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> This story will cut down the number of bugs and speed up development. By how much will they speed up development? I don't know. How many bugs and of what severity? Some bugs and at multiple levels of severity and you're not going to notice it when it happens because nobody notices bugs that don't happen. By when? I don't know, but you won't see any impact straight away.

Point to historical data where possible. SWAG where appropriate.

"We've probably spent over 100 hours fixing bugs in this janky ass system for every 10 hours of real honest-to-god implementation of features work. That outage on Friday? Missing our last milestone by a week? All avoidable. We've been flying blind because we have no instrumentation, and changes are painful. Proper tooling would've shown us exactly what was wrong, easily halving our fix time, even if nothing else about this system changed. A week's worth of investment would've already paid itself off."

Frankly, I'm way better at estimating this kind of impact than how long it'll take to implement feature X.
> So much of our information is received through indirect means...

I suspect it is worse than that. Much of the actionable information that our civilization relies upon seems effectively "binary-only" and behind "firewalls" of field practice. Take water sanitation, for example. Exactly how does one set up an industrial-scale water sanitation plant for say, 5,000 residential units? There are design books and guides aplenty. But that aeration pump they say you need on page 315, how are you to know who makes one that will last, and is supported well? It's not like McMaster-Carr shows reviews from customers like Amazon. If you are outside the field, or new to it, then you come down to blindly guessing, getting told what to do by corporate policy, or getting the scoop from the grizzled veterans.

This seems pervasive to me, everywhere I turn. There seems to be a Simplifying Assumptions Field (SAF) around not just how information is presented, but how we actually model the information we consume, and it take assiduous effort to turn off in most people. Unless you place yourself into the mindset of "okay, if civilization ended and I could turn to no one else to figure this out, what problems will I run into trying to reproduce what I'm being told here from scratch, by myself?", it is all too easy to blindly accept the kinds of tricks you see on media, and one of the most pernicious tricks is accepting that being told information about something is almost as good as doing it, and doing it well.

I suppose this is why I'm not a fan of even most Internet-delivered broadcast media like Netflix/Hulu/Amazon-Video (not to speak of conventional media, aside from books): actionable information, that is, information I can take and reproduce an action/insight/process/result/object/etc. to the same fidelity/quality level (given enough practice), is very sparse in that part of the world. Documentaries are a gray area for me: if I could read a transcript and get the information 2-5X faster, I'd like them more, but I grow restless with the slow presentation in most documentaries (documentaries at 2X speed on YouTube generally can get my attention, though). Maker and MOOC content for example, seems more actionable to me, though of course YMMV.

I sometimes wonder if we are too harsh on those presenting information to make the information easily-digestible, and too rigid to accept that sometimes we simply don't know pieces of information or can't get the perfect video shot, and settle for entertainment value instead of actionable value.
Not like I can afford one at the moment, but I can dream.

* 32GB RAM

* An Nvidia GPU

* Official EGPU support

* Include all the dongles one might need to make the transition to USB C. Right now, the dongle requirements feel like in app purchases/DLC

* Bring back Magsafe and the adapter they used to have

* Pull an SE and have A MacBook variant with the old pro body but newer internals and lower price.
Session restore can make firefox take a lot longer to start. It's possible your profile has a very old session with a lot of tab history. Maybe try unpinning and closing all your tabs (there should be a 'bookmark all tabs' you can use to get them back later), and then exit firefox. This should prune all that tab data and history (session restore saves a pretty considerable amount of back and cookie history for each tab.)
Here's a Wired story about a more controversial technique: [1].

Quoting:

> His team used genetic tweaks to prevent rats from making their own pancreases. Then they injected mouse stem cells (complete with all the necessary pancreas-making genes) into the developing pancreas-less rat embryos. The rats grew normally. The only thing different was their pancreases were made almost entirely of mouse cells.

> Then they went a step further. From those rat-mouse chimeras, Nakauchi’s team took out tiny clusters of pancreatic cells that make insulin (called islets) and transplanted them into diabetic mice. The islets settled in and made enough insulin to keep the host mice’s blood glucose levels in a normal range for more than a year. In layman’s terms? The mice were cured.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/01/first-human-pig-chimera-step-t...
I never heard "we won Vietnam," except jokingly, going to a regular public school in the 90's and 2000's in the Pacific Northwest.

