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Does the release of parcel mean you can no longer use webpack, or gulp, or grunt or whatever you’re using now?

If you don’t like a new tool, don’t use it. I can’t stand this kind of meritless complaints. If you’ve got a problem with the implementation of a new tool, that’s understandable. But to take issue with its existence? That’s just petty and a waste of everyone’s time.
Lambda interpreter in the way of GOD
Unfortunately this is only the start. It seems Republicans have started a war on education.

"a majority (58%) of Republicans say colleges and universities are having a negative effect on the way things are going in the country"

We should be continuing to encourage higher education in addition to trade schools. Bachelor Degree holders, on average, earn a million dollars more during their life time than those who only have a high school diploma. Even if you are accounting for lost earning potential, cost of tuition, supplies etc... your still talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars more earned than if you were to not achieve a degree.

Pew Research Poll
http://www.people-press.org/2017/07/10/sharp-partisan-divisi...

Figure 2A Lifetime Net Earnings by Education
https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/educatio...

Figure 1 Lifetime Earnings by Education
https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2011/c...
Exactly, which in turn burdens all the other roadways such as 29 and 50.
I use FastMail and love it, but I've noticed that if I use SMTP, it leaks my IP address in the email headers, whereas using the web client does not.
In a sense, yes, these modules are written in Prolog. However, that is not the full story: CLP requires special interface predicates that the underlying Prolog system must provide. You cannot implement CLP "on top" of just any Prolog system with reasonable performance and correctness.

Devising and implementing such suitable interface predicates is quite hard, and only a very small number of Prolog systems have succeeded with this so far.

For example, the SWI interface for CLP is too limited in practice, and its constraint solvers have elementary mistakes also because of the limitations of the interface predicates it provides.

In contrast, SICStus Prolog provides a much more general interface to attributed variables that supports all widely used constraint solvers (finite domains, Boolean variables, rational numbers etc.) with good performance and no known mistakes.

The tutorial you link to has several rather severe shortcomings, and I cannot recommend it for learning CLP(FD). Please see my profile page if you are interested in Prolog resources.
There are plenty of jobs more hazardous than "soldier". I believe there's a guy who made a show about such "dirty jobs"? Mining, oil fields, and commercial fishing come to mind.
> “Everyone is talking about how to punish Russia, but no one is talking about how to help Russia,” Mr. Smirnov said, sipping a hot beverage in the lobby of the Lausanne Palace Hotel before delivering his final appeal to officials that afternoon.

This quote is really kind of amazing.
When they first brought these things to the DC area (the 495 express lanes in Virginia), the toll was capped at $10. It didn't take long before they were routinely hitting the cap and seeing traffic at a standstill in the "express" lanes, so they ditched it.
The end state described is one where Mercurial is written in Rust so that large scale changes can be made without touching any Python. 3rd party extensions may still be permitted in Python.

If that's not what the authors intend I'd suggest they rewrite the document to make clear what the quote above means to describe.
And here we see how DC's politicians figured out how to profit from removing Net Neutrality protections.
Not really clear why this is a "surprise" unless that has been manufactured for excitement purposes. The articles in any single-line publication are all essentially ads.

Consider the travel, fashion and car sections of the newspaper: do you think they are really funded by the paper? Back when I got a newspaper on mushed up trees we always chucked those sections in the bin when fetching the Sunday paper. The sport section is pretty much ads too.

So I assume that almost all the articles in "business" or "tech" are essentially placed. Some sites wear their allegiance on their sleeve, which sometimes, ironically, makes them more impartial (I consider Ads Technica an example -- their apple coverage is for and by apple enthusiasts, by and large, but on that basis, ironically, can be critical of apple).

Then again, even in mainline news, someone chooses what to report on, and really they aren't impartial.
This might be related so I wanted to tack on a question: Does the FCC, especially Pai consider one of the only options for providers of broadband in the North East considered a competitive market?
Yup. Thats essentially the plan.
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No. If your timer turns off the oven, you turn the oven on and then set a timer. Much more annoying than just setting the timer.
I think it's super cool.

I've been configuring Webpack projects for almost 2 years now and I'd rather use Parcel tbh. My only problem is the lack of plugins such as loading .vue files.
If that's in the GDAX TOS, it's an unnecessary disclaimer. The best Bid and Ask are by definition not the same price, otherwise one or the other order would have been at market and matched against the other, and there is always a non-zero spread between the two.
Unfortunately I cannot provice much detail about the nature of the application, however I can say that we collect and process various types of events and perform automated actions based on them. The ingress begins at API Gateway, runs through a pipeline of Lambda functions, ends up in a Kinesis firehose, and ultimately in S3 for further processing. The primary cost (~60%) comes from API Gateway acting as the event ingress point, which was a design mistake...though at the time it did make things easier.

