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I believe this to be true overall. McDonald's or bigger places wouldn't hire less people, if they could get away with lower staff levels they already would have lowered them.

For small business it's one percent or less change per employee.
Apparently it changed over time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1373443
https://tekkie.wordpress.com/2006/05/31/rediscovering-dr-dij...
We usually have multiple people working in the same screen, each in a different window (on a remote server). Last I checked, this was not straight-forward in tmux (where everyone is switched to the same window whenever someone switches) and it seems to be still the case from what I see in the comparison table. This makes GNU Screen the preferred tool for us, for now.
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Internal pressure probably. Not all insurance products are profitable. Especially big insurers are willing to take a hit to get in "good" customers, for example rich Tesla drivers. Then cross sell other products and raise the price of the original insurance yearly.
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It's ironic that you expect "even-handed journalism" without even fully reading the piece you're commenting on.
This is the standard PR response of Musk whenever criticized.
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> There seems to be a active war between the sites maintainer and D.

No.

> There used to be D benchmarks on the old site

Back in early 2008.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080730204710/http://shootout.al...

Look how many other language implementations were also shown back then and have not been shown since.

> … for some reason the current maintainer has a issue with D

No.

> Good luck on changing his mindset…

Make the measurements you want to see and publish them for everyone else to see.
> If the laws were the same in the US, and I called Donald Trump an idiot, would I have to furnish an IQ test? If I wrote that Ballmer/Nadella was incompetent and Microsoft products are crap?

You can say all of that in England.

Before someone can take a case of defamation through the courts they have to show there's actual or probable serious harm. (For for-profit companies that would be serious monetary loss).

The defences are that the comment is true; or that it's honest opinion, or that it's a matter of public interest, or that it's in a privileged publication (which includes peer reviewed journals).

When you say "Trump is an idiot" he can't show any harm at all, let alone serious harm; and it's an opinion that many people have.

When you say "Ballmer / Nadella are incompetent" either they personally have to show serious harm (and they can't) or Microsoft has to show serious financial harm (and it can't). And it's an opinion that while strongly held and expressed is expressed by many people.

> but that the chilling effects caused by restricting speech are almost always greater.

If I take a photograph of you and make a flyer saying "XAA RAPES CHILDREN" and spread that around your workplace and your local community you probably want a few methods to make that stop. One would be harassment law. Another would be defamation law. This is really the only kind of thing stopped by English law.

(Are you aware that the English law changed in 2013? Are you talking about the old law? I agree that was terrible.)
To like COBOL, you need to posess a particular kind of rigid corporate mindset. I wonder whether it's fathers/mothers had the mentioned physic structure, or it was a fruit of 50's salaryman mental subjugation. No offense ment.
Actually, the upper atmosphere of Venus has about the right atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature for Earth. So building effectively cities on blimps means you only need to worry about the sulfuric acid--walking outside only requires a hazmat suit, not a full pressure suit.

It's not clear whether Venus or Mars is an easier target for colonization--that's just a sign of how hard it would be to build a colony on anything that's not Earth.
I don't get why you'd compare to other cars at all. Take the average payout per month for this model, divide by the number of cars of this model that you insure, add some overhead, and that should be your average premium, shouldn't it?

If the model is brand new and you don't have enough data to do that then I could understand finding something comparable to make a guess at costs, but I'd think Teslas have been around long enough now that this is no longer needed.
Here are some articles without a paywall:

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/25/uber-lyft-returning-...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/05/not-missed

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/27/15705060/lyft-uber-return...
It's GitHub HR and their ongoing war against meritocracy.
I'm an ESL speaker, but after some searching on the Internet, I've convinced myself that "guys" is generally accepted as a mixed gender group.
Her book "Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals" is not available as an eBook and is out of print and costs over $100 used on Amazon. Would be great if there was a cheaper way to read it.
Go to the home page

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/

and click "Lisp".
>The "tech bubble" is not an insignificant number of people.

Count # downloads of G Authenticator on Play Store - ~10M. To 4B of internet users.

By anyone I meant platform support. U2F on iOS? U2F outside Chrome? etc.
It will be something close to an AST.

"syntax" is the textual representation of an underlying structure.

When all of our tooling revolves our modifying text/syntax not the underlying structure we make our lives very difficult and create new "artificial" problems with regards to parsing/extracting and so on.

A sufficiently good editor could make the experience even better than a normal text editor.

The crucial difference is that there's no such concept as "lines" or "files". But it could visually almost represent it to you in that way.

