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Paul Ryan, the primary author of the House healthcare bill, gives out an Ayn Rand book to all of his interns [0].

Fountainhead and especially Atlas Shrugged are engaging works of science fiction. I recommend everyone read at least one. And then keep in mind this quote [1]:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

[0] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/7-ways-paul-rya...
[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/366635-there-are-two-novels-...
In the short term, this could benefit the truckers. Rates may go up as each of the larger customers raises rates to attract them.

In the long term, truckers are best served by having competition in the marketplace. If there is only one big customer on the market then they have little chance of getting fair rates.
Description of fusion in Haskell, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38905369/what-is-fusion-...
I'm using http://lambda-the-ultimate.org for this purpose for quite some while. They are lambda's, so I'm confident they won't jump onto the secure by default bandwagon when it's completely unneeded.
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I can't wait to try this out. Sounds very interesting.
> they locked down the workstations so it wouldn't happen again.

Is this the corporate equivalent of stepping on a rake?
If this is true (keeping in mind the source is an analyst who is relating conversation between other parties for which they were not involved), it might not necessarily be a negative for the freight market. If the contractors become territorial about which freight companies they will hire it will effectively reduce the supply available for both (once a freight company commits to one or the other) meaning Walmart/Amazon will each have to pay more essentially for "exclusivity".
If I were developing a new game from scratch today then Java would be a contender. Look at the success of LWJGL for instance -- it's what powered Minecraft up until the Microsoft acquisition.

Other than playing around with that, I don't think I've done anything substantial with Java-based UIs running client-side since 2003 :/
The accumulator is pipelineable. For most graphics and ml applications you probably don't need the exact dot product. You probably do want it for scientific applications... There is a trade-off in performance, as always, an appeal to calculation speed though falls to the retort of, sure, you can calculate wrong answers with higher throughput if you wished.
I believe it's the changing culture that causes these problems in general. The rules and the culture are changing, and the pace at which different people adopt the changes and adapt to the new society is different. Unfortunately it doesn't happen in an instant, and culture gaps between people cause this sort of awkward situations where communications fail. Many traditions and social situations need adapting, like meeting new people, dating, workplace, family, friendship, all the stuff that involves genders, and it'll only happen in time.it's not that far back in time that women had to fight for suffrage.
The comments on the original story are fascinating. Hundreds of truckers sharing personal stories. Their spelling is dodgy but many bring detailed personal data. From my read, it sounds as if Amazon has two business issues to fix (staggered scheduling and last-minute cancellations). Walmart seems to have infuriated truckers for more reasons than I can count. Not sure Walmart is going to like the outcome of this war.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4nd8q4/pro...
> I know how to use the tools that I use.

Interesting. I use too many different tools too rarely to remember all their options, so being able to type -, hit tab and see a list of possibilities with their descriptions is simply more frictionless than having to pull up the command's man page and search through it. The cases where the suggestions don't work don't bother me, because it just means I don't save time compared to no completions at all.
Hard to make the case that walmart is a monopoly. For what its worth amazon has pulled similar stunts like not selling the chromecast.
In the long run, there are no truckers.
Where did you read this quote?
Thanks :D!
Common Lisp supports stopping execution of a function in the middle, redefining the function, changing the values of all accessible dynamic and lexical variables, adding new variable definitions, redefining the types of the values, and then resuming execution from the start of the redefined function, or from any other accessible control point.

It also supports writing condition handlers that can do all of the above under program control, rather than under human control. In other languages you would say "exception handlers", but Common Lisp conditions include representations of situations and responses that exceptions typically don't.

These facilities, along with things like a debugger, a tracer, support for built-in documentation, a compiler, and a disassembler, are part of the language standard, not the development environment.

Common Lisp is a language designed from the ground up for writing programs by interacting with them as they run. There aren't very many other languages like that. Smalltalk is one of them.
This is a misguided, myopic decision done out of sheer desperation. It's a symptom, not the disease.
fuck Walmart. You don't hear anything about Amazon workers being on public assistance because they are payed enough and get enough hours to survive on their own. Around the holidays Walmart takes food and toy donations for their workers inside their break rooms. It's a bad company and I hope it gets killed off.
I can see the argument* to say "we can't invest the work to support chromecast". Whereas it's harder to say "we won't talk to these other truckers who work with our competitor".

*A argument, not one that would hold in court. IANAL.

