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Disingenuous.. do you always compare the united states with developing economies for everything ? They are all less than 100 years old as independent countries . with europe or other mature democracies would be better context for normal surely?

Even these countries do not have 25 % world 's incarcerated population.. US legal system has a problem whether you admit it or not
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What did they change?
One subtle question: how much of that is GDP change is growth, and how much is risk redistribution?

Obviously communication efficiency has real advantages. Some of what has been gained is lasting improvement. But humans have a nasty tendency to enforce order on chaotic systems and mistake legibility for growth. Everywhere from forest fires to housing prices, we create systems that delay, but concentrate, risk. Annual brushfires are extinguished, leading to decadal infernos. Credit default swaps enable high default lending at low risk, right up until they don't.

I'm darkly suspicious that many of the gains from communications technology, particularly in stock trading, fall into this category. They've allowed us to push concentrate and defer everyday risks, getting us growth over most time windows when the reality is that we've redistributed risk.
> Resources are thin. EFF should be focusing on more important pursuits.

I doubt the EFF spent more than a day or two of a lawyer's time on this case, and they got some good publicity out of it too. It's not like they splashed out millions of dollars.
> Why does women organising together create such hostile excitement?

I believe the primary reason is that creating similar exclusionary venues for men is considered ethically and legally beyond the pale. It's the kind of thing that tickles the "equality" bone for MRA types.
There isn't one.

It doesn't work for homeowners to have too many people living in their vicinity.

It doesn't work for the "extra" people to leave.

The policy question will go nowhere until we acknowledge that no matter what, some or all groups are giving up some or all of what they want.
> The only difference is, with the exception of Taipei, there is no political history to point to and scapegoat.

Sure there is. Politicians allowed foreigners to buy residency/citizenship in Canada to a greater degree than possible elsewhere.

There are plenty of political levers to pull that can adjust housing costs. Government has a major role in determining property prices. They set the tax rates and issue permits.

Edit: Why don't you try responding to my argument rather than calling me names?
Those kind of buildings are all around the country and serve various purposes - some of which specifically manage 911 calls. I can't imagine ever decommissioning one. Sometimes even gaining access takes something just shy of an act of god. While AT&T has re-consolidated in a major way, there are still a lot of external concerns to deal with.

Somebody would have to be very motivated to push through turning an interconnection point like that off. The politics involved in doing so would be extraordinary - even if there was common agreement from the start that it was time to let it go. I don't even know that you really could initiate a project like that from within a Telco.

It is a bit surprising that it was common knowledge that part of 911 ran out of there. While it's not "secret" information, the purpose and location of most similar properties are typically not openly advertised. Most people don't even know where their local CO actually is.
TDD supports the paradigm of Software Engineering as an Engineering field. Design, plan, build, test.

Chartered Engineers have qualifications for their skills to do this - whether it's building bridges, designing circuits, or making cars.

Most programming is not Engineering. It's scripting. Hacking together a quick solution to meet the user's immediate needs.

Huge businesses (including the company I work for) have some really weak points in their production flow. They're planning factory operations using some shoddy macros in Microsoft Excel thrown together by some businessperson with no programming experience. Management won't change it, because "it works".

Other fields of Engineering (civil, electronic, mechanical) have serious life-threatening consequences if they fail. Software rarely has that risk. (Insert comment about healthcare systems and WannaCry here).

For times when software carries serious risk, then TDD is still important! The rest of the time, it's a burden.
Note that you can use Octopus for way more than just transit. You can buy groceries or stuff at 7-11 with that, so you can easily use it all.

9 usd will go quickly here.
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You don't have to intrude new syntax to create an embedded DSL, that's the whole point of an embedded DSL, it uses the languages existing syntax. Smalltalk and Lisp are full of DSL's, as is Ruby, of the three only Lisp has the ability for syntactic abstraction, every Smalltalk DSL uses native syntax. See Seaside's DSL for html generation or Glorp's for database mappings.
Right. The idea is that by having your database, message queue, and application all share the same transactional context, "reprocessing" the message twice doesn't matter, because the effects are only ever committed exactly once.

It's true that this doesn't work if your processing touches external systems or otherwise escapes the transaction context, but in those cases you do still get at-least-once delivery (or at-most-once, if you choose to commit the receipt before processing the message).

