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>I don't think this is a good way to learn Scala because I don't think Haskell-style code makes for effective Scala.

Why is writing functional code in scala not effective? How would one go about understanding 'for comprehensions' in scala without understanding what flatMap/map is used for in lieu if exception. Or why pattern matching is used.
Fans of long-form content won't agree, but if you want to be heard, try to engage at Twitter and Facebook. Most of the web readers in this day and age have very little engagement spans, and use diversified channels to consume content. So, in order to attract engaged audience to your blog - you either have to spend lots of efforts of content marketing, or you can simply shift to the medium of popular choice.

When I have to say something long enough to be a blog post, I do a Twitter thread.
You could examine everything I have ever, ever written and you will never find me paying someone to hold up a sign reading "Death to Jews".
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Amazing book, and Roarke's whole philosophy is really inspiring.
The Himba tribe in Africa have an interesting perception of color which is believed to stem from their language[1]. For example, their language uses the same word for what westerners separately call green and blue. As a result, they cannot seem to distinguish the colors when presented to them.

[1] https://vimeo.com/120808489
Of course they're overstated their case. Needs differ. When I wrote networking code a couple jobs ago it was in assembler, because a new frame will be along in 67ns whether you're ready or not.
And on the other side, if you're someone who gets raised to a public personality for your liveliness and lack of filter, you're likely to step over the line eventually.

One of the best points I've seen was that Youtubers have a lot in common with talk radio hosts. When Howard Stern said something offensive, it was a bit rich to act surprised. He was paid to be shocking, he did better the harder he pushed on the edge of acceptable, and so of course he eventually went too far. Everyone from PewDiePie to Penny Arcade have run into the same issue.

(Under this framework, JonTron is a fundamentally different issue - he doesn't seem to have been looking for views, just melting down.)
9 signs your coworker is a psychopath
The maintainer of curl, a shitty HTTP client/library, takes a stand against the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce. The Rust Evangelism Strikeforce declares him a Suppressive Person.
I guess that is why this happens totally unnoticed to many other western countries, if you cut it down to percentage on national income this is nothing compared to anyone else. On that scale United Arab Emirates did 6 times as much as the U.S.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...
> It has been very interesting to see youtubers come and go, a lot of them seem to burn out on the schedule of trying to produce content regularly, which I can understand, anyone who's edited videos would realise the time it can take to produce something of good quality.

This is kind of related to the part of the story that informs you that you need weekly updates to stay visible to your subscribers because YouTube is weird. I'm not sure if that is true any more, especially with options like Patreon. I support 3blue1Brown and Primitive Technologies through it, and part of the reason I do is that they both take their time to produce quality videos.
I'd be surprised if they did use Scala.js. It's not even at 1.0 yet and I imagine the ecosystem surrounding it is a tiny fraction of vanilla JS.
Completely agree with your points.

> I'm not sure how many resumes never make it past recruiting

I've asked the recruiters at my company about this (we hired roughly similar numbers). Their response was that they filter a surprising number of applicants, but they are almost always from people who are completely unqualified for the job. The referral helps fast track them through this, but it doesn't provide much more than getting their foot in the door.
Fair enough :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915595
I wonder if I have a hd movie, how much does it cost to put them in the cinemas?
For what it's worth, I just tweeted Netflix about its availability. Who knows, maybe it'll catch the right person's attention at some point. I know the odds are next to nil, but what the heck. :)
It's not the distributors fault really. Netflix is not only in direct competition with it's suppliers, but it's actually killing them. Before netflix created its own content, it's shows were all created by cable channels, whose viewers it was taking at a fast rate.

Netflix made "rerun" content valuable. The suppliers were right to charge more.

If Netflix actually destroys cable, it would have had no suppliers at all. Creating their own content or buying it straight from production companies was always going to be the next step.
Elon Musk invested early in DeepMind just to keep tabs on the progress of AI
Does "The Evolution of Cooperation" count as technical? It's kind of CS-ish, but the real points are about how cooperation and "good behavior" can (a) occur without explicit communication and (b) be predictably self-beneficial in the long term even though exact paths to those benefits are unknown. True enlightened self-interest has to account for ecosystem effects and something akin to karma.

If that's disqualified, I'd go with something like Lewis and Allison's "The Cheating of America" or just about anything by David Cay Johnston. Knowing who really pays and who really profits from government, and how, can really shine an interesting light on what might otherwise by inexplicable behavior from our so-called leaders.
With Rust this tradeoff of safe-with-runtime vs. unsafe-without-runtime is no longer your only choice. Now you can choose safe-with-strong-compiler-no-runtime...
Nearly the same insights here (http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/).

