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> The Scala 2.12 compiler has at least one bug that appears to affect its interaction with Java 8 lambdas (in particular, in at least one case expr.method() and (expr).method() will not pass the compiler's typecheck

There are many many things that should be valid Scala but are not, due to type check limitation. All kinds of times you should be able to infer the type, but the compiler cannot and you have to start naming types. Not sure this is really a "bug" but more of a wart. Sure is annoying when they happen, but not a "unique" thing to Java8 lambdas by any measure.
>I'm not sure we can ahead of time tell whether particular technological improvements are more like factories or cars.

When those improvements are AI-driven automation, we can.
How do you explain the IQ difference between, say, American whites and blacks? They should have similar parasite load and nutritional status.
Wow. I want this as a browser plugin. The image recaptchas are extremely time consuming (maybe I click the wrong images, or they're just punishing me for logging out and clearing cookies...), and I don't want to futz with the audio ones.
I'm with you. Last console I bought was an XB360. I don't play games as much any more, but anything I do play is a Steam game. I don't have any games on my phone right now, but I do enjoy playing them when I am traveling. I'd love to play a REAL Mario game on my phone with a REAL gamepad.
I'm assuming you mean people can be having an MI, or experiencing angina for quite some time, not actually in cardiac arrest
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Zappar’s apps are at the core of our offering. They’re the portal to the amazing Augmented Reality content that has delighted the millions of users who have downloaded and used our apps so far. With a great user base comes a great responsibility to innovate and improve whilst maintaining ease of use and reliability. That’s why we’re looking for talented cross-platform app developers ready to take on a new set of challenges.
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Nice to have experience of (if not, you'll be learning it quickly):

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• JavaScript
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> The question then becomes is the necessity of having a twitter account "part of being an adult"? I'm not saying the harassment is right, mind you, and certainly doxxing and real (as in tangible) physical threats should be treated as the criminal acts that they are, but I don't think it's something that can ever really be remedied unless the victim removes themselves from the situation.

Oh, then we should just give up and let literal white supremacists and anti-feminists and gay-bashers chase the weakest among us out of the social discourse. I'm sure that isn't a political tactic being employed intentionally against them or anything.

Or, you know, we can fucking not do that.

Stop normalizing evil. Doing so literally-not-figuratively arms those who would do harm to the people among us who need our support. Show them the door, not their victims.
Not to mention the Virtual Boy!
There have been a couple of high-profile cases of this. A prestigious mathematician had lived in New Zealand for four years, but his autistic son was declined residency, so he and his family left: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/prestigious-ac...

A woman in a wheelchair was declined residency due to her paralysis, despite working and having family in New Zealand: http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=...
The universe is uncountably infinite; that people routinely stumble over this is why Zeno posed all those paradoxes about motion. In a sense, if you don't believe that reality is uncountably infinite, then you believe it IS possible to square the circle. This actually matters a great deal, since it impacts on things like, what are digital computers (which is to say, set theoretic theories of math) capable of?
I've read a few books that mention Ray's management approach (my fav is "Learn or Die" by Ed Hess) and I find the approach to feedback loops & developing employees fascinating.

Radical transparency, data-driven decisions for both people and company strategy, etc. are all ideals that I think in the long-run would remove biases across a number of different axes, and develop some of the most self-aware talent in the industry.

Qualitative example: a friend of mine who works there came in with the hypothesis that she would be at a disadvantage on a number of different scales due to being a female in a male-dominated industry. However, because Bridgewater is very open about quantitative evaluations, and video-taping any/all meetings (!!), she is able to validate any/all feedback and claims that people have, and make sure that she's also earning what she deserves.

It's an exciting experiment and I'm disappointed to see some turmoil lately, but hopefully they can right the ship again soon.
that is an incredibly lucid answer. That should be the first line on the Airflow project.
I dont see any listing for Product Manager roles, are you hiring PM's with 2 years of exp ?
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So many (seemingly) intractable issues in contemporary life regress back to the question of personal responsibility.

