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You may be right — the difference between investing and speculation is a fine line and buying and trading cryptocurrency is definitely risky business. We certainly don't deny that.

Some pretty interesting industries have gotten bootstrapped with speculation though, and we are hopeful that more practical applications will develop in the future.
AV1 is better than HEVC? I've never heard this claim. Does AV1 even exist in final form yet?

Is it going to use more battery than HEVC? VP9 uses much more battery than H.264. Even when both have hardware decoders, VP9 uses a bit more juice. It's the computational complexity difference. Of course HEVC probably uses more juice than h.264 as well, but VP9 is notoriously inefficient and it would suck if AV1 was less energy efficient than HEVC.
With how many kids are getting to experience a school shooting first hand, the NRA and other gun lobbying organizations are doing a wonderful job of raising a significant group of probably pro-gun ban kids.

Not curbing this problem might be a short sighted thing
What's your timeline here? 100 resume sends over how long a period?

If I can give some unsolicited advice, I would recommend

1. Put your resume on Monster. Hordes of recruiters here will give you a lot of phone calls. 50% will be for bad fit jobs, oh well, sucks for the recruiter, take the call and use it as practice. Maybe they'll get you an interview, boom, interview practice. You might even get an offer this way which you can use as leverage against other positions (or just to add urgency to other applications).

2. Indeed jobs, in my experience, are absolute garbage. I don't waste my time on that site anymore.

3. LinkedIn and Angel.co have the highest quality positions that I could find.

4. Connect to as many people a day on LinkedIn as you are capable of - this will allow you to make more 1st level connections which will then allow you to send more "hey, do you know anything more about this position? I'm looking to apply and want to know what your experience at x company is" type messages.

5. Stack Overflow jobs is a great portal for remote jobs.

6. Those code-test-find-you-job sites I've heard good stories from, can't remember names off the top of my head, sorry.

7. Took me 250 resume sends to get my last job, which led to 30 phone calls which led to 10 code tests / interviews which led to 3 offers. Food for thought.
> All I need to transfer money in the US is a routing number and account number

While this is true, Routing + account numbers are less useful as this information can only be shared with trusted parties because anyone with this information can trigger a debit(!) against your account. For all the other countries I know, the worst anyone can do is deposit money into your account.
There's actually a lot of things that aren't being solved by the free market where tax funded efforts could be of substantial benefit to society (more than just the added jobs), but that's another topic altogether.
This is awfully well-timed to coincide with their current campaign to crowdfund investments.

It's a cool idea, but their focus on expensive restaurants means it's not going to scale well. Also, growing basil on a shelf is a pretty straightforward process, and they have no particular technological advantage over any other company that wants to move in and do the same thing.
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How much of the motivation behind this service is to aggregate private crypto market data, and how much of it is to provide a great user experience? Please offer a response to this in a percentage format with supporting justification. Thank you.
The way I read it, there is a management position of shunning new tech by saying "we are not a technology company". That statement can also be interpreted as "we are not an innovation company" which conveys an aversion to change.

I think the point of the GP is to say that Netflix "isn't a technology company", but they don't parade around saying that. Netflix uses technology and innovation to the fullest as the means to accomplish the ends of delivering great entertainment value at a low cost.

I don't think it's as much about the "definition game" as about the message that is conveyed.
> A C#-style cancellation token API, orthogonal to promises, is simple, easy to build, and easy to understand.

The problem is that promises were added to the language without any of that being hashed out. Now you may say "Having language-level support for promises is useful; cancellation tokens are more library details", and you'd have a point. The flip-side, however, is that e.g. the Fetch API is only now getting any sort of cancellation ability, and currently I believe it's limited to Firefox and Edge.

Which is not to say that I'm even confident that language support for Promises should have been held up. But I understand the complaints.
I don't think it is a good idea to expect some specific order in executing callbacks here unless it is described in some specification.
Welfare is engineered to fail, and it fails.
You can't build a system by American political committee and expect it to actually work.

