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When it comes to architecture, I've lately turned towards BCNF as my god. My premise is that if my data model - my internal application data, not just "the database" - is as in as normalized a form as I can reasonably get it given typical constraints of procedural/OO/functional styles, my features automatically grow into a flexible and decoupled grain because they're operating on exactly the right slice of data, no more, no less. "Guess and check" and "OO design pattern" strategies don't seem to get me there because they tend to start with whatever is language-easy or looks pretty at first glance, and then take on the problems later. And it seems to work - the thing I have right now is, indeed, incredibly flexible for the amount of code involved. And it isn't really "architected" in the usual sense otherwise - there are no grand plans.

The only problem I'm having with this tack is that it reveals all the technical debt at once, which produces an enormous amount of pain early on. My friends smirked at my woes today of trying to make a clickable button, which has to piece together stuff from the graphics layer, input events, text fields, and internal button state. An enormous variety of data, altogether, with the debt usually hidden from view at some level. It all makes sense, it's all decoupled, the lifetime of the state is automatically managed, any configuration you want will just be a matter of making the data for it. But making that first button is quite a headache.
I believe its oils from your hands rubbing off on the case, and then onto the screen.
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A friend of mine does jewelry courses in the Amsterdam area and has special courses for couples to make rings for each other. It's an order of magnitude cheaper than supporting the diamond industry, and much more personal and fun. His website is at http://sawugo.nl/ if anyone is interested.
You want a study? Here's a study: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/revisiting-the-...

For underprivileged students, it's pretty clear that attending an elite university materially increases economic outcomes—even after controlling for the students themselves (a poor student who gets into both Yale and their local state university will do better if they go to Yale).

Not that I expect you to actually listen to reason, since you're basically insinuating that tenured professors are making up evidence to boost undergraduate applications (if you think that's something professors would actually do, you clearly haven't spoken to many). If you're going to discount any research with a connection to a major university, it will indeed be hard to find any research.
While the article does acknowledge that the study only shows correlation and not causation, it doesn't suggest what seems to me the most intuitively obvious alternative hypothesis.

We know that increased rates of mental stimuli and social interaction are beneficial to a growing brain. Perhaps breastfeeding correlates with parents that have more free time to interact with their child.
In which case you could still either manually do it (should take no more than a day), or create quite easily a lego-mindstorm or similar device to click on all the combinations "on the screen".
I've seen that animation before. Similar ones are on YouTube. Right now the US markets are closed, but it's displaying as if they're open.

After about 30 seconds a giant pop-up ad appears. This is a clickbait posting.
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For apng2gif I modified Wu's method to use 64x64x64 cube (instead of original 32x32x32), and the results are much better. It doesn't require too much RAM, especially compared with what was available in 1992.
I still think we disagree a little on [2], but I love your "Groundhog Day" metaphor. It's perfect, couldn't be better. If you've seen the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day, you'll know what I mean when I say that sometimes that's exactly what I want. I want to be the guy who has lived this day before and looks like a genius to all those mere mortals who are experiencing it for the first time. It feels great to have such a huge advantage, especially when it was earned.

But, like you, I don't want to be stuck there. I want to experience it often, but I want to have plenty of new days, too.
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Implying something about women and driving? Shame on you.
Just make sure that the lack of rational thinking in this area isn't present elsewhere. It's innocent enough when it's about a random chunk of mineral, but gets more problematic when it's about eg vaccinating your children.
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>Am I the only one who was never enamoured with actually using smart phones? They are a pain to write messages on, they are a slightly less of a pain to browse with, and they are passable to good for everything else.

You're not the only one, in fact I don't even think they any good at browsing. The whole touch screen interface is pretty much flawed for anything where you not limited to a few large button. It simply doesn't make sense that you covering information with our fingers. Discoverability is often pretty bad, mostly I suspect it's because of limited screen space, there simply isn't room for information, navigation and my fingers.
Beer pong may alienate a lot of other people. My office plays a lot of Mario Kart and trivia/card games and those both seem to interest everyone.
You are witnessing the market adapting.

EDIT: To expand- you are complaining about people complaining about a manufacturer's product. The natural process of market adaptation that you expect might very well involve customers complaining.
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Maybe but it certainly is linked to epic levels of smugness and superiority complexes on the part of the parents and healthcare system. At least here in the UK.

My oldest is quite intelligent. We've had "I bet she was breast fed" more times than I can count. The reply is "no, it's a combination of genetics and nurture"...
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How do the public respond and is it changing our behaviour?
I couldn't agree with you more on this!

But there is more to it when it comes to India, it is mostly that "nobody really cares".

