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> It's possible that we focus on theory because it spreads economic orthodoxy faster than empirical work

Or for the same reasons we start physics in a frictionless, idealized environment.
If you look at it from the other perspective, you could argue that the EU's very left-leaning and sacrificial policies are being very effective in promoting such changes to Poland & Hungary. I personally wouldn't call it "authoritarian descent", though.
RT-AC88U with a 4tb HDD to it and stock firmware. Extremely happy with it.
> resume-driven development

To be fair, until companies are willing to pay a premium (1) for working on bad-for-resume projects, this is very rational behavior on the part of the technical team.

1) That is, job listings can't have merely "competitive" or "market rate" salary expectations.
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This seems like PR fluff...
But Spain is part of the leading regional power and in a military union with the current superpower, while England decided to leave and try on its own. Even from a "wanting-to-be-a-superpower"-perspective, Brexit is wrong.
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How about a more detailed CV with exact positions and company names and contact information and a track record? Free financial advice is always a scary proposition to me, maybe because I work in security and my job makes me cynical and a little paranoid...
Sadly, no. Or, not anywhere near that level of BS.

There are fields where the practitioners actively try to dis-prove themselves. Where they are aware of the limits of human psychology, and design experiments / analsyses to work around their own limitations. These fields are called "science".

There are other disciplines which don't do that, but who do fake it. See Noam Chomsky for a great explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-2_OD3oMc
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they were barebone Islamists and I suspect in Washington it's not much in fashion.

your comparison is wrong btw.
If it's anything else, I would say start by checking the Open Source Initiative Web site:
https://opensource.org/licenses
>"Of course they do. After all they are indoctrinated in its favor from an early age."

You could argue that for almost anything that we have in society (Religion and the State being the two most obvious ones). And yet, it intellectually doesn't phase people the slightest. "So what if we're taught that government is good and benevolent since a tender age". This is precisely because most of society does not function using first-principles. If they did, we'd be in a completely different world right now.
Are there any cases where someone using React sued Facebook?
> It want to capital infusions for major banks and QE-related asset swaps

The $3 trillion figure is from the 2016 budget. I don't believe any capital was infused into banks à la TARP [1] last year. Also, QE refers to the Federal Reserve, instead of just buying Treasury bonds from banks, buying a broader portfolio of assets. This is done off the Fed's balance sheet and does not come out of tax proceeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
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The OED says "deplane" goes back to 1923.
Dude, you completely missed the point of that post. It literally says in the second sentence that Scheme's numeric tower was borrowed from Common Lisp. The point is that if Scheme's numbers were like the rest of Scheme, they would be horribly impractical.
You mean just like all other Democracies out there? Sure, it floats from 60-40, or 70-30 sometimes. But how is 51-49 any less authoritarian against the 49 vs the 30?
Certainly tracking telegrams is a far reach from today. Metadata tracks user's physical moves. Depending on web activity, it can even comes close to reconstructing what they are thinking.

Who draws the line of what laws a commercial communication platform must follow and under which jurisdictions? There is no line because complying with the laws of one country your users are in will break the law of another.

I believe he problem is the centralization of communication. There is no reason that these platforms can not be distributed networks running open source software. Any government, which does or does not respect basic human rights, would be free to attempt to intercept the communication and anyone else would be free to try to prevent it.
There are non-cloud based password managers.
Remember this? http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/13/article-2323625-19... when it was a really big deal that Microsoft agreed to help Apple and release some software for their platform?
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I hope that 'right', in this context, means that it leads to observationally verifiable predictions of significant real-world events, and not, say, 'makes the math tractable', or 'produces results that conform to the existing tenets of economic theory'.

I would be less skeptical if there were not apparently at least two schools of economists, producing diametrically opposed analyses and recommendations for any situation.
> You shouldn't base your business on Facebook's (potential) patents, and then attack them with your own patents - but that is true with or without the patent grant. [...] If you are big enough and have patents, you can probably negotiate something like that.

The chilling future effect, which I believe is the primary driver of op worries, is what if you build on React and are the next Facebook? (I.e. you are growing quickly to become "big enough" but are not yet)

Old Facebook now how a lot more leverage on you at several critical moments -- either in terms of making an offer, or in the negotiations around a more reciprocal patent licensing deal, or the aforementioned infringing of your patents, or the mere threat of either if someone else makes an offer.

The entire point of ladder kicking is to build a moat to ensure that others can't grow past you in the same way you did, and this is pretty effective at that (intentionally or unintentionally).

