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No .. but Apple makes its rather hefty margin on hardware. I thought Google makes its margins on software and services. At these rumored price points, I'd rather go with an iPhone (and deal with stupid adapters). I bought a nexus 5x last year .. it had a weird screen issue. It was eligible for a change but I didn't want to go through the hassle of mailing it in. With Apple, I could have gone to a retail store. Not saying Apple is awesome .. they are acting like overlords these days (lack of Macbook refreshes, selling two year old hardware at premium prices such as the ipad air 2, etc.) but I guess they can do it because they have no formidable competition. This pricing is silly .. I suspect they will have big discounts by January.

So that this is not just a rant, here is how to fix the situation: I think Google needs to think different ;-) Compete on what Apple cannot give. Aggressive prices, expandable storage and removable batteries. It is sad that Android phones (Nexuses and others) have become more and more like iPhones when it comes to consumer hostility.

Just my personal opinions btw.
> Does that include ES6 ?

Yes.

> What parts of JS do they consider a subset of typescript ?

Everything that's standardized.

> Can i keep my type declarations in a different file than my .js code like flow does ?

Yes.

> How far can i go with typescript until i need to use babel ?

Pretty much as far as you want, although you may have to wait a little bit longer.

BTW, stop inserting spaces before your punctuation. It's super aggravating.
open source isn't about using third party code.
It's about the ability to read and learn from third party code.

So, no. :-)
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CloudFlare adds lots of new encryption features
That is not an accurate description of the Pixel C. It's an excellent Android tablet. That some reviewers don't want Android tablets is a separate issue.
I have a Nexus 5X on Project Fi and my phone gets updates very frequently. I have updates at least every month if not every couple of weeks.
"The JavaScript community" need not include everyone who has used javascript. Why do you assume GP was intending it to do so?
I like having a tester watch my back.

I have been helped by different kinds of testers. I like the guys who keep careful notes, have automation, and can hand the automation code to me so I can reproduce the bug in a split second.

There also was a guy that we hired to do customers who could and would screw anything up and we made him a tester; if he could not screw a system up, nobody could!
Curious what relationships were noticed.
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Wells Fargo CEO accepts responsibility for 'unethical' practices
At least they keep paper records that can be hand counted.
What about the government regulations for crypto-currencies makes them susceptible to being obsolete in light of technological changes?
The iPhone has half the number of active cores.
I too have switched to only using Mobx and have come to the same conclusion.
I'm in the same boat as gp -- my Nexus 5 is dying, and I'm looking for something similar for under $500. The OnePlus 3 looks perfect, except they have a history of lying about android updates (promising rapid release then taking 7-8 months).

I don't think Google's new Pixel strategy will work well for them. My opinion is Android is inferior to Apple on almost every dimension and I own an android because it was $400 instead of $1k for iphone (7 is $650 + $100 for more than 32g storage + case + 3-5 headphone cables + applecare + tax). So I was hoping for a Pixel that was a good replacement for my Nexus 5 which just decided that using bluetooth should reboot the phone...
If the goal is to provide a verifiably correct kernel, why not build that kernel in something like OCAML so you can leverage a better type system and use the existing verification infrastructure in that language?
It seems weird that they would choose to do this. From what I understand, they're a company in need of something big happening for them. Laying off 20 people, who are probably some of the lowest paid on their staff, doesn't really seem to do anything for them as I can understand it. It's basically $0 in Twitter dollars. Why not just turn it into an R&D department and see if they churn out anything interesting? Otherwise, just don't replace them as they leave.

Having worked in the semiconductor industry (oh boy, annual layoff time!), once you start firing people, rumors start and morale tanks. Sometimes you have to do it, but I just don't see how 20 people in India helps at all, but will get rumors churning internally.

I guess it just seems to me like saying: "I've realized I'm going to have a hard time ahead of me financially. To that end, I"m going to start buying generic dish soap. I'm now saving about $0.3 / month!" You haven't fixed your financial problem, and now your dish soap doesn't bubble up like it's supposed to.

Please enjoy that labored analogy :)
I highly prefer older thinkpads' keyboards to the Macbook ones. And i'm not just talking about the fingertip pressure quality, but the layout as well.
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Am I more impressed that they managed to get traders to cooperate? Did some distracted trader take a massive haircut for science?
They definitely don't seem to be now. I'm pretty sure China doesn't want them lighting off nuclear bombs, but doesn't know how to get them to stop.

