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Awesome idea... why not introduce a "reproduce bug" mode which basically monitors all things in detail. If people are annoyed enough to send bug reports there is a good chance they will use it if properly presented. If people are not filing bug reports you don't really have a business there... If you generally need more of this telemetry advertise it and use it yourself...

That sounds way more reasonable to me.
I don't believe the stock market is a stable or good place to invest (anymore).

I think the historic performance figures of the US stock market related to the unusually positive world position of the country after the last world war.

There was a baby boom, there was a space race, there was a 'cold war' and lots of planned spending and many tech advances.

I've seen an unending series of bubbles (and suspect they were happening even when I was a kid); the baby boomers looking for places to invest for a quick return, only to have their nest eggs smashed by the greedy sales people who (I at least hope) believed those were actually sound investments even though they should have known better.

Thus, I see the stock market as almost a casino; with odds rigged for the rich with not-quite insider trading.

My 'retirement plan' is to keep working, and to keep working, and to maybe live long enough that real socialism can happen after automation eats every job I don't want.
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This is also a fun project to build a virtual machine for. I've been working on one, but haven't finished it yet. Not too complex, but very educational.
I try to understand each line as I type it. If I don't, I go stare at the documentation until I do.
The article mentions the fear of exposure with emails being hacked. There are plenty of cases of people being 'outed', which is the chilling factor involved here. People don't trust their tools so can't use them to express their opinions. They lose their voice and the ability to challenge conventional thinking.
> I'm not sure what you imply. Most OOP languages where people tell you not to use inheritance, but composition instead, so java, c++, c#, etc. In those languages inheritance can be used to create forms of product types, but also to share and override behaviour hierarchically. They can also create sum types, and all possibility of hybrids, like weird mix of sum and product types, partially closed, etc.

My point wasn't to give an exhaustive list of use cases for inheritance (which would require a small essay); I was pointing out that "composition over inheritance" is a nonsensical statement, just as (say) "loops over modules" would be, as it's a qualitative comparison of orthogonal concepts.
I don't expect to live in the same country 5 years from now. I currently live in Taiwan, and hope to move to New Zealand at the end of the year. My dad told me I should think about retirement, but I see no reason to save for retirement when I can barely pay for the visa application. I've already made the lifestyle sacrifices - I don't even have a driving license, I can't afford to marry, and I travel once or twice a year only to visit parents.

Once, I had money that I thought I didn't need for a year. It was a scholarship from university, awarded simply because I studied engineering. I decided to invest it. I bought $1000 of gold, and $1000 of shares. I wanted to buy Apple shares, but the banker at UBS told me that I would have to pay huge fees simply to get the shares - unless I bought shares in the bank, which had no fees. But that was 2008.

The bank shares went down to $300. The gold went up to $1070. It was a terrible investment. I lost all trust in bankers.

During that year, I went on exchange programme to California and some situations in life meant that I desperately needed the money. But it was locked up in shares and gold, and I couldn't get to it. So now I just keep a current account. Major life problems happen to me quite regularly, and I can't have my resources locked away when I need them.

Maybe I'll be able to save after I settle down somewhere. But I also wonder whether just giving it all away to friends would provide a better investment. Social capital is resistant to inflation, war, banking crises, environmental disasters, and everything else I expect to happen during my lifetime.
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The graphs showing what different ages groups have saved for retirement seem to forget that older people have had more time to save.
Whenever you legally work in China, after a certain amount of time (don't remember the details) and regardless of your citizenship, you will receive a fixed amount of money when you retire, according to the amount of time you worked and your salary. Interesting thing is, foreigners can apply to get their money anytime they want when they stop working, not sure if that applies for Chinese citizens. Their is also a "housing" fund supposed to help for paying your mortgage or rent, paid by the employer.
All this is managed by the government but you can improve it using private retirement plans and insurances, however employers cannot (shouldn't) be allowed to not sponsor the government one.

It is in some ways similar to some Western European countries, like France, where you are supposed to get money from the government once you have worked a certain amount of time and you decide to retire. I guess it differs a lot in the execution though.
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https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PunchNazis

Pretty active, I'd say.
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So much has been written by and about Churchill that, short of some new revelations (like Magic), adding to the pile is hardly worth it.

If you want to learn about Orwell, read Orwell. He does write about himself occasionally, and rather critically.
Hmm... Contracts tend to favor those with more power. I worry that the wealthy will see those less fortunate not as a potential engine to accelerate overall growth, but as a burden, and, with the weakening of workers rights and unions accelerated by the trends you mention, the new social contract may be less beneficial then even current circumstances.

