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I don't do that and have never heard of someone doing that. I have heard of people re-reading a chapter they just finished, because they enjoyed it so much or because they felt they missed something. I've heard of people opening a favorite novel to a random page, reading for a bit, then closing it.

The only non-sequential access I ever do in novels is for reference material, things like maps, character lists (e.g. Game of Thrones), or glossaries (e.g. Clockwork Orange). Footnotes on paper are sequential-ish, I read the Three Body Problem novels on a Kindle where you tap on a footnote number to get the text in a separate window and there's close or back button to return to the original page. I heard at least one David Foster Wallace novel had some insanely long footnotes that went on for multiple pages and maybe footnotes within footnotes, I don't know how that works on paper or an e-reader in terms of navigation.
> they ignore mobile scaling meta tags in the head

Actually the meta viewport "Helps Google’s algorithms accurately assign indexing properties to the page rather than needing to signal the existence of corresponding desktop/mobile pages." [1]

Every bit of code on a page is interpreted a certain way for a reason. HTML5 now has more semantic tags like header and nav that add an additional layer of certainty over context. I'll concede that most developers seem to not care about the reasons why so long as they can push code to production faster.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo...
Yeah. There are definitely cases where the scaling options make sense along different axis for sure. My point is mostly that relational DBs tend to strike a good default ground if you aren't sure what axis you'll care about.
Anecdotal, but I was in an Oracle University training course last year with someone who confirmed, in an indirect and vague way, that he worked for the CSE. We were training on Oracle Database 12. He had plenty of "real world scenario" questions.
Is this

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf

the paper you referenced?
Same! Struggled with github pages at one point but Netlify really just made it a two command process to get a site up with SSL. I love it!
Honestly, this story being on the front page of hackernews might be another example of that astroturfing. It's not impossible that they're trying to drive that price up as much as possible before dumping their shares.
But the friction in Web apps is not smoothed out. It only becomes worse. More and more megabytes of JS that nobody knows the purpose of -- or if they do, they are bummed as to why must they be 1.5 MB minified.

Also, HTTP 2.0 fell victim to too much pressure for backwards compatibility.

Things aren't improving.
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If you live in another country (specifically third world) then it's first world pension funds subsidizing rides in third world countries. Kinda weird actually.
> Though it's my theory that static recompilation might be easier on the Atari 2600, because the limited ram makes it really hard for self modifying code to exist.

My gut feeling is you probably wouldn't get great benefits out of that since 2600 code relied on a lot of cycle counting to get anything other than pong out of the graphics hardware.

The amortization of instruction decode and dispatch represented recompilation (whether static or dynamic) probably doesn't get you much. You've got to do most of that bookkeeping either way to make the effects of the CPU cycle accurate with regards to the rest of the system. Pretty much every 2600 title relies on this.

So, in addition to lack of self modifying code, PS3/360 emulators benefit from hardware that's complex enough that it essentially has to be treated as non-deterministic by the original game developers (within reason). ie. code written against them uses explicit synchronization primitives rather than cycle counting. Sure you have to get things in the right ballpark (stuff like the bugs fixed in Dolphin by not making EXI->MemCard transfers happen instantly), but there's no code saying 'nop for 12 cycles, and expect the system to be in exactly the right state'.
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Makefile was not originally designed to be a general-purpose language but eventually grew features and pretends to be one. If a proper general-purpose language with a well-designed library (possibly plus a general-purpose data-only configuration language) is capable of performing the core function of an "interpreted DSL", even at some cost of terseness, I would strongly prefer it to the DSL. While having multiple libraries in different languages might contribute to fragmentation, being able to write the build scripts in the same language as the rest of your project provides value.

> > The dense syntax of command line tool options is intimidating

> Anything you don't understand very well can be intimidating.

IMHO what's intimidating is not the CLI itself, but possibly:

1. lack of consistent convention between different tools (only PowerShell attempted to address this)

2. poor discoverability of options, which is often exacerbated by poor quality of documentation

3. naming of things (which is getting better with more modern CLI tools)

4. ...
Annecdotaly many of the people I meet in WeWork aren't running startups. Just small businesses that don't want to work from home, or are a few people in size and don't want to have the hassle of renting office space, renting broadband, cleaning, fridges, coffee machines, etc.

Yeah, of course there is table tennis and coffee and whatever else. But it's a bit like buying a mattress. If you have to spend half your life on something, it's nice to be comfortable. If you're not building the next AirBnB and you can afford your rent and bills, having a place you actually like to go to every morning is quite nice.
GitLab pages but for no particular reason... I use Hugo and want HTTPS on a custom domain so that seemed to be an easy way to do it. Only problem is that GitLab does not redirect to the HTTPS version automatically.

