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Expressing dismay out at the audacity of somebody to even dare state something, as opposed to stating why either it's wrong in the case of a fact or why you disagree in case of an opinion, is language policing. In other words it is attacking the choice of language, instead of discussing or debating the view itself. Note the person who started this line of discussion chose to immediately go ad hominem on the author instead of provide rationale for why their personal opinion was that 'just' understates the issues in play.

I have no concern for what people think facts "promote." Give the same information to different people and they will come to different conclusions. Ultimately facts are what inform our opinions. When you believe something may promote some opinion or another, you should consider the fact that you may likely be projecting. People interpret things differently. For instance let's take another controversial example, but one that also brings the issue down to its most fundamental level. Imagine somebody states that blacks make up 38% of the prison population, yet only 13% of the US population. This is very true. However, it's also true that that same 13% of the population also commits more than 52% of all the murders in the nation, along with similar over representation in most forms of crime.

Rather than trying to cherry pick data to lead people in one direction or the other, I think it is important that all facts are considered - even when we might consider those facts as less than pleasant. In my example here, both facts are very likely to mislead without the context of the other. And if either fact were presented without the context of the other, I would fully agree with you about 'cherry picking' facts. When I asked you to provide any relevant facts I may have omitted after you claimed I was 'cherry picking data', you failed to be able to provide a single one.

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As a sort of meta comment. Line by line quoting tends to create somewhat scattered and disparate logic, made even worse with paraphrasings. Try to think of things holistically and I think you might be able to express yourself more clearly if you're perhaps expressing some nuanced view I'm still too dense to perceive.
I can't wait to watch this, thanks for sharing!
Given that Nick is one of the world's experts on adversarial examples against NN, and given that he already has another paper attacking voice recognition systems, i'd hold off before calling this work "BS"
Depends if you work to live or if you live to work.

If the latter then fake busy work is good for society, regardless of why it’s being done.
Meant "private" the latter time.
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Regex101 is the daddy. I really don’t know how it could be improved.
> So it's normal to supply 1124 pills per capita&year to rural pharmacies? Something seems strange about these two pieces of information...

That's three a day, so I could imagine that there would be older people or disabled people that would have more and would also offset children and people who don't take any.
Bitcoin is not a currency its a store if value. The currentb intrincis value is the curent value of the bitcoin.
A million dollar home is comfortably affordable on a $180K income if you save for a few years for a downpayment.
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We are living in an age of smartphones which hand out the communication requirements of the businessmen. https://tigmooghana.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/why-opt-for-smartphones-electronic-online-shopping-in-ghana/
Really? They do that? Because hey, they won't freeze to death there?

So which jurisdictions do that? Do they give them bus fare?
Because more people would apply. Giving away money doesn't just attract people within your city's borders only.
Agreeing with other posts that this is mostly bullshit. Software is complex because every project is constrained by limited resources. There is no perfect language to develop in. There is no perfect framework or platform to create your app on. Yes, a lot of projects might go too far down the architecture rabbit hole, but just as many bend the other way not using proven tools trying to "keep it simple". For every project that is stuck using 2-ton framework, there is another that wrote a custom sub-set of said framework with 5x as many bugs, and no one but themselves to support it. Usually there is no correct choice, only compromises. The sum of these compromises is a complex software project.
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You're ignoring taxes.
You can use Mastercard and Visa in many high end ish places like Starbucks, upscale shopping centers (like Cocopark in Shenzhen), nice restaurants. Virtually all ATMs also support these cards.
How is this "the other side of the coin"? This story makes it sound like the union did its job (= protecting the interests of individual workers over the interests of the company) exactly as intended, and technological progress went on forward unimpeded, as we can attest to today.

Sure, some executives would have rather not paid for the retirement of the longshoremen. Without unions, they would have fired all of the longshoremen in one fell swoop, and made a few millions more in the short term (for the exact same results in the long term). But what happens to the longshoremen in that universe? Do they tend to commit suicide more than the average? Develop an opioid addiction? etc.

I don't think a fair society is one where it is acceptable to fuck over an entire subsegment of the population for the profit of "investors", "the market", "technological progress", or whatever you want to call it.
All cities attract homeless people to a greater or lesser extent. It's easier to blend in and live off the system's detritus in a large city than in a rural area or small town, if you don't have any friends or family willing to support you.
Thanks. I forgot those.
> C++, on the other hand, seems to have been designed by compiler writers for their own enjoyment and/or job security.

