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I think the point trying to be raised is that node seems to be built on a mindset of endless churn where some of us need to be able to write software that we aren't going to be able to CI and develop on for a year and expect it to work the same time next year without further development. Also like some have mentioned a high severity CVE that comes out turns into 'how fast can I move to fix it and then go back to something else.'

Sometimes the value to customers is just a system that works without downtime or failures, and the next increase in value is not even related to something that was built on this bleeding-edge packaging model. The only types of development projects that seem to benefit from it are the kind of project that can dedicate a full-time or mostly-full-time developer to it forever (forever being the lifetime of the product/service).

If dependency issues crop up every few months for a perodically updated project that could almost be a death knell, if you have to pivot or do major work on the backend all of a sudden you could come back to just a broken set of shambles. So the only thing it fits is a really strange gap between hobbyist/side project and stable production which ends up being just plain risky for a technology choice.
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Another rumor I heard is it's Tony Hsieh. I don't think there's any evidence for that, but it's at least plausible in the sense that he has a lot of big investments in Nevada that could perhaps benefit from a friendlier press. See e.g. http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/angry-tenants-voice-co...
I don't think water or electricity are evil.

I wouldn't want to drown or be electrocuted.

This doesn't require a hypothesis that water or electricity are "evil", it just requires an understanding that sometimes you don't want to suffer harm from something that otherwise might be a good thing.

And, as you say, brand image does matter. That's why doubling down on a policy that leads to outing victims of violence, telling first nations people they don't have "real names", making it so you can't find anyone who has built their career under a stage or pen name, etc. wouldn't be the best move.
>> Isn't investing in bonds putting money to work in the economy?

> Bonds are government debt ...

Could be referring to corporate bonds.
> Myself, I see it only making things worse.

How?

Unless you can show how it could make the situation actually worse, your argument doesn't hold.

It would at least be "as bad as now" or better.
Woohoo, that means that less people will be able to afford the highest prices, which means the bubbling up sales prices will go down, and those of us who have been saving up for a home will have a better shot instead of getting priced out by folks willing to take on extreme loans because of low interest rates.
Stained glass is something I've really been considering getting into lately. My mother used to do it when I was young and it seems fairly relaxing. As with most crafts though, it can get a little expensive quick.
I would imagine that housing will stay flat. New mortgages and new rentals will both increase in cost as lending costs rise. IIRC, generally, a higher interest rate environment will incentivize people to go from renting to home ownership as rents increase due to increase lending costs & lowered/flatter housing costs.

Each 1% hike in interest reduces the leveraged buying power of all buyers about ~$21k per $1000 mortgage payment.

$1000 @ 4% = 209k loan (30 yr)
$1000 @ 5% = 188k loan (30 yr)
$1000 @ 6% = 167k loan (30 yr)

The maximum monthly payments for a mortgage are capped at 36-44% Debt-to-Income (DTI) ratio. At the 36% DTI, a hypothetical Joe with no debt making 10k/mo, will be approved for about $2000/mo mortgage. Today's market at 4% means Joe can get a $418k loan. By 2018, with interest rates moved up 2%, he would only be able to get a $334k loan with that same $2k.

Banks make money on the rate arbitrage. Currently, they get money at .25% and loan it out at around 4%. I'm guessing they will be borrowing from the fed at 2% and loaning it out for around 5.75-6% if we stick to the 2% rate by 2018. But I think long-term mortgages are tied to treasury bonds.

If it causes enough people to affect the lending volume, the mortgage lenders may be willing to take a small hit to their margins and try to make up for it in volume.

I guess we will see. People generally aren't willing to sell their homes for a loss, so I'd imagine that realestate will stay relatively flat for a little bit.
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It was my vague understanding that there is some very low bar for attaching riders, so that members can kill a bill they don't like by attaching a poison pill. If so, the answer would be "make the amendment process require more votes" or something like that.

I'd very much like an clear explanation of how the amendment process works.
Well, we have found all the particles predicted by the Standard Model, last one missing was the Higgs boson.

However, no-one really believes that the Standard Model is the ultimate theory. There must be other stuff out there that we have found yet. What people are looking for now are deviations from the standard model.
The universe is what it is, and may not be to anyone's taste. No one is declaring perfect knowledge. If anything, experimental physicists are much more humble than theoreticians (let alone philosophers) and are interested in teasing out the truth without regard for its conceptual elegance.
Cruise control still requires one to mostly drive, and the only "moment's notice" thing a human would do with cruise control would be stomp the brake.

