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I don't use an iPhone, but on Android it sorts contacts based on how frequently you call them.

That seems like the only logical way, at least for the dialer app. In Gmail for example, I don't need to sort contacts, because my use case is sending an email to a specific person --- I type their name and they pop up (I think Apple mail does this too).

Please don't interpret this as snark or sarcasm, I'm just looking for a use case -- when is this useful? which situations does this improve upon?

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EDIT: i totally missed the "social feed" aspect.

Seems like the best aspect of this is showing social updates from people in your actually contact list -- like a high priority follower list.

I probably follow thousands of people across social media but i really only care about a few dozen people.

A combined feed of their updates is actually valuable to me.
Because up until now no "real evidence of wrongdoing" was found? There was some sort of catastrophic failure of the company and it was put into bankruptcy protection, but the reasons were still being investigated.

I mean, hypothetically, if the reason it went bankrupt was that all the dollars were stored in greek treasury bonds and greece defaulted, I think they would also have to close, but I don't know how you would translate that to criminal charges
I think your daughter would love Digi-Block. It's the only base 10 model that truly embodies the number system. Digi-Block makes all 4 operations extremely intuitive. Here's an amazing video of a 4 year old doing division with the blocks: http://digi-block.wistia.com/medias/6trjj9xt32
Spiral is waterfall with short iterations and the predecessor to Agile's increments. It's also not how defense procurements usually work. They get a big contract, divide that into different phases, subdivide each phase's work into subcontracts, these might be further subdivided, and there are various points of integration. There are DOD efforts that used Spiral or want to do Agile but the status quo is quite waterfall-like. Even if your small part is Spiral, you might still be forced into an overall water-fall structure.

One of many reasons I stay out of that sector. It can be like working in a straight-jacket sometimes.
In every work environment which has an clear gender imbalance we see the same stories of the minority group being pushed out by the majority group.

This isn't true at all. Lots of fields had clear gender imbalances and explicit hostility, and yet the minority gender had little trouble entering. For example, medicine, law, pharmacy, HR, advertising, professor of subjects which don't use math, etc.
haha...thanks for the reply ;-)
That is my opinion, my Guido's. That's why it's not...

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I'm not saying python 3 isn't suitable for production.

I'm saying (and this is my opinion): If you have to use python 2, then do. If you can use python 3, then do.

THIS is Guido's opinion:

I would like you to switch... but I also recognize that it's difficult to
switch, and it feels like a lot of hard work that you could also spend
instead on say, improving the design of your website, or adding features
to your application.

...at least, I have to assume so, because that's what he actually said at the keynote.

So, take what you want from that, but don't accuse me of 'editing in' some implication.

If you're happy using python 3; then be happy.

...but, if you shout at someone for using python 2, I think you're a douche, because there are real life reasons some people keep using python 2.

...and I. And..., clearly, Guido, acknowledge that.

You don't have to. You can have your own opinion all you like... I honestly couldn't care less.
The sudden change is another factor: if people had "always" been making much more similar incomes, or if the company gradually/quietly narrowed pay spreads over time, the results may be different than a sudden change from large pay disparities to much smaller ones. Some of it in my opinion is quite cultural, not purely psychological, based on background expectations of what wage spreads "should" be.

When I used to work in Denmark, I noticed expats were often much more annoyed about the (approximate) wage equality than Danes were. I was making $80k or so, and most people I knew were making in the $70k-$100k range, doing jobs ranging from professor to software developer. Meanwhile, a typical full-time restaurant waiter or construction worker might make around $50-60k. So, we had higher incomes, but not by a huge margin, certainly less than the spread would be in the US. Many expats found this grossly unfair, that despite them having a high-status and supposedly high-end job, they were still in approximately the same socioeconomic class as basically any other worker. They considered themselves underpaid, and the other workers overpaid. But most Danes didn't really see an issue, and considered the Danish wage spreads to be normal.
lost a point for that :(
"Really the DoD chart is what the DoD tells itself about how it designs and develops products, but in reality, it's even messier and more confused. It's the world's biggest exemplar of a spaghetti process."

Well put. It's how I've interpreted it from the outside looking at descriptions/slides vs results.
It'd be nice if you included some "dummy data" instead of requiring me to fill everything into the demo

http://i.imgur.com/cqOaSKY.png
Here's why California's infrastructure is crumbling
I bet you're getting tired of hearing from me. But I did do some work on a CH-46. That was the previous medium lift helo for the Marines (and the Navy until they retired the type in 2004).

