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> aka the original OO. OO as taught today is nothing like how Alan Kay imagined OO [1]. Alan Kay originally imagined OO as biological cells only able to communicate via message-passing. That's the actor model more or less.

Async message-passing has a huge problem when it comes to practicality: In any resource-constrained system (i.e. no unbounded queues) messages can get lost. I don't know if you feel comfortable with method calls having a "best-effort" semantic (which is what happens in the actor model and biology[2]), but it makes me deeply uncomfortable as a foundational model. At the very least you need some way to do retries, but if even looping is a method call, then how do you ensure even the reliability of retries? You could do it to arbitrary precision, I think, given enough duplication + repetition of code[1], but I don't understand why we'd want to do something so messy at a language level when we already have hardware that's reliable to 99.999%+ levels already.

[1] This also assumes that the interpreter/compiler reading the code is 100% reliable... which it wouldn't be if everything is actor-based. You can see the problem.

EDIT: [2] This is a perhaps-interesting aside: In biology "best effort" is typically the best you can do, given the limitations of fluids/energy/etc. You send out enough molecules of the right type to hope that the intended recipient has a decent chance of detecting them. These things have been fine-tuned through a billion+ years of evolution, but in computer systems we typically don't have that kind of (even simulated) time to do "just enough".
OP is simply doing it wrong. Advertising works, and the title's claim only shows how inexperienced op is. I work at a digital ad agency. Ads work if you do it correctly, but it's incredibly easy to waste money. People like op are why google and Facebook make buying ads overly complicated - if it were easy you wouldn't have to spend so much money.

If op is reading this, I'd be happy to hop on a phone call and help you out.
Interesting link! I wasn't aware of anyone paying for peer review when I was in academia. It appears from the linked examples that it's still rare and relatively small dollar amounts, so indeed not a job.

I love the example of the New England Journal of Medicine finding that paying $5 was worse than not paying, as potential reviewers found it insulting.

As to other activities, yes, I think companies behind journals typically pay people to do administrative functions for the journal, and the editor may or may not be paid (for Nature, I believe the editor is paid). However, it is possible to replicate the traditional review structure in a completely free OA journal with volunteered resources; in computer graphics, I think JCGT does this: http://jcgt.org/about.html
What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

The topic is that the traffic the ads bought were bots or click farms.
Slightly related is the video game "TIS-100"[1] which has you programming (incredibly) constrained processors that are arranged in a grid, with communication between them. The programming puzzles are not very difficult (so far! I'm about halfway through) and pretty entertaining to puzzle out. There's a "meta game" of comments by "your uncle" who was trying to get it working again.

I think it's closer to the GreenArrays, Inc chips, really.

[1] http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
Very cool way to represent this data, I like NYTimes more visual approach recently.
This article is 99% useless. Adwords and Facebook are very complex and take experience, time, and $ to get campaigns dialed in right. The targeting and audience choices have become increasingly complex but you can create cost efficient ad placements if you know what your doing and I think in this it's not the case. Plenty of businesses rely upon these platforms to drive traffic, leads, and sales, so your argument for leaving offers no compelling reason why to leave these platforms.
That is undoubtedly true, though I lack the expertise and time to properly implement and manage that sort of thing. All I can do is to try to be a prominent and useful member of the ecosystem in our corner of the FOSS VoIP world and attract enquiries on that basis.

I don't see sales to be my problem, but rather marketing. I'm content with the ease with which prospects are persuaded to buy when they come through the door, but there are just far too few opportunities to have those conversations.
Interesting.
Maybe a court could find the contract between a researcher and the publisher to be unconscionable - and therefore non-binding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
A great deal?
Well that's very possibly an attribution issue. Those clicks led to traffic, and if the sales cycle is long those clicks will take months to convert. Unless you are tracking sessions back to their source months after the fact, you can't really know if those ads led to conversions or not.
It's not so much the direction as it is the location of the aircraft along the runway. Boeing Field (KBFI) has a number of recognizable landmarks along the runway (as seen in the discussion), so some of the theories advanced had to do with whether or not the aircraft could be in a given phase at the recorded location.
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go for it! I'll be happy to list your school on https://higher.team/tier1-tier2-tier3-code-schools
I think it's well intentioned and the author seems like someone who has put a lot of work into something they think is important, but it contains some terrible technical misunderstandings, and that's a real shame as I cringe thinking about a developer without a CS degree who's read this book to make themselves more confident in interviews repeating some of the stuff in it.

https://github.com/imposters-handbook/feedback/issues/50
EU in its simplest form is harmonization of rules and a bigger market for you to sell your goods. That part works exceptionally well. I don't see a single reason where that could be a negative in a mid to long term.

