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It's a horrible and horribly short-sighted idea.

The very wealthy would just hire their heirs as consultants or advisors and pay them exorbitant salaries. Sure, the government would take ~40% in taxes but that still better than losing 100% of it.

It would also push them to donate their fortunes to found private corporations and allow their heirs to "buy" the shares.

Or move their money offshore into assets that aren't readily convertible like real estate. How is the US government going to seize 10,000 acres of land in Brazil?

Unless you're prepared to enact Cold War era Soviet Union levels of control on all economic activity, the people who you most want to target will be able to side-step your plans.
Absolutely, there are many nightmares. I know death march, I've experienced it, but I'll fight for my team never ever to, should I succeed they shouldn't be penalized for not going through the pain. I'm constantly teaching how to be pragmatic while shipping. My nightmare has been integration with external vendors. Testing blind all from unproven specs.
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> no website should have this for free.

Why not? Your applications on the desktop can run background tasks without your approval. Your phone's applications on iOS and Android can run background tasks without your approval. The web has tons of web applications some of which more complex than stand alone apps. So why wouldn't they be afforded the same?

Asking would be a bit of a UX nightmare. You'll have so few users enable it. It's a pattern they've never seen before.
At my local theater, the IMAX movies I've seen have all been incredibly bright and sharp, both 3D and 2D. I don't think it's something inherent to the format.
It would help if you'd share something about: (i) data shape and size, (ii) expected query load, (iii) expected update schedule, (iv) transactional vs analytic nature, etc.
Getting groceries for a whole week is an artifact of the suburbs.
Rust does prevent data races, as long as you don't use unsafe. If not, it's a bug.

You can write arenas in Rust.
Father of family of three here who regularly walks; I use a large backpack and a pair of large reusable bags that I throw over each shoulder. Heavy stuff (milk, canned goods, bags of apples, etc.) go in the backpack.

Invariably, I forget something so I usually have a smaller midweek trip for things I forgot. The walk to Trader Joe's is about 20min each way.

Edit: more like a 20min walk; not 30.
If I were a kernel/os hacker at MS my end game would be to do something fun at MS Research, not head to CTO.
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Nice! Another one I can think of is how Blizzard releases their patch notes. Gamers are especially picky to game changes, so you can tell they put some thought into how they announce changes. Example:

http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20481262/heroes-of-the-s...

Makes me wonder if there is a market for a release notes platform for keeping customer up to date, something that's more focused on how changes are announced to customers than bug tickets.
As a rule, I take anything in the Daily Fail with a ton of salt.
Sounds like the start of a drip advertising campaign!
There's no association of human body temperature with latitude.

So endogenous human thermal regulation is efficient enough to deal with the normal range of terrestrial environments inhabited by humans. And when it can't (if you're naked in the arctic, for example), you die.
A story about some random dude's promotion to CTO is at the top of HN eh?

Must be a slow day. Cool 'news'.
Who doesn't love a nice scavenger hunt
I think you mean 100% because ants are clones. The only difference between them and the queen is the nurturing process they go through which influences epigenetics.
If I were doing a lot of graph specific stuff, where it was crucial to store the graph itself, I'd definitely go with a pure graphdb over trying to shoe-horn it into a relational db, or even Cassandra. It's hard to give a real precise answer without more info, but Neo4J is probably a good starting point unless your requirements are real specific in some way that isn't compatible with Neo4J.

You should probably also ask if you really need a graph database or if you just need to use a graph processing engine (like Giraph) to perform graph operations on data that can be extracted from elsewhere.
> part of it was, that all previous Presidents were capable.

Is this true? I'll have to dig up the history on the previous 40 odd Presidents and see (I honestly don't know). Forgive me, but this just sounds like one of those made up things you read on the internet.

Edit: Well if wikipedia can be believed:

"1 President had neither served in the military nor elected public office before becoming president: Donald Trump. Trump, instead, was chairman of the Trump Organization, and a reality television star."
However, typed and separate memory areas with various allowed kinds of concurrent access are needed. Even simple RAM has multiple modes, plain, atomic of multiple kinds, barriers... On top of that, you get devices that handle access only with delay inbetween, can never be accessed concurrently (volatile), have alignment requirements and more. Rust memory model is too weak to enforce safety in such cases while not sacrificing performance.

