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You shouldn't have been downvoted, you're right. Most programming work is the software equivalent of assembling fast food according to spec, and maybe occasionally having to dump out the grease trap.
Maybe sleep is linked to neurons? I did read a comment about plants sleeping but i haven't researched it yet.
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The main benefactor of AOT will be the JVM itself - part of the reason for its sluggish startup time is having to interpret and then JIT a bunch of core libraries.
I can't speak on Breitbart, but as far as Infowars goes -- he makes a killing on those supplements he schleps out, and apparently there are a _lot_ of people who buy them[0]. Sure he acts like a wackjob conspiracy theory nut -- but my guess is, judging by 'former employees' cited in articles and especially by the episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast with author Jon Ronson (both know him personally), he doesn't believe most of the nonsense coming out of his mouth, but that's his character/persona niche; catering to those that would be entertained by it.

0: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/alex-jones-infowars-...
Almost all of these points are based on cherry picked models. These models are very likely wrong. Models for something that has never happened are notoriously incorrect.

I'd rather not find out how inaccurate these models are. I also find your expressions of joy about this quite troublesome.

Why can't we just all agree to ban nuclear weapons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Abol...
I'd say that this article is also attacking Trump by making the jump from 'he criticizes the media' to floating the idea that he probably wants to use the force of law to jail and silence them.
Seems like this might make using passwords compliant with FIPS 140-2. (Not sure, so maybe someone else can share their opinion.) Previously I heard in a few places that people would use LDAP to delegate the auth to something else, e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129906
Not really, because most PEDs have no continuous effect in the body that's synthetic, they all synthetically induce natural effects. For this reason I say that synthetic oxygen carriers should be banned, since you cannot naturally acquire that.
An Analysis of CVE-2017-5638 – how Equifax was hacked
Presumably the SEC will take this particular investigation of (possible) insider trading seriously, because the hack makes them look bad.
By not self-hosting in Rust, it should be easier to bootstrap on a new target. C++ is ubiquitous -- what other language would you choose?
did you read the article?

"I would add, however, that there’s another case for a higher inflation rate — an argument made most forcefully by Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry (pdf). It goes like this: even in the long run, it’s really, really hard to cut nominal wages. Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis."

> Very difficult to measure.

That cuts both ways. Someone decides what 'the relative value' of an iphone vs, say, a motorola razor is. Whether or not that multiplier actually tracks the quality of life. (and they do apply hedonics to inflation measures). You can see how it could be easy to create some arbitrary metric (say, pixel count on the screen, or Mhz processing power) that makes that particular bean counter's manager happy because it 'aligns with the model' (which comes with its own baggage of preconceptions) and looks sufficiently 'sciency'. Promotions all around at the BLS/FED/DoC!

So when you say 'real wages keep up with inflation' and, the general experience of people in society, and predictable social trends (like widening gap between rich and poor) disagree, I would suggest that the person deciding these fudge factors is doing something wrong, and your assertion wages keeping up is suspect.
The book is propaganda intended to draw support for ideas of the era like SDI. You need to read it in context with the era and how people like Teller felt.
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Not looking forward to getting blown to bits dude.
> Ultimately, this just goes to show that the media has become a protected class, which -- just in case it isn't evident -- is a bad thing.

No... no it does not. You might as well have posted pictures of kittens and claim they lead to the same conclusion.
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Even if Oracle were willing to relicense the JVM under more permissive terms, I very much doubt Google/Chromium would agree to include a JVM in Chrome. The experience with applets has been the JVM is difficult to secure for untrusted code execution due to its broad API surface. (Maybe running an untrusted JVM in a sandbox would help with that.) Putting that aside, the JVM is just such a massive code base, I don't think Google/Chromium would want to embed it. And the same comments apply to Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. And the situation with the equivalent proposal for the CLI is broadly similar.

I think what is plausible is that OpenJDK could support wasm as a platform (as a target for JIT and AOT), and similarly so could .Net. Wasm probably isn't mature enough yet for either to succeed, but I can't see why it can't get there.
Because those were most all carefully controlled to prevent such damage. Top of the list: those that were above ground were tested above empty terrain. The bomb doesn't create most of the ash. The burning city under the bomb is where the bulk of sun-blocking ash comes from. No city, no ash, no nuclear winter issues.
Having a lot of money does not remove the bankruptcy problem. Having a family and/or friend support system does. Maybe if you can get four people who will vouch to let you sleep at their place while you recover from bankruptcy would be a better test?

