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I actually started asking myself a different question. How do you keep up with tech without having a personal life?

In my case, the answer was, you don't. Unless you want to burn out fast.
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Super cool! Good framerate too... I wonder if there's a workout to get run it on iOS.
> Why does facebook know best what kind of build system is suitable for my needs

well, by definition your needs are yours, and only you know them, right? perhaps that is your point... but then this question would seem to be malformed, or perhaps disingenuous. why does facebook need to know "your needs" to develop a good build system? maven developers don't know "your needs" anymore than make, cargo and all the rest.

> I'm probably nothing like facebook?

it's not clear what it exactly means to be "like" or "nothing like" facebook, without further context. differences with your understanding of facebook's operational requirements do not necessarily translate to same or similar differences with their software development and build needs and practices.

> Why does George Foreman know how I want my grill?

similarly, the structuring of "my grill" bit seems problematic. also, this seems outright unrelated, unless foreman is in fact a very intensive user of grills and has optimized the grill design over time based on his experiences... and you are also, in some capacity, a professional user of grills.

> It's a brilliant marketing and recruiting tool and a way to insert influence under the guise of open benevolence.

even if we accept the premise of it as a "marketing tool", this doesn't imply that it's not a solid tool proven in real world projects. no obvious mutual exclusivity here. it also doesn't mean it's not-benevolent.

it would seem impossible for any company to avoid this pointed finger of yours if they release an project, because any engineer is going to ask "where did this come from" at one point or another. then, presumably, they will have been victims of villainous marketing.

> Hidden out there is probably a better tool for your needs. But now you'll never find it.

maybe, maybe not. how much better? at best, unknown or unresearched tools would seem to have indeterminate benefit (or lack thereof) relative to what is known and researched.
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Do msft, amazon or clarifai support video like Google just announced last week?
Why would it need to move the king? As long as the bishops move, moving the pawn and turning into queen or bishop wins.
Really got the tail-end of that deal......... i had to
> HN is pretty much my target market or so I think

Can you think up any real-world use-cases? Definitely try to think outside of the HN crowd, dashboards and data points are very general. Who could this be useful for?

Ask around in different communities, find a few in this list for example; http://promotehour.com/free-list-of-places-to-promote-your-s...

Try to really ask the right questions, instead of asking "what do you think?", ask "would you use this?" and if not, "why?"

Perform market research, why would someone even want this?
> But what exactly is the force that seems to be pushing us towards Armageddon?

Inflating panic might be very trendy right now but it is a bad opener for an intended(?) think piece.

The awful things he lists are: increased migration and an US president the author doesn't seem to like. That is bearable I guess.
You're right, but I think that truecolor support is easier to program.

I vividly remember when I wrote DOS programs which used VGA/SVGA graphics in the early 90s; switching from palette-based colors to RGB colors was something I really enjoyed! Back in the 90s, loading a 256 color image that used its own palette into DeluxePaint would change the colors of DP's interface too.

Something similar would happen today under tmux, I think: if two side-by-side panels contain two different programs, and one of them reprograms the palette, the other program would be affected too.
The biggest problem with Facebook is that it's a walled in garden. Whatever you write there isn't accessible outside the web. It's not even searchable inside FB itself. I'm sure this is done on purpose, if people knew that the crap they write could be searchable they'd be much more reluctant to express themselves.
Let's see... The guy who made disturbances around the mosque he then burned exists and pretty much burned a mosque.

There are a couple cemeteries that were vandalized.

And the Republicans are about to deny healthcare to 24 million people.

I think you are waving hands trying to dismiss reality.
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Nice. Summarizes my longstanding argument with conspiracy theorists.
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In the age of containers it's really not that much harder to build and deploy a JVM app.

Edit: thanks for the downvotes but you could at least tell me what's so crazy about my statement.
Rust's is almost the exact same size (3.46 MB). It's probably just that the libraries that are statically linked by default (jemalloc, std, etc.).
Really nice work! As someone who has automated several spreadsheets by essentially reimplementing them in a "proper" language like C# or Python for several financial institutions, I see the immediate need for a product like this across all business units. Not only does your product help save time and resources, but your focus on proper testing can easily help reduce very costly errors (which happen more often than one would like to think).

One question, how does your product integrate with 3rd party APIs like Bloomberg or SNL?
Not to pick on you, but your statement reflects a prejudice that many professions -- including doctors, but also lawyers, professional athletes, even hitmen -- are far too happy to exploit.
What you are saying is not within the context of what I was replying to. The comment specifically stated that they ensure you are not tired by not allowing you to be employed by a third-party, and yet personal projects are fine in that context.

