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> At the Boston march, networks couldn't handle load

Sounds like the Boston police department needs to order more Stingrays!

:(
Exactly. Resources are limited, so a person's rights to personal property must always traded-off with others persons' rights to live in dignity or being able to live at all. Otherwise you'd have to accept the case that the personal rights of property of a few can essentially deny the right to live in dignity or live at all to others whenever resources are distributed in an extreme way to only those few.

In case you're interested, there are quite elaborate theories of distributional justice. For example, New Theory Of Fairness And Social Welfare by Marc Fleurbaey and Francois Maniquet is a very good recent book on the topic, if you're fine with a decent amount of economic apparatus.
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I can think of only two reasons to use Obj-C over Swift in 2017:

1) The app will rely heavily on outside libraries or codebases that are Obj-C, to the extent that it will be annoying even though Swift-ObjC interop is pretty OK, and

2) You (or your developer(s)) are grizzled Obj-C veterans, haven't yet learned Swift, and you are in a rush and don't want to waste time learning stuff

Swift has some warts still, but the show-stoppers like "all your code will break in the next release" are over (well not on Linux yet, maybe, but on iOS for sure). Swift is better than Obj-C in almost every way you could think up, even if thinking them up was the whole point of a drinking game. (And I say that as somebody who did Obj-C programming for 19 years and Swift only 2 so far.)

So it's pretty much truck-vs-horse at this point. The horse will still let you ford that river after a flood, and you can eat it if you get trapped for weeks by a blizzard or something... but basically the truck is gonna be better for almost anything unless your app is really unusual.
I'd wager it probably won't help at all. Developers have been able to reply to reviews on the play store since 2013 - yet applications are still rife with this kinda shit, and not just the older ones that haven't been updated since.
Thanks for posting the links so that everyone can see the ridiculous hyperbole that your arguments are based on.
Google Chrome Canary 58 Enables WebAssembly
With the giga-factory coming online I wonder if that will change the equation in favor of flat cells instead.
Please no. Then apps will only review nag even harder.
Oh, I meant that. A candidate for a junior programming job who'd never been on a doomed, nightmare project? Sure, no problem. But an architect? What if something we're working on turns into a death march, for reasons outside of our control?

An architect role isn't just a technical role. It's a leadership role. An architect who cracks under pressure easily is a liability for the entire team. If someone has never had to work when they know they're going to lose, they have no experience with it, and don't know what to do when it happens.
Orwell's work beside 1984 is better (in the sense of more complex/relevant to our time, not as entertaining.) In particular, his writing on the Spanish Civil War has seemed relevant today:

"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously coloured what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that ‘facts’ existed and were more or less discoverable. And in practice there was always a considerable body of fact which would have been agreed to by almost everyone. If you look up the history of the last war in, for instance, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you will find that a respectable amount of the material is drawn from German sources. A British and a German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be that body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement, with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys."

1984 is largely about the surveillance state and oppression, with a bit at the end about Orwell's views on truth; for those who say 1984 was a worse predictor of the future than Fahrenheit 451, I say the idea of the destruction of truth was more important than the methods anyway.

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1
Unless I'm missing something... it says "Penguin Is a Girl's Best Friend" aired on January 26th, 1967, which is the date of the accident according to the article.
>Already screeching for impeachment when he's been in office for two days

And this is why you lost the election.
>A company that doesn't hire MBAs is one I want to work for.

Can you point to all the successful companies that make a conscious effort to not hire MBAs? Tough slog. Maybe these companies know something you don't?

But any company that eliminates candidates based simply off their degree is no company I want to work for.
> If you're starving and working in a toxic garbage dump, how does a smart phone or cell phone improve the situation?

It's worth remembering the incredulous responses to seeing photos of Syrian refugees with smartphones.

They rather missed the point: smartphones are a lifeline for many poor, desperate people. Internet access enables communications, enables research into fundamentals like "where can I find someone willing to save my life?"
If I won the lotto, I'd follow my conscience and continue working through the end of whatever project I'm on.

The same can't be said for being hit by a bus.

So I think "bus factor" is a much better name for it.
Yes, the way CRISPR/Cas9 works, the DNA must be damaged.

However, chemotherapy is not very selective about which cells it damages. Here, the DNA is much more difficult to damage if it is already missing the exact sequence being targeted for "editing", so the targeted cells will die while the mutants divide to take their place.