It really is a powerful technology and when leveraged can absolutely reduce the level of effort and cognitive burden to building correct asynchronous systems.
I think he's talking in terms of unrealized revenue, not cost of production.
That combined with skipping the return fee would set up some interesting dynamics (if you’re at month 10, are you going to ride out the rental to own it or do you pay to get it out). Can’t decide if that feels user hostile or not though :-).
An app has been launched in Paris which warns people if they are in a No-Go Zone
Poll: Did you know about this feature?
I was reading through the FAQ and saw a link to this, this is just as much about seeing knowledge of the feature as it is a test of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
I've used it before.
First time hearing about it but I plan to use it more.
Evident.io. We're using it to monitor hundreds of AWS accounts in our org.
In their original letter, Zillow's first demand was that Kate Wagner confirm that she has "stopped, and will not in the future, access or otherwise use the Zillow Site or Images," which she has now done.

Even in the worst case scenario, the internet was going to keep Wagner's original celebrated body of work available.

I dislike the idea that Zillow's legal goons can now guarantee Zillow's sellers that their photos won't be subject to mockery by McMansion Hell.
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Data from Fitbit can help you see patterns which otherwise you won't notice.
I used to stay near a Railway Station, and my sleep used to get disturbed every 30 mins. I did not realize this until I saw the data from Sleep tracking. I was getting less than 50 mins of deep sleep and I could easily see that the deep sleep was disturbed at exactly the train timings daily.
With this knowledge, I moved to a new place with less disturbance during night. Now my Deep Sleep is increased by 50% after this move.
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Which I've always found hilarious since most forms of income make use of tax-paid services.
I didn't realize GitHub had added a topic tags feature to repos. I hope it ends up being useful!
This is funny, because as a consultant, I think to myself "TDD really doesn't work for me, because I've got so many 3rd-party dependencies that I have to mock out in my tests (which often makes unit tests seem more like a test of your mocks than of your actual application); TDD must really be best for researchy things where they don't have to deal with those problems".
>And, in my observations, similar toxic conversations and people acting in bad faith are downvoted on reddit.

I suppose I disagree with you there, as someone who hasn't used this website super much (about a year maybe?)and has been using reddit for about 5 years, HN seems much better to me in providing a longer, more concerted discussion. I didn't realise it was a meme though.

But that's just a personal opinion.
So the predictable checkups are predictably priced, and the unpredictable treatments are unpredictably priced.
They're not forcefully giving you UBI. They're investing.

No consumers no business no rich people. Economy comes crashing down.

Just like Ford increased people's wages and lowered work hours so they had time and money to buy Ford cars ;)
This is the kind of argumentative writing I used to show my students when they wrote essays. It doesn't argue against a strawman, but instead demonstrates that even the most charitable interpretation of the opponent's argument won't stand up to scrutiny, even if some of the opponent's more contentious premises are assumed to be true.

For example:

Zillow's terms of use are unenforceable because they are browsewrap agreements, but even if Wagner had agreed to the terms of use, they would still be unenforceable because they contain unconscionable clauses in several different places.

Zillow doesn't hold a copyright to the photos, but even if they did, Wagner would be protected by a fair use defense.

I have no idea how a judge would rule in this case, but this is definitely good persuasive writing.
Super disappointing. I knew it was coming when they tore out Dropbox and iCloud support.

I paid for the new version to support them, didn't get any new features. Now merely 1.5 years after purchase, the only new feature I can recall is E2E encryption. And this only really brings it closer to parity with the old one, since we could spread who held our data with Dropbox/Apple. On top of that, the newer version is slower to load, and lags considerably when scrolling. A journal app that's supposedly "lifetime" running into issues handling 2 years of data is horrid. I still use the old one because it's faster and iCloud/Dropbox support.

Too many companies latch onto the one product that made them successful and don't try to reiterate/improve. I think DayOne was an awesome product at its time, but something else needs to come out. Forcing everyone to a subscription in order to sustain the company means they need to innovate more, not charge more. Best of luck to them, but I really wish they'd use their brains to come up with more products for me to buy instead.
I have a Garmin 935 and had a 235 before it and for me the sleep tracking seems to be quite accurate. I can't vouch for the deep/light sleep, but the time of sleep/wake is almost always correct.

The 935 also has "Move IQ" events where it auto-detects certain patterns. It captures when I walk my dog, and even captured some laps I did in the pool the other day. The optical heart rate tracking also looks pretty good.
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Ya, but if a share of stock was going to go up $1 before a reverse 50:1 split it would go up $50 after the split.

