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EDIT: I realized the post was written before Rust's governance was diversified (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust...). Rust at that time was "Mozilla led", but this isn't really true now.

> Rust is pushed by Mozilla, Nim is a grass root “true open source” language. Having a “backer” might be good, but I like grass root efforts since they tend to be more open and easier to participate in as a “full” member.

> UPDATE 2014-11-08: I know both languages are open source and have communities. But it remains a fact that Rust is lead by Mozilla (I would be surprised if not) and Nim is lead by its community.

Whilst the majority (not all!) of the core team consists of Mozilla employees, the wider governance does not (http://rust-lang.org/team.html). Anyone can participate in RfCs, and IIRC people can also request to join subteam meetings (not exactly sure how this works), though the main _discussion_ is out in the open on the RfC anyway. Additionally subteam composition may grow or change over time.

Mozilla certainly is backing a large chunk of Rust development, but as time passes this is becoming less and less true as large features are being written by community members. As far as decision making is done it's pretty open now with a defined process and completely open.

So "Rust is led by Mozilla" isn't exactly true anymore. The core team isn't 100% Mozilla, and the overall governance is even less so.
I was a paramedic so generally by the time we were called things were deteriorated pretty badly which is why we saw a lot of horrific cases.

Totally agree about the wealthy being very cheap about taking care of their parents! I know a "California super lawyer" who lives in a mansion in Belvedere who was recently kvetching about how his father's medication copays went up a total of an extra $4 per month. He honestly complained to me that because of this $4 increase his father wouldn't be able to EAT any more. It took everything I had not to be like, "I know you drive a Tesla and live in an $8 million dollar mansion so I think you can swing dad's extra copays!" He wanted me to try and find his dad government assistance copay relief, which is a process I'll happily help out with for actually low income patients.

I think a lot of other cultures (Asian, Jewish) do eldercare a lot better than we do. To this day, if someone asks me for a recommendation of a place to put mom and dad, I always recommend the Jewish Home for the Aged, they are fantastic and you don't have to be Jewish to live there. They just have a 3+ year waiting list because everybody knows they are the best in the industry.

I'm sorry about your friend. Sounds like you were a great friend and caregiver to him.
This is a first-world question, if there ever was one :)

The answer: the same thing that keeps everyone outside the first-world in their place... the inability to get a visa to greener pastures.
You are assuming the answer. (The old phrase for this was "begging the question"). Someone could easily ask "Why don't the landlords, who get all that money from rent, spend it on something, and thus drive growth?" And you can easily answer that: the wealthy spend less of their income, they save more, therefore the high profits from rent increase the savings glut, etc, etc, etc.

But you should state the answer directly rather than assuming it under a layer of indirection.
Kind of like with executive power, however, once you start giving out benefits like social security, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Once you reach 65 and are eligible to start receiving payments, are you going to be okay when they say "nope, well's dry?" You would if you didn't realize they had been garnishing your salary for thirty years. But anyone with any sense of responsibility would be furious if they decided to just stop paying benefits after one generation.

Besides, how do you decide when a generation ends to stop paying?!
There isn't an idea that alone "capital drives growth," that's an idea

How is it not an idea and an idea simultaneously
If his concern is CO2, then he might want to watch a good movie, the BBC

The Great Global Warming Swindle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg
if you like it so much, save the page as a png and host that instead.

http://imgur.com/2cshB5p
Can you give examples? It seems to me that in my cases, I never use X='temperature' as a predictor, but rather X='temperature reported by thermometer', and this is of course always known with 100% accuracy. In a predictive context, that's all we need. Are you referring to a social science context?
It's ironic that the word "checkmate" is derived from the Persian term "Shah mat", meaning "the King is dead".
Capital seems to drive a lot of jobs to create startups that hire people. They might make it or they might not but at least they produced something that might eventually grow. Without capital dev jobs. No dev job, no sale job, no marketing jobs and etc.

What we both want is basic income. But I'm not sure about taxing "rich" who could easily leave. Then you're not taxing the "rich" any more.
OpenJDK performance has been closing the gap with the Oracle JRE over time. One big gap was different graphics renderers but this is being fixed in Java 9 (possibly earlier).

Java 8+ has a "javapackager" tool that makes native installers/packages for each platform which contain a bundled JRE. So your users no longer need one installed themselves. And finally SWT lets you use native widgets if you want them.
You do the experiment, and blog about it on Medium. I will probably believe anything you put up there.
> It's as good as Jekyll but easier to modify and theme if you could from a web dev background as it's written in NodeJS rather than Ruby.

Er, are you implying that Ruby is not a language for people with a web development background?

