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It doesn't do higher-kinded polymorphism, no. If you're referring to something else, please elaborate on what it can't express. But for the example given in the blog piece it's exactly as expressive and concise - so it's not giving C# a fair hearing.

It is actually possible to get most of the way to HKT using extension methods. But it involves a hell of a lot of typing. In my project I used a template generator to do it. It's still pretty limited though, and there isn't a single type-class called Monad.
Basically everyone in Corporate America is doing this. Its not just Google. If the EU (or us, or whoever) doesn't like this, then we need to change the laws.
Absolutely, and they are completely irrelevant to a corporation. For example: a canadian pension fund doesn’t care one bit about paying taxes in France; they care about hitting their targets and achieving a certain annual yield on their (tens of) billions of dollars under management for their beneficiaries.

If I’m said fund and a shareholder in a company, if I notice management paying excessive taxes somewhere, I will intervene and force them to reduce taxes as much as legally possible.
FTFY:

"assuming they can code in the specification that it's only applicable to this device."

I think that's a big assumption.
How compatible is it? Are PositiveSSL/Comodo any more compatible?
It would be awesome if this kind of inventions start working here, in Latin America.
There are separate passcodes for the phone and for iCloud. An iOS device will automatically sync a backup to iCloud once a day if iCloud backups are enabled provided the phone is connected to power and a wifi network. When you first enable iCloud, the phone requests your iCloud password and stores it. If you change your iCloud password, automatic syncing is disabled until you unlock the phone and enter your new iCloud password there.

The FBI cannot unlock the phone. By changing the iCloud password, they have made it so that the phone cannot even possibly sync without first being unlocked. Knowing the iCloud password is of no utility for them.
FBI? Definitely incompetence.

One of us should help them out. ;)
Apple has the encryption keys for data stored on iCloud servers. The FBI wants a backdoor into the phone itself.
FWIW, keeping internal hostnames private might be part of a security-by-obscurity strategy.
Working as fast as you can results in a large quantity of work being done.

Working slower generally results in a better quality of work being done.

One common result of "working faster" is technical debt.
In the course of this thread you've proposed at least six slightly different variations of the concept - what do you think are the chances of getting everyone to agree to just one of them?
> The main thing is that getting 4 masterpieces is extremely likely if you produce 10,000 works

Yes and no. Once you succeeded in creating a masterpiece it can become incredibly hard to ever create something worthwhile again because success (especially when rewarded by the markets) can screw up your mind for good. You loose your sense of wonder, you feel the pressure to have success again and so on. It could very well be that you just create more of the same or get worse due to this. I think bands that are considered one hit wonders might provide a good example.

It's a bit like an optimization algorithm that found a local optimum but can't escape its current neighborhood.
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iOS backups made by the iCloud service seem to be stored unencrypted on Apple’s servers.
What do you reckon the right way for them do that that would be (in a practical sense)?

Thinking about that a bit, it would probably be possible, but there would be downsides that might not make it worth it. For example, supporting people on the low side of hardware specs complaining that X game/software/etc isn't working well enough. Conversely, other people on the same hardware might not have an issue with it. (different levels of "acceptable" for different people)

Not sure it'd be worth the effort (any time soon). There are other much simpler things Valve needs to fix first in order to increase sales. :)
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Where you kept a copy of the Solaris Operating system for all of your coworkers to peruse. We use to track you back then as you were one of the larger pirates of our software. :P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Hanauer#TED_Talk_controve...
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They are following that Certificate transparency standard that, eventually, everyone will need to follow.

It's already a requirement for anyone issuing EV certificates.

Note crt.sh is actually a Comodo website, for interrogating the CT logs.
That's pure hate.
I miss the RSS feeds. It feels like the only way to know what people are saying is to log into Twitter everyday. It feels tedious like a chore just to get information that should be in my rss reader.
Judging by how Windows, when presented with an unknown FS, acts as if the disk were unformatted and immediately offers to format it, my guess would be both...

(And by "unknown" I mean of course "anything that is not FAT* or NTFS"...)
the solution is to use something like:

curl --silent http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts | grep '^127.0.0.1' > /etc/hosts
Well, in this example the rights that are being ignored are not those of the defendants, but those of their victims to not be further victimized.
We do, no other country makes companies pay taxes on income earned outside their domicile. It's supposed to be taxed by the country where it's earned. That said, this double dutch or whatever is taking things to an extreme.
That's basically the problem with twitter's web client and not a problem with you understanding of what Twitter is. You expected to click on the link and get a conversation which it is[1], its just displayed horribly. The problem isn't your understanding, its the UI.