My dad always described Vietnam with a little head-shaking regret (he was born in Texas in 1957, so he was too young to be drafted, but we had family friends in the war). We didn't hear about it much in elementary school, but in middle school history classes we learned about the Gulf of Tonkin and the smoke and mirrors surrounding that, and why the war was so difficult and controversial compared to previous wars. In high school I had more in-depth modern American history class, studied the social repercussions of the war, the Kent State shootings, the protests, etc.

I'm not sure if it's the chronologic difference or the geographic distance, but not every schoolchild in the US learned "we won the war."
The headline makes it sound hilarious, but it's an opt-in program:

"Employees will be paid extra, and offered overtime pay as necessary to make the deliveries, Walmart spokesman Ravi Jariwala said Thursday."

The interesting question that jumps to my mind is liability. For any of you who shared the pain of law school with me, it sounds like Walmart is trying to write us a new chapter in agency law on the topic of frolic and detour. Walmart's reputation in employment matters notwithstanding, I wonder how they handle it the first time a "delivery" driver takes out a mailbox or rear ends a car. I have an idea of how it should go, but that's not the interesting part of all of this.
Yup. The 140 character limit is twitter's worst feature. It's difficult to have any substantial discussion or nuanced debate in a stream of 140 characters or less.

Brevity is indeed beautiful, but usually only after your quip has been long considered and pared down from a much longer form of expression. The brilliant aphorists of the world didn't just crap out their sentences of brilliance--they toiled on them (Nietzsche has quite a few good maxims on this subject). Services like twitter make it easy to react and to throw your thoughts out there without engaging in any reflection first. Then it's easy to respond immediately with some follow up nonsense once someone disagrees with you.

It shows you how the medium really does impact the message to a huge extent. Imagine how different it must have been composing letters in, say, the 1700's as opposed to writing tweets. By the nature of the medium itself you were almost inevitably likely to ruminate on your subject and think about it more deeply in the time between your letter's arrival to its destination and the subsequent appearance of a response. Nowadays you have feedback in seconds, and most of the time it reflects the minuscule amount of time and consideration behind it.

That's not to say twitter is all bad--the format has its benefits too--it just certainly has affected the way and the amount of time people devote to thinking and questioning themselves. In general I think having the ability to consider things slowly and to take one's time may only grow all the more important in the future.
And that something could have been Google, meaning less competition.
First Human-Pig Chimera Is a Step Toward Custom Organs
That's a statement right there.
Having actually eaten a bug before (yay Boy Scout survival badge), I'm going to remember that one. The follow-through will impress people but it's not actually dangerous or even that unhygenic (as long as you eat the right bug).
Standard lib 100%. And Dave Cheney's personal website/blog posts. You don't need anything else.
Yes, a rule of thumb is to remember to look at your hands in a dream. You even may look at them in reality (or "reality") to get a habit. After you look at hands in a dream you remember that you in a dream. Next difficult thing is to be able not to ruin a dream and to try to explore it. I constantly tried to go through walls in my room or to fly - no success :) Also it is possible to keep attention at the period when you're go from reality to a dream. It feels like your body made of a stone and you can't move and then you're in a dream.
My problem with an idle Facebook account is at least twofold: my activity is still being tracked against my will, and out of principle I refuse to support an organization which so blatantly disregards personal space.
Open play store and install it
unlike iOS, android supports setting any browser as default. You can then even completely disable chrome
I've cut out Facebook without 99% of the hand wringing here. I just stop browsing the site.

If someone wants to talk to me I get a popup on my Messenger app on my phone, and if I get an event invite it shows up there too.

Problem solved.
The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a must watch if you want to fully comprehend how the whole ordeal went down. Highly recommend.
Seems to me the whole article is an excuse to "debunk" the conspiracy theory around the obviously-suspicious Seth Rich story.

This sort of thing just confirms, to my satisfaction, that facts will have essentially no bearing on the next US presidential election. The journalists have had their day. Future political wars will be waged and won on social media, based on propaganda and confirmation bias.
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Start with the first one: Don Juan, A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
There's tons of superficial and annoying posts on Medium and Facebook posts, as well as people sharing screenshots of their iPhone notes app on Twitter. Most of their authors posted them because they want attention.