Also, as said elsewhere, society now seems to let people risk big money gambling at casinos when the expected return is always negative.
This is just equivocation.
I made the conscious decision to just skip any plot lines where I wasn't interested. I left over half the writing on the shelf, but I think I enjoyed it more than most people who've read the whole thing.
Yes, and they can be just as dangerous to health. People seem to fail to realize that natural isn't synonymous with harmless, plenty of natural things will kill you so we shouldn't be surprised that 'natural' pesticides are also dangerous, maybe more so as they haven't been through the same safety studies synthetic ones have to go through.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/pesticide...
Yeah, skimming your source it seems most of your loops involve calling some function, and even if that's inlined I believe the Go compiler will put a speculative yield call in there.

I suppose my hypothetical would be an issue if you used a non-Go BLAS implementation, as calling out to C will hog the OS thread. But this is a known issue (e.x. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/the-cost-and-complexity-o...).
What the hell are organic pesticides?
The Dallas metro area holds 7 million people - that's a third of the population of Texas.

A 500 KT air burst will kill probably half of the people in Dallas proper. Three will kill most of them. Ten will kill most of those 7 million people.

[1] http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=500&lat=32.7766642&ln...
Multiple implementations of a compiler lets you implement the "Diverse Double-Compiling"[0] countermeasure to the famous "Reflections on Trusting Trust"[1] attack. You wouldn't necessarily use the C++ implementation in production, but it still improves the security of the Rust language just by existing.

[0] https://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation/html/wh... (previous HN discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12666923 )

[1] http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomps...
I'm really interested in the stablecoin space but I don't think it's realistic to expect bitcoin to have started out as such. Firstly bitcoin was already testing some unknown assumptions (mainly "is our PoW scheme secure and scalable?") and it would be too confounding to also test "is our chosen stability mechanism effective?". Secondly none of the solutions Vitalik mentioned are easy at all; you need decentralized measurement, and all the solutions he presented have problems. Broadly speaking, if it were really easy to create a stablecoin - so easy that you think Bitcoin could have started out as one - a good one should have existed by now, but there's no good one so far. Thirdly, all of Vitalik's solutions require a volatile coin, which would presumably have increased in market cap over time and be subject to boom-bust cycles, all of which you object to. I also think the only approach that would lead to an effective stablecoin (ie one with a good peg) is one that uses other cryptocurrencies, external to the stablecoin, as collateral (eg MKR's approach), and that requires things like bitcoin to exist.
Do you actually know anything about the Rohingya or Burmese history?
> The real journalists are the ones being demonized by the media and government alike (that's how you know they're reporting something actually being hidden away from the people), some of whom are living out their lives locked up in embassies.

There's a subtle implication here that the likes of Julian Assange are "real journalists" and are somehow noble, which is laughable. Assange (and WikiLeaks) have just as much political alignments and motives that all other media organizations have. Just because he's stuck in an embassy and doesn't have hordes of cash behind him doesn't mean he isn't just as biased.

Quite frankly, WikiLeaks as a whole is no more trustworthy than CNN or Fox, and may be even less so. One of the most powerful (and hard to detect) ways to be biased in reporting isn't by printing attack articles against your enemy, but rather by not printing attack articles against your "friends". WikiLeaks does this every time they choose not to publish evidence damning people they support, which I'd be willing to bet happens more often than we all know.

While we're on the topic, WikiLeaks also commits some pretty atrociously biased editorializing whenever they post new material. They used to just be a site that posted raw information ("here are the emails that were leaked"), but now they also add their own silly commentary to it ("here are the emails and this is what you should think about them"), often with hilariously bad analysis.
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What happens if cold storage burns down.
paywall workaround:

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...
Which has constantly made me wonder why we haven't experimented with it as a means of cooling the average global temperature.
What are you talking about? There are obvious and practical limits on 'free speech'. In fact, the Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a "fighting words" doctrine ensuring that speech which is by its nature injurious or likely to cause breach of the peace is not protected.

An excerpt from the 9-0 decision makes a pretty concise case, especially the latter part:

"Allowing the broadest scope to the language and purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment, it is well understood that the right of free speech is not absolute at all times and under all circumstances. There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which has never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or 'fighting' words-those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality. 'Resort to epithets or personal abuse is not in any proper sense communication of information or opinion safeguarded by the Constitution, and its punishment as a criminal act would raise no question under that instrument.' [Cantwell v. Connecticut]"

https://web.archive.org/web/20080906001323/http://laws.findl...

