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I haven't looked too much into the TypeScript compiler implementation, but my theory is they've just had more bandwidth to do little optimizations or maybe got lucky on some design decisions rather than it being something fundamental. To be clear, this doesn't include any typechecking, so Babel and TypeScript are pretty much solving the same problem here.

I've actually been hacking on a faster alternative to babel/tsc for simple use cases: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase . It has a built-in benchmark (`yarn run benchmark`) with at least one example of where typescript is about 3x faster. So you could look at that config if you want one example to compare the two.
> I like how many YouTube channels take 30 seconds out of a 10 minute video to talk about some company's product that might be of interest to their audience.

I like how many podcasts have ads with predictable lengths, so I can skip them with the "fast forward" button without hearing them. NPR is 4 skips; Slate is 8-10. It seems like "deep learning" should have figured this out by now.
Just because a murder charge was dropped, doesn't mean that a murder didn't happen. The justice system doesn't convict 100% of murderers.

This is illustrated in the quote

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"
Reads like a commercial for Sodium oxybate. Also makes me want to further hone in on my sleep.
The current wave of crime in parts of the Ukraine is, I shit you not, grenade violence. I’m inclined to agree with you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/world/europe/ukraine-gren...
Personally, over the years I find the LXDE to be the most pleasant environment. It puts all those Gnome3, Wayland, KDE atrocities to dust. Haven't tried any other recent DEs, since once I got my hands on LXDE I had no need.

Just now I checked the input response in tty and terminator, and I just don't feel any difference at all.
I live in Brooklyn as well and some things I've noticed:

1. If there's an uptick in crime, police will put up a manned tower for a while.

2. If there's a murder, they will set up a mobile command center in the vicinity.

3. They regularly use helicopters to hunt down suspects. I hear them maybe once or twice a month flying in the area.
Eh? Chile has strong worker unions and individual rights. It's not 1973 anymore.
To be clear, afaik, the lack of sleep doesn't increase levels; sleep lowers levels, as sleep is the body's / brain's recovery process.
> I have trouble accepting CP symmetry violations.

Universe does seem to exist, though, doesn't it?

How would you explain that without CP symmetry violation?
Sam's Journey (new game for C64)
What do you routinely stay up 24-30 hours for?

Curious. I do this occasionally, but it seems that for you its more of a work habit.
Have you tried AWS Polly? https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
Honestly I've always dreamed about moving to a place with friendly hippie culture, but Silicon Valley doesn't sound like it. Nice to hear that it still exists.
"Ads are inherently psychologically abusive"

Only the really good ones though. Most are just annoying and boring.
It seems to alien to me. In Australia soda (soft drink!) at a sporting venue or a bar will cost $3+ or more for a glass. But if you have a licence to serve alcohol, it is a requirement to provide free water to all patrons.
I'm not sure how to ask this, but can you give some specifics? Zoning codes vary from place to place. Do you have some sources for how to actually do this?

That's a rather broad suggestion and I feel like it gives me nothing to latch onto. Pretend I'm your mayor. What, specifically, do I need to keep and what, specifically, can I relax?
People already pay journalists to mention products or write reviews, Facebook runs ads in the feed that at a glance look like regular posts, and internet commenters (colloquially called shills) get paid to promote views or companies.

They're all creepy and they're all unwelcome.
It says in the article, clearing away happens at the same rate, but production happens at a higher rate when awake. Your peak concentration of this protein will be higher, thus causing more damage. This seems to indicate that frequent naps and polyphasic sleep may be good.
Back in 2005 it was standard for SSH servers to check /etc/shells. Maybe the RIT admins had put /bin/false in /etc/shells for some reason.
I've heard of NYC cops doing tricks like reporting a bag stolen off the subway as "lost property" if the victim didn't actually see someone take it.

