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The issue is that funding for public schools is extremely limited. Having more choice means even less funding for those that need it the most. Ideally, there would be endless funding and so more choice doesn't negatively impact those at the bottom. But that's not the reality we face.
I listened to that podcast when it got rebroadcasted. Even the people who are in charge of the Dow admit it's not a great tool for measuring the economy. They don't change it because the only thing it has going for it is the fact that the algorithm has been around for over a century. If they changed it, they wouldn't gain much and they would lose the only thing it has going for it, which is its standing as the oldest economic measurement used today.
Yes maybe some of the success stories regarding changing from X language to Go are actually because Go enforces behavior at the language & tooling level that could potentially be enforced culturally at the company, but for whatever reason, the company has not been able to develop. Kind of, "if you don't play well with your toys, we take them away," instead of teaching them to play well from the start. When you're just a senior developer, you probably can't change the culture but you might be able to change the language for some applications.

There is the old jeremiad to not use technology to fix cultural problems, but when you're just a part of a much larger institution that may or may not have the ability to intentionally change its programmer culture, it can make a lot of sense to move to a language that reduces your reliance on those cultural behaviors if they are lacking.

Some of that could be addressed automatically in Scala with code standards enforcement like with scalacheck. And you can help with good practices like code review or pairs programming. But in a lot of places there is no appetite for "wasting time" on stuff like that (I vehemently disagree with that kind of attitude, but changing other people's view is not easy).

The advantage of Go is that left to their own devices, people will tend to gravitate towards more readable code, in a standard format, using standard tools that are pretty good in most situations. The entropy of having a bunch of people work on a project will then work in favor of coherent approach and style, instead of tending to diverge into using the tools they like best in the format they prefer.
> And it has been paying more attention to mobile browsing. In late 2015, it finally brought out Firefox for iOS, after years of refusing to do so because Apple requires all iPhone and iPad browsers to use its own Safari engine under the hood.

Apple should be legally stopped from doing this monopolistic garbage.

> In my experience, Firefox today is still only a meh product.

I wouldn't say that, but I do admit that Firefox on Linux is moving pretty slowly. Since it's not the highest priority for Mozilla in general I assume, it feels like it lags behind development wise.
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Well as it happens, I don't base my objections to slavery primarily on a notion "self-ownership", but rather on simple consequentialism. Slavery tends to lead to abuse of the enslaved, and allows no recourse for those under it.

And consequentialism also leads me to believe that defending property rights so far as to allow people to deny food to the starving, is not a good idea.

(And to be honest, to me the libertarian notion of "self-ownership" feels like a reverse-reasoning epicycle to try and base everything on property rights. I'm not sure it even makes sense: Surely if you own yourself you should be allowed to sell yourself?)
> A group of centi-millionaires

centi- means 1/100. So those are people whose net work is about 10k.

The author probably meant hecto-millionaires. Or deci-billionaires.
It might be because it's running without you knowing about it? Preferences > Enable multi-process is checked for me.
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We're being a little bit cautious in expanding beyond the US at the moment because commonly eaten foods and preparation methods can vary a lot between countries. We also don't support metric serving sizes yet. Hopefully, we'll be able to support Australia soon!
On my last day at my last job I was told that I picked a really bad time to leave.
It had been 3 months since I'd given them notice....
Government jobs are paid for through taxation. Taxation is a form of theft and at best should be considered a necessary evil for running the government that everyone agreed to - as outlined in the Constitution. The Constitution never allowed for the massive Federal work force we have. It's a bit of a leviathan that needs to be reduced.

Sure, the ACA has some short-term, especially anecdotal benefits. I'm glad your wife was able to use it productively while it was available to her... but the ACA is loaded up with give-aways paid for with other people's money - so it's unsurprising that there are some who think it's a good deal for them.

If I give you my neighbor's big-screen TV, I'm sure you'd have a great story about getting a big-screen TV. But you aren't the only party in that transaction.

Long term, the system set up by the ACA is collapsing. Insurers are fleeing from the markets because they don't make economic sense without ever increasing government subsidies to the industry.

Worse, the big promise of the ACA was that it would lower costs for everyone without changing their doctor-patient relationships. Those were lies. Not just mistakes, but pre-meditated and documented lies.
Taking this example:

let malloc = ffi('void *malloc(int)');
let mem = malloc(10);

How do you manipulate that memory?

How can you do the following in mJS?

int* mem = malloc(10);
mem[0] = 3;
mem[1] = 7;
mem[2] = 12;
int *rest = mem + 3;

There are some things you can do in C without functions. How does mJS achieve this?
Unavailable in Switzerland either, where a lot of people also understand English.

