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> Is the worst thing you can say about Python that it forces you to indent your code?

That's an unduly simplistic argument. "Indentation that looks clean" and "Indentation that fulfils Python's specific needs" are not the same: one is a superset of the other. This means that enforcing the latter is in fact an extra burden and a loss flexibility. Whether the burden is less than having to write braces all the time comes down to personal taste, but to pretend that it does not exist is dishonest.

In any case I could get used to the significant indentation. What actually repels me the most from Python is the lack of non-broken lexical scoping, which - together with the "only one expression per lambda" limitation - makes closure based programming solutions awkward and hard to get right in Python. Which is unfortunate because I personally really like those kinds of solutions...

The ironic thing is, that this situation leads many Python programmers to believe that closures are inherently complicated/difficult/bug-prone, and sneer at languages which promote them heavily as "not newbie friendly".

To get back on the thread's topic, Perl 6 is one of those languages where function and variable handling is built on proper lexical scoping, and closures are everywhere. Even regexes are closures, in the sense that they are treated as first-class code objects (that just happen to be written in a different syntax), and if a regex uses variables from other Perl 6 scopes it closes over them.

Maybe I'm the only one who feels that way, but that kind of thing excites me in a way that Python never could.

But to each their own!
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Yes, value derived per dollar is meaningful, but it is rather difficult to measure reliably. A lot depends on how much corruption there is.

However, I'd claim taxes in proportion to GDP are a fairly good indicator of taxes in proportion to income, because income and GDP are strongly related. In fact, one way to define GDP is "the sum of primary incomes distributed by resident producer units" and the same number may be called GDI, "gross domestic income".
And very, very few people in the civilized world outside the US and Canada need cars or car loans because most first world countries have efficient transit systems that work well and go everywhere.
Maybe at the point of the 1.0 release, a naming change could take place. I think any time before then would be a mistake though, as it would maximize the baggage and minimize the usefulness of the new name. I'm torn on whether a new name, if it happened, would be better off explicitly referencing Perl (e.g. NG Perl), or leave it out entirely for something new.
Is anybody actively working on this? I suspect that doing this well is non-trivial. Neither Tofte/Talpin nor Cyclone, both of which heavily inspired Rust's lifetimes, have HKTs as far as I'm aware.
1. That's exactly what people said about Google before they launched Google Apps, Docs, etc. "why would Google do this?" -- the answer was clear: user engagement and the blurring of personal and professional data/personas.

2. If you hit scale, the best practices is to try and build as full of a stack as possible. That's why Microsoft did a search engine, Google did an Office Suite and why Facebook will do both at some point.
In the physical crafts there is another aspect of "enslaving ourselves to an ideal or goal" mostly revolving around safety.

How many decades ago was I taught to never power up a lathe without immediately touching the chuck key in its holder (aka not in the chuck...) or never touch a table saw blade (while changing it or screwing around with adjusting it) without immediately prior touching the metal of its power cable (aka not plugged in)

None of those are taught as in book learning but taught as in a discipline. And look, all these years later, still got all my eyes and fingers!
Most people in the UK buy second hand cars, you can get them ridiculously cheap. The mandatory insurance can cost more than the car itself.

And yes, less need as well.
Whatever you do, follow the The Moth's advice and make it "story worthy"

Try to imagine yourself later telling the story:

"Oh I started a company" then it might not be that story worthy vs "I applied to an accelerator in another country, moved there, and started a company." Instead of "I cooked everyday," make it "I cooked something new everyday, no exceptions."
My experience is that you'll quickly get burned if you do this for the use case the OP mentioned. The goal is to keep different settings for a development environment, not to just temporarily avoid committing. One day, you'll inevitably forget and accidentally commit and push the changes you've been carefully avoiding.
This is great...now I'll have to find a spare laptop to load Ubuntu on. I'm on OS X and have been attempting to write Unix tutorials...I don't like doing videos, so I use Quicktime to do a window recording, save it, and then send the file to the "gifify" utility (https://github.com/vvo/gifify), which besides wrapping around ffmpeg to do the conversion, uses the giflossy fork of gifsicle to optimize the image:

gifify screen.mov -o screen.gif --resize 800:-1

example GIF:

http://www.compciv.org/files/images/cli/echo-redirect.gif

It's better than embedding video clips for such short snippets, but being able to show keystrokes would be even better (Quicktime does record mouse button presses)
That's not what it says:

