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Perl6 is not, IMHO, a completely different language and I can't understand why the Perl6 community beat this drum so hard. "use <version>;" "my" variables, context awareness, $@% variable identifiers, list emphasis. At the syntactic level Perl6 is very similar to Perl5. OK, it's OO under the hood, unlike Perl5. If it's a completely different language why name it Perl6?
"nearly monotonic increase"

That nearly gets them every time.
That's a very uncharitable assumption about P's comment.
No, that results in false classification.

This is saying that overtraining prevents revision of existing skills, as if the learning process is interrupted.
>Only criminals that get caught end up in jail..

That's the same in every country.

The only interesting question is whether the netherlands have any higher crime rate, which I don't think is the case (compare to e.g. Britain).

If they don't arrest some guys doing some petty small stuff, it's no big deal.
This piece of code is crap - it's not functional, keeps implicit state.
> The goal of the URL standard isn't to generate URLs from user input […], but instead define how <a href="foo"> in HTML

Ehm, that’s exactly user input. If it were machine input, there would be a normalized definition, and you’d use that internally.

And you wouldn’t define a URL spec this way, but you’d define a strict URL spec that browsers and all tools should use, and a legacy tool for converting URLs.

Then any tool that doesn’t directly deal with user input can always be sure the URL they get will strictly follow the standard, and only the first tool in the pipeline has to deal with malformed input (which this is)
As a Vizio tv owner who will probably by more Vizio tvs... Meh. I just assume every electronic device I own is spying on my habits and selling the data to whomever. Glad to see them busted on this, because I want to see the line for this stuff set as far back as possible, to be the most trouble and risk possible for businesses.

But yeah, you can't really expect corporate ethics or laws to protect you.
Not really. With over-fitting, performance goes down, not just plateaues.
> Depends what you mean by “EU”. Western Europe? Sure

It also depends on what you mean by danger. Are Western European EU countries in jeopardy of being invaded by Russia? Probably not. But considering Russia's position as supplier of most of Europe's natural gas and a big chunk of its oil, danger can have many meanings.

The most plausible explanation I've heard for the situation in Syria involves a proposed pipeline from Qatar that would challenge Russia's position as primary natural gas supplier to Europe. Russia has been propping up Assad, since he's against the pipeline. Western countries, including the US, have wanted him gone so that a more pipeline-friendly regime can be put in place. There's a cold war being fought between Europe/US and Russia in Syria, and ISIS stepping into that power vacuum has been the result. And while that's not an existential danger to Europe, just ask the French how safe they feel. And the refugee crisis hasn't exactly been pleasant for Western Europe either.

Meanwhile, Russia also wants to tap oil reserves in their arctic areas but wants help from Exxon to do it. That requires the US dropping its sanctions. Hence Russia's involvement in getting Putin-friendly Trump elected and Exxon exec Tillerson as Secretary of State.

The reality is that Russia is a petrostate ruled by oligarchs who are intent on exploiting those resources to their fullest. Russia will do everything in its power to thwart transitions to alternative fuels. And it is more than willing to use its military to promote its interests in third-world countries. This isn't unlike what the US does, but to anyone who cares about the environment, it should be a very scary thought, since the Russian agenda means increasing our effect on climate change. Equating Russian danger to military aggression against the West is probably overly simplistic and ignores the primary dangers of Russia. The true dangers are likely more subtle forms of advocating their interests.
This is quite bad — I can barely understand a word of it and I have some background in Greek and German philosophy. I wouldn't take it as anything but a decent list of authors to look into in more detail.

We're talking about thousands of years worth of the thoughts of the smartest people who ever lived. The author's heart seems to be in the right place and they are occasionally poetic, but there is simply very little of substance you can say about this much stuff in such a short space.
The arguments presented in the brief suggest they care more about the impact on their ability to recruit than negative general PR for not supporting the ban.
The UK is in the EU, so you shouldn't be paying customs.
> as many features as he could pack in

Aiui there's some merit to the notion of The Lisp Curse[1] and he wanted to avoid it. Do you reject the notion of the curse, or think it doesn't apply to P6, or think he overdid it, or...?

