skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary - they've usually raced headfirst into abandoning old technologies for the hot new thing (early to have only CD and no floppy, early to get rid of CD drive altogether, early to go to USB-C, early to go to 802.11ac, etc.) They've used their weight to create a one-company network effect for up-and-coming standards and technology.
Many automobiles actually have started using numbers instead of a radial gauge. It has even been suggested it actually prompts drivers to speed less when they can see they are doing 74 in digital rather than convincing themselves the needle is resting on 70.
The host's flora is wiped out with antibiotics before the transpant occurs.

Also, diversity has "the strongest links with visceral fat", it isn't the only parameter linked with obesity (visceral or not).
Computer Vision Syndrome
I am not saying that this is necessarily what happens at Apple (I know nothing about it), but mind you that in big corporations there is sometimes rivalry between departments. Technologies are sometimes both tools and collateral damage.
I wonder if what good we see in capitalism is just the period of it when there's plenty of low hanging fruit for everbody.

What I mean is, we could praise a system where any guy can buy a cheap house, renovate it and call it his own. Now, take it to its logical conclusion and you'll soon have agents with access to credit leveraging all the capital to acquire every single flipable house out there and extracting maximum rent out of the people who would have got them renovated themselves in less "efficient" times.
I'm pessimistic too. However, the labour cost is so huge that it will offset some of your points and only give a slight edge to repair and second hand shops.

If you don't have a top of the range, almost new fridge or TV, even phone, repair will almost always come close to replacement cost. And replacement give you back a 2 years guarantee with faster turnaround.
> It's like emotional sharecropping. You are building your ego on someone else's land.

Nicely put.
> When what you're doing is simple but error prone

That just means the problem is deeper than your understanding of it.
Overall I like Swift and it's certainly a massive quality of life improvement for Mac/iOS devs.

But I don't see as much upside for enterprise development. Server side tooling and deployment is still TBD, reference counting adds non-negligible cognitive overhead vs GC in an environment where the downsides of GC matter much less. They will have to build a complete ecosystem of server-side libraries from scratch. And unlike on iOS/OSX, there are already a lot of good and much more mature alternatives.

I wouldn't be unhappy if Swift became a real contender on the server but it seems unlikely to me that it will.
For the curious, there are many other stabs at doing functional programming in C++:

https://github.com/beark/ftl

https://github.com/BartoszMilewski/Okasaki

https://github.com/fons/functional-cpp

https://cat.github.io/

There is a lot of interest in making this happen in C++, which is awesome.
>just to get one which will rinse properly
Much easier to do what I do - run the rinse cycle a 2nd time.
Property is a feature of natural law, which exists before government. But some governments encode the natural law into the legal framework.

Well without property rights, the entire human race wouldn't have left the hunter-gatherer phase, so property is not the root of the problem.
Do you know of any AI's being written by predominately black teams?
Your two advanced questions are answered on SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6246719/what-is-a-higher-...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27190934/implementation-f...

These are only two questions of many on these topics.
The Strange Victorian Computer That Generated Latin Verse
That lawsuit would be in a civil court, with civil lawyers and actual judges. Not a room full of round-robin corporate laywers.

My comment was not about whether it would be successful. My question was whether it provided the means to initiate a lawsuit.
> Not only can I not find the answer from SO at this point, but if I find the answer on my own I can't even help others.

If you want to helps others; post an answer, a comment (if it is a minor correction to an existing answer).

If you can't post an answer or if the question is not the exact duplicate; ask a new question:

- describe your specific problem

- link to the duplicate (the back link is created automatically but you can also add a comment under the duplicate question explicitly if you'd like)

- describe how it is different, how exactly existing answers have failed for you (what behaviour did you expect; what did you get instead, step by step)

If you follow https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve then your question will be better than most questions already (and even if it might be closed as a duplicate; it would attract additional attention—if the question is the exact duplicate you could also create a bounty: it is unlikely to help with difficult questions but it would also attract some attention).
A dev can simply have a few divs updated in real time to match these canvas elements.
Could you explain - can windows server run linux images and other way around?
What about speed?
I never even STARTED contributing to Stack Overflow, because of the high barrier to entry for new users. Since now you essentially can't post a question without answering several yourself, I didn't bother asking questions about certain thorny technical issues. I tried a couple of times, ran into the barrier, and gave up. Maybe some of these could have been the kind of thought-provoking questions that the blog post's author would have enjoyed. Who knows how many other would-be Stack Overflow users have had a similar experience. Could Stack Overflow be cutting off its own long tail by having such restrictive barriers to entry for casual, minor would-be contributors like myself?

