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1) This happens at other universities, including ones in Europe. Imagine walking the same corridors as Newton walked, or being taught by professors who currently work at CERN.
2) Most top tier universities would have this, imagine being college roommates with the next Stephen Hawking or Prime Minister.
3) The pedigree depends on what you are studying, and other nations have their own prestigious universities
Why? I just subscribed to all messages and use it as any other mailing list – in my email.
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We are not the customers, we are the product.
You cannot use "Github" name to represent your product.

So good luck with selling that domain name. It's worthless and you are wasting your time.
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In "standard" FPTP-like systems we frequently see real-world cases that encourage tactical voting. E.g. look at the French Presidential election where Le Pen went through to the final round because there were four leftist candidates that split the leftist vote.
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I'm sceptical how the co-pilot somehow did the single most wrong thing to this aircraft possible (unhinging the wing).

There must be some interesting report to be had on how design can kill if that is what went wrong.

It's a fun exercise think about how this kind of failure can be compensated while always having to ask, what if that compensation also fails.

The flight computer could easily work out that the wing can only be unlocked AFTER the violent acceleration only during a complete free-fall, but then it's no problem thinking of a hundred ways that computer could fail. Plus you probably want a manual override anyway to the lock etc.

If that was actually my job I'd never sleep easy.
A remark on the imagery: Is it necessary to link the "slow web" with a man at his later (or last) stage in life? Isn't this naturalising the hectic/fast web as something ok to do for the first two thirds of ones life?
No clue, but I hate it so much that I routinely abstain to partecipate to the discussions of the projects who happen to choose it for their mailing lists. I just can't help it.
7-Zip is still partially relying on SF, though the downloads seem to been moved elsewhere.
>but the "common wisdom" is that to be happy, you should focus on yourself and your relationships as opposed to the world around you

Apart from the genetics thing, part of it is that most people are not going to be involved in impactful work. They do bullshit jobs and fret over it way too much than they really should. In turn, they lose out on quality family time and take people close to them for granted. So some of the comments about 'deathbed regrets' is actually valid for such people. If they were really fretting about solving cancer, aids or any thing that would change millions of lives, the apparent wisdom would immediately make less sense.
Most US software companies with on-the-ground operations in Japan will want to have Japanese subsidiaries. You'll want to have Japan-based employees. This obligates you to pay Japanese employment taxes, contribute to the Japanese retirement system, and arrange for Japanese healthcare. Having a Japanese subsidiary is one of those things which I suspect is not an actual requirement but which your competent legal counsel will say will save you hundreds of hours of explaining yourself at the local ward office.

Additionally, after you have a subsidiary, you have a very straightforward way (intra-company transfer) to get e.g. US employees work-capable Japanese visas in a fashion which is very not straightforward if you lack a Japanese entity. (If you have e.g. an engineer who you want to place in Tokyo who doesn't come with e.g. Japanese citizenship, permanent residence, or a spousal/parent visa, then getting them an engineering visa requires roughly three bullet points, one of which is a contract with a Japanese organization to do engineering work. It's a black letter law requirement and you will not be successful in getting an engineering status of residence without it.)

n.b. Not a lawyer, not an accountant, but if anyone from the US is ever getting an office set up here drop me a line and I'll give you the quick rundown.
Awesome article, gonna do that with my start-up Modescope
Myself did not think it was that bad, but the article is not very concise. The first comment on the article (below it, by "An Engineer"), sums up my sentiments pretty well.
Personal curiosity: Do you still use Amazon? They do this behavior.

Clarification: It need not even be offline. Even if you are online, there is no way to tell if in the TimeToServer after you clicked the buy button that somebody else hasn't already clicked the buy button.

And you can't say this is trivially solved by a central master server that uses a "first come first serve" basis that then knows to report an error back to you after you clicked the button.

Why? Because the whole point of online shopping is that you might have customers on opposite sides of the nation or world. There is no guarantee they will hit the same server, or even if you sharded it so they will a single server can only physically scale up to so many requests.

So point being this IS NOT LYING, because suggesting I can communicate faster than light or predict the future is lying. As I believe the article mentioned, computers can only make their best guess. This isn't a lie, but yes they might make a mistake - and the best corrective action is to apologize and compensate.

It would be a far greater mistake to assume FTL knowledge, and a lie to think the machine can't sometimes fail and be wrong.
Sorry to point this out, but the uplifting character of this story only really applies if this action actually helped the trapped man. It might be nice to feel like these people helped, but if the takeaway is "untrained people should rush in and do whatever seems like a good idea in life-threatening medical situations", I think it's selling us an attractive and dangerous lie.