Regardless of what any rule says, stand-by humans will not be paying attention and ready to drive. Even if reading/sleeping/daydreaming were successfully policed, the human will still be out of touch with how the car responds to controls.

Think of the first time you drive after not having driven for a few months - now imagine being already moving at highway speed.
That is true, and was very impressive. Consider how expressive matlab is though - x = A\b is one line in a .m file, but can correspond to several hundred of lines of fortran.
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Correct and I shouldn't have mentioned XHR -- it was just a fake example for the sake of my point. I just went back and ninja-edited my original comment above to call it "ABCXYZ" so that it's clear I didn't intend to call out any specific package/author.
Technically, the right is not gun ownership, but the right to use guns in a well regulated militia. Gun ownership is a privilege and it amazes me that as a country we entirely seem to have collective amnesia on the "well regulated" parts of the Second Amendment.

Not to mention that at the time of the Second Amendment's writing gun technology was primarily limited to muzzle loaders. If you want to argue that modern cartridge loading guns get grandfathered into an "ownership right" implied by the Second Amendment, then lets argue that drone technology is also a new technology development that is equally likely to fit within some auspices of the right to bear arms (or the right to a free press in view of camera drones) and thus is equally a so-called "defined right".
I use Node on both OSX and Windows and its definitely broken in Windows or maybe just not a priority to work well. Getting a full stack modern application working on localhost on a Windows machine is really painful and typical requires hours of googling obscure npm i errors.
I think this is a temporary problem. What is now called ES2015 (or ES6) was largely part of ES4 that got abandoned. Once most of ES2015 is in browsers and current versions of Node, especially modules, I think the need to transpile will be much less. Eventually JavaScript will syntactically be close to "done" and we won't need transpilers any more.
No time to read the article again to find the quote but the problem is really inherent to the technology. It is very difficult to know what a neural network extracted from the training data, and therefore it is extremely hard to know how it will behave in the future and especially in emergency situations that were not part of the training data.
I made some perhaps overly hasty generalizations. HN is a community that is heavily skewed towards a belief in transhumanism (especially that AGI will be coming very soon) and moreover that high rates of technological unemployment are upon us, necessitating a UBI or stronger reforms to make sure the general-purpose labor saving of AGI doesn't cause social unrest from crowding humans out of the labor market.

I can't imagine what else could the GP have been referring to other than mass automatized labor for most sectors, hence either AGI or lots of narrow AI.
I have been reading through Learn You Some Erlang because I had to do a presentation on Erlang for a class. As soon as I finish it and understand it and OTP, I am moving to Elixir and possibly Phoenix. Both are going to have a great future.
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Interesting to see an nvidia shield box on his shelves [0] - I've been playing with one, and the Tegra X1 SoC in there is an absolute beast. Nvidia are pushing this chip for automotive, supported by freely available learning and vision toolkits.

I'd not be surprised to see some interest and support from nvidia on this (if not, then they should REALLY look into it).

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...
I'm amazed that Facebook is so powerful that they can have a policy like this and those aggrieved complain rather than just saying "screw Facebook." I understand why people would not want to prove their identity to Facebook...but it's not like people have some sort of right to use Facebook.
That's false, you can download documentation for the OneNote file format here

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.1...

it is only about 5% of the size of the Adobe PDF specification and I am sure there are corner cases, but it is not too bad.
Why do these products always have to be closed source... especially when the market's already fairly saturated, this seems to make little sense...
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Please do not use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize. (Submitted title was "Google breaks into Nvidia fortress (via OS compiler)".)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In the world of customers who prefer trustworthy vendors, there's a substantial difference between not wanting to spend money to respect a standard any more than advertised, and deliberately spending money (firmware updates aren't free) to worsen the product and screw customers.

Likewise, "mutilating" a standard to leverage standard technology in a not-really-standard product isn't the same as deliberate artificial incompatibility for purely commercial reasons.
Agreed, it'll get there eventually. It's just unfortunate that this critical stuff wasn't done earlier, could have been huge for the community. Things like async/await should be top priority IMO. I'd almost rather just start from scratch so there's not a ton of weird legacy baggage.
All a rise means today is that the markets had priced in a higher hike than the Fed posted.
> We don't see significant amount of children whose mothers taken SSRIs being born with deformed limbs and dying young.

This rationalization seems uncompassionate at best, implying that mood/cognitive disorders are less important/disruptive than physical disorders.

> SSRIs and aspirin. In both cases, we know that the drug works and is mostly harmless, but we have [no] clue how exactly it works.