We're currently working on migrating the event collectors to a pure CloudFront based solution (inspired by SnowPlow) where the events will be submitted to CloudFront via signed GET requests and the CF logs will be streamed to the same Lambda-based processing pipeline. Doing this will eliminate almost all of the overhead of API Gateway (still required for certain events that cannot be collected via HTTP GET).
The article says they have a lot of reserved instances which at some point is not fully used.

So if you have 50 cpu hours reserved capacity per hour and during parts of the day you're using only 10h, they can allocate the remaining 40h which they reserved and paid upfront for encoding.
Using the money to give myself the time/space to work on other projects. The nice thing about the money is I can focus on projects that require months/years of development (rather than projects that I would need to wrap up within weeks). I'm looking into a bigger place and get a dog but other than that not much.
Revenue comes from selling policies. The company has a financial incentive to deny care because that increases the profit. It's one way they try to control expenses and thereby increase profit. After Katrina State Farm famously denied coverage to many people on the grounds that it wasn't storm damage but rather flood damage. Companies that have an incentive to get out of spending money generally try to do so. Health insurance companies hire people for the express purpose of looking for loopholes and ways to deny coverage. This is well documented.

You have in the comment above and in other comments spoken in terms of what could be. Do you have evidence that Aetna's valuation was not based on profitability? Do you deny that Aetna has a financial incentive to deny coverage or to look for ways to get out of paying for coverage? Do you believe that the $500 million for one person is money well spent in the U.S. healthcare system?
We are updating the post right now :)
Aja Hammerly[0] have a talk[1] at RubyConf this year titled “4 Programming Paradigms in 45 Minutes”, and she used Prolog as her declarative language. She implements a simple cash register in OO (Ruby), Functional (Racket), Declarative (Prolog) and Procedural (Assembly). The Prolog one turned out to be the shortest. It was really interesting!

[0] https://github.com/thagomizer
[1] https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2017-4-programming-parad...
Interesting. I switched a little over a year ago too. I like not being the product but find the web client painful. Specifically:

1. No Send and Archive

2. Sending is slooow. E.g. compose email, hit Send, wait several seconds, go back to Inbox. Gmail is instantaneous.

3. Hitting Reply is SLOOOOW to bring up the Reply pane. Fastmail does a POST that takes from 500ms to 5000ms (usually on the lower end but even that is noticeable. On the rare occasion it's longer it's incredibly frustrating).

4. Replying to a message in a thread requires the mouse. In Gmail, the keyboard shortcuts will act on the highlighted message in-thread. In Fastmail the keyboard shortcuts only act on the most recent message in the thread.

5. When viewing an email that is a response to another email, Gmail collapses the initial email and lets you expand it with an ellipsis. Fastmail does no such thing, which means you need to scroll (and scroll and scroll...) when looking up through long threads

6. Search is just OK vs. Gmail, but that's not a huge surprise.

In general Fastmail hasn't impressed me with the pace of development on the web app at all - the issues I had with it a year ago are still exactly the same issue I have today. I don't know how anybody who works on it and dogfoods it can't notice the speed issues every time they send an email.

But it's still nice to not be the product.
This is the best part of a standards-compliant service like FastMail. Gmail is extremely challenging to use with third party clients because it's custom features aren't supported. I've long had Gmail randomly archive (in no folders) email I told it to delete via an IMAP client, or duplicate items in multiple folders (i.e. labels) or other weird behaviors.
They were already burdened by non-HOV traffic. They might get it a little more during the expanded hours, but those could have been changed regardless. For most people, this is adding an option, not subtracting one. I don't get the outrage.
Things change over the course of decades...just because you paid taxes for "this road" 30 years ago doesn't mean you should always get unrestricted use of it. And thinking of it as "this road" doesn't make sense, either. Roads have to be maintained. I suspect that over the course of 100 years, more is spent on road maintenance than the initial construction cost.
The thing that frustrates me the most about what they're doing in the area is that their public transportation is still terrible.

Try taking the Metro from Vienna to Springfield. You have to get almost entirely into DC, then change lines and come back out. Compare to other systems which are much more efficient.

I believe there would be significant less backlash if the Metro wasn't awful and more people were able to use it reliably without ridiculous wait times.