There was also an infamous case where a pattern of attempted rapes got reported as lesser crimes like trespassing, so a serial offend who should have gotten a serious investigation never got one, and went uncaught for a long time.
Really a recovery process for everything including injuries and illness. It's not just the brain. Conversely if there is such an effect on the visible parts of the body, the same is happening in the brain. Scary to think, really.
I wasn't actually in Silicon Valley. I didn't really realize it was lacking until I left California and fell into the cozy lap of this culture elsewhere.
I'm ok with an ad or two.

What I'm not ok with is third party content from who knows where downloading who knows what script. And trackers. And putting so much junk on a page that I can't access the real content in a timely fashion. Get rid of all that and I'm happy to forgo my ad blocker.
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I have the "poor man's" version of De Niro's safe-deposit box, a Rolex Submariner. Readily convertible into US$3-5K cash (at least) in pretty much any large city in the world. It's always on my wrist. If I needed the money desperately and couldn't access my accounts, I have my beloved watch.
The companies mentioned in the article "Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants" have quite a bit of money for costs. Though for hospital they may need more of an IBM/Oracle corporate type model rather than apps.
What I Learned Running Startup Programs on Three Continents Over Five Years
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The update that ‘caused’ this issue only did so for the iPhone 6 and up so a replacement wouldn’t be necessary for older models.

Also, if you must keep using these old phones when they are no longer supported and have known and unpatched vulnerabilities, please be a good citizen and keep them off of our internet.
I would consider myself somewhat of an Apple fan. Yet, I've never used any of their built-in apps except XCode. ~99% of what I do is in Chrome, iTerm and various JetBrains IDEs. I even avoid XCode and use AppCode when possible. It's always been that way for me. I don't use macOS because the apps are amazing, or the UI is great. I use it because it gives me a Unix based system that can reliably do things like connect to an external projector, that has good enough support and pretty , non-flashy hardware. That's Apple's value offering to me and many other developers I know.
Segregation is the key here, not poverty.

Poverty is nevertheless a factor, but it is usually a result of segregation. When public funding such as education, infrastructure, healthcare, and police are take away from these segregated, poor, high-crime communities to "safer, richer" communities, then gangs rise.

Popular culture portrays most gang members are African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans, and whites are generally bikers (and they usually live in south/mid-west). That kind of stereotype only makes crime situation worse.

In NYC, at least from my experience, a diverse neighborhoods - influx of different cultures and races, different earning incomes, and different religious can help smooth out the tension. Diversity is not a magic bullet, and in some neighborhoods we don't see a big drop. Yet, a diverse neighborhoods have better chance in demanding for better resource distribution, so in the long-term the neighborhood will drive the bad out as the bad has little to feed on.

So the key is to remove segregation, have more diverse voice, and encourage neighbors talk to one another other.
The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track
500 Lines- that sounds like the average electronics guy who started coding unrolling a loop with copy and paste. Yes, such a thing exists.

There are "Programmers" who do not know about basic elements of the language they use. For years.
Is there a list of "participating" theaters anywhere?

I've tried a dozen browser combinations (Chrome, Opera, mobile, in and out of Incognito mode, 3 devices, all with Javascript enabled for everyone) and can only get "Oops! Something went wrong!" with the map feature. I'd be fine with an ordered list but see no such option on their site.
I'm under the impression those thousands of low quality ad infested click-baiting websites already exist.
> We noticed that once three or more of them ganged up together, the entire group would often follow suit.

This is quorum signaling, which is used in organisms as simple as biofilms. I have used it in some distributed systems in the 1980s — nowadays it might more hiply be considered a form of unsupervised learning.

The author does mention this in passing in the following paragraph but doesn’t appear to really understand the topic. The only actually “democratic” example by the author’s own definition would be the fish.

In fact for schooling/swarming creatures this approach is superior as a majority or even plurality system is both hard to coordinate and is subject to hill climbing problems.

Pack/herd animals have a harder time as the opportunity cost of splitting the herd is higher.
We have useless muscles in outer ears though. Maybe it is possible to repurpose them.
I'd say you don't seem to understand what makes an effective engineer. You ignore the benefits of introspection and discount the ability to improve yourself. Good habits can be cultivated. A career can be cultivated, any good engineer can target better jobs to move up step by step where they want to be.

