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> I'm glad most serious desktop calculator apps, like the OS X one, have a RPN mode

I've loved RPN since around 1973 when I paid $395 (plus 7% tax) for an HP-45. I still have an HP-42S that I use.

However, I often find it easier in OS X to just type "python" and go from there. I love Python as an interactive interpreter. It's easy to give good names to intermediate variables. Functions are easily created, starting with "def ...". Etc.

But this works for me because I rarely need sin(), cos(), or stuff like that. It would get tedious to load the Python math functions, to remember the exact spelling of a function. A calculator is good for that, because the keys are right in front of your face. Can't miss 'em.
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Interesting, but I have to wonder what the point of his project to reproduce the performance of C++ with Haskell is if he's doing things like replacing

(i+1)%3

with

(1<<i)&3 for i in [0, 2]

It seems to me like it would be far more human-readable and human-maintainable to simply write it in C++ in the first place.
> I don't really get why giving only 25%?

Valve took their ~30% platform charge, and left the remaining amount to be split per the discretion of the publisher of the game, in this case Bethesda. Bethesda chose to give mod makers roughly 1/3 of the money left, resulting in a final split of Valve 30 / Bethesda 45 / mod author 25.
I work at an automated trading place. A friend of mine that I worked with left to work for Google. I had chatted with him a few months later. He said he did not get to code as much new stuff as he did when he was my place. That being said, he does not have a PHD in machine learning. I think if you went to work in the robotics division of Google, that would be way more rewarding than staring at securities prices all day long.
I wasn't thinking of weekly game practice or something like it. No, I was thinking of those Sundays where you do something with your child, the parent/child time where you talk to your children and do stuff. If you often work in the weekend, when exactly would you spend time with your child?
Really now? Well, my comment was based on Wii-U commercials, which seem to have misinformed me.
> Exploit android

> It has an NFC antenna that pings Android phones, asking them to open a link.
There are others working on that problem.

I probably shouldn't have mentioned it; if I hadn't, you wouldn't have thought about it, and then nobody would have had their hopes dashed.
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http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/6/djv074.short

I'd guess it was an oversight. He linked to it in his previous weekly post.
Children goes through multiple phases, where they're learning and their personality emerges. It's not as simple as saying it's 15+ years, you can catch up in the last 3.
>> Wonder how long it will stay live though.

Would you elaborate that ?
>Agda’s logic is constructive, which means it’s impossible to prove the statement that all statements are either true or false, . This proposition is called the law of the excluded middle. This makes it impossible to perform, for example, a general proof by contradiction, or other similar “classical” proofs from mathematics. There is a large philosophical debate among mathematicians (those who follow Hilbert, and those who follow Brouwer) as to which is better

Still, for a subset of statements and properties it is possible to construct a law of excluded middle, but it has to be a constructive proof. The whole idea of Constructive Mathematics is that you have to show a proof for both, the statement and it's negation to hold their respective truth values. The impossibility to proof the first statement, that of all statements the negation is implied, is surely tautologic, assuming it would hold true for most of all statements, just not a class the opening one is part of. This class is an empty element.

I would basically assume this means nonsense statements can be constructed, but they can't be used in constructive proofs. It doesn't imply that there has to be a class of nonsense statements where the opposite still holds value. I'm cautios of the definition for statements like there or in the multiple incarnations of the liars paradox (whats the latin plural). IE. a statement should by definition be provably correct either in positive or negative logic, hi and low to use ee terms, and one should imply the other polarity (edit: just not by using negation, because that's the relation you want to prove, without circular logic). The empty element is like null, but what logic set the true ^ negative or just the true statements have to be defined in I dont know.

Interesting to know that there is a tool for this kinda maths, I was under the impression that the debate tends to inductive methods, but here we have intuitionistic (constructive) logic, I take it.
Looks pretty good, fingers crossed it picks up.
Why should Bethesda get anything at all? Unless they're going to the trouble of making sure their official patches don't interfere with popular mods or something like that, they aren't providing additional value beyond providing the game that was already paid for. I think one of the issues in this wasn't just that mod creators would have gotten a small fraction of profit, but because Bethesda's behavior was somewhat rent-seeking -- attempting to normalize publishers getting a cut of sales that they hadn't gotten before, for doing no extra work.
I was asked by Daniel to repost this.
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A classic article about this: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html "The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell"
Just want to add something to the conversation about The Netherlands. A cool thing about this startup is that one of its founders (alexandernl here on HN) is a celebrity in The Netherlands. I would guess if you'd go to a random Dutch street and show people his picture, 7/10 adults would recognize him. Alexander is a frequent guest who explains tech products at one of the NL's most hot prime time shows, he's basically the person who explains what an iPhone app is to everyone over 30 in the Netherlands (assuming everyone under 30 already knew).