It's not about the character limit. It's more about how humans want attention and there's an infrastructure to support that desire.
Agreed with everything you said except

> keeping in mind users don't care about data size, they care about latency.

Users do care about data size since there are still a lot of people on data limited contracts even in the UK which has a fairly healthy mobile market.

What people don't necessarily realise is the connection between the two, I'd quite like it if the mobile browsers had a running total of the total amount of data transferred in that tab on each new visit/refresh.

I'm a programmer and I still don't know which pages are heavy or not (given fixed bandwidth the time to interaction would be a clue but mobile internet latency is all over the map so you can't tell if it's a big site/page or just the mobile internet shitting the bed).
Facebook is an attack on society itself. Ignorance of other people's stupidity, bigotry, and pettiness is a necessary lubricant for society to function.
You absolutely must keep your record player suspended from glass fiber in a vacuum chamber to avoid any unwanted coloration. Just takes 30 minutes to pump down when you want to flip sides.
Mine is even more simplistic. I lack self control. With an account, even a deactivated one, I've been guilty of logging back in at 2 AM on a Wednesday morning just to stalk an old acquaintance from high school.
The Gender Balance of The New York Times Best Sellers List
Right. There's a point where it's cheaper to store renewable energy to use later rather than capture carbon dioxide using the surplus.
A new contract highlights the difference between “new” and “old” space
> Navani, along with CMO Rajesh Dharampuriya and COO Mahesh Navani are liable for the payment of $154,920,000, while developer Jagan Vaithilingam is on the hook for $50,000 and two project managers, Bryan Sequeira and Robert Lynes, each owe $15,000, the Vermont DOJ said.

Pretty interesting to see a Developer and PM have to pay out as well. I wonder how the judge reached that conclusion.
If you visit a website owned by a company you're probably right. If you visit a little demo (like the type of thing someone would hack up in a day and put up on show HN) you'd be surprised by how much investigation you can do.

I agree that there are many books online though, and they can provide a lot of nice things like running code samples in your browser. However, I find video tutorials to provide a better experience than books, online or not. I suppose that's just a matter of personal preference though.
It looks like they fined officers of the company, as well as a developer and 2 PMs. Is this standard practice for False Claims Act suits? How much should I worry about this as a developer?
This same article was posted 6 months ago but apparently deleted: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5b2ras/between_...

I remember reading it as I am a bit of a Vue fan.
I use Vue in all my projects, it rocks and I love using it.
Easy: Stop littering the feed with pictures, videos and articles. Exclude them altogether or show them very rarely. You can also easily identify "viral" content that doesn't belong to the user and remove it. Eventually they'll learn not to waste their time posting those things because they'll get no responses. And if someone posts an article, leave it as a plain old text link instead of creating a massive preview of the article (complete with title, picture, lede, etc.).

Facebook does the opposite now, which leads people to use it as a content consumption platform rather than a social network. Obviously that's what Facebook wants, since content consumption is infinitely more profitable than people posting on each other's walls all day.
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Does someone have a nice guide to do full disk encryption, and other recommendations so that we can at least be a little certain our data isn't being tampered with?
When did "leftism" become a real word? Not a year ago, it was floated by "rightists" to denigrate liberals, since then I've seen it used as a sort of a dog whistle. It couldn't possibly be that the general public is so dense that the most acceptable political divisions nowadays are "leftist" and "rightist?"

Will it devolve into full idiocracy of "redist" and "bluist" by the next elections?
The Swiss leaks and Panama papers open a window on the tax-dodger’s world
> Interestingly, I still find a lot of value in Messenger. But they've split concerns so you can use that without reactivating your FB account.

Afaik when you deactivate your Facebook account, you have the option to keep the Messenger account, but just deactivate/delete the Facebook account.
add a few kids and you'll end up with debt instead of savings...
http://thehackernews.com/2014/06/intel-developing-rfid-track... perhaps?

They might have just decided to put them on everything and not activate them on most as a cost measure.
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Going to assume we will see genetic testing results on replacement parts, just to make sure that nobody is getting an illegally harvested human heart when the packaging says "pig hybrid."
Somewhat facetiously:

fn identity<T>(t: T) -> T { t }

Has no trait bounds, and is clearly generic. You typically can't do very much with completely free type variables, but Rust has syntactic support for them.
>Yes, whoever owns CNN can use up all his airtime telling you that X is the greatest vandidate that's ever lived and yes, he will reach more people than I ever will. Yet, his vote has the exact same value as mine.

