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> at least until OS X. (I couldn't resist)

I must be alone in the world but I actually dislike OS X a lot. I had been forced to work with Mac OS in several iterations of my life (I believe my earlier contact with Mac OS was with 7.6 on a Performa) and OS X had been one of the poorest. If Ubuntu weren't that buggy (it just tires me to be fixing video cards problems on every update) it would be years ahead in overal experience in comparison with OS X.
Yes. Doesn't it still?
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Oh, that's always the case unfortunately. Doing things "properly" means you can't do them "tomorrow" or even better, "yesterday". It's funny to hear the same story everywhere - including on something as critical as a power plant, and including the "secret" part.

That several-hundred-person Excel nightmare? It had grown from "quick and dirty" shortcuts from middle managers, none of which were still around, none of which did the work (that's why you have unpaid interns), designed to bypass the official data warehouse project. They got promoted because they delivered the processes, and nobody checked the numbers (that's another "feature" of Excel shops - "if it looks like it works, it works").

The problem is that it's hard to sell "your numbers are off" to new clients. I toyed with the idea of making it conditional: "if your profit margin is more than 5% off, you pay us"...
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I think a more considered way to say that is it's a UX challange.

You have to think about what the user want's to enter and what they want to see. It's especially hard if they are doing something like booking a flight, or car hire in another country, how do you know if they are thinking about local time or destination time?
"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."

The HN version of this is

"we wanted a thoughtful discussion about his ideas, instead we discussed the finer points of being a libertarian."
Decades? I would say it took centuries at least. The basic design hasn't changed since the middle ages.
I personally know someone who went to a job interview to one of those propaganda comment factories in Russia (before she realized what it was and got the hell out).

They (try to) recruit educated people.
Don't get me wrong here, I do contribute to OSM, in fact I even contribute GPS traces. I do believe that OSM is great, I am just stating that there are some things that are holding me back from using it for navigation :(
Picel is a Go REST-ful micro service for image processing with a lean API
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That's bandwagon fallacy.

Besides that, you can't say for certain that the environment is selecting for efficiency rather than some other factor for which nation-states have a competitive advantage over non-state societies.

Nation-states are undoubtedly best at force projection. So long as people were generally accepting of their state razing foreign cities to the ground, salting their earth, slaughtering their men, and enslaving the rest, no other political structure could compete with a nation-state, fielding a professional army funded by taxes and pillage, and secured by fortifications constructed by taxes and forced labor.

If the fundamental operating principle of the world is that "might makes right" or "political power flows from the barrel of a gun", the nation-state is dominant. If the fundamental operating principle somehow shifts to "that which is hateful to you, do not do to others" or to "money makes the world go 'round", other political forms may realize an advantage over states.

For now, though, states rule the whole world. The laws of the high sea are for their convenience, as TSI will discover the instant they get big enough to make their own waves.
New York has made it very difficult to build up in the last many years. Chicago is really the only city in the US that seems to have embraced building up recently. And it's no surprise that it's one of the easier large cities to find housing at a reasonable cost.
Would you share your mails with us then?
Exactly.

CAP is one of the borders of the space. It's popular because it's relatively easy to look at a claim and see if it's on the "possible" or "impossible" side of the border. Tools like that (as in your halting problem example) are extremely useful, because they can be used to cut through a lot of bullshit masquerading as subtlety.

On the other hand, as OP's post does a good job of explaining, CAP is not a good tool for exploring the area inside the boundary. We often use it to do that, and it leads to all sorts of awkwardness and miscommunication. I think OP captured that well, and it's an area I'd really like to see some alternatives getting popularized (harvest and yield, PACELC, etc). Simplified rules are useful in this space, because while it would be very useful for all practitioners to understand the whole taxonomy, there's a lot of material to understand there.
That does make sense. I do contribute to OSM however. I am just stating that Google Maps navigation seems superior.
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A fully-loaded, double trailer is an nearly unstoppable killing machine in traffic if it's not managed well.
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I think they are SU-100, but I would have loved to see some more of the WW2-Veterans. But as most of them molder and rust away in a sorry state in some open air museums...
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You're not really challenged until the growth rate of their Excel monster outpaces the rate at which you automate the existing stuff... thankfully Excel has a 1 million row limit, and it always takes them time to figure out how to shard an Excel database :P
It might not hold always, but it is a very good rule-of-thumb.

Normally, a company (either startup or not) cares most for its clients, because they are the ones that pay its topline and ultimately its workers' salaries. Other parties (users, providers, government, whatever) also have power and can also influence the company's behaviour, but clients normally have it easiest.

