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I think most of it is the ease (demonstrated in the comment) with which "functional programming" elides into "functional languages." Functional programming is a technique. Programming languages are tools. Some tools generally facilitate functional programming techniques better than other tools.

Robust programs can be written in many languages, including 'many languages' in the sense of heterogeneity as demonstrated when a Haskell program communicates over the internet hopping through routers and switches running embedded and iOT and OS quality C code...and worse.

Functional programming techniques are great, until something else is needed. At some point databases become useful. At some point caches become important. At some point everyone winds up needing random numbers. Relying on statistics and probability isn't a bad idea either, right Siri and Cortana and Alexa?
I remember when we thought internet was the new printing invention, and that it will bring direct democracy everywhere :)

But hey, nothing grows at a regular speed and in straight line, this may still happen.
As others have said, this can lead to vote buying or voter intimidation ("vote for x or I'll break your face")

Spitballing here: What if you get the receipt with UUID and your choices, then at a separate kiosk only in the polling ststion you can enter your UUID to view the full results as posted online. Along with your UUID and results, a hash of the two is displayed and can be printed onto your receipt. Before leaving the station, you must detach and dispose of the plaintext voting choices, but you can hang onto the UUID + hash.

At any time in the future, you can enter your UUID into the site, which will compute and display only the hash, giving you verification of no tampering but not disclosing any results to nefarious third parties.
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I really like the name "Linear Types" better than RAII. C++ ctor/dtor pairs are a sort of primitive linear type system that forces exactly one (implicit) use for each instance created.

Linear types nicely generalizes this so that we don't need RAII wrappers or whatever. Just produce values and pass them around, eventually to be consumed. It feels like this is a powerful language idea.
That's because Verizon and AT&T knows with 4.5G / 4.9G or 5G ( What ever the decide to call it ) they will have much more capacity.

8x8 MIMO, More Spectrum Refarmed, Multiple CA, (Possible) LTE-LAA / WiFi Off loading, we are talking about 3x to 5x more capacity in the near 2 - 3 years time frame.

But Of course the more capacity, the faster your connection speed, and the more Data you consumed, and more addicted you will be to Data ( News / video etc ). The more likely you will pay more / same for Data. ( They would always want higher or at least flat ARPU rather then race to the bottom )

It really is like selling drugs without you noticing it.
> I use the incredibly cutting edge “Inspect Element” feature of the popular hacking software, Google Chrome, to edit the text of the email but keep the look.

I used do this to fake screenshots as well. People assumed I edited them with Photoshop!
I'm going to venture that it's not even a rounding error.

In fact, in places it will likely have increased the CO2 emissions, again rounding error figures, due to the electricity generation mix and associated losses with generating that electricity (30-60% efficiency), plus transport losses (0.5 - 10%), plus charging loses, plus the efficiency of the motor itself.
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Also, doesn't Germany have unusually strong privacy laws that prevent them from even cooperating with the police if they aren't obligated to? My immediate reaction was, "If you got a German service to hand over user data, you must have done something really bad."
In standard terms from what I understand is 4 year vesting so with 50% ownership that's 50% divided by 4 to get to one year of work....comes to 12.5%... put it forward as industry standard
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Ahh I didn't know that. Still a shame, I love ZFS (probably irrationally) but given it's license some of that goodness has to be reinvented in other projects which just seems unnecessary.
> recycling is not reuse

Reusing the lithium from the batteries means recycling the batteries.
> value-destroying

If you believe it's bad for the buyer (the company) then it must be good for the seller (you, if you participate in the buyback).
Wikipedia says Mandarin has all of /t͡s/ ⟨z⟩, /ʈ͡ʂ/ ⟨zh⟩, /t͡ɕ/ ⟨j⟩, /t͡sʰ/ ⟨c⟩, /ʈ͡ʂʰ/ ⟨ch⟩, /t͡ɕʰ/ ⟨q⟩, /s/ ⟨s⟩, /ʂ/ ⟨sh⟩, and /ɕ/ ⟨x⟩, all contrastive. The fricative and affricate sounds in English that are kinda close to these are only /t͡ʃ/, /ʃ/, /s/, /t͡s/, /ʒ/, and /dʒ/.

