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The GP's point was that "good" statically typed languages have type inference and indeed do not need to be told that 2 is an integer and "two" is a string. It is pretty orthogonal to the question of dynamic vs. static typing.

In C++:

auto i = 2;
auto s = "two";

Scala:

val i = 2;
val s = "two";

C#:

var i = 2;
var s = "two";

Rust:

let i = 2;
let s = two;

and so on. Note that these are not dynamically typed bindings - you cannot later assign a string to i, or an integer to s.

However, these are examples of local type inference where the compiler simply deduces the type of a variable binding based on the type of the bound expression (although Scala and Rust type inference is actually somewhat more general than that). Haskell, on the other hand, has global type inference where the compiler considers the whole program when assigning types to bindings that are not explicitly annotated. However, some arguably useful capabilities of a type system such as subtyping and implicit conversions make global type inference a much more difficult problem to solve.
Thanks for understanding, it's always nice to hear you're not the only one struggling.

Also great of you to mention walking, I walk a lot during 'work hours'. To outsiders it's so hard to explain that yes, walking is actually part of my process, and yes, walking around in the nearby forest is in some sense my job.
I've gone for months at a time not talking to anyone and have never found myself needing to strike up conversation; normally, I would be busy thinking and any conversation would be mundane and irrelevant. I've toured alone by motorcycle a few times, and similarly, in the evening, I just want to get my food.
You seem to be saying that the existence of economics as an academic discipline implies that economics theory must be based on (pseudo-)mathematical models.

I don't know in the US but in France we have two families of economists in academia: orthodox and heterodox.

The orthodox family is the one of the economists who thinks that their field is a hard science with laws comparable to that of physics. It is the mainstream family. It may be further simplification of the reality but I think almost all of them of them could be considered rightists politically. Sadly, they are currently taking over the entire field by making it very hard to get an academic position in economics if you are not on their team.

Heterodox economists are the ones who believe their field is more like a social science. They have a variety of point of views depending on their approach (sociological, anthropological, historical, philosophical, etc.). They are often categorized as more leftists relatively to orthodox (again, I may be oversimplifying here). Many of them are "refugees" in other academic field such as sociology (e.g., Frédéric Lordon or Bernard Friot).

Anyway, my point is that economics could very well be an academic discipline without being a religion.

EDIT: the Austrian School of Economics that fiatjaf mentions in another comment is an example of what is called heterodox economics.
At some scale, when making facilities decisions, you have to treat your employees as replaceable (which is not exactly the same as disposable, but close).

Moving headquarters 5 miles in any given direction is going to help some people and hurt other people. We just went through this ~20 months ago and some people who were on the "hurt" side have indeed left because their commute got pushed over a pain threshold. But, if we'd moved 5 miles in the other direction, a different set of employees would have been negatively impacted.

It's a small scale trolley problem and unless you can expand in exactly the same place, someone's going to get run over. When the CEO realizes this, it's entirely rational to draw conclusions like 'For those who are harmed, well at least they had the experience and name of working at [growing, perceived successful] company X.'
Productivity is mostly linear for me, judging from non-test lines of code in my commit history. About 36 net lines/hour whether the language is Haskell, C++, or Javascript, or whether it's 3 hours or 14.

There is some variance: Test code increases the ratio, UI code increases the ratio, and debugging lowers the ratio. But it's either wildly off being one of these, or 36-40 lines/hour.
Theoretically yes. Practically, no. Homelessness in rich countries is largely
a result of substance abuse and underlying personality disorders (which are often the reason the substance abuse starts).

Modern governments don't have the political will to break the social taboos necessary to instill discipline and personal responsibility in the homeless population, especially when there are large interest groups in the public sector who stand to lose financially from any serious effort to address the underlying causes of homelessness, especially if that effort rejects their ideological assumptions about the causes of homelessness.
I think you need to learn this ability, otherwise you might suffer a burnout.

You need to remember, whether you put 40, 60 or 80 hours p/w into a death march project, won't be recognised. Everyone will be too busy to tally who's working more. By sacrificing more of your free time, you are just working for free for the people driving the project, who may be doing this purely for political reasons. You will also make it more likely for similar projects in the future.

I maintain it's better to not overstretch yourself and let the project fail. Better for your health, and better for the company, so they manage the next project better and have workers who aren't burnt out.
perhaps with gestures and voice input integrated into good software applications , the keyboard will altogether be eliminated..
> But more casual group members might actually change their mind if they are confronted with outside opinions, especially if they hadn't considered them before.