So one CH-46 got shot down in Iraq by a MANPAD. Here is the video from the persons who did it http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=efb_1196612143 So there's a clear vulnerability there. Various attempts to address this met with mixed results. Here is one aircraft so modified https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5603/15563054829_09753417c0_b.... It's sitting in a museum this way, so this stuff (which is not at all old) clearly didn't work.

Plus it was getting difficult to keep the things in the air...the youngest CH-46s were made in the early 1970s, but most dated from 1965-68. So, 40+ years old. There are even documented cases where a father and son (and even one father/daughter pair) flew the exact same CH-46 into combat, 4 decades apart.

The 46 is slow. You might push it up to 120 knots. And it was made in the era before digital avionics. The 46-E standard at least gave the aircraft a digital flight computer (not flight controls, but avionics control and some decent comms), but even that is now ancient and antiquated. That's the basic answer about the 46 -- good at its creation, one hell of an airframe, lasted longer than it should have by all rights, but it is just time to say goodbye.

As I said elsewhere, August 1 (today, now!) marks the final flight of HMM-774's last CH-46 to the Udvar-Hazy center in Dulles, VA, where the type will be officially retired. HMM-774 then officially becomes VMM-774 flying the V-22, and the conversion is complete.
Seems like a flawed strategy. The US already has outrageous air superiority and people still want to fight them.

And these conflicts tend to go on for much longer than 48 hrs.

Someone should really tell "the enemy" that they're doing it wrong. They were meant to give up years ago!
> most people would be far more humbled by what she wrote compared to what people think she wrote about

That's a good way to put it. Most people it seems have extremely negative opinions of her, but I'd wager that most of these people have read only opinions of others about her rather than anything actually written by her.

Although, I can definitely agree with the sentiment that her fiction is...weird, especially reading it today with the significant cultural changes that have occurred since it was written. But her non-fiction I think is pretty well written - whether you agree with it or not, it's far from a joke as most people who've never read any of it make it out to be.
The $1-a-week school
yea these social media sites are great when you're using it live. when you step away, you miss so much through all the noise. for me, to know when certain people have posted last on all these sites... time saver.
>>Indeed, I spend my days combating those things on HN and my evenings writing code to combat them on HN.
>>Something else that's real on the internet, and poisonous, is commenters groundlessly accusing each other of those things, or insinuating them.

But you haven't demonstrated why engi_nerd is not gaslighting and astroturfing.

No one is denying that he has experience that's relevant to the topic. What people have an issue with is that he has repeatedly defended major shortcomings in the design of the craft with shoddy reasoning such as "oh, guns won't come into play in most combat scenarios, so it's OK for the guns on the F-35 to not work."

If that's the type of low-quality discourse you want on HN, fine. We'll stop pointing it out. But accusing us of unreasonably calling him out is pretty shitty.
Agree 100%. I'll add that maybe the goals aren't well-chosen, either.
Thoughts on performance(2014)
I believe life _continues_ at conception but began about one billion years ago.

I am pro choice.

I know very well that abortion stops a beating heart.

I know very well the foetus cries out in pain, desperately struggles to survive.

But even so I am pro-choice because the alternative is far worse: women will have abortions.

That has been the case since the Dawn of Humanity.

UCSC Anthropologist Stuard Schlegel was told be a Tiruray woman - Mindanao rainforest village dwellers in the Philippines - that there was a certain herb that the Tiruray women use to induce miscarriage.

Dr. Schlegel of course wanted to know what that herb was as it would be of huge benefit to women in the industrialized world, but she refused to identify it was doing so could lead all the men to murder all the women.

That's known as a "Pessary". The Hippocratic Oath forbids the administration of Pessaries.

Hippocrates was an Ancient Greek.
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/d...

When I suffered from Solipsism, it wasn't that I felt _I_ didn't exist, but that I felt _you_ didn't exist.

You might think that as quite cool but it is soul-crushingly lonely.

Four other Solipsists mailed me after they stumbled upon Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, to thank me for curing their own soul-crushing loneliness.

Perhaps really I did not.

Perhaps we are not alone in the Universe.

Perhaps there is just us five.
As I said earlier, dang, I am happy to reach out to you or someone else with HN and address any concerns you might have if you would like. All I wanted to do was discuss an area I have professional expertise in. It's a niche area so I don't get to discuss it much...
The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'
I think they assume correctly. I know all sorts of people who are extremely well paid who spend at least 30% of their time just waltzing around the office and chatting with people. Some people are just entitled &/or clueless.
But for how much?
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> But you haven't demonstrated why engi_nerd is not gaslighting and astroturfing.

That's not where the burden of proof lies. You can't accuse someone of these things on HN without evidence. An opposing opinion is not evidence.

