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> most of the things in Crystal are lazy: if you don't invoke a method there are no type checks to be done for it

Does this mean that if a library doesn't have complete test coverage compile-time errors could be discovered only by clients?
The Four Steps of Debugging
That's in extremely bad taste.
Not exactly. Buttcracks are gross, and may easily tarnish a community ("hey, look at those fat ass nerds"). I've been at the Utrecht tournament last week: from my seat, I had a direct view on at least two buttcracks, which were both much bigger than in these pictures. Even for the players, it's not a great sight.

However, shaming these guys on social networks is a big no-no. This guy should have went to a judge so that they could talk and educate the concerned people, rather than taking pictures without their consent and posting them online. For this reason, WotC banned this guy from official tournaments for something like a year.

The Magic community (especially the pro community) has a sad habit to publish everything on social networks, even when it should remain out-of-sight (in the past month, two other 'scandals' like this happened, which clearly show that we have something to work on).
NCG, revolution in randomization functions?
>You can literally lose your life if you commit certain crimes, yet people still do it. //

Your argument is poor - deterrents aren't 100% effective in eliminating crime but that doesn't mean they don't work.

I'm not saying they're the most effective answer in all cases.

From another angle "deterrent" literally means something that deters so it's truistic that they work, they're not deterrents otherwise. That's more semantics than anything though.
Cheers. I'm honestly not sure how we're going to build this out.

But, we're definitely conscious of negativity, as the goal was always to be constructive and learn from entrepreneurs like yourself.
Have 1,200 World Cup workers really died in Qatar?
"In 1966, shortly after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty, 14.7% of Americans were poor, under the official definition of the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2013, 14.5% of Americans were poor."
TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy
The author didn't really went into detail. This tournament was the biggest one in history, but not just for Vegas alone. WotC actually set up three tournaments in three cities accross the world (Vegas, Utrecht, Chiba), the same day. Utrecht and Chiba had around 4,000 players each, and Vegas 11,000.

Utrecht was really well organized. It was the first 'pro' tournament I was attending, and everything went quite smoothly. I strongly advise you to do it if you have a chance (especially during those kind of monstruous events, which may be a bit less pro-oriented than usual).
Cheers, we're going to add "Date of Autopsy".
There's a very nicely presented transcript of this mission (and others) on spacelog.

http://apollo13.spacelog.org/
"If the temperature of your soldering iron is too high, metal traces on the PCB could separate from the board and loose connectivity."

How can intelligent people possibly not know how to spell the word "lose"?
What about regulators, I did not understand
I think this could be cool if i could see when the writer writes a certain paragraph in a burst or slowly, where he gets stuck and what he does with it.
As is, i got tired half way into the about page
http://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates
Japanese Samurai Robot vs. Master Samurai, Sword Fight
I agree, in my opinion there are more productive and 'healthy' uses of ones time. But, my opinion doesn't mean anything. Forcing/coercing kids into doing what you think is best for them is not productive either.
19 January 2038 will be a very interesting day, since that's when signed 32 bit unix time will overflow. I don't want to think about how much software would rely on that, especially critical embedded hardware.
This is kind of an exception though when it comes to popular team sports and far as I know E-sport is still far from even those relatively bad pay and terms.
Magic continues to amaze me, it has some serious staying power. It also seems to still be able to attract young players. Analog success in a digital age.
I bought a MacBook Pro once because I believed comments like this. Had lots of hardware trouble, boot problems, had to have it serviced multiple times. Never again. I'm just fortunate that I live in a country where consumer rights are strong and where if you bought a computer and have the same problem three times or so with the service people unable to fix it, you can return it for a refund. Still was a huge time waster each time the machine broke down, though.
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/DistanceToTheMoon.html

OK, I'm intrigued and will be thinking about that one when I'm getting my students into their exam on Monday...

http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/

1992 style. See html comments for the reasons...
But its not real money in the share owners hands buy backs are bad you need to reform taxation of dividends make scrip dividends taxfree if reinvested.

Of course the IB make a nice chunk of change for arranging the buy back
There might be flaw in implementation. Those are much more likely.

> As far as implementation bugs, supporting many options means more users will pick the wrong options, and the attack surface becomes larger so that the chance of implementation issues goes up.

Application must prevent users from picking the wrong options.
1500 a week do you mean in person or totally?

I normally transfer cash from my bank to investment accounts in chunks of $3000 in the UK
Google self-driving car gets rear-ended in 13th accident since 2009
Also https://github.com/gogits/gogs which I run on my VPS and though I still rely on GitHub first and foremost (because GitHub is way better), it's good to have.
I wonder why real-time-strategy (RTS) is dead outside of the StarCraft 2 e-sport niche. RTS used to be the best selling game category around 2000.
I for one don't use Pocket because they have a very poor privacy policy. For me the integration of a 3rd-part service like Pocket goes against everything Firefox says it stands for: free, open, and private internet.