Fortunately, many of the questions I've needed help with have already asked and answered by others on S.O. But I've had to find help for my more exotic questions elsewhere.
A recent meta-analysis came out and claimed to show that we don't have evidence right now for a link between obesity and what we've measured so far about the human microbiome [0].

I can imagine a regime where two people with the same diet but with very different bacterial communities would have different health outcomes. It toally makes sense to me that if you have bacteria that are better at breaking down long fats into absorbable molecules, that you'd be getting more effective calories from the same food compared to someone without those bacteria. In fact, this has been shown to work in mice in 2006 [1].

However, in the real world, you aren't living in a sterile cage. You can sample bacteria from the environment and your microbiome is allowed to change in response to your diet. It's possible that in this regime, your diet impacts your microbiome much more than your microbiome impacts the outcome of your diet.

[0](http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/4/e01018-16) - Looking For a Signal in the Noise - Revisiting Obesity and the Microbiome Sze and Schloss, mBio 2016

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/nature05... An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest Turnbaugh et. al., Nature 2006
His main advice is to just "flow" on your own natural interests and success will come.

The problem is that many people's interests have zero business potential. As technical people, we tend to have pipe dreams about what computers could achieve. Lone wolf AI directions, weird functional programming styles, utilities based on incredibly niche processing, continuing retro computing interests, custom OSes, etc.

Sure, some people have interests that happen to align with a commercially exploitable audience, but "pursue your interest" is not a globally applicable direction to recommend starting a business venture. Flexibility within your interest will not help you swing a profit if your interest isn't widely shared.
Yeah, green cabs are much more common in BK than Queens - higher concentration of nightlife and such. Hit up Williamsburg on a going-out night and see the traffic jams full of green cabs.

Concentration of green cabs scales with gentrification - Brooklyn has gentrified to a greater degree than Queens.
"Swift is intended as a replacement for C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C). "

Taken from https://swift.org/about/

"Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages."

Taken from https://developer.apple.com/swift/
I really like Firefox with uBlock origin.
T Bone Burnett Goes on Anti-Free Streaming Warpath at Americana Fest Panel
Sounds like a luxury not granted to, for instance, Central America under CAFTA.

Edit: Fixed typo.
Software developers.
While in a rental between moves I bought a very cheap ($50), used Maytag. Made in the USA, just over 20 years ago. That thing was built like a tank. They lady who sold it had raised 8 kids. This was her first and only washer to date and it never needed a repair - or so I was told. She replaced it because her adult kids bought her a fancy new LG washer for her birthday. After hauling this tank to my apartment and trying it out - it worked great! Much better than our Bosch front load that we sold before moving. It worked so good I was tempted to take it on the next leg of our move. I give it 2 years before that lady would pay to get her old washer back. In about that long I'll wish I had brought it with me.

I'm sick of disposable products. I have a small collection of "broken" things that I don't have time to get to. If they were built with repair in mind I think they'd be fixed by now, but I'm not sure that laws will get us there. One can hope.
Honestly I think you're fine right now. Think of this initial run as a market test. If you end up selling out your entire stock, tell friends and family that you need a small loan and work with someone domestic to get your enclosure done.

Polycase might be a good place to start once you sell out. They sell generic cases and will quote you on modifications to their existing USB case.

After that (if you continue to sell out), you're probably a real business. Keep the domestic machine running and hop over to China to explore driving costs down. Probably explore what type of software/service might complement your hardware to drive recurring revenue. Create custom single unit packaging and bulk delivery packaging for consumer selling and business selling.
It's not about having someone to sue it's about attracting blame.

Blame assignment isn't really about who made good decisions, or who worked hard, or any of that, it's a combination of how bad it went and who made uncommon choices:

common choice + failure = external blame (who could have seen it coming?)

uncommon choice + failure = it's your fault for doing it weird

common choice + success = great job!

uncommon choice + success = I don't trust you, but you might be a genius

Since hierarchical relationships function using blame ("responsibility"), making predictable decisions becomes more important than making good decisions at some depth of hierarchy.
Impressive! It works really well. Has anyone set it up with ctrlp in vim? I have `rg %s --files --color=never`, which works, but shows an empty white line at the prompt, so I need to use a cursor to jump to the desired file.
Fair enough. The point I was (trying) to make is that Swift doesn't have a traditional GC like Java, or Javascript, etc.
Can you predict what your C compiler with going to do with your code, taking into account UB and compiler specific implementation behaviors not specified by ANSI C?
Biggest problem on SO is the constant need by the moderators to mark a question as 'not a question', when it's actually a really question and gets a lot of good answers.
Especially pathetic are the blockers that continue to discuss the people they blocked.
A alternative approach could be taxing garbage. Perhaps inevitable once sensors become pervasive and cheap enough. Too some extent this is already done and enforced for disposing of blatantly dangerous things. In some cases you could end up in prison in addition to fines, if caught. The more subtle things that add up to a big problem have been given a lot of leeway.

