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>> "wedding rings typically have one large diamond set with other jewels and a band is dead obvious as it's so plain."

I thought they were usually plain (just the ring, no adornments). Engagement rings tend to be fancier (diamonds etc.) but maybe practice varies between regions.
'a huge kernel in fact'

Could you clarify? What is the huge kernel of truth in the Zuni creation myth? How do we distinguish those kernels from the non-true elements of the myth? Did humans once live "in total darkness in a place deep in the earth known as the fourth world" and have "horns and tails, but no mouths or anuses"?

Certainly elements of that creation myth are not reconcilable with other creation myths, so some of them must be incorrect. How do you tell which are incorrect?
Good luck getting trucks with this into Nepal. Tents or even wood for cabin can be air droped.
Without LinkedIn account I won't get a job in US?
Is it true that in US you have to have linkedIn account to get a job?
Such gossip is circling in Poland among HR people.
Sounds like their self-selection mechanism is working nicely.

In fact, they could probably offer $100/month and $1000/month subscription levels where the product was completely unchanged except that you were only matched with people from your own subscription level.

After all, there are certainly people who would welcome the idea of having dinner with three people for whom $1,000/month is no big deal. And those people might be less interested in hanging out with folks who thought of $10 as a lot of money.

Genius idea, when you stop to think about it.
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Sorry about that. Do I need to make a command line version now :P?
> He should have taken the deal.

That's debatable.
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Blacklisting the server by IP and then changing your client IP are completely orthogonal. I can't imagine how changing a client IP or a client using a VPN has any bearing on how a site decides whether that client had downloaded their ads.
I wouldn't believe that. LinkedIn is worse than Facebook these days in its uselessness.
At least skin hair will act differently when immersed in water so I'd expect that you will notice a difference for body parts immersed in water.
I suspect that history will show the vast majority of "dark web" coverage to be simply another moral panic, analogous (and in some cases almost identical) to the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic of the 1980s.[1] Happy to see an article which goes against that flow.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse
In the case cancer, I heard the reason it's good is that the cancer cells die off faster than the normal ones do, when they're not being fed.
See also: https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License
I find this hard to believe when considering raves and MDMA.

If anything people with too much serotonin and a social phobia probably do not have enough serotonin receptors, and the extra serotonin is the body compensating.
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Sorry that it requires OS X 10.10. I do know that many people haven't upgraded for various reasons. The thing is I wrote the app with Swift and I won't be able to support Mavericks until I can submit the app with Swift 2.0 which lets me target a different OS version. If you want then you can subscribe at the bottom of the page and I'll remind you about Gestimer once OS X 10.11 is out.
Let's stick to the Western world. I'd love to see Feminists travel to other parts of the world to help with REAL issues, though.

I'd be curious how they measure power in your papers.

But it's a common tactic of (western) feminism to pick arbitrary aspects which make women look bad seen out of context. For example why measure the wage gap, and not the family gap (time spent with loved ones), or the real income (which is usually split among married couples) and spending power? And also not measure income per hour worked and so on.

Maybe you can find a measure of power in which women are worse off. So what? You can also define other measurements in which men are worse off, including "power to reproduce".

And you have no idea what I did and didn't read about feminism. You are just living in your own little bubble.
The fact that this only represents mother tongues makes it entirely useless of getting any real picture. In many countries, germany included, english being tought as early as grade school. For me personally and quite a few people i know, english is used 50% or more over the day due to our occupation. I doubt any of the chinese languages are picked up as secondary languages by anything remotely approaching the amount of secondary learners english has. (Consider for example that english is so pervasive and wide-spread in india that india has de-facto its own dialect of english, much like various places in the us or australia.)
the only reason he was charged because he is a Ex-US! Agent.
You can use excitement as a broad category that includes good and bad, but there are definitely different hormonal mixes, some that are pleasant and some that are painful, and the difference is not perception.
Urks, this is another chart using the highly questionable data from Ethnologue.

For example German, it mostly counts the inhabitants of Germany (native and L2 speakers) as speaking "Standard German".

Austria and Switzerland have almost no "Standard German" but "Bavarian" and "Alemannic". Which makes no sense at all. They claim to group their language families "based primarily on mutual intelligibility".

But at least with German, this is clearly wrong. Austrians and Germans have no problem understanding each other (with Swiss German, the problem is a bit more complicated but it is generally acknowledged as a dialect of German).

With the "mutual intelligibility" argument AFAIK Chinese should be split into several languages.