Not if they are literally being tricked into being lectured, that's not how you convince any sane person of your credibility, it's, in fact, a giant disservice to your credibility.

You don't convince people through forced lectures, you convince people by engaging with them on an even level discourse to reach a common understanding of the issue at hand.

Also consider the reverse possibility of your scenario: What happens when somebody from the "good side" wants to see what opinions on the "bad side" actually look like? Such a thing might become impossible because every search will only lead to the supposedly "good opinions".
See also how the Austrian School of Economics does not fall in that category at all and has created sound, useful and correct economics without math, but only pure logic.
I wasn't doubting that there are hundreds of companies who would be potentially interested in hiring someone with my skills.

I was puzzled that I would be interested in working for so many different places. I now realize that some people seem to simply not care where they work, at least at the apply-for-job stage. That was the piece that I was missing.
> Just thinking about how they work here, it looks like Roman numerals are effectively a base 5 notation, with a special behavior for 5n - 1.

This doesn't seem quite accurate. Roman numerals are organised around multiples of 5, whereas a base-5 system should be organised around powers of 5.
I was put off by the arrogant, condescending tone of the Daring Fireball article. Thanks to Matt for giving us a more balanced, sensible point of view. The Force-quit feature is sometimes indispensable. In an earlier version of iOS, for example, I often had to force-quit the Maps app because the "End Navigation" button would not respond to a tap after I had reached my destination.
They could certainly get an IP address from the website then a customer from the ISP. Whether this process would lead to the poster depends.
> I'm not sure I would consider a precious metal a currency because its value is driven by its intrinsic value more than trust.

I don't think that's really true. Most precious metals are valuable because people think they're valuable - they're propped up by a collective myth, by the collective belief that there will always be someone else willing to pay. Sure, there are industrial applications, but those are not the primary drivers of value, especially not historically.
Stoicism in the workplace
I question whether one is better than another.

If Haskell's type system paths the way for the programmer to implement, innovate, and create, then there is no reason for change.

The same for Clojure, or any other.

I merely answered a question on Haskell's capabilities with a personal anecdote. Haskell has been hard for the teams I worked with, replacing it with Clojure enabled others to reach their potential.

But, as for my personal belief on whether static or dynamic typing is better? Different projects have different requirements, as do the hands that craft them.
Is 110 ppi considered ultra sharp?
I actually rather enjoyed siting through some of those slide shows. It's largely a question if they try and take and show interesting photos, or if they just take pictures of themselves.
> Power law walks into a bar. Bartender says, "I've seen a hundred power laws. Nobody orders anything." Power law says, "1000 beers, please".

Agh, I'm a mathematician and should get this, but I don't. Is the joke just that power laws give behaviour that is very small for quite a while, and then becomes suddenly large?
That's very kind of you - thank you. Of course, people just get frustrated when they see someone doing something they think is silly. In this case, I do think there is interesting technical and psychological aspects worth thinking about. Really glad you liked it.
Well it seems like you've just described turning the 70s cohort of C programmers into 2000s cohort of PHP programmers.

It's a programmer group -> programmer group transformation.

Solving problems, as programmers do, is just going to create groups of programmers.

Programmer's can design interfaces, specailized to a problem, that may give the end user some flexibility in that problem.

However I fear that this perspective of yours is the same one which recurs at a certain level of mastery over a particular skill: to now no longer be consciously aware of all the things you need to know, and therefore to assume your highly adapted and sophisticated behaviour is not something that this been trained into you; that is essential and natural to the things you're doing.

The professional plumber may as well be saying, "surely there is some sort of end-user plumbing system for these 'simple' tasks could". It probably seems to him that turning a bolt with the right spanner in the right place is as easy as breathing, but it is not. He just does it now with a similar reflex.
I've never heard of such in the US. I'm now reading your link, but I'd like to hear if anyone know of similar arrangements in the US.
You mean 4k on a desktop is not dense enough for you?
> Great then. Do you have any ideas then how to stop the radicalisation of young muslims?

The stuff GP is talking about is generally not being done to "stop the radicalisation of young muslims" but more likely as CYA/good PR. Maybe for some it's genuinely in good spirit but let's be honest here, it's probably not going to make a big difference.

Ideas to stop radicalization? Well, slowing down marginalization first would be a good move and that's going nowhere good in the US right now. Maybe electing representatives and leaders that don't feed on a self-fueled machine of fear would help. To do that you need an electorate with more critical thinking, which means better education. (And here you see you got a catch-22 since you need leaders that fight for better education in the first place...)

Concretely, what "you" as in any average joe can do is not much, but if you want to do something: help people understand their votes, educate them on politics as well as foreign culture, make them travel more.

