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Bret Victor has written about these kinds of languages before, mainly in his "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations" notes (http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend..., talking about what he just presented):

> Is this "visual programming"? No. The term "visual programming" has had a well-established definition for several decades, and this tool is not that.

> A "visual programming language" provides graphical representation and spatial manipulation of the program structure. (That is, static "elements" or "operators", analogous to the "code" in a conventional programming language, or schematic components in a circuit).

> This is not the case with the tool here, which actually represents program structure as a fairly conventional list of textual instructions. The only direct manipulation of the instructions is merely in selecting them for looping, deleting, etc.

> Instead, the tool provides graphical representation and spatial manipulation of the program data. (Dynamic or "runtime" information, analogous to the values of data structures in a conventional programming language, or voltages in a circuit. In this case, the data is a picture.) The program structure is built up implicitly by directly manipulating the data.

Luna seems to lay firmly in the former category rather than the latter: it is firmly steeped in writing code to manipulate and visualize data, rather than manipulating data to get code. There isn't anything wrong with that, but I see a lot more similarities between Luna and Latour's Quartz Composer or Sweeney's Unreal Blueprints than I do with Bret's systems.
In the hope you wouldn't reply, perhaps?
That's beside the point. The stock won't go to zero because it represents a share of ownership in a company that has billions of dollars more in assets than in liabilities. Real estate is just one of the many assets.

Edit: I thought I posted a link to Google's balance sheet in my parent comment, but apparently I left it out: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/goog/financials/...
In addition another great step would be if they cleaned up xaml the same way they cleaned up MVC with Razor.
Yeah i wasn’t disagreeing with the not stupid part.

Was disagreeing with the difficulty part. It’s not hard to prioritize living a car limited life. In particular I find the “schlepping kids” argument uncompelling because the stuff you schlepp grows to the ease of schlepping. Lots of people with no choice handle this as the easiest part of their day.

If anything my argument is that we should make it more stupid to own a car.
If you don't want to do it, perhaps you shouldn't do it. RescueTime and similar tools/practices might well be just an internalized social pressure. You put on a mask that others want to see on you only to then helplessly observe your psychological immune system reject the mask through procrastination, depression, or whatever.

It is better to see procrastination and other subconscious work avoidance as a symptom that you are trying to divorce your actions from your inner motivation. Needless to say, such split personality isn't going to last and your inner motivation will win one way or another.

So fuck the work and do something you actually enjoy for a while. You will be more happy that way and chances are you will be more productive too.
Threaded, hierarchical "ML/Usenet-like" views are great, but they're not what people are asking for when they request a "conversation view."
It's showing its age now. My partner's work Air is so much bigger and heavier than my xps 13, it seems obscene that so many Airs are still sold as standard issue at many workplaces.
The original comment seemed to be “sure, some people working for Mozilla are bad, but some are good, and some people working for their competitors are also bad.”

My points were (1) the statement didn’t actually say anything interesting because it only talked about some of the people working at each company (i.e., it was just as true if you switched the company names around), (2) all companies are made up of people, so it’s hardly a surprise that some of those people have admirable motives and others don’t, and (3) “nonprofit” doesn’t necessarily mean “good,” or “pure in heart,” or whatever people seem to think it does.
Still doesn’t save window position on a second monitor, have to use wmctrl. :-/
Your mileage may differ but ~50% of my library is playable on linux, purchased over many years with no thought towards linux compatibility. 99% of the time I spent playing could be done on linux, so I switched over my main gaming PC. The downside was losing access to a lot of games I don't play anyway, which is ok.
US copyright terms were not merely brought into line with the rest of the world. Work-for-hire copyright is 95 years in the US. It is at most 70 years elsewhere.
Ask HN: Best distraction-free phone platform?
There's been a spate of articles recently about the negative and addictive effects of social media and smartphone addiction. I'd like to move to a phone that never lets me use the 'unrestricted' infinite-scroll Internet (i.e. no Facebook, Google, Instagram, web browser) but, ideally, allows a small number of limited-content apps with no infinite scroll (WhatsApp for communicating without SMS charges, perhaps Facebook Messenger, Google Maps etc), and, for bonus points, has a good camera. Perhaps a custom low-addition build of Android, or some way of completely removing the temptation of Safari on iOS?