In which case I'm sure there will be those who blame immigrants, people of color, the government, unions, etc. Certainly it won't be the wealthy who are blamed, they will be instead admired for their supposed acumen, despite the fact that the majority of the wealthy inherit their wealth, and that majority has been rising. https://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2014/03/inequalit...
While I probably don't earn as much as OP, when I compare myself to my friends, I earn more than most and still spend less, living on about half my income too.

Main differences in lifestyle are I don't buy shit (I don't even shop online at all most of the time so no temptation, when I consider buying an item I ask myself "do i really need this" and most often find that I don't, I try to get most items from nearby businesses, I don't subscribe to stuff may it be paying services or even newsletters, hell I even found half of my furniture on the streets or second hand), I cook like 90% of my meals (takeaway is an extra 2-3 times per month average, I bring my food to work, I try to do as much as possible from scrap), I don't spend as much time/money in bars or other social activities as them, and I don't take trips across the globe (I am lucky enough to have enough family-owned places to spend my vacations at, I also avoid flying far for ecological reasons).
Every once in a while there's an article like this. St, use it how ever you want as long as makes you productive.
Recovering from a skid is not something you read about. It is an instinctive response that you have to practice to do.
> The whole western world is in for a rude awakening in the coming years with regards to retirement.

No kidding. Who will pay for all the people who didn't save? The people who did. I have very little expectation of keeping most of my money as I get older.
In the UK the benefits of paying into a pension are tax based, you don't pay tax on what you put in, and you then take it out at a lower tax threshold on retirement (compared to what you would pay to have it in your pay packet).

If you are a higher rate tax payer this is a huge benefit - you can take up £40k before it becomes taxable, tax for high earners can be 40% - but it doesn't really help people on lower incomes who are at most risk of not having any savings.
giving it all away to friends? terrible idea. Most often in life, you are on your own.
I'm from the UK and have little to no savings. What has helped me to save is using a Messenger bot called Plum. It looks at my income and outgoings and will save little bits of money when it thinks is the best time to take it out. It also knows exactly what amount to take out at the time as well and is super clever. I have managed to save just over £200 over the period of 5 months which may not seem like a lot, but it's the most I've saved and has helped me a lot.

Imagine how much I can save in 5 years if I don't take anything out and this is without having to lift a finger or even think about what I need to do in order to start saving. If America has anything like this, then I recommend you try it out.
Dating site for muslims? When did YC start funding for ideas like these?

Don't the normal dating sites already cater to everyone?
Luckily social Security is there and spouses that don't work receive 50% of the benifits so there's a big chunk of the 1 in 3. Add up all your yearly earnings capped at $110k today's dollars, convert to today's dollars, divide by 420. Take 90% of first 850, 33% of 850-5200, and 16% of the rest. If you've worked minimum wage for your entire life and your spouse stays at home, that's still 95% of your yearly income. If you have home equity that means no mortgage payments or even a potential reverse mortgage.

If you are Middle class, can move to lower CoL too. It's really not that big of a problem if we increase age/decrease benifits for extremely high earners
It's taken a screenshot of itself, but it needs to climb higher so that we can see it recurring inside of itself

http://hackernewsgrid.com/screenshots-compressed/52bbadf90a3...
This seems to be the "classic" story told whenever modern productivity growth is discussed - "electricity took a long time to show up in the productivity figures so it's not surprising {computers, internet} is taking a long time to show up also".

On the other hand, some technologies - especially military ones - have transformed specific sectors very fast. We go rapidly from the first powered flight to WWI dogfights, Dreadnought requires the world powers to rebuild their navies, penicillin transforms survival rates for bacterial infections, radar (in the UK) goes from a proof of concept in 1935 to a fully deployed system that changes the outcome of WWII in 1940. And these are just a few examples.
Nothing to say about due process then?
> Same stands for dsls, macros, multimethods, I can mean any feature in any language. HKTs are just one tool of many.

Would you say those features have no business value then? I've met enough business problems that were best modelled with HKT that I don't believe a language without an equivalent feature could be as effective.

> Any built-in language feature. For example no matter what I do `implicit` will be a reserved keyword and the language will make use of it. I can't opt out.

Almost all languages have some keywords. But yeah, implicit is a language-level feature. It's got a very high power-to-weight ratio though; it has valuable use cases (typeclasses, extension methods, the magnet pattern) that couldn't otherwise be done in plain old code, unless all those things were their own language-level features.

