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This. With billion users being shown ads daily, coincidences are just bound to happen.
If anything Linux Desktops are way less stable than Windows Desktop. Try crashing a graphics driver on Linux and see what happens and compare that to Windows (it restarts without interrupting operation). Most of the Linux schedulers are awful for interactive use as well. I'm forced to use Debian and Scientific Linux installations at work, they are so much worse at basically anything I've experienced both on Windows and macOS it is not even funny.
Not just three letters.
AMEX cards have four characters. And the're in the front, not in the back like VISA or Mastercard.
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To me, Swift feels very similar to Rust only a lot simpler. Arc is also (imho) a nicer solution than a GC (though people have different opinions on that). Even better, with future versions, some of the features of Rust (i.e. lifetimes) will also come to Swift in an opt-in way. It is still a young language but fun to code in.
Thanks. Unfortunately, with the project I'm working on, I'm stuck with Java the language - otherwise I'd have already replaced it three times with ABCL, Clojure or Kotlin.
I thought there would be a more technical explanation as to how it actually works on top of Ethereum. This is pretty much what I would find if I google "What is an ICO".
That's a simple solution from a security perspective. From a business perspective the most simple solution is guaranteeing that you'll cover all the damage customers might possibly suffer.
This didn’t explain to me what ICOs are. It basically stated “buy cryptocurrency, it’s a risk but why not try it anyway”.

I would be genuinely interested in understanding what an ICO is. In particular in contrast to more traditional forms of fund raising. I’d also be interested in understand why it isn’t obviously illegal, in the same way that selling stock to unqualified investors would be illegal.
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> "that Huxley not Orwell was right" Implies only one can be right.

You're very right about this observation. That being said, I'm kind of tired of the 1984 meme because the state of things and the way we seem to be heading looks nothing like the future presented in 1984. In fact, if we are expecting dystopia to present itself like the one portrayed in 1984 it might obscure the fundamental issues and complexities that our society faces. Brave New World, on the other hand, has a better chance of helping us reveal them.
It doesn't bother you that huge portions of our tech stack are sitting on top of layers of terrible language design that our ancestors will have to deal with? Perhaps the parent post is looking more to the future. Of course it all still works, but when you think we could be doing the same job with Lisp, Smalltalk, (insert any non perfect, but much better than JS technology), it does make me cringe a little.
Will power is not a thing, its a concept and have to do with much more subtle nuances of the human mind. This is where you are going wrong. You cant just will yourself to do something if other urges are sronger. What you can do is remove the things that obstructs you from doing the "right" things. You are simplifying something much more complex.
Well, Windows notably switched to a new graphics driver model in Vista that puts parts of graphics drivers in userland, in order to allow them to crash without taking down the system. But I think that's comparable to what Linux has always been doing with Mesa vs. DRM; not sure what the details look like though.
Broken joke.
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What about when a mass media service that is pushing propaganda? Does that not subvert democracy?
What does Coffeescript has to do with typing systems?
> How many people have come to a crowded area just outside an elevator, only to find that the problem is that nobody has pushed the button?

That's easily explained by information cascade: everybody tries to assess the situation calmly, notice no one is doing anything, and conclude nothing shall be done. Eliezer gave the example of smoke under the door (vs a fire alarm): the more people in the room, the less likely they are to act.

The $20 bill is very different: while the area is crowed, each individual is alone, and doesn't expect any attention from bending down and picking up the bill.

> The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Yes it is? http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...
HMS Queen Elisabeth II left Portsmouth two months ago. How is she not in service? Provide some link to substantiate that?
Similar issue to the Eurofighter - decades in development and designed for a role that, for the foreseeable future, is no longer relevant.