As you said, a more reciprocal, more finely-scoped patent balance would resolve these concerns. (E.g. "if you sue Facebook over a patent involved in React...")
Their javascript is complete crap. It is a pain in the ass to navigate on the phone and hardly better on desktop.
After WWI, there was the League of Nations, to avoid the next war. WWII helped to realize, that stronger ties were needed.

Council of Europe with Ukraine and Russia in it. Are you joking? Ask someone from Ukraine or the Baltics, how they feel about the safety of territorial integrity.

I would say, better be safe than sorry in this case.
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Doesn't that still require React under the hood? It's the licensing that's a concern to me, not the code/interface itself.
I think Futurama got it right with their "voodoo economists"
I agree. So far, my favorite templating language is stpl, which comes with Bottle.
Economic models usually look at average behaviour for large groups. There are cases where the model breaks, but jumping into "oh, it was all bs then" is just populism.
I made this to find a book similar to Weaveworld by Clive Barker. [1]

Basically, I was motivated from frustration with book suggestions services that inevitably included suggestions with unrelated genres, multiple books from the same author, or sequels. I wanted to get suggestions without those, hence this app.

I ended up finding one of the best books I've ever read, Library at Mount Char (#2 on the suggestions for Weaveworld). [2] Maybe it will be useful for you too!

[1] https://rpiai.com/why-i-made-a-book-recommendation-service/

[2] https://www.booksuggestions.ninja/book/weaveworld-by-clive-b...
How does the whitespace sensitivity make it immediately worse?
A lot of economics is just concepts built on pure math (interest rates, etc). There's nothing astrological about this

Statistical models also are interesting but there are limitations, both at micro and macro levels

But I think people take its prediction power too seriously and ignore linked events that seem independent at first (like low graded loans failing affecting payment of other loans)
Tested it out. Seems to work well. How's it implemented?
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I whole heartedly agree with you on the convenience of go routines. I haven't been following the ocaml concurrency sorry; are they implementing a similar concurrency model?
Can you name an example of when a patent was used by a small company in the software industry to "dethrone" a very large company?

I'm having a hard time coming up with any examples; the lawsuits that come to mind are patent trolls, where the "little" company is a non-practicing entity so they can't be counter-sued for violating the giant's portfolio of patents. But, you sound pretty certain, so I want to figure out where I'm wrong.
Does Silicon Valley have a moral responsibility to stop developing robots?
As an average HN reader, I'm trying to understand the environmental consequences of these actions by the Brazilian government to Brazil and the World.
Can someone ELI5?
Ask HN: What is the best way to do good and get to travel with my coding skills?
I recently met someone who organized volunteer English teaching programs abroad in Southeast Asia. This got me wondering whether something like this was already established for coding / tech skills, as I would like to do something similar in the future.

I see two ways of doing this:

-Teaching coding / tech skills to locals
-Helping solve certain problems in developing / emerging countries by building open-source software (e.g. for agriculture, schools, ...) and teaching the locals some skills to make the efforts sustainable ("teach a man to fish(...)" etc. etc. ;-)

Curious about what others know in this area! I am aware that technology is not and should probably not be the main focus of development efforts in a lot of places as there are more basic things to sort out first that benefit more people with less effort, but where it makes sense one might as well get an early start.
TEM really isn't the right tool for reversing large integrated circuits. The sample prep is too finicky and involves slicing out a razor-thin sliver of material to image. You'd use it to get atomic resolution images of say a single transistor, maybe.

SEM with serial sectioning is the way to go. I'm sure people are using conventional SEMs for this already, but you could conceivably map entire circuits at high resolution (4nm) pretty quickly with one of the new multi-beam systems. Check out the SRAM cells on slide 17 o this SANDIA report (pdf warning) [0].

[0]: https://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1296536
"at a lower altitude, and with the door being disarmed as it was"

The second of these two clauses refers to what actually happened; the first is counterfactual. But since they didn't put the facts about altitude in TFA the impression is that both are true.
As AGPL still on most proples danger list? Or did you not include it in your GPL any version list.
Modular monoliths can be a simpler medium.
Writing modules of functionality that work on their own (in memory integration test) can easily be tested, separated into microservices or assimilated into a monolith.
Be wary of runtime function shared between modules as it will strictly couple the two and risk side effects on each other, tending towards spaghetti. But for monolith quick wins they can help for sharing management dependent resources like database transactions.
Banks do it, because high-paid workers want to live in a culturally rich city. That's also why cities invest in operas, it raises tax income. Same in Frankfurt. Cities, banks and the general public have the same interests here. Once the banks leave, the general public and the city loses.
>Case in point, the financial sector move the article is referring to. Just because a bank is based in one country, doesn't mean it doesn't do business elsewhere. If an investment opportunity exists, deals will still be made regardless. The idea that a company like Goldman Sachs would turn down an opportunity to make money just because their headquarters is elsewhere is almost laughable.

