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Why would I sign up for something that says literally nothing about what it is?
>Divorcing consumers from the cost of these services causes them to be less price sensitive.

When a family member collapses and you call an ambulance, I can't imagine anybody being particularly price sensitive.
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So much on this site is political -- as is much of what is produced by the tech community -- and this discussion, which I did not initiate, is an example. Unfortunately, much of the extremely political debates on this site and in tech in general is done under a veneer of the avoidance of politics. Politics, which is the process by which power (influence) and resources in society are distributed is something that cannot generally be avoided, when the topics discussed are those that appear so frequently on this site. The only difference between politics done under the cover of the apolitical and an overt political discussion, is that the former tends to be a particularly bad and harmful form of politics (as the actual topic of discussion, the distribution of power and resources, namely politics becomes implicit and hidden). As this site is already extremely political -- it is certainly the most political among technical forums for tech professionals -- the least I can do is make the pervasive politics overt. People who frequent this site (as opposed to say, /r/programming) are already exposed to hefty dose of politics, and those who dislike politics probably do not visit HN, and if they do, they avoid items such as this one.

As to the rest of your comment, I don't see what the behavior of some has to do with the meaning of symbols. There are plenty of horrible Americans, including American leaders, who use patriotism and Americanism as a justification for terrible actions. That doesn't mean that Twitter should designate the American flag a hate symbol. Communist symbols fall in the same category, while Nazi symbols do not.
> I dare you to find European devs who believe terms slave and master in tech context are offensive and should be replaced.

What's with the Europeans or Americans believing all sorts of generalized falsehoods about their counterparts ?

Of course there are European developers who hold such beliefs.
"most"

i.e. I wasn't talking about this specific paper, but most of all the other papers.
Instacart only operates in the US though, so seemed like reasonable context for the comment I was referring to. But I see your point in my choice of “the real world” in my comment. Badly worded.
All models are false; some are useful. Yes, collapse is complex, as is everything, but a simplification is useful. To talk about a "state collapse" seems more misleading and less helpful than calling it a "civilisational collapse", at least by the article's examples: we are not talking about a constitutional crisis or a shift in the balance of power between social classes, but radical changes to the whole population's way of life complete with the destruction or abandonment of cities.
I think the best way to handle it is: Sit trough the interview. At good companies you get to talk to more than 1 person, and a group of persons decide whether you get hired. If you really want to join the company you are interviewing with, then just try to get trough this interview, and try to make the best of out it. The company you are interviewing with also has limited developers time, and developers need to get an idea of your skill in a short amount of time. Try to be the nice person. Or try a different company if it gives you the bad buzz.
> Also, please attempt to keep up with the literate people.

Please stop. This thread was seeded with inflammation from the beginning, and you've been earnestly stoking the flames. We're not here for that—we're trying for a civil and substantive discussion. It's hard, of course, on issues that we care about. But we're here on Hacker News as a concerted effort to stave off the heat death of discussion just one day more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Found a course, signed up, clicked join, was redirected via affiliate link to Coursera where I need to pay for a membership.
Personally I thought Google Glass had the potential but technically its not dead yet.
It's absolutely ridiculous.

I mean, median household income in Brooklyn is $45k.[0] That's household. The average household size in Brooklyn is 2.75. There'll be some kids in there, but likely the average adults per household is 1.5.

So here you have a guy earning close to $300k, likely has a partner with supplemental income too, which is easily 6-8x the median household income...jeez.

I mean hell, country wide there's a common 30% income spent on rent rule. Median rent in Brooklyn is about $36k a year, for a 120k salary. These guys are way beyond that.

It's obviously not a matter of 'do I earn enough for a decent life?'. They could earn half, say 140k, and still earn a decent life in NY. So it becomes a question of, is there anyone willing to do these jobs for say 180k, instead of 280k, and if so, the unions are no longer working in the best interests of ordinary folks.

When there's a small number of rich disproportionately salaried guys making public goods and services hugely expensive for ordinary folks, I think the Union's raison d'etre has died. (or changed into something awful).

0 https://www.census.gov/censusexplorer/censusexplorer.html
Has anyone made a self referential paper on recursion? That would tickle me pink.
Give me a break. The political conditions right now made it incredibly dumb to do a convention now.

With the ridiculous court decisions that have been made, the governor has unlimited, nearly unchecked power via the budget process. If you are happy or unhappy with anything, credit/blame needs to be directed at whomever the governor is from Spitzer forward.
Can you post your presentation here?? I would be interested to see it.
>Perl is not competing with C++; they're entirely different languages with entirely different usecases.