I think these contrasts represent a very underacknowledged difficulty for English speakers learning Mandarin, because we're used to thinking of tones as the only hard thing. I'm still struggling to properly pronounce a friend's name that I think begins with /ʈ͡ʂʰ/. Maybe Polish speakers can deal with this easily!
If you're interested in developing good content habits, and not just content tooling, I highly recommend The Information Diet. Short read and very thoughtful. You won't likely agree with everything (I didn't), but it's worth your time:

http://informationdiet.com/
That's completely understandable. To tell you the truth, we would also want to provide the GIFs without a watermark. However, we need to create brand awareness. Let's hope we will get to the point when we can remove it very soon :)
Maybe he violated WannaCry's terms of service. The DoJ are pretty down on that kind of thing.
They do, but I don't like supporting services that opt you in to spam automatically.
They are sized for bigger installations, but time shifting energy consumption using ice storage is basically an available commercial product.

Here's one company that makes them.

http://www.calmac.com/
remember the butterfly ballot?
There are absolutely details:

> Motherboard verified that a detainee called Marcus Hutchins, 23, was being held at the Henderson Detention Center in Nevada early on Thursday.

So at least we know he was detained.

This one relies on a friend, so presumably it's "less verified" as far as these things go:

> A few hours after, Hutchins was moved to another facility, according to a close personal friend.

I don't know if Motherboard has tried to contact Hutchins, though.
you can still send the SHA1
Why are people in this thread so outraged without knowing any of the facts? For all we know there might be a legitimate charge on which he was arrested.

As per him being untraceable, if he was not read his rights then the FBI just jeopardized their own case. If no one knows where he is, it's more likely that it's what Marcus wants at the moment rather than what the FBI wants.
This reminds me of Kevin Mitnick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick#Arrest.2C_convic...

Do we need to create some "Free Marcus" bumper stickers?
Thanks, I won't give up on Haskell yet. You make a good point that should have been obvious to me: the extensions are confined to the module boundaries.
Switch statements are fine for simple tasks like the one in the example, especially earlier in a project where you do not know what you need in the future. You can always switch it to the correct pattern in version 2 as that way its better understood what hidden needs the code in question has, thus making it easy to pick a good OOP patern to replace it.

Then again, my jugment might be colored by working on codebases that are >21 years old.
How are they inapplicable to modern biology?
Yes, Polish is the worst. Serbian has ć—č and the voiced equivalent spelled đ—ǆ, but it doesn't have ś—š and it doesn't have nasals.
Doing it on a vacation vs living it every single day are two very very different things... I mean, I absolutely love camping and multi-day back country hiking. But I sure wouldn't want to live in the bush 24/7!
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(1) What if we gave everyone a voter uuid that they could verify on a website where hundreds of millions of other voteruuids and votes are posted for verification
In the last three decades battery technology was mostly about powering small, lightweight gadgets. Now that there's massive amounts of money to be made with car batteries and grid-level storage, I certainly expect some great battery technologies that focus on that in the next decade or two.

That's also why I don't care about all these fears about us not having enough lithium: nobody is going to power the world on lithium, it's just the cheapest method right now because of the massive amounts of research money already dumped into it, and great economies of scale. Other technologies will catch up as their use-cases become more valuable.
French, or, if you will, FRANCAIS (note the lack of cedilla) is the same.
w3schools won because they have absolutely nailed their design. Compare:

https://www.w3schools.com/JSREF/jsref_slice_array.asp

The very first thing is an example. The contrast of the fonts is easy on the eyes. You'll be definitely writing code using this method within minutes.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...

The very first thing you see is a huge green box "Why does MDN look different?", which is completely irrelevant to what I'm looking for. Scrolling down reveals thin gray on gray fonts which make the page hard to read. The amount of information is excessive if you're in a hurry.
The default is to email you every time someone you support publishes anything on Patreon. You turn this off, but the annoying thing is that you need to turn it off separately for each person you support.
"Is he wrong? Did Tesla not prove to the rest of the auto industry that electric cars are not only viable but also profitable and inevitable?"
No, they didn't.

