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I love libraries like this and fn.py, and I really miss the things I've got used to having available in Haskell when I write python. It's possible to use function patterns in python (Applicative and Functor are things you can implement in any language). However given who is in charge of python and the way he feels about FP, I don't think python will ever be a decent functional programming environment:

As long as I'm "in charge" the chances of this (or anything like it) being accepted into
Python are zero. I get a headache when I try to understand code that uses function
composition, and I end up having to laboriously rewrite it using more traditional
call notation before I move on to understanding what it actually does. Python is not
Haskell, and perhaps more importantly, Python users are not like Haskell users.
Either way, what may work out beautifully in Haskell will be like a
fish out of water in Python.

I understand that it's fun to try to sole this puzzle, but evolving Python is more than
solving puzzles. Enjoy debating the puzzle, but in the end Python will survive
without the solution.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-v...
I think that can happen only if we had an absolute single identity identifier. One issues to every citizen and is not mutable or shareable. One you cannot falsify or duplicate, lend to your friend or use after you die. There were many attempts to create such identities but I'm not sure any had that goal and neither worked anyway. There is a privacy concern with 'true identity' token like that, but that is something we'll have to live with. Until that happens, continuous referendums are not attainable, I don't think. Maybe a future generation of the blockchain?

Having said that, should I copyright the term? just in case ;)
But that is the point. Why are women happy to sacrifice their career, for the sake of the family, and men not as much. So, is that really a choice for all these women, or perhaps a necessity?
That could be quite bad, because vast majority of houses in the area of Namche Bazaar has been built without steel-and-concrete reinforcement - just stones and cement, due to lack of motorable roads in Sulukhumbu region to supply steel and other building materials.
Since you are talking about a heterogeneous [edit: homogeneous] array, you would store the concrete structs continously in Rust as well. Rust would also not waste space in the vector for storing a vtable-pointer, and would instead construct fat pointers dynamically when needed (since it knows the type, it knows which vtable to inject in the fat pointer).
Think about your people first.

Instead of reporting your fellow countrymen show them the good way of winning $$$ and they'll stop by themselves.

Moreover you are helping an American company, Americans only work for themselves or for their country. If Google happened to be Nepalese be sure they would wage war on it.

You can't be a "good guy" to the eyes of everybody, there must be a time at which you have to chose a side, a time at which you leave your neutrality
Torture has been shown countless times to be ineffective.

At this point I'm willing to believe that torture by US (or anyone else for that matter) operatives is carried out for revenge or sadistic purposes only.

And 'Americans' as a whole do not benefit from these things. A wealthy and influential elite however, do.
less than scientific surveyor here:

I was all over Korea for a month last Summer and it definitely seemed that Samsung/LG phones were 90% of what I saw. Especially on the metro in Seoul. The few iPhones I saw were all older models. If you have something like an LG G3 and above, you can get LTE Advance speeds in Seoul which is quite astounding to experience. 300mbit on your phone!
The Richter scale is exponential. According to chrisra a 7.8 earthquake release almost 4x the energy of a 7.4 quake.

I didn't run the numbers, but it seems plausible the difference would be that big.

According to Wikipedia[1] a 7.5 quake releases 11 petajoules of energy, while a 7.8 quake release 32 petajoules.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Example...
Samsung makes a lot of the components for the iPhone and other smartphones. Even if their branded devices crater, they'll be fine.
> Simply make an encrypted backup and wipe everything before traveling through airports and borders.

Which helps against a border guard installed hardware keylogger how…? There's been reports of border guards flashing laptop firmwares (no idea how credible they are), which would make "wiping everything" rather difficult (you can re-flash the main firmware, but what about e.g. the Intel Management Engine firmware? That thing is a hardware rootkit by design).
He was commenting on the (mis)use of "literal", which, in the english language, has shifted it's meaning from "taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory" - to it's new (recent) sense which is used to "emphasize strongly this metaphor/allegory."
The Richter scale is logarithmic and therefore, a doubling of values is not equivalent to a doubling of force.
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I guess it's just a little odd how the HN moderators are quick defending millionaire VC Marc Andreessen, but have had nothing to say when others have been accused of astroturfing. In the other cases, it's been enough to let the voting system do its work, but in this particular case, the mods are quick to point out the weaknesses of the voting system and accuse nay sayers of lacking civility.
slightly off-topic, but i'm looking really forward to having firefox released on iOS. Ads really are killing the whole mobile web experience..
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And most "branded" Android distributions still manage to be worse.
> Apart from being able to drive, not much should be regulated IMO.

Travel to a number of developing countries where there aren't taxi regulations and say that...