FWIW, I lived there and hated the metro and seldom used it. The tube in London on the other hand - I wouldn't buy a car if I lived there.
Sure, at one point it was, but this plan didn't skip straight from completely open to express lane tolls. Twice as many people live here now as 30 years ago, and this road no longer has the capacity to support that kind of totally unrestricted use. Traffic in the area had become a problem, and the only real remedies are to incentivize less driving, incentivize more efficient driving (more occupants per vehicle), or build more road capacity (and find a way to pay for it, since existing revenues don't). At least to some degree this plan does all of those: preserves existing incentives to share vehicles by keeping HOV free and maintaining reasonable traffic speeds in HOV lanes, creates new disincentives to drive single-occupant in the form of high tolls, and funds a roadway expansion.
I think his point was that Tencent makes half of its revenue off games (which is a global business), even though people primarily associate it with WeChat (and social networking).
Virginia politicians are the ones behind this project.
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Collection of pre-iPhone mobile apps (circa 2001-2006)
As a partially disabled veteran, screw that. Getting up to turn off the lights can be challenging. Also, being able to turn off the TV, AppleTV, speakers, SteamLink, and other appliances for the entertainment center with a phrase saves not only electricity, but is really convenient when the kids are being little shits.
With home assistant running on a pi locally, I can automate the ever loving shit out of my house. All those dangerous hue lights turn off slowly late at night and on around sundown. The cool porch lights for the holidays are turned off through zwave, probably a disastrous protocol that should be avoided because it can be controlled by hackers through SDR and Pringle cantennas /s.
I get that there are security implications, but the ability to have things be automated has saved me the painful experience of moving to turn off a light when we wanted to watch a movie. Someday I’ll own my own home, then even the wall switches will be zwave!! 🧐🧐
It's super interesting that by removing serif from a sans-serif font you get Comic Sans!
Good. Every highway in the United States needs to be tolled in this manner.
Wow the prices are incredible. At walmart grocery they list 500 swabs for $2. In the store, zinc batteries are $1 for four. However on the site they aren't even shown and want you to buy alkalines for $3. But zinc batteries are 24 for $0 at harbor freight with their regular coupon.

Walmart's online orders come from a million places similar to your Jet experience. I used it all the time, when the online prices were identical to the in-store prices. Spend $6 more to get free shipping! Ok, I'll take 50 pounds of cat litter, hope the UPS finance dept thanks you. I wonder why they put a stop to this :(
To be clear, what is the "stain" you speak of? The ban or the cheating?
Ok, now I question the validity of everything I've ever read on Seeking Alpha.
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Facebook doesn't have much revenue from games, music and videos like what Tencent did. Facebook's profile mostly rely on AD, but Tencent has much more diversity income source.
And not refuse to name banks without an NDA signed and in place...
Nick Gillespie Debates Net Neutrality with Tom Wheeler on NPR
Yeah, that's my point, there are scattered examples but it's nobody's primary thrust.
I didnt know we were still concerned about deviant adult behavior in 2017 lol.. Seems like deviance is fine to me and everyone is free to live a life according to their own wishes and priorities
CalDAV works great! I use their calendar on my Windows Mobile device without a problem[0]. FastMail even, when they had a change that might negatively affect some calendar clients last month, bothered to test large number and notify users who might be adversely affected. I got an email telling me how to resolve the issue with my Windows Mobile device, for example.

https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/11/04/shared-calendar-improve...

[0] Actually Windows 10 has a strange quirk of CalDAV/CardDAV support: It's only supported as part of iCloud account support. The solution is to create a fake iCloud account, and then change the advanced server settings to your CalDAV and CardDAV URLs instead of Apple's URLs. And then put in the correct credentials. This is true of desktop and phone Windows 10 alike.
Ada has always had integer ranges. Dependent types include integer ranges, but integer ranges aren't necessarily dependent types.

Dependent types do a bit more than that. Supposing you want to put a random pixel on a canvas C, but you don't know C's dimensions at compile time (perhaps because the user can change them at run time). The numerical value of the pixel's x and y coordinate ranges aren't known at compile time, but it is known that they're not negative and less than C.width and C.height.

C = new Canvas
...

// random(n) returns an integer of type range(0, n)
x = random(C.width) // x has type range(0, C.width)
y = random(C.height) // y has type range(0, C.height)

// drawPoint(w, j, i) takes args of type canvas, range(0, w.width), range(0, w.height).
drawPoint(C, x, y) // The types of x and y depend on the run-time value of C.

Using dependent typing would enable us to remove another source of bugs.
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Road of Theseus.
Which location? Inside the beltway it was always HOV on all lanes during the restricted hours from the moment it (inside the beltway) opened. That was part of the "deal" made between VA, Arlington (the VA county with the majority of the "inside the beltway" portion), and DOT to even get the road finally built.

The "single lane HOV" part was outside the beltway.
Strong technical leadership and defining clear code boundaries is the secret sauce to scaling successfully. The shiniest tooling will not save your team.
On Android, this search bar can be disabled. Maybe it's the same on iOS.
I don't seem to be able to edit this comment anymore, but since it's being downvoted so much, perhaps I need to clarify the tone:

Isn't it interesting that this article is written to imply the microwave weapons will specifically target Nork military hardware when it could be used upon other "enemies" and civilian populations too?
1999 seems fine to me. AI has barely changed since 1975.
why it didn't work earlier? were you talking with wrong apiary/oracle support channels/using twitter handles?
What is the receipt really going to do? They could assume you're using that money to buy drugs, or you laundered it or some other outlandish charge. The receipt just shows that you probably didn't steal the money from somewhere.
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A much cheaper solution: send reporters or newsdesks article 'helpers'. Basically, provide a list of bullet points which can be trivially fleshed out into a human-interest article, chosen and ordered to produce the story you want.

