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Why don't they make degradable/dissolvable wet wipes then? Maybe some pre-moistened quad-ply toilet paper? I can't think of a reason the current wet wipes need to be virtually tear-proof.
Dart may prototype ideas that land in JS, but then why not help with bignums sooner (see http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=1533)? Time's a-wasting, Dart started at least in 2010 (first I heard of it was that spring).

JS compat constraints would affect anything like it at scale, see also HTML5 and version-as-anti-pattern-on-Web.

Snapshotting would be relatively easy to do with ES6's module system. People would have to refrain from abusing the global object, or snapshotting might fail.

Honestly, ES6 modules plus the asm.js work to avoid loading too much cold code is likely to bear more fruit than a new VM's bespoke snapshotting tech. Again, Dart ain't gonna replace JS in the foreseeable future. We need progress on the Web we have, not a dream-Web we can't have.
There is a way to transfer money into Stripe, however the percentage is not capped at $5 like Balanced does. Very disappointing.
Anyone visiting Bletchley should try to come on a day that the National Museum of Computing is open. It is housed next door to the Turing museum, and is probably more fun to visit.

It's full of ancient hardware, including a computer lab full of working BBC Micros and an original BBC Domesday Book machine, which is an unholy combination of LaserDisc and BBC Master to produce a sort of 80s StreetView.

It has the oldest working computer (the Harwell WITCH), a rebuilt Colossus, and quite a lot more. They're working on a reconstruction of EDSAC.
I'm not stopping, I just don't agree with that.

You can argue about and agree upon a standard of behavior without it being a moral standard. In fact, I'd argue that's exactly what most laws are. When the CA road laws say that drivers must keep a 3-foot buffer from cyclists, is that a moral rule?

Now, it may be that you still need some moral axioms to build those standards upon, but you don't need to argue about them, merely to have enough people with a roughly similar pattern. The dissenters will just be made to comply by force.
You can sign up but the only way to verify your account is via PostIdent. Afaik, that service isn't available anywhere except Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

I do realize that there is plenty of red tape in the world of banking, but it would be great to see a "disruptive" bank service on the net that's actually built for netizens.
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> You can be a moral relativist and take a pragmatic position that traditions or societal consensus are worth having without disappearing in a puff of logic.

Not really, because if you believe the relativism you must believe that moral consensus can't be reached.

What you are saying is very close to "You can be a climate change denier and take the pragmatic position that we need to change our behaviour to stop the earth heating up"
Urban coastal real estate is expensive because more people want to live there.

Jobs + great weather + anti-development policy = high prices.

Really...it's that simple.
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OH BOY!!!! I can't wait for the future where I do pro photography editing on an iPhone!

chucks PC out the window

There are people out there who literally get new smartphone every year. I've had the same PC since 2009 and have upgraded parts as needed. It's way more powerful than when I got it and I can actually do productive things on it. Sure there are people out there who are entirely consumers of content, but don't try to speak for everyone. There will always be a PC market unless in the future you can plug in your tiny smartphone into a monitor and literally do all the same stuff a full size PC can do.
Missing or incorrect error handling does that.
Hey, did you open-source anything?
Very interesting! I'd absolutely love to see an analysis like this run against a forum I admin. Guess I have yet another side project to look into.
I'm sorry to see Balanced go. As CTO, I used their service and was always impressed. The site and docs were clean and obvious, really helpful when dealing with scary things like money. Kudos, Balanced!
I'd argue that "all men are created equal" is NOT an absolute moral truth, which is what I am sure you meant (unalienable means unable to be taken away). It's something I feel very strongly to be true, but it's something we have collectively agreed upon as a society. There are plenty of people who consider themselves to be moral people who don't feel that way.
Not a secret. Scientists have already found that there are more water underneath the deep earth of Earth if you just search "water under earth". However, digging is very hard. But essentially deep in the Earth there are copious amount of water.
That's fascinating. I grew up on Sierra logic, and (so?) I take it for granted. Of course I shouldn't eat the pie; I might need it later.

The real world follows this rule, too. Economists call it "time preference."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment
Yes. It's the spatial resolution of each pixel.
In all of your suggestions they would have had to pay for the sensors themselves.

By using the passenger's phones, they're essentially crowdfunding the cost of the sensors.

In both cases, they still have to pay for the "collector and analyzer"
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Ordinary toilet paper disintegrates quickly when wet, by design. Pre-moistened wipes made of toilet paper would just be a box full of pulp when opened. That's the problem with the wipes, they don't fall apart when they are wet so they clog up the sewer systems.
Impressive work.