Right now it is profitable for many parties to extract non-renewable resources, assemble them in to something that has a short life cycle, and be sold to consumers who would rather keep buying the same thing over and over again than a single time. There have been big incentives on the government side for hitting GDP numbers, which has led to both low interest rates and an urgency to extract and process non-renewable resources as quickly as possible. Capital utilization numbers certainly doesn't account for any of this and very well exacerbate the problem.

I don't want to confuse cause and effect here, but the consumption of low quality products directly relates to the volume which they are produced. The actual costs have just been transferred to the future. In the future there will be both fewer resources to produce those goods and more pollution/ecosystem effects to account for it.

At Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder meeting this year Charlie Munger specifically said he thought all petrochemical reserves would be eventually exhausted to make things, not for fuel (there was a specific word he used which I never use and forgot.) Billionaires are thinking about resource exhaustion. Poor, uneducated people are not, unless they are still in hunter-gatherer societies and see problems first hand.

We often think of food and bio-products as renewables, but in many cases they are not. National Geographic (August 2016) ran a great article on the exhaustion of the Ogallala aquifer. California gets a lot of attention, but ground water is being drained globally. Longer term, there may be limits with phosphorus as well. Food production is going to become a lot more expensive, global warming or not.

I don't know about the returns, but Al Gore's Generation Investment Management philosophically probably has the right approach.

The flipside to all of this is that technology can make using the same resources much more efficient. My leading theme for the past 5+ years or so has been exponentially more efficient technology running head on in to global government policies -- of all political leanings -- of creating GDP growth at all costs. The two don't mix, and the results could be very ugly.
"Find out how to actually work your employees"

I wonder why they called it "Kickidler", was "Sweatshop" already taken?
Ninety percent of the time it works every time!

(Jokes on HN fail about 90% of the time, which is a shame because yours is subtle and has been missed)
If a new bacteria can out compete the others out of existence, then it makes sense.
I have to admit that possibility did cross my mind shortly after I posted my sibling comment. That said, I've never actually seen it used that way (only ever "lb")
Maybe some questions are just not "too broad" but simply broad, and that one may wish to have a number of possible solutions to a problem and pick the one that fits one's case best ("one" being possibly someone else in the future that has a not precisely similar but close enough problem that the set of proposed solutions can help in finding the right path).

So maybe, just maybe a slightly broad question with a couple answers may be better that an theoretically ideal set of a thousand (question, answer) tuples each trying to fit a very restricted case. Unfortunately some mods seem hell-bent on promoting the latter, possibly in hope of writing bots that solve-by-Google (see stacksort[0]).

[0]: https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
Not sure, but they are already making J9 modular and using its JIT and GC for their own implementations of Python and Ruby.

So I would say IBM is scattering their eggs across multiple baskets.
The government is deeply entangled in the housing market, playing both sides of the ball.

On the supply side, government imposes zoning rules, building permitting, building codes, setbacks, height limits, etc. All these lead to a tightening of supply and an increase in price. Some can lead to corruption, such as if the permitting process is too restrictive and results in bribes & kickbacks to the officials in charge.

The government boosts the demand side as well through Fed policy first, which artificially lowers interest rates. Then there are all sorts of housing policies that encourage home ownership with eased lending standards, better loan terms, etc. That boosts demand and increases price.

So you're talking about Prop 13, but I'm talking about the overall picture.
> Yes, other communities have similar problems, but never have I been a member of a community where bullying and trolling was so common among the most privileged segments of its membership.

This strikes me as a key point that went unaddressed in the reply article. Yes, trolling is a standard feature of the internet. Yes, ignoring it is the right thing to do. But most places, trolling means an anonymous or throwaway account was rude, and will probably be removed/downvoted on any moderated site.

On Stack Overflow, we're frequently talking about reputable power users mocking novices, and being rewarded for that behavior. When a novice programmer shows up and is promptly insulted by someone with a decade more experience, something has gone terribly wrong.

Obviously something has to be done to help control the tide of "fix my voodoo code" posts that come through, but right now the 'cure' is largely insulting non-answers from major users. That's a terrible, antisocial way to address the problem.
I've had long turnarounds (other than the artificial punchcard hell that is really just economics surfaced by IT budgets) in many projects. The ones that come to mind:

- Burning EPROMs for the hardware bring-up of a consumer 68000 machine. Download and burn time for six EPROMs was well over 45 minutes. Things got better when we wrote a downloader, but initial bring-up was kind of painful for a couple of months.

