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>> dynamic typing bubble
>Could you explain this? I'm not aware of such a thing at all?

Around 2005 - 2010 there was a massive amount of proselytism on the internet in favour of dynamic languages. The likes of Steve Yegge, DHH, Zed Shaw, Mark Pilgrim, Why the Lucky Stiff, Paul Graham (with lisp) and others were constantly pushing new blog posts, articles, books about the merits of dynamic languages and new teaching material and if you were to read HN or reddit from those years you'd think it was the end of statically typed languages. You couldn't spend a day without seeing things like Ruby on Rails pop up on slashdot and other media.

Fast forward to today :

All the new languages that have gained internet fame in the past years are static. Go, Rust, Typescript, Dart. People still use lots of Java and C#. Meanwhile big companies like Dropbox are abandoning languages like Python. New projects are written in Go despite being the company that employs Guido van Rossum. Nobody talks about Google caring about python anymore either. The dynamic typing "rockstar programmers" have all but disappeared from the internet and stopped blogging/writing articles/writing books, with only one exception, Zed Shaw. The rest have either completely erased their internet presence or just become utterly silent.

There really is a moment on the internet that could be described as the dynamic bubble. Although I'd say, "dynamic echochamber" is more accurate.
Only politics are not science -- and truth there is not as clear cut as "world is round vs flat".

(Heck, aside from Math, Physics and so called "hard sciences" science itself is often hardly scientific: riddled with special interests, tenured idiots, ideology, profit motives, etc).

A lot of the cherished facts thrown around in politics and social issues can be (and are) made up, even if they come from censuses, public bureaus, NGOs, the OECD, the UN and other seemingly trusted sources.

And even when the facts are hard and solid, their interpretation, or the consensus on the best course of action, can differ widely.

As of course does the impact of those facts to various groups (the same social phenomenon, new law, technological change etc can make some richer and other poorer for example).

An echo chamber in social life is never, ever, legitimate.
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I always felt "down-voting" should cost something. Maybe 1 karma/point/etc. so that people who would down-vote should feel they are invested enough to do so. As it is right now, down voting is too easy and detached to other's thoughts even after reading it.

Fundamentally, this is to create some value towards the point system so that people would put more thought into posting as well as down-voting. If someone wants the ability to down-vote, then they should write meaningful comments to gather the karma needed to do so.
We've asked you repeatedly not to do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13677427 and marked it off-topic.
Nobody can "save the world" single-handedly and nobody expects that from tech workers. Although, it is expected that they gain political consciousness and learn to hold their CEOs accountable for the products that they make and the actions they take.
We get our eggs from local farmers who raise chickens in old fashioned coops. In addition to tasting much richer without having to pay for "organic" eggs (because they get to run around and eat bugs), they keep longer as well. We don't bother refrigerating them either.
In college I was an RA. Somewhat surprisingly, this is really similar to the communication advice we give to new roommates, most of which are first-time roommates, and a good portion are even total strangers on move-in day. The most common conflicts we had were around cleaning and who would take out the trash with disparity between the norms of the roommates pre living together.

An interesting data point is that disputes over responsibility were roughly an order of magnitude more common in triples or quads than doubles.
Yep it was eventually resolved midway through 2016, D'Amore stepped up, then stepped down, then stepped up again. The link I cited is not a commentary on the current status of nanomsg, it is more to illustrate Sustrik's role in the situation. If, ultimately, this discussion is about Sustrik's IETF proposal, it is important to consider his relationship with previous similar (zmq/nanomsg) or related (libmill/libdill) projects which have borne his name.
Wow, my story is near-identical to yours! Just shifted back in time by six years.

ZX Spectrum+ from my father in 1988, self-learnt after that.

Made a few games like you, but had no hard drive or disks. Storage mechanism for my programs were pen and paper.

Learnt machine code programming in tenth grade.

Later got a PC with Windows in 1997 and learnt C.
Isn't this covered in the article?

>In Europe and Britain, the opposite is true. European Union regulations prohibit the washing of eggs. The idea is that preserving the protective cuticle is more important than washing the gunk off.

UK eggs are unwashed, thus still have their protective cuticles and thus can last much longer unrefrigerated. GP's quote only applies to American eggs, which are washed.
Raised chickens for some time. Noticed my eggs would "sweat" when I'd take them out of the refrigerator vs store bought which do nothing at all; after a time at room temperature they'd reabsorb. I'd imagine that's pretty dangerous if you're running a cesspool operation - pulling in liquid contaminated by whatever is on the shell.
Empathy is exactly where my thoughts led when trying to see how robust these tests really are. Watching the embedded video though, I think there's a strong case that elephants are definitively shown to understand that what's in the mirror is really them. Notice how the shot of one elephant shows that it has turned away from the mirror intent on washing away the mark around its own eye. It seems to knock down the empathy argument.

