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I'm skeptical of purely financial measures of this. It would be nice if we could distinguish between purely financial "savings" versus real-world actions that might actually make things better in the future.

For example, there's such a thing as perishable resources. You can't "save up" labor; if people are unemployed now (and not doing something useful like going to school), that doesn't mean there will be more labor available in twenty years; it's just gone. Sunlight or wind power not used now is gone; it can't be saved for later. And even the things that can be saved often have storage or maintenance costs.

Finance makes it seem like you can save for your retirement or pass on wealth to your children, and that's true for individuals but only to a limited degree for society as a whole; the labor you use in twenty or forty years will come from younger people who are working then. Call it a ponzi scheme if you like, but this is the only way it can work.

On the other hand, natural resources are the opposite; oil or natural gas can be left in the ground as long as you like, and it's cheaper to leave it where it is than to do anything else with it. There are also long-term investments in people (education in particular) that could pay off later with a better educated workforce. Instead of deferring infrastructure maintenance, we could do it before it's needed, possibly freeing up future labor to do something else. Scientific research done now can come up with new techniques that will always be useful.
Some have said this is copyright infringement. Gary claimed so as well. Keep in mind, AFAIK, he is not a lawyer. (Neither am I) but ask your own! There are fair use laws, and especially if you created a trans-formative work, this could be legal! Good luck.

I'm personally un-sympathetic to Gary's plight to keep his work super secret. This feeling started when I found out that he asks conference organizers to NOT share the recordings of talks he gives. I'm not sure how often this has happened, but it feels against the spirit of presenting against these events.

If I've gotten something wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me, but those are the facts as I see them today.
> .. you can write vastly more complicated programs that are, say, 80% as fast as hand-optimized C for only 10% of the effort of hand-optimized C.

Computer Language Benchmarks of GHC versus C don't seem to be close to matching your 80% as fast claim [1]. Also, the 10% of the effort of hand-optimized C bit - seem to recall there was a caveat - "if you happen to Don Stewart" [2].

The following is just my vague, uninformed impression, but Haskell and Go seem to be opposite ends of a spectrum, with Rust somewhere in between:

Haskell: good for expert individuals and small teams. The language is highly sophisticated and the compiler is rather slow. At heart, it's a research language, so the direction might not always suit production use. If you contract out to a Haskell development shop, who do you turn to with your Haskell code-base if things don't work out?

Go: designed by Google for their use-case - large teams of commodity programmers. It's very quick to onboard programmers - they can be productive and non-dangerous quickly. The language is very simple and the compiler is very quick - which is again good for scaling large teams.

[1] https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la...

[2] https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/write-haskell-as-fa...
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Aggressive feminists are overrepresented because it takes a special kind of woman to even want to compete in aggression and sometimes sociopathy with male CEOs...
> Easier: default on the debt made by previous generations.

Previous generations didn't leave us with much debt. Half of the debt is from post-2007. 85% or so came after 1990.

Previous generations were actually good stewards compared to today.
Welders helmets are _not_ effective enough to make viewing the sun safe. Don't do that.
Is it any wonder this is happening when the central organising feature of our political, economic and personal lives is a huge ponzi scheme? This reality has destroyed the possibility of changing a system to benefit all. This ponzi scheme is the housing market: since the late 90s this has ceased to be a true market, and instead became a pyramid scheme in which value growth and price is based on the expectation that money will be sucked in from new investors, not derived from the utility of house-ownership or expectation for yield. This is the very definition of ponzi - and it governs so much of our lives. Why are the young and the old so segregated in their voting? It's because they are either the beneficiaries of or the 'bigger suckers' in this state-sponsored fraud - and can be mobilised accordingly. Until the housing market is dealt with, it will be impossible for politicians to create policies which 'grow the pie', increasing wealth for all, rather than simply carving it up - governing by robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The only solution I can see if for the young to organise to boycott house purchase, but I am not yet sure how realistic this.
The difference with Rust is that you can apply a trait to an extant type you don't "own" - you can't do that in Java or C#: you would need to use the decorator-pattern (boilerplate ahoy!). C++'s checks are closer to duck-typing in practice.
barleyworth, I believe the email was written in a humorous way. If it was a serious email, with that sex point in it, then I agree it would have been weird, and wrong.