It's a difficult thing to push back on, because even those of us most sympathetic a complex-systems based understanding of inequality don't want to completely give up on the value of personal responsibility, as to do so would be to tacitly give up the belief in free will. But if we grant that each individual does have some degree of agency and responsibility, then the libertarian side immediately points to any number of self made/rags to riches individuals and says "So? Stop complaining and do that!". But why can't they admit that it's an issue of degrees?

Sure, you have some agency in improving your situation, but if you're born less advantaged the systemic factors arrayed against you make it significantly harder to leverage your agency to improve your lot. Just because some lucky few do rise from rags to riches doesn't mean that a winner take most, predatory lottery system will create the best outcome for the most.

Is it a failure of human probabilistic intuition? Or is it a more malicious effort to control and frame the debate, pushed by those who benefit from the unequal system? Probably both.
I can't tell whether it's scratched disks or broken drive. So happy Nintendo went with cards for the Switch.
Most decent insurance plans will fully cover the cost of a routine checkup, or at least only charge you a minimal co-payment. (They don't want to pay for a hospital visit for you any more than you want to have one.)

I'm no doctor, so I'm the wrong person to ask about how often you should see one. But if it's been five years, it's probably time.
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>>If I'm an American developer, I want as few developers to be available so that my wages rise.

The door for this has closed quite a while ago. These days with a laptop and a internet connection there are a lot of things you can learn and do.

Basically we lowered the barrier to entry big time.

In fact many of us have a job today because of this low barrier to entry.

Now to expect the door be shut right behind us is in a way morally wrong. Nor the way how things work.
As a Latvian speaker, I must say, that particular language is very poor in expressing abstract concepts and expressing suspense. The language was quite literally designed by Germans as 'slave language'. It had major redesign in 20-ies, but surprisingly most of books in Latvian were published during Soviet times. I agree with hero, Latvian is 'sweet'. It is very good in expressing practical concepts, and as daily conversational speak is much more 'positive' than Russian or English with their multitude of meanings behind simple expressions.

UPD: Example of sweet positive character of Latvian. Latvian for "How do you do?" is "Ka labi iet?", means literally the same, but asking person is also telling that he is sure that everything is OK and somehow cheers up spirits of the respondent in this short expression.

UPD2: For those native Latvian speakers who care to read Russian and they are many, here is study summing up the first 400 years of Latvian books https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/bitstream/handle/7/2152/Konferen... And you know, in 1956 there were 7.9 million books printed in Latvian language (!). Quite a figure for a nation of 2.5 mln people.
Ok, we changed the title.
If you tweet 100s of times the same text at accounts that don't follow you, you're a bot.
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Show HN: A smart, goal-driven writing app that helps you finish what you write
Hey HN community,

I run a small team of writers that built TheRightMargin, a new writing platform that focuses on your goals first and is aiming to be the smartest writing tool on the market.

We launched last summer actually, but we're trying to make a push for some growth, so I thought I'd debut it here on HN!

The #1 'writer's block' pain point this app solves is helping you figure out your next step. We have some neat tools to break down your writing project into milestones and task and a way to write side by side with your plan. We also have smart tips and a timer for writing sprints, among other things.

We have a small user base since we're pretty new, but people are using it to write books, blogs, papers, articles, journals, advocacy letters and many other things.

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And we're also doing an IndieGoGo campaign to accelerate building some neat things on the product: https://igg.me/at/trm/x/15618512

If you like what you see, even backing $1 will help us gain some visibility on IndieGoGo!

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Stripe, Credit Karma, Xignite talking about launching new products in fintech
The article (and especially the associated video) claim that internal technology was/is a major priority at the firm.

