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I was just reading [1] about how Detroit's original decline was due, to a significant degree, to the mortgage industry:

Through a system called Red-Lining in the mid-20th century, which the federal government actively facilitated [2], banks refused to lend to any residents of neighborhoods with even a few residents who were of 'undesireable' races, including of course, blacks. This wasn't a conspiracy theory; it was all done in the open. Consequences:

1) Even for whites happy to integrate: A few black families move in, credit dries up, nobody can sell or improve their homes, and your housing values plummet.

2) And even worse for blacks: Imagine trying to buy a house without credit. Now imagine doing that coming from the rock-bottom financial circumstances imposed on most blacks in the mid-20th century.

3) Blacks who did obtain homes couldn't get home improvement loans, resulting in deterioration of their homes and a reputation among whites for not caring about their properties.

4) The effect on supply and demand: It forced a very large and growing number of black residents into a small, artificially limited number of rentals (they could only live in certain neighorhoods, remember), driving up rental rates and driving down the quality of their residences (landlords could fill their properties without doing maintenance). Even more perversely, even if someone would sell them a house, blacks had to pay more than whites for the same house - the black bidder had far fewer options. Again, remember the people in the worst financial circumstances were the ones facing these problems.

Back then bankers said the same thing: They are bad credit risks.

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[1] The Origins of the Urban Crisis:Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue: A prize-winning scholarly history. Highly recommended; it changed dramatically how I understood racial issues and urban development (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10233.html)

[2] It was called 'red-lining' because the Federal Home Loan Association (I think I have the right agency) would literally draw red lines around these neighborhoods and identify them to banks as the worst possible credit risks.
Pretty much everyone with a million dollars laying around declined to spend it on acquiring Google back then, it's not like Yahoo was the only company they approached.
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If you have $100 to invest, you're down 5-10% right off the bat just from fixed price trading fees. Having little to invest is a huge roadblock.
SF is so wildly incompetent that startups get invented to fix the problems of living in the bay area. They succeed because the govt. alternative is so bad.

It's probably not actually true in many cases, but you get that feeling.

For example, if SF cabs weren't so horrible, would Uber gotten it's initial traction? Would it exist today?
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You'd have to ask them, but I suppose it takes years to carve out a niche.

What I can say is that I recently interviewed a Google engineer who was conducting a survey of Go's usage, so it seems they're at least studying the question.
To me the logic is simple: It's more efficient to build the site when its content changes (very infrequently) rather than when its viewed (very frequently). Yes various forms of caching can allow you to scale the dynamic model quite far, but scaling gets so much simpler when you move into the static world.

In answer to your questions, the general idea is you have a static site, and a powerful API. The power of the JavaScript engine in modern browsers allows you to build your entire application to run in the browser, sending asynchronous requests to your API as is required. You're essentially just removing the Python/PHP/etc. middleware layer many sites have traditionally had.
Who in their right mind would use a Chile as a kayak?
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This is funny. It looks that the face recognition algorithm needs better training to identify klingons [0] and eyewear [0,1] though.

[0]:http://facehero.co/i/f8xmw5f
[1]:http://facehero.co/i/k68wg4x
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> (no built-in — let alone syntactic — support for evented IO and CSP)

Channels are in the standard library[1], while async io is in an external package, almost everything is in Rust, and it is one of the packages that will end up making that jump to be in the standard library fairly quickly.

[1]: and, isn't as big of a deal in Rust since we make shared memory significantly safer in the first place.
Yahoo used to have awesome technology. Their developer tools were unmatched and have yet to be matched. Yahoo pipes alone was basically IFFT and AWS Lambda combined way before any of those two existed. They just squandered away all the talent.
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Pretty good endeavor that you essentially created a BPM application, that is only as if email used as a BPM platform which is seen prevailing in corporate than other enterprise tools (SAP, Oracle etc.)

I actually propose instead of re-inventing email, create addons to extend what email message can be used/read/interacted with. For example, high school teaching today has been reliant on gmail for offline homework assignment and discuss between teacher and kids. There are some tools in that space aggressively exploited by schools to conduct their "innovative" teaching efforts.

Gmail, or microsoft outlook would be the best go-to destination for the majority of who can afford an in-house IT team, or shadow IT in large enterprise who's tired of the lack of evolution from SAP, IBM etc.

Still, Gmail and outlook are slow in adopting or providing email as an open extendable platform for BPM application purpose.

