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During my senior year of college (which ended last spring), I worked with two other students on implementing a server-side JavaScript interpreter in Rust. One of us, a grad student (not me!), wrote the garbage collector for it (https://github.com/rustoscript/french-press). We didn't end up finishing the entire language, but we got a sizable chunk of the language features implemented, and more than enough to know that Rust is very well suited to writing programming languages in, including garbage collectors. By far, the most complicated component of getting the garbage collector right was dealing with closures, but that's mostly because JavaScript is a very "unique" language, to put it nicely.

> In the future we may have http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/08/18/gc-support-in-r...

I read that back when you first posted it, which is exactly what came to mind when I was writing my comment. At least to my naive understanding, implementing a garbage collector for Rust is several orders of magnitude more difficult than merely implementing one in Rust.
The other nice feature would be a public dropbox that you could give people special links or codes to upload to.
... if only because it might instead be a mental disability.[1]

[1]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912...
> So is the Tablet version of Android dead again?

Um, no.

> Is "ChromeBook" an operating system, a system architecture, or what?

It's a brand name for laptop form-factor devices running the ChromeOS operating system.

> It uses the App store from my Android phone, does that mean my phone apps will work on this thing?

It supports Android Apps from the Google Play Store, so, yes, apps that run on other Android devices, including phones, will generally work on it
Plus it's not really the fault of Rust developers if https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/01/03/getting-past-c.html gets to the front page; that's not really marketing material for the language.
Same for Google and its multiple violations of privacy. Great products, but everything revolves around selling user information to the highest bidder or general establishment Democratic/liberal cronyism.

Will we see a Democrat apply anti-trust laws?
It is common knowledge that you risk getting sued if you give negative references to ex-employees:

Source: https://www.totaljobs.com/careers-advice/money-and-legal/ref...
Feynmann is not a popular figure just because of his contributions to physics.

I'd say his popularity stems from how engaging a person he is: It's hard to watch Feynmann talk about something he's interested in (and he's interested in everything!), and to see that twinkle in his eye, and not be gripped by whatever the subject is. There's something special about his childlike wonder at the way things work.

All of that, and he's absolutely astoundingly intelligent, articulate, and friendly.

This video where he's asked how magnets "work" [youtu.be/ewcJR2nqDV4 - 7:30 long, from The Fantastic Mr. Feynmann] is amazing. He takes seven minutes to respond to a question. He doesn't even answer the question properly, and yet it's the perfect response. Even the most science-averse of my friends are able to enjoy watching that video.

And that's just the science bit! He's also done crazy and interesting things: Cracking safes in Los Alamos that had research documents on the atomic bomb and leaving taunting notes. He used to work off napkins in topless bars. He was just an all-round interesting guy.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that neither Schwinger nor Gell-Mann have these same qualities.
Get the estimate in writing and then compare it with your bill. If there are more charges, they'll need to explain how those are unforeseen factors, or you can legitimately refuse to pay for them.

You can also show the estimate to other hospitals - this will often loosen them up about quoting a price because they'll want the business.
If that worked, it would be quite the game changer.

I could play with it a bit, but a full code analysis would be over my head.

Can I incentivize you in any way to review it? :)
I'm convinced employer paid insurance is the single biggest problem. Very few people buy plans in the healthcare marketplace, most get it from their employer, and most of those have no idea what that plan costs compared to other plans.

With employer paid care, the employer is the primary customer. A level playing field would be everyone having to go direct to insurer/broker or healthcare market. And people would be so irritated with that process, which also requires annually reevaluating to get the best price, as a society we'd either go back to bartering chickens or go single payer.
It's a publishing platform, which sold itself to some smaller publications for use as their public facing site (like The Awl). It intended to make money through advertising. So sales and support is hardly out of the question. But at the size it grew to? No.
I'll echo what others have said. I have requested rates multiple times, and gotten numbers, but the numbers they give is the amount they bill insurance. However that number is practically meaningless. Even for something as simple as a yearly preventative care visit, my wife and I each went to a different doctors, both of which billed the insurance about the same amount, and both of which were in-network. However, they had different negotiated rates with the insurance, and coded things slightly differently the end result being a factor of 10 difference in our out-of-pocket expenses for the two visits.

None of this information was available in the computer systems of the providers who file the claims, nor have I been able to get it from my insurance in advance.
Thats one of Google's biggest problems IMO. There is no "grand vision" just a bunch of teams working on random stuff that sometimes completely competes with each other and they end up killing 1, if not both after a year.
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I'm lucky enough to be able to purchase Sundrop-grown tomatoes[1] (or at least I'm pretty sure they are Sundrop) and can confirm they are both price competitive (as in they are always the cheapest option) and taste great.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-01/sundrop-farms-opens-so...
1. What if, for example, it is functions all the way down?

