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The body is fairly good at fighting off illnesses and disease. Not a doctor, but from what I have read often by the time someone is diagnosed with cancer it has progressed to a stage where the body's immune system has failed to fight it off, so it is probably rare for cancer to go away on its own. Here is one article suggesting that cancer can go away on its own:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/1...
Netflix 4K streaming comes to the PC–but it needs Kaby Lake CPU (2016)
They don't really need to. Samsung already happily modifies as much AOSP code as they can get away with.
It's about economies of scale. If you're in a 6-9 unit building... you can't employ a full-time handyman for maintenance... you're stuck using whatever contractor comes in lowest bid. That won't lead to quality in the long run. But if you have a few hundred units, you can have a maintenance staff that cares about the property (or at least their jobs)... and that keeps everything nice.

My mom own a few 4-12 unit apartments in CA. She bought them in the 90s, and charges what seems like a fortune in rent -- but after taxes, and maintenance, and all the various costs involved... she pretty much just breaks even. Her plan is to sell the buildings when she retires... and that'll be a nice windfall when that day comes.

Until then... as much as I hate to say it about my own mother, she's basically a slum lord. She does only the bare minimum to fix anything when it breaks, and drags her feet for tenants who complain too much in hopes they just move out. She has to manage the properties herself... deal with tenants who are late on rent, deal with all the hassles because if she hires someone it puts her into the red. We've had long discussions about it... the profit isn't there to justify spending more. She'll do the basics... whatever is legally required of her... past that she has no incentive to spend money on the properties.

Anyway I know there can be nice small multifamily structures, but in many places I think the landlords hit the scale issue. They don't make enough off the properties to hire better property management, or keep things as nice as the apartments that have hundreds of units. Maybe a brand new 6-9 unit building would be OK, but one that's 30-50 years old... it's going to have a lot of issues or sky-high rent -- or both.
It's not new. One example I look up to is Sidekiq (http://sidekiq.org). It offers a paid subscription for its pro version.
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cobol would be much nicer if it accepted camelCase.
Fortran, Ada, D? I guess D is out because of the garbage collector, and I've not heard of Fortran being used as a systems language, but it's certainly performant with C.

However, OSes have been written in Lisp, and it has been used for embedded programming, so it's possible to make a language with more abstractions available similarly performant.
I've run into all the things you mentioned. Pretty quickly though.

One I hit in many of the tools was lack of a good UI widget for select fields that have lots of choices. Something like a combobox with autocomplete.
This breaks my heart and reminds me of how fortune I am.

I know it's an exhaustive question, but what can we, as hackers, do to help?
As opposed to their other reporting?
Believe it or not, but, there are people who don't like stock android. They want to be able differentiate themselves. Why do you think companies like Xiaomi, vivo, oppo, etc are a huge success.
Right, but sidekiq's pro version isn't in a github repo. They host a private repo for you when you fork over the cash and discontinue it after a year.
I can't put my finger on it but I dislike something about the way the article is presented. I am not a fan of facebook having disabled it years ago. Maybe I am just inferring it, but I feel like a needless negative connotation is implied. "Here is facebook campus. It looks nice. Possible rich people. Here is some homeless people."

On the other hand, maybe this will make fb campus notice and help the people out. If that is the case then I suppose its good.
This is fearmongering, and a dupe.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=laptop%20bombs&sort=byPopulari...
What Spotify calls a "stealth primary" has typically been referred to as a "hidden master" for 15 years or so. Googling that term will turn up more relevant results, for anyone looking to do something similar.
Right, but the question is why they would even bother with the software. It's a lot of effort maintaining their substantial Android modifications for seemingly not a lot of payoff compared to just producing superior hardware.
I can't tell if this is an April Fool's joke or not. If it is, congratulations, troll successful. But I'm going to go ahead and reply anyway...

There are exactly two valid* points in this post:

- rustc is slow
- "the circlejerk"

* i.e. not completely without merit

I'll just go through these really quick:

1. rustc is slow

Rust just shipped (in beta) incremental compilation, a technique commonly used by compilers to speed up recompiles:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/incremental-compilation-be...

This doesn't change the fact rustc is slow, but it certainly makes the developer experience much better. Try it out!

That said, rustc is still slow. A valid complaint.

2. rust needs unions

Rust has two types of unions:

- tagged unions a.k.a. sum types. These are preferred
- #[feature(untagged_unions)]: actual C-style unions, unsafe, useful for C interop

You probably want the first kind. Rust does have them!

3. linked lists are great

Linked lists are great! I use them in one of the main Rust programs I'm working on. The thing about Rust linked lists is how you write one will depend entirely on your memory model.