But the whole email right from the first word to the last was written in a jovial manner with plenty of jokes in it. So I dont feel it was that bad.

I can understand that Travis was trying to create a party atmosphere after all of them worked really hard to get to where they are. Imagine, if you and your colleagues worked day and night for years and then finally you reached a milestone -- you might want to celebrate and have some fun! I think Travis was just trying to setup the jovial atmosphere so that people do not just have a standard corporate event.
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There is talk and there is communication.

I am not aware of studies validating the quality of conversations between sexes. Which means someone should record what a random sample of CEOs say and reasonably classify it.
Moreover, CPython is a interpreter without JIT while GHC compiles to machine code. This is totally different. IMHO, it is much more correct to compare a JIT-enabled interpreter to GHC.
Managing engineers is a new career, that is separate from being an Engineer. Many engineering skills don't transfer to management, even when you think they do.

As a manager, one of the most important things you can do is schedule regular 1 on 1's with the people who report to you. Both "The Manager's Path"[1] and "Behind Closed Doors"[2] stresses this.

In about 4 months, it'll be helpful to review PG's essay, Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule[3]
Right now, you'll be coding most of your time, but you'll soon have more and more meetings. MSMS names the feeling of frustration around meetings, and describes how to handle so many meetings.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Closed-Doors-Management-Progra...

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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Huh - "lots of voices saying sell"?

All I ever heard was how those were the only thing of value they had (and berating them for selling half of them back whenever that was).
Seconded. The bitcoin to USD ratio is like 1 to 2700 right now

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD
No it says 334.0 GH/s (3.3e11). But they actually do 441.4 GH/s (4.4e11) according to this HN submission using the latest hashcat.

I can understand why you were doubtful if you were off by 33x.
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Agreed.
However, MyHDL (www.myhdl.org) allows for programming using Python, and works very well : I haven't written any VHDL (other than at top level) for years now.
It would be interesting to see how far they can take it using Go.
Well apple also hoard tons of cash somewhere.Is that any more beneficial for society?Value is imo to big degree subjective and always will be.But your comment was insightful.
Yet increasing the population will also lead to either war, or the destruction of the environment to the point where none can survive.
Not really -- I didn't downvote that comment. And I still dispute the notion that negativity is rare or always shunned on this board: to the contrary, it's so commonplace that an actual rule [0] had to be added to try to sway things in the other direction.

Jokes have their place, but bringing up the failure of Hurd in every GNU-related post is banal. And saying they "never really stepped up" to your level as a mighty kernel developer, as if the people who brought us glibc and coreutils lack an understanding of OS internals, just seems rude and curiously out of touch.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916
Yeah right. If only the standard library (the base package) could immediately be converted to use linear types and we can all benefit from that! (Hint: it won't. Even the fairly no-brainer AMP and BBP took an absurdly long time. This is extremely slow by Rust standards. The Haskell community might, but the stewards of the standard libraries don't have the move-fast-and-break-things attitude.)
It seems to be a particular phenomenon of the Go community that they want to reimplement everything in Go.
An example from Belgium. Imagine you're an employee and earning 38k€ a year including bonuses. Now you want to start a side activity as an independent contractor. You pay about 53.5% of taxes on this amount. On what is left after taxation, you pay 20.5% social contributions that you get literally nothing in return for. If you choose the cheapest "social contributions" provider. That means you get to keep about 36.96€ for every 100€ in pretax profit.

Don't you think this steers people in different directions?
What this really means is that IBM is discontinuing IOP & BigInsights.

Hortonworks will get all the IBM customers and offer BigSQL support.

No mention at all about the other value-adds (e.g. BigReplicate etc.) that were part of BigInsights. Do you have any idea about those?

Also what about Kafka support which will not be available in HDP 3 and going forward. Do current IBM customers need to license HDF in addition to HDP & BigSQL?
The wikipedia page might be a bit misleading - there's a 128-bit murmur3 that uses 32-bit math (works well on most every processor), and a 128-bit murmur3 that uses 64-bit math (much faster on 64-bit processors, much slower on 32-bit ones)

-Austin, Murmur author.
I didn't write it - so I do not know the logic behind using ASP.
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I assume they compare it to upper-tier high-tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Boston & Seattle - where a software developer can earn well into 6 figures (and double or more of what they'd earn in Germany).

