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> While in the JS world, even now that browsers are starting to support ES6, everyone just adds more and more steps to the build process, instead of trying to simplify them.

To build on your Java comparison -- this is would be akin to using a new feature that is still in the JSR approval process, and then downloading an edgey JVM platform (maybe OpenJDK nightly, or something like that) and then complaining when your app gets more complicated. The solution to that problem is to stick to the stable syntax until the new becomes fully supported. Admittedly, this is a problem with browsers where instead of 1 environment, there are 8 with some 1 offs, but again, there is IBM JDK, OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, Android Java (whatever that's called, Dalvik or something?)

> The problem is that the JS world is simply more complex than the Java world.

I strongly disagree. Have you seen "enterprise fizzbuzz"?* I don't mean disrespect but you are kidding yourself if you think Java isn't as complex (if not more) than the current JavaScript ecosystem. I spent 6 years programming in Java and never felt I scratched 10% of the surface.

* https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
I do : A Sansa Fuze+ running Rockbox.
( Too bad finding a new-ish product Rockbox can run on is a real challenge. I think most of them are out of production by now... )
Oh, my apologies, I thought the conclusion of the article was pretty unambiguous: it ends with 3 paragraphs under a sub-heading of "Less applying, more networking".
Or did you draw some other conclusion from the article? "Perhaps you could actually tell HN readers" what that alternative conclusion was? :)
I'll just dump my favorite youtube channels here too:

I enjoy some math channels like Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile, computerphile https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA, standupmaths https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths, 3blue1brown https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw, Vi Hart https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart, Mathologer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg, singingbanana https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMpizQXRt817D0qpBQZ2TlA, and some of Vsauce https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce.

For "general interesting random facts" there's Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay, Wendover Productions https://www.youtube.com/user/Wendoverproductions, CGP Grey https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey, Lindybeige https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige, Shadiversity https://www.youtube.com/user/shadmbrooks. and Today I Found Out https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64UiPJwM_e9AqAd7RiD7JA.

Science/Tech/etc: engineerguy https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo, Kurzgesagt https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q, and C0nc0rdance https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPFnHiJx1P9UY05_F9sOu1g.

Miscellaneous: kaptainkristian https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPgdqQKpq4T4zeqmTelnFg, CaptainDisillusion https://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainDisillusion, and the more recent videos of suckerpinch https://www.youtube.com/user/suckerpinch/videos.

Politics: I unsubscribed from most political content a long time ago. But Last Week Tonight https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ and Vox https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA are pretty good.

Humor: That's pretty subjective, but I think everyone should know about The Onion https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfAOh2t5DpxVrgS9NQKjC7A. Also Fitzthislewitz https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPswLO6Jrrmg8hXY03eXHAw.
Because both are opinionated ways to get a React project going without having to configure any tooling yourself.

Next.js also focuses on client side JavaScript, but happens to render at the server first, so that there's something there for users before the client bundles have downloaded, parsed and been executed.

You could think of it as a more configurable create-react-app that supports server side rendering, with a convention over configuration approach to pages and links.
I just ordered this book from Amazon a few days ago after constantly reading recommendations to read it. I am looking forward to cracking it open.
This only gave me the option to send to my senators (when starting), this issue is currently headed to the house.

EDIT: from the FAQ looks like there is a house command but it is only active to more "experienced" users.

EDIT EDIT: https://resistbot.io/privacy.html worth reading before you use, there are some clauses in there that are a little sketchy.
No big mystery - I used to own WordPress blog at sandfly.net.nz but when I moved countries I gave up blogging for so long that my domain lapsed.

Once I finally decided to start up again using my own platform I needed a catchy name that would be sure to draw traffic. Naturally I couldn't think of anything so ended up with sheep.horse because I think .horse domains are hilariously stupid.
Artificial Intelligence Perpetuating Discrimination
That quote seems to me to be missing a really important bit, which is that there doesn't seem to be a functioning free market which is a necessary condition to determine the price. (This comment is not aimed at you, it is aimed at the article for supplying such a broken explanation)
Can you elaborate as to the specific syntax problems you see with Rust?
> It's one of the things that we Brits should be extremely proud of (although pharma-sponsored sob story campaigns in tabloid newspapers may suggest otherwise). They consider everything in a wider context of opportunity cost of adopting a new treatment and budget constraints.

