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Is it full stack Lisp in the sense that Lisp is running on both the server and in the client (browser/mobile)?

If it is the latter, that would be quite compelling. Clojure/Clojurescript is quite compelling from a developer point of view, since you don't have to switch mental context to develop your server and client code (as you would have to do if you develop Go on the server and JS in the browser).
Personally I'm a huge fan of Observables or (Singles which is a single item Observable).

One of the most confusing things with Promises vs Observables or any sort of deferred value is whether it is "hot" or "cold".

Most deferred objects like Futures in Java and Promises in other languages are hot which basically means something is already running in the background.

There are many reasons why I prefer the cold model but mainly boils down to be more explicit, better composition, backpressure handling, and overall better predictability.

I wish articles talked about this a little more of hot vs cold.
Do they? Even if Gawker was in the wrong here, is publishing someone's private sex tape $140 million worth of wrong? What about all the other tabloids that have done something similar?

It's exactly this kind of "jackpot justice" that illustrates how bad the system is, that everyone is one sympathetic jury away from being shut down.

I can't upvote csallen's comment enough: the cost of being wrong is far too capricious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824026
Slightly OT question: Would the Pebble 2 be useful as a privacy-respecting health tracker?

I am looking for a device for long-term heart-rate tracking (additional included gimmicks appreciated). But I am worried about things like: Does the health app upload to cloud services? If so, can it be turned off? Is the Bluetooth synchronization protocol documented to support open-source app implementations?
And even worse, rewind to 2008 and the Flickr API was considered the gold standard of API design. There were books written about it and it was regularly mentioned at conferences.

They had all the pieces to build a great mobile experience. The interest and support wasn't there from the leadership.
You literally said "noble cause" (well, "nobel cause").
because they have been lying?
You'd think so, but Amazon doesn't think that way. They don't sell chromecasts or Apple TV's in their store, when they'd make far more money selling them and getting buyers to subscribe to Amazon Video...
What I think people sometimes forget about async/Promises vs callbacks is that callbacks-style define a code structure that is hard to maintain by multiple developers, since it leaves a lot of power to the way you write your code. Not every team has 5 experienced JS developers, so at one point implementing a small feature by a team member would become : `Hey, let's just nest another callback in there. It takes 1 line of code` instead of implementing it in a readable way.

Promises solve this, but indeed there are a couple of problems there with debugging. Honestly I think they give more readable code than whatever callback implementation you invent to avoid the callback hell. Libraries as bluebird can make your promise operations really short and even one liners, without performance hit.

Finally now we have async, which I hope will be popular enough in the future to become at least as much popular as Promises are now.
Docker's messaging is specifically anti-devops. They market containers as a "separation of concerns" between dev and ops, where dev is responsible for everything that's in the container, and ops is responsible for deploying the black box.
>Merit has little to do with it.

Not sure if that's intentional, but the BioNTech series of trials for melanoma been called MERIT (this particular incarnation is Lipo-MERIT).
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He's a smart man, so it is quite possible he has some nuanced opinion that is not exactly cookie-cutter libertarian from a textbook.

And this should be allowed. Siding a certain way on some political issues shouldn't require you to be absolutely dogmatic to all of the relating principles and perspectives in all contexts.

I mean, I wouldn't expect this from myself, so I wouldn't expect it from others.
Windows 10 slows down my whole PC and won't let me downgrade. I was forced to move to Linux or deal with constant lag from all forms of input.

Can't believe I wasted my time putting up with the lag to fix my wifi so I could install updates.
Sounds interesting. The problem with logarithmic scoring is your penalized for picking actual percentages vs gaming the system.

EX: If your 99% sure of each question and there are 100 questions then getting 1 wrong gives the best points at 99%. But, randomly you can only add +1 point from 100 correct but randomly there is a long tail of missing several. Further, scores are not linearly valuable trading a lower max score but higher chance of getting an A is a positive result.

Ideally you should set things up so accurate estimates give the best results.
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I thought he himself came out with this? I think even "intentional leak" is taking it a bit too far.

The goal here seems to be to make sure that Gawker won't be able to secure funding for further litigation which it'll lose anyway.
Most of the interesting work I do is in C, so probably not the very top commenter on this, but I have some business in Java. I've seen some functional programming and I agree mostly on the point: "isolating side effects". All the other advantages are yet not very clear to me:/
The Pebble Core seems like a very different proposition to a Pebble Watch though - it runs Android itself and doesn't depend on a phone. So much more viable if you have an iPhone, though obviously a totally different form factor.