The author is just giving you advice for doing those things.
Not everybody can afford to just go buy a new phone when some minor component fails. With replacable batteries, a busted usb port was an annoyance, but without, it makes an expensive and otherwise functional piece of technology into a paperweight.
How two Italian Brothers got away creating a fashion startup named 'Steve Jobs'
I have to throw in my $.02 here. The author needs to do a better job of explaining what city he lives in and what the unique sitaution is there. In the US outside of the west coast and maybe some eastern cities, you aren't going to meet "founders" and the whole ballgame is different for indy consultants.

I have had success with just going through recruiters who will work with your S-Corp and help find you gigs for an up-front fee. There's plenty of work, in fact, a recruiter whom I know got laid off not because of the lack of work but because of too few candidates to fill the roles. I do think the $$$ that employers are willing to pay also factors in. Not every place wants to hire consultants, either. Many have had bad luck with expensive jerks who promise the world but leave a huge mess in their wake.

The blog post advice is iffy--he did get lucky in the sense that his post tracked here on HN. I have a blog with no traffic! My former employer (a consulting firm) has had mixed success with their blog and that's with $200 paid to consultants who write articles for it. We had a very decent corpus of articles there, but the signal to noise ratio on the Internet is not in your favor there.
Something similar happened with my alma mater (Franklin & Marshall College) when an Italian designer gave a clothing line the same name. Students started coming home from travel abroad with tales of bootleg college gear. IIRC the college and clothing company worked out some licensing deal.
I'm not saying that it is, just that you can't compare it to "every project on github."
Name the things in the list that are anti-team or selfish, or avoid grunt-work. Being more productive would seem to benefit your team, no?
It's actually what the whole article is about: using hi-voltage DC to connect existing AC networks. For example:

"The Denver-based company behind the project hopes to erect a series of steel transmission towers that would stretch a high-voltage direct-current transmission line 730 miles across the American West. "
If they would go back to ads hosted on their own servers they likely wouldn’t get blocked. That means the ad network doesn’t get to track the users though.
> Cops have no say in whether to take or not take a report.

One time I tried to report a theft. I gave up after the third time the cop who was answering the phones at the local police station hung up on me.
1. Suboxone (generic) should be offered free of charge to any addict. The government could stop most opioid addiction overnight. Yes--there will be those that are destined to kill themselfs. My point is we can help most people right now.

2. 99% of the addicts only need 2 mgs./day. They are fooling themselfs if they can't get down to 2 mgs. Bupenorpine has a long half life.

3. Bupenorpine is regulated weirdly. Doctors have to take a class. Which is rediculious. If a doctor can't comprehend the use/abuse of bupenorpine; they should not be practicing.
Some, vary rare, doctors will prescribe off label. They are allowed 100 patients--I believe. (FDA makes them take the class. The FDA only allows 100 patients. I don't think the FDA makes the patent come in for a mandatory office visit, for a f---ing pill, but maybe I'm wrong?)

That clinic is making $2000 plus insurance/daily for making patients drive to the clinic, and watch the patient take the sublingual tab.

4. At this point we don't need to regulate the drug companies, we need to regulate doctors/treatment centers that feed-greed off their patients! I hate degreed parasites--who prey off their most vulnerable patients.

Sorry--the post above me just caught me off guard. I'm just picturing this women driving 45 minutes to take a pill.
Just the same, part of the reason people don't buy Apple is because they don't want to pay extra for service. For most of the middle and lower end such hardware (i.e., tablet) is a commodity. No sense paying extra for that.

Note: Not saying I agree, only that not everyone can afford / wants to pay a premium for Apple.
> available worldwide through December 2018

Which is quite frankly ridiculous. Nothing really justifies waiting a year for this.