Now The Netherlands isn't such a big place, just 17 million people or so, so in the grand scheme of things this is not so big of a deal. But it's important to note that were Blendle founded in a bigger country this might not have gone as well at all. How would you both get a foothold in the press industry and get major coverage on national TV? Alexander is in exactly the right place and at exactly the right time.

Now they've effectively proven their worth on a reasonably large scale, they've used that cred to break into the NYT and the WSJ. How's that for an awesome business plan? I think it's the best advantage small European countries have. We've got <20m inhabitant language isolated nations all over the place. Even the celebrities with prime time are accessible. If you're in the startup scene in NL, odds are you are friendly with someone who is friendly with Alexander.

edit: of course, he has an awesome co-founder and technical team as well, you can't be successful without the tech being top notch.
The author notes on his r/gamedev post that actually he got the name wrong. Ketchapp isn't the original 2048 guys but rather a group that knocked off the concept (a foreboding allusion to what happens to the author). That said, a lot of folks knocked off the threes concept. Still, I found it ironic in this context.
This is EXACTLY what I needed right now for a project.
Does it already have a module to do the equivalent of an lspci? If not, where would I have to look to learn how to implement such a feature?
heh.. well that sure wont be one of my regrets :)
The DOT actually has estimates of the value of time lost by passengers, used for economic analyses of delays. See this PDF, page 19:

http://www.dot.gov/sites/dot.dev/files/docs/vot_guidance_092...

Your time is worth $45-57 an hour, depending on if your travel is personal or business-related.
English isn't my first language, so when I read "reproducible" I thought "deterministic"; I also didn't think you'd be working on the "vendoring" problem since I thought it was a solved issue (which it isn't for all the reasons in the post). Anyways, thanks for your work.
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back when I was still in the university around 1999, I would charge $15 to $20 an hour for freelance web based projects. I think with a greater demand and the general price of things you could charge a bit more if you are in the US or Western Europe. That being said, $15 an hour is a top rate for a senior software engineer in the Philippines. I recently interviewed a few programmers when I was in Manila.
Exactly. I long time used bc or bc -l but python is more flexible, and with readline, much more practical than button based calculator.
Interesting concept thanks for the share.
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This community is gaining popularity
I think that is for passengers during the critical phases (takeoff/landing) so that they are not distracted.

A few airlines have switched over to digital maps for airports, since they offer some substantial advantages (less weight, more up to date, etc).

If you want to have a look at one of these apps, its on the public app store (https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/lido-iroutemanual-aeronautic...) - though I could not find a source that AA is using the LH Systems app (and if it was the source of the problem, I guess there would be several more stories about it.

edit: Source: did some work for LH Systems, but not affiliated with them.
If they would take the time to get proper legislation passed it could end up fine.

Except that doesn't work (with a few exceptional countries/cities), because the incumbents have massive political capital and Uber doesn't, and it's very hard to get popular support for something people haven't experienced.

I don't like Uber for other reasons, but regarding this tactic, I'm fine with it.

Even if we agree that these laws are important, surely there's no short term harm in having Uber around - it's not like they're dumping waste or performing unlicensed surgery - the courts just have to issue a ruling and everything can go back to normal in a week.
I thought it was CIT that was the top dog for this sort of thing after Shrivenham merged with them.

And with the really sensitive CS jobs I suspect the USA will be similar to how the Uk used to be ie all 4 grandparents as native citizens.
But this works for me because I rarely need sin(), cos(), or stuff like that. It would get tedious to load the Python math functions, to remember the exact spelling of a function.

Most of these are pretty easy -- just do "from math import *" and then you have sin(), cos(), etc. imported into the root namespace.

If you want to explore, you can use something like bpython, do "import math", and just type "math." and it'll pop up a little window showing you the possibilities.
Too bad. It was so much faster, and sucked so much less CPU :-/
> The pilot came on and said that his first mate’s iPad powered down unexpectedly, and his had too, and that the entire 737 fleet on American had experienced the same behavior.

user mode programs causing power down is not an app bug
> For me at least, if I am listening to, say, Kraftwerk, a good suggestion for next artist to listen to is not necessarily the artists most people who like Kraftwerk like.

There are several separate things here:

The article, as far as I can tell looks at "if you like X, you're more likely to like Y".

You're describing "if you enjoyed listening to X right now, you're likely to enjoy listening to Y right now" and "if you like X and Y, you're like user B, who also likes Z".

These are all wildly different, and are useful for different purposes. The first is great if you don't have more data on the user than what they picked right now. The other two are better for different applications if you have the data.