1) Its amazing how many people can keep up with group SMS, but run into something very close to it on Twitter and hit a wall because of the crappy way Twitter zooms into a conversation. I got a couple of ideas for UI (one I actually prototyped for my own amusement), but there is no way I'd spend the time to make a working client. I'm pretty sure there are other people who probably have had the same thoughts and they are all shelved.
Yelp employee fired after complaining that she couldn't afford groceries
Yes, it's almost too convenient. Lazy me is still slightly miffed that auto nginx is not fully supported, however.
The video on how to use one paper towel is not from TED conference.
It's TEDx
I wonder what data the FBI thinks is on the phone that wouldn't be available via other means such a call logs, email, cell tower pings.
I like this IC so much and use it to make my first PCB by 555 :)
Hopefully they will be talking to the FBI through lawyers only from now on. :)
Nice! I hope this project goes somewhere.

Me and a friend of mine built something similar a while back but never really got to push it more. (https://www.ladr.io)

We always thought there was a gap between Upwork and Stackoverflow.
Viewing the image also creates a market for it, since you'll get bored of it and will want another one, even if you'll not pay for it.

The same way downloading pirated material creates a market for it, even if you download it for free and the providers don't get money from it (but are rewarded with scene creds)
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I'd also suggest checking out http://podiobooks.com/ . They have more recent offerings, frequently read by their authors.
What does it say about the attendants considering how much the tickets are priced ?
My bad. I don't know the specifics but I'd bet against that working. The values are anyway adjusted from time to time (I think each year, but that would probably be mostly formulaic), and can be appealed. Detroit publishes this:

http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/docs/finance/Assessment/R...
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And buy property...like the 1.5 billion Google spent in London and Dublin.
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I think most can use it fine, but don't see the point. For the whole ten years or however long it's existed, they don't see the point. With one exception - it's useful for yelling at large companies who are failing at customer support or warranty etc.

It has a horrible signal to noise ratio, and always has. So unless you're willing to spend a ludicrous amount of time searching and curating a feed to weed out the marketers yelling louder than each other, the SEO types etc you're left with a few celebs and personalities to follow. It really isn't worth the effort. As everyone is reduced to 140 chars searching gives little to no idea of how meaningful their output is, so go read back everyone's page.

Or add five celebs, and some personalities and stop using it after a week or two. Log in every year or so to see why Tesco messed your order up.

For meaningless banter I'll do that in the coffee shop, or direct via SMS or message app.
Number of overall tweets dropping dramatically
My point is not everyone can be a plumber - at least not a competent one. If you're going to do it professionally, especially as we get more advanced we expect higher standards, markets get more competitive and middle man services like uber are going to become a norm in contracting - IMO - making it easier to filter out the bad contractors after a few botched jobs. And in most areas even if the job doesn't become fully automated it will get better tools that will either be trivial enough to use on your own or require skill to operate, or allow a smaller number of people to do the same job efficiently. Basically optimization.

Automation will probably outpace demand growth especially considering the effect it will have on demand :

a) it makes skilled workers much more productive and as we know in SW dev they don't scale by add more workers -> linearly increase output - a skilled worker working longer > two workers for the same job, so market get more competitive and value longer work hours = less time for consumption

b) short term unemployment from automation = lower demand on low end

And then you have a deflationary spiral basically. I don't see this "getting better on it's own" and despite all the cons I still think something like guaranteed income would create a floor + boost demand more efficiently than the current pump money into financials with negative interest rates
so, i have a speaking engagement at a local TEDx event next weekend. I think my topic is both interesting and educational, and the way its presented will (hopefully) get people thinking about the subject in a new way. what do i do? cancel?
dupe, original discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
It's kind of like how the CIA produces, sells, and profits from drugs so it can "catch the really bad guys".
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This is so true. It has been a number of years since I worked with either agency doing computer forensic work, but my experience was pretty much the exact same. While SS consistently made a concerted effort to investigate crimes and build a solid case, FBI seemed often to be interested primarily in raising the public profile of the cases they worked on to get more visibility in the press, often at the expense of (what appeared to me at least) due process.

Whereas SS had a number of excellent specialists who understood acquisition, the FBI seemed to be wearing clown-shoes most of the time. I'm not surprised at all that they botched this case so badly.

It's clear as day that Apple is on the right side of this argument. It's not their job to bail out the FBI for yet another colossal screwup. Especially not when it damages their product so severely.
I believe reading a book out loud is as difficult of a performance as singing a song, and the talent of the readers on this site varies widely.

For me, the key to deriving value from this site is finding those performers whose work I enjoy.

