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I spent 13 years doing Object Pascal full time and wrote plenty of Modula-3 in school. From my perspective, everything from Wirth suffers from having too much syntax and focus on perfect abstractions, while not providing enough rope when "perfect" isn't perfect enough. I have similar experiences from Eiffel, it's all fine as long as you're solving the kinds of problems that the authors had in mind. Everything that can be done in these languages can be done in more pragmatic languages like C/++/Lisp; and as an added bonus, they don't pretend to know everything about the problem you're solving.
I don't know if there's a threshold per se, but the X-axis on the graph you cited is demarcated as 10k per line. 250 dollars a year is about 1/40th of each unit on the X-axis.

And that graph seems to apply to people all over the world, I don't see why this Kenyan village would be any different.

The fertility reductions really only seem to matter once you get to 10k or 20k of annual income a year. I agree that if you gave 10k a year strings unattached to every person in that community, fertility might drop.

However, by injecting that much capital into a poverty stricken area, fertility might actually increase, as they would be the most prosperous group by far in the area. Also, there would almost certainly be huge unintended consequences, such as massive inflation and the increase in deprivation of people not receiving the money.
Diminishing returns on increasingly exponentially-priced cameras means that if you're paying for the very top tier, value is no longer a consideration.

Your average flagship smartphone camera is a Toyota Camry. It gets the job done. Upgrade to a high-end bridge camera or entry-level DSLR (phones have killed the bargain point-and-shoot market), and you're looking at something like a basic 328i; already more car than most people will ever need. Upgrading to the top end of the 35mm DSLR market is a bit like an AMG Mercedes; no one is going to make eyes at it unless they're looking for it, but it can competently handle pretty much any situation that you might normally encounter.

Going to medium format is like buying a supercar. Yes, it is better than every other option, but it's also an exercise in vanity- you don't buy a supercar because you need to accelerate the way a supercar does on a regular basis, but because there might be a situation where you need one, maybe two, of its advantages over the Mercedes.

So where does that leave the IQ180? It's a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse- a $2M exercise in masturbation that can only be used to its full capacity if you're willing to pay $42,000 for a set of tires that will burn through after 10 minutes at top speed.

No one buying a Veyron will hesitate to pay for the tires, because if you're buying a Veyron, there's no cost/benefit analysis that would keep you from it. No one buying an IQ180 will shy away from a computer to take advantage of its capabilities.
nope, I've delivered considerable value to my team by essentially letting the people who enjoy shipping end user features do that, and extracting frameworks and libraries so that the overall product stays coherent and easy to work with, or occasionally stepping in and saying "why don't you let me build the general pieces for this feature first, and then you can use them to make your life easier". as long as you have a decent feel for yagni, it's a useful role to play.
What would make a better protein "filler" for mechanically-separated chicken? Almonds?
If you really _are_ a 10x multiplier on a team, you should immediately quit and run your own show, because there's otherwise no chance you're being compensated remotely fairly -- nine times the sum of everyone else's wage.
There was some confusion about who should be paying for this preventative treatment.

This is the part I really don't understand. I suppose its a consequence of big bureaucracies.

This is a clear case of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". It is so much cheaper to pay for the PrEP than to pay for treatment of HIV.

And in the UK the HIV treatment is "free", i.e. part of their national healthcare, right? So wouldn't it make so much sense for them to flood the country with PrEP, giving it at very low cost to anyone who expresses an interest?
You went to undergrad in the future?
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Just saw this, looks like Intel is already dropping prices significantly: http://wccftech.com/intel-amd-price-war-ryzen-processors/

If you were on the verge of getting a 7700k or something, it looks like now is the time to buy (or give Ryzen a shot!).

Personally I'm willing to pay a bit more to give Ryzen a chance, because hopefully it will lead to sustained competition in this space again. A $500 8-core CPU is more than I need for gaming right now, but given that my 2500k has been great for 6 years, I don't have a problem spending $2k on a PC every 4-6 years for really great performance.
Not when it comes to payroll, it isn't. You think companies are gonna start cutting payroll checks for charity's sake? They ship jobs overseas to get cheaper workers and skirt environmental protections, what do you think they are going to do when they don't need 90% of them?
I have seen projects drown to death in a sea of frameworks, supposedly reusable libraries and generalizations developers deemed necessary. But it was fun for some, I am sure.
I happily use this too.

My only complaint is that I occassionally have to relink it to my cloud storage of choice to get syncing working again.
You're right that no one is suggesting that, including me. "That would be fucking stupid."

Yes, and I'm sorry that you've seemingly come to expect that level of stupidity from others, but in my world that moment is a cue to re-read the context.
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I don't suppose you or anyone else might know: is there any way this could be adapted to work with Firefox history?
Forgive me, but is training ML models really a common consumer need?
Building a Lispy Forth
Would you prefer that he check the regulations, find out that self-driving cars are illegal, and therefore just never develop one?