There are many kinds of injuries (not just puncture or spinal injuries) that get much worse if treated by someone with no medical experience. The article said his leg was crushed but lifting the bus "looked like the most reasonable action to take". One of the possible consequences of a suddenly released crush injury is kidney failure caused by crush syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_syndrome

Like all of the people involved in this story, I'm not a medical expert, so I don't know for sure whether these people helped or harmed the situation. However, I think it would be responsible journalism to ask a medical doctor whether the crowd did the right thing before hailing them as heroes and encouraging others to do the same.
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Everyone worries about code, but on top of code you have architecture.

Worrying about code makes other programmers life easier, just like worrying about endpoints or architecture.
I've never understood this. At home, you don't need uptime, thus you're much better off with a real offline backup instead of a mirror.
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Its an experimental aircraft doing test flights, I don't think they spend a lot of time trying to make it blunderproof. Theres a million things the test pilots could do to endanger the craft. I imagine they mostly just assume that the pilots will not mess up.
Can't you set the number format on the cell?
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Everyone says: "No one on their deathbed regrets not spending more time at the office". Perhaps that's true. But I bet there are people who, on their deathbed, regret not having been more able to provide their families with financial security, or not doing a better job on something important they worked on.

You might die tomorrow. But it's more likely that you won't, and you should plan accordingly.

(I am not arguing that today's culture of overwork isn't harmful. I think it is, and I think most people in tech startups should probably be spending less time working. And if that what-if-I-died-tomorrow question is what it takes to get someone to think about what they really want to be doing with their lives, that's great. But it's still something of a cheat, and if you draw the conclusion from it that you should be optimizing your life for minimal regret on premature death then I think you're probably making a mistake.)
Ah! I had forgotten about that
This is going to look like "oh typical HN shooting things down", but:

Parses 13/4/2012 as:

year: 2012

month: 13

day: 4
Nation states are a very recent development indeed - they've only really existed (as firm concepts) for about 400 years, and Hobbes essentially set out the system of the world we operate to today in Leviathan - prior to that, state power was vested in individuals and families, and was drawn from the divine (think "dieu et mon droit" or "l'etat, c'est moi").

There has been a hierarchical structure for as long as we recall, from tribal "big men" to pharaonic rule through to the POTUS - and we see this mirrored in Chimpanzees and Bonobos - but it does not mean that we must be bound to it. Consensus based rule becomes feasible when your arbiter and enforcer ceases to be human - the tragedy of the commons, Abilene paradox, etc., can be systemically dealt with - and replacing our current systems of governance and our current concepts of nationhood does not require a turn of the wheel, a revolution - rather it can happen from within, and co-exist, and with sufficient mass, simply render the current system an anachronism.

Consider monarchy - why do we still have it? Because thinkers in the enlightenment realised that trying to outright do away with it would be too painful a tear for their societies, so instead, they invented systems (parliament, representation of commoners) which worked within, and then subverted the existing power structure. The English Civil War and its aftermath (Glorious Revolution, specifically) underscored the fact that change happens best when you seek not to replace or overthrow, but simply to do better.

It can happen again. We just need to try.
It's possible with .xls or .xlsx files, but csv files can't store number formats.
Summary: "Fulfillment of physical goods is hard, especially when you don't know anything about it."
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Should Github Hire Matz then? And many other Japanese Ruby Core team to speed up the development of Ruby ( as a language ) and CRuby / RuJIT ( as the Compiler )

The Ruby VM really need some spanking.
It's a trick because everyone just clicks accept blindly. They know this, that's why it's part of the installation process.
These are common in Turkey and generally used in both sides of a transaction. I saw them in Syria as well (10 years ago). There, it seemed that part of the purpose was to mitigate "accidental" physical contact between men and women. Several women I knew there complained about guys getting fresh (touching their fingers or hands) during transactions. The tray prevented this. In Turkey though, I think it is more for transparency in the transaction.
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Most users think the way to install a program is to click next-next-next untill the program is installed. Since they downloaded Filezilla, they will expect that program to install, and not other crap. Are they to blame for not reading? Maybe. But nobody actually wants crapware in their machines, so bundling it with your software so that stupid users get it installed is not nice.
I don't think it is about feeling satisfied on the deathbed. We imagine the deathbed as the place where we finally understand what is important and what isn't, and then try to apply this knowledge to the limited timespan in between. It is a way to take a step back and evaluate our lives.
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Was Juncker extolling this concept, or condemning it?
I feel 'leaving a legacy' would be dying knowing that your work left some tangible mark on humanity that you shared the planet with. It doesn't have to change people lives twenty years from now. Just the fact that my creations were enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people in an year(or five years) is the satisfaction most people would happily die with and would include in 'legacy'. Of course there is a different spectrum of 'legacy' for different profession and depending on your work the value of 'legacy' would fall somewhere in the spectrum specific to your work. So comparing 'legacy' across professions might not even make sense as long as you are helping thousands(or some higher number) of people. And as others have said, I believe 'impact' is a better word for hacker/scientific community than legacy.
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He's currently Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, so it may be a tough sell.
It was a closely fought duel between Robert Van Winkle and George Orwell, two luminaries of their time, but in the end I had to go with the obvious choice.
(I upvoted you, I think your downvotes for this comment are unfair.)

