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Surely this is a complaint against the library?

You can still check your data in python methods and reject it if it doesn't respond to your expected methods. Duck typing, anybody?
networked Thanks for posting this and your application to business settings. It feels like this is an instance of a more general class of reasoning errors. The reasoning error is to ignore or underestimate the impact of the context when we attribute cause and effect.

"What worked before will work again, even though the surrounding context is totally different."

I have seen it with sales people moving from large organizations to smaller early stage businesses. The transitioning employee and the new employer often jointly make the same attribution mistake. You were very successful at selling services for giant corp X, so you are a superstar business development person and will naturally be able to use all those contacts (Rolodex) and do wonderful things selling our business services.

A few months or a year later everyone is wondering why this guy hasn't sold hardly anything? The mistake is to assume that this person's sales skills were truly general when in fact his former success was due to an unusually good fit between his skills and the giant corp's culture, services and customer base. So instead of transferring right over from superstar for them to superstar for us the sales guy is struggling, fighting a loss of confidence and trying to regain sales momentum.

Although it is harder to see in reverse, I suspect the following to be true. I try something based on common wisdom. It doesn't seem to have the effect predicted by everyone else. But that advice is from people in a very different starting position. Maybe at a later stage in life I am in the right situation but because of my prior failed experience I don't try again even though this is the context in which that advised approach really works well.
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Yes, seriously.

If you don't believe me, what about David Axelrod:

"POLITICO: But what about the press? You say it has disproportionate power here. Do you think Britain’s conservative print media is more powerful than Fox News?

DA: Yeah, I do. I do think the parties approach media as partisan players. So you see parties disseminating messages through the print media in a way that is unusual.

DA: Fox is certainly very conservative, skews to the Republican side, but there isn’t a kind of lockstep between them and the Republicans. Fox tries to drive the Republican agenda more than reflecting it.

Here there are relationships between the parties and media outlets that are deeper so you see a lot of themes being previewed in the media in a way that you don’t see in the states.

POLITICO: Did you know what you were getting into?

DA: We discussed this when I signed on … I’ve worked in aggressive media environments before but not this partisan."

http://www.politico.eu/article/the-axelrod-exit-interview/
The original [better] link blocked by a previously one point submission [now two] from 1389 days ago.

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/acts/documents/SP800-142-101...
Yes, now they will charge by the watt and time of day to reduce peak load. Although, I actually think the main idea is that it will make them aware of outages in real-time so they can recover faster, which one of the factors used to judge publicly traded utilities (also know as CAIDI, customer average interruption duration index).
The media tried very hard to make this sound complicated and scary. Ignoring its how the major parties elect their own leaders. [needs source]

Frankly changing the voting system would require everyone that votes to understand the implications of the system itself. From what I remember talking about the AV people would think of one thing that's different, call it a problem and no amount of explaining would matter.
How much support is there for an exit, though? I was under the impression that most of Scotland was in favour of staying in the EU, for instance.
"In recent years at least 70 people have been jailed for non-payment of fines associated with TV licensing offences."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10256679/T...
Long-term, no, but due to New Labour (1997-2010) being slightly right of centre, the Lib Dems were "left" in relation to that, yes, but not in relation to Labour's traditional position.

I am not particularly savvy when it comes to Scottish politics, but I was under the impression that Scottish Labour was considered somewhat more left than Labour proper even during the New Labour years.
It's a reinvention of storytelling. It breaks stories into their component pieces and reassembles them in new and interesting ways -- kind of an "atomization." It's a logical next step from hyperlinks. If it takes off, it will lead to writers rethinking how they tell stories. It will also change how readers read and absorb information.
don't care. at least UKIP got one seat. FUCK UKIP.
I've not done it myself (I've looked but it was a small project so I just ignored server side rendering and used django-compressor for convienience's sake) but you should definitely check https://github.com/markfinger/python-react if you haven't already
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I typed 'earl grey language' and the first three results refer to this, the HN article is in fifth position.

The same as typing '24 tv series' will mostly return relevant results.
This is quite an interesting stance. While I'm glad as an Englishman who appreciates the EU that UKIP didn't come to more power, I think it's unfair to say there was no UKIP vote, they came second or third in a lot of Labour areas and actually netted around 12% of all votes, which is huge, beating the Lib Dems outright.

It's only our messed up FPTP system that means we're safe from UKIP, which doesn't resonate well with me. When a party can net 12% of the overall vote, coming third overall and only get a single seat in Parliment, something is seriously wrong with our voting system.
Ditto that on Firefox, OS X
I'm a bit confused as to what you mean.