I don't understand that.

Laws change to accomodate the facts on the ground, as they should. People leading the changes of facts on the ground are in a natural position to push for corresponding changes in law.

How do you think the first human-driven car was permitted to drive on a street?
I took Uber while I was in Rio. It was perfectly safe. Uber Black is much different in Brazil than it is in the United States. You aren't getting into an Escalade, but typically a Toyota or Honda. Also, you could only pay via credit card. Maybe this is limited to Sao Paulo, but most Brazilians I spoke to were happy that Uber was in Brazil.
This was a weekend hobby project. I thought this would be interesting to HN for a few reasons:

- It's written in Haxe, a programming language which cross-compiles to other languages, and uses the cross-platform NME and OpenFL frameworks. So from the same code base, I can compile for mobile, desktop, Flash or HTML5. I love this language, AMA about it.

- Developed using the open source cross-platform HaxePunk game engine: https://github.com/haxepunk/haxepunk which is undergoing a revival.

Would love to hear what you think!
For any interface state, there are only a few hundred plausible user interactions. CPU cores are getting cheaper and more numerous, so let's speculatively execute all of them and keep the one that was actually chosen. Zero latency interface unless you do something extremely unexpected. The wasted power is irrelevant on desktop, and wouldn't be a serious problem on mobile if we stopped making devices so ridiculously thin. Human time is more valuable than a few watts.
Nobody can predict the future, I was just pontificating, BUT the US government (both parties) don't really work for the American people. I'm talking Congress and the House, the ones that have the real power. The US government was setup by elites for elites. Why do you think white, male landowners were the only ones who could vote? It's in our foundation and has only changed in brief periods.

I think a living wage will be required eventually, but you better believe the people who donate largely to campaigns will fight it tooth and nail. Not only that, they will make sure it's just enough to quell uprisings and comes out of debt rather than increased taxes.
Maybe, but I think the point of this article is that networks are agnostic barring intervention to protect them from certain kinds of "traffic". It's easier/more efficient to coordinate crimes on Uber's network in the same way that it's easier to serve malware through ad platforms. Criminals in Brazil are turning Ubers into a real world botnet and Uber is shrugging it off.
How voicebots are taking over, one conversation at a time
If you are interested in having a static site with a browser based composer check Pragma (currently in private beta) - https://pragma.build
Been using hugo the last few months, and absolutely loving it. Easy to get going, great in-built functionality, cross platform executable and super super fast.
On the other hand, you had situations where people were smuggling drugs into the country for HIV treatment. Or you have drugs that we know are safe, and initial research shows a lot of promise, but are unavailable.

A patient with a serious condition should not be denied a possible treatment, as long as it's proven that it won't hurt him.
Foods cause your body to have a certain reaction. So the idea is that foods cause your body to lower its pH, which goes against our slightly alkaline nature.

I think there may be some substance to this, but in general, it's save just to eat a variety of wholesome foods. It's tougher for most Americans to realise this since they're crunched for time, looking for shortcuts, and advertisers are always pushing a new diet or wonderfood every year.
> I wish there were a simple way to participate as an individual.

There is? You give money to GiveDirectly. They even take Bitcoin (I've done it).
These sealed aquatic systems are really cool. How do you go about finding out how much of everything you need to put in them for long term survival?

Can the biological processes of these simple organisms be modeled as checmical equations and all you need to do is balance them out and solve for the mols of everything you need to pour in?
Care to elaborate the reasoning behind this? I am curious why this is so.
I dont like Uber as a company, but I feel this journalist is trying to hurt the Uber brand more than reporting the facts and inform people.

Brazil has a very high crime rate. Our northeast capital cities (where Uber started to accept cash as customers were asking for this) are among the most dangerous in the world regarding murder rate.

The "express kidnapping" is very very common here in São Paulo.

If you consider the crime problem in Brazil, Uber is quite irrelevant on all of this. And it is fairly obvious that if have a big enough operation here, crime will happens to you too.

I am not saying that Uber has no responsibilities in supporting its drivers and passengers (preventing before and supporting after the crime). But this story seems to just want to capitalize on Uber bad reputation.

And the title is quite exagerated and click baity
> For every extra cycle the hardware engineers give us, we software engineers figure out some way to soak it up

This seems to be true in way too much of the tech field these days. My go-to example is drive storage. Every year, our hard drives get increasingly larger, by pretty big margins even, but game developers just make bigger and less compressed assets, even though they're not needed.
Yeah, sometimes. And other times, the whole contract gets spent on a framework that only makes sense if there's another contract, and ... well, I guess that never happens anymore.

