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So, this is a map of the countries that the US won't be invading? :-)

HHOS, Merry Christmas.
Extensive discussion 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13242046
You're trying to do some sort of pop-psych/pop-social analysis of hypothetical aliens, which I don't think will be a fruitful excercise.

It's pretty clear that the "drones" the GGP is referring to are self-replicating autonomous machines, which could, with a relatively extremely small initial mass-energy investment, visit every solar system in the galaxy in a matter of megayears. It doesn't require leadership or social approval or whatever you're talking about; anyone with technology marginally more advanced than what we have could do it with the equivalent of a few tens of billion dollars of machinery. The more advanced you are, the cheaper it gets. It's very odd that we haven't seen anything like that yet.
This hyperproductivity might only be advisable in small doses and only when one is young (under 30 if not under 25) Then it has a small chance of leading to some "greater" utilitarian good (ie you become next Elon Musk)

As I get older I realize how little time I have left. There are myriad of things I will never get to do no matter how hyper organized I get.

The worst realization is that there is no real time to master something new when you are older past the age of 40. You can fake it by setting lower goalposts but that feels deeply unsatisfactory.

Only solution is to enjoy the present (family, friends, my existing skills, a good book, a game, etc) as there is no real success in the end (the pieces all go in the same box).
So is it time to buy a phone instead of my OnePlus One as it won't be updated anymore?
Well you gave the answer. This was the way my maths teacher taught us about why 0 is a curious number.
Who's going to make sure LineageOS users get security updates in a timely manner? Is anyone going to be paid to work on it?

Any large OSS distribution is going to have a fairly continuous stream of security fixes to ship to their users, and that takes a fair amount of time, and I'm always concerned about whether any new project (okay—it's not quite new, but they have a fraction of the number of developers they did twelve months ago!) has the resources to ship them in a timely way.
Funny they'd use that quote of Andy Rubin, like it means anything nowadays.

https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/772592323112869888
You're preaching to the choir about the superiority of static type systems, but your argument was about imperative vs/ functional, not dynamic vs/ strong.

GADT's and composition are trivial to achieve with imperative languages.
Well, if you have nukes, other countries largely leave you alone. I'm sure that's just a coincidence, though. (/s)

Now, why a country would need enough to "boil the oceans" (not literally, but just to get the point across), that's perhaps another matter.
Is using Javascript on the back end really a positive thing? There isn't really a choice on the front end.
OnePlus (One) hasn't been really updated well at all, Both Cyanogen and Oxygen OS builds were late and filled with problems.
That was true pretty much out of the gate.

The newer phones come with Oxygen OS or w/e they call it now and at least get some sort of periodic update.
A good point. The official reply of course is that the list is concerned with makers of nuclaer weapons, not with where they happen to be situated, even if the latter is also interesting to know. In the more narrow sense of which countries can make nukes, this list is probably broadly accurate, if maybe a bit high on the actual numbers.

Beyond the excursion to Cuba, I don't know of USSR weapons going outside of the union border, and I haven't heard of China offering their weapons to another sovereign country, so such a list would mostly differ by naming where the US has plonked down its arsenal, and maybe some former USSR state that opted to keep the weapons that were in its borders at the time.
Just call it libation without inclination.
The supply of professionals is influenced by corporations and, well, capitalists so much, that it's almost impossible to have very well paid jobs lasting a long time.
The energy requirements are proportional to the beaming angle, so if we assume FRBs to be beamed, then the energy required decreases significantly. For example assuming a beam of 10 deg^2, this would give a reduction of a factor 648.
Lovely story and message.
Django is a framework, Wordpress is a CMS. Django aims to be able to build pretty much any web application, Wordpress aims to make it easy to add and display content.

I'd use Wordpress when building simple websites that serve as landing pages or blogs. If the main use for the site is showing some basic static info that never changes or the owner coming in, writing a few articles and clicking save, then Wordpress might be a good fit.

I'd use Django when building more complex websites and web applications where a CMS just doesn't fit due to the complexity of the logic, functionality or data. For example you might build an inventory management system with Django since it can have complex business logic and the data doesn't really fit a blog format. You might build an online store with Django, since you need to model and handle logic for products, inventory, payments, customers and such.
i think the drones have a major problem - namely motivating themselves to keep on going. 'wetware' has self preservation instincts, these aren't too rational, but it keeps us going.

might just as well be: they manage to build the drones, but the drones don't go on or the power gets turned off.
The question is what will ensure the continual non-profitness of lineageOS?

The problem is two fold:

1. Get maintainers.
2. Make sure that the high ranking individuals can't just "take the ball and go home", and (however unpopular this opinion may be here), GPL is the only way to ensure that they will never be able to sell out ever again.

