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> How has your experience been compared to your previous tech?

Having used Python, Go, C, Perl, Java, Nim is a breeze to code in. Occasionally the compiler glitches and you have to delete nimcache. Very rarely it fails to compile something and you have to rewrite few lines differently. Not an issue. Build frequently to avoid any surprise.

> How mature is the standard library?

Not that much: it lacks examples and helper procedures that you would expect, yet I still feel more productive with Nim than other languages.

> How abundant are third party libraries?

Look at the packages. Most of the basic stuff it's there. For small and medium projects it's usually not an issue, occasionally I have to wrap functions from a C library.

If you are looking for big, fancy libraries like Pandas and Sklearn, they are just not there. Use Nim for tool and services instead.
The article makes out that adding lanes to back roads without changing anything else is bad.

Unravelling implies that if you were to use roads like that as part of your cycle network, you stop them from being a useful through route to motorized traffic ("Filtered permeability"). When you do that you don't need the bike lanes.

As the article is implicitly about adapting existing motor-centric infrastructure I would have made a better point posting this brief video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWllXfGGrg
I'm averse to writing SQL simply because it's a bit harder to test business logic with and things get hard to read very quickly. Also consider the example where my logs are in json for whatever reason, now using SQL just makes things harder especially when I need to run some sort of transformation.
One thing I haven't seen addressed regarding Guaranteed Income: what sort of assurance is there that, when everyone has a guaranteed amount of income coming in, the market for necessary items (rent, for example) won't inflate to account for this, in order to maximize revenue?

A similar corollary (not perfect, but should serve to illustrate) would seem to be student loans - with a federal guarantee, and no way to get out of them through bankruptcy, the cost of education has far exceeded normal inflation. I can imagine similar things happening with Guaranteed Income.
May 5, 2017: Warren Buffett selling his stake in IBM.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/cramer-warren-buffetts-decisi...

Also May 27, 2017
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/05/27/is-management-real...
Ask HN: Do programmers generally lack of math skills?
Almost everyday I see and meet a lot of programmers (even good ones) that lack of math skills, but they've good career and perform well.
How accurate is this hope you guys will answer here?
What are universities doing with all that money they get from tuition?

Hiring more administrators and athletic coaches.
That is, of course, by design. To me (I have been a professional Smalltalk for a while), GNU Smalltalk drops the essence of a traditional Smalltalk environment and while I was "hmm, interesting, maybe if I ever have a use for it I'll look at it", I never needed it. A Smalltalk IDE is an extremely powerful fool, and IMHO the most powerful tool we've invented so far. Having said that - I do think that Pharo and friends maybe should be more friendly to what I as a developer expect today from my tools: mostly keyboard-driven, no overlapping windows, etcetera.
If you want some nice screen savers that don't look like you're traditional stock screensaver, check out xscreensaver.

https://jwz.org/xscreensaver
Right, I think that the word "covers" just feels like a typical plural noun even though it isn't.
"I think it is probably a lot more complicated than that."

That's an evergreen, accurate response to anything in human biology!
What a quite useless post.
I am not fond of Facebook and would advise people not to use it. But the part about "Zucker douche didn't build something so trivial as a computer programming language or cure a disease or something." is just silly.

Getting a product like facebook out there and popular is a combination of a good idea, persistance, a healthy dose of luck and actually _doing something_.

In addition, writing "Zucker Douche" lowers the value of the text quite a bit. :-)

I see there was a point the author was trying to make, but it seems like the execution of the point was done badly. (like other social platform ideas by others, who had a good idea but failed to execute it)
So you're saying I'm right! ;-)
The ability to shitpost with all types of people from your university was the drawing factor. I am sure that 99.9% of people who go to my university have never heard of 4chan, and maybe 20% (probably less) will use Reddit on a regular basis?

Reddit also brings the issue that you're stuck talking to the same types of people - Generally young, white, nerdy guys. That girl on your rowing team or, the one you met in a club last week and oh so need to know the name of certainly has never heard of reddit - but she will have Yik Yak! The barrier to entry is so low, and it used to be a real talking point on campus. It was a social faux pas not to have it installed.
It is probably a reference to the "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
Makes me wonder, is there a way to make sure that no copper is still present after the microbes are all dead? Like throw some penicillamine in there to chelate the exact quantity of copper dissolved?
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> it feels good to contribute.

