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> The half-functional style is too weird. The widespread use of closures for simple stuff is too weird. There's too much unnecessary originality. Trying to port something from another language to Rust is difficult because Rust's ways of doing things are so different from other languages.

This. I've spent some time researching Rust but it's just ugly language for me, really. When I read D everything is so clean, so readable. When I need to read/write Rust, it's just not enjoying for me. There are people that will enjoy it for sure, that came for example from Haskell.

Create language like Rust with D like syntax, no GC, no additional indirection, RAII, less strict rules or possibility to turn off some of them and I am sold.
Even though you defined the number, you can't really do usual stuff with it: e.g. you can't compare it to other numbers.

IMO, these kind of numbers are no more "real" than infinitesimals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
>If you want proof of that, just read between the lines in the original documentation.

Those things were obviously requirements for roles it should fulfill.

But no things in its design hold it back from being a modern language that's even more expressive and fast than Go. Except some concurrency love perhaps.
Hi, I'm on the Play team. We've got a number of Play maintained example projects that show how you can configure different projects:

https://playframework.com/download#examples

Should save you some time if you're looking to get started with JPA, different libraries, etc.

Also, this doesn't really get at the strengths of Play as a reactive application. For example, here's a talk where I discuss using Reactive Streams with Play to stream video through Play. It's about two years old now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUB7GJMe_WY

Thanks!
Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia
Good for those of use who prefer chicken thigh with skin.
> I genuinely don't think these features of Rust are really all that useful (they're being disingenuous; acting like C++ is some primitive language where you segfault every 5 minutes).

Nobody said that C++ code segfaults every 5 minutes, and accusing people of being disingenuous for saying things they never said is, well, disingenuous.

The claim is that memory safety problems are serious problems in C++ code. It's been found that memory safety problems are the leading overall cause of software security vulnerabilities [1].

[1]: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2014/08/performance-of...
Please don't comment like this here. Discussions tend to be a lot better when we don't call names (like the guidelines ask) and we read other commenters charitably (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The other side of it is that you can't really prepare yourself for the sudden loss of a close relationship.

Having a life insurance policy sized to the needs of children is probably more beneficial than having a frank conversation with them.
Interesting.

I'm not entirely sure that "optimal" has an agreed upon definition. At best, "optimal" is relative to the system within which it is being applied. "Optimal" in a Trump world is very different from "optimal" in a Bernie Sanders world. Optimization seems to require some objective. In a practical sense, you cannot optimize a piece of software if you don't know what you are optimizing for.

It is a bold premise that the evolutionary process and human technological civilization have the same optimization goals.
i helped build a triple store on top of postgresql back in '06-'08. company is gone so i don't know where the IP ended up, but it was a good foundation. we were competitive with the other players at the time.
Tracing the user space and Operating System interactions
But do the conditions that overturn Say's Law apply to this market. Just because it's been proven wrong under some circumstances doesn't mean it's still not broadly applicable in most cases (with caveats).
Twitter fights to protect anonymous users more often than you’d think
Cheap Flights to Rome from Atlanta
Many people say that the first thing they do is disable UAC. One person even told me that people who know what they are doing disable UAC.

Not sure what to think of these people
This is the definitive thread I've seen: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29903721-AT-T-Residential-G...

I implemented it differently, but probably less sensibly. I have a FreeBSD as my NAT box anyway, so I added some network cards, and run a ethernet bridge in front of the gateway (I commented out the lines that dropped traffic to reserved multicast addresses because that include 802.1X), and divert only a small fraction of the incoming packets (ipv6 tunnel from he.net, most udp 123 packets, icmp pings, port 25), that the gateway won't give to the DMZ host (I have the Pace 5268AC gateway which likes to ruin things; the NVG599 one is probably better). You can PM me on DSL Reports with the same username, if you want more details on my crazy setup. :)
Compiler speedup is in the roadmap.
I had considered that to be a plausible avenue - that it was all just in my head. Indeed, I could just be self-selecting phenomenon that I've done as proof that something else exists.

The key out of this mind-trap is unbiased 3rd parties.

For example, consider this. You're by yourself. You do something "magical". It conjures an invisible dragon around you. It has a distinct shape and look. Ok. So this is in your head, as per your comment above.

Now, you go to the local book store, and you meet some friends. You're not talking about any of your private practices. One friend looks at you and your shoulder and says, what's with the dragon thing around you?

Is it really there? Someone else selected 2 unique details about it out of nothing. Or, did your subconscious chose the reality that someone chose to say that to you, reaffirming your belief? Or what? Mere coincidence? (There is no such thing as coincidence in this world, only the inevitable.)