I was enjoying the Firefox reading-list feature because it allowed me to save webpages and sync across my devices without having to put all that information into a proprietary 3rd party service. I thought the reading-list was one of the best features added to Firefox for years, and now they have scraped it. I really can't understand how Mozzilla executives came to the conclusion that this was a good idea.
True == 1 => True. Also, it makes heaps of sense to have the identity `1 if boolean else 0` baked into the language.
Or, criminality is a function of intent? Like it always has been for almost every law?
Sam Smith – Stay with Me [Acoustic Cover]
Well a load of Journalists in the UK got of with the argument that they didn't know that bribing police officers/civil service wasn't illegal.

Of course the ones who got paid are doing 3 years in jail (and will probably lose all their pensions) whist the hacks got off scott free
Aggressive optimization. I just mean on a build server time isn't as much of a factor as local development.
The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to the New Venture Landscape
Good point. Also, keyboard sounds can give an extra feeling.
Currently, we are working on special editor where you and manage speed, delete animations and other visual animations regarding typing.
Millionaires Who Are Frugal When They Don't Have to Be
don't forget these startup guys are literally saving the world one webapp at a time. It's serious stuff.
I think the issue of variety of food is overlooked. My family back in the countryside has orchards of various fruits. When it's cherry season, everyone is eating pounds of cherries every day... till that 2 week season is over and you don't touch a fresh cherry for another year. I can't help but thing this functions as some natural cleansing process.

For me, something like Soylent reminds me of when I prepared bottles for my baby. An all-in-one food was her primary formulation for the first 6 months of her life. But even in that case, there's more variety: because she breastfed. So her nutrients changed from day to day depending on what my wife ate, and slowly changing over the weeks to match her developmental stages.

To assume that a grown adult can survive on a monotonous diet does not sit well with me. I think this relies on some assumptions that haven't been well understood yet.
Solar Power for the masses
Dr. Frankenstein Needs His Own Hippocratic Oath (2013)
I would love to see some kind of streamlined startup system. You apply, pay a nominal fee, if accepted--you're then set up with a corporation, standard offering documents, digital captable, vested founders agreements. The government offers HC for companies with less than $1.5m funding and lifts all of the legal overhead associated with employment/compliance issues--at least for a short period of time. Starting a startup is hard, you give up a lot of your life, opportunity cost, take on a lot of risk, mess with your health, and then you have to deal with all of the legal and admin costs--it's a tax on innovation.
Humanoid robots – in pictures
Understanding the monty hall problem with ruby
Opening of the market- gaming was suddenly less important then a consumeable story. Everyone can consume a actionflick- not everyone can become a general and really keep a battlefield coordinated. The genre is also not so ideal to tell a story.
(Note: by "entity", I mean an assumption in a theory. Whatever is a consequence of the theory itself is not an entity, from an Occam's razor point of view)

I did imply I did not know what multiverse was being considered. As far as I can tell, the article did not say which multiverse it was talking about. There are many reasons to believe in an… unbelievably large universe:

1) Beyond the observable universe. Beyond a certain limit, the universe expands so fast that even light from there can't reach us, ever. Beyond that limit, it might as well be another universe. But whatever lies beyond that limit aren't additional entities. They're just the consequence of known laws of physics. Positing that they somehow don't exist would form an additional assumption in the theory, and therefore not good from an Occam's razor perspective.

2) Inflation. Would apparently create a number of "bubbles" or something, that are sufficiently far a part not to observe each other. I can't judge this one.

3) Macroscopic decoherence. The particle is in in a superposition of being destroyed/intact, the cat is in a superposition of being dead/alive, the scientist that observe the cat is in a superposition of mourning/petting the cat… Well, the Many World Interpretation of quantum mechanics. Well, that's what we call the Many World Interpretation of quantum mechanics. Again, no additional entity here: the other universes are just a natural consequence of long known equations. If anything, we remove an entity, compared to the Copenhagen interpretation: that pesky collapse.

4) Tegmark's level IV multiverse, where every possible mathematical construct "exists" in some sense, and our universe is just one of them (which also happen to support sentient life). Right now, I don't know what to think of it. Though it would be incredibly convenient, from an anthropic principle stand point.

> since the postulated regions with different physical parameters can not be observed,

Are we postulating the regions, or are we postulating a large universe with changing parameters? This is not the same thing. The former is obviously incredibly complex, and therefore a priori impossibly improbable. The latter doesn't involve that many entities, and may even be simpler than current mainstream theories. Or it may not. I'm not a physicist.
How Plex is doing https for all it's users
Yeah, you see this in a lot of sports actually. I feel the biggest differentiator is whether there's a players union or not. The Minors appear to not have their own (I did not know this). Maybe this has to do with how much money the league generates, but I can't say because I don't know the details.

