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I come to Hacker News for technology and start-up information. Why am I continuously confronted with political agendas that have nothing to do with the purpose of this forum. Take this to some /r/ forum.
Cope, the author, was writing about this for a long time. His history precedes him. It's not some random consultant with no experience.
I designed a logic-functional language called Cosmos (https://github.com/mcsoto/cosmos) based on what I thought would be a good/minimalist/innovative/easy-to-use language design that I'd like to program in. It's lacking in implementation, as it'd ideally have at least a VM in C (and a game framework, I like those).
That sounds perfect, actually. I love steel cut for the simple reason that their texture is fantastic and the earthier flavor versus regular oats has more complexity and depth. But stove top usually requires persistent attentiveness to avoid boiling over (first 5 minutes) or burning (remaining 15-20). Your post makes me want to buy an IP to try it out, because a mostly hands off cooking process for something like that would be great!

Thanks a bunch!
It's not incidental that they don't live in every state in equal proportion. That's a result of policy instituted by systems that, surprise, surprise have been racist for centuries. When exactly did the electoral college stop being a way to give an outsize influence to the rural white vote? That's always been it's purpose.

If you examine the historical evidence, the common reason given for the electoral college, that the founding fathers feared a demagogue, has scant evidence in its favor save for a little bit of rhetoric here and there while the constitution was being framed. The reason that is far more substantiated and coherent with the rest of the politics of the time is that the electoral college protected the influence of white landowners in states that depended on slavery.

Race in American politics is not some fucking trend. Like really? That's what you're going to go with?
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Don't forget: computers have no true intelligence, and thus require humans to put things into some form of structure in order for the computer to understand it. The type of structure you can get away with using for simple tasks can often look beautiful, but beyond a certain point, you need to impose distinction and isolation so you can compartmentalize separation of concerns and so forth. This structure is the foundation of programming language design.

The major issue with all of this is that program code is built through a process of iteration: one brick on top of another. But once you hit the wall I just described, you have to face the scientifically organized structure of programming in order for the language itself to not be a mess (see PHP) or the programs written in it to be spaghetti (see BASIC and particularly GOTO).

I say this not to be a downer, just as strong encouragement to take this into account and try your best to factor this into your design. If you can make something that lets people scale really high before hitting that wall (if at all!), that would be awesome.
Actually he provides much better alternatives. Design by Contract combined with system level tests will catch more bugs than you can shake an editor at.
Anyone spying on my sex life is welcome to whatever insights they can derive from studying my moves :)
Whether or not they chose their condition--my question stands: why should they be rewarded?

Let's take your example of homosexuals...why should they get some reward from society for not creating new citizens?

There are cases where people, through illness or accident, are infertile, and that is awful. That said, I'm willing to be that the set of people who are involuntarily infertile (e.g., physically cannot reproduce) is much smaller than those who aren't.

Anyways, again, the core question is--what is the reason for rewarding people who don't carry out that most basic function of citizens, which is to make more citizens?

You seem to be taking this all rather personally.
Anytime you use "should" in a political discussion, you're on shaky ground.
Even this is confusing as hell.

Just say the native calls take 22% of the time they do on EC2. Or that the EC2 calls take 450% of the time of their native counterparts.

"Faster" and "slower" when going with percentages are ripe with confusion. Please don't use them.
I've done a similar-but-not-so-elaborate analysis a while ago with a large variety of compression algorithms: https://github.com/mavam/compbench.

Only two input types: text logs and network traces. My conclusion was the same: Zstandard has the best space-time tradeoff.
I read through about 10 pages of the first book ("without models"). It struck me as very nearly identical to current statistics practice. It clearly differentiated itself as discussing counterfactuals (the data needed to actually determine causality) but I could not find the section of the book that described how counterfactual data can be inferred from missing data (without it being "turtles all the way down").

Does anyone in this area have a succinct way to explain how counterfactual data can be inferred by these techniques - and how traditional statistics practice is not able to perform this inference?
No matter what your opinion on the CIA, it's bad. If for no other reason than that it was a huge counter-intelligence failure.
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Aha!

My script blocker was preventing the button from showing up.

I though I was going mad...

Thanks!
Betterment CEO and Performance Discrepancy
I work in the financial industry, but is anyone who is not in the industry, or maybe an investor in Betterment bothered by Jon Stein's statement on CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/05/warren-buffetts-advice-doesnt-work-anymore-robo-advisor-ceo-says.html?

