danohuiginn

Just audio cassettes, though they weren't too pure to also sell blank minidiscs and the like.

Supposedly†, smokers recover faster in hospital -- because they're very motivated to stand up and go outside several times a day, as soon as they possibly can.

† i.e. I've repeatedly heard it as folk wisdom, but never looked for statistics

or guano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act

I want to figure out if their team is strong in areas I won't be involved in. If they have crappy code at least I can fix it. But if their sales strategy sucks, I'm be stuck with the consequences without having much opportunity to improve matters.

There's not one specific question I'd ask to figure that out. Depending on how the conversation goes it might be asking about the background of the founders, or their plans for the coming months, or how they assess their threats.

The underlying model only exists because a couple of artists snuck into the German museum where Nefertiti is displayed, and clandestinely made a 3d scan. Nice to see it getting used for this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160220090011/https://hyperalle...

Possible, but decreasingly likely.

The US is now one of the countries where your success in life is most fully determined by your family background.

e.g. it's in the bottom third of the OECD for income mobility, and the absolute worst in the OECD for how much your family background determines your educational success

https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...

https://www.oecd.org/centrodemexico/medios/44582910.pdf

Nuclear Winter is technically a solution to global warming, I guess

Readlang is the extension you're looking for: https://readlang.com/

I've given it a quick try, and it seems to work fine with this site

If importing from OSM (or Wikipedia) it would seem sensible to only accept content that has remained unedited for the last X hours. If something has been staple for a couple of days, it's probably not outrageous vandalism.

You'll still need some way to deal with ongoing edit wars -- I'd imagine the mapping of Jerusalem to be prickly, for example. But at least you can tell that content is dangerous and direct your human review in that direction.

IMO the enhancements of Java over the last few versions have been very well chosen. I can't think of another language which has improved so much, and with so little hassle to developers.

streams, type inference, lambda expressions, an official REPL: big changes, which effectively targeted some of the biggest pain-points in earlier Java.

Then one or both of them can quit their job, or get moved somewhere where neither reports to the other.

"What determines if somebody 'counts' as an analyst? How are estimates recorded so that they show up in yahoo finance?"

I'm no insider, but I feel like a lot of this comes down to Bloomberg terminal. That seems to be where lots of people get their aggregates of estimates, at least as a common starting point.

And I guess you can just shut it off in summer?

Nuclear normally sucks for fluctuating demand, but presumably a 6 month on/off cycle is slow enough to work.

The 'unnatural' breaks you get from Pomodoro do have some advantages, though. If you use 'natural' breaks -- when you have finished a task, or got stuck -- you are breaking at precisely the point where it will be hardest to resume work.

When your break is on a fixed schedule, you're more likely to have something left half-finished. That makes it much easier to jump back in 5 minutes later.

Personally I gain more from the easy resumability than I lose by not having the break-for-abstract-thinking which you describe. Doubtless this varies massively between from person to person.

> Rather than giving a binary answer, as a password does, the API can hand over a score to indicate how confident it is that you really are you

Helpful of them to give everybody trying to break this a measure of how well they are doing. Much easier to optimize against than a binary succeed/fail.

How many of these would you need to sell (or operate) to recover the development costs?

Hetzner will give you a server with 24TB for €82/month, or 5TB FTP space at €26/month

Network effects. Even if these people don't have cash, their presence on facebook may encourage wealthier friends/relatives to participate more.

[and even poor people may be advertising targets, for the right customer. Loan sharks? Political parties? Religious groups?]

Here is the full Kroll report, which is the main basis for the article: http://candu.md/files/doc/Kroll_Project%20Tenor_Candu_02.04....

sadly, kuro5hin is dead; this post is from 2009

Anybody who hasn't followed Elop's career might like to catch up with the vitriolic commentary from Tomi Ahonen, who blames him for single-handedly destroying Nokia: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/elop/

I'm sure in a day or two Tomi will post an entertainingly vicious commentary on the fall of Elop.

There's a problem having a five-point scale with light-hearted descriptions attached to each point.

If I rate what I learned this week at 0/5, it's labelled "I've not learned a thing since the early 90s". Cute, but not really the same thing.

Likewise, all the stress descriptions seem to be about workload.

+1

What I want, and will probably never get round to implementing, is Markov chain playlist generation. Collect play order from (high-quality, human-generated) playlists, then use them to build Markov chains of tracks that tend to be played after one another.

people on the internet misunderstanding a paper? Might that be because 99% of them don't have access to read the thing, since it's suck behind a paywall?

and to end a post about a paper people can't read with "Maybe I’m being naive here, but I think a major reason behind false memes is that checking sources sounds much harder and more intimidating than it actually is." -- that's just rubbing it in!

They've chosen just about the worst imaginable name...

and there's Democracy Now -- it's unashamedly politically biased, but brings up important stories that don't get covered much elsewhere. The best part is the news roundup at the start -- the rest is features and interviews, which can be very good or entirely dull. http://www.democracynow.org/podcasting

I'm a big fan of the BBC World Service, which tends to have more content and less human interest compared to Radio 4. In particular 'Newshour' is the best general world news coverage I've found, and available as podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/newshour

For anybody who reads French, I recommend http://www.courrierinternational.com/. They select and translate articles from the world press on whatever are the most important issues. So you'll get Greek discussions of Syriza, Ukrainian and Russian comment on Donbass, etc.

I've not found anything as good in English, but presumably it's out there somewhere.

Otherwise, I find it useful to read through archives. The Guardian does a good job of tagging everything. The New York Times is good for world news by country -- e.g. if you want to know what's been going on in Poland lately, start at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesan...

Also, Spiegel Online put up some of their best articles in English, though they can be frustratingly pompous and long-winded.

Turning them into generators would have broken a lot of existing code, though, so it's reasonable to leave them until a major version change. Rather, these are the kind of small, obviously-useful changes that should have come immediately in 3.0, giving people some encouragement to switch.

        (process(line) for line in open('giantfile.txt') if line.lstrip()[0] != '#')

Is that line really using any new features in Python 3? The lazy evaluation there is in the file object and the generator expression, both of which have long been present in python2.