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There are quite a few disadvantages to using a CDN like Google.

- Delay for DNS resolution and the new TCP connection could be non-trivial (some tests show 300ms+).

- A JS CDN is also likely tracking your traffic and you may not want them to.

- No offline dev environment (on the plane).

- Server run (phantom etc.) tests might run super slow if they have to pull in a remote js library.

- Probably issues when it comes to apps that are meant to work offline, although I think this is solved with service workers proxying the CDN request.

And if the recommendation is to continue loading large libraries from a CDN and nevermind only what you need, well there's still a memory cost. If I have 5+ SPAs running in tabs that are each fairly complex (you know, like Gmail), it does start to add up. Because of the way that tabs are sandboxed I believe this may mean 5 copies of jQuery or React or Angular or w/e.
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Caching is definitely important for front end tooling, but it depends on which tooling you're having perform the job. It is also generally considered a deployment worry. Cache busting can be implemented in various ways-- by using a templating language (ex. ERB), by using a build tool like grunt/gulp, by using you JS bundler, or by using your module resolver (in the case that the bundler and resolver are not the same entity).

JSPM just doesn't take a built-in stance on it (as of now, as I noted there is a ticket to get it included), but it certainly is configurable enough to allow you to add cache busting (by changing the loader). Not trying to apologize for JSPM -- it would certainly be better if they had some sort of cache busting option that was easily available and obvious.

I think the thought here is that when you're ready to push to production, and you build your actual bundle, you name that file whatever you need to to bust caches.
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People that reason like you are in the exception, even if they come to the same conclusion, they will do so for different reasons.

There is a market for SUVs, and they are sensitive to oil prices. Specially because when oil prices go up, other necesities go up as well at the same time. On the other hand, price go down, and they will act on the aspirations they already had of owning a SUV. They see prices going down as an opportunity.

There is also a market for small cars. Whether they do it because they are frugal, or because they are green, or because they drive in down town and need a vehicle that will navigate the traffic efficiently and is easy to park in tight spots, they won't buy SUVs no matter how much the oil price goes down, or the SUVs price goes down I'd say. Many will see buying such product as going too strongly against their individual or tribal identities!
Not all credit unions are immune to stupid fees. The "low aggregate balance fee" is alive and well locally. People wonder why Walmart is gaining popularity.
I agree that Babel doesn't get every single thing right, in much the same way that everything manages to get something wrong, but I don't think you're giving credit to the benefits of its modularity.

Another "purpose" of babel is "hey, I want to implement an upcoming ECMAScript feature in an extensible and relatively self-contained way so I don't have to go digging deep inside someone's codebase."

Or, it's also "hey, I only need these 3 features and I want my build times to stay as low as possible."

For the use case you describe, there are presets provided to make that quite simple.
Virtualization is still quite slow compared to running natively, especially for things like games.
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Deep side note...

> We’ll illustrate with this quote by Abraham Lincoln:

> "The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

I looked for the source of this quote and found that it's actually usually attributed to Mark Twain but was perhaps never said by him [0].

[0]: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-18/a-guide-to-...
I've always felt that VMs are a sign that show that OSes have imperfectly abstracted the virtualization of their resources. A "design smell" if you will.

When you get right down to it a window is a virtualization of a screen, a packet switching network is a virtualization of a fixed line, a process is a virtualization of a CPU, etc. (I can't remember who I'm quoting).

The direction this is all heading (VMs, containers, unikernels, etc.) feels like confirmation of this to me. A series of corrections aligning our OSes with more ideal/virtual abstractions.
The way I understand it, the banks do not simply get money from the Fed. Combined with negative interest rates that would be "money for free".

It is similar to how you a credit from a bank when you buy a house. Yes, the bank gives you money but you give (the rights to) the house to the bank until you fully paid your credit back.

The banks then goes to the Fed and says: "Here, thake this house as security and print me some real money."

The Fed says: "Great house you have there; here is the money and here is some more."

In the end this leads to the creation of things that are accepted by the Fed as securities, for example houses. With negative interest rates, the Fed basically pays for the creation of such securities.
There was an article in recent memory that looked at how various websites were using CDN's for delivering common libraries and if I recall correctly they concluded that the chance of getting a cache hit from a CDN is relatively low because of the different versions each website is using. The Google CDN for example offers dozens and dozens of different versions of jQuery: your visitor might have visited a site using jQuery before, but have they visited a site using the same version? Unfortunately I cannot find the article, maybe someone else will be able to provide a link.

