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You really missed the point, the article nailed it and your analogy is entirely wrong. ESPN got a flat fee per user + the ability to advertise to them. That gave them a huge financial incentive to overspend on the best content they could get to build the greatest sports "steakhouse" of all time and they did it. They spent up the wazoo on content. But the bottom is dropping out of the model because of cord cutters so now they have change and adapt to not getting flat fees for much longer.
But, now I define an object as any component with which you interact strictly by way of negotiation (as opposed to command and control), and I finally think I understand why Alan Kay says that the most important thing in OOP is the message passing.

That's actually a really good, concise definition. I might use this in future bikesheddings.
But what if they hadn't? Japan was invading most of Asia with mass killings along the lines of ISIS and the Nazis. Are you saying ISIS should also be left alone and America not try to stop them?

Japanese civilians at the time weren't really innocent. The whole country was working for the war effort, mainly to kill other Asian people.
Verilog of course. try to do nested if without else in VHDL!
I've spoken to various friends over the years who start businesses doing something that they love.

They aren't ready to hear the tough realities until they have hit the hard downside and possibly gone out of business. After that point, they get a real understanding of why the most important thing in business is how much cash comes in. Before that point they tend to be not much interested in understanding cash.
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No worries. The callback terminology always confused me. I think it came from the C culture, where you need a special word for a tricky concept. Weird that it persists in javascript, where it's easy.
And lists are just cons cells.
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How may of you #bloggers or #influencers would be interested in getting your content discovered to millions of subscribers of an app?
Is he trying to solve jit though? Maybe he is sick of native full compile times... e.g. He might be working on a jit :I
Agreed.

If anyone is foolish enough to think china will adopt democracy in the guise of America or Europe is foolish, their culture is so different as so to not even be understandable by most westerners.

I'd agree that china is partially democratic and free - insomuch as there are limited methods of redress, and some criticism of the government is allowed, provided you don't attack the foundations of the government.. and every year little by little the Chinese government allows a little more criticisms and adds more methods of redress. They'll make it in my lifetime, but again, it won't look like us in the west.
It pays too much for content and costs too much for consumers.

It paid too much because it could even more for it on resale. Bigger fool. They'll realign as contracts start to expire. Meanwhile they had a great run, until people awoke up to the scam.
What a ridiculous quote. I like how if you think that ESPN has become politicized you're a racist and a misogynist. And likely a member of the alt-right, I guess. Not surprising from The Nation of course, which is for the feeble minded.

ESPN stated they're becoming more political. That they're going to focus more on how culture and politics intersects with sports.
I wonder if people will be photographing each other's screens to share photos. Seems like a loophole in the digital signing.
Total war against the whole Japanese Empire was completely morally justified in the same way that total war against Nazi Germany was.
Ask HN: How do you feel about an external service owning your subscription list?
I find that many email platform services like MailChimp completely own the subscription list and lifecycle data. These users often form the core of customer group. How do established businesses feel about not having the data on their own servers? How do you mitigate the risks (loss of subscribed users list, user preferences, users who unsubscribed for a particular reason etc)?
If that's supported in the language, yes. C++ supports this, but the syntax is special.[1] What's passed is not just a pointer to a function; it's really two pointers, one for the function and one with the "this" pointer.

[1] http://umich.edu/~eecs381/handouts/Pointers_to_memberfuncs.p...
How would you say this went compared to off the shelf reporting engines? It seems like all reporting engines have major deficiencies and I've thought about trying something like this myself.
Yes, this is rammed earth. Styling it as a discovery seems strange. Also strange:

> Researchers also investigated the bricks’ strengths and found that even without rebar, they are stronger than steel-reinforced concrete.

That's under compression, I'm sure.
It's worse than that. You're not just choosing a reliable solution, or even a solution with a conservative reputation so that your butt is covered. You're choosing a solution which may actually be worse because when you fail to deliver for someone else, you have someone to scapegoat. If there is nobody else to blame, you might take the blame for having chosen open source with no specific party to blame (the hot potato stopped with you).
People who go on to have an outsized impact on the world don't usually participate in programs that are neither useful to their careers (to the point of being detrimental) nor transformative to their lives.

If a Harvard MBA is essentially pointless like you describe - people go into it and come out the same - the only reason to pursue it is to buy into the network.