Unless the comment I was responding to was worded badly, my statement is valid.
I wrote a quick script to test it. It does not take leap seconds into consideration and assumes all months to have 31 days (would be easy to modify, but it is sufficient for the task).

https://gist.github.com/zulln/110a1d454d07339c496cc8ec6349fe...

This means this does not work about 200 times a day in addition to about hundred whole days (for every hundred years).
Wasn't there a case of FB doing some kind or research where they tried to influence the mood of the users by manipulating what content they see?
Or authentic flat roof Scottish pubs?
If you are creating a reusable tool, you do really not want to specify it in terms of high level operations that depend on a single library and may change from one version to another.

Just because those steps are explicit there, it does not mean the author isn't using crypto_box or something similar. The author seems to have just copied it into the code, and seems to have a good sense of what to copy.

You can criticize him for not reusing the standard interface, and I agree that if he wanted to use crypto_box, he should just have used it, but not for completely specifying his tool, and not for the actual operations.
That's... not how the internet works. But it doesn't matter; we invited foob to repost it as a way of owning our own mistake.
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Very nice article. Also about the Bombay Blood Type
Nice work, I hope this will eventually be a serious alternative to the JVM route.

Quick question: does this compile down to DOT before going to LLVM? Or has DOT not yet arrived in Scala Native?
They make a lot less than the US government.
I'm more interested in how the board got this way.
"Who's that then?"
"I dunno. Must be a king."
"Why?"
"He hasn't got shit all over him."

Indeed. Pining for the days when most people were serfs seems misguided at best.
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It certainly does not, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13868201

You can remove some digits and get the same result as today (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867324), but as it lack so many situations as it does I would not say so.
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everyone uses a different format than the US.

'Everyone uses'? What about all the people in the U.S.?
Once the pawn moves to C7, black's king can play to B7. If white's king were not defending, black would be able to capture the promoted pawn in the next move.
It might be possible (I haven't checked thoroughly) to draw a parallel: "Humans can come up with a new heuristic on the fly" for this chess problem <=> "Identify the incomplete part of this system -- in the sense of Gödel's incompleteness theorem".

So it might just be that humans process the game at a semantic level where we have developed the semantic tokens that can express the incompleteness, and from that produce a hypothesis, a heuristic.

Computers do not, generally, apply semantic reasoning to problem solving. At least, not yet. :)
Isn't that just a dive bar?
Off-tangent warning:

My girlfriend's family members always were judgemental assholes during family holidays and they were always passive-aggressive of course -- so when she gets angry they always make googly eyes and say "but we said nothing, why are you so angry?". Playing the Virgin Mary.

One day she firmly refused to go and proceeded to silence her phone to dodge the bullets from one of her granddads and both grandmas.

Took them half a year of shock and they suddenly started being nice and stopped judging based on their (possibly obsolete) models of thinking. Now they even try to TALK with her, to actually LISTEN! All hope is not lost for the world. :D

You might want to try the silent treatment. Family members love to judge and I feel they'll die if they don't do it but I think they love the person a bit more and can come around.
Fascinating.

This is an example of a non-tech-related article that's perfect for HN because of the "intellectual curiosity" guidelines.
>I may be unusual but I avoid Facebook precisely because I don't want that sort of attention directed at my brain farts and the ephemeral detritus of my everyday life.

>When I make something worthwhile and of substance, that's different, but I won't be putting it on Facebook.

I agree with your comment and I share your feeling, but I don't think this approach can/should be the norm. I find that attention-seeking is so fundamental to human nature, that most people have to spend a LOT of energy to suppress it and I don't know if it's worth the trouble (is it that detrimental ?)

The only successful anonymous social media out there are used for trolling/venting/shocking/expressing extremely unpopular opinions - things that people absolutely don't want to take any credit for.
scala no-exp here. How is this different from regular scala running on a jvm? There is no need of jvm for scala native?
Not that I want to defend any intelligence organisation but war is not a binary thing. Other countries might be harming your country even without you knowing it. Agencies try to prevent that from happening.
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Very interesting. Is it really controlled by one person? Or is facebook dependent on user's, well, using it?

If facebook went away tomorrow, would meatspace life materially change for any of its users?

A little peer pressure to affirm that Facebook is a giant waste of time, narcissistic and generally kind of silly is all it takes plant the seed to drop FB altogether. I have seen that work in meatspace.
Should have a (2016) on it?

> The Democrats may find they need to give up a little of their wonkiness if they want resounding victories. It’s not in their long-term interest to be too much what Pat Buchanan once referred to as “the party of the Ph.D.s.”

