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>small functions that lift types from simple to complex.

That's not what Monad is.

Monad isn't core to FP, but it's a convenient way to express some common things in functional programs.

>In the Haskell language, and many other modern languages, the definition is more complex. Here, a monad is also function, but it is a special type of function. Monads typically “lift” a primitive variable types (Integer, String, etc), to more complex types (MutableString, NullableInt).

This is completely wrong.

>we can define the Haskell monads as that which takes one singular state and outputs another.

This is also wrong.

>Thus, we can arrive at a definition of the computer science monad as a fundamental unit of computation.

It's not at all fundamental to computation. It's a useful pattern that can be reified in a sufficiently expressive type system.

There's no relationship between Leibniz monads and the Monad you see in FP. Sorry.
Mailbox was an acquisition. Carousel was launched by Dropbox, but it came out of their acquisition of Snapjoy.

The problem wasn't simply that they shuttered the services (particularly Mailbox), it was how they did it. Mailbox spent about a year with development completely stagnated. Essential features like searching were broken and Dropbox's response was "we're refactoring! Don't worry, big updates coming soon, please be patient!" And that went on right up until they said "Okay bye!"

Services get shut down. It sucks, but it happens. But stringing your customers along for a year knowing perfectly well that your product is not being worked on is pretty awful.
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Trump’s Travel Ban Disrupts Meeting of ICANN
I've done some work in coffee shops (but on my own personal projects), so I actually understand firsthand how this is a nice way to do some work. But I don't really understand the coworking space concept. It seems to be worse than the coffee shop, but for a lot more money.

With a coffee shop, it's basically free, except you need to buy some drinks and snacks to justify taking up space there for so long. Not a big expense, plus you need to eat anyway. Good coffee shops will even have nice sandwiches, so you can cover your lunch that way. Coworking spaces don't have readily-available food and drinks; you'll have to bring your own.

Coffee shops don't have people yakking away on the phone. A bunch of people in this discussion have complained about this being a problem with coworking spaces. Of course, if your job requires you to talk on the phone a lot, coffee shops are out and coworking spaces would make perfect sense, but my job doesn't.

So I don't really get it, unless you don't have a good coffee shop around that lets you camp out there for many hours a day.
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Instead of reading second hand sources, why not ACTUALLY READ what Trump said in his own words, 17 hours ago, right here:

“America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border. America has always been the land of the free and home of the brave. We will keep it free and keep it safe, as the media knows, but refuses to say. My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months. The seven countries named in the Executive Order are the same countries previously identified by the Obama administration as sources of terror. To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting. This is not about religion - this is about terror and keeping our country safe. There are over 40 different countries worldwide that are majority Muslim that are not affected by this order. We will again be issuing visas to all countries once we are sure we have reviewed and implemented the most secure policies over the next 90 days. I have tremendous feeling for the people involved in this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria. My first priority will always be to protect and serve our country, but as President I will find ways to help all those who are suffering.”

https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10158567643610725

I disagree with your unnecessarily vulgar phrasing (please don't do that), but vouched for your post because I think focussing on Trump's actual words can be a constructive way of establishing common ground. Presumably, you quote this because you think it shows that Trump is being intentionally misconstrued by the press. I agree --- many people are distorting what Trump actually says in a way that fits the narrative they want to create.

What you may not understand is that many people think it's best to ignore Trump's actual words because they are designed to mislead. Since they've already decided that Trump's actions are based on racism rather than an honest desire for national security, Trump's explanations are presumed in advance to be a cover story for this true goals.

This is essentially a stalemate, as nothing that Trump can say will serve to persuade those who are prejudiced against him. Where I think the media is being misleading is that they jump straight to this conclusion, rather than building a solid case that might convince those who do not already agree with them. They intentionally conflate their own interpretation of events as being Trump's stated goals.

With this in mind, I'd like to focus on what Trump is actually saying. If we take him at his word, is Trump's explanation here reasonable? Is the expressed intent unacceptable, or does it become unacceptable only if we assume the true meaning is contained in inaudible dogwhistles? How do we eliminate the "simple" explanation that Trump believes in what he's doing, and is doing it for the reasons he says he is?
My money is on yes, unless they've developed a unit of measurement for focus and mindfulness which seems unlikely.
Amazing tasting tomatoes are also very easy to grow yourself. Tomatoes are a hardy vine, and hard to mess up, you just need plenty of sunshine. There are seeds available for many heirloom varieties, and when you grow them yourself, you pick them at the peak of freshness. I particularly like the Early Girl variety. It's a bummer that you can't re-plant the seeds from most tomatoes, which are F1 hybrids, so the next generation is really terrible.