An interesting aspect of the mirror test is what happens with multiple animals. Presumably it's well established that various types of animals recognize each other—that they associate identities with others. So when two bonobos (say) show up in front of a large mirror, surely they will recognize that one of the bonobos they're seeing in the mirror is the same as they one at its side. Bonobos and other apes are convincingly argued to be able to understand what's going on, so not that revealing. But what about dogs, for example, which certainly have some concept of identity in others, but somehow seem to fail the mirror test? And what about cross-species recognition? A dog seeing a familiar cat or human?

A more convincing mirror test, I think, would be if you can silently introduce another animal to appear behind the one being tested. An animal that takes note of a predator or prey in the mirror (or opponent or friend) and then turns around to respond accordingly surely understands the implications of what's going on in the mirror.
> I think it's the non-car dependent folks that (good or bad) have "no option".

In cities people typically have a grocery store within 5 to 10 minutes walk from home.
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It said to sign up for an account to save my progress. I did, but if it saved my progress, I can't see it.
For everyone wondering about the copyright:

"© 1994 Time Warner Audiobooks"

and, William Gibson isn't the one who uploaded this (unless MollyMillions is him, which I doubt).
IANAL, but the thought once occurred to me that if Jesus lived today, he would be a public defender. The public defender tells his client: it doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, what you've done, or whether you're guilty or innocent; I'm here to help you.
I was on several programs for extended periods of time.

I was on starting strength for 7 months, got pretty fat, but also made most of my gains. I stalled multiple times after 6 months so I deloaded for some time and started lean gains. I only improved my deadlift on leangains after 11 months, and ended up spinning my wheels. I only lost weight at the end when I cut my calories more.

I tried UD 2.0 after this and got tendonitis in one of my calves and elbows.

Since about 6 months and many years later, no matter what program I did I only got marginal gains. Maybe bench would go from 185 max to 210 in 2 years.

I took time off and a year later I haven't gotten back to 210 bench. Part of why is because I've had shoulder impingement. So fixing the issue with posture and doing some myofascial release I've gone back to around the strength I had 6 months after I started working out. Probably in a few months more I can just get back to where I was previously.

At the same time, some people in high school are benching 300+
> See lump of labour fallacy.

I don't need to, I'm not making it.

> What if they have good incentives to go back to school?

No amount of schooling will make the half of the population with an IQ below 100 able to hold a high tech knowledge job. You are ignoring the realities of the human condition. All of mankind simply cannot and won't ever be able to do knowledge work. When you kill the low skill labor jobs with automation, you kill the only jobs some people will ever be able to do.
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We've banned this account for doing religious flamewars on HN.
Are you sure you're not describing condensation and evaporation, rather than sweating and absorption?
If you're living "nice" $15k a month might not even pay for the hotel room you live in.

>None of these things (except perhaps discrete art collection) are intelligent if running such a business.

I'd imagine that for most people those are the exact reasons for running such a business.
> I am also really disappointed this wasn't anywhere in the news, at least people could have taken some iodine.

Edit: I know this is harsh, but the OP should realize their post is somewhere on the anti-vaxxer-Facebook-post-scale. It's somewhere around a millipost, but it registers on the scale.

What should the news flash say? "Run from the nearest banana, person, airplane, or mountain."

I'm really disappointed at your disappointment despite an absolute lack of critical thought on your part. What fraction of a banana would you have to eat in order to have the same effect? How many nights would you need to sleep next to someone instead of alone to get the same dose? How many minutes at 30,000 feet does that correspond to?

Back-of-the envelope calculations: the half life is about 8 days, remembering your infinite series from high school, 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ... = 1. So, the total dose over an infinite time frame is the same as 2 half lives at the initial level, so 16 days = 1,382,400 at 1.5e-6 Bq/m^3 works out to about 2 decays per cubic meter over an infinite time frame.

Even assuming you absorbed any decay from 10 cubic meters of air around you, I'm too lazy to look up the difference in number of Joules between Iodine and Potassium decay and work out what fraction of a banana you'd have to eat to get the same dose, or how many days of sleeping next to someone that works out to, but even assuming at steady state you absorb every radioactive decay from 10 m^3 of air (gigantic over-estimate), this is an absolutely tiny dose.