If you remember that "The Ethnologue is published by Dallas, Texas-based SIL International [...], a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies numerous minority languages to facilitate language development and to work with the speakers of such language communities to translate portions of the Bible into their language."[Quote from Wikipedia] some of their decision make more sense.

All Chinese speakers read the same script even if their spoken language is quite different. But Swiss Germans read mostly Standard German texts, there is very little literature written in Swiss Germans in print or online (besides texting or other informal communication).

So take Ethnologue's data and this chart with more than the usual grain of salt.
You are correct. It has no long time appeal! It is interesting enough at the start but quickly gets boring because of its uselesnes. Especially for the average person. I can see how bringing fitnes awarenes into the minds of people again is good. But if youre not an active person you will not use it and if you are you will not need it. Gathering Information off your activitys in General can be usefull fore several things but you will not need to know if you have walkt 100 steps more or fewer then last week.
The copy from OSI [1] does have an all-caps-warranty passage.

[1] -http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
> I’ve been wondering how to do this for years, and suddenly it occurred to me how to do this. One way that doesn’t work is to view the sequence of values as some kind of linked list, where each value has an invisible write-once-only pointer to the next value. The write-once-pointer gets updated when the value is updated, unfortunately this is difficult to implement and there are problems with consistency.

Why?

> The solution is blindingly simple (once you see it) - we represent the sequence as a set Key-Value pairs where the Keys are taken from an iterated sequence of SHA1 checksums. The first key is a random number, thereafter Key[i] = sha(Key[i-1]).

Why not simply use Key[0] = 0, and Key[i] = Key[i-1]+1, or, in other words Key[i] = i?
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I think the argument holds. Sugar has a huge and quantifiable LD50. So does, well, water. This tells us that they are pretty much non-toxic at lose doses.

If the LD50 of the "toxins" is similar to water, how can one claim that "de-toxing" will have any benefit?

In other words, how can you call it "detoxing" if none of the things are toxic?
With most biological systems, it's a pretty safe bet that things are more complicated than that.
If we want to get really picky, they are procedures.

I think we should start to transition to using the word function only in the connotation provided in functional programming languages, where functions are first class citizens and can be treated as values. Also, should probably prefer to imply a lack of side effects from the word function.

Method is clearly a certain function or procedure that is scoped to a class. So that leaves procedure as a name left over for the type of bare function that isn't a value, that is a statement rather than an expression.

I think subroutine and subprogram are just archaic sounding, and don't really imply anything that the others don't. Method, functions, procedures, I think that's all we need.
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[T]hey likely won't see your pattern. is the weakness in this system. There are bad web sites that still do not encrypt your password, in which case a hacker will see your pattern. There are many web sites that use poor encryption practices in which case a hacker can brute force decrypt your password and see the pattern.

Once an attacker guesses your pattern, it is game over.
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0.8% of France is speaking Portuguese? How?
> If he were saying that white men are all disgusting and should be removed from society, or that straight men should be forcibly castrated if accused of a rape, even in his private Twitter account, would you still want him as a prominent contributor?

If his code is good, and he doesn't bring these off topic things up on project mailing lists, forums, and the like, then yes, I'd be OK with it. What he says on his personal Twitter is irrelevant unless he purports to speak on behalf of the project.

And no, simply including in his profile information on his personal twitter account that he is a contributor does not make him a spokesman for the project, any more than the fact that he also includes that he is a Catholic makes him a spokesman for the Catholic Church.

You give an @octave.org email address in your HN profile and say that you are a core Octave developer. Does that mean you intend for people to take your comments as representing the position of the Octave project on the subjects you comment on here?
No, you cannot use the keyboard. I made it like this because in my opinion it just feels a lot nicer to just drag & drop then be done with it.

I am sure there are a lot of other apps that will do what you need. For example Fantastical (http://flexibits.com/fantastical) or even apps like Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com).
I think you're right. Even just writing a readme that says "you can use this software for X" is effectively a claim that it's fit for a given purpose, which I guess might open you up to damages claims.

But I agree with trying to get rid of cruft from OS licences. I think the ISC one seems like the best balance.
> Austrians and Germans have no problem understanding each other

Germans and Bavarians on the other hand ...
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I don't find much value in LinkedIn. I did at first, but then it was overrun by recruiters.
Why is this distinction important when it comes to actually using the language?
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"This license is a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom."
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It's been for years. Why is this news? ASDF-install != ASDF by the way.
That was seriously considered some years back and thrown out as likely to cause poor adoption and poor intermingling of language features.

http://www.2ality.com/2014/12/one-javascript.html
No, sorry. See this answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744176
Sarcasm is a highly inefficient mode of communication and should be avoided as much as possible.
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The client contracted for a website but then didn't pay. My friend therefore was not expected to deliver.
>> Austrians and Germans have no problem understanding each other

> Germans and Bavarians on the other hand ...