I might try Netlify some day if it's as easy as GitLab + has custom HTTPS domains for free.
part of our high healthcare costs are from not using a universal system. Other Western countries are achieving same or better outcomes with far less costs. I do agree that UBI will not work if we leave some of the things we consider basics now, such as food, housing, or(in my opinion) basic healthcare to be provided by competitive corporations, then we are essentially just going to be putting the money in their pockets
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There is also ZhuSuan which also leverages TensorFlow.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05870v1

https://github.com/thu-ml/zhusuan

https://i.imgur.com/gzfhS29.png
I got a Fury to try to show support during the initial releases of AMDGPU. I'm not sure if they noticed but it gave me a good reason to ditch my gtx 770 :D

AMDGPU is really good now, and the parts that are proprietary (AMDGPU Pro) are eventually (hopefully) going to be folded into the FOSS side soon.
I was trying to illustrate the cultural limitations of the big five.

Just because an app has only a slight difference (for now) doesn't mean they should be ignored or excluded. The technology of social communication today is akin to the printing press of the 15th century. We have thousands of years forward to be social, buy things, and enchant users... so why limit it to the early, myopic giants?
Wow. First time I ever heard of anyone liking the STD Klingons. To me they just look deformed, not to mention that they're dressed up like a Mardi Gras krewe.
Enforcement is just a technicality.
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I think we are violently agreeing on the original question about whether that's bad for the OSS community, though?
Here's the source: http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/data-sets/national-material-capab... Check page 23 of this PDF to see what was included. http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/data-sets/national-material-capab...

For many countries, including some major powers, published military budgets are a catch-all category for a variety of developmental and administrative expenses - public works, colonial administration, development of the merchant marine, construction, and improvement of harbor and navigational facilities, transportation of civilian personnel, and the delivery of mail - of dubious military relevance.
Do you think they can figure out a way to still be around in ten years?

It's so much better than traditional offices that it'd be a shame to lose it. Hopefully there's a sustainable business model.

What would you say are the pros/cons of moving to your new office?

The West Loop WeWork is nice because it's about a 3 minute walk from the redline subway to the front door. That matters during winter -- Chicago winters blow. So I was wondering if you managed to get a spot close to public transit too. (And if so, how'd it end up ~cheaper than WeWork? Prime locations tend to come at a premium.)
Well, something must be spawning a thread first. From the Obj-C source¹, the comment on performForkChildInitialize() (the point where this crash happens) says

> Exception: processes that are single-threaded when fork() is called have no restrictions on +initialize in the child. Examples: sshd and httpd.

¹ https://opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-723/runtime/...
“Almost 1,000 fraudulent reviews were detected across two accounts and 25 apps for this developer so we removed their apps and accounts from the App Store,” Apple spokesperson, Tom Neumayr

They’re allegations, sure. I said that in my second comment. But Tom didn’t hedge his words there.
The amount of money you are able to extract from society is much more correlated with your leverage than your output.
FWIW, the WeWork I'm at has been trying to lease a massive 40+ person office for the last 6 months or so. That monster of a room occupies ~1/5th of the whole floor. In that situation you'd be able to set up a roundtable in a corner for meetings like that.

(Sounds kind of miserable, being an open office and such. But again, almost nobody uses the phone booths, so you're always free to peace out and shut yourself in for ~2h to power through a task.)

No idea how much it costs though, so you're probably right that the numbers might not make sense.
The man himself arrives! Thanks for the clarification.
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Did you really find CouchDB that bad to work with? I never in the end settled on either couch or mongo for a project long term but when I setup couch to test it out a few years ago I had it up and running with functional replication quite quickly (i.e., one afternoon) from being a complete novice with the platform. It's built in web panel at the time basically handled everything from basic setup to replication quickly.
But how many people reach this stage ?
You may be overqualified already. Game development is one of the worst parts of the tech industry. It preys on fresh grads who are dreaming to make video games.

It's constant crunch and the salaries are low. Check this and similar threads in /r/gamedev:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/588cai/why_do_we_a...