If I thought specific somatic mutations were good drug targets for cancer, I would be more enthusiastic about CRISPR/Cas9 as a less toxic chemotherapy than a gene-editing therapy.
Actually It adds a lot to the discussion; It shows their views on women, which I guess are "things" with big asses and boobs; maybe in the next version they can have the male developer spraying her down with a hose, while she chugs some beer.
Your post is in gray. Even though I believe the last two sentences in your post justify a downvote, I gave you an upvote because the first two sentences are absolutely true and provide important perspective in this discussion.
Speaking from personal experience, this would cause more resentment rather than gratitude. I worked more hours to ensure that I didn't have to wait in these types of lines wherever possible. I found that people with money were less likely to want to associate with you once they found out that your family didn't have any because it made them feel awkward.
>My understanding is that those languages rely on cooperative scheduling within a thread

MPI doesn't require threads.

I think people here are confusing parallel programming with multithreaded programming. One is a subset of the other.
And goal is to break trust between US government and US people.
That makes me think the self-medication cause holds a bit more weight than I though for the spike in mental issues correlating to use.
>Trump has taken many steps to ensure there's no conflict of interest.

This an outright lie.
Two notable differences: Akka Actors concurrency is done at library level and an actor can block a JVM thread if not coded carefully. Erlang processes concurrency is support at VM level and there's no way an Erlang process can block a VM scheduler (native code aside, but with native code all bets are off)
Oh, I think it is extremely likely that, assuming no major leadership changes, Microsoft will open parts of Windows. But I think that they'd follow the macOS model - open the kernel and parts of the low-level user land. Enough to make small embedded systems in Windows, make developers happy with low-level profiling capabilities, and receiving more external contributions.

I don't think they will open source things Windows in a constellation where people could start making Windows distributions (which could lead to large incompatibilities) or run GUI apps on Linux or Windows.
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There is nothing more frustrating as a manager than a new hire who starts pushing back their start date, especially close to the start date.

Computers have been purchased, training partners assigned, HR booked, initial projects pulled out of the backlog.

I've had a couple of firm conversations where I basically said, "On Monday you should be with the company you want to be with and if that's not us, I understand and will start the hiring process again."
> In all seriousness, increased schizophrenia among heavy pot smokers (especially in teenage years) has been consistently reported for a long time, and the effect is extremely significant. I suppose it is possible schizos are drawn to heavy pot use in their teenage years as a sort of self medication, but it seems unlikely.

Actually, that's exactly it - people with a predisposition for schizophrenia are known to be drawn to drugs (particularly nicotine) in a form of self-medication. People with depression and ADHD are more likely to smoke tobacco as well, though the link there is a lot less strong than it is for schizophrenia.

The link between cannabis and schizophrenia has also been studied, and it appears that marijuana can catalyze the onset of symptoms, but it won't produce them in someone who wasn't already going to develop schizophrenia anyway.

So yes, if your family has a history of mental health issues, you probably want to stay away from marijuana. But otherwise, you're probably safe.
I agree with todd8, but would like to add that the next paragraphs were not added for two simple reasons: the quote itself was already too long and I felt it summarizes well enough the gist of the argument: programming languages should not allow 'clever' tricks.

But, lets discuss the 'for clause' and 'do loop': these constructs were made specifically for one kind of simple loop. It is not a systematic solution for an iterative process. To me it seems Dijkstra specifically aims for languages such as LISP (which, with the renewed interest from Clojure is one of the most oldest successful (semi-) functional programming languages).
To a first approximation, everyone is there due to the contribution of others.

Of course students on financial aid, etc., should feel gratitude. Surely other students shouldn't be high on the list of recipients.

It does sound like an effective strategy - but for class reinforcement. It's a good way to generate resentment, not gratitude.
If your boss can do your job, then he understands its technical realities and the problems you may be facing.

If your boss thinks his/her adolescent nephew can do your job, then he probably doesn't understand it and views it as a low skill position.
how about the deploy duration and memory consumption?
Yeah it probably depends on what the job is. If it's generally seen as skilled and prestigious then you'll get respect but if it's skilled but seems easy then you won't.
People with schizophrenia (your "schizos" comment is fucking disgusting, btw) are more likely to be male, and to smoke cigarettes. Both of these are linked to increased cannabis use.

It would be ridiculous to say that cannabis smoking causes someone to be male.

> I suppose it is possible schizos are drawn to heavy pot use in their teenage years as a sort of self medication, but it seems unlikely.

We know that the increased use of tobacco is because of self-medication.

It doesn't seem that unlikely that people are also self-medicating with cannabis.

