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Some quibbling here in the comments about whether Pike uses the right definition of "simple". There is of course a context to Pike's notion of the word:

> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers [...] They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...
Hawaiians are some of the least racist and xenophobic people in the US, your bile says a lot more about you than it does about them.
I read the book. It's excellent, however it describes methods of torture (the Comanche used) that have really stayed with me. I wish it wouldn't.

If you are sensitive to that sort of thing, take a pass on this one.
I've only read to October, but here's a thought that's already occurred:

When you start keeping a detailed diary of all the fucked up stuff that happens at your company, it's time to put on your running shoes and GTFO.
You can certainly include tact. The algorithm thinks it's more likely it's 51%-49% gorilla/person split, but a level above that chooses person as the answer as even though it'll be wrong more often, the impact of the error is lower.

This is why you shouldn't just train your system to hit higher accuracy figures but also investigate the type of errors it's making. This needs to be done while thinking about your specific use case and domain.
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No, but it is reasonably likely that Snapchat will have a liquidity event at some point in the next couple of years.
That quote is a hilariously denigrating claim to make of your coworkers.

Even if it were true (which I don't believe for a second), you've created a language released to the community at large. Your users are not just google engineers. If you want to encourage broader acceptance of your language, you're going to need to make a good faith attempt to listen to their requests.
It's written in C++.

There are no secrets to keep; it's not like an RPG where the ending can be spoiled. Well, not really any secrets, anyway. Anyone who lives in a country where Tolkien ever published a book will have some ideas about what to expect.

It's really just about creative control. He has let people help in limited ways in the past though. There were some improvements to the way it uses the OpenGL API and to the way it renders fonts (it can now use TrueType fonts for most purely-textual elements) that were contributed by a fan. he later stated that although it was a good improvement to the game, it wasn't an unalloyed good. The changes _worked_, but he no longer understood that part of the code very well.
> These are non-technical people who understand the importance of keeping their contact list private

Do you take this opportunity to point out to them that they do away with this privacy every time they install whatsapp / fb messenger / hangouts / skype / practically anything that asks for contacts permissions?
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> He made the claim that more features hurt readability (~6:10), because when you are reading you have to waste time thinking about why the programmer chose the set of features he did to write the code. To make that kind of claim without qualifications is just ridiculous - if it were true, why add any feature to a programming language at all?

Because if you didn't the programming language would never do anything at all.
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What if climate change turns out to be real, and caused by man, but not harmful to humans soon?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-wi...

EDIT: downvoting this because you don't agree with it won't make it go away. Scientific American isn't Fox News!
Wow, hadn't thought of that.

I wonder how much carbon you can lock up by buying long term oil leases and sitting on them, and what the price per ton would be.
A proper analogy would be a barber asking for a tax on long hair.

Yeah, he would have to find someone to cut his own hair too.
Near Antarctica? Any chance of fluctuation of tide sizes due to global warming?
I missed mostly three things:

1. simple data definition. Clojure has EDN, python has nice syntax as well, and javascript has json.

2. pretty print

3. succinct function definition/execution, and standard array of functional tooling (map, filter, reduce, etc)

Maybe the 3rd thing did get better with Java 8?
That involves "source routing" though (from what I get, that means controlling the route a packet will take, at least partially). I only see one ACK being returned, not multiple, so apparently the attacker is able to receive the SYN+ACK here. This means it's a different attack.
Okay we're going to sit down and talk about the interface for this.

Tinder is a dating app, we judge quickly based on pictures and meet people solo. It's awkward but physical attraction is largely the criteria we judge love interests by. Currently it's effectively a dating app but we aren't encouraged to go outside of our comfort zones (new is interesting when it comes to dating). It's competing with tinder directly even if that's unintentional. Plus you are forced to meet people immediately one-on-one; some people never meet anyone they meet on tinder and are perfectly happy with that. Why bother with this when everyone else already uses Tinder? It just doesn't fill a niche.

But it feels like this app wants to solve a completely different problem: meeting people as friends in a casual manner. I think it would be much more successful as a sort of pick-up group deal (for a buffer against all that uncomfortable). Don't even bother showing people's faces until after they've joined the group, shopping for friends isn't as much about looks. Keep related interests, food they like and such. Maybe build in an icebreaker kind of question that displays below them. If you want to stick with the food thing, getting people little group deals at restaurants would be epic. Hell, it might be handy to have a friends only feature so I can plan food dates with my existing buds.