I've been growing them for years, even when I was living in apartments with no garden space at all. For really tight space, something like an EarthBox works great - you get very high plant density. I had one of those on a balcony barely bigger than the box itself, and I still had a few fresh tomatoes every week!

Here in the SF bay area, you can sprout the seeds in late Feb, early March, and you've got edible tomatoes by mid may, all the way through October. I'm pretty sure I can build a cheap glass house and have them year round, now that I have back yard.
Watching and reading a lot from Seth Godin. For me at least, he finds a way to cut through the "self-help" BS, and inspire.
Ex Machina had hella CGI, it won an academy award for their visual effects!
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Daniel Dennet wrote a book arguing for the existence of free will despite the determinism of the universe.

It's called the evolution of free will. You might want to check that out if you'd like to know more about that perspective.
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> Your sandwich shop worker served you and 80 other customers last Tuesday. I'm the boss, and it's time for me to cut the checks. Wait—what am I paying for here?

The contractual debt you incurred when the work happened. Or, in terms of expected value received from paying, you are paying to avoid the legal consequences of not paying that debt.
Between Evernote, Office360 and Google Drive/Docs, etc. I'm of the opinion this was wasted time and money; and that it will not be a revenue or user growth driver for Dropbox. There are gaps in sharing and collaboration where paid demand exists. They include: end-to-end persistent encrypted sharing; File authentication; handwriting recognition/search; rule and ML based box culling; content-aware rules; mesh-network sharing; blockchain integration; content analysis for sourcing/data-viz; and so much more. I sense a lack of imagination at Dropbox.
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It all makes me feel very stupid. I did programming since childhood and web since the beginning, I was clouds (virtualization) user even before millennium, I do backends for a living, saw a lot of JS code, know something about mobile apps, but I must join this thread.

"Parse Server is an open source version of the Parse backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js" - each of these words one-by-one do have some meanings, but altogether they have none, neither your explanation for me. I fully believe it's totally my fault and it's hopeless, so please no reply.
I'm not expecting there to be a huge difference, but it looks silly to include non-standard features for both React and Vue.

As for performance, do you have a setup that we could see that shows how those are generated? Just genuinely curious.
Voice-driven devices are much more than smartphones without a screen
I'm curious what does a "medium traffic site" mean? I feel like I have a bunch of what I'd call "medium traffic sites" and I've not had much of a problem with them. Though, maybe my "medium" is actually "small"?

Is there a general rule of thumb for site traffic? Like a "medium traffic site" gets X Hits, or whatever?
Really? I couldn't find the spreadsheet, the table functionality is like Markdown-like tables to me
U.S. is still the best country for immigrants
The runtime is not loaded every time. The runtime is only loaded when the cache is cold. For a typical Node.js Serverless function this "cold start" takes about 3 seconds.

After the function is warmed up it is just as fast as if it was on a dedicated server. Unless it cools off. Which it won't if the function gets regular usage.

As the function becomes more popular it will be loaded onto more servers and the work can be spread across those as well.
Can you back the claim up that natural chemicals are being used and are harmful?

I thought the whole point of organic is that there are no pesticides being used in the first place.
> either change your organization or change your organization

Two different but related meanings coming from two valid parses of the same string, nice!
The idea that a democratically elected government is testing the waters and attempting to stage a coup d'état is a pretty obvious allusion to Hitler's rise to power. It's pretty plain to see, especially given a few of the links in the article, including another of the author's own...
Very true. There have been a significant number of times recently that I decided not to watch a youtube video because it was 25+ minutes long...
How to get the media to pay attention to your startup
You should check out http://webppl.org/, you implement your own probabilistic programming language in javascript.
I've enjoyed Mithril for a while now, and you will be pleasantly surprised with the rewrite (i.e., the 1.0 version). It's different in quite a few ways and does away with the confusing controller concept for one thing.

But best of all might be lhorie's wisdom (and of course the contributors) that you can consume from the documentation.
Also fails to mention enabling SSL which shortens load times.

