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A great comparison to the above article is this post by Stephen Diehl, "Reflecting on Haskell in 2015". [0] A great read and an interesting pointer on the state of Haskell / Javascript (Elm, Purescript). Also, work your way through "Write you a Haskell", [1] well worth the effort.

Going through the post, this looks like a comprehensive book. Read the rationale behind, 'how to learn Haskell' from author. [2]

[0] "Reflecting on Haskell in 2015" http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2016.html

[1] "Building a modern functional compiler from first principles." http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/index.html

[2] "Why we don't chuck our readers into web apps" http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2015-08-23-why-we-dont-chuck-read...
Agree; there are probably a variety of rather loose definitions being thrown around in any discussion on this topic.
A fair point. However I buy my phone SIM free for cash. I do not expect to keep this more than a year because like you said a built in battery isn't great. I will sell this phone/trade it in and buy whatever the new phone I want is. Doing it this way means I still get a good price for selling my phone to offset the cost of the new phone. Sure I spend about £200-250 on a phone each year but I am not tied into a contract for 24 months and I am on a great SIM only plan with unlimited 4G data for £15/month. When I calculate it over 24 months I save money over getting the same phone on a contract.
Instagram is "eye jü". Nobody in Taiwan really says G.
Given that this is the poster's seventh "Ask HN" in the past month, perhaps he should be broadening his search for resources.
Even without oil prices dropping, Saudi Arabia's days are numbered. No one knows exactly how much oil they have left, but they have been pumping seawater into the ground for years now. This doesn't signal that their oil is drying it up, but it is less plentiful than before. Any country that relies on natural resources for its wealth will suffer when those resources dry up and are not replaced with some form of productions. When was the last time you bought something made in Saudi Arabia?

The USA made Saudi Arabia via Ibn Saud, and it will unmake it via Iran. The sanctions were lifted on Iran, because the USA saw the writing on the wall years ago about Saudi Arabia drying up. It needs to reposition itself as an ally of the next major middle eastern oil producer. Not only does Iran have oil, but it has some of the largest natural gas deposits in the world. [1] After years of conflict, and a proxy war in Yemen, Iran is likely to do anything to ruin Saudi Arabian. This means any power over production that Saudi Arabia used to wield via OPEC will be nullified once Iran is developed by Big Oil.

Its an end of an era. The war in Yemen keeps aggression pointed outward, but as soon as the populace tires and the payoffs stop coming it will turn inward. Another government will be recast as tyrants and despots, and the world will watch it fall.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_fields
The Cost of Rights

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cost-Rights-Liberty-Depends/dp/039...

is an interesting read on this topic. It basically talks about how taxes are necessary and these movements to eliminate taxes completely are completely off base. I would argue that a sufficiently extreme distribution of wealth makes democracy impossible and the "rights" that the Saudis afford their people are not "rights" at all in any meaningful sense but rather just a way of placating people so they can hold onto control of the oil.
Most people probably would not install add blockers except that ad volume and lack of quality have reached the point where they make it difficult to browse the web. Installing an ad blocker is a necessary act of self defense.

In my own case I installed Ghostery after finding that ads from particular websites reliably caused Chrome to crash or consume 100% of CPU on Mac OS X. www.sfgate.com was a particular offender but suffice it to say their numbers are legion.

At some point enough is enough.
I set this to "intense focus" and the result is almost exactly the same as the opening track to Tangerine Dream's 1983 album Hyperborea, "No Man's Land". Funnily enough, I've always found that an amazing album to listen to when in need of concentration or relaxation.
Sounds like a stack Reggie Watts would create.

But then there is the node/js fronted community to one up everyone.

Does your stack manage complexity, or add too it... Why is such a stack necessary. I bet you don't even ARIA bro...
I agree with how The Atlantic took this topic step further[1], which was posted on HN earlier[2].

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/sau...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11143588
There have been times in the US when fewer people got paid shit wages than do at present. This isn't economically inevitable.
Ummm... Wikipedia doesn't show ads and never will.
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A naive question: What happens if Apple resets the password once again, back to the previous value? It seems reasonably likely that the hashed value of this password exists somewhere in a backup. It seems likely that rather than giving up on any further backup attempts after a single failure, the phone would try again with the password it knows when next given the opportunity. Is this not the case?
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Android does power management relatively well. In the kernel I am working on (the one I mentioned in the end - the almost-working one) I have a few cool hacks I am trying, like using the JZ4775's DMA engine as a sensor hub (it is a small MIPS cpu that cna run arbitrary code)
Where does it say they performed 33% better? The only mention of 33% is:

"the reduced variance reached statistical significance in >33% of individual N-back trials comparing DLPFC stim with DLPFC sham"

which means something completely different. I think this study might be terribly overblown.
Your ISBN is wrong. It should be 0670835684. Available in Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/treasuryofencyc00fadi_vmk
With the NYT, WSJ, Brookings, Economist and virtually every prognosticator of the punditry classes forecasting dark times for the Kingdom, I'm sensing a crowded trade and beginning to look for contrarian, optimistic predictions...
The company that bought them (Huami) has USA offices, so they are not as well insulated from the law as they might think :)
> Legally, "permission to be where you are" is a right reserved for the capital class.