Meanwhile another app with the same name already exists and can be downloaded in Switzerland - http://bitesnap.appstor.io/ - thought this was the one; very buggy bad experience. Oh dear.

Can understand not wanting to launch in non-English speaking app stores, for the risk of attracting negative reviews. But still for this app, would it really hurt? The marketing right now is to the English speaking audience...

Frustration all around

edit: just saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13484472 - OK fair enough :-/
There's a wide gulf between idiot bullying and just the behavior of people less educated/refined than you. No, you're not likely to have a white collar coworker give you a wedgie (at least, not without swift comeuppance from HR) but especially if you work in IT and have to support users, users who are often not nearly as tech savvy and occasionally can get frustrating, communication with people not on your wavelength is essential.

This goes doubly for high end sales, BTB work, dozens of other professional environments. Maybe you work in a place where the only other people you see every day are coworkers that you like, but in my experience that isn't very commonplace.
It's not dark at all. It's just a place for people to list their kinks. Nothing nefarious. It's very popular in the kinkier sub-communities of the furry fandom.

edit: I got this mixed up with F-List, which is similar in function with a narrower focus.
Perhaps it has something to do with the institutionalized abuse of the immigration system in order to import workers who are paid less and are far less likely to leave or demand higher wages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

The idea that there is a STEM shortage is a bonafide myth. Remember that we're talking about the same industry that perpetuated the largest wage fixing cartel in human history.

It's amazing how many people around here just can't wrap their heads around the fact that increased labor supply means lower wages. You only have to listen to a handful of earnings calls with giant corporations talking with glee about how elastic the labor markets are, and how that will be a huge boon to their earnings.
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The gains in energy density due to casing/connections are generally negligible. For reference, individual 18650s can range from 42 to 52 grams.

In regards to "But how could the 21700 possibly be less energy dense?" the answer is "Cause batteries are magic." Batteries are weird; we know how they work, and how we should be guaranteed to improve energy density if we do x, y, and z. But when we do x, the batteries explode; if we do y, they only last a few cycles, and if we do z they heat up too fast.

If it was my head on the chopping block and I had to explain why the 21700s weren't as good, I'd say 'heat', but that's about as useful as saying 'magic', to be honest, and this is because pretty much every time there's a problem with batteries, it's due to heat. High power discharge? Heat. Cycle life? Heat. Thermal runaway? Well, duh, heat. Chemistry works in the lab but not in reality? Heat.

Eventually, you get tired of seeing heat as the source of all your problems and move to Siberia. But in all seriousness, as I said in the comment you're replying to, I think it's certainly possible Tesla's 21700s are better than the current max energy density, I just doubt that they'll get anywhere near Musk's claims of an energy density revolution.

Also worth noting that Panasonic's best 21700s are less energy dense than their best 18650s. (Panasonic is supplying the battery tech.) Another example of 'batteries are magic'.
I think the contention that Switzerland cannot scale (like Singapore) merits serious discussion and can not be dismissed easily.

However, many (if not most) of the benefits discussed in the article are also available in the rest of Europe (at least Northern Europe).

So, what the article talks about does scale. (You could still question whether the lifestyle of "the West" will scale to the globe, and it seems we are about to find out.)
She likes those crufty legacy systems only because she works with each one for a short time. If she had to work on one every day for years, she would hate it, too.
> It's a good point, but it only argues for easy transfers into / out of the "gifted" track.

The problem is if they've missed the first eight years of the gifted track, they can't just transfer in and be expected to know what's going on.
It matter because you're assuming they will group it. IIRC Erlang forces you to group it.
unless there replicators are involved. then we are screwed, no chance of utopia. sci-fi has taught us this.
Columbus insisted to his deathbed that the land he had found was Asia, not previously unknown land.
It doesn't take hundreds of thousands of rounds to become a skilled marksman. But it does take at least a few thousand, so your point is still valid even if the estimate is way off.
The company must advertise the position in a EU forum for at least a month. If someone else wants to apply, they can.
Your point is sound but that's an incredibly bad example. Mexico was already embroiled in the Mexican Revolution by the time WWI started.

> "This armed conflict is often categorized as the most important sociopolitical event in Mexico and one of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution
Recently I've started to wonder if the Finland's model scale. Because they:

- have little natural resources

- located far from the big trade ways

- were occupied by neighbors

- did not have colonies or conquered anybody

- do not have a big financial sector like Switzerland or Singapore

Still it's a great country to live in, with an amazing education system (probably the source of the greatness).
It does not invalidate anything, but that's beside the point; it's not about valid or invalid arguments (their first one is almost always valid or defensible), it's about getting into what you might think is a honest discussion whose purpose is to find out the truth, whereas your interlocutor's purpose is to unroll their rhetoric and influence you or the audience, according to their hidden agenda. While you're only paying attention to logic and validity, they win points and convince people around.
There are plenty of pharmaceutical drugs out in the wild that have known side-effects. Chemotherapy completely nukes a person's body but is legal because the harm it induces is deemed worth the problem it solves (cancer).