And especially after the CM/CyanogenOS/Focal/Paranoid Android situation, private ROMs seem to be too much of an "aquihire" risk.
I find this quite exciting, not because I hope for a signal from an intelligent civilization, but because it might point to some new phenomenon.

When pulsars were discovered, they dubbed them LGM-1, LGM-2 etc for "little green men", (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21 ). The radio signals turned out to have a perfectly "normal" source, with exciting new properties.

There's always the off chance this time, it's actually caused by "LGM", but for now we should think of these signals as an observation that needs an explanation, not as caused by an alien civilization.
The name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
Wow, this was a really interesting explanation. I think this is perfectly appropriate for junior school while the explanation about non-converging limits offerred above by someone is well suited to college students.
Burge school of functional programming
The article is about moving beyond car ownership, not the absence of cars themselves.
True - I liked that it had some points to think about and a few insights, but it is fairly heavy-handed.

Just finished Cumulus as a similar recommendation to the Circle and hated it. It made the Circle look wonderfully nuanced in comparison. Characters frequently recapped previous chapters, every implication and inference was enumerated explicitly in great detail, etc. essentially no thinking required.
You're comparing two different metrics. Your source talks about household income, which is generally a measure of two primary incomes. You're comparing a single income to two incomes.

whatsmypercent.com utilizes some good datasets to build out income percentiles. They suggest that $100k/year puts in the the 96% percentile. The 80% percentile starts around $42k/year.

That being said, it is kind of a long tail situation, due to the effects of wealth inequality in this country. The 99% percentile starts at $193k/year.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted just for dissenting. I don't want HN to be another damn Reddit echo chamber. Lots of criticisms of popular things are valid. I thought we were just having a civil discussion, but now I'm angry BECAUSE you got downvoted lol

But I would still like to see any evidence from you if you'd like
I think they mean something that not obviously generated by an algorithm, or that could plausibly be judged as hand drawn, or that looks similar to things that have been hand drawn.
Sounds like a suggestion to build a single-source closed vendor-lockin online system, much like early for-pay bbs systems or similar like compuserve. If the internet was built to this suggestion, it probably wouldn't even exist anymore by now as it would have flopped. Or at least limited to a particular country and for especially interested technical users. Terrible :(
Or, alternatively, they just say "Hmm, this functional programming stuff doesn't seem very interesting or useful at all. Totally overhyped. Well, back to working with Blub."

"Functional" JavaScript is better than regular JavaScript in the same way that bloodletting is better than homeopathy; not much. Perhaps you've fallen into the same trap I'm talking about; do you think you're reaping any significant benefit from functional programming when you apply these sorts of practices to your JavaScript code?
For now. Where I live, and in some other cities I've visited in the Great Lakes Region (like Pittsburgh or Cleveland), people are increasingly moving back to the downtown areas. For now it's primarily young people, but the difference is that it's a lot of young people, and the jobs and shops are following. Now this is not a dramatic change, but it is a change. I think it has the potential to turn into an increasing amount of people moving into the urban cores of cities that were previously car-only.
The original article from which this excerpt came was posted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249976

As per HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Although I do understand the PA devs, as they _do_ need to get paid, and Android OS dev is not easy,
Repeats the standard "encourages diversity of opinion" message that is simply not true. The electoral college system undermines that as you only need minority support in the correct locations, and gives excessive weight to areas with lower populations. Areas with lower populations are inherently more homogeneous in terms of beliefs/political opinions etc (see the overwhelming majority of votes in one direction in states with lower population).

That said, even the "gives smaller states a voice" is nonsense as the goal of geographic representation is explicitly provided by the senate. Seats in the senate are provided on a state basis, not a population basis. The _only_ portion of the US government that has any semblance of a democracy in the traditional sense is congress which is intended to be proportional to population size. However the ability for political parties to vigorously gerrymander kind of reduces that.

More opinionated: A dual vote system: party vote + individual member vote does a good job of breaking gerrymandering and is also a provably more fair method of voting, but i'm sure that every elected official that benefits from it will push back against it because "the founders!"
could you please point me towards some good resources to get started with clojurescript?
Cuba's First Computer Factory to Make 120K Units per Year
Ask HN: Realtime app ideas for side project?
What are some ideas for apps that could be built to become more conversant with near-realtime technologies à la Storm, Kafka, Spark Streaming and the like?

Let's define realtime not as financial index realtime but as responding very quickly to a potentially large number of input events which will be coming in over a network.
Electoral votes = senators + congressmen. All votes from a state goes to winning candidate as it is winner takes all. So Trump won. Does popular vote mean all votes from US tallied together as a whole or is it winner takes all votes from that state and then tally each state? My argument was based on the understanding that its the later one.
A notable exception is Scala's type system, which is pretty expressive. It has been formalized and proven to be sound[0].

