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China does the manufacture locally thing too by jacking up the tariff and then requiring all local companies be majority Chinese owned. It has done wonders for them because that's how they've learned modern manufacturing techniques. Over the past three decades, Chinese manufacturing has improved a great deal now that the premium consumer products are made in China.

These massive investments is another tool they have and the track record is somewhat mixed. For example, they completely dominate the solar industry now because of their massive investments in that industry. In addition, they also have the world's largest solar capacity in the world. The problem is that a lot of the capacity is unused because of the lack of transmission lines. So at least their solar investment have generated results but done so with a lot of waste.
> Is manual resource management with linear types a must? Because that's a big bummer.

Manual resource management is generally a given in functional languages with linear types. Since your types are linear, you need functions which can destroy your linear types, and generally those functions are called manually. There are certain other approaches you could adopt in a new language -- e.g. you could use C++-like "destructors" where if you don't do anything with a value and it falls out of scope, a function to dispose of the value automatically gets called. I haven't seen that implemented in a functional language with linear types, though. I don't know how well it would play with type inference. Generally, though, linearly typed languages don't worry about this.

> Also how is that compare to Rust?

Rust doesn't have linear types -- Rust has unique/affine types. An affine value can be used 0 or 1 times (unlike linear values which can only be used exactly 1 time). So in Rust it's possible to "lose" a value by throwing it away or by creating an RC cycle and leaking it. A linear type system wouldn't let you do that. However, Rust does have those automatic destructors which keep you from having to destroy everything manually.

> If it's not, is it possible to incorporate it into an existing language with e.g. HM types?

HM in and of itself knows nothing about linearity and so you need additional support from the typechecker to implement it. Plenty of languages have extended HM to include linearity, though.
Yep, completely agree. I think Spotify had a really good opportunity to innovate as a streaming music player but instead they created a Frankenstein's itunes. I'm not mad that they copied an existing interface but that they copied one that was terrible to begin with. I really hope that the work Rdio did in terms of their UI doesn't go to waste.
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I disagree that it's better to come to terms with it. If we were to normalize a sense of disgust at the practice we could institute legal protections against bulk collection. What you're describing is simply a world that few people want.
> It was also how we picked founders who were good people.

I've read about qualities of good startup founders. Wondering now, what are the qualities of good people? (real question) What have you found? What should I read?
I think that the article is correct. Look at our (USA) history of over reacting to terrorism (which is what the terrorists want!) and the horrible end effects of dozens of 'regime changes' (often by using radical groups who are our 'moderates'). Also useful, from last April on the same web site: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2...
> It would be nice if YC Combinator tought people how do what Paul Graham does, the whole package.

Paul Graham is NOT the whole package when it comes to YC - as stated in the essay.
Rdio made a mistake by trying to compete directly with Spotify. And Pandora is making a huge mistake by shutting down the service and losing a valuable niche group of users.

Everyone I know who actually uses Rdio is DIE HARD (I see evidence of this in the comments too). The users I know are pro audio guys, musicians, programmers, artists, etc who use the app 6+ hours a day across desktop and mobile.

Rdio could easily carve out a dedicated customer base at the high-end who would pay MUCH MORE for a Pro version (I'd do $50 a month).
> it never occurred to us [Google] that people could be seriously harmed by others' knowing details of their lives.

This explains so much.

EDIT: A year ago I wrote this, and it seems I was right:

> Google is self-selecting to employ those people who are fine with the idea of Google recording everything they do. This does not bode well for the rest of us.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8591417)
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I don't even understand how you could claim "the problem isn't that life is unfair" with a straight face. That is so nuts.
So, if he were white his comment would not have been out of order?

Makes lots of sense to me. They cannot get at the black man for being black, so they all pretend to be idiots who cannot tell the difference between having a poor sense of humor and being a pervert.
Terrorism in France: 159 casualties since 1 year. Car accidents: 300/month. Suicides: 200/week. Tobacco: 200/day [1].

And France is sending a nuclear aircraft career on the Mediterranean, bombing a foreign country and further depleting our economy. Given the first profiles of terrorists show European-grown desperate adults, if anything were to be done, it would be to build more schools, have more job opportunities for everyone and more hope for everyone growing up here.