So you would type "let x = 1;" instead of it saving those characters in some file it would modify the program/tree and add a node that represents the fact that "assign 1 to name x".

As I also stated I know many of the things I have mentioned are already kind-of possible with the tooling that we have but they are bolted on in such a way that is disconnected from other components so we lack a more global view into a system as a whole.

This creates little isolated/disconnected worlds within a system and significantly reduces the potential and benefits of things we could do.

It also reduces accuracy to a level that you always have to have your guards up and can't fully trust the system. It turns into a helpful heuristic but not a first-class part of the system.

It is one thing to be able to "parse all of this crap and extract these blocks of characters that we think are the documentation" vs having strong accurate links established so that the entire system is capable of querying navigating metadata associated to objects.

Tests and benchmarks and documentation and all sorts of stuff can become first-class citizen objects in a programming language and the compiler and tooling gets exposed to that information it can suddenly start helping you a lot more than it is otherwise able to when it has no view into that stuff (i.e. compiler ignoring the comments).

Lots of things that are today very cumbersome and require sophisticated parsing and so on become very easy because you don't have to parse/compute stuff, information about the structure is readily available and queryable.

For example all your "logging" stuff could simply be tagged as "log".

Then when you are compiling you could say "take out all function calls tagged as log as if they didn't exist".

Again there's a huge but yet subtle difference between that and what we are capable of doing today.

We today we have ways of kind-of achieving the same thing by #ifdef compile constants and so on but one is inherently semantic and logically sound the other one is just arranging a sequence of side-effects to achieve a desired effect without exposing that insight to the compiler/environment itself.

That difference is the essence of intentional programming.

The system allows you to express and preserve your intent in its original semantic form that is the blueprint for the software that is produced from it.

If you are interested to learn more about this topic you can watch some of Charles Simonyi's presentations on YouTube on this topic, they are long but worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=charles+simonyi
Dismissing most of the world's heritage, because one is a literalist, is what is irrational.

By this logic, mathematics discovered for curiousity would not have applications, something which is not at all true. Number theory is just one example. There are many others like using 'imaginary' numbers used for solving polynomial eqns, later becomes basic to engineering.
I've been watching the series "Taboo" recently (really enjoying, great series).

East India Tea Company is a major feature of the show. While watching I kind of wondered if it would fair to think of Goldman Sachs as sort of a modern incarnation of East India Tea Company (minus the actual trading in hard goods of course).
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Ask HN: Do headphones exist with noise muffling capabilities?
People constantly post about how distracting open-plan offices are. The solution that is often proposed, noise cancelling headphones, don't really work because noise cancelling headphones stop background hums, not the sound of talking.

Actual earmuffs DO block sporadic sounds like talking. However you can't really wear earmuffs in an open plan office (that would be weird, and also earmuffs don't play music). What would be amazing, would be headphones with earmuff material between the earpiece and the outside of the headphones. Then you can listen to music without any sound bleeding in.

If anyone is looking for a hardware startup this may be a good idea. I would pay good money for this. I've tried the usual recommendations eg Sennheiser HD280's but the sound muffling isn't that high.
As much as I agree with you, it's clearly working for the overall public as most of the world still has a love affair with Tesla (just look at their stock price).
Thank you very much for the tips - I'm going to find a copy of both Splendor and Speicherstadt. My step daughter is 7 and we have been having a bunch of fun with a D&D campaign. Gaming is fun and it's a significantly better bonding experience that we get playing Minecraft together. Board games would be even more fun, since my 40 year old mind is having trouble changing D&D enough (on the fly) so that it's still fun for her.

Seriously, thanks!
Eh, the simplified version is:

- Engineers (like electrical etc) use Matlab

- Statisticians use R

- Rich people sometimes use Mathematica

- People with some CS background use Python/numpy/sklearn

For "purer" math, like symbolic differentiation and such, I don't really know any of those people, but I think Mathematica has a lot in that area. The others have stuff, but less developed. But pretty much every major language has linear algebra at this point.
IMO, the real lesson to learn for that is that your phone number will never be really secure, so don't use possession of it for any hard verification if you have any other options.
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This seems pretty nice. Does anyone know if there is anything similar in the oracle camp? This seems like a big win over them if not.
Have a look at WISP, which I just found out about from this thread: http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/

LISP without parentheses.
Did you have to take the Tesla to a certified repair shop? If so, that is going to push the insurance rates up when the insurance company cannot use their own favorite body shops.
I'm curious as to why Teslas are involved in 46% more claims than average. Are the cars shopping cart magnets or something? Are they falling apart? Do Tesla owners get into more accidents than non-Tesla owners? Or do they just file claims for every little scratch and paint chip?
>> No idea why it's been removed. <<

Lisp hasn't been removed.