Despite this, marijuana which is in easy circulation on the streets in dubious forms of dosage/strength, has such a political air over it that most countries still won't even look into the medical applications of it!

As a scientist, the double standards are incredibly frustrating!
On my mac I avoid chrome and firefox, mainly because the the zoomable interface in safari is so nice. Maybe if I had better eye sight it wouldn't be a big deal, but I find I miss it immediately when I'm using an alternative browser.
Machine that I have this issues on have 8 GB of ram, it's not that.
Oh boy. This definitely won't have massive fraud issues at all. Nope.
Yeah, it’s a pretty standard conv net. Right now we’re only recognizing the foods in the image. We’re hoping to start predicting the portion sizes for the common foods once we get enough examples from our users.
The problematic part for Coinbase is probably automatically selling the coins and depositing USD into their checking account. There are other vendors to handle the Bitcoin itself.

In particular, I think Verotel does Bitcoin processing for adult merchants.
The true litmus test is to look at history, during times when social order completely broke down. How did the elites fare then?

Would the French revolution be a good example? Or is that event already biased against the elites? Or would a hypothetical future collapse of society be also biased against the elites?
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Strictly speaking, in an economy of specialists (which is what the global economy is, we've all become specialists. We're to the point that even 'programmer' has individual specialties), there is no single thing that will scale to everybody.
Is there a solid actuarial calculation behind either of the probabilistic claims you're making? Don't get me wrong, I certainly hope you're right and gp is wrong, but I imagine it's pretty hard to decide either way.

I think Bill Gates is a flawed example, since he is focused on philanthropic charity, which is unlikely to have a transformative/exponential effect on societal survivability proportionate to the effect his wealth could have on his personal survivability. But, if he were more focused on potentially transformative "moonshot" investments then I think it might be close.

In any event, I don't think you can really assert either way with confidence, so for any individual it's a more or less blind choice between being optimistic and altruistic or pessimistic and selfish. Unfortunately capitalist logic pushes us strongly away from altruism and towards maximizing individual outcomes. Of course as many have pointed out it's not actually a binary choice if you're sufficiently wealthy, the survivalism is just a form of hedging, but it does have a potentially significant opportunity cost.
that is what we do in our organization, we don't see value on their cloud services, we see value on their framework
and credit cards dont?
>Putting on my non-partisan hat, though, I am nervous about the precedent of removing a president from office iff it is seen as a partisan move. The removal of Trump without widespread Republican support (as opposed to a small defecting faction) might be seen as precedent for a higher frequency of partisan impeachments - a danger to be weighed against (in my not-very-objective opinion) the dangers of a Trump presidency.

We already have a one-party state in which the Republican Party plays partisan hardball, as much as possible, to prevent elections from altering their control over the government. Why not fight back for once?
If you buy puts, MM sold puts and will sell shares against since he is holding a deltaLong position from selling his puts (he makes money if the underlying goes up and lose money if the underlying goes down (which is why you bought the put). To hedge that risk he would sell shares against the sold put so that the risk of the underlying move would be covered.
I suppose that if we want to take the "a legitimate right to appropriate natural resources and make exclusive use of what you transform said resources into" argument to its own silly-extreme, we could say that slavery is a natural right, because that sounds like a fairly good description of parents making a baby.
"Until workers can share equally in the profits of a business"

Sharing equally in the productivity of the society is just communism. It fails every time because people have varying levels of productivity but when you compensate everyone equally no matter what effort they apply, you get a tragedy of the commons situation.

Communism has been tried many times and has never been shown to be good for workers.
If you want it to be edgy to think that environmental changes and running out of resources is really happening than you can think that's edgy.

I think it's more stupid to not acknowledge that this is happening.
Thanks for trying the app!
The eusocial altruistic behavior of bees and other Hymenoptera requires relatedness (kin selection), but it also requires other ecological benefits like a nest that could be kept safe across multiple generations. This work is detailed exhaustively by Richard Alexander where he discusses origins of altruistic group behavior in both eusocial species and humans.
Gifted kids flourish when other kids have interesting conversations with them instead of beating them up. If you know how to make that happen in a regular school, I'm all ears. But in my experience that's impossible and segregation is the only answer.
I wouldn't use this. It's not that I don't think your calorie count might be right for some cases, but it won't get everything right, and when you're trying to lose/gain weight, making sure you have accurate calorie counts is crucial (you need measuring spoons/cups, etc).