EDIT: It seems I misunderstood Amazon's lack of Chromecast support. I hadn't thought of trying to buy Chromecast through Amazon before. I own three of them and bought all through the Google store.
Because it's cool! It's interesting to see how they're improving emulation, and often they come up with interesting ways to do so.
Hate to break it to you, but Amazon does not treat their warehouse staff much better.
Charlie Hit on me (2009)
It's not desperation, it's using your leverage to your advantage. Isn't that the smart business decision? How is that any different then Amazon, Uber, or anyone else deciding to raise prices once they're the dominant participant in their respective marketplace?

"Competition is for losers." - Peter Thiel
As the OP pointed out, one of the big differences is that Bill Gates never said "go out with me or I'll fire you", whereas McClure clearly indicated he was choosing between hiring and hitting on.

Who knows exactly what it was like for Bill ans Melinda. It isn't difficult to pick up on social cues of someone illustrating a mutual interest in you before you outwardly hit on them. It's also not difficult to respectfully ask them if they would like to get a drink, in a personal context. There's no evidence McClure did either.
This update is quite low on technical details, but usually their updates, https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/06/03/dolphin-progress-rep..., go into a lot of depth about CPU + GPU emulation which is an area which most of HN finds novel and interesting.
There are a couple of things that I would like to add to your excellent comment.

* the feeling of lack of control over finances is lead by the higher level of crimes in poorer neighborhoods. So, if you constantly live under the fear of being mugged, or your car or house risks being broken into... these are things that could drive any person crazy.

* unable to afford or live a healthy lifestyle (healthy foods, exercise etc.) the poor also suffer from worse health problems, which exacerbates their problems.

If you've ever been mugged or had your car broken into, you will understand the feeling of helpless rage and loss of control... I just can't imagine living in a neighborhood where such things are commonplace.
> sex worker

What's wrong with a word 'prostitute'?
The stories of the hoops that suppliers have to go through in Bentonville are legendary.
Is the analog law, for analog world had beenmatured or satured? We seem to move on one level up for a so called analog law, for a digital world and/or an analog world, else what? Hope to see how this will progress between US and Europe.
There are also probably lots of startups that would create a complete mess of it. Picking / evaluating vendors is hard and super risky for the average manager. While I personally would seek out more nimble vendors, I certainly understand the attraction to established shops.
>>The only play it has left is to bully partners

That is the only play it has ever had... It has bullied its suppliers since almost day 1, Certainly since Sam Walton died...

This is just an expansion of the bully tactics to other areas of the business beyond the Buyers, but it is not a new tactic. They used this tactic to great success to kill off a lot of competition in the Brick/Mortor Retail space.
I'd be a lot more inclined to believe that if the blog post weren't a bunch of "I am sorry for unwittingly participating in reinforcing systems of oppression" / "I am sorry for not calling out colleagues" / etc.

He knew exactly what the NYT article was going to say: they contacted him to see if he wanted to dispute it. If he were being genuine, he could have said "I did this thing, I apologize to the specific person I hurt". I'm absolutely giving him room to be genuine, he's just staying well out of that room.

... and, apparently, he's now updated the blog post disputing the NYT's account: https://medium.com/@sacca/i-have-more-work-to-do-c775c5d56ca... This is so bizarre.
Because they post monthly updates that are detailed, well-written, and highly informative. The kinds of problems they solve are technically interesting, and the update posts are a model that many more software projects should emulate (pun mostly intended).
The work to support it? They just refused to list it on their marketplace/products
Dynamic language does not make you more agile, it makes changes more risky and refactoring harder.

However, large part is that for frontend, static languages are just getting there. You need not just language, but also libraries, tutorials, tooling, IDE and so on and so forth.

Typescript nor flow does not absolve you from the need to learn javascript and web in general. If you are working on your first bigger project and still learning good techniques, architecture and concepts, css, having to also learn typescript or flow syntax on top of it off-puts people.
I've been hearing about the lack of diversity my whole career and I'm sick of it.

Women aren't being kept out. They keep themselves out. There is a social stigma in the United States against going into technical fields in the first place amongst women.

India, for example, has no stigma of women working in tech. It is no coincidence that the vast majority of woman I have worked with have all been from other countries. They earn good salaries and are strong contributors on the teams I've been on.

There were exactly 2 females in my Computer Science program in college. Eventually there was just one who graduated with us.

No amount of blog posts or news articles about diversity at companies will fix that. The problem is WAY earlier than that. You aren't going to be able to magically find a plethora of adult female engineers if they simply aren't enrolling in the programs in the first place.
They banned even third party sellers from selling chromecast. You can sell basically whatever you want on their site, except for chromecast and apple tv.

