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UK is better than US on this point. If Texas wanted to secede would the other states let them?
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Probably won't even considering buying this vacuum due to the page design. The images didn't load. Jerk scroll. What a mess.
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Not true, sorry.

Without the scottish seats, the only real difference in the last 50 years is that the current coalition would be pure-tory.

See http://theweebluebook.com/assets/images/uk-govts.png

(from http://theweebluebook.com/principles-and-politics.php referencing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_ele...)
Yes, this is terrible. Don't kill my scroll.
I think a big challenge would be that it would be much harder to grind the mirror. Round mirrors have the advantage of being somewhat close to a parabola, so you can spin them and use gravity and then just refine from there. The optics also get more complicated.

One key thing that I think would help you here is that the hard parts of building a telescope are the mirror and the instruments, not the mechanical telescope to support it. Supporting a ten meter wide mirror is not too hard compared to making a near-perfectly ground mirror that is ten meters wide or building top shelf instruments to collect and study the light. It's not cheap or anything, but it's not really what's holding back telescopes. You can see this in the new generation of 20-30 meter scale telescopes with multi-mirror designs. The GMT uses several 8 meter mirrors because we can't really make useful mirrors larger than about 10 meters.
Yeah that page was a joy to use. I think you're browser was probably not rendering it. Looked great on Firefox.
But what do you do when there are more participants on one side of the same price than the other? If it is FIFO you haven't eliminated any of the incentives for speed.
>If the next government is formed of different people, then under British sovereignty traditions it will feel no obligation to pay any attention to the referendum run by its predecessor.

That is incorrect, all 3 parties (not individuals within the parties) gave a promise to respect the outcome of the referendum. So even if a labour govt gets in at the next General Election they will respect the decision. The dificulty will come in negotiations for the exit, that will be impacted by the format of any new government, but the decision to allow independance will not.

http://www.futureukandscotland.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pap...
In any negotiation it doesn't hurt to have some leverage. Especially when the company already has most of the leverage in employment situations. In my experience not burning bridges is entirely overrated. I also fail to see how asking for a counter offer is "burning a bridge" but I don't ask for counters. I turn in my two weeks and tell them why I am leaving. If the company offers me a better offer (money, benefits, vacation, flexibility, etc) I may take it but I go in with the full understanding that I am leaving. There are a lot of cases where the money itself won't matter if your current employer matches because there are other things you just don't like about the situation.

I've used this tactic twice with the same employer. It's just business and any professional manager will not foster resentment. If it does cause resentment then you can solve it by simply leaving. I have no concerns over "looking weak". I'm only in this for me. It's bad enough that I trade my precious time for money. I'm going to take as much as the market will offer me. It probably sounds selfish but that's how it is. I work only to provide a decent life for my family. If I had 5 million today I would not continue to do what I do. I would find something to occupy that time but it wouldn't be trading hours for dollars.

What do you expect people to do? Work for the same company for 30 years and be happy to get maybe a 2% raise year over year?
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I think one of the motivations is that they want Go to be a language suitable for Android development and other use cases. In mobile and embedded devices, binary size still matters.
I have to agree with you - Apple also used this style for their Mac Pro page! http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
GP: "Google maps for routing when driving"

Not sure what other maps one can use while driving...
All the links are clickable. I might follow up with a blog post and will include them there.
Unique? Hmmm... for a vacuum cleaner, maybe. For indoor robotics, not so much. It's fairly standard Visual-SLAM.
This books presents a balanced view of the situation, which is better than something which presents itself as one sided. the other side will never read it and undecided voters will see it as just one sided fluff piece.

http://www.futureukandscotland.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pap...
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> Primarily because regulatory capture has, until now, overruled all attempts to reign it in. The banks and hedge funds engaged in this activity wield vast amounts of political power.

