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Of all the niches one might worry JS will/has claimed an unavoidable status.... native mobile app development doesn't seem like it should be high on the list.

Any language with as critical a mass among devs will probably see tools to help people leverage it across different environments, so JS will likely continue to move into and live in all sorts of niches. But it's quite avoidable on the server, desktop, native mobile, embedded, and it's even becoming partially avoidable on the web.

You're safe enough that you don't have to make everyone else dislike it in order to not have to touch it.
Can you give an example of how Mr. Gruber covers something "day-to-day" well? Not that examples don't exist, but I have a pretty unhappy relationship with more touchy-feely metrics.

Example: battery life. A good description of how battery life is dealt with in most reviews is "awfully": battery life depends on a crazy number of details that it is really hard to properly capture "day-to-day" usage in a review. A person that rarely uses their phone vs. one that plays games all day vs. one that uses the web browser all the time vs one that uses navigation all the time vs one that snapchats all day are going to see very different battery life performance; unless the phone is atrociously bad (which has happened before, too), it's hard to be able to properly gauge battery life.
Pretty much all of Expedia owned sites do this too. Hard to avoid when Expedia/Priceline own most of them.
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Not all instances of playing with something are equal. In terms of total interactions the females played with both the same number of instances but they also played with the dolls a significantly longer period of time.
I think OO when done right looks very much like FP. The problem is that OOP is just as hard as FP to write since most languages that claim to be OO languages are actually heavily procedural in nature.
Why it’s so hard for Americans to save for retirement
This makes little financial sense to me. At Tesla's scale, the cost to commoditize AI chips out-weighs the gains from commodity AI chips as they will not be dirt cheap. Tesla sells less than 100K cars every year. A decent datacenter with AI chips hosts tens of thousands boxes.
Yes, so many/most phones and laptops would be compromised. But there are also plenty of computers in every form that aren't plugged into anything at all and completely invulnerable.

It would be devastating but nothing we couldn't rebuild from.
Interesting to see Melbourne Australia in some of the maps.
I think these latest sets of wifi flaws are interesting if it turns out they are exploitable by merely being in radio range of an attacker even without joining a malicious network or requiring user interaction. That could quickly become a fast and wormable attack. You could probably flood across an entire city jumping from chip to chip in no time.

Especially now that iOS 11's wifi-off button in the control center no longer actually disables the radio, but merely disassociates from the current access point.
Interesting. A bit worse than Swift and Objective-C. Objective-C has to promise `nonnull` otherwise it's shown as `ObjectType!` which basically means we treat it as non-null but it could be null and can be checked for null.

Methods marked `nonnull` can still be nil sometimes, it's just a promise. Hard bugs to fix. Found one in an Apple framework where I could not think of anything else than comparing the address with 0x00000000 to see if it was nil.
I've just been booking directly from hotels I trust because of this. Used to use hotels.com but they've gotten really bad recently. Can costs a bit more from the hotel but most of the time price is on par. End up getting more room upgrades when booking directly anyways - at least with hilton.
Steve Yegge likes Kotlin...
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
Yeah, I think more hierarchy is probably necessary and at some point people in that hierarchy need to be paid.

Twitter is my main social network, and there the lines are very fuzzy. There aren't distinct subreddits based on topic, there is just your follow list and that is always changing. Harassment is bad on twitter, and I think that's partially because it isn't contained to little communities but is all in the big stream by default.

I don't know what the right solutions are for harassment, but there haven't been any effective ones tried so far.
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You can structure franchise agreements in a way that gives you control.

There's some evidence pizza chains do that. http://www.bluemaumau.org/15086/jury_smacks_domino’s_death_s...

Or they could just give franchise owners enough incentive to participate.
Maybe he just wants to focus on cooking interesting food to a high quality, and less on the many factors that might also hurt his rating. Doesn't sound like he'll be hurting for customers, so what's the point of having the ranking?
Anecdotal, and nothing super groundbreaking, but my HTC One M9 has a camera I'd say gives the iPhone the besg running for its money out of any Android I've seen. The phone is also an absolutely solid build...many years of ownership and I've never had a case, yet I've dropped it on at least six occasions with no problems. I'd say HTC is the Nokia of smart phones when it comes to durability. Finally, the software experience--up until ATT nearly FUBARed it with OTA trash--has been extremely pleasing.

So it's an elegant phone at a price a few hundred dollars cheaper than an iPhone with honestly a very similar feel all around. Unfortunately, though, I don't plan to buy a new version beyond what is currently available if they are vacuumed up by Google.
If by "isn't on" you mean "turned off by the OS", that wouldn't do anything. Intel ME operates despite whatever the OS is doing. You'd have to physically disconnect the modem, put the device in a faraday cage, completely remove power source, etc.
I really like the captchas. I regularly answer them incorrectly but "correctly" to F up Google's training. Just doing my small part really.
If you'll notice in all of my comments here, I've been careful to say "markets" and not "free markets". I've also tried to steer clear of specific opinions about levels of regulation or taxation or the value provided by certain social programs.