We do not know enough yet to say which way round the causal link is.
There are times when it's fair for your country to take your money from you against your will

And there are times when you can be jailed against your will. There is a huge gray area between absolute private property and absolute state property that's where every country in the world is, including worst tiranies. Also free societies are more on the more private property half of that area.
The Bible and other religious texts have a lot of accumulated wisdom in them. I think of them as the Wikipedias of their time, edited by everyone, partly useful information, partly full of shit, accepted uncritically by the more naive
I don't know, types help me think. I get lost real soon without them and the reason why I could never pick up any Lisps. In Scala/Haskell I can come up with a solution incrementally and types are the biggest reason why. I always have that feeling that I am missing out on the trumpeted awesomeness of Lisps but I can never justify using them. Maybe there is a personal angle to language selection but I just can't help but feel types are the future and a real advancement of technology.
Or to Watson (Sherlock/spotlight), Instapaper (Safari Reading List), Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets (Dashboard), SecondBar (menu bars appear on all monitors since Mavericks), or TotalFinder (the Finder has had tabs since Mavericks).
Identity Design: 5 Basic Types of Logos
This is so true. If people assume that the word "literally" cannot, itself, be used figuratively - to exaggerate a metaphor - they might not truly understand how words work. So people correcting "literally" and mocking those who use it when speaking figuratively is a pet peeve of mine.
WordPress as a 'terrorist tool'
And how do you propose to offset the benefit of smaller image size and lower memory usage?
There is not such thing as "clearly their own wealth" because there is not a natural right to private property but a society agreement. What you can or can't own depends on the circumstances.

For instance, can you be the owner of 1000 can of food?

Absolutely, if you are in the bay area, because the society there allow you that.

What about an island without any other food that is inhabited by 40 other people? I doubt it very much.
The "Committe Conclusions" (http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Report%20File...) puts it like this:

There is moderate evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:
• Increased risk of overdose injuries, including respiratory distress, among pediatric populations in U.S. states where cannabis is legal (9-4b)

There is no or insufficient evidence to support or refute a statistical association between cannabis use and:
[...]
• Death due to cannabis overdose (9-4a)

I guess the full report goes into more detail on "overdose injuries, including respiratory distress".
I don't see any substantial difference leaving before deployment or the day after. From the sounds of the organization, there are going to be tons of emergencies and problems that are going to become visible only after deployment.

Either stay until the product is deployed and all the worst fires are put out (aka several months from now) or leave now.
Would this be legal?
Then give it a stupid name. "helper_func", "inline()", or even "_a". If you think the name isn't important, then don't waste your time on it.
If you're an employee of the government, working to publicly undermine the policies of the person elected to lead your branch of government doesn't seem like a good way to keep your job.

I can't think of many instances where Executive Branch employees used official outlets to undermine a sitting President's policies in the past. Can you?
Elon Musk is getting serious about digging a tunnel under Los Angeles
I can confirm this, working for Cisco in a unit that was acquired almost 2 years ago.
I was building a platform for a funded startup last year with a few other cofounders. Our original timeline we promised investors was to launch April 1st. We postponed for a week too.

Then a month. Then another.

I left in August. They are still building. Haven't launched yet.
Should gifted students go to a separate school?
You are a fascist.
I don't understand how you can have a truely private trade. If a trade depends on roads or schools or the internet or police, don't the people who provide those things have a right to share in the benefits of that trade?
This is the most hyped up biomed topic I have seen in the last 10 years.
Guys, yummyfajitas is kidding. Of course he wouldn't consider a grad student stipend "living on the largess of others". Right? This is Poe's Law, right?
The way you describe your experience with Scala makes me think you only had a very superficial look at it.

At it's core Scala is very simple & the syntax is very regular, far more than Go or Java and a lot less complex than C++. It's the most expressive typed language on the JVM, so if you like to think in types & you're on the JVM it's your best option.

Clojure is untyped, I hear many people praising it but I don't know any big project done in Clojure. So if you're doing short-lived projects I'm sure it can shine but for software that will be around for more than 5 years I would stay away from it. Btw, if misused, just like Scala, Clojure code can be extremely cryptic.

Go likes it's superficial simplicity, syntactic irregularity & stubbornly refuses to accept that PL design has evolved since the 80-90ies, but I'm sure it's appealing to people who are used to languages from that era.
Or 'hero'.
Legalization can increase prices (as illegally grown marijuana obviously has no tax, but may have inflated cost due to risk)

It might also make it less cool. Teenages might be less likely to smoke if their parents/teachers/etc do (wild guess)
The resource has to belong to the public to begin with. Your body belongs to you exclusively.

