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Don't regret the good times for one second, but do get very jealous of people on HN talking about all the exciting tech they're using and awesome work environment. I am actively taking steps to move to a better company, but my god I'm finding Cracking The Interview Code a slog.
Please see the discussion at https://github.com/avh4/elm-format/issues/210. A fixed indent size is a feature, not a bug. Making a single tool that everyone uses is so nice. No need to mess around with .eslint files or the like.
They left it open for the photo, and put some fresh food on the table next to it to drive the point home.
Russians' dislike for complicated systems sounds very good but I hope it will have humans watching over it too. There were already many close calls and accidents (some fatal) due to computer and programming errors in both civilian and military systems.

Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
if it wasn't for Stanislav Petrov the world might have ended back then.
Today, an opponent would try to fire back at the killing machine's "pilot," is that right?

With these weapons, the only defense is shooting at the machine itself, breaking it.

That reduces your chance of stealing the killing machine after taking out its pilot.
Not only that, but CRT intrinsically blurred sprites, low-resolution sprites yield very, very different results on CRTs and LCDs. That is one of the things which bothers me with the revival of "pixel art" games, that's not how old games actually looked when you were playing them.
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This from the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australi...

Bryant's motivation for the massacre remains a closely guarded secret,[24][25] known only to his lawyer, who is bound not to reveal confidences without his client's consent. The lawyer later released a book outlining that Bryant was motivated largely by the media reports of the then-recent Dunblane school massacre. From the moment he was captured, he continually wanted to know how many people he had killed and seemed impressed by the number.

But also the killer plead guilty to 35 murders and there was apparently no trial.

At least two variants of a conspiracy theory about the massacre have been promoted.[33] Interviewed in 2006, Tony Rundle, Premier of Tasmania from 1996 to 1998, admitted that, because there was no trial, the evidence made public was possibly insufficient to support that Bryant had been the gunman: "At the time, the view was that a trial could do no good for the victims and their families. Now I think maybe that wasn't the case. If all the evidence was heard, then maybe it would have provided some closure and stopped the proliferation of conspiracy theories that sprang up over the years."[34]
Indeed, the major weakness of the linked piece is that it doesn't account for any kind of social structure or any class behaviour. Which, in my book, makes it fairly worthless as an analysis of actual social behaviour.
That must mean you are not in a middle eastern country. It's self centered to only have concern for your own well-being and myopic to think that, in a world full of self-centered people, with this tech being mass produced, that you'll continue living in a northern-atlantic utopia, where the probable causes of untimely death remain unchanged.
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It has been done.

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/6kso6w/historic_d...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cax2vIb22nc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decisive_Battles
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What is it with HN commenters living in these crime-ridden dens where everyone steals everyone's packages? Maybe it's a cultural thing but I've lived in apartment buildings in Germany with neighbors from all walks of life and unless a package has literally "$$$ EXPENSIVE GOODS THAT ARE EASY TO SELL $$$" written all over it, I wouldn't for a second worry about a neighbor stealing it.

Maybe your standards for "very secure" and "trustworthy" are extremely low.
Thanks for the correction, I didn't know the real number.

Regarding the RE numbers, it looks a lot like a USD/HKD conversion blunder then ("Wait, 120 millions in dollars? That's huge." "Yeah mate, in dollars (lobs ball)." ).
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So then only the bad companies do it, right? I just want that to be clear.
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There are two significant parts (IMO) to the trend towards autonomous weapons. They're very different.

This article seems mostly concerned with autonomous/AI controlled decision making: picking targets and firing on them.

The 2nd part taking combatants out of the battlefield. This is more significant, IMO. This applies equally to autonomous & remote operated weapons. For thousands of years, fighting wars meant endangering soldiers. As this changes, all sorts of dynamics change, and conflicts may become more

Think of drones. Whatever the tactical implications, I think the strategic implications have been more important. The US is willing to deploy remote operated drones in scenarios where they would not have committed troops, even airforce only.
Things like BMPT-72 Terminator 2 (yeah, T2, really https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMPT_Terminator) are planned to be semi- or fully-automonous is the near future.

So - tank support (instead of sending infantry), clearing missions when you don't really care - just shoot everything that moves, defence turrets like this one - https://www.techcult.ru/content/2016/3690/robot-chasovoj-FLf....

