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> Supports pipeline-style programming

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> "hello, world!" |> print

Please follow the Elixir convention and call this by its proper name: illuminati pyramid operator.
I doubt the newcomers will be voting for NIMBYist ordnances though; that tends to be something existing owners do.
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True, but I've used python a lot, and I've used reduce maybe...twice? (well, twice that I can find on my github at least)
I'd suggest fixing the front page, which claims ADT support which seems untrue, and the tail recursive example isn't tail recursive at all. Errors like that make this too easy to dismiss.
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That's fine. I disagree with that policy and this is my way of expressing it.
I'll grant that that's the commonly-accepted way to look at market cap, but I think it leaves out a crucial assumption: "Given the current supply and demand for/of the firm's equity".

But I think that's not always a great assumption, because sometimes things happen that don't affect firm fundamentals (profit, revenues, margins) but do affect valuation, like changes in interest rates, shifting investor sentiment on the sector, a lighthouse investor publicly stating their intention to buy/sell, etc -- all of these things change market cap without altering the business per se.

All this to say, I think the simple CAP=SHARES*PRICE formula is too simplistic. I think it's more accurate to think in terms of ranges of what the firm's equity might be worth, and realize that it's a highly subjective assessment based more on aggregate opinion, than some hard objective law of physics.
Actually, your priggish comment is way more of a buzz-kill in terms of what I expect / hope to find while browsing HN than the spontaneous demonstration of chain-reaction altruism evinced elsewhere in this thread.
The conventional logic is that you don't want to try picking up nickels in front of a steamroller by pricing your IPO too high and having it sag out of the gate. You want demand for the shares and then let the market price them. If Twilio had priced their shares at $24 they almost certainly wouldn't have sold them all and it would have been a really ugly IPO that resulted in a lower total market cap.

tl;dr sentiment is very important for IPOs
The last post was from April of 2015. Can we update the title?
The idea that people respond to incentives is completely unsurprising, except, apparently, to people at the top of government/academia. If the university receives a substantial portion of the rights to my work, I'm going to do less work, particularly if the university isn't required to contribute to my work after I launch my firm.

The natural experiment that arose here reminds me of VC firms- firms like YC (or Entrepreneur First in the UK) offer exceptionally good deals to the firms that they fund under the belief that doing so helps the firms succeed, and in so doing, helps the VC firms realise a greater return on their asset. Other VC firms, in comparison (particularly smaller/local firms) seem to impose more onerous terms on the firms that they fund, labouring under the belief that in so doing, the firms will make more money, when (IMO) the firms are reducing the incentive of the founding team to work as hard as they would have otherwise.

I suspect, but do not have any references to show, that providing equity grants to employees, or providing more generous funding to a company, would produce a similar, albeit positive, change in innovation & productivity.
The problem with government pensions is that the work of today is paid for with money today and a promise of money in the future for an undeterminable number of years. Many governments have not saved prudently for their future obligations and the result is current taxes going to support past workers, which taxpayers don't appreciate when it gets extreme.

In the private sector, pensions have been going away -- I've worked for about nine employers in the last 20 years or so, only one had a pension plan, a public school district. (I wasn't eligible to participate because I held a part time position)

Many (most?) private sector employers offer participation in defined contribution retirement plans such as 401(k), some with employer contributions -- those are much simpler to manage, today's work gets paid for today. There are some government plans of this type, and taxpayers don't get upset about them, generally.
+1 for the above. This sure was a dick move, but from the past week OP has probably already discovered Toronto is an amazing, clean, and courteous city (from my limited experience) compared to many others. Don't know what their work/visa situation is, but it's worth shopping around for another job and giving the place another shot.
> "Now, more than 25 years later, it's less of a problem"
> It depends. GPL enforcement folks will tell you it's an even larger problem now than it was before, but in the end, i don't think it's the assignment parts that cause the most pressing issues.

Well, I would have said (well, in fact I did say) that the Linux kernel's lack of assignments would cause problems but in practice it hasn't.

The point of the blanket assignments was to avoid running around to get the scraps, as I mentioned, but again in practice if code includes chunks from Alice and Bob plus a few scraps from Carol and David, Alice and Bob can have standing to sue even if the ownership of Carol and David's one-liners is unclear in the eyes of the court. BUT if ownership is clear and it's all Fred's (i.e. FSF's! :-) then it removes a possibly expensive diversion as the infringer tries to attack standing.
I would expect if you had chosen to grind it out in the Bay Area, you could have retired in Ohio even sooner.

But if you wanted to retire where you're working, yeah, it ain't gonna happen at 45 in the Bay Area.