It is sad that while India is develops, it is rapidly leaving its many languages behind when it comes to the computer; indeed, while Chinese/Arabic keyboards are extremely common, one would be hard pressed to find Hindi, "Nagari", (let alone Bengali) keyboards in India. This despite the nauseous linguistic jingoism in the country's political history. Indeed there has been, sadly very little to show, and it has infact, gotten worse past independence, as with many things; see,
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/pollock_...

I would not be surprised, at this rate, if India turns into a monoculture, two centuries hence.

P.S: Speaking of representation, the script the OP talks of, belongs to the set of phonetically accurate scripts; one which while being populated mostly by Indic scripts, is given - quite disgracefully - the name "abugida", after a lone Semitic script - "Geez" - from Ethiopia - which ironically is probably derived from one of the Indic ones. Systematic biases are far too apparent in Indology.
>And if you’ve spotted the big problem with the way it works, you know it needs to be discussed.

Anyone know what he's alluding to?

>But the loudness won’t be lifted if clipping would be caused in the process

That would have been my first guess, thankfully it isn't the case.
At a certain level it actually does matter. The sustainability of a power resource is measured in many ways, even if CO_2 emissions is the most widely touted. Measures like water use, construction cost/emissions, and land use are significant. The number of windmills being built _does_ have an upper bound, dictated by some combination of land requirement and material availability. Of late, for example, the desire for high-output synchronous turbines has been held back by the limited availability of the rare earth magnets that make them just so effective.
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Yes the last sentence was meant as a joke and is admittedly rather condescending. However the first half of my comment is I think valid - access to medicinal as opposed to recreational drugs is part of the virtuous circle that has driven human development - better agriculture, better sanitation and better medication have all had outsize impacts.

To deliberately - or perhaps honestly - miss that point and suggest access to recreational drugs (the only kind we use the term "doing drugs") is necessary to point out.
Actually its ensuring that all the show stopping bugs that IE has don't take our app out or make it unusable. Unfortunately clients don't upgrade their browsers if cost is involved.
I didn't knew such magazine existed. It's not popular enough, that might be the reason (just guessing).
Good. I absolutely hate videos that are so low volume that I have to turn Youtube up to 100%, and then adjust volume in Windows too, to hear anything. And then imagine finding one of the louder videos next.

I've tried to give people advice on volume levels, but it feels like no one is willing to do it. Hopefully Twitch will do something similar soon, too.
Parent post was asking whether your knowledge of how much of an "asshole" Linus is comes from only reading the publicized outbursts, and not interacting on a day to day basis.

While it's not preferable, I think that we can be understanding of the fact that people can sometimes have outbursts due to stressors in their life. That said, whenever I've seen people bashing a Linus outburst, I've gone and read said outburst. It's never as bad as the "tech press" make it out to be.
As a low-income student who attended an Ivy League university, I'd like to mention one more reason about why low-income students don't apply to elite schools.

They just don't fit in.

I was the best student in my shitty high school and so I applied and happened to get into an Ivy League school. The environment there was so incredibly different I just didn't fit in. Super-preppy good looking kids (they all are thin and tend to look good) who are invariably very well-spoken, totally expectant of all the resources lavished upon them, and just know how to talk to professors and interview for jobs and so on.

I was of a different breed. Ugly, fat, not well-spoken, no idea how to talk to professors, no gutso to challenge a nobel prize winner on his opinion. I was also somewhat shocked with the amount of resources provided to students. For example, for unpaid summer internships my college just gave out $5000 in living expenses so undergrads could do any unpaid internship they wanted. That's about a quarter of what my family earns in a year. Not complaining, of course, but I hope you see how alien this environment was for me. Same was the case with interviews, I didn't have a suit and I had no idea how to bond with an interviewer over our shared love for some exotic sport like skiing.

I just didn't fit in. If I were to do it over again I would pick my Ivy League school again, but I recognize that it is an alien environment. I can totally see why another low-income student would be scared by all this and just not apply.

PS: If I went to a school like MIT maybe my experience would be different. I went to one of YPD, which are traditionally more preppy.
Is it profitable? If you're not making enough perhaps you could sell it to someone in a lower income country or to someone with a lower income expectance? Still working on it for 12 months seems like a really long time.
Living beyond your means is pretty easy when your means aren't enough to live on.
I don't mind the actual tracks having various mixing/mastering. I do mind when a commercial is compressed/mastered with the intent to be perceived louder to stand out from the actual music/video that you are watching.
I don't think any other (non-verbose) options encapsulate what summer means with the same specificity. Q2/Q3 includes a far longer span of time, mid-2015 covers a 4 month period that covers a significant portion of spring and doesn't cover the entirety of summer, and I fear that all other simple options would suffer the same fate.