That's a brilliant statement, on many levels.

One might chose to refine it by changing "legally" to some other word, such as "practically". The rich are not governed by the laws of men.
A possible fix is to start investing, but it may be too late. If I remember correctly I think investing for profit is a gray area in Islam, but Kuwait did it and if I remember correctly they use to have more returns from their investments then they did on oil and paid every citizen a base salary from it (until Saddam invaded and they had to cash out).
I think there is maybe a special place in hell reserved for people who pretend to give advice to others solely in order to show how superior they are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11145102
Saudi Arabia is a medieval country. They have far greater problems than vanishing jobs and a one-sided economy. Its really a disgrace to humankind. Revolution now, please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
Sounds like Alaska in the near future.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11145102
It already has a linux kernel with WiFi support. Android build tools will happily package your ramdisk together with the kernel into an android boot image. The "system" image you provide to the unbricking tool will be written unmodified unto the system partition.

That is to say that the work is all done for you. Enjoy :)
Nothing like kicking someone when they're down.
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GitHub adds drag-and-drop uploading
what's really holding back the explosion of trustless, decentralized, secure, p2p applications is the very people using the internet. Most people don't give a rats ass or even have the capacity to appreciate something like this and what's going on in the background and why it matters.

All it takes is some teeny boppers like a snapchat demographic to adopt new technology. Facebook, twitter, all worked because we were all young once and so was everyone around us.

Some applications by nature will not be possible such as Google but one can dream right? A decentralized, distributed Google that's as good as the real thing but without any of the inherent creepiness? Duckduckgo is a real market reaction to the ongoing battle between politics and technology, but it just isn't good enough as the real thing.

I think that all in all, decentralizing applications mean a completely new paradigm change in how we value the end user. No longer is a browser fingerprint of some schmuck an exploitable piece of data by advertisers, government bodies.

I believe decentralization movement is happening now things are moving far far faster than what I had expected, really underestimated how quickly adoption is measured on the internet...in months if not a year, people's habit drastically change, suddenly a new monster appears and everyone loses it.
Half of that.
A Tesla Roadster cost 110k$ in 2008, are electric cars dead?
It just says "the reduced variance reached statistical significance in >33% of individual N-back trials comparing DLPFC stim with DLPFC sham" which I think isn't quite the same as having a statistically significant overall result. If you look at the results the sham group is better in quite a few of the graphs.

I get the impression that the study results weren't quite as impressive as they had hoped, and they have added some spin to make it look better.
"When did we accept that life in your early 20's needed to be so hard?"

When was it ever otherwise? Sounds like you had it pretty good compared to the previous generation at the same age. Better still than the generation before that. How "easy" does it have to get before the perception will become that it's not hard?

I see the problem as one of perspective. Unless we've actually been through tough times, we feel we're having a tough time.
Google is the definition of a typical "big faceless company" and this is exactly how they act. Their current motto of "do the right thing" is down right hypocrisy.
"Can someone explain to me why Haskell will ever be viable as a fullstack language?"

Aside from the solid compiler ghc and many libraries, the ability to write less, more reliable software. That's the objective isn't it?

Another reason is the increasing number of usable languages written in Haskell. Using say Purescript, elm or other front-end languages, it may be as important as knowing Haskell as know C is for Python, for example.
If E.O. Wilson ever finds this artist, he can expect a beatdown with a cane.
It's the same as any other package repository being compromised. There's currently no key revokation, like most package systems but being based on X.509 it certainly supports it.

Additionally the only part of AppFS that runs as a privileged user is the daemon itself, unlike most package systems where there is an install step that can run arbitrary scripts as a privileged user.
Yeah, but you'll still be understood easily if you fail to do so.
Could someone explain why this is a problem? When 25% of Japan is over 65, nobody says it's good.
Snarky? Your comment was nothing but.
Except that different programmers subtly different flavour of C is different from others. For a handful of features it may work but in general I doubt it.
I was in Spain last fall, where NFC/Apple Pay worked great but was not available to locals.

