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> The addressable memory space doesn't include code, globals, stack, etc

Really? In that case, how does a language like Rust, where stack allocation is used regularly, compile to WASM?
> Your assertion that the NSA can't collect data about American Citizens would be great if it were true.

NSA is not allowed to intercept communications of American citizens. I should have been more explicit about that. I am simply trying to add context to what I believe is an erroneous perception that the NSA is a building full of gunslinging unchecked hackers that gleefully eschew US law so that they can... do what exactly?

> You've got a pretty strong opinion of the agency ... I'm guessing that you work for the PsyOps division. Or perhaps you're just a youngin' who hasn't been around the block quite enough times.

LOL. What does it say that you'd assume anyone who has a non-negative opinion of NSA is either working for them, or young and misinformed? Sorry to disappoint, but I am neither. I simply respect the truth, and misinformation regarding the US intelligence community is a cancerous detriment to the long-term personal safety of Americans. This is why I asked for references for your claims. But if you take nothing else away from our exchange other than the understanding that NSA is military, I'm happy.

> I'm certainly not advocating anything beyond having exactly this kind of discussion.

Good. I'm glad. See how it only takes a simple challenging of one's opinions to go from "I hope the NSA gets shut down" to "let's have a discussion?"
I've automated my build-test-commit workflow. My build script commits my changes at the beginning of the build. If the build or any of the tests fail, then the commit is rolled back, otherwise it is squashed together with other edits ready to be pushed. I automatically get a complete record of builds (in the reflog), and a fairly neat (if somewhat coarse-grained) history of changes with perfect traceability in my commit messages.
I agree. Also, we should not forget that there is a significant difference between rights and charity. Rights, once won, are hard to revoke. Charity can be taken away at any time.
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Coincidentally, 99% invisible has episodes for that too:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-1/

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-the-beautiful/
Trust me, I know. I do agree with the folks that argued that security compromise is worse than deprecation though.

My counter-argument is the same as yours: find someone to handle it, for as long as it makes sense (I personally jumped on a grenade for a short period of time, but that's not enough). As the commenter below argues, that's probably not indefinite, but it is likely greater than 1 year.

Quite frankly, this service should probably have never gone to GA. Plenty of products don't work, but instead of just going out into the marketplace to see what sticks, we should have what it takes to say "This isn't ready". (We have this now, we didn't then).

I appreciate you being patient with us, and understand how this affects your decisions going forward.
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The FAA enforces work limitations on pilots, but we schedule our health care workers like this? How are there not even civil cases against errors caused by this kind of administrative foolishness? Overworking doctors like this is insane.
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> more PHP than Meteor

That made me laugh. But, really, it's true. Adding a new page is as simple as adding a new file. No importing, routing, etc. required. That's one thing that I think PHP got right.
They aren't. I love that simple, fast, lean interface.

Learned it once, done, works when I need it.
You might like to know that I've had great success with full stack web development using Rust. My website (https://mmstick.tk) is hosted with the Rocket (https://rocket.rs/overview/) web framework and operates as a fully static binary with 100% Rust code. I've even got HTTPS and Brotli compression.
So you're saying, if an anecdote fits your theory, it's proof, and forget searching too hard for anything that runs contrary to your beliefs?

I think science works a bit better than this, and I put my faith in that.
Pro tip almost all of those screens allow you to pull the bottom out to make it flat again. I don't think I've ever been on a flight this wasn't true on actually.
I would argue that yes, sugar is natural, but the degree that people tend to eat sugar these days is unnatural. I'd argue that is the root problem. And to respond to the first image of the comic, that nobody lives past 30, some things I've read suggest that was more due to infant mortality skewing the average, deaths from war, and deaths from what today would be preventable diseases. If an ancient person avoided those three things, they lived quite a long time, and didn't get cancer or heart disease.

I have no exact sources for those last few assertions, it's just what I remember reading (I think also in the Antifragile book).
Insurance companies all evaluate drugs before putting them on their formulary and doctors do at least a little bit before they start writing a prescription.

So there ya go.
Shared-memory threads are something I hope lands in WASM, since they're part of the reason you'd want to drop down to WASM in an application in the first place.
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I'd assume he did, because it's kind of an obvious thing in hindsight. But I was pretty young at the time, so I don't really have a clue beyond what stuck in my memories.
Great post!

Seems like Walmart should consider buying eBay if they ever want to compete.
That's known as "garden leave". Very fair way to implement a non-compete.
It's an interesting example of the value of customer goodwill.

In addition to being a bookshop, Borderlands is a cultural hub for SF/F readers in the Bay Area. As such, it's not simply selling SKUs at the cheapest viable price, it's providing an intangible curatorial service. Amazon may crowdsource reader reviews but they're unlikely to be as insightful as suggestions by enthusiastic staff who know what they're selling, and the usual recommendations engines are less effective than one of those staff engaging in Q&A with a customer to find something new that they might like.