[0]: http://scala-lang.org/blog/2016/02/03/essence-of-scala.html
That function might be accurate, but its usage might not be. It's a bold (and possibly incorrect) claim that the software composed of accurate units will not have any bugs.
I don't mean to side-track a very valid point that you are making, but stepping back a little, isn't it amusing that humanity has reached such an advanced state where a strong argument for owning cars is to ship dogs around?

Also, only slightly related, but as someone not owning pets I always find it amusing (again, for lack of better word) to see people in the act of picking up dog-poop (I'm well-aware of the worse immediate alternative of leaving it on the ground). Still, isn't there some irony hidden in these small gestures, given mankind's (otherwise) complete domination of nature? etc. etc. etc.
I've been tinkering over the last few years on something very similar for the CHIP-8: http://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/
> Huh? This is an intercept system, not a weapon.

The gun here is America's nukes. America currently can't really even think about using its nukes because of MAD. With a functioning nuclear defence system, America doesn't have to worry about MAD and can use its nukes without worrying about retribution, which makes them a bigger threat, hence a bigger weapon.
E.g. - invade Afghanistan, but Pakistan is our "ally". Remind me where we found Bin Laden, again?

Our leaders must be able to accurately assess that most of the population is indeed stupid.

Statement stands: if you don't want your country to be the victim of a corporate "smash and grab", build yourself a couple nukes.
Not sure the history in itself is useful but starting from the beginning is probably a good idea.

A solid grounding in logic should come first. Then we can skip quite a few of the blind alleys because there simply isn't time to cover every byway from Pythagoras onwards.

But always the foundations must be solidly built or we end up with people who can crank the handle on the algorithm they have been taught but can't understand what to do when it doesn't apply.
So, if the signature is fixed, why not just write the function and ship it in something like, i don't know, a standard library? ;)
Which one covers the last detail the best?
I agree that the 20-30x greater power consumption is hard to reconcile with the benchmarks I quoted. So, yes, something doesn't make sense; the benchmark is not taking into account something or I don't know what.

> the two numbers you quote are different benchmarks

But I don't agree with explanation. Both benchmarks are "PassMarks" (a proprietary measure devised by that company). I don't see them saying that their PassMarks for desktops are different than their PassMarks for smartphones.
> Any specifics beyond "ADTs", which I assume means Abstract Data Types

No, I meant algebraic data types, although interfaces/typeclasses are great as well.

> If IDEs ever get good enough to do near complete type inference, including reading through partial function application,

I don't use any IDEs, but Haskell does this. I imagine various Haskell plugins do as well.

> and perhaps an "extract/move function" refactoring that converts closures to parameters,

I'm not sure why you want this so much, but it does exist. I've done this exact thing with Idris's interactive UI.

> I've developed a bit of a "cringe" mechanism at the repetitive code that usually comes out of "strongly" typed languages.

If there is one phrase that I would use to describe Haskell, it's "zealously anti-repetitive". If the Haskell community sees you writing the same line of code twice, they'll swoop down and beat you over the head with a well-designed typeclass until you stop repeating yourself.
Also significant is the partial reduction.

Plenty of families don't actually need N cars. They can probably get by with N-1 and summon another when needed.

Also, one car can do multiple errands without a driver, eg drop someone off at work, drop the kids off at school, and then go stage somewhere until needed.
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It will be, and has been implemented in some browsers. The only hiccups were regarding the behavior of stack traces with TCO.
Americans may be over the car but our infrastructure doesn't really agree.
It can't. Just because somebody called moving things around in a mechanical
manner "refactoring", it doesn't mean it's all (or even most) there is to
refactoring.
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At least for grocery-shopping I find that a children's bike trailer can pack a surprisingly large amount of stuff -- of course it is not quite as convenient as a car.
you might want to try lumen(larvel minus view part) created by the same author since you say you want to build API's
The article isn't discussing abandoning of cars because they've gotten more expensive, it's discussing it in the context of public transportation and "last mile logistics" being on everyone's mind now not just the local governments.

In fact, the article explicitly mentions people who do have the luxury of being able to take public transport using cars on the weekends for grocery shopping, just like you mention. And it mentions that in many many parts of America solving the last mile problem isn't anything since people are driving a lot more than a mile.