If you want to discuss the merits of a specific regulation, tax or social program, I'm happy to do that, but I haven't addressed any of those things as of yet.

Since China switched to a market economy, a huge chunk of their massive population has escaped poverty. Some of those markets are highly regulated, but they are still markets. Nothing about China's recent growth is incompatible with the views I've expressed in this thread thus far.
That's what I meant by saying that I'm not sure Metafilter's voice is appropriate for everywhere.

And I think that you reveal yourself a bit when you say that it's ideological. I do think that most of the moderators on MF have a similar ideological bent, but my experience with their moderation is not so much that they shut down views that they disagree with but rather that they maintain civility, and stop conversations from repeating previous conversations.
Nope, so this is going to be interesting to watch. Personally I was hoping that they would offer an optional download of 32bit support libraries to let iOS11 users run important existing legacy apps and access their documents, but they seem to push hard on making developers get in line and update their apps. Which is unhelpful for the cases where the developers no longer have any interest in their apps or even exist (bankrupt, disbanded, in some cases deceased)
Millennials spend three times more of income on housing than grandparents
I agree with everything you said, economically you are right, markets are the economy and you can't have a market with only one actor. But a market can turn unhealthy, at least from the point of view of a democracy. Many profit from its ever growing influence and usually the political class is not strong enough to counter its push.
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This is a weird comment since you've purposefully included many Haskell extensions that are in no way part of the "core" language.

Hindley-milner, ADTs, type classes, and laziness are core i.e. part of Haskell 2010. GADTs aren't even part of core Haskell. So I guess it is simpler than Ocaml after all!
Just off the top of my head some things that HTC did before anyone else:

* First LTE phone in america (Thunderbolt)
* Dual front speakers (BoomSound)
* Low-MP camera (Ultrapixel)
* Unibody aluminum phone (One M7)
* Squeezable edges (U11)
* Glasses-free 3d display (Evo 3d)

I am sure I am forgetting some.

HTC has always had really nice hardware on their phones and once in a while they get the software right too. While a lot of these innovations have failed in the market, in the right hands they could all be just what Google (or some other company) needs to get in front of this market.
Only started seeing them when I moved to LA--they by far have the oldest delivery vehicles, some with noticeably worn out suspension parts.
The creator of the site was on here today posting about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15295146

Weird seeing a repost on the website where a lot of the story unfolded on the same day.
There's some incorrect information in the article regarding UPS driver salaries. Drivers can make more than $100k/year if they work overtime. Some drivers make more than managers for similar amounts of work due to their being hourly.

This is all hearsay from the UPS driver that worked the route while I was clerking in a warehouse. He also seemed much happier than the FedEx drivers, both of which were pretty grumpy. He was also a lot more helpful and we often asked him to delay our pickup for last minute orders, which was something the FedEx drivers would never do.
I suspect the number of influential representatives in a body is something like sqrt(n). When Pericles lived, the Athenian assembly was similarly large but only a handful were consistently influential (like Pericles)
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Title needs editing, it's from 2000!
correct, Socialism according to Marx is not 'the government does stuff'. 'the government does stuff', when the private sector is replaced by government functions, is really State Capitalism (because the state controls the means of production, not the workers). In fact, it was Stalin that declared 'when the state is in charge, we got socialism'. It confused everybody but it's wrong.
This article was written in 2004. Starting In 2005 FedEx got in a bunch of misclassification lawsuits over using 1099 contractors, today they have lost over $453 Million to these settlements. http://www.talentwave.com/fedex-worker-misclassification-cas...
Richard Stallman back with another story here. I want to talk about something a little more personal to me this time. Lately I've been under a lot of stress. Being the Jesus of free software takes it's toll. Between karate neck slamming Bill Gates, desecrating Steve Jobs' corpse and writing epic fucking software you start to get worn down l. So last week I was chillin with my buds Tyrone and Jamal. We were discussing the possibility of applying to GPL to as many quamtum algorithms as we could before the jews patent them when Tyrone noticed I looked run down. He asked if i'd been sleeping lately and I confessed that stress had been taking it's toll. They both nodded knowingly and said say no more. Tyrone went and made a call and about 20 minutes latrr a fellow named Victor showed up. Tyrone exchanged some money for a few small bags and Victor was on his way. A few short minutes later I took my first hit of Crack Cocaine.

Now if you've never smoked crack before the only way I can describe the feeling is....picture getting sucked off by 3 women while a 14 year old thai hooker gives you the best damn prostate massage you've ever had. And if you've never had your asshole caressed softly by the nimble, skilled fingers of a 14 year old thai prostitute....well that's an experience you'll never forget.