In any case, "puppet" was incidental to my comment, and I'm happy to let that go. My main point was that they were set up very similarly to the Warsaw Pact countries, so the similarity in language is entirely expected.
Original source: http://news.psu.edu/story/426449/2016/09/16/research/digital...
Government regulation of the Internet has been sparse and technologically-neutral. The CDMA Safe Harbor comes to mind. Not to mention the fact that Congress has gone to great lengths to deregulate any part of the Internet that changes rapidly. Is there an example you're thinking of?
I dunno. Working at a ~30–35 person startup as an engineer (post Series B), I still have plenty of voice in the product and features.
the amount of energy you'll be creating is orders of magnitude greater

Try running the numbers vs. 2.5 cents per kWh solar power. Further, nuclear costs more to construct, vastly more to operate, and even more to shut down.
Didn't Hyperion file bankruptcy a couple of years back ?
Are selL4 capabilities transferable?
Two years of major-release support, and three years of security support: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/05/google-announces-new...
I've seen those adapters, but I'd prefer to use only one SD card and a simple (read: less likely to have weird edge-cases) adapter. But I haven't taken the plunge myself either, mainly because high-capacity SD cards are still pretty expensive.

I think RAM will be less of an issue for me since I run Rockbox[0] on the iPod. No need to keep the whole database in memory there. I like everything about the iPod except the software (pretty much the same as other apple products :)

[0] http://www.rockbox.org/
Incidentally that's also one of the advertised high points about iPhone 7 -- great pictures in low-light.

As an aside, I find the attention to photography by Apple, Google, et al quite intriguing. It makes total sense. On social media, we posture, we put out our best self. Having sophisticated pictures (bokeh? yeah that'll make it look fancy. Not a lot of noise (as is the case for pics taken in low light)? that's another something). In a fantastic way, it is actually the best way to advertise the phone -- the photos people take do it for you! You see your friend's great low-light pics, and you realize your phone can't do that. That's like one of the few remaining forces to compel you to invest into a phone: a phone being a device that's increasingly becoming a commodity for its lack of distinguishing factors.

I wonder what will be the next area of war for phone manufacturers ... maybe AR/VR? Finally wireless charging that works well? Finally battery that can last days (of semi-active use) instead of hours?
Haven't the faintest. I don't speak Haskell, 's why I asked.

I'd thought pureness was a property of function definitions, irrespective of what they get passed, but living in Javascript land I've never had occasion to be concerned with the distinction. I kind of suspect it's not really something that's useful to talk about.
That sounds pretty much just like web application development, or any other front-end user-facing development. You can verify internal components through testing, but once you introduce non-deterministic random variables like browser software your user is using, and your user's themselves, all you can do is validate the entire system through real-world testing and hope you've covered the edge cases you need to handle and will fail gracefully for the ones you missed.
I'm not sure what you mean, given the mobx project has existed as mobservable for quite some time.
You've been able to buy SD and MicroSD raid devices for a while.

Here's one with a SATA interface: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Del-10-x-Micro-SD-TF-Memory-C...

Here's one with a USB interface: http://alfa-media.com/products/tf%20raid.html

I've never used one, but they look scary.
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The Minimig should be right your alley then, hardware wise (FPGA that recreates the actual Amiga hardware).
PropType support is pretty iffy, see e.g. https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/1833#issuecomment-1...
That's very interesting, and frankly very brave. Library and dependency management is pure hell on every level with C/C++, either due to runtime library and linking issues or just header nightmares.

I still can't get over how windows.h by default redefines "min" and "max". And it's just plain impossible without the experimental modules support to safely wrap that. This is really one of the big day to day annoyances, and now they've pushed modules back...
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As an aside, I have seen that grant cycle given to new grad students by a senior researcher as the way things are actually done. And I can't say I actually disagree.
I agree. Well, for the most part edutainment Youtube videos are pretty much the opposite of entertaining for me. Irritating? But I agree Scott Alexander's essay length is an issue.

I read SSC, and like it, but an editor would improve him. I think his superfans are very entertained by his lame jokes, and like his particular voice, so extra length is more of what they want, even if it doesn't contain much new information. For me, its OK, but if the essays could be 20% shorter with the about the same content, it would bump him up in my list.
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The point I was trying to make is that if you have actuators running MISRA C that are going to be driven by something written in Tensorflow, does it still makes sense to have a requirement to use MISRA C in the first place for the low level part ?
The UAE has a lot more solar irradiance and also has cheap empty land, unlike the UK.
What do you think generates more clicks and thus more ad revenue, a dramatization of occurring events or the actual truth?
This, this, so much this.

We owe it to our users to provide all of them with a good experience. We also owe it to ourselves to write good, clean, maintainable applications. The wonder of it is that very, very often if we write RESTful apps then progressive enhancement just falls out naturally: a GET request with some JSON Accept header will return data; with text/html it'll return data, and possibly a form to update it; a POST with some JSON Content-Type will DTRT, and so will one with application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data.