> In Clojure on the other hand there is [spec](https://clojure.org/guides/spec) for example. If I want it I import it and all of its features are defined in terms of Clojure itself. The whole language feature is a library. I can add [the language itself](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.clojure/clojure/1.8.0) as a library to my project (which is what I do with Kotlin) and use all of its features like the STM, or persistent data structures. Can you do the same with scala? I doubt it.

Plenty of Scala things are libraries, you absolutely can import the scala standard library and use its collections, its async implementation or the like from another JVM language (though they may not be terribly idiomatic there). I don't really see the distinction you're drawing?

> Name some special cases in Kotlin which are problematic. I can't name a single one from the top off my head despite the fact that I use the language for more than a year.

Nullable types are a special case that doesn't compose properly (null is expected to be used for errors but if you write generic code that does that and then one of the values you pass in is null then you've got a bug), and a special case in the syntax (can't write your own type that allows ?. if you want to e.g. include a reason-for-failure message). Platform types for Java interop are a special case (you can't always pull out repeated calls to a Java method into a utility method without changing the meaning). Extension methods are a special case (can't use them to implement an interface). Operators are a special case (can't have an interface that requires them).
I have five columns on my 1920x1080 screen using Firefox, dont know if that makes a difference.
>Is that not what apple is doing?

I don't know, is it? How would I check, if I consider apple an untrusted actor?
And this is why you should buy real estate rentals: live for free and get money for little effort.
I used an Instagram heatmap to find places to visit/look at during a holiday, I would guess if one adds a "time heatmap" one can see which weeks/months are quieter and which are busier.
But they do have a new iPhone the week it comes out, right?
First: I like the name!

That said, it is a bit unfortunate to fork or at least to try to fork a project like Node.js over these reasons. Although it is quite likely that the fork was mainly created to pressure the Node-devs to remove rvagg from the project after all.

What puzzles me: Even if we agree that rvagg violated the Code of Conduct, I am not sure that this should be enough to remove him from the TSC (Technical Steering Committee). Here are the alleged violations, so that you can decide for yourself: https://twitter.com/ohhoe/status/899748838302302212.
I'm thinking gas stations will stop selling garbage and start selling actual food, since charging takes longer and people will be hanging around for a little while.
One can try to work endless nights on a project, take initiatives and responsibilities, play the politics, compete with peers, all the while trying to keep their boss happy and hope they will get lucky and get a pay rise and a promotion. Then rinse and repeat on a more difficult level.

Or, one can study algorithms and practice coding exercises for a couple of years and jump ships with a pay rise and potentially a promotion, then continue studying, become even better at interviews and keep riding the wave.
Demand only 100% remote jobs or quit and start your own consultancy
I seem to be missing something when the two bit scheme is introduced it's said that it's the same as the one bit scheme except for storing two bits (seems logical), but then the index in the lookup table seems to involve both the branch index (already the case in the one bit scheme) and the branch history (as far as I can see never introduced).
People not being able to talk to one another is definitely a big part of it. Another thing to think about is how much the mediums of communication have changed since the PC era began.

I don't think people appreciate just how much communicating in a specific format begins to change the way you think and perceive the world. If you talk frequently in a medium limited to 140 characters, that will affect the way you think and set up communication. Same goes with pictures, or only video. The means by which we interact and shape the world also shape us at the same time. Are we that surprised then that an outrage and drama driven culture emerge from tools that are driven by instant emotional reactions?

Another thing to think about. With everyone having access to the ability to mass produce and distribute content to the world, what you consume begins to matter more and more. If all you want to eat is mental junk food, then you have all the mental junk food you could ever want for eternity. No one is going to stop you. No one at the internet companies want to stop you. People have never had to watch for this sort of thing before. Are we surprised that people binge on content that strengthens their world view and neglect views that challenge their own? There is no way a balanced view of the world can survive when people don't think about what they spend their time consuming and adjust.

There is a lot more going on. It's a multi-system problem that feeds into itself and other systems at the same time.
Let me describe a hypothetical attack.

E knows of some critical security update that needs to be installed in sensitive locations.

E also knows of some attack on the hashing algorithm that is in use by the filesystem to craft a small block containing mostly garbage but some key bits that they would like to control. (Yes this is the hypothetical, but prior algorithms /have/ fallen).

E thus arranges to have this 'duplicate' block stored before routine and predictable maintenance patterns.

A installs the updates and the 'duplicate' file is now E's datastream, but A's intended credentials.

