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I'm learning German. I've never learnt a non-machine language before and having just moved to Berlin I thought I'd try not being that jerk foreigner that only speaks english, even after living here for 2 years. So far it's been quite fun. Last week I finally cracked the level where I understood a conversation of a Couple passing me on the street.
> It becomes illegal to do thorough research.

Ridiculous. Having access to information others don't is privilege, not thoroughness. You can be just as thorough as you want, so long as others are not prevented from being likewise. Without that, capital markets cease to be open. That way lies oligarchy.
I've been taking chemistry courses, online, with some labs in person. Oregon State ($$) and Coursera. I've finished general chemistry, took a little analytic, and now I'm making my way through an organic chemistry sequence.
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$VERBOSE is mentioned for warnings. That's pretty handy.
>Similarly, I cannot force Apple to publish my content on their platform. In no way does this violate of my freedom of speech.

Only in the sense that this "freedom of speech" is codified in current law -- and that's specific to the US even, elsewhere can differ.

Other countries for examples don't allow a shop owner discriminate as to who he choses to do business with (e.g. like that Colorado bakery that refused to sell to gay couples).

I'd say it would be good for society if companies having mass business platforms were forced by law to not be allowed to censor anything not already censorable by law already (e.g. child pornography, libel etc).
It's less of a walled garden if you don't use it for issues, wiki, etc. and just use it as a repo.
So many times I've been in a normal taxi and wanted to rate the driver. Knowing that if they were held accountable for the truly horrible service they would never drive again. This is part of why Uber is awesome.
He's pointing out that every other poster is cocksure with their pithy silver-bullet explanations.
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Looks like a rather solid system. Although, this approach when you have to connect blocks with arrows (which also can be seen in many enterprise ETLs) is not convenient, in my opinion. Text-based programming languages are convenient because you don't have to explicitly indicate which line should be executed after which. Function pipelining is so convenient exactly because it eliminates explicit passing results from one function to another. That's why in our EasyMorph (http://easymorph.com), which is also a some kind of visual programming language[1] used to replace scripted data transformation, we pack data transformations in logical blocks (very much like function pipelining) so that almost no arrows needed. Another point is about project readability. When all blocks look the same it's hard to understand what the function does. So we paid a lot of attention to designing distinct and informative icons.

[1] http://bi-review.blogspot.ca/2015/06/easymorph-as-visual-fun...
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You can require SASL and build on that, but I don't believe there's any prebaked solution to that problem =/
That sort of system would be a pretty lofty goal, but realize that all of the challenges here are biological or biophysical. How do you recognize a pathogen? How do you target and deliver to specific tissues? How do you avoid the host immune system and degradation? Even if the nano-scale tech were there for the computational aspect, the real challenges would be the same ones scientists currently face, except on a larger scale.
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I don't see why it wouldn't be possible, however, using OAuth would probably need some nice integration on client side you'd have to provide. Maybe just login to the server using your credentials and authenticate via LDAP?
This is a terrible practice for consumers, but a huge strategy win for startups(AOL zombie account trick .. hope they forget about wanting to delete or cancel).

I ran into this awful practice with Uber after a hack they know about lets your account be hacked by London drivers who rip you off for rides in London (im in the states). I went to my forgotten Uber account to cancel and found out I have to email support and further I cant remove all payment options from my account either. WTF ... as a consumer any company who follows such a practice needs their ass handed to them.

On the other hand as startup person I can see the slimey merit in following said practices.
So I'll ask the question: do this mean we're getting anywhere close to getting Swift to compile to other backends?
> I don't see how you can call 1 case an emerging phenomenon. More over that there haven't been any other cases since.

It is really easy, you start with one model of reality, then a piece of evidence comes that does not seem to fit the model.

The first step is to formulate hypothesis that explain that gap between the theory and the practice. Normally, the next step would involve gathering evidence that disproofs each hypothesis, and whichever you cannot disproof, it is the real explanation (which either will confirm your model or provide raw material to refine). Since I have no strong incentive to investigate this particular cases, I will just let be.

However, what I pointed out in my first comment is this: If you brush under the carpet every piece of evidence that do not seem to fit your model, you will end up with a broken model and a very bumpy carpet.
"material nonpublic information" is a term of art. It means internal company information that is relevant to understanding the future financial performance of the company. Research based on outside information wouldn't be material nonpublic information.
Any players are good that encourage Amazon to do a better job. I really think AWS improved since Azure and GCE came along. Moreover, when I dealt with Amazon on calls and in meetings, any time we mentioned the Google or Azure words, they immediately wanted to proactively respond (and eventually did). We were a customer of both their competitors so this helped, but I give Amazon some credit.