Physical merchants eliminate liability for fraud and get reduced interchange fees by accepting chip.

Web merchants get reduced fees by using 3D secure (and the other scheme's versions). It is the issuing banks decision whether the 3D secure uses a chip or not, not the decision of the merchant. Many banks use sms push, RSA tokens, OTP sent in an envelope, or just passwords.
I can't see the video, and without that the landing page doesn't tell me anything. How is this different from periscope.io?
Interestingly, Survation actually got it (mostly) right the day before, but didn't publish it because it looked like such an odd outlier: http://survation.com/snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victo...
But wouldn't tactical voting be captured in the polls as well?

There's another theory about bias inherent in sampling from the internet. But I can't imagine pollsters don't know about that.
There has been a ton of discussion about what a clojure framework should be. I think Luminus with it's ability to wrap many independent libraries is a not-too-opinionated way to achieve something approachable.
What's interesting from a game theory point of view is to have so many different parties with a FPTP electoral system.

You would expect a two party system.
What has 3D Secure got to do with EMV? How is it supposed to use the chip and the PIN?
Labour are the most left leaning, but still kinda centrist. Liberal Democrats are relatively centrist for the major parties but still quite right:

This sums it up best... the UK is mostly a right leaning authoritarian country, we vote on the relative differences between parties rather than the overall thing.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015
An obscure note, parties do use AV to select their leaders, and for that purpose it's actually pretty good since there's only one position to fill. In a parliamentary election, adding some PR like in the devolved Scottish and Welsh assemblies makes more sense, and means AV was only a tiny improvement.

http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/additional-member-system

http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/alternative-vote
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You've got 650 marginal elections where people can only pick one party - and not a coalition through prioritized votes. Compare this to the US where each congressional election is usually between two or three candidates/parties.

This makes forecasts primed for surprises due to margins of error alone, not including other factors.
I could easily write a similar blog post about C doing gymnastics with malloc that don't make any logical sense.
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(Full disclosure: I have been involved in MRI and PET imaging arms of industry-funded trials such as this one).

First off, there's no question that Amyloid plays a role in the development of AD.

It is however becoming increasingly clear that it does not play the primary causative role. Its exact role is currently unclear: its likely both a secondary neurotoxic agent and an epiphenomenon. It's also non-specific (ie. Amyloid deposition is seen in several other disease states as well as in many cognitively normal controls).

There are certainly other agents and mechanisms that are both more important in the development of AD and arise earlier in the time course of the disease.

This particular drug has a modest effect (From this study - it slows down disease progression, at least in the first year). The several dozen other anti-amyloid agents that have been trialled, at billions of dollars of expense, have either had little or no effect or demonstrated a modest effect in the first 12-24 months treatment before becoming ineffective again.

Its also worth noting that the manufacturers have a very limited understanding of the mechanism(s) of action of the drug. So, there's no guarantee that any effect is actually attributable to the reduced amyloid deposition, and not some secondary process.
As an American, I wonder what the dominance of SNP in Scotland will mean.
Lack of types != lack of validation. No Python rule says you may leave out the latter. Same goes for any typeless language.
That is true, and would this knowledge come from specializing in a certain domain or just intuition?

Or could there be guidelines for determining if some technology will live a short life, for example: tablets or even the Apple watch?
It's not random at all, it's just that the national vote doesn't factor at all (only the vote in each seat does).

It has the (often overlooked, IMO) benefit of a strong 1:1 connection between constituent and MP: even if you didn't vote for the MP, a majority of your neighbours did, and the MP is still your representative in parliament. Organising locally to boot out your MP is much, much simpler than organising nationally to shift balances of power. That has got to be a factor in keeping MPs (more) honest.

In PR, you can be in the deeply problematic situation that you like candidate A and dislike candidate B from party X, but you vote for A actually ends up going to B - in effect, you can only really vote for a party, not a particular candidate. This is a significant shift of power to the parties as they generally control (or heavily influences) who runs where and how the ranking that controls "spill-over" votes will end up. Parties are often run opaquely, through back-room deals and patronage, not terribly democratically.
... which, in an ideal world, the compiler would tell you is immutable however.
Oh! Orbital launches. For some reason I was expecting to see Robert Goddard's launches. Nice though.
They were the centrist party, labour was the binary left (centre-left). The Dem part of LibDems had split from labour in the 80s because labour was getting too left-wing. With New Labour moving to centre-right, LDs moved to right-right (explaining the coalition being "basically tory"). The left-leaning parties remaining are the SNP (center-left) and the Greens (left) (Sinn Féin can be ignored as they refuse to sit in Westminster)
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What's the significance of being an American in your wondering?
Interestingly, a newer book with a different focus, Boards that Lead [0], lays the blame on the ultimate demise/downfall of those two companies on the boards as instructive of things not to do. Both books are quite good, and worth reading -- even if it is better not to treat them like roadmaps =)