We can argue about definitions of 'obscene', 'likely to cause a breach of the peace', etc. But to treat freedom of speech like an unassailable, all-or-nothing fundamental assumption is not helpful.
Most tests have been performed underground. And for an above-ground test to cause anything close to a nuclear winter, you need a lot more material than the bomb itself and the soil beneath it. Tons and tons of debris would need to be shot up into the atmosphere.

So, the theory of nuclear winter depends on bombs detonating over cities and forests, causing massive amounts of debris, and also inducing firestorms that would act as chimneys for even more smoke and particles to be funneled up into the troposphere and stratosphere.
agreed.
after years of having used Oracle and SQL Server at work, to find I could have a working database in about 10 seconds with

sudo apt-get install postgresql

was amazing to me!
Wow, that was an amazing read. I'm adding Dale Pendell to my list of blogs to follow. Thanks for sharing!
That should work for me! Thanks!
I’m not sure how commercial intent makes him any more palatable? Trump chooses to listen to him regardless.
Why should we assume that they are not?
CC: Equifax
> Tax PIN number and Last year's tax refund -- Pay taxes and do tax refunds

For individuals, your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) defaults to your SSN, and you do not need the previous year's return to file taxes. Not sure where you are coming up with these imaginative claims, and I find it somewhat concerning how confident you feel in bureaucratic design decisions.
I would think you'd still be better off just staying in the house, especially if you can use your garage as a decontamination zone / airlock to avoid bringing a bunch of alpha emitters into the house.

Edit: assuming you're talking about fallout protection rather than the initial gamma burst. For that, yeah, get as many feet of earth between you and the source as possible; a trench will do that even without a vehicle over top.
Trump has explicitly said that he wants to do that

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/comey-memo-press-jail...
The French pension system is based on redistribution. It is not impacted by interest rate but merely by the proportion of workers vs retired people and the wages of current workers. If anything higher interest rate would indicate higher inflation, which would help a loy the pension system. On the other side more unemployment would hurt the pensions badly.
I know DDG's terms gives it permission to add affiliate links to sites you click on, like Amazon. I can't imagine that funds their operation entirely though.

> Similarly, we may add an affiliate code to some eCommerce sites (e.g. Amazon & eBay) that results in small commissions being paid back to DuckDuckGo when you make purchases at those sites. We do not use any third parties to do the code insertion, and we do not work with any sites that share personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, etc.) via their affiliate programs.
Are you familiar with the output of a typical credit report?

I'm curious as to why you're focusing on bankruptcy, when there are a significant amount of other signals banks use, which do not age off in the same way.
We handle them exactly as we do now... by doing nothing. Today's social programs don't give people more money just because they spent all that they were given yesterday.

It's universal INCOME, not universal "take care of all your problems for you".
I'm surprised your performance is anywhere near that of standard BLAS implementations. The Golang compiler doesn't have support for explicit SIMD or auto-vectorization, so that's a big performance gain just sitting there.
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The most vocal, notice I don't say majority, only seem to pay that ideal the barest minimum of lip service. The most vocal only want to help the worker if the worker is Unionized, woke, and maybe even only if they are the right minority.

Those appear to be the most vocal. You and I know they aren't the majority, but perception matters a lot. I have absolutely no problem with democrats/labor, though I don't share their politics. I'm just aware that the most vocal people professing to be on the left are everything from Antifa to Black Lives Matter.

We can probably agree that they aren't the best people to represent the left, but they certainly are the most vocal and are the public face that many people see. For better or worse, you end up with virtual caricatures being the representatives.

Do you see how that passage totally misrepresents the whole left and casts it in a bad light? It borders on concern trolling. Can somebody come up with a better name for this than 'the bigotry of hand wringing?' If not, that's what I'm going with.

You only see Antifa or Westboro as representative of the groups they pervert if you only consume news from people who want to make you emotional and then show you ads.
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I agree with you that tech giants promoting basic income are probably only doing that as an easy and attractive answer to - what will happen to all the jobs?

However, I really don't think UBI is the answer. I don't understand where the money will come from/who will do the leftover work. I think we should continue to cultivate an innovative society and new types of jobs - more appealing I think - will be created.
This was what I assumed with the message. Doesn't change my point. If this is something that is truly a bottleneck, then it should be baked into numpy. In particular, agreeing for the array to calculate min/max/p50/p75/... in one pass is something that would make sense.