"Not wanting to understand each other" is a cultural and political thing and not due to linguistical issues. ;-)
Exactly what I said.

Just a couple of examples I can remember from recent news;

Facebook's facial recognition, data policy and tracking of all visitors whether they have a profile or not is against EU law, so they are being taken to court. This is a good thing in my opinion. We have slightly better privacy and data protection rules in the EU countries and rather than weaken them they need to be strengthened and enforced to protect citizens. The EU reponse has been to draft new data protection rules which are being debated currently.

Microsoft was slapped with a heavy antitrust lawsuit years back and ended up paying a significant fine. This was the correct decision. Google are going through something similar at the moment although I am unsure of whether they should be found guilty or not. The point is, it's good that they are asking the antitrust question the first place.

You can find a lot of examples of the conflict between EU data law and industry competition standards and these few particular massive technology companies.

The question people would ask is whether the EU's laws on these matters are needlessly restrictive to businesses that operate in this industry.

Perhaps parts of it are but I wouldn't say so myself. If anything they need to be made stronger. There's far too much emphasis on the corporation over the citizen already and we need to start going in the other direction (highlighted by the large opposition to TTIP).

The downside might be that the EU countries never have a tech sector as great as the US but man, in the end it's worth it to protect the people from anti-consumer behaviour.
> No, Google is.

I didn't say they were the biggest, but they are one of the big boys. They just opened a huge robotics facility in Pittsburgh and yoinked dozens of staff from CMU Robotics. They are betting big on automated transportation.

> People will use whomever is the cheapest and meets their standard.

Right. I will continue to use Uber/Lyft because it's cheaper/faster than regular cabs. Heck, I'd even pay a slight premium because it's so convenient.

Have you even used regular taxis in a non-metropolis area? It sucks.

Even with employee drivers, Uber will be fine.
You may be confusing that with a sales deals?

His situation was akin to you waking up one day and finding, out of nowhere, a letter in the mail telling you to come in for a 6-month jail time.

I assume that would not be a happy and acceptable morning for you, would it?

A geek was making scientific research publicly and digitally accessible. Try to personally connect to that by telling yourself how similar that is to you doing your own hobby i your spare time. Your argument says you'd be happy to have 6 months in jail for doing your own thing. (Taking such a deal requires pleading guilty to a crime.)
GC definitely makes some types of systems easier to develop and reason about, but it also tends to make people be a bit sloppy with respect to memory management. For systems where managing data is one of their reasons for existence, it creates a negative effect. GC'd runtimes also bloat memory consumption to support GC, as well as perform additional "hidden" operations in support of GC (e.g. card marking), even if you manage to not trigger GCs. In addition, GC works well when the generational hypothesis holds. For data intensive applications with mutation/churn, that doesn't tend to be the case.

I disagree that avoiding GC is easier; you're swimming upstream the entire time. Managing memory manually in GC environments is annoying because the platform wasn't designed for that.

As Frank said, you want to avoid sharing mutable data irrespective of GC or not - that won't scale well with larger core counts. Instead, you want to delineate ownership so you have single writer and many readers, and share the data that way.
No, these were some embedded systems (mostly in consumer products) that I've worked on over the years.

I've been doing server racks for a couple of years, kind of as a hobby. Don't get me started about server in racks :-)
> Does that mean you intend for people to take your comments as representing the position of the Octave project on the subjects you comment on here?

In my case, yes. I act here as an ambassador for Octave and the GNU project. If I were being too much of a jerk, that could reflect badly on the Octave community. Since I do not want Octave's image to suffer, I try to not be a jerk and make amends when I am.

If someone ever thinks to themself that they would have liked to use or contribute to Octave but would rather not because they don't want to deal with me, then I have almost certainly done something very wrong that I should not have done.
Agreed. That word is an instant put off for me every time I see it used in contexts like this. Time for it to be retired.
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I'm surprised that RawTable isn't parametrized on the type of hash function. Something like this (possibly wrong way to express it, but you get the idea)

fn search_entry_hashed<'a, K: Eq, V, H: SafeHash>(table: &'a mut RawTable<K,V,H>, hash: H, k: K)
-> Entry<'a, K, V>
A common metric in embedded is DMIPS/MHz. This is considered a bit antiquated (first written for the VAX!), but the Dhrystone benchmark is free and simple to implement. The important part is that its (supposedly) independent of clock speed to show the efficiency of your CPU design, and so is normally run from cache to get zero wait-states.
CoreMark[1] is a new replacement, and is becoming increasingly popular.