Apple already has everything it needs to replace batteries worldwide right now (either with third party official repair companies or their own), and the cost of doing so will not likely change from here to December 2018.
I'm glad they did this, but it still doesn't handle the FUD about Apple generally slowing down old hardware in the name of planned obsolescence, which people have been tinfoil-hatting about since forever.

The fact is that new OS and software is designed to run on the latest hardware and checked on older hardware to see if it will work at all.

The conspiracy theorists think that Apple has been doing this with their phones since they started making them, and for their computers for decades.

It's horseshit, of course, and I wish the statement had been stronger.

The tinfoil garbage is about like if people complained that game companies were intentionally slowing things down for older graphics cards. No. That's just the natural progression as technology advances.

This is a case where Apple is slowing things down, but doing so to improve the user experience, not make it worse.

You have almost all of reddit and several other idiot websites that have been complaining for years about perceived slow-downs now feeling vindicated over this. And it's complete garbage.

I wish people could separate issues effectively, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards.
Another good thing to do in combination with that is to store the SSO provider locally (cookie/local storage, whatever). Then simply use that instead of presenting the two step process -- you can default to the existing server-side determination if the method stored locally fails.

I don't mind doing the two-step dance once during first login on a new device, but having to deal with it every time is infuriating and lazy on the part of the company.
Which was exactly the point.
It does not have a "documentation" link. It does not even say "man pages" anywhere on the page. ALso, the man pages go to something called "openssl", and when I click on the link, there is no "libressl" on the resulting page. Am I still on the libreSSL site? Is the libreSSL API exactly same as OpenSSL API? I have no clue. If it is, it does not say so, if it is not, it does not say so. What a mess.
My understanding was that a (very approximate) rule of thumb was that alcohol tends to be served in portions that are appropriate for the 2 drinks an hour rule. That is a bottle of beer, a glass of wine, a shot of vodka, a mixed drink, etc.

This seems like it would work as long as you treat all of them as trending towards the middle of the alcohol content scale (i.e. treat Miller Lite and a highly alcoholic cocktail as approximately equivalent to a shot ). On the other hand I don't think it would work if you treated the ends of the scale as the same (i.e. treating Miller Lite and a highly alcoholic cocktail as equivalent).
I think this type of thing would be very good at working around the recently struck down FCC NetNeutrality policy. Imagine plugging little self contained boxes into power outlets all around the city, building a mesh network organically, piece by piece.
http://www.crn.com/news/security/18821726/microsofts-ceo-80-...

"About 20 percent of the bugs causes 80 percent of all errors, and--this is stunning to me--1 percent of bugs caused half of all errors."
This article is completely irrelevant and outdated. The only reason this works on Solaris because it is so ancient it predates the /etc/shells system.
Insurance has quite a lot of specialist knowledge that isn't really tech.
Human fossils found in Morocco challenge our understanding of evolution
Confession Girl 0145
> Even search, where google has the clearest leads other offers exist

What are 3 or 4 alternatives?
You're conflating and combing a lot of things here into a big Apple-is-bad bundle.

I don't think I can respond to all of it.

I don't even necessarily disagree with your conclusion -- at the moment, I don't know enough to decide if Apple, all things weighed, is predominantly "good" or "bad", relative to what you might be able to expect from a large corporation. I probably never will.

But if I think it's a fairly extraordinary claim if you think Google is relatively "good". As I see it, for Apple, the iPhone is the product and I'm the customer. For Google, I'm the product and advertisers are the customer. That doesn't mean Apple never jerks me around. Sure they do. But Apple jerks me around when they screw up, and Google jerks me around when they are doing their job right.

> What is Apple really selling you aside from a status symbol and the feeling that you belong to some unique elitist club?