Nobody doubted they were viable or profitable, only desired. If TSLA accomplished anything, it was convincing people they are desired. That demand definitely did not exist before TSLA.

Your comment implies all these things were already the case. That electric was "always inveitable", and tesla just proved it. That's, IMHO, quite wrong.

as is this:
"Would we have the Bolt, Spark, Fiat e500, eGolf without Tesla?"

You understand, for example, the bolt started design in 2012, right?

IE At the same time the model S did.

Others in your list are similar.

It's like saying success of the iPhone caused Google to release Android.

I'm with the OP, every single one of these threads seems some combination of cultish love for tesla and messianic adoration of elon.

As a complete outside observer, the distinct impression i get is of people who always loved electric cars, etc, who felt like the rest of the world was "wrong" about something, thinking they have now been proved "right" about something.

The only practical difference between TSLA and the other auto makers I see is that the others by and large followed demand (IE they wait for people to want a thing, then build that), and TSLA was able to create some demand.

That's awesome and a testament to great PR/etc. But it's pretty also pretty normal successful startup behavior,and may or may not be related to any of the "moral goodness" people see in electric vehicles.
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Isn't that just a dividend at that point? In the real world investment funds have fairly complex dividend rules (how much is reinvested in the fund, how much is skimmed for fund manager fees, etc), and regulations have managed to force such funds to disclose all of those policies up front (prospectus) and keep them up-to-date.

In the other fork in this discussion thread, the banking analogy: we're talking about an exotic interest payment of sorts. Again here, banking regulations require banks to disclose interest rates and payment details and management fees up front for accounts. But banks in the real world are largely allowed to reap the majority of profits from an investment that goes well, and doesn't have to apply much if any of that back to the savings accounts from which it utilized stored funds to fund that investment.

Which is to say that Coinbase may be doing nothing wrong according to either real world analogy, with the big difference being the "wild frontier" of existing in an under-regulated space with fewer up-front disclosure guarantees.
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Toyota may have had a part in that... The stage was set before TSLA was a household stock symbol.
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> Hopefully, you feel as passionately as I do about your own stylistic choices.

Nooooo. No. Hopefully the exact opposite. The correct feeling about this is, let's pick a style and move on. Ideally there's a tool that just formats the code according to the style so coders don't even have to do it.

Arguing about style details is absolutely one of the least productive possible things a programming team could do. It's aggravating and pointless. Getting upset that your pet style rule isn't in the official style is egotistical and childish. Code that way on your GitHub when you're not working, if it's so important to you.

This is one thing Go got right.
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Haven't we gotten past the "open source == secure" mindset yet? Yes, open source software can be audited. But secure software is also really really expensive. "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow" has been pretty well repudiated. Finding security bugs and fixing them in open source products is exactly the sort of drudgery that people don't tend to do on their own; it's not fun like adding new features is. Open source is not a silver bullet to add security where other forces are pushing against it. Android is open source, iOS isn't. Which is more secure? I'm not saying that iOS is more secure because it's closed source, I'm just saying that "open source == secure" is overly simplistic.
There is nothing to "acquire" - the private keys are the same, they and they alone already have control over the funds.

"Wait and see" is usually a reasonable stance for companies to take, but in the case of securities splitting in two, withholding the new securities until their value changes - potentially even keeping them yourself - really shows your hand.

Among other things, this split has thrown into relief the stances various exchanges take with regard to their clients, and anyone researching which exchange to use should take a good hard look at moves like this when considering who to invest with.
A weak password can still be cracked given the sha1 hash and a dictionary.
On the plastics front, just look at the news from earlier this week of Lego working to replace all of the plastics used in their toys with bio-plastics (or other non-oil based polymers). A few more efforts like that and plastics won't be anywhere near the driver of oil consumption they are now. That doesn't address shipping (which is horrendously polluting), but if that's the last one standing that's still a massive improvement.
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Except that's not true in the least. They're not paid according to their worth; they're paid according to what they can negotiate. These are two entirely separate things. I guarantee you that at least half the people on this board have a story of someone at one of their jobs who was paid quite handsomely, but was extremely incompetent. TheDailyWTF is filled of stories of "Highly Paid Consultants" who write some of the most WTF-worthy code ever seen.