(And this is before we get into things like the cafe side of the business, or the author readings/signings. Disclaimer: I am an author and I occasionally do events there.)
- Global / Region search

- Alerts

- Some kind of historical record of ads

- Increased focus on listing from your mobile phone (camera)
It was pretty incredible to open up https://vimeo.com/215926017 and click at a random timestamp (29:30) and hear "we're trying to use AI to diagnose cancer by examining the DNA that's free-floating in your bloodstream."

This is clearly the future, if it can work. That's probably one of the biggest startup ideas that you could possibly have. I hope that whoever's behind it is successful.
This sounds like unrelenting Taylorism, trying to scrape too little butter on too much toast.

If all this administrative work needs to be done, do surgeons necessarily need to do it? Can we hire more clerical specialists to offload that work onto, or more PAs or RNs to handle less specialized work?

A few measly hundred million in the federal budget could probably be dredged up to subsidize medical school tuition and take some of the sting out of the long, expensive marathon of medical schooling, maybe?
How are you going to travel otherwise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QTq-HEEnn4

"The Obvious Solution To the Airline Problem (United Airlines)"
It's paywalled, but America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated has a great sandwich bread recipe for stand mixers that's not a lot of work and turns out great.
The space the seat reclines into isn't your space.
This is why I oppose net neutrality on principle. In practice, however, I feel it is unfortunately necessary due to the existing regulations. The ideal solution would be to remove the existing regulations and thus remove the need for net neutrality (since new competition would finally be allowed to easily enter the market), but I simply don't forsee that happening in my lifetime.
A good hypothesis can be used to make predictions. I'm just saying with my foot issues that the heuristic of "subtractive medicine is better than additive medicine" was able to predict that removing padding from my shoes would make my problem go away. And it did. That does not prove anything but it worked here.
Yes. In fact, it already does, you just need to pass `--expose-wasm` to Node: http://thecodebarbarian.com/getting-started-with-webassembly...
I remember reading back in 2004 a suggestion that MIT should force its architecture students to study in the building designed for the CS students and let the CS students have the nice architects' building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_and_Maria_Stata_Center vs https://foursquare.com/v/mit-building-7-rogers-building/4ab9... (Amusingly MIT sued Frank Gehry over the building later due to flaws, but it's been settled.)
> Why on earth would you conflate the profit motives of healthcare middlemen to imply that the science behind medicine isn't credible?

Because marketing often distorts the results or outright lies. It's not necessarily the science that is the problem, but the marketing and approach in pharmaceutical sales that will push this. This has been, on occasion, reflected in terms of studies, efficacy and results in terms of manipulation of data.

Personally, I feel that compulsory licensing models as part of a dual-sourcing (at least two manufacturers for any drug) would help resolve or reduce a lot of the issues surrounding this. As well as reverting to some prior legal and cultural issues in terms of how marketing of prescription medications is done. TV/Youtube/Dr.Office advertising has gotten pretty horrible, and does very little to actually help people.
That's fair, but many of my fellow American's in other countries within the continents think it is arrogant (I now realize that typing 'America' into wikip redirects to the US).

I think of the United States as a reasonable shorthand because I believe in state sovereignty as supreme; Still unlike anything else in the America's. My terminology and ideas are considered antiquated, but I like to believe nuance is important, and the history of the terms we use can inform how we think about these concepts. "Often copied, never duplicated."
your opinion is your opinion, and i wouldn't call it "wrong".

but my opinion is quite different.

i've been active in the e-book sphere for a long time,
and i've studied e-book authoring quite extensively,
even programming some systems myself, and i think leanpub is quite good.
i liked it better when you didn't have to make a lump-sum payment in advance,
but even now, i think it's one of the best systems around,
especially for people who don't want to code their own solution.
and leanpub gives you access to a customer-base that's more than
large enough to warrant the small percentage they skim off your sales.
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So, what Steve Yegge was saying in 2011?

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

People still haven't gotten the message?

(edit: oops, it's even linked in the post)
> Add trust/reputation mechanisms

This seems like a good idea on the surface but it's ultimately exclusionary. If I want to sell something really occasionally how much trouble do have to go through to maintain this reputation.

As it stands, I still can't participate in stack overflow effectively because of their heavy-handed reputation system.
You can also use .NET assemblies from CPython using pythonnet, so it is bidirectional interop bridge!
That's the problem. Humans don't respond to logic, they respond to emotion. And every time you try to argue logically, it comes across as tone deaf.

I have a personal interest in GC, however, in my previous day jobs I've shipped real products with AWS. And in my time with AWS... I can't remember anything important (or unimportant) being shutdown.