One pet peeve of mine is that most music players seems to only take into account user similarity, rather than what you're likely to like right now. E.g. I rarely want to suddenly transition e.g. from a slow classical track to a super-noisy 8-bit war game chip tune even if I like both. And some transitions are great at some times of day, but not so great e.g. when I want a specific type of music because it works best for me when I'm working.

It greatly annoys me when I use of these services and they make transitions that are "obviously" wrong. If I've skipped the last 5 noisy tracks and listened to every slow track, clearly I want slow music right now even though I've previously loved all those noisy tracks...

It must be possible to do so much better... Even just mixing in the other recommendation data with some simple markov chains you'd think would help.
I think the compilers that produce elf output are almost deterministic, at least when producing a fully static binary (no CGO).

I don't think that holds for mach-o or PE binaries, but I'm really speaking off the cuff here, as I said, others care about this and are working on it separately.
Nuclear weapons today are different than how it used to be in the time of Tsar Bomba. From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

"Thus certain bombs were designed to destroy an entire large city even if dropped five to ten kilometers from its center. This objective meant that yield and effectiveness were positively correlated, at least up to a point. However, the advent of ICBMs accurate to 500 meters or better made such yields unnecessary. Subsequent nuclear weapon design in the 1960s and 1970s focused primarily on increased accuracy, miniaturization, and safety. The standard practice for many years has been to employ multiple smaller warheads (MIRVs) to «carpet» an area, resulting in greater ground damage."

So sprawling won't save you neither from the initial "nuclear carpet" (that can be quite wide), nor from the radioactive fallout that have always spread over a much larger area than the radius of initial explosion(s).
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They are, honestly - and I would never hold it against anyone saying they prioritize that over work.

I think people mention children because a child depend on the parents far more than most people think. It's much easier to find time for yourself, or with your spouse, while working a lot, than it is with a child. I can spend time with my wife nearly every evening, or work on hobby projects - I barely have 1 hour with both my children in weekdays after school. So if my employer starts to take my weekend, I'm looking for a new job where I can also be a father.
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I literally found out about https://github.com/constabulary/gb yesterday, and was already planning on posting to HN this morning!

The tools are very similar in philosophy, though certainly not identical in behavior.
cool, that exactly fits my case ;-)

does looking at stock prices all day make you feel dull in the end, or is this really not that important to you?

Is there a lot of pressure build upon you in this field? I guess that would be one of my biggest concerns...
I bought the Home edition of Mathematica, and have always enjoyed using it. You can program in many paradigms, functional, rules-based, imperative, etc...
The hooks to the data and the notebook interface, far before iPython, iJulia, Beaker and others came along, so it has a head start with integration, and as another wrote below, a great standard library.
Does JIT (or late/deploy time optimize/link) help here?
Would it be easier to make deterministic builds when optimizer is not involved?
Elegant work.

Dave Emory might have a few comments on the eugenics stuff.

Would like to see more Tcl too.
Who protects the income of the people who want to drive Uber cars?
Clusterize.js: Tiny vanilla JavaScript plugin to display large data sets easily
We talked about an issue like this in a History of Science and Technology class I took in university.

Back in the day, if you had a tomato plantation, you would need to hire staff to perform the harvest. You couldn't do it yourself; half the tomatoes would rot before you could pick them. It would take hundreds of staff to harvest a large plantation.

Then the tomato harvester was invented. Almost overnight, a job that was done by 100 people could be done by one. All of the plantation workers lost their jobs and had to find new work. If a plantation did not buy a harvester, they would be undercut by the farms using one and would go out of business.

What would you have done, as a politician, in that situation? Would you have made the tomato harvester illegal?

I see Uber as this generation's tomato harvester. Technological advancements always come at the expense of the labour they replace. You can't inhibit progress, you have to work with it, otherwise you get left behind.
‘As You Measure, So Shall You Reap’
But it is broken, the menu is made of images, as is much of the copy. It's not friendly for search (not just search engines, but Cmd + F, etcetera.) – it's not accessible, and it's difficult to read. It is broken.

I even checked the URL to make sure it wasn't a phishing attempt. It's very lazy work from Amazon.
“The biggest challenge is working on a globally dispersed team.”
It was more a financial question honestly, I know the split was btw Bethesda and Valve, but I can't justify why a 75% should go to Valve and Bethesda. That's the key point, I can understand the 30% of Valve, it's actually a samilar rate of other stores/platforms, but what's the financial necessity of the publisher? I mean, the game has been already released, it's making money and mods are usually a very high sales pusher (if well made, e.g. Counterstrike for Half Life). Why keeping 45%? I can't see any financial justification for such a higher rate, I would understand a 10%, max 15%, but no more.
They provide a platform with fine support for mods. That's some extra work and cost in the development of the platform which allows modders to spend less time and money to finish their mod.