Your invocation of the "regulatory capture" trope doesn't even make sense in this context. The big banks and hedge funds aren't the major HFT players, and many of them are opposed to HFT.
You have a point, but on mobile and embedded devices, nobody is "wasting gigabytes of memory through virtualization" and not caring.
The pirate metrics compass (after 90 slides) that lists a lot of SaaS services looks like this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2011477/Screen%20Shot%20...
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IEX has made a business out of being a dark pool explicitly designed for buy side hedge funds to be able to avoid market forces. The 700ms delay is the least of those features & is more of a marketing gimic.
For the web inclined guys here. What techniques are used to show motion/animation? looks quite smooth/impressive
Regarding that house, there are external factors justifying that price, such as being in a high crime area. You can get a house in Chattanooga you would actually want to live in for about 150k (still an extremely great price for a home). I lived there for about a year, it's a wonderful town but has a lot of areas that need improvement, specifically in public schools and crime prevention. It's a beautiful place and I would encourage all of you to visit it some time.
The audience we are targeting is very similar to Bootstrapped.fm. However, the type of community we aim to build is somewhat different: we want to be the Hacker News for bootstrappers, the site you go check on a daily basis to get the latest news of the community. Bootstrapped.fm discussions are a bit more forum-like.
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I've been there too. You could try to use WAMP protocol wich is implemented in a project called Crossbar.IO. They provide RPC/PubSub over websockets (or whatever machanism your client side supports). They provide server and backend for not oly Python/JS, I don't know how developed are they compared to the Python one (which seems to be the one that receives more attention alongside node).
It's based on Twisted, but I belive they have something with gevent(and cython) for speed.
Generally if you threaten to quit you should be prepared to quit. In the US most employment is considered "at will" unless a contract specifies otherwise (and a few states have different laws). Meaning employer or employee can terminate the agreement at any time for any reason or no reason. The exception to that is if you were fired for prejudicial reasons and you are a protected class (sexism, racism, etc). That means I can quit today with no notice required. It also means my employer can hand me my last paycheck today and tell me to take a hike.

An example of this. My wife's employer recently found out she had applied for a job at another company. They fired her that day. She didn't get the other position and the previous employer is blocking unemployment compensation.
What percentage of all Markdown written is on GitHub, Reddit, or Stack Exchange? What percentage of rendered Markdown served to users is from those sites? Tough to estimate, but I would say it's certainly a majority. Surely any flavor of Markdown agreed upon by those sites can make a pretty strong case to be considered "standard."

Out of curiosity, what do you think is the better "easy" solution to the problem Markdown is trying to solve?
Or he's never had a home in the full sense of the word.
Looks like Telescope (http://www.telesc.pe/), a Meteor framework for building HN-style community sites.
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I'm normally someone who complains about this, but I didn't notice anything like that with this page. I see a regular scrollbar on the side and scrolling with the wheel happens as it should.

What system are you using?

PS: Ah, I just noticed that this changes mode when the browser window reaches a certain width. Below that it's quite comfortable to use.
Summary

You need:

* The target's email address

* Date of birth (easily obtained)

* Answers to two of three security questions. With a trick you can choose which of the three you don't want to answer.

You have 8 reset attempts every 8 hours. More would lock the account.

The site also lists common answers to "What was the first thing you learned to cook?", and tips on how to answer both "What was the first concert you attended?" and "Where were you on January 1, 2000"?
read this:

http://www.futureukandscotland.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pap...

there is no way they can cut taxes in the short term, not without risking the scottish economy, they may be able to offset some tax cuts at the lower rate with an increase for higher and highest rate payers.

They may be able to make a smaller government that is more streamlined than whitehall however. This is not a tax based argument but basically a way of finding efficiencies in a new civil service/government that the UK parliament (as the dinosaur it is) cannot.
Have you checked out react-bootstrap? http://react-bootstrap.github.io/ . Here's a little write-up I've suggested to explain the project: https://syllog1sm.github.io/introduction.html

I'm not really a front-end person, but when I first saw React it was the first thing I wanted, so I did a bit of work on the idea. A big group of people have now almost finished it.
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Wikipedia (bless it's soul) has an update on this - clearly in the kingdom Animalia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrogramma, they are just trying to figure out which phylum to place it in.
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All great, logical points. But that's not how governments usually operate when it comes to nationalist movements. Spain is fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent Catalan independence. Catalan independence has much greater support than Scottish independence, but the Spanish government is determined to stop it. It looks like the Spanish government will even try to punish them if they leave (doing their best to deny them EU membership and the like and probably not recognizing them as a country even if they have independence). By contrast (and despite some early posturing), the UK will want a Scotland that is well-integrated and will obviously recognize it.

But even the UK hasn't cared about popular sentiment for independence in the past. Look at the United States, Ireland, and India. But I think the UK has changed a lot and recognizes that it can get much of the same benefits without needing to rule over places. Frankly, it's a mature attitude to notice that you can succeed without force.