I can't shake the feeling, however wrong you believe the impression may be, that Google flails around in the dark while AWS hums along quietly.
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>c) NSA recognizes that only State actors have the money or time for this kind of thing, and should invest the money to detect and report exploits because China and Russia are probably doing so.

China and Russia are reporting vulnerabilities? Got a source for that?
Fallingwater is aesthetically pleasing but belies FLW's poor understanding of structural engineering of the very materials he liked to use.

It was the client, Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885-1955) and his wife Lillian Sarah Kaufmann (?-1952) who started to second-guess some of Wright's decisions early on to the benefit of the house [1]; when Mr. Kaufmann shared some of his concerns with Wright he took them as a personal attack [2]. Mr. Kaufmann proceeded to hire structural engineers after the construction finished to get a second opinion, and continued to personally measure the deflection of the balcony as the years progressed. In my opinion the house is as much of credit to Kaufmann as it is to FLW, as without his informed skepticism the house would have been more famously remembered as a disaster than as a crowning achievement.

[1] http://old.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20011208lowry1208fnp3....
[2] https://failures.wikispaces.com/Fallingwater
>Then you should be familiar with how generations were lied to and told that Fat caused heart disease and low-fat/high carb was the best way to eat.

I'm familiar enough with the FDA to know the difference of the Office of Food and Vet and the Office of Med Product and Tobacco.

Why don't you go research what CDER is, and try to determine whether or not diet guidance has anything at all to do with CDER and the actual topic of this thread.

"Research funded by the Sugar Industry."

Outrage porn funded for free, peddled by you.
I appreciate your passion.

My argument isn't that Google doesn't shut down B2B services. It's that I have seen no evidence that Google does it at a vastly outlying rate relative to the industry.

IANAL, but Both AWS [0] and Azure [1] have 12-month deprecation policies - this is industry standard, as mentioned in the Google Developers blog you link.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/subscription...

(work at G)
Don't most of these monitors swivel so that the monitor point is moot?
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Ask HN: Do you know of any agile volunteering projects? (Crowdsource Experiment)
Whenever I travel through another country, I look out for volunteering projects along the way. I always find these places by accident without really knowing where to look for them. Maybe it is the same for you. I want to change that by having one place to find these agile volunteering projects.

The GitHub repository is an experiment to crowdsource these projects. Maybe you know a project or have heard of one that would fit in the list.

What projects have you participated in while travelling to give something back?

(Maybe there is already such a list but I couldn't find it.)

https://github.com/rwieruch/crowdsourced-volunteering-list
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Why would they do that ? It's not in their interest.
Craiglist, because of its age, is interestingly built on Perl[1] and four years ago brought on Perl's founder, Larry Wall.[2]

[1] https://www.craigslist.org/about/thanks (CL tech stack)
[2] http://blog.craigslist.org/2013/10/15/artist-formerly-known/
When government gets in the way of capitalism you get what you've referred to. Every single one of these issues came about due to government policies or laws.

And Maggie was awesome!
> And they couldn't sell anything in addition to books?

They do that. In the bookselling business, these are called "sidelines". Borderlands has several, including postcards, greeting cards, small gifts, journals, local art, etc. They've tried many others as well that haven't been profitable for whatever reason (which they then have to eat the cost of.) New sidelines are a gamble for that reason.

> Or change their selection to reduce their overhead?

This is an oversimplification, but selection doesn't involve overhead in the usual sense because unsold books can be returned to the publisher. Anyway, their focus on sci-fi/fantasy and mystery books is a large part of what makes them special and beloved, rather than just another generalist bookstore.

> Or buy/sell used books?

They do that.

> I don't know, I'm not them. But "we can't raise those prices, and we couldn't lower our expenses" always sounds like a bit of a copout.

I've been to several of their sponsor meetings and spoken with the owner on a few occasions. Alan is very open and transparent about the bookstore's finances. If I recall correctly, because of the way publishers eat of the cost of unsold books, the store's expenses are dominated by labor and rent in that order (with utilities and credit card processing fees a distant 3rd and 4th). Everything else is basically rounding errors in the store budget. It's like trying to cut the Federal Budget without touching healthcare entitlements or defense - there's no way to make a meaningful dent. See also: Amdahl's Law.

When labor makes up about half of your costs, changes to the minimum wage affect you disproportionately compared to many other kinds of business.
> The big players can always recoup loses in other markets

If it's unprofitable for Starbucks to continue operating in SF, why would they do so? Big businesses can recoup short-term losses, sure, but if a given market is going to be unprofitable for the foreseeable future, there's not much reason to keep operating in that market.