Regardless, most of Jekyll tweaking is done with Liquid templates, which are mostly agnostic. (You do use Ruby for plugins, yes, but they are not super important.)
I changed my opinion when I checked out their homepage, usually if you go from HN or reddit it's a higher quality post but when you go from the homepage you can get a glimpse of the average post. It just lost that kind of credibility feeling for me.
Based on the article that would also mean they're kidnappers and/or murderers so it might be best to avoid playing the Devil's advocate on this one.
Funny that I made this the day before Rust gets to the top of reddit :D https://github.com/zackify/match
If the top article on the Hacker News home page contradicts the evidence and the data that I have read, what am I supposed to do? I did not paste in a pre-written screed. I have read a lot on this subject, so I had a bunch of links and sources at my fingertips. It seems to me that posting as someone who has read a lot on this issue, and who can cite sources, is a much greater net contribution to the discussion than otherwise.

And yeah, I understand that my particular account has an ideological bent to it. I wish one account could fully represent who I am. But I am a active HN member with a long history of posts on all sorts of issues. But for obvious reasons, in cases where I believe the truth is highly politically incorrect, I have to post on a different account. I do try to respect the spirit of the guidelines, but I am not sure what I should do differently going forward.
> Except that once you implement it, investors start anchoring to how small your numbers are. Catch 22.

Are investors really that irrational?
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For those who would like to read the previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931800
To quote Aaron Sorkin somewhat out-of-context: "If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so goddamn always?"

I don't want to say that javascript is a good language, but it can get the job done. And nodejs' value comes from allowing devs who have only had client-side experience to quickly jam on the server-side.
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I own a self-hosted blog and am actually in the process of deciding whether to transfer over to medium. To be honest I'm pretty much decided that I will, because it's just easier, not to mention I can save myself some hosting fees.

The key questions of the debate on the cons side of switching, assuming you're blogging for fun and not thinking particularly about advertising or massively customised SEO strategies, seem to be:

1. do I own my content
2. will my content be accessible forever

As this post highlights, the answer to (1) on medium is YES. So, no problems.

The answer to (2) is also, for all practical purposes, YES, but you shouldn't depend on it.

But is this really such an issue anyway? I certainly assume that the vast majority back up their photographs, just by nature, and how difficult is it to back up the plaintext of your blog pieces too? If you have backups, and the answer to (1) is yes, then really, it starts to look like an easy decision.
How are the software libraries for Rust? What did you do for network access, string manipulation and GUI stuff?
> No single passive adversary gets all three.

If the passive adversary has enough listening posts, it's totally possible for them to be reasonably certain that they probably got all three, unless some sufficiently clever stuff is happening either at the WS servers, or in Google's servers.
It did not seem to really address the issue of polyglot very much (given it is in the HN title) rather than just promoting the virtues of Java. One of the strengths of the JVM is the ecosystem of JVM languages that has evolved. You can stick with the JVM and get many of the benefits mentioned while still being polyglot. In particular you can throw in a dynamic language (Groovy, JRuby, Jython) alongside the Java core and get the benefits of a dynamic language for parts of the code where that is suitable, without losing many of the other benefits. Groovy, in particular, is 100% bidirectionally compatible with Java and has close enough syntax that a developer team well versed in Java will pick it up quickly. Perhaps Kotlin qualifies in this regard as well. To me the optimal setup is a strong Java core defining the APIs and core services, while the less core code can benefit from using more expressive dynamic languages. For example, the drudgery of writing unit tests is hugely alleviated by doing in something like Groovy rather than straight Java.
I think you are exaggerating how much merit is taken into account during interviews.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnu-apl/
Before looking at self-hosted blogs it would have to be looked at how many new beginners are being created in self-hosting alone? Before we can self-host blogs, we have to self-host anything.
>So you are deciding to imperil people who are children, or who do not yet exist.

I'd much rather have my grandkids enjoy a 24 hour workweek and be surrounded by automation than continuing the keep up this house of cards with its 50-60 hours work weeks, endless stress, constant retraining, constant layoffs, endless warfare for resources, etc to keep the status quo afloat.

Its clear to me that Bush 43 was our last hurrah for the old way of doing things. Automation is just eating the world and denying that is just not going to help us.

>The American tradition of working away continuously, hacking away, jamming hard on a challenge all night is really, really a good thing.

Creative people will always be this way. You're confusing values with jobs. The hardest and best projects in my life were done with zero exception of monetary gain. Ask any hacker. They'd be doing this shit anyway. Linus had no idea Linux would go anywhere, for example, and thought of his project as being largely academic at first.
I will say, Java performance always impresses me. Trying a few benchmarks relating to economics, OpenJDK 1.8 somehow beats C++ and Fortran on my machine (!!!). And of course, there's plenty of nice, high performance JVM languages (Kotlin, Scala, Clojure), and you can tune the JVM a number of ways.