Do you recall any specific features you felt went over the top?

[1] eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450973
Show HN: I doodle a lot in meetings so much that here is the web comic
As air and ground vehicles become less expensive, the real question is what happens to the difference between them.
You may be correct; I've seen a number of articles specifically claiming Amazon and Expedia joined the lawsuit (which has a clear and well accepted meaning), but on review there are also a lot claiming that the relation and there involvement is somewhat different, and I can't immediately find any definitive documentation of their joining as plaintiffs (they clearly weren't initial plaintiffs). Their involvement by any of the reports may still be of a kind to make it inappropriate for them to be amici, and they clearly support Washington (and Minnesota) substantively in the case, at any rate.
> Sure, they can destroy their data, but everything shared with those 3rd parties is still at those third parties.

Agreed.

I think it would be more effective deterrent if VIZIO had to work with those third parties to locate and delete the material that was transferred to them. This
1) would nullify the contract between VIZIO and those parties forcing VIZIO into back payment and
2) create an annoyance for the third-parties, hopefully making them think to ask how any data they're purchasing is being collected.

At a minimum I think that customers whose data was collected prior to March 2016 have a right to know which third-party companies purchased their information.
Free Market Competition Rewards Deception and Manipulation
You misunderstand the word 'significant'. Your statements don't refute anything he has said and seem to miss the point.
I was scammed on Marktplaats a couple of years ago, along with about 20 victims who also got scammed by the same person. We gathered a lot of information about the scammer, down to all his personal information, ip addresses, email accounts, advertisement details, etc. After about 2 years we got a form in the mail if we would like to press charges and "sue" for damages. Everybody involved filled in the forms and about one year later this persons trial was canceled because of lack of evidence.

Not sure if it's truly hard to prove internet fraud, are understaffed or they just don't care enough. Anyway, seems like an easy way to make a quick buck or two for criminals. Even tho this person didn't look like a particularly intelligent individual or even a hardcore criminal, he got away with many scams and probably made quite a lot of money in a short period of time.
Their problem is execution - they don't seem to sucseed in true ride sharing(few people share the same car), which is a protectable business, once won.

On the other hand, some of their competitors, like via seem to manage to do that quite well(altough currently supported by VC money).

So i wonder, what's the secret that Uber can't seem to copy ?
Can confirm. I can pull a max of maybe 10 mbps down most times on my 100/10 plan. To upgrade to a 250/something plan they want a 250+ fee and 100 something per month. I was spoiled back in Seattle with my 1gbps for 80 a month.

Internet infra in NYC is terrible and if you're not anywhere where Fios is offered you're in for a bad time (Comcast, TWC). The only light are the Link stations around the city.
Not OP, but I drink about 2 gallons of green tea per day because I like it. (About one box of this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083COLAM which is supposed to make 6 pitchers.)
Content aside, I'm not at all sure that self-posting your own blog post as a "Show HN" is appropriate.
I agree that Smart TVs need to die. I think some sort of law or regulation mandating security updates for the average life expectancy of such devices would ago a long way towards killing off Smart TVs. That's assuming the life expectancy is something reasonable like 5-10 years.
You. Are. Not. Supposed. To. Install. Debian. Stable. On. A. Desktop. Machine.

How many times will this have to be repeated? Stable is for servers. If you're running webkit based libraries on your server you have other issues.
For desktops, both Testing and Unstable are the valid options.
Gustafson gives a compelling argument, especially for low precision like 8b and 16b. In 8b, operations can be implemented with table lookup with FPGAs. Unums are better than IEEE but can't an application specific choice do better given that we're talking about choosing 256 numbers?
Many (most? that seems strong) people are dissatisfied with some aspects of the current state they feel can and should be done better.