Hm. I've heard this kind of thing before but I just can't see how the iPhone can be conceived of as a status symbol or a sign of an elitist unique club. Hundreds of millions of people are walking around with these phones (and everyone knows this). I realize it can be different in different parts of the world, but in the U.S., where I live, there's no sense of exclusivity or luxury from owning an iPhone, at least not in the middle class circles I run in. In fact, it seems the iPhone does the best in richer economies -- places where it is NOT a sign of luxury or exclusivity. Think about it. I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding the appeal of these devices.
Going to plug Minetest (https://www.minetest.net/) here. It's basically the Minecraft voxel engine with the ability for people to write hooks straight into it. Laying on an economy into this wouldn't be hard at all.
I think you might be trying to use some patterns that don't work well on macOS. I used to run into the full-screen issue all the time when I switched to macOS many years ago. The full-screen paradigm under macOS is completely different from what it means on Windows or Linux. You only really want to ever use it for something like screen sharing or movies.

What drove me initially nuts is that on Windows you can do everything through the UI. That makes the UI cluttered, but you can find it. Under OS X there was lots more stuff that you just couldn't do via UI and you had to drop to Terminal. It took me a while to get a sense to when I should give up on doing something through the UI.
I use an ad blocker, because otherwise the web is unusable.

Maybe if (1) fewer ads pumped up CPU and memory usage for a page, and (2) companies didn't give their non-technical asshole free reign over placing scripts on the page, then maybe many of these sites wouldn't be so bad to visit without an ad blocker.
Time; the coin sees little use in any fundamental market. If it were to crash and vanish tomorrow, relatively little would be affected.

It's difficult to claim "Something has changed the game", if it can't even accomplish being noticable in its absence.

It exists, and it can sometimes be used, and some people think it will be used. Thats about all you can say about it.
It’s not just software. It’s hardware and service. Here’s my anecdote. I bought a 2015 MacBook Pro with AppleCare second hand. The AppleCare doesn’t expire until September 2018. So, I brought my laptop in because my webcam wasn’t working all of a sudden. This is where the proverbial shit hit the fan:

1. Required a full display replacement, and the Apple technician dropped my laptop and left scuffs on the bottom. This was noted, and they replaced the bottom without even bringing it up to me (but it took an extra day to wait for the part to arrive). Upon picking it up, I noticed there was a dent, an obvious dent, on the corner panel that they didn’t fix. The apple store was so crowded, and the tech was unwilling to reason with me (cosmetic damage isn’t covered, this is the way it was brought in... ya da ya da)so I left.

2. Emailed Tim Cook. No response (obviously). Escalated (maybe Cook deferred my case to them and they left a note on my account?) to customer relations and they said to bring it in for repair.

3. Brought it in for repair, and when I got it back, the headphone jack and thunderbolt ports weren’t working because the side panel was shifted to the point where the peripherals couldn’t be plugged in properly, unless I really jammed it in there (and even then it didn’t work).

4. Emailed Tim Cook again, bringing this to their attention that their 5th Ave. flagship store is really cutting corners on repairs. At this point, I just wanted a full blown replacement... call me entitled, but I wanted to exercise my insurance, which was purchased just in case shit broke. Well, shit broke and they mess up every repair. So, am I wrong to want a replacement? No response again, but customer relations said “we spoke to the manager of the store, they said to come back in.” Went back in, and the manager says “sorry, we can’t replace it. But we can fix it again.” I was like, ok... you couldn’t tell me that over the phone? I had to subject myself to the madness of the 5th Ave location for no reason?

5. The deemed the issue as a logic board issue. Replaced the logic board. When I came to pick it up, the Genius says “... idk why they replaced the logic board... your left ports are misaligned and damaged- it has nothing to do with the logic board.”

My left ports still don’t work, but I don’t want to deal with Apple anymore.

Granted, they shipped me a pair of AirPods as a compromise since my headphone jacks don’t work... but this was the worst experience I’ve had with any warranty/insurance process. Including car accident, and home insurance. Health insurance is still the absolute worst, but that’s a tough bar to pass- point is, Apples quality everywhere has deteriorated to the point where they’re almost trying to cut corners on purpose, rather than excelling at hardware + service, like they used to.