Edit: To differentiate from say meetups, limit group sizes and make it really easy to just have it be a thing you can say, I'm gonna do Chinese today here (or in some general area); come join me.
This site outlines the actions that tmt takes to improve Hawaii and science education in general... 300 jobs. 26 million per year in revenue. 1 million per year just in paying a lease, 800k of which is earmarked to pay for conservation of the mountain. The site was deliberately moved to a suboptimal location so that it would be less visible to people. Includes a statement regarding this HSC hearing.

http://www.maunakeaandtmt.org

I honestly don't see how telescopes are disrespectful to begin with. Stonehenge, the Pyramids, countless other ancient monoliths were astronomical temples... These are literally the temples of the one 'religion' all humanity shares-- the love of space and the stars.

Whatever. Good job random celebrities on twitter who have never even been to Mauna Kea; you've successfully done whatever this is. We will in fact “take [our] toys and play in another sandbox,” because some of us actually care about the past and future of humanity as a race and our place in the stars.
I haven't thought about what's reasonable (an hour? a week?) but it still shouldn't be dropped but bounced back to the sender with an undelivered message. At last that's how email solved it some thirty years ago.

(But perhaps a new protocol could take the opportunity to improve things further and offer on-line delivery status notifications throughout the process.)

No matter what, messages should never be silently dropped.
The proposed tax is basically a spending tax, much like a sales tax. It would effectively raise the price of any products/services that rely on carbon-based energy to be made/delivered.

Remind me: how does a spending tax disproportionately affect the poor? The tax goes into a local/federal budget, where poor disproportionately benefit from it (compared to what they put in).

Also, the arguably biggest global challenge in the next decades is going to be to slow/reverse the adverse effects of the global warming, which WILL disproportionately affect the poor (which have less ability to adapt or move). So how is doing something about global waring really disproportionately affecting the poor on the long run?
Since conservation areas and city zoning don't have the same goals and don't follow the same principles, e.g. when it comes to impact of construction. Note that this wasn't even the issue at hand, it seems like the court decision was mostly based on a technicality.
Perhaps a for-loop is more similar to your memory of other code, but a list comprehension is more similar to an English sentence.

"All names longer than 4 characters in the list of cities?"
all(len(name) > 4 for name in cities)

"Sum of x-squared for x from 10 to 20."
sum(x**2 for x in range(10, 20))
How is it that there is no discussion of those countries that feed the ISIS beast? I'm talking about Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc?
Writing is the key, I wrote in 10 programming languages and lisp still looked alien to me. It was only once I was forced to write out examples in a programming languages class that it started making sense. You really have to try writing in something novel like a lisp dialect to assess whether or not it makes sense!
Yes, I'm sure it does.

In practice though, I'm sure it will just get added to the electricity bill your employer sends you every month.
Who wants to get taxed more?

Answer: Democrat Bay Area Environmentalists & cheese eating surrender monkeys
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Just because 'science is good' doesn't mean it gets to trump the normal permitting procedures and rule of law.
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This is the type of law being proposed. It has nothing to do with war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_carbon_tax
I wanted to something like this! You beat me, congrats!
Take a look: http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/examples/go.html
Then again, I did read (parts of) the RFC from '81, some paper (from Morris iirc) about predicting the ISN from '85, lots of research in the 90's and early 00's regarding predictions and preventing it... but nothing actually just guessed the number, and people seemed to agree that "if the ISN is unpredictable then yeah it's secure right?" That's why I considered this a new thing.
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It would just increase the price of dirty electricity. If they don't charge you for electricity now, I don't see why they would post-carbon-tax.
Yet they seem to be wealthier and healthier than the poor folk voting against their interests in the middle of the country.
Carbon tax becomes a peculiar piece of legislation when viewed from Pirate Party's perspective (not necessarily that I agree with it, no ad hominem please). According to Rick Falkvinge [1] legislation must:

* Be targeted at a problem
* Solve the problem
* Not create other problems in best case, worse problems in worst case
* Be evidence based

Carbon emission is considered a problem because it contributes to climate change. For carbon tax to be considered targeting a problem we must accept that climate change is a problem.

Does it solve a problem? At least not directly. Taxes on tobacco and alcohol do not eliminate consumption, prohibition in US created a Mafia, jail-time for drug possession does not eliminate consumption, we have hard evidence confirming that.

Such tax hinders accessibility, though. Since at least transportation is fossil fuel dependant, more or less everything (commodities including: food, public transportation) will get more expensive, thus less accessible.