Thoughts, or alternative ideas for dealing with this? I've already downloaded Freedom but am looking for something more permanent that doesn't involve any self-control. Alternatively, any suggestions for good dumb-phones that will still work on 3/4G-only networks?
They should have titled it "Are Gummy Bear Colors Just Fooling Our Brains?"
What do you mean by casual biking? Walking home takes me a half hour or longer. Biking is less than 10 minutes according to my bike computer. Big time difference. Plus if it's hot I spend a lot less time in the sun on the bike, making biking less sweaty than walking. And I can carry a lot more cargo more comfortably.
I'm happy that you are already familiar a little bit with Luna code! Now if you want, you can contribute to the project easily! :D

Answering a little more serious, the installation path on any Unix system is described in our documentation here: https://luna-lang.gitbooks.io/docs/content/installation.html :)
+1

Annual fee starts at $10 and increases by 50% each year (or similar exponential growth function) would be wonderful.

Year 2 - $15

Year 10 - ~$380

Year 20 - ~$22k

Year 30 - ~$1.3M

Year 40 - ~$74M

Year 50 - ~$4B
Appreciate it. Not betting on the situation, just morbidly curious.
Same here. I used to be a desktop guy but after Winforms, WPF, Silverlight, WinRT and UWP new stuff will be web apps only. I don't trust MS on the desktop anymore.
Windows installer needs add proxy settings, I'm behind a firewall, and always get "Prelude.head: empty list" error.
Crypto-millionaires aren't millionaires until they cash out a million dollars and at least diversify. The numbers may come more in line the correction continues.
They are an advocacy group, "filing lawsuits" isn't really what they do. They don't provide a product that they can claim is damaged by this, while Mozilla does.

Here's the past cases they've been involved with, none of them filed by the EFF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_litigation_involving_t...
> If you don't explain in documentation (e.g. comments) why you went the more complicated route, someone might come along and "simplify" things to incorrectness, and the best case is they'll rediscover what you already knew in the first place, and fix their own mistake, wasting time in the process.

I've done this to myself. It sucks. Revisiting years old code is often like reading something someone else entirely wrote, and you can be tempted to think when looking at an overly complex solution that you were just confused when you wrote it and it's easily simplified (which can be true! We hopefully grow and become better as time goes on), instead of the fact that you're missing the extra complexity of the problem which is just out of sight.
One of the useful things science fiction taught me was to look for where the magic comes in to a fictional world. E.g., travel at sub-light speeds makes it inconvenient to write about interstellar empires, so the author creates a magic FTL drive covered over with science doubletalk.

The magic in your fantasy is infinite cognitive capacity. As if each person could carefully look at the list of hundreds of millions of taxpayers across federal, state, county, and city jurisdictions, extract all the information they needed, fairly contextualize it in the total economic and social environment, and then respond appropriately when they meet somebody new over dinner. All the while managing to live their lives, do their work, raise their kids, etc, etc. And that's not even counting the labor of figuring out the correct amount to pay for each function of government, which on its own is an impossible task for a single individual.

In practice, with human cognitive limitations, what we'd have is chaos, parasitic behavior, and a race to the bottom. Which is why we have a system where the free rider problem is instead solved by having a variety of locales one can move to so that individuals can choose the sort of public investment approach they'd like to live under. If you would like to live in 19th-century conditions, you can buy a chunk of land in the middle of nowhere for approximately nothing.
No, Segway didn't. Hoverboards are specifically based off of a patent made by some guy living in Oregon, and are actually ingenuitive in their own right. There's a good planet money podcast about it: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/27/457404184/epis...