This blind, religious-like faith in the "free market" you exhibit doesn't serve to help anyone.
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For more fun with FP checkout lodash fp https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide

Also read about using flow over chain
> You can even use it in a virus-ridden Windows machine.

FTFY.
Wow... how long until nobody intelligent wants to visit the US for any reason? We really are on the edge of become an intellectual backwater.

I can easily see the day when all of the major security events move out of the US. And I have a hunch that will just be the beginning.
Being German does not preclude you from being ignorant of post war German history. Google it. You can find lots of information on the Allied occupation of Germany. It wasn't until the Berlin airlift that feeding Germans became fashionable. My dad was in WW2 on the American side. He ended as a guard in a POW camp after the war. He'd have denied the starvation too but it did occur.

Eisenhower did want, initially, for Germany to be an agrarian society. He wasn't the only one with this view. Morganthau was not the only person with this idea.
By the way, I was on the big island of Hawai‘i last month and I drove past Pszyk Road. As well as I can discover, this was named for a Polish immigrant whose descendants now have names like Harmony Wai‘olohe Pszyk.
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In Iran and NK detention without rights is an institutionalized practice. In US if you deny them a phone call immediately, you just threw away your own case.
I don't come from a protestant country, "the end is nigh" does not really ring a bell in catholic countries.

The technological singularity, originally, comes from a very practical observation by Vernor Vinge, who was explaining that as a SF author, once humanity reaches the point where it can make intelligent machines that improve themselves, he hits a "horizon event" that he is not intellectually equipped to look beyond.

I have a hard time finding a good counterargument to it: the emergence of self-improving AIs of human or super-human capabilities will be an extremely strong and fast change in human progress. That much is true.

So yes, the hopes one can place in it look similar to the hopes of the religious eschatologists, but using this similarity to reject the argument is just an association fallacy.
Yes, this is an excellent idea. I had read somewhere (other posters here make this point) that we could give this UUID to each voter. Then, we could give voters a way to verify their vote in the final tallies. This way, if enough voters see their vote has been changed, we could detect government interference, hacking, or other forms of fraud.
Sounds like a good way to make sure that admission decisions are not being made based on race. Sadly there are a lot of people who are explicitly trying to make sure that admission IS based on race.
Ask HN: An alternative to skype for cross platform video chat?
My brother recently moved abroad and we've been keeping in touch with Skype and duo, but both have issues. Skype has poor call quality and duo is not available on windows. The call quality is far better for duo but we all have trouble seeing and heading each other on tiny screens / speakers.

Is there a better service that we can use on laptops? Ideally we'd like to set up something that can connect to the TV so the whole family can see from a distance.

I'd even consider some kind of custom hardware if it wasn't too pricey, maybe a raspberry pi / cam module solution that I could hook up to the tv and mount on top?
Slightly off topic and with respect to both the authors, and Philip Greenspun:

"Any sufficiently complicated time-tracking program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode."
I "think" these should be pretty close to Cyrillic ш/щ, ч and ж.
> deep discharges drastically reduce their useful lifespan.

That applies to lead acid batteries. Lithium ones are much more forgiving on that (as long as you stay within design limits.)
The very same airport, in fact.

They accidentally turned off auto-throttle and took far too long to react to the falling airspeed.
Is it possible that you are expecting the cryptography community to be one organized around being newbie-friendly and encouraging to beginners?

The crypto community has repeatedly been burned by overeager beginners with false senses of competence making rather nasty mistakes. Consequences can be dire, from destroying companies to getting people killed. On the lighter end, you have things like Decrytocat.

In some arenas, it's appropriate and a good practice to assume that everyone reading is a beginner who needs 101-level info on everything. Webdev is a good example - CSS, or cascading style sheets, are good for handling the display logic of semantic markup. The stakes are low and the costs for screwing up trivial. With cryptography, it needs to be driven home to the idle reader that this is serious stuff.
This is much more impressive than I think it will get credit for.

I mean really, having an always on, immediate access massive NLP DNN system translating every piece of text from any language on the worlds largest platform is a staggering feat.

Facebook has the most impressive applications of ML right now in my opinion. They have Yann Lecun to thank for that (and Mark for recruiting him).