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Another very popular ;) language which supports packed decimals (and decimal64 & decimal128 ) is ABAP.

data result_float type f.
result_float = '0.1' + '0.2' - '0.3'.
write: / result_float.
>> 5.5511151231257827E-17

data result_packed type p length 4 decimals 4.
result_packed = '0.1' + '0.2' - '0.3'.
write: / result_packed.
>> 0.0000

data result_d16 type decfloat16.
result_d16 = '0.1' + '0.2' - '0.3'.
write: / result_d16 decimals 16.
>> 0.0000000000000000

data result_d34 type decfloat34.
result_d34 = '0.1' + '0.2' - '0.3'.
write: / result_d34 decimals 34.
>> 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000
I wonder how if they are going to implement pure C++ support. And in that case how they are going to support GC. Any idea?
Does ING Direct still exist? Within the US it became Capital One 360.
You'll see some use cases and examples if you explore the links in the article, e.g., https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery

Bezier curves are used heavily in animation, and pretty much anything graphical, from fonts to games to web browsers.
I think our time would have to be slowing different amounts w.r.t. objects at different distances from us. This would imply a Universe-wide effect on the rate of passage of time which is coincidentally centered on Earth, or at least on our group of galaxies. Universal expansion has the advantage that it doesn't require the Earth to happen to be at a special privileged point in the cosmos.
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"The research shows that the recent climate-protecting gains in forests are being nearly canceled out by efforts to satisfy the world’s growing appetite — particularly its appetite for meat."

This. We're basically just pissing away most of the crops for some luxury food items while many people starve while bringing about global warming. Efficient resource allocation at its finest!
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This could go quite wrong for Twitter. Twitter's current loyal and core userbase uses it to express a personal opinion, a random thought or an emotion, often peppered with slang words and abbreviations.

If people start targeting the tweets for Google Searches, the network might become a hotchpotch of tweets optimized with SEO terms, which would be quite irritating for most Twitter and Google Search users.
Yes, it gives very surprising results if you try to do math with output fields delared for display...
Yeah, because being self aware means celebrating the 1000th "how can I play this slideshow" question in the same forum, from people who work day in day out with computers...
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> She spent countless hours fixing minor typos and almost quit.

it's interesting anecdote!

When i was at uni, i noticed that a large number of "beginners" tend to fall into this category too - frustrated at minor typos/language idiosyncrasies. Those who had the mental strength to endure it end up passing the class, while those that just gave up will almost inevitably change their major (and thus, stop programming i guess?).

But i think this is a result of poor educational methods, not because of an inherent property in programming.
Not yet, for the simple reason that the spec isn't stable yet. We're doing an early feedback launch soon, I can notify if you want. We'll put the reference implementation on GitHub, too.

One of the things that's important to me is the option for "3rd party software" to participate in the network as well, so we're keeping it as simple as possible to enable others to build stuff that integrates with it.
Greeeeeeeeat. Anthem just became my health care provider. This fills me with confidence.

I'm especially unimpressed by Anthem's failure to hire a good copy editor for such a vital message, as evidenced by the painfully obvious error at the end of the penultimate paragraph: "share that information you" should read "share that information with you".
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Fear not, the internet will route around this damage soon enough.
there are continuous programming languages out there - DNA is one such one i guess. But i don't think the discrete vs continuous nature of a programming language is what makes it difficult. It's more that a person's mind may not conceptualize tasks algorithmically, and to switch to this frame of mind is difficult for someone who isn't already in this frame of mind.
#3 seems very shifty; it's like forcing a defendant to choose between the 4th and the 5th.
Unfortunately I had to qualify with "in the past." I think it's an echo chamber today. I have heard more and more people talk about unfair moderation, which I never saw years ago. So invisible moderation does still have a downside. To be fair, I think most of the people still posting there are like old friends now.
At least one team at Google has used libGDX (on top of RoboVM): Ingress uses libGDX for their iOS and Android clients.

RoboVM is a very cool project. We ended up on Xamarin for the cross-platform project we were working on here internally, but, had RoboVM been a little more mature when we were evaluating cross-platform projects (this was around April of last year), it would've most likely been our first choice instead (we have a lot more in-house Java expertise than C#).
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Do you have issues remembering what you learn? Sure, we've all studied these topics before in school but have forgotten since. I brush up on some geometry or linear algebra every now and then for work. But I'm sure I'll forget if I don't use it after a year or two.