Yes, I understand that C++ does not compete with Perl. My point is the rejuvenation stories, not the runtime or use case differences.

I use a utility every day called ExifTool[1] that's 100% Perl source code or very close to it. However, ExifTool does not keep Perl at the top of mind the way Tensorflow brings Python relevancy to a new generation of programmers.

[1] https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
>I bet, for the people living in that time period, as a roman citizen of the Western Empire, not much would have changed, except for some details in taxation and military conscription. Oh yes, and the dude you pay taxes to was now a military leader of germanic descent who called himself King, instead of a individual of the roman aristocracy, who called himself Emperor.

In fact lots have changed, except if you constrain the consideration only to rural places. The life of a citizen in Rome before and after the collapse would have been very different (that said, the collapse indeed took centuries to be completed).
You can also use http://mooc-list.com/ to search by subject, department, etc.
I just had an eye exam last month and it was around $50. That was just for the prescription and it took around 15 minutes. Everything else was an up charge. The most expensive option was some kind of scan of my retina for an additional $40.
Genode now has its own package management system with the 17.05 and 17.08 releases, informed/inspired by the work from Genode/Nix (linked in the other comment).

This means you can run Genode on NOVA with VirtualBox 5 fully integrated as the VMM, all with the improved Noux/POSIX interop components in place, and have a decent package management solution (that handles API compatibilities, multiple version installs, src vs binary deps, packages, and more). There's also Xen support with the most recent release (for cloud appliance work with Genode)

What's more, based on the roadmap and challenges, they should be bringing VirtualBox5 support to the seL4 kernel, and they even have a goal for being the virtualization foundation of QubesOS. https://genode.org/about/challenges

With the recent toolchain update and new package management system, its easier than ever to cook up your own Genode-based systems.
But Facebook was allowing 3rd party developers access to a lot of data. I've even seen my profile on a 3rd party site where the developer said "Facebook granted me access.".

It's like the NSA saying "We collect your information, but we have laws to prevent their abuse.". First you have to be caught, and then they'll punish you. There are no technical limitations. This is like someone like Equifax saying "Here's our database server credentials, but connecting to it or querying is illegal.".
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Whenever articles on Wikipedia's editing process come up, you often see comments about adversarial edit wars, and people giving up. So, I want to offer contrary anecdotes: my experiences editing Wikipedia have been good.

I've only ever written one article, which has gone unchallenged for over two years now, probably because the topic is abstruse and difficult for everyone to understand in the first place (which is why I wrote the article):

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

But I've also made minor edits here and there. For example, I removed some fluff around the D3.js article. Also unchallenged:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D3.js&diff=803775...

So, if you hear stories about how awful editing Wikipedia is, remember that it can also be a pleasant experience.
Isn't this the "fallback mode" that Kees describes? It honestly seems like Linus latches on to one sentence that he doesn't like, then melts down over it. It really seems like you should walk on very fine eggshells around him, lest he find something that angers him and then waste a lot of energy writing an expletive laced screed at something adjacent to your point.
They are doing a lot of similar things over at Noisebridge in SF right now.
Why allow it then? Wikipedia advertises that they welcome contributions. If there are areas where contributions are discouraged they should just remove that feature. This way, editing a comment is not ok for a new user but will be accepted if done by a mod.
> I dare you to find European devs who believe terms slave and master in tech context are offensive and should be replaced.

Oh, hello, I'm a European dev and I'm making a concerted effort to remove those terms both from my vocabulary and any code / tickets / documentation I come across.
You can get your eyes examined by an independent optometrist at most Costco stores without being a member. Not sure why it's set up that way, but I've heard it's something to do with the monopoly that Luxottica has.

They won't sell you glasses without a membership though, so if you're looking for somewhere that won't force you to buy something, that's a pretty safe bet.
Has anyone been able to do this for PHP's T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM yet? (I know it's not an acronym, but I wish it were.)
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> Yes, I understand that C++ does not compete with Perl. My point is the rejuvenation stories

Well, the way C++ had new versions released in 2017 and 2014, Perl 5 had new versions released in 2017 and 2016; what stagnation are you demonstrating? You said "updates to C++ via C++14 and C++17 were discussions that turned into reality"; and the same thing happened with updates to Perl 5 (which is the language "Perl" is usually shorthand for). Perl 6 is an entirely different language, it, along with languages like Ruby, compares to Perl 5 the same way C# and Rust compare to C++.
The civilization will end as we know it, but the internet will remain intact :-)
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"It looks like something the germans would have come up with... 70 yrs ago... in a submarine."