Some of the assumptions (people tend to @mention users geographically close to them) don't always hold true, especially in tech, VC, startups, etc.
These are unrelated concepts and the latter is unproven but conjectured. Pi's irrationality is sufficient to show that there is no point after which the digits of pi lapse into cycles. However, it's conjuctured that pi is also a normal number[1]. The square root of 2 and e are also conjectured to be normal, though a proof again does not exist. It has been proven however that the vast majority of real numbers are infact normal, but the proof isn't constructive so specific examples largely elude us.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
I don't think they're meant to be. If you can do something malicious with this currently, it's probably a bug or design flaw, and would likely be changed in later releases after it was pointed out.

This is the difference between NPAPI and PPAPI in Chrome, for example: while both are methods for writing native code and having it execute in the browser, NPAPI is like kernel extensions (you get whatever privileges the browser itself gets), while PPAPI puts you in the same sandbox browser extensions execute in; a sandbox which is supposed to have a level of isolation only slightly less than the one webpages themselves get. It can call a few more APIs, but it should still be in "ring 3", to follow the metaphor.
How long have you been programming full time though? I find too many people on HN are 25 and count "15 years experience" because they started programming at 10. It's just not the same thing, especially when most people only count professional experience (and full time at that). 15 years of programming experience < 10 years full time experience in an enterprise or startup environment.
This repository is a good example of trying to abstract something to death in my opinion.
It takes a relatively simple algorithm and breaks it up into far more pieces than really needed.
It also manages to be both incomplete in its implementation (no iteration until convergence or change<some delta) and incorrect in implementation as the update step updates the centroid's location at the incorrect time.

100% coverage is pretty nice to have though.
Well desertification is a very interesting problem. But basically there is natural desertification and there is accelerated desertification caused by the growth of population (misuse of lands, overuse of farm lands, deforestation, rapid growth of population, etc). In northern part of China, the government and locals plant trees to slow down and even able to recover lands from desertification. But the progress is slow...

although South America is still full of trees, scientists are already seeing rapid desertification because we are destroying the nature.
I've started building an app with Plaid and so far, it's amazing. Covers the major banks (similar to the original ApplePay banks), and has a beautiful API.

It's just sad that the banking infrastructure underneath is still the old legacy BS. Having to answer security questions or relay two-factor auth is insane. I yearn for the days when we can OAuth with our banks!
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Some people may even switch off their phones when they will come to know that they are getting tracked.

Another reason for their system's inaccuracy is - not many people use airport wifi. Most of us have data plans.
Here's a couple of articles about the impact on Australian sewerage systems, with similar comments about needing to regulate the "flushable" label.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/wet-wipes-blocking...

http://www.pumpindustry.com.au/luxury-wet-wipes-wreak-havoc-...
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> I'm not stopping, I just don't agree with that.

Logic doesn't care if you agree or not, it just takes you to the conclusion anyway. And if that reveals you to have an incoherent position, so be it.

Also, you're not going to get far trying to define away moral aspects. _Why_ was the cycle law enacted? Presumably to reduce cyclist deaths. Why reduce those? You get to a moral question incredibly quickly from the most arcane law.

And your thinking that you can find a majority with "roughly similar pattern" without any need for debate is effectively saying "a majority will agree on fundamental moral axioms" and now you're nowhere near relativism. You might as well have posited the article's "moral facts", at this point.
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Thanks, any time a nytimes.com or wsj.com article is involved, I'm never sure if people can see the article or face the paywall.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9184479 from two days ago for more context.
I wonder how the scores would be changed if the code could be updated to treat intruding outsiders differently from supported regulars?

I bet you'd see ShitRedditSays and TwoXChromosomes suddenly sink down the "bigoted" ratings, while climbing right to the top of the "under siege" rating.
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> Eh, you're right, that came off as far too aggressive—I didn't really mean it to be. Of course the OP isn't going to be omnipotent, but then why default to male? I know English doesn't have singular gender-neutral pronouns, but I think "they" is acceptable now.

I really don't think you came off as far too aggressive at all. You called out a damaging trend and people interested in keeping privilege around didn't like it.
the third option is to write your code in some more type-safe language (heck, even c++) and add extern c wrappers around all your exposed functions.
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It's because they're wet.

Contrast what happens to wet TP: it goes to mush.
The schematics and service manual (which includes a theory of operation section) for the Minimoog are readily available online. A few years back I redrew the schematics in Eagle, laid out the PCBs, and built a Minimoog clone. I really need to put the Eagle files online somewhere.
It sounds like you're cherry-picking which moral instincts you believe to be genetic, ignoring the ones you don't approve of. Why include empathy but not racism?
> Either the doc has deliberately kept his eyes shut or hasn't spent much time talking to patients.