Considering the vast majority of computer users and potential Microsoft customers reside in the northern hemisphere, I don't think there's any problem with using summer as a timeframe.
Strike out the Touch ID.
As far as I can see, Unicode has mostly settled down into a sort of "good enough" state: characters that have sufficiently different renderings have gotten separate "variant" codepoints for each rendering, while characters that are very similar (even if not completely identical as commonly written) are still only present as unified codepoints.

I've no idea if these variant codepoints are actually supposed to show up in user files, or are intended mainly for the use of font rendering systems, etc... the whole thing seems a bit of a mess, even if the information is technically present.

Judging from unicode.com, "冷" does seem have separate codepoints: 冷 (chinese/unified), and 冷 (japanese z-variant). However my browser renders both as similar characters. Similarly, on my phone, the same character gets input whether using a Chinese or a Japanese input method, and both get rendered using the Japanese rendering (it's a Japanese phone) which makes Chinese text look a little funny.

An interesting example is "晩" / "晚", which has one more stroke in the Japanese variant, but it's situated in a location which makes both variants look pretty much identical (and in small bitmapped fonts, they are identical). Nonetheless, Unicode includes codepoints for both...
"free time and access to drugs" is clearly talking about drugs that alter mental state. s73v3r was not the one missing the point.
They still support Chrome on even XP SP2. What is frustrating is the users running XP SP2 (not even SP3) in Japan and France for example.
I have this ritual every year or so, where I try to write J, sigh, and go back to pedestrian F#.
My take on this while not a horrible decision, it is a weak one for MS. My rationale;

1. 70% of the world doesn't care about their browser and will use what’s is put in front of them. There was that classic video where people didn't even know the difference between the internet and a browser a few years back. For this 70% unless someone swaps then to another browser, which thankfully people love doing, they'll use IEX for the rest of their life. These people have been trained to click the blue 'e'. Why take that away from the masses and open the door for them to look for alternatives?

2. For the remaining people that do care about a browser, we're going to know if it’s a great browser or not. We understand IE6 is not IE11. In the same was FF was awesome a few years back, we know it’s fallen back, and would recognise it improving if it (hopefully) does.

3. Microsoft announcing they will create a new & awesome browser, and actually doing so, are not connected. It wouldn't surprise me if MS invest all this marketing money on spinning a product that is just as frustrating as IE, just for a new set of reasons. And now we have brand confusion + an annoying browser with a bad name. People prefer familiar bad, than unfamiliar bad.

4. Microsoft is a bloody big and wealthy company. They can afford developing 2 browsers for a while. Why not launch and release this Spartan browser 'for power users'. They can use it as an experimental ground to push boundaries whilst not risking the stability and working of their core product. As this team proves their metal, they can push components of Spartan into IE, or not if the browser fails to deliver. Spartan can be used to buy new street cred for MS. Mum uses IE but young me uses Spartan. And if spartan succeeds by default it will bring credibility to IE, risking much less if it fails to gain favour. As a marketing guy rather than building the conversation; Spartan vs Chrome I’d much prefer to have IE vs Spartan vs Chrome.

And if you bothered to read this far, you probably like browsers. So you might enjoy a video a buddy and I made while on holiday for some really serious (/s) browser speed testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaT7thTxyq8
Even the most generous estimates are that breastfeeding adds a few IQ points. Definitely not noticeable for an individual.

However, at the population level, which is what the healthcare system is dealing with, that's a huge deal. Imagine if the average IQ of the entire population were shifted up by several points.
You should the read the classic investigative piece on diamond trade and how the diamond ring was literally made into a luxury item. I am sure this has been linked from HN before, and believe it has at one point been a pretty active submission too.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...

Quote from the middle of the article: Since "young men buy over 90% of all engagement rings" it would be crucial to inculcate in them the idea that diamonds were a gift of love: the larger and finer the diamond, the greater the expression of love. Similarly, young women had to be encouraged to view diamonds as an integral part of any romantic courtship.

EDIT: and this was already linked downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9223903
APL and friends blew my mind when I read about them. I remember thinking "You can do all that with just those characters? That's the same length as the word function"! It's a good job I read this far down, I made a mental note to learn J but, as usual, forgot it by the time I got home. Thanks!
I don't know what he's alluding to, even though I'm very familiar with the issue and quite familiar with the ITU loudness standard. I posted mainly because I had noticed the change myself over the last few months.