The euro zone, which tries to connect some very different economies is not working that great but EU countries can decide to stay out of that part.
"because people would have been conditioned not to take risks."

Not sure we read the same article, several paragraphs boiling down to "here are my car repair tools best of luck" I've done brake jobs and I'd at least oversee the task if nothing else. Or "here's a plane ticket to Europe come home when your cousins get too annoying"
Not sure what "empty pockets" means with an engineer's salary using FOSS tools day in and day out. When was the last time you had to purchase a programming language? A Unix terminal? What makes you think FOSS tools only create FOSS products? When products become tools for other products, opting for the open source tools increases the margin used to feed the "wage slaves".
This is just anecdotal but I know that spanish people have trouble finding jobs and often stay in school longer while living with their parents.

I know two spanish people with a BA, one went au-pairing in france, another one couldn't find a job and moved to morocco cause it was cheaper.

So while it may be exagerated, there's probably some truth to that statement. The euro has destroyed the mediterrean economies.
I love the fact that you can transform stuff simply with key commands.

G, X, 1.5, Enter boom! Love it.
>Actually, since replacing Chimera with the EFI-compliant Clover boot loader, upgrades are a breeze. You can actually use Software Update to install point- and major- version releases just like on a real Mac.

Perhaps for certain builds, but this has not been my experience with either the Intel NUC Haswell i5-4250U or the ThinkServer TS140. Both required significant research and tweaking to get in-line updates to work, but that could have something to do with my particular components in both cases.

It's certainly nothing compared to the off-the-shelf experience of a Mac mini proper. For some, that's the point, for others that's a terrible hassle that's ultimately not worth the monetary savings.
Can you elaborate? What other uses this list could have than security purposes?
Erosion of rights, eh? My country, Sweden, doesn't have a constitutional court; possibly because of some strange belief that our politicians can't make bad laws. (The Swedish supreme court cannot strike down laws, only interpret them.) The European Court of Justice is essentially the only thing that's stopping the Swedish government from extending mass surveillance even further.

E.g., in 2014 the court ruled that mass data retention was violating basic human rights, killing the data retention directive. The Swedish government wanted to keep doing this anyway so they interpreted the ruling quite creatively, concluding that the Swedish implementation of the directive wasn't "bad enough", and forced ISPs/telcos to continue with mass data retention. This was challenged by a Swedish telco and right before Christmas the ECJ ruled in the telco's favor -- and then finally Swedish ISPs could (well, had to!) stop this particular form of surveillance.

So, I'm happy to be in the EU, for that reason and many other reasons.
In my experience, young Spanish PhDs go abroad (indeed, I'm one of those and know plenty, although not sure about my youth by now) to work in a related field. Not to be waiters.
The problem is that it's exceptionally difficult to have 1/ that functions well without 2/

The Euro was designed as a bulwark against currency speculators and people trying to arbitrage between imbalances in the different European economies.
Integrating all countries of eastern Europe at once and much too early was the beginning of the end. The countries that had been members before were getting so close economically and culturally that I think the current situation would not have been possible and a real united state might not have been only a dream. Politicians wanted too much and too early and did not take the population with them. I love my polish colleagues, but on a macro scale it did not really work.
> actually, I think a lot of the points he makes about raising kids are applicable to less-fortunate families. Doing chores, their approach to schooling, food, family vacations, community service, backpacking and camping and in general self discipline do not require having lots of money. It just requires that parents be attentive.

What?

In what world do Vacations and Backpacking and Camping require little to no money? Those are expensive activities in both time and raw cash. When you don't have a lot of money, food is also not something you get to be picky about because you don't have a choice -- You can eat what's on the table or you can literally starve. That is the real circumstance for people living below the poverty line in this country of which there are plenty (http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html).

What bugs me is there are a non trivial number of people, yourself included, who are entirely blind to the circumstances of the poor and struggling. These are the people who insist that if you 'just work hard' you can make it, or that education is some kind of great equalizer. These are the people who also generally have a lot of influence in politics, both locally and otherwise, and proceed to campaign against what little social safety net we have because they couldn't be bothered to give up a fraction of their disposable income so millions of people could have food to eat and running water.
That's the reason the Euro isn't working. The Eu and the Eurozone are different (although the difference will be smaller when/if the UK leaves)
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Keyword tool covers the total market, not what you can expect to get. Quality score increases your cpc, and you'll never ever get 100% of clicks.
What exactly is "dumb" amounts of money? If by dumb, you mean enough for authors to get by, then you are probably in the minority.

People love talking about how much they hate ads, and how, no, they're not cheap, they would totally pay for content.