Bitcoin, Eth, and Monero are all implementations of blockchain. Bitcoin is technically inferior to Eth, Monero, even Dogecoin, but that doesn't stop GP and others from comparing it to the internet's success in saying that Bitcoin is destined for similar success.
OK, now that I have you, what is the benefit of acknowledging that men as a group do something to hurt women? And if that's the case, what is it that women, as a group do to hurt men?

I believe the awareness of the #metoo movement is powerful, in that it allows me as a male, to say stuff like "that's not cool" when needed.
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QQ, Yandex or GMX are niche?
You're suffering from a severe case of US-centrism.
Biking is still at least three times faster than walking for the same energy input. Even near-zero-effort "casual" biking is as fast as a brisk jog.
I think pilot offers a great service. Though There are a handful of competitors out there that seem just as a good fit.
A marketplace for music teachers and students
My name is Feng Liu from Acho, www.acho.io, a early stage startup in Sunnyvale CA. We created a marketplace that connects music teachers to people who want to learn music.

Unlike other sites, we focus only on music lessons and it's entirely free as we build up our community. Eventually we plan to include other features, such as handling payments and scheduling.

We are in the very early stage and are looking for our first 50 or 100 music teachers as our early adopters. Anyone who wants to give private lessons, has a music degree, or is a musician should signup and create a profile on our website.

If you have any suggestion, feel free to leave a comment below or email me at fliu@acho.io Thanks.

www.acho.io
www.acho.io/join (teacher sign up)
You are right, I definitely wanted to use the "inconvenience" word here, but it seems my dictionary knows better what is happening :D
So... not the web, then? :-P
When the demand for USDT shrinks, will they also do quantative uneasing? As in buying back USDTs to the extend the value of one USDT cannot drop below $1? I do not think they will, because I do not think they can...
Sure, but finding partners at work is fine.
As is often said about things having to do with the human mind, more research is needed.
Sounds like an argument against blindly paying off third-world debt. If we focus on paying off just appropriate, "non-corrupt" debt, we're good.
Vacuuming might help. And deleting old mail with attachments.
BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales
Speculators seek to extract alpha without regard to the overall health of the instrument. Shorting is just as good as going long, so far as you make a profit.
The Gionee S11S Full Specification, Release Date, Features, Photos
Well, there are over 10,000 occurrences of 'any' (which effectively gives up on type checking) in the DefinitelyTyped repository:

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/search?q=...
Yes, that's what I meant by "demand for tethers go up". Although at present, there are only two exchanges that offer Tethers/USD market (Kraken & Bitfinex). Eventually, majority of those holding Tether will probably get back in to crypto. Indeed, holding Tethers could be risky, especially if the peg brakes, there are no guarantees that it will always be stable.
> What ever happened to the supposed value of "hot" domain names?

Skyrocketed in value from hundreds of dollars in the mid-late 90's to tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars today?

Not sure that's the point you were trying to make though :)
Could you clarify why (or when) to use bearer tokens instead of Basic Authentication (i.e. sending username and password) with every request? Is it that if the server is compromised, only passwords from future logins can be stolen rather than those of everyone who performs a request? The cost of checking the hash? Other reasons?
> the 1976 Act had very little opposition

In the late 1980's, I talked with one of the government-side principals of the 1976 Act. They were at pains to explain that the Act should be viewed not as a failure, but as a success - a successful act of public policy damage control. Because you should have seen all the crazy [bleep] [Disney/Hollywood] wanted.

It seems I've been seeing a "oh, 1976 was just Berne, and Berne was no big deal" narrative more often of late. Perhaps as Disney spins up for extension-next.