It was really funny, as I'd just tap my phone on their CC machine and they would act like I was some sort of sorcerer or something.
I speak 8 languages and can tell you it's the same in every single one of them...
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Monolithic code is certainly one possible cause. Another is having to manually recompile, flip windows or whatever then open the app, get to the point where your code change has made an effect then test it. That's a lot of context switching out of the mindset of changing that code.
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Yep, ART really trashed boot time.
I saw that on PBS, probably a "Nature" or "Nova" episode.
Well, there certainly used to be less economic inequality, and wages have not risen in real terms for a long time in the US. So I would not be so sure that everything is steadily getting better in this area.
Cheap oil is the result of many factors. America and other new production is one of them. Saudi response to that price drop led to further price drops. It's looking more and more like the Saudi plan will end up backfiring, as they can only bankroll the losses for so long.
Video demo right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfl1NJn1nvo
>(FFT and irregular frequency monitoring

Got any links for this? It's a topic I'm interested in.
i had a galaxy s6 for the past 5 months and it was a nightmare. i made the mistake of not doing my research, approving an OTA upgrade to 5.1.1 and made it impossible to root my phone. recently got a nexus 5x and i am so happy to have a stock google phone again.
Outlandish and frankly ridiculous. It would never catch on.
And of course the losses cause just more oil production, as they turned OPEC into a zero-sum game where nobody trusts anybody else.

No good stopping your production and eating the massive, massive loss when your "partner" will ramp up and get your share.
I have always thought that it would be great if the original uploader of a torrent could (securely) modify the torrent so it could have multiple versions, ie if they found one file was corrupt they could update just that file, or add more files (say it was a TV series, they could just keep updating the original torrent with the new episodes). And when you connected to the DHT it could ensure you had the latest version. Of course it would add complexity and I'm not sure how torrent indexing sites would cope but it could be cool.

Signed torrents with versioning.
Programming is a Pop Culture (2012)
The bigger the company, the worse it is. Empirically proven.
I've been a loyal Samsung owner since S3. Didn't upgrade to S6 because they dropped removable battery. Was waiting to see if it's brought back with S7 - it's not.

Will be getting this phone as an upgrade. For me removable battery and SD Card in a flagship phone are a must. Then comes camera quality, then price.
Cruel is a bit of a stretch. Perhaps clever seen from another perspective. Maybe they should pivot to botting and drop the lame app.
> In lot of ways millenials are fucked

I often wonder just how bad the current generations will have it when compared to other recent generations. Will it be worse than those generations who lost so many and so much to WWI and WWII? Hard to tell except eventually in retrospect, but interesting to ponder.
> What does Uber have to do with the story, other than to demonize the company?

There's a monetary incentive to put Uber in the headline.

Online media runs on advertising, advertising on hits. Uber is a curiosity right now, and a hot media item, so association ups hits.

Uber–association is particularly valuable if the headline generates emotion. There's innate curiosity about Uber as a new creature. There's emotion for murder. The melange is an often powerful cocktail of clicks.

The masses are not yet sure what to think of Uber, so many will eagerly click on this to help draw a conclusion about the safety of those using the company. People that would not otherwise click on either a murder or an Uber story. The mix ups the value; more people will see ads presented alongside the story.

Of course Taxi drivers have been mass murdering for generations. Of course the headline demonizes Uber. Those, while correct, are irrelevant. It is also irrelevant whether the media companies like or dislike Uber.

All that matters is that the media companies have a monetary incentive derived from the actions of the masses.
12. Well breaking the invariants of a function is never a good idea, but putting defined behaviour in that case would put substational restrictions on how the function could be implemented (and still almost certainly do something weird anyway latter)
This might sound hilarious, but I've always used Frank Ocean's Channel Orange as coding music.
Tom Clancy's wrote a fictional book about lone mentally disturbed Japanese pilot flying a plane into the pentagon. I read it that book maybe a few weeks before 9/11. Was shocked that the US intelligence didnt see something like this happening when a fiction author did.
> When was the last time you bought something made in Saudi Arabia?

Given just how much ownership they have in American companies, I imagine it would have been quite recently. Probably your mortgage is partly Saudi as well.

Of course this only works for the Saudi elite, not for normal Saudis.

> Its an end of an era. The war in Yemen keeps aggression pointed outward, but as soon as the populace tires and the payoffs stop coming it will turn inward

I would be terrified if I lived in a nation that has >30% foreigners that are kept from being citizens and kept out of the vast majority of decent jobs.
That particular one (#72) would make a great tabletop Christmas tree emulation.
Always worth re-reading this article when new languages, and technology trend/themes pop-up.

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727721
Yelp fired an employee after her scathing open letter to the CEO
Just finished watching Samurai Champloo, where I first learned about Nujabes. I was saddened when I discovered the artist died in 2010. Great music! RIP
I'm someone who regularly swaps batteries (a few times a week) and don't give a slightest toss about this feature.