I can certainly imagine a future where Java is the top performing language for any application.
It's amazing that the web, which was really originally built primarily as a distributed publishing platform, has gotten so damn complicated to publish to.

Right now I've got my own self hosted platform, running Wordpress on a Digital Ocean droplet. The constant security updates for Wordpress are a nightmare, and it seems I have to hack both my theme and my post code every time I want to make a slightly interactive post. Never mind that there doesn't seem to be a decent way to preview posts on mobile.

As others have mentioned, it seems the best way to get more people in control of their own platforms would be with easier static tools.

On that note, I've been really impressed with org-mode and pandoc. I've been writing and generating code within a text based environment lately, but it still feels as though the process hasn't really budged or improved much at all in the past 15 years. With org-mode and pandoc, along with babel, I can write and test code, embed images, and generate decent html/pdf all in one go.

But for the casual user, I think it's become more difficult to self publish over the years, not less. The tools we've built have gotten pretty embarrassing if our goal is to get as diverse of a population as possible speaking and sharing their ideas openly on the web.

Cheers to everyone still working on tools like org-mode, pandoc, and latex. It's still relevant, and it still does a great job. If you haven't checked them out, take a look. I was certainly surprised by how far these projects have been taken.
iframes have a number of real world usability problems. One example is that iOS ignores any sizing of the iframe, automatically growing it to fit its content, which could easily mangle the rest of your layout.
Not at all. Just that more web developers know JavaScript than Ruby considering front end devs use it too.
I would have to admit this was the case for me as well I didn't really pay much attention to it always thought it was the "print" version of VICE or something similar (and yes I know VICE is technically one or well at least started as a magazine).
I actually thought that Medium was part of VICE media for some time mostly because anytime I got content linked from it was from Motherboard or something else affiliated with them.
According to Walmart themselves (as reported by NPR) the hike in wages has nothing to do with the store closures, most of which are a failed concept of smaller Walmarts.
There is nothing about thorium that makes it able to be stopped immediately or run at much less pressure. There are reactor concepts that run at lower pressure and have passive safety when shutdown, but they could use thorium or uranium just the same.

Thorium reactors have to be part of a closed nuclear fuel cycle meaning you have breeder reactors combined with fuel reprocessing. No nation seriously does this right now because when you reprocess you can easily separate bomb materials (although India is allegedly moving towards a closed thorium cycle). Reprocessing involves nasty chemicals that are super radioactive too which is another step where things can go very wrong.

Also, thorium can't even run a reactor by itself. It has to be used as a feed material to breed Uranium-233 by absorbing neutrons and decaying, so at the end of the day you are still using uranium to produce power. The only advantage of thorium is that it doesn't produce as many actinides which are the really long-lived radioactive waste products. So after thousands of year the radiotoxicity of your waste is less with thorium than uranium.

I'm pro nuclear. I like thorium, but it would realistically require a nation to step up and invest trillions of dollars in the infrastructure and licensing only to have things rolling along decades later. Although, it would provide energy for a few centuries if done well.
It's certainly not dead, but the relation maybe has changed a little. It started off as a public diary service and place for discussions and now it's more of a traffic driver for marketing purposes.
What would you have in place in case Medium went away or lost the data compared to what you already have?
Why isn't the government doing this? Why do we have to depend on the benevolence of billionaires to do something so essential?
Medium already has an export feature. If you're arguing that they may take it away (which I think is vanishingly unlikely), then that's another thing entirely. The feature is there, though, so incentives about building one don't seem relevant to the discussion.
You could still happily roll your own Wordpress site but have it hosted with a managed provider. Also stick something like Headway Theme in there and you get a pretty easy setup even for not technical folks.
My first run-in with Medium was with actual journalists (see: War is Boring whom have left Medium to their own site now). So while I understood there were many one-off blogs like mine that shouldn't be considered professional, many were and that lent any blog on the site some level of credibility.

Of course - all of that credibility was lost when a few bloggers were censored and kicked from the platform for wrongthink. I don't use Medium anymore.
I think you mean, "If other companies(but not us) pay their employees more, then as consumers they can buy our stuff". I seriously doubt that giving an extra dollar to an employee generates more than a dollar in actual revenue looking solely at the purchases made by that employee. Maybe there are other social knock-on effects, but I don't see them spending more than $x on your own products when you give them $x.

One plausible exception would be for items so expensive that they're often financed with debt: A car manufacturing company might plausibly generate more than a dollar in revenue in the short-term if its employees borrowed money to finance it.

Another plausible exception would be if you gave someone a temporary raise, and they immediately started spending more and going further into debt(think buying a bigger house, bigger car, funding a bonus vacation on a credit card, etc.). Then when you cut their wages 6 months later, it's possible that for some items you would've convinced your own employees to spend more money than you gave them on your own products.