2. I think reasonableness is still in the eye of the beholder, or has Deutsch convinced everyone who counts?
Looks to be in the $10,000 range, for one 42 inch unit.
> even ones already old enough to be grandparents if they were in medieval era, that can't have kids, can't have jobs that sustain themselves, and are forced to live with their parents.

Putting aside the obvious hit aginst the western preoccupation with living alone (really? what is so terrible about living with your parents, and was this the case culturally in the west 600 years ago?).....

Children are relatively inexpensive. What is difficult is having children, giving them 'the best' as far as your social group is concerned, and also doing all the things you enjoy doing as a single person.

If you make sacrifices you can give your children the best. It's what our parents did. It's what our grandparents did. It may be little talked about, but it is reality... They gave up having bigger houses like we demand today in order to have 3 children.

They gave up having empowering fun jobs in order to have stable ones that provided for their children.
I guess the argument is that journalism is, in many ways, a commodity. Journalism, when defined as the reporting of precise core facts (X happened in Y, Z people were hurt), is available all over the internet.

In order to provide value, newspapers need to provide exclusive value-add, which in many cases includes opinion pieces. Opinion pieces allow experts in the area to link many different news items together to provide a more holistic view of the news item.

Anyone can tell me that 5 Coalition soldiers were killed by an IED, but it takes an opinion piece by an expert in counter insurgency tactics to provide context about how that might represent a shift in tactics/approach by a group.
the biggest difference is going to be a 2400x1600 screen instead of 1366x768. A high res screen is much nicer to use.
Powershell should have been set as default years ago, particularly on core.

It escapes me how windows admin community still largely ignores Powershell while clicking next in the loop.

Until MS makes Windows Powershell first, adoption will change very slowly as we witnessed so far. Nano server will hopefully bring it faster.

Its a terrible injustice as posh is best shell in the existence IMO.

What I really want to see in future is exporting entire control pannel config as posh script. This is the perfect time to digg into it given that control panel is being transformed into 'settings'.
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This explains his sudden public departure from atheism.
The guy was probably also super pissed that he was fired after only three weeks, after going through all the trouble of moving to LA.
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The JS interpreter is pretty cool!

We've had problems with closures before in Servo, I know that pain :)

> implementing a garbage collector for Rust is several orders of magnitude more difficult than merely implementing one in Rust.

Well, I mean it depends on what you're aiming for. Making a safe optional GC in Rust isn't too hard; rust-gc exists and is not very complicated. Making the compiler support arbitrary pluggable GCs is trickier. GC algorithms themselves can get so complicated that the state of the art research probably eclipses whatever has been done with rust-gc and similar "GCs for rust" so far. If you want a GC for Rust that contains a world-class collection algorithm the complexity is additive but the source of most of the complexity isn't the "for Rust" part, it's the "in Rust" part (A GC for rust will also typically be in Rust).

But also "optional" GCs like those that would be useful in Rust haven't been explored much either, so world class algorithms may not even make sense in this case.

It's ... an interesting set of problems, and very hard to make judgement about what is difficult :)
If you need raw computational speed you shouldn't be dealing with erlang / elixir anyway. Rust and go would be a proper comparison here
i paid for a car with a check ($11k). they just held the title until the check cleared...?
Except the problem is that in the car situation you're the one paying for the car, not a third party. This is more like your car getting totaled, and your auto insurance company saying "you go pick a reasonable new car, we'll negotiate a price with the dealer (in secret) and then you'll pay 20% of whatever we agree upon"
If this is something that just informs me where electricity is being used, it doesn't necessarily save me money, does it? Many times, I know that my son has not turned off the vanity lights in the upstairs bathroom, but am too lazy to go up there and turn it off myself. What would help is a robot that goes around turning off lights and other electrical equipment if it doesn't find someone using that light sources, etc :-)...
I've found it useful for signing into things I don't really care about enough to create a real account for.

And the occasional irrelevant tweet.
Very nice looking - I wonder if the India link could be changeable to a geographical region more interesting to the reader (with maybe India as the default).
great idea! I personally love the keypoints part, I like to stay updated with news but not so much read every single article, so this is great for me. My feedback:

- Work a bit more on the design, specially on mobile. On my iPhone 6s Plus, when I open the page I can only see 1 article, what I like about HN or Reddit is that you can quickly scan with your eyes what you are interested on, as a list. If that is your target audience then you should probably give a similar experience.