Let's be honest - internet users are cheap. They want stuff for free. And if site A starts charging, they will jump ship to site B, until eventually it's a race to the bottom.

Ads seems to be the only model that works (thus far).

Many attempts have been made to monetise things (a la micropayments).

I believe Google did something before, where you paid cents, or fractions of a cent to authors for article views. This was back in 2012:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-20395407

And recently Mozilla's Brendan Eich is doing Brave, with bitcoin micropayments. I'd love to see it gain traction, but I don't see it going mainstream.

Look, I know some ad networks go too far - but IMHO, Google/FB ads are hardly that intrusive. (I personally hate pop-up/pop-under ads, and auto-playing videos)

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not in ads - above opinions are purely my own).
It wouldn't work that way. Bottom monitor needs to be higher for the well being of your neck and then, top monitor would be too high. I can't see this working long term.
>While it does seem way "shellier" then pure python I don't think its comparable to Powershell.

Well, none of the UNIX shells are comparable to Powershell. That's why this is a nice in-between solution. A way to have a UNIX like shell on Windows, without the need to learn a new language if you already know Python.

>Whitespace semantics also look like troublesome in the shell context and I guess in some more serious usage ambigious stuff like ls -l may become problematic and hard to detect source of bugs.

Been using it for a few months. So far, not a problem. The biggest headache is that "dir" is a reserved keyword in Python. Not a problem: I just made 'ls' an alias for it.

The only real problem is that Windows has case-insensitive environment variables, but xonsh makes them case-sensitive. This is fixable, and they'll probably fix it some time soon.
The chain wears out muuccchhh faster than gears when properly maintained. If you let your chain stretch too much, then you'll wear out gears quickly. This isn't them wearing out at the same rate, it's a worn out chain ruining your cassette and chainrings.
It most definitely is and it takes a very starry eyed sort of person to expect otherwise. The idea that 20 or so different people with different languages, religions, mores, histories, frames of reference, economies could somehow achieve monetary or much less political union under the rule of an un-elected and un-accountable bureaucracy of "commissioners" who rule by means of "directives" (you couldn't make it sound more soviet-y even if you tried) was beyond ludicrous from day 1. A modest trade union with some freedom of movement for qualified workers was achievable and maybe in the end it will settle to just that. In fact I think the soviety approach to building the whole thing ensured its demise. Diverse people can collaborate productively and profitably under win-win free market arrangements. But in the EU system there's too many zero-sum games being constantly played and decided on a purely political level (rather than by market forces) and that creates a lot of bad blood pretty quickly. The reluctance of Germans to bail out southern Europeans is just an instance of that.
Thank you so much for the book, please, continue!

I am currently working on Scheme R5RS implementation in Java. It is a hobby project, but I'm really enjoying it. It is somewhat enlightening.

Look forward to reading the Optimization chapter: I couldn't find much useful and practical info on that. I think it is quite easy to implement your interpreter, but it is really difficult (at least for me) to make it fast.

Can anyone recommend any articles or books with common optimization tricks and techniques?
Fwiu swift is planning to implement actor style concurrency in a year or two. Which, if done properly, would be much much more interesting than what objective-c dynamic dispatch offers (see OTP for an example of what a full blown actor model offers).
I'll toss in my vote for Blundstone boots as well. Worth the price, they look nice and most importantly are comfortable. Easy to put on/take off as well.
I don't think anyone said anything about having sex everyday is realistic or the key to maintaining romance. I'm going on 10 years and that's definitely not realistic for almost every couple at that stage.

Your note about having a mutually agreeable relationship is very important though.

Expectations should be discussed. I think that's where it can get unhealthy - when everything changes like with kids and one person has different expectations and the communication isn't there for whatever reason. Maybe the wife assumes all is romantic and perfect despite the shit because the man doesn't raise any red flags, they've been together for a long time, and he's a good dad which she finds attractive/sexy. But men tend to not talk about feelings and expectations as much. And for many couples, it harbors resentment and dissatisfaction, often even later (15+ years of marriage) after the kids are gone. It is easy to get consumed by kids; it's an amazing thing.

I'm just saying that I think most men see romance differently from the author and both sides have to put in a conscious effort to maintain the romance, esp. with kids, or at least have a mutual understanding like you mentioned. That and I do think good things happen for everyone (parents & kids) when the husband/wife relationship has more of a focus. Too much helicoptering and slaving going on with parents these days.
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Sure, I thought that point had been made elsewhere in the thread.
A HN discussion on the book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12351660
As I said, I am dependent on others. But the others != citizens of a nation. Its a very small subset. And for the service I am happy to pay as humans have been paying since invention of society.
I see an overall trend of of authoritarianism and nationalism as a response to immigration and an increasingly changing world. There's also a pretty heavy streak of anti-intellectualism as voters were encouraged to fundamentally reject experts that gave (IMHO well-founded) warnings about the ill-effects of Brexit and Trump.