Regarding the moving the calculation, yeah. I get that. I argue that the compiling step of the module happens once for the module, no? The JIT will be something you force onto every execution. Right?

And none of this actually means this library shouldn't have been made. Just that it is a poor example for why it is better.
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In order to finally advance my knowledge in Elixir and Phoenix, I decided to create this project today. You can basically register web endpoints that trigger an email notification when they are hit. Can be used for exception notification, IoT devices and much more.
Well, a pesticide is by definition something that kills pests. Plants and other organisms already make pesticides naturally; organic pesticides are naturally derived, rather than synthetically produced.

Pyrethrums would be one example: https://www.amazon.com/Insecticide-Organic-Pyganic-Pyrethrin...

Rotenone would be another: https://www.amazon.com/Bonide-Chemical-Number-4-Garden-Dust/...
paywall bypass link:
https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c...
It's not the managers or capital owners that have been driving these productivity gains either, yet they have been the ones benefiting from the gains.
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I would expect that some of the predicted effects of a "nuclear winter" would start to appear after a series of forest fires--albeit smaller in scope and intensity--but AFAIK this is not the case. What gives?
For anyone using postgres on a daily basis I would highly recommend pgcli. It has a very good auto-complete, and can even suggest JOIN statements (parts of it actually).
If bootstrapping/portability is the goal, probably C.
Repeat after me, class, "not properly managing Requirements is the most common cause of project failure."

Been known for decades, if not centuries.
Pyrethrin comes from crysanthemums, nicotine from tobacco, and they are both natural insecticides. Plants have been inventing stuff to kill bugs long before we came up with synthetic poisons.
I use it at a small B2C shop and about 1 in 1000 customers does use it. It's a custom implementation I once spend a few hours on, so there's nobody taking a cut except the miners.

At this adoption rate, I won't invest any more time if it ever breaks. The transaction costs are actually higher now than they are anywhere else, and both PayPal as well as credit cards are faster. Next year, the new EU legislation will open the market pretty wide and I'm expecting (almost-)free, instant transactions to be available Europe-wide (our market).

I had actually forgotten all about it until a few weeks ago, when I accidentally started the wallet app, and got quite excited seeing the balance. I got accidentally lucky by speculating in BC for the last three years :)
For the record, I'm not a lawyer. If I understand the question correctly, I believe the argument would be that the contributor believed all contributors were on equal footing (e.g., all contributions had to comply with the same rules) or that the project somehow promised to behave a certain way -- and that promise may have been included in the license. Without a separate explicit promise about how the project would act in the future, I wouldn't expect the lawsuit to go anywhere, but I don't think it's a silly argument, and it may have a better chance than I believe.

Broadly speaking, the CLAs I've seen either (1) fall into the classic legal "belt and suspenders" approach of being explicit where there is arguably an implicit promise, or (2) require the contributor to transfer copyright to the project and then make promises about what the project will do with the code, including promises about relicensing, and a broad license back to the original contributor.

US copyright law sometimes assumes that there is some kind of agreement between people who collaborate on a copyrightable project, and generally speaking, the CLA looks like it serves that purpose.
Stop it! You're giving away all possible answers to one of my favorite interview questions.

Edit: not seriously asking you to stop, but the interview question part is true
> but that causes us to ignore the huge amount of time VALUE you get back in your life with a smartphone

how can you be sure the smartphone doesn't have a negative aggregate time value? For example, I should probably be writing a patch to my code, but I'm sitting on the toilet writing an hn comment instead. Lots of people play candy crush, or swipe with no effect on tinder.
> what other language would you choose?

As far as I can tell the goal of the project isn't to target more platforms (Rust targets quite a few by way of LLVM), so I don't think I'd choose any other language, including C++.

Having a compiler and standard library written in the language that it compiles has some huge benefits for increasing the pool of possible contributors.
Richard Stallman Discusses Diversity in IT
depends on the sleep states, and how much data is shifted.
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The Rust compiler infrastructure is built on LLVM (a C++ project), so this doesn’t seem terribly weird.
Welcome to the third Red Scare. Real patriots don't need proof to know what's really going on.

Here's our true blue specialist Morgan Freeman reporting on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2av__s-598

You know that he's the real deal, because he's also on the "scientific advisory board" of the institute that brought us the Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence: https://futureoflife.org/team/
Agreed. SSNs are like trying to secure a system by only asking for a username without a password.
I could coach you if you want, I'm also in SF. I do a lot of those interviews from the other side. You can get my contact info in my user info page.