Are there any projects you maintain to keep your knowledge fresh?
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Thank you very much for your time & effort. Appreciate it.
The reason is that floating point instructions are executed on a separate unit (the FPU), with a separate decoder.

I don't think that has been true for a very long time.

If the backdoor depends on some "magic values", it would be relatively easy to spot just by looking at the microcode.

The problem with both your theory and the article's theory is that nobody outside the chip companies themselves really knows how the microcode works. This reduces both the people who could pull off such a backdoor and the people who could discover it to a very small number.

A similar thing applies to your point about changes during manufacturing.

Overall, this means that CPU backdoors are a thing to be concerned about, keeping in mind that it's probably a technique that will, for a long time, be limited to the kind of people who were responsible for Stuxnet.
What is the name of the startup that goes to conferences for you?
I saw on HN a couple months ago about a startup in the bay area that goes to conferences in your steed, does anyone remember the name of that company?
Why not Perl 2000? It's both futuristic and original.

I don't think the name is the problem, I think that there is just too much competition among languages. If you ask a younger person which language they want to learn, will they think of Perl at all? Where is it used? Everywhere isn't an answer, Web or application programming or Apps are answers. What can I use instead that recruiters think is cool/relevant is also a fair question, albeit a simultaneously stupid one.
Wouldn't that be wonderfully self-reinforcing?

"We need to use sophisticated computers to switch our networks because we use deep packet inspection to accomplish Fuckery; therefore, we are an information service; therefore, you have to keep letting us use sophisticated computers in the name of Fuckery."
Indeed, sometimes a good name is worth the cost.
Yeah. That situation might not be as unique as you think, though. Projects get cancelled all the time, but that's orthogonal to getting paid for things you've done.

With any new client, I'm not totally relaxed until I've been paid that first time. To mitigate that stress, I take a deep breath and negotiate for smaller checks, earlier and more frequently. This way even the clients who flake out don't do as much damage.
At least in the part of California I live, there is no danger of even marginally aware parents getting a false sense of security; it's blindingly obvious that the kids aren't getting properly educated.

I knew the schools here weren't great, but I had no idea how bad they were until my oldest started 3 years ago. We at least have a lot of options, with my wife being a stay-at-home mom, and my salary being enough to afford modest private school tuition. My heart breaks for those who are just making ends meet with two earners (or only a single parent). They really have no options other than the public school system, which is a shame.

[edit]

It also somewhat astonished me that the schools are so poorly funded; it's a fairly affluent area with high property values, so I would have expected better funding. California natives blame it on Prop 13, and I would like to see the math on that; the per-student funding here today is about what it was when I was in elementary school on the East Coast in the 80s, which is less than half as much in real dollars.
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The Novena laptop seems almost devoid of backdoors. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/20/open-source-l...
This story is from 2011:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240531119047166045765424...

McDonalds, back in the Ray Kroc era, was more into disaster recovery than they are now. That was when all McDonalds outlets flew an American flag 24 hours a day.
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I was homeschooled and really enjoyed it. From my experience, the parents try to foster a passion for continued learning and self learning.

With that perspective, a child grows up assuming their parent is biased and seeks out competing views. This skill of analysis and synthesis is incredibly critical.

We can definitely sometimes be socially awkward (I can spot other homeschoolers a mile away) but I know a lot of friends who have become quite successful in their careers which does take quite a bit of social skills.

My personal example is that I just raised money for my open source startup (http://github.com/amark/gun) tackling the pains of databases. Most other homeschoolers I know went after the legal/political fields though.

Feel free to ask me any questions. :)
Not the police, the TSA supervisor.
What's fair Sales Commission compensation for me?
I'm looking for some insight here, I'm a Sr. Systems Engineer for the Value Added Reseller (VAR) I work with.

Recently, I've moved to a new city, a city where we don't have our own office yet. I'm essentially the beginning of our expansion into this city.

How I got to this situation is I've always wanted to move back to the city I'm in and back in September I got a job offer for a little over $20,000 more than I'm making today at my current company. The company I work for is small >25 people and the job offer came from a VAR with over 500 people.