E has caused system corruption, and potentially privilege escalation.
I think one of the backstops that would ordinarily prevent online mobs getting out of hand is good journalism. In the case of James Damore, I think there was a lot of shoddy journalism going on due to some combination of laziness, a desire to stir up controversy to drive ad views, a desire not to present complex ideas that readers might find uncomfortable, and willfully misunderstanding a point of view that's unpopular.

I'm inclined to put most of the blame on the rise of clickbait journalism. Explaining all sides of an issue takes effort, but feeding people enough information to make them angry while allowing them to fill in the details according to their own imagination is easy and cheap.
While doing circuit training, a student pilot can do 5 training circuits of 6 mins each using 30 minutes of battery. They'll probably be so overwhelmed and fatigued afterwards (well, I was anyway) that their day's training is over. That's five or six exhausted student pilots per exhausted battery. :)
The only new thing was a capacitive touchscreen, which allowed more responsiveness to a touch input. It just came along at the right time.
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I the first costumers almost by just releasing the app, because the community was small and anything "new" would definitely sell at least 1 copy.

The product(s) being of high quality still have sales after some years.
This reads more like an advertisement than something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" (from the guidelines).

I might be wrong though, since I am not too familiar with the etiquette here, just wanted to point it out.
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A fairly small side project to display a bunch of outputs from deep models in 3D space, for easy exploration. Admittedly less slick than a previous such thing (http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/) and not really useful, but I think it's pretty fun.
And I don't get the mentality where I should justify why I don't want my tools to report what I am doing.

I'm ok with testing things and sending feedback, but when I switch to a production environment, I just want my tools to behave like my tools, not the testing farm for somebody else.

Why should I prove to you that it would harm me? I just do not want it, it should be enough.
Wasted? Isn't that exactly among the things you need to learn?
> the KKK and those guys with the swastika face-tattoos

They, and the violent parts of anti-fa, are not the only groups.
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Yes! It's looking really good so far, I hope you'll continue to update it!
slightly joking, but still semi serious i wonder if the 1 in 3 that are obese are the same group. Spend it all, eat it all, i guess it is comparable.
> Young people don't save

Balancing that equation, however, one can expect--ceteris paribus--those people to have some combination of lower (a) taxes to fund education for the next generation or (b) costs associated with having to pay for their respective kids' college costs (since those kids will also take on debt to finance education). Blowing a hole in this model is the increasingly-glaring reality that today's generation will have received no support from the last one, thus being forced to finance its education and have to pay for the next generations' educations.
Yes, due process whenever possible. This is directly talking about any moral failings of a justice system though, so due process outside of the justice system looks very different based on context.
Looks like he just used the wrong picture -- used the picture from "two-level adaptive, global" instead.
What makes this even worse is that a lot of "savings" that people DO have put away for retirement are in the form of pensions, bonds, and other financial obligations that are underfunded and mostly illusory. You need look no farther than the state of Illinois to see just how bad the situation can get. A lot of people who think they have pensions and other payments coming from the state of Illinois (and soon, many other states, cities, and municipalities) are going to be very, very disappointed. We are drowning in debt on every level, both personal and governmental, and the FED and other central banks are running out of ways to make it seems like it isn't a big problem.
Do you know of any way to automate it (besides scripting a full browser)?
If you want a good place to go to look into getting more for your financial future that's UK relevant, the /r/ukpersonalfinance reddit has a really amazing flowchart and they're really helpful.
I think it was possible to assign the points in a roll to whatever stats you wanted, so a high total was basically all that mattered. If memory serves 18 str did have a random modifier (e.g. 18/50) so that 18 wasn't equal for all rolls. However it probably didn't take long to find a strength boosting item, and 19 str was the same regardless of the modifier you had at 18.
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When you don't have enough to survive it's difficult to argue that taking what you need is immoral.
If we stop pulling oil out of the ground efficiency will become everything. The whole western economy is based on cheap energy.
An astute observation -- applies to more than just open source. Doesn't it seems to sum up the western society in general these days, or am I becoming a grumpy old man?

The sense of automatic entitlement, with no expectation of reciprocity or putting in the hard work (in open source or otherwise), appears pervasive.
> I have very little expectation of keeping most of my money as I get older.

Welcome to the world of Bitcoin and Monero.
Who could possible afford 3 children these days?
While every case is different the 'interest saved' + federal tax saving on a 15v30yr mortgage do not compare favourably to compounding that money towards retirement.

In general terms, you're leaving ~5% on the table during the 15yr term. That 50-100k you saved could have turned into ~500k upon retirement
Yes, 13% of one's income, but since the start of economic crisis in 2014 all pension accumulation has been frozen, i.e. for the last 3 years all contributions went to sustain the current system without going into savings.