So for the rest of the night the three of us smoked crack and discussed amazing new algorithms for data compression in the HURD kernel. It was magical. I've spent the last week completely rewriting glibc for fun it's almost 500,000 lines now. I should he ready to push a commit sometime Friday. Lately though the fucking snakes been on my mind. I've really been opened up to how much the jews have really been fucking us.

Basically if you want to program like fucking jesus go down to some bad neighborhood, meet some n I gg ers and smoke some fucking rock. I mean fuck look at me I'm Richard Fucking Stallman do you know how many nerds have jerked off to my fucking beard?

I am fucking Jesus!!!
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Hoboken, New Jersey may have the most pizza per capita of any city in the United States. You can try most of the pizza spectrum there, and aside from the franchises it's real pizza -- made on premises.
Venezuela's socialist policies made the entire economy dependent on the wisdom of the state. When the state erred, it meant a much more systemic collapse than would otherwise have happened. If the private sector had been allowed to retain a significant role in the economy, the economy would have had more decorrelated economic forces, which would have made a systemic collapse less likely.

>>I'm not sure where you're getting the idea from other than the oft-repeated myth that Socialism is merely when the government "does stuff".

When Venezuela's economic ministers say things like "the law of supply and demand is a lie" to justify price controls, I assume it's motivated by their socialist ideology, and blame the policy on that ideology.
Takes me a minute or two to do a bad job of solving the captcha... eventually it lets me through.
Yes , I did. She basically said "oh,yes, that's a good idea. We often prescribe it for the condition"
It is not just hedging their bets. One company can't rely on another company. You see it with Apple Maps, Siri, etc...
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OnTrac is the only company where I've had to call dispatch and request that they put a note on our address saying not to throw packages over the 10-foot gate onto hard concrete steps.

And I had to do that 3 times before they actually stopped.
Right -- there are so many problems with boil down to a broken chain of liability.

I mean, just look at the Equifax blow-up, and how companies have rebranded "someone stole from us because of our shitty authentication" into "someone stole your identity, good luck with that."
We do this and have great success with a small SMS/Email application doing ~2mil jobs a day (mostly over a 6hour peak period).

Except, we use postresql's LISTEN/NOTIFY which amazingly is also transaction aware (NOTIFY does not happen until the transaction is committed, and even more amazingly, sorta de-dupes itself!) to move the jobs from the database to the message queue.

This way we never lock the queue table. We run a simple go program on the postgresql server that LISTEN's, queries, pushes to REDIS and then deletes with a .25 second delay so we group the IO instead of processing each row individually.

This also allowed us to create jobs via INSERT FROM SELECT, which is awesome when your creating 50k jobs at a time.
They've actually improved, too! It used to be $499 courses regularly marked down to $15 and similar ridiculous discounts. It wasn't just limited to people using coupon sites either... Udemy was mailing the crazy discounts to people all the time back in 2014-2015.
cmon, too much miss-information to ignore you... the ability to remove the firmware partitions is in no way or form a "backdoor", also you don't need an SPI programmer to perform the mod and the number of partitions you can remove depend on the version.
"By removing literal geography, we now have a map that more closely reflects the way we think about our environment: a cluster of restaurants “five minutes that way” versus “ten minutes the other.”

Oh my.... They just invented the 'list'. Or better yet a list that drives map interactions....oh my and an ordered list too! I could swear I did that like 10 years ago on google maps, but I guess it must have just been a dream.

Seriously, adding a fancy radius dial overlay doesn't really improve much over a plain old ordered list.
Go back to 4chan you stupid cunt. Nobody here wants to read your idiotic shit.
A somewhat tangential thought...

-I feel like I used to see DHL trucks and ads much more often. Did they abandon some of the residential delivery market?
Can you post your code?
Curiously enough, Chavez had similar things to say about state capitalism:

>>“It is impossible, within the framework of the capitalist system, to solve the grave problems of poverty of the majority of the world’s population,” the Venezuelan leader said. “We must transcend capitalism. But we cannot resort to state capitalism, which would be the same perversion of the Soviet Union. We must reclaim socialism as a thesis, a project, and a path, but a new type of socialism, a humanist one which puts humans and not machines or the state ahead of everything."

Socialism is always one execution away from utopia.
I take one twice daily, in the morning and the evening.

I take regular doses. I haven't noticed becoming acclimated.
It is a supplement that I have taken on and off for a decade or so. I decided to take it again regularly a few years ago, after noticing a tendency toward angry mood swings during a period where I was not taking any supplements at all. After observing this, I thought back on my previous supplement usage, and I recalled having a more even mood when I had been using 5-htp and l-theanine, and decided to try it again to see if it evened things out again. It did, and it continues to do so.
I am Richard Jesus Stallman I am your god if you don't like it you free to get ass rapesmd by jews.
Is Intel ME functional on Macs?
That looks perfect, but no shipping to Greece for that one :/ It's so hard finding a good one, too, because of all the different ingredients that it may contain...
Wow - the New Union. I live in Manchester and the place is literally right at the top end of one of Manchester's main clubbing districts (the gay village). "Lively and central" is an understatement. It has a ropey reputation locally as a pub, but you couldn't pay me to stay there. I can see why he's pissed.

