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I really disagree. Coming from Denmark, having lived in NYC for 6 months, it was exactly as the parent described it: As if drinking out of a swimming pool. Further, even the salads at restaurants could taste terrible because of the water they used to rinse it.
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Heathrow drinking fountains near every toilet
http://www.heathrowairport.com/static/Heathrow/Downloads/PDF...

http://www.heathrowairport.com/static/Heathrow/Downloads/PDF...

Luton don't have nice maps for it but...
http://www.london-luton.co.uk/en/faq/6/147/do-you-have-publi...
I have sth similar. Only noticed after I've seen how my wife learns. She does it depth-first (won't move to another subject till she knows every little detail from the first subject), I learn breadth-first (a little of everything, skimming the books, then I try to do sth and look up the details as needed).

I think for IT breadth-first is better at the beggining, but you can stay half-competent for too long if you never bother to look up the detais that weren't needed so far (my main problem).
What's wrong with asphalt? It can be easily recycled, it's an otherwise pretty useless component of crude oil of which we have plenty. It can be repaired with relative ease.
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Not true... LHR has them in every toilet

http://www.heathrowairport.com/static/Heathrow/Downloads/PDF...

Gatwick:
"once you're through security, you can use our water fountains or any of our food outlets will be happy to provide you with a glass of tap water."

http://www.gatwickairport.com/at-the-airport/flying-out/secu...
The legal liability would be significant too, I guess.
Well, I can only speak for Denmark, but here you are obliged by law to give water to anyone who asks. At certain restaurants though (the Louisiana museum for instance), the waiter will sometimes politely refer you to the bathroom if you ask for (free) tap water (hinting you should buy it from the restaurant).

Reason being most restaurants earn their money from beverages (especially wine).
"But another reason we believe P≠NP is that otherwise mathematical creativity could be automated!"

I have a problem with this. Just because the thought is unpleasant does not make it true or false. Besides, perhaps this is the very difference between automation and intelligence, perhaps the point at which you can ask this of a computer is the point at which you should no longer consider it a computer.
Since the Javascript NemID client was introduced last year, most users don't need Java anymore.

That's for OTP though, users with tokens or keyfile have to use the OpenSign applet still. Haven't seen any stats, but OpenSign usage is probably pretty small compared to standard NemID/OTP.
I have had multiple non-technical friends, in one case on a fresh install I'd done myself, run into the Flash update window simply showing a gray background that never does anything.

The best solution for this, from Adobe's own forum? Find the corporate-deployment version, download that (ignoring the messages that say it isn't what you want) and run it. This works flawlessly, but even less automatically.

Both the Flash and Java updates almost feel like "Pay Attention To Me!" Just like all those discount cards that exist in part so you carry around a fetish with the corporate logo.
I like the idea of using something like Markdown to write GUI descriptions. But I don't think pressing a meta-language into Markdown is the way to go. Better use the same principles and create your own language. The principles are: text is formatted nearly the same way a plain text email would have been formatted, overview of the grammar is more important than complexity.

Don't be disappointed though if the result is not better than the solutions using XML, JSON or YAML that already exist.

Maybe something like funciton would add a new perspective to it: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton
"Daily fantasy sports" is exactly what these sites are. You pick players daily/weekly rather than for an entire season. There's nothing pedantic about that description.
This would be my recommended approach as well.

Think of a project you can build with the technology you want to learn, and then learn the technology through actually building the project.

I generally feel more motivated with this approach because at the end of the effort, I'll actually have something to show for my time. If the project idea is good enough, you might even be able to turn it into a business, but don't let the lack of good ideas stop you, because your primary goal is still learning, and for that, even clones of existing products can work (and you might be able to find a good twist on it that can differentiate your own project as you build it).

And for me personally, no amount of reading and exercises can compare with real usage if I wanted to become truly proficient at a technology.
Let's hope this works out better than the North Korean nuclear deal.
Coal is at around ~10x the generation of nuclear.

The nuclear death rate is ~1/375 that of coal. This is because emissions are a major contributor to the death rate for coal.

Looking it up, the first analysis I find says that uranium ore is likely more energy dense than coal[1] so it shouldn't be the case that it is a lot more dangerous than coal mining.