Yeah, about that...
Here's a lovely little article about Chekhov that has been languishing on my "post this someday when HN is slow" list.

http://lithub.com/anton-chekhov-a-post-modernist-way-ahead-o...
True, and if you wouldn't have to worry about Oracle licensing either (although you can avoid that currently with OpenJDK as well)
They should. The article basically throws in some FUD to convince people that they don't want what they think they want. Except, we do want it! The JVM ecosystem's general aversion to native code and native system integration is what gave C# the opportunity to take over as the closest thing we have to a WORA language. If I want to write code in a higher-level language than C++ that can run on any mobile device or desktop OS, I do it in C#, not Java.

The Java ecosystem is playing huge catch up here, and I don't think it's a bad thing that people are exploring alternatives, whether that's Avian, the now defunct RoboVM, or LLVM-based backends.
Of course also democratic non-profit organizations wildly disalign with what one might call a "free society".

Those adjectives mean little (as does "free society") without a definition.
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Well is material, since OP specifically said this:

> please state why you want to fund people who are living in the US illegally

Which I addressed. I also stated that the fact they're here illegally is another matter. This was the line in which I did that, in case you have trouble reading:

> Now, the fact that their business model is so unsound that they can't pay legal minimum wage is a whole other problem.
At least in Soviet times this quote was taught and discussed in schools and I'd dare to argue that for some it is the only quote by Chekhov's they remember.
IMO this is a side product of the "software must be free" mentality.

Frankly, software should not be free. When you let people give you things for free, you basically let them control you and take away your freedom.
The article mentions a roman cathedral bigger than St Paul's. Where can I find more information about this?
I think you need to focus on your why? If you're building a portfolio piece, there's an amazing power that comes with "I built a finished product." If you're looking to start a business, there's no sense throwing good money after bad.

Try filling in the blanks here: This product helps ___(type of person)_____ achieve ____(desired result)______ by ____(what the software does)_____.

Here's my first thought: make dashboards shareable via URL, and then create specialized dashboards for people to view, share and bookmark.

Imagine that you made one specifically for surfers in San Diego. Surfers would tell all their friends that apiblocks.com/sandiego-surfing is the page to use to find out wave height, temperature, water quality, UV levels, jellyfish levels and everything else they need to know in order to decide whether or not to go surfing. If you want to make some money, add some ads - you'll have a geographically condensed, topic focused audience (that's like gold). Repeat for a bunch of other geographic areas, maybe do similar things for other interests and you might be a winner. As a bonus, much of the work could be accomplished by automated means (passing in different zip codes and other inputs).
The only problem I can see is that depending on how you're generating the UUID you might be providing UUIDs that are guessable by a 3rd party.
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For a novelist's take on making life changing decisions based on chance, Luke Rhinehart's "The Dice Man" comes recommended.
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If they had gotten heads, you won't exist. :)
DOT [1] is a theoretical calculus that is used as a foundation for our latest front-end compiler called dotty [2]. Scala Native is mostly a middle-end technology that bridges front-end compiler and LLVM. We plan to support dotty as a front-end in the future. 0.1 release is based on older Scala 2.11 front-end.

[1] http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/02/03/essence-of-scala.h...

[2] https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty
It seems to me like Scala's biggest benefit and biggest downside are two sides of the same coin: easy interop with the JVM and Java code. Scala Native just seems like you're paying all the price of that for none of the benefit.
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We've had the same problem with updates. We've also had reports from Europe that customers have been unable to resolve our www hostname.
Important bit: "The project has reached a point of feature completeness in terms of the coverage of the Scala language. We support the whole language including the more advanced features such as method dispatch via structural types and even macros."

It must be frustrating to work on a project like this, see areas where the language can be improved, but only be able to do the work to make it purely compatible. Hopefully some good comes out in the form of some good SIPs.
>US cuisine borrows more heavily from Mexico than Australia.

This is just dumb. US cuisine borrows more heavily from China than from Australia too, but no one is going to claim that US culture is very similar to Chinese culture. I live in a little town and there's 3 Chinese restaurants here, and only 1 Mexican.

>We have more Spanish speakers than Spain

We probably have more Chinese speakers than Hong Kong too, but that doesn't make US culture similar to China either. The US is a huge country, #3 in the world by population. Of course it's going to have a lot of foreign-language speakers, especially when there's a ton of Spanish-speaking countries to the south and a lot of immigration from there. But that doesn't mean that the dominant culture in America today is extremely similar to the culture of Mexico; I'd argue that German culture is more similar to American culture. At least German culture is universalist, rather than particularist as are Latin American cultures.
Who knows? They are certainly not going to tell. Secret services are rather secret about their services.
I don't think I buy that. The same argument can be said for any physical good.