In short: Nationalism in, Globalism out.
Yes anti-EU rhetoric went down post-Brexit. But it's still very high, and will likely continue to rise once Brexit is settled. It's clear

>and hopefully national politicians will stop

They won't.
You are speaking of a big Germany master state here, not the European Union whose foundational goal was to avoid wars and live in harmony.
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>>The EU is literally shoving immigrants down people's throats. Immigration from A8 countries MUST be regulated (end of Schengen)

This attitude saddens me - regulation would most likely mean that I would need to get a visa to stay where I am, where I work and where I pay my taxes, which is not how I imagined EU. Just a few years ago, I felt "at home" wherever I went, who cared which nationality you were, you could walk into a government office in Germany, Spain, UK, France, and you would be treated the same as a local citizen. Now? It seems like we are becoming 2nd category citizens, despite the only difference between being a "foreigner" and "natural citizen" is the label on my passport.
I think you completely misread that comment. He was just trying to say he wasn't involved but he has enough domain knowledge that he should be able (and is willing) to answer questions about the protocol. Not, "believe me when I say things because I'm a cryptographer."
> everyone I spoke to was pretty keen on exiting the EU

Exactly what kind of people did you talk to? I visited Paris after Brexit and outside some groups on the far right everyone where laughing at the crazy brittons...

Many in Germany and France consider UK hindering advancement in EU, and consider the Brexit a god send
> There are only people who are mystified because they are ignoring (or ignorant of) this crucial fact.

I don't think that's the only reason people are mystified. From what Weinberg says, and I've heard from other physicists, when you get to the root of the issue they just won't accept a multiverse theory.

It has profound philosophical consequences, so I guess they go looking for ways to make their understanding of QM fit their strongly held preconceptions. Some avoid this fact you just mentioned, but others fight the Born rule derivations or wrongly apply Occam's Razor or have more original objections.
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> When you incentivise people to optimize metrics, they will optimise the metrics.

Exactly what happens with benchmarks.
Huh? It's about creating an identity, a single market, and in the process, creating peace. I don't feel it is attempting to destroy national identity, if anything, it allows it to thrive (as long as it is compatible with the EU idea). Same goes with individual and national rights. EU policy provides a common framework, and if anything, it only overpowers states in favour of its citizens (see ECJ).
Try Privacy Badger, made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It protects you from many trackers, not only Google's, for example it disables the tracking capabilities of Facebook like buttons. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Once upon a time there was an affiliate link that paid me $5 per referred sale. I sent them Adwords traffic at 30c/click and a 10% conversion rate ($3/sale = $2 profit for me) until they eventually realised they could just do Adwords themselves.

It doesn't matter if you're only converting 1% of advertising traffic if that 1% is profitable.
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Sadly many of the people protected by the ACLU have been convinced by marketing and propaganda that the ACLu wants to destroy America.
I don't know about primary, but I think a big one is the EU forcing countries to meet a quota of "refugee" immigration.

Poland for example is refusing to accept these immigrants and paying a pretty big fine for each one they turn away [1]. Other countries like France and Germany are buckling to the pressure from the EU and accepting them, and we've all seen how well that has worked out for them.

So I think not having to take this crap from the EU is one attractive reason to leave.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/poland-refuse...
Since when do mods "lift" articles? Is there some evidence for that?
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How many people did you speak to?

Were many of them associated with each other for one reason or another?
Of course everything depends on your riding conditions. It's hard to get sufficient stopping power from the rear brake when going downhill, especially if it's wet out. I had a situation once, where I slid into traffic, because I applied the coaster brake on a very steep grade. That day, I installed a front brake.
Not difficult at all, many EU countries have decided to stay outside the euro zone. They are doing just fine.
Exactly! Give back control of borders to countries, and just run the EU like a NAFTA free trade zone. Bam, best of both worlds!
If we're talking "what would work best for everyone in the world", then I kind of agree that many small "states" (or whatever) would perhaps be for the best, but that opportunity has passed with the existence of superstates like the US, China, India and Russia. In the world we currently exist, the only rational[1] thing to do is to amass as much power[2] as possible. There are upsides, though, e.g. the ability to divert away from fossil fuels and to invest in renewables. I mean, it's possible such a thing could happen in a decentralized system, but I think it would require "perfect" information, the majority of citizens being "rational" and/or perfectly "self+offspring-interested", etc.

[1] For a "state" to do.

[2] Economic, political, military, etc.