How many times one must go through with "interesting" happenings with others, whom have no clue what you're doing? We will never receive 100% proof.. But then again, a zero knowledge proof doesn't provide 100% certainty.
Rethinking ‘distance’ in New York City (Clustering NYC Neighborhoods)
Why use POST?
The question is whether Twitter's board is going to try to ride it all the way down to the bankruptcy. Twitter loses money. $167m last quarter. Twitter has lost money for 10 years. Revenue is flat. They're not a growth company any more. There's no sign of a turnaround.

This is when the board has to consider firing the CEO, and the stockholders have to consider firing the board.
Let me accelerate that then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_Was_the_End
> I think California got such a long term boost when they had, not free, but very low-cost University education in the 60's - 80's.

Technically, tuition free for in-state students for most of that time, though there were some incidental fees, and a small general "education fee" established in the early 1980s.

That and free community college was killed largely by Prop 13, which both killed existing property tax revenue (with both hard limits I on rates and a calculation methodology that guaranteed a much value would be untaxed) and made it procedurally much more difficult to raise other taxes.
Mythic Intelligence at the Edge
When you said

> "You see, the problem springs from you mistaking Ansible for configuration management tool. It is not, it is somebody's deployment script."

You lost credibility from my PoV. Ansible is capable of doing what Chef can do. Ansible can use dynamic inventory which means Ansible can use dynamic secret infrastructure. That's not the default mode of Ansible out of box, but much like Chef and Puppet, Ansible is made up of somebody's deployment script as well. You and I didn't just write up Puppet out of no where, and there are community plugins available for used, and those plugins are just somebody else's deployment script/component.
Part of the reason may be that I absolutely fucking loathe the never ending evangelisation so many users of various chemical stimulants seem to glory in.

A bigger part may be that I absolutely fucking dislike having my neurochemistry played silly games with, aka being drunk or stoned or tripping or whatever the requisite term may be.

Staying in parent's vernacular idiom, assuming it to have some sort of point.
You seem to think that I:

1.) Believe a solution still exists

2.) Believe that Australia of all the small populations on Earth would somehow matter if such a solution existed (no offense Australia, you matter in general)

3.) Believe that "thought" matters at this point. You might as well be telling people marching to the gallows to cheer up, nothing good can come of being all depressed. You might be right, but at least stop pretending that it's going to change the actual outcome.
Yes, when you restrict to computable numbers, then there are countably many reals. Countable in classical sense. You wont have an computable enumeration, again of because of diagonalization.
If anything, the aversion to cannibalism would be an effect of prion disease.
a lot of people play the lotto.
I generally agree with the sentiment of everyone else in this thread, which is "no one grows up wanting to be a Wholesale Sales Rep". Another "kids these days are coddled" article.
Ask HN: Machine learning data sets for interior design?
Hi, I'm building a ML model that will understand interior design. Currently I indexed 5k images for 8 concepts. I need a lot more train data.
Any recommendation/source will be helpful.

If anyone's interested, please test/train the model using a simple mobile web app https://marketio.co/experiments/

Thanks.
All models are wrong. Some models are useful.

Some of them extremely useful :)
About $50 this year, looks like. For a couple of my friends, the money came out of their food budget.
See the related curl blog post 'No websockets over HTTP/2' [1], which talks about that spec and how it didn't generate enough interest from concerned parties, and goes into some alternatives and perspectives on the matter.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/06/15/no-websockets-over-ht...
I think assigning animus to nature is misleading here. It's a factor that once known would influence people away from cannibalism, but there's plenty of cannibalistic species that don't seem to suffer from prion diseases (and CWD is the opposite -- prion disease with rare cannibalism).
Agree that a big thing tech founders need, that MBAs know, is forecasting and financial modeling.

Many tech founders are obsessed with traction, but have no real understanding of how to manage growth from a financial perspective.

Would love recommendations for good resources on financial modeling and forecasting.
...the crew laughed.

I guess we should film everything while traveling. Editing the laughter together with the dragging and screaming would be golden...
United Passenger dragged from flight
Agreed and what I was trying to convey.
I would certainly agree that they are aware of the benefits of going to a good school. I just think you are seriously underestimating the importance that mimicking other people plays in learning to do something you've never done before. We all do it, when you're writing some code that you've never worked with before, you read the code of someone else who has done something similar. When navigating the little rituals involved in going to college, you do what your friend is doing or what your older sister did or (for more ambitious students) what the people on college confidential tell you to do.

It's not that there is some bit of knowledge that poor kids don't have, it's that they have no one to mimic. There are a million little decisions that go into how to spend your time in high school. Figuring out the best way to spend it is far too big of a task for any one student. The only way to have any hope of spending it well is to copy what others have done and learn from their mistakes. In elite schools, you have much better role models to mimic. If you want to go to Harvard, you can mimic what that kid who got into Harvard did last year.