That's a terribly unfair dismissal, only possible because you cut the quote in half. Here's what he really said:

"You know, I remember thinking, 'Well, my God, this is the second incest case I've seen in [then] 23 years of practice,' " Felitti says. "And so I started routinely inquiring about childhood sexual abuse, and I was really floored."

"Floored" clearly means he found it was more common than he expected—so much so that he devoted the rest of his career to studying its effects.

This was in the 1980s—those are the first three words of the article. Widespread awareness of this was just getting started then. It looks to me like this guy was one of the researchers who pioneered that awareness, and you're criticizing him for lacking it.
Well, a lot of the stuff I really only tell friends. And even then I've had people tell me that I'm wrong (eg. they read all the books about Los Alamos - so they think they know the whole story even though it is top secret.) And there are Steve Jobs stories that really can't be repeated (involving his family and really unbelievable things.) Another example: Steve and Bill and Scott and Larry would meet to divide up the computer market. Bill & Steve broke their networking so that UNIX could have back office, Scott broke front office so that Bill could keep that, Steve got schools and DTP, Bill killed SQLServer features, Larry killed the low cost linux hardware project. Basically, we have been working in a rigged system our entire lives - with effective monopolies in all the profitable segments.
Yes, a teacher would need training for this. Did you read the article linked? One of the initial points was praise for the teacher addressing a kids behavior without the rest of the class noticing. This isn't something that is just natural. It is a skill that is built. Some people have just been building it for so long that it seems natural
Thanks. I'm fairly new to OOP and wanted to try it out. Isn't abstraction here good because it breaks the code into modular pieces? Can you suggest some good readings? And I agree the algorithm is incomplete.
There are several ways to make it happen in practice (where things are not boolean).

Imposing penalties to the suing party on stupid cases is one such way. One can also make the legal system cheaper, make it less irritating (as most of the irritation is accidental), level the playing field for people against giant corporations (and, while we are at that, also level for small corporations against big corporations)... There are probably hundreds of other actions that'll help, if none are taken, it's a huge sign that a legal system is already brought.
If I roll five dice, and three of them hit on 3, does that mean that 3 is some special number?

Moral relativism doesn't imply that everyone's subjective moral are all and always incompatible with each other. As people's subjective moralities change this way and the other, clusters are bound to happen - those are the "majorities".

What I deny is that any of those are the one objective morality. It's just the latest sample from the RNG.
Tommorrow will bring new ones.
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Thanks for not processing orders with a different billing than shipping address.

Wasted 2 hours on the phone with the bank to find out it was all Stripe's fault.
It seems to be running on Google App Engine. Its probably hitting the daily budget.
You're reading me wrong. Dismal means sad, and the caption is meant to be wry or ironic.
New York Times is cookie based, which I'm sure most of us can get around :)

But I'm not sure about WSJ.
Retested a year old EC bug, and it's now working in iOS 8, but not in iOS 7. Have not tested in OS X.

My older post of this bug is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7511347
I've only recently started working for larger more corporate-type firms and it's absolutely amazing how much they pay for giant ball of mud software. Astronomical amounts and then on top of that there are maintenance fees, support fees, upgrade fees. It's absolutely amazing and frightening the money being spent.

So I think the problem isn't money; the real problem is there just isn't enough software! We have a software deficit. With software being a critical part of nearly every business in the world, there is huge demand but massively insufficient supply. In my industry, there are only two big software providers and a handful of smaller ones. And it's a huge industry in both money and sheer size. But they literally cannot buy anything but big balls of mud.

People are paying big money and small money for whatever software they can get. And that natural consequence is that performance, reliability, and security are hit or miss.
Alfalfa uses more California water than nuts. Maybe cut out the cheeseburgers first.
For shitredditsays, there's also a lot of quoting and satire to account for.
Symmetric encryption does not have the concept of a "private key". A 128 bits private key in TLS can only vary from almost useless (if it's some ECC algorithm) to completely useless (in case it's RSA).

Too bad (but understandable) that the article does not give any detail. About a decade ago, 128 bits RSA keys were widely used (but not recommended anymore), I wouldn't be surprised to discover a bank didn't change their security procedures since then.
This is an interesting question. Technically, we capture a probability distribution in the code layer (between encoder and decoder). So you can sample from it multiple times and assess uncertainty. However, we have not really studied this.
Yes this is very much inspired by Geoff's work.
Completely agree. We're working on some of this, but ultimately moving to true OAuth is going to require the banks to get more deeply involved.
Ugh, that didn't go as planned.