There are known good solutions for poverty that work reliably and consistently well. That isn't what the US welfare system is engineered for. It is engineered to put money in the hands of political donors, not resolve poverty.

The solution to resolving poverty, much like the Buffet rule for politicians, would work overnight, but will never be implemented. Buffet says a law that says no standing politician is eligible for re-election in a year when minimum true GDP year-over-year growth for the last 2 years has been below 3% would work. He is right.

A similar law, based on "theory of constraints" and directly extractable from the pages of "the goal" would work for poverty, but has (sadly sadly) the same political palatability as drinking a gallon of raw sewage.

Dang this lost, broken, wrecked political system and the scoundrels who are in power and abuse it.
Just because only 48% was paid directly to the family does not mean that these were the only costs to the program. For example, the program requires regular health checkups, so to make those accessible it likely either paid the total cost or most of the cost for those checkups as it's unlikely that the people using this program would be able to pay for them completely on their own.
I subscribed to his Money Stuff email list, and it shows up in its entirety in my inbox.
> _work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value_

The verb version is "waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects."

Basically the project is useless and unnecessary.

For textbooks, things are working out very well indeed and just as intended for textbook companies and the professors who write the textbooks that are required for their own classes.
This could be interesting to integrate support for racket to allow it to interact with Torch. You would just create a small language to compile to lua and then have that run in Torch.

https://github.com/torch/torch7

http://racket-lang.org
I think there are actually two separate issues here. First, old hardcore social conservativism is indeed under fire, and I would argue that's a good thing. It's a good thing that LGBT people have more rights; it's a good thing that race relations are being talked about openly; it's a good thing that women are being viewed more equally; it's a good thing that we are undergoing secularization in my opinion etc.

However, just as some conservative ideals used to be unquestionable, now some liberal ideas are becoming sacred cows as well. One of these is indeed diversity hiring as mentioned by the parent. I have politely asked numerous people to make the business case to me for explicit diversity hiring. I have yet to hear a very compelling one outside of making sure that your dev demographics at least partially represent your user base demographics which is only really relevant for certain products. I have frequently been met with surprise and scorn for daring to even investigate the usefulness of these programs. I think this is what the parent poster is referring to.
Really, well I am pretty shocked if it is liked that. Although firewall settings are different, it may be possible that some https://viebb.com/entertainment/free-unblocked-movies-websit... sites are blocked. You can use VPN services or Socks proxy sites to access these sites
Thanks for the link.

>Replicating previous findings, women reported higher Big Five Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism scores than men.

Isn't this basically what got James Damore fired? Heh.
> Even companies like Bloomberg that you wouldn't really think of beyond their news service is a massive tech company on the back end

The company's entire founding premise was to computerize tasks still accomplished by humans and paper in 1981. The News subsidiary was founded nearly a decade later in 1990. So it's more a case of the tech company considering News the "News-end" rather than tech being considered the "back end" :)
If the weights are only 1 or -1, and each neuron can only get 16 inputs, then this is more similar to neuromorphic systems like IBM's True North than regular neural networks.

And True North consumes on the order of 70-100 milliwatts.
How one feels when what they created becomes an over-inflated bubble...
Trains got bootstrapped with speculation... but they were clearly useful before the speculation.

Same for the Internet.

As you admit yourself, cryptocurrencies are a solution looking for a problem. They do nothing, they provide nothing, they're just—"valuable". It's a scam, thousands of people will lose money, and you will have done your part to help those people lose money.
I’m able to get most of my books online for free, and have been lucky with professors not requiring textbooks. This semester though I’m forced to purchase a $200 textbook just so I can turn in my homework through some online system, it’s a joke.
Original author here:

The largest reason for use of S exprs is making Meta programming easier. While certain things like arithmetic are more difficult with S-exprs, Macros and DSLs are far easier than with C like syntax. Since Lua is actually only a few steps from something like Guile, it takes