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Elon also has a well crafted public persona. He's still visionary but easy to tell a lot of thought went in to how he presents himself.

A few interviews with his brother Kimbal takes Elon down a notch, in a fun brotherly way. Kimbal is the more natural and affable of the two.
Looks like Symbols is a type being introduced because objects, when used as a key in another object, gets turned into a string, unlike Lua tables can be used as keys of other tables, and are guaranteed to not be equal to any other value. Lua tables are built-in symbols. Javascript's objects are not.
I think we need to experiment with this before deciding whether it's a good or bad idea. A whole country is probably not the way to start, though.
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> Here's a list of languages with support for symbols. You will see even Objective-C has it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_%28programming%29#Suppo....

None of the symbols in that table match the purpose and use case for `new Symbol`, though gensym does.
Ideas are ten a penny, plus there's nothing in the post that's innovative or surprising for anyone who uses Twitter even a little.
I am aware that such things exist already, yes, and I disagree with their existence at all.

Extending their reach, as you may gather, is not something I'm in favour of.

I don't really care why ISDS exist, it's a dilution of democracy and national sovereignty.
I would much rather read blatant publicity stories about Modest than these thinly veiled PR stories about the founder. Modest sounds like an interesting product.

Remind me: did narwhal work?
That's a bit a simplistic way to view the situation. Greek People is not a single individual.

To take an analogy, that would be like talking about a family. A cousin you have never met decide to take a loan "in the name of the family" and spend it on himself when you were a kid. Several years later the debt collector knocks on your door and you try to negotiate a deal to save your furniture.

Does "Family who have lived beyond their means want to continue living beyond their means." really describe your situation ? In that situation you would rather not want the cousin to pay ?
How so? The electronic voting is modelled exactly based on mail-based voting that is widely used globally. You put your ballot into an envelope, add another one and off it goes. To a public mailbox. Transported, sorted and delivered along with open-back postcards. To be manually handled by volunteers in a way most voters even do not realise exists.

We put your e-ballot into two envelopes making sure cryptographically they require separate keys to open. Deliver it via a secured and openly described channel and provide a cryptographic receipt. We welcome tens and tens of voluntary observers all over the world to observe all the proceedings. And improve the processes and code with every iteration there is.

How is the electronic approach less secure than the physical one?

Also, what many do not realise, is the fallback. Should there be an inkling of doubt about whether your vote went where it was supposed to or was handled properly, you can go and vote physically on the voting day and have that vote prevail over the electronic one.
I live in South Africa, which is currently renegotiating or terminating all such treaties because we've discovered first hand that it allows corporations to evade or set government policy.

Just because it isn't new doesn't mean we should shrug and accept it.
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There were many experiments like this, including whole countries. E.g. in North Korea, there _is_ a guaranteed basic income (at least by law), equivalent to a bowl of rice per day.
German and French private bankers, for profit, did lend them lots of money they could not afford to lend, indeed, and had to be saved. Yet people complain only about the greeks.
When a backdoor is too much used, it begins to be noticed and will be closed. NSA needs to have as many means of actions as possible.
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Shit happens. Not that it was intentional.
Anyway, who cares about software stuff, nobody dies.

Unlike in engineering sector where a negligence could result in injury or death; those could be charged.
You're pushing the Go ecosystem in this direction:

https://spot.livejournal.com/312320.html
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Point taken. I stand corrected.
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You realize, that we inflation-phobic Germans have only one vote in the ECB and that the ECB is in fact doing everything to get some inflation going. Have you noticed, that the Euro nearly reached the Dollar, while the Fed itself was printing money like crazy?

I realize the horrible situation the Greek people are in, but you cannot just say, that a bit more inflation and a bit less austerity would have solved the thing. Greece had neither an economy that exported anything nor a working administration. Greece could have gotten plenty of EU investment money, they just did not file the papers. How can you expect money invested there to not mysteriously get lost on the way?

I think the idea to couple payment tranches with accomplished reforms was good, but some of the measurements clearly went to far. The core problem is, that we wanted to have them in the EU badly when everything was great, so we were okay with them cheating on the requirements.

I would argue that East-Germany had more substance 1990 than Greece has today. There was a massive investment program and still today East-Germany is not at the level West-Germany is. West-German states are heavily criticizing the systems to support the east. The average German simply does not want to send money to lazy Berliners (which is a German state receiving money from the others and builds airports with it, you might have heard of).