Now, if the resource wars kick off between developed nations in the next decade and a half the investment might be worth it ... maybe.
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And related to the parent comment: Kotlin's compiler understands several kinds of @Nullable/@NotNull/@Nonnull annotations, and treats them as Kotlin's nullable/not nullable ("@Nullable String" is treated as String?, for instance). In the other direction, Kotlin's nullable/not nullable is visible to the Java side as one of these sets of annotations (IntelliJ's IIRC), which allows for instance annotation processors like Dagger 2 to know when something can be null or not.
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The ring system of Saturn (and others) aren't a bad start.
It's because the guilt of a particular country is a known truth, in this case Russia interfering with the 2016 US presidential election, according to all US intelligence officials when speaking on record. If you need a separate discussion (because there have been many) pick any news organization from the states and look up information about this topic.
The point is, this comparison is between a 4 core CPU (Ryzen) vs 2/4 cores CPUs (i3 and i5). Vs i5 the difference is less than 1%, vs i3 the difference is 5%.
Of course there are use-cases for these tools where they can be applied to wildly different requirements but in essence they're not "very different tools", they're very similar in more ways than not.
I've thought for a long time that public school should include material on understanding and preventing abuse to yourself and others. I had a parent that was emotionally manipulative and grew up accepting it. When I went out into the world I put up with a lot of emotional abuse and let myself get whipped by jerks because I wanted to avoid confrontation at all costs. My wife deals with poisonous people much better than me, and I regularly use her as the voice of reason when I have trouble with some people.
I wasn’t talking about construction costs, I was talking about density. You can fit more 800sqft houses in a fixed area than you can 2500sqft houses
There is a very similar dynamic in U.S. politics between extremists on the right and the left, both of whom need each other in order to remain relevant. The big difference is that in the U.S. true right wing extremists have been all but eliminated, so radical leftist activists need to invent all kinds of boogymen to replace them. "White supremacists" and their supporters are currently being cast in this role.
I understand your point, it's simply wrong. If those people didn't want to use javascript, they could have migrated to something else altogether. Clojurescript, Elm, Dart, RustJs, ...

Instead they kept Javascript with a type system on the top (typescript, purescript, flow, ...).
Thank you for your input.

parameters with underscore: I'd imagined to 've 'where' parameters in query fields like ?columnName=columnValue. Hence started with underscore - however I dropped where clause as I was soon sure that I was only covering small group within where clause and operators.

abbreviation of page to _p - I think I picked up that from hackernews where paging query parameter is p :).

fields: second one seems easy to use - I think I borrowed it from google youtube apis. They have concept of id,snippet etc which is higher level of abstracting ids, primary-info (respectively) in response

sort: may be I extended the concept of fields to sort. Since sort can 've only two directions.
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Of course, but it’s almost always after a company at least has a product and usually after revenue is funding salaries. Using PG’s phrase, it’s after the company is “default alive.” By that point, the founding risk is pretty low.

A first-time entrepreneur raising capital without a product or revenue is, for all intents and purposes, unique to tech and biotech. The very few exceptions aren’t common enough that an entrepreneur could plan around them.

For anyone considering a non-tech business, the podcast “How I Built This” covers it well: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this
I wonder do FB buy user ad preference data from 3rd parties, that may in turn buy them from another listening app.

If I was FB, I'd either process the audio on the device to avoid network traffic, or buy the results from a partner, to keep the actual listening at arms length.

It wouldn't be that hard to imagine another ad-tech company collecting the data in some other app and feeding the data back to FB. I can't imagine FB would be asking as many questions from a 3rd party as it would to internal teams.
I bet "GDP mapping objectively etc to real world value" is in fact falsifiable (and false, at least to some extent).
I agree, and from a different perspective, I would compare this to literature. In English literature we have many different paradigms: Victorian literature, Modernism, Post modernism, Post colonial ect. The language has to be expressive, and in being expressive, it can express any of these different paradigms. The fact that the vocabulary is shared between the "eras" of literature is only a bonus which makes authors more flexible and more able to experiment with actually new concepts, rather than simply reinventing the same old vocabulary.

We then have Chinese literature and Indian literature, and these have very different paradigms. Perhaps it is even hard to effectively translate from Chinese to English. But the actual variance within a given language is still greater than the variance between the languages.