One of the best tutorials on Rust explains the language's memory model in terms of linked lists. It's a great read, a harrowing tale of "fighting rustc" until you achieve victory:

http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/

I'm using immutable arena-allocated linked lists, which is a great pattern. This is in conjunction with tagged unions, and together I have an immutable sum type + list memory model for a sort of Lisp-alike VM.

I did have to implement my own linked lists. The code is not terribly complicated. It'd be nice if there were standard one-size-fits-all linked lists in e.g. the "collections" module, but the type system needs a bit more work before it will be generic enough for that to be a good idea. Until then, you'll have to write your own or use a library given your unique constraints. But that's not really different from C...

4. "the circlejerk" a.k.a. the community

If you dislike the community there's not a lot to say. It's probably a bad idea to use a language whose community you dislike.

I personally think Rust has a great community.

5. rust's safety is overrated

C programmers routinely make memory safety mistakes, even if they're experts, even if they're using static analysis tools. You don't have to use Rust to have a safe memory model... any JVM language or most other managed language runtimes will do.

If you're writing a trivial C program it's possible it's safe. But it only takes one mistake for things to go from safe to catastrophic in C.
There's lots of places in the Bay Area to donate time or money. If you work for a big company, they often have matching programs that will stretch your donation further.

In the medium term, we have to get serious about electing local and state representatives who will help make sure everyone benefits from the prosperity of the tech industry in California.
Global trade has benefits beyond cheap labor. Resource distribution between nations is not even. Because of that, I'd stop all or most trade with countries who don't have labor and environmental protection laws similar to our own, but still allow trade with countries with similar economies. That would allow the resource flow needed to give a balanced economy, but still bring manufacturing back. Over time, demand for lower class labor would raise, leading to higher wages and quality of life for most people.

That's the hope anyway. If you see any blaring flaws beyond the fact that multinational corporations would suffer, please let me know.
I'd add government contracting on wasteful or pork-barrel projects.
Henry Ford making a V8. Everyone told him it was impossible to cast an eight cylinder engine block in one piece. He did it anyway.
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I mean, this is great, obviously. True spirit of the holiday.

That being said, rustc _is_ slow.
One of the most experienced climbers I know clipped into a gear loop instead of a belay loop without looking down at it and sat on it. He's only alive because he's got really fast reflexes. Checklists and rituals save lives.
We have a whole chapter on error handling in the second edition of The Rust Programming Language[1] that goes into these issues in detail. When we revise chapter 1 (we're doing that chapter last), we're planning on defining what Rust means by "safe".

[1] - http://rust-lang.github.io/book/second-edition/ch09-00-error...
> What you need in a big war against a worthy adversary is the ability to quickly innovate and iterate on designs, and having a single design that try to do everything is about the worst option available for that.

That's what you might think with a certain naive look at WWII. All indications are that in any modern conflict between countries with the capability to manufacture this kind of hardware, it'll be all over before there's time to design or build anything. You win with what you have when the war breaks out, or you lose. Assuming you're lucky enough for it to not go nuclear, since any country like that can also build lots of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and they pretty much all have already.
Try releasing your tools in public if allowed. Use the public datasets like in opendata.gov.in to create analytical reports for specific sector like fmcg. Use the tools and report for consulting and training teams in those sector to use the data.
So you stop international trade but why wouldn't the manufacturing just build up on the edges of the cities? Why do you think that would distribute naturally throughout the country? The cities have a built in and stable workforce. Unless there is a natural resource that needs to be extracted from the area I'm just not seeing it.

Besides with the increase in automation the types of workers factories will need in the future will be high tech as well.
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Interesting, I did not know this.
Hasn't Facebook tried to build housing near its campus, and been rejected, out of precisely the same righteous indignation at the presence of (the wrong kind of) rich people dripping through this article?

Hard to complain about tech companies causing homelessness if you won't let them use their money to build homes.
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If App Maker takes an order of magnitude less time than writing the software they want, then it can be low-risk.

If something takes a long time and may not work, that's when it's risky.
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How has this community reached the point where the vast majority of comments on this decision are arguing about Go, which isn't even the language that they picked?
This actually describes me a lot. I never had a word for it, but I often describe my ADHD by telling people that I don't have the internal monologue that tells me to eat, take out the trash, or what I was doing before I was distracted by HN. I've actually been in the middle of typing a word and had to remind myself, out loud, what I was doing. It's very strange to see something I thought was very specific to me be described by sometime else
Flexport is hiring a product manager to bring the world free trade
How can movie production be costly, at least in comparison to decades past? No film, no processing, no laborious cutting/splicing.... with CGI no model-making, much less set-building, no stop-motion, no special frame-by-frame retouching. Must be much cheaper today at least in terms of the infrasturcture required.
> In real analysis, the projectively extended real line [...] is the extension of the number line by a point denoted ∞.