But I suspect this is mostly limited to those and very few other cases (e.g. top tier doctors).
Can't this (or similar) be achieved on a run-time level so that binaries are reproducible?

Don't know much about the topic so apologies for any wildly stupid comment.
I am curious, can someone explain how is designed a 600 kw cable used to charge an electric car that have a 90kw battery in 9mn? (I am not interested in batteries technologies).

I am interested specifically in the cable technology and the apparitus from which the cable takes its power, and where does this energy comes from, is it from a direct connection to distribution sub-station?
Yes. That's one of the many reasons why we're at those levels of natality now and why that kind of hand waving problems to future generations is becoming a problem. I was not advocating for having 4+ children.
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The benchmarks game falls squarely under the umbrella of "short, simple programs", not the sort of real-world stuff where you would benefit from having a language that scales well. That said, Haskell performs pretty well in the toy benchmarks anyway.

Your comparison between Haskell and Go is about market size, not language design. I suspect you would have a similarly hard time finding Rust devs as Haskell devs (i.e. mildly less convenient than a popular language like Python or Go).
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Yes. Complex languages are not required to solve complex problems. This is why Go and JavaScript are so popular.
I would believe ramfs would be slower, as there will be additional system calls needed.
It really depends on where on the range of earnings you are. In Germany earning minimum wage nets you virtually the same amount of money as being chronically unemployed (when taking into account various benefits, like social housing and free transit for the unemployed).

And the benefits are regular and safe relative to a lot of badly paid work opportunities (especially they are not a regular full time job).

I don't think this makes as much sense as e.g. a programmer earning €50k/year vs €80k (especially if you're married with kids, which gives you huge tax deductions here).
Although clearly presented to push some buttons, it isn't completely wrong.

Am upvote hoping you don't get buried.
A potential problem with the force-disabling in 57 is that the only way to hand over configuration from a legacy addon to its successor WebExtension is to preemptively for the legacy addon to convert their configuration. If you only irregularly use your Firefox, the configuration conversion is not guaranteed to run, as you would have to open your Firefox to trigger that.
I agree with you in regard to Java and C#, not so much regarding C++, because GCC already supports concepts since version 6.0, with other compilers adding support for them as part of the validation work to have them finally on ANSI C++20 standard.

In any case, regardless of the fine grain details, all of them allow for to "specify the generic constraints explicitly.".
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Which trackpad do you use? It seems anything more than point and click is almost hopeless, though I did get gestures working on the built in MBPro trackpad in Linux Mint.
Now that's a little pessimistic.

Look at the graph:
http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/spending_chart_1950_2010UK...

Exactly what would make the next decade special compared to the last 5? If lack of growth is unusual then expecting it to return would seem rational.

Have faith brother!
> A promise from the government to pay you something in 30 years is inherently a promise to take the resources from your children, because there is nowhere else for it to come from.

I'm frankly surprised at the level of ignorance in these comments. Debt is not zero sum in every regard.

Debt in the service of investing in something that will provide a return is not bad debt. For example: Investing $1 into things like preschool programs returns benefit to society of $3-$7. [1] Programs like universal preschool access are no-brainers yet they meet intense resistance from austerity-pushers on both sides of the aisle.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/...
Slightly off topic but you can use most of the Python stack from MATLAB since version 2014b. The syntax is a little funny but it works well outside of ABI mismatches in shared libs.
Yup. Don't be scared of threads, just make sure to be diligent about using them properly. Learning decent basic multithreading techniques is something a lot of devs can pick up with some effort in a couple of weeks to months at most. It's like most things, don't dig yourself a hole and you won't have to dig yourself out of it.
I once found this wiki, complete with OCRs of multiple books on the subject, devoted to recovering from satanic rituals, brainwashing, mind control, programmed false identities, etc.

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Not sure what's more scary: that this may be really happening, that people may be capable of imagining and really believing it, that people may be not believing it but still writing about it.
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Rust and Kotlin destroy any previous claims about practical usages of Haskell.
Worst because it is neither proven as tokens which are used for decades already nor as convenient as simply whitelisted Origin and you even offer an extra dependency. Are those scenarios without Origin important? Like ff for form request - you can use xhr there and drop referer support entirely.
Having worked in IR in various capacities in the past, I'd like to point out that many intrusions are not shared publicly. There are definitely targeted intrusions that begin with XSS or CSRF, you just don't hear about them.