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Boards-That-Lead-Charge-Partner/dp/142...
If only it was one complaint. It's an endless stream of whining from somebody who doesn't understand dynamic typing, and thinks that profanity is a form of punctuation (or maybe it's supposed to be humoristic? I can't tell).
I'm surprised how many Windows-based CL devs there are. I am too, however I use SBCL and it works pretty well too, although I have stumbled upon strange Windows-only bugs with it.
The plural of anecdote is not data, but I get the sense that many left-wing Labour voters who might support them avoid voting Green (especially in the last two elections) for fear of "wasting" their vote.

It would be interesting to see if that ever changed under a different electoral system (like the buried AV, or PR), but I'm not sure that we're going to see such a change any time soon. A party that got a real majority on just under 40% of votes cast isn't likely to wipe away that victory with electoral reform.

But considering how high UKIP's vote was, despite returning only one MP, there may be more pressure to explore that idea again.
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This whole area is a big ole platform problem.

Credit cards are a bad platform to build on. The duopoly structure is a bad platform for gradual improvement and the regulatory environment is a bad platform for innovation.

We have deeply entrenched kick-it-forward allocation of responsibility and fixes to serious problems are characterized by firefighting, designed-by-committee compliance, cover-your-assness and such. All the hallmarks of a poorly functioning market, poorly functioning organization and general pathologies that occur whenever the way we organize is wrong.

Leaving bitcoin aside,^ I think the fundamental problem is having CCs play the role they do. Instead of customers sending merchants money, merchants request money from CC companies. That is a bad system.

^The reason bitcoin is difficult to insert into the conversation is because it has so many big hairy goals. Government power over money. Macroeconomic theories of monetary policies baked in… Its a big interesting project, but the problem discussed here is only really a subset of what bitcoin is about so it's kind of a tangent.
As a German I feel strange seeing a nationalist party win. Is it reasonable to worry here? Don't know much about Scotland.

*edit: deleted a sub comment after being shown that I misunderstood something.
There was discussion about the variance between phone and internet polls before the result, but the differences between the two types of polls were minute compared with the change in the actual results.

Tactical voting in an opinion poll doesn't make any difference, so I'd guess there's a danger of misleading answers. I'm sure the pollsters are at least aware of the issue, though what they can do about it I'm not sure.
I think there are a lot of ways you can help out the "look at my code now" guy. Even a simple "give me a few minutes to finish up what I'm working on" could go a long way. If you do it regularly enough, it should be a constant reminder to him that you have work too and he may start asking you to look "when you are free".
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GNU CLISP does not get any resources, human or otherwise, from the GNU project. If Sam stops working on CLISP, he's not going to start working on GNU Emacs or gdb instead.
First sentence: "According to the patent, the drones will be able to track the location of the person it is delivering to by pulling data from their smartphone."

Further down: "Using Audi's...communications system...DHL delivery drivers would track a customer's vehicle over a specified period of time and then use a digital access code to unlock the boot. This code would then expire as soon as the boot was shut."

...well this is all a little more unsettling than having your mailman or a FedEx driver drop by your house
Many here voted lib dem in a bid to keep the Tories out, but would rather have voted green. We're a Tory seat for the first time in decades. Ho hum.
Your parent didn't say there was no UKIP vote, he said there was no cohesive UKIP votes: UKIP got a bit of voice everywhere but as a result got nothing due to FPTP. Compare to the SNP who got less overall votes than UKIP but focused their effort in a much smaller number of constituencies.
There's nothing wrong with milk tea.
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Apparently the author cannot be bothered to learn about the Python ecosystem or read docs on the functionality he is using. It's probably true that dynamic typing is a very bad match to those characteristics, but... I could give you the same rant about lots of aspects of Java's toolchain. The reality is that you have to learn the tools before there is much point in passing judgement.
70 "in recent years" versus 155,000 convicted of not paying it just last year? I'm guessing they were jailed for more than just simple "I didn't pay".
How does the "shy conservative" come into play in telephone polls, for example? I guess it may well, but it seems a little strange.