Sounds like a perfectly rational attitude, not rationalized. Also doesn't imply any awfulness in the way they live unless you subscribe to Buddhist teaching about attachment.
This comment is fantastic. I laughed out loud. The ivory tower exists for conservatives and liberals. And the Chicago comment is on point.

I heard someone from U of Chicago School of Economics make the case that Payday lenders should not exist. If you go to U of C you'd know they do exist and they're about 1/4 of a mile off campus if you just left and looked around.
The best advice I got was from a VC -- he said, "I'm a salesman, my job is to sell you money".

If you look at it from that perspective, getting funding should be about as celebrated as the farm that buys a new combine or the factory that buys a new robot. You're celebrating a huge new liability on your books.

VC investment is something you buy that you hope will provide more value to your organization than it costs, just like any other capitol outlay.
> However, most self-respecting developers have got rid of mutable global variables in their code long ago.

Is this a dig on those of us who have not gone to pure FP languages, or just those who use globally scoped (unscoped) variables?
Pills packaging powdered remains of fruits sell very well, I'm sure people will be fine.
There is definitely a fuzzy line on multi-use items though. I buy my computer for many purposes, not just a singular objective. Otherwise my budgets would all be overblown.

My PC is more than just learning, it is for personal use, work, gaming, tv, movies, education, entertainment, communication, and so many different things. If purchased for any individual one of those, it'd be quite costly.
"Their business model has no barrier to entry."

Critical mass of drivers, particularly within a specific market area - and brand - are definitely barriers to entry.

There are network externalities for sure.

If you go to city ABC and 'everyone is on Uber' - as a consumer, you'll probably just use Uber.

Drivers? Well, they'll just sign up for Uber if there's little else.

A 'new market entrant' will have a 'chicken and egg' problem in terms of signing up drivers and riders.

A true 'lower barrier to entry' business would be like a hot-dog stand - no cost, you set up beside the other guy, you can take just as much business. Your benefit scales roughly linearly with the number of stands you have, and because you have more, does not really give customers incentive to buy from you etc..

So there are 'competitors' but there are also at least some barriers, on a locale by locale basis.

There are other barriers - such as the ability to fund/lobby (and bribe) all of the various political entities that could oppose you - Uber has been pretty aggressive at winning these things and that costs $$$.
At one of the big Silicon Valley tech companies? Google at least has a policy that promotions & annual raises normalize to level-defined salary bands, i.e. if you have a higher salary coming in relative to your coworkers of equal skill, you will get smaller raises until your salaries equalize.
There's a lot of cool things happening in the creative tools space. Along with the tools mentioned above, Figma is a good take on how design teams can work together (plus, it's web-based, which is just cool).
I'm curious what's the difference between Managed State and good old Dependency Injection. Is it just a naming difference? In that case, why? People already know what DI is.
Not your fault. Developers tend to sometimes underestimate the power of releasing a command line utility as a web based/API tool that can help non techies do simple stuff. Image resizing is a recurring candidate but there are others like conversion tools (to pdf), checkers/monitors (ssl for example) etc. Yes, you could do these on your server with a simple cmd line but tons of folks are willing to pay to be able to use a browser/API to do the same.
Not a Trump fan at all here, but technically I think it's more the other way around. Trump is buying up Goldman, rather than they buying him. I have yet to see a clear line of influence from Goldman to Trump personally. It seems more like he's hiring old buddies for potential future favors from them. Reverse lobbying! You heard it here first!
It probably needs to be made easier then, so the H1B can switch jobs as easily as a native worker.

I have not had to deal with US immigration, but my impression is the H1B process is between the employer and the government. It would probably help to make that between the employee and the government, to give the employee more control.
:-)

"In the 20th century I followed the development of perl 6"
Machine Learning Based Approach for Retrieving Information from Receipt Images
The meaning of words changes over time. The meaning of decimate has changed from its original meaning. Sorry you can't handle that fact.