There are other concerns too, if your website depends on a Javascript library and the CDN is offline it can break your website (which has happened with Google CDN before, and many of the other popular Javascript CDN's). What if the CDN is compromised and is delivering malicious content? Not impossible.
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Coincidentally, 13597 base 10 is 351d hex, which in unicode is defined as 'strong resistance'.

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From Neuropharmacology, which has an impact factor of 5.1.

"Furthermore, a causal relationship between Mg2+ and anxiety is suggested in mice with low plasma Mg2+ levels which display increased anxiety- and/or depression-related behaviour..."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198864/
Bear in mind, it didn't just beat him, it smashed him 5-0.
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AI chess that actually thinks like a human:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a17339/che...

If you could get a chess engine that can prune the tree as efficiently as a human, while calculating as fast as a computer, it would be phenomenal.
They don't use Linode for their DDoS service. I think only some of their blog is in there.
I think the current approach is that there is just one regular and one incognito instance. So as long as any incognito tab is alive, your session is potentially alive as well.

This allows us to move tabs across Windows. How would we do that with one session per tab or per window? Also what happens when user opens link in new incognito window?
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I got Ketamine at a psychiatric clinic. It really did make me feel strangely relieved, and basically immediately. Reminded me somehow of vacation days when I was a child. The feeling starts fading away once they stop the drip, and it's back to normal after a couple of hours.

Since they don't give out pills (not sure if war-on-drugs bullshit or actually dangerous), it's pointless. You're monitored for half an hour by a physician, and the drip gets done by an anesthetist, and if I remember correctly they insisted I be carted back to my room instead of walking. It's also only done on in-patients. So it was completely impractical as a treatment and had no long-lasting effect at all.
It was a wealth transfer when the prices were higher -- you were giving your money ultimately to the oil producers. When the price is down, you are just saving money -- there is no transfer of wealth.
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My understanding of your comment was you pointing out the average Japanese saver would be upset about their savings rate being non-existent due to the debt owed to them being internal (and therefore, dependent on central bank monetary policy). My comment insinuated that Japanese savers may have no other options other than an insignificant savings rate due to internal monetary policy and a bleak worldwide investing landscape.

I should've expounded! My apologies!
Exactly, my savings account would be deleted immediately and shoved into tax free or inflation protected bonds.

I bet many banks when confronted with those individuals that have savings account with $200,000 cash as an emergency fund will either pull them out entirely or pay the bank for a safety deposit box.
Do you have money in a checking account? Since there still is some inflation, checking accounts pay a negative rate, after inflation. In fact its even pretty hard to find a savings account that pays > inflation rate.
I do know programming, and I enjoy it very much.

But I work in a financial department where it's an alien concept, and as such, unauditable and dangerous. I barely get opportunities to put it in action these days.
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You can find free chequing accounts though and if you're careful enough to not get caught by overdraft fees, they're the way to go. I'm Canadian and I know 2 banks here that do it, but I'd imagine similar exists in the US?
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In addition, there is some strong evidence linking medium-term St. John's Wort use with cataracts due to photosensitivity. This makes it risky to combine with light therapy, which of course a lot of people do anyway.
Clever idea! One hesitation would be granting access to private repos. Ideally, Github would integrate something like this natively.
> Seems to me that the government has a much better way to stimulate the economy: lower rates on existing student loans.

I agree about the banks, but how stimulating would lowering rates on student loads really be, though? While students overburdened by debt get a lot of press, it seems like too small of a demographic to help much. I think we'd get more bang for the buck with programs that target lower skilled and unemployed people.
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For a good read on why this Keynesian push toward consumption is misguided, check out this 2005 article[1]. The counterargument against consumption as the driver of the economy states that saving and investment actually leads to growth. The thesis of the linked article is that a huge amount of business investment is hidden from GDP numbers since it falls under "net investment," with two very large sums (business income & business investment) netting out to a small number. When we ignore the huge amount of business investment and focus only on the net, we miss its importance.

Negative interest rates are simply the latest contortion of the Keynesians that will fail to produce the desired results yet again.