So your argument is Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, etc will continue to do business in Britain because it'll be profitable to do so? Yes that's probably true. On the other hand they are bending to regulation that requires them to conduct EU-related business in an EU member state.

And as you have stated businesses will not turn down potential profit. Therefore they have no choice but to move the jobs to where the majority of the business is and that's no longer Britain.

There's no element of panic here, just the fact that brexit means certain jobs have to move in order to continue conducting business with the EU.

The EU are already positioning to move Euro clearing out of London as well. See https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/07/brexit-uk-f...
Manpower is cheap in developing countries, why automate any of it?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc-CCAUYAABB76.jpg
That particular image is from a TV show, but when people say "click farms", that's what to picture.

Imagine creating email addresses to make app store accounts to rate apps. For 10 hours, every day, for $1/hour.
To the point where you see weekly TIFU /r/cscareerquestions post on a junior using training material and then accidentally trashing the production db.
The matching is done by finding similar genres. Each book has a genre-probability vector. I then measured the pairwise distance between all the books for each genre-probability vector (~3 million books, so this takes some time). The book suggestions you see are the top closest matches to that particular genre-probability vector.

The searching is done with elasticsearch and the backend is Flask.
I don't know if you've worked with a production Haskell code base but it cannot be over stated what a poor decision operator overloading is. if they got rid of that it would immediately make Haskell an order of magnitude more practical
Single sign on is single compromise.
The Australian Government has asked tech companies to support them getting legal access to devices, specifically the Prime Minister called out for the ability to get plaintext versions of WhatsApp, Telegram and iMessages. These are arguably the telegrams of today.

Yes, given the centralised nature of these services it is a concern that foreign government's demands could be unreasonable. However, the nature of operating in a country is to comply with their laws and regulations. What the Australian Government has asked for is that these communication methods be treated equally, and for tech companies to get on board with that.

If Google and Apple don't want to support the operations of authoritarian governments then perhaps they should actually take a stand and not operate in those countries, and not have their products made in those countries.

I value my privacy and my freedom, but honestly I think that as an Australian the Australian Government does have the right to be able to access my devices during an investigation, provided their are appropriate checks and balances involved. Just like if I had a safe in my house, they have the right to get it opened with a search warrant. If I refuse to open the safe, they have methods and tools that allow opening it. I fail to see what makes iPhones any different from a safe conceptually.

I understand that technically it may be very difficult or potentially impossible to provide a secure mechanism to provide that support to the Government, and that is where my greatest concern for these laws come from.
> Doesn’t seem really like a liability in the normal sense

Banks borrow from depositors and lend to borrowers. Deposits are a liability in that if the bank can't pay them back, the bank's assets are seized the firm put under conservatorship (or even liquidated, e.g. Lehman Brothers).

Note that eliminating fractional-reserve banking, i.e. switching to a full-money system [1] per the Chicago Plan [2] is not a free lunch. It shifts a lot of power from de-centralised actors to the state. That, in turn, makes central-bank independence even more important [3]. (Note that implementing the Chicago Plan would maintain double-entry bookkeeping, and so the persistent Internet meme about us being in a debt-denominated economy.)

[1] https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2016/01/27/is-this-t...

[2] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12202.pdf

[3] https://people.ucsc.edu/~walshc/MyPapers/cbi_newpalgrave.pdf
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Thanks, I think I know what causes it. Will fix asap.
I think it means it's the four coaches that they intended to have. Rather than three because there's a problem with one of them, for example.
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Might be the announcements are so long winded to give people a chance to notice their train was mentioned and to start paying attention?
I'd say that'd remain to be seen. ISIS essentially is a doomsday cult. A fundamentalist state like that isn't sustainable in the long run.

Make no mistake though, the Western world doesn't prop up the Saudi government out of moral reasons. They do this because of Saudi-Arabia's significance to the oil economy. The House of Saud in exchange complies with the economic - and to some extent - political demands of the Western world.
> ... it's astrology.