Splits are financially meaningless. They're just done to keep the per share price in the range of what people consider "normal."
> can fund operations with revenues

I trust you mean currently existing ops, if frozen as is. Lots of companies go public while still taking on debt because their ROI in expanding operations is significantly higher than the interest rates. Amazon wasn't profitable for years because of this.
> Hong Kongers don't care about the ideological differences between mainland China and HK

You're ignoring the umbrella movement protests, which spanned months, demanding true democracy. Many in HK also are not happy with China's ideological injections into their educational curriculum.

edit: Not sure what you wish to achieve by naming me a "troll". Feel free to critique my argument, but namecalling is against HN rules,

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So you intentionally have your monitor set uncomfortably bright, but it's everyone else's fault? And the solution is for everyone else to spend money to make your site look better? How about no.
Because when companies dilute stock they typically execute it so that investors don't lose any money. Their percentage stake in the company goes down, but since the company is raising money at a higher valuation it balances out.

This trick doesn't work when dilution results from someone calling options but that's pretty standard and usually doesn't have much impact.
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That quote is misleading because it implies that the cost of care is static, that it's not also heavily influenced by spending choices made by the hospital that don't affect patient outcomes. Or heavily influenced by the consequences of the broken healthcare system, like the overuse of emergency rooms by people who can't afford to see a doctor.

Hospitals could easily afford to provide care at Medicare/Medicaid rates — if they're willing to have less impressive lobbies, marketing materials, corporate facilities and shareholder profits. Citation: all other first world countries.
It's relatively straight forward to build RC cars through hobby components, i'm not sure about a 3x3x3 car kit though - I think most kits target a different size. You can probably use the same sortof stuff to build such a thing though.

Look at hobby king for cheap bits...

There's also several published self driving RC car projects including code but right now my google is failing me, theres a couple hobby ones using rpi and such and one from a university I wish I could find.
Yeah, I'm thinking maybe I went a little overboard with that. :-)
She would have definitely had to do that, and probably she would have had enough monetary damages levied to bankrupt her. It's not reasonable to fault EFF for pursuing her best interests.
David Brin's Existence. I could list a lot of others, but that is the one I'd list at top by a wide margin.
found it, from georgia tech

- http://autorally.github.io/
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSt0P1uqi4zU5RX2DZC_Qvg/vid...
- https://github.com/AutoRally/autorally
I live in Washington, DC. The tiny bandwidth of acceptable opinion here would be hilarious if these people weren't running the country. When I go to parties and meet people with powerful jobs, it's appalling how poorly thought out their analyses of many situations are. Being here for the last 2 years has given me a lot of insight into how and why America is being run into the ground.
> Car and homeowner's insurance only works /because/ insurers have imperfect data

No, this is wrong. Common misunderstanding about the value of insurance. Even with perfect data, where your cash EV from buying into the insurance pool is guaranteed slightly negative, it's still (usually) a positive utility EV. Losing $100,000 is, for most people, much more than 100 times worse than paying $1,000. So if your $100k house has exactly a 1% chance of burning down, you're happy to pay $1000+ for fire insurance.

Ah, of course, forcing young people, typically with less money, to subsidize older people, typically with more money, is very charitable to you. Are you incapable of telling the difference between "fuck other people" and "don't steal"?

People should pay in according to their expected costs. Anything else amounts to intentionally transferring money from healthy people to unhealthy people. It's true that healthcare gets more expensive as you get older, so if you want to burn $5M keeping yourself alive another 5 years in the geriatric ward, you should be the one to bear that burden, not everyone else. Guaranteed external subsidies + rapidly diminishing returns = horrendously inneficient allocation of resources.

I agree, businesses and doctors shouldn't have to deal with insurance bullshit, so I'm not sure why your proposed solution is to keep the same irrational overregulated "insurance" scheme we have now, which inherently requires a bureaucracy to A) force insurance companies and their customers to comply with imposed pricing rules and B) attempt to prevent people from taking advantage of the obvious economic discrepancies caused by (A).
The immutable data structures example was revolting
This is the top-level comment that resonated most with the point I wanted to make.

TDD is good for training you to recognize untestable code. "Oh, yeah, that's a Law of Demeter thing... maybe we should just ask for the narrow object rather than the giant one that knows how to get the narrow one," etc.