Please don't judge an article by its headline.
Oh right. What about when the commenter is obviously either astroturfing or responding to the headline alone? Or perhaps you prefer to get your website brigaded?
Now do the same for the Z80 and the Spectrum :D

ORG 40000
LD HL, 50000
LD DE, 16384
LD BC, 2016
LDIR
RET
END 40000
No. Real refactoring involves changing logic of the program and making it more
modular, neither of which can be done by the machine in a general case. What
is behind the link you provided is just mechanically moving things around.
I assume op meant specifically nukes when they said guns
Exactly. I lived outside of the US for fours years and never needed a car. Even though I moved back to a city with public transport, and a single regularly rail line, it pales in comparison to the type of transport available is much of the developed world.

Self-driving cars are a terrible solution. They will ONLY solve the last-mile problem, but not the missing American infrastructure. Russia is larger, less dense and has better public rail infrastructure in terms of both commuter rail within cities and inter-city rail including high speed expansion. The US only has the California high speed system currently being constructed. Nothing else.

I've written about the self-driving car problem before:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...
> If they weren't [aggressively expansionist], why would they bother to go to the trouble of space travel in the first place?

To study us. Intelligent life, and maybe even complex animal life, may be incredibly rare in the universe even if life is common. It may even be so rare that even an aggressively expansionist species might choose not to colonize our system because of the value that might be associated with a natural experiment such as ourselves.
Thats great. My greatest petpeevee is having to keep in mind the language gotchas when all I want to do is get it done.
The article doesn't really focus on algorithms, but rather reward functions. In this case, the evolutionary algorithm has a reward function that tells it which mutations are most useful and therefore should be used to generate new mutations.

This reward function is essentially the same no matter if you do normal reinforcement learning or evolutionary.
Pandigital approximation to e, correct to ~18E24 digits
In Europe entire families usually share just one car. Some cities like Jena, Germany (<100k) have 4 tram lines and three inter-city rail stations (1 that serves a high speed ICE train). That famous city from the song, Chattanooga, no longer has a (functional) passenger rail station at all.
More pandigital approximations in http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/0804.html
To-do lists don't work because they're themselves bureaucratic work that gets in the way to real work. After I cut to-do lists from my life I have a much better time doing real work. Of course I keep notes, but they are not things "to do", they're just information that I may, eventually, need for the really important things I do.
Fracking should help.

/s
This strategy also breaks apart when you have a little more data to be
extracted or when you need to reason about performance. It works when you
mostly need to put your objects somewhere and retrieve them later.
NYT: Silicon Valley Dominating Self-Driving Tech? Motor City Says Not So Fast
Do we only get Chapter 14? It's nice, but it's only 8 pages.
Success will depend on the quality of the seasoning. Most people think plain quinoa tastes worse than common grains like oats or wheat. Quinoa is still fashionable with some health-conscious groups, but I don't think this can sustain mass market appeal.

And if you do like the taste of quinoa and don't care about being fashionable, try amaranth instead. It tastes very similar and has similar nutritional qualities, but here in the UK it's about half the price.
Remembering CyanogenMod
Show HN: Get redirected to departures of the nearest railway station in Germany
Our entire system is kinda broken with how roads/parking are relative to size. So it's not an easy problem to fix overnight. With an our established and spread out infrastructure. But self driving cars will eventually lead to smaller pods or smaller vehicles. Potentially fewer lanes or even allowing non standard road shapes and straightaway and fewer parking lots. I think autonomous vehicles is a stepping stone to a better infrastructure and community
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That doesn't answer my question. Why is giving one piece of remembered information that leads to incriminating evidence treated differently from another?
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I actually went to their new midtown Manhattan branch a couple days ago.

All in all, I liked it. I got a very generously sized falafel quinoa bowl for ~$7 with an iced tea for an additional $0.95. For midtown, that's actually an incredible value. The food itself was good, nothing to rave about though. Concerningly though, when I went in around 2:30pm on Friday, I was one of the two customers there. The rest of the store was deserted.

There's no cashiers, just a bunch of self serve iPad stands with an clerk walking around looking to see if I needed help. The app on the iPad used for ordering was fast and fluid. My food was ready 2 minutes after I ordered.
Carmakers have to adjust and prepare for a reality in which mobility is treated as a service and cars are losing their traditional function as a (middle class) status symbol.

I think that self-driving cars may actually increase traffic and our dependency on cars. Just think about it:

- If you don't have to drive yourself but can instead use the time to sleep, watch a movie, study or shitpost on the Internet, a 1.5 hour commute to work isn't that bad anymore.

- Since the labor cost for operating a self-driving car is probably really low (we'll still need mechanics for maintenance and such) and streets are heavily subsidized by the government, self-driving cars are cheap and could be a competitor to traditional public transport services.

- There isn't a reason why kids, who now have to use a bike, a scooter or the bus until they are allowed to drive a car shouldn't be able to order a self-driving taxi; thus, they get used to being shuttled around all the time from a young age.