I tend to agree. HN seems to be uninterested in those stories. Submitting them on different days or at different times doesn't make much difference.

The Screen Huts was, I thought, pretty interesting and touches on things that do get discussed on HN like Facebooks weird Internet offering or the Google blimps.

I know it's only a slideshow, but still, it gives some powerful stories that explain the severe need for good, cheap, communications in developing nations.

http://www.trust.org/slideshow/?id=356b4ab3-7e12-440f-9781-b...
I haven't tried rust yet, until this article appear, I need more easy peasy tutorial about rust web app, clear and simple tutorial, I'm gopher anyway.
I had the same fear too... It is not completely gone. But it helps a lot the fact that it is fully open-source, and the majority of contributors are outside of Google.
This definitely isn't the worst offender out there, but you're judging it on a bunch of subjective criteria; some will agree with you, others will still be 'fooled'. Although Sourceforge isn't probably a very common installation source for unexperienced users, I'm willing to bet at least some will end up there via a search engine. Bear in mind that some people will literally have no idea what 'MacKeeper' etc. is, and will assume that it's necessary.

The only objective measure is "is this software required for what I'm installing"; clearly, in this case, MacKeeper fails. There is a degree of trickery, sure, but they are unequivocally trying to trick people into installing something other than what they intended.
Do you know an exposition for mathematicians? Preferably in front of a paywall. What is the mathematical content?
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I didn't say anything about working class people. I said the populace in general, which actually largely refers to the hum-drum middle classes with comfortable enough lives that they don't care to think too deeply.

I didn't say that people want someone else to give them an opinion, simply that people will generally take opinion and accept it as truth if they haven't had any alternative view presented.

If anything, the working class is more politically aware than any other class in this country.

The people who turn purple and start getting very unhappy indeed are staunch conservatives, usually middle aged, who severely dislike their world-view being challenged.

Finally, in terms of "they took my job" - who are these they, precisely, and why are they to blame? They didn't take anyone's job - unscrupulous employers did that, and blaming migration or the ECHR is, frankly, asinine - and as per my post, I don't even blame the people who end up thinking this - rather those who orchestrate groupthink in order to make them think this.
Hi Paul!

I have a question about the new tagging feature in InfluxDB 0.9 - hopefully you can clear up my confusion.

My understanding is that tags are great, as they are indexed and hence quick to search.

However, they are not suitable for situations where you have very high cardinality (> 100,000). Assuming this isn't the case, where else would you use fields over tags?

For example - apart from the indexing and cardinality issue - what are the pros/cons of

"tags": {
"host": "example.com",
"direction": "bytesin"
}
"fields": {
"value": 50
}

and

"tags": {
"host": "example.com",
"direction": "bytesout"
}
"fields": {
"value": 60
}

versus

"tags": {
"host": "example.com",
"direction": "bytesin"
}
"fields": {
"bytesin": 50
"bytesout": 60
}

Or say you have a logline, and you're parsing various attributes out of it (meaning all the values are quite tightly associated with each other) - would you split them into separate series, each with their own set of tags, or would you store them in a single series with multiple fields?
>> "here in the UK the government and the majority of the population (through a sustained propaganda campaign) strongly oppose human rights, and see them as "EU interference"."

Any source on this because I'm highly sceptical. Anecdotal but everyone I know is either pissed that government is even considering scrapping the Human Rights Act or confident that removing it wouldn't pass a vote.
Also it does not consider 12:33 to be a time.
If you put the apostrophe in front of a number, and save it as csv, that works. But if you reopen that exact same file, Excel will still misinterpret the number.

