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Microsoft's VS Code is open source and a direct competitor to this. Here's the source if you want to build it:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
It would be fantastic if their was better CLI support for SAML auth in the AWS CLI.
If anything I'd argue we see the opposite. Billions of cycles are wasted through abstraction vs the few that do actual work. You'll see this profiling any modern application; extra copying, useless computation and other ills abound.

Copying data and computing things "just in case" make the software much easier to modify. But it is not a good way to maximize "speed related metrics".
The UK also has lots of on-street chargers. If your car has decent range you only need to charge every other day or so.

As smart parking meters eventually become slow chargers too, we will see fewer problems with chargers becoming ICEd or hogged by charged EVs.
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Is this a real pain point?

The only way this gets used is if management forces it down your throat.
Python analogy for why you're wrong:

>>> white_lives = {"matter": True}
>>> black_lives = {"matter": True}
>>> black_lives['matter'] == True
True

The statement 'black lives matter' doesn't cause white_lives['matter'] to evaluate to false, or to less than black_lives['matter']. Sometimes you call out a specific thing just to assert its truth.
> The main reason so much modern software is bad is that people aren't willing to pay for even a fraction of the actual value it delivers.

That's a very broad statement, and is untrue in many instances.
I don't uset ST but the procrastinator in me checked their home page, the download button defaults to ST 3.
How economics works ? 1B$ for an app ? Innovative Small scale business are struggling to raise a million, and blatant copy cats raising billions ? Capitalism works correctly tho, what they have earn has to give back to earn more.
i have half a dozen friends who are graduating next month and going to Microsoft in Redmond. Many others going to Amazon. So not sure where you came up with this.
> Something like elementary.io, without the installation errors

Or with toolbars in the apps. Or with context menus on the video player. Or with a decent dock that doesn't show three Chrome buttons if you choose to not use their crippled browser.

Yeah, I have also tried elementary.io.
He's frustrated by people with no legal background making legal judgments.

We're frustrated by people with no medical background making fake devices.
Oh, it certainly could (I don't know whether it currently does, simply due to compiler maturity), but my "complaint" isn't about Rust's abilities but its use of the term zero cost abstractions.
I removed the article coincidentally right after you made the comment.
That is a lot of docs.
If you are writing a demo, it make sense to encapsulate all of the credentials directly in the script, so that it can be comprehended as a single file. How you actually include your credentials will depend on your use case, so it shouldn't be part of the proof-of-concept.
Sure there's some really good telepresence - that enables eye to eye contact and full body language - and it creates better trust than regular telepresence(according to research).

The missing piece is having it everywhere. Also maybe the issue of group telepresence at the home.

But even with that, it's still issues of culture and politics and power etc - why would venture capitalists want every startup to be remote ? why would big companies ? Is there difference in the cultures between such companies ?
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Say what? The counties of the Bay Area are all well below the national average suicide rate (age adjusted, per capita CDC data). Explore for yourself at [1]. How did you arrive at this odd belief?

1: https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/mapModuleInterf...
I wrote some code that iteratively would have just taken a while to run, but because Haskell wasn't using true tail recursion, it ran out of stack space.

I also read a paper that talked about extensive research into optimizing a convolutional network algorithm in Haskell, if I remember correctly. The algorithm even used mutable data structures for speed (because of course you need data to be mutable for speed). Roughly speaking, if you ran it on 16 CPUs, it was only 4x slower than the C algorithm running on one CPU. And Amdahl's Law [1] (as well as the graph in the article) hints that it may never actually be faster than the single CPU C version, no matter how many CPUs you split it onto, because of the overhead of sending the data around.

When people claim "immutability makes it easier to run on more threads, which is the future of optimization!" I just want to cringe. Immutability kills most performance enhancements you can possibly make on nontrivial code, even considering a single thread, having all your data be immutable does nothing at all to improve threading, and forcing all data transferred to another thread to be immutable kills a whole category of optimization.

When dealing with large amounts of data, you save tons of time by not copying it around.

/rant

Sorry. I've been listening to too many people talk about Haskell like it's an amazing silver bullet that will solve all of our problems. But There Is No Silver Bullet. Really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
That is dependent on them actually being software-fixable problems.