> The extended complex numbers consist of the complex numbers C together with ∞.

It may be an "extended number", but it is not a number.
Providing no stable ABI and not being easy to bind to in general is really a major pain point of C++ for library/framework code. In contrast everyone and their dog is able to call into C in practice which is, I assume, a not to be underestimated reason why it is still so popular, even for code not leveraging its low level nature. Rust is really interesting here as they have chosen to make it more than an afterthought to provide compatibility.

> I concede that the extra language complexity of C++ over C could be a disadvantage, but in my mind that doesn't outweigh the benefits.

It's a problem, C++ is so insanely complex, full of magic which is hard to grasp and provides more ways to shoot yourself in the foot than to do it right (modern C++ seems better in some regards but still…). C is often chosen because people want sth. reasonable simple so I think a language fitting in between, being richer than C but still fairly comprehensible would be nice.
My mom worked with homeless people for several years in Utah. Some are chronically homeless, some drug addicted, some lost a job or can't afford a home, and some are just plain lazy. To get out of homelessness you need 1) a place to live, and 2) a job. Those 2 are a chicken and egg problem. If you can find someone willing, and can provide one of those 2, then you can help. But until they have the desire to get out of it, I hate to say it but it's not going to happen.

The best thing you can do is when you see them, treat them as an equal. Don't feel sorry for them, and don't feel like you can rescue them. Nod and say hi like you would anyone else. Don't look away. If you are near them and have a conversation, most of the time they will tell you how they they're just temporarily in a bad position. They will lie to you and say they had a housefire and that's why they're carrying all their stuff. That they plan on giving their kid the bike they are riding on for Christmas. But just smile and listen to them.

You can help by helping their life be just a little bit better, because a lot of little things can hopefully lead up to a realization that they are where they are because of their own decisions (most of the time). If you have the extra time, you can volunteer at one of the many organizations that help them.

Keep in mind that the homeless people we are talking about are the chronically homeless, not the ones with a family fallen on hard times, living in their car.
Happily, incremental compilation[1] is set to be included in the next release[2] at the end of April!

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/2369

[2] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-release-milestone-pre...
People keep saying it's particularly prevalent in tech. Which I don't believe at all.
"People get rich frequently in Silicon Valley by being assholes, taking other people's property, customers, business, employees. We call this system 'capitalism.'.... Capitalism is not really nice, get over it."

The name of this fallacy is "The Naturalistic Fallacy".
China is? My impression was that successful buisinesses there were blessed by the government, as more of a top-down thing. I thought in Korea it was more like if Goldman Sachs was also Apple and GE- enormous influence, and politicians succeeded who were blessed by samsung.
IIRC, CORDIC has some issues as you scale the number of bits you want--you can't just run CORDIC 64 times for 64-bits of accuracy, for example.

I think the point of diminishing returns is 14-16 bits, but it's been a long time and I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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The F35 is such a political football now that it's hard to even get solid information on whether it's good or bad. I never saw so much press on how great the F35 is as when Trump tweeted about maybe cancelling the program.

If you don't like it, what exactly should be done with the program? Should it be cancelled? Do you still think it should be cancelled if that means maybe agreeing with Trump?
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In part because you can't use google services in China so you don't get all those parts of Android...
Yep.

First commit: https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily/commit/1e509cbdd56ef36...

Commit list at oldest page: https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily/commits/master?after=9...

(GH doesn't seem to have an easy way to jump around time and directly find commits. I jumped to the oldest tag, went to the commit list, clicked "older", edited the tag out of the URL then followed "older" to the start. Took around 15 clicks.)
Creativity and novelty are always rewarded. No one gets noticed doing the same pitch everyone else does.
Wow this is really great. Thanks for sharing.
> reasonable to conflate panics with unsafety if one is only used to "crashing" in the context of C.

I suppose it's possible that's what generates most instances of this question, but I had the same question when I was first introduced to Rust and it came from a different root.

I had been reading about Erlang, and from that context I expected "safety" to be about avoiding system downtime (e.g. gracefully handling failed asserts) as much as anything.
>"but it is incredibly poor journalism and I'm laughing that this made it past NYT editorial board."

Its an "Opinion" piece and clearly marked as such on the page, and it does not express nor is it intended to express the opinion of the publication's editorial board but rather solely of the author. I think almost every newspaper of record has an editorial/opinion section, its been a staple for almost a hundred years.