This might not be an option for those on free Cloudflare plans, though.
Yeah, I tried some Trader Joe's organic stuff, and the result was smaller kernels that were not very crisp.

Redenbachers seems to do the job texture wise, but I'd love to hear about some really great lesser known stuff.
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> For now, they don't screw their customers

Dismantling the rule of law in my book counts as screwing up the entire society.
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I wish there were explicit pre- and post-condition sections. The pointer-typedef stuff never made much sense to me either.
Oh? How big of a difference does that make? I'm not even sure what to measure? I can host 100 WP sites that generate a total of 100000 hits in a day using Apache requires X RAM and X Cores but using NGINX I could do that with only X RAM and R Cores? Did you find something like that?
I'd love to squeeze more out of what I have if I can do it with NGNIX.
I would say this is a triumph of imposing precision on the real world.
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Since they are hybrid seeds, keeping the next F2 generation is not that useful. You get all the things that were used to make the hybrid cross popping out but they are not the same as the F1 parent plants.
Serverless (in this context) is a framework for running functions on the cloud. The more platforms teh framework supports the more choices the developer has. Which is a win-win.

If you ask why Serverless in general... scaling to millions of users for barely more expensive than running servers with little to no devops cost. At less users it is significantly cheaper. A low-traffic Serverless app could cost pennies a month and you have the full power of your favorite language at your disposal. (assuming your favorite language is Javascript, Java, or Python)
I'm not surprised. fitness wearables turned out to be pretty bad quality. sold only because of the buzz.
Exactly this. I don't really care if it pays well if I hate the system. If I hate using it, if I don't believe in it, if I feel like it isn't the right product for the customers I am supposed to help.
Yes. However Rust's precise mitigation only works because it doesn't use hashcoding (Swift does). A possible mitigation that's similar to Rust's would be for each Dictionary to post-process hashes with some per-Dictionary key/salt.
Last time I used the API it was incomplete and slow. The "multi request mode" also exposes all sorts of resource exhuastion attacks. I had a ton of sites go down from "bundled" login attempts where they tried something like 100 passwords at once. I usually end up blocking it completely
Agreed.

I don't think there's any CGI in Pulp Fiction (1994) and it cost around $9 million to make in 1994 dollars. It made around $200 million worldwide. Whiplash (2014) , a more recent movie with little to no CGI, cost $3.3 million to make and made around $49 million worldwide.

The point is that people want interesting, well written movies with great stories. If that warrants CGI sure, but it's not a requirement.

A boring movie is not good. But a boring and expensive movie is terrible and that's what's mainly being put out: boring and expensive movies.

As far as movies with huge production budgets for every great movie with a justified fair amount of CGI there's tens of crappy ones many that break even or don't make their money back.

Creatively speaking there's probably never been a worse time for big Hollyood movies.
Ah, I was waiting for somebody to point out the wonderful math behind this!

Or rather, I was about to post about hypercubes and cycles myself :D
I haven't used it in a while, but most browsers allow you to go File->Save, and it'll save everything in a contained folder structure that should be easily zippable. Including all linked images/CSS/JS, with their references fixed for local-consumption.

That is, until requireJS/AMD/angular/react/backbone/etc and those sorts of things started polluting the web. Thanks you JS developers.
> If it wasn't tipped toward foreign workers, you'd hear stories of H1B workers who sadly lost their job to an American.

You don't, because when an H-1B worker loses her job, she has to leave the country or find another job real quick. Either way, she most likely do not have time to get her story across to you.
The problem with "the middle of nowhere" is the lack of socialization available. That's why a lot of people move to cities, even though the cost is a lot more.

Sure, it's great if you can work remotely and afford a really nice place in the sticks. But lots of people here even complain about going "stir-crazy" from sitting at home too much. Even if you're married, you're going to get tired of only socializing with that one person all the time, and never having any outside friends. You'll also get tired of never having any activities to do which involve interacting with other people. In a city, you have all that available: lots of other people, groups for various interests, etc. In rural areas, all you have are the people who live there, and their values and lifestyles will be so diametrically opposed to yours that you won't be able to socialize with them at all. So if you're not into fundamentalist religion, guns, off-roading, etc., moving to the sticks will condemn you to a very lonely life. And if you're an ethnic minority, it could be downright dangerous.
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Complete sidenote: Here is an example with something Redux-like done with Mithril:

https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/blob/next/examples/todo...
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The thread-opening link here is a blog post by an active researcher on the topic. The blog post links to a recent paper from the Review of Educational Research[1] by a more senior researcher with more details. I have met both of these researchers at professional conferences.