In the developed world, a marked taxi carries with it a guarantee of a consistent price, and a certain level of safety.
Are you serious?
Because the phone is 5 years old it's reasonable to expect transfer speeds from the 1950's?
So what - as I said, being a founder is not such an emergency situation that you are forced to sell your body. She can still decline to have sex and be merely reset to the status that is normal for men (which is not to be invited to the parties). It's still a net win. Or she could dangle the promise of sex in front of the guy, go to all the parties but never give the guy what he wants.

You could also ask who is the person being cheated - the guy getting sex only for his money, or the woman getting money only for sex.

Also, surely people never partner up because it suits their life plans. It's all just romantic love in the real world. You might walk down the street and fall in love with a hobo - nothing you can do about the will of the heart.
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Both of those examples are objectively awful things, used by desperate people to attain control over others.
Have you taken a look at this ? https://github.com/HIPS/autograd and paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03492.pdf

They reverse the computation of the gradient to calculate the derivative wrt the hyper parameters.
Please help the OSM HOT [1] team to map the regions struck by the earthquake.
Without proper/up-to-date maps, coordinating emergency efforts is hardly possible.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake
No, it does not. However history has shown us that we tend to view peaceful persuasion as folks being terribly rude and obscene -- especially when people are trying to persuade us of the wrongness of our ways.

This means that free speech is not optimized for the individual; it's optimized for the evolution of the society as a whole. Technology, on the other hand, is optimized for the individual.
None of the things you are talking about were suggested or even mentioned by the parent comment. No one said anything about cast systems or eugenics. You are beating up a straw man.

It's pretty well supported that intelligence is heritable and greatly determined by genetics. But so are a huge number of other traits, like executive functioning and attention span, which also correlate with success.

And we don't need to be constrained by genetics either, even if a trait is environmental, parents still have a huge amount of influence over it. From education to work ethic, your upbringing has a huge amount of influence over you, and it's something you basically pass down to your children just like genetics.

>Jonas Salk had three children, but anyone who claimed "his children are his greatest accomplishment" would be laughed at.

This is a counterexample to the claims you are defending, that you can't be successful/change the world, and have a family.

Regardless, that's great if you are Jonas Salk. Sacrifice your personal life to save the world. It's certainly a noble thing to attempt.

But most likely you aren't Jonas Salk. The average person is not going to impact the world anywhere near the level of Jonas Salk, no matter what career they are in or how hard they try. Even Salk, if he hadn't been at the right place at the right time, working on the right problem, would not have been remembered today.

So yes it's not surprising that his children aren't known for anything. Even if they had been exact clones of him, they were born at the wrong time to cure polio. But if they are like him, they have the same probability of doing great things as he did when he started. So if your goal is to maximize the probability of doing great things, having children isn't a horrible option.
To be fair Apple have a load of crapware too. The whole ecosystem runs off of iTunes. This alone is enough to ensure I will never buy an iOS device. I agree wholeheartedly that the Samsung Android is really annoying too. There is nothing worse than having a bunch of apps you can't uninstall but also have no interest in using. Now they want to even bundle facebook! Pointless.
But the guy didn't pretend to want to give investment. He clearly said it is about dating, not investment.
Another part of this mystery is that Dutch people don't really consider a 32-hour work week to be "part-time". Especially since in most sectors the official full-time work week is only 36 hours. I think I'm the only one of my friends working 40 hours.
With the way websites work today surely the only possible way to build a search engine is to make something like a headless browser (similar to PhantomJS) that crawls the web like a user, seeing what the user sees, ignoring everything that's hidden from the user, and interpreting the importance of pages like a user would. Just parsing the HTML source of the page won't even get close to seeing the key features of a page any more.

Impressive work by Google to do that at scale, of course, but they'd be dead in the water if they didn't.
The first paragraph of the article says it was a South Korean businessman connecting to an international flight _from_ the US to go home.
messages that don't send

people that never appear online, even when you appear online to them

the ui disaster, and how I had to google to figure out how to sign out of it

my phone staying signed in and eating messages that I would much rather have had delivered to my laptop where I was actively conversing

all of this on a nexus running stock 4.4.latest
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We at Beagle Inc (http://beagle.ai) are building a product that uses NLP to make contracts easier to understand, bringing comprehension from 0 to 80% in seconds. There's also a collaborative piece which allows you to make critical changes and see redlines. I'd say our analysis focuses on a relatively different problem than other legal tech startups are addressing. Its been a substantial technical challenge to bring our analysis quality to a good level and its constantly improving. Aside from that, law can be a relatively daunting space, so I believe that having a leader who knows their way around the law (and tech) is critical. I'd suggest that these personalities enjoy well-paying jobs at law firms and a special few would consider the startup route.
Thats why we decided that my wife stays at home. Its anyway terrible to send kids < 3 years to child care. They can't even talk to complain.
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> I didn't want to make GPG configuration an impediment to people using this tool...