My conclusions: If you want to get a big audience you have to hustle. Post every blog on every social channel and so on. This is not the game I want to play. My motivation to blog is to clarify and archive my thoughts. Sometimes it is useful to point someone to an old blog post instead writing a log comment.

Going for a blog with a big audience only makes sense if it is a funnel for selling something. Books, courses, app, etc. Having your core followers for some interaction is nice to develop new stuff. Blog about a topic, get the feedback, work it into another book/course/app. Blog about different topics and test which of them evokes the most reactions.
25 Years Later, ‘Crossing the Chasm’ Has Withstood the Test of Time
Does anyone here spend much of their usual 'entertainment' time watching YouTube (specifically content creators not TED talks and such)? I started doing it recently just to see what all the fuss is about as it seems pretty common for younger people (and I'm 26 so it's not like I'm old but I didn't do it).

After subscribing to a few channels I started watching stuff regularly. Basically if I want to kill 10 mins I'll open up YouTube and there'll be something to watch. I'm committing so little time I don't need to really think about it before clicking (unlike say Netflix). On the other hand when I step back a minute I notice that the videos provide incredibly little value as opposed to usual entertainment sources. I could watch a crappy 20min sitcom and it may be deemed trash but it still has a story and characters it feels like it provides some value to me. I don't get that on YouTube. I've tried a variety of the most popular channels and some other stuff and it's largely memes and clickbait and something I forget about the moment I'm done watching.

It seems like a lot of the popular creators don't actually produce good content but instead have managed to built a personality cult around themselves that hooks very young people. I've noticed comments where people praise 'hustle' and 'content' and 'awesome product placement'.

Just interested on other people's thoughts on the platform and content.

Edit: Thanks for the replies everyone, very interesting.
Yep, been down that road. You indeed have to reactivate your account in order to delete it.

FB's approach here is a great example of a dark pattern. I've known several people who really want to kick the FB habit and deactivated their accounts. But when they accidentally reactivate, the temptation was too great to go back since everything was still there just how they left it.

Evil genius right there.
No, you absolutely should have to confirm your identity in this situation.

Otherwise... well, imagine that I close my account and then decide to reopen it. ANYONE IN THE WORLD could block me from reopening it if FB doesn't require identification in the way you suggest.
Many gambling machines have a 70% return. Ie. 70% of money put in is paid out again.

One could probably go to a casino with a bag of fake coins, put 50 in each machine, and take any and all winnings. Some machines even pay out winnings in notes.
The activity monitor when run as an icon should consume no noticeable energy, it is <1% power usage - a single "nasty" tab can load the cpu 10-30% or more. I think this is a good trade off, especially when the run time does not match the expectations.
I don't think "normal HDR" traditionally includes this:

"HDR+ addresses [low-light blur/noise] by taking a burst of shots with short exposure times, aligning them algorithmically, and replacing each pixel with the average color at that position across all the shots. Averaging multiple shots reduces noise, and using short exposures reduces blur."
The youtube algorithm and setup is really messed up, but it reminds me of the google algorithm for search.

This video shows that crap uploads and clickbait rule youtube.
I was actually fooled by these content creators and they used it as an example in their follow up video. It was really eye opening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXRWGbDfVlw

I wonder if youtube has or will have a "panda" event.
That coin is a beauty. It looks like it would be a denomination much higher than £1.

As someone who collected coins a child, I've been a tad disappointed by some of the newer designs coming out of the US Mint. Some are classy, others seem a bit goofy.

But this new pound coin is very tasteful. Well done, Royal Mint!
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Wow -- lua, Python, matlab and CUDA.

I see now that the image segmentation is probably the key element to getting these stunning results. Other style transfers I've seen took abstract elements from the donor picture, but this really captures the donor and transforms the recipient significantly.
It also depends on the rate the counterfeits are being removed from circulation by bank sorting machines.
You're not a comedian.
Not a React guy, but there is lot's of hyperbole in here.
Not sure how npm, webpack, babel, "thousands of transpilers" et al slow you down. They're tools that do things so you don't have to... Are you seriously saying that hand converting ES6/7+ to running ES5 would be faster than babel? Hand bundling/splitting of code would be faster than browserify, webpack? Hand finding, curating, tracking of dependencies would be faster than NPM? mmk.
And now it contains questionable content forever associated.
How to Build a Button
> The more we realize we are responsible for our own well being, take responsibility [...]

How, exactly, am I supposed to "take responsibility" for spotting someone with a hidden bomb when I get on an airplane?
According to the article, it wasn't a working laptop, he bought it off eBay for £15 as a parts machine. His only requirement was a working screen and keyboard since he planned to gut it for the Pi.