Didn't someone say premature generalization is the root of all evil?
Help me out. Your first post doesn't seem to be saying what I think it's saying. What did you mean? Specifically, why mention cramming a whole head of broccali into a meal?
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With the Switch Here the Graphical Focus of MS's Scorpio Already Feels Outdated
Are you claiming that, for any fraction x of traffic that must be dropped, overall subscriber utility is completely independent of what type of traffic is dropped?
there are about 700m in extreme poverty now, which it defines as living below $2/day. If we gave each of those people $2/day, we'd need $550billion/year

700m × $2 = $1.4b. What am I missing?
this is also incorrect.

type designers usually start with drawing letters by hand, in fact. this is how it's taught to MA students at the university of reading and at the royal academy in the hague, NL (i.e. the most respected programs that churn out designers to places like monotype). even (especially?) in preliminary sketching phases done with pencil, the drawing method used is specifically meant to best mimic the stroke made with traditional tools.

when it comes to more ornate lettering -- like a script -- hand tools are even more common to start with. it's a bit less common for someone to finish a script before digitizing it and making it suitable for the screen (usually you do a few key letters by hand and can figure out the rest on a computer from there), but it does still happen more than you seem to think.
What's cynical about it?

I guess I must not understand what UBI is all about. I had thought it WASN'T a form of welfare. Rather, it's UNIVERSAL in nature. That would mean theoretically everyone from millionaires, to the poorest, would receive UBI funds.

I'd love to be free from having to earn an income, so that I can work on my own projects (businesses). But who wouldn't, right?
The whole point of this particular branch of the thread is that hedge funds underperform passive investors.
Then mine would be "don't be an idiot." :)
That is very cool. I will spread the word.
Buffet is so modest and humble. It comes through in this comment:
"A few, however – these are serious blunders I made in my job of capital allocation – produce very poor returns. In most cases, I was wrong when I originally sized up the economic characteristics of these companies or the industries in which they operate, and we are now paying the price for my misjudgments. In a couple of instances, I stumbled in assessing either the fidelity or ability of incumbent managers or ones I later put in place. I will commit more errors; you can count on that. Fortunately, Charlie – never bashful – is around to say “no” to my worst ideas."
Gee how did you get HR permission to work with the press so quickly?
That's a very real possibility, so it's definitely something to be wary of and manage carefully, but if you adjust the made up math above to something more reasonable:

6x + 3x + 3x

Where your 10x reduces their own output to help the others triple theirs. This:

- doesn't decrease overall productivity (still 12)

- probably increases consistency across your product (with workloads being spread more evenly)

- increases bus factor

- will lead to productivity gains as the team grows
The Butterfly Effect of Chinese Bitcoin Regulations
> what if you had just one common UI that was pretty standard

Yes, well, the reasons that is unlikely is because banks need to differentiate their offerings and... you know what, scratch that. Just observe that this hasn't happened on the desktop in the way you describe, though every so often someone does try to reintermediate an industry in that way, which usually only works if you (a) control the distribution platform, so can bundle in the standard UI to the platform, and (b) manage to fool the industry into going along, eg. iTunes, Kindle). Banks, specifically, have yet to fall for any of the attempts along those lines, and there have been quite a few.

The situation is unlikely to change until/unless newly formed banks embrace splitting out the "dumb money pipe" as shared infrastructure and modern standardized interfaces so their value added services are separate (but integrated). To some extent you see glimmers of this in medicine with (almost, but not quite) portable electronic medical records. What progress has come about is solely due to the government ratcheting up the carrots and sticks to get "meaningful use" to happen, and those may get rolled back now.
There are professional audio "engineers" who claim they can hear the difference in the types of audio cables used. And when when challenge them on it, rather than defend it, or demonstrate it, they'll just name-drop musicians they've worked with... most of which are producing albums these days that sound like garbage because of the loudness war.

Their words mean very little.

I totally get going for 24 bit over 16 for the noise floor, though.
> So they've identified them as suspects because, what? They just like to call random people suspects for no reason?

If North Korea is being framed for this, why wouldn't they be pointing the finger at North Koreans?

Even if you believe it's impossible that saintly countries like China, Russia or the USA would do such a thing, the police chief's statement was completely unprofessional, since he actually said:

"I confirm today the perpetrators, the four suspects are from North Korea"

We of course know from the video that the perpetrators are two women from Indonesia and Vietnam, but according to you this guy's comments are the last word on this, case closed?

> 'Recalled due to murder' doesn't really fit the timeline either.

I don't know what you mean by that. Perhaps you can suggest some reasons, though, why secret agents involved in a complicated high-profile murder like this, that they have apparently been working on for ages, are going to be anywhere near the scene of the crime on the day it happens.

