcasted it to the world (maybe a reporter!) that the FTP server was insecure
* do/say nothing
They still don't have an Android app? Damnit, I stopped using it because they didn't have one, and that was like, a year ago.
The flaw with such a strategy is that it does not scale. (We used to do exactly what you described). In a big "eventful" app, you will have way too many events to keep track, and you will constantly be browsing trough different modules to understand the chain.

Lets assume the user clicks somewhere, so an event is fired "user-clicked-x" that model A listens to.

So you know that model B needs to change as well and you fire a new event type from model A, say "model-a-changed-because-of-user-clicked-x" or a more generic event, say "model-a-changed".

Both will cause headaches, because they require a quite high cognitive load. With the generic one, you have the issue that sometimes you want A to change but not B, which leads to lots of conditionals (all of which you need to remember).

With the specific one, you have two events that mean almost the same, but are different. With every model C and D you need to carefully evaluate which event you listen to.

In isolation, this is perfectly fine.But if you have 10+ of those things interacting with eachother, it will be a big mess. You will have 30-40 different events, that map out a hierarchical order that you need to track down through multiple modules every time you change something.

If you do not abstract the chain away, the complexity is simply too high. You'd have to keep roughly 15-20 links in your head, which is too much. With Flux or similar patterns, you just have to keep one pattern in your head.

In the end it's a simple story of abstraction. Your mind can only deal with a couple of different things. If you reach the threshold, you need to abstract. Flux shows one way to do this (and it is only useful if you've reached the need for abstraction threshold).

Having one or two short event chains is perfectly fine. If you have 5 different user interactions that have a complex ripple effect through the state of your app, you need to do something, or development speed slows.
Hm, if there isn't one already (and i know of none) i guess the only answer is:

Set one up on a network that has a high # of hackers, tinkerers etc.

IMHO, this network could be chat.freenode.net

When you're done, let people know in this thread and i'm sure they'll come...

P.S.: There's a channel named #startups already on freenode which seems to have a few people from HN already...
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You're not afraid of making some pretty big claims yourself. Wikipedia[1] supports my claim that while the situation might not be perfect it works quite well and that's the most important thing. Compared to other countries, the US in particular, the NZ healthcare system delivers good results. Which in my view makes it excellent.

Then what about the negative aspects you mention. Well, in the Netherlands we have a similar system and to be honest I don't care about all the whining you mention. Sure, people complain and things probably can be better. There is always room for improvement. Unfortunately people will complain about healthcare if they stub their toe. Fuck 'em, you can't stop these people from complaining and policy should not accommodate their every whim.

Can you support your claim that bad things happen and go unpunished

> when a society decides to sever the act of consumption from the actual purchase of a service.

I'm not feeling them, my family is not feeling them and my MD friends are happy with their jobs. And don't forget: the private sector is still an option so there is a choice.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_New_Zealand
I really hope someday computer simulations become so detailed and accurate that we don't have to test on animals anymore.
I'll be taking a look at that, thanks. In London I find the majority of diversity has little integration, instead each nationality gathers in a location and forms an insular "community" mostly detached from the others, which seems to miss the point. I've met people who've been here for 20 years yet can't speak English due to that insularity. Members of nationality X walking 25 minutes to get a nation X pizza, rather than the Italian pizza five minutes away, only buy nation X products, only from nation X shops, nation based employment, nation based music lessons, and so on. Some preference, practicality, or nostalgia is understandable, but it's beyond that. There's polarization, which worsens when there's some form of stress. There's no discussion of it because because there's fear of accusations of racism in what's become a sort of racism witch hunt. The UK news has recently been filled with news of a Pakistani child sex grooming gang, but the media seem to be referring to them as Asian, which not only is sufficiently vague that they may as well be saying that they're from the northern hemisphere, but it also strikes me as even more divisive to be categorising an entire continent. Ethics and ideologies aside, I'm interested in the mechanics and where it can and where it is unlikely to succeed.
Never found a good one either. I think it's because HN members stay in their respective domain channels - #python #javascript for example.

#startups on freenode is supposedly made up of HN crowd, but I've never found it a friendly place.
Falsely accusing someone of a crime often isn't just libel, it's per se libel, meaning that that there's liability even if the aggrieved party can't prove damages. Running a newspaper article that turned out to be false without even attempting to contact you might clear the negligence hurdle here.
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