I'd suggest to make games as a hobby.
Or alternatively, perhaps companies and governments owe something more to customers/citizens than hammering local labour with cheaper imported labour? And perhaps companies should develop local workers' skills rather than take the easy way out? And perhaps the countries these top engineers leave in fact desperately need talented people to stay if the country is to improve? And perhaps having a different skin colour or sex in truth matter less than other aspects of an engineer's capability (I've yet to see the mantra that diversity equals success backed up by any hard evidence)?
In certain environments, it is better to fail then to have data that isn't immediately consistent. Finance and healthcare are two such systems. Availability is not always paramount.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_transaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomicity_(database_systems)
> I believe Google has considerably more goodwill

I wish this idea would die. They are an ad company. They want to stuff themselves into every facet of your life and milk you for information.
Our military expenditures are high, but not so amazingly out of proportion as people assume: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/niallmccarthy/files/2015/06/2.... The U.S. is at 3.5% of GDP, less than Israel (5.2%) but more than France or the U.K. (both 2.2%).

Israel is an unusual circumstance, in that it's surrounded by hostile countries, but so is the U.S. We de facto bankroll the western world's exercise of military force around the world. It's not like the U.K. or France don't care about terrorism--if we weren't in Iraq or Afghanistan, they very well might be.

It's also misleading to look at inflation-adjusted figures. Inflation does a poor job of measuring the changing costs of things that aren't mass-produced consumer goods. The cost of microprocessor fabs, for example, has grown far in excess of inflation over the past few decades.

Automation and Chinese manufacturing has driven down the cost of say furniture, but military expenditures don't scale like that. Even solider pay has far exceeded inflation: Bottom-rung pay for an enlisted solider was about $50/month back then, or $700/month in today's dollars. The bottom-rung pay today is about $1,700/month. Likewise, custom-made weapons systems are produced by ever bigger teams of scientists and engineers, whose own salaries have far exceeded inflation. To use a private-sector example: while the 757 was developed for about $5 billion in today's dollars, the 787 cost at least $15 billion.

Better to look at spending as a percentage of GDP. Today, we spend half as much in inflation-adjusted dollars, but also our economy is almost 9 times larger.
Rails, Postgres, pure JS frontend. You can go from zero to MVP for 90 percent of projects in 6 weeks or less.
There's also Quorum, the open source enterprise blockchain based on Ethereum. It's got privacy and zksnarks and pluggable consensus and a decompiler and a consortium and everything.

https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum
My brother's (not JTF2) told me stories about their training/graduation exercises. Intense is a little too mild a word.
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Speaking of which, check out Michael I. Jordans work on Probabilistic Graphical Models https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+i+jordan+probalistic...

Mentor to Andrew Ng, former head of Google AI, Baidu and a few other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Jordan

Saira, Mina and David worked on some interesting stuff related to using ML/AI in extending human life span, nematodes a while back. Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span - Blei DM, Franks K, Jordan MI, Mian IS. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868
No, it's a general comment that I expect higher standards in general, I cannot comprehend when a product that is made for children has lower standards than an adult product, even at the same price point it's sometimes apparent that the 'for children' product is just an excuse to ship something shoddy to someone who is not in a position to complain.
All the research quoted in this article is about the amount of wealth that is purely attributed to luck. All good so far...

> Most wealth is appropriated from others, not made.

There is no support given for this theory, or even no connection made between the actual research and this point.
I have. And a whole onslaught of numerous other issues. Most of them seem to be documented in bugs 5+ years old that never get fixed.

I was once a Virtualbox fan boy. But, I'm going with KVM and Vmware moving forward.
Increasingly my thought is that UBI or a minimum living wage (enforced perhaps through an employer of last resort who sets an effective wage floor) must be balanced by a tax on economic rents, else the gains simply flow to rentiers.

This is a "land tax", but writ large and applying across all (or most) rent-seeking goods, including especially productive (as distinguished from strictly financial) asset classes.

In the case of Stockton, and most other West Coast cities, this would mean land taxes to incentivise further development and housing supply, as well as updating zoning and building codes to allow denser and mixed-use development.

The wildfire situation in the already housing-constrained SF North Bay strikes me as a tremendous opportunity to reconsider housing, rents, asset taxes, and zoning.
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The chart is very misleading as it doesn't take into account the size of economy. The US is a much larger country than it was in 1945 and is spending much smaller portion on military today.

During WW2, US defense spending was over 40% of GDP. Today it's less than 5%.

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/defense_spending
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I can see that, thanks for reply. It’s such a “dream job” that I could see how employers have the leverage.

I just want to code where I get fun, visual feedback. In general, games seem to have way less code than a large production web app, and a ton more art. I am solid in Blender and unity/Ue4, but still learning.