Generally, compliance is a big issue for financial advisors. According to Betterment's website, since they started investing real money in 2010(removing back-test) a 100% stock Betterment portfolio returned 8.4% cumulatively versus the S&P 500's return of 13.5% with a lower Sharpe ratio(more variable performance). Underperforming the S&P by 5.1% is pretty significant. At a $10,000 initial investment over a 10 year period would be 35k vs 22k.

Since it's a little tricky to find, if you want to view Betterment's performance to a real benchmark(S&P 500), you have to open their site's performance graph(https://www.betterment.com/portfolio/), click "Additional data, options, disclosures" and then check "View all benchmarks and portfolios at once"
Yeah, I think it is more like 'lazy loading' than write only; we assume we have strong reasons for believing something, and only realize we don't when we are asked to actually explain why we believe something.
What is this horrible new fad of making web pages not show any real content until you scroll away from the title?
It creates a trade-off between living in high-infrastructure areas (cities) and paying for the infrastructure directly or indirectly through your taxes, or living in low-infrastructure areas (rural) and saving on your taxes.

A related question is―why do we so frequently build new development out on the edge of a city (sprawl), and why do we so rarely build up development in the heart of a city (infill)? The latter would seem wiser, as the city already has an infrastructure system to build upon. Why don't we do this, instead choosing to bring the infrastructure out to where it isn't?

The answer is related to the lack of a LVT―it's cheaper to consume marginal land for near-free and improve it than to utilize supermarginal land to its highest use, due to the return that landowners expect for it. (For an extreme example, consider why Walt Disney chose to buy swampland in Florida rather than expand his development in Anaheim.) The same payment to landowners is what prevents the extension of public transit: the government may invest in this infrastructure, but the benefits go to land values near the improvements. Stiglitz formalized this effect in the 1970s[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem
I think a lot of what's being construed as political bias from Wikileaks is simply optimizing for maximum impact. They want their leaks to be felt, to have real-world results. If they were to just dump everything months before the election, they'd be long forgotten by the time the election had come and gone.
Which then negates the purpose of an offline installer...
Not really. They're correlated but colleges do not coordinate on the exact same tests for the final exams, nor even what specific classes you're expected to have. (In some ways, that's a good thing -- colleges should have variety on what specifically they teach.) So it's not objective, and it may not meet security standards -- one university may do the honor system and not bother to actively stop cheating, while others may not trust that as a mechanism.

Usually, professions have some test that you need to pass in addition to getting the degree. You have to pass the Bar exam after getting a law degree, the EIT exam after getting an engineering degree (then FE after 4 years under a PE), you have board exams after completing med or pharmacy school , there are actuary/accountancy exams after those degrees, etc.

They serve a more orthogonal role to the degree, in proving mastery of a more specific body of knowledge.
Has anybody asked Snowden if the Uber greyballing documents look authentic yet? This is just lazy journalism at its laziest.
> Except for Climate Change Denialism

That's the flavor of the decade, yes, but back in the 70s there was "zero population denialism" which is roughly equivalent (there was a big scare that the earth's population was unsustainable and we were rapidly running out of resources and couples needed to stop having more than 2 babies and if you disagreed you were a zero population denier)
Any amount of text - when compressed - would be dwarfed by a number of things that may also be included in the data exchange, such as a software update. There's no way to conclude that a larger exchange of data means a big exchange of a week's worth of text.
> Wake up super early on Saturdays and get about 3 hrs of skill building time.

You never know what kind of kids you'll get. Mine wake up every day at 5:55 to 6:30. Otherwise, generally good suggestions.
I think a half hour for 1 mile is definitely the exception not the rule. I could see it happening if there was a major accident blocking all of the lanes of the freeway but thats about it. For surface streets I think traffic dissipates much quicker unless you are talking about a specific choke point like crossing the 405 or getting on the freeway.
Assange outlined his goals [1] a while ago in regards to exposing secrets, and I think Wikileaks is staying in line with those rather well. It essentially states that they'll leak whatever they receive, and try to enforce a kind of 'secrecy tax' on governments/parties/organizations that refuse to be transparent via forcing them into less effective means of communication and overall less use of technology.

Additionally, this may be subjective, but Assange's story and personality makes him seem quite steadfast in these beliefs.

[1] http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
Thats just what you're familiar with.

I find it perfectly natural to read "if 5 == x:" without having to flip it around.

(And it's not about "cognitive load" on the compiler, it's about fail to error not fail to silent success.)
1. Say what? Unit tests only work in functional, not in OO? That seems highly bogus to me, since I've used them in OO all over the place.

