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What's the endgame here? Building a competitor to Mathematica/Matlab based on MS technology? Why C# and not a scripting language? Is it supposed to be combined with a numerical toolbox, so that's why a fast compiled language is used? I could see the value in that, the mismatch between Matlab and HPC is annoying, i.e. porting numerical code from Matlab to Fortran to make it fast, is not fun. Then again I'm not sure whether the C# runtime is efficient enough for HPC purposes, there isn't really much research going that way AFAIK - could be an interesting topic since I'm not convinced that the current trifecta of C(++) and Fortran is the final answer.
The rebuttal: http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/...
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Stack Exchange uses Markdown for everything on their Q&A sites already. If they expect their users to be able to use it, I think they can expect the same from their employees. It's likely not a wasted effort to learn it as they might need it somewhere else as well.

The Stack Exchange blog was hacked a few years ago, I suspect that was part of the motivation to switch to something they know better.
There are a bunch of companies which are open to accepting people for their skills and capabilities rather than their background. They're using 'blind auditions' to avoid any unconscious bias in the selection process.

http://www.today.com/video/companies-using-blind-auditions-t...

AdobeXD as an example will interview applicants from all backgrounds as long as their performance on their blind audition challenge is good. https://www.gapjumpers.me/questions/adobe/qs-251/

This 'blind auditions' approach is not only great for school dropouts, but also for those who have an unconventional educational or cultural background which doesn't tie with the popular view of educational pedigree needed for success.
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Some do cancel out. The inclination effect isn't driven by the sun's being above or below the equator - it's basic rotational mechanics. The net effect of the moon and sun's gravity pulling on the satellite causes the rotational axis to precess. The precession shows up in the orbit as the change in inclination (and ascending node).

Regarding the non-random spread.... all the orbits start at the same place (0 deg inclination - because that's where people want them). And it's the same sun and moon affecting all of them them in the same way, so you wouldn't expect it to be random. It is interesting that they all appear in that band, I don't have a good explanation for that : )
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Include them in the same system.
Great set of resources, but i was actually expecting this to be a book on android development.
Actually, given how few system calls (relatively speaking) Go makes, it might not be impractical.
I might be a lil late reading this but I have a slightly off tangential question if you could have time to indulge me in.

1. why did you get out of the file host business or why were you glad to?

2. how did you get out of it? sold, fizzled, etc..
CL is a powerful general purpose language in which you can accomplish much the same things as other programming languages. Where it will really shine is when you benefit from extending the language or environment to suit a domain and then you solve problems of that domain.

Try this as an explanation (and keep reading the book):
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-why-lisp.html
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Are you arguing that the iPhone required a larger leap in science and engineering than the first atomic bombs?

I can't say that I agree.
> ...wondered if there was a simple way to calculate symbolic derivatives on a web page without relying on a server. I tried a couple of JavaScript libraries that should do the trick, but they didn't work as expected; to make matters worse, they were huge and seemed to be unmaintained.

from: https://github.com/hausen/math.diff.js

I realise I had to go digging for that, however I was looking at a similar problem recently too.

http://www.numericjs.com/ is a similar project, but perhaps that's what the author was referring too with large and out of date.

There is also http://mathjs.org/, which doesn't support symbolic maths, but has a parser and some work already done. It could be worth adding to that project.

Any change you are aware of the source code for the project you linked? I couldn't find any reference to it..
This isn't a science experiment. People walk through life creating conclusions and moralizing based off of subjective intuition. There is not enough information here to formulate a scientific conclusion but there is enough information to form a reasonable one.

That being said... consensus will differ based on the situation, but based on the information given the consensus is roughly the same: Don't betray your best friend. There are very few contexts where having an affair with your best friends girlfriend will be justifiably moral. Let me address some of the examples you gave:

The nature and context of the relationship between the boyfriend and the girlfriend itself is irrelevant and NONE of the OPs business. Although an abusive relationship justifies intervention, an unhappy relationship DOES NOT JUSTIFY AN AFFAIR. Intuitively, it is also highly Unlikely that the relationship is abusive. Make no mistake, anytime you engage in an affair with your best friends girlfriend it is most likely an act of utter betrayal.

If the OP was not intentionally seducing the girl but developed feelings naturally, it is the OPs' own business. It's not his fault he developed those feelings but it will be his fault if he acts on those feelings. He is now torn between his attraction to this woman and his guilt for betraying his friend hence his decision to query people on hackernews. We all have dark desires, but the desire itself does not justify the action.