Any way I could jump past the JR pile and get to the intermediate and 80-100K range?
All the bullish analysts are saying it's due to the iphone X but I'm not so sure.
tl;dr Promising young researcher skated on stats and talked up faulty finding, career seriously damaged by lack of replicability; reformers who are too earnest about a good cause (replication, statistical rigor) can be total assholes to well-meaning people who just make mistakes; conflict ensues.

It's OK to be oppositional or confrontational to people based on what they say and do, but self-styled reformists sometimes become personally vindictive in pursuit of their own interests. Picking a fight with a public figure is an easy way to gain publicity, and if your own reputation rests on winning that fight then it can be tempting to carry on into harassment. Gamergate was an extreme example of this.
There are programs with shorter rest times between sets, e.g. German Volume Training (60 to 90 secs). And you can do dumbell bench press without a spotter.

But I totally agree, more "practical" excercise like bouldering is much more fun.
Which false narrative is this? That women get paid less?

If an average exists then an average exists. We can talk about how it's structured, but the existence of an average pay gap is hard to dispute at this point.

If you find that narrative offensive, ask yourself why. I suspect the motivations are not very laudable.
Has there been anything posted about it? I'd be interested to read up on it.
VNC and RFB (the protocol VNC uses) are open. RDP is proprietary but there are open source implementations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol
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As I stated, I was providing you with more detailed statements for you to do your own research. My comment was intended as a starting point, not a bible on the topic.
I find printing/scanning to be one of those things that I almost never do, and desperately try to avoid - but when I need to do it it's usually super important paperwork that has to be done right away. And having to go hunt down a print and scan place is a lot of friction. So reluctantly, we have an all in one at my office.
I also would not call that burnout. It sounds like you're realising that work sucks.

Going to work is fun the first few months when you're all 'look at me going to my big job!' and you probably feel richer than you have ever done before.

Then after a while you realise you're not loaded after all, the novelty wears off the work and you find yourself repeating tasks again and again. The challenge then becomes to work out what it is you value - do you want your work to test your limits, or do you want to just pay the bills and find fulfilment elsewhere, etc, etc?

I like your advice to do something challenging and thought-provoking, but don't be afraid to think outside the tech sphere. Basically, the way I look at it is that you have your 20s to work out who you are and what you value. You should expect your value system to change substantially (which is where college is useful, to link to the discussion above).

In the grand scheme of things the gap between birth and death is really small. Don't waste it doing things that you don't enjoy.
What type of portfolio\profile you need to get fed money?
That's a great point. No one should be able to argue with Dr Cuddy if she decides to make her living pushing this 'placebo-trigger' technique.
Also: http://archive.is/kOj9S
What defines a flight speed record? Why doesn't the Space Shuttle count (it was going four times as fast during reentry)?
There has been talk on the radio locally about the amazon hq2 and the chances that Toronto might be in the running as well if they were in the market to do the same thing.
Ah, yeah. (It's odd that Arc went closed-source but kept improving. It's maybe one of the most important custom languages in the industry, relative to HN's impact on the world.)
"Confining scientific critique to scientific venues"

Fiske controls the venue and is (mis-)using the "scientific venue" to denounce her critics. She is the one refusing to publish the very critiques you describe. The "scientific venue" has been corrupted. The well has not been "poisoned" for further inquiry, rather the necessity of replication and sensitivity to statistical errors has increased. Science was being done sloppily, and Fiske was both a beneficiary of that and in a role where she could have prevented it.
Sounds interesting, where is the data from?
Only religious charities (any religion).
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You think the entire B2B business model is fragile?

Only consumer-facing companies are resilient enough for you?
instead of non-relational, think of it as denormalized. I also can't think of any cases where you wouldn't want some relationships. I can absolutely rattle off tons of cases where applications benefit greatly from some kind of denormalization.

In years past, people called these "data warehouses" and essentially took snapshots of their production DBs and denormalized the hell out of them so that aggregations wouldn't crash the server.
It's not the sort of drug that gets prescribed regularly, you're only supposed to do it once, or maybe a few times at most. Therefore it doesn't fit their sales model, hence their probable hostility to the drug, and it's the same with Ketamine, LSD etc too
"We're developing an OS"

"It's linux"

Boring.
Not jumping into the "worst trek" topic but he did write Mission Impossible 2
Thanks.

Their licensing seems confusing: The https://caddyserver.com/download web page says "Caddy binaries are free for personal use, and a commercial license is required for internal company use, commercialized distribution, or other business purpose. "

After seeing Caddy mentioned in another HN thread, I decided to make sure I got that right, and stumbled upon https://github.com/mholt/caddy which seems to be open-source. But how to reconcile this with the apparent ban on distributing binaries?