Hence, perhaps, the "Golden Passport" nomenclature. You'd also notice the author didn't write "Golden Ticket", which I dare say, is an interesting freudian slip.
Use uMatrix or similar to disable JS for all but newyorker.com itself. They've got the crappy scrolling stuff on some other site.
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I have trouble believing that a Harvard MBA has had no effect on opportunities or employability, unless you got the one from the continuing education school.
Please qualify 'bullied,' but if I take your meaning, nope. And I interact with AWS EC2 a lot.

From experience in DevOps handling very large inventories of persistent and ephemeral servers... I would not say AWS has ever taken an action or made an impression that they want us to not _utilize_ the resources we are paying for. In my support and technical exchanges with them I've found that they are keen to help us minimize our costs, but these were positive discussions and not at all what I would characterize as bullying.

In point of fact there are servers that I, as a systems administrator, would very much like to murder; my own attitude toward certain objects in my server inventory is much more openly hostile than that of AWS, and even I seem to have difficulty getting rid of them for good. So, anecdotally, there's that too.
You don't use objects because they are function pointers. You use object because it makes establishing contracts between them convenient. Closures can't replace that.
Or maybe Americans save less and borrow more because necessary things like education, housing (in certain cities), and healthcare are so damn expensive.
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But when done cleanly, I'd argue that an object is more powerful than the sum of its parts.

I think I agree with your assessment of C++. What languages do you feel deal cleanly with objects so they exceed the sum of the parts?
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Ask HN: Why did you choose RDS while it is much more expensive than self host?
I went to a talk about progressive web apps, by one of the Google Chrome developers working on them along with some colleagues and that inspired me to build this. I think they have potential to save the web, by making it as fast as a native app. It also means the app store of your choice doesn't take a cut of your income. https://wego.com is a good example of a production app.
Ask HN: What are the biggest databases you've worked with?
Originally thinking about SQL databases done with PostgresSQL/MySQL, but would be interested in anything. Wondering about number of queries/transactions per second, and how you handled that scale.
Lua creator Roberto Ierusalimschy just gave a talk about "Functions in Lua" and starts his talk explaining that our (conversational) language has still not evolved a precise way to articulate all these different ideas about functions.

On his first slides, he shows the words, "anonymous functions", "lambdas", "closures", "function values", and "first-class values", and shows how each has subtly different meanings/implications and tends to take us down different lines of thinking which affects the conversation you are trying to have with somebody else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdRGOE1N-FA
What does PG need to improve, then? I see a lot of discussion of how Oracle is better at this or that but not much discussion on how PG will come to parity and how we'll know when it's finally good enough to use.
Turbo Pascal's manuals came with a separate volume dedicated solely to OOP. It's one of the best technical manuals I've ever read. Beautifully typeset, too [1]. Borland's technical documentation was really, really good at that time.

[1] ftp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_Pascal_Version_5.5_Object-Oriented_Programming_Guide_1989.pdf
I'm partial to Signpost and Towers.
I wonder if Andy Rubin and his wife are subsidizing their cafe or if it stands on its own merits since it's been open a few years now.
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/01/29/all-aboard-th...
I agree on all points except the part where you say eating is a social endeavour. It can be a social activity or not. There is no particular reason eating should be done in the company of others.
I very much like the idea of markdown-pandoc-latex-pdf toolchain (I use markdown for all non-math stuff), but setting up a math LaTeX template that works for anything other than the most basic documents was a pain, so I gave up.

Is there some good ready-made templates around one could try without too much hassle?
Nothing fixes my desk-related back issues like being regular at my gym, doing deep squats and deadlifts. When I can't manage my priorities, it's only a question of time before the old back starts complaining.
I'm not sure conference attendance does anything worthwhile. It doesn't harm, but in my experience conference attendance only serves to pique interest in new/different technologies, not in actually learning it.
What if you needed to use complex numbers, and your language only supports ints and floats? Is the library or class used to implement the complex data type just a bundle of existing types?
Are they really though ?

Japan's debt-to-GDP figure far exceeds the US's and yet it's industries are getting punched left and right (by China-Korea and the US). Becoming more realist/risk-averse after the Bubble era is not a great feat IMO.
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It would seem other tools will fix that "loophole".... The first is a piece of software called “Red Flag.” It runs in the background and takes a screenshot every time the user opens an app.

I would think opening the camera and taking a picture of another tablet would draw suspicion.
Alternatives for the reference:

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

https://github.com/pannous/tensorflow-speech-recognition

https://github.com/buriburisuri/speech-to-text-wavenet
To clarify: A bunch of the puzzles in Simon Tatham's collection are also puzzles that Nikoli does. I haven't checked to see if all of Nikoli's puzzles are in the collection though.
Yes. There aren't to my knowledge any CPUs with special instructions for complex numbers, they're implemented as wrappers ontop of the standard stuff.
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>With mathematical homework, aren't you spending significant time ensuring that what you typed into Latex rendered correctly?