Noting this down for random usages. Very clever.
Indoor bathrooms did not go away on some specific Tuesday, they also where not that common around 250 CE. The real question is what happens to the 98% of the population that actually maintain day to day civilization not what happens to the people who make it into history books even as a footnote of a footnote.
The worst part is the effort required to see your actual price. Especially if it requires creating an account for a new service.
As far as undesirability is concerned, there are other languages, perl is not the only one. But it's possible to write clean perl.
Threaten to call the FTC on them:

What are my rights under the FTC’s Eyeglass and Contact Lens Rules?

If you get a fitting for glasses or contact lenses, the eye doctor must give you a copy of your prescription – whether you ask for it or not. It’s the law. The doctor can’t require you to pay an extra fee, buy eyeglasses or contact lenses, or sign a waiver or form.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0116-prescription-glas...
Thanks! It's working for me at present. Are others still unable to access it? We can update the link if so.
A bit off topic, but I would be extremely interested in a post mortem of the disaster that befell Micro Machines on mobile. My guess is people have completely abandoned the game due to it not working in iOS 11 for nigh on 6 weeks, and now there just aren't enough players to get regularly matched into a game. This must have decimated their revenue stream.
You have this pretty much in Gradle for the JVM. It's become the de-facto standard for building mixed-JVM language projects in my company because it has pretty good plugin support for pretty much everything JVM
Is this really a thing? Booking a bunch of shit you may or may not actually use?
> If you were living in Rome

..at any time, your lifespan wasn't enough to experience the whole collapse - only local ups and downs. If you were living in 477, you only had distant stories and chronicles about Pax Romana. The tectonic change was too slow for any particular person to experience.
Cowspiracy has some bad science, but What the Health is pure lies. You should never get your science from documentaries they are all bullshit.

https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-is-the-movie-Cowspiracy

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/25/16018658/wh...

Even vegans agree :
https://www.vegan.com/posts/vegan-dietitian-review-what-the-...

>As a vegan health professional, I am sometimes mortified to be associated with the junk science that permeates our community. And as an animal rights activist, I’m disheartened by advocacy efforts that can make us look scientifically illiterate, dishonest, and occasionally like a cult of conspiracy theorists.
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I saw a good documentary on NHK about the effort to enlist high schoolers and college students who might be able to think outside the box regarding this mission. My impression is that, no matter what happens in Fukushima, Japan is going to have a deep bench of robotics engineers in the coming decades.
I’ve lived in Nyc on and off my entire life. The train’s are completely utterly normal, everyone has just become impatient and whiney. You’ve always had to plan extra time, there’s always been an unmanageable mix of politics, the Unions have always been Riddled with negotiation-PTSD and can’t give an inch anywhere for fear of exploitation, the governor has always siphoned money away to pay for other things, all of this is the same old shit. It’s never gonna be whatever suburban mall everyone is comparing it to, nor will it be like other major urban areas whose transit systems were built decades or half-centuries later.

Chill out and ride the train. It’s a good excuse to be late that nobody can argue with.
>what stagnation are you demonstrating?

Mindshare.

I thought it was clear that my rejuvenation examples were not about point releases or size of cpan but rejuvenating the mindshare of programmers.

Instead of my words getting misinterpreted and we keep going around in circles, let's try to bypass that and turn the question around:

What is your explanation of why Perl has declined in mindshare and is one of the most disliked languages in programmer's survey?
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I guess it makes sense to have your own build tool written in the language when you do not want to depend on the JVM (scala-native, for example). Then you don't have to hope maven/ant have their own native implementation.

As a plus you get to write your own DSL which might be more acceptable by the language user than that of another language or XML. Of course you might also invent a bad DSL; it's no easy task.
I have no problem paying for additional levels.
I don't like paying to alter the game experience, but I do like paying for more game.
> But, having to worry about minor version differences like this is a wholly unnecessary problem

2.11 and 2.12 are major Scala versions. Current minor version is 2.12.4
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I wouldn't go so far as rbt to say that it's unmaintained, but the development attitude is that of maintenance (features like Java 9 modules compatibility) rather than active development. Gradle has improved by leaps and bounds very quickly; the Gradle build daemon makes build tasks feel much quicker and powerful in day-to-day practice, and is clearly now the preferred tool for new projects.
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That is a good advice. Thanks.
I ended up measuring myself at home. It's not a difficult measurement to make.
Also more info here: http://design.firefox.com/photon/visuals/product-identity-as...
brushed = old tech = coal (which wears down and require replacement)

brushless = new tech, no maintainance

Brushes wear down and require replacement, brushless DC motors using power electronic devices have displaced brushed motors from many applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushed_DC_electric_motor
IIRC brushless are just more efficient in general. Since the power to the coils is entirely controlled by a microcontroller you can modulate how far "ahead" the magnetic field is of the motor, resulting in roughly the same performance at all speeds.