I love working with the people I work with, my bosses and my work and when they were eager to keep me, I said I'd stay and give it a go and we would work through the details of earning more later.

Obviously to get paid more I my work needs to justify it, which is why part of my goal is to grow the business by finding new customers and generating sales.

The bosses pulled me into the office and discussed the exact same thing, but weren't sure about the compensation model yet.

Where I'm stuck is that I want a commission model that will allow me see the upside of growing the business, but at the same time, I'm paid a salary and my primary job role has been up until now, technical.

I believe our outside sales rep gets 30% on the profits for the business generated, and at first I was thinking that because I have a salary and he's 100% commission that my commission should be less, however in thinking it a bit more, isn't the value and the benefit the same?

I've never been in a sales type role before, and I have no idea how the commission structure should be handled in my situation; obviously the bosses (at least one of them) want to keep this as small as possible because it's more profit for them and the company especially when they aren't paying it out to the outside sales rep at 30%.

Any ideas? I'm completely out of my element here.
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basically, joining a project with senior programmers is akin to an apprenticeship for other crafts. If you have the opportunity, because you chanced upon somebody willing to do it with you (especially if for free), then take it.

But most people won't get that opportunity, or isn't smart enough to go look for it.
I know it's robust. The fact is that the libraries are most mature just for 2d games, Windows Phone is not supported and the C# and Java backends have less focus from the community. The community is made mostly of old Flash developers so the focus is on OpenFL and NME. These are really the libraries that sparked interest in Haxe.

The typical workflow for such uses is to quickly develop the game on Windows compiling haxe to flash. The haxe to flash compiler is extremely fast, there is debugging support and FlashDevelop rocks. Once done then there is a final transpilation step to the mobile platform of choice. This works and is stable but awkward. Cross compiling to Ios and Android takes a lot of time.

Besides hxscript it would be probably feasible to port Neko to mobile devices and use it as a way to add fast compile-reload cycles. However this not something that a single developer can do and it would be a complete project on its own.
The same goes for developing a cross platform application by adding libraries for the functionality needed. Not feasible at all if the final aim is to develop a mobile application.

I really admire Haxe and I really think it's a neat piece of work and that the architect of the language has been able to design it with a wonderful balance of features . I am just sorry that its libraries don't cover the application domain in which I am more interested.

And I am sorry but I don't have time to contribute to the language development. :P
Identity Theft is not a thing. Others have pointed this out in the past here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7369725

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7369713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482991

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583879

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3483009
I went to a magnet high-school, and there were enough homeschooled kids who first went to public school there in 9th grade (or first since early elementary anyway) that I could make some observations:

For a few weeks, there was a definite gap in social grace as the homeschooled kids adjusted to cultural norms. After that, a significant fraction were fitting in just fine. It is true that a larger fraction of the homeschooled kids were awkard than the non-homeschooled kids after this adjustment period, but there is significant selection bias here; I know for a fact that a few of those kids were pulled from early elementary school because they were awkward and getting bullied, so the cause/effect is potentially reversed there.
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For me, work well for beta testers engagement to create a facebook group where I gave theme an apk of the app, let them use it and tell me their feedback, also I call them to participate in our tests. They were very happy and participative without receiving any gift, just to get involve in the product development.
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Your reaction is a bit overblown. People have been and are currently buying and selling fairly large amounts of BTC both in person and online on localbitcoins alone.
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> Not everyone uses Twitter.

Twitter in particular is one of the cases where places like HN disappointingly fall for the fallacy of assuming that their observations are an unbiased sample (and thus that "most/tons of people use Twitter"). Twitter's numbers have always been shockingly low (compared to their influence); I remember finding out a couple years ago that active members of the narrowest possible metric of actual social usage of Google+ roughly matched or outpaced Twitter (this was before many of the integrations like Youtube which may have drawn more people to the G+ stream). That was the case for quite a long amount of time.