The danger of someone panicking and accidentally overdosing on iodine, or suffering a heart attack/stroke from the increased stress following such a news announcement is almost certainly higher than the risk of someone getting cancer from this.

I live in Hong Kong, where a fair number of people in finance moved from Tokyo following the Fukushima disaster out of radiation concerns. The natural background radiation levels in Hong Kong are higher in Hong Kong by more than the additional radiation in Tokyo due to Fukushima.

You've done literally over a hundred things in the past 24 hours that pose much more danger to you than 1.5 uBq / m^3 of iodine decay.
They've been selling those since the end of 2016, so what's there to focus on?
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There's a surprising amount of stuff on archive.org which is flagrantly in violation of copyright. Basically all of this, for example:

https://archive.org/details/pc_cdrom

They used to be so scrupulous about the live music archive, always obtaining explicit permission from each artist. Dunno when that all changed.
I would enjoy having a separate view that tries to rank content by what others with similar voting patterns have upvoted. Though it might not work very well with comments because I often upvote comments merely because I thought they were unfairly downvoted, not because I liked or agreed with them.
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13675097 and marked it off-topic.
Hi. My brother and I are working on a note taking system; one of the focuses being increased utility of tags.

Of note relating to tags:

- tags are hierarchically organized and inherit their parents. (Systems like gmail and evernote dont do this?! o_O)

- NOT and AND blocks

- Option for seeing full lineage of tag

- "Tag Clusters" which are basically a named group of tags that are commonly used and can be bulk applied to an item

On the way:
Full AST (abstract syntax tree) tag/user/text querying (the UI isnt the easiest to nail down for OR / parenthetical groups)

Laddice.com (desktop app only right now)

Feel free to check it out, make an account and email me with thoughts, opinions and/or requests (email's in my profile.)

Would love to talk more about this with you!
So is a big evil corporation now in charge of a significant portion of Firefox? My fear is that web extensions provides yet another way for google to track Firefox users.
The original authors of /The Onion/ had a dislike of Yankovic which was strangely intense http://www.theonion.com/article/weird-al-yankovic-nears-comp... , even using his parents' tragic death http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/2004-04-11-weird-a... as an opportunity to take a shot at his song parodies http://www.theonion.com/article/weird-al-honors-parents-memo... .
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See my sibling post :-)
There is definitely not a rigorous process in place to prevent copyrighted material being uploaded to archive.org, often with obviously inaccurate metadata and political commentary [1].

[1] See this 2013 upload for instance: https://archive.org/details/TheLivesOfOthers-EastGermanZioni...
This is useful. I am currently building an autonomous gokart in ROS.
> I would believe that nearly everyone who does not have a disability could get to a point where they can deadlift 2.5x ideal body weight

There's no way I can deadlift 500 lbs, not after I injured my back anyway. But my best pull after 3 years of lifting was 335 lbs. My best squat was 285 lbs. Both at 196 lbs body weight.

> bench 1.5x

no way I can ever bench 300 lbs, I'm way too far from that mark. I can't even do 225 yet. If I got 210 after 3 years of lifting, it's safe to say my max is probably 250 or 270 or somewhere there, but not 300
Of course... listing all the PM tasks is not the point here. I'm referring to tasks that are in direct relationship with coding. If we get rid of the coding step then the closest thing is the PM. Which is the point I'm trying to make here.

I sure know about the vision, strategy, blablabla... that's why I think it's the best bet, because those skills will be harder to replace compared to programming languages.
Exactly. I don't like having to pay, obviously. But not being able to say the price is removing information from the market, not to avoid helping competitors, just to make it more inefficient and abuse a position of power.
Your last sentence happened a few times. It's what originally got me wondering. Let's also remember they have routines looking for people gaming the system. That could affect both timing and what effect a karma boost would have in visible results after a vote refreshes.
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No, a lack of upvote on a comment usually means the comment was wrong according to someone and it spawned an argument. I definitely don't want those cases ranked higher than good discussions where all commenters are receiving votes.

Similarly, an article that someone spends 10 minutes reading and then doesn't upvote (or comments without upvote) means it was probably a massive waste of time.
I would love to chat if you think about raising money for this...
Yeah met an indie team from Mexico last year at GDC who couldn't even get a Dev kit for WiiU.
Just finished up my dissertation and I've been working on taking some of the deep learning and RL techniques I've used for my research to build something new.

We just launched Optimail (https://optimail.io) - it uses reinforcement learning to automatically optimize drip email campaigns.
I'm sorry, but legitimizing conspiracy blogs is not the answer here.