Did you do the comparison at the time? Just curious. Part of what makes it work out here for me is that the cost of living means savings scale that much faster. But I have no idea where I'm going to retire.
I suspect it is less about the “foreign billionaire” and more about the single-digit millionaires worldwide looking for an ostensibly safe place to park some money and be assured of a healthy return (or at least not a loss).

It's a self-perpetuating cycle¹: people invest in real estate; prices go up; it becomes a more attractive investment.

¹Sometimes known as a “bubble”
Direct bank transfers and a debit card with a high/no limit are other options. I have both. Of course, that doesn't mean you have either easily available to you.
The upvote count is kept private, so it doesn't serve the same purpose of indicating public support for a comment.

Unfortunately meta discussions are frowned upon too, so I shouldn't have made this comment either.
Great news from influxdata. Though all of these features (clustering, monitoring, and data elxploration) could be released with standard edition. The start of InfluxDB looked very promising, not sure if people feel the same with the chosen marketing model.
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It doesn't.

But there's no reason anyone should be running a browser without an ad-blocker in the first place. Edge should have a lightweight ad-blocker built-in by default.
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For a less praise-heavy look at the new Doom see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DT7xa-G9bA

He doesn't dislike it, but highlights the game elements that didn't quite make it in the new one. Plus, he showcases parts of Doom that really couldn't have happened at any time other than the early-90s.
That's a shame.

Its one thing to have absolute, iron fisted control over your own platform - its another to intentionally seek to limit people's self expression on other platforms by influencing the standard in this way.
I searched for the syntax listed in the standard and didn't find it in production use anywhere else. I've used MSSQL in production before (last time in 2015) but never Oracle. I'm happy to now know that other SQL DBs have this feature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line

Canada wasn't exactly neutral.
I think you might be right and I was wrong, or at least didn't put it correctly.

Compound interest should be taught in terms of examples people will likely use. So when they first get a credit card offer at a certain %APR, or a chance to invest, they immediately pull out law of 72 and do some quick estimath.
This article also misses that a large amount of people aren't tech savvy and as such have to live with all the DRM issues. I've had to explain many times to people as to why they could not freely listen to the music they bought on any device.
I think RPN works okay in natural language because you can often use discourse- and world-knowledge to guess the verb before hearing it. When reading programming languages that may work less well. But also note that, at least in some languages, there seems to be some pressure to move the verb to the front. For example, German is classified as a verb-final language but in main clauses the verb is actually "moved" to second position (subject-verb-object). Final position is only "preserved" in subordinate clauses. This suggests that early verbs may be easier to process.
Very weird; so long and detailed that it would be hard to fake - yet I don't understand why he's still in this position with the proof he claims to have.

I also feel like his case would be strengthened significantly if he simply took the time to write properly - capitalize, good grammar, etc.

Anyway if true, it's an outrage; hope he receives due compensation. If not, I don't know what to say.
It sounds like a sad story of a guy who never learned to communicate properly.
Thanks for this! I can see that you and I are somewhat on the same page in terms of mindset, though you're far ahead of me when it comes to both dev experience and math.
Big time agreement!

I was reluctant to buy it, I came across this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua-f0ypVbPA

after watching it, I instantly purchased.
Ok, so my ignorance was that when the parents said 'pension' they didn't say that they really meant 'defined benefit pensions'.

A 401k and other defined contribution pensions are still a pension.
I think CockroachDB is making genuine progress in the distributed, consistent space. We now have to add many of the existing features on top of that.
No need for an auction. I don't know about this specific IPO, but often there are predictions of what the true stock price is (i.e. the "first trading day" stock price) floating around before the stock starts trading. E.g. for Facebook, the expected share price was about 37, the IPO was at 37, and the trading opened at 37. Facebook got the "premium", instead of the hedge funds and banks.
The OS is a pretty obvious confounding factor, don't you think?
I've always wondered, why more people don't use SVG for web games. It's easier to work with than HTML+CSS, and since you can specify simple animations in it, you can reduce the amount of work your game loop needs to do manually.
For all we know, the graphics and physics engine running our universe could be a laughably mediocre imitation of what the external reality is like.

That doesn't help the "ancestor simulation" idea, since that relies on advanced being wanting to simulate conditions encountered in their past (i.e. within the same universe).

It does apply to the idea that we might be some kind of low-res game, running on a crummy hand(/tentacle)-held computer.
It's relatively new in the industry to make money from open-source projects. There are enterprise companies such as Redhat but startups usually scared open-source because of your concerns. I admit that Sentry's approach is actually is bit risky because Sentry is easy to install and maintaining is not that hard unlike the other open-source startups that develop databases.