It's true that working on something professionally biases one. But (a) we're all subject to that, and (b) distance from a situation has biases too. It's a foul to invoke these things as personal weapons, and we intervene when people do it because it tears the fabric of the community.

If what someone says is wrong, refute it. If you're right, you should be able to demonstrate it civilly.
You presuppose that gender/racial/identity politics groupings are the natural one. They aren't.

I do find this easy to say, in spite of the fact that my company has exactly 1 other person of my race (out of 100+) [1]. Though I am in the other "dominant group" (engineering)...

[1] This has been the case for most of my career, and my life was not significantly different in the few cases when it wasn't true.
>>Unfortunately, optimizer doesn’t understand, that there’re humans who are building these systems, and humans have their own rationale and thinking. One of the ideas that a human would have is that if you have 100GB table, you better understand things like data locality and other sorts of efficiencies.

I have not used MySql and cannot comment for that but with my experience with Oracle, i believe its histogram generation process is actually trying to solve the same problem.It has a binning strategy for histogram generation that tries to help with data patterns.

http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/TGSQL/tgsql_histo.htm
Sorry, you are confusing cause and effect. It's a common mistake.

The housing prices increasing means demand had already gone up. An increase doesn't leaf to more demand. If people were paying increased prices, it means the demand has increased enough for the seller to make the sale at the inflated price.
Well, if you really want to go there, the gun itself works, as I pointed out. It fires in the aircraft, on the ground, as I posted a video of. And as others said and I do not argue with, the software for full integration of the gun isn't implemented yet. I did say that the program -- rightly or wrongly -- chose to work on the gun after making sure lots of other weapons work first. Clearly this is a choice that you disagree with. That's fine. Ideally everything would be working and things would go smoothly.

While I may not be the most fuzzy warm or eloquent guy in the room, I try to stick to facts. I am more or less successful, as humans tend to be. I deeply resent my discourse being called "low-quality" and would hope to correct that impression in the future.
I may be the only person on HN who is bullish on Marissa Mayer's strategy.

Basically purchase aspiring start-ups that hit some troubled time scaling (Polyvore seemed to be running into some monetization issues). By putting the digital properties into Yahoo's network, the acquired company get lots of free traffic + better monetization (Yahoo already has a great brand sales department + the data Yahoo might have on people could make more engaging ad programmes).
Yes, 5.3 is not a "minor version" increment, it's a major version increment on 5.2. That's how Lua version numbering works.

Adding support for 5.3's integer subtype is probably going to be a very large project, I would guess that annoyed Mike.

People say that LuaJIT's source is difficult to understand, but I've seen source for several VMs with JIT compilers and this one certainly isn't the gnarliest; it's decently well commented. It only took me 30 min to add a new builtin function, with almost no understanding of the codebase beyond skimming a couple header files. As long as you don't want the JIT compiler to output asm for your language extensions, it's almost friendly.
Given some model of the way circuits work, it's possible to formally verify hardware as well. Maybe your model doesn't quite match reality and your system will still fail. But redundant systems can also experience simultaneous failures of their components. It would be interesting to know which approach is more effective.
> the world has moved on

If your definition of "the world" excludes the words largest country by territory and the largest country by population.

It would seem more fitting to instead say "the West has moved on".
Our leaders have a poor understanding of technology. In the Washington Post there was a call for encryption with access for a "golden key". You know, so police, etc. can investigate if needed. They don't realize how that weakens the entire system, making it easier for your adversaries as well.
Thank you; I don't think it's necessary. Your comments have been civil and substantive and interesting. We very much want people who work in a given area to be discussing their area on HN. It raises the quality of the threads, often dramatically.

(I don't know who's right about the F-35, and haven't even read the comments from that angle. My point is procedural: debates here must stay factual and not go personal.)
It's my job to draw the line.

Yeah well umm... Fair enough, you got me dead to rights on that one.

>You tried to dig up dirt on someone from their history. Not that it was dirt,

I was looking to see if the poster ever had anything to say about any other topic. It wasn't dirt, it was a fact. It was the poster's own words. Words to the effect that they are employed in aerospace, which was disclosed elsewhere ITT, and was directly responsive to the parent, and isn't worth concealing in any case.

>but the intent to use it personally makes it so.

Now you're being unfair to me. It's not personal. Authentication and trust are hard in a plain ASCII message board, even harder in Unicode; it's just a condition of discussion boards. Think of it as diligence.

>Indeed, I spend my days combating

Gratzi, and bless you for it. (in the non-theistic sense, or by a deity of your choosing).

>I don't believe anyone meant harm or even did anything very harmful...

No, and you're right. I am grateful to have smart people to argue with, and grateful that this place isn't a wasteland.