Maybe consider arranging distribution packages to automatically make GPG configuration available, and then default to --verify on in distributions by default?
This is something that's always bothered me. The Richter scale is not, for normal people like myself, a good earthquake magnitude indicator. I always have trouble grasping that 7.5 and 7.8 are so far apart in terms of severity since my mind is set to find a .3 difference negligible. I would like to have a metric measurement of earthquakes that would allow me to more quickly understand the scale and size of a quake.

Edit: The difference between a 8.6 one and a 8.7 one is huge. The difference is as big as the difference between 0.0 and 8.35, in megatons at least.
Please get used to how OSM works before starting to map. There has been lots of bad data added by new people to OSM in Nepal recently. Cleaning up may be more work than adding new.
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OK, but I split time among India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan rickshaws are actually pretty reliable and safe. India's are less so. Bangladesh's are an absolute crapshoot. But my point is all three of these countries have (by US standards) insanely restrictive regulations; the problem is none of it is designed to improve the consumer experience; it's all designed to reward incumbent medallion holders.
Working on v2 of Flaming Notes (music game to learn sight reading, http://www.adhyet.com).

Main v2 feature will be the ability to import MIDI files to have songs instead of randomly generated notes.
Has the Win 8 app store sandbox been broken? There's a "Win8 RT Jailbreak" on XDA, but the author says there's no risk of regular apps compromising your system using the same exploit.
> you're looking at significant expense because of the flatbed transportation. Not to mention hassle.

Is it stated anywhere that this is what will happen, and the customer will be liable for the cost?
That was hyperbole; it's not racketeering in the legal sense, since it's based on lobbying to change laws. Fair point.
This was bugging me too, they are trying to but it's probably only working on OSX machines since they're using {font-family:'menlo'} without a fallback, so if the font is not available the code is rendered using Times New Roman instead, at least on Chrome.
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I was paying £1200/month for one child for 3 days/week (5 days/week was £1800/month). Glad that's over with now!
Hey. Thanks for this, it's absolutely fantastic.

Been using SQL for a while now but never got the hang of joins and could never find an easy guide for them. This was the simplest explanation I could find.
Periscope Decouples from Twitter to Let New Users Sign Up with a Phone Number
Medical Undercounter (Refrigerators and Freezers)
The GP didn't buy a Thinkpad.
I completely agree - there are some tasks (such as "collecting realtime, ephemeral data") for which volunteer efforts are less suited for than automated data collection (which requires significant upfront investment).
Can't believe another earthquake has hit Nepal and it's even worse. Please pray for the people of Nepal and donate. A little can make all the difference.
> Does notepad handle \n separated lines correctly yet?

Yes, thankfully.
The scariest cyber threat of all? How hackers are hijacking planes
I've dropped a couple of clients, usually over some kind of billing issue or abuse. I don't regret losing the relationships, but I would handle it a lot differently now (they happened earlier on in my business, and I was partly at fault too).

"Hi, we really need to talk about how your project has been progressing. I've put a lot of effort in to it, with a lot more hours than we originally discussed. I want to see it finished to your satisfaction, but I'm also not making enough money right now to cover my expenses. I have to start looking for more income immediately.

I'll finish a few more items [..., ..., ...], but if you want [..., ..., ...] done, I have to bill you at a normal professional rate. Since we've worked so hard together on this, I'll charge a little less than my next client. Let's say $400/day. I'll do my best to give you an estimate for new features."

And negotiate from there. Put the ball back in his court; let it be his decision to either pay you or discontinue the project.

Most folks understand that they can get any 2 of cheap, fast, or good; if he can't afford the budget for the project, he'll either drop it or negotiate with you and you can offer to wind down the project at a rate that you're happier with, spending far less time on it. Or, he'll come up with the money; I've had a few clients suddenly show up with a nice check once I say, "I can't keep working on this for you at your original budget."

I started doing the "straightforward & honest" thing with clients a little over a year ago. I dropped all pretenses about money and how great business is (it's not bad, but it could be better). I thought everyone would stop working with me. What happened instead is almost everyone really appreciated it. So, in my experience, there's no harm at all in just telling someone you can't afford to keep working for them. Sometimes they'll offer you more money.

A few folks will flip out or come unglued or say rude things. That's the beauty of being a consultant, you really don't have to put up with that if you don't feel like it. You can walk away from people like them and not look back or regret it.

But, almost all of my work has come from word-of-mouth, so I try to keep clients pretty happy as much as possible.