There are exceptions to "sell anything", but chromecast and apple tv are the only business exceptions, not based on safety/legallity/ authenticity etc.
I don't think this is about supporting chromecast for Amazon Video, it's about actually selling the google chromecast itself on amazon.com.

I don't think there is any argument that passes the sniff test for them not to be able to sell a physical device like chromecast from amazon.com. The level of incremental work is basically zero to add an item into the store.
"Taste some Freedom™!"
Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java
Clarified by Enfish.

Enfish v Microsoft

> The Supreme Court has suggested that claims “purport[ing]
to improve the functioning of the computer itself,” or “improv[ing] an existing technological process”
might not succumb to the abstract idea exception.

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...
Amazon has plenty of their own issues.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-deat...

http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...
They aren't insecure, they are their predatory self. It's just that we normally don't hear about their underhanded tactics because it mostly directly affects blue collar workers and retail.
You're confused. Amazon didn't just refuse to integrate with Chromecast, for their Prime videos or whatever. They refuse to carry Google's product in their inventory, period. You can't buy a Chromecast on Amazon.

That IS pretty much directly comparable.
I don't see any sign that "complete social ostracism" is the actual outcome here, or even a plausible outcome.
USPS is barred by law from signing an exclusive contract like this, to Walmart would just have to refuse to use them.

UPS and Fedex, I highly doubt either would agree to it, but it is not impossible to see one of them go with Walmart and One go with Amazon but highly unlikely
I think it was less that Amazon wouldn't provide support for Chromecast with their services and more that they refused to stock and sell Chromecast devices at all.

I suppose the difference between this and Walmart's move is that we are not entitled to buy the things we want from every shop, whereas these drivers are probably entitled to employment without discrimination in regards to other customers they provide services to?
Small amounts of escolar is fine for most people, so if you're eating it in sushi rolls along with other types of fish you're unlikely to eat enough of it to run into trouble.
> It's shadow IT/Dev work like this which tends to be responsible for the most security incidents.

Most security incidents? Sounds unsubstantiated.
A monopoly is not some magic necessary condition for illegal anti-competitive practices. The most obvious example is price fixing.
Now browsers support most of ES6, so you only need build step for deployments, and can have fast reloads without a build step when developing.
I can't tell if this comment is sarcasm.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-ac...

http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-deat...
Amazon is as awful to their employees as any other retailer, and worse than many.

There are pretty much only two only MAJOR retailers with good labor reputations. One is Costco, and that's only because they can run their business with a fraction of the employee-to-square-footage ratio that most retailers need. The other is Whole Foods... which has been getting worse for years, and will probably accelerate down that path now that they're owned by Amazon.

It's a race to the bottom. There are no good guys.
You surely could find a definition which isn't intermixed with propaganda.
Criminal online harassment guilty verdict clears up murky law
This is not audiophile stuff, this is audio engineering stuff, that you would find on AES papers for example.
Maybe in this case, with n=1, but we'd need a better sampling of impoverished departmental heads to support your thesis.
Ensuring that SPA application is correctly indexed by the search engines
Show HN: Hydrate [Beta] – A water intake app for iOS
IPFS works but its not really fine - trying to use it on a small scale (home internet connections) has proven completely impossible for me. It reliably saturates my upload despite not actually serving any content - the DHT connection overhead in every mode is just too high.

This would be fine, but the whole point is decentralized internet - if I can't have a node running at home, or more specifically a node running on pretty much every device I have, its not practical.
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There's a story by Feynman where he automates some simple thing on his first job. It was some kind of telephone system, and he attached strings to the lines so he could see where the call was coming from in another room. And he got in trouble for it because his boss didn't understand it or appreciate it. The moral of the story was that people don't generally like innovation or change. Especially if it's just your time being saved and not theirs. If you can get away with it, don't tell your employer.
This is the best book that I have read. I have gifted many copies. There are 22 chapters, each authored by a professional speaker.

I will paraphrase what one of the professional speakers says in his chapter - the goal is to not get standing ovations and speak to your audience but to speak with your audience.

https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Secrets-Masters-Techniques-P...

The Toastmasters WCPS (World Championships of Public Speaking)

One example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26CcifgEq4

In case you don't already know the secret of public speaking or storytelling or connecting with people, the secret is vulnerability.