I fixate on the affair itself and how the act of carrying out said affair is an act of betrayal. The situation and context of the action is not uniformly immoral and I can definitely empathize with the OP. However, despite all of this... you are still an ass hole if you have an affair with your best friends girlfriend. Most people can agree with this, except you.

I can't speak for you but it may be possible that your empathy for his situation is clouding your judgement.
I wrote an introductory article to the new Geo API. Comments are welcome :) http://cristian.regolo.cc/2015/07/07/introducing-the-geo-api...
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Forth is by far the easiest to understand under the hood 'high level' language. It works by defining words from other words and uses a stack to do the bulk of its computation (words operate on the stack by consuming elements and leave their return value(s) on the stack). It's extremely elegant and powerful, I've used it for embedded stuff on very small cpu's (with only a few 100's of bytes of RAM).

Forth has some interesting quirks and has a very long history of success in various fields (space travel, radio astronomy, automotive).

The two books mentioned in this thread are a great intro (Starting Forth and Thinking Forth), for some more history have a look here:

http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html

One way to think about Forth is a language that is so extensible that the only way to write your program is to extend it with a DSL to solve your problem.
Thanks for the detailed answer. Are those top tier companies promoting product managers from within? They are advertising product manager jobs, so I assume they are looking externally. Or are they hiring overqualified people into those jobs since there is so much competition?
I'm enjoying the app immensely.

Are you guys planning at implementing dark/night mode at some point? One of the thing that makes MiniHack (the other iOS HN client) a joy to use especially later on in the day is that the screen automagically turn dark according to the display brightness. May I suggest that instead of going with black background, use the grey similar to the one in Reeder:

http://i.imgur.com/NvbDpHY.png

And another thing- I can't seem to be able to post my comment from within the app. If this comment is posted it's because I've published it via the website:
But reading http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/iccd09_dens..., Alpha didn't have high code density. Caveat here is that they may have been better at hand-optimizing CPUs they are familiar with or where information is easier to Google. That would favor x86, for instance. Note, however, that they get way smaller code for PDP-11 and VAX than for Alpha.
> There are some step-by-step debugging tools for Haskell, but I haven't used them, and Haskell programmers mostly seem uninterested in that way of debugging. It doesn't fit very well with Haskell's evaluation model anyway. When I work with Haskell, I just debug in a different way, focusing on verifying correctness of functions and their combinations.

I created hs-scrape[0] to write web scrapers and I frequently use the ghci debugger[1] for step-by-step debugging.

0: https://github.com/codygman/hs-scrape/

1: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...
Have an upvote for having a sense of humour.

:-)
> keeps us within the fences of the neoliberal capitalist paradigm

That's because the original practices and teachings have been adulterated and heavily re-contextualized. The original context is extraordinarily hostile to Communism, Capitalism, progress, pragmatism, goals, modern society, domestic society, the economy, etc...

Pierre Turlur has an excellent criticism of this particular appropriation, "The Dharma is utterly useless" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmgpyVcYJc
I think Google can do better than just "not at fault". Many of us have avoided (chain reaction or other) accidents by evading a would-be rear-ender (although this can backfire in that if you use up your cushion you may then be pushed into the obstacle ahead in addition to being hit from behind). Also, there are times where overly cautious braking causes chain reactions and collisions (at least, an extremely competent+cautious friend of mine told me he caused one once - maybe it's rare).

Similarly, although we might do better to choose a world with different incentives (like one where 1/3 or more of cars are rigid rule-entitled automata), many of us have (selfish-rationally) made room for incompetent lane changers even if it means violating lane rules ourselves.
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I found the use of those logos disingenuous. At first glance you think "wow, they already have some big name customers", until you realise they are simply examples of companies that provide an on-premise version of their SaaS offering. Not entirely dishonest, but a little sneaky IMHO.
Or a game studio.
Wow, this is really nice, considering the fact that it's coming directly from Google. However, I really urge you to also try the Material Design theme from Semantic UI framework - I can tell you honestly that I haven't seen a framework as comprehensive and elegant as it. It's a pleasure to not having to write a custom class because what you want is already provided by the framework in some form or the other. Just my humble opinion.
Uber claims to be "ride sharing" so no, they shouldn't be allowed, if personal cars aren't. If they want to be treated like taxis, then they can become taxis. Uber drives aren't supposed to be "professional drivers" so why do you think they are safer than other drivers?
cjdns does not exactly need an invite. If you want to peer over the internet you'll need to swap public keys with someone already part of the network. But most people have turned on autopeering, which will discover peers on the local network and take care of peer swapping for you. Keep in mind that the intended purpose of cjdns is not to be a p2p library, it is to be a mechanism for connecting local mesh networks together into a mesh internet.
I live off San Antonio and I see them daily.