>[..]

>I could see it working for a lab report.

I think here is your answer: much depends how much your homework is like a lab report. I have occasionally had courses where the were only a few homework assignments and lecturer expected written answers typeset in LaTeX (or similar).

But I wouldn't bother either if I was the only person who would read my written notes.
I tried. The problem is standing without moving seems to be just as bad as sitting. As you tire you will start shifting weight to one leg and locking the hips to one side.

I then tried a half-reclined chair which was a bit better. Then I switched to a flat hard chair without back support. That was tough initially (more so than standing desk) but seems to be the best option so far. Other than moving, of course.
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However, using the phrase "wasting time" supports the idea that time is something that can be wasted, and reinforces ideas that being "unproductive" is somehow wasteful.
>...Nope. I'm arguing that shutting down both is a good idea - which is why Germany is shutting coal plants too:

What you actually wrote was "I thought it was telling that the only world leader who reacted to Fukushima by mandating the end of nuclear power wasn't a hippy but a physicist."

You made an appeal to authority and didn't mention coal in your original statement.

>...which is why Germany is shutting coal plants too

You are somewhat misrepresenting the energy situation in Germany.

>...Coal is still the largest source of power in Germany. ...In 2007 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party agreed to legislation to phase out Germany's hard coal mining sector. That does not mean that they support phasing out coal in general. There were plans to build about 25 new plants in the coming years. ... No concrete plan is in place to reduce coal-fired electricity generation. As of October 2015, the remaining coal plants still under planning include: Niederaussem, Profen, and Stade. The coal plants currently under construction include: Mannheim, Hamm D, Datteln, and Willhelmshaven. Between 2012 and 2015, six new plants went online. All of these plants are 600–1800 MWe ...A coal phase-out for Germany is implied in Germany's Climate Action Plan 2050, environment minister Barbara Hendricks said in an interview on 21 November 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_phase-out

To eliminate a non CO2 producing energy source and continue to use the most dangerous source of power which is also the major producer of CO2 for a couple more decades (best case), is pretty irresponsible.

Fukishima was a major accident and resulted in zero deaths to the public. You wrote: "I don't see the problem being that nuclear can't be made safe." and also seemed to approve of an entire county abandoning nuclear power when they are using power sources orders of magnitude more dangerous. It did sound like you meant that any accident from nuclear power would be unacceptable to you since the alternatives Germany will be using for decades are more dangerous to the human health and the environment. You now say that you meant "acceptable risk" - unfortunately that is a somewhat meaningless subjective term. You can only compare a choice against its alternatives and since we know we need to generate terawatts of power for our civilization to function, the real question is what is the relative risk from generating power from different sources. From a previous comment someone made, here are the death totals for generating power:

Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)

Coal – U.S. 10,000 (32% U.S. electricity)

Natural Gas 4,000 (22% global electricity)

Solar (rooftop) 440 (< 1% global electricity)

Wind 150 (2% global electricity)

Nuclear – U.S. 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity)

If you demand zero risk when producing terrawatts of power, you aren't going to find it. In the same way that if you were afraid of jet travel, all anyone can say to you is that jet travel is safer than driving, not that there will be no plane crashes.
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I do, sometimes. It's nice to mix things up throughout the day. Where I work they're standard issue to all employees. Pretty awesome!
Yeah, honestly, I think I didn't "get it" until I read about vtables and the use of ecx as the "this" pointer while learning reverse engineering.

I think I struggle to learn a lot of functional programming concepts now because it's even more distant and abstract explanations.
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And are those metric lbs or imperial meters? That sentence is quite the example of unit confusion!
You mention the author confusing correlation with causation and then mention your experience. One data point. Perhaps you are engaged in fallacious reasoning.
Here's why I don't think it's worth any longer spending time learning LaTeX: When Donald Knuth came up with TeX, he had in mind the printed page. LaTeX gave writers the opportunity to control the way their printed documents looked like. It made writers their own typographers. But the future of documents is content and collaboration, not typographic style. Printing will become irrelevant, and the documents of the future will have to be interactive, executable and device agnostic. As we move forward Authorea provides the best of both worlds (full disclosure, I'm one of the people behind the project). Authorea, which is a format agnostic collaborative platform, allows to write documents in richtext (word), markdown, LaTeX (or a combination of the three). It renders your docs to HTML, but you can export anytime to LaTeX (and PDF). Which means if you want, you can still convert your document to LaTeX without learning LaTeX syntax. It is version controlled (built on GIT) and allows to include data rich plots and Jupyter notebooks. We built it with the "paper of the future" in mind https://www.authorea.com
If we're talking about CPUs, then structures and functions are just bundles of existing bit patterns and machine instructions.