Do we have hard evidence (numbers, not general economic speculation) that x level carbon tax will lower carbon emissions by y?

[1]: http://falkvinge.net/pirate-wheel/principles/quality-legisla...
Thanks for the David Foster Wallace, I doesn't know that guy, I will look deeper into it. Yep, I'm aware that those 'basic truths' are valuable and I don't say otherwise.

The Chomsky quote wasn't just about that psychotherapist maxim, it's that one that made me tilted.

These maxims sound to me like if the job is not done it's the worker who got a problem and need to change. I'm just trying to say that maybe it could be the nature of the work and how we see it.

For example I am one of those who have really a lot of never-ending-awesome-side-projects. I'm fine with it.

As soon as I realize that particular job is more fun 'not to be completed' but because it allows me to learn more, share with others, discover techniques and occasionally strange weird reasons (wage?)!
The completion is just a social reward (and yeah maybe I often fear the 'what to do next' desert).

The path to completion is so much more valuable to me.

We need more maxims to realize all the small ignored ends on the ongoing projects.
Sometimes an idea is cool because of one of those ends, which is already done, and it would be a shame (and a time loss) to force yourself to continue.

P.S: I don't preach a do-never-finish lifestyle, it needs personal balance.
Then we will all be very luck but the next generation won't thank us for doing nothing.
> How do you have a large set of language features with them not interacting?

The ability to write interesting programs in a language comes from the interaction between its features. The real problem is features that interact in unpleasant ways, which almost always results from a lack of foresight on the language designer's part.

> In C++, RAII interacts with exceptions, which is the point but isn't exactly pleasant.

The interaction between control effects (of which exceptions are a particular case) and substructural types (of which C++'s RAII is a very broken particular case) is certainly nontrivial [0], but this doesn't mean we should give up on either feature. Control effects make it easier to design and implement extensible programs. Substructural types allow you to safely manipulate ephemeral resources, such as file handles, database connections or GUI objects.

[0] http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jesse/pubs/substructural...
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I think it's a bootstrapping issue. What does one do first when they want an entirely new power ecosystem? I would argue it's wiser to start with the sexy public facing segment on the demand side (awesome looking electric sports cars) and have the public start this exact conversation and demand the infrastructure changes. Because it seems like a pretty steep climb for one to try to make this huge change simply by supply side first.
> because when you are reading you have to waste time thinking about why the programmer chose the set of features he did to write the code.

It seems to me that what Pike is getting at here is how easy it is to build mental models of the code, the language, the underlying system, down through all its layers, and, yes, the code's original author and any subsequent authors.

I share your frustration at the subjectivity of readability claims. There's actually starting to be good academic research on code readability, for instance this paper:

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/p/weimer-tse2010-readabi...
I don't understand all the "culture" moralizing that's been going on for the last year or two.

Here's an inverse culture code for Techinasia https://www.techinasia.com/culture/ :

- We are obsessed with our competitors not our customers.
- We don't believe in work life balance, our work consumes every facet of our lives.
- We don't communicate within the team - whatever it is, figure it out yourself.
- We don't really care about data or metrics. They're just numbers
- get things done whenever, there's never a rush

You would never see anything like that on a list of corporate values. Who doesn't want to communicate transparently? Or make decisions backed by data? Since those are things that just about everyone pays lip service to, it doesn't differentiate you, and it won't attract 10x A-player ninja rock stars.

My theory is that it's just executives / founders feeding their egos - "My company is special! We have values!". It wouldn't be so goofy if we didn't have to hear about it endlessly like it was this enormous gift to the world
This is a point which gets overlooked pretty often.

It's the same as the value of taxi medallions in the Uber debate. Allowing Uber to operate in a city where technically only medallion owners were supposed to drive is actually really shitty to the owners of those medallions. You open it up, suddenly tell them that their investment is worthless because of a change in regulations. It's really unfair to them. Perhaps the way to quiet the medallion owners would be to pay them like 25% or 50% of what they were worth earlier in compromise bill allowing Uber in. They don't feel so slighted, everyone else gets Uber. That's win-win.

How it would work in this case: pass a compromise bill which involves paying these companies some amount of cash so their shareholders won't feel so slighted. They will give up their fight against carbon taxes, and we avert global catastrophe.
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I think that it would be taken in the spirit it was intended.
Programming is hard. (even when you take into account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law)

Also, I'm pretty sure the "brilliant" is meant somewhat sardonically.
You don't have to reduce carbon emissions to zero to solve global warming, you just have to discourage emissions to some degree. That is exactly what a carbon tax does. It directly solves the problem.

