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I bet you one share of Tesla ($315 as of now) that they absolutely deliver one Semi. Put your money where you mouth is. My contact info in my HN profile if you wish to proceed. Bitcoin bet works best.
The question - and what the article is arguing is about - is if the "no longer improving as my other software is" part makes sense. Does software always have to change (not necessarily improve as software will become worse almost as often as it'll become better - especially when it comes to GUI programs that often tend to shuffle things around, invalidating the users' knowledge)?
Those are bindings.
Modula-3 either uses one of those techniques, or is not memory safe. (Looks like primarily the first one- manual deallocation is unsafe and it relies on GC for the rest?)

Cyclone and ATS do not have Rust's combination of ownership and borrowing.
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Thanks for pointing that out.

Given the grid is 65%+ fossil fuels, it is counter intuitive that:

A) Fossil fuels+nuclear+renewables to generate chemical/heat energy -> converting to mechanical energy -> converting to DC electric energy -> converting to AC -> transmitting over long distances -> charge & store it in a chemical battery -> convert electrical energy back to mechanical.

Is cheaper than just the first two steps in the above,

B) Burning fossil fuels to generate chemical/heat energy -> converting to mechanical energy.

Large heat engines (power plants) can be more efficient than small heat engines, but all those conversions above have significant losses.

I suppose it's some combination of coal & gas being cheaper than gasoline, but I suspect some significant regulatory manipulation (whether for better or worse) is at play here.

In other words, perhaps if electric semis are viable, it will have more to do with Regulatory Capture than purely a free market outcome.
Why do you think those worlds are different in a meaningful sense? You can distinguish them in your imagination only. If you were the God, I would believe you.
Code-review is a cool thing in SV, trendy startups and the big industry related companies, sadly on most companies whose main business is completely unrelated to IT, just like unit tests it gets a spot just behind writing documentation.
> In large projects with long histories you can easily spend 30+ minutes exporting history before running into a problem that prevents the export from completing.

If it makes you feel any better I had to spend two continuous weeks exporting our huge TFS monolith before I managed to have a working git copy.

But yeah, Git-TFS is a godsend.
Manifest destin-E.
> What I find more interesting is that today, all our energy ultimately can be traced back to stars, even if sometimes extremely indirectly (e.g. in the case of fossil fuels or nuclear fission). But this could actually change -- if nuclear fusion becomes used in practice.

Wow, that's a cool thought. In an attempt to continue, even human-made fusion energy is an extremely indirect output of the sun. Photosynthesis, animals, evolution, human history, and even fossil fuels enable the right conditions for more fusion energy. The system understands itself well enough to recreate its most massive and awesome force in miniature.
I worked at a game company for a while and one of the interesting things there was that there really wasn't a good way around checking in binaries to the repo. First off, a lot of your "source" assets are properly in binary form (images, for example), because that was the most compact form for them to exist, by orders of magnitude, and also because trying to generate them from some other non-binary representation would add tremendous overhead to development work. On top of that, building the entire product from "source" might involve tens to hundreds of thousands of hours of CPU/GPU time. So you just didn't do that. Instead you built everything in parallel and checked the results in somewhere, that would then get bundled together into the final product. There are ways around doing things this way, for sure, but given that you can just go pay a fairly insignificant amount of dollars to some company and get a VCS that won't choke.
2/3rds of the book has a public domain translation, "frequent" is a stretch. Your unsourced article says he was ignored for being in wide circulation, but there are multiple works discussing Plato.

Did you read that article? Again, it agrees with everything I'm saying. Sixth century authors, five centuries with almost nothing, then a return. Even the sixth century mentions they were unfamiliar with Aristotle's actual works, except maybe reading "Categories," the only work I can find Photius or Aretha's commenting on. And it mentions repeatedly that Plato had dominance, even saying Aristotlean views were near heresy at times.
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The system uses precision broadcasting and targets emergency or weather alerts on a street-by-street basis. The system could allow broadcasters to wake up a receiver to broadcast emergency alerts. The alerts could include maps, storm tracks and evacuation routes.

The new standard would also let broadcasters activate a TV set that is turned off to send emergency alerts.

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc last month called the new standard “the Holy Grail” for the advertiser because it tells them who is watching and where.

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Another nail in the coffin of traditional broadcasting.

I find it amusing that these (evil) corporations are so brazen that they are not even coating their glee at these 1984-esque surveillance in the usual rosy corporate speak.

I do not know who FCC works for, but it's certainly not for the American people.
>Ideally, being diagnosed with something like Alzheimers would result in a shrug, just like how you would shrug if someone told you you're gonna die one day.

That isn't reality, though. I wouldn't want to have that big black cloud hanging over me.

If I'm not having symptoms, and there's no way to treat the disease they want to test for, I've no interest in taking the test. Life is stressful enough.