That does not always hold, as I said. Another example is you being a commodity client; if the company is, for example, more interested on big clients, your interests might not be the first concern for that company. But they will have you in mind, nonetheless, as the bad service you receive can signal something bad for bigger clients. Sometimes, even big clients are commodities, as they can't wield a lot of power, so the company can act not in its client's best interests (monopolies or tax burden when price is inelastic are scenarios that come quickly to mind).
This was always a personal favorite of mine.
http://paletton.com/
A lot of cities will build up. In fact most will. Places like SF and DC are rare.

The problem is building up is expensive. So the cost of building up has to be lower than just building sideways.
My beef with CAP is not that it's so broad, but that it's so narrow. It actually only proves a fairly small class of systems as impossible, and it's kinda obvious. Literature going back to the 1970s suggests that the trade-off was well known back then -- just not under such a catchy name.

Impossibility results are great, but misinterpreting them and using them to argue stuff to which they simply don't apply is not so great.
This is true. Blood serum caffeine is processed twice as quickly by smokers.

LPT: If you quit smoking, cut your caffeine consumption in at least half for at least the first week. Otherwise you will explode with non-nicotine-related episodes of anxiety or nervousness.
This says 'Because there is no contact between moving parts, there is no friction. Therefore no lubricant is required. No replacement of spare parts either.'

However, there are animations that show it wobbling.

This implies that it's made of a flexible substance. I'm not being so pedantic as to suggest that the fibres or crystals etc. of the substance are moving parts (though surely there is friction between them), but I do have a query:

In my completely anecdotal and limited experience of household bendy objects vs. household hinges; hinges win the longevity battle every time, even without regular application of lubricants. Also, when a bendy object fails, the whole thing needs to be replaced. On the other hand, when a mechanical part fails, I can replace the part and keep the rest of the object.

Can these things therefore really be cheaper to maintain than a mechanical wind turbine?
Well on our way to 10TB, which will soon be the 1GB drive of mid-1990s.
>13) Can a SYN packet have a payload? (hint: new RFC proposals)

Hint is ok but RFC 1379 and RFC 1644 predate your hint. I have personally seen this happen as I implemented it :-)
Do you mean passive? Active speakers are full kits like KRK Rokits, passive speakers are the "old" speakers you're talking about.
While this establishes existence, it seems way too cumbersome for production use. Both creating a variadic function and calling it require awkward boiler-plate, like the verbose and cryptic signature on use_build.
Rarely have I ever seen something incorrect in Google Maps, and when I have I have made edits and the edit was approved in a timely manner, and soon after visible in Google Maps. You have to remember that Google Maps is used by A LOT more people than OSM.
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It's fun to watch the health pendulum swing to and fro, and occasionally given a gentle shove from a marketing article.

Replace coffee with cigarettes, and it reads as a tobacco ad from the 1920s.
"In addition to reactive armour the T-14 features an active protection system Afghanit (Russian: Афганит). This system includes a millimeter-band radar to detect, track and intercept incoming anti-tank munitions, both hypersonic kinetic energy penetrators and tandem-charges."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-14_Armata
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Toyota is returning back to artisanal skill as the basis for automation.
> Pull out a phone at -40, it won't even switch on.

Same can be said about a human being.

Edit: I'm being downvoted, so let me explain. Drones _can_ be made to function in temperatures way below -40; but humans are at their limit there. My point is: those who are discounting drones overestimate the capability of humans to operate in that temperature.
How to count an ant population:

1. Collect 25 ants

2. Paint a dot on their abdomens

3. Release them

4. Wait

5. Collect 25 ants again

6. Count how many are marked with dots

7. Divide 25² by this number

The result is a pretty good approximation of the size of the total ant population. To increase precision and accuracy, replace all the "25"s above with a larger number.
Crafting dropdowns and other components in Meteor
Do you consider this a C++ language bug that you happen to be able to exploit? Or a necessary result of being able to combine several correctly behaving features?
Following that link, the first section on the page:

These poker sized cards have been created and hand optimized in various vector formats (.eps and .svg) using the open source .svg graphics editor Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org.

....