Now, if your object architecture is "throw everything into one object", then OO can make it harder to test (or do anything else). But even on a very large class (5000+ lines - I know, I don't like that it's that big, but it's really hard to break up), I've used unit tests very successfully.
Educating drivers could have a large impact as some of the issues are caused by the drivers themselves and has nothing to do with the volume of vehicles moving at a certain point in time. If somehow we are unable to educate people which would be the cheapest form of a fix, autonomous vehicles would basically do the same thing. (merging, vehicle spacing, gawking, etc...) Sorry no data to back these claims up.
We cannot know that. WikiLeaks is a proverbial black box. Julian himself is sort of trapped in a box, too. Funny how for so many people he's conveniently become an acceptable Ministry of Truth. If you could work his levers, whether it be by compromising him with threats of violence/incarceration/family/use imagination.

There's this mythology of "never publishing a falsehood" that's repeated in a meme-like din within the WikiLeaks context, but even if it is correct, it does not preclude selective publishing of the truth, or political timing, misdirection.

Anyways, having watched the output of this black box over many years, even if I believe that black box were built with the best of intentions, I can no longer trust that the machine is altogether acting in good faith.

The editorial discretion of a mere two billion dollars in Russia-Syrian transactions, for example, omitted completely by Assange as reported by The Daily Dot, make the man highly suspect as an objective purveyor of leaked materials received.

As the US intelligence community seeks to investigate Trump, the Trump-aligned WL begins dumping on the CIA. Trump will begin whining about the "Deep State" even more. Prepare for another week of whataboutism.
It's not about security. As you said, it's because Flash is more popular, so killing it will disrupt more users' workflows. It's a pragmatic decision…

Personally, I'm hoping we see a WebAssembly build of Flash eventually (once WA is featureful enough to support it), at which point the native plugin can die without breaking (as many) old sites.
Stephen Merity of Metamind has a nice visual tutorial here as well: http://smerity.com/articles/2016/google_nmt_arch.html
I don't see how any small company could provide a sufficient response that questionnaire at a reasonable cost in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not saying security isn't important. Just that looks like a lot of money down the drains.
New York's public transit commuters have some of the worst commute times in the country, at 7.5-11 hours/week (45 minutes each way on the low end).

For LA's drivers, even 37 minutes is pretty bad. [1]

Public transit mitigates the environmental and public safety effects of traffic, but the "wasting your life in a slow-moving vehicle" problem is much worse with public transit (even rail).

And no, that time is not reusable for reading, working, etc. unless you're so far out on the line (or your system is so "wastefully" overprovisioned) that getting a seat at rush hour is a realistic possibility. It's just as "gone" as it is for drivers in gridlock. So I'd rather lose less time, and that means driving (or making more money to afford higher rent closer to the center).

If we want to design cities for ideological gratification (like SF) anything goes. If we want to design cities for low housing prices and low commute times, well, the worst case for freeway sprawl (LA) is beating the best case for walkable subway utopia (NY) by 20 minutes/day.

[0] http://origin-states.politico.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazo...

[1] http://la.curbed.com/2014/10/8/10037514/mapping-the-average-...
Kids have a great property, they have a bed time. I structure my day so that I come home from work at the same time every day and spend time with the family. My skill building happens when they go to sleep. You can get a good 2-3 hours in a day this way if you need to.
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How dedicated are you to becoming a 10xer? You don't have to sacrifice your relationship with your kids to level up your skills – you need to cut out the distractions that are holding you back.
Recently there was a discussion about a poet not able to answer questions about her poem, presented by some instructor.

The most insightful comment I read online was that while the original author may have an idea of what it means, someone else may see a new metaphor via some phrasing, due to a different reading pace perhaps, who knows why.

The point is that while Wikileaks may release only that which is true within it's own context, that still leaves other contexts to question from. Like why today? Why not next month or after Trump is out of office, whenever that may be?
True to a point, but I almost sacrificed my mental health, and I did sacrifice my marriage by not sleeping when the kids are sleeping.

As a single parent, now, I have to go to bed right after the kids do. The unexpected benefit is that I'm much healthier and happier. Also I have several full evenings a week with no kids to use for e.g. learning.
> are you satisfied with this solution?

Yes. This approach allows for far more interoperability in this space. Instead of having language features be locked into specific compilers/toolsets. You mentioned 'simplicity' and we've traded off one sort of simplicity for another. The approach you would like (which we used in the past) used to not be simple for the customer that wanted the scenarios to work that we're enabling now.

> Would you expect to have to go to a package manager to use tuples in python?

I could definitely expect that new language features might require library updates, yes.