I knew a guy who was diagnosed with cancer, freaked out, and had a fatal heart attack a few days later. Maybe that was already in the cards, but I suspect he'd have lived for a few more years without that cancer diagnosis.
>installed cost for utility-scale solar

This article seems to be perhaps a bit loose about what exactly is being quoted here. AFAIK this is cost per kwh generated at utility scale.
I feel that as certain cities become more dense, public space is either hard to find or not that well designed (i.e. too loud, dirty, not comfortable). It wouldn't surprise me in the least if cafes like Starbucks have grown in popularity partially because of that issue, as at least in my city, they have grown rapidly and practically every location is busy. I guess we've just copied the French w.r.t. third spaces.
Here's what I'm wondering:

- How do you measure inequality?

- What amount of inequality is acceptable?

- What amount of inequality should be targeted?

Inequality is part of any system. It's inevitable due to the inherent randomness of our universe.
"The best use-case for a crypto coin is as a share of an underlying economy"

There is no such thing as a 'share' of that economy.

"So when the network first launches you get to purchase a share of the ethereum economy for relatively cheap"

No - you're not purchasing anything but a number.

"The problem with the recent ICO wave is that the value proposition "

There is no fundamental value proposition with coins - that's the problem. There is absolutely no way to value them. They are just worth what some folks in the crowd think and that is the beginning and end of it.

"very little room to grow outside of the increase due to massive bubble valuations."

?? What is a 'bubble valuation' - there would have to be a 'normal valuation' to compare it to. There is no normal valuation for any crypto. They are just 'numbers that you buy'. It's digital monopoly money with no face value. Why not $1 Billion USD for a BTC? Why not $10 dollars? There's no rhyme or reason for the prices to be what they are at any given time. Currently it's just a function of how many people are finding out about it, i.e. correlated with Google Trends.
Matrix Calculus
Well that is like saying gravity is an emergent property of space-time. Perhaps it is, but that doesn't finish explaining what it is or why it is an emergent property.
What's the big deal with programming? Isn't it an obvious trait sure to emerge after tapping those square boxes on the computer board enough times?
The author clearly and good-humoredly declares that he comes with no knowledge of music or music theory at all, and is clearly documenting his process of coming to grips with enough of those basics you may have known as a 6 year old with 1 year of experience, and is attempting to do so in order to do something interesting. So perhaps 'wrongness' is far less important to this than 'interestingness' and, though I am a multi-instrumentalist myself and know music well, I'd like to thank him for attempting to learn what he needed to to attempt this interesting thing. I really enjoyed the read and intend to have a little play with the data.
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I think people tend to memorize how they use software so randomizing / frequently changing your UI is superbly bad, in that I agreeing with your point and that part of the article.

The trouble I still see is that most software is barely held together built on top of stuff that is even worse. From my experience, if it is running on Android or Windows, it is 100% guaranteed you will have an issue you didn't predict because some set of users have done something crazy to their device. I guess you could always leave these things broken for a while, but it would reflect poorly and is hard to convince others that "oh this crash is ok".

I guess tl;dr I think most software is broken and always broken and updating more or less frequently wouldn't really change the brokenness for users, but the frequent updates at least give them hope fixes are coming and their feedback matters. Knowing you'll have this bug forever makes any alternative attractive.
I'm going to be very happy when this approach succeeds. Try taking off your Google goggles.
Almost two years to prepare?
Appreciate the explanation. Thank you.
"ICOs (tokens) are to IPOs (stocks) what cryptocurrency is to fiat currency."

No - absolutely not.

An IPO is the sale of shares in a company. It comes with a whole set of legal rights - most importantly, legal rights to the assets of the company.

Crypto-currencies are just another form of arbitrary currency that have different parameters - and by the way - crypto currencies are definitely 'fiat' currencies (i.e. they have value because they are declared to have value and that's it) - a non-fiat currency would be backed by an asset like Gold or property. Crypto-currencies imply zero rights to assets of the company, which is a pretty big deal.

Most currencies in the world are in fact 'backed' by something. USD are backed by TBills and crap property. The Euro is backed by 'good assets' generally.

"In other words, crypto currency and ICOs 'cut out the middlemen'"

No - definitely not. ICOs are way to sell NOTHING to people for actual money. 'Cutting out the middle man' in an IPO would be akin to skipping brokerages or something of the like - i.e. direct sales to consumers. With ICO's - coin owners get nothing in return, i.e. no rights to assets or future profits.

"there are some ICOs or users of cryptocurrency engaged in scams or questionable activity"

Can anyone name any ICO's wherein the coins have gone on to support a healthy economy for which that currency was supposed to support?

