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Attempted multiple times, always ignored by the C crowd.
I don't think it's harsh at all, but I'm not quite sure which part raises an issue for you. If you're saying that they are motivated by their desire to "spread their love" much more than the economic benefit they seek, then why not do this in a non-profit fashion?

But, I won't quibble with that point. I mean, I do think that the economic benefit sets up the potential to "taint" the benovolenct love fest, but my much bigger point is WRT the very idea that a relative few people would redefine reality for everyone else by any motivation. It's an incredible amount of power to hand over and I think it warrants caution.

That they are seeking to profit from it simply underscores this point and adds an additional "Dystopian Future Sci-fi Creep Factor".
Many people including me say this but people do not want to see it. It is even worse tham IRC imho as the clients are slow and wonky, they just 'look better' which is perception. They did their marketing very well indeed.
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Flagging really makes comments much more interesting. I had to look up the cached copy and did not find it to be that flag-worthy.
Sarcastic maybe, but nonetheless insightful.
For a moment I thought this was another of the "meh, it uses JS, I want to surf with my Lynx!!!!" rants but wow that page is really slow. I only counted 9 secs for the original page and 11 secs for your link, still ... for a bit of text? Not even an image? What are they doing? setTimeout before they show the HTML?

Edit: opening the same link again is instant. Weird.
Not mentioned, bust also:

- Ludwig Boltzmann, the father of statistical mechanics.

- Richard Reti, the author of hypermodern "Reti Opening" in chess.
> it yields detail clear down to local offices

It has city councils, but it doesn't have any local districts. In Sunnyvale, you are also being represented on at least the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District[1], the El Camino Health Care District[2], and the Santa Clara Valley Water District[3]. If you are curious how I figured this out, I went to the Santa Clara County Local Agency Formation website, which has an interactive mapping tool[4].

[1] http://www.openspace.org/about-us/election-information

[2] https://www.elcaminohealthcaredistrict.org/governance

[3] http://www.valleywater.org/About/BoardOfDirectors.aspx

[4] http://www.santaclaralafco.org/maps
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I'm one of the millions of Americans living overseas. Who represents us?
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I notice you didn't mention C/C++ which are certainly mainstream and the most likely targets for Rust to try to displace.
Don't focus on what revenue he makes per month. Next to his revenue, he's also building value into his company.

When you are ill, don't work in the weekend, go on holiday, you don't get paid.

His business keeps selling, in weekends, during vacations. When he wants to get out, he can sell his company for 2x to 4x his annual profit. Or he can remove himself out of the equation and spend only a small amount of time on it, and still make a profit each month.

He is building something of value next to getting paid, you are not.
Ironically, this page looks like it doesn't even need JS. It's comical how long it took to load.
I do hope some Japanese auto companies get self-driven going. Having been peripherally involved with a couple of Japanese software projects,I would appreciate their rigorous approach as a customer.

Unfortunately I found the same trait stressful and overly nit-picky as a foreign engineer - I'll freely admit it was the best QA I've witnessed in my life by report quality, thoroughness and turnaround times. I got the impression that they do not move fast and break things. I don't know how well SV folk will adapt in such environments.
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hmm... or repurpose it for lawyers.
"No, they were done because of lobbying from the lumber industry. "

This is simply false.
Seriously. I'd love to see where this history came from?
Do you have any real source, or is this typical "lobbyists did it" bluster.

Here is the history of stamping in the US:
There were failures and complaints in ~1920's from mills/etc starting to sell substandard lumber due to the depression. Code enforcers wanted a sane way to ensure the houses being built weren't being built with substandard lumber.
Folks asked Dept of Commerce to come up with voluntary standards for grading and inspection.
NIST (well, what is now NIST) created a set of simple voluntary grading standards. They've revised it a few times.

Literally the only thing the grading agencies do is grade. They don't actually care about the end result. They don't make more or less money one way or the other.

The grading standards are also pretty simple. It's not like it's rocket science.

Note that most mills stamp their own lumber. You just have to have someone trained to do it.
In wisconsin, for example, it takes 1 day to be certified.

One of the 7 grading agencies randomly inspect, and if they find enough errors, they'll hold you up.

As for the amount of waste, most waste i've seen is from
1. later-bent studs due to wood movement. This is not structurally unsound (just nobody feels like re-straightening them), so the stamp still is doing it's job of saying it's sound.
2. damage during transit.

Your other question was "evidence stamped lumber is superior in any way".

okay. that's easy. Two grading methods include machine stress rating and non-destructive evaluation.
See http://www.southernpine.com/grade-methods/ for example.

I will strongly assert that lumber machine tested and evaluated for actual strength and stamped as such is superior to random lumber that is untested and unknown.