And it has alchemists, too. Like the alchemists of old were searching for a formula to make gold (assuming they legitimately tried and were not just scamming their employers), their modern-day peers try to find a formula for producing unicorns.
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Well, you can ignore all that and use glBegin, glEnd, glColor, glRotate, glTranslate and all that stuff. If you are ok with having OpenGL manage your resources and GPU memory, you should also be ok with having OpenGL manage your vertex buffers and vertex attributes too.

It also makes it easier to transition from "use red color for a rotated triangle" to "use this shader that uses the red color i asked for a rotated triangle" to "use this shader that uses this vertex attribute (that happens to be a color) and this global (that happens to be a transformation matrix)".

The only issue with this approach is that "officially" that stuff is deprecated but at least in practice Nvidia has said that they're not planning on ever removing that functionality and it also seems to be the case with AMD's own OpenGL implementation. The only issue is with the Linux drivers that depend on Mesa (and i hope this is a temporary roadblock), like the open source AMD drivers, and with Apple's OpenGL implementation. But even then this would only be an issue when you want to start using the more advanced stuff (since you can still use the older API in both Mesa and Apple, it is just that you cannot mix it with the newer calls), at which point you'd probably be ready to switch to Vulkan anyway.
The guy thinks a CIA front company got sued and then provided documents during discovery that revealed covert operations.
The alternatives proposed aren't any better. If we are to believe that law enforcement has Trojans that can bypass encryption, then we must believe that they aren't reporting the security flaws which allow the installation of these Trojans. These security flaws are not limited to law enforcement--terrorists can use them just as effectively as law enforcement can. So what the argument boils down to is: we shouldn't worry about law enforcement undermining security because law enforcement had already fundamentally undermined security? I don't buy it.
I work at a fairly big company that has a good relationship with Facebook (they're a customer and partner) and we aren't allowed to use React or zstd.

But MS and Google are big fish relative to Facebook, private deal or not.
In OCaml there is Lwt. It provides very light-weight cooperative threads. The context switches are very fast and composing cooperative threads allows the writing of highly asynchronous applications.
For instance, in the versions of Go prior to 1.5 goroutines used to run on a single core. And as of 1.5 the variable GOMAXPROCS can be set to the number of cores.
EDIT:clarify the difference between concurrency and parallelism.
AI has countless benefits and, later on, obvious dangers, but until we learn to cope with the problems humanity has, no-one will unite on this issue, so even if Musk gets a country, even the US, to listen, others (China) won't care and, as people like Bostrom have described, you only need one instance that crosses the threshold.
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>Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit

And then

>against that party

IANAL, but does that mean that if Facebook proper transfers a patent to a new subsidiary (wholly owned patent troll) they can sue you, and the only patent counterclaim you can make without terminating your ready license is against the troll subsidiary, not Facebook proper?
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They'll probably nip this one in the bud like they wish they had with the internet and encryption.

When radio first came out anyone could set up a broadcast station until the government put regulations on who could broadcast. Same with TV. It's becoming more and more apparent that the internet has the potential to threaten the current power structures, as does encryption. AI will be another threat to the current power structure.

50 years from now the internet will be as regulated as television and you'll need a special license to use encryption, set up a server, use AI, etc.
Let’s treat machine learning models like human brains
> WELL DAMNIT WHY AM I WASTING TIME REPLYING TO SOME BS ON HACKER NEWS‽

This isn't only a work-from-home affliction.
I believe in this case that "continued employment" is considered to be the benefit derived by the employee. Meaning "sign this or we will terminate you" is basically an ok thing to say, at least in some states.
> One effective way to discourage this is put a worldwide ban of exported wood from Amazon. If major countries can come together on this then this could actually work.

Tell that to the ivory poachers. All a ban accomplishes is turning an industry that has demand underground, meaning they can now operate off the books, illegally, not pay proper wages, operate completely without regulation and if they run into competition, instead of working side one another they often kill each other.

Prohibition has literally never worked for literally anything.
Multicore OCaml comes with native support for concurrency through algebraic effect handlers which generalize common control flow abstractions such as exceptions, async/await, generators, non-determinism, backtracking. All of these mechanisms can be implemented directly in OCaml. [0] introduces the model, [1,2] has examples, and for further reading see [3].

[0]: http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multico...

[1]: http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/effects/2015/05/27/more-ef...

[2]: https://github.com/kayceesrk/effects-examples

[3]: See recent pubs here http://kcsrk.info/.
I would guess more of the latter but at least some of the former. I would be very surprised if Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross didn't have HN accounts