To the contrary, the 1982 Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of the mechanism of action for aspirin. In contrast, although we know SSRIs cause elevated mood and have anti-anxiety effects, their method of action is not understood. This is not in dispute within the medical community.

> for little-to-no side-effects

We don't know this, which is the entire point of the article and discussion.
Similar here: I've been happily working in Django for a long time, but Phoenix/ Elixir has me intrigued.
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> We need the Federal government to stimulate aggregate demand at the consumer level. Investing tax dollars in a smarter manner.

Isn't it highly unlikely that tax dollars will be spent or invested more wisely than the original owners of those dollars would have spent or invested them, since no-one would have known the owners' preferences as well as the owners themselves?

Keynesian pump-priming ends up thinking it makes economic sense to tax people for money to fill up jars, tax people to pay for workers to fill jars with cash, tax people to pay for workers to bury the jars, and tax people to pay for workers to dig the jars up. Although I think there is a very valuable insight about velocities and derivatives rather than simply values-at-times, I think that government spending in general is essentially a drag on the economy: a necessary and inevitable malinvestment, but one to be avoided where possible.
Arrays work great for uniform objects(in languages that make guarantees about contiguity which Java doesn't). However once you have disparate types(which is very common) that falls apart. What happens if you have a string associated with an object that you don't want to cache miss on? I haven't seen a language that deals with that appropriately other than C/C++.

Value types are nice in Java, when will we see them in production? We don't even have Java8 on Android yet so I probably won't be able to use them till ~4-5 years from now.

Byte arrays may be less work but they still have problems, you'll pay the int->float cast costs for one, which can be non-trivial on some platforms. Also if you want to use Strings you end up allocating a new string on each access since Java doesn't have a nice way to wrap an immutable string(take a look at FlatBuffers if you want to see this in more detail).

I think it's important to understand they we're talking about a specific set of areas that C++ excels in. There are certainly places where I think Java and other managed languages make sense but if I need to make performance guarantees I'd rather not shoe-horn in a GC'd language where proven stacks have been successful.
> And it's probably motivated by a desire to generate lock-in for their hardware.

I don't see how MIT licensed code can generate lock-in for AMD hardware. Would you care to elaborate?
One such situation: Car detects malfunction while in an intersection. If it comes to a sudden stop, then at the least it will block the intersection, and you'll have the passengers sitting in a box in the middle of the intersection struggling to get the car going.

Further, a malfunction while in the left lane of the highway would be just as dangerous.

I don't even drive that much, all my commuting is done by bike. These are just a couple things I can think of off the top of my head.
Looks great. Is there possibility to host static web files with this?
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>The air went out of his presentation after that.

The myth of the intuitive interface[1] continues to plague software design. Currently it takes the form of heatmaps which only tell you what people are familiar with and not what is actually useful. A UI should not be measured by whether it can be learned easily. Good interfaces improve efficiency when used by people who are sufficiently knowledgeable in how to use them. Using a mouse is quicker than typing alone.[2] The perception that mice are slower is because you often see less adept people using them in a hunt-and-click manner.

[1]http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html
[2]http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mouse_vs._Keyboard/ind...
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"lowest cost"

Ovh.com public cloud storage is $0.01/gb/month and $0.01/gb out traffic. 99.999 sla and 3x replicated, openstack
Yes, holy shit does it look unsafe !

There's a good reason began on closed courses, imagine a kernel panic locking the car on a busy freeway...
> What is this going to do to interest payments on the national debt? Will this put a squeeze on spending? Cause tax increases?

Spending and taxes are driven by political decisions which can remain extremely distant from any clear relation to the market for quite a long time, so the effect a rate hike like this has on fiscal policy is (even after the fact) murky at best -- even once we know future policy, there will be as many theories as observers as to the contribution of monetary circumstances to those policies.
Didn't Jobs quit college because it was too expensive?
Welp. As a blind person who has been looking forward to self-driving vehicles since the 2004 DARPA grand challenge, this is a not totally unexpected kick in the balls.
...And, you may even know people in this situation without realising it.

I had been good friends with someone for about three years before discovering his real surname when I booked flights for a group. I doubt more than two or three of the people he spends time with most weekend know this; I've not told anyone.

(On the other hand, I shared a hotel room with someone I was sure used a fake surname, since it sounded ridiculous, but it was on his driving license.)
I'm not aware of too many. ANTIC is relatively holistic in terms of subject area, but focuses on Atari 8-bit computers.