"Larry has announced that the Perl 6 Developers will attempt to make a development release of Version 1.0 of Perl 6.0 in time for his 61st Birthday this year and a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015."
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You are absolutely right. But the so called books technology is disrspected because of:
- unintuitive interface
- steep learning curve
- low social-sharing factor
- insufficient VC capital interest

;)
The hover to reveal sub-task add button doesn't work well with tablets as you end up opening the task edit first and then you can click on the now visible plus sign.

Otherwise, really cool app!
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Except general people should be using pharmacists; in-hours GPs or out of hours doctors and walk-in-centres; and minor injuries units. A&E should be reserved for emergency care. There's a very small percentage of people who need an A&E department and this app would be great for them, but please don't send people who are not in an emergency to A&E.

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/Pages/NHSservi...

http://www.choosewellglos.nhs.uk/
> The top countries by home ownership are Romania, Lithuania and Hungary, while UK and US are in the 33st/34th position and Germany/Switzerland 10 positions

That has very little to do with the question. Housing costs the same amount to construct whether it's rented as apartments or sold as condominiums and the amount people are paying in rent is generally sufficient for the owner of the apartment to turn a profit.

The problem is they can't afford to buy the housing they're living in and the mortgage interest tax deduction only makes it worse. The reason renters can't buy is that they have bad credit and no down payment. The tax deduction doesn't change that, but what it does is cause the people who can get a mortgage to bid up housing prices. Higher prices requires people at the margin to have a higher down payment, which pushes them back into renting. Meanwhile higher home prices put upward pressure on rents because renters have to pay enough to overcome the landlord's opportunity cost of converting many small apartments into fewer large condos. The higher rents make it again harder for people at the margin to save a down payment, pushing them further away from home ownership.

Then the people who have paid $250K for a house that should be worth $150K realize that the price of that asset has an unduly large consequence for their net worth, so they push to eliminate high density housing and do everything possible to increase housing prices. After that the house that should have cost $150K costs $450K and the idea of doing anything to reduce housing prices is very politically unpopular indeed.

Making housing affordable is easy: Subsidize the construction of high density housing and penalize destroying existing high density housing without replacing it. "Make housing more affordable" is literally the same thing as "lower housing prices." Increase the supply, price goes down, more people can afford it. Meanwhile middle class people invest more of their money in economically productive activities rather than housing speculation.
The fact that "here" is a widely used word does matter. What Nokia's trademark buys them is the right to name a product or business "here". It doesn't given them ownership of the word "here" when used with it's descriptive meaning, whether or not that use occurs in a similar product/business context.

OK, but how is an app called Here merely using the word for its descriptive meaning?

If you were only referring to the Here button in the other app made by the start-up, then I agree there seems to be some room for interpretation. Even then, though, if the fundamental justification for protecting trademarks and having related laws about "passing off" is to ensure that customers aren't duped into thinking they're dealing with someone else, an app that is named one thing but uses a related app's name so prominently in its UI seems to be at best a grey area.
Universities were originally an outgrowth of the Catholic Church. It's often still reflected in their names[1]. Yet you hear anti-religious comments from academics all the time.

It's pretty common. Do you feel like you owe any particular loyalty to Edison or Borlaug? Or the people who financed their work whose names I don't even know?

[1] http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/colleges
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1. I'm not an analyst and everyone knows that -- I'm an angel investor and former journalist.