What a big company like Google/Youtube could do if they cared to fight for it? Probably a hell of a lot more, but they're not in that business honestly.
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You have the opposite problem. You need more emotion. It's the emotional connection to your work which enabled you to go on those binges. With no emotional connection, you wouldn't be driven to do any programming at all, let alone in binges.
I've also been digging into its non-linearity, getting a lot out of this book at the moment: https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Performance-Elevate-Burnout-Scie...
In a democracy, if you are unhappy with how the leaders runs the country, you vote them out.

In a workplace, if you are unhappy with how the management run the company, you vote with your feet and leave, nobody's forcing you to stay.
No, I wasn't but those are good ideas!
I think UltraSharp name is refering to the fact that those are IPS panels with:

1) wide color gamut, compared to TN screens

2) Better contrast ratio, again, compared to cheap TN panels.
That is what https://oadoi.org/ and http://doai.io/ do. Sci-Hub can also ingest DOIs.
What you're describing already exists, obfsproxy. Unless I'm misunderstanding your proposal.
How Google is trying to replace training videos with VR
Coming from Basic that wasn't a problem.

It always felt quite natural to me.
The difference is writing as part of one's career (at the direction of supervisors) and writing at one's own discretion.

If your school says "yo, prof! Write a book on $subject," then it's a work-for-hire and, if public money is involved, should be public domain. If the professor takes it upon himself to write a book, presumably on hus own time, he then holds the copyright.
In the US libraries pay for their physical books, which pay royalties per usual.

For digital media they usually have a negotiated rate where they pay royalties and limit the number of copies "out on loan".
I am very interested in finding out how they were able to know with certainty that the server was located in Lithuania. I didn't find this mentioned in any reporting of the Hansa takedown and I see a handful of commenters on Krebs asking the same question.
Turbo Pascal had them.
That's how I use a 4K @ 32" (16:9). It's just on the side of being comfortably usable. If the density were any greater, I would have to use some HighDPI mode and sacrifice real estate.
A lot of people don't get that economics isn't about making predictions nor that the fact that a statistical model may lack predictive power has nothing to do with whether the model is correct. All a statistical model tells you is that the dependent variable will take this or that value given some values of the independent variables. So predicting the dependent variable requires you to know the values of the independent variables in the future, which means most of the time the model is completely useless for forecasting purposes. That doesn't mean that the model is useless in a general sense, or unscientific.
Anonymous anecdotal evidence is the buffer overflow of comment sections.

How does HN not have a rule against it?
Wouldn't it be cool if invoices had a spec (xml or json) with specific fields that had specific meaning and then we could use something like CSS to make them "pretty" and branded.

This would save from having to parse anything.

To create a bill-of-materials you simply would attach a bunch of invoices from a bunch of vendors. There are jobs out there of people who fetch invoices and then transform them into in-house systems all manually.
In most Western countries, the amount controlled by public servants/bureaucrats is decided by governments and parliaments elected about every four years. If libertarians believe that amount is too high, they need to do a better job convincing voters to elect parties that decrease public spending.
It's quite popular with archives as well due to storage costs and allowing zoomable images with IIP image http://iipimage.sourceforge.net
But support is lousy only kakadu works fast enough, there are still many issues with OpenJPEG but it still seems to be in active development.
If they're the best material for the job then manufacturers will pay the inflated luxury-good prices. People selling gold are selling it at market price, regardless of what their buyers do with it. Just because something only adds X amount of value, however that's defined, doesn't mean that one will be able to buy it for at or less than X.
This was the 1346-53 epidemic.
The earlier black death epidemic starting at 541 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian) was a bit more influental, and killed about 40% of the population. This came from Egypt to Europe.
But recent genetic studies also suggest it came from China instead, same as the later plagues.
>The plans also include the extension of geo-fencing, in which no-fly zones are programmed into drones using GPS co-ordinates, around areas such as prisons and airports.

So will open source drone firmware become illegal?
With 640 KB it wasn't as there was a lot of space to have bigger strings.

Besides, there were arrays as well, and TPW had safer strings without that limitation PCharStr.
Not sure if that quotation inspires much confidence. Economics has math behind it. Subjects like Sociology have none of the rigor of math and are thus a large waste of time.
It's not.

