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> Without loops you can't write a nontrivial program, and, without case analysis, you can't have non-infinite loops!

...and yet there are Java programs that have completed their loops time & again! ;-)

> Type system - Accurate modeling = Annoying bureaucracy.

Oh sure, lots of annoyance, but few languages have a good type system, and those that do have a limited pool of programmers to draw upon who can reason about them.

> Can you imagine pattern matching on abstract syntax trees or other complicated mutually recursive data structures in this way?

Or god forbid, using an Enum and an EnumMap!!!

> Even the visitor pattern sounds less painful, and that says a lot.

Double dispatch really isn't the end of the world. You'll make it. I promise.

> Then I can't understand my code in terms of itself. I'd have to know what the attribute processor works transforms it into.

You can use the attribute processor to do the reasoning. It becomes an extension of the language.

> Trust me, it can cut the size of case-analyzing code by a factor of more than 3.

Yes, it cuts code size dramatically. Out of curiosity, how much more compact is that case-analyzing code with a dynamic type system? ;-)

> If the class library were the only problem, then the solution would be to make a new one.

Hey, if you are just going to write an entirely new class library, then problem solved: you can just as easily write a new language parser and code generator.

> A zero potential field isn't a null reference to anything.

I didn't say zero potential, I said, "no magnetic field", as in, your magnetic field slot is non-existent/unknown. You've got notions of dimensions that may or may not exist, etc. The point is, you've got nothings that aren't just a magnitude of zero, but which have a type. You have that at least as much as you have a distinct type for nothing.
Well your looking at the demo calendar. You'll have to switch to your google account to get total control.
Hope that helps /Peter
This looks awesome! Would you consider Google maps style mobile zoom too? In particular their one finger zoom is really great on mobile.

Two typographic things on the recurrence settings: frequence should read frequency, "week days" is a bit confusing, I'd probably change it to "on these days"
Go to the wiki section of that site and look under "Germany'. The flag is depicted as being an iron cross on a red background.

Not unique to this game, unfortunately. I think Wolfenstein 3D was the last game I saw which actually used authentic swastika flags. Everything since has been given the politically correct "won't someone think of the children!" historical rewrite. Ironic really, given that Nazism was 'kinda sorta' what WWII was all about and the swastika is [to use the current vernacular] probably the most instantly recognisable 'meme' from that war.
Here are some more examples, though are generally more basic errors: http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants

Overall, I really like the approach of making error messages an important feature. We see them so often that improving them makes the developer experience much better, but I can imagine they're a less 'sexy' task to work on and probably much harder to get right than you'd expect.
I was about to write that sild is herring in Norwegian, but then I saw you had it in the github repo (but Danish) :)

Cool project, I'll have a look at it!
I felt the same, it doesn't try to address the "hard" problem of consciousness, as described in the article you linked.

It's such an interesting problem because for one, its hard/impossible to prove consciousness. If you built an android that had every if-statement imaginable coded into it so that it behaved exactly like a human, including answering the question of whether it is conscious affirmatively, and showing signs of pain and suffering in bad situations, how will you ever know if it's all just a simulation, or if real feelies are behind it. At what point does it cross over from an extremely complex and useful behavior machine, to one that experiences actual qualia.

Another issue is the purposelessness of consciousness. Why does there have to be experience tied to our reactions to stimuli, if the resulting behaviors are identical. Isn't there quite a bit of wasted energy and skull space that could be better used for more survival oriented if-statements. All of our behavior seems possible without the associated feelings.

The issue of androids is going to be an annoying one in a thousand years. People will be polarized, with some championing android rights because they seem to be conscious, while others will be adamant that they are just complex machines that can be treated any which way. Personally I'd probably err on the side conscious, just in case.
The teleporter isn't purely RNG. Runners like Bananasaurus Rex, LateDog, Pibonacci and others exhibit a very high level of mastery of it and have "accidents" far less often than us mere mortals.
Reshevsky, many times over.

"In 1981, at the age of 70, he tied for 3rd place in the U.S. Championship. In 1984, at the age of 72, he took first place in the powerful Reykjavik Open, which featured many grandmasters"

http://www.chessgames.com/player/samuel_reshevsky.html
I don't like the working name/domain name. 'One View' itself isn't that bad. But I end up thinking of: "One's view", which sounds more like a comment board or Virtual reality app.
I'm never understood this marker system. Graves have been marked in a threatening manner so that they would not be plundered. It doesn't work.

The point is to hide the waste. The system should be designed to progressively unveil warnings if some future man starts digging. Otherwise, you're just asking for them to dig it up.