I'd say using autonomous machine gun on a light truck might be useful - no need for a human to risk his life, not to mention this thing will have better aim.
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Hey there,

I have an idea for a website and wanted to hire a webDev to make it. I was just hoping for advice with picking someone, how I should go about the creation (legal?), and what kind of things I should have prepared for when we start. So far I have wireframes and was wondering if there was something else before I seek the help. I just want to go about this in the right way.

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> they're missing a physical message-waiting indicator light!

I do use an Android phone on a regular basis, and there it's useful, since it only pops up when important messages arrive (read: on-call stuff).

But my daily driver is an iPhone, and sorry - this would be an absolute mess with the amount of apps installed trying to notify me of things. It's virtually impossible to determine what notifications or messages are important. Is a waze notification that a friend will almost arrive important? Not really. Is a waze notification that I should leave in 10 minutes important since the traffic isn't optimal? Absolutely. Relying on such an indicator simply doesn't work the moment you have dozens and dozens of apps installed that all send you mostly mundane low priority messages, but from time to time want to tell you something you really want to know.

In my case, a light like that would be on all the time or off when you actually have a pretty important notification - which would mean you simply cannot rely on it. Notifications are already too complex, and at the same time too limited. Simplifying it into a colored light is just adding to that mess.
SpaceX will be bought by Tesla within 10 years anyway.
A dictator could put one on every street corner.
This is a nice rebuttal: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/television/last-night...

The BBC's sensationalist reporting will cause harm.

Suicide is the leading cause of death for everyone under 35 and men under the age of 49 (in the UK) and untreated depression is an obvious significant risk.

This kind of pill shaming will cause people to avoid seeking help and to stop taking meds, both of which cause considerably more harm than the single case of murder linked to AD meds.

Indeed, in the UK rates of SSRI prescription have increased dramatically (probably being overprescribed) while rates of violent crime have been falling.

The BBC editorial guidelines about harm.have pretty clearly been breached with this programme and the adverts for it, and a bunch of people in England are pushing the BBC to issue corrections and retractions.
Looks an interesting video not only for this particular part, thanks, I'll watch it fully when I can.
Honestly, the major problem when talking about "weed" is that considering the amazingly wide array of effects, depending on the variety/strain and dosage (from mild relaxant to big high, passing by stone and huge social-bubble alteration), any point based on the generalization of "weed" as a single substance/effect is pretty much moot from the get go.

Most studies and discussions focus on the "high"/"stone", which are already two vastly differing effects, the former may help one work/socialize at low dosage, whereas the latter would generally hinder these activities. Conversely, most people who speak of a positive experience with regular weed consumption refer to milder effects usually based on the genetics of the strain they use and the kind of dosage they apply to themselves. Apples and carrots...

Then there's the matter of whether students or any party-going demographics is better off smoking weed or drinking alcohol, as a matter of public health, when discussing the legalization of these substances. Considering that alcohol is the #1 death factor in the world, not even counting collateral damage (e.g. most violence/abuse done to women and children happen correlatingly to alcohol use; most alcoholics suffer from dire social issues), I, for one, am pretty sure legalizing weed makes sense to a large degree, if we're gonna have other, more dangerous drugs such as alcohol, legal still.

The negative effects of weed, as any drug, are also better contained through education and public health infrastructures rather than morality (subjective) or justice (punitive).
Hrm, it's been around in tech for a few years. There's a Cisco Fellow (ie, well decorated internal employee) who wrote a good chunk of IOS that openly uses LSD for programming, and everyone up the to the CEO knows this.
You're right. I should have edited my comment properly. I sincerely apologize. My point was to indicate that they are non startup companies, privately held, that are wayyy more valuable than SpaceX or Uber.
Sorry about this.
The M4 isn't infamous though? I don't even know which one that is. The M-16 is famous but associated more with militaries than with guerillas or terrorists. I can't really think of a US-made weapon with a reputation for disreputable uses - maybe the "Tommy Gun" (associated with gangsters, at least in the popular imagination)?
I have teammates and we curse/swear/foulmouth/trashtalk like a deployed infantry unit, but sometimes we have clients/partners/friends over, and we somehow make it through without any fucks or other expeltives. Pretty magical, huh?

It's social aptitude, some people just have less of it. (No wonder they hadn't become lawyers, doctors, politicians.)

Basic rule is try to accomodate others if it's no problem for you. If it is, discuss it, and settle on the professional/formal way if others feel your preferences are too far from theirs.

Constantly monitor others' well being. For most people it's automatic, for some autists it's literally impossible.