I will caveat that I've had some excellent experiences with Booking, but always with very careful cross-referencing with other sites.
Oh man, awesome reference!

I read biographies on Cleopatra and Julius Caesar a couple years back and was amazed how much planning went into Egypt's economy.

The similarities to Venezuela can be pretty interesting! In the ancient world when economies were highly reliant on wealth created by agriculture, the Nile delta was the most fertile land in thousands of miles in any direction. Each year the Nile flooded predictably. When irrigation was plentiful, all of Egypt prospered. When the Nile went through a dryer year, all the peasants working the land starved.

Excellent reference!
Well, first their lead of VP of Design, Scott Croyle quit in 2014:
https://www.engadget.com/2014/04/25/htc-design-head-leaving/

Then his successor, Jonah Becker, left about ten months after:
https://www.engadget.com/2015/03/26/htc-jonah-becker-resigns...

And finally, Google poached one of the lead engineers behind the Vive:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/26/14395134/google-daydream-...

I have no clue if Daniel Hundt, seen here talking about the One M7 design, is still with HTC or not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V95163BU-sY
Who knows. I'm sure there are many economics papers addressing the question. But it's somewhere before you get to the historic inequality levels of today https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GINIALLRF
This brings up one of the more frustrating things manufacturers do, what exactly is a Sony Experia X? The website for my region (https://www.sonymobile.com/au/products/phones/?cpint=mn_sony...) lists:

* Xperia X

* Xperia XA

* Xperia X Performance

* Xperia XZ

* Xperia XA1 Ultra

* Xperia XA1

* Xperia XZ Premium

I have no idea what the compatibility is like between these phones. Are they all variation on a base phone or radically different? Is the X the latest or is the Z? Are we going backwards through the alphabet? There's a lot I dislike about apple, but the one thing they get right is limiting their SKU's.
strange that that post is also missing from the first page of hacker news, even though it's newer and has more votes than some other content on page 1
What's DM?
Probably super illegal when they are selling to EU citizens
I was saying this[0] in the other thread, but I'm not sure this ends with laughs and `aw shucks`es for Nick. Equifax has been remarkably ham-fisted in every regard, from their initial exposure, to their inability to patch, to their getting breached, to their mishandling of disclosure, to their lax and callous response, etc etc etc. Nick's site looked and acted like a real phishing site. Equifax, as well as the court of public opinion and an actual court, might not be able to detect the nuance here and a reasonable case could be made that this was an attempt to phish off of Equifax's debacle.

The NYT writing it up certainly helps his case, but there were probably more tactful ways of going about this.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15297877
What catches HN at the right time is always a little strange. I submitted the gas pump skimmer article four days before it topped HN and got blogged about heavily on other sites.
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To be more precise, there were successes of centrally planned economies, but all in the same circumstances: under-developed countries trying to modernize themselves. It is hard for a central planner to be an innovator, but it is easy to be a follower.

USSR industrialized itself very quickly. China had some success and did not shut down its central planning but hybridized it. South-Korea's steel production is an example of success in state-planning that contradicts market logic. Depending on your metric for success, you can also cite Cuba's life expectancy as it planned to become a medical nation.

Central planning fails when you have to invent new things. New services, new products can't be planned. Very few anticipated internet, almost no one expected cell phone and then smartphones to be that prevalent.

But do not throw away central planning as a systematically failed decision process. It works for :

- big scale infrastructure projects that require little innovation.
- wars
- big research programs: Apollo, Operation Manhattan

Actually, I think that with a public funded, government-supported centrally planned program, we could have deployed a self-driving cars network as early as the 90s.
Rather than a single cut-off you just scale this gradually so there is no single wealthy/not wealthy divide but an increasing expectation to carry social responsibility as your wealth increase.
> Mr. Sweeting explained in his email that a Linux command, “wget,” allows anyone to download the contents of a website, “including all images, HTML, CSS, etc.”

According to my research [0], this is the second time in New York Times history that the word "wget" has appeared in the NYT.

The first time was in 2014:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/snowden-used-low-cost-...

> Evidence presented during Private Manning’s court-martial for his role as the source for large archives of military and diplomatic files given to WikiLeaks revealed that he had used a program called “wget” to download the batches of files. That program automates the retrieval of large numbers of files, but it is considered less powerful than the tool Mr. Snowden used.

[0] http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/wget/since1851/...