I was thinking about doing something like this myself a while back, and my oldest laptop, a Dell Latitude CPx with a PIII 500MHz CPU, would be ideal since I could reuse the power supply and batteries (it has two battery bays) with a simple charge controller/voltage converter. But, the laptop is in nearly mint condition and runs so well I can't bear to destroy it. It's easily as fast as the newest Pi, and it runs OpenBSD very well, which will likely never be ported to the Pi.
Thus I only subscribe to blogs with at most one article per day. Most have an average of one article per week or month. For the use case of following rarely-posting very-techy blogs, RSS feeders are still great.
Sense8 is created by Netflix, but The Expanse is not. Netflix has nothing to do with that show other than international (non-US) distribution.
And how will he charge the battery without the charging unit on the mainboard?
For comparison, the American $100 bill was widely counterfeited (by the Libyans?) to the tune of maybe a billion dollars in circulation. The US Treasury left it be for years - too costly to detect the very good copies. Eventually bills were reformulated to include harder-to-copy features but for years the only response was to print fewer. Since so many good ones were in circulation already.
Really if your're good enough...

Magnus Carlsen spends very very little time on memorizing openings.
It was the same leap you made with
> "Saudi Arabia punishes rape victims. We should help with that?"

There is no temptation if they need a warrant issued by judge authorizing for the officer to request to the company information related with that suspect. Upon which the company might charge administrative costs to handle the request.

I am saying suspect of a crime committed or with complaint filed against. As stated before I am against mass surveillance and crime "prediction". Even terrorism is a small problem compared with economic/political corruption.

Otherwise the governments might block applications. Or secretly spy on us, with the company help if needed. All done without any supervision.
> The C way I know focuses mainly on character at a time iteration

Ah, yes, the good 'ole C way that only works reliably in English.
He makes enough money to hire writers.
Interesting; I feel that Stranger Things is one of their stronger recent offerings. Much better than Flaked, Love, or Master of None.
IRS crackdown on Bitcoin exchange fuels privacy worries
>Nobody gives you a manual on how to handle work, children, people, sex, money, life in general.

Sure we do, its called culture. My parents were immigrants so I got to see two systems compete, their native culture and US mainstream culture. There's a lot of info here on how to live, if anything its overwhelming.

I think the idea that we're all winging it on some certain level is pretty different from a feeling like an imposter. I don't feel like any kind of imposter in my day to day life.

If I do feel 'imposter syndrome' its at work and largely because we have, in the US, an anti-worker climate where we're expected to be instant experts on everything, especially if you're in tech. A realistic outlook on what staff can do doesn't benefit management as much, so they don't help dissuade the myth of the IT/dev superman. They'd rather you near burn-out trying to be a 5x multiplier than hire 5 more guys. We often talk about imposter syndrome at work, but rarely its principle driver. Its not "my teachers said I was smart and can do anything" but very deliberate policies that help businesses maximize profit at the expense of the wellbeing of their own staff.
Sapiens by Yuri Harari

The book is simple mind blowing. It seems as if the entire history of homo sapiens which we learned in school was wrong. There was no slow progression, homo Sapiens and Neanderthals existed in the same time as did many ither species like homo erectus, but the perished before Sapiens.

It seems that our ability to form fictional entities (like money, state, society, country, religion etc) made us superior to other species. It seems that the basic ability to gossip helped us beat other species!

Completely mind blowing.
Oh, I know. And I'm sure they're right. But as someone who has largely given up on the Marvel movies because they're too much effort for too little payoff, I'm dreading the day I can no longer understand Jessica Jones fully without also watching three ancillary shows and one unified ensamble show beforehand.
Probably not if that guy used his sneakiness to make you a million dollars. A lot of initial faux paux can be forgiven when bank accounts are involved.
Facebook has credit cards on file, it is not surprising to me you need to confirm your identity on a platform that takes payment information. In software products, it is safe to assume that they'll be dealing with payments of some sort, so it is best to not even sign up for services, also since your real identity is what advertisers want to sell to which keeps the product free.
Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
PostgreSQL vs. MySQL – what to pick as your next analytical database?
A lot of comments here are focusing on the pricing and ignoring the 'sandbox' part of the game's description. There is a leaderboard you can try to climb but it is reset monthly and isn't really shoved in your face. Beyond that you're free to set whatever goals you want and go about them however you wish, with the principles of other strategy games (harvest resources, build things, attack enemies, etc.) to give you ideas. It's really a game about you and your code and how it grows and evolves as your goals and strategies become more complex.