2. It's not a lazy or uneducated argument -- it's an opinion... that's why it says "I would say..." before the claim.

3. The opinion is based on the face that the FB = "all users" but Twitter = a subset of all users. That subset contains the most powerful politicians, CEOs, technologists, finance, art, celebrities, journalists and writers -- who are addicted to the platform. Those same folks are not spending their time on FB in any major way. Those folks are massively influential, thus my opinion.
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So you're basically saying that you have to beat the world cup or the moon landing in order to say that somone cares about [event]? Seems a bit of a high bar to me.

Whereas if you're just talking about the word 'majority', it's interesting that you consider 14% to be a majority.
Baited subject, not specifically about super bowl at all.
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Another commenter's mention of shipability is one of the keys. Due to the long supply-chains for modern produce, the fruit or veggie has to be picked early, ripen off the vine and stay firm to hold up to shipping. cf. Grocery store tomatoes, etc.

My father is involved with developing the PawPaw (Asimina Triloba) into a commercially viable fruit. It's amazing - as big as your fist with a few black seeds and creamy flesh which tastes like custard. Problem is it doesn't ripen off the tree well and bruises easily in shipping. Various universities have breeding programs and there are some excellent named varieties now but still not quite to a place where they could be commercialized on a broad scale.

Another issue is of course people don't like things they're not used to and are generally reluctant to experiment with new foods. (Generalized to the US.) One way to overcome that is through marketing campaigns. Federal Marketing Orders are what we have in place to do this.[1][2]

[0] http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/ https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/cropfactsheets/pawpaw.ht... etc.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_orders_and_agreement...
[2] http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/FVMarketingOrderLandingPage

(Also, frozen cranberries are generally available - but often seasonally because in popular cooking they're limited to Thanksgiving relish and the like...)
One of the biggest potential gains from VR will be to lead people toward empathy, to resocialize those that have cut themselves off from society. There's huge potential here for healing, and for making people more comfortable with and connected to others. Constine's title reminds me of the empathy box in "Do Androids Dream...", even though that more empathizing with one guy than with everyone.
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Your point being? That which events you are interested in and which answers you give is "in no way representative of yourself"?
I think that is actually part of the "Cycle of Democracy" by Dr. Alexander Tytler.
[edit; whoops you were talking about the format and I was talking about the material. Oh well, hopefully this is not too out of place.]

It could be made much more approachable by removing the math entirely. If you learned programming before algebra you might have solved it like this:

from random import random
from collections import defaultdict

tally = defaultdict(int)
for i in range(100000):
thief = ['raccoon', 'fox'][random() < 0.3]
bear = ['false', 'true'][random() < 0.8]
hair = ['raccoon', 'fox'][random() < 0.3333333]
if thief == 'raccoon' and bear == 'true':
continue
if thief == 'fox' and bear == 'false':
continue
if thief != hair:
continue
tally[thief] += 1

print(sorted(tally.items()))

While crude it does give the correct answer, to within 1% or so.
To pre-empt someone bringing up THERAC-25: although it is a very famous case of software disaster, none of the root causes were numerical errors.
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It's so people can plan out their visits and know what their options are in a new area.
I suspect the OP doesn't mean bad as in poor quality but bad as in the more negative experiences in life. Most people rarely post anything but mostly positive experiences on Facebook. You occasionally see the more gritty reality of life bleed through around the edges, but in my experience, that's more of the exception than a rule.

There was an article on HN some months back someone wrote that shared similar experiences and how Facebook feeds in general could lead to mild depression when someone sees their friends constantly doing fun or exciting things, going on vacation, etc., while they compare such activities against their own otherwise boring or monotonous life.
Yup, exactly. Recently I traveled to California and used the app to familiarize myself. I noticed that the closest hospital was 30+ minutes away. It was just good info even though I never really needed it.
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Just looking at your description in the app store, it says that it gives people the "ability to find the nearest emergency room" not that it "provides a visualization of publicly accessible data". ie. your claim in your app description is different to what your app actually does. It is natural that you want to inflate the merits of your app because you want people to download it. But that is exactly the sort of thing that will get you into trouble in court, I would imagine. (IANAL, etc).
No one gets to see an order and get ahead of it.