Which is why I'm sticking with MyFitnessPal. Also, I find that although it's tedious to keep count of calories in the beginning, once you get used to it, it becomes a game, and even fun.
So it seems there is no easy way I can move from writing CRUD apps in US with 2 weeks vacation policy to Switzerland and have 6 weeks of vacation. I would've ample time there to rant about crappy USA.

Now I am stuck in US which allow third worlders like me to come and work in tech.
>For example, the Singapore model can't scale. It's based on rich people and corporations arbitraging the international fiscal system. You can't have another Singapore without having another East Asia and West with it. Swiss is definitively a privileged place that is benefiting from the overall wealth of Europe and many other countries.

Well, concerning "match better work culture and comparable or better standards of living than the US" you could use any Nordic country too, which doesn't depend on a specific financial situation like Switzerland does with banking.

An even more apt question: does the American model scale -- without 1+ century of wars, meddling in foreign countries, befriending and installing dictators and friendly lackeys in power, resource grabbing, and the huge military that ensures all that is possible?

For Britain and France, their similar colonial past it didn't work that well in the end.
I agree. This is going to sound conceited, but I really blame the public school system for never giving me a challenge.

Until I eventually got into private school for the last 2 years of high school, I had never had to work to get straight As. I could often complete homework assignments before class was even over.

Unfortunately, this conditioned me to be incredibly lazy. As I never developed a strong work ethic, in college I continued to put in a minimum of effort though that wasn't enough for straight As.

I've never really had the experience of consistently trying to do something hard. Even though I'm trying to force myself to do it now (setting ambitious fitness goals and taking advanced online classes), I can't help but feel that it would've been a lot easier to develop this grit when motivation didn't entirely depend on me.
To me, that suggests that even though they offer well above minimum wage, they haven't arrived at a fair market value yet.
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I bet both of those developers were thankful they had something concrete they could go to their old job with and say "Sorry, can't do it".
Still have to cash out through somebody if you want ActualMoney(tm).
He, I think, said this as a partial joke at the most recent Code Conference. I don't think there is time time to create this and get it to market in about 7-8 months time.
On any given software team of more than 10 people, I can promise you at least 1 of them is regarded by the others as less skilled. The truth of that isn't relevant, the fact is even competent or highly skilled people may have a hard time presenting that skill verbally and/or in writing.

And even if you do somehow manage to go through an entire career without encountering someone like that or dealing with another person who happens to be a little your inferior, I fail to see the downside of learning social and communication skills for people not like yourself. That just sounds like a recipe for a well rounded individual.
> The cannabis world already has their own troubles, so maybe the ratchet will next tighten on them

IIRC cannabis merchants can't even open bank accounts, much less accept credit cards. The only way that they can be annoyed further is by restricting the amount of cash they can hold in the store - which actually would make sense, given that a pot stop filled to the brim with cash is a prime target for gangsters.
code for training in a Python Jupyter Notebook, plus the web UI in React and Keras.js is available here: https://github.com/stratospark/food-101-keras
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If you run a democracy for nearly 850 years, it sort of looks a bit conservative.

Progressivism != democracy. Athens as of 500AD were technically utterly democratic, and had slavery, let alone no voting rights for women.

Progress can also be quite un-democratic. E.g. Soviet Union in 1920-30s progressed quickly to afford universal education, equal rights for women, let alone science and industry (especially military industry). It was quite anti-democratic, though, with fake elections (having just one "contender" in the bulletin), those who happened to be born into former "bourgeoisie" having severe restrictions in civil rights, let alone incarcerating and executing lots of people without any due process.
Getting a replacement credit card is much easier than replacement fingerprints or eyes.
Bingo. So many macroeconomic prognostications in this thread, none of which will be correct. The fact that "smart hedge fund" guys are making stupid bets on a market crash is hilarious.

Put money in diverse holdings and let it compound. It's not hard.
I've been using react-native for the last year and can't say I have much positive to say about it. Honestly, just about every day we hit a sharp pain point in component layouts, broken build scripts due to RN bugs, and runtime crashes. While Ionic 2 is young, I welcome another option to the JS native space. I'm also hoping Flutter.io will get to a stable release.
>But the Swiss economy is diversified.

It's easy to be diversified if you funding it with "stolen money" -- or the world's rich banking accounts in any case.
I gotta figure it's a big risk and an uphill battle trying to push so much technology to such an underdeveloped place. "Biggest technological leapfrogging ever in the history of mankind" may be right, but there's big risks and growing pains that come along with that.