We can play your game the other direction. If using "practically free" natural resources doesn't deprive you of your rights, you would have no objections to a company rolling into your neighborhood with bulldozers and taking all of the nutrient-rich soil so that they can turn it into something highly valuable and sell it to other people. You would have no objection to a company like Nestle claiming ownership of a local river and prohibiting nearby residents from drinking from it.
What's with HN editors changing the title on this one from the actual title of the article ("If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work") to "
Employees are far happier when led by people with deep expertise"? The original title was far more descriptive.
FSEIS for the Keystone Pipeline [pdf] (2014)
I'm not sure I see how the intuition is bad here? What would the lmap implementation for your (Set a) example be if not equivalent to the (a -> Bool) case? And how is that not an example of data "going in"?

More generally even if there are Profunctors for which this analogy isn't perfect, I feel like the intuitive type names are still more useful than random letters. Especially for a relatively advanced concept like Profunctors, for which I expect pretty much all users to be comfortable with the idea that a type variable does not necessarily imply that concrete values of that type will exist.
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> exclusive control over abundant and practically free natural resources that you've appropriated and applied work to in order to turn it into something highly valuable

Things like land, mineral resources, and water are definitely not "abundant and practically free", but in most places, scarce and highly contested. Furthermore, the people who control them to a large extent did not work for them, but inherited them. So to what extent you have access to some portion of these scarce resources doesn't depend on your own labor, but on whether you happened to get lucky in the birth lottery and get born to someone who, in the 19th century, signed a favorable water-rights contract in California, or a favorable ranching/mineral-rights contract in Texas. You'd have to have quite some metaphysical faith in the "labor mixing" theory to believe that because some pioneer in the 1850s got a good deal on land or water, it metamorphosized into "his land" in perpetuity, even though he didn't create it. Or, in many cases, even put any actual labor into it in the first place (many of these deals were "paper" deals where east-coast financiers acquired Western land holdings, and sent other people to work them).
> I think the fundamental principles of software engineering haven't changed a whole lot since then.

Not sure I agree with that.
A lot of todays best practices and workflows (and the tech to go with it), especially considering team and release management, simply weren't around or at least widespread even twenty years ago. You know, stuff like CI, TDD, DVCS etc. etc.
I didn't know we had so many HN commenters that are experts at the inner workings of Presidential transitions and for a fact know what's going behind the scenes of the current transition. In some cases they somehow know individual thoughts and motivations of people they likely don't know.
As a veteran serial entrepreneur, CEO and chairman of Bitely, I'm humbled to be surrounded by the geniuses who are literally hacking the gourmet food space.

FTFY.
Flip the scenario. If the company was planning on letting you go, they would not change that date around based on what events you had going in your personal life.

Leave, don't feel bad, and no manager worth their title will think it reflects poorly on you personally or professionally.
Could you explain how exactly this quote is applicable to Dijkstra's quote? Which part do you think is arrogant?

Alan seems to make an overly broad statement, which is funny, but also weak.
But I will agree, their front page is in very poor taste, and that is the first thing I noticed when I loaded the page.
No need. Someone already did this for you at a much larger scale: http://stateofjs.com
I skimmed the comments and didn't see the following perspective so thought I would add it: one thing that makes it great for me to work with people with deep expertise is the ability to learn amazing things. I am willing to put up with a lot of 'management personality/quirks' if it comes with learning that is invaluable. I believe people who work with 'interesting' (sometimes abusive) chefs such as Gordon Ramsay may also share this motivation. However, this is just my opinion and I can't say that there is a general trend for this sort of thinking.
>At least he's honest.

Saying something true by chance doesn't make the man honest when his words are randomly generated.
It's true. Marijuana is actually one of the very few substances with no known LD50. Technically there is hypothesized to be one, but it is so high that it would be literally impossible to ingest that much (you'd suffocate from lack of oxygen first, and that's assuming you somehow weren't incapacitated from being so high that you were able to keep smoking. So medically, that's considered equivalent to "no lethal dose exists".

http://www.mindthesciencegap.org/2013/03/25/how-safe-is-mari...
Until every sport adopts the powerlifting or MMA model where there are drugs and non-drug competitions there is no way of knowing. There's a Lance Armstrong in every sport.
Right, I was talking about Linux under Linux.
If something is being done against someone's will ==> Basic Human Right is being violated.

Thus Taxation by the definition, is a human right violation for many.
In the Chicago area it isn't that hard at all, provided you know Java or .NET. I know people who have had no problem getting jobs here and they were less than stellar developers (to put it nicely)