Because the Kin (i.e. Kik) coins are down to 1/5th their original valuation - they are not being used for anything in the economy - and Kik owns enough Kin to devalue the current economy by over 90%, meaning the current Kins are worth about 1/10th of their value.

"You fail to understand the big picture so let me help you (and perhaps @jedberg) out a bit."

No - I'm sorry but you fail to understand. So many people on here who support BTC have no financial or economic understanding of what it is - they are blinded by the admittedly very cool technological aspects and the 'utopian promises'.

The notion of a 'decentralized currency' is really cool, but it's not likely to happen for a variety of reasons. Basically all ICOs are scams. Most coins will die soon - BTC will be around for a while yet.
For some reason, they're not linking to the death metal version of the free software song: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/rms-deathmetal.mp3
Germany replaces US as country with best international image
Thanks. I'm trying to be diplomatic here with my criticism and appreciate the positive and informative responses despite my negativity. You are right, finance is critical to social function and perhaps I've only been focusing on the negative aspects.
The neglect of the exterior algebra is the
mathematical tragedy of our century.

Why has it been neglected?
For anybody looking for additional footing on understanding this, I found the following to be very helpful: http://bloom-lang.net/calm/

Personally, I've never done programming on distributed systems before so please correct me if I'm off at any point. The issue seems quite clear: you want to ensure that your function mutates inputs (or returns values relative to inputs) in a predictable way with values headed in one direction--increasing or decreasing.
So, the idea of monotonicity types actually seems quite intuitive: ensure your outputs monotonicity are well-defined. It's mildly surprising this isn't something that has already been implemented.

On the other hand, could this monotonic type could be more generalized? Maybe something less two-dimensional, though perhaps this is overkill for most uses.

Also, as an aside, I don't have a Ph.D. in comp. sci, type theory, mathematics, or anything for that matter. This article was borderline gobbledygook to me and could be summarized far more succinctly (in a manner more friendly to the general programming public?)
dumb question: what happens to them? Suppose you get lots and lots of energy converted into electrons and positrons...do they go and forth with each other until they create something bigger? If so, what?
hmm, sounds like that distribution thing is highly addictive /I kid
I built http://www.asterank.com/ and still maintain it after its acquisition by Planetary Resources. It is open source and its code has been used in a surprising number of space-related projects. If you're interested in getting involved, you might help modify the Asterank engine to be a better general-purpose framework for 3D space visualizations. This would benefit the space community as a whole by making the project a lot easier to adapt for commercial and educational purposes. Code: https://github.com/typpo/asterank

I'm also on an open-source NASA grant where we're implementing web-based asteroid data analysis tools. It's a bit earlier stage but still room to get involved.
Code: https://github.com/typpo/astrokit

Email me (hn@ianww.com) if you want to talk about either of these!
Game devs just use Perforce (for binaries, or everything). Sometimes Git in combination.
> It would obviously be on you to do your DD and confirm that the price is accurate.

Due diligence is irrelevant. The point is that a smart contract cannot run a scraper, it must outsource that work to another computer living outside the blockchain; that computer is a blackbox thats behavior could change at any time.

> It's easy to verify that the deployed code of an eth smart contract matches the open source code using the Bytecode of the deployed contract

The code is not the issue. If all documents are available from the beginning then the smart contract is not doing anything useful. A smart contract cannot execute a deed automatically so it serves no purpose that could not otherwise be achieved using centralized software systems.

> Not all defaults will necessarily lead to litigation. The parties would only need to go to court if the owner did not abide by the terms of the contract

The entire purpose of a contract is that people very often fail to meet the terms of the agreement. If you're relying on the legal system to adjudicate smart contract disputes then the smart contract is literally no different from a traditional legal contract except that it is written in unnecessarily inefficient blockchain code instead of legalese.

> The token also gives investors/lenders significantly more liquidity

The tokens provide no liquidity because the legal system does not recognize them as real, you might as well print out PGP signed IOUs on index cards for all those tokens are worth.
Here is a picture of another roman bread - http://kitchenboy.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/RA-bre...
Looks more like it was baked upside-down in a form? I don't know...
Ha. My 14 year old can have a smart phone when she gets a job, saves up for it and pays for it herself.

That'll teach her to value it (and not lose/smash it like my 15yo mentee keeps doing.) It also means she probably won't have one till she's 16 or so.

Disclaimer: I actually only have a two year old. Maybe I'll change my mind in the next twelve years, who knows.
they said their factory would be powered by solar panels (it's not) and their superchargers would be solar powered as well (they're not). Kind of one of those things like battery swapping that's not as practical as it sounds.
I think this is what people officially say, because this is the "right" thing to do, and in general it makes sense. But in real life things are different. I had to support many ancient systems with no security updates for years or even decades now. For some of them some updates were available, but we didn't even have the hardware to test them on. Yes, we were gradually moving many older parts to newer systems. Nevertheless, in the case of these older machines working in isolated networks, trying to patch them was just asking for trouble. I bet many admins on HN have similar experience.
Ask HN: Best Digital Product Seller Like Gumroad or SendOwl?
I want to sell some digital products like apps. So Gumroad makes it easy but it takes a lot of money when I make a lot. I want to sell 10 products till next month & there after the products will increase from 10 to 50 to 100.