[1] http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2015/05/14/2104320-tabac-78-...
The newspapers here run polls with leading titles such as 'Do you think we should close the borders for further refugees after the Paris attacks?'... Geert Wilders jumped up another couple of seats after the attack and Islamofobia is on the rise. We're doing just great, it's almost as if we've partnered up with IS on some aspects of their agenda.
Sounds like it was in house: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-w...
On (newer versions of) iOS, you don't need to send someone to, say, yelp://rest_of_url to link them to the app anymore. In iOS 9 we have Universal App Links[0] that let you perform a redirect from an actual website link into your app.

For example, if you have Twitter for iOS installed on iOS 9 and you click on a link to https://twitter.com in a Google search result, you switch into the app's main screen immediately.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
I wonder if Google or Apple is in a stronger position to compete on price, and if either of them can accomplish what Amazon tried to accomplish with books until the Hatchette dispute.
Nobody? I use my laptop every time. Sure, it's a little less comfortable, but it's also one of the few places where I can do undistracted work.

Just sayin'
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No I didn't.

I assume somebody will answer if I call there, but I have no idea about service quality.
That's the whole problem, he's pushing the same policy that he was pushing last week, the week before that one and two years ago. More surveillance. Because that will work, this time. Only it very much appears that it does not work and more people will likely die if we go down that road and lots of people will have their rights further trampled. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on cancer... If anything is declared a 'war' then you have to be very careful that your emotional state isn't used to make you decide things that are not in your own or even societies best interest. This is one of those occasions.
I don't see it either, maybe they're bucket testing, odd that they'd announce it if that's the case ...
Guava has some tools that make map literals a little prettier:

Map<Foo, Bar> map = ImmutableMap.of(foo1, bar1, foo2, bar2, foo3, bar3, foo4, bar4);

There are overloads for up to 5 entries, and they're even key/value typesafe.
How do you want it?
IS controls the territory, but they don't actually control the citizens on that territory.

However, the same could be said of the current, US recognized Iraqi government. In common parlance it essentially comes down to whether the Western powers that be recognize you as a state, and as Hollande has claimed France is at war with IS, there is certainly a case to be made.
Yes, make tall people pay more. And to be truly free market about this, airlines should charge flyers both by volume and weight. Just like UPS.
Honestly, if Spotify had a redesign I don’t think there’d be another choice.
This xkcd comic seems relevant: https://xkcd.com/1508/
"They" can get these almost unlimited monies basically for free from the Chinese banking system while similar funding in the US and Europe ends up with so called investment banking or similar where it will never arrive with new entrants or is allotted to a small group of established players and special interest groups.

China is acting similar to what successful (new) raising economies have been doing in the past when they disrupted established (industry) players - my best historic comparison on this would be the transition of Germany from a farm based economy to one of the key industrial nations after the first industrial revolution. While the leading industrial player - the UK - was blocked from progress by overstretched copyright / patent / other protection mechanism of the established special interest groups, Germany provided top down support and access to all necessary means to forward technological progress.

Then - while most people in Germany still gained only limited benefits and just a few became very influential / rich, Germany as an overall entity / nation gained massively. At the same time the situation / influence of the UK overall deteriorated - these are of course all longer term developments often spanning more than one generation (30 years).
It's a piece of advocacy. I wouldn't expect it to discuss downsides much. What irks me more is the absence of meaty arguments for the language.

But then I realised that explaining why the listed features are good is hard. Someone who haven't been exposed to FP is going to take a lot of teaching and persuading. Or a damn good motivating example, but I have yet to find one.
> However, the same could be said of the current, US recognized Iraqi government.

Lots of people have said that the current, US recognized government of Iraq is a make-believe state, and that the strongest claim to actually being an effective state in that area is the notionally-subordinate government of the Kurdish region within Iraq.

So, yeah, the same is often said about the current, US recognized government of Iraq.

> as Hollande has claimed France is at war with IS, there is certainly a case to be made.

War between states and non-state actors is not new, though the most common case is between a state and an internal non-state actor. Perhaps the defining attribute of the modern "wars against terrorism" is that they are wars between states and external non-state actors (or, at least, non-state actors that have a substantial external component relative to many of the states that are fighting them.)
Odd that this is showing up as a jab against Java and not, say, Go.
Fortunately, 18F is under the GSA, which is the executive branch. It's entirely likely that most Congressmen don't know 18F exists.
I don't know about you, but I can change my appearance a lot easier than I can change my DNA. Even this aside, a DNA link to your identity is a lot more accurate than just a photo.
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And when did it die? Computer viruses are virtually extinct. Nearly all malware nowadays is trojans, not viruses.
Dont know why anyone is downvoting this, this is absolutely true, and its even worse because the subset might work differently with the same keywords due to the underlying optimizer differences.