Not sure what you mean by "external battery" - both Android and iPhone have external batteries available.
I don't think "better supported" is the most apt description. As I understand it Pebble puts similar level of resources into both the Android and iOS support but there's simply more restrictions on iOS which means fewer features compared to Android.
"Minigames have never been supported by Mojang directly" is not entirely true - Realms, which is Mojang's own Minecraft server service, has a minigame mode for the hosted worlds.
check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11821474
One would have to be particularly ignorant for this to come as a surprise though. (Not specifically re: Gawker, but in general)
I'm Apple Watch/iPhone. I'm probably anti-watch now, thanks to shitty experience with the AW -- I won't be replacing it with another watch of any kind. However, I'm super interested in the Core for many non-watch applications.

I also hate android for many reasons and am unlikely to move away from iPhone except to something entirely new/better than either, which doesn't particularly appear to be in the pipeline. In the next couple years I want to get rid of all uncontrolled radios on my person, though, so I'll probably be switching to a de-radioed iPhone or iPad or iPod Touch or something.
to me it felt like Samsung had a much better product until Apple caught up with the iPhone 6, it feels like a long time since Apple was "bleeding edge".
Policies maybe, but not necessarily xenophobia. Xenophobia starts where multiculturalism fails. IMHO European multiculturalism has failed not in its idea, but in its implementation.
I had a nice dark background and light foreground colour going for a few months but had to end up disabling it. Sadly, a ton of websites assume that text is dark and background is light, and don't specify one or the other in their CSS, so their sites look terrible unless one turns off site stylesheets entirely (in which case their sites look really terrible, but in a completely different way).

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A comment on the reddit discussion of this said that a similar scheme was used at CMU for midterm and final exams in the "Decision Systems and Decision Support Analysis" class offered by the decision theory department. The exams were multiple choice with four choices per question. The commentator linked to this handout describing the grading for the midterm: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/%7Esbaugh/midterm_grading_...

If you assigned probability p to the correct choice, your score for that question was 1 + ln(p)/ln(4). You were not allowed to assign a probability of 0 or 1 to a choice.

The handout points out the importance of thinking about how to approach these tests ahead of time, and also explains the benefits of using this scoring system:

---- begin quote ----

I cannot stress strongly enough the need for each of you to sit down and think about different strategies for answering the questions. This grading technique completely removes any benefit of random guessing. Such a guess could be disastrous. You're much better off admitting that you don't know the answer to a question. (Placing a 0.25 probability by every option indicates that you have no idea which answer is correct, and your score will be 0 for that question). Assessments of probability 0 (0%) or 1 (100%) are not allowed. These answers will be interpreted as probability 0.001 (0.1%) and 0.997 (99.7%) respectively. Your probability assessments must sum to 1 (100%). A probability of 0.001 by the correct answer will result in a score of -4. In contrast, a probability of 0.997 on the correct answer only earns a score of 1. Think about the implications of this before the day of the test.

I strongly recommend that you analyze the grading problem from a decision analysis perspective. Calculate expected values (or expected utilities) for various levels of personal uncertainty. Notice what happens if you are overconfident or underconfident.

This grading scheme makes the midterm harder then a standard multiple choice test, but this is the point. It has many benefits from a teaching/learning perspective.

1) It teaches you to apply the techniques that have been discussed in class. You have to assess your own personal probabilities and apply them to problems that have very real (and potentially) important payoffs. It is impossible to get these points across with the few simple lotteries demonstrated during class.

2) It helps to removes the element of chance from the test. Because of the severe penalty for guessing, the test will more accurately measure your knowledge.

3) The test will also measure what you know about your knowledge.

4) By analyzing how you answer the questions, I will be able to determine which questions are hard and which questions you believe are hard. (A "flatter" distribution for a question indicates a lower confidence in the question, and therefore, a belief that it is hard.)

5) It will allow you to appreciate how hard it is to assess probabilities.

---- end quote ----
Ah ha, that's the context I was missing.
> real people may vastly exceed the number of simulated people

... presuming that the outer simulator consists of fundamental laws that support more than one identity.
Reminds me of the Eclipse dark theme.
Right, because it's not a level playing field.