Then there are everyday use of email other than BPM, notification, online purchase receipt, offline discussion, even transmitting files, photo etc. via email are somewhat common with email client.

The longevity of email is exactly the lack of rigor of the intended use of it, BPM or not, email is flexible to conduct any discussion to an open goal, or without a goal.

To understand email better, one has to compare email to SMS, and social media along with how mass used these tools.
Well realistically you would just do your due diligence in each new partner site. Also it would be painfully inefficient to launder money like this, keep in mind you wouldn't even let people buy large quantities.

In a real world scenario, you wouldn't even allow new partner sites to sign up online, instead you'd contact most of them via direct sales and vice versa.

I'm thinking about the NYTs and Yahoos of the world, not cat blogs.

I see your point, but this is more like buying world of warcraft currency than it is a bank.
I'm waiting for the day they can simply grow new teeth for you in a petrie dish and pop 'm back in your mouth.
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I've never seen someone with any background in or knowledge of retail investment suggest that anyone start with less than $5,000. That seems to be about the minimum, especially if you're picking stocks where you're almost guaranteed to under-perform the market in the long term.
This strikes me as a distinction without a difference, in the present case. How is this meaningfully different from the programmer's perspective?
Are We Web Yet has pull requests outstanding for 11 months, it has not been accurate in a long time.
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Why do these VCs deserve to get access to this money this way? And how does this justify and make it reasonable now?
Frontend type for a .net house, and I'm absolutely delighted at this new direction - lots of stuff ms were doing is legitimately awesome (I much prefer visualstudio to intellij, even if it steadfastly refuses to hilight my jsx syntax properly) but there was always that nagging feeling that we were working in a dull, Enterprise orientated, closed ecosystem whilst the cool kids got to play with all the shiny new toys.

That just isn't the case anymore, and might just have saved Microsoft's platform from slowly becoming Lotus Notes/Domino or something.
With some static site generators you don't have to redeploy the entire site. Just the changed files. You can rapidly update the site with no issues. I'm not sure if a CMS is really a good solution for a site that changes infrequently or when updates typically require developer interaction anyways.
And this is a clever response if you understand their point: messing with the language it's rarely the correct answer.
Do you want to remove some code? How about a function? How about hiding boring details behind more elegant objects? How about using a macro in the editor? And so on...
The answer is not (from their perspective) "put some shit in the language".

The problem with Go is that is very idiomatic. If you want to work with Go you need to learn its way, and somehow you need to accept the trade-offs behind its design.

If you do not see any advantages in any way, probably it's not the right tool for you, and that's ok. No problem at all.
It's still perhaps a little surprising that this status quo has never been challenged on the British side, bearing in mind the UK has been radically anti-Catholic for most of the period since then, and unusually assertive about establishing overseas territories and colonies.

(I suppose the practical answer is that that British rejection of the papal bull would invite the French to interfere militarily or even annexe islands much closer to their own shores than mainland Britain, and frankly any negative side effects of the in-between status historically weren't worth the cost of the warships to guard them)
Reference counting is a form of GC, the difference being that the programmer has full control over when it runs. Most real time systems preallocate everything and never deallocate.

One typical problem with GC systems is common patterns and library code cause allocations, which cause the GC to run - consuming cycles and causing jitter even if nothing is freed.

(Note that even calling malloc() is non-deterministic and best avoided in real time code.)
I'm not sure what "redeploy the entire site every time they wanted to change some text" means. When you use a continuous integration tool you don't ever have to manually touch the deploy process, it can happen immediately after you make your change (if you so wish). The marketing team makes a change, the change goes live on the site. The only difference between this and any other CMS are the technical advantages.
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I think they just made their line in the sand. Any criticism of the lack of generics has to take into account the arguments already made for its, as far as I know, deliberate omission.

Every so often people start grumbling about C. They call it a terrible language because the specification contains undefined behavior (and less frequently because they removed the linter from the compiler early on). These arguments are well known and have been addressed over several decades. Any complaint about undefined behavior has to account for the fact that said omissions are intentional and have been well-argued for by the ANSI committee and community of C compiler developers. If you can't do that then you're complaints are just going to fall on deaf ears: you haven't contributed anything that we don't already know.

If anyone wants to introduce generics into Go they're going to have one hell of a debate on their hands. I believe the reasons against it are firmly established and it will never happen. I may be wrong but any argument for their inclusion has a lot of work to do.