- Not a bit fan of the whole "popup" to see the bullet points, I would hide and show them under the title

- I would add an icon to click directly to the reddit comments next to the button

- I think this is a great site to be turn into an mobile app

Keep up the good work!
> Does anyone know the technical reasons why C extensions are not (at least easily, apparently) supported by Go?

It's because Python's C API is inherently non-thread safe. The API lacks passing an interpreter pointer as a parameter (as Lua's API does for example). So Python is forced to use a terrible thread local storage hack involving the Global Interpreter Lock to swap interpreter instances which is insanely inefficient and limits compute-bound programs to a single thread.

Python 3.x had a chance to fix the API and do away with the GIL once and for all, but inexplicably they did not. There was a misguided notion that C extensions between 2.x and 3.x could be interoperable.
Here's the problem. If you do it outside your insurer, it no longer applies to your deductible. If your annual procedures don't hit deductible anyway, you come out ahead by getting the discount. Otherwise you'll pay more out of pocket for the unclaimed procedure.
Is there a link that doesn't require me to create an account to read it?
BMW, Intel, and Mobileye will have self-driving cars on the road later this year
The 46% of the country that gets to decide who runs the country hates doing that.
Large companies almost by definition need to hire a lot of developers. Seems to me that it would be an absolutely rational and sensible choice to use popular frameworks keeping those constraints in mind.

Google would go bankrupt from a combination of the insane salaries they'd have to pay and the inability to ever fill jobs if its entire stack was based on Haskell.
Seems that you are correct - earnings refers to profit (bottom line) rather than reveneu (top line). Thanks!

That being the case, DropBox probably isn't profitable yet which would throw their P/E through the roof and make that a useless metric.

Box is already public and it has revenue around $300 million and a valuation of ~$1.9B. DropBox will probably get a better revenue multiplier since their customer acquisition cost is lower than and their overall network effects and future outlook is better than Box. I'd place DropBox at a ~$6B valuation. Hopefully their revenue grows enough between now and IPO to support something closer to $10 or $12B.
So the story goes:

A moderately famous physicist came to lecture at the university where Feynman was teaching. Feynman, a few minutes before the physicist had arrived at the lecture hall, read the notes at the lectern and spotted a mistake.

As the lecture was going on, Feynman apparently pointed out the mistake as if he had spontaneously identified it. The physicist, obviously astonished at that point, offered to stop the lecture if there was a mistake in his calculations. But Feynman asked him to continue, and apparently they became good friends later.

Schwinger and Gell-mann were pissed off because of two things - obviously they couldn't match Feynman's charisma, but they also felt he went around "generating anecdotes about himself" which contributed to that charisma somewhat.

Can someone confirm this story?
I hope their IPO fails spectacularly for the singular reason that they have a board member who supports warrentless surveillance [1].

This seems like a huge issue for a company that is entrusted with user data. If Dropbox continues to be successful, their support of warrentless surveillance will become the norm. I don't use their service. If you value the security and privacy of your data they seem like a poor choice.

[1] Condoleezza Rice (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/)
Wow. Had the same experience. I thought it was a joke. He literally said "anything you say can be billed against you" like it was a detective show or something.

I had no idea this was a real thing! So doctors must be added to the list along with tax collectors and police where you just stay quiet during confrontations. Wow.
I believe those came well after his Los Alamos days. When he was cracking safes, he was essentially going out on a limb. The leaders of the establishment knew of his oddities and usefulness, so he was tolerated.
> NTFS and exFAT are useless since Android can't mount SD cards that are formatted with those properly.

That might be relevant if this was an Android device and not a ChromeOS device that can also run Android apps.
> What? I've almost exclusively heard the opposite: Go makes error handling too in-your-face. People don't like writing "if err != nil" constantly.

Do you actually have to look at the value you err, or can you just pretend like it's not there? (genuinely asking, I thought it was the latter).

> I wish it were more acceptable to admit this instead of having to half-assedly argue that your favorite language just so happens to be a perfect fit for the problem.

This is one of the reasons we felt it important to mention. Rather than demand purely technical motivations, we choose to acknowledge the human aspects of software engineering as well.
Isn't what you are describing (individuals being charged more than insurances who have negotiating power) exactly what this suggestion is trying to prevent?
You can say "Hey Google" with the Home. It's a little easier to say.
In Elixir especially, with everything being immutable, I don't really have to worry about state hanging around for my private methods to care about. I wind up just throwing private functions into little helper modules that can be tested independently.

As far as benefit of something being private, an API does not have to be maintained if it is private. Once it's out there, you're locked into doing that for the duration of your deprecation window.
The OP didn't connect Trump with a bad business model, or with Medium at all actually.

Big picture, Trump, and a Trump presidency, are a huge unknown. It's probably a matter of personal projection what you think the outcome will be, but it can hardly be dismissed out of hand.