Another thing not mentioned is to design the container so that anyone who plans to excavate will think they have hit rock bottom... like Pharoahs' tombs or a multi-level pirate cache.

Or even better, put something horrible and poisonous twenty feet down. It might be better to obviously poison a couple people if they start digging this up. That would be easily understood and eventually avoided.

Remember the radioactive sign in the Star Trek episode where Data gets shishkabobed? They made jewelery...
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Same. I didn't understand a single word in there, because there is nothing to look at there.
I went to high school next to a dioxin superfund site [1]. They incinerated it (I could see the smokestack from the school) and supposedly it's all cleaned up now [2]. We'll see how we all turn out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri

[2] https://clu-in.org/download/remed/incpdf/times.pdf
The key data:[1]

Probability of surviving a single hit:

Entire aircraft .851
Engine .588
Fuselage .940
Fuel system .973
Others .939

That's pretty clear.

The A-10 Warthog, however, has most of its armor around the pilot, who sits in what's called a "titanium bathtub". This is very popular with pilots. So was armoring the back of the pilot's seat in WWII.

[1] http://people.ucsc.edu/~msmangel/Wald.pdf
Unvote is coming.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852316 and marked it off-topic.
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I had an internship here during the summer of 2010. For the most part it was incredibly boring as there was SO much emphasis on safety (rightfully so).

For example, people would have to be cleared from an area in order for janitors to vacuum an area, so that no one would trip on the power cord.

I did get to go down into the salt shaft which was incredibly cool (also literally cool, which was a relief because it was the summer in New Mexico).

For the most part I upgraded some software systems and helped with some hardware upgrades.

The engineers were all characters. Several of them were preppers convinced that I was silly for going into computer science and not stocking up on gold.
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Nicely done. One comment: It took me a while to realize the numbers on the top right triangles are week numbers in the year. Typically I am not concerned with that, not sure if there are general use cases for the week number.
If you have, say, 200 employees, how much equity do you suggest offering?
Are you sure you didn't get heavily inspired by Moleskine's Timepage?
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The demo locked up my machine while trying to add an event.
So the same people who are "too stupid to vote" are at the same time smart enough to "vote with their feet"? Naw, this is just the usual libertarian drivel about how "the market will fix everything". This becomes obvious the moment the author talks about "Democracies are always backed up with a police state that coerces you, at the point of a gun".

Also how am I supposed to vote with my feet when doing so requires a space ship etc, i.e. quite a bit of resources?
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I imagine the record for uptime with zero maintenance is held by something like the Voyager probes which are nearing 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1

But even if you cut out any electronics and use something as basic as a rock with a whistle carved into it for the wind to blow through, it will still be susceptible to getting clogged up/eroded.
Great comment! I didn't know about Dybvig's dissertation. Did the string-based model ever get used?

(The blog was what got submitted, tells the story of the project, and links to the Github page, so I think it's fine.)
I had a tech startup superstition of my own: When a founder asks you to write answers on a FAQ page or knowledge base in response to questions that have never actually been asked by a customer yet, the startup will fail.

Based on a similar philosophy about detached thinking at the top, and how it sinks companies. Answers to customer questions should only be posted after they've been asked at least once, otherwise it's a sign the founders are daydreaming about customers with problems that don't exist yet
That's only true if you want to claim that the "best" place to grow $randomFruit cannot be more profitably used doing $randomThing. Downtown San Francisco could be the world best microclimate for tomatoes but it still probably wouldn't be worth using the land for that instead of an apartment.
You seem to have accidentally invented a really slick UI library for canvas. I have been working off and on on something like that for the last 3 years, but yours is actually factually working. I really hope you publish it.
It explains roughly 30% or so of the tech dd's that fail. What is surprising is how far some of these will go before the inevitable reality check.
Not yet. They still have good revenue and a large share of the market, and new engineering grads still want to work there.
In a few decades I think the use of very sophisticated ais in computer games could become an ethical issue.
Are insects conscious? Why or why not?
Equity percentage graphs of a large number of companies, with no additional information, are completely useless information. I'd much rather have 0.01% of Google than 1% of whatever your startup is.
I'm not so sure. Primitive mining in e.g. Røros, Norway goes back to 1740. Dynamite were introduced to the mine in 1870. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8ros
Daily for 10+ years. Of course the instance sometimes loses connection, and I have to re-establish.

IRC beats ALL social networks, in my experience. I've learned more, and helped/gotten help more from it, than any other source.

Started out on UnderNet. Gave up on it years ago. I'm on FreeNode. I only get on other networks if whoever has the channel doesn't have their primary presence on FreeNode.