I could start a company in a small European country for €X but tackling the US market would cost me 10 times that, which I haven't got and can't raise. However, the comparable US company can invade my market not by raising 10x more money but by raising 10% more.

Even if you're successful, like Spotify, a big American company can start up years later with an inferior product, like Apple, and probably put you out of business. Spotify money is, by Apple's standards, chump change.

And if the American company can't knock you out, then it can just buy you.

America's home market size and the availability of capital make it very hard to compete, even if you have the talent. And the fact that SV imports almost all the best overseas talent as well as having its own tremendous talents makes things even harder.

It's easier with virtual goods than with physical goods, but look at social networking websites for an illustration of the same problem. Sure, you can be the biggest in France or Germany or Italy or whatever, but Facebook just knocked out all the local successes except Russia and China.

The only way to play it is to open a small US office and pretend to be American, so you can get US capital and US media promotion. But if you succeeded that way, just how French (or German, or Italian) would you be in the end?
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Agreed. The grays are too light for the syntax highlight colors to be easily visible.
>The fact that companies are choosing to comply rather than simply not do business in India seems to mean that their policy is a huge success.

Ok, then conversely, which companies have chosen not to comply? Would that mean the policy is a huge failure?
> That is unless Amazon stopped doing company-wide stack ranking, which obviously it will never do since it legitimizes pass-the-buck and is so beneficial to the people making the rules.

I've got a friend who's a manager at the Amazon Game Studio. That part of the company at least doesn't do stack ranking in the way that it was described in the NYT article. There may be other teams (or even most of the company) that do, though. I think that teams in different locations end up developing their own internal culture, to a certain degree.
> The subject of the case is a red herring.

Agreed. It matters to Terry, but doesn't explain what's happening now.

> Thiel was out for blood, and he used his money in someone else's case to get it.

Correct. The 'Thielite' side I'm on doesn't dissent from this.

> It focused on maximizing the damage to Gawker, which isn't what civil court is typically supposed to do.

Not so sure about that. I think you may be extending your ideas about civil lawsuits over the edge. I've never heard it said before now that one of a civil court's functions was to maximize the settlement. Presumably civil courts existed without insurance companies being around at some point, so maybe not.

I'm open to having my mind changed though, should you find evidence in law of a civil court's function being described in that way.
I don't think it matters if the car payments can be counted or not.

But, according to [0] (I'm not sure how accurate/reputable it is; again, IANAA), the deductible portion of $60452=$31,408 is only $2,218.90.

Gas at $5752=$2,964 already extends past that cap.

Assuming her income is taxed before the lease payments are made, and hits her full deductible, she's paying total taxes of $4,437.81

So, net after-tax, after-expense income - I didn't realize that about routine maintenance - is $604-$160-($57 - ($2,218.90/52)) - ($4,437.81/52) = $344 / wk, or $13/hr.

Compared to working multiple inflexibly-houred minimum wage jobs, it's definitely better.

But in no way is it lucrative, or even lower middle class.
I haven't open-sourced it, mostly because it's not even really worth it. Basically, it's:

foreach($entries as $entry => $data) {
if( file_exists( "entries/$entry" ) && is_readable( "entries/$entry" ) ) {
$post = file_get_contents("entries/$entry");

echo "<a name='$entry'></a>";
echo "<h2><a href='https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=$entry'>$data[title]</a></h2>";
echo "<h4>$data[date]</h4>";
echo "$post";
}else{
echo "Cannot read file: entries/$entry";
}
}
My sons, 8 and 10 years old, have just got bored of Minecraft. Their friends are all on Clash of Clans or their subproducts. Even worse, they are spending a lot of time just watching Netflix. I'd prefer they were doing something that stimulates more their intellect.

I think MC is a really cool and creative game. A lot better than other videogames. How would I get them interested again?
I think this would be great to open up to the community to maintain. Maybe you approve it initially, and eventually come up with a system for community approval.
Ideally to me this is part of the editor. I use Visual Code + Go.

I think there is still a lot of improvement possible for the help that the editor (plus tools) can offer. Much more (and more intelligent !) help and info to be shown while I type or move around in code. At the very least instantly show parameter types plus full docs on every function my cursor is on. Visual Code does a good job with the Go plugin but it could be faster. And there is only so much a plugin can do.