1. So I want to ask will it be worth it to use Gumroad or SendOwl. It seems Gumroad takes a large chunk of money when u make a lot.

2. When Gumroad & similar services take 3.5% of my money, do Paypal/Stripe also take a chunk out of my remaining money ?

3. Am I better off building my own custom Paypal/Stripe Checkout form ?
I hate when you do something just to achieve the end result and not realize the real purpose behind anything that you do. My point is not that his form is bad. Its to do with any sort of competitive physical exercise.

You want to do 40 pullups properly in perfect form ? Sure, you can train for it, optimize every part of the movement, get proper nutrition and do it.

But is that the main objective ? If it is, then fine. But if your objective is to strengthen your lats and grip strength then there is no point in doing a single set of 40 reps. Split your set into 15 reps. And do 4 or 5 of them. Pace it properly and with perfect breathing. And concentrate on your lats. Squeeze them hard and expand fully, go slow on the negative. There's too many things if you go into the details.
The results have come back and ... they're positive I'm afraid.
In fairness, that's the same data that Netflix, Youtube, and others have access to when we watch online. The broadcast system is just transitioning to more of a network model as well.

Not that I agree with this decision, but it's not a huge change in the state of affairs really.
One of the components (not yet finalized) of ATSC 3.0 is an entire web browser that runs as an overlay in front of the video [1]. Which itself supports LocalStorage, XHR, and all the goodies you've come to expect - and EME DRM, of course.

[1] http://www.atsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/A344S34-230r1...
It should also be noted that companies with large fleets may well station their initial Tesla Semis in locations with lower electric rates - for example, Oregon and Washington have quite cheap power due to a large amount of hydro ($.0685/kWh up to 1mW for residential in Portland, e.g. [1]).

With only 15 orders to add to Walmart's 6,000 trucks, it will be quite a while before they need to send any to the more expensive locales.

[1] https://www.portlandgeneral.com/residential/power-choices/ba...
It's not a hive of racism, Americans just have become such virtue signalling morons that they call everything racism.

There happens to be a middle ground on many issues. Debating immigration policy isn't racist. Hell, even Emmanuel Macron and Merkel have started to control migration. No country can accept all the world's poor. It's simply not feasible. And the truth is, that is the concern that most Canadians are having. The economy's not great, working class wages and jobs are disappearing, the few places with good jobs have unaffordable housing, and Trudeau's talking about increasing immigration.

You guys can talk about how everyone that wants to debate certain topics is racist, but that doesn't change the fact that politics all over the west are moving a certain direction. The only question is whether we'll simply adjust policy, or wait too long and elect someone extreme as a knee jerk reaction.
I agree very much with this, and I will add that this can lead to a reasonably stress-free life, which is even better than it sounds.

To me, the real perk of working in tech is not that there are so many jobs that I can find one that pays incredibly well; it's that I can find one that pays nicely but aside from that has some other perks.

A lot of friends and workmates have told me that I could be working in a better paying place. After looking into quite a few job offers, my conclusion is that for now I'll stay in my 8-to-4 job that pays me twice as much as the average in my area (average in the sense of all the population, not just tech jobs, obviously). I used to have a high-paying, high-stress job; I don't want to go back to that, it's not worth the money.

I must add that I'm EU-based. I understand that in the US, with much less of a safety net, maybe optimizing for money is a more attractive idea. I can't really say for sure.
I don't happen to agree with you on eliminating NIL. I don't understand what the royal pain is.

And dynamic-wind is the price you have to pay for call/cc. UNWIND-PROTECT is not the same thing. Multi-shot continuations is he reason. One way would be having explicit one-shot continuations and escape continuations. Those are faster and will make UNWIND-PROTECT work.

I am more in favour of delimited continuations though.

Delimited continuations makes that a bit simpler (since you can easily implement something like dynamic wind using them).
With equal temperament you actually don't modulate precisely, so there is always weird disharmonic sound every single time.
As I said, for some electronic music subgenres it's a welcome feature; it would shock classical composers if they ever heard such a version though. Have you ever thought why do you need to state scale at the beginning of a classical piece if you can just easily transpose song to whatever scale you like? Well, those scales sounded differently and each composer was exploring what sounds best in a given scale.

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NlI4No3s0M

Ever played on a top end concert grand and thinking it sounds weird? Then tried a different tuning and being shocked how much better it sounded?
Wow, thanks for this one