Why wouldn't one do that?

Of course, the user experience of such an app isn't as great as a singing, dancing single-page app (SPA). But a user experience is better than no user experience, which is what offering only an SPA provides.

It's just sloppy to require JavaScript and CSS to use a web site. It's particularly sloppy when that web site is composed of documents.
The local office manager was a successful wow guild leader, and he does put it into his resume and bio :) (not sure if it actually helped him land the job).
This is true, but it's almost never structured as "just do the work". If anything, it's the opposite framing: do a little bit, just this one isolated task, and see the progress you make.

Pressfield's "do the work" annoys me, because it undervalues the importance of energy and a goal. It's a great approach to make reliable progress and fight distraction, but it's badly inadequate to the task of creating activity in the first place.
And btw it would be very interesting if anybody from the US would like to write a little bit about the role of 18F - I am not sure that I understand things right, but it seems to be a very interesting concept of governmental IT services.

How is this agency perceived? How does it work out in practice? How are things coordinated? Anything would be appreciated!

Thanks!
For just playing mp3s, I like https://cmus.github.io/
> Personally I would kind of like if there was an Amiga case that fit the mini ITX form factor and a graphics card. Not sure if the constraints for that would work out, but it would be awesome to have a full fledged gaming PC in an Amiga case.

It should be possible the DIY-way, but the biggest problem is going to be air flow to cool things down. The Amiga had passive cooling and you'd need a lot more openings in the case to handle the heat generated by a modern motherboard and GPU card.
This sounds like good advice if your goal is to make a good impression.

As an attendee though, those aren't my goals. I want to hear questions from the audience and maybe ask them myself.

I'm at the conference, in large part, because I the presenter is talking about something so new that I can't find it widely on the internet or because the presenter can explain it better in person. In those cases questions make a big difference.
Nobody in their right mind would have thousands of photos with no backup, but most people never backup anything.
> "just get it frickin done" attitude

Jessica Livingston, in a recent interview with Sam Altman [0], said that she believes determination is the #1 trait for startup founder success (over intelligence etc). I don't think it's a stretch to say the same applies to very early employees.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFOC-cgIWaY
"Poor" is relative since apparently workers in Norway earn more per capita than any other nation. A quick search indicates you guys earn something like 55% more than workers in France or Britain. So you could feel pretty poor relative to your neighbors and still bring in significantly more than the average in even affluent countries.

A quick search also indicates that your gas is 25% more expensive than France or Britain, and more importantly that your electric car incentives are so absurd that your politicians are beginning to roll them back. No taxes, no tolls, no ferry charges, no parking fees, free use of bus lanes. Electric cars there are cheaper than equivalent gas powered cars, because the taxes are ~50% of the cost. Yeah, with incentives like that, I'd probably own an electric car, too. I'm not sure this counts as an electric car revolution so much as a government handout, though. If the government subsidized 50% of the price of Fords, you'd probably see their sales skyrocket but no one would really call that a revolution.

Tesla is definitely a status symbol, though. The fact that Audi drivers moved to Tesla didn't dispute that because Audi is also a status symbol. Volvo to a lesser extent.
SSL won't do any good against a nation-state with a CA key, so it won't do any good against JavaScript injection by such a state.
Where can I get the source for these to look at them? I'd like to know why they are all so long.
Jakarta be kidding me-Google gets $400m tax bill from Indonesia
That's what people buy - whatever is in the carrier store and whatever they see on TV ads. Besides isn't there a monthly plan most carriers offer?

I mean with Project Fi the Pixel phones could be a equally attractive deal for Regular Joe but they would still have to advertise it heavily and offer better value through extended updates.
I think the simple answer is that it is not easy. To start, rigorous design processes with risk analysis upfront are certainly necessary, as are well-defined operational contexts for the autonomous functionality, and a very disciplined approach to clearly defining safety-critical subsystems and minimizing their surface area.

There's a surprising amount of work in the literature that serves as a guide for using neural networks in safety-critical contexts, e.g., http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2156661 and http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=582141.
I'm a startup guy so of course I understand this, but on the other hand accessibility is one of those things that takes practice and know-how, so if you never do it of course it seems like this giant mountain to climb. However if you make it a priority, it's not 80% of the work, more likely it influences how you do things, so maybe you spend 20% more effort and end up with a little less whiz-bang. There is a cost, but we shouldn't paint it as an insurmountable thing. This is why we have the ADA, so that people with disabilities don't have to go through life as second-class citizens.
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It would be nice to have a public group that I could try out without having to sign up. I wanted to checkout the HN group but I don't want to go through the hassle of signing up.
Sure, that's an issue with Haskell - much better to use Idris.
Conceivably, you could have empirical evidence for multiple universes, at which point the anthropic principle becomes a normal explanation. Until then, obvious it remains a bit of a non-explanation.
Your view seems to be from someone who hasn't used Dart extensively, because no one who had would minimize its advantages this way. Being different from JS is the whole point. Dart introduces all the advantages of TS and more, while leaving the baggage and bullshit of JS behind.
>Pure functions exist under Plato's Theory of the Form conception of the world, but not on a fixed and finite physical computer