Up San Antonio to Leghorn and then to Rengstorff and over 101 is a pretty standard commute to Google.
The description of June 4 sounds exactly like an accident where I was driving the car that touched the one in front of me. My foot slipped from the brake.

The driver in front reported injuries and asked damages, I'm still paying the consequences on my insurance rate. I still remember her face vividly, I noticed the moment when she started doing mental calculations about how much she could get out of that.

I hope she gets what she's got coming for her, and self driving cars can't come soon enough, especially for the sensor arrays mounted on each cars that will provide ample proof of what accidents are really like for insurance purposes.
There's little visibility into what othe departments do in my company, so it's hard to create a new role somewhere else. The suggestions I've gotten are to go into sales or marketing, where my English skills can be leveraged, and I would be surrounded by more English speakers. Those suggestions move me even further away from technology, so I'm not particularly thrilled about them. But I'm starting to consider it since there doesn't seem to be many good options here.
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"I hear about small examples here and there, but they are so rare and insignificant [compared] to privately owned organizations."

First, your comparison is inapt, as co-ops are privately owned.

Second, there are a number of large cooperative organizations. You've probably heard of REI, for instance. Agricultural cooperatives are a bit of a different beast, but there are a lot of big names there as well - including, off the top of my head, Florida Natural & Tillamook cheese.
Here's a non-pdf version without some of the padding:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vgjC5VeySpjqzcHj1_4_-5MN...

Side note: Google should whip up a google doc only url shortner... so people know its a document and not a risky link, but its still short enough to share easily...
>>A twenty-so young boy has no lesson to teach.

That indefensible statement alone is enough reason for a downvote, imho.
Any list of the same kind of scene done with the same methodology is going to be boring in bulk.
I'm sorta unconvinced we'll actually see any benefit. Humans are notoriously picky about their privacy; The ability to get black-box data for insurance purposes has been around for years, but most people would rather not, for good reason, have their insurers poking around their driving habits. I expect some backlash against cars collecting this data on their driving neighbors. What if the self-driving car isn't involved in an accident, but witnesses one? Can the courts subpoena google for the two driver's locations and velocities? That will be a fantastic NYT headline: "Are Google cars spying on you?"

Look at public health data. There's a vast goldmine of data that could be collected, that could track, trace, and storm-warning diseases, but that is for legal reasons hidden behind a confidentiality barrier. I'd like it to be a simple check if any of your partners were STD positive; This is currently information that is hard to get reliably (Sure, your partner can hand you test results, but not verifiable ones; The clinic won't attest to it if you call to reference your partner's results, so you can never be certain it's not a clever photoshop). This is data that has direct, tangible impact on those around you, and in many states it is a crime to not reveal certain STDs. Still, these spread, because we're afraid of making the STD-infected social pariahs, and I can't see a world where we don't have the same problem with bad drivers.
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The Uber of meteors... only in Japan. From the article:

"One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos.

Lena Okajima, who holds a doctorate in astronomy, says her company -- ALE -- is intending to launch a micro satellite that can eject shooting stars at exactly the right time and place to put on a celestial show.

These balls -- whose chemical formula is a closely-guarded secret -- will race through the atmosphere at around 7-8 kilometres (up to five miles) a second, glowing brightly from the friction created by smashing into the air."
Well it's lack of security makes it probably not an OS you'd want run untrusted code on. Like if you made a browser for it I'm not sure it would be easy to sandbox it to protect your computer from serious harm. Any program can read from and write to any part of memory if I recall correctly.
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If this means that I could easily uninstall all the bits of firefox I don't use, like bookmarks, that would be pretty cool.
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Great comment, gave me some ideas and motivation, thanks for sharing!
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It's 10pm, do you know where your SSL certificates are?
Why is Japan so safe
I used to work for an enterprise social company in 2011. I happen to find a folder of resumes for product manager and interview feedback--on a common windows share. And this enterprise social company is not top tier at: all those candidates had MBAs from US schools. Even this company was selective wrt which MBA one had: Kellog vs Cornell Johnson. What this tells me is this: the bay area market has too many MBAs (morning program, evening program, weekend program, etc). So, companies are selective when they got lots of candidates. GE Software in San Ramon is a good place to look for a product manager role. Their pay is not that great (no RSUs, just salary + bonus): it is a bad place to work for some people. But it is a great place for other kinds of folks. GE has too many CIO's, CTO's, Senior Directors, Directors, etc, compared to other companies: so, many guys called "GE boys" play all games to move up. They got too many leadership programs too.