Unfortunately we cannot do the same with Greece, because the required solidarity is just not there yet - and Germany is not really the problem here: There are countries in the EU with lower standards of living that would never accept this. So we kind of have to operate on the living patient here. Get some reforms, invest some money, repeat. Otherwise the emerging far-right parties will take over.
Oh, so the title is wrong: there actually was quite a bit of time.
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The way I see it, he wants to reach not the Nash equilibrium where everybody defects, but the solution which gives a better average payoff but requires collaboration between the different players.

This is the spirit of Europe and the Eurozone, and as a citizen paying my taxes in Euros, I don't mind paying a little more if people in Greece can reconstruct their economy the way they want.

What I don't want is the debt holders being granted a strong voice. The interests exist for a reason, there is a risk, and sometimes people defaults (if only partially).

We need a strong political force to keep the wolves at bay. The finance sector will provide for a stable, but suboptimal, solution.
Leader in technology, but laggard in population dynamics? (depopulated to the 1970s level recently) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eesti_rahvaarv_1970-2009....
If Facebook ever goes down as a social network, they will without doubt still be a powerful technology company.

FB has achieved a vertical integration in the IT world rivaled only by Google, Apple and maybe MS.
Obligatory link to CV Dazzle (a site exploring the use of avant-garde hairstyles and makeup to foil facial recognition): http://cvdazzle.com/
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I don't think the point was that we should all go to the scramble-suit store and buy a scramble suit...
I got stuck in a hotel for a few days in Pakistan when they'd schedule the flights out of the country in the foggiest hours of the early morning/late night, and had flights canceled every day for a week. It was a trap - I couldn't leave my hotel much in case the airline called the hotel to confirm a flight was available the next day. The next town with shops was dozens of minutes walk away.
"They claim ignorance to NSA data tapping"

They did? Interested in the link/reference if you have it.
Sound really cool, maybe explain what happens in the background while loading instead of just "Rocketscience", might cause people to have more patience.
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> partnership with Microsoft

Ah, that explains why they call the Xbox controller "one of the best in the world" and shipping it with it, instead of just letting people decide for themselves or making it at least optional. This might actually stop me from getting one, I'm not sure how much a controller is normally but it will increase the price and I have a USB dualshock 2 controller right here which I prefer over the Xbox one.
Now you're talking about the cost of constructing the DFA, not searching the index with the resulting DFA. The cost of construcing the DFA is irrelevant, and even then you can construct the DFA in O(n) with my method for fixed max edit distance and fixed alphabet. Same as that paper.
Really?

From http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/business/pension-plans-inc...

"AFTER years of poor investment returns, the pension funds of the United States’ largest companies are further behind than they have ever been.

The companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 collectively reported that at the end of their most recent fiscal years, their pension plans had obligations of $1.68 trillion and assets of just $1.32 trillion. The difference of $355 billion was the largest ever, S.& P. said in a report.

Of the 500 companies, 338 have defined-benefit pension plans, and only 18 are fully funded. Seven companies reported that their plans were underfunded by more than $10 billion, with the largest negative figure, $21.6 billion, reported by General Electric."

Private corporations are not held to the same standard as the USPS for pension funding.
> I like that Oculus didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel

Fair point, but instead of a custom controller you could use any old controller you have lying around. Bundling it just increases the price.
Possibly, but unlikely (most csv libraries will be based around iterators). In any case, the problem is stupidly underspecified. For example, what if the 100GB CSV is 100 1GB rows? What if the input is UTF16, UTF32? How do you deal with the 10 Unicode line separators?

It just tests how well the interviewee knows CSV, which is an ill specified format anyway. It's a fake problem as no sane person would parse 100GB CSVs on 500MB VPS', and in real life, you'd just try the naive solution, see why it didn't work and iterate.
This reminds me of arguments some people use in the EU against net neutrality... they want fast lanes for Industry 4.0, online emergency and self driving cars. Incredible thoughts... I know.
Ask HN: Can we fix China's opinion about SW's copyright?
Can somehow that view of chinese people be fixed in a way they would be willing to pay for software ?
If this was tried in Australia, the average residential rent would suddenly go up, and the landlords would end up with all that money.
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Most scholars believe that if Aesop actually existed he was born in Anatolia (Thrace or Phrygia perhaps), entering the Greek world as a slave.
Hmm, shouldn't it be Sum(abs(deltaLoC per change))? Otherwise if you added 50 lines a day and removed 50, your abs(deltaLoC) will be 0.
I am also very concerned about the implications of ISDS for democracies. However I would not argue that TTIP should be abolished entirely because of it. Studies expect an annual increase in GDP growth of about half a percent - which doesn't seem like much considering the historical GDP growth, but GDP growth is expected to be much weaker in the western hemisphere than in the past - so we shouldn't outright dismiss half a percent as too little.