Oh, and that is not to mention that the original meaning of "decimate" was "tithe," not "kill on in ten soldiers."
It is The Register and their FUD campaign
"perfect practice makes perfect" - wow this comes as a revelation to me. Never realized how important it is to do it right - something very obvious but struck me by surprise when you put it this way.
> Emacs can hide/show blocks in Lisp expressions (and others). Install HideShow (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HideShow).

Yes, I've used it before and it's quite nice.

I've not used Slime, or done any Common Lisp programming for that matter.

I do love Emacs, and calling out to a sub/inferior-process for language-specific info is a good idea; it can just be frustrating to actually get the darn things to work though. After failing to get Geiser to work for Racket, or ghc-mod || intero || dante for Haskell, I've resigned myself to being happy with just syntax colouring :(
White tea has around 20mg of caffeine per cup, compared to 30mg for green tea and 95mg/cup for coffee.

So your "1 gallon/day" of white tea gets you about the same caffeine content as 1L of black coffee per day, with a total intake of ~320mg of caffeine per day. About 100mg per day of caffeine can cause addiction.

So the odds are that you're a caffeine addict. On the other hand, you might be immune to caffeine or have low sensitivity.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/research/bpru/doc...
Vizio's data service is set to be spun off into its own company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscape_Data_Services
>I'm just confused as to what you actually want to see happen to the SV bully-boys.

I'd love to see the value of their businesses destroyed through zealous over-regulation. I'd love to see the IRS target them for audits the way Obama's IRS targeted conservative groups. I'd love for them to be criminally prosecuted, and -- dare I dream? -- jailed for any violations of the tax code that might be uncovered. That would wipe the smug off their faces.

The political left in America no longer employs persuasion as their primary means of gaining and maintaining political power. Instead, they attempt to inflict social or financial punishment on their political enemies to shut them up. Recall the reaction when Peter Thiel had the audacity to support a presidential candidate they opposed. Google [memories pizza] for another example.

So if that is how the game is played these days, then I want the right to use the same tactics against the left, and inflict massive pain on them until they offer a truce.

I'm basically an Adam Smith free-market libertarian. I think the country, as a whole, would be better off if the cap on H1Bs was lifted entirely. Productive, tax-paying, wealth-creating people would flood into this country and enrich it.

But politics is war these days. And Airbnb is more than just an enterprise, it's a wing of the Democratic party. So I think the Republicans should, to paraphrase Obama, "punish [their] enemies and reward [their] friends."
An aside but... The "modern approach to concurrent programming" totally depends on what you're doing. Async I/O isn't always the answer. Sometimes, you need to compute in parallel, and that's not necessarily mutually exclusive (e.g. Go). What language you choose does matter for both of these.
Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers
When I was young, I started to cut my soldering teeth helping my grandfather maintain his model train layout (age issues meant he was finding it hard to do fine work upside down under a table)[1]. I was so excited to be helping, learning about electronics, and playing with tools, but so disappointed when the "done" state was a train going around.

Moral of the story: When you solder upside down, wear eye protection.
While I could see that this implementation of Managed State is an example of DI, the opposite is not true.
"from an economic perspective the net impact of jobs and wages has not been significant."

I suppose you mean "from a global financial economic perspective". And you are right, of course: income equals expenditure.

From a economic local perspective, you have now a worker that before won 25$ and now doesn't. He is pissed off, and it's going to vote somebody that looks angry too.

You have 23$ in profit that will go (with a short stop in Ireland first) to buy an empty condo-mine in London or will be invested in places with 2$ waves in order to repeat the operation.

But, yes, the USA commercial deficit is totally the fault of the Chinese.
First we're trying to master the food suggestion part of that equation. We want to encourage people to eat the healthiest thing they have available. This means our tool doesn't try and punish you if you aren't shopping perfectly. By using an "SOS" button, we are going to work with what our users have access to and make suggestions for certain plates at restaurants near the user.