>There has to be a countervailing role, and for the time being that's me.

Thanks for reaching out instead of reaching for the banhammer & enjoy your weekend.
You seem to be fundamentally ignoring the simplicity of supply and demand. If people could offer container housing legally, they would. However, they can't so the supply of legal housing is constrained. This drives the price up.

The same applies to any protectionist laws the greater fuckwad property owners in the area introduce. Nobody wants to see their property value diluted so they vote against every single housing measure as long as the demand is there.
I would rather that the $30 billion dollars (minimum) be spent in a lot of places, rather than being wasted on unnecessary toilets.

And no, the water passages in my 60 year old toilet weren't "constricted". It flushed fine. Likely still does.

Of course, your claim that toilets last only a few years only means more money wasted on these gizmos, not less.

But hey, you enjoy whatever sense of satisfaction you get out of spending money to solve a "problem" that is largely nonexistent, other than in California.
> I would guess she got something close to "how does someone else earning more money hurt you?"

I think that was in the article. If you work your ass off sacrificing your personal life for years helping build a company, at most companies there is a financial payout at some point for that hard work, but in this case, the money resulting from that hard work it seems is largely going to top up the incomes of the nine to fivers. I don't see how it's hard to understand that some people would be upset about these, it's pretty simple math (actual hourly pay based on hours worked).
Mt. Gox head arrested over loss of 650,000 Bitcoins
> While James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said last month that “you have to kind of salute the Chinese for what they did,”...

You have to kind of salute Clapper for what he did, committing perjury and then keeping his job
They didn't need to mutate the JSON hierarchy. That's the big observation, the take-away.

So they took advantage of that fact by not inflating ("flattening") the data structure using a stream.
It's not suffering if you don't have any pain and don't know/desire for anything different. A brain by itself cannot even know there is a such thing as 'better'.
Yup, that's what I said. :)
There are many styles of dresses with multiple levels of formality. A sundress, for example, is in no way equivalent to a suit.
Hate to say it but, it's not very good. I can't imagine anyone using it. At first it sounded like it might be full blown project management like Basecamp, Jira, etc. But it's actually just really really basic To Do lists. Project/task management is such a crucial tool for a company/organization that there's just no way they are going to opt to run their business on this. All the Learn and Share stuff is a major distraction with little value. The user experience is very rough both aesthetically and functionally. The "no email required" callout is odd as that makes very little sense. There's just an overall lack of focus and quality.

My advice would be to pick a much narrower use case and really nailing it. Instead this looks like the lowest of lowest common denominators and I would advise anyone to stay away.

Edit: the videos seem to show a lot more stuff than what I was able to find. Perhaps because I wasn't able to update? (error message said I have to "PUT" to a URL). I didn't see where the Trello-style post-it board was.

Edit: It looks like you're trying to be Jira, Trello, Yammer, Dropbox, Slack? It looks like sort of a Winchester Mystery House of endless cranking on product features with no real rhyme or reason or cohesion for any of it. That is a clear recipe for failure.
Because in most cases he could learn to do her job in a few weeks, whereas it would take her years to learn his, if at all. Look what website you're on - people here write software to literally eliminate jobs in many cases, and to do so you have to understand that job even better than the person who does it, and then some. And this doesn't just apply to "menial" jobs - by the time a software developer is done implementing in a highly specialized field, they often fully understand the domain better than the experts.

Look, I understand the value of a really good personal assistant, at times they can be like magic, but let's be serious, all jobs are not equally difficult.
But that being the case, wouldn't Pascal have been even friendly to someone with no programming exposure? Of all the languages I've used, I think Pascal reads the easiest.
Conviction rate = #convicted / #prosecuted. Karpeles has been detained, but he hasn't been charged and is not on trial yet.
This is a reference to the trope of quickdraw duels and "Fastest gun in the west" referring to the western United States in the "Wild West". Not an east/west of the world like you're thinking.
I believe it is probably like most things in this world. It is far better than its most virulent critics would have you believe, and probably worse than its most ardent defenders would have you believe. The truth is somewhere in the murky middle.
Are you sure about that? I think the difference is that the pioneering women who opened the doors of fields such as medicine and law did so over 100 years ago. The minority gender had lots of trouble entering, and up until recent times suffered from many of the same things that women complain about in the programming community.
> If that is the case, you should have already left.

It's interesting how disingenuous conversations can become on HN. Where in one thread everyone will happily acknowledge that lots of developers work extremely long hours at startups for peanuts (in hopes of a possible big future payday) compared to what they could make guaranteed going to work at a larger established company, in another thread the mentality is that everyone is always optimizing for short term earnings.