(Clojure has. So's Scala.)
Plus, if you do request the encrypted TOTP seeds from Authy you have a choice of 1. getting the download approved by another device already linked or 2. a 24 hour wait period during which Authy will send you an email every 6 hours.
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> How so? Can we program Haskell's Hindley-Milner based type checking into Lisp with macros and homoiconicity, and have it run during compile-time?

I don't see why not. Typed Racket does more or less that (it's not Hindley-Milner, but that's because they wanted a type system that matched Scheme idioms better): https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/

> I have done my fair share of meta-programming with Ruby and I realized I really didn't want the power to change my program model at runtime. While they made certain things easier - like Rails's ActiveRecord (which is superb btw) - the "inception"-like indirection made things very hard to reason about.

Lisp macros run only at compile time. You can just ask the REPL (or your editor) to expand a particular macro invocation for you to see what code is generated.

Of course, macros are still typically harder to debug than functions, but sometimes macros are the only way to abstract a certain pattern. That's why Template Haskell, CamlP4, OCaml extension points, etc. exist.

> So far, statically typed FP with Sum Types and Pattern Matching and Immutability seems to be the cure, and macros and dynamic typing its very antithesis.

I would argue that macros complement statically typed functional programming. Again, there's a reason for Template Haskell, CamlP4, OCaml extension points, etc.

> For me the secret-weapon language is less about power, and more about structure.

Yeah, this is where OCaml's module system shines.
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Tesla owners in fact already pay less insurance because of agreements the company has made with certain insurers. The reason they are able to make such agreements is that the cars are objectively safer.
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I would say the difference between 2 seconds and 2 minutes is significantly more noticeable than the step from 20 minutes to 2 minutes.

Apart from the fact that the factor is bigger (60 vs 10) it matters that if you go under 10s your workflow changes, as you don't have to work in "async"-mode anymore "oh, while this compiles I check this stuff in the documentation". For me who is not the best multi-tasker this is a real benefit.
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Please don't call names and be so personally thorny here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"If you're interested in something not shown on the benchmarks game website then please take the program source code and the measurement scripts and publish your own measurements."
Can you give an example?

I have never seen people say it was a failed experiment when it "disproved" a hypothesis. If it was able to disprove something, often that means people perceive a high degree of certainty in the results.

They might be bummed out and try to suppress its publication because they don't consider it disproof of a favorite theory, though (for whatever reason, good or bad).

Edit: I just remembered that one time I saw people complain that their analyses had "too much power", which might fit in with the parent comment's point?
Einstein apparently once said that the big difference between him and less successful scientists was that he 'stayed with problems longer'.
No success getting programs updated for newer versions -- so, no Scala anymore, done.
You'd get more of a response By listing what skills you have while keeping your failures private.

What country are you in? We hire contactors from time to time, i'm sure many companies do.
At the risk of coming across like a naysayer, this paper omits a lot of crucial details. The obvious, and most usually contested metric is not whether or not the economy goes up or down, but by how much it might have gone up or down in the absence of a minimum wage policy. A year-over-year growth of 82% might be meaningful, but without knowing whether it would have been 60% or 120% otherwise, doesn't really tell us what we need to know.

Less obvious is the effect this has on any individual business. If there are 10 restaurants in TownX, and TownX raises the minimum wage, we don't know how many of those restaurants survived or thrived as the result of the wage increase just because the restaurant economy went up whatever percent. If six of the smaller restaurants had to close, with the other four expanding to fill the holes they left, is it a net good if we're simply concentrating the wealth away from the small business owner into the hands of national chains?
This report suffers from a serious flaw: it uses federal minimum wage increases rather than state or local increases. By doing so, they have no control to compare to and thus cannot show causation. For instance, suppose that federal min wage hikes only occur during periods of economic strength. It would seem that periods following min wage hikes have better outcomes than otherwise. However, the economic growth is not the cause of the economic strenfth but a response.

The proper way to do min wgae testing is by comparing neighboring districts. If one county has a min wage hike its neighbors do not, then you can compare the outcomes of the affected county and use the other as a control.