Interesting logic. Let's try applying it to the completely obvious parallel:

"Yes, whoever owns boatloads of money can use up all his money buying TV ads telling you that X is the greatest candidate that's ever lived and yes, he will reach more people than I ever will. Yet, his vote has the exact same value as mine."
Use mbasic.facebook.com. It can access any URL the heavy webclient can and uses no JS at all.
I'm curious what volume of CO2 is used by the manufacturing industry, for chemical processes and feedstocks. Sourcing it from capture instead of burning natural gas to get it would reduce the footprint.
I think he's referring to the polarization of America's parties, where there's now a sizable group on both sides who'd rather see the other side upset than their own side happy.
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I created a gist of the pattern I've found to be most successful when doing an app in F#.

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I generally agree with this. When it comes to languages and implementations it's often better to just learn by doing/hopping around little blogs and documentation here and there. As you said, technology evolves too quickly for authors to keep up.

That being said, there are some pretty fundamental abstract concepts behind all forms of programming that have stuck around for a long time: those old comp sci course materials. I'd recommend turning to books for some of that content, as picking up some knowledge there will support you no matter what programming language you try to learn.
Shouldn't a TLDR about stock options include critical information like 83(b) election, etc?
Even if we get over the existential issue, the security risks there would be pretty big too. What if a hacker just makes the thousands of people mid-teleport disappear? Is it predefined point to point, or can you teleport anywhere? If so, can we prevent people from teleporting anything into anywhere?
Trump Will Start Years-Long Process to Withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement
Agreed, though I haven't used gemini. I would put Kraken on that list. CEX.IO is easy, but super expensive to get money in via.

Expect it to take around a week to get $1K in to play with, and plan to get real cozy with the security folks at your credit card company. Plan to spend a few hours just futzing around with everything involved. Easiest path is likely a credit card on coinbase, they have a $500/week limit on credit card. You can do a bank transfer, with a higher limit, but you will buy Ether/Bitcoin and then not be able to trade it for anything else for a week until it clears. Great if you want to get Ether, bad if you want to turn your $1K into Ripple. Unless Ether doubles the week you are sitting on it.
TL;DR: ULA just got a $28M government contract to upgrade rocket avionics within two years for work that has already been completed and flown.
> Reddit was pretty much seen as a copycat failure

[by whom ?] as they say over in en.wikipedia ...

Don't know the numbers, but Reddit always sported a more "in" crowd, who looked down on the Digg unwashed.
Oh god, the shit where incredibly overweight pages make you click the slow "load more" buttons just to load a few more kb of text that could've been immediately shown to you for basically no extra cost drives me crazy.

And as much as facebook sucks, most web sites suck. It's amazing to me how many sites I read on my phone are basically unusable until I fall back on Safari's reader mode.

Javascript handlers that fuck up scrolling speed, tons of popups obscuring the content, just all kinds of shit. It's like the last thing the website wants you to do is actually read it. (This is probably true, from some sort of limited penny-wise, pound-foolish ad-driven perspective.)
> Can we stop conflating FP with static typing?

I'm all for that, but first we probably need to actually define what "functional programming" means, which seems to be one of the great unresolveable debates of computer science. :P

To wit, I can think of no reasonable definition of functional programming that includes Lisp, Scheme, ML, and Haskell that does not also include every popular language aside from C. Even Java has first-class functions these days, sort of...
>if I could somehow unbelieve some science and be guaranteed my family would be happier I might consider it

I don't see how this can be defended. It commits you potentially dangerous and unethical behavior.

Suppose you were to unbelieve, "africans are humans." By not holding this belief you might be quite able to happily own and mistreat slaves.

This example is extreme, but the point I'm making still stands. If ones happiness is contingent on holding false beliefs then what value is the happiness. How can self-deception through pleasure seeking mental states be elevated in opposition to engaging with objective reality?

Seeking pleasure certainly does not ensure ethical behavior and in many cases explicitly conflicts with acting ethically.

>Our common goal is to interpret our existence in a way that provides the best life possible for us

I'm very wary of interpretation motivated for pleasure as opposed to clarity and truth.