> My opinion is that simplicity matters a lot to the success of a platform.

I think a lot of things matter to the success of a platform. For every developer who wants the type of simplicity you mention, there are developers who want other sorts of things to be simple.

> And by the way nothing in the error that you display when using tuples in VS2017 suggests a nuget package or an assembly name that can be searched.

Yes. We could certainly make this experience better, and that's on me. However, as i mentioned already, there were difficult constraints to balance. We're hoping that our work moving things Out-Of-Process will help make it so that we can just light up this scenario by default. Then, you'd get this error, and the lightbulb would be right there to fix it up.

However, like with all things in development, you can't always get everything you want complete for every release. In this case we did not feel like it was justified to hold back all the rest of great feature work and performance improvements in VS just because users would have to do one manual step with one language feature when working with C#. You are free to disagree with that assessment on our part. But we're always going to end up having to pick a set of things we don't think will make it into any given release, and it's quite likely that for any given release there will be some things that you'd want (and which would make things better) that won't make it.

A great benefit of the new VS is that it's now much simpler for us to ship updates very rapidly. Instead of needing to wait literally years for updates, we can patch things immediately and we can complete features and get them in the hands of users in a matter of weeks. In that regard, i'm ok if this one particular experience isn't perfect. We can improve things as we move forward and continue delivering better and better experiences.

Thanks!
Do you know how to Tree Shake JavaScript?
It's known that WL will often save some of the worst leaks as an 'insurance' against retaliation from the entity the leaks pertain to. It's likely there's aspects they're holding back from this leak as well, if they don't already hold enough over the U.S. gov.
Ask HN: As a student, what should I do with my AWS Credits?
I've recently been given a few hundred dollars worth of AWS credits from the Github student pack and as a hackathon prize. What kind of things would you recommend I spend them on as an undergraduate student in Software Engineering?
There are endless link directories out there. Why do you think you can make a difference? Starting from fresh nobody will care to submit links because it's not really how SEO works anymore.

I doubt anyone just casually browsed DMOZ. A general link dir is probably a dead idea. A specialized niche one, not so much.
My response to the 'why not GUI' question would have been different: 'console applications are more versatile, easier to run across multiple platforms, and can be invoked by build and automation tools. I also feel that they might be friendlier from an accessibility point of view than GUIs.'

I am not BS-ing - I really like console apps. I agree with you that you dodged a bullet there. Any place that lays a false choice trap for you in this manner is not one that deserves the best candidates.
You can actually have a turing complete instruction set with only one instruction. I am not sure as to the practicality but here is a wikipedia link to read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer
An hour reading, sleeping or just zoned out on a train is a lot less fatigue than an hour operating a car in stop-and-go traffic.
The solution is for the US to ensure vulnerabilities are identified and patched.
First, not having kids in no way guarantees that you will live lightly on the land. Plenty of childless people drive cars, take air plane flights for vacations, own big homes and generally live a consumerist lifestyle to the max.

Second, simply having kids does not, by itself, mean you will add all kinds of burden to the system. When I wrote a college paper some years back for an Environmental Law class, a typical American kid consumed something like 200 times the resources as a typical kid in India.

Your argument in no way holds any water. It sounds like you basically are saying you want to be personally rewarded in some way for not having kids. Generally speaking, not having kids frees you up to put your time and energy into your job and hobbies and what have you while not having to pay the costs involved in having a kid. That seems like plenty "reward" to me if you do not even want kids to begin with.
It's incidental to entry points into the US and pre-existing population centers. See the following density maps:

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/As...

2. http://markettolatinos.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/graphi...
Haha I've seen him around campus.

TIL.
Not only are the bills coming due, but bureaucratic complacency has put people in charge who will not be honest about the state of the dams. See https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oroville-tallest-dam-biggest-... for a good analysis.

The problem is fundamental to human organizations. People like hearing what they want to hear. And any organization without disasters for long enough will lose barriers to having sycophants who say that rise to positions of power. The necessary result is a growing disconnect with reality.

As Feynman warned, "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." People and organizations tend to remember this after absorbing the lessons from a disaster.

But a generation or two of no disaster returns sycophants to power. Guaranteeing that the next preventable disaster will some day come.

That day may come very soon indeed.
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Note, I said urban area and not city center.[1]. The suburbs of LA are relatively dense.

[1] http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-crowded-city-in-...
I'm so glad you agree. I've been dying laughing over these posts. They're gold.
There is no reason to expect him to have any particularly valuable insight on that.
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yup, its a chicken/egg scenario.