And it's that maturity that's going to make this a mostly good experience regardless of the result. If Scotland becomes independent, the UK will try to make it as easy as possible so that Scottish and other British people will barely notice a change. It's best for the UK if an independent Scotland has no barriers for their people and firms. Similarly, if Scotland remains in the UK, politicians seem to recognize the desire for even more devolved powers to the Scottish Government.

Normally, countries don't recognize a piece of their land becoming independent easily. Popular sentiment and even riots often don't deter countries from asserting dominance. Heck, sometimes countries even want to take over pieces of land that are currently independent where popular sentiment is 95%+ against being taken over. Yes, the UK government is doing the pragmatic thing where "it doesn't have any other choice". But loads of other countries are faced with the same issue and they're not facing it with that sort of logical pragmatism.
cool, so only about 5 years after it was widespread/standard in Europe
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We used telesc.pe. It's a great open source project. For this initial version of Bootstrappers.io, the site is basically what you get out if the box from telesc.pe. Major props to the makers of this open source project.
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"17,000 rpm with digital pulse technology" ... I guess that means a PWM DC motor controller?
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This makes sense to me. I did my undergrad work in biochem, and got my masters in computer science. My favorite thing about chemistry was figuring out organic synthesis steps on paper. I later realized that writing code to manipulate systems and data allowed me to scratch this same itch.
> The rationale for using JSX over plain JS is given here

Are you pulling my leg or did you simply not read any of the two comments I wrote?

My first comment even contained last decade's hype to do "everything in XML" as an example of a similar (bad) movement. Your response is to link to an article that describes JSX as an "XML-like syntax extension to JavaScript".

I say "don't do everything in JSX just because you can", and your response is "but it's like XML!". I can only deduct that you also like programming in XML. Good for you, I recommend you begin with porting XSLT to JSX.
Can someone help me understand the following statement (specifically the don't branch part) ?

"Don’t touch the kernel. Don’t touch main memory … Don’t branch.’ (That third commandment means don’t fill your program with ‘if’ statements – ones with the generic form ‘if A then do B else do C’ – because they get in the way of a modern microprocessor’s capacity to do several things in parallel.)"
Going to interject here. YouGov is pretty good with their predictions on political matters. It appears their panel is roughly aligned with the outcome which is a pretty powerful place to be.

Not suggestion that it isn't any more than hocum but it's quite easy to deduce this from the media and the pollster statistics (which is something that YouGov do).
"I hope Martinis considers NV (nitrogen vacancy) centers in synthetic diamond as quantum computing elements." He's built his career around superconducting circuits. Switching to optics would put him outside his area of expertise, so it's unlikely.
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I'm pretty sure the software in the vacuum actually makes use of all of these. But then, so does your average roguelike.
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I'd be happy if he just does science on the system. Maybe he can figure out a way to zeno the system into being classical to prove a speedup.
This is the type of issues that nicely lead to security bugs

It's also the type of functionality that enables the efficient use of high performance C libraries and existing code (I use it to great effect with the Intel compiler for extremely high performance SIMD code).

The "someone might not use it right, therefore it's anathema" notion is misguided, and is orthogonal with the philosophy of Go. Even C# and Java -- the pinnacle of "enterprise" languages -- understand and respect the notion of pointer sharing, and early on built in mechanisms to support it. Go is a league above, though, given that it follows C struct layout rules.

But I see where the person proposing banning it got their notion from -- it's a classic hubris of "if it isn't important to me, it isn't important to anyone". A compacting GC has benefits, but the lazy notion of wholesale blocking broad and powerful uses because one doesn't personally benefit from them is how languages die.
Pensions of the old are guaranteed by the UK Government, there is very little for them to be afraid of in the event of a yes vote. It would be a shame if that were the reason for a No win.
"Requiring people to have a competitive offer in-hand basically says, "if you want a raise, go interview somewhere else." That's toxic and only effective for the people who game the system."

I agree with you on this. However, that's just how it works at all of the places I have worked for. Except for one. The startup I was at before we were acquired by a large tech company. However, being a startup we were already strapped for cash and were not being paid market rates but had some equity. That turned out to be decent when we cashed in but not enough for most of us to cover the salary difference.