I hang out in channels related to Linux and programming languages.

I've tried all the popular IRC clients. I always come back to irssi. irssi+<multiplexer of choice, I prefer tmux> is a marriage made in heaven. :)
Very cool. I mainly use Extempore [1] for livecoding visual and audio, but this would be a great complement to Tidal [2], a Haskell-based livecoding system for audio.

I wonder how difficult it would be to marry the two, instead of separate windows with web sockets, so you could inline Tidal code as you build your shader in the same editor? Sort of what Shadertone [3] does by combining the Clojure-based audio generating Overtone, with a Shadertoy GLSL interface. The graphics are right behind the text in the editor window.

I would suggest Euterpea [4], the Haskell-based music coding environment, but it is not as suited to livecoding as Tidal is. Nonetheless, a great Haskell environment. Great work!

[1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/

[2] http://tidalcycles.org/

[3] https://github.com/overtone/shadertone

[4] http://www.euterpea.com/
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> And no one is buying into the sexual aspects of this shit show

Yeah, but that it's attempted is bad enough, and how that is shrugged off I find creepy. Search for "appelbaum" on reddit and sort by date, go back to the beginning, you don't even have to count to see it's kind of a blitz. It has 0 comments in most subs, and not a whole lot response elsewhere, most people are skeptical or dislike the site, etc... but some people are trying REALLY hard regardless. It was on a lot of news sites, too, though that wasn't as easy to "measure" so I didn't bother. But reddit? Super weird.

And I think letting that slide is a shit precedent. I'm not that gullible to be shamed by these stories, even if they and worse are true, into going with "it's just a bunch of people sharing their story about this horrible person". Everyone involved pretends it's just something that "happens", instead of something a lot of people do. That's something we all have in front of us, there is so much we do not have to guess about at all, and even that isn't properly discussed.

But you know, FWIW I'm happy now, because finally an adult spoke up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851888
> The issue of androids is going to be an annoying one in a thousand years.

Do you really think it will take a thousand years for that situation to arise? I'm betting on less than fifty.
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I'd be curious if the distribution of salary data from H1-B filings was more or less the same. Anecdotally for brand name companies, eg Netflix, the selection bias of Angel List data to the lower end seems to be confirmed. The database publicly searchable and I had seen a visualization once but can't find the link.

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=NETFLIX+INC&job=SENIOR+SOFT...
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I thought it was pretty interesting that they weren't really talking about making the site "threatening", but making it "repulsive". Poor craftsmanship, ugly terrain, uncomfortable heat, low value materials, etc. Some of their design photos were very different from what I'd assumed, and pretty much immediately triggered my "eww" response. Not intimidating exactly, just uncomfortable.
I want to learn some Lisp and clojure later after I finish up with some JS (which I'm relearning) Would this be good in your opinion ?
My little story-(please let me know what you think ?)
First memory, four years old walking into the entrance of a hospital. A room filled with little tiny babies surrounded by plastic boxes. Intrigued I separated my self from my mother's hand to get a better look. A poorly baby lit up by a blue light, I approached but swiftly was ushered away and back holding my mother's hand. A whisper from my mother explaining that our visit today was to meet my little brother for the first time.
I soon learnt that my little brother was sick and had to stay in hospital until he got better, as he was born early. Learning each day, week, and month how to take care of him. Reassured that he would be well soon to come home with us.
Photos of me as a little girl was similar, I too was a sick little girl. My mother explained that I was four months premature. Reading to me a published article she wrote explaining when I was born a tube in my heart not closing my lungs not developed and infected, I was only alive as for the support from a ventilator.
In the days to follow I was tested with drugs to try to close the tube in my heart, (called the ductus) each time unsuccessful each time dieing but being brought back to life. Now the only option the story read, was heart surgery. The words hard for my mother to read as she was back in the momment with her eyes filling up read the words....
Want to read more please go to : http://mylittlestory1.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
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We're hoping to start a colony on Mars. How could we possibly make Earth even remotely as inhospitable as Mars? Do you expect us to remove all the oceans' water? Remove most of the oxygen from the atmosphere? Kill all plants? I don't think we have much hope of making Earth inhospitable to us even if we tried.

Perhaps we somehow contaminate it all with nuclear waste. Even then, there'll be safety underground for long term living, relative safety even in contaminated areas for short term work, and radioactive water can be cleaned by distillation, mechanical or chemical means. We might have to set up a lot of infrastructure to do all that, but we've done a good job of setting up far more complex infrastructure already. It took only a couple of hundred years since the beginning of powered machines to get to where we are now. We could do it all again many times over in the next 10,000 years.
Same. I would've guessed mid 100s for engies, easily. Probably closer to high 100s
Imho, that's still solvable easier than creating marks readable for 10000 years in the future. Simply choose a mountain that contains no valuable metals/minerals and is made of rock that's too hard for primitive tools.
Precision isn't the same as accuracy.
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The examples appear to only run on Chrome (not available on this PC).