Regarding lock-in, I think you are right but everyone seems to be doing this.

I think for better or worse, part of what Amazon has done has been adapting what they already were doing in-house into a product. Sometimes when people just come up with products to compete or "just because," they add in a lot of nonsense and architect things badly. Microsoft seemed to be going both routes at different times with Azure. I was an original user of Azure including the various data stores/data stores they asked for at the time. To say everything on Azure, whether the machines, data stores, services, libraries, or anything else were horrible would be an understatement (might be one of the worst major platforms I've used ever). Amazing how they turned it around when they were sure they had to compete stronger.
> Do you remember the time before commercial use of the WWW?

Yes

Any thoughts on the rest of my comments?
Although I already have my finance degree and wouldn't so much need it, getting my CFA is a near-term goal.

Learning wise, trying to completely re-learn mathematics, starting with books like the Mathematicians Delight and beginning with the most basic arithmetic, hopefully up through diffy q's, linear algebra, and intermediate stat. If anybody has any good tips on completely teaching yourself math from start to finish, please send them my way!
That page/project desparately needs a bullet point list of what it wants to fix with IRC.
I've noticed many hosts call out IRC in the TOS, as IRC is prone to DOS attacks.

And is there Giphy integration? Or editing of posted comments?
There's an alternative to all this silly hub bub.

The alternative is that quantum physics encompasses a set of mathematical abstractions, which, while useful, are still abstractions, and just because an equation written on paper, using symbols, claims that a real world physical state is unknowable, doesn't mean that an unverified state is actually two things simultaneously, nor does it mean that human awareness of one state alters reality, in order to suit a change in human awareness.

Call this "Otaku's Rationale" why not?
When Osterhout built Tcl, there was sort of nothing like it. I think you've identified one troubling point - Stallman sort of trashed Tcl as, I think, an effort to support Scheme. This was expressed in ESR's support of Python...

Yeah, I know. But the resulting obscurity fed what I think is a high degree of quality in Tcl.

Tcl's a bit big for embedding as "embedding" has evolved - in terms of PIC sized things. I use it mainly for desktop/laptop test rigs of embedded stuff but you're completely dependent on being able to serialize from the DUT.

This being said, RasPi/Cubie/BeagleboneBlack sized ARM things will support a Tcl interpreter handily and I do that too.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You're absolutely correct. Having access to insider information is about knowing people on the inside, or having some sort of special access to that information. By definition, it gives the person unfair advantage over others in the market.
You can figure out information other people don't have through pure diligence, without privilege.
My favorite part of HN, the reason I prefer this news feed over any other, is because the comments are usually intelligent and civil.

Your comment here is neither, and it just turned a discussion about the morality of ad-blocking and the viability of ad-based revenue models into a dick measuring contest.

Not cool.
I've been reading bits about Erlang and Lisp-flavored Erlang (http://lfe.io/). I ported Norvig's Lispy (http://norvig.com/lispy.html) to Java as a weekend project and now I'm curious about Pixie (https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie)
Huh, this could be really interesting. Might need to test it out against the current project I'm working on.
IRC is just a well-established and battle-tested server/client protocol. I'm eager for the day when a competing open source server/client protocol emerges and takes over. I imagine all it would take is a really good reference implementation server and client that everyone can just start using, right?
Neither does Slack, unless you pay.
Living in a monoculture requires an understanding of local maxima that I think hasn't been well thought through. So much innovation came from all those competing hardware designs and OSs.
Slack is the wrong choice for large community projects for one pragmatic reason: the 10,000 message limit for free teams. I participate in a large developer community that lives on Slack. Conversations are deleted quickly on less active channels like #lisp or #volleyball, sometimes within a day. This is frustrating when trying to connect to like minded people and also maintain a record and resource for community members. And at $6.67/user/month it really isn't viable to upgrade.

I can't speak to the quality of projects like Mattermost [1] and Zulip [2], though I'm excited by their concepts. IMO trying these, or using a hosted service designed for community projects like Gitter [3] are necessary alternatives.

[1] http://www.mattermost.org/
[2] https://www.zulip.org/
[3] https://gitter.im/
Sounds like this is actually a pretty reasonable practice. You know that the NY Times would be hammering any sort of unethical results of this practice but this is the worst that the author can come up with:

> [Rich patient to author:] "Doctor, I’d feel more comfortable if we stayed [at the hospital] another night, just to be safe.”

> Although there was no medical reason for him to stay, I smiled politely and said, “Yes, that’s absolutely fine.”