As for the majority of hacks being something else I full on agree. I think phishing for credentials and malware installs, and leaked credentials in recent years, makes up the majority of intrusions. Many of those are opportunistic though and not necessarily targeted
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Well, Whatsapp servers have always been Erlang-based (well before the acquisition by Facebook) but your point stands.
Not if they led us toward this
> We don't require people to know exactly where their car is, or to know where their bicycle is, or where their axes are (even though all of those could and are used to wound others).

Comeon that's a terrible false equivalence and I am sure you know it. I can possibly use just a blunt pencil to kill someone, but a gun makes it orders of magnitude easier (even if the intent was not to kill).

If false equivalence are acceptable, let me throw you another one. Why throw hissy fits about nations that have or are building nuclear arms capability. As a third party it is legit to feel unsafe unless you have skin in the game, unless you have demonstrated to some satisfaction that you can handle the capability responsibly. But NPTs are no way as nuanced as that, even hypothetical capability is enough to legitimize a hissy fit and worse: crippling sanctions.

I think its fair trade, if you are not willing to take liability of not being able to secure your gun, you don't get to keep it. If it gets stolen etc, its fine if you alert law enforcement within an actionable window. If something bad is done with your gun you have to convince a judge that you took all reasonable precautions.
If the seed is saved, you get reproducibly randomized builds.
My thought as well. Those things are everywhere like rats.
At least on Firefox you can remove the color emoji font from the installation and you're left with BW symbols.
Beyond that, I thought it was now well understood that rolling ones own security software is a terrible idea. Many eyeballs etc. Activists with the technical skills /should not/ roll their own, they should definitely contribute to existing projects.
Is the proportion of people being taken care of higher or lower than when the system came into being?

I get that a lot countries are aware of the issue, but moving a fixed age to another fixed age does what the article says: it kicks the can down the road.
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>> it was indeed just a php website.

How quickly can one build and how quickly can it scale ? - Speed is the name of the game - is it not this rule which holds true when building things on internet.

Or else, most of top internet apps are just going to be php,rails,node web-apps
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Have we stopped changing immigrants' names for no fucking reason? I knew some Malaysian students in the '90s who had incongruously whitebread American first names, but I'm not clear if it's something people choose to do to fit in. (Or maybe whitebread English names are common in Malaysia, for all I know.)
and what exactly do you think any database is at the end of the day? It's not magic, it all ends up on the disk as a file. I mean why is a page file called a FILE?
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Tech: Hacker News

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Politics, economics, foreign affairs: Project Syndicate, economist, priceonomics
Gee, who was in charge since the 1990s.
> What do you guys think about dropping 32-bit?

If they don't have any usage data, I think, they should provide old version and support it with critical security updates. If they have usage data, it depends, I guess.
I don't use Redux for my website @ https://www.land.plus/ all states are managed locally in the component's instance variable. In some cases a global variable is used within the component file if single page persistency is needed. For inter-components state, i use Javascript CustomEvent & addEventListener instead. Am i doing something wrong for not using Redux?
"What does this mean? That these staggeringly high numbers (if true) do not necessarily mean doom but "merely" that at some point people will find out that the pensions they have been promised won't be there when they reach retirement."

This is true. And since money, debt and energy are interlinked, it is very possible that there will be a cliff that we are approaching. Only two questions remain:

1. When?

2. How deep will we fall?

"There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level)"
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Just wondering, how much is this going to cost into the loss of electricity generation from the Solar plants across US.
> I remembered it being really hard to install and set up.

eh? Sqlite was the quickest thing I ever setup in my life. Just add a .dll and use some form of adapter written in your language and off you go.
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Sure, earning money is nice, but consider this: you are just throwing 30-50% of your income away. When increase of 100% means 200% more effort, because you're throwing away 50%, you really start considering if the effort's worth it.

Also, at least where I live, we have our benefits capped. So I pay taxes proportionally to my income, but god forbid I get sick, get in accident, lose my job or have a child and take a child rearing leave - even though I've been paying full taxes >10 years, i get instant income cut by 50%. And don't get me started about pension - currently it's set at 75 years for males - and average lifespan is about 70...

So, to sum up, while earning more money, sure, is nice, but throwing the money you've earned fair and square down the drain to support society which will simply not support you is disheartening to say the least.