Once you have that skill ingrained, it's reasonable to stray from strict TDD and simply remember to defend your code with adequate tests.
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ServiceBroker, at least, had the capability of (transactionally) sending messages between databases. So, if you drank the kool-aid (I did; it wasn't so bad), there needn't be "the centralized database". You can separate your databases and decompose your services, and indeed it's easier to do so correctly and with confidence because the technology eliminates a lot of hairy edge cases.
Your idea of shaming works only because you've had success bullying weaker opponents who back down, and appear to learn the "lesson" you're generously handing out.

Find an on par opponent and you'll get escalation of shaming, get your ass handed back to you with wit, or the person will just ignore you.

So I refuse that it's effective. It's perhaps been effective for you, self selective bias. You probably don't shame people you've sized up who won't respond to shaming the way you want.
I'm really surprised to read an article like this that doesn't mention Rust. The reason is that I find it hard to believe that developers will want to move to unsafe languages like C/C++. Many of the other languages mentioned require runtimes, runtimes that will need to be built on top of webassembly.

Rust doesn't have any of these drawbacks, is runtime free, and can already target webassembly. Given that both of these technologies are young, webassembly even younger, there's no big argument for legacy code in this context, which means adopting something new would be fine, and good in this case because of the safety guarantees.

Anyway, a great intro in general, but for anyone looking at getting into this, I highly recommend checking out the Rust tutorials, like this one: https://medium.com/@ianjsikes/get-started-with-rust-webassem...
I have the Fitbit scale which works well for that.
Ah that would be a deal breaker for us as well (married w/ small child). Leftovers are essential to make the timing work, every bit we have to spend at the stove the kid needs to be kept busy somehow, so batching everything is the only way to stay sane.
> Who cares how much relative space the roads take up?

That's a variable that affects travel time (because even moreso less stuff within a given radius).
That's just the point. Every mobile platform that come out has tried to tell the "you don't need native apps you can build web apps story" at some point besides Android.

Instead of web apps, Google stuck the world with a sub optimal Java implementation that they spent years trying to optimize.
If you're talking about the pre-existing condition of broken leg, I agree with you. You should not be able to sign up for insurance after breaking your leg and get all the relevant care paid for.

If you're talking about the pre-existing condition of fat and family history of heart disease, then I disagree.
There's one cool thing about insurance providers, whether private or public:

They are the ones most aligned with YOUR well being.

They pay when something happens.

They get more money if things stay good or get better.

In fact, I would argue that public option / single payer insurance is MORE interested because of lack of competition (induced supply, as it were) that will destroy the profits if costs are driven down.

In other words, a public insurance program actively would try to improve public health, not to beat competitors but to lower its costs and reinvest that into MORE public health innovation.

Want to help the world? Make startups that improve public health (diet apps, exercise apps, whatever with measurable results) and have the insurance companies fund it.
I'm thinking more in terms of availability, cost, volume and portability. I might be wrong but wouldn't a oil tanker full of diesel fuel contain a great deal more potential energy than the same volume of the best battery cell we can produce for this purpose?
Agreed! Tumblr certain has a more casual feeling in some of its circles, but every once in a while you find some great blogs that are taking advantage of tumblr's accessibility to put out nice content.
> I find them very useful in Scala, because they make for a way to do "config" that you can refactor safely under the normal rules of the language

If you see the choices as either DSL or external config file, then I can understand why DSLs are attractive.

But I found that Spray suffers because it tries to hard to be a DSL rather than just being Scala. When our team tried to do something that wasn't 100% obvious, or didn't fit with the documentation we ended up spending a lot of time trying to understand how the DSL worked under the covers so that we could work out what we needed to do, and then work out how to turn that back into the DSL.

It's been a while since I worked with it so (a) it might have changed, (b) I'm probably remembering details incorrectly, but I recall several conversations with team-mates who were just trying to do something simple like extracted a value from a request in a slightly non-standard way, where I would have to explain "no, this part is installing a spray directive, it runs at class initialisation, this is the part that runs at request time". Once you understand how spray is implemented, you can work those bits out, but the DSL doesn't make it clear at all, and if getting something to work requires that you understand the spray design, and you need to know Scala, then the DSL is just one more thing to learn, when a idiomatic standard scala API would be clearer all round.

My experience was that Spray (and Slick) fell right into the trap of: you need to know how the tool implemented to be productive in it, but once you know that the DSL is no longer adding enough value to justify its awkwardness.
Very interesting point, I do recall in 2005-2007 most friends not using any names for Bebo/Myspace
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This is not a first amendment case at all. Freedom of expression has nothing to do with the privilege to use images posted on a website.