Generally, this means the cards are free to use (commercially and non commercially) but must be properly attributed (see "README.txt" file) and (The library itself, not your project) re-distributed only under the same license.
there is no new high-tech tanks. T-14 Armata is just a prototype hastily cobbled together out of components of the 2 previous "new high-tech tank" programs. The first Armata will get to Russian Army only at 2018 at best and at the price of $8M (today's price, it will be higher after they complete the development few years down the road) there willn't be any meaningful numbers of it.
I'm not a bay area resident, but one thing I find amusing about the HN posts about the SF affordability crisis is that they all focus on the supply side rather than the demand side. Making communities in South Bay or East Bay more attractive to the same sorts that want to live in SF will relieve some of the pressure on the SF market while improving the lot of even more people. Its a longer term solution (bringing in quality public transport, denser development, and changing perceptions takes time) but it is ultimately more feasible than creating enough housing in SF for everyone who wants to live there.
This is not what The New Yorker tries to do. It's a different type of journalism. It do not worry about the lenghs of its articles.
I'm wondering how'd they figure out if a user (not business) is a 'more sophisticated' computer user.
Sure thing. $10 million on a valuation of $30 million, which would then give you a new post-money valuation of $40 million.

The company is worth $30 million or $40 million depending on whether or not the investors put in the $10 million yet or not. Hope that helps.
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Well, I know that there are "interview questions", but they are trying to show us the kind of knowledge that is needed to join a Company as Cloudfare so I am pretty sure that some of those are going to be questions in some point of their interview process.

I just wanted to know that in case that the questions are formulated that way, what's the ratio of people that can successfully answer those.
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Unless your users are happy to view UTC you will have to deal with it when you display it to them.
Can you articulate what you mean by Python 3's "accountant-like seriousness"? Is there more to it than print-as-a-function?

I code in both every day and just don't see what the fuss is about. To me, they're barely different dialects; more like different accents.
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Yo dawg, let's make an Oculus Rift tour of the Smithsonian, to preserve our preservation of the past for future generations. We could even digitally add new exhibits just to simulate the way curators care for the past.

Even better, let's make Museum Simulator. Tie in Bitcoin integration, and we could have people digitally tip others for curating the in-game exhibits.
> The definition of Christianity is the Bible.

The closest thing actually within Christianity to this is a relatively new idea ("new" in the context of how long Christianity has existed) particular to a subset of Protestant Christianity, and generally rejected by the rest of Christianity, to wit, the doctrine of sola scriptura. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_scriptura
There are several different ways, say a currency dropdown, that could hint on how to parse free-text input.

However, blaming the user for doing what makes sense is not helpful.
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This was on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9269760
Great point! It's certainly true that The Economist (like similar publications) has its own filter bubbles, but (a) it's based on input from hundreds of people; and (b) the editorial intent is to find and present new and disruptive ideas. It's the opposite of, say, Fox News, where the aim is to reinforce existing stereotypes.

I guess you have to choose your publications wisely....
> I’m a 31 year old German transhumanist, skeptic and vegetarian

....and his first three examples of "weird beliefs" are an Orthodox Jew and two Christians.

"Weird" is very clearly "in the eye of the beholder" here.
Because of bugs like this, the bitcoin developers strongly discourage using reimplementations of consensus code. Consensus code is complex, and a reimplementation cannot reject any blocks that the majority implementation (the implementation used by the most hashing power) would accept.

To be safe for mining, the behavior must match exactly. This includes bugs in the code, errors introduced by compiler optimization, bugs in any libraries, and quirks of the programming language.

This is the reason they created libbitcoinconsensus. The library allows you to innovate around non consensus-critical features of bitcoin without introducing forking risks.
Thank you, I must admit modern Tanks are not really my field of expertise. If this tank works in the way it should, it should be superior to most current western Tanks, especially while most western countries phase out more and more of their tanks.
I start at CloudFlare in a week. I was fortunate in that I came via a recommendation.

Still, for whatever it's worth, I was genuinely impressed with everyone I spoke with throughout the chain.
> Beneficial mutations do not exist, therefore, evolution of the living is unproved. There is no species that could stand as an intermediate between man and anything else. There is in nature zero intermediate state between bird's feathers and anything else. Evolutionnists have no clue how to explain the origin of the cetacean.

If you're going to go on the offensive trying to tell me what many years of science seems to be honing in on (a reasonably understood theory of evolution as a means of understanding life and biodiversity on the Earth), you should really cite some peer reviewed papers or books, or some sort of sources, rather than pulling quotes out of thin air.