[1] https://mises.org/library/standing-keynesian-gdp-its-head-sa...
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The iPad 2 was a great machine at the time, but it's saddled with a low-res screen, very little RAM, and a slow processor. A newer iPad would be nicer on your eyes, and would be far less likely to purge non-active browser tabs from memory.
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Interesting. The home page could use a little more intro text since "tracing" in a CS context could mean raytracing, tracing raster images into vectors, tracing system calls (ala strace), etc.
>it is pretty obvious the market hit saturation point

The market just turned out to be much smaller than people expected. In hindsight it makes sense, many of the things people where expected to do on their tablet works just as well on the phone.
By the way, today I had a meeting with an IT coordinator in a sister-company.
He knows everything about SAP. However, he had no clue as to what "Python" is.

I work with dinosaurs apparently.
Sadly, yes. Aside from the mathematical inevitabilities of (large-scale) misunderstandings in human communication, many people seem to have an inner drive which feeds of conflict, and the (perceived) sense of purpose derived from being at loggerheads with others.

Plus that we seem to have been engineered (through evolution) to co-operate most of the time but at other times to split into opposing camps, let violence "solve" the issue, then forget about it and move on, etc.

You might say its how we roll.
My goodness, has org-mode been around for 15 years already? I only noticed it in 2005 or 2006.
> I am just too lazy to do it as they erase everything after each semester.

Write a script that does your reinstall. There's lazy-lazy and active lazy. As a programmer, it pays off to be actively lazy.

Or, you can make a Git archive of your home directory. So long as your university has good bandwidth, this means you often won't even have to reinstall.

Really, there's tons of things you can do.
> If the Fed can afford to give negative rates to the banks, shouldn't it follow that the DoE can afford to give negative rates to students?

Nope. The Fed is independent of the government and, most importantly, does not answer to Congress. So it can adopt measures to attempt to stimulate and improve the economy which Republicans would surely block if given the opportunity.

The DoE, however, is an executive agency and has its budget determined by Congress. Changing the interest rates would require an act of Congress.
Elm is a language that compiles to JavaScript that is designed to be somewhat accessible to people already using JavaScript...one could call it a flavor of JavaScript that's influenced by languages like Haskell and not get an argument from me.

On the other hand, this project, though interesting, isn't something that the process of learning Swift and Cocoa would really benefit from. If it seems kind of interesting, starting with Elm as a separate project is probably a better way to get context for evaluating using the Elm architecture in Swift.
Version fragmentation pushes the CDN hit rate down quite a bit. Unless you're using the exact major/minor version that some popular sites are using you're going to see high miss rates, especially on mobile where it likely matters the most.
> The american law is not applicable in non US territories.

This is inaccurate in a number of ways. Certain American laws are, on their face, restricted in territorial applicability (others are explicitly not, others are neither explicitly limited nor explicitly unlimited and the application requires reference to principles beyond the individual law in question), and, particularly, certain protections of the Constitution have been held unenforceable against the government in the context of certain actions outside the territory of the United States.

But you can't correctly make a blanket statement that US law is not applicable outside of US territory.
More people need to be aware of the distinction between "strong AI" and "weak AI."

Right now, all we have is weak AI.
Have you ever actually lived in OKC? It is an awful quality of life for many reasons. I highly recommend not living there. If investing is only about rent and salaries, you may as well hire in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lots of tech talent lives there, I'm sure.
Really? I thought that was the whole point of reading into a PBO, that you're not synchronizing with the CPU yet, and you read from the PBO into system memory at some later point.
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> MURS is the longest range VHF radio service that can be legally utilized by anyone without the need for a radio license.

The operator does not need a license, but I believe that the radio must be certified for MURS operation. The Baofeng UV-5R is not [1]. It is certified under Part 90. MURS requires certification under Part 95.

[1] http://www.gordonwestradioschool.com/attachments/FCC_Part_90...
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This is different though. Javascript is something that all of us are, in one way or another, exposed to. Giant companies building an ecommerce platform, startups making fun and innovative spas, designers adding a bit of animation and adaptivity to a theme, bare metsl devs bringing javascript to robotics and operating systems, severside crud applications and websocket handling, C++ devs that are interesting in bringing the best to such a widely used language, mobile phones frameworks and compilers, microsoft, google, apple, unity, mozilla.