- An unbelievably crappy and development-hostile environment for set-top boxes. Getting 900K of code to a device could take 20-30 minutes, and the transfers often just abjectly failed. "Working as designed" said the people running the head-end. If you wonder why set-top-box software sucks so hard, this is one of the reasons. The whole TV industry is a fractal of shitty practices. Not that I'm bitter. [I did a work-around that let us do dynamic code loading over a different pipe that we theoretically weren't supposed to use "for network stability purposes" and got a biiig bonus after our team's productivity went way up]

- Game development using a cross-assembler on a minicomputer,. The mini was also used as the department's email and office memo system. 45 minutes during the day turned into less than 5 minutes at night, so you can imagine the hours I kept.

- Working on some Windows internals, the less said about this, the better.

The common thread: When bad decisions and designs were institutionalized, things never got better. When it was possible for individuals to improve things, they did.
More context would have been useful here, such as if this was a server-side product (even though you probably understandably can't disclose.)

Swift is great for client-side work, but I wouldn't use it on the server. Each tool good for a certain job. Our current stack is Swift on the client, Elixir on the server, and I haven't been happier.
The fact one has to convey a thought over multiple tweets shows the stupidity of the limit.
Researchers Find ‘Severe’ Security Hole in iOS 10 Backup
IBM's BlueBix et al was a direct result of the purchase of Rackspace, which was strategic buy to hedge against the growth market of Amazon and it's bazillion EC2-esque offerings. (Likely in response to seeing Amazon's success, almost strategically similar to why Azure and Google's App Service or whatever exist.)

They're still making money hand over fist in maintenance keeping the mainframes up (your state's DMV won't move off MVS/zOS as long as support for their old JCL/REXX stuff is still available, especially those 'cheap' z13s which come in at under 100k) but that's an entirely different tier of customer.
mostly reads != just reads

Think mutiple fulfillment centers changing state orders as they are shipped. Read mostly, write a little.
I really like this idea. I collect old videogame consoles, so I'm pretty used to paying Ebay for nostalgia. However, I wonder if old electronics are much less efficient and end up using more electricity - thus actually causing more harm to the environment than a newer but more disposable plastic model.
> While the Docker tools, control APIs and image formats are the same on Windows and Linux, a Docker Windows container won’t run on a Linux system and vice-versa.
As of 2010 there were two Muslims in the US Congress. There were also two or three Buddhists. (The number varies by source, I think because of confusion over how to categorize Soka Gakkai.) There were nine "Unspecified", which is probably what you'd put down if you were an atheist.

It is certainly helpful, and perhaps required, to be Christian (some flavor of Protestant, specifically) in many parts of the US if you want to be electable, but it is not as much of a political death sentence as is widely believed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_St...

Intriguingly, the WP articles on more recent Congresses don't have the religious demographics easily accessible. I'm not sure if that's just a Wikipedia thing or if the data isn't being reported.
Well you sound like you are anti-immigration.
Your credditcard/bank account can be frozen by the government. Bitcoin can't.
Most often a Google Apps email address.
Can you elaborate on the cognitive overhead vs a GC language like golang or java? (With regards to memory)

To me sure there is things you think about but generally memory performance is less of a mental burden.

Also, swift 4 is supposed to support a rust like memory model. Not sure if it's opt in or how it will work but my impression is that it's memory model is about to support some new use cases to make it appropriate for more memory critical tasks.
> though they only filter on a country wide basis and not remove content for everyone else)

And that is a very critical difference.

Censorship happens on many platforms, but when that censorship is being done to journalists the violations are particularly egregious.
Working on a big existing codebase is a different scenario too, since adding in Swift either means rewriting the whole thing, or convincing two very different languages to work together. And I imagine that's magnified for Apple's store code, which appears to have the unfortunate combination of receiving a metric buttload of traffic and being held together with baling twine and chewing gum.

I'd speculate that "not production ready" is at least partly rationalization or cover for "we really can't afford to screw around with this codebase, even though this is the company's Big New Thing."
One thing I love about SO: that second question has only seen ~20 votes, but it still has a detailed and thoughtful response to a subtle question. I'm constantly impressed by how niche a topic can be and still get a really solid answer.
Same thing happened when I wanted to know how to convert private method to public in Ruby. Yeah, that's not what people usually do (and not what they should do) but I really needed to know. The reason was laughable, "unclear question" even though it was perfectly clear what were my intentions.