Is there something where on the day people swing more towards the safety of the incumbent? This study seems to suggest the opposite should true [0], at least when it comes to undecided voters.

It's definitely an interesting question. How were the polls so wrong? Maybe in the closely contested seats the minor parties split labour? But why didn't the polls show that?

I'd love to paw through the data. Really need to look at it on an electorate by electorate basis to see the variation between the parties (opinion vs actual).

[0] http://www.pollingreport.com/incumbent.htm
The gif is still very impressive. If I recall correctly the paper said that they did this by finishing the white hole in the original piece so they could do the conformal mapping completly.

More impressive is that Escher did this without a formal math training
There's an answer there too. In Lisp, it is possible to have local functions. In other words, you're defining a function, and inside it you have a couple of functions that are local to the containing function.

That's one way for "term" and the other items to have different definitions.

There are probably other even better ways to do it.
Sentences like, "fines associated with TV licensing offences," set alarm bells ringing in my head.
Relevant to some here (and really every internet user), Cameron started his election campaign with a pledge to "ban encryption" if he was re-elected:

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30778424

- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/01/david_camerons_.html

- http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/16/obama-sides-with-cameron-in-encryption-fight/
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Scotland's only 10% of the population so that's the maximum they can contribute to the polls.

Though the potential for Scotland to vote to leave the UK and remain in the EU in the event of an exit may help dampen enthusiasm for leaving.
Hi,

When you say that you have problems with performance, was there any specific concrete examples that you can share?

For what it's worth, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. The fact that you can program relates to a great skill that you have. There are millions of people who can't do it. Don't take it too personally - you can definitely overcome any "problems" you have.
I think the "obvious solution" hinted at was to get off social media.

For me, I started to hate Facebook. Too much time spent on it, too little value. But enough value to not delete my account. I ended up deleting the mobile app and was shocked at how positively that impacted my habits. Now I'm only on Facebook a couple times a week, and it provides slight value while not becoming a time sink.
This problem has already been solved.

Most interchange protocols contain flags for recurring payments and standing authorizations. Only the first such transaction contains chip data to prove that the cardholder actually wants to authorize a standing auth/recurring auth.

In these cases, the standing authorization is already tied to the merchant + PAN + address details. Using chip in the first place is what allows a database compromise which leaks the PAN to not enable a criminal to authorize at another merchant: they won't be able to generate the ARQC needed to authorize.

All subsequent standing auths are card not present anyways.
PHP actually has quite a few features I like compared to other dynamic languages, although maybe that's a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. Typehints alone make PHP preferable to python and ruby for me. Only quirk is to remember to always use ===.

One thing I love about PHP: if a function/method parameter is typehinted to a class then I cannot pass null into that parameter unless explicitly allowed to. Much better than C#/Java.

In PHP 7 with return types and primitive typehints programming PHP will actually be quite pleasant.

Every experienced PHP developer knows that most of the inconsistencies and quirks are only worthy of trivia lists and barely ever create real bugs.
what do you mean session restore? we could restore the basic layout of sessions, windows, panes but we couldn't restore what was run in them (and it would be dangerous to try)
Gosh, and all I'm upset about is the need to put colons after statements when they're clearly not needed.

More seriously, when I work with Python, I constantly have this vague feeling of mild frustration. I think it's because of all the oddball library stuff, issues with autocomplete in my IDE (I know I should find something better), idiomatic Python ways that seem to short circuit my brain's parser, I'm pretty much googling for almost every line I write.

But then, after a few minutes, I look at what I've made and this weird wave of productivity washes most of it away and I'm surprised at what I just created.

Recently I tried to rewrite a personal Java project in Python. I had hacked away at the Java project in my spare time for weeks. The Python version took me about 10 hours over two days, that included hunting down and installing all the libraries.

I do agree that cross-platform support isn't what it should be, and there's a surprising number of times where the Python library is just a wrapper around a command-line executable (which of course only builds on Linux or Windows or whatever).

There's also an alarming number of old libraries which have long since been deprecated, but the internet is awash in the former library's popularity and it's much harder to find information on the supposed replacement. More importantly, nobody really bothers to tell you "don't use the old and busted one, use the new hotness". You just sort of have to figure it out because pip doesn't have it or something.

I'd also love a Python version of Perl's -c which sort of pseudo-compile-time checks your code without running it.
"Partisan" is very different from "Tame".
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As a Swede without any insight into UK politics other than recent surveillance reports and internet censorships from the UK I can only say that this is disappointing for me.