For context, this is literally what risk-bearing entities in the US already do (both insurers and at-risk providers).

I could get behind the statement that risk-bearing entities should be performing methodical cost-benefit analysis of care coverage, but the fact remains that, at the end of the day, that means that someone is making the decision to deny certain people coverage because it's not cost-effective. Whether you have clinicians and analysts at an insurance insurance company performing that role or the government clinical panel of clinicians and analysts performing that role, it still results in some people having their care approved and some having their treatments denied[0].

It's weird to then dismiss the negative side of the tradeoffs as "pharma-sponsored sob story campaigns" in the UK, when those same stories are accepted as evidence of the systemic problems within the US.

[0] And to pre-empt the common misguided criticism that "it's better because it's not a for-profit company making the decision", that assumes that government agencies don't have a profit motive just because they that's not recorded on their balance sheet (they do), and it also forgets the counterintuitive fact that the explicit profit incentive in the US actually incentivizes the company to permit claims on more expensive treatments if the patient requests them.
> the first step would be a question from candidate to company saying "tell me more about this job". The company would then need to actively get back to the candidate.

Such a service exists. It's called Retained Search, an old-school, high-touch, high-feel service reserved for executive level, mission-critical roles. It's also expensive, 25-33% of first year target compensation. Naturally, companies are incentivized to use cheaper approaches first.
Vintage 60 Minutes TV coverage of TIGoT (12 min): https://youtu.be/ieb1lmm9xHk
C is not simple. It is incredibly complex, due to the way the standard specifies all operations in terms of an abstract VM and offers absolutely no guidance on what to do when code goes out of a small set of behaviors. Because undefined behavior is so easy to trigger, essentially all large production C code relies on undefined behavior.
Gender quotas in Sweden increase competence of elected officials
I don't program in Android as my main focus at work but have been doing to quite a bit lately and I have to say thank god for my three monitors.

The Android ecosystem is such that you are going to want documentation up at all times, and alt-tabbing back and forth would drive me insane. My monitor layout ends up like this:

[emulator][docs][code]

and it works really well. That picture of the author's virtual desktops looks like a nightmare to me. I like using window snapping to put one thing per monitor and having it be big and static from that point on. No context switching, no keeping a mental index of which virtual desktop has that damn Gradle documentation hidden on it.
Is't this exactly what it would want you to think?
So if you want to change the world, blindly accept orders from authority figures, no matter how inane? Sure...
> "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Assuming the attribution of that quote is correct, that's got to be one of the most ironic utterances ever...

/Richelieu was anything but a saint, for a supposed "man of the cloth"...
There is likely an embedded known hash/serial number/other identifier in the U/V signature for exactly this.
The support in the House of Representatives was also mostly Republican:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll332.xml
Both my kids (17 and 6) do so I see them in passing. From my middle aged "dad" perspective it does concern me at the peurile nonsense that floods their brain...
> I'm not sure this has anything to do with democracy. Canada peacefully seceded from the [non-democractic] Commonwealth in 1867.

Canada was still part of the Empire until 1982, and remains part of the Commonwealth of Nations. It absolutely did not secede from the Commonwealth in 1867 (which would have been difficult, since the Commonwealth wasn't officially established until 1931, and the Dominion of Canada was itself established from the unification of three separate British colonies—Canada, which became Quebec and Ontario; Nova Scotia; and New Brunswick—in 1867.)
The making of Carrd
The article specifically mentions examples like thunder as a verb vs noun, and time as passing objects vs recurring.

Obviously as a species we can develop concepts we have no words for to begin with, this is evolution. But that would also mean that they can evolve separately, which in turn means different languages can have different concepts that can't be translated. At least not without detours, or loss of meaning. Much more abstract concepts than airplanes.

I remember asking my friends the other day: "is there a word for karma, that also encompasses the effects your poor actions have on innocent people around you?"

That is a concept very closely related to a concept we already have a word for, so it wasn't too difficult to explain. What I imagine it really means is that there could be concepts I can't even fathom because my imagination is only articulated in the languages I understand.