Boxing was already mentioned, but there's also MMA which is in the news right now for this very reason. If you're interested, look up the recent deal between the UFC and Reebok and how nearly all the fighters got screwed by this. Only the top players are getting taken care of, while plenty of others can't even get proper healthcare despite the fact we're talking about a combat sport here. It's unbelievable.

I imagine forming a union must be harder in individual sports rather than team sports. And with e-sports, most players' careers seem to be very short, which can't be helping matters if they ever wanted to form a union. Not much leverage for a variety of reasons.
In the context of set theory, by "self-reference" I would assume you mean either 1) impredicative definitions, i.e., definitions where the bound variables used in the definition are permitted to range over the whole universe to which the very thing being defined belongs, or 2) non-well-founded sets, sets that can have themselves as members or be defined in terms of infinitely descending membership chains like ...ϵ n4 ϵ n3 ϵ n2 ϵ n.

ZFC admits the first by not limiting the range of the bound variables of the axiom schemas of Separation or Replacement (unlike the Separation axiom schema of Bounded Zermelo Set Theory), but it disallows the second (due, for example, to Foundation).

So at least one form of self-reference, impredicative definitions, are permitted by ZFC.
Industrial agriculture also implies an animal death toll, even if only indirectly: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ordering-vegeta...
Anyone read Andrew Smith's Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth?

Perhaps more about Mr Smith than the Apollo missions (sort of gonzo style journalistic account of his search for the Apollo astronauts) but interesting.
Ellipses are more counter-intuitive, compared to circles, but epicycles are still more complex than ellipses. Not to mention, ellipses are explained by something even simpler, namely Newton mechanics.

Many World Interpretation is not like the epicycles. It is like the ellipses. It's the Copenhagen interpretation that is like the epicycles, by postulating a collapse that the equations don't mention at all. The MWI is just taking the equations at face values. Postulating a collapse on top of that makes a more complex theory.

If many world came first, the collapse postulate would just be laughed at. "You're postulating a collapse in just the parts of our universe we can't observe? That reeks of "if I can't see it, it doesn't exists. If you're going to push that theory, you'd better produce empirical evidence."
But Go's tools suck ...

Debuggers - http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/10/golang-debugging-turni...

Code analysis tools - aside from "go fmt" ... don't know any. There's certainly nothing compared to the C++ tooling.

Versioning - nonexistent

Editors, IDEs - nonexistent
I can agree with that, but once you are experienced with functional languages I think "easier to start off with" becomes a very low value. I'm assuming by start off with you solely mean "starting a new project" and not "starting to use language from scratch".

At least that seems to be what has happened in my case.
Social Impact Bond for rough sleepers
(Author here.) As others have pointed out, I am here referring to SQL as a broad term for "SQL RDBMSes". When I say that it is not a good blob or document storage system, what I mean is this: You can plop unstructured data into a SQL RDBMS using something like JSON serialization, but it's not generally a good idea. Document storage requires flexible schemas, so SQL schemas are also not generally a great idea -- you end up with tables with lots of nullable fields that are usually empty.

As an example, imagine a single database where you want to store actual desktop documents, such as the formats supported by Apache Tika: https://tika.apache.org/1.8/formats.html -- If you try to model this using a SQL schema, you'll likely be in for a world of pain. From a UX standpoint, a user just wants to "search across all documents", but you have hundreds of heterogeneous types with varying degrees of field-level compatibility.
I don't like the latest trends at Mozilla at all. I used to use Firefox for privacy. It was small and fast and stable. I don't want to disable all the bloatware like share, sync, Mozilla account, tab ads, pocket, chats whatever. Mozilla is on a big sellout trip. When Mozilla is not different to Google we can equally use Chrome - it's better anyway.
Not to mention that it's not just McDonald's Fries that don't rot: it's all fries. The experiment failed to use a control, but one guy didn't, and posted the video of homemade fries with salt also not rotting.
Anything in C++ generally comes with its very own footgun.

The one for RAII looks like this:

{
mutex_guard(some_mutex);
foo();
}

What does this do? It locks some_mutex, then immediately unlocks it, then calls foo().
Maybe it's MOBAs catching up?
I was just informed today that this article, "Lucene: The Good Parts", which I wrote a few months ago, was also just published in Hacker Monthly for this month's print/digital issue (June 2015):

http://hackermonthly.com/issue-61.html
Ice VI: Can one prevent water from freezing simply by not allowing it to expand?
What to expect from Apple at WWDC 2015
Sense8
How to do an omelette Russian Version
I would suggest a footballer needing surgery is "too far". The purpose of sports is to provide a framework that motivates healthy exercise. Once it gets to the point where it's frequently causing harm rather than benefit to the participants, the purpose has been lost along with any reason society should consider the activity normal or tolerable.
That's really interesting, could you do an AMA?
People talk about how Crystal's performance is better because it's statically compiled and removes Ruby's dynamic features, but I'm not sure static compilation is the best way to achieve performance, and I don't think the dynamic features need to damage performance.