I can wait 30 seconds while the phone is off.
It's approximately 1978 though '82. Basically the last generation that has a living memory of the before time, but grew up riding the crest of the wave of everything that happened over the past 30 years, technologically.

Or, people who played Oregon Trail on Macs and Commodore 64s in grade school.
English sucks as a language. Bit of a no brainer.

It's here to stay, also a no brainer.

At best Chinese might take over, which is a harder language, so the article is all a bit pointless.
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> Of particular importance are GPUs (graphics processors), the best of which are made by Nvidia.

Don't let any gaming forums see this, they'll be arguing for weeks afterward
If you watch carefully, not a single ant flees the mound or is visible anywhere near. Fire ants abandon their mounds when the colony moves.

For an analog: if an abandoned stable burns down, no horses are harmed.
Oh right and its an ally of the western world... Unacceptable.
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Very interesting stats. Thanks for sharing!
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On the other hand, how the Chinese system of "openness" works means that detailed hardware documentation is often freely available if you know where to look, even that which would be NDA'd and basically impossible to get from a Western company:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

Consider if the SoC was from Broadcom or Qualcomm or some other Western company. You'd probably be able to get source code, but having that doesn't show as much about what else the hardware can do as they're not going to share datasheets with you (and there's unlikely to be anyone willing to leak them either.)

Edit: have you looked at Ingenic's site? They have what appears to be Linux source code available:

http://www.ingenic.cn/en/?product/id/6/lm/1.html
Good question. I think the logic is that the most dangerous demographic is twenty something males. If a revolution or riot will happen, it will happen when this group is unhappy. So if they dominate the population in times of severe economic trouble, it's a recipe for big change.
I actually thought/think a merger of twitter and yahoo would make sense, and I also said a while back they should have merged(square & twitter) but that is off topic.

The thing about twitter is that it has 1/2 of the problems of yahoo, it is pretty well defined as a communication channel and more specifically it is a one to many broadcast channel. It doesn't know how to financially capture value.

Twitter is pretty interesting in that the arbitrary SMS length of 140ish char is pretty interesting from a data standpoint as it ends up playing sort of like XML. Pretty much the way to use data online is that we use 1960s IBM doc authoring language, it got a few tags and some sugar in the late 80s/90s but in reality we add meta tags to meta tags and then read this data. Twitter, due to the char limit actually provides dynamic labels to realtime information flows in a way that is comprehensible programatically.

e.g. <p>Some info</p> is not particularly helpful as the entire <article> and accompanying data needs to be parsed and looked at, and always varies from site to site.

However: In #election2016, I voted for #Trump. Data labels can mirror trends in human readable form and computer processed form. So in the above example, from @example you could state:

Public Opinion of Trump +1

@example is a complete moron.

So it actually ends up playing like a paradigm shift from sql to nosql data in terms of data streams.
Depends on what you value. There is no such thing as "net good" without quantifying "good".
Yahoo is a public company and they are already facing heavy pressure from activist investors (i.e. quick-buck artists who want their profit locked in now). Yahoo had some leeway to try new things when Mayer was hired, maybe even things with a longer term payoff as you're suggesting, but, well, buying a revenue basket case like Tumblr was the main thing they got around to doing.
Yes, some people don't enjoy jokes.

This is well documented.

I'd rather talk about literally nothing than have another political conversation where I am either preaching to the converted or shouting at a stone wall.
>deprecate usted to avoid the social awkwardness of using the wrong level of formality

I'm Spanish and I think it has been months since I have heard "usted". When you are writing to someone you are not very familiar and you want to sound more formal the way to go is to use a "implicit usted", which means you refer to the other person by name but use the third instead of the second person. Anyway, better avoid using "usted" directly, it sounds awkward in almost any situation.
Most of the time I don't vote. When I do I vote libertarian, I've never seen an ad for the libertarian party in my country.

When I buy ads (donate) I buy ads I buy for the Green Party in areas where they are splitting the left wing vote.

The best way I know of to influence government is to have professionals prepare my taxes, and to ensure the government follows the law to the letter. Voting is designed to limit the influence of the individual on politics while appearing to give people choice.

If we wanted government representative of the views of the people we'd just draw 500 names of citizens out of a hat.
Since you're smart enough to have worked for Google, I think lots of big and small companies would be willing to hire you. It's a shame you made a mistake, but learn from the mistake, and then focus on your very bright future. You've achieved great things, and I think you'll continue to be successful in life.
>2. A free system can much more easily be compromised by the injection of cloaked vulnerabilities by actors such as the NSA.

I can't see how that is possibly the case. With a non free system the NSA just has to show up with a national security letter and a gag order and the system is compromised.

With the free system the NSA has to push, or get a submitter to push an update that gets missed by anybody that looks at the code.