And like human languages, the vocabulary is often arbitrary. In human languages a dog is called a dog not because it makes the sound "dog" and not because it looks like the letters 'd', 'o', and 'g' but for entirely arbitrary reasons of phonetic shift and arbitrary initial designation.

And in lisp you take the 'car' of a tuple and in Haskell you take the 'head' of a list. But the two concepts are very much the same. However, the distinction between continuation passing style (CPS) concurrency and the actor model can be expressed in either langauge just as well. And the distinction between CPS and the actors is FAR grater than the distinction between calling the basic function "head" or "car".
It’s useful to specify iOS or Android in the anecdotes. iOS will show a banner at the top of the screen when an app in the background is using the microphone. On Android, the last I’ve seen, this isn’t the case.
I'm pointing out that the states forbidding commerce across state lines is not a violation of the commerce clause per-se. Rather it's a violation of how the federal government has chosen to use the rights it's granted by the commerce clause.

I.e. it's just the academic point that it's not inevitable that the Federal government uses the power of the CC to enforce free trade between states, that's just how it's chosen to implement it.

I.e. there could be an alternate timeline of the US where the CC enforces the ability of individual states to impose interstate tariffs up to some threshold, similar to how the EU manages agriculture quotas within the single market.
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Also, regulations allowed competition on the telephone networks, which is the reason why you can now call anybody, and not just people at your provider.
One can always look at the empty part of the glass, but the quote does continue with a big full part:

"The TLS 1.3 handshake verification is work in progress and still relies on the OCaml extraction mechanism of F* ; thus, the C library still encapsulates the OCaml runtime system.

We have completed verification of the TLS 1.3 record layer it currently extracts to C.

The AES and SHA2 cryptographic assembly routines are verified and extract to assembly via Vale.

HaCl* provides verified C code for multiple other primitives such as Curve25519, Chacha20, Poly1305 or HMAC.

Our test client implements TLS 1.2 + TLS 1.3 Draft 18 and successfully connects to TLS 1.3 test servers. We have a prototype integration of miTLS within libcurl that one can use to git clone a remote repository."
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I would define "the market" as the maximally diversified portfolio fitting a given risk profile. If you're limited to large cap US stocks, then yeah, the S&P 500 would be the market. Better to think of a globally diversified portfolio though.

By 'beat the market', I mean have a consistent expectation of outperforming the market by a sufficient amount to justify the effort and risk. Obviously there is a ton of uncertainty, so simply achieving higher returns than a given benchmark is not, for these purposes, beating the market. Unfortunately, that also means it's impossible to ever be 100% sure you have indeed determined a way to beat the market, although obviously the more logical the reasoning behind your approach, and the more evidence of it being successful, the more confident you would be.

So, is this impossible? No. As he even says in the article, the expected equilibrium would be that it's possible to the extent that the professionals engaged in doing it earn just more than they would at their next best alternative. But is it possible to consistently do even better than that, or at significantly less effort? Unlikely. If it were, you would have found the metaphorical 20 dollar bill in the middle of Grand Central Station.
maybe because browsers and backwards compatibility exist and we cant just change the language as we please?
That's the thing with defence spending - with the lead time on resources like this you can't fixate on the current conflict, but need to think decades ahead.

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that nations could see themselves in a war for dwindling resources on the planet in the next 30 to 40 years.
If anything, almost too many of them. In the esoteric language area, every new language takes away from libraries for other ones as the communities get spread out. I do think the spread of ideas from that setup is good though.
It's really not that bad. Modern JS isn't ideal but it has many parts of it that are as good as or better than Ruby or Python, but most people don't act like they are horrible languages. I'd gladly use it over either.
> Is Kotlin actually simpler than Scala?

Java was described as "blue-collar language". I probably won't call Scala that, but it fits Kotlin fine in my opinion.

another comment on that subject

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15298075
That Scott Alexander's "Epistemic learned helplessness" blog post (2013) -- is an excellent generic rebuttal against Eliezer's arguments.