However you need to differentiate your product from your competitors and error-reporting is not actually quite a hard problem, I know many companies that still uses e-mails (send email with stack-trace directly from the app) for error-reporting. Sentry has a unique approach here, it's an advanced error-reporting tool and tries to build a community around Sentry with open-source.

If you're a developer who needs error-reporting for your new fancy app, instead of your custom solutions (which are actually workarounds) install Sentry easily and get an advanced error-reporting application for free. Eventually when you work in a enterprise or start a company, you will want to stick with Sentry since you're familiar with it and don't want to take the responsibility to host Sentry so you will switch to SaaS solution.

I'm not actually related with company behind Sentry, these are just my thoughts. :)
How come there are rarely new apps on Windows?

I have been doing WPF development in the last two years for enterprise customers.

Also as a Windows user, there are plenty of applications to choose from.
Is it easier? How automated can you make renewal with Comodo? Even big companies goof and have a few hours of downtime where their cert expired. With Let's Encrypt, you make it not a human's error anymore.
I work out of Chicago about a week a month. Most of my college friends live in Chicago and have very good jobs in the technology and financial industry. Couple that with being able to live in awesome parts of town without even thinking about the cost, drinks/food that are much cheaper than NYC at the high end, etc. I think it's a great place with awesome people.
This community is clearly on Let's Encrypt's side so maybe HN should be our voice and drop business with COMODO as an answer? I say yes!
libGDX is a Java game engine that's relatively simple and lets you deploy to HTML5, Android, iOS, and desktop. PlayN.io is fairly similar I think, but I haven't used it.

2048 is actually somewhat of an odd case, since it was originally only an HTML5 game that was built to run in both the browsers of desktop and those of mobile devices. For this reason, the developer didn't actually port the game to Android/iOS until much later. Pretty much all the versions on the App Store/Google Play Store were 3rd party clones of the original, since it was relatively simple and open source.
> Talk to a young midwesterner and you will hear many whose ambition is to "get to NY," with this vague sense that magic will happen when they do. Eventually if you are not in SF or NYC you are nobody.

Speaking as a late-20's midwesterner, I don't think it's about success or "FOMO" as much as it is about lifestyle.

The Midwest doesn't have real cities (except for Chicago). You really can't have an urban lifestyle in the Midwest. The cities here simply aren't developed enough to support it, and likely never will be.

Someone from Indianapolis / Cincinnati / Milwaukee / etc might respond to try to argue that you can, or that they do. But realistically, they're kidding and everyone knows it -- it's doesn't even remotely compare to somewhere like Boston or NYC or DC or Philadelphia or San Francisco or Seattle.

That doesn't make those places bad, it's not a slight against people who want suburban or rural lifestyles. But if your the kind of person who wants an urban lifestyle, you probably won't be satisfied by anything Midwestern (sans Chicago) because that type of lifestyle simply doesn't exist here.

This is where the "get to NYC" ambition comes from, far more than any idea of success or "FOMO", in my opinion.
Yes! We emphasise MacBooks because it's easier to find supply for those (and we tend to find better discounts), but that's what our "other" tab is for :)
With #2 do I know they are using your additional install? Would your app indicate their app was a registered client and was sending commands through it?
Opera need to market themselves as the browser that extends your battery life so you can surf without the range anxiety. Testimonials are better than tests plus word of mouth.
Only if you are focusing on "wow they bought a lavish mansion with fifty acres and a stable". If they move to Ohio and buy a house- guess what, property ownership is very normal and attainable in Ohio by relatively ordinary people. Mega California bucks aren't necessary.
Northern VA, DC area. Some of the best schools in the country.
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Will SGX help this feature?
Of course, they say this about America too....
Honestly? I think this is Twilio's "we told you so"/fuck you" to wall street.

Investor sentiment around developer tools in Silicon Valley is still broadly negative. I worked for 3yrs at a company funded by prominent valley VCs and, unequivocally, they were trying to get us out of the "developer tools" business and "sell more to the enterprise market". The subtext being, "developers don't control budget in real companies".

And I think there's a grain of truth to that sentiment. You have to realize how much Twilio is a company built against the prevailing Silicon Valley wisdom of "how companies are built". These guys have a bit of a counterculture narrative, of "we're a developer tools company, we're growing, we're having a successful IPO, see, it can be done".