[1] http://www.plux.co.uk/energy-density-of-uranium/
How worried should you be about artificial intelligence?
Honestly, the more productive thing to do is organize and fundraise to change how money influences politics.
Delivery was always at an established market point. Also, brokers would never let retail customers take delivery and would close out the trade because they would be at risk too.
Sounds like a cool place to live. Over here a plumber will give you a consultation, but regarding delivery, if you live at an appartment the delivery guy will deliver to the building, if you want it delivered to the doors of your appartment, it will cost extra, per floor. Installation will probably be additional expenses. Sure some retailers offer full delivery and installation for free (or included in price), but then it will be explicitly stated.
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If you want feedback on this project of yours, you should really post
it as a "Show HN" submission so it's accessible from the "show" link in
the top menu. You can find the rules for doing a "Show HN" submission
here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can just edit the title of this submission if you want, and that would fix it.
go here http://www.freecodecamp.com/. if you stick through it you'll learn enough to get a job. Also it's not a cakewalk. goodluck
So, it is the browser's fault. Nice.
Arduinos + PIR sensors + magnetic sensors + infrared tripwire modules + 433Mhz transceivers + a computer (raspberry pi) with Internet
Or study in Scotland where tuition should be free for you too. Only English, Welsh and Northern Irish pay in Scotland (Northern Irish seem to have the option to take up an Irish passport then qualify for the free tuition too - I'm sure someone else on HN will explain the mechanics of that). But it's not simply free tuition - you have living expenses too and moving to another country can make these much higher than a resident who gets to stay with their parents or relatives to cut costs.

I'm not sure how useful it is in general for people to forum shop round countries for education, except for Americans where going domestic seems to be a recipe for permanent debt rather than improving life opportunities. Even expensive countries seem to be a way better option for Americans seeking to avoid the constant thread of bankruptcy.
As an enthusiast for a handful of flash games, it is increasingly tempting to make a VM just for running them. Even then, with all the progress in Javascript, it's questionable whether I should bother.
I have the same problem. What I do when learning new techniques by studing a book I progress a project in the same pace as I read the book. For example right now i'm learning about the MEAN-stack, so I picked up a book that seemed good and read the first chapter about setting up and creating a dynamic site with express and node and I didn't continue reading before I was done with my own site for my project. This forces you to really studie each chapter and it's more fun then just reading the book!

When studying more general subjects it's not always easy to come up with a fun project and the books are usually not structured in a way that this techniques works. In those cases I try to find a good course online with a lot of reading material or a recommended course book because just watching videos and doing exercises is usually not enough to really learn the subject for me.
It's interesting that they've removed that post from their blog. I just asked Jason on Twitter why they removed it: https://twitter.com/JackGavigan/status/620915571052412928
I would try to reduce the pressure. Are you genuinely interested in the things you need to learn? Doing the exercises will significantly increase the things you'll be able to recall.
Maybe Mindfulness meditation can help you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTCz4Ums&t=21m30s
I don't really use them currently with the exception of aspirin or decongestant but if I or a family member were to become ill then there is no choice - we use the medicine if there's no valid alternative. Where you can safely cut something from your life, do it. It doesn't have to be a binary decision.

I'd argue that the average Western lifestyle, chiefly the work component, is a major source of stress, sleep loss, depression, poor diet, lack of exercise and all of those factors interplay to amplify the effects. We work harder to have things in order to increase status, like monkeys with the most bananas. We wan't stuff. Stuff that doesn't make us happy. Stuff that owns us. Stuff we purchased with money we don't have. Stuff produced by the assholes who make secret trade pacts that move power from the individual to the corporation.

Medicine is valuable, as are computers and the internet. And corporations aren't evil - they're just pushing what boundaries they can in order to maximise profit. It's an organic process just the way a toddler prods their way through what they can and can't get away with. Doesn't mean they're not little jerks though.

It seems the only way we can respond is with our wallets. We need an in depth analysis of who was pushing for certain aspects of the TPP which will affect the individual negatively.
If you had told me that would be today's headline at any point over the past decade, I'm not sure I would have believed you.

If this works out, the President has another thing to add to his list of "things no President before me achieved".
On the point of anthropic computing: it is important to note that you have not accomplished any _improvement_ to your condition by killing yourself; before as after, you had found a correct solution with probability 2^-n. Anthropic computing is just "fancy guessing".

What is interesting about it to me is that the "true computational nature of reality" must be such that sufficient computation is available for you to run the _validation_ of your solution in logarithmic time an exponential number of times ("in parallel"), because otherwise you could not find yourself _at all_ in a universe where you knew you had found the correct computation. Which does make it strange that quantum physics does not seem to give us any way to "get at" all this computation that must be going on behind the scenes.

(Unless the "true nature" of reality is such that a subset of the wavefunction is being computed "for cheap". Collapse exonerated?)
What about having early versions Mac OS written in Object Pascal, only to rewrite it in C for pleasure of the UNIX hordes?
If we can agree that SPAs are useful for some type of apps, it's definitely the browsers lack of APIs fault that the SPA has no way of telling the browser about these sort of things, yeah.
Why are you thinking of "a million other things" you need to learn?