If you have a synthetic diamond company or something (that's a fake example), you don't really need to bribe your way into the headlines. You can just provide a ready-made skeleton for an article about how lab diamonds are indistinguishable from natural diamonds, and spice it up with some stats about how they're a huge hit with millennials. You can even get your company into the story by providing a juicy quote, which will of course be sourced as "Joe Schmoe from LabDiamondsAreUs says..."

I've seen this operation happen from both ends, and it works eerily well. Harried writers are grateful for content that's easily converted into deadline-beating stories, and as long as the topic is relatively low-consequence they don't feel much need to cross-reference or seek dissenting voices.
> > You have not demonstrated FUD from the remain side.

> Do you honestly believe there was no FUD from the remain side?

Do you really not understand the distinction between these two statements?
Make student loans dischargeable under bankruptcy like any other loans, including corporate loans. Then we'll see big changes. But since we punish the young, by not letting them off the hook, these loan sharks will continue to bite.
Do you need help? This is one of the best communities in the world to ask to write free analysis software to help you determine which entries were likely to have been automated.
I'd say financial anonymity should be considered a basic human right. If you have no privacy to your purchases, you have no privacy at all.
Interesting you make this point, because experts seem to disagree with your belief.
My post questions the ability of the market to price CEO value a lot more than it expresses outrage.

Athletes and celebrities are different, their pay is a natural consequence of gathering lots of attention. A more rational species would substitute cheaper entertainment.
The insufficient bribes.
We rolled our own, nice benefit is everything registers events with the same logging subsystem and lets us define central hooks for common things like errors (to send to reporters).

Web: https://github.com/blendlabs/go-web

DB: https://github.com/blendlabs/spiffy

Migrations: https://github.com/blendlabs/spiffy/migration

Logger: https://github.com/blendlabs/go-logger

CRON: https://github.com/blendlabs/go-chronometer
So a crash is a market being wrong?
If miners get paid for valid blocks that don't end up included in the chain, that also makes the 1s less of an advantage. Hence GHOST. Here's the original paper [1] and a later one [2].

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Accelerating-Bitcoin-s...

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/545.pdf
> China doesn't allow US companies to do so in China, so why should Chinese companies be permitted?

China doesn't allow a lot of things, that's a pretty weak argument.
That is overly generic and not necessarily true.
you describe a classic misattribution problem with the demand for higher ed. people use "college" as a synonym for "successful life", but those two things only have a loose correlation, which is only getting weaker with the swell of people getting degrees that they can't wield effectively.

we all want a successful life, and being good little free-market capitalists, we eagerly buy into the story that we can achieve success by simply buying a degree (hey, i bought three of 'em!) and letting the rest play out like our wildest dreams.

but of course it doesn't work that way because we didn't scrutinize the winding path between degree and successful life, because the shortcut between those two things doesn't actually exist (at least not any more).

colleges and universities have done a good job extracting most, if not all, of the value out of the higher education market, with the help of government distortions (guaranteed interest, unbankruptable debt). it's time to put to bed the idea that a degree equals success (it's also time to get rid of those market distortions). a few of us will get lucky of course, but pretty much everyone will need to create success the old-fashioned way: by working hard for it.
> They are more prone to trends, fads and more personal biases

This is not necessarily true, and I would urge caution when making such generalizations. There is junk social science and there is also plenty of junk "hard" science. Examples of fake data, political and personal biases interfering with the scientific method, occur in all fields. Some "fads" eventually become accepted fact. It took 100 years before plate tectonics was accepted by the majority of the scientific community, there are many such examples.

Don't universally discount social science: it is just as important as physical science. We actually need more social scientists to help understand the reasons behind anti-science movements in the first place, and to help legitimize science as a process, critial thinking, and to debunk illogical arguments.
Yes, it looks like this (and other differences) is why it's called a "Bitcoin-like" project. It also runs over HTTP instead of plain TCP/IP, so it can't be used as a Bitcoin node anyway (and there are numerous other differences).

But it's a nice example of a Bitcoin-like project, and manages to get the main ideas of Bitcoin in as an educational project.
> When something doesn't make sense, usually it's because information is missing.

Either that, or because too much irrelevant information is present, combined with an inability to separate the wheat from the chaff. In other words, it also quite frequently happens that the necessary information is there, hiding in the midst of all the noise.
Watch the documentary "nothing to hide"
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How technology has changed over the last three decades
To be fair, i originally wanted to put 2010 but there are so many butthurt nodejs fans that will get easily offended.