APA guidelines for writing Ed-Op pieces.

http://blog.apaonline.org/2016/05/23/ten-rules-of-thumb-for-...
> Dr. Delaney and her colleagues have studied lesions on naked mole rats for more than a decade [...]

One of the wonders of science is the important discoveries that come from a focused investigation into some of the most obscure things.
The rise in salaries of the "superstars", those who are at the top of their field. In this case actors, the the same phenomenon is seen in Wall St pros, professional sports players, musicians, etc.
When we find people who are both talented and dedicated enough to focus on such a specific realm of science, we really ought to have plenty of money and resources for them.

I suspect we can be doing a lot better, but I doubt this is the worst of all the parallel universes when it comes to supporting science.
Actually this thread should do:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967719

I see now I had an earlier discussion with tstactplsignore, back then they were seemingly incapable of understanding what I was saying (they kept thinking I denied the endonuclease activity).
No matter how smart you are (or think you are), or how much state you can store in your head at once, if you remove some of the mental overhead of a language, then you have more time to think about other things. It's not about people needing to "dumb down" anything, it's about having a bit less mental overhead, meaning you can get a bit more done a bit easier.
Can someone explain this phenomenon to me:
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It used to be like that. Lately a lot of their apps are better than Google's equivalent. For example, the browser is the fastest, smoothest browser on any android phone, just slightly beaten by safari on ios. On the other hand, chrome is a bloated mess on Android, even on pixel phones.
Less weird when you take into consideration the rest of the sentence: "I met the Samsung team ... at TC Disrupt". So "team" in that context would be the folks that Samsung were sending to TC, not the whole company-wide team.
>> "together I have an immutable sum type + list memory model for a sort of Lisp-alike VM"

So are you saying that you're using Rust as if it were a higher level language? Almost as if you had garbage collection? (If so, that's very interesting. I've been wondering about ways to do that when it's appropriate for the task at hand).
Spontaneous remissions have been observed, and aren't really well understood, as far as I know. In this case, though, they had removed the "dark red and purple mass" of the original tumor, and the rat was a "survivor" since no overlooked bits of tumor or metastases turned up afterwards. For all that oncology is a deep and sophisticated branch of medicine, "just take it out" is still sometimes a good strategy.
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Unless you're one of the people (like me) who considers its lack of many of those things a feature. More features doesn't necessarily make something "better" and less features doesn't necessarily make it "worse" (whatever your definition of "better" or "worse").
The problem with the "focus on the Asian market" plan is thst the biggest Asian markets are pretty much closed off to Samsung - China due to protectionism and Japan due to nationalism
I know of several ppl who finished their PhDs in 2-3 years (average is 5-6) with great results and yet I don't see them get news coverage and front page treatment on HN. I think we should all be wary of hype. She seems like a smart person and if she makes massive contributions to physics in the future, then by all means, let's compare her to Einstein. But until then, what purpose does this hype serve?
Yeah - same story repeated decade after decade. "Build apps without coding" is one of those Siren ideas - it seems so compelling and necessary, yet everyone ends up using much the same design as has failed countless times before. I don't really understand exactly why this is so, but I'm pretty sure we need to figure that out to make progress.
A post on the same topic that hn liked: https://unlikekinds.com/t/game-components

(I wrote it)
Lots of weird assertions, but one stood out to me.

> 10. Tax minimisation for the super rich

> The more you’re working for the very rich, the more likely that that money would be better used by governments

I don't see how that's true. Super rich people are super rich because they use their money well. E.g. Warren Buffett.

I agree that spending huge amounts of money to save huge amounts of money because the tax laws are a million pages is wasteful.
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You mean "TM 31-210"? That just means it's a US Army technical manual. The Army has one for almost every piece of equipment they use.[1] There are also Field Manuals, which are how-to guides for the things the Army does. Most of them are available to the public.

[1] http://www.armytechnicalmanuals.com/tm-11-militarytechnicalm...
I like this reply.
>"That is completely orthogonal"

No its, not. An Op-Ed is a specific format as distinct from regular journalism, it is not edited other than grammatically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed
If you can consider a “complex number” or a “transcendental number” to be a “number”, then there’s really no reason to not also consider ∞ to be a number.

In general, the boundary of the category of ideas (if you like, elements of some formal model) that can be called “numbers” is a very fuzzy and arbitrary one.

Some people might reject as “numbers” anything other than the counting numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. Others might allow “negative numbers” or ratios. Still others are happy to include quaternions or infinite strings of digits output by some computer program. Meh.