That's the core obstacle these days to picking up new skills and knowledge.

Mastery of any subject-matter ALWAYS takes practice and repetition. Simple, but those things require sustained repeated investments of your time and attention.
Funny you should say that. I'm in NYC and I like the tap water. When I travel--like to Texas recently--I can't drink the tap water, it tastes horrible to me. And New Yorkers take a lot of pride in our water actually, it tastes hugely different from most of the rest of the country. Goes to show how personal taste is I guess.
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Would be interesting to see how potholes look and how they are repaired.
I'm studying for the CCIE exam at the moment. A solution I have found is- if you are in flow state keep working until you burn out. That can be at 2 at night or 7 in the morning. Also try to take on information from different media types- video, books, notes, practice questions, reading blogs. I think the various approaches to problems is what forms the cross networks in your head.
Ugh, "modern panic" is so tiresome. "New generations will never understand the...impact of being present in the moment with...others, the true 'social experience"? Why not? Are new generations going to be physically unable to gather, and is smartphone neck going to be an evolutionary advantage? It's just the same old KIDS TODAY and THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY WERE rubbish that Neolithic Man was sick of hearing from his grandparents. Get over yourself.
This is probably the part of it and it probably used to have stronger effect, but right now I think the reason people change smartphones often is the same reason people changed their PCs every two-three years - software increases in features / bloat so fast that if you don't upgrade, you'll quickly be out of the loop (and God forbid you actually update your software - then it will gradually stop working as authors make it bigger and slower).
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This is why browsers should have an option "Block third party javascript" similar to "Block third party cookies".

With http2, relevant javascript files will be increasingly hosted on the same domain anyway and that option would become increasingly relevant.
I posted this link because (a) it seemed like a good survey of the subject, and (b) I felt like I almost understood most of it. Does anyone have any suggestions for accessible further reading at the intersection of computer science and physics?
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Lack of access to military sites could be a reason this deal fails as the agreement provides stipulation for inspectors to press for military locations although the access is not guaranteed.
The key technology is battery storage. The energy storage density of gasoline/kerosene/jet fuel is immense, at least 6-7x the best available batteries.

When someone announces a mass-production electrical storage system with 5-10x improvement, we can have electric aircraft as something other than a novelty.
Am i the only one amazed at the fact that we actually had to wait for iranians to accept to stop going toward nuclear weapons ?

I mean, why did EU and US insist so much on wanting a deal ? It seemed to be that one side has all the leverage in the negociation and the other has none. We could have simply waited for the iranian regime to get so weakened that they'd simply surrender and accept every measure.

So I don't understand what's the counterpart that the US and EU wanted from Iran, that could get Iran get leverage in the negociations. Anyone ?
Out of curiosity, what else would be on that list?
Agreed. I was pointing out that my interpretation of the email was a hypothetical tone, instead of a factual tone. As far as I'm concerned C isn't good enough, but I generally keep my mouth shut about it because I can't offer anything constructive to the discussion: I don't know what a "good C" would look like.
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Author here.

You are right, we missed those, most likely because we were focussing on MVC Frameworks.

Anyway, a quick search in our startup jobs database shows that in Barcelona there are 8 open positions for Ember.js, 4 for Backbone, 1 for flask, and none for Play Framework.

AngularJS was not added to the list because it's a platform, not a framework.
Yes! I admin my parents' computers and after trying to explain which 'update' windows are genuine, I realised that there just isn't a good way to tell them apart.

Silent auto-updates are really the right way to go for non-techies. Even the post-upgrade 'announcement' popups are confusing. For instance, I've installed Ghostery on their computers and the 'ghostery has been updated' popup is just confusing for them, leading to confusion and phone calls to me.

Flash also doesn't seem to auto-update for them, despite me setting it up. I don't understand it either, as they turn off & on the machine regularly. Why can't Adobe get this right?
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I did a great course earlier this year on Coursera called "Learning How To Learn"

It's pretty short but covers some good strategies for learning that are backed up by current Neurobiology research.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
A point that has become more obvious over the years is this: there are "soft" instances of NP-complete problems where you can find good approximations in reasonable time, and there are "crunchy" instances of the same class of problem where you don't find a good approximation.

Commercial ILP solvers (e.g. Gurobi, CPlex) profit from the fact that quite often it is possible to formulate NP-complete problems and find
good solutions in acceptable time. Similarly, many of the "physical"
ways of solving NP-complete problems work ok for easy instances and
get unwieldly fast if confronted with difficult instances.
It's our privilege to be advertised to? Fuck Wired.
Must be nice to live in the first world.