Which isn't to say that some people don't honestly believe that narrative. Hollywood doing filter-bubble groupthink on copyright law has long been part of the picture. The angry public denunciations after SOPA, of a dishonest tech industry buying corrupt congressmen, was particularly striking. But after all, when everyone you know agrees that something is a great thing, anyone who opposes it can only be a bad actor.
Do you think this still holds true if you name all your tests in the format test1, test2 ... testN? If not, then you're in the realm of documentation, not tests, and the descriptive names (which is a form of metadata, just as comments are) of the tests are what is communicating these special cases, and not the test content itself.

Combining the two is good, but let's not act like the tests themselves immediately solve the problem.
That doesn't mean they're parasitic. To show they're parasitic, you'd have to describe how they hurt the company.

Regardless, what defines speculation is not parasitism, it's uncertainty. And there's uncertainty in any investment as well. That's why there's no clear line between the two.
Garbage collectors open library with abandoned books
The availability on hosting providers is a HUGE deal. Sure, you can write an application in Python, or Node, or Java, or whatever else is theoretically better... but good luck finding somewhere to host it that's cheap and doesn't require you to do all the sysadmin work yourself (i.e, not a VPS).

PHP may not be the best of all possible languages, but it's by far the most widely available.
Oh wow lots of things yes! I think my scariest infrastructure-meets-nature moment was looking down as I took the last step off a tower and seeing I was about to step on a rattle snake.

At my current company we're in a lovely area (Bay area, no wonder everyone wants to live here!) Without too much weather to deal with.

In the past I've built networks in the Rocky Mountains (Utah, Idaho) and desert areas (Texas, Nevada, New Mexico) and Louisiana. So dealing with snow, ice, rain and lightning are the biggest issues I've seen. I'm planning a whole section dedicated to these things - sign up for updates on the site so you don't miss it :)
I'm not convinced we are going about solving these kind of problems the right way. The community and discourse surrounding these topics in recent years seems to revolve around silos, and making the goals of certain contexts minimization of offense above all else. I don't disagree at all that these methods could achieve improved social integration and opportunity for most people.

However, what about going the opposite direction? What if we decided to accept bullies and bad actors as a fundamental aspect of the system? What if we went even further, and accepted that even non-bullies may believe and act in ways which make us uncomfortable? The solution then would have to involve learning to cope with the complexities of life, rather than working tirelessly to eliminate them.

To tie back into a concrete example. YC in the past has found that minority teams can feel intimidated by working around non-minority teams. What if instead of creating separate working environments to resolve this problem, we instead stated that the minority teams which had issues needed to work through those issues and learn to work in the common environment?
@moondoge, if you don't want to provide your mail, just write anything in this field, we do NOT validate it in any way. However, we would be very thankful if you provide your real mail address, so we can track how Luna is used and improve the experience. Every data we collect is described here: http://www.luna-lang.org/alpha-data.html . We try to collect only insensitive data, that tell us how Luna is used and how well it performs.
At the risk of taking this wildly off-topic, how you reconcile the massive failure of low taxes = jobs = more revenue in Kansas state politics over the last few years? Is there something about Kansas that makes that lesson not apply here?
A nice example of such a practical tool for microscopic analysis is X-ray crystallography, once you have the theory of Fourier transforms and lattices.
Tax credits are not costs. If Foxconn didn't come to Wisconsin none of that money wouldn't be realized. On the other hand, there is very little info in the article on how having a Faxconn facility there will help with the direct benefits which job creation brings.

Relatively speaking, the LA Rams stadium actually cost the LA county $2.6B and there are few direct revenue benefits of it. Otoh, having a city NFL, one can argue increases citizen happiness, which is why this might be worth the investment.
To the extent that classical training is about 'flawless performance' and jazz 'training' is about 'fluid improvisation', in my experience these are very different skills.

The question is: how does such a study decide whether the 'brains ... work differently' because the tasks are so unalike, or because the brains themselves are somehow different.