This doesn't make Go a bad language. It's probably just not the right fit for your purposes if you really need generics. Such abstractions are not a universal property of languages. I get by fine in C without them... but I prefer C (or Common Lisp) because if I did want them there are good libraries to give me those features.

I don't know when it became fashionable to have such opinionated languages but I tend to disagree with most of them so I just avoid them for the most part.
> I'd bet the marketing team at wework wishes that they didn't have to redeploy the entire site every time they wanted to change some text.

Do they actually know/notice that they are doing that?
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I too, have this set up. I wonder if this is pretty common?
Just to list a few of the valuable properties off-hand: Homepage, Mail, Search, Tumblr, Flickr, Finance, News, Sports, Fantasy sports (including daily fantasy). Some of the bigger ones are billion+ dollar properties. Others are hundreds of millions.

> It's not clear to me that it actually does anything worth paying for at this point.

Few users of Google and Facebook actually "pay" for those services, they're primarily all advertising funded companies.
Steve Yegge has written a lot about this. Much of his writings on the subject are in these mailing-list posts: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/seajure/GLqhj_2915A/discus...

Make sure to expand all of his posts on the thread, because he goes back and forth for a while.

Much of it has to do with the community's attitude towards macros: there's an attitude of "macros are bad and you shouldn't use them", and people who write macros are often jumped on by the community.

Here's one sentence of Steve's that sums it up:

> When people announce: "hey, I made a loop macro!" the response absolutely can NOT be: "why can't you just write it as a series of maps and reductions?"

And another:

> If Clojure people all said "of course you can use macros! Of course you can use CL-style loop facilities! It's your code, do what you like! Feel free to use nonlocal exits all you like!" -- well, then it would be a lot closer to a Yes language.

The problem is the way the community treats people who don't follow the prescriptive norms of the core Clojure people (norms which are often in conflict with the broader Lisp community).
I think this overcomplicates this. Based on your thought process github.com/nonexistinguser would throw 404, because well, whether or not a user exists is public information, but the same thing (a resource doesn't exist) github.com/username/nonexistantrepo would throw 403 so you have to check the url and make something conditionally if you are a client...

Also it makes more sense and more simple to me that something I don't know about simply doesn't exists for me. :)
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Django driver please (to work with ORM)? :-/

Edit : I am not sure why I am being down voted. Help?
It could be worse. You could live in a French speaking country that is not France but Cortana only works when you switch the whole phone to the French region. Then you get French specific news only (among other things).
> For a companies front page, I can see the benefit of generating content once instead of for every client, but what happens when you need to present information beyond the generic? What happens when you need to show a user's order history? Let them change their password? Allow them to see the distance of that run?

Well if you can assume the user has javascript enabled, AJAX is an option.

I'm pretty sure they are talking about generating the majority of the site and filling the details in dynamically as needed.
Why should Apple be required to make the iPhone a level playing field for anyone? This is like when blackberry wanted the government to force people to make apps for their platform, that's not how the market works.

You're under no obligation to use an iPhone anymore than I'm under obligation to use a blackberry.
I agree, but then we shouldn't assert conclusions with the level of certainty expressed in this blog post and many of the comments here.
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I think you mean you'd trade exceptions for that.
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Was trying to get more specific details about the alternate treatment, but information seems limited to:

- Application of high concentration fluoride varnish by dentists to the sites of early decay

- Attention to home tooth brushing skills

- Restriction of between-meal snacks and beverages containing added sugar

- Risk-specific monitoring.
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Actually, I suppose it's entirely possible that it's only dangerous to inhale if it is vaporised, not just encapsulated in drops?
I'm a fan. Chronograf looks like an interesting alternative to Grafana - but it's not open source :( Kapacitor looks neat as well, though it's going up against stiff competition from Bosun.
It's interesting to see some competition in this space.

Basho, the maker of Riak has also moved from being a db company to being a data platform company. And they've also launched a time series version of Riak.
There is no crusade. However, most people who are vaping into public airspace are in fact using nicotine with a very high degree of correlation -- this is not something many people do just to taste 0-nicotine air flavors. This started off by saying "vaping is probably safe, because similar things are used for special effects at concerts". In this case, there is at least one factor not included in those concerts - the drug most people are obtaining through vaping.