Again, it's a safe default to be formal/professional, and then ease up, if all parties feel okay with that.
Yes he was.

But sadly he was also a hater.

I saw a few such characters online over the years. Brilliant people doing good stuff, but somehow they overreact to criticism and idiots in general. Somehow they can't just "let people" talk, they have to counter, they have to tell the world "how it is" etc.
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Many Russians did plenty of good but their governments are always so awful.
I use it daily, both at work and home. I would consider it the best tool for PHP development - powerful IDE, extendable with a plethora of plugins (composer, gulp, npm things; laravel thing resolving).

I don't really use the Database tool, I'm not even sure if it exists anymore in the IDE since they released DataGrip.

Debugger tool is great but for non-objective reasons I liked Visual Studio's more (not for PHP).

In overall, it does everything that it should AND more. You can usually drop other software and just use PHPStorm for most of your development needs. Similar things can be said about other IntelliJ products.
So, they are just stealing money from customers? Does anyone knows how we can take a look at coinbase wallets?
And of course, that means heavy commuting and long drives to where the tech campuses are.
On that topic Harari's Homo Deus is a pretty interesting read. He argues that Humanism is the de facto "new" (2-3 centuries old) religion. Soon to be replace by the celebration of something even more global -- data.
Because they're a business and appearing on a trade show is one of the ways they do marketing?
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There hasn't.

There has been a clear link between the US's deranged gun laws and mass murder and mass shootings.

The dishonesty of the gun lobby is shameful.
Look, you have to understand something: in Russia, human life has no intrinsic value at all, so it's not a conundrum in any way. New weapon can kill more people, all by itself? Great, bring more of those!

If you don't believe me, just read up on Russian history. Maybe start with Ukrainian genocide in 1932-33.
Area denial that is more humane, more visible and easier to remove than landmines are?
This headline reminds me of 80s and 90s when folks touted why <pickYourOS> was better than windows. Ultimately, the ecosystem and network effects matter more.
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There are all sorts of bacteria that are no problem in your lower GI tract, but would be massively dangerous elsewhere (your lungs, for instance).
So like a progression of the protection systems that some MBTs already have?

That doesn't sound quite as bad or threatening - although probably very bad news for anyone trying to take on such a vehicle at close range!
You've forgotten the logistics chain. A "hostile" AI without any human support is going to run out of fuel, ammo or spares very very quickly.

The real threat from AI is automated colonialism. An empire where the people running it never have to get their hands dirty or face rebellion from troops suffering from post-atrocity PTSD. Send in the killbots followed by corpse disposal Roombas. No (human) witnesses.
I wonder if history lessons should have been taught this way. To play the game instead of having to attend school/read lengthy boring textbooks.

I remember pretty much nothing of history in at high school. Hundreds of hours went in vain. I still remember pretty much every video game I played. I remember San Andreas map to some extent for example. I remember Age of Mythology.

If history is repeated as a video game, I'd guess most people will get to "learn" history and remember it. At least, for me, I would.
In a hundred million ways. Systems could be hacked, or humans social-engineered to start a nuclear war or manufacture and release a deadly plague, as some most trivial and devastating examples.

Also, threatening humanity is boring and irrelevant. What counts is threatening technological civilization. If we collapse to preindustrial times, it's game over for us anyway.
You can walk to most places if you have chosen hyper-inflationary, expensive, gentrified housing in the city.
The cost is up-front having to think carefully about types when you're not yet done exploring the problem space. Types, if you're going to use them, should be decided on after you've completed that step.

This is why if you're going to do it, a dynamically-typed language that allows adding hints/annotations later on is an ideal choice.

And this is not a purely hypothetical objection: once you put types in a program, you're constraining the future of what you can do unless/until you go back and change them. Those constraints are a very real and, in my experience, very high cost.
I posted this lower down, but I'm posting it here again since it also applies to your comment:

Luckily there's a whole range of tools dedicated to making your life there a bit easier:

- json-to-elm http://json2elm.com

- swagger-elm https://github.com/ahultgren/swagger-elm/

- elm-graphql https://github.com/jahewson/elm-graphql, https://github.com/jamesmacaulay/elm-graphql