A third exception might be for companies that completely control the employees' spending. For example, a prison or a camp full of debt slaves might be paid $3/hour, but they could only spend it on overpriced company goods. Raising it to $4/hour still wouldn't exactly generate direct revenue over the long term, but it wouldn't cost the company much at all since they'd capture 100% of the spending. Anything short of that 100% is savings, and people might be more willing to spend down their savings if they thought money was easier to get. So you could - in the short term - make money by raising wages. Doubly-so if you extend them credit(on top of whatever debt they're working off).

I can't think of a way that the "giving people more money gives them more money to give back to you" argument actually works that doesn't involve saddling them with debt. And these are merely plausible - I don't know that they're what would actually happen.

Actually, what does them being employees have to do with the argument? If that argument were valid, why wouldn't my local grocery store hand out free $20 bills to anyone who comes in, since this would spur them to buy stuff? Or if you were truly convinced that this would make the companies more money, you could easily be a millionaire by buying up a local McDonalds(with a government-backed loan), raising everyone's wages, and then when your income goes up by x% reselling the business for an x% increase on the $300,000 or so you bought the McDonald's for(and repeating this a couple times).
I had this problem on a train in the US. My phone insisted that I was in Boston the whole trip, when I was actually several states away.
Economics.
I'm looking forward to these unicorns winding up on the butcher block and being discovered to have no meat.

http://amzn.com/B00EWZCTD0
I would be interested to hear your experiences with Ada, what in particular made case insensitive identifiers painful. Can you give some examples?
Keep going! Thanks to all contributors for their work on this awesome language and crates.

I use Rust for web as REST API and I'm absolutely in love with this language. Maybe first steps were little bit steep, but it's worth it :)

// cargo run!
Disclaimer: I agree with the intent of your comment but, as this is the second time I've seen this comment in this thread, I'll bite and play devil's advocate. Additionally, I have absolutely no knowledge of dispatch or any other law enforcement software.

Where would the knowledge of this phenomena be stored? Does the dispatch software have a notes field? If so, is it procedure to put that sort of information in place? Do cops have access to it? If so do they regularly look at it? If "no" to those points, how would a police force as large as Atlanta's maintain that knowledge? A lot of large organizations rely heavily on tribal knowledge, so that's a possibility. But only assuming officers always patrol/police the same areas and never quit or get fired, or if they do, they always pass on the entirety of their tribal knowledge to the successor.

So again, I agree with the general sentiment, but this doesn't have to be a matter of incompetent law enforcement personnel. It could easily be a problem of lacking software and a system prohibitively large to maintain that kind of granular information among all agents.
Thanks - I can really learn from people like Popper who have thought it through.

Great minds think alike - and for my part, even a blind dog finds a bone once in awhile.
Funny, after reading the first half dozen or so Medium articles I felt exactly the opposite. It was junk and now I expect junk from Medium and was a bit surprised to read a good article a couple of weeks ago. Since then it's been junk again and unless I'm really really bored or the subject matter is fascinating seeing "Medium" in a HN post means I skip the article altogether.
Amazon bought one of the Starfield roots from GoDaddy last year: https://mobile.twitter.com/Cryptoki/status/61114541131566694...
It seems much more likely that there is some bogus location data set somewhere that improperly links SIDS and GPS coordinates or filters fail and result some index into a GPS table that happens to correspond to this couple's home.

If I were these two people, I'd contact the local police department every single time anyone shows up at their house and require that the PD fill out a report of some kind and keep it in a single case/incident/folder. Then put a sign on the door that says:

> Before knocking contact the police department at ###-###-#### and ask about incident #XYZ. The get off our property.

It's bullshit that police are coming to the door and dragging them outside while trying to determine if a search warrant is in order.
Maybe the point then is that if we are aiming for diversity, then we aim for diversity: come out of your own comfort zone and get to know something or someone that feels uncomfortably foreign, try to appreciate this for what it is. It applies as much for "engineering-types" getting to know "sales-types" as it is for people of different racial heritages.

Why should we expect "diversity" to have an appended, "as long as I'm comfortable with that"? Why do we struggle so much with what's "normative"? Why not treat this as an adventure, something unexpected and unknown to explore?

Another aspect of this is that, I think people want to feel like they are part of the team, working together towards a common goal. If what bonds the team are the things they like or dislike, that's a pretty weak team. Shouldn't the common goal that binds the team together be the product or features the are working on? Isn't that the point of company culture -- not to homogenize everyone, but to gel the team? (See: http://the-programmers-stone.com/ )
You probably both speak shitty broken Spanish because she's used to talking to the help.