Maybe he means the fact that if you don't have an adblocker YouTube ads seem to be as loud as the ones on TV used to be. It might be that this will now fall under the aegis of the FCC :) but I'm not really sure about that. Video ads on Youtube are a betrayal of the Google Adwords approach anyway, and the people who gave them the green light should be shot, but with very small calibre bullets so we can keep shooting them over and over until they get the message about how annoying advertising in temporal media is.
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Same here. And from what I see, I am tempted to subscribe now.
There are non-blood diamonds available. You can also look into getting an old/antique ring which at least is re-use rather than buying new.
Tell me about it. Recently I've been trying so many different ways to come to talk about it and so far every one conversation ended up with her being in tears and not being able (probably not willing) to understand what I'm saying. She just sees me as a sales person trying to sell her some scam.

Now I'm betting on time, from time to time just constantly reminding her of whole rings scheme and why we shouldn't be bothered with that and should stick with a simple/traditional wedding rings.
It would certainly be a trip to switch back to a Microsoft browser as my main webdev tool if that does happen.
I'm not sure, but given his cultural background, I'd say he's less of an asshole than most people think he is.

The level of rudeness in conversation is very dependent on cultural background and those ignoring it display cultural insensitiveness

Europeans are more straightforward than Canadians and Indians where everything is said in a mild passive-aggressive tone that goes nowhere.
The point I was trying to make, is depending on the situation, all three responses are entirely reasonable. If it's some idiot/kid/whackjob playing games, you keep moving forward, making it clear he needs to clear out of the way. Maybe lay on the horn. If it's East Palo Alto (or wherever the high-crime area is in the United States right now), and you are about to get jacked, you hit the brakes, reverse, and get the hell out of dodge. If it's a normal traffic situation (Construction, Police Officer, etc...) - you follow their directions.

A human can make that assessment in a few hundreds of milliseconds - it's going to be 20+ years at least before any automated driving system is going to figure out what to do in situations like these. (Please don't get overly focussed on the "Some random person pretending to direct traffic situation" - I'm sure you can come up with a hundred other scenarios which require executive, not tactical assessment.)

This is why I believe DriverAssist is going to be incredible, particularly on freeways - and already is today - It's an awesome thing to have a recent model BMW brake from 85 mph to a complete stop when the car in front of them slams on the brakes. An entire category of accidents is going to be virtually eliminated as DriverAssist is added to Vehicles.
Ah, the fiasco that was the Mariner cancellation.
Maybe he's from New York? If you grow up in NYC you will never ever have "empathy" for cockroaches.
Doesn't Chrome also use html+js to render PDFs? (but something different from pdf.js)
I'm not sure what he's alluding to. It may be that they've done simple loudness normalisation instead of one of the more preferable, advanced techniques, like ReplayGain 1.0, R128, or BS.1770 (/ReplayGain 2.0)?
Sorry, but after watching what happens when you push on this, it just becomes "the solution" and "the thing people should care about", when people should care about this minimally, and something else (agriculture) maximally.

Yes, it's easy to cut.
We can't cut it to 0.
So let's say we can cut it in half.

Great, so a 2.5% savings overall, by cutting water use here in half.

Getting the same savings from agriculture would take cutting 32x less water.

Obama is wrong. If you focus people on the wrong problems, they obsess about the wrong problems.
Humans just don't work in a way that this turns out well, and as a result, it's better to focus them on the actual problem, even if they can't personally do anything about it.
I use it for everything I write. It brings the joy back after having to maintain a Java project in my day job. Well written racket code brings so much satisfaction :)
I think you should treat Linus with more respect.
Anonymous email forwarding would be nice. Or, at the very least, obfuscation of emails.
A third possibility (remaining within the realm of logic rather than probability) is "holding true beliefs is immoral".

A fourth possibility is that patio11 and idlewords have priors which are not absolutely continuous w.r.t. each other. I.e., idlewords' prior for patio11's hypothesis is 0, and no amount of evidence will change his mind even if he is a completely rational. (It is by this mechanism that a rational Bayesian can also be religious. )
Its part of the Unicode standard. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence for details.

(OK, so "required" might be overstating it; you are perfectly free to write a program that doesn't conform to the standard. But most people will consider that a bug unless there is a good reason for it)
Re: Insurance - that one will be straight forward. Cars with Full On automation/DriverAssist will be 10x (if not more) safer than human drivers, so the accidents that do occur, will be fully covered by insurers. Your policy will probably be 1/2 of what it is today as well.
Yea, IE9 was very different from IE8, much more than IE8 was different from IE7, and they already had to separate the JS engine into jscript9.dll.
Absolutely. Also claiming that the screen was damaged by bad cleaning method actually means that all my 5 laptops I had in the past are somehow super-strong but only Macbook Pro Retina 2013 is normal.