I don't understand. Why does working for free for multi billion dollar corporation feel good?
This needs to be paired with Scientific American:
It's time to end the war on salt

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
The title takes the cake for click bait :)

I think the interesting part is as the relationship matures, there is no emotional pull down in not sleeping close to each other and couple happily sleep a little far but on the same bed.
I have reasonably decent motivation, but sometimes I run into situations at work where I get frustrated by some problem, take what I think will be a short break, and end up tumbling down a rabbit hole of distractions. To address that, I changed the hosts file on my computer at work to redirect HN to 127.0.0.1. My impression (after a few months) is that it makes me more productive (which puts me in a better mood).
It would be nice of you to provide some sources for your claims. I don't know if you are right or not, but at least providing links to the articles you are referring to would be appreciated.
In terms of sleep disruption, yes. But not necessarily in terms of disruption in your bed. Even though it's all the rage, you don't have to co-sleep. We didn't, and our daughter slept through the night once she was 5 months and has always been an amazing sleeper (12 hours per night like clockwork).
We have a 15 month old daughter who sleeps in a crib in our room, and my wife is a light sleeper. Baby makes a noise, wife wakes up, wife takes an hour to fall back asleep.

I keep telling her: please, sleep on the couch. Literally every time you sleep out there, you get better sleep, and feel better in the morning. But she always says no.

I wish we were one of those couples who secretly, or otherwise, slept apart at least a few nights a week.
> sleeping in the other room or on the other bed seems to defeat the point of being together, no?

I think that sleeping together (in the literal, dictionary sense) is the least together-thing you're doing as a couple, because you're literally not even aware of the time.
> However, a human prodigy can apply their genius to many domains

I'm not sure how true this is. It's pretty rare to find someone who is a genius in more than one domain. Einstein was famously offered the presidency of Israel. Sure, he could probably do well in other sciences, but he was smart enough to know he could not apply his genius to unrelated domains.
From Guerrilla Signs to 3D Maps: Wayfinding Solutions for the NYC Subway System
Thank you for a terrific, impactful, concise description of how art marketing works!

> ...a revolting case in point: https://www.nextrembrandt.com/...

That's fascinating, but why is it objectively revolting? If there are some people who derive pleasure from the technical aspects of a work (color, composition, etc.), then is that pleasure lesser than the pleasure of others who like the background story, motivations, or authenticity, etc.? The art world decrying bowdlerization and mass production of art is not new nor unique to art. Any human effort that requires assiduous craftsmanship is subject to the "in group" despairing at developments they see as the devaluing of their craft. We needn't look very far afield to see that happening.

Programmers are seen weekly here on HN lamenting that members of "out groups" just don't understand our craft, and lamentations of cut-and-paste / cargo cult programming are just as common.

My personal take is sanguine resignation that cursed with an impossibly limited lifespan, we are by necessity boxed into Blub'bing our way through life in areas of human endeavor not core to our existence. I code for a living, and art is not my hobby, so I reluctantly accept I do not have the bandwidth to really take the time to appreciate art at a level that someone like yourself might. So I'm a Blub Art Consumer. The full powerful nuances and appreciation of an authentic Jackson Pollack in my dining room would be lost upon me; however, a photographic print, 3D-printed reproduction or algorithmically-derived Pollack-alike might be "pretty enough" in the "good enough" sense for a Blub like me. If we were all immortal and blessed with Iaian Banks-envisioned cognitive enhancements, then I would be far more open to higher expectations upon our self-realization, but alas, that is not an outcome in our lives' foreseeable future.
May I ask you a question about your story in [0]? You said that you could not call anyone because you did not remember any numbers. Is that how it works? When they let you make a phone call after arrest, you can only call numbers you know by heart? You can't look them up? That sounds insane, who commits phone numbers to memory nowadays?
> I still wonder how anybody could voluntarily opt for a second one.

We're opting out of that. I have no idea how people do it, especially with another small child in the house. (We also live far from family, in a one-bedroom apartment - when someone wakes up in our home, there's a 50% chance that everyone wakes up in our home.)
Move crib to living room, leave wife in bed, sleep on couch. Problem solved. Been there, done that.
At this point I could take this to mean that you're arguing for safe spaces. While creating an "effective learning environment" sounds noble, some students seem to be interpreting this to mean they shouldn't have to hear viewpoints they disagree with [1].

Coddled students don't make successful graduates, as evidenced by the interns that were fired last year after writing a petition about the office dress code that they thought was unfair [2], failing to understand that their job was not a democracy.