Ps. The word we ended up with was "splash karma" or "collateral karma".
Curl had more vulnerabilities reported this past year than the previous two years combined. The number of bugs is growing year over year now that automated checking tools are mainstream. The number of problems revealed is accelerating, not slowing down as you seem to think.
Would it be illegal for Disney to encourage or indirectly fund a hit piece on PewDiePie? It's very likely the OP here is right: YouTubers are imploding. Disney probably is the first to see that(they acquired Maker Studios a year or so ago) and needed to offload a massive failing asset.

The anti-semitism problem is a very specific angle to take particularly related to Disney and PewDiePie. Someone clearly combed his trove of videos and found every single Nazi reference; seem like a stretch to begin with. Idk theories.
It isn't over till it's over. Many reps/senators would have voted in favor of SOPA/PIPA, but were dissuaded from doing so by the sheer volume of people calling about it. Public pressure is a real thing. Call your rep!
Fooled by Randomness,first; and The Black Swan (2nd edition) second. These are books about statistics and decision theory. They might not meet some people's expectations about "non-technology" which usually means no equations and no mathematical reasoning. While not written by Taleb, How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff makes a good introduction for Taleb's books.
You have reinvented the idea behind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_(artificial_language)
Another option along the same lines:

https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus
It's well within reason and capabilities for rust community to write libcurl and curl CLI libraries.

The community should do it, spend a couple of years stabilizing, and then spread the words to others.
HN is one of those odd places where supposedly rational people simultaneously believe that A. The theory of evolution is likely correct, and B. Evolution magically stopped operating on human population groups about 50k years ago.

And that while animal and plant subspecies differentiated in the span of a few thousand years vary measurably on various innate behavioral and physical characteristics, human population groups are COMPLETELY exempt from evolved behavioral propensities.

Because magic, or something.

To not believe in magic is, of course, racist and evil.
You don't notice the poster and neither do I. But some posters carry enough cred (or have enough friends) that anything they post immediately get a bump out of the incoming links slush pile.

That's not counting the people who use multiple accounts and bots to push up their content (probably not a problem on hacker news but rife on reddit).
Also don't forget about Quantiacs (https://quantiacs.com/) -- Quantiacs supports both Python and Matlab, and is focused on managed futures -- not equities. It's open source, and unlike quantopian or quantconnect -- Quantiacs actually matches your algos with institutional investors and shares the profits with you....and you retain 100% of your own IP.
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Dude, you FTP'd a php file to a server and it ran automagically. It was really beautiful and turned so many people to programming. World-changing!
Both are great books. Influence helps me a lot to deal with my 3 year old. Should be on the parenting section on bookstores.

I also like The Soul of a New Machine, The Prince, The Art of War and On Human Nature.
Mnuchin on robots taking jobs: 'Not on our radar screen; 50-100 more years' away
I remember when two monitors were a new thing that someone did a productivity study and found that getting 50% more real estate (i.e., half again as many pixels or a few more inches diagonal) on your single monitor was as effective as having a second monitor the same size as your old one.

Personally, I thought having multiple wide aspect ratio monitors was a complete waste. I don't turn my head that far when I work normally. But my latest trick, adapted from a coworker, is to put the second monitor in portrait mode. My CI build window is the top 2/3rds of the screen, and the log tail for the code I'm running or the build script I'm running are the bottom 2/3rds, which leaves enough visible in each window to discern when the other needs my attention. I'm getting a lot more use out of that monitor now.
About your blog, IMHO a little re-styling would help a lot. I do like minimal layouts, but the serif font doesn't quite work for me.

Also, maybe add some structure? Your blogs seem to cover a broad range of topics. I am mostly interested in technical articles, but I have to actively filter out the stuff that I'm interested in (by reading the titles and guessing the topic; this takes quite some mental energy and might hold back readers from subscribing).
> almost ruined someone's career

There are countless millions of people with no careers at all. Clearly, our society doesn't believe in a right to having a career at all, let alone a right to keeping one's existing career.

If we're worried about the threat to PewDiePie's ability to make a living, to his life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, it seems like the fundamental problem is not with people on the internet having opinions, it is with the system where losing a career threatens all those things. Fix capitalism, implement a UBI, whatever, and then his loss of a career wouldn't seem like a threat to his ability to live a fulfilling life or to reach an effective means of speaking to people.