If AI is really the future of coding then it least at some point it should be more helpful before it takes over...
Yeah but everyone already knows what that one looks like. It's someone pointing at you and gesturing for you to get over there. Also if you're a supervisor in a sawmill, you probably don't ask someone working on the floor in a sawmill to go hunt someone down for you. You either do it yourself or send someone from the office to do it. The people on the floor have better shit to do.
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Good to know, I was coming to say something about smart pointers in C++ and a few other things I tried with no results.

Not sure how you're doing the querying but when I dropped the "smart" from "C++ smart pointers" it did return a result. Does every word in the search have to match then? I'd have thought, similar to Google, that it would return results where at least some of the search keywords matched even if they all don't.

Anyway, it looks like a good start. Even for people who already know a lot about programming it should be really useful for those times when you know what you need but just can't quite remember the full syntax of something.
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That's not the ignorance that interests me here. There have been gag rules and confidentiality clauses in settlements forever. Secrecy in lawsuits isn't super unusual. You have any idea how many deals are made before a lawsuit is even filed? it's all secret... The EFF, ACLU, ADL, and other organizations fund legal defense and law suits and even use it as a fund raiser sometimes and we don't comb through the donation rosters and suggest a perversion of justice based on the sources of donations. There are legal defense funds for various things quite regularly. There are victim funds that are put together by communities when certain crimes happen, those funds are presented as just life help for the victims but some of that money goes to lawyers sometimes. It's just not that unusual for people to get help paying for their lawyers. And it has nothing to do with the crime.

Since Thiel revealed his involvement, that has been the story which makes me think maybe he was right to conceal it. his name and money had nothing to do with this crime.

The fact is some people want other people to fail, they want their companies to fail, it may be rational or it may be irrational or it may be revenge based but society allows that. You can short a stock if you want, if you have enough money you can even affect the price of the stock. Gawker placed itself in a situation where it had substantial financial risk, Thiel simply exploited it. Don't make powerful enemies, don't break laws, this is avoidable stuff. It wasn't a frivolous lawsuit that some billionaire manipulated in to a company killer. Nobody's taken out tmz or drudge or many of the others....

It's also ironic, I'd argue that any deal to pay for lawyers is a private matter. The very existence of that privacy is a concept gawker doesn't seem to comprehend and that's what caused their problem in the first place.
I assume he meant a removable internal battery. I'd rather have some other way to hard-disable the phone, because integrated un-replaceable battery is a big win for sealing/size/durability, but I admit that's one of the advantages of the android world. The biggest advantage of Android is being able to run third-party ROMs, override core functionality, etc., though.
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Thank you very much Michael! Never thought about this, I just wish there was something that could change sites globally.
Can you point to anywhere where that definition is in common use other than by you?
Because evolution doesn't work on a species level, it works on a gene level. Genes that help propagate themselves spread more. A cancer causing gene would almost certainly be selected against, vs a gene that caused you to live longer and have more children - and spread more copies of itself.

The reason people die is not because it's better for evolution. It's because evolution simply doesn't care about maximizing life expectancy. Most organisms die long before they get cancer, so the fitness of a gene that prevents cancer is pretty small.
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The price of the stock is influenced by the dividend payment. It might not be obvious in most cases, but look for example at the 3-months chart for Nestle (which pays only once per year):
https://www.google.com/finance?q=VTX%3ANESN
You're surprised that they do?
I get the sense that Uber drivers are often incentivized to do things that increase their chances of getting a ticket. Then a full time driver spends a lot more time driving than your average person.
It is strange that we are all still living an apple marketing decision. Back in the days of green-on-black CRTs, apple decided to make their screens look like the paper it emulated. (A more extreme part of this was the tilting CRT screens to also mimic the aspect ration of paper). The human eye sees light. So reading illuminated text on a dark background is generally easier. But Apple did it first, MS followed, and white backgrounds seem here to stay.

It took some googling because I didn't know the terminology, but this is what I am talking about: A "Pivot" screen for the Mac by Radius.

http://lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/radius-pivot-display...

Another example of this is street signs. The oldest sign standards (speed limits, street names) are black text on white backgrounds. But the newer ones (highway information signs) are normally white on a dark green background, which is much easier to read at night.
Have they tried using mods?