Being a C++ compiler writer (Zortech C++, Symantec C++, Digital Mars C++) I can assure you this is not true at all.

As to why C++ is so complex, my opinion is it is because it was designed a long time ago, what is considered better practice in designing languages has moved on, and C++ is unwilling to let go of the old decisions.

(There's always some major and vocal user who has build their entire store around some ancient feature.)

For example, why does C++ still support EBCDIC?
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Nazi regime -> Polish communist regime enforced by soviets

Enemy of the state -> Spy

It's OK to kill enemies of the state -> It's ok to kill spies
Same argument could be applied to corporations and pollution. They understand it's destroying the environment but they are looking out for their profits and everyone loses.

As many comments like this in this thread have shown, the arguments for and against unions can be applied wholesale for corporations. Why is it that everyone gets something stuck in their craw when it's labor that's pooling it's power and not capital? Hell if you were super laissez faire capitalism like some libertarians you shouldn't care at all as it's consenting adults joining a contract together
Um... I grew up living in a maybe 1100 square foot house with 4 people and occasional extended guests. It was a bit tight maybe (e.g. 2 kids in one bedroom, some contention for the one bathroom), but “downright cramped” is an exaggeration. I currently live with 3 people in a 1200 square foot condo and it seems plenty spacious. 2000 square feet should be enough for a family of 8 or something.

My godparents’ family lived with a dozen people in a few mud-brick + straw roofed rooms probably totaling 500 square feet, plus some outdoor space between buildings. Now that’s cramped.

> The point of a large home is to turn it into your own personal oasis where you can spend days at a time without ever really needing to leave, and without feeling bored.

In my opinion that is a depressing vain and wasteful way to live. YMMV.
I got the number from 2009 data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

I think the reason it hasn't been done is that it would change the character of the city in a way most people wouldn't consider positive.
I took a trip to SF with the intention of later moving there for work. The #1 thing that prevented me from following through was the street issues. Not just from sympathy for the people who aren't helped after falling through the cracks (although that's also a big part of it), who wants to live in a place where you're one desperate decision from being mugged or attacked.

Very glad the tech scene is spreading out around the world rather than further concentrating
Whoa, this is a revelation. Thanks for posting!
If this seems confusing to you, don't worry about it...
The 1% rule is for pricing rentals. Actual cost (PITI) in California is something like 0.5-0.75%.
What you dont see is that unionization creates a lot of poverty as well. Those that did not get a job because they werent in on the union and were left out are not on hacker news debating your point of view.

> It might not have affected many of you with the silver spoon you have in your mouths but the only damn reason that kids still aren't working in sweat shops and you get to go home at 5pm is because of workers organising and having each other's backs when abuses and overreach occur, and a little bit of solidarity for each other is necessary when you see such flagrant abuses like this.

Not only it is debatible that unions eliminated child labor, but even if you take that as the only way to stop it, that happend a century ago. Today's unions do not have the same plight that those did.

In any case, there is no problem with unions existing, if they actually organize workers and give them better conditions and productivity, employers will be happy to deal with them and share the spoils. But thats never where unions stop.
> the landlord burned it down because he couldn’t evict them and wasn’t happy with the money he was making.

I decided to fact-check this claim. It is not true. The fire started in a poorly maintained electrical box.
I sure did like the core<—>core communicating idea for multiple users of a single document. It seemed like an easy trap to imagine X11 as the f/e, b/e, plugins, async were talked about, but not “just” using a remote f/e to communicate w a remote core was sort of enlightening (having fell into the X11 trap as the talk was progressing).

Question re: json communication though: is there a space for something like protocol buffers here, or is that a case of YAGNI, or simply ill-suited?
> the only reason I'm able to sit here typing this message

You're giving them way too much credit.
That’s just a slogan from the cookie cutter startup template. Seems like hyperbole is still needed in mission statements.
Just out of interest, do you think this applies when (re-)negotiating your salary as well?
CWA takes 0.5% as a base. I very much doubt your local chapter took the remaining 19.5% for themselves.
I used to argue the same thing, but passing things across language barriers makes debugging painful and is usually pretty error prone, tools can't understand your codebase as well, and there are performance costs to all the conversions.
From the article:
"the project was not managed by the state's Enterprise IT Services division, and was managed solely by outside master service agreement contractors hired through the DMV's internal IT department."

If that is not shady I don't know what is.
> The way const/immuatable works, makes some devs just give up and remove them from their code.