Other than that, it looks cool from what I could read.
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We changed the title back to what the article says. The submitted title was "Windows 10 updates via UDP bypassing QoS restrictions".

Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you please not to rewrite titles except when they are misleading or linkbait. It seems like in this case the rewrite made it more misleading.

If anyone suggests a better title, we can change it again.
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Week numbers are used a lot in my experience. Features are often promised by week X. Events, work schedules and even vacations are also often referenced by week.
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Exactly. Something gives an advantage, is selected for, the organism starts to mould its other attributes around that advantage, and a feedback loop starts. Colloquially, evolution will take a new advantageous feature and 'run with it'.
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Preemie or premmie is used in Australia too.
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Two second grammar lesson: who is the implied SUBJECT in the phrase "laughing out loud"?

Whereas if someone (not me, though) were to say "People named Mark always leave terrible comments because they have severe learning disabilities", that would be a truth-claim.
My biggest gripe with Google Calendar is the lack of consolidation of duplicate events. Often I have about 3-4 copies of various events and a storm of 10+ notifications for every appointment. If you can solve this problem, it would be a killer app for me.
The last 10% always looks really tough for me. For example we kind'of have self-driving cars right now - but when will we have self-driving cars without a driver's cockpit where I can play poker in the back with complete faith that it will handle all situations intelligently, navigate any terrain and manage any situation - seems like 50+ years to me for just that.
I use Pony a bit, and wrote some things here: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/pony/

My list of catches would be:

* Reference capabilities take a while to grasp. No more than Rust's borrowing or ATS viewtypes though.

* Garbage collection occurs between behaviour calls only. If you do something in a loop that allocates a lot in a single behaviour then you'll get memory issues.

* There's no blocking calls. You need to structure your code so that actors receive notifications of things occurring instead.

* Behaviours don't return anything as they are asynchronous. This requires using promises or passing callbacks.

That said, once you grasp these it's nice to program in. Fast, readable, and makes concurrent/parallel code easy to write and safe to pass data around. The C FFI is easy to use. You can package Pony code as a library callable from C too.
> But after decades of dogged effort, he and his fellow scientists are still arguing about the answers.

> Other canine genetics experts think that Larson’s barking up the wrong tree.

> Of all the problems that scientists struggle with, why has the origin of dogs been such a bitch to solve?

It seems like the author was in some sort of pun writing competition.
Likewise, you can post instantly if you don't read TFA. Does that mean you're a better poster?
Problem may be on your end, or between you and The Atlantic. I've noticed no such issue, and VirusTotal gives it an all clear.[0]

[0]: https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/1baee95371f0f447bbdc2baa53...
Looks pretty nice. Some criticisms:

* I dislike how the website hijacks scrolling, the phone doesn't fit on a Macbook 13" screen so I tried to scroll down, but that just scrolled in the app

* When scrolling out to a view where I see many months at once it can only show a few events, in the demo it only shows Gym, and when I zoom in a bit more it also shows Hockey with kids. I feel these recurring events should have the lowest priority when zoomed out, it's more important to see "special" one-off events.

* It's not clear that there are events hidden. When zoomed out a lot it's of course expected that this is the case, but when zoomed out a bit more it might be unclear if all events for a time period are visible or not.
it's a buncha hogwash.

Companies need a board with a chairman, a president and treasurer, and vice presidents of things like engineering and marketing. If you have 20 people, you don't need more executives than that. If you have an operating business with customers, you'll need a controller, and a director of operations. If the company doesn't do R&D, it's simply an operations company (like say a restaurant or a moving company) you could conceivably call the President also the COO, because operations is critically important to operating the business.

Chief this and chief that make sense in a large company with need for extreme specialization, like a chief technical officer for an airline: their core business is not computer systems, but computer systems are critically important, so the guy in charge of all that technology needs authority to make executive decisions and to report directly to the top. But that's not a 20 person situation.

The point is, you don't sprinkle all these grandiose titles around to use them all up like at an Aviato or a Pied Piper. You use them to describe meaningful roles that reflect the business and managerial structure of the company, but only in a way that is important. 20 person companies and even 100 people companies don't have that much going on, in general.

If your business is developing software, you don't need a CTO (compare above with airline) especially not one who is just a smart founder engineer with limited managerial skills.