It is written from "I have one CPU" side. Even C is far beyond that with things like OpenCL...
Erlang's secret sauce is OTP.
Seattlite here. I know people who have moved here and left because they couldn't deal with the darkness, people who are here and the darkness doesn't bother them, and people (like me) who actually love the climate including the large amount of dark days.

The dark is a real thing. It is not just the rain. It's more the large number of overcast days plus the very short days during winter months.

Whether or not it bothers you is a different matter. As far as I can tell, it's practically a biological thing. The lack of light just gets under some people's skin while others aren't bothered by it. Ask yourself, do you find gloomy days draining: oppressive clouds looming overhead, color washed out of everything, can't go outside, cold, wet? Or do you find them energizing: turbulent sky looking different every day, you snuggly in the warm light inside, doing creative stuff on a rainy day at home, or bundling up and getting refreshed by the cool breeze and rain spray?

If you're more the former, Seattle will suck your soul out and drown it in Puget Sound. If the latter, you'll love it.

Personally, it's a great fit for me. I love the contrast in weather between the summer and winter months. When it's miserable out, I love nothing more than settling in under warm lamplight and reading or coding. I can't imagine living somewhere arid. I would dry out like a frog on a hot windshield.

If you're considering moving here, I would suggest renting for a year. If you make it a full 12 months and don't feel oppressed by the climate at all, you should be fine.
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Microsoft has a vision, it just had problems executing on it. Those who paid attention knew of what was coming these years because of their infamous 10 year vision and interim video releases they had. Terrible at execution and I hope this guy can help that.
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Compressive Sensing is widely used in imaging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing#Application...
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In New York, many grocery stores delivery to you. Personally, I just order on FreshDirect and don't bother going into grocery stores.
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I looked at Erlang some time ago with a consultant, who was trying to get something Erlang going in our firm, and we compared a simple queue with boost, which is not really optimized for speed. I think the C++ version was sort of 20x faster.

I assume the dude was not that unskilled since he was selling his Erlang solutions for many years but it was bad enough that it left no room for a second meeting.
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Do you know or anyone know of a good Canadian-listed charity? Canada has surprisingly stingy rules on foreign charitable donations: none are tax deductible.

If there were a Canadian organization as effective I could make a donation go further. I usually stick to Canadian charities for this reason. However, this idea seems very good so perhaps I'll make an exception if none exist.
Hey thanks for the kind words! That is coming soon. You will be able to use the same Logic infrastructure to create you own custom queries and mutations!
> We don't need as many senior people and there is some aspect that is performance related.

I wasn't directly impacted by this, but from the few instances I've seen, the people being ousted seem to be those that had questioned tech. decisions. They were people who did badly during our review process.

For instance we have a brand new react server side rendering based platform. I think the performance of that framework is somewhere around 2 concurrent requests per virtual machine. And we're bragging about our performance chops publicly: https://medium.com/walmartlabs/using-electrode-to-improve-re...

Wal-Mart has many problems, I don't think too many experienced engineers is one of them.
I'm investigating an issue with a deployment where a process keeps crashing with the log.fatal("not reachable"). I already fixed 3 potential race conditions and still not sure if and when I'll get my next email basically telling me "haha it's still reachable". Yesterday my neighbor came to my door to ask if everything is okay because I cried "aber warum?" (but why?) out loud.

tl;dr: Don't be that programmer :)
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Yeah! Go Internet Anarchist! Show those stuck up normies just how dumb they are for not wanting to be randomly killed by roving gangs of thugs!
They won't cover it. For example California pays about 10k per student per year on public education. Private schools in California cost 20 to 30k per student per year.
Thanks for the prompt reply! I'm currently refactoring our GraphQL API and if you guys had this feature I would've gone off our infrastructure and used Scaphold. Will definitely keep an eye out for when you guys add this.
Because the quantity isn't just less than 100%, it's a small minority. Chrome and Firefox are among the most widely-used pieces of software in the world. I'm not saying they don't have weird bugs, but they don't crash daily for most users.

While the OP may not be doing anything "wrong", he is almost definitely doing something unusual, or has deeper issues like malware or malfunctioning hardware.

If the ratio were inverted and most users were experiencing daily crashes from normal use, I would consider myself lucky. That's just not been my experience with Chrome/Firefox.
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please, more sources and links? i would love to package up an entire elixir app as an rpm to a rhel7 target that has no internet connection. so the package/binary needs to have everything including erlang. i am not afraid of compiling from source. is the answer distillery or something else entirely?
The "Go" tile links to a GitHub user with a single repo named "trailhead": https://github.com/kzuse201?tab=repositories Whatever it is, it seems like it's happening right now...
I cant recall the video (NGeo or BBC) but there was a study they compared brain size in primates with many other variables and the only variable with significant statistical correlation was group size.