That said, companies like Starbucks may see this as an opportunity to reduce competition, by operating at a loss until the smaller businesses close, and then raising prices to make the market profitable again. But if they actually do that, once they raise prices, small businesses can start competing again.
It would appear that the relentless dehumanization of the skilled laborer by business interests has finally spread to the professional classes.

I can't even recall how many young software companies I have sent my resume to that turned out to be in the business of building software for insurers and hospital systems that end up telling physicians how to do their jobs. Of course, the metrics all back this up as a solid plan that increases productivity and reduces expensive errors and negative outcomes due to inattention, but I know it just has to suck for the docs to have to experience exactly the same thing that has already happened to most other jobs.
Try being tall and wide...

A frame that's great for setting picks in a basketball game is less than ideal in a narrow coach seat, especially on the aisle...
Basically, you're paying for curation. I buy cookbooks because I'd rather have one recipe that I have some faith will be good than ten recipes that might sort of work. Having a pile of maybe-good recipes is like having a bunch of StackOverflow answers to things that are sort of related to my problem.

I also still buy travel guides, for the same reason. Paying twenty bucks for a dead-tree guide to the place I'm going means I don't spend half my vacation reading Yelp and TripAdvisor reviews.
I'm old enough to have been in the logistics industry when Walmart was king, and they said exactly the same things about Walmart - the company had the market power to force you to label your shipment a certain way, with certain bar codes, so your pallet would go straight into their system with no effort.

In the end it didn't really help them when Amazon came along.
2012 This article has some good details on the story and a lot of drama around the project at the beginning
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/may/m...
It still hasn't been resolved.
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/museums/2016/09/25/fights-fa...
Right now, "tooling" is quite the same as the tooling for Javascript. You can write your code in a Notepad and the web browser will tell you about errors.

WebAssembly has two representations: a binary form .WASM and a text form .WAST (with one-to-one correspondence). The browser environment can convert between them (or you can write a short piece of code to do it).

If you know C, this website may help you get familiar with WASM syntax: https://wasdk.github.io/WasmFiddle/ (when you press Build, the WASM code will appear at the bottom).
Oh, hah, it's getting bit by lone single quotes, (AKA apostrophes). I think it's something GitHub would have to fix, although perhaps a .jsx extension would help.

Update: Yep, GitHub highlights correctly with a .jsx extension - see https://github.com/nfriedly/user-agent.io/blob/jsx-test/page... - but then Next.js can't "see" the page :(

So, I'm going to have to stick with .js for now.
Yup. The monopolies or duopolies in most places here are either 3/1, 5/1, or 20/1 for reasonably affordable plans. 50/50 if Verizon has bothered to run FIOS to your block (which covers roughly 10% of the housing stock). Speeds max out around 200/200 for residential class internet last I checked. And that's if you're willing to pay through the nose.
You should show an example of how the generated resume will turn out. Aside from that I think the color scheme of the site is a little too vibrant--maybe tone down the purple a bit so the green call to actions stand out more.
I am not sure I am qualified to really debate the merits of the JS ecosystem; perceived or real at this time. I tried to do front-end stuff when Knockout and Backbone were popular and Node was just starting. Maybe a better phrase is; I had a hard time keeping up... it was the paradigm changes (as you mentioned), but it was also the volume.

Paralyzation due to choice and only so much time to evaluate each framework. Couple that to "staying" power, that is, will this library be around in 6 months? I have taken a peek from time to time and been thoroughly aghast at the volume and not really seeing any of the old stand-bys around.

Now compare that to Python. There is no dearth of choice and one will find many of these choices have been around for more than a decade. They have evolved and changed of course, but not anywhere near the pace of JS. Again, I could take a 3 to 6 month break from looking at Python news and libraries... then come back and jump right into most of the libs I already know. Can a JS dev do that?

> Couple that with some baseline things that aren't changing here

Doesn't webASM give the power to abstract those things away? React creates a virtual DOM, right? Why can't Python create a virtual DOM via webASM?

I stand with you in that I agree things are going to move quickly once Python and others become peers with JS in the browser. I am sure it will be insane as everyone figures out which lib will have staying power like Django, or similar in another lang. I do think that people who generally gravitate toward languages like Python, Go, C#, Java will bring those attitudes with them... that is, they aren't going to re-invent the wheel every three months unless there is a super compelling reason to do so.
I think that $100k feels middle class to me and you, but the reality is that it's a large multiple of median household income even in places like San Francisco and Manhattan.
if you are interested in the answer to your questions, read the article.
It doesn't seem to me that the is trying to paint microsoft as a victim. IT even says they are partially) to blame because of their poor security design.

The article suggested that most software should be delivered as a service, so that it would more directly connect the economic incentives with the bug fixing. Then they pointed out how this would have helped everyone involved in this one specific case.