The issue here was that there's no way to let Excel know that this value in this CSV file is not a number. The only way around it that I know of is to stick with xlsx, which has its own pain points.
Actually, by default, the popup appears every time you close the app, but there's a clear option to suppress it on subsequent occasions for 'this version'. I've never selected that option, so I'm not sure how fine-grained 'version' is; I actually like seeing the reminder because I will, definitely, one day, make a donation, so I appreciate the prompt!
I'm a big fan of Evernote, although I find that at the end of the day, I have to spend a little while organising the notes I've taken during the day to avoid a big pile of note 'mush'.

Personally, I'm a big fan of https://culturedcode.com/things for a todo list.
You say it's a great screen, unambiguous, very clear. But you then say:

> EDIT: I didn't even notice, there is even grey small text that spells this out in completely unambiguous words! (Thank you for considering this offer from our advertiser...your choice does not affect installation of FileZilla.)

Doesn't the fact that you didn't notice it make you at least pause?

I am ad tolerant. I do not run an ad blocker. If an ad is relevant to my interests I will click it. (I click maybe one ad every six months. I've never bought anything as the result of an ad.) And I loathe this kind of bundling.

We know that users are unable to read dialog boxes. Ask anyone who's worked in support about their experiences of getting people to read back an error message that's displayed on their screen. Every support channel on the Internet will ask people to post screenshots or to copy and paste the output.

IMO there should be an industry standard for how the screens should be worded, what they should look like, what buttons they can or can't include. Yes, we'd see many fewer people installing the malware but that's the point: no-one wants it. I tolerte ads but I see no reason to switch from Google supplied ads to some random adnetwork.
> It's so sad to think that google groups was the best interface ever to nntp in the past when it took over dejanews.

The best WWW interface!

slrn or pan or almost any other newsreader were great.
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I expect an acquisition announcement in about six days before the third Thursday in 2016.
Is Docker Hub really the best way to distribute your images?
The first two sections seemed fine to me.

However, the "cartography" section made almost no sense. It needs to be explained more clearly how the two carts are different and why they diverge.

edit: On a more general note, the animations are really slick!
This could be a little more robust...
Miss a dot and you get weird places like "if".
Relative times don't get extracted.

Something like: "Hi Frank,

I've looked up the OIDs in the Cisco manual. Let's meet for lunch at burger king tomorrow at noon.

S" yields only "Cisco" - as a place. Well.

I know parsing natural language is hard. So keep up the good work and keep on tweaking :-)
They won't install it on my own server. The $100 one-time install fee installs it on a virtual server with Digital Ocean, which then costs $10 a month hosting.
I guess the definition of JavaEE itself is ambiguous then. What was introduced to us in school was Wildfly, EJBs (Session Beans), JSF, Hibernate... That kind of stuff.
Do you honestly think most adults follow what the senate is doing? On top of that, do you think most adults follow what the senate is doing to the extent that they know the names of individual senators, and whether one is more or less distinguished than another?

This would be like me saying that due to X's long and distinguished career in tennis, most americans should know who they are. The problem is that most americans don't follow tennis at all, especially not to the extent that they are familiar with particular players, unless they are superstars that always have their name all over the news (I can think of two for which this might be the case). And senators seem to have their name in the prominent news less frequently than tennis stars, honestly.
Yes, it isn't ideal.

What you can do is put 2 apostrophes in front of the number in xls/xlsx and save it to csv. The conversion will drop one apostrophe and when you open the csv it will still have one apostrophe in front of it followed by the whole number. Then you can use a formula like =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1) to remove the leading apostrophe. The number generated by the formula appears as a proper number again and is usable in calculations.
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I've long thought there should be an efficient-markets solution to flash crashes. If the majority of sudden price drops are flash crashes and not fundamentals trading, then someone ought to be able to print money by simply resting a big bid 19% (or however low you can go without tripping the circuit breaker) below the current price, for everything, every day, and cashing in when the price crashes and rebounds. That would smooth out the crashes without any need for external intervention.

So why is no-one doing this?
Accepted as in recognized for what it's worth, or even recognized as a higher education degree at all.
Yeah seems obvious, but I don't think it really makes sense to guess that it's a UK format date based on whether one of the numbers is bigger than 12. 4/5/2012 could be 4th May or 5th April and it would be impossible to tell programmatically.

People really need to start using yyyy/mm/dd :-)
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There are some small campaigns aiming to help correct the misinformation put out by most newspapers.

http://rightsinfo.org/infographics/what-human-rights-do-for-...
My favourite part of this article was the description of an entirely trust-based retail economy that has now - sadly but inevitably - vanished.
30 is a bit of an exaggeration don't you think? I counted 13 tools, 9 of which share (or can share) a common login (Google). This is far from as onerous as you're making it out to be.