Another question is proficiency: clearly 'virtuoso' pianists are different from 'amateurs' on both sides of the aisle. Are the brains of the 'virtuosos' more 'different'?
This looks absolutely awesome! Very excited to try it out. My biggest question that I couldn't immediately answer from the website is how well this deals with larger than memory datasets. Can it source data from a Postgres DB? A Cassandra cluster? Can I build/debug on local CSVs and then apply the dataflow to live data in an S3 bucket?
Buy enough of the company stock and you own the company. You can't do that with Bitcoin.
Here's what I'll do to solve your problem: I'll buy a maxed out 2015 MBP 13''. Using 2012 one for a couple years now at work, and it's one of the best laptops I ever had. If Apple doesn't wake up I'll switch to Windows once Microsoft has properly figured out integration with the new linux subsystem.
>We had our ups and downs

If it was intentional, great job :)
You can also contribute and track the progress here: https://github.com/dotnet/corert/issues/4659
It's not a virtue signal so much as a status signal. Having enough money to afford to live in densely populated urban areas where you don't need a car to live is a status symbol.
i _wish_ i had a proper use case for the touchbar. six months in, still haven't figured out what to do with it, apart from, you know, pretend it's the top row of a keyboard.

i sort of forget about the keyboard until i use my old macbook pro and remember what i'm missing out on. and even that one was a step down from the previous gen.
If anyone from MS is reading this, please consider throwing some support behind WPF. It's actually a very reasonable framework for native development, and with a few updates here and there, would be competitive (in terms of developer-hours) with the latest JS frameworks.

I doubt that will happen, as MS is seemingly embracing the whole web-services/HTML/JS model. VS Code might be the nail in the coffin - possibly an Electron test-case to see if the entire VS proper can be ported over.
> Your analysis is wrong. Startups and crypto investments can be seen as bets and a 10x increase in favor of you is a lot.

So you think a 1000% increase in likelihood to win the lottery is meaningful?

I’m not saying a 1000% increase is insignificant relatively speaking. I’m saying that in the absolute context, it can be essentially meaningless. Which circles back to my point: you should add an absolute context to your numbers instead of just saying you know more cryptocurrency millionaires than startup millionaires.
We don't have a webserver library yet, but a simple one is coming soon (probably this or next week). As for package management – well, we figured it's to good have some packages to manage first and not to rush into that. It is also a nice effort for the community, if there would be anyone interested in contributing such a system (thus earning eternal fame ;))
Common misconception. Hobbes was the primitivist, not so much Rousseau.
Do you mean Enterprise/B2B sales?
That seems to confirm a feeling: Google (et Al) transformed the internet into the new TV
Nice to at last read someone making sense on this page. :-) Ok, but 1 child prodigy learning in 3 years (?) hardly disproves my point.

Also, I don't believe in "proper training". I believe in learning from the recordings of the greats, and from playing music with people. Sounds like that's how Joey Alexander learnt[0]. I believe that, like many things, jazz can be learnt but not taught. Someone trained in some system will sound like the music equivalent of the academic artist - expert at following someone else's rules, but nowhere as an artist.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Alexander

edit: Most people who go to Berklee are already pretty good when they get there, aren't they? Hardly starting from scratch.
I imagine that depends on the kid's age. When they're small, having a "mobile room" (I love this concept) is great - a place to store the car seat, the stroller, extra clothes, diapers, some backup formula, etc. As they get older, they need less and less accoutrements, until everything they need can fit in their pockets.
@bsaul, video tutorials are a very interesting idea. In the first release, however, we have incorporated few toy-projects and interactive tutorial, which guides you step by step inside the product. Do you think video tutorials are better to understand / follow than examples or interactive tutorials ?
Half of this “streets for people” stuff is about using the street as a public living room, with people sitting, hanging out, playing, etc., not just walking. I’d definitely support shared space that still gives priority to public transit vehicles moving through.
>> I can rent houses and move about for work, then change countries without offloading assets at fire-sale prices.

Um. Do you have... kids? Spouse?