Of course, there are times a university should get involved, such as if the harassment is coming from a professor or university-owned email address. But at some point, the most I think should be expected from the university would be a referral to a therapist so the student can work through things and learn coping strategies. It may sound callous to say, but like it or not there are plenty of things that can be upsetting, hurtful, or emotionally damaging to someone without actually being illegal or even reasonably preventable. The university could help to make their graduates successful by making sure they are capable of coping with this fact of life.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shu...

[2] https://www.inc.com/alison-green/about-those-interns-fired-f...
>Quantas, the airline of Australia, outsources its IT operations to IBM. They did not choose the cheapest alternative, but a reliable one

And where do you think that work awarded to IBM is being done? Chances are it's India. As for IBM being reliable - are we talking about the same company known for its brazen incompetence in Australia?
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Run enough redis servers to handle the load. Choose a server by hashing a user id. Total = sum of counts from all servers.
Thank God you haven't claimed it was webscale. We'd get nuts.
My coworker has seven siblings.

He tells me that it eventually gets easier, as they get old enough to help take care of the young ones. I assume it's similar to how you learn to echolocate if someone stabs your eyes out, or how you learn to pick things up with your feet if someone eats your hands.
Thanks for sharing guy! Interesting repo.
It should be well known that the public, and often the judicial system, see prison as punishment and not rehabilitation.

Another portion sees at as constitutionally-granted slave labor or an opportunity for profit.
i think that people are beginning to find these more shallow ways of connecting less meaningful and while they will always serve a purpose, i think that technology such as virtual reality will enable people who are not in the same room together to connect with one another in more meaningful and real (feeling) ways.
GGGP?

And yes, I did mean macroscopic, sorry.
Thank you so much. I'll get to work on this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3212568/

It's a documentary about Wolfgang Beltracchi - an artist who made millions forging paintings and eventually went to prison for it. You just have to like the guy.

The flick is currently available on Netflix Germany.
I think that inaccuracy in and of itself is a problem when it comes to anything worth discussing. Not all of us see the world through such us-vs-them culture-warrior blinders all the time.

The point I was making that the market is demanding it (as opposed to companies pushing it on users) is entirely material to the discussion.
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The silent tragedy affecting today’s children
> They are no smarter than BA's original British engineers, but with decades less experience on those systems

Wow you really believe Poland is some third world country where we ride horses to our farms? They have experience, in some ways Poland is way ahead of UK in digitalization of many services. In great part because of thriving economy, great schools and excellent developers.

Poland has some of the best programmers according to a study conducted by hackerrank https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-p...
I've known about cbt but it's a hard sell at a corp, esp when lightbend doesn't seem to want anything to do with it. They'd rather pretend sbt works just fine and that we're all idiots rather than laying sbt to a graceful rest and using cbt.
^ For big sites like reddit, which is why you don't typically run into this when using GA on your personal blog
>It was a social faux pas not to have it installed.

So it's all over now? Any alternatives?
Thank you. I'm planning to do blog posts and maybe youtube "explainer" videos on how to apply for and get various work visas.
What do you use now? Have you tried F#?
Your Paypal Donation URL is missing from the article.

Are you still looking for that laptop?
Pretty much, yeah.
In Canada, there's a few hundred districts across the country, so each one is no more than a few hundred thousand people at most. But, I'd say most are under 50k people. Those districts each get to elect one person to parliament. If one party gets a majority of the seats in parliament, they form the government (a majority government). If they don't (but have the largest number of seats for a single party), they try and form a coalition and form a minority government. If they can't form a coalition, the next largest party gets a chance to do it and if so they form the government. Realistically, this second option doesn't really happen.

So, doesn't a district elect a congressperson? If so, the voting bloc isn't a whole state, except I guess for electing the President and senators. Canada doesn't have an elected senate and we don't have anything like an elected President. We have a Prime Minister, but they're the head of the governing party in parliament. We also have a Governor-General, who represents the Queen as our head of state, but it's mostly a ceremonial position, except when there's a change in government. Even then, they're highly constrained and it's basically ceremonial there too.
I think it refers to the telemarketers and tech support stereotype of India.

In this view, India is portrayed valuing quantity over quality.
Did he (or they) happen to mention the ratios of salt water to fresh? I don't know a whole lot about this topic, but I do recall reading somewhere that thirsty seafarers who succumbed to the urge to drink seawater ended up dying more quickly. I wonder if they figured out how much was okay to drink before it started negatively impacting health.
I watched your refactor of yhat's py ggplot branch, and was disappointed when glamp dropped in a totally new implementation out of the blue. Thanks for all your hard work--glad it is it's own package now :).
my n=1: I am on an extremely low sodium diet (around 500mg/day) and I didn't find any difference in thirst or hunger levels compared to when I was on a more typical 4000-5000mg/day one.