Interesting story overall. I get the sense that the NY Times desperately wants there to be a class warfare angle here but seems pretty well handled by the doctors and the hospital.
IMO, push notifications for mobile applications is a big hole. It's not an easy problem to solve, but as of right now I believe you have to release your own flavor of the mobile applications for this to work.
The conclusion being that if you want to live in a pedestrian-friendly suburb in your lifetime, move to Chicago or New York because redeveloping post-car era suburbs will be far more difficult than the article makes it out to be.
Not sure why anyone would be surprised by this. Providing health care costs money and is run by human beings. I don't see why health care would somehow be immune to basic economics and incentives. People who pay more get better service, no matter how distasteful that may be. Trying to make administration of health-care more "fair" often just means making private health care illegal, which doesn't really benefit anyone.
Sure. "all that needs to occur" is pretty useless if it hasn't occurred.
I'll field the latter. I've used both Zulip and Slack in small team (5-20 people) settings and I much prefer Zulip.

In particular I like how the zulip UI is single-stream by default. Messages from different channels are interleaved, so you can read all new messages at a glance, but still well separated by visual elements including color - I don't find it confusing. And I can focus down to any particular channel , or reply to that channel, in one click.

It goes all-in on this "many streams, one view" model with the concept of topics - lightweight "subject headers" for individual sub-streams of a channel. This neatly avoids the "two conversations at once" problems that can occur in other systems occasionally.

Some more minor points are a wider range of markup available than slack (including syntax highlighting for code), and better support for short-lived private groups (ie. "a PM between Alice, Bob and Charlie")

As to what I think Slack does better: More one-click integrations (and likely other backend admin stuff that I don't see as a simple user). AFAIK Zulip doesn't have an irc gateway. Also when I last used it (over a year ago) Zulip's mobile client was quite poor.

I'm sure others can come up with more differences - to be honest I tend to treat slack as "slightly smarter irc" so I don't pay attention to all the bells and whistles.

Finally I should caveat that these same features I like are things people dislike about Zulip - it's more dissimilar to existing solutions and people will always have their preferred ways of doing things. I personally find Zulip amazing for me.
I know what he is doing but he doesn't know about how sure anyone is just based on what they write and even how they write it.

Also people are talking about different aspects and so to even compare them as they are all trying to answer the same question is well an interesting perspective but hardly fair.
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My PM was able to set up Slack integration with Trello and Github in a few moments, and found that connection incredibly useful. She didn't have to KNOW that she wanted it, she just saw it on the list of possibilities. She didn't have to go looking for instructions, she just hit connect. She didn't have to ask me or one of the other consultants to stop billing project time to set up some tech for the office, she could do it herself.

In my firm at least, Slack is an incredible tool for our PMs and owner, and it also works well and covers all use cases for the consultants.
Here is my interaction with livecoding.tv's support about removing videos, they don't seem to like removing stuff from their website!

https://www.livecoding.tv/video/designing-a-touch-screen-int... @ 20:37
This problem exist outside the US too even in Denmark were health care is free

Well yes and no. Even in European countries someone is paying for it, no? In the UK there is NI and employer's NI - consider the percentages below: https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance-rates-letters/contribu...
Agreed, but here is the list of specs: http://ircv3.net/irc/
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> People who hate ads tend to say fuck you, I'm blocking the ads but taking the bandwidth anyway.

You ever see stats on ads taking the bandwidth?

http://betanews.com/2015/08/25/ad-blocker-crystal-massively-...

The ad vendors business model depends on the user paying for the ads. Why in living hell are they complaining? I am subsidizing their crappy business model. If I want to stop subsidizing them, it's my right.
That hasn't been my experience, I don't know from where you're getting your facts from. But I'm involved with two very big German companies and I've heard of many others that are banning US-based services and it's not enough for those services to have servers in the EU. There is no such thing as AWS or Azure, their usage would be unthinkable. Everything happens on their own infrastructure and installing Skype on your computer for example can get you fired. The reason is quite simply fear of industrial espionage and the Snowden leaks made things a lot worse.
Maybe this is preference or something changed since I used GCE daily, but I disagree on almost all these points.

* Documentation - On the surface, GCE docs always looked better to me until I realized how many mistakes there were and things out-of-date. Not to mention there was too much of the obvious documentation and not anything regarding subjects where I'd actually want detailed docs. Although Amazon's docs are trash, they have the benefit of everyone and their mother writing about how to do x, y, or z. Whether that's a benefit or not, it depends on the author.