Since it is volunteer based, would it be obnoxious to start using some sort of rating system for the readers?
Was wondering how they did it, clearly a better resolution than photogrammetry. Source?
Fun read, thanks for posting. Illustrative of a young industry and people exploiting the temporary holes.
Average Joe probably worries about Average Hacker/Average Stalker

If he's up against the government, he's going down.
It really depends on my mood. Most of the time, heavy metal and hard rock of various sorts. I like everything from 80's era hair metal, speed metal and thrash metal, to the latest black metal and death metal, with a healthy dose of NWOBHM, power metal, doom metal, etc. mixed in, as well as plenty of "just hard rock".

If not that, sometimes I listen to classical and my tastes for that are pretty all over the place. I'm not actually all that educated (or picky) when it comes to classical, so I'll usually just put on a shoutcast station in the genre and go with that.

Outside of that, when I'm coding I sometimes like electronic music that I don't otherwise listen to a lot of. I'll put on some trance/house/ambient whatever stuff, or listen to something like Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, etc.
Scala version can be written as one-liner as well; losing readability, but it might be ok for fast hacking / prototyping:

article.author.flatMap(_.address).flatMap(_.city).map(_.toLowerCase).foreach(println)

And in for-comprehension version there is no need to use yield, as we don't need result of println.
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I ordered my daughter's new bed from a different store with white glove service.

First attempt. Driver claimed no one was home. I was doing home renovation. My contractor was there, with no less than 10 other people doing work. The front door was even open at the time as two people were working on and around it. Contractor knew to expect delivery.

Second attempt (weeks later). They delivered some parts of a bed, did not assemble what parts were there. Repeatedly gave different stories about where the parts were. They made many claims about where the parts were, none of which seem to be true and some of which conflicted with each other.

Third attempt (more weeks after countless phone calls). Driver claimed he could not make it up hill to house. Left. Argument with customer service. Driver returned. They delivered one more part. Did not assemble anything.

Fourth attempt (months after original delivery date). Finally delivered the final piece. Moved mattress and box spring to hallway. Assembled bed. Left. Didn't bother to put boxspring and mattress back. (I checked their assembly work, which was fine.)

Since then I've gotten multiple phone calls from them telling me the bed is now ready for shipment.

I'm amazed they're even still in business.
Whats the conflict of interest?
It connects you to people who think like you. Not necessarily to people who are identical to you. You evidently follow people who follow people who support trans and queer politics. If you followed Trump supporters, or, I dunno, people into knitting or SCUBA, you'd get a different mix.
Does that still work if the floats are contained in a small struct? (a la float3, float3x3 etc)
>Absolutely, and they are completely irrelevant to a corporation.

Why would a corporation account for irrelevancies?

A pension fund isn't really a typical corporation; it's more of a holding facility. If a Canadian pension corporation thinks that common services and infrastructure are irrelevant, they probably aren't going to be around vey long, as their civilization crumbles.
> fragile white guys

> An unfortunate sacrifice, but necessary none the less.

Whoa. Seriously? You claim to fight against discrimination and you use this kind of language? Can you name an event in history where an "unfortunate but necessary sacrifice" of a particular category of human being ever resulted in a net-good? I can't.

And what do you mean by "fragile", exactly? I'm starting to nervously suspect there's some underlying subtext here.Are "tough" white guys are ok?. They're certainly more sexually attractive. That's been pretty well established.

Full disclosure:
I'm not really the prototypical HNer. I started coding late in life, due to many different reasons. To be (perhaps too) honest, I used to have few interests outside of partying.

In college, I was in a big fraternity. I was the only "minority" in my pledge class. So I know what it's like to be called a spic and a beaner. I know what real discrimination feels like. During this time, I spent a lot of time with white guys who were "not fragile". These guys were sexist as hell. This was in the 2010's and at a very liberal college town of Boulder, Colorado. I have to say, for all the overt sexism I witnessed, I never saw these types of white guys get as much shit for being sexist monsters as the nerdy white guys with the hentai wallpaper/t-shirt/whatever seems to get.

It kinda breaks my heart, I'm not going to lie.

So, point blank, is it just the skinny, fragile, white nerds that are the "pale devil"?
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Wow, he's still slimey - and he considers himself reformed!
Well, the disdain for 'normal' people from certain intellectual types can't help much. If you go around treating people like they're stupid and complaining about how their fears or worries are due to being 'bigoted', then of course they'll vote for people who treat them better (regardless of intelligence).

A politician who at least pretends to emphasise with people he or she might disagree with is a lot more electable than one that looks down on people with contempt.