I believe they've even had a couple episodes reviewing the different dialects of BASIC available for the Atari 8-bit computer platform.

AMICast is a relatively recent show with not many episodes, but it's about the Amiga from a very European perspective.

I'd love to know more as well.
Do you use elixir?
> I don't understand languages like rust and go which introduce a non trivial new syntax. Why not keep the C flavor ? I don't see how people are going to adopt languages like that. There should be a statically compiled language which has the same philosophy of python.

I don't understand what having "the same philosophy of Python" has to do with not keeping "the C flavor". The delta between Python's syntax and C's syntax is basically equal to the delta between Go's syntax and C's syntax, or Rust's syntax and C's syntax.
The main issue with the legislation is that it's slow to overturn it once we're ready.
So, in the startup world at least, I always hear JAVA IS DEAD! DOWN WITH JAVA!

But this library, a bunch of Google stuff, most of Netflix's stuff -- it seems like the real, this-makes-money work is still done in Java. Am I wrong? Is Java not dead at all?
Does the standard model explain quantum entanglement?

edit: Nevermind, read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_beyond_the_Standard_Mo...
actually i feel like there's a lot of people who stopped using fb eventually and they might be the "silent majority"

personally i don't upload anything to fb. It's only a messaging platform for me(if i don't upload anything there's nothing to be "stolen")
It's not about 'wisely' in terms of returns to the individual who invested, it's about 'wisely' in terms of creating aggregate demand.

For example, funding a bunch of national infrastructure projects would have horrible returns, being a 100% loss to the person who spent the money. But that money circulates in the economy, creating demand, and we get the infrastructure afterwards as well.

That's speculation, of course, but we can look back to the New Deal to see that it's worked at least once before, and look at current-day corporate balance sheets and their underwhelming investment in demand-creating ventures to see that what we're doing now is not working. If the goal was to generate novel tax-avoidance schemes like the double-irish, though, we'd be a rousing success, so there's that.
You are pretty wrong about software development. The only problem there is too much bugging from recruiters all the time. I can switch jobs without any trouble. The only problem is the amount of work is so great, the opportunities too huge, its hard to make a decision. If one job has too much work, or has bad culture, then switch jobs. I got my degree from a southern school, I didn't go to MIT or anything, and I have endless opportunities. And I'm old, almost 50.
Looks like the car he is using already comes with adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist[1]. Can someone with more knowledge on the subject chime in on how/what he is doing that improves upon those?

[1] http://www.acura.com/Features.aspx?model=MDX&modelYear=2016&...
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Yes it can, If you are thinking about getting into it, go around to different shops if you have some local and see if they have a stained glass class or something where they provide the tools, glass, and (most likely) copper foil / (least likely) lead for all one price.

That way you aren't stuck with specialty tools if you don't like it. Also stay away from nicer glass. Don't get kokomo glass if you don't need/want it. I always just see what's in the scrap bin and then design based from what's in there.
> makes it possible to apply such transformations to less collection-like entities such as async channels.

Like https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/mpsc/struct.Receiver.html (scroll down to the trait implementations)?
I think that's preferable to remembering whether any given method is in List::Moreutils, List::Util, List::AllUtils or some other package entirely. You already know the name of the method you want, why can't that be the name of the package?
Great invention for narcoleptics.
Not with any reasonable accuracy for most traits - yet. There are both many to one and one to one relationships for genes to phenotype. Add in continuous/fuzzy/probabilistic measures and you get an explosion for the total set (although some subcollection might be tractable with data.)

Observationally some traits are more straightforward. Skin color, IQ and and height give us an unweighted average as the expected value for the offspring, with the height of either parent setting bounds on the variance. But that isn't news if your service can be replaced by SAT scores and simply taking a look in the mirror.

It's a good idea though.
I guess Rust's iterators are pretty standard, meaning that you keep calling "next(): T" until there are no more elements, right?

Well that's pretty cool and iterators are generic, but not generic enough. If you'll look closely their protocol has certain constraints. For example the next() call is synchronous. If the next element is not ready, well, tough luck, the current thread needs to be blocked. Another constraint is that iterators produce elements, right? Well, iterators are cool and useful, but many operators like map(), filter() and flatMap() can be applied on things that don't necessarily produce values. As a side note, this is why monads are hard to understand, being a little more abstract than iterators.

What transducers from Clojure are doing is to define a more generic protocol (more generic than that of Iterator) such that you can have defined operators, like map and filter, operate on whatever you want, such that you can reuse the implementation of those operators. You can also compose those operators, before applying them to something concrete.