Screeps is definitely worth trying, if for no other reason than to learn javascript at a deeper level if you don't use it extensively. I do have a couple of issues though:

The first is that it is quite resource intensive considering its simple 2D visuals, both in the browser and the standalone client. I'm not sure if it is just poor optimization or the javascript runtime but it shouldn't make my machine hot. It'd be nice if this were addressed.

The second issue I have is the workflow, which doesn't lend itself well to source control. The ingame editor works well enough, but its idea of a "branch" is just a named copy of the code directory. I think there is a way to integrate with github but I don't want to upload everything to the cloud just to be able to track changes. It would be nice if this area were looked at and made more flexible so we could use our tools of choice.
Writing on Air with Ada
Well that's just a reference to http://www.techradar.com/news/how-2016s-best-camera-phones-c...

It looks like they had smudges on the camera lens. I've taken much more challenging shots than that without the horrible blur they have. But smudge any smartphone lens with fingerprints and it will look like that. Hell, smudge a DSLR lens and it will look like that too.
If I'm understanding correctly, seems like this is back to the old days when routes mapped directly to pages. From experience with ASP, it is not a good thing. You need to separate the routing from the presentation ala MVC. I can see the benefit if next.js is intended to be create-react-app++.
It's interesting that they chose .com versus .co.uk for their domain.
>Mitsubishi wasn't named and is huge. Their revenue will likely dwarf Amazon for decades to come.

Was curious, so I looked it up. Mitsubishi's revenue (as of 2011, which is where Wikipedia cuts off) was ~ $174B. Amazon's 2016 revenue was about $136B. I'm guessing Amazon has a higher revenue growth rate than Mitsubishi.

Samsung's total 2014 revenue was $305B.
LG's 2012 revenue was $143B.
SK's 2011 revenue was $99B.
SMFG's 2011 revenue was ~28B.
Toyota is the largest company in Japan at about $237B in revenue (not a keiretsu, but included for scale).

TL;DR; it's not easy to find a company (or related group) with revenue that dwarfs Amazon's. Amazon is really big.
I kinda know that, spent extreme amounts of time on everything graphical be it 2D, 3D, animated, synthesis, procedural generation. And 2D work is not really tech related; it's closer to an old art. Kinda like logos, it's hard to express a logical relationship in a composition. A few details away you go from amazing to lame.
Today we have production rules systems such as iLog and Drools which are head and shoulders better than OPS5 and other "expert system shells" from the golden age of A.I.

These are in widespread use for a few applications. Probably every bank has at least one iLog instance running for enforcing business rules. Another one is "complex event processing", where a RETE engine makes it easy to aggregate small events into larger events. Also, a few efforts, such as Inform7 and Clara have tried to push the boundaries of programming for non-experts and real-life applications.

It is interesting, however, that the technology is not further applied, and a deep analysis of that could be worthwhile. For instance, RETE networks can eat "callback hell" situations for lunch, much like the complex event processing case. Instead, however, we are seeing one awful Javascript framework after another, and coroutines pushed as a very narrow answer to the problems on the server.

Note that all forms of A.I. have ties to optimization. For instance, usually when you train a neural net you are minimizing some kind of an error function. Drools (and iLog) both have optimization frameworks, etc.

The recent discussion of "superintelligence" has been marked by both a lack of imagination and any awareness of previous work on the subject. For instance, Rules engines are a fairly direct answer to "AI Safety" and "AI Ethics" problems that there is so much handwringing about. Most areas that require computers to be "creative" amount to some kind of multi-objective optimization, and even if rules can't make a system good, they can at least prevent the worst abuses.
Normal HDR combines regular, underexposed and overexposed shots. HDR+ does not.
Illegal crossings from Mexico had been going down for years prior to the current administration. And I imagine the numbers are seasonal, tied to harvesting work that probably gets a little slow in February.

Not that I exactly trust the current administration to tell the truth on the subject in the first place.
SPA is certainly wrong for many things. Projects fail because people underestimate their implementation and something that could've been a web application without much state is a buggy mess that can't achieve liftoff.

Even when your application is not an SPA, some areas could still be SPA: editors, etc.
> According to the article, it wasn't a working laptop, he bought it off eBay for £15 as a parts machine. His only requirement was a working screen and keyboard since he planned to gut it for the Pi.

Ah, I missed that part and mistook "everything seems to be in order" to mean that this is a working laptop. My apologies.
>"Moving files from one directory to another may not be atomic."

I was intrigued that you said "may not", can you elaborate on when it is vs when it isn't?

>"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."

This really made me laugh :)
Who moved my cheese. Its not my favorite book but its influenced me the most and I read it atleast once a year.
It is a powerful parable about making things happen for yourself and focusing on things you can control and not blaming a bad hand or rough circumstances.