Once you implement/simulate your design in silicon, power usage becomes a good comparison metric. As the depends on clock frequency, DMIPS/mW is another common comparison benchmark. Since a lot of embedded applications spend most of there time in very low power states with the core stopped, sleep current and wake/sleep time are now becoming very important. This is more of a whole chip benchmark, and is a very popular area for microcontroller manufacturers to fight over right now, as results can vary wildly depending on the application. The makers of CoreMark have tried to come out with a benchmark[2], but it doesn't cover peripherals yet and isn't quite as popular.

1. https://www.eembc.org/coremark/
2. http://www.eembc.org/ulpbench/
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I personally have little confidence in job postings that I've seen available for at least three months. Similarly with apartments rentals - in a market where developers and apartments are high in demand I usually see it as a red flag if a job or apartment has been available for three or more months. It begs the questions - why didn't others take it?

I never considered that the average interview process is getting longer.
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That is a completely un-called-for accusation. I've seen elderly bavarians come up to Meck-Pomm and babble at the train attendant over their invalid tickets in high speed in the deepest and most incomprehensible Boarisch possible. There may be some people up here who don't even want to deal with that, but the bigger issue is those bavarians who don't even try to speak common german, or at least slow the fuck down.
Because it can and will fail in odd ways, and that has one of two outcomes:

1) It doesn't matter, which means the time, energy and money spent setting it up was squandered when it could have been spent on marketing or product dev.

or

2) It does matter, which means now you have to blow even more time, energy and money recovering it and standing it back up. Hope you've rehearsed your DR plan!

I'm not trying to preach, I apologize if it's coming off that way. But this highly resembles tinkering, and tinkering doesn't generally pay the bills. Usually the opposite.
I just finished a 4 day water fast. I've done 3-4 days a few times over the last few years and they all seem to follow the same pattern for me at least: Day 1 is really hard (all I can think about is food and the hunger is intense); Day 2 is less so; Day 3 involves diarrhoea & a few stomach cramps; Day 4 is fine and usually makes me think of going further. I tend to lose 1Kg a day and feel pretty damn good afterwards. While fasting, I'll drink a lot of tea (usually herbal, sometimes black tea with milk) and a reasonable amount of water (sometimes with a pinch of salt [not sure if this is necessary or not] and lime for flavour). Purely anecdotal of course, but I've noticed that it seems to help with some health conditions seem to improve afterwards. YMMV.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that on night 3 & 4 I tend to get insomnia a bit. Nothing unpleasant, it's more like I am awake enough not to sleep, rather than really tired and unable to sleep.
Went and looked at these t-shirts, you can get just as visually appealing ones for $20. The only impression your trying to make with such a shirt is "I have so much money I don't know things value"
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Let's also not forget GNU parallel (https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
I'm wondering about this too. That, combined with what looks like a lack of windows, would make this somewhat impractical in emergency housing situations where the restoration of electricity is likely to take a lot longer than setting up shelters.
Amoral tech strikes again.

Good luck with that; Russia isn't interested in software freedom, they're just not interested in something from outside Russia they can't control.

EDIT: A friend informs me that the head of the project is himself Russian, and already works largely under government funding. So in retrospect, less "amoral tech nerds take money from wherever they can get it" and more "some Russian bureaucrats want their own Red Star OS".
> - Flat Earth

To add on to what the sibling poster said, the Earth was widely accepted as round by at least some cultures by at least 500 BC, due to overwhelming and easily observable natural evidence that the Earth was round.

- The shape of the Earth's shadow on the Moon is a circle.

- The further you travel south, the more the stars change, 'rising' before you and 'setting' behind you.

- When ships sail away, the bottom of the ship disappears first over the horizon, leaving the sails still visible. The same is true for mountains.

There were certainly some ancient peoples who imagined a flat earth (or a flat disc-shaped earth), but the idea of a round Earth is very old and most probably predates the Greek philosophers.
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It's inefficient if your assumptions about the audience are wrong. If you know your audience, sarcasm is highly effective, high-density mode of communication.
I don't this this is correct. I've read a few articles on this (trying to restrict my reading to published studies as far as possible) and it goes roughly (from memory) glucose/sugars first, then fat, then muscle. You may begin to lose some muscle before you lose all of your fat, but this takes a 'while' ... the studies were never clear on how long it takes for this to happen.
It is really unfortunate that Linux does not do proper async disk IO. Then again, for lots of websites, the static assets stores on disk fit in the OS cache so the boost won't really be nearly as big.
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