* Console - The console was sometimes more responsive depending on the action, but for some things was worse. Overall I'd give this one to GCE as well, but I think the GUI was a mess in places. Perhaps that's more based on my total usage of Google Services, which are a superset of GCE. Regarding command line tools though, I felt these were awful, slow, poorly documented, and buggy. Again, maybe an update fixed some of this. Google has a really bad history with consoles. Amazon's GUI is 90sish at times, but it's been pretty good to me and the API just works.

* The answer to this one is really it depends on the machines, location, etc. GCE has some advantages here that are well documented, but performance of a running machine was never really a problem I faced on Amazon provided you select a good instance type.

* Can't argue here. Amazon does like to give out its share of freebies though if you are a big enough customer or paying attention to the community.
Lost of their income due to their bad service is not a your problem. You are just helping them to understand their mistake. Feel good.
Speculative explanations - i.e. assumptions - are not uncommonly offered in support of the proposition that there is no underlying bias. Nl provides a rare example of the assumptions being systematically investigated.
It's really hard to return software, especially after it's been opened, as the retailer, who don't have anything to do with the EULA, are (rightfully) protecting themselves against people who install/copy the software then return the physical media for a refund.
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Unfortunately the headline is mistaken. Insider trading law was only ever intended to reserve for senior executives the privilege of trading on inside information. This latest interpretation is a confirmation of that purpose, not a repudiation of it. Bharara has been a true believer, but if he's going to stray from the South Asian beat, he's going to have to learn the real rules.
As someone with no ops experience, can't most of this automation be done with Puppet or Chef? If so, is there anyone with public github share of those files?
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>> You've likely already broken your NDA by admitting you signed one or that one exists

In my opinion and I'm not a laywer, you aren't violating an NDA by stating an NDA exists unless the NDA explicitly states to not state that it exists. He did not disclose anything about the NDA or parties signed to it or any content that the NDA covers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement
I certainly think having an open source reference implementation for a 21st century (and by that I mean having features like Slack or Yammer or other popular closed source packages) implementation of a successor to IRC would be the minimum starting point.
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I believe RemObjects[1] has already implemented a 3rd party Swift compiler. So technically, they have compiled Swift using a non-LLVM backend.

1: http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/default.aspx
This post is completely disregarding the ease-of-use of Slack (and other silo'ed chat rooms), mainly due to it's pretty monolithic structure.

Yes, there are many things that Slack does that _can_ be done with IRC, but they require significantly more coordination between various parts than Slack. I'd love to see an alternative to Slack not just a clone, as easy to use and administer, and built on an open protocol. Individual teams should be an easy entry point for a tool like that.
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Yes but there's no evidence that links higher technology to greater productivity. All the accountants who were automated out of existence by COBOL programs, simply became COBOL programmers, and the net amount of accounting done per person involved didn't change!
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It's not as simple as "just use IRC". Even in cases where an IRC channel is both available and relatively well-promoted, some communities still seek out other tools. The first example that comes to mind is Reactiflux, a rather large React.js community that recently moved from Slack to Discord[1][2], another closed source app that will probably stay that way[3].

To me, the fact that a community of tech-savvy developers won't use IRC exclusively is a pretty good indication that IRC is not enough.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-...

[2] https://github.com/reactiflux/volunteers/issues/25

[3] https://twitter.com/discordapp/status/648379244570013696
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If everyone with inside information could trade on it without fearing the law, they would reveal the predicted effect of said information via movements in the price of the security.

Therefore, free and legal insider trading would actually increase fairness in the market.
It is nothing to do with immigration really, since the H1B is explicitly not an immigration visa.
You start describing a very positive situation where a Dr. is able to spend more time with a patient, but then immediately turn it into a zero sum situation where people have to be relegated to lesser care.

How about having more doctors in general and overall better standards of care? I'd gladly pay a few hundred a year to be able to get the care my family needs. Following the changes from affordable care act (aka obamacare), the main medical group in our city turned into something akin to cattle processing facility. Doctors are encourage to spend less than 15 minutes per patient! When we needed an urgent appointment for something that wasn't bad enough for a 911 call, but certainly had the potential to turn in to one if neglected for a few days, all we were offered was a slot 2 MONTHS from the date of the call!

I eventually escalated and escalated, but it turns out the supervisor I talked with simply double-booked our doctor...

If we can add money to the system that allows for better doctor/patient ratio, why is it a bad thing? Sure, the economics have to make sense and the real price of this "luxury" should be charged.
That's funny, the lack of any good clients is why I dislike Slack and prefer IRC. And while Slack does offer an IRC bridge, it's not very good either.

I sort of get why people like Slack. It's very low effort. But that's the only advantage I see.
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