The only change for me (besides of course a period of adjustment where food didn't taste like much) has been a significantly lower blood pressure (from typically 145/85 to 105/65), everything else has remained pretty much the same.
Maybe so. But, for me, subliminally - it feels when I wake up that there is a felt difference from having spent the night alone or not. But, again, maybe that's just me.
many more couples than you might think choose sleep separately for exactly the reasons shown by this data.

It appears you didn't read past the first graph (which initially implies a reduction in sleep due to sharing a bed with his partner). But he then goes on to say this:

Turns out, since we started sharing a bed, most nights I have the same amount of sleep as before.

What follows is a further analysis leading to this conclusion:

Whilst spending nights with my girlfriend results in less time in a state which Fitbit recognises as “lying in bed ready to sleep”, because we go to bed later and get up earlier, when I am in that state, I sleep better.

So it's not that he's sleeping less, or more poorly while sharing a bed. That first graph is just a product of less time spent physically in bed. In fact, there's another graph he presents that shows basically the same amount of actual sleep while in bed, with or without his partner.

Try not to read your own biases into other people's writing, and be very careful when skimming. It's a hard habit to break, I know, but it can really hurt you in life (no joke... misreading an email in a professional context can make for nasty mistakes).
If an error makes it into production it is always process, never an individual, even if the individual involved was malicious. The only thing you can do with errors is fix them, learn from them, and then fix the process too.

Assigning blame does not move the needle at all.
If I recall correctly, gold is extremely unreactive as far as metals go -- I'd imagine that it may just be more-or-less biochemically neutral.

Edit: I may be dead wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organogold_chemistry
It can't be coincidence that Google's increased focus on areas and places brings it closer to Apple Maps. It's easy to miss because of Apple's poorer data, but I think their app legitimately bested Google in some areas (heh), and this is Google absorbing those characteristics.
This library started as a refactor of that project, after it laid broken and unmaintained for a long time. Having followed the yhat ggplot for a long time, I've lost faith that it will be actively maintained.
I think it's a personal thing. I feel better after having slept all night alone - because we're not kicking each other in our sleep all night.
I've thought about it, but that also means that we have to retreat to the bedroom when the kid goes to sleep (7:30), and can't walk through the living room to the bathroom, kitchen, etc. until she's very deeply asleep - and even then, it might wake her up.
there was even an episode of house where the cause was gold poisoning.
>98, my friend. Did you realize this whole controversy is over a 2% gap?

I'll mention two things: the first is that other studies find that the 2% is closer to 5 or 7%. Still not 23 or 25%, but more significant. The second is that even that 2% number, over a lifetime and with interest is very likely something like an extra year's worth of income. That means retiring a year earlier, which I'd say is very significant.
The mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has died in a boating accident
Hm. Some kids sleep really deep and would be fine in that situation, the best way to figure it out is to try it and to give it enough time that you know that if there is a problem it is structural and not just the adaptation period.

My eldest slept so solid that you could have fired a cannon next to him and he would have slept through it (and still does, only he's a bit large to sleep in a crib now...).

The most important factor is something to create a shade around the crib so it isn't bathed in light or receives reflected intensity changes from a tv or so.
I've just started writing a few scripts I'd normally use Python for (no production) and have been impressed with the speed and binary sizes. Nim in Action (book) is really good and what is missing to get the beginner started. I'd like to see a PyCharm like IDE for Nim as well, but Vim seems to work well.
Mother of Uber Chief Executive Killed in Boating Accident
glad you are getting laid man. but this is like such a non issue.
I was interested to learn about the "Yes at Google" anonymous mailing list for Google employees to report in work sexism etc. is this list discussing this topic too? Are there other internal anonymous lists at the company that would be discussing this?
Bitcoin's price is two parts, one part is the fact that you are owning a digital asset that was guaranteed to be generated by burning power, in the form of electricity, the same way as working for a paycheck while the second part is speculation.

I buy Bitcoin when the price is stable and there's no ridiculous bubbles. I sell when the bubbles are one-two weeks in because that's when every Joe Schmuck wants into Bitcoin.
The important question is actually "should there be legal duties", which you can determine from the original point: "I am just shocked at the amount of control, influence, and involvement into their students' lives universities are expected to have."

I (for one) believe universities should not have a legal duty to prevent online harrassment, even though it may be of interest to universities.