They say "this is safe", while ingesting a particularly evil toxin that is lethal in very small quantities (like a drop or two will make you violently sick). Yes, there are other toxins, but ... again, this is perfectly avoidable and nobody has any business making others who do not choose to be exposed to it.

People should have the right to not come in contact with that.
The word "should" shouldn't be applied to the question. Writing words is like writing code: some people are paid to do it, and some do it for fun. Both professionals and hobbyists can create good or bad writing, and they have to be judged case by case.

Like math or woodcarving, writing is a skill which on the most basic level accomplishes a workaday task, and with more sophistication may produce beauty. Maybe all arts are on that spectrum, which starts with necessity and ends with aesthetics.

On the professional side: Writing is commercialized for various purposes. Journalists are paid to convey facts; columnists perform acts of middle-brow cleverness; and novelists arrange words to produce emotions.

All of those products are substitutable goods. Radio, TV and the Internet have left the industries of the written word in ruins. Newspapers, publishing, you name it -- there are no barriers to entry any more. Writing has been largely commodified.

This has a lot of consequences. One is a decline in marketing budgets for new books. Unless a novel is sure to sell, and even then, a publishing house will offload the task of promoting the book to the writer. So half a writer's life will be spent barnstorming from one book-signing to the next.

This is compounded by the networking they must do to land a book deal in the first place. Like startup founders, authors need to make something that people want, and then find a way to distribute it. Networking is all about solving the distribution problem, getting noticed. Nobody else will do it for you...
You're missing the problematic part. It's when you've exercised an option that gives you a non-cash, notional ("paper" or "unrealized") gain, and you have to pay taxes on that in cash.
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Isn't the problem that there is no $5MM payout? After paying a few tens of thousands for the below-market-price shares, you're the new owner of some shiny private shares, for which there is probably no market. In the future event of an acquisition or public offering, there's a chance of a payday.
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You cannot start taking penalty-free distributions from an IRA until you're 59.5 years old. So that's definitely not the way to retire in your 30s.

I've found people who boldly claim you can invest your way to early retirement always speak in vague generalities, and never have specific advice to offer. "Just be smart" and "pick the right funds" but if you press them on exactly what to do with, for example, $1000 in investable income a month in order to retire in 20 years with $5000 a month in income, they tend to come up short on details.
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"Other than that, nothing prevents one from writing the performance sensitive part in C/C++/Rust/etc. and then using whatever other language for the non-performance sensitive portion, which typically represents the bulk of code."

Whoops, didn't address this part.

This would be a bad idea, since the "low performance" portion could still cause unpredictable GC pauses, affecting the "high performance" part.

It also seems a bad idea to split the code base into two languages for no particular reason, when you could write the whole thing in a nice language like Swift. :^)
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There is no $5mm payout in this scenario. This is the paper value of the shares, which you must pay taxes on since the IRS considers them income. In other words, the IRS thinks you have received something worth $5mm in value, so you must pay taxes on it.
FWIW, I'm using HJSON for ENiGMA½ BBS @ https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs

Works great, less human error prone, I can use tabs or spaces, and other goodies.
You can't distinguish them at runtime from each other.

Your memory consumption is higher, because type erasure requires elementary types to be boxed. Since the boxed value is itself allocated somewhere else, there's indirection. Indirection means CPU stalls. Another consequence is data cache pollution. There are just 512 of 64 byte L1D cache lines.

Other than that, I guess nothing.
Yes indeed.

And so does the EU.
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The $5M value is illiquid and speculative (based on startup valuation). In effect, this would make the bank a defacto investor, and most bank lenders are weary of startup stock as collateral. Definitely NOT zero risk!
Isn't that exactly the role of a (real estate) developer? To buy up a large amount of land, so that the improved properties therein exist in a neighborhood of similarly-improved ones? So that each one is worth more than if you did this as a one-off?

As I understand it, the reason these will only sell for 90k once renovated is because that house would be an island of desolation. A large-scale developer can fix that.
I don't think even a significant fraction of the people over at http://openborders.info would describe themselves as anarchists...
I think the point is that there is same-year tax liability on the $5M value, but there is no guarantee on getting the $5M payout that same year (or ever, for that matter). When you exercise your options, you now hold shares in a private company, which may restrict your ability to realize the payout in various ways.
Your post is a little confused. For actual data, there's no distinction between the empirical distribution and the data, so when you want "along with sample size" with your "distribution", that's what you're getting. (same with your "raw data").