Visually graded lumber is usually graded based on things like knot size and slope of grain, both of which have a significant structural effect on lumber (structural strength decreases as grain deviation increases).

Assuming grading is being done properly (and again, there's a lot of checks going on), yes, the lumber is structurally better.

But maybe you don't believe the physics, and think that things like slope of grain don't impact the structural properties? If so, i guess i can't solve that problem for you. It's pretty well studied:

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/390291... has a bibliography

Also note the table showing that wood with significant slope of grain will support half or less of what wood without significant slope of grain would.

See also http://www.conradfp.com/pdf/ch4-Mechanical-Properties-of-Woo...
and
"Failure Analysis of Wood and Wood-Based Products"
https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/browse/failure-anal...
As a US citizen living abroad, I have no representatives. This, as I am getting ready to file my US income taxes for which I receive no benefits or representation.
Agreed that explicit is better than implicit but I can't imagine when you might want tail calls to build up stack. And if you do have a use case for it in mind, wouldn't you want to be explicit about that and have TCO be the default?
Depends on where you're registered to vote:

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/legal-m...
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Loads instantly for me. Might have something to do with your network or service provider.
TCO is possible in JVM but not in Java. Clojure is just Java library and share all Java problems like TCO, Class sizes or inline limits.

I no longer believe in transpiration or hosted languages. Proper language have LLVM backend. Look at Rust, Swift, Crystal, this is future.
Where can I find your book? The above link does not work.
The taxes you owe take this into account, don't they? You have benefits of being a US citizen regardless of where you live. Some may value this more than others. Weighing your options, you may want to consider changing your citizenship.
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Sure but I thought it was clear that I wasn't speaking in a precise or mathematical way. I was referring to what seems to be amazingly general abilities of certain successful deep learning-ish systems. And potentially also possibly amazingly general capabilities of some supposed imagined system a little bit like like those in terms the AD versus backpropagation.

Do you really think these abilities are not or cannot be as general as I imagine? I just see these systems like the Deep Mind projects reading pixels in 2d and 3d, and having this low-level sensory grounding. It seems likely to me that we will see very exciting and general further results and then down the line similar things on perhaps much smaller computers with the non-NN efficiencies. Do you think this is impossible or unlikely?
There was no beginning single quote in the original filing forming the company:

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519/filing-h...

But that document appears to be generated using Companies House tools, so it is possible that there was a single quote originally that was stripped out at an earlier stage.
Just to be pedantic

1. You have evidence he built one house correctly :)
That tells you literally nothing about the previous performance of his houses.

2. This happened after the city had already red flagged a bunch of stuff. Again, he could have fixed it all and then hired his inspector to say it was great. I've even seen this happen with some of the flippers around here :)

Now, do i believe he probably knows how to build houses?
Yes.
But the original comment is that "looks like he knew how to take lumber and build a house", and the story as we have it doesn't provide this data.

It basically provides "he knew how to take lumber, do something, have the city complain about it, maybe fix it all or maybe it was already good, hire an inspector, inspector says it is now all good".

That isn't quite the same as proving "guy knew how to build houses", it's closer to "guy maybe knows how to build houses, or knows how to fix mistakes once they are pointed out".
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If you consider citizenship to be "no benefit" (you can still vote, collect Social Security, etc. overseas), you could always renounce your citizenship.
I agree about the logic flaws in this article. As someone who works with one of the largest public college systems in the USA, yes, URM and Non_URM students do tend to give off the impression that asian americans fair better, and yes it is an illusion- however, focusing on ethnicity is a mistake when focusing on students who's parents also went to college- and pre-existing socio-economic status. Asia is much father away then mexico or what have you- it costs more to come here from asian countries then it does from hispanic contries on travel distance alone.

I don't like this article, I also don't like the URM/NON-URM status that school systems make based on ethnicity alone. There are many fields in which non_urm (meaning not white or asian) preform better- and they call these negative gaps. A gap is an ABS there is no -Gap. Pardon my spelling mistakes.
Spinner loads instantly for me. Everything else takes ~10 seconds.

I'm on a 250 megabit connection. I haven't seen a page take this long to load in months.

Once a particular page is visited, it does load quickly. But for new ones it's always the same experience. Unless they're buckling under load of some kind and this provides a fancy cache, it's pretty ridiculous.

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edit: decided to watch the network on a new page, http://wiki.c2.com/?LiterateProgramming for instance. Most everything downloaded in 10s of milliseconds, but the LiterateProgramming XHR request sat waiting for 6.5 seconds. Maybe they are struggling for some reason?
Started doing some erlang work, I'm very impressed in the overall design of the thing. I'd say erlang is very well suited for heavy,low-latency networking because of the design of the VM and the characteristics of the language, whereas clojure is a bit up the stack. Anyway if you prefere parenthesis you got Lisp flavoured erlang: http://lfe.io
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A technical tour de force, but the premise is flawed. "I" have no representatives. "We" have representatives as a group. The mob who rules by force of numbers; all strictly democratically acting.