I've always wondered if the realization of this electric car utopia in the first world will eventually lead to Lamborghinis and Porches being dumped on us poor people in the third world like hand me down clothes.
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I don't quite understand your question. You are asking what Iran wanted from the EU and US and what they wanted from Iran?

EU&US: Don't develop nuclear weapons.
Iran: Stop the sanctions, let us sell our oil.

Is that what you were asking for?
How exactly do you expect the iranian regime to get weakened?
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There are a number of architectures where you leave half of the performance of little things like memset and memcpy on the table without SIMD.

as a footnote: everytime in my career that someone has said "you never need floating point in X [kernel/network stack/some embedded thing/boot/whatever]," they've come back within a year to ask for my help with floating point library routines for X. So now you've cursed yourself =)
Well, Iran has being saying for years that they aren't working towards nuclear weapons, so there's no obvious change there.

(No idea if they are lying or not; there's been no clear 'smoking gun' evidence proving them wrong, just lots of potential 'dual use' nuclear research that could be for legitimate nuclear development or otherwise...)
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False. It's allowed as long as Mozilla approves the changes. This is how Ubuntu ships Firefox.
A prolonged weakened economy doesn't necessarily prevent a country from developing a nuclear weapons program. Take a look at North Korea.
To me the more interesting thing is that the Chinese government is making such a big deal about a relatively unknown app such as Telegram, but isn't saying or doing anything at all about iMessage, which is supposed to be end-to-end encrypted (by default even, unlike Telegram).

Are you telling me that those same lawyers don't have iPhones and don't use iMessage even more than they do Telegram? Because I don't believe that.

So either the Chinese government has just recognized there's nothing they can do about banning Apple's iMessage - or Apple already provides them with a way to look at iMessages.

I'm inclining to believe it's more the latter.
I am not sure what your point is? what is "measurements with several algarisms"
I don't understand why there were negociation at all. Usually, with such crucial matters, threatening the world peace, there is no discussion. The strongest simply impose its decision.

Eu&us: stop or you'll get destroyed ( militarely or economically). Iran : ok.

I don't see how it went any other way. The only reason i could imagine was if other big countries ( russia and china mainly) were saying " we disagree".

But in that case negociations wouldn't need to be with iran, but directly with china or russia.
It seems Pluto has much less craters than our moon. Is this because our moon is much closer to a heavy body which attracts all kinds of objects?

Anyway: wow! The quality of this preview is already amazing. Waiting for the high res version :)
Do, or do not - there is no "learn".
Maps straight-up crashes ff for me when zooming.
This is getting less common in the UK, usually when a new combi boiler is installed the tank is removed / uninstalled.

But in general it's good advice for the UK as expansion overflow from the hot water system went back into the cold tank (also there might be dead wildlife in the tank).

I think there used to be restrictions about connecting mixer taps directly to the water main (I suspect this changed sometime in the late 80s / early 90s) as I remember a friend getting his shower replumbed so he could get mains water pressure in the shower and it seemed like a newish building regulation thing.

I think virtually all new installations are mains water pressure throughout.
His Philosophy-Complexity paper is also fantastic, in case you have not read it already: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf

It has also been discussed most recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9061744
Iran agreed to provide "Managed access". Iraq inspections all over again.
Nationwide Universal Healthcare.
About the apartment thing; one plausible near future is self driving electric cars that scurry off after they drop you off and go find a plug.
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IIRC this behavior went away in ARMv6.
Don't knock it 'till you try it.

If you're a moderate or greater sports enthusiast, with ~20 bucks to spare, you can make turn it into a few hundred pretty quickly, like within a week or two.

I legitimately use it to supplement my income, started with 20 bucks.
Dual booting is great if you're working on a low resource machine but I think now a days if you're running something like an i5 with ~8 gigs of ram and an SSD you might as well just use VMWare with unity mode.

The main issue with dual booting IMO is that 2% of the time when you need to use a Windows app you need to break your entire work flow and reboot to use it.

Often times you want to use that Windows app while you're still developing in Linux so it's a huge bummer.

Unity mode allows you to run both operating systems together in a way that makes it feel like you're running both Linux and Windows as a single OS. Complete with being able to pin Linux apps to your taskbar, dual monitor support, share drives/clipboard, etc..
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This is a very valid point, not just for motorcyclists but also for cars.

Grip in cold conditions is important, and there are also interesting tradeoffs between noise, tire wear, and traction.
The US does not have universal healthcare.

Further, Obama wasn't responsible for the ACA.

edit: if the US had universal healthcare, the US wouldn't have 30+ million people without health coverage today.