I fully agree that employers should be proactive to ensure that good employees are happy and want to stay with the company. It should be mutually beneficial but I have yet to find a place like that. In the mega corps this just can't happen because of red tape. If you don't ask you will just get the standard 2% or whatever it is each year. Many times if you do ask the manager can't do anything about it anyway. I've brought it up that my hourly rate is 1/8 the rate I bill out at and am told that's just how it works.
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We in Birmingham, AL are also pushing for more tech. We have a few open-source meetup groups and we're trying to get Uber (though the city is making it difficult) - gotta start somewhere!
HTML5 video, I'm sure. They used that on the Mac Pro website too - they had two videos for each 'image', one forward, and one in reverse. Some JS playback controls linked to scrolling, and that's pretty much it. Very nice results though.
This was pretty amusing:

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We have already fought a war because of that issue, we even added it to the pledge of allegiance. It's some what different in that England was an empire, they aren't giving up land but releasing it.

As an American, what I find truly fascinating is that they trust democracy with such a substantial issue. Can you imagine how things would be if we had a simple up/down vote on abortion or gay marriage or the war on terror?
Excellent question. The MEAN stack certainly doesn't seem to be badly oversold. It is, in fact, usually mentioned as being best-suited for specific types of applications, not as a general panacea.

Then there are the speed/performance tests, which seems to place MEAN at or near the top as compared to the other mainstream web app stacks, which begs the question: is it possible that snide comments about "concurrency" are utterly beside the point? Who cares if my hoopty car looks inelegant if it wins the race?
Lots of negativity in the comments.

A couple questions:

1. For the robotics people, is the "360° eye" camera an innovation, or is this already a standard component of robotic vision?

2. What's the next step for robotics in the house after vacuums?
It is probably referring to the fact that code that branches allot will make the prefetcher/branch predictor fail more frequently which causes slower memory loads and less ops. Not sure why it mentions parallelism though.
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I expect this is a the top of HN because people are interested in hacking their Dyson robot and write some custom Anroid/iOS apps to control it? Otherwise, it's a vacuum, or is this some type of sponsored Sears post I don't know about?
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... because they're more likely to have multiple violations?

Interestingly, I wonder what has a higher value/ROI for "the system". A) A couple small tickets (worth, say, $200) that don't get paid, result in multiple missed court dates, arrest warrants, nights in jail, etc. Or B) A small ticket (worth, say, $75) that gets paid in full immediately, no court date required.
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... for more background, SWIFT is an essentially global monopoly on international interbank transfers with all messages recorded in full by the US and its allies[1]. Despite claiming they only send messages, in effect money is moved and there are documented cases of it being seized off the wire by the US even in EU<->EU state transactions. It opened its first 'international center of operations' in Virgina (~CIA HQ) as a first order of business after accruing partaking institutions at a speed frankly unbelievable given the technology of the time. It was billed as a telex replacement.[2] After recently dispatching with its carefully developed apolitical facade and banning Iran (after receiving Europe's blessings at the behest of UANI, which is essentially Mossad + CIA old guard[3]), it pissed off India (who depend on them for energy security) and raised eyebrows in Russia and China.

While it's probably critical for the future of humanity for a project like this to succeed, frankly anything that leaves the trust and reputation aspects to manual negotiation as per conventional business is just lipstick on a pig. In this sense, Bitcoin is superior. For some more ambitious ideas forming in this area check out http://ifex-project.org/

[1] Quote from European Data Protection Supervisor in response to FOIA: "since at least 2001" http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/information_on_financial_...

[2] http://www.swift.com/about_swift/shownews?param_dcr=news.dat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UANI#Leadership
As a web developer and web user I completely refuse to tell you, otherwise I worry you might copy this horrendous site design elsewhere.

This is a site anti-pattern (at least at desktop resolution). The site is only readable when I shrink the browser down until that terrible animated nonsense goes away.
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Good luck getting underneath furniture or cabinet overhangs!
I don't know that reddit's a secret, but it certainly uses markdown.

Which is key among the reasons I _vastly_ prefer composing longer-form content there than on G+, which has its own bastardized, incomplete, inconsistent, buggy, poorly-parsed tagging format.

Though I do wish that Markdown used the G+ syntax for bold vs. italic:

*This is bold*
_This is italic_

I find markdown's doubled-character syntax ugly, and have my own convention of:

_Markdown italic, ALWAYS_
**Markdown bold, ALWAYS**

Visually it's far more distinctive.
Obligatory link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processin... see most upvoted answer for short lecture about cost of branching in modern CPU's.
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