Right off the top, the president, VP, both senators, federal and state representative, governor, and lieutenant governor; every one of them is 100% useless to me personally, because not a single one of them shares even one tiny insignificant view that is important to me. Sure, hey, that's the breaks, but let's not pretend they represent me.
Perhaps TCO is not required for idiomatic Clojure, but for advanced functional programming using e.g. Monads or CPS, TCO is absolutely necessary in practice.
Why it's fucked-up? If i feel bad eating an animal and i can live without eating one, what's wrong with that? <edit> (Hello from LT.)
Clicked on the "Don't buy on Steam" button, was worth it!
These guys have a sense of humour that is quite inline with what I find funny :-)
Perhaps. Theory costs less but there is a lot less money available for theory. For example, in 2014, the total High Energy Physics (HEP) budget of the US Department of Energy (DOE) was about 750 million dollars, nearly all of it experimental, with only about 6-7 percent (63 million dollars) for theory.

http://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/hepap/pdf/201403/Rolli...

The DOE HEP Theory budget has supposedly been dropping since 2014 -- actually 2012:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8998

I suspect the amount of time spent on writing grants and informal fund raising is related to the level of competition, how many theorists are pursuing how little money rather than the absolute amount of money available.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has many billions, but the probability of getting a grant is very low due to the huge overproduction of biology Ph.D.'s consequently researchers and would be researchers spend enormous amounts of time writing grant proposals, most of which are turned down.

https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2015/06/29/what-are-the-chances...

The success/award rates in the above article (about 18 percent) actually seem high. I have seen numbers as low as 9 percent in some articles.
"Vienna was the heart of an Austro-Hungarian empire of about 53m people that stretched from Innsbruck in the west almost as far as the Black Sea in the east. After 1867 the empire was divided into two: a Magyar-dominated Hungary, ruled from Budapest, and a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic, multilingual other half, ruled from Vienna."

In all fairness the Magyar-dominated Hungary could be attributed the same attributes, it was multi-ethnic and multilingual, especially in the suburban areas of the kingdom.

Ethnic map from 1910 [1] shows it pretty well (Croatia and Slavonia were left out from the picture).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary#/media/File...
Compiling to web assembly should actually be quite easy, given llvm's support. The hard part will be porting the standard library to the environment wasm provides.

We're already well past the point where we could become "native ruby" and I'm glad of that. Ruby has quite a few warts, and I'm glad most of them haven't been copied by crystal.

Compilation times are already well under a minute for the whole of the crystal compiler itself. It was actually improved quite a bit on Linux in the latest crystal release.
I understand you don't necessarily buy into that argument, but allow me to offer a counter-counter.

That argument relies on the collected data being closer to the truth, than the absence of it. I think that may be true for (statistically) normal people. But for narcissists and sociopaths, it may also be a helpful tool for someone creating a fake alter ego of benevolence and 'harmlessness'.
Two memos from the archives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706043 (see in particular the linked comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155387 (why a consultancy charges an $8k per month programmer out at $6k per week)
Ward switched to using his project, Smallest Federated Wiki, which basically doesn't do a thing without JS.

In fact, if I remember correctly, the slow load times are because it loads the entire wiki tree in the background to make linking easier for the engine... But a worse experience for the user.
Well if all IAP buyers would collectively decide to buy comic books instead, and all IAP programmers would decide to switch careers to comic book illustrators, the output of comic books would be comically high. So I'd say it's a shift in spending, mostly.

"But!" you may say, empathically, "these programmers lack not just self-respect and purpose in life, but artistic skills as well". I'd say it doesn't much matter – they'd probably find some other work, and the money would find some other purpose and the net difference would be "how much more efficient were they at producing IAP content vs. their second best job option" and "how much worse is whatever consumers buy instead of IAP content".
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Well, isn't this nice - outsourcing the knowledge what makes Sazerac, and how to make it to somebody else, and just declaring that you want it?

Would you mind actually making Sazerac in your FP "analogy" as well?
This would be really useful for other countries. since some of the info is hard to find.
> I don't think there's Wayland for *BSD

Wayland works on FreeBSD, and I've seen some reports of it working on DragonFlyBSD as well.
Unprecedented churlish behaviour from the Dems. I for one look forward to having them out of power
Actually, if you don't like Facebook, litter it with disinformation until it becomes an unreliable and undesirable source.
Reading this, as well as the comments in this thread makes me want to play the game again. Might fire it up over the weekend and I will surely go through the code for a while!