I just described one approach where than can happen.

All exchange access is "early" access. There is no way to stop latency advantages.

There is no need to publish pending transactions in such a way that you can get your executed on a different exchange before that one propagates.

Anyway, exchanges are an incredibly complex problem with a lot of perverse incentives. However (ed: IMO) any trading strategy based on implementation details is counter productive to a free and open market and thus it harms the U.S. economy.
National population density is irrelevant. US population is just as urban as Europe. The lower USA average mostly reflects the southwest deserts and Alaska where very little rural population exists.

The low density of car-oriented US suburbs was mandated by socialist central land use planning from Washington and the motorcar industry that wanted to require Americans to each own a car. Standards were written centrally and local governments were required to make them law with grants, national bank regulations that required them for lending, and professional standards organizations that made civil engineers agree to them for licensure.

The more market driven land use in European cities promotes walking and transit more than personal motoring.
I make it clear a couple of times that there are duplicate users in those numbers. Additionally, I divide the total user count into FB's unique count, which gives you the number two.

So, of the four Apps Facebook is giving numbers for... users on average are using two.

Google has a dozen Apps in the store, and there is some overlap as well. This is the state of the art: one function per App. We'll see a LOT more of this over time.

In fact, Google just made Docs into a couple of different Apps -- instead of just one with sheets, docs, presentations, etc.
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Yes, investigating reports is not a sunk cost. Security engineering is all about doing code reviews, which is what this is. There are also ways to optimize which reports you take seriously.

The real reason bug bounties are not in place is mostly a combination of insecurity and arrogance.
Check out Intel MPX and execute-only memory.

You probably want your code protected so that someone other than you can't modify it at runtime, from an external source... if you understand what I'm getting at.
It is mostly a bash script wrapper around Byzanz, the later existing since at least 2008:

http://linuxpoison.blogspot.co.at/2008/11/desktop-recording-...

Still, interesting.
It's a good observation. I discussed it with some folks who are... well..... anyway, I discussed it with folks and the "forthy" portion of the install revenue is very low (overall) to FB revenue. If it all went away it would not rock the company... low single digit %.
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As a medical student and EMS provider, I agree with all of the above except "In some hospitals, they won't even begin to treat you". Unless you end up at the rare hospital that doesn't accept Medicare, the ED's are required (by EMTALA) to provide a screening examination and treat any patient with an emergency medical condition. For example, any ED should be able to provide you initial care if you're complaining of chest pain (EKG, Chest X-Ray, Nitroglycerin, Aspirin etc). That said, if you're actually having a cardiac event, you'll need to be at a cardiac center to actually get definitive treatment, so the smaller outlying hospital will call an ambulance to transport you to the appropriate facility.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome - interesting subheader "Aritifical Artificial Intelligence"

Has anyone used this market place?
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keep in mind WhatsApp and Instagram are not part of the disastrous lineage of FB html5 apps.
> How would you feel if your parents passed away with unpaid debt?

It depends. If they owed a real human being, I would probably pay it. If it was a faceless corporate conglomerate, or a bank that reported millions in profits on the last quarter, I wouldn't bother.
Does this offer any performance advantage over vanilla pygame? Because I found myself pushing the limitations of it very quickly and had to move on to other frameworks and languages other than Python.

As one example of its shortcomings, Pygame doesn't seem to support hardware rendering and the maintainer seems to think this is an advantage [ http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/newbieguide.html ]
E.g. I build a new virtualenv from scratch for each deploy, so that would mean that the postactivate script would need to be accessed from somewhere by the build process.
folks have offered $10b, so 40b is 4x that.

If snapchat grows revenue by 4x they will get that number.

case closed.