Does anybody know what they're building? Just typical trading algos or something else?
Similar to my other comment, as a normal user, I'd happily pay 1/10th a cent (as long as it went to the grey market, and not the website or google) to bypass a recaptcha.
The article got the Doomsayer and Reno battlecrys wrong.
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OK, replace it with cats. Which decide everything.
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(Subsidising equality via the state doesn't sound 'libertarian', and Headstart has been ineffective, but I'll leave that aside)

I think your solution cannot happen because those with money and tech, and who don't have a cultural squeamishness with the idea, will get the genetic engineering first. The ultrarich. Probably the Chinese, maybe others. Then it will be a case of making the rest of the world amenable to these enhanced people. Elites don't want chaos and nor do they want anyone to threaten their dominance. So a functioning, intelligent, but malleable mass will be controlled by an elite who have the tech. Just as today the average joe doesn't have access to nuclear weapons.
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Show HN: Scholica – the best way to create online courses
What if you went into a bakery and ate all the free samples?
It's also common for people to have a major heart attack without receiving medical attention at all, and only discover it much later when being analyzed by a doctor who notices the damage.
Except that iOS and Android are terrible platforms for games. They're all built around the idea of varying resources, having to kill apps when ram is scarce, a call can interrupt any time, and no guaranteed input other than a touchscreen.

For a number of games that simply won't do. Sure you can write games to be underpowered graphically and still be fun, but there's no guarantee someone isn't trying to run your game on a $50 smartphone so you really have to shoot low to get that to work. Also you're competing against a lot of 99¢ or free games in the appstore/market. Sure they're really bad games, but side by side (in the store) the consumer isn't going to know the difference and will choose on price.

I don't want to live in a world with only free-to-play match-three "action-puzzle" games.

Also touchscreen as controls is terrible for any real-time game that doesn't have a one-to-one mapping from what you touch to what happens. (aka, most of them, besides turn-based) I have to be conscious of not only what I want to do, but where the controls are to do it, since I can't feel them.

Nintendo can't build an iOS device for obvious reasons. By the time they strip down android and customise it enough for it to be suitable for gaming it would be easier to make NintendoOS anyway.
Balloons.

The trick is to make them so cheap they're disposable. Preferably bio degradable, though that'd be tough for the electronics. Weather proof is impossible.
When I was at Yahoo we had a HackDay where there was one team that used Flickr data to make a captcha that asked for tags for an image it displayed. Another team used Flickr data to look at images and automatically tag them...
It looks to me that the dock is partially designed to especially block the access to the touch screen :). This makes sense, as Nintendo, at least for the launch, wants all games to work identically docked and undocked. I could imagine though, that later on, there will be touch based games, once the system has been established enough.
Possibly AWS status page wisely relied on a third party, which relied on a fourth party, which relied on S3.
Why Pooping in Outer Space Is a Bad Idea
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I would be astonished.
I want to agree so hard with many of the cogent points in this post.

Still, I want to complain that, like so many rants about Silicon Valley or the world in general, there is nothing constructive here. There's nothing anyone can do about the way things work as long as the VCs don't run out of money.

Does anyone have a prescription for public policy or a personal plan of action that could result in a tech economy that is healthy, productive and humane? I don't know. People still go to school for nursing. People still get engineering degrees and go to work for Ford. Lots of people attempt side projects and small businesses on the Internet without trying for exponential growth. So maybe things aren't so bad.

What is the medium pimpin' version of Uber, I wonder? Could we have a local, employee-owned driving co-op? Could we divide the pie a little differently so that drivers are happy and developers have enough incentive to make a quality product but not so much incentive that they make an exploitative one? I guess we'll have to wait for the end of the subsidy wars between Uber and Lyft before anyone can attempt it. And then, where will the leadership come from? Who will do the work of building a startup, explicitly avoiding a model allowing a big exit for the founders and investors?
Yes, that is exactly what we do at work. We have ~20 IP phones in the office plus a few in remote locations. A few of us also use softphones (X-Lite or Zoiper) & USB headsets.

Our pbx is hosted by http://sipworxx.com/ and it works great.
Boo, that's pretty horrible. Lots of disabled people are able and willing to work around their disability.