Furthermore, as mentioned by other commentators, ISDS is already a part of many treaties. However one fundamental flaw - which is a part of many of the previous treaties involving ISDS - was that the conditions required for allowing corporations to sue governments were very loosely defined: The treaties usually allow corporations to sue governments if any kind of "indirect expropriation" occurs - From a paper on CETA: "Indirect expropriation can only occur when the investor is substantially deprived of the fundamental attributes of property such as the right to use, enjoy and dispose of its investment; " (1)

This clause allows corporations to sue against a very broad range of policy measures. The TTIP supposedly contains a more detailed outline under what circumstances corporations can sue (2):

• We have reaffirmed the right to regulate. In CETA we have made clear in the preamble of the agreement that the EU and Canada preserve their right to regulate and to achieve legitimate policy objectives, such as public health, safety, environment, public morals and the promotion and protection of cultural diversity.

• We have defined key concepts like “fair and equitable treatment” and “indirect expropriation”, in order to prevent abuse. For the first time, CETA provides a definition of these terms. "Fair and equitable treatment" is defined through a clear, closed text which defines precisely the content of the standard without leaving unwelcome discretion to arbitrators. Moreover, detailed language has been agreed upon to clarify what constitutes indirect expropriation, particularly excluding claims against legitimate public policy measures.

As it so often happens during negotiations, the fundamental decisions are made when definitions are being defined. Only if the policy makers in the US and EU can agree on a very specific definition of "indirect expropriation" that is not vulnerable to abuses by corporate lawyers, then we can hope for a good long term outcome for the consumer. And if these requirements are enforced in the arbitration courts, then the ISDS in my opinion becomes a much more sensible part of the treaty. However due to the secrecy involved in the current negotiations, I don't know which exact definitions are currently part of the treaty.

(1) http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/november/tradoc_1...

(2) http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/may/tradoc_153408...
Well clearly "function" is "better", because it's less prone to typos, easier to read, and makes more sense. But if you can make a good argument to go with "functioooooooooooooooooooooooooooon" then go for it.
Ask HN: Dell XPS13 2015 Dev Edition, anybody get it into a working state?
I managed to fix the trackpad and keyboard issues. But it still crashes on resume and wifi change.
From the many postings on the internet it is obvious that I am not the only one with this problems, but slowly I start wondering if those problems are fixable at all.
Did anybody mange to fix all bugs?
Or did you manage to give it back your XPS13?
A four month old article written by a country’s finance minister. I fail to see how this article is suitable for Hacker News. Flagged.
As it is in Python, is it compatible with numba[0] if using the @jit(nogil=True) decorator? Having f in ds.groupby('some variable').apply(f) being a jit compiled numba function would be great.

[0]: http://numba.pydata.org/
You first statement seems like a gross simplification. Trying to summarise a complex situation like Greece in a one-liner or with a fable is unlikely to bring much insight.

Maybe the 50%+ of unemployed youth in Greece just want a future. I doubt many of them were/are living beyond their means. The austerity measures the EU imposed on Greece don't seem to be doing them a lot of good, quite the contrary.
It's appalling that overbloated public spending due to corruption and crony capitalism isn't even mentioned as a cause of Greece's problems, when it is in fact a major determinant (just like in Portugal)
Ah, I see ! I agree with that outlook, I misinterpreted his phrasing.
You're completely ignoring the potential monetary damages. A plenty of financial systems use the internet. I've also heard of a couple of other businesses utilizing the internet.

"Shit happens" would've been applicable if this was solved in 5 minutes. Accidents like this are trivial to prevent with proper policies.
Nice subterfuge.
um - best not to wonder too loudly.
Seconded. It's like the fabric of the web now. (Possibly why their Fabric API is called 'Fabric'). I wrote about this: http://blog.higg.so/2015/06/12/on-twitter/?24
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> Sometimes it would be awfully convenient to stash some extra data on a JavaScript object that really belongs to someone else.

Convenient yes, a good idea, no.

> Other code using for-in or Object.keys() may stumble over the property you created.

> The standard committee may decide to add an .isMoving() method to all elements. Then you’re really hosed!

So I dunno, maybe don't stash properties into an object that doesn't belong to you? It's this sort of thing that makes me hate the culture around JavaScript. Hacks upon hacks upon hacks just to save a little effort.
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Perhaps it might be more correct to say that printing money does not necessarily mean wage inflation, but it is very likely to cause price inflation.
The news was in the original title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9701727
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It's nowhere near as bad as you've described. Even on the 960x1080 DK2, the readability of text has more to do with texture quality (both total resolution and good filtering for mipmaps). On a 2d display, the pixels are static on the display and text is mapped essentially 1-to-1 (or a fixed n-to-m when using subpixel antialiasing). But on an HMD, antialiasing is basically 'free', and the constant, minuscule bob of the head creates a dynamic, temporal aliasing that improves the readability of the text. We've known about the effect since the 80s or 90s, when psychologists figured out the dynamic environment of real flight improved the apparent eyesight of pilots over static images.