In this case, the sensors do not actually monitor the complete space taken up by the vehicle, so this kind of accident would be impossible to prevent by modifying software.
Check out this e-commerce and sourcing platform startup
Ask http://priceusa.com.au - I'm fairly sure their agent (in Oregon) uses Prime. Probably a ToS violation, though.
VSCode does seem pretty nice -- One thing I can't figure out is the Ctrl+P quick find. It doesn't seem to auto-complete/open files I have added in explorer? The same behavior works flawlessly in Sublime.
Almost, I failed to mention the reply should contribute something and not just be words for the sake of words though. Purely my personal opinion. Basic example of a borderline canned reply while I think:

Q: "Where should we host our service?"
A[instant]: "Well, you have X, Y, and Z."
A[afterwards]: "X has these features, but Y might be a better fit for you because..."
The ship of Theseus :-)
I recommend introducing an explicit sexual harassment policy. Have each employees sign that policy form indicating they understand the sexual harassment policy and that violating it is an offense that will result in termination.
> I'm afraid that categorizing bounded generics as a "weak abstraction" is hyperbolic on your part.

Yeah, probably.

> Constant folding is hardly the exclusive purview of JIT.

Oh, sure, but in that example, an AOT would have a hard time doing that (certainly without special rules).
That point doesn't need to exist. A "heap" is not a formally defined concept, and the Sorites paradox is basically what you get when you improperly assume it must be.

Think about how you learned the meaning of the word "heap." People just used it. They used it in some varying contexts, and your brain picked up on a pattern.

It's like if I said "This is my dog, Blue" and someone was all hung up on the paradox of "what color is the dog, really." Blue is the name of the dog. You know this because I used it as a name. You don't need a formal definition, all you need is to know how a name-context works, and you can tell it's the dogs name.

"The probability of something being viewed as a heap" is not the right way of looking at it. What's important is the probability of it being correct to be called a heap, which is derived from the correlations in usage patterns of the word "heap" around various things.
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Tired of entitled white girls giving us advice as if any of it applies to us. No doub the next elizabeth holmes. be a young attractive white girl who went to cambridge and you can get a startup job? okay that helps.
You can see it on google maps using these co-ords (4.20, -4.20)
i think this gift is only the start to further charitable behavior, and a key selling point was his trust in Agus to be involved in the project.

"Money doesn't mean that much to me," Ellison said, according to Agus. "I want to see progress" in cancer research.
Apple has been spending their state-side money on dividends and stock buybacks so no, they don't seem to have any big ideas for investments in the US besides their considerable R&D spending of about $10 billion this year.
Close to 100% of the SSD failures I've seen have not been from being left off for a few years, nor from actual flash media failure, but from firmware bugs or, occasionally, mechanical failure.

(I've had very small sample size of SSDs not being powered up for a few years, but the few I have powered up after not powering on for years have had all their data retained. Ask me in another 15 years or so, though.)
Is the issue with the lzma library, specific implementations, or the 7-Zip windows GUI that utilizes 7z/lzma as an archive option.

Will need to update my desktop install(s) now...
The Feynman-Tufte Principle
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Our Puck (https://flair.co/products/puck) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit like a generic knob. So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device but I know I am excited to open it up to developers.
What’s the difference between a gift and an endowment?

>Gifts are donations of money, tangible items, volunteer time or other valuable resources that can be used immediately to support the mission of University of Missouri Extension in the short run (one or two years).

>Endowments are a long-term funding strategy whose proceeds are designated to be used for a specific purpose. The money put into this fund — the corpus — will be part of the fund forever in order to earn interest and grow. An MU Extension endowment account is a pending endowment until the fund balance reaches $2,500. At that time, paperwork is done to make the endowment permanent and distributions to county spendable funds begin. Distributions are generally made monthly once an endowment becomes permanent. The larger the corpus, the larger the distributions it can generate — distributions that will continue forever.

Larry isn't giving them a fund to work with and grow, he's literally throwing $200 million at them.
Ask HN: How to contribute to OSS?
I am a professional RoR developer for past two years. I never spent any time contributing to Open Source. However I would like to start with now. I am looking for populart projects where I could start contributing easily. No preference for any language.
This reminds me of the cpercival exchange way back when. It's funny to see people set themselves up like that in this community.

Just to be clear, I didn't set that up. In fact I was rather amazed at that question arriving in my lap.
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On the one hand 100,000 new PhDs all working on how to extend Larry's quantity/quality of life seems wrong. On the other hand what you say makes sense and would actually be a net win for humanity.
Not really. You should read more carefully and try harder to comprehend before name-calling and rushing into wrong conclusions. Multiple gTLDs do fragment and confuse and .com will continue to rule as it's short, unambiguous (meaning "a website address" unlike .google, which doesn't mean anything) and people are used to it. Learn from the past! The porn industry that didn't adopt .xxx. Also .info, .biz, .mobi, .tel, .us, .la, and many others in the past didn't pick any adoption - you think longer extensions would? Not to mention the SEO issues with spreading links over a multitude of domains! No to mention that domain names become less and less important - people click links, scan QR codes - don't type URLs in!
> At some point this becomes a philosophical argument, so we can't have a very nuanced debate on it...