1. Sorry to everyone about the "his". Like most people guessed, I explicitly tried not to use gender, but I slipped up.

2. I didn't mean to imply you were bad at programming. The only goal of my comment was "if you're thinking about learning Haskell, don't be scared off by point-free style". I thought that providing more background would help people understand the temptation, but I should have divorced it more from your decision to use point-free style.

(What's funny is that these were things I was aware of and tried to handle well, but still managed to screw up.)
Like gcc, one misplaced comma and the whole thing might as well be rubbish.
Satire is common on two of the most toxic subreddits, shitredditsays and tumblrinaction. But in both, I think it's clear the sarcasm is sometimes used to hide hatred and bigotry.
Again, it's not binary: you don't have to accept a moral objectivism just because you deny relativism.

I too deny that any of the axioms are the one objective morality (although the clusters of moral belief over time are nothing like you'd get from a RNG, and tomorrow broadly speaking does not bring new ones, but that's a digression).
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0942v8653 has it right. NYT is fine. WSJ is harder.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9197098
But you accept that people can fight and decide what the rules are? That you can have a meaningful discussion about which coding standard is the best, and why, and reach a conclusion you all agree on?

Because metaethical moral relativism wouldn't accept that. It says you might as well have a discussion about which colour is the best and try to reach a conclusion everyone agrees on.
Then give up your job and go home. You don't have a right to a job, and you don't have a right to make inappropriate comments.
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I'm not saying it's binary; I just don't see in what way is my position not relativist.
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I feel like there's an analogy between medical states and first-world-problems here. I went to grad school in a red state and pot was really hard to find. I did have a guy who was great and always on the ball but you could tell his product wasn't locally sourced. I was always ambivalent about my purchases. On the one hand, I was supporting a small business owner who was fantastic. On the other hand, I was bankrolling bad people. At the end of the day I think our legal system makes a much bigger difference than I ever could.
Everyone keeps blaming nuts, and they do use a lot of water, but Alfalfa is the biggest agricultural user of water in the state.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/opinion/meat-makes-the-pla...
some patients have reported costs in the $1-2K for prescriptions for just 1 month. That's definitely on the higher end but even if someone has multiple chronic diseases (diabetes, high blood pressure) co-pays of $10 or $20 dollars per medicine add up quickly.
The refs for function call locations alone make the wait worth it, especially when looking to contribute to others projects and first diving in the code.
>Does anyone else get tired of seeing this all the time?

You're probably seeing it more often because more people have access to more data than ever before and are making lots of connections that aren't necessarily connected. Floud probably stated it this way because of the inevitable eye-rolling that occurs in reaction to the more common way of saying it: Correlation does not imply causation.

In this case, however, Floud is probably wrong. There is plenty of statistical evidence to prove links between traumatic childhoods and undesirable characteristics in adulthood. It isn't much further of a leap to assert that physical changes, as a result of unnatural levels of stress hormones etc., could occur.
ShitRedditsSays isn't really bigoted at all. It is, however, a circlejerk.
Prior discussion, currently at #1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9200017
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Does anyone know why it's called klib? I don't know about the prefix "k", but guess it's borrowed a lot of kernel codes?
Correct. There are only a few areas in the world almonds can be commercially grown. California is one.

Cattle can be grown lots of places.
Healthcare is definitely expensive in the U.S. but we work with a network of clinics that offer free or low-cost care. By helping these clinics access donated medicine, it reduces the amount they spend on buying meds and they can pass savings onto patients.
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if you google the title of the article, then click on the first result, you'll bypass the WSJ paywall. IIRC, it works for the times, too, but not 100% sure.
Absolutely. I imagine this hypothetical company would have fired both parties who ingaged in an affair that caused friction at the office. My point was that Pao seems a day late and a dollar short by pursuing an HR solution after, rather than instead of, having an affair with a collegue.
> from someone with PhD in teaching physics

Although there's no harm in mentioning it, and there may certainly be a correlation, it's worthwhile to note that the credential doesn't make the man: having a Ph.D. in physics education is no more a guarantee that one is a good teacher than having a Ph.D. in English is that one is a good writer.
I can see why the site may struggle to attract ad companies. What would the valuation of 4chan likely be? Could anyone monetize it?
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Some sub-reddits deemed "toxic" I've never encountered much toxicity. I beg to question what qualifies at toxic for this specific research.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9200017