>the day Lokey left Zero Hedge—their relationship had deteriorated significantly, according to the messages provided by Ivandjiiski.

“I can’t be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump anymore. It’ s wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run,” Lokey texted Ivandjiiski. “This isn’t a revolution. It’s a joke.”

-- Former ZeroHedge writer Colin Lokey [0]

As an American, I really can't support the promotion of an often-explicitly anti-American blog that has a tenuous relationship with the actual facts.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/unmasking...
I'm already well familiar with these tools and this advice, but I nonetheless appreciate you taking the time; perhaps someone else will benefit from their presence here.

Extensions aren't the problem, and Firefox 51 with e10s enabled is amazingly snappy by comparison with the 45 ESR that I usually run.

On the other hand, 51 on Windows also refuses to load or render content from files located in directories mounted via the admin shares (e.g. \\127.0.0.1\C$). Since I use this functionality very heavily (home directory mounted at H:, etc.), I can't really switch over until I've had the leisure to find and resolve the cause of the issue. I have to imagine it's some new security setting that I can modify in about:config, but no one else seems to have run into the same problem, and identifying the changes in config options between Firefox versions is not something I've yet found a way to make trivial.
I am putting together an autonomous vehicle event at a racetrack and a spec vehicle for competition. Http://selfracingcars.com/event
Those are very good points.

But I think that a 'division of responsibilities' issue may miss the most important dynamic and that is simply the 'relationship'.

If you get a long well, can handle disagreement, share a similar vision for the company, and have a 'history' together (which I think builds trust) - then those 'divisions' become less obvious.

Sure - maybe WRT some issues, 'one of the two' can maybe have more influence, but I think the dynamic is more personal, and blurry.

I wonder if it helps to have one of the co-founders simply have more authority - i.e. a 70/30 type situation wherein if the 70% co-founder does not abuse that, and stays pretty 'equal' for most things, and then hints at 'final call' in only a very few things ... that might work because it could help the 30% co-founder to concede.

It'd be interesting to see some data points on that.
I'm in the early stages of starting a startup, but I think if people focus on whether a decision being made is good/bad for the company rather than who's in charge, things would be a lot easier.
I totally disagree. I'm a law and order type of libertarian and I was ready to see jMyles being obnoxious in the video based upon your comment, but he wasn't at all.

That police officer was totally out of line. I'm surprised jMyles was as calm and polite as he was in the video. I would have just kept repeating "Am I being detained?" over and over until they either let me go or until they took me in.

Those officers were being total tools.
I'm mainly aware of this distinction because of a unique problem with AI startups.

Technically an AI platform and an AI product company (we call this vertical specific) are both "AI startups".

There is a larger trend in the industry that typically these "platform" companies are a solution looking for a problem (this is often the case). These companies are typically SAAS and get acquired.

What you see more of now a days are AI "product" companies focused on a particular problem like say: sales ops.

The "platform" people seem to have moved on to "chat bots" now. It seems like the same trend will play out though: "chat bots" for specific verticals.

That being said: As a founder of a startup that somewhat bucked this trend (focusing on an oracle type business model in various markets rather than SAAS and selling to developers) we focus mainly on a few key areas to make money.

The way we do this is "core technology" bundled with some sort of an "app", in our case being fraud detection solutions with a "land and expand" type approach. The thesis is we can see some of the benefits of being a tech-first startup (lock in and broad usage) but keep focused like a product company would be.
That youtube link is great, thanks.
I think greed is a major issue.
Sounds like you've never heard about Agile/Scrum and the software lifecycle. Developers are resources, they get allocated on a set of tasks. Have you ever heard of velocity? It's the number of tasks a group of developers can complete in one single iteration. It's called productivity. Welcome to the modern world my friend, it is indeed a factory out there and I don't know where you work but it might be outdated. You should google about the Software lifecycle. It's good to know if you're in the software business.
Heston Blumenthal has some tips for poached eggs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gbgSCV9hbM#t=7m6s
Not if the only discussion is to explain why it's wrong or off-topic.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)
Yeah, it was all based on one of the Windows XP versions of Microsoft Office when I was at school. So the skillsets likely wouldn't transfer perfectly into the newer ones with the ribbon UI.

And playing games on DOS? If that was in school, you had a far more enjoyable IT education than I ever did. Don't think we ever got to play more than a few flash games in class, and even that was only when the teacher wasn't looking.

If you mean at home... then yeah, that's a possibility lost for kids who grew up with Windows XP or later. Very few kids now would even see why they'd want to play a game (or use any program for that matter) built for MS DOS.