> And what's the North Korean that's actually in custody, an innocent bystander?

Maybe he is. I wouldn't like to have you on a jury if you seriously believe everyone arrested by police is guilty of something.

If he was involved why did he stay in Malaysia when the others left? Your apparent theory - that some of the people responsible left but one of them just decided to hang around for the police to show up - makes no sense.

> The overwhelming preponderance of circumstantial evidence suggests North Korean involvement.

The hard evidence is that the two women who carried out the attack are from Vietnam and Indonesia. Circumstantial evidence is that one Malaysian was also arrested and one North Korean arrested, in a crime where the victim is also North Korean.

More circumstantial evidence away from NK is that the Indonesian woman stated she met with people who looked Japanese or Korean (possibly South Korean), and the Vietnamese woman was taken to visit South Korea (which seems rather strange and risky for a North Korean agent to do, particularly when it has nothing to do with this mission).

This on top of the fact that within 24 hours, before the Malaysians had even publicly identified the victim, who was using a passport under a different name, South Korean media had already named him, given a cause of death, and stated who carried out the attack (two women), throwing the mud that they were North Korean agents.

And while the Malaysians did not release the CCTV, somehow Japanese media got access to it and broadcast it.

It seems funny that South Korea and Japan, two countries notoriously hostile towards North Korea, keep cropping up in this story.
It's very easy to drink fruit. It's much harder to eat it. If you're drinking blended fruit you can consume fantastic amounts of sugar. And even if you limit it to a small blended drink you're making the sugar more available.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Pages/Portionsizes.aspx
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Check the story of AIDS treatment in 1980s - there were drugs available on other markets that essentially brought patients to life, but they had to be literally smuggled into US.
Unreal. Pinboard is cool. I put down the $11 and jumped in. I think they're smart to price weirdly yet low. I did a double take at $11 and sort of laughed. Anyway, initial impression is wow pinboard is pretty cool and definitely not trying to be fancy. I like that.
Thanks, that is pretty cool. Somehow hadn't heard of them before this post.
>the only real limiting reagent for me is having enough of them in the fridge

Most vegetables freeze well, and frozen vegetables are often more nutritious than fresh because they're picked in peak condition instead of early for extra shelf life. They're usually cheaper than fresh too. With the exception of vegetables like onions that don't need refrigerating I mostly eat frozen vegetables.
Perhaps one should refrain from posting their practice posts, then. Write bad blog posts to get better, sure, but it does not need to be published by necessity.
Like I said, I wasn't say you were wrong, I was saying that you and your interlocutors were talking past each other. It can simultaneously be true that active investors can "beat the market" and that retail and institutional investors shouldn't invest in actively-managed funds.

The place I think we got hung up here is on the notion of "nobody investing in", because obviously a person who starts or joins a prop trading firm is in a sense investing in that firm.
>Normally the flavors I do observe are hyper-nationalistic and filled with bravado, while the tone here is lauding yet reserved.

He used this same logic when endorsing Hillary Clinton for President.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq_0un5CPSo
> Assuming I have a point that I actually believe..

This is like saying "assuming that 1 + 1 = 3, what is the square root of 7?"

If I don't understand there to be a valid point in your comment, I can't very well adopt your comments and try to rescue them..
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Northern manufacturing bought cotton from slave plantations, yes. As did British mills.

However, you'll note that in the absence of southern cotton during the Civil War, these textile mills did not shut down or become unprofitable, they switched to alternate sources of cotton.
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Hey if you take the time to do something like this as a project more power to you and your shameless plug. :-)
Same question still applies.
I know this is the title of the article but can someone please change the title to be less clickbait?
I agree with you, but those are the exceptions, not the norm and I was generalizing. Also, the context I intended was payroll or taxes. Carnagie did it because he believed rich people won't go to heaven.

"He believed in the "Gospel of Wealth," which meant that wealthy people were morally obligated to give their money back to others in society."

I'm not sure why Bill Gates does it, but I commend him for it. Also keep in mind, most of his charity goes over seas. Furthermore, Gates is worth around $90 billion. If he gave the entirety of his wealth to all US working people (about 150 million), it would come out to a one time payment of $600.

The US is going to have to start keeping it's natural resources and stop giving it to companies for free or pennies on the dollar. You should see how cheap my state sells water to bottling companies that then sell it for a %1600 markup or something like that.
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Well, if the cost of computation is not too relevant, and if you don't explicitly need the ability to craft collisions, why would you use a non-cryptographic hash function?

Like, when I'm building a lookup index for files, I'm going to use sha-(something), because it's easy and well known. I don't particularly care about the security aspect; I care that everyone immediately knows the contract of sha-1.
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