This makes code you wrote in two different engines with the same syntax run vastly differently.

Only if you are writing basic queries is the ansi sql promise realized.
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That comment merely repeats the injustice, in a weird and creepy internet way. Fortunately users flagged it.
A study which most probably might as well have concluded that it doesent really matter since the objective is to determine selfregulation which is so vague and slippery a term its not even funny.
IMHO, Spectre was disappointing, to say the least. I'm a huge Mendes fan and am baffled that he approved that script. In fact, I've been playing with the idea that he was set up in some way, that it was completely out of his hands; that some producer went rogue and pitched the studio against him and Mendes' job was simply to make the whole thing look pretty.

I mean, how difficult is it to write a good Bond film when the main character is already handed to you? The motivations of characters all-round just felt entirely off. James Bond throwing his gun away for a girl? I'm sorry, but the real James Bond would never!
I wasn't referring to identification (I even specifically mentioned that with respect to forensics). I'm talking about knowing the specific content of a subject's genome, the issue of primary concern. Even if you know the genomes of both parents, you can only evaluate the probability of their offspring possessing any particular combination of alleles. The more alleles you wish to know about, the lower the probability that any particular model is correct.

Regardless, you seem to completely disregard the argument for legal protections. If there were laws guaranteeing an absolute right to control one's genetic information, including who may possess it, much of this concern would go away.
I'm not ready to concede that just yet, just like I'm not ready to concede that even though it is trivial for a bunch of people to acquire arms and to commit mass murder that there is nothing that can be done to put a spanner in their works long before they are even aware of that particular possibility.

Because if we do not solve this problem Europe will have a major civil war on its hands somewhere in the next two decades.
Thanks--good idea. I'll add that.
I never expected you to admit that there might be a slightest sliver of copy paste here. Your explanations are very believable, if you want to believe them.

Anyway, I never realized that it was the proper way to write articles on the web. I also didn't know that editors sometimes claim ownership over articles that someone else wrote. As I said - I'm not a writer, so I learnt a lot today.

There is a lot of gray area. You want people to find you on "page builders" on Google, and so did WPExplorer, so you both hired the same guy to write the same article, with different wording, images, and a couple different items in the article.

So, the take-away for me is: Same Author, Same story with different wording and graphics = perfectly acceptable form of content authorship. I get it now - It's not your fault, it's the way the world works, for example, peeps at HTC were very inspired by iPhone 6: https://www.google.com/search?q=htc+that+looks+like+iphone

I just didn't know the same principles apply everywhere, but I'm noticing that trend more & more in lots of different areas of business.

All good,
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I would have probably been working on it before that, if I were them, as I don't ever feel comfortable being a sharecropper on someone else's land. But, they've delivered quickly.
She was mortified about the reporter's story and she was apparently shaken up during the interview with the reporter, who quotes her as saying:

“I’m sorry,” she said. “I’m just still really shaken up.
That’s never happened to me before.”

Not having been there (and tending to give people the benefit of the doubt) it sounds like the VC guy thought she might have been there for an unrelated Match.com event (in which case asking her about that doesn't appear inappropriate) and, when he found out she is an investor, he switched gears to VC mode and asked if there were any opportunities there.

Imagine you were at a bar and you saw an attractive person and started to inquire as to whether they are single, etc. You find out they are happily involved in a relationship already, but that they're a developer and they're waiting for some coworkers. If you work for a company that is hiring developers, you might ask them if they're open to exploring new opportunities. Absent any "creepy" signals, it seems unreasonable for them to conclude that you are offering an interview or a job in exchange for a date.

Without knowing more information regarding body language, tone of voice, and so on it's entirely possible that she simply misread his intentions. Especially since the article concludes with:

“What if he wasn’t hitting on me? What if I totally misunderstood?” she said.