Eliezer's argumentation is bright, inspiring and mostly right. But then Eliezer makes a critical mistake in his reasoning and the overall conclusion is just plain wrong (such as "buy cryogenics").
Why don't we just try this out, get a fresh device and block location services then create a new Facebook account. Make sure you don't search for the thing you're aiming to get Ads for (Cat Food, Carpets, Jumper, etc.) on the device itself or nearby devices. Then just talk about those things and see if the ads come up.
> For instance, he seems axiomatically convinced that "creating trillions of dollars of value" is an objective good.

Is he?

The fact is, many people do behave as it is an objective good, if only to justify their own wealth. I think the arguments leans on that more that it leans on the belief that GDP growth is actually a good thing.

And as much as GDP growth sucks as a utility function, it does seem to be correlated with much goodnes. How strongly correlated exactly is the $3^^^3 question.
A character does not necessarily exist just to either condemn or promote certain behavior. That is a pretty one-dimentional way of looking at storytelling.
One of the most popular "devops before devops was a thing" tools was Expect, which simulated an interactive session over Telnet or SSH. It effectively allowed ops to automate anything that could be done in a terminal.
If you keep your head to the ground, there are quite a few companies like Facebook that use Haskell for important things in production, but it isn't the language even 50% of the company is using. I'm sure there is a lot more lisp in production, but you typically hear about the same ratio from both camps in the blogosphere.
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It used to be that docker could be installed literally by downloading the docker binary, then it was a single curl command. Now the documentation looks like this: https://www.docker.com/get-docker

You press "get docker community image". Then you find your distro. Go to "download from the docker store", discover that there is no dowload link https://store.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-server... then you click on the long form link to the docs. Which gets you here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/docker-ce/...

And then that is not simple at all.

So much for fat binaries making things easy. Good-ness grief.
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I was going to say something which I think may be similar to what you’re saying.

Software and business systems are diagrammed with totally ad-hoc “flow charts”, bubble and arrow diagrams, and less ad-hoc sequence diagrams and UML diagrams. We need advances in formal ways to model concurrent processes, from the level of threads to concurrent business processes.
All that Eliezer's argumentation is thought provoking and fun.

Just keep in mind that Eliezer is good at suggesting mental frameworks for making decisions, but fails when trying to make the best practical decisions himself.
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Some are supersets of JS, some are not. Elm, Fable, etc are examples of languages not just extensions.

The reason for using an extension/superset is usually not because JS is terrific but because gradual/partial migration and interop are more important than a better language.
However, disabling it is not trivial, needing to open your laptop and solding skills, also special equipment to read/write modified firmware.
The length of the audio snippets they fingerprint is pertinent information.

If it’s syllable- or word-length fingerprints it’s not much solace that they won’t be able to get the original audio.
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1Password, but it fails the open-source check. Otherwise it's great and even supports 2FA (though you might argue it's not really 2FA as your master password now protects both your password and second factor).
Making another new language with such a short un-search-enginable name is not a good idea imo.
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I don't think this is true. How many (proper) mathematicians have you met?
If you look at the history of the Tesco Clubcard (one of the early ones to appear in the UK), the data they mined from their new ability to tie purchasing trends to customers more than made up for the cost of the rewards being offered to get people to use it.

There's a reason they got so dominant over here - they were simply way ahead of the game on offering what their customers actually wanted, because they were the only people who actually had a clue.

That has of course changed now.
Which language, do you think, is most practical for writing formally verified programs?
What are their objective measures?
Why?

Would be interesting to hear about what your use case is, and how it works for you.
If you had of continued reading, you would have been informed about the fully electric Polestar 2, scheduled to arrive in 2019. An SUV Polestar 3 is a little further in the future.

The thrust of the story is that established car manufacturers are a little late with their electric offerings, but Tesla is not that far ahead and is experiencing manufacturing issues. These established car makers already have the manufacturing experience and can be expected to catch Tesla quite quickly.
Yes exactly
In France, they are called adaistes which seems to translate to adaist in english.
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Good idea, but guess what? The Airbnb people are gone in the morning, they don’t really care!