A general principle like "just work hard if you want to succeed" is worse that useless for a kids in mediocre school districts. Not only does it do nothing to show them how to actually spend their time, but it's so general that it can never be proved "wrong." So if a student tries to do what they consider "hard work" and that doesn't lead to success, people aren't going to stop saying it because it didn't work. Moreover, since the kid who failed knows that they were given "correct advice" they're just going to blame themselves for their failure rather than realizing that they have the same potential as people in better school districts, they just don't have as much opportunity to realize it.

Still, advice like "work hard to succeed" will always be "wrong" in the sense that it's the wrong thing to tell a young person. No matter what advice you give a young person, it needs to be much more specific and personalized if you want it to have a reasonably good chance of being understood and used correctly. You can't expect someone with so little life experience to fill in the blanks for themselves.
> It did all that while still being a reasonably good workhorse for static file serving (when properly turned and using the right worker model, event rather than threaded or process).

event doesn't support HTTPS, or rather, it stops being event-based when you turn on HTTPS. So Apache can never be performant unless you have an SSL terminating proxy.

Its only advantage is that the config script is slightly easier to test, but it's still way too hard _and_ it's incredibly verbose compared to nginx config.
And the industrial design was fantastic. I remember a kid coming to high school with this walkman (http://www.walkman-archive.com/gadgets/walkman_sony_05_701c_...) after his Dad had visited Japan, I was amazed that it was only fractionally larger than the tape it held. 30 years later and IMO it still looks modern.
I do agree, my ideal future would be a digital /book/ rather than a digital slate.
Absolutely. In the OP's defense, often parents are pressed for time and can't focus on using these as training moments. It's important to try to have completely unambitious days with children -- where there aren't any scheduled activities to be late for. I feel for parents who are in a perpetual rush and are under too much stress to engage in unpleasant confrontation with their children.

Even without a reward or punishment, simple repeated resistance to the behavior makes a difference. Starting early is easier; a five-year-old is more set in his ways than a 2 or 3-year-old, but there is still plenty of opportunity before friendships take priority over parental influence (around 11 years old).

If these opportunities aren't taken, then the child will grow up with less impulse control and delayed gratification than he would have had otherwise.

I'm not saying he'll be a bad kid, I'm saying it's a lost opportunity, e.g. the difference between being able to concentrate on studies for 30 minutes versus 60 minutes; deciding one doughnut is enough instead of going for the second one; being able to walk away from a confrontation with a loved one instead of attacking with the perfect sarcastic barb.
Kind of like Scientology, except less well funded.
> "the halting probability Ω, which is irreducibly complex (algorithmically random), maximally unknowable, and dramatically illustrates the limits of reason"

I really enjoyed the beauty of this statement.
his talks on youtube are mostly based on startups, so I don't see them because I am not planning to start up any soon. his essays still have some general essays that I like reading.
Prion-disease transmission from wild game is still quite rare.

I'd be more worried about exotic parasites or radioactivity from the wild hogs.

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/110...
In many ways OO PHP is starting to look a lot like Java. Verbose and overarchitected code. It was a good templating language for C modules, not so good when you try to shoehorn it into solving every problem that you have.
Consider the set of all real numbers which you can actually specify IN ANY FASHION AT ALL, so that the person writing a paper about it and the person reading the paper are talking about the same number. This includes easy ones like "3" or "Square root of Pi". It includes oddballs like Chaitin's constant -- the probability that a randomly constructed program will not get stuck in an infinite loop (for some particular choice of computer and programming language) -- which is so ornery a number that we cannot (even in THEORY) figure out a single digit of it (other than its being between 0 and 1).

Consider that great big set. It's still countable. The thing that makes "real numbers" bigger than integers, the "extra" that real numbers have must be very, very peculiar.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079837
The Standard Model has discrete energy levels but continuous spacetime.
Small mammals often respond to stress with cannibalism.

http://www.petplace.com/article/small-mammals/general/when-y...

Rabbits are somewhat infamous for eating their young.

I'm not sure there is any research about it, but it could be a resource preserving behavior.
One properly executed good idea

aka - many, many hours of very hard work
> proponents will say it greatly reduces or eliminates the risk of buying something that will not work right.

IIRC, it's been shown that a massive percentage of the Apple chargers for sale on Amazon are difficult to spot counterfeits. Some of those use dangerous electronic designs.
> Doesn't this undermine the argument that CEOs need outrageous salaries to be incentivized to work, if you slash their salary, and they keep working?

No, for a number of reasons.

1) His alternatives today could be substantially worse than when he started. If for no other reason, because of this mistake.