I, for one, think it's a great, harmless PR stunt. :)
I kind of agree, but we've already committed at this point. No going back, really. So there's no harm in adding some more.
Clever recruiter email, I thought for a second I was being asked on a podcast
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Body: I'm interviewing accomplished professionals and thought leaders about the challenges and experiences they’ve had with hiring and recruitment. Your feedback will inform our ongoing market research. There’s also the potential to be featured on our weekly podcast and/or blog (with your permission of course)! Are you available to jump on a quick 15 minute call sometime in the next week to talk shop?
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That's because nowhere near enough is approved. The US population growth rate is around 1%. If San Francisco were growing no faster than the country at large it would need to build housing for about 8500 people per year. San Francisco is currently building around 3500 homes per year.

And that's not even accounting for the massive economic boom going on here, or the surrounding municipalities which are largely doing worse on construction (cough cough Palo Alto).
You missed the last part:

> And then immediately crashes back to $16 because there are no other buyers willing to buy at $24.

Which obviously didn't happen.
But it's nothing different than, hey I'm a recuiter, are you looking for a new job? I can place you.
I don't want to be petty... but your comment would have a lot more weight if you made it with your primary account.

That said, I agree with all your points... but we're humans... Even if most of our time is spent on science, we still get amused by the most silly of things; and if those things help support LetsEncrypt... Hurrah!
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Amen. I recently tried playing a MMORPG that seems to throw a insane polygon count at the player models (boob physics galore). End result is that my computer screams for mercy any time i set foot in a spawn zone.
especially if there were animations going on in those ads. Most battery savings come during (even super short) periods of idle time, when various hardware components can enter lower power states
Firearm-related crime was already on a downward trend in Australia when the ban was enacted. The crime rate in America followed a similar downward trend without the ban. Rapes increased after the gun ban. Violent crime increased 42.2% after the ban. [1]

[1] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225517/posts
That wouldn't work. You don't get the same battery life out of a mac on windows as you do on macOS just sitting idle. I don't know how you would control for that.
So much for Asimov's laws, eh? Autonomous weapons have had some problems [1] however. You need to be sure that no friendly fire is possible, and that's a tall order. I'd prefer Robo-sheepdog, myself.

1: http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/9-killed-in-army-horr...
Later in this thread, someone even uses it specifically to refer to only men:

> The reason I said hostile is that in most discussions on Hacker News and Reddit a lot of people argue that the only reason women are so under-represented in tech is that all the guys are very hostile to women. This survey goes against that. For some reason they refuse to believe that some things are more interesting to women than men and vice versa.
TradingView has worked well for me for a few years now: https://www.tradingview.com/
When you see [flagged] it means that users flagged the story and that there are enough flags to predominate over the upvotes. If [flagged] goes away it means that upvotes regained the upper hand.

But please don't take HN threads even further off-topic by editing your comment to complain about this kind of thing. The way to get an answer, as the guidelines explicitly say (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) is to email hn@ycombinator.com.
You appear to be blaming Californians on what are probably natural tendencies of the people already living there.
The work environment is really great and I'm glad I can quickly drive out into the countryside, but the overall environment is pretty terrible: there's inadequate investment in infrastructure leading to crummy roads, crummy schools, essentially no public transport, slow internet (in Palo Alto of all places), and the like. Taxes need to go up a lot and the whole NIMBY thing has to go.

California used to be a progressive place and we are still living off that investment. But like any extractive economy we are unsustainably mining the investments of the late 1940s to the early 1970s.

I must say I really enjoy tech so the Valley is the only place for me to work. It was fun living in SF but the companies up there aren't tech focused to the same degree.
The innovation was to combine async/await to flatten promise hierarchies with asynchronous callback-based IO under the hood to implement those promises without using background threads.

That was the new idea that suddenly made those decades-old promises useful for the software industry, as it allowed both blocking-style code simplicity and callbacks-style IO scalability.

The ML link says “evaluates the expression exp in a new thread and returns immediately with a future of its result” which translates to “not scalable”.
Agreed. Though to point out, I believe xyproto's comment refers to the present.

EDIT: Plus, if it were that important, IBM could implement the function in hardware. (Perhaps they did.)
That still doesn't get you statements.

You can't get context managers or exception handling (although you can raise exceptions) into lambdas, I've tried.
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Shut the company down, someone's onto us
Yes. If there's a working buffer overflow anywhere in code (and there appear to be several here), you can turn that into a call out to a shell, and hand it some script code to perform.
Its really amazing to see how functional this robot is. I cant wait for one to take over for some of the more monotonous tasks around the house...

That said, the way it moves around and can keeps its head steady is both really cool, but somewhat terrifying... It seems to conjure up scenes from movies where the antagonist robots are scanning a target before deciding to kill or not.
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