In the same vein you can say that C is a Turing complete language (i.e. you can use C to simulate a Turing machine), so there can be no complete implementation of C on a computer because no computer can simulate a Turing machine (since real computers are only state machines, which are inferior to Turing machines).

When talking about computer-science terms like "pure function" or "turing complete" things tend to stay a lot more sane if you just assume that even in the real world you will not run out of memory (just as a lot of programming stays more sane under that assumption).
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You have it right when you focus on the fact that this is a massive challenge.

The point isn't to create new monetary supply. This money is going somewhere, but how do we channel it to something as fundamental and positive as green investments?

This may look easy on the surface, but of course the devil is in the details. If the money is going somewhere then it will be taken away from somewhere. So, environmental policy must be balanced against economic policy, i.e. higher gas prices because of less in oil subsidies.

What I find promising is that the conversation has evolved beyond, "if we should do this," to "how we must do this."
I agree, that among other things, one should make it dependent on how the user interacts with the service.

In think it makes perfect sense that apps like Slack, New Relic, etc. are SPAs. But in news/blog type sites for example, it often leads to worse user experience in my opinion. A lot of traffic (and for some sites probably the majority) is external, directly pointing to an article.

In that case, I rather have a full page reload when i happen to click on a related article after reading than watching a spinner for second(s) every time I land on their page somehow.
rsc's code is using /acme from https://github.com/xenolf/lego (same thing?)
I coded in emacs for 20+ years and switched to clion last year for c++ work because of things like "good autocompletion" and "refactoring" and "warning about issues before compiling". Emacs has minimal autocompletion facilities, but for ideological reasons it does not and may never have many of the other features.

I still use emacs for non-coding text editing, and sometimes for python code and emergencies, but I've moved away from it big time.

p.s. please fix your formatting, that quote is unreadable.
> It is the whole point of SSL that there are not any [middleman proxies].

Hahahahahaha, you should do stand-up!

In my more cynical moments, I wonder if the whole point of SSL is to obscure when middleman proxies are in use.

Seriously, examine your browser's trusted CA list. Do you really trust every single one of those CAs to vouch for any website in the world?
Anyone try this at work? Would love to hear how it went.
The federal government provides a tax credit for 30% of project cost for solar and wind.
Unfortunately, this tax credit is non-refundable, meaning it can only be used to reduce your tax liability.

This effectively means that in order to do large-scale renewable energy projects, you must have backing from a large, profitable company to take advantage of the tax credit.
This is called tax equity investing, and it's a big money-maker for giants like Goldman Sachs, Berkshire Hathaway, Bank of America, Google, etc.
ROI for tax equity investing is amazing, like 20% annual rates of return.
But the entire structure shuts out small players, non-profits, and government entities.

The tax credit is phasing out over the next 7 years, and the hope is that solar will then be profitable enough to be developed without tax incentives.
But until then, investment is limited by companies with large tax liabilities.
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Will they kill more than 16000 per year? Because that's how many it would take to make it worse than today, even assuming that self-driving cars only halve the current numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
Your definition of poor definitely doesn't conflate with mine (I'm from South America).

If they can afford "super-cool trips" (even on a shoestring), they're definitely not poor.
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Each of those 20 people have lives and families. Not producing by whose measurement? Who defines that ,they were obviously hired for a particular job and have been doing it for a while and pretty well if they weren't fired before.

I wonder how much help Twitter is giving them in looking for their next jobs.
No. Put a monolith behind a loadbalancer and every function/route inside that monolith will be scalable. This goes until the time you need to break up in services. Can-be faster, sure, but usually is not (text vs binary).
Yeah it's a busy app for sure; lots of things to do (did you take a look at the plugin store?) and discover - and I agree: some of it could use some more love with regard to design.

We wanted a playful look for the app, hence its colorfulness. Maybe we took it a little too far?
I think OP was referring to the company making that amount, not profit or his own personal salary (if any).
I think Amazon is a bit of a special case, since they use physical scale for their advantage. That's not the case for most other tech companies.

Amazon is the digital equivalent of Walmart. You cannot beat them on their terrain, the only solution is to come up with an idea that customers like more, so that they'll switch even for higher prices and longer delivery.
Debatable.
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