Sure, some people mistreat library books. But most of the books in the library are in reasonable condition because most folks respect the value that the library creates.

We could perhaps create a system where the driver could rate the car's previous condition, which would be reflected on the score of the previous driver. That way, there's an incentive to leave the car in better condition than you found it.
Some micropopulations have developed their own, unique, blood signatures (Bombay group is a good example here, they lack the H antigen that makes them universal donors but Bombay only acceptors). Blood types in general are super complex combinatorially.

The concept of hybrid vigor (Expressing two different alleles expressed may yield a competitive advantage over expressing a single allele twice) has always interested me in regards to blood, though I haven't gone digging for a basis for that being a driving force.
The interested question is what the humans are doing that lets us solve the problem so rapidly.

The need for strategy is eliminated with tactically perfect play... Since computers are not yet to the point of having "solved" chess to tactical perfection, there will always be scenarios where strategy wins.

IMO this is the maximum win for human-machine interaction... humans define the strategy, and computers aid in the tactical execution of that strategy. I'm not really a big believer that AI is anywhere close to beating humans at being human, especially when you step outside the bounds of a simplistic game with a narrowed rule-set.

Like with cars and planes, you won't ever see an autonomous vehicle winning a World Rally Championship, and you won't ever see a computer figuring out how to make a Hudson river emergency landing. But computers can greatly assist with the braking, shifting, adjusting flaps, engine management, etc...
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Rest doesn't mean no state in the world exists. It's not a violation at all that an endpoint changes its output. Rest only reasons about idempotency, not reproducibility.
Understand though I could easily see spammers using the data and getting 500 really should not take more than a month if you post a handful of comments a day; for example: 25 days, 5 comments a day, average of 4 upvotes per comment.

Worth noting with a rep of 500+ HN users are able to downvote comments.
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> Anyone has ever proven ECC is stronger than RSA?

Proof? No, AFAIK, nobody ever proved anything in crypto (except that stuff are broken). Up to now, ECC has survived cryptoanalysis much better than RSA, and curve 25519 has some very good properties that makes it easier to implement it correctly that RSA (or other ECC algos). But there are no proofs.
A retreat in ideology doesn't require everyone to be serfs. There's nothing mutually exclusive in having advanced technology available and not revering consumerism.

I think he makes a mistake about Adam Smith. Many people might glean homo economicus from what they read of Smith, but that's not what he was aiming for at all. He just set out to best describe economics.
Does anyone have any example binaries compiled with this? What are the sizes that you could expect?

They say one of their targets is using this for command-line tools (I'm guessing for startup speed and needing to be small in memory footprint) but it's not of much value if an "echo" or "grep" implementation takes up 15 to 30MB on the drive.
There are still some licensing issues. For instance, Atlassian has an official docker container to evaluate Confluence, but they don't support it in production since it uses OpenJDK and Confluence is still somewhat broken on OpenJDK.

Rather than fix Confluence to work on OpenJDK (I don't want to imagine what type of reflection garbage they've got going on down there that breaks so bad on OpenJDK), their instructions tell you how to make your own Dockerfile using the official Oracle runtime.

Actually, in that situation, if it won't run on OracleJDK it's probably not going to work via a native compiler either.
Well, this is just targeting a different VM, LLVM instead of the JVM. You get easy interop with all LLVM languages with this, including C.
Is this a re-branding of http://gomix.com?
Well, I am sure you could write a nice book on how to write software to write books with.
A big article attempting to justify a person's inner battle and the demons that come with social media. No. Let's call it what it is. The user lacks self control.

> I’d open Facebook, then Instagram, then Messenger, and in the time it had taken me to look at the latter two there was a chance that something might have happened on Facebook. So back I’d go and open it again. Then Instagram. Then Messenger. The cycle would continue. It was annoying the hell out of me.

Sheesh. I see so many anecdotes about people being liberated by removing social media, as if they're heroin addicts starting their journey to recovery. I think someone just needs to say it: grow up and have some damn discipline.
Two things:

One, academia (for many reasons) tends toward liberal group think.

Two, interestingly, many of the most intelligent and successful (especially self made) people tend to be libertarian or conservative.
While I don't necessarily disagree with the spirit of your point, Wikipedia gives three current wars the U.S. is involved in[0]: in Northwest Pakistan, in numerous locations against ISIL, and the war in Afghanistan. You might argue that most of our foes aren't states, and you'd be right, but the fact is still that we are at war and have been continuously for over a decade.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
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