> It takes relationships to make relationships. And, in general, to make relationships, you have to allow vulnerability. Vulnerability is the difference between a conversation that starts, "How about this weather we're having?" and a conversation that starts, "Oh my God, let me tell you about how I just fell in a puddle in front of a group of nuns." The former is so boring that it makes listeners want to crawl under a table; the latter creates a spark and a list of follow-up questions. These are two extreme examples, but generally, the more of yourself you put out there, the more others will have to connect with.

http://www.nerve.com/advice/miss-information/miss-informatio...
The Dolphin progress reports have become an institution because they (usually) contain interesting technical background info about the implementation of new emulator features, why one solution was chosen over another, and what problems had to be solved (and remain to be solved). Between the lines there's more useful software development advice then what most tech blogs provide.
This is simply not true. What you seem to be suggesting is that we leave the healthcare market completely open to market forces. This would be a disaster of epic proportions because, realistically, not everyone can afford their own healthcare costs.

This is why we have health insurance, and regulations exist to protect citizens against predatory practices. Some of these regulations are misguided, and others are a result of lobbying by special interests. Most of them are OK.
If we had the tech to design knives that would refuse to stab people, I would support that.
A lot of that stuff is just virtue signalling. You don't actually have to believe in any of it to become its champion. That's what's wrong with a lot of stuff in the world, there are lots of champions of stuff that don't really practice what they preach, it's an easy way to claim leadership.
Both may be reaching scales which strain the limits of the shipping industry. To retain needed capacity, each has to elbow the other out of the way, while they ramp up alternatives.
It's not a quote, it's a possible response.
Pub smoking ban: 10 charts that show the impact in England
How to deal with students that don't like CS?
What if your network has a glitch when you try to write to RabbitMQ after you receive NOTIFY? You will lose that message, correct?
Oh boy. Speaking for my own feelings as a white man, there is truth in what you say.

I own a small IT company - and every time I interview someone from a protected class, I think to myself: "Is this the person that is going to sue me and my family and put us out of business?"

I've been able to ignore that voice in my head, and plow forward and hire great candidates who are all over the human spectrum and our little company is all the better for it.

But I'd be lying if I don't think about it.
I've posted before about Walmart and I'll post here again. They routinely would pay us late and underpay invoices on delivered products. Sometimes racking up to $50-$100,000. The worst part for us is it would be an average of one year before they would pay it in full. You'd have to submit a claim and fill out endless paperwork to get paid. It was so hard on us as a company. You also had to pay them a per package fee that added up to a lot per year. No other company was doing this.

With Walmart trucking things were worse. If we delivered a product and it arrived not well, you had limited options on checking the reasons why. Several times we wanted to pull the temp recorder and just by doing that Walmart charged us around $1000 if we lost. On several occasions our own temp recorders were taken off of our product and were lost when we challenged their rejection of product, and in this case we lost. Even though the product shipped pristine. When our temp recorders were found on the product it showed that it did not ship under the terms of the agreement. In this case we won.

Again, to challenge this with Walmart I had to call or email more times then I could count. I always felt they purposely made it difficult.
But higher prices would also encourage Amazon to invest more in automating their fleet, at which point the market will collapse.
Can also add about filesystems.
Nice -- pg-amqp-bridge seems like a clever solution for coordinating the two. It still puts some amount of the queuing load on the DB, but I'd be comfortable with that trade-off if I really wanted to use rabbitmq as the primary queue.

Question though -- Does it guarantee at-least-once or at-most-once on the NOTIFY? (Like, if there is a network blip, will it retry the NOTIFY?) And if it is at-least-once, I assume that consumer apps will have to handle deduplication/idempotency.
The race to the bottom is the elimation of those jobs completely.

Today a store that used to have 5 cashiers needs 1 to monitor 5 self checkout stations.

Amazon and others are working on eliminating that final job...

They are also working on ways to fill the shelves with no human involvement, and robot shopping assistance that you can ask for help

we are probably less than 10 years away from the first retail store with no human employees, or at most 1 or 2 to monitor the robots
Heavily discussed 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945 (660 points, 506 comments)
A cigarette in the picture? of course, that's the worse thing you can ingest
'circuits search by what I have in my toolbox'
There are many "what meals can I make with x ingredients" recipe tools, I was curious if anyone knows of something similar for electronic components (i.e. if someone has some assorted components they can enter their values on a list and then see various circuits they can make).

Anyway I thought it would be cool if there was a tool like that, so if anyone knows of one I would appreciate a link.
The initial paper critical of the ligo work absolutely has everything to do with signal processing in the abstract, so the quote (which refers to the criticism) must, as well.