Javascript is the real deal. What makes it crazier is that 10 year olds can do a few tutorials on html5 rocks and feel confident in their abilities (in a good way). Javascript is not just a crappy language, there a socio-political aspect that has probably never been seen before
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So unlike every other service colleges are special and the more people looking to do it the more expensive it is.

It isn't possible to open more colleges and create competition. That wouldn't work in this case, because as stated unlike every other good or service in the world colleges are special and don't work like that.

Glad we cleared that up, now we can just do nothing about the problem.
Is *mostly even true?

Given the list of restrictions here:
http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/value-classes.html

It seems to me that you'd have to be fairly careful to have any confidence your not instantiating classes for them.

Do you know if there are any compiler flags or other way to know if your value classes are working as expected?
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I love the NY Times but don't understand them. Their business is failing; they risk the financial collapse of the world's leading institution of journalism (IMHO), and they are investing resources in republshing old stories that hardly anyone reads and already are available to the public, in a different layout (if I understand correctly).

The resources they are diverting to this project are IT resources (along with management attention, organizational focus, and precious funding), and IT is their greatest challenge. I'd guess that a better use of those resources would be to focus them on the core, existential issues: The website and app. Or at least cut the expenses and improve the bottom line. Imagine if you were an investor in some other business, similarly precarious, and saw projects like these announced.

From the outside they seem to live in the past and to be obsessed with their history and prestige. Could there be a better symbol of that than their attention to what 30 year old stories looked like on paper? Ah, the good old days, the province of history books - but not of successful businesses. The Times' future depends 100% on how well they deliver the news, on computer screens, today and tomorrow.

I know little about the NY Times business so maybe it's not as crazy as it seems, but they sure worry me.
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I would say that's what's happening right now and it can't last much longer. Eventually people will realize the debt isn't worth it and universities will be contract.
Code::Blocks was definitely better than horrendously buggy Dev-C++, but since Qt Creator I never looked back (ok, I do use vim very often, but it's a different thing). To be fair I haven't checked Code::Blocks for years (8 years at least), so maybe nowadays it gives more than notepad+syntax-highlight+tabs feeling.

BTW Everyone, please write "Qt Creator" with space between "Qt" and "Creator". I don't know how spaceless variant got so widespread.
> The arable farmland will "just move" into different countries. Russia, Europe and Canada win.

Russia will hardly 'win'. If severe warming happens, all the permafrost in Siberia will turn that tundra into one big swamp.

Not to mention simultaneous methane release, which some people are really worried about.
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For one thing, there are assumed costs with storing cash under your bed. (Fire, risk of theft, transaction costs, etc.) There's a reason that banks/anyone will generally charge you to store valuable goods (in a safety deposit box).

Given the implicit costs of storing cash, a low-interest bond or investment looks better.
The student loan problem is one of the most challenging problems.

My undergrad is probably thought by most on HN to be a diploma mill (UCF) - University of Central Florida. But, UCF has done something really special. They said screw it and they worked really hard to keep tuition low. The median Tuition is just $6,368. That low tuition + easy Florida scholarship money has worked well for the University as the acceptance rate has fallen below 50% (That is comparable to many universities in the top 100 globally).

I think UCF's bet that they need to compete on price is going to work in their favor. The biggest downside is massive class sizes, but that is made up for with more online learning and better lecturers.

When someone asks me where I would go, I tell them pick one: Really, really prestigious or cheap and decent. UCF does not provide the opportunities that Harvard does, but it will still beat out an unknown liberal arts college charging $200,000 for 4 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/with-54000-st...
There are about 1500 chess players with the title "Grandmaster", and a whole lot more for various other "Master" title.

That is to say that a player ranking within the top 1000 of a game like Go is a master of the game. A human player will take 10 years and way north of 10000 hours to get to where AlphaGo is.
If I was a company faced with that problem I look to see if I could take the money off shore and pay through wire transfers if the fees were cheaper than the negative interest rate being charge.
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Come'on it's way better than before. Before you could barely get the UI you wanted to work at all, now its mostly techy-debates about tooling and patterns.
A real troll you wouldn't even know. The idea is to get your entire mentality in the tip of their finger so they can wind you up and down whenever they need to.
1.2 trillion [1]. rates bounce around but 5% seems fair. It's a weird world when i can't tell if 60 billion dollars is a lot or not.

One thing to keep in mind, they're young. If they save the extra money, they've got a loooong time for compound interest to work on those dollars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_debt#United_States