This sentiment saddens me. The thought that philosophy - which begins with the examination of our beliefs and personal opinions through the lens of reason - could be considered impossible to talk about with nuance seems deeply wrong to me.

If that's your experience, you've been exposed to some very wrong, or very modern, philosophers. Philosophy is just talking about being, and a conversation about simulated versus 'actual' reality is the best place for it.
It's not $1b for an app. Its for 87% of the ride sharing marketshare. They eventually want self-driving Apple cars driving people all over China (and eventually the world).
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Companies wont do it until its offered as full amnesty, especially companies as large as Apple, there is no reason for them to.
Nobody is buying these apps for the technology. It's for the market.

It's not difficult to build a ride sharing app (it's all well known technology). It's difficult to gain market share.
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Does anyone know Popular Science well? I'm never sure in what context - with what grains of salt - to read its articles.

Do you trust its science? Is it just feel-good stories about the advance of science? Who is its audience? How does it compare to Scientific American or the NY Times's Science section, for example?
You can also refuse changes for being too big to review. Creating incentives for small changes seem like a good thing to me, so I don't see where you complaint is.
Well, for one it's not Vim ;)
TP was indeed amazing, though I think you're misremembering — TP 5.5 was the first version to add OO extensions.

It came with a separate little manual just for the object-oriented stuff (beautifully typeset with the same type of syntax flow diagrams that Apple did [1]; Borland's OO extensions came from Apple Pascal, after all), and I remember reading it from cover while on vacation when I was in my mid-teens, and having my mind blown by the ideas of object-orientation, which seemed like complete science fiction at the time.

Anything from your recollections you can add to this? Was there any collaboration with Apple at all?

[1] http://pascal-central.com/images/pascalposter.jpg
Damn, had I had this link...

http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2015_CGO_Graal.pdf

...I could've replied immediately. Graal keeps HotSpot VM, presumably libraries too, while replacing the JIT with an extra-aggressive one (semantic risk) coded in Java (lower code-risk). It's still bad as it barely addresses platform's overall risk. Might make a better, safer JIT for existing platform.

The [potentially] better ones are those designed for high-reliability applications such as Aonix's PERC and JamaicaVM. They tend to try to do less with more predictability. There was one implemented on Oberon called Jaos JVM. Also, although JVM itself is orthogonal to this, you can run your Java program on JX Operating System for higher security.

http://www4.cs.fau.de/Projects/JX/
Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11685277
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Can someone with visibility into cancer research please explain if the results being obtained are proportionate to the massive funding the field has received for decades?

Sometimes I wonder if the bulk of the capital is being wasted. I could be wrong.

I know it's a hard problem.
Isn't that how we learn? We interpret odd words as gobbledygook until we look them up or find out how they're used.
> If you're an add-on developer yourself and are concerned about APIs you need

I'm actually not, and one reason is because I've seen over the years how extension authors have to keep up with the churn constantly breaking things, and that's not a pool I want to wade into. I'm amazed that, e.g. the Pentadactyl authors have the time and patience to do so.

So, if this new API stabilizes things long-term, that's fantastic. I would love to have extensions that never break again.

But forgive me for being skeptical, because with the CADT-style development models ruling the world nowadays, what usually happens is, the old API is deprecated and dumped before the new one has feature parity, leaving authors and users hanging. And with Mozilla's trend of imitating Chrome, this seems even more likely.

I can hear the cries now of, "The old API is too hard to maintain, so we're removing it in Firefox 72. We hope to reach approximate feature parity by Firefox 84, but we do not plan to reimplement all features in the new API. Regrettably, this will prevent some addons from being ported to the new API," with the implied, "But 'no one' [compared to the number of users on the Internet] was using those addons anyway, so who cares." And cue me switching browsers.

Please prove me wrong. :)
Would it make more sense financially, during this time to join a larger company? How long do you think before we start seeing regular IPOs of tech companies?
I feel similarly. However, the article points out reporting differences for differently large companies and layoffs. That might factor in heavily. Would be nice though of the article had explicitly addressed that.
The pessimist in me wonders just how altruistic the intention behind the wages in the Ford example was. If that were a modern example, I fear the rationale from management would not be about putting the vehicles within reach as an _optional_ bonus, but rather that it would be an unwritten rule that employees are expected to purchase one. Not buying the company's product? Enjoy your status as an employee who doesn't "fit the company culture".

Realization: I have become extremely cynical in my middle years with all the crap I've seen from employers. :/
Anybody have any clever ideas about how to short Theranos?
There seems to be a huge moral asymmetry in your worldview between hiring and firing, which I disagree with. Yes, layoffs are very disruptive. But not having jobs (or having lower paid jobs) in the first place is also bad.