The big takeaway was that social skills take so much brain power that only big brains can form societies.
I have to admit that (likely being even more ancient than yourself) I've actually flipped back and forth on this issue more than once.

Now I think it's like the old Indian metaphor of dying cloth with natural dyes: you dye the cloth and it's bright, then put it in the sun and the UV smashes out nearly all the color. But if you keep rinsing and repeating that process, eventually the color is very bright and doesn't fade.

Remember that even if only 1% of your effort teaches anyone anything, the internet will allow a very large number of people over a very long time to "get it" and will preserve that nugget. So your efforts are actually extremely cost-effective - despite all the waste - even if you can't detect that. Then add in ripple effect outside the internet.

I've seen some of my contributions become part of common discourse, heard phrases I invented pop up on the news in just that context (after decades of slow spread), seen minor inventions of mine end up in common use across many kinds of sports, etc. It just took decades of slow growth as they spread.

I've also watched as reams of old shibboleths and (even academic) ignorance that had persisted for centuries even amongst experts swept away, in most circles anyway, by the gradual power of Wikipedia and Google book search.

Of course there will never be a fool shortage, as Barnum noted, more are born every day. But it's getting harder and harder to stay a complete fool.

Keep teaching!
I'm sure some good UX could alleviate this. Maybe a spinning gear icon? Maybe a battery draining animation? Something to signify, 'this tab is doing some heavy lifting right now'.
If you code while working for another company dont they own that IP? Unless specifically stated on your employment contract? Just curious! Thanks
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I hope I'm not the only one but I really dislike interactive VR. I really don't like being forced to move around to get a full experience. I know it can be fun but I would rather just sit there and use a controller. I would however be fully on board with a 'personal entertainment' headset. If I could put on a headset and play video games, watch movies, etc in privacy that would be pretty awesome.
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"As for the real world you can observe demand satiation right now among different ranks of the rich. Look at billionaires. They consume much more than the man who has only a few million in the bank, but sub-linearly more."

Which is why the growing wealth inequalities are bad for the overall economy. The rich can't spend their money with enough scale or velocity.
There are plenty of good public schools. If everyone deserves a good school, then we need to make all schools good, not drain everyone away from one system and into another.
Ok, so we agree the things that were limitations could also be used for artistic effects. (I technically disagree about the avoidance: don't buy something if you're not going to bother learning how to use it.)

Then, let's look at the reproduction part only.

Technically, it might work. More choice in reproduction. But maybe in the real world, movie theaters (and certainly in the television world!) would crank up the brightness and edge sharpening and frame interpolation to make the director's artistic material look totally horrible.

If you think about the whole life cycle of any kind of art delivered to some audience, it's lined with these huge pitfalls at every point.

Maybe I'm obsessive compulsive about it.
> 5 puzzles. Each gets more difficult.

> 5 clues. Take notes. Each puzzle is gone after it's solved.

> 5 places. Think numbers.

> Enter all answers at savethedate.foo.

> You must know where you've been to get where you're going.

Oooo, this sounds like fun.
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There are 5 of us?
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My girlfriend and I are into anime. I asked for her to draw me a mascot and she came up with it :) I don't think there's anything inappropriate with it, but thanks for taking the time to download and play my game. I know it's not for everyone.
Durable information storage. Mass distribution of information. Universal literacy.

Too little of what was written in antiquity was accessible to the vast majority of people, and too much of it was lost.

We're left with fragments of early mathematical, literary, and historical works and our attempts to figure out what ordinary people were up to are almost stuck with just graffiti on the few hard surfaces that have survived.
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I believe it is owned / controlled by Google, along with many other interesting TLDs https://www.registry.google/
I used to live a couple blocks from the grocery store. I would walk every day or over other day. I liked it.
Machine learning in most shops is in desperate need of better engineering practices. PhDs are brilliant but they tend to only apply that brilliance narrowly. They often don't really care about things like re-usability, performance, testing, monitoring, or even version control. There is large demand for 'model engineering' to basically help build pipelines to get them data and to create reusable frameworks so models can be iterated on and validated and deployed quickly and easily. It's easy to say the new model has a better AOC than the old one but the true test is whether the model in front of users actually does what it's supposed to do.
From the js file:

this.secret = `http://${num}.foo/`;

Wish I had time to play.
If you live in cities with large Chinatowns (e.g. NYC, SF) you might want to consider taking a casual stroll through them and checking out antique stores if you see anything that seems off and if you do report it to
https://www.fws.gov/refuges/lawenforcement/report-wildlife-c...