It's probably great news for Twitter that their user numbers so badly lag their influence, since that means the potential for growth is very, very high (though it does raise the question why this gap exists to such an unusual degree).
I am not sure I understood well the question but I hope this answer could help you. Usually in Jolie we proceed as follows:
- the logic (the one which should be replicated) is served by one microservice (which could be embedded or deployed separately, it doesn't matter). Let me call it L.
- the other entities which requires that logic just invoke the microservice L
- in the case of the web app, we use Leonardo (http://sourceforge.net/projects/leonardo/), which is a web server written in pure Jolie, we public the calls to L by simply adding them in few lines of code through aggregation. In this case Leonardo, which serves the http protocol, just take the message, transform it in another protocol (we usually exploit sodep for Jolie to Jolie communication) and redirect the message to L which exectues the logic.
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I don't think that has been true

In support of that: http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/news/2009-11/amd_bulldozer_sc...
This is neutrality for big data sources only. "For example, there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling." This is a deal for Netflix and Google. It won't get you out from under AT&T forcing you to take their TV service to get their Internet service.

There was a time when you could rent a local loop from a regulated telco and have it connected to an independent Internet service provider. Remember independent DSL ISPs? I still have a connection through one, "Sonic.net". They no longer offer that to new customers.
This deal was already in place for years (until 2011). The importance/usage of Twitter relative to Google was even lower then, and yet we didn't see this happen on any sort of meaningful scale.
I hope the FCC has the balls to say, "So sue me."
The email subscription of that site is broken though.
Using my own emailaddress is not allowed:
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I had a friend in high school who was kind of gung-ho and claimed to have fixed a misaligned tooth by applying pressure with his finger in the desired direction for an hour every night before going to bed. According to him, this worked. I wonder if that is possible or if the teeth would undo the progress in the other 23 hours.
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Well learning if - while is like drawing a submarine on paper. How many teenagers can design an embedded software system of a nuclear submarine is a better question I think.
I find Google search to be an incredible tool 99% of the tie, but multiple times recently I've tried looking something realtime up ("holy crap there's a ton of smoke coming from X part of town", "what are those loudspeakers I can hear in the distance, is there a protest going on or something?"), and Google News doesn't turn up anything for quite some time.

I'm not a particularly big fan of Twitter, but it pretty reliably will have a mention of something like that pretty quickly.
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We are in the middle, you know :-) Usually the academic part ask to us to focus more on the research topics instead of the language details (they usually call them "details" :-)).

We believe both of the aspects are very important. There are formal models behind the language which are, and will be, very useful for building analysis and verification tools
But one could also argue that a good programmer shouldn't do a lot of side projects to be able to focus on the "real" work. The best code is often written away from the computer.
Bitcoin article on the Barclays website:

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Bitcoins and then sell them on sites like localbitcoins and then purchase things you can (like tech equipment) for them online also
Sure. But that still doesn't tell me exactly which arguments they take. Or give me an opportunity to debug the code when it doesn't do as I expect. I realise that it just-works (tm). It's when it doesn't, it gets problematic.
Even better is that they didn't explicit state that they did close the vulnerability -- simply that they put forth every effort to do so.
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BibTeX uses RPN in its style definition (.bst) files. Diving into the standard style definition files gives you a taste for how long the system has been around, with many comments dated in the early nineties. Here is an example of a function:

FUNCTION {emphasize}
{ duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ "" }
{ "\emph{" swap$ * "}" * }
if$
}

I believe this is also somewhat similar to the PostScript language.
and here is the direct link to the part about the wear on the lenses:

http://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4?t=12m32s
I have a contrarian view. This is purely based on my experience. When I was first 'taught' BASIC in high school I detested it. I didn't want to stay anywhere near computers because it was no fun compared to let's say jumping off a roof. Fast forward to Uni, I still detested computer science - mostly because I never realized what one can achieve by using computers. That context was simply not there. This was 1995 in India. My mind was simply elsewhere - mostly I was disinterested in anything related to making a career.

I did find a job and turned out to be an average programmer and I worked mostly for the heck of it.

The turning point in my life came when I ventured into management. I realized how fucked up that industry was, as compared to even the most inane programming task I had ever done. So that's when my love for programming started to grow and it hasn't stopped ever since. More and more I see other industries I realize how shoddily disorganized they are. I mean - consider the process of getting an approval. It takes days where as it's just a push of a button on an app.

So it's not true that as an adult - you can't realize the magic of programming. You just need the right context and some affordabiity for the right tools.
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I'm not sure how to convert from deaths per birth to deaths per people. Women generally had multiple children.

I think multiplying deaths per birth by births per capita should do it.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote in Greek because Greek was the standard language of philosophy, even well into the days of the Roman Empire.