I don't think founders should go out of their way to avoid risk in order to avoid layoffs, because this would also mean employees would miss out on opportunities too. In fact, employees are already aware of the risks of smaller companies, and adjust their expectations accordingly.
Very interesting and relevant but under the model where the products of the tech titans are near free its hard to apply this same logic.

Google doesn't really cost the users much (except loss of private data?) so its hard to say they should pay their employees enough to afford a google mail account.
Try `rename`

http://linux.die.net/man/1/rename

If on OSX:

brew install rename
He's going to "buy" 100,000 PhDs with $60,000 per person? To do what, for only one year? In which facilities, and with what materials?

I think your numbers are off by a couple orders of magnitude.
You can do this with Tcl ! I wrote an extension called "pipethread" to make UNIX shell pipelining more natural. It uses threads instead of processes but otherwise operates pretty similarly.

Example: set lsOutput [pipethread::pipe exec ls | exec tac | foreach line { puts $outchan "[string length $line]:$line" } | { gets $inchan line; puts $outchan $line }]

Usage: https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/pipethread/arti...
I realize "its the web" is a thing but back when I was doing freelance writing for tech magazines I found the Writers Market[1] very handy. For print publications it had print calendars and editorial descriptions of what they liked to publish. I've not bought one since the rise of web journalism but I expect there are resources out there which have this info.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Market-2016-Trusted-Published/...
He wasn't commenting on the price.
He was commenting on the actual traction that the website's have generated.

As in, how many 'generic' domains are actually being used to their potential?

Has anyone ever ordered from Pizza.com? (Or manually put that in their address bar other than right now?). I think you'd be surprised how low that number is.
Business service robots will bring forward
the day when we need to think hard about
how to spread the massive wealth created by
the automation of everything.

So instead of allocating half of all wealth to the top 1% we'll allocate it to the top 0.1%?
And yet two guys were able to ask everyone in an entire coffee shop what they were working on with a 95% "super friendly" rate. Perhaps some problems are perceived rather than real.

https://medium.com/life-learning/what-are-people-working-on-...
The phrase was taken from C++, and refers to the implementation of said abstractions. If you built them yourself, you couldn't have built them better. This still presumes things like an AOT model, but that's what it's meant to call back to, not literally everything in every situation ever.
loved my time with sublime, then atom crossed a line where, while not as good as sublime in some area, it got good in other areas... then... vscode came along and showed how snappy an electron app could be, but didn't have a lot of stuff.... then bam, it opened up, and still not as many toys as Atom, and not quite as slick as sublime, it hits a bit of sweet spot somewhere in between.
Looks a lot like this:

http://voodoo-slide.blogspot.se/2010/01/amplifying-c.html?m=...

https://github.com/deplinenoise/c-amplify
You might be interested in our recent blogpost, white paper and Eric's USENIX keynote: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/02/Google-seeks-ne... .

tl;dr: We're definitely still looking to buy spinning drives, but maybe they don't need to fit into a 2.5" or 3.5" PC sized slot.
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If you look at each entry, there is a little bit of grey text that has some additional detail. They show the really low per-word rates were actually "$50 flat rate per piece" (one says.)

Hope that helps.
I need to work on my chutzpah. I overspecialized in moxie and spunk (the personality trait, that is).

Chutzpah's critical though- you're usually not going to get what you want if you never ask for it. You can wait a really long time for people to just give you what you want, especially if you never express an interest by asking for it.

It sounds like common sense, but it feels like it took about 20 years too long for that to really sink in with me. I always assumed people understood me a lot more than they actually did.
Start a blood testing company.
> Flying is one of the human activities that we don't have to do

I think this needs to be approached as a matter of degree, not a blanket statement. Some flying saves lives directly: Medical evacs, the military, etc. Some is worthwhile. The question is, where do we draw the line?

Is it worth it for climate scientists to fly to a conference that will accelerate progress on climate change? Is it worth it for someone to fly to see their elderly parents? To woo someone they are likely to marry, providing a lifetime bond for two people, and possibly making new people? To fly to the Olympics as a spectator? For what purposes is telepresence a sufficient substitute?

I think the threshold should be raised much higher and climate change needs to be addressed as a crisis. Even people who believe the science seem to not quite embrace the changes that need to be made; there is a lack of leadership setting new standards and telling people the hard facts: When is flying worthwhile? This study of this question, and many others like it, should be mature and well-known and not a relatively novel idea on HN.
That is the heart and soul of capitalism. What is good for me, is good for the common man. I don't think this will give any extra points in the afterlife but at the very least, someone or everyone will benefit in at least some small way.
Protecting Europe from ballistic missiles