When this is done, the effects of min wage hikes become clear: in the short run, employees are not immediately fired because businesses stay open. However, in the long run, fewer employment opportunities are available. This suggests that in some areas, a min wage hike can cause disemployment effects over the long term [0]

[0] http://voxeu.org/article/long-run-employment-effects-minimum...
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I've done it once before, with Keepass and Lync. I was working on several tasks at once, area bit of a frenzied pace. I had a few Lync chat Windows open. I copied my password from Keepass, alt-tabbed to what I thought was the browser, pasted and hit enter. Oops, wrong window...

I've had people paste their passwords to me a couple of times over the years too.
https://www.araneus.fi/audsl/

https://github.com/romanz/amodem

http://aaronscher.com/GNU_Radio_Companion_Collection/Audio_M...

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...

negotiation protocol: https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-V.8b...

http://goughlui.com/2017/05/30/project-the-large-collection-...

edit: you and me both :) I,v been semi obsessed with writing my own soft modem ever since I saw Oonas sound of dialup writeup.
According to the NUKEMAP, the survival rate at 10 miles of a 1 megaton bomb should be pretty good:

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

That gives 2.5km as the lethal radius for radiation, 3km as the 100% lethal radius for blast, 7km as the radius for "injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread" and 12.6km as the radius for 3rd degree burns from thermal radiation. At 16 km you'd still get badly burned if you were exposed to the flash and you could get killed by a collapsing building if you weren in something sturdy, but you'd have a decent chance of surviving.

On another note, did you account for the fact that it's only a half sphere since the bomb explodes near the ground? I might have just missed it.

(Incidentally, this is why they used to teach "duck and cover." At this sort of distance, your chances of surviving are much better if you're on the ground and under something sturdy when the shockwave hits. I never understood why "duck and cover" ended up with such a bad reputation.)
What do you think your bank will do if somebody gets your password and moves funds out of your checking account?
Whites is brand that has been around since the 1950's

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If my code sucks, I have exactly the same experience fixing it that a black woman would have, because the arbiter of correctness is a computer without any opinions about the author. Diversity in skill comes from having worked in different kinds of software and languages and frameworks, not going out and collecting fifty shades of node hipster.
I've been trying to figure out which music metadata database is worth my time "improving", since there are three that are commonly used. MusicBrainz, Discogs and Rate Your Music. I use Discogs currently because you can expect high quality metadata, and I use that data in a Foobar2000 plugin to tag my music correctly.

It's the constant questioning I do for Wiki sites, since there are multiple for most subjects. Am I alone in this struggle? I wouldn't mind being talked out of using Discogs for the sake of creating / managing metadata that will be the most useful.
> McDonald's or bigger places wouldn't hire less people, if they could get away with lower staff levels they already would have lowered them.

To zeroth order, that seems reasonable. But the added expenses might shift the cost-benefit analysis enough to add motivation to explore automation or other changes to reduce the workforce. The necessary R&D or capital costs might have not been attractive with lower wages, but could become attractive with higher wages.
Completely off topic, but Belgrade looks beautiful. Can you recommend any non touristy places to see while visiting?
I think it's better to cite and learn from people who actually have to deal with problems on the ground instead of those who have the luxury of earning money and fame by uttering platitudes complaining and pontificating about them.
Didn't expect to find such a gem here - a really good talk! I feel like he hits a lot of points of the current problems and he literally goes into why things such as what the ElectronConf just did is wrong (not specifically ElectronConf of course, but speakers and conferences).

Thanks! :)
I know a few people with Teslas. One got a fist-sized dent in the back door and it cost $6000. Another got into a fender bender and it cost $30,000 to fix. Im surprised insurance isn't higher already.
>>>Don't dismiss off-hand ideas. If you like, it's all Steve Jobs ever contributed.

That's the most offhand description of what Steve Jobs contributed that I've heard. Let's not minimize the contributions of people when we have no idea what went into making them successful.
We use coax, fiber, and twisted pairs to transmit signals for a reason -- the signal stays inside the cable(mostly) and other signals(interference) is kept out of the cable.

The line voltage is not the limiting factor. To get gigabit speeds your need to transmit at RF frequencies, and that hundreds of miles-long power cable is one giant antenna that will interfere with other users of the spectrum.

The power levels used in home powerline network gear are tiny, and the sources of interference much smaller. And even they have power and interference restrictions from the FCC to protect other users of the spectrum.
Yes, because of the unusual materials etc. Regular shop wouldn't have been able to do if they wanted to (and Tesla is picky about verifying shops). To be clear it was easy to find a certified shop, and the entire experience felt well cared for by Tesla as is their rep. But it was a ton of cost (to him) for what amounted to a fender bender.