As a side note, I think if you look at the work of many mathematical biologists, like Stuart Kauffman, I think the conclusion that's slowly being drawn is that evolution and the genesis of life are potentially more inevitable than not for sufficiently complex chemical systems. Once you get at the mathematical root of evolution, I remember being sort of amazed that Darwin's theory of evolution in a very basic raw form sort of falls out, much like atomic orbitals when applying Schrodinger's equation to the atom. Interested readers are referred to one of Kauffman's excellent books for those not very well versed in the intersection of statistical mechanics and genetics, such as: http://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Universe-Self-Organization-Com...
I mistakenly thought that the second number was a rough equity stake; that the second number was the current valuation should have crossed my mind but didn't. Makes much more sense now. Thanks!
What's this method called?
What if we prescribed video games, and not Ritalin, to treat ADHD?
>I think the idea with rtop in particular is not to have it running headless ever, but you'd only use it interactively. There would not be a "monitoring server", at least not running rtop.

Aah. I misunderstood. I've not figured out how to run a cluster without giving myself through one of my workstations or a jump box or something ssh access to all of them, so I'm generally okay with a program that automates some of that SSHing I do, like ansible; far more comfortable than I am with a box that is running some monitoring web frontend having any kind of access to my backend servers. (I usually try to give that box read-only access to the storage that another server which queries the agents writes to.)

To be clear, I'm not super comfortable with this situation, but I don't see any way around of having my own login everywhere, or of making it so that if I do have my own login everywhere, my logging in from a compromised machine is not a game over.

(as an aside, you and I mean different things by headless; usually when i say 'headless' - i mean 'the video port is disabled or unused' - all the servers I use are managed via serial console, and I would call them 'headless' - I think my usage is more standard than yours, but I could be wrong.)

>If you wanted to use it this way, note that rtop currently sshes around places and then execs a bunch of local commands. That gives me both the heebies and the jeebies. I'd much rather deploy an rtop-server compiled binary and restrict the ssh key that rtop uses to connect with something like "command=/usr/bin/rtop-server" in the .ssh/authorized_keys file for the local user that will accept rtop-initiated ssh connections.

Yeah, that is what I meant by "some sort of agent." - I personally make rather extensive use of the forced-command bit in ssh.
You also used to be able to buy a Sharpie marker at the same time as a CD purchase to defeat their rootkit installed from music CDs. I don't miss them too much either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
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Thanks for asking.
I wanted to build a very simple API, and document it that my year ago self could understand it and actually figure out how to use the whole thing. I don't know if this is a good or bad thing, but I spent more time documenting/designing the single doc page then I did writing the actual API. I also thought the idea was unique enough that it was worth sharing.

The reason for GET and POST is that it was easier for my year ago self to copy and paste a GET url into chrome and hit Enter and see what happens.
> Although we think of Google as the company behind the eponymous search engine and Android phone, it's actually an advertiser.

Don't forget about Play Store revenue. They're making money hand over fist by taking a cut of app sales, which is enough to financially justify Android. Oh, and the media sales too, which don't even require Android.
My area does not have many people who use Waze. Not much of the data in my area would come from Waze. However they do take data from Android phones and apple phones with Google Maps and can use their locations to find roads that have a lot of people on them. This is great for giving everyone live traffic data. This is something that is hard to compete with.

See, most of the time when I am driving I know where I am going, but I want to know the fastest way there when it is busy. Sometimes an accident happens, or some event happened and it is just busy a specific way. I want to know that. OSM can't really help me there. Google maps does.

I like to Skydive as well; that is an almost 2 hour drive each way through busy Toronto, Ontario. It can get pretty busy around there. Google suggests me the fastest route there and reroutes if a faster route opens. My last drive there I saved 15 minutes just because Google maps directed me around a traffic jam. If I was using an OSM app I would have had to go right through that traffic jam and lost 15 minutes of time, and burned more gas.

I love OSM, and gladly contribute edits and gps traces to it, but I still can't use it as a primary navigation app until it can compete which it likely will never be able to.
Nope!

http://www.colr.org/darius.html
(Saving current progress in case someone abuses the page again: http://pastie.org/pastes/10182802/text [16:08 Monday, May 11, 2015 UTC].)
> Just because it is open source does not me (a) that your changes will be mainlined, (b) that your changes will be even considered or (c) that you will logistically be able to maintain an ongoing fork.

Or d) that I have any time in my life to undertake such work.
I think it's best to make an explicit, type-level distinction between these things. JodaTime does this: you can have an Instant (which represents a point in time) or a DateTime (a human-readable date/time with a timezone), and if you try to pass one where the other is needed then you get a compile error.
There are a raft of unaddressed safety and licensing issues to verify that autonomous navigation feedback systems can sense danger and perform evasive, ingenious maneuvers sufficiently to preserve life and property. This is one of the reasons why incremental features are less risky than going all in to uncharted waters.
No, it was debunked.