Word on the street is that FWS is rolling out/testing new tech that will make enforcement a lot easier.
As long as what you are doing is data that makes sense for a graph, I'd go with neo4j. We use it at work with great success.
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Seems Google have grabbed most of the land: http://bar.foo
Excited to see Retina support in this release.
Definitely. I have a high-paying data science job at a major corporation with only a 4 year degree in economics and got it after 2 years in the field working analyst jobs. I took stats classes with my free electives, got database skills from my first job and taught myself how to code along the way. Many of my peers have advanced degrees and I can hang no problem. I will say though, that the data science boot camps are not the answer. The applicants we receive from them are generally weak and we have never hired any of them.
Are you going to source your stats, or simply make the claim that the rate of rape in Germany is 26 times that of South Africa, with 132.4 per 100,000?
>> How do programmers fix these problems? They don’t. They pray.

>Ah! No, Joe, that's what you do.

I don't know if Joe is a religious man, but I don't believe beseeching the Almighty was one of the reasons listed for why an Ericsson switch was able to achieve nine 9's of availability.

> Most of developers have figured out how to do concurrency and parallelism with mutable state and locks.

It appears to me that the industry has moved to a combination of promises, message passing, thread-safe data structures, transactions, etc., instead of code that directly manipulates locks.

>...as opposed to Erlang, are statically typed, hence much more suitable to the kind of large scale software you describe.

Depends on what you mean for scale. If you mean "suitable for gargantuan code bases and development teams" then it might not be the best. If you mean "suitable for processing large volumes of requests/events with low latency" then Erlang should be fine.

Types are nice, and I try to heavily leverage the type analysis tools that are available for Erlang (e.g. dialyzer). Java & C# (the two main static languages) are OK, but presence of null pointer exceptions and absence of sum types, intersection types, tuples, etc. really makes righting terse, type-safe code a chore.
not if you code outside of working hours with your own equipment
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Please don't be so thorny when other users are clearly participating with such earnest curiosity. This is exactly the attitude that Hacker News flourishes under and it's important not to squash it with such dogged ellipsis litigation.
The advantage is that the kernel panics if PID 1 ever crashes, so I want PID 1 never to crash or even be able to crash. It also means I want the binary to have as little of an attack surface as possible, and particularly I don't want it listening to dbus or having links to a QR generation library.

This is a solved problem with multiple good solutions [1] [2] [3], so I can easily avoid those issues by not using systemd.

[1] http://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/

[2] http://universe2.us/epoch.html

[3] http://core.suckless.org/sinit
I could not possibly think of a more poorly contrived "counterexample" than that. But perhaps it's sarcasm and the joke flew over my head - in which case have my apologies.
It's always important to study history :)
Congrats! The website looks great!

Forgive me if I am simply uninitiated, but what are the general advantages of graphQL over a typical backend powered by a SQL database?
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I think it should be noted that LinkedIn was recently acquired by Microsoft just last month. https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/08/microsoft-officially-close...

edit: link
I've given up on navigation.

I use my tabs like a generational garbage collector. Tabs to the left of the current tab are processed, tabs on the right are to-be-processed. I'll go to a page like reddit or HN and spin off a dozen tabs of things to read. Then I'll go through one by one and either process, delay or close.

Once I reach about 250 - 300 tabs, I'll do a longer generation sweep and go through all the tabs and try to get it down to less than 100 or so.

Basically, I'm never in need of finding any specific tab. If I want the content from that tab, I'll just open a new one and navigate back to that point. The tabs are really a lightweight to-read list.
Ohhhhhh. I saw Dr Strange in 2D and thought the rippling building effects and hurling of bodies and such was kind of goofy. Didn't think of 3D at the time, but now it makes sense.
Exactly. We never spent time on the company's dime working on it and my employer actually knew I was working on a side project and permitted me to continue doing so.
I think the idea is great but you should think about this sentence: "Buy and sell your data like Ebay" next to an image of connected people. It looks like you're a shady user profile dealer. To be successful it's crucial that you draw a clear line there