There are a lot of people who are doing text wrong in VR. You don't render at 10pt and expect it to look right. You have to pay attention and not just take the default settings.

I've spent much time reading and writing text in VR and it hasn't been a problem. If building a real, live code editing environment were my goal, I could have it done in a week. But I have different goals.
>"Now what if the black person figures out that if he lived in a tier 3 neighborhood, he'd only need 30 hours a week?"

Do you really think black people go through such mental calculations like that, when deciding what to spend their time on next? Do you, whatever race you are?

You and Russ are presuming that you have any idea what thoughts and mental calculus goes through a black person's mind when they decide when and how hard to work on what, and that you could even know or deduce it without asking, and that it's the same for all black people, and that there's a difference between how black and white people think, which rules and formula they use, and which numbers they plug into them.

Don't you see how condescending it is for a white man (or anyone) to lecture black people (or anyone) about how they think and why they behave, presuming to know better about the cause of their problems, explicitly calling them lazy as a class, acting like he's doing them a favor by justifying their laziness? That level of patronizing, smug, self righteous condescension directed at black people as a class is racist.

He's backward chaining from his racist foregone conclusion that "blacks are lazy" to a bunch of made-up speculation he pulled out of his ass about how "black people" think and what motivates their behavior, which he can't possibly know.

He purposefully led with as offensive a title as possible just to get attention, and then he tried to demonstrate how clever he is to be able to logically argue himself out of the huge hole he just dug with the click bait blog post title "Blacks are Lazy". And it's not just that his arguments are "badly written", it's also that his assumptions and logic are deeply flawed.

My theory: Russ was just inexpertly trying to ape Eric Raymond's favorite rhetorical tactic, and he failed miserably. But Eric was flattered, and stuck up for him.

“Personally, I wanted to fight this on principle,” Raymond said. “Russ resigned the presidency rather than get OSI into that fight, and the board quite properly respected his wishes in the matter. That sacrifice makes me angrier at the fools and thugs who pulled him down.”

The Dog Whistle Has Sounded: How the Right Talks About 'Thugs' Like Trayvon Martin

http://gawker.com/5899322/the-dog-whistle-has-sounded-how-th...
MySQL: half-backed, inconsistent, full of quirks and traps
PG: My db of choice.
In my experience MSSQL and Oracle are more or less interchangeable. I have never run across PG running at the same sort of scale as the other two, but it seems to be a contender. Though I would have to agree with breakingcups, PG lacks tooling compared to the other two.
Dunno, there are some blogs which are quite reputable and often you will find interesting comments on their site. I wouldn't paint it as black and white.
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LtU is hardly shitty blogspam. Commenters there are mostly PL researchers and the discussion is usually highly technical and gives better context to papers.
Even if you are pro-trade the economics don't make sense. The health cost for dropping EU legislation to ban 31 specific pesticides would be projected to cost more than all the gains TTIP would provide (€160 vs €140 over 12y):

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/eu-dropped-plan...
I think that it's an uncanny valley effect. A hotel room looks somewhat like a home, but it's definitely not a home. It's great not having to do your own cleaning, but the space feels over-cleaned and sterile.

Also, hotel rooms, during the day, tend to be where one is when travel isn't going well. I used to think five-star hotels were a waste of money; why would someone pay $300+ more per night just to have a fountain in the lobby? But now that many of my friends are having children, I understand it. If you're traveling with kids (increasing your likelihood that someone gets sick, or just exhausted) then you need the 4- or 5-star accommodations that you don't need if you're a young person who'll use it as a crash pad only.

Hotel rooms, then, are places associated with misfortune: travel ruined by someone getting sick, an unexpected layover due to travel delays, or landing in a city where one feels unsafe due to local conditions like crime or dangerous weather. If your travel goes well, you're only in one to sleep. If it goes poorly, you spend an order of magnitude more waking time in it.
Haha, agreed. I'd argue there's a strong chance of that happening with any tool meant to give non-professionals a 'professional' result.

WYSIWYG web editors, divorce 'kits', many DIY 'kits' for home improvement, etc. Something inevitably goes wrong and the lawyer / contractor wonders just why the hell the client didn't just call a professional in the first place.