That's true. The thing with D const/immutable is they are transitive, and the compiler means it. It's not a suggestion.

The advantage of enforced transitive const/immutable is, of course, is it's foundational if you want to do functional style programming.
Looks like what https://plan.io/ is doing. Looks good. Never used it myself, not affiliated in any way.
> What happened when tractors came and took all of the farming jobs away?

Have you heard of “The Grapes of Wrath”?

No one is talking about fighting “innovation” for the sake of jobs. I questioned to point to the central conflict of who benefits from all of this. The old socialists were the most technologically hopeful, because they believed new technologies would spare workers from drudgery. Yet if you look at the vast interior of the United States, almost every community is worse off now than it was 25 years ago. Old, bad jobs at least gave people dignity and a sense of place.

Your naïve faith in high school economics fails to address a key question of our times: as technology races ahead of social ability to adapt and integrate it, how will people manage? Leave behind Ayn Rand and look to history: this same crisis has played out in the 1st century BCE in Rome and the 18th century in France just to name two famous examples. Depriving common people a decent living leads to disaster.

People need to make a living. Immigration alone has provoked widespread resentment. When self-driving cars and the like displace more workers at an unprecedented pace the outcome will be violent. Rhetoric and greed will not stem the high tides of blood.
The author states:

>Neither the performance issue that move semantics address nor the perfect forwarding problem exist in classic OO languages that use reference semantics and garbage collection for user-defined types."

I understand reference semantics but what are move semantics?

Also what is the "perfect forwarding problem"?
I've never worked anywhere in 18 years where the goals of a project weren't at least limited to the correct 'vehicle class'. Implementation details sure can change but that's why "fast and disciplined" is good - you learn to implement the software in a manner where you understand the changes needed based on concrete principles rather than a mad dash of copy-and-pasting.

By 'disciplined' I don't mean that the program fullfills the dogmatic mandates of some system development philosophy - just that the software is written on solid principles that at least the author understands.
Thank you. People love dissing Jira, but the current cloud product is actually by far the best and flexible software project management tool I’ve used in 20 years.
Just saying, but GIMP had this for years with Liquid Rescale plugin (I think before even Photoshop): http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/
Thanks for that. I used it way back when(mid 2010) to make it look like a a 30' cliff jump was a 60' one. Really impressed my friends with it.
80% true, except for JIRA being an 80/20 tool that always leaves a bad taste in the details.

There’s plenty of issues like JIRASERVER-1330
Smart unions everywhere do that, but because of that they also regularly sell the workers.

In argentina, unions are constitutionally protected. Union leaders are defacto politicians, as they cannot be arrested for many crimes without congress approval. What is unique about argentina is that unions are right-wing and shut the left-wing parties out.
And the left parties (socialist, communist) always denounce that the unions are constantly selling off the workers.

Today, the strongest union leader is getting indicted because it used union's funds to sustain his own soccer club.
I wish Google would just buy HTC already and put out a Fuschia based phone so I can be done with iOS.
someone needs to post to glassdoor about their experience
Google can 'print' as many ad spaces as they want, and buy back the ones that don't reach their minimum price.
the landlord burned it down

This is known fact? There has been an arson conviction?
The wear and tear of a slave, it has been said, is at the expense of his master; but that of a free servant is at his own expense. The wear and tear of the latter, however, is, in reality, as much at the expense of his master as that of the former. The wages paid to journeymen and servants of every kind must be such as may enable them, one with another, to continue the race of journeymen and servants, according as the increasing, diminishing, or stationary demand of the society may happen to require. But though the wear and tear of a free servant be equally at the expense of his master, it generally costs him much less than that of a slave. The fund destined for replacing or repairing, if I may say so, the wear and tear of the slave, is commonly managed by a negligent master or careless overseer. That destined for performing the same office with regard to the free man, is managed by the free man himself. The disorders which generally prevail in the economy of the rich, naturally introduce themselves into the management of the former: the strict frugality and parsimonious attention of the poor as naturally establish themselves in that of the latter. Under such different management, the same purpose must require very different degrees of expense to execute it. It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves. It is found to do so even at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, where the wages of common labour are so very high.