For example, JRuby+Truffle runs Crystal's own sample programs around twice as fast as Crystal does, without static compilation, and while still supporting all the metaprogramming and dynamic features of Ruby such as monkey patching, send, method_missing, set_trace_func, ObjectSpace etc.

https://gist.github.com/chrisseaton/91c7cbf8f6f4f6ea44bb

However Crystal does start faster, and I'm sure it has lower overhead.
Making choices for children, who are otherwise too immature, is the whole point of parenting. Of course, you can "coerce" them, or you can "guide" them, but then we are talking about different means for the same end goal. And then we can talk about parents that are too busy or uninterested to give a fuck and it's precisely in such families that you see children being allowed to play computer games for hours on end.

I don't really get the line on "forcing/coercing" children. If your child would end up a drug addict, would you just let her be? Why is it any different with computer gaming addiction?
I loved E.T. when I was a kid and actually managed to finish it. I never got the hate. My guess is that I only saw the movie much later and so had absolutely no expectation whatsoever.

To me, it was just another Atari 2600 game. In fact, after racking my brain for hours on games like Swordquest[1], and almost injuring myself and destroying my controllers playing Decathlon[2], E.T. was nothing. Recognizable characters! A quest that made sense! Challenging controls, not inhuman controls!

After seeing Atari: Game Over [3] I now think this game is significant, not for its reputation but for the story behind it. It is a great case study.

All my admiration to Howard Scott Warshaw[4] for his career as a game developer, what he went through after the E.T. debacle, and finding his way out in the aftermath.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Activision_Decathlon
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MT_msVoRAg
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Scott_Warshaw
It's interesting to see different people have such different experiences. For me, my wife and I both have chronic health issues, in her case more serious ones, and so HDHP makes no sense for us. I can see how for people without those issues it can make a lot of sense if you use your insurance less for chronic treatment and more for preventative care and, as you said, a safety net. On the plus side, you can generally switch from HDHP to a low deductible plan at the next plan year start date should your situation change (as ours did).
The version submitted in the comments is better than Mumford's IMO.
Or gets_hit_done one.
It is easy to see the taylors who go out of business, it is a lot more difficult to see the million upon millions of people those millions upon millions of jeans are now keeping warm.

If we go from aid to commerce the tailors won't come back, but billions upon billions of consumer items will flood into Africa. As the country gets richer there is going to be at least a 300 million women who aspire to owning a washing machine, a generator (or other source of power) and indoor pluming. Say what you want about capitalism and industrialization, but short of something like a first contact with the Culture, no other system on the planet can satisfy those needs. And they deserve to be satisfied.
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What this article fails to take into account is the underlying politics at play here. You might think of all places, that science would be "politics free" but it's not. Far, far from it.

For example, people working on string theory and people working on say, quantum loop gravity are somewhat at odds with one another. String theory may not see the QLG people as a direct threat but the QLG people certainly sees string theory as competition. Now you may wonder, "In competition for what?" and the answer to that is a bit more obvious: Funding (money for research and their very own paychecks) and attention from their peers/media/press/etc. These people's very livelihoods are at stake.

If QLG was proven wrong tomorrow, it's not like the people who were doing that for the last 15 years can just jump into another field. There's plenty of incentive for "hostile science" as I like to call it. There have been some well-known physicists who have written entire books bashing their competition for this purpose (See: Peter Woit's "Not Even Wrong", which incidentally, is chuck full of so many inaccuracies someone else wrote a book disputing his book...)

So when I see articles like these, I like to check out who the author is. Do they have a reason to write this piece? In this case, it's Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser. Both are coincidentally astrophysicists at very respected universities. I wonder what they're working on?

It appears Marcelo Gleiser, one of the authors, just published an anti-String theory book which claims that "We don't need a Theory of Everything".
Most communities don't "exclude" each other, they've simply become sufficiently deep that it can take years to get into them. Your example doesn't even make sense. Different applied models require different math, so what?

I don't think the issue is mathematics communication. The math community is pretty obsessed with spreading knowledge, and some fields (e.g. econ) make fantastic use of math as a communications tool. The issue is rather that a lot of folks simply refuse to learn it and complain when others use it.
Apples to Oranges.

The grocery store can set the money on fire for all I care. The charity, not so much.
I dont think you can blame Wall Street for IBM's performance. Buffett is a big investor in IBM, if the CEO wants she can use Buffett's influence to keep wall street at bay.
Does Big Data Have a Future in Politics?
Bugs in the implementation are bad enough. I don't really care how the encryption is not secure, but that it isn't.