Revenue-neutral tax is the key to dismissing the point about accessibility. You can take the tax revenue and mostly give it to poor people who are hurt the most by the tax.
Then we really lucked out, although it would still be a bummer about the corals. (And shell fish, acidification is already disrupting oyster farming in Washington)
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Doubt it. If the price of electricity goes up 20%, the cost of computing goes up <20%. Sellers of computing pass that cost onto consumers.

I don't know anyone who would go out of business if their server bill went up 20%, especially if it went up the same for their competitors.
The default assumption with cloud apis is the company offering the service will not use data for internal consumption (even when it comes to training ML models?). I'm assuming this will be the case with this one also?
If a bit semicolon-happy.
3 thoughts here:

1) There's a lot going on in No Child Left Behind, but one of the interesting ideas is to segment up the student population by gender, income level, minority group, etc and define failure via measurement of inadequate scores in any subgroup.

2) I'm not convinced most states should be spending the time or resources setting their own individual educational programs. With the global economy we are in, it's not like the needs of students in Washington state are that different than Oregon or North Carolina. This infrastructure overlap provides a lot of job security for administrators.

3) Lastly, its hard to strike the right balance between the benefits of longitudinal testing, not spending too much time testing students instead of teaching them, and lastly not teaching students to pass the test (instead of try in learn the underlying concepts).

Suffice to say, there's a lot going with these bills and their subsequent iterations.
I don't think will ever work. There are countries where taxes are way higher than US. For example in Italy [1] we are around 50% (including VAT and local taxes) and other than decreasing the productivity of companies it never had a "mind" impact. In fact Italy is one of the countries with most cars (per citizen) and that invest less/nothing in alternative energies.

[1] https://home.kpmg.com/xx/en/home/services/tax/tax-tools-and-...
also can be read as "Only a Carbon Tax Will Accelerate Sales of My Extremely Expensive Vehicles"
This whole article is so mindbogglingly dumb.

Under free migration, labor would relocate to more productive regions, massively increasing total production.

He thinks it is a given that open borders would be overall beneficial, because it would "massively increase total production."

So is he totally unaware that the basic commodity of human labor is rapidly diminishing in value?

What massively increases total production, and what drives economic gains is human creativity.

And for whatever reason, creativity, of the world changing sort is concentrated in relatively small areas on the globe.

The knowledge that we're sitting on an ocean of talent should haunt great minds day and night.

What the hell? Where is the evidence of all this talent? Why would these magic immigrants just start demonstrating this talent after they migrated? Why aren't they demonstrating the talent in the countries they are currently in?
It's not "taxed more", it's "taxed in accordance to its harm".
> Not true - in firewall and security circles this was long ago observed and addressed in many different ways - it is now standard in at least the major Enterprise Firewall Vendors.

Hmm, what kind of measures are taken against this, then? Because aside from ingress filtering for RFC1918 addresses and the like, I don't see how you could prevent this attack effectively. You could make it more difficult by rejecting wildly incorrect acknowledgement numbers, but I don't see how to really prevent it.

> Still though; the analysis is good, and clearly determined through work, observation, and sound logic. I would work alongside a person like this anytime.

Thank you! :)
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Seriously? I guess given the utter dysfunction described I can understand fundamental website errors (like "Speak to you[sic] CRM" and "Listen to you[sic] CRM" but still....
I lived in Kazakhstan for a few months, and I think they're already blocking VPN traffic with deep packet inspection. I tried a number of different services, including setting up my own on Digital Ocean.
Exactly. Parametricity is the killer feature of statically typed functional languages. This why it saddens me when Haskell and OCaml add features that weaken parametricity, like GADTs and type families.
protecting the other 99% of their users from an attacker loading malicious firmware onto their device?
That's just a generic across the board tax you are talking about and linking to isn't it? Rather than a specific incentive/disincentive in one area (carbon emissions).
Different skills are valued differently for different startups.

For Google - backend skills were way more important than UI.

For Instagram - UI/UX.
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50% tax on everything across the board is different from differentially taxing carbon. Taxing everything at once just slows down all economic behavior at once, but putting an additional tax on carbon makes people shift their behavior to avoid that tax in particular.
For those of you looking for a mirror (copy) of the page before it was taken down, here it is:

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