There are some emerging IOT products (like smart cups) that we plan on interfacing with that may aid in this process.

In short my answer is not yet. But interfacing with IOT health tracking products is a huge part of our platform.
I stand corrected - my statement is indeed not backed by concrete evidence, but my personal experience and is mostly related to job findings where some legacy Perl5 needs to be supported or amended.

Though, I'm more or less surprised that things are as you say in France.
By which metric is Linux more advanced than FreeBSD? Companies like Netflix use FreeBSD because its networking stack blows Linux out of the water. Further, how about Xorg, Apache, BIND, Nginx, etc? Significant amounts of userland tools and applications are written under more liberal licenses.
I've always been fond of Rethinkdb, but never actually used it. Perhaps if I came across pragmatic examples of how to do x with y, like you typically see with Redis, I could have convinced my team/s otherwise.

One of the aspects of Rethinkdb I admire most is the tooling. I find myself often trying out something new with React, Postgres, ASP.NET Core, Elm, Go, Kotlin or what not and biasing my experience getting started with preference to use.

I recond Rethink as Pied Piper in Silicon Valley; a great product ultimately being misunderstood. I'm relieved to hear Rethinkdb will live on under the Linux Foundation (and applaud them for doing so) and earnestly hope it re-establishes itself in a niche, such as that of Firebase/Parse, with partnerships and a legacy to rival that of Postgres one day.
I wouldn't be so sure:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/fda-confirms-toxicit...

"After investigating reports that more than 400 babies were sickened and 10 died in connection with homeopathic teething products, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed Friday that it had indeed found elevated levels of the toxic substance, belladonna, in the products."
I used to think that too until I bought a new TV that has great Amazon/Netflix/Youtube apps. I suddenly didn't need a different box and have one remote. I'm sure I'll need a new external box in a few years but for now its so simple its perfect.
Some of them stay 30 years in the service and then retire. Others go to work for civilian nuclear power plants, or the vendors which service and supply them. And there aren't very many trained operators to begin with. The US Navy has <90 nuclear powered vessels (plus a few separate reactors for training and research).
> What's wrong with (A (B C) C D) ?

That's a different structure: it has two Cs in it.

> For circular structures, you could also have: '#1=(A . #1#)

That's what I meant by "references".
Actually I remember an article from the local paper here (on Kaua'i) where someone on the island had made just that.. though I think the compost was making biofuel of some sort
Thanks! The Helsinki map is just a normal styled google map
You can scale past 15 nodes... it's just you'll want to tweak things and/or you won't get linear growth as you add more nodes. That doesn't mean you can't. Also, if you need more than that, Cassandra and other options are there, and you'll likely have to feel that pain regardless.

There are other ways to separate your data depending on use cases. It's just a rough guideline... You'll see similar issues beyond 10-20 servers in a local cluster in many of the NoSQL options.

RethinkDB also has much better consistency guarantees over Aerospike, not to mention being FLOSS under a more permissive license.
We've discussed flipping the defaults; it was decided before I started writing so many docs and examples. Very different today!
There was a paper recently that LED lights contributed to retinal deterioration. Let me pull that up for a second.
C* is short for Cassandra.
I've been living in the EU (Croatia) now for three years and I'm honestly baffled that people here think that these are legitimately barriers to trade. As another commenter noted: We're all using GMail and AirBnB and Etsy, despite our "cultural differences".

I think that, in the quest for a cheaper laptop, people won't care much that the product description isn't a grammatically perfect rendering of their local Norwegian subdialect. In fact, I bet a site that mandated English (I know, shudder all you want, but it's true) as the language for sellers would mop up here. Everybody 40 and younger (AKA "your target market") speaks/reads English flawlessly.

Taxes and regulations? Big problem. Totally agree with you. This is probably what's kept Amazon such a bit player in Europe.

Cultural and linguistic differences? Not a major issue.