On a different note, there's also the obvious factor that a less well thought out answer can be a lot simpler than a complicated one, and appear to be an 'easy' solution to a difficult issue. It's one of the reasons why literal facists and extremists tend to do well in bad economic/social times, because they reduce complex issues down to 'there is some other group that's making everything difficult'.Contrast that to the alternative, lots of diplomacy, improvements to various social systems, etc etc.
What I liked about Dostoevsky was that he seemed to primarily focus on the psychology of his characters, and any politics and agenda felt like a natural part of this. Because of this focus on 'rich' individuals, I never felt he simply put words in the characters mouths to promote or reject an agenda. Real humans are too messy for that.

In contrast, a writer who I personally greatly love, C.S. Lewis, had a tendency to become overtly preachy. I'm using him as an example because he strikes me as a perfect case of someone torn between telling a good story and wanting to put out a message.

There's an interesting split in his oeuvre between books that are wonderful stories (Perelandra), and books that try to convince you to be a Christian, and his Narnia Chronicles occupy a confusing mix of the two. Many people love his stories despite his preachiness, and many people absolutely hate him for his preachiness despite the fact that he was a good writer.

Personally, I wasn't bothered by most of his overt Christian themes in Narnia, for example, because many of those themes transcend mere Christianity (budum ching). But the little tidbit about one of the core characters not going to heaven because she liked lipstick a little too much (basically) felt like a terrible violation of his storytelling just to make a point.

Anyways, I'm getting off topic here but I like any excuse to get into Lewis, as he's one of my favorite characters precisely because he strikes me as so maddeningly torn between different things. Carry on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11122615
> This tells me more about how dysfunctional the EU is ...

Exactly, the European Union was originally conceived as a 'common market' but individual countries can set their own corporate tax levels.

Google have had a lot of bad press here although most of it is badly misinformed. The bar for accuracy of reporting is generally set quite low for American companies operating in the UK.
> It doesn't do higher-kinded polymorphism, no.

That's what I referred to.

> ...

The point is that you can't leverage all the existing monad/functor/applicative/free/yoneda... libraries out there–they don't exist, because they can't be written in a way that would allow re-use.
hehe, now I'm going to envision a giant Conway's game of life being played every time I see a room full of IoT devices on IPv6.

Wonder if there would be an interesting way to visualize a cascading failure of the kind that brought down AWS in past years. Which of course makes one wonder if there would be any kind of useful calculus for a series of such glyphs.

PS: according to wikipedia there is a calculus of communicating systems of sorts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_communicating_syst...
I'm sure the dealers are excited as hell about this (and non-software-updatable-over-the-air cars in general)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10955186
"I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art."

A 3D scan of an existing object does not create a new copyrighted work under US law. See Meshwerks vs. Toyota. This follows Bridgeman vs. Corel (2D photos don't create a new copyrighted work), which follows the famous Supreme Court decision Feist vs. Rural Telephone (which allowed loading phone directories into databases.).
What's it like to meditate for several hours each day?
Taxing is certainly about forcibly taking assets. That is a descriptive statement, not an judgmental statement. The details though are important, from who, for what, and how much?

I don't understand why you think that utilizing the wealth/knowledge/resources generated/developed by previous generations is something specific to 'Western' countries. You don't say so explicitly but you seem to be suggesting that those assets should be controlled by and available for distribution via the "government". You don't say why that should be true, but it implies to me an argument against private property rights since you are assuming all those assets are under the control (or should be under control) of "the government" I don't see any attempt to explain how or why the government should gain that control other than some handwaving about 'what do we want?' and some ever harder to understand handwaving about 'what is fair?' being an inappropriate question.

I'm not sure why you concluded that I was advocating for no taxes. But I will certainly advocate against taking my money and giving it to hipsters to do nothing but sip coffee because that is what 'society wants'.
Can you try to criticize the comment instead of the commenter?
All else equal, everyone wants to minimize nuclear states, and nobody is happy about Iran having a nuclear program of any sort. But, so what? Unless you're willing to invade, Iran has to agree with that consensus for it to have any impact.
It is hands down the most influential Ted talk I've ever watched. It is very trivial, but I think it about it several times a day wherever I wash my hands in a public bathroom.
Isn't this basically how Slashdot works?
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If Google makes more profit it means my grandma who haw invested her life's saving in stocks makes more money, it means self driving cars will be reality sooner and it means poor people on Indian railway stations can access internet now.

If that money ends up in government coffers it means some American is getting harassed somewhere, Mexican drug lord getting assault rifles, our phones being spied and wars on the other side of the globe. Less money in the hand of government under any pretext is a good thing.
Also, all these people should not invest in Google stock either.
> then clearly they need some sort of help beyond the financial

I'm not sure what you mean by that. They need help, and that help will almost certainly cost money, regardless of whether you're giving them money, products, services, etc. Because the help will cost money, there will almost certainly need to be means testing.