- elm-export https://hackage.haskell.org/package/elm-export

And so on :) While it would be nice to solve Json Decoders in a better way, these solutions are very helpful for the time being. Long term, I personally believe the right route is hard to decide on. We could go with json-decoders being part of the language and compiler itself. We could generate decoders from type aliases. Or some template solution like template Haskell. Or tagged unions like Go. The issue is that decoders are not a blocker to people who write a lot of Elm. They make me sad, but they're not a blocker. That means that the solution is not such a high priority.
Flashbacks of Arnold in Predator now. DO IT NOOWWWW!
Maybe man will inadvertently create its own predators ..
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Now we're from different societies most probably, but I don't believe it's women who get a lot of social pressure to be nice in quotes, it's everybody in a civilised society that's under such pressure, and that hurts more if you're an introverted and/or timid person (I am). Another real social pressure in on men to look strong and keep their problems to themselves, and to put up with anything "like a man". Probably that's why you don't hear as much of these stories from men. For example refusing a sexual advance from a female renders you less of a man in many modern societies. I'm totally glad that in the current scheme of things women are more and more able to come out and share their unlucky experiences and traumas, but I really despise this attitude of feminism of staking exclusive claims on each and every social problem.
Not really. In the 60s we basically verified that certain rocket and engine designs work and that we could go beyond earth orbit. Creating a reliable, long lasting and reusable space rocket/vehicle is, in my opinion, orders of magnitude more difficult. Just look at the Space Shuttle failure as an example of trying to do space on the cheap. Also, remember it took about 5% of the US GDP in the 60s to put men on the moon. I believe in Musk but trying to make space cheap is just simply a difficult problem and one I wished we funded more.
Oh, that's very much how it is in America. Our knights are also mostly white-collar criminals and/or insane.
Humans design, program and service these automated systems. They're still in the loop.
This is a pretty great one, and one of the books I recommend for anyone who is learning JS.

My favorite book to recommend though is Eloquent JavaScript (also free). Just a fantastic, readable, intro to programming and JS.

http://eloquentjavascript.net/
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I am wondering is there a specific reason for echo being a cylinder? Does it give cost advantage? or any advantage in terms of placement of microphones that pick up voice? Really curious
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How does government prevent you from that? In most western countries it is illegal to build super tiny flats and for good reasons, but nobody prevents you from renting a 3-5 m^2 room (or a closet) in a shared flat and live there. Or get a van/trailer, which is kinda popular now.
I haven't seen it.

But it couldn't be worse than the Independence Day movie from 1996. In that one, the aliens have huge ships; the mothership has one fourth the mass of the moon. Fortunately, Jeff Goldblum figures out how to upload a computer virus into the mothership. My memory of the plot is kind of sketchy, since I certainly wasn't tempted to see it again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film)#P...
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How many internet users were there then?
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> Today, an opponent would try to fire back at the killing machine's "pilot," is that right?

If you're dealing with an armored vehicle, you're shooting at the vehicle. You can't shoot at the people operating it, because the armor is in the way. If you don't have anything to hand that can deal with the armor, you find something else to do instead. If you do have something that fits the bill, it's not going to leave the vehicle in an operable state after you use it.

Killing the crew of an IFV or tank during a combat engagement, and then stealing the vehicle, is something that happens in movies and video games - in real life, not so much.
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That's possible in some special cases, but it's also quite possible to ruin your health in ways that can't be fixed. And this is what football players are facing.
This is a great idea but ES2017 instead of ES2015 would make it even easier for newcomers. This would allow `await` which is a lot easier for newcomers to follow than callbacks or .then(). Also you really want string.includes() !

Node and all current browsers support ES2017 so you don't really lose anything either.
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Not really. They are close. There are places you can live that are a reasonable commute to both. Also, I know people that make the commute in both directions. MARC train helps.

Source: I live and work in Baltimore.
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After a long period of no gaming, I bought a gaming pc last year and the only thing I have played so far is AoE 2 (:

Looking forward to this edition!
Chicken-and-egg: no other state allows lane splitting out of concern the citizens wouldn't know how to drive amongst such motorcyclists.

Also, motorcycles aren't exactly a large block of votes. And, many lane splitting bills include helmet provisions which are a non-starter for some riders.

Source: watched as attempts failed multiple times in Texas.
With incremental compilation I find it's not a problem anymore. Obviously, ymmv, depending on your project size, used libraries, and other factors.
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Are you talking about Recovery Tokens?
> I think the Intro's link to the local env setup in the appendix is broken.

The book is written using Leanpub's markdown syntactic sugar it seems.
Not if A => B for only a small population of A. But in that case, you still might see a C => A link.
I don't think Uber will last too long. The founder instilled a very bad culture from the very beginning. Travis is everything wrong with the valley right now.