It was a nice late-christmas present ;-)
Being stateless is a pretty terrible option.
"The language in the IP agreement I signed said the exact opposite."

Did you actually attend the week two training we give entitled "open source and IP", that covers this in great detail?

"Engineers from the group I was in left because of this."
I would love to know who you believe left because of this. In the 11 years i've worked at Google, the vast majority of people i've seen leave in this situation left because they basically wanted to start a competitive startup, get the IP from google, and still get paid by google at the same time (quite literally).
The number of people who left for ideological reasons i can count on one, maybe two hands.
There are things in life other than money, and people you can make happy in ways you never could with an extra couple of hundred thousand a year. We're social creatures, by and large - if you're trading away your time spent being part of society for some extra money, unless you're a certain type of person, you're almost definitely making yourself less happy - and if many people do it, they're making everyone else less happy as well as people have less opportunity to socialise and are more pressured into a game of increasing a number.
Fancy seeing you here Pavel!
Actually, we wrote the CUDA support in clang :)

and yes, AMD has done this because they have nothing to lose anymore :)
The illusion of it all is that you can measure based on "ethnicity" instead of something that matters more... such as being a first generation college student- being a first generation immigrant to the states- if you are eligible for PELL status or not. It's silly that we, the USA, still use ethnicity over socio-economic background as a measure to compare student success. When in all reality- ethnicity does not matter- it's about the culture and family you are raised in. No ethnicity is innately better then any other one. Culturally some might be more focused on education- and as a country, the United States is losing that culture because instead of focusing on future generations we focus on ethnicity and dumb shit.
You're right. Took a while for me on that one but second time around loaded instantly.
I think you'll find that you can rely on TCO in all of the languages you mention. Certainly Scheme, Racket and most ML languages and their implementations. Common Lisp does not require it but the most popular implementations (CMUCL, SBCL, CCL, Allegro, LispWorks) all provide full TCO.
Expounding the benefits of humans living like machines so that machines might be more useful to humans. I think the carrot is very much that we are subduing time to our control.

Maybe this is the way it should all go ... but the depths of me resonate much more with finding the simple ways to be in harmony with the world.

Akin to a closed form formula where an algorithm may have been.
> The NSA spies on everyone else but doesn't spy on Americans, period.

Ah, so that's settled then. So, spying on normal people and prying into their private lives is ethical - as long as they aren't American?

What about American expats? How does the NSA distinguish between them and non-Americans?

What about the Five Eyes? Perhaps the NSA doesn't read about your juicy personal life but GCHQ does because the NSA handed Americans' private data over to them?

You'd have to be pretty blind to not see they in fact are the devil.
and Redscare 2.1 continues...

at this point the NY-Times, the Wa-Po, and the Guardian have zero credibility when it comes to anything remotely related to Russia...

Let's talk about American Global Empire and the infrastructure that supports it. (aka the aforementioned publications are as guilty as RT of mindlessly reproducing political propaganda with a singular goal)

It's really quite nauseating how much this scare campaign has relied upon repetition of their message without providing any convincing body of evidence to support their claims. It's straight out of a propaganda textbook.
The positive benefit is the increased insight we get into just how cohesive this thought-bubble is, as it contrasts so strongly with what the rest of the world knows as consensus reality.

Hey America, many of our DNC politicians are as firmly tied into the mil/intel/contractor complex as their RNC compatriots.

Of course with careerists like General Breedlove cooking for their lifetime goal of provoking ww3 it's no suprise that folks in Washington eventually vote for things like the Patriot act and the Iraqi invasion...

"How the NY Times and the WaPo spread the false news of Iraqi WMD and beat the drum of war wrongfully"
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As someone that is inside a historic car manufacturer right now in IT : The latter. They have had 20 years of having nothing to deliver and reduction in budget. It shows.

Engines and mechanical parts are good, mainly because it makes the car less expensive and help to keep up with pollution and security laws. And partly because if you are in that type of field, apart from a car manufacturer... who are you going to work for ?

But for the tech part... forget it. Really.
What astonishes me the most is the absolute double standards US government has on this issue. you are US government and it is perfectly fine spying and collecting data from people and organizations outside US jurisdiction. You are a person outside US jurisdiction and have an unauthorized look on US government data, and US government tries to get you extradicted to US and to face charges?!?[1] That just makes morally zero sense to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_Love
If you want to create a bar food (Finger Food object, not Cocktail), which also could use a garnish() method, which inherits from which? Or should both objects have a father, Garnishable object to inherit from? It's clear to me that object composition is less flexible than functional composition.
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