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> problems came back after 8 years, worse than ever

Please give some real examples what problems came back after that 8 years. In live in Poland and haven't noticed any particular change to worse in last year.
This is a good point, the experience at the theater used to be drastically different that what you'd get at home (VHS, non-widescreen, stereo audio, etc), but the gap is certainly closing. Combine that with highway robbery concession prices, being surrounded by a bunch of strangers... the theater is starting to look less appealing.
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It’s possible to make a map projection from the sphere to a flat surface either preserve areas, or preserve angles (and local shapes), but not both. This projection preserves angles, but it could be modified to preserve area instead, or some compromise between the two.
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Not that it undermines your point, but it wasn't soybeans, it was corn. And, as far as the wind blown spreading, corn doesn't pollinate that far from the source. His farm ran next to the Monsanto test farm and, while there was some wind blowing involved, the majority of the seed was gathered by taking seed from the crop next to his farm and by forcefully killing his crops so that he could harvest the resistant corn only. Like I said, it's not as black and white as everyone likes to think it was and there was even accusations that he trespassed on Monsanto property to get the first stock of seeds and they didn't actually blow onto his property at all.
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Or most notably, just kind of ignore - I know some of the things I do are bad for me, but I do them anyways...
It has a lot of straight lines where my eyes expect curves. It really slowed me down reading, so I switched to readability mode.
The article refers to compounds found in, for example, firefighting foam and not to the fluoride added for preventing tooth decay.
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Cool to note that either the additional gray codes bit or the circuit (be it regs, NVRO, etc) is tracking the exact same extra information.
There are 6 points on the map where pairs of adjacent “hexagons” are folded in at the corner so that they border each-other along two sides. If you like you can think of these as pairs of pentagons rather than hexagons.
Ah, I see what you mean. [000, 001, 011, 111, 101, 100] is a grey code of length 6, so not power of two is possible. However trying to come up with an odd length code is a real head scratcher. It may not be possible in binary, but is easily accomplished in higher bases.
I'm not so sure that our human brains and human societies are the most complex information encoding geometries in the 'verse. The brain of an elephant's trunk motor control cortex is pretty amazing, and they have a very complicated social system too. Ants also outweigh humans in terms of total biomass, let alone number of ants, and their eusocial system of 'governance' inside of a colony and between colonies is barely grasped as it stands. Do these creatures have a sense of 'curiosity'? Elephants are really close to maybe having it, but as for ants? Who can tell? Does that mean that they cannot build models of the future too, perhaps in ways we will not understand for millennia?

I think it's just evolution, nothing more, but that is not to say that evolution as a very simple principle has not made astounding 'discoveries'. We evolve, elephants evolve, ants evolve, and in that bloody and hungry process, beautiful things of incredible complexity emerge all over the globe.
First of all, I couldn't resist the childish double entendre.

Second, On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

not 'On topic: tech stuff'.
> Trust me, the alternative is much worse

The alternative is French Revolution. Hopefully for leftist elite democracy is still working.
How did you get that diagnosed/discovered? If you don't mind me asking.
for me it looks like,
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I recently switched from Firefox to Vivaldi due to the upcoming dependency on PulseAudio. Depending on what happens, I may end up switching back; but if I do, I expect support for ALSA either by default, a run-time option or a compile-time switch.
> If this theory models the universe as a 3D (or more) projection from a 2D surface

Further, would such a projection suggest a possible mechanism for entangled particles to interact at distance (e.g. the particles are separated in 3D-space, but are co-located in 2D-space)?
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> I think the way it's created makes it very, very easy to make bad security choices.

I can sympathize with this. I work on a dynamic API security scanner, and the vast majority of the Parse APIs I've scanned have either used API keys with full read/write permissions on the DB, or have left the database in development mode, essentially allowing anyone with an API key to modify the schema of the database.

Parse was a very cool product, but most setups I've seen didn't take advantage of the (sometimes hard to find) security features Parse provides.