> I got sweet-talked... trying to sweet talk...

It sounds like you're just struggling with negotiating, like pretty much everyone does when they're just starting out. He begs or pleads or convinces you that it won't be that hard and you wear down and say OK and then try to do it and resent it. So now you want to run away because you don't feel like you can handle negotiating with him.

Try it anyway, and keep trying. Even if you end up walking away from the project, you'll learn a lot by trying to renegotiate. If you have to, write a number down on a piece of paper before talking to him. Don't start higher with the hopes of negotiating down to it, don't accept anything less than that, just stick to it. Write "don't do it you idiot" on the back of the paper. Every time you start to consider taking a lower number, flip the paper over.
Computer science itself was born by trying to break that crypto, and modern cryptography wasn't available.

^^^ That.
I prefer NOT to have it take over SMS messaging because I want to know that the person will receive the message. If I wanted to get in touch with you, there is a conscious decision as to whether I instant message you, ring you, video call you, send an SMS, visit you in person or send you a letter. This shouldn't be removed or hidden - the reliability of the transport medium is important!

Half of my contacts never get messages from me in Hangouts. This makes it unreliable, and therefore useless.

Additionally, if I video call someone (eg my wife sat the other side of the room), Hangouts informs me that she is not available for a video call. But she has zero notifications or alerts or ringing or ANYTHING.

The inability to see if someone is online/offline also makes it useless. If I am having a conversation with someone sat next to me, I would like to know if they're sat next to me else I'll be talking to a wall. Chatting with people on Hangouts is like talking to a wall.

It truly is bad.

EDIT: I noticed the INSTANT downvote after writing this. Are you disagreeing with me on Hangouts or something? Or are you saying that I made all of this up or something? Hangouts does not work for me, full stop. I have used Android since 1.5 and Talk was far superior. The lack of proper UI (screen-width listview for contacts????) and behaviour on Hangouts (I am using a tablet) does not encourage decent applications. Compare the quality of Hangouts to GMail on a tablet for reference.
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It is indeed superior (due to the traffic data), and I also use it via Waze. It would be miraculous for OSM to be better than Google Maps in every aspect. I was referring to the "contributing to the map" aspect here.
This is very good! I have a similar but tangential idea that I need to get built - good to see such a successful concept and execution.

The running icon looks really weird though!
> If we can require all self-driving cars to take orders
> from a central authority, we can do some pretty amazing
> things

The possibilities for fine-grained congestion and peak-usage charging are endless, for example
Why not a 2G cellular modem that sends out SMS? WiFi for location?
Startups generally solve pains that the founders have experienced. To experience the pains of the legal profession you need to have worked in it for a while, but if you've done that then you're probably already quite well paid and maybe see the paperwork as a necessity. Or at least see it as something that you can charge a lot for. In short, there aren't many law startups because the people who suffer what we regard as a pain don't see it as a pain.
Hangouts gets slower with every version, to the point that my older dual-core phone can no longer run it at all -- it just hangs.
I have noticed that about downloads and upgrades. The "system updates" app within App Store is poor. It is a webpage that fails to refresh when it's doing something, leaving you guessing when something is happening (that rotatey "progress" indication that is entirely indeterminate is no help either)

What on earth is wrong with a progress bar and text drawn on the screen instead, like Snow Leopard??
That only works if you really have an opportunity to affect hundreds or thousands of people, to the same extent you would affect your family. That seems incredibly unlikely, unless you are a scientist on the verge of curing cancer or something.

A single employee at a space company missing a few hours of work isn't that, and it's certainly not "harming countless strangers", or "selfish".
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I'm in Belgium, with two kids. When they were both in daycare (4 days a week), we paid between 500-650 euros per month, depending on the number of workdays in the month. We were paying the highest price per day, because we both worked.

So it's not exactly 1/10th the amount, but still a lot less.

Also, this was limited to a 1 year period more or less. There is a 2 year age difference between the children, and from age 3, the oldest started going to kindergarten instead of daycare, which is quite a bit less expensive.
Yes, but the argument IIRC was that Samsung had attained an unassailable position, so Android being open wasn't really making any difference.

Instead, in the latest ads that came to my mailbox (snail mail in Italy), I was struck by the fact that most of the advertised phones were from Chinese brands I had never heard of before...
Begin with Andrew Ng's mooc at coursera, to get the basics and the feel of it.

I've completed the very first his course in December 2011.
You would be better off using an Alternate Lubuntu CD or netinstall (mini.iso) Both have a text-based installer with the option to 'Install a command line system', then go from there.

I'm figuring how to install an awesome WM with MATE, lately. https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome... http://askubuntu.com/questions/616520/how-do-i-set-up-awesom...