This as opposed to a brushed motor where the brush geometry in relation to the rotor sets the magnetic field a fixed distance ahead of the rotation. Resulting in the magnetic field being too far ahead at slow speeds and not ahead far enough at high speed.

In any case practical experience has shown me that a brushless motor is way more impressive than a brushed motor of a similar size and weight.
I'm in the industry. Out of curiosity, which firms do you think do a good job of not treating back-office engineers as second-class citizens?
You can skip to 6.1 to read the (kind of obvious) conclusions.
This is tell nothing about monetization model though. It's just how Valve operate: too few developers interested in working on game so its stagnates.
Is this some sort of draft? I've seen manuscripts from the 30s that are much more legible.
It seems to largely be a cost issue, since AMD does not exactly have huge amounts of cash to pour into lots of different chips designs for specific purposes like Intel.

AMD wanted to release 8 core parts that competed on price with Intel's 4 core parts. Roughly half the die area (and thus manufacturing cost) of Intel's quad core desktop CPUs is the GPU, so by cutting the GPU they were able to make 8 cores at similar cost to Intel's 4 cores + GPU.

It also allowed them to reuse the same chip for desktop, workstation, and server parts dramatically reducing R&D costs for the whole lineup. And really "high end" Intel processors, as in everything with 8 cores or more, also lack the GPU anyway.

The Raven Ridge CPUs are 4 cores + GPU (with much faster GPU than anything Intel has). I imagine they'll do a higher core count part with GPU once Globalfoundries starts making 7nm chips.
There are 55 million people in elementary/middle/high school in America, and 20 million in a college or university.

Google employs 74,000 people, so, there are a thousand times more students than Google employees, and obviously not all of those employees are working on AI; I assume most of them are sales & admin.

Facebook employs less than a third of that at 20,000.

A drop in the ocean compared to all the students that are being chronically underserved and undereducated.
Why don't you state what your change was? That would make your story so much more interesting.
Why?

It always surprised me how few employees there are in busy NY stations. Those that I see always seem busy and exhausted.

In Montreal, there were some newspaper articles about how a few bus/metro drivers make $100k/year by doing a lot of overtime, blaming unions. However, this was an intentional policy from management who consider it more cost-effective to encourage staff to do more overtime, rather than hire more people (who may not have a full workload).
One solution I've used for an uncooperative proxy is to put my own proxy in front of it. Then I connect the tool to my proxy, which sets things up nicely for the real external-facing proxy. I've used privoxy for this, it's pretty easy to set up. Here's a post from some dude explaining what you might need to do: https://siderite.blogspot.com/2014/02/using-prixovy-to-forwa...
My point was that the fact that C++ (like Perl) has had multiple updates in the past few years, and that Nvidia chose C++ instead of Perl as the primary language for an API are not evidence of Perl's decline. Perl 5 receives more frequent updates than C++, and C++ is being used where it makes sense and where Perl wouldn't have been used even when it was the new hotness. How is that evidence that Perl has fallen off?

I'm not saying that Perl's popularity hasn't greatly declined, I'm just saying that the evidence you're offering for it isn't evidence.
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This kind of apathy is how you end up 40 years down the road asking yourself what happened to your country, where all the good jobs went, why your kids and grandkids can't afford the things you remember having.

Because we led, doesn't mean we will lead. You get to be a leader by leading, not by resting on your laurels while someone else becomes a leader.
For those who haven't seen it, the development story behind Crashlands is very inspiring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQHtOg46eOw
I don't think it's fun actually. It's just the job.

There are some roles, like the one Linux has, where a critical aspect of the work is to tell NO to people and reject most of their requests.
Look for people that teach or give presentations at co-working spaces or meetups. I'm assuming you are looking for someone part time.
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Genuine q- can you explain what you mean by- "It's produced by bacteria in the soil and since we're usually sterilizing our food, it's not usually found on our produce anymore. "

What if we didn't sterilize? Would the bacteria then produce it in our stomach? Once I "get " those bacteria in, do I have to replenish?
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Thank you very much for the feedback.

I’m aggregating links that I personally find interesting and my idea is to help people find out new websites related to some allergies they have. Maybe one small description for each category can help.

“How” the website will help is helping them find out new websites related to allergies they might have. Goong to nutfree for example, you’ll have links to blogs that have nutfree recipes. In shops, online shops that sell products “freefrom”....

Thank you again for your feedback and I’ll try to keep the website as clear as possible in orfer to help people with allergies.