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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/...
"The only way a union can effectively increase the wages of its workers is by reducing the amount of workers" - Milton Friedman
The deep learning series is great. It's a nice start. You'll just have to do a fair bit of extra legwork on your own if you want to be solid on the theory.
Ask HN: What's the most underrated programming language?
Recently I started reading about erlang[1][2], And I started feeling why its not widely popular as python or go. Though I have very little knowledge about functional language and tradeoffs when it comes to using them. Just wanted to know more about it and any other languages which are underrated

[1]blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/
[2]https://stackoverflow.com/q/2708033/2577465
Hanlon's razor has not been proven for cases with money involved.
Giving up until the Federal government solves the problem isn't good enough. Especially because nobody even knows what policies will work. It's better to experiment at the city level.
From what I understand the insane home prices in SV are also due to a large number of foreign cash buyers coming in and quickly securing deals. Sometimes multiple all cash bids on the same house.

My grandmother's home and my childhood home, both in Cupertino, just sold for upwards of 2.5 mil each to all-cash buyers. I can't verify the foreign money aspect for these sales but people I have worked with who have left the valley in the last few years indicate it is quite common. I left silicon valley nearly 10 years ago now but was born and raised in Cupertino.
How well can it remove objects from images? Can it remove an object in a cluttered environment? I'm thinking of image augmentation for deep CNN's. Normally, augmentation can help with invariability to small rotations, translations and flips, but if we could remove objects from images, it might be useful for creating many examples from one image, for image based reasoning.
Which, uh, isn't a thread I started.
Except ads aren't Amazon's primary business or revenue stream. They're incentivized to do exactly what the OP stated.
Actually I think that you're just looking at the situation from a different angle than many of us. The reason I have some distrust of unions is that they sometimes seem to promote inefficiency as a policy. The distribution of money problem is actually orthogonal to the problem of "how do you do task X most efficiently". If a machine can do the work of 10 men, then to have those 10 men doing the work of the machine is literally wasting their lives.

I wish that unions pursued more contracts of the form "we get X percent of revenue/profits" and then distributed those profits amongst their membership the way they saw fit. This way decreasing the amount of work per person does not decrease the amount of money per person and business and union interests are aligned. I'm sure there are practical reasons why that's difficult though.
> and all of those shops, without exception, have dragged in every last weird and contradictory feature of what is a really enormous language. so I guess the 'sane subset' argument is ok in theory, but really not in practice.

To be fair, this happens with every language I've been associated with, even C. Just look at those people who do metaprogramming with the C preprocessor. It's madness!

I used to do that too, as a young programmer. It took about 10 years to grind that out of me. One advantage of us older programmers is we show how clever we are by writing amazingly simple and understandable code. :-)
If you think unions are strong within the tech scene in Sweden, you're wrong. I don't know anyone working in tech that's a member of a union tbh.
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There is one thing people definitely aren't liberal about... sexual harassment, especially by people in power. Let's assume that you aren't that person, and perhaps even took a training seminar to make sure you are thinking about such things. Good, but it's your employees too. I'd encourage you to think about things like a senior engineer misbehaving, and how your response as CEO could effect your reputation. Also some people may try to join your company thinking they will get a pass.

Frankly if I was running any business in the bay area, but especially an adult one, I'd want someone working for me helping to both build a professional culture of appropriate behavior (with regular mandatory seminars for both new and continuing employees), and building mechanisms for reporting and dealing with issues responsibly (IE not just covering your ass) should that culture fail to prevent problem behavior.

Be proactive about it, to the extent you can.
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+1 also a lot of people can get 10% downpayment loans now.
Surprisingly, imagemagick already supports this.
In 2014, As I recall, they were based in Hong Kong. I registered a business account with them for my own Hong Kong company back then.
> Your decision to callously let one employee go, when your pre-tax income is $1,000,000,000, is negligible. The impact to that person is the security of their family and future.

This is such a spurious comparison. First, it compares the workers wealth to the employer's wealth in an attempt to make a redistributive argument.

Making it hard to fire people is not the way to tax the wealthy to help the less wealthy. There are much better measures for that.

The second is that it conflates what you think is right as a narrator of the argument but with other people's money. It's always so easy to make other people pay for things you believe in!
You know, unless you're Wall Street.
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Let's be clear, you're arguing against data by waving your hands. Then using your "they're not from here" assertion to justify the city not dealing with the problem. Then suggesting that the Federal government should do this without talking about how that could possibly happen.

What end game are you trying to get at?
"completed timely," itself strikes me as not great English.
I hate most of the redesign of going all white. Especially in Settings sometimes it is not clear what is a button and what is just text.
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