I agree the percentage is ludicrous, but I don't find a small fee unreasonable at all. Developing a customizable system is hard. We may argue that they may sell extra copies based on that feature, but we'd never have objective data to back up or refute that claim.
fine, 1 ≡ 0
You're violating SoundCloud's terms of use:

(i) You must not copy, rip or capture, or attempt to copy, rip or capture,
any audio Content from the Platform or any part of the Platform,
other than by means of download in circumstances where the relevant
Uploader has elected to permit downloads of the relevant item of Content.

https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use#acceptance-of-terms-of-u...
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Will Rodney Copperbottom take over?
I can see why they should get a cut - they provide not only a very moddable game but also pretty good tools. I would be ok if Bethesda has an incentive to design their future games with modding capabilities in mind.

But they should not get more than the actual modder, imo.
Are there laws preventing founders from living and running a businesses in Portugal which is domiciled in a business and tax friendly jurisdiction?
I figure the thing is with Blendle, as with most paywallsystems, is that they actually turn 'micropayments' into larger payments. ie: you don't want to do a bank-transaction every time you hit a paywallbutton, so they make you pay a larger sum and give you credits. (Like other paywall might provide you with a subscription.)

The extra smart thing here being, of course being twofold: First of all, they provide you this service for a myriad of outlets. (Thus limiting the actual transactions (such a hassle!) with your bank even more.
And second: they provide a service for newspapers to publicise their print content online.

As far as I'm concerned, the core thing they made is a way of transferring all these 'print' articles to online. A benefit for publishers. This is now slowly shifting towards the 'one stop paywall' core business. One probably couldn't start without the other, but in the end we'll have a completely new thing. (Which I've described in several rants in Dutch.. yadieyada... stuff.)

I tend to pay more for articles these these, although for full disclosure I'd have to say that I work for a media outlet. (And yes' we're in Blendle, and we're not even print! ;) )
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Man's first day of wearing Apple Watch to work not going as hoped
Gabe said that just the additional email they received over a few days cost them a million: "That's like 1% of the cost of the incremental email the program has generated for Valve employees (yes, I mean pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just a couple of days)."

That seemed preposterous to me. It can't be the additional hardware expenses to store/process the mail, those are negligable. I suppose it's simply the time the support staff have to spend to weed out all the irate mails. But can that really amount to a million dollars? Existing solutions for combating spam must be sufficient to classify those mails and throw them away or send out the boilerplate message the support staff would have sent otherwise.
Airbnb to be targeted in Quebec bill
Regulation is the reason why corporations are thriving.
tl;dr increasing urban density => decreasing car use

Truth is, more cars are being sold than ever before, but even this is levelling out.

Global bicycle production per capita, on the other hand, has halved since the 1970's
Ah that explains the 25%, I saw references to it but had no idea how that had come to be. So Valve's base offer was a standard 30/70 cut, the issue is the game publisher got to decide of the split for the 70%, and Bethesda decided they deserved the vast majority of it.
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Well I think that there should be incentive for publishers to release mod tools and quality mod tool require effort and support (and modding is somewhat gray legal area)
Cool, nice to see this one working.

I wrote a Node.js package (https://github.com/jbrooksuk/SoundRain) to do this same thing, but I used it within a custom CLI app.
i think there's arduino support for the esp:

http://makezine.com/2015/04/03/esp8266-community-added-ardui...
From what I gather the commenter is saying that a new compiler could accept this syntax:

import "github.com/pkg/term" "{hash,tag,version}"

And this (old) syntax:

import "github.com/pkg/term"

Meaning the language would be backwards compatible. But you're saying that this wouldn't be backwards compatible - why ?
imo, the 2C family is old enough to not be considered a designer drug anymore.
I recently worked for a company that expected employees to stay well pass 5pm. I was personally working 13 or 14 hours a day and having to occasionally volunteer my time on weekends. My salary in comparison to hours worked went down significantly.

Anyway, I did what most of the men described in the article did. I learned how to work without working. It was easy to copy the kind of workaholic appearance expressed by many of my peers.

The strange thing was that most everyone was pretending. Everyone was just lying. It was like there was some secret unwritten rule that we should pretend instead of talking about the obvious elephant in the room. Which was that we were asked too much of us and that needed to change.

When I was first starting out (way before I took that job) I was told that the idea is to "manage perception" and that appears to be true of a few places.
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Given the difference in effect, I'm not sure that a customer that is given meth instead of MJ would be a happy customer.