Reducing things to just their primitives ignores how useful abstractions are for humans. Not everyone thinks it's a good use of their time to reinvent classes & objects or closures with structures and function pointers. Thus why those abstractions are part of so many programming languages (to answer the expressed bafflement one level above my initial reply).

Some C or assembly fans act like abstractions should end at that level, for some strange reason.
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Dictators have come to power through many methods through history. Being given power by an outside force is only one possible route to totalitarianism. Many dictators start out popular and sometimes even democratically elected.

The scariest thing about modern dictatorships is they may never go away once established. As surveillance technology improves, perfect ideological control becomes possible. As drones and robots replace human soldiers, uprisings become much less practical. Nuclear weapons eliminate the threat of foreign invasion. Eventually anti-aging will prevent the dictators from even dying.

That was always the scariest part of 1984 for me. Not that the world was a dystopia, but that it was completely stable. The state could continue on for thousands of years. Or at least until they ran out of natural resources.
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The US has a lot of international cuisines. And as a country of immigrants, there's not much of a "native" culinary tradition. But there are distinct variations in local cuisines. For instance,

New England: clam chowder, lobster rolls

Southeast: barbecue, cornbread, grits, sweet tea

Texas: steaks, Tex-Mex

Louisiana: Cajun and Creole cuisine

Southwest: similar to Mexican cuisine

California: avocados on everything
I think that comment goes in the right direction. It's kind of like relational programming but with focus on generation of data rather than querying it. While writing this kind of thing in SQL would be a headache, maybe a simpler language that would translate to SQL or maybe an extension to SQL would be a good idea.
Oh Hey, I know the author of this! In fact, I think I introduced him to that Spekkens paper. Small world.
If you are going to open up a coffee shop, you better own the building, roast your own beans, and have a location where 1000's of people walk by everyday to work or public transportation.

And it might help to have a Starbucks nearby -- no, really:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_m...
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A definition of objects that rules out immutable objects doesn't seem viable to me.

Furthermore, your definition merely requires mutability, which is a feature of Java and C++ objects, so I'm not sure what you think is lacking. Your definition reduces to "objects undergo state transitions".
I'm not infatuated with any particular school. I myself graduated from a low-ranked CS school. I was just making a point that a degree from a fancy school like Stanford where the OP graduated from no longer limits you from getting into companies like Google and Amazon. If anything i'm actually happy that these companies aren't stigmatizing or stereotyping graduates based on which school they went to.
> I got to a B2 proficiency level in around a year and to C1/C2 within a year of that

Congrats! This is no small achievement for a language not widely spoken outside of Europe. I went on a summer language immersion to Germany (living with a host family) and began picking up the language that way, in addition to listening to DW, radio, sports matches, etc. to get to that level. While I've only lived a small time in German-speaking countries, it's served me well with the some great conversations and connections at cultural and engineering-related events around the world, making life that much richer.

Anyways, sounds like linguistics might be your thing -- I'm sure you'll be successful at whatever route you go down.
Japan Inc has been giving the shaft to young people with regards to permanent worker status for about 25 years now. The conditions are such that the social contract that some/many older Japanese believe exist is distinctly a part of history for a lot of young Japanese. This has, imho, created a lot of challenges related to social stability and the economic aspects related to social stability (e.g., housing trends, marriage, having children, education, etc.).

As such, I hope that this is the beginning of a long upward trend in increasing the proportion of permanent workers. It will likely be very good for Japan in the long run if it can be sustained.

I will be interested to see what happens during the big worldwide economic downturn.
Guy Steele's friend Olin Shivers [1] was the PhD advisor of Matt Might [2] and Lex Spoon [3]. I'm pretty confident the entire field of programming languages research is a Marvel comic.

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/
[2] http://matt.might.net/
[3] https://www.lexspoon.org/
An office job is basically 40+ hours a week of practicing disengagement of the posterior chain (via sitting, likely with poor posture). Deadlifts are such a good treatment.
Definitely puts a dent in the distributable flash drive plan that many activists have been working on implementing. Unless some kind of self signing flaw is discovered and exploited seems unlikely subversive media will be as widely distributed.