You need to be local for these jobs or at least you need to have someone push your candidacy for the job, then come onsite for interviews.

Are they promoting product managers within? . Usually, Intuit has such a program wherein a fresh college grad can move from software engineer role to associate product manager role, etc. So, some companies do promote internally.
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It's very rare that in our industry someone goes in without even knowing if a thing is theoretically possible.

Uber knew they could do GPS tracking and send messages to phones.

Apple knew they could integrate a mobile phone chipset with a PDA one, and put some software on top.

Google knew you could index web pages.

None of these things were fundamentally hard problems on the scale of nuclear fission or landing men on the moon. There was little risk beyond some money, and it was largely a case of taking existing technology and putting it together in new ways. I'm not trying to claim these things didn't take some imagination and skill to develop, but to claim they were potentially impossible is overstretching, sometimes as an industry I think we just need to get over ourselves a bit!
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Have any of the AV teams said anything about testing in hazardous road conditions yet?

Driving rain, thick fog, heavy snow, sleet, the like. Maybe the answer they'll give is, "Don't drive you dummy", but that's not really an acceptable solution for most people.
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Is it even still public that Google still holds that investment?
Forth is the 100% opposite approach to the same philosophy of scheme/lisp.

You write your program by creating a dsl.

They are both 'syntax-less' in scheme you have an AST in forth you have two stacks and a dictionary of words.

As many people say about Scheme it is highly enlightening to write yout own forth interpreter.
eh, I think that there is a lot of value to standardization. Your average programmer is gonna spend more time reading code than writing it; there's something to be said for getting used to one standard style.
As a mechanism though, epigenetics is quite real. My old lab in some soon to be published results found a causal link between some chemicals secreted by an organism and epigenetic traits.
"No TRUE Scotsman..."
Got it. I'll work on the description to make it clear :-)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/

Is pretty standard.
Further, you have less to lose if that surface is breached; If you penetrate a unikernel static content server, you can't really do much on that system; It won't have a shell, compilers, or any of the tooling needed to expand that hole. Because your OS is so much simpler, the cleanup is simpler too; Nuking the machine and starting over is much simpler when you've designed for lightweight unikernels.
Would the numbers add up to anything above trivial?

Alaska has a variable annual payout, and while $1,900 a year is better than $0 a year, it has not led to economic/artistic/scientific revolutions described by basic income proponents.
Hopefully, if you have favourable laws you should think about some consumer proposal or bankruptcy. You should quickly get out of feeding the interest on your debts. Just think about it.
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On a cultural note, it's fun to be aware that GNU doesn't mean the software must be costless. It's perfectly valid to sell an OSS for a fee, but you are required to provide the source code and your customer is free to sell/share it again. It's even written on the FSF's FAQ. I guess if you make something sufficiently "trade secret", your customer won't share it with the rest of the world.
because go makes networking so easy, many go programs avail themselves of the network. Even dead trivial programs often use the builtin jsonrpc.

TempleOS has no networking stack and thus porting any of that portion would require significant kernel changes as well.

I have no doubt that there are many other "minor" things like networking that would rear their head on attempting.

It would still be a really cool project to see how far you can get and what compromises would have to be made.
Yes you are right. I meant if a state can get out of his financial obligations by defaulting. I read somewhere there is nothing like personal bankruptcy for states. Argentina even lost a court case?
yeah, just trying to spot parallels with other communities that have "problematic" minorities.

I see the elitism and douchebaggery as part of the same problem, it looks like a lack of empathy for others, though I don't know whether that's a cause or symptom.

The sociopathic non-tech founders would get nowhere and be capable of nothing if we didn't actively support them by building their stuff. We need to teach more techies to say "no" to assholes ;)
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Fascinating. Also entirely consistent with genetic determinism by the usual natural selection story - 9 year olds who survive starvation have bad-ass genes, etc.
No,
Its a popular misconception that OSX is based on BSD... its not.
OSX is a MACH kernel with a BSD userland (read BSD compatibility layer) much the same as there exists a POSIX layer for Windows.
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