2) There may be large switching costs to changing jobs, and the reduction in salary may be non-substantial in comparison. This switching cost was a sunk cost when he initially joined, but will not be if he chooses to switch now.
Maybe don't have children unless you can afford it? I've put off having children until I have the financial resources to raise them. What is stopping others from doing the same?
I'm sure your readers appreciate being forced to purchase DRM-crippled copies of your book from a monopolist. Have you considered offering DRM-free EPUB downloads directly on your own site?
While we have thousands of years of cultural belief that mind and body are distinct, I'm not aware of any scientific evidence for that. And there is a lot of evidence that the mind is directly dependent on the state of the body--change the body (drugs, injury, etc) and inevitably the state of mind changes too.

So I don't know of any reason to think that it's even possible to separate a mind from a body, let alone move one to a new one.
Hardly. Plenty of species exhibit cannibalism; see certain spiders and praying mantis (mantis?) post-mating rituals.
My favourite casting of this is 'any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced'.
“Real” Analysis is a degenerate case of of discrete analysis [pdf]
Love the analogy.
Thanks for sharing.
Why not just take some practice tests and assess then, as opposed to waiting for the real thing? You'll get a very good idea of where you stand and save yourself the pain of having to retake it again in the future when you get a first score that's certainly suboptimal relative to your potential.
Illegal things don't become legal just because they're in a contract. Otherwise, people who can't pay credit card debt would be under the whip in work camps.
So far they're not as deeply bound by US National Policy as they may be if they're full-on nationalized.
>The lack of HTTP/2 on the backend to origin connections is a big sad mystery.

Sad, sure, but its not a mystery. As of HTTP/1.1 these proxies already pools TCP/IP connections between the proxy and its origin (the backend server), so it doesn't gain the same connection multiplexing/windowing/cardinality benefits that HTTP/2 to end client gets. This means for many proxy code bases H2 to origin is just a nice to have. Obviously, by prioritizing like that you miss other nice to haves like push.
I cry sometimes and my startup is growing :')
I'm not an expert and I don't want to be one, I just want to have access to quality tools (preferably open source) and I want the majority of developers to use those tools.
Native UIs are efficient, web UIs aren't. It doesn't matter to me that they're built using painters, batch drawing or pixie dust as long as the API is sane and performant.

I think your post is a nice summary of the thinking that got us here in the first place: experts always looking at the possible future optimizations and not stopping to think at the present quality or if it's at all reasonable to build complex UIs in a document mark-up language.
I think you read too much into that commenter's expectations. Parenting is forgiving enough where only a few minutes of hard, engaging teaching is sufficient to help improve behavior.

Your examples are way harder. Never raise your voice in anger? That's unachievable and absurd for most people. Take ten minutes per week to work with a child to improve unacceptable behavior? It sucks but is pretty realistic.
Shouldn't autoclaves destroy all proteins, prion or otherwise? What exactly is the exposure vector?

edit: Unsourced statement from wikipedia[1]: "However, prions, such as those associated with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, may not be destroyed by autoclaving at the typical 134 °C for three minutes or 121 °C for 15 minutes.[citation needed]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclave
I'm not so sure - I think it's more for other reasons, I wouldn't necessarily attribute it to something so complicated when there's a few quite less complicated good reasons I can see for it too - like lowering transaction fees by performing less transactions (if I buy a big pack of tokens, I only make 1 purchase, rather than doing a ton of small transactions which will kill you on fees from many payment gateways) - or easing the burden on customer support to explain why they can't refund a partially spent balance.

When I buy a pack of tokens rather than depositing USD or similar into an account, I'm more likely to spend all of those tokens. I'm also not likely to say "hey, I demand you give me my remaining balance back" after buying a single cheap item. It also makes giving rewards easy and makes sure that money will be spent in the same place.

Some free to play games, World of Tanks for example have larger things that are sold both in gold and in USD - because they make it possible for people to earn gold in game through multiplayer competitions but want it to be easy for someone who just wants premium time to buy it with cash.
> And if you can't find someone to get off at a price that seems appropriate (which is very unlikely: you're always going to find someone willing to take $1000), work out other arrangements.

I think that randomly selecting passengers is the 'other arrangements' their policy works out.

I agree that they should have increased vouchers past $800, but I disagree that it's guaranteed that there would be enough takers at e.g. $1,000 per, or even $2,000 per.

And I'm shocked at the downvotes: flight crew instructions have the force of Federal law; people who violate Federal law get arrested. The biggest mistake United made here was allowing there to be a disturbance in the first place, which caused a PR disaster. 'Man arrested on landing for refusing to leave plane' is a much better PR situation than 'man dragged bodily from plane.' Granted, 'United pays record-setting $100,000 in vouchers to convince four passengers to give up seats' is probably better PR still.