The same argument can be used to say, "Your opinions have consequences. In this case, shutting down the TSA's security theater program put a lot of TSA agents out on the streets. You have to take responsibility for it." Or "In this case, Edward Snowden almost ruined the careers of many NSA spooks who could never make it in the private sector." Or many similar things. Would you agree those are bad arguments for not fixing the TSA or reforming the NSA?
> Nothing about sexuality, nothing about feminism, or equality, [...]

From the DCOC: "The Drupal community and its members treat one another with respect."

> When it comes to Drupal, the only gender problem it has is the people who keep manufacturing major incidents out of minor slights [...]

I don't know for Drupal, but gender is an issue in most computer-science related fields, I doubt that Drupal is immune to this. Free Software has a lower % of women involved than computer science in general. In any case, until there is near parity, there is a gender problem.

I agree that 'we' are pretty bad at handling incidents. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. There's been an evolution in the last 10 years, but clearly more work to be done.
The Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.

Great sci-fi, but also cast science and technology in a way that made me realize it could enable or destroy civilization.

Introduced me to the concept that we can approach modeling and predicting human behavior with mathematics.

Very instrumental in pushing me towards hard sciences and computer modeling.
The Grugq – American Snoper: The truth will not set you free
Next is great. I would love to deprecate my SSR starter kit - Sambell - https://github.com/humblespark/sambell - once it supports a layout file, for animated transitions, etc. Right now, React Router seems fundamentally more powerful as a SPA framework.
The main reason for multiple monitor setups would be, that they were cheaper than getting a single larger screen. But the general reduction in screen prices and the new class of ultra-wide screens gives alternative options to get a lot of desktop real estate. The only reason I sometimes prefer my dual-screen setup is, that when I have a full-screen application (vmware in my case) running on one screen, the other would give me additional desktop space like for reference documentation. I would never consider putting a normal windowed desktop application into full-screen mode. As my typical work requires to use multi-windowed applications, I like my desktop to be as large as possible.
"The Internet has warped the idea of “free speech” to mean “speech without consequence” and that’s simply not what it is."

The true meaning of freedom is that you are free to do what you want, if you are willing to accept the consequences.
For an example of operating system kernel completely written in Lisp, see https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
This history of Part D is so polically distorted it is almost exactly backwards.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/us/bush-medicare-propo...
>He never owned his account in the first place. That information belongs to Facebook and is the property of Facebook.

Don't you think that was part of the point and part of the problem?
I'd really disagree. All those languages are both safer and more expressive (if more verbose in the case of those with Pascal-like syntax) than any version of C, and, except in the case of ML, Scheme and ALGOL 68 with the optional garbage collection, there's no reason they couldn't be as fast or faster than C. Their main fault was simply in being too ahead of their time: too difficult or impossible to implement well on a PDP-11.

(I deleted the part about FORTRAN 77; seems I was confusing it with F90, which is the version that first allowed identifiers longer than 6 characters, dynamic memory allocation and user-defined types).
Why We’re Paying for Content These Days
It's kind of off topic in the thread though. Sure, GP didn't like it, a lot of people didn't like it. That's beside the point. You're allowed to not like things, and people are allowed to publish (most) things you don't like. It doesn't add anything to the discussion to state you don't like it.

But should pewdiepie be punished for it?
Is it really that surprising that Disney thought that using "death to all Jews" in a joke, regardless of context, was inappropriate?
Some people would rather no one can get the content than simply not consuming it themselves. It's not enough that they don't see it: No one should, because they know what's best.
> It was part of the Medicare part D program - and likely put in via lobbying of Drug companies to politicians:

The prices are still negotiated. They're negotiated by the plans that provide Medicare Part D, rather than determined unilaterally by Medicare itself (which is what happens for Medicare A and B reimbursement rates).
I would argue HTA is not without it's problems. That's why the UK has a cancer drug fund. NICE has said "no" to those drugs, yet the public still clammers for them. So a separate funding mechanism was created to pay for them.[1]

[1]https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/cdf/
I can't help but think that DiscoGAN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05192 "Learning to Discover Cross-Domain Relations with Generative Adversarial Networks", Kim et al 2017) would be perfect for this. Simply feed it a ton of photos of regular clothed people and other naked people (don't have to be the same people), and it'll learn a mapping on its own. Scale that up, refine it for a few years...