Conversations flow. I sometimes get confused when female friends abruptly change the conversation and I'm left asking them what in the world topic B has to do with topic A, only to hear the response that they mentally switched gears to the new topic and the two are totally unrelated. I find men tend not to do that without some signal that the topic just switched.
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I am actually way more sceptical about this study since the definition of self+regulation is such a slippery term IMO.
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Your people in the know are wrong. The labels own a very small part of e.g. Spotify - around 5% - and the rest is VC and the founders. Deezer's IPO documents were clear on where the ownership of that service lies.
You said she was "dating the founder" and "brought on to handle their marketing", and now you're "not belittling her role"?

You're in no position to criticize someone else's "wording" and "tone". Please stop.
ever since I discovered rdio a year or so ago I am always telling friends etc.. I think their UI is superior and the experience is just better than e.g. pandora imo...
Your anecdotal experience isn't contrary to the parent post's anecdotal experience. He never said that starting late hurt anyone's academic potential, all he said was that starting early doesn't hurt (which I believe, since I also started a year earlier as did my sister and my wife).
@bicknergseng -

18Fer here. The main issue here is how the Gov actually gets $ to that entity. There are lots of laws and rules that we need to obey about who we pay $ to - Gov doesn't have a ton of flexibility here. There was a reason why bidders had to be pre-registered.

That said, many of us want to continue to expand our engagement with the community. When it comes to bounty/reward style programs, the one I'm personally focused on figuring out first is a bug bounty program. Once we've figured out solutions for a bounty type program, you'll absolutely hear from us.

edited: small typo
Personally, I've seen companies exploit this whole family-like atmosphere.

It might work in the beginning, with younger workers, but always seems to fail.

Whenever I hear were all one big family here, I automatically go to the Manson Clan. I just can't help it.

Maybe I've seen this family-thing used by the wrong parents--too many times? In the end, when the family finds out who's really making the big money; the family plan falls apart. Of course the parents are usually the last ones to find out they don't have a tight knit family, but a group of siblings who feel exploited. (Yes, many of the exploited employees are lucky to even have a job, but that's another story.) There are a few founders who put there money where their mouths are, but they seem rare.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but abused by too many rich guys--in order to get their company going.

I give respect, and loyality to a parent who came from nothing, and put everything on the line to get the family off the ground. Yes--that's a family. I'll buy the family thing.

The rich dudes who are backed by rich dudes don't get the same respect. See rich boys can take chances with cheap money. It's just two different worlds.

I don't want to argue with anyone. I know I don't have the greatest attitude. I've just seen too much injustice in the financial world, and when people start up with the family-thing; it just reminds me were in a bubble, with too much cheap money only certain guys have access to.
APIs like that are both good and bad because they let you do almost anything so make many optimisations either hard or impossible, and have a nasty habit of exposing implementation details which constrain future changes to the language implementation.

Even APIs such as JNI that do their best to abstract over such details tend to block a JIT's view of what is going on and end up being a real pain.
Reminds me of the 500 mile email, my absolute favorite bug story:
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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Totally agree. Spotify's weekly discover playlists have made me look forward to Mondays.
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And volunteer development work and professional development work are also not competitors.
I agree: The inner-cynic in me sees the insidious side to this, that childhood follies may be be even archived and data-mined for all eternity.

I digress, the thing that really jumped out at me:

"according to a 2010 paper by Elena Smirnova, director of the Center of Play and Toys at Moscow State University, dolls that resemble humans are essential for the kind of role-playing that kids need to do to work through the events of their lives"

I imagine this being lessened if the toy points parameters on the imagination. I know I played with action figures and placed them in pretty fantastical situations but it seems the cheapened by an electronic interaction governor. Perhaps it may enhance it but I'd wager its the former and not the later.
If the governors can find a way to refuse health insurance to millions of their residents to spite the feds, they can certainly "refuse" refugees by some method, if only holding it up in courts for a year or two.
>> Incidentally, if you saw Jessica at a public event, you would never guess she hates attention, because (a) she is very polite and (b) when she's nervous, she expresses it by smiling more.

on point(b) - I do this too. I have seen that very few people pick up on this queue. I smile and hide my nervous energy.
Internet on China Eastern airplanes is still controlled by the Great Firewall
> it never occurred to us that people could be seriously harmed by others' knowing details of their lives.

Recommended viewing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
Except you clearly haven't read the article - he didn't send the shirts, he listened to the aid workers and criticism over his plan and decided against it.

The local textile crashes referred to in the economy were from cheap second hand imports, not aid.