For example, do you think Trump, a hotel owner, will support legislation that favours AirBnB? It's not as if he is above petty payback on people he feels have wronged him.

And of course there's a more general effect on the economy. Maybe he'll be great! Maybe he won't. You might think that's a good thing but you can hardly blame employees of vulnerable startups who would rather not lose their jobs.
Ask yourself this, would spacex or tesla exist if Elon Musk weren't here?
This is a little sketch - if the question you asked didn't required any additional work (specialized physical exam, detailed history taking, additional medical decision making), billing for it as a separate evaluation and management visit (as opposed to a preventative visit) isn't kosher. Often people come into their preventative visit wanting to discuss their insulin regimen, blood pressure history or a new acute problem, and this is the situation where the second charge is appropriate.
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Maybe you can help fix their new search UI. As a power user, I find it basically unusable. For me, that was the final nail in the proverbial coffin of usability. It is so bad AND slow.
Impressive! I like the clean layout, and with KeyPoints, the page isn't nearly as ad-infested as it could be.

One suggestion: Have you considered adding the Reddit thumbnail to each article? May help break up the page a bit.
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They seem quite useful. Mostly signaling that things should not be used.

What's the largest number of people you've workwe with on a codebase? I would assume the benefits aren't really all that much for small codebases / teams.
Mankind has been around for what - 40,000 years or so?

The figure piqued my interest. I doubt your argument weighs much on it (nor am I taking a position on it), but when are you measuring from? Some possibilities I thought of:

- 3 million years ago - Stone Age begins

- 1.8–0.2 million years ago - Homo sapiens sapiens emerges

- 13,000 BCE - Animal domestication (pigs)

- 11,500 BCE - Agriculture (rice domestication)
it's actually a little more nuanced than that.
Hospitals/providers have what they call charge master. it is probably the cash price you are mentioning.

Even uninsured can end up negotiating the bill, albeit after the fact.

Sometimes, insurance might negotiate lower prices than what a certain procedure/treatment costs, i believe that's not uncommon. They make up for it from other procedures in general.

1. The lack of health care cost transparency reduces price competition.
2. people not asking for price in advance, or not caring because the are already past their 1. deductible 2. out of pocket maximum makes healthcare expensive[a]. Similar to reference pricing, high-deductible health plans (with added HSA benefit) makes people think twice before going to doctors. I also felt a lot of people are not price conscious about healthcare - just yesterday a friend mentioned "i picked the most expensive plan so i don't have to think about it". Completely reasonable, but one reason why prices get higher each year.

[a: reference pricing] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/upshot/how-common-procedur...
Conemu doesnt suck and it uses method 2. It has few quirks but nothing serious and is almost on pair with usability as tmux and in some aspects even better.
This was my initial reaction as well; it seems like a raw socket or even embedding a Python interpreter would be better ways to go.
There are plenty of times. Take a data structure like a hashmap. You know there are plenty of internal functions to manage the map (rehash, handle collisions...) that there is no reason for a hashmap end user to see or even be tempted to muck with. Now, you can could make a new class as an interface to this hashmap with only the appropriate exposed methods...but that seems like an excessive sort of pattern.

In a statically typed language like Java, etc., it also gives you the benefit that when you are auto-completing or discovering methods, you see only the exposed methods you are meant to call as an API user instead of poring over every two-line helper method in the class.
> This isn't a phone, this is a laptop with a 12" screen.

It's more of a tablet with an keyboard and a 12" screen than a traditional laptop.

I'm thinking it's the first thing that I'd see as a suitable replacement for my Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 with keyboard case -- a more modern tool with some key utility and convenience updates that is well suited for the same roles.
I'm slightly shocked that tech-types who in general seem to be against mass state sponsored surveillance continue to support Dropbox. Dropbox appointed Condoleezza Rice to their board. Rice supports warrentless surveillance [1]. They've made no moves to encrypt data service side.

I hope their IPO fails spectacularly so that support of warrentless surveillance does not become the norm in tech companies.

[1] Condoleezza Rice (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/)
Clearly, this particular pair of devices is not for you. That doesn't make it inexcusable, it just makes it not for you.
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A bunch of (ostensibly "meaningless" to non-techie) gauges would be too confusing for most people.
Their lack of encryption is even more concerning as they appointed a board member who supports warrentless surveillance: http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
One way is to show up in person and ask. It's a lot easier to negotiate face to face than over the phone. It's the same when negotiating a price for a car, a hotel, stay, etc. I answered your other question elsewhere in this topic.

If the bill is potentially one of those crippling high ones, I'd suggest it's worthwhile to invest the time doing this, despite it being maddening.
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