For example, the austerity debate has been academically settled. Politicians took one academic paper (outlier) with error and used it to screw things up. IMF did mea culpa after data disagreed.
Agreed. Also there is something "magical". Nobody understands how our consciousness works. While people will tell you it "arises from the brain" nobody has the slightest clue about how that works. It's a really hard problem when you think about it because our subjective experience has no mass , no length, no height, and is in that way not even material. Our consciousness is very important to our function, and without it, all artificial intelligence remains artificial and has no ultimate "reality check" on whether it's decisions are good or bad for it.
I wish it were available in HiDPI version, i.e. twice the resolution - it would make it way better to look at, as seeing pixels while editing video or producing audio in Live is no longer acceptable.
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For what it's worth, you can find this material on the Straight Dope site itself; no need to go through the WCP site (which doesn't let you read the article without Javascript). http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3330/how-did-anyone...
Have you tried using a spaced repetition system? Sometimes it takes the brain a couple exposures until you "get" it. Otherwise you might think of ways to make the learning more engaging or stimulating: if you can present the same information in a different way, that might work better :)
I love the fact that this is a "darknet" messenger service called Briar: "Black Briar". Now where have I heard that before?
Not in the US. How would they charge for looking at reference books.

I do wish libraries would buy the right technical/reference books though.

I stopped going to my local libraries because it was just book after book of bad fiction, cooking, and gardening.

Go to any local library. Look at how big the cooking, and gardening sections are.

I know the reason, but just don't want to get into a debate this morning.
I'm very introverted, and I haven't had an in-person conversation in almost 2 years. It does eventually become the only priority, like when you're starving, or badly craving a cigarette.
If you own a business, you don't think you should be able to pay each employee whatever you want as long as above minimum wage? Besides taxes, I'm not sure how that's anyone's business besides the employer & employee.
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I really think Sun and MS did a big mistake with their VM approaches instead of following what was common on the 90s.

So we had to wait 20 years, failure of Moore's law, cache optimization issues, competition from new languages, for them to come up with .NET Native, CoreRT and the initial AOT on Java 9
There are other fields where prediction is hard, geology (earthquake prediction), medicine, etc I think using a single data point (e.g. Interest rates) doesn't represent the aggregate, which is if you ran the same experiment 100 times, would
Economists do better than chance?
Those two should really be mentioned in an article about Pirate Libraries. They are exactly what the author describes, minus the 'rise' part.
The perception about an SaaS product's price might depend on how customers value them.

I want to mention SiftScience as the example. Note that it's a B2B SaaS product. The company I am working for is running an eCommerce business. They utilize SiftScience to fight credit card frauds. They paid them around $50K/mo for detecting frauds out of 1 million transactions/mo. At the first time, I think it's expensive enough, because credit card fraud is one of hundreds problem in the company and it is not the only payment options for buying the products. The company can just hire skilled programmers to build only fraud detection for less than $50K/mo salary.

Not until I know their future plan that they are going to jump into financial industry. The money will move very fast. Credit cards will dominate the payments and the chance is there will be more credit card frauds too. The company wants to build the customers' trust before the product starts to launch in order to attract many users. So, we need to reduce fraud cases as much as we can. Using SiftScience sounds like outsourcing the fraud detection works to other. With it, we can increase how many transactions will be monitored instantly. Hiring high skilled programmers might be a late choice here, but we can do it in the future if the product is successful. With that case, I can say that SiftScience fraud detection product's price is worth it.
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This isn't fundamental. The large-block miner can pre-stage copies of the block (before the nonce has been found) at a few replicas. If they successfully find a nonce, they blast the nonce to all of their replicas, which immediately disseminate the complete block.
As someone in the cohort that was in college when Facebook was first invented, who are now all having kids, I don't really see that phenomenon at play. Nobody responds when I post, e.g. a rebuttal to the recent Atlantic article that discusses US versus Canadian public spending. Putting up a picture of my kid, in contrast, will result in dozens of likes. (I of course feel reciprocally.)

I'd turn this around and say, if you're annoyed by pictures of other peoples' kids or their vacations or what they ate, maybe you're the narcissistic one. In a modern world where people often move far away from friends and family to pursue careers, Facebook fills in for a lot of the shared experience that people would otherwise have. I want to see pictures of my friends baby, because I can't visit her often on the opposite coast. I want to see the latest food my father in law put in the smoker, because I can't drop in to steal a sample. I'm interested in the lives of my friends and family and Facebook let's me at least keep a bit in touch with what's happening.
The takeaway is that the math used in econ obscures the truth while lending a fake gravitas to pure opinion.

At least sociology is honest that they're going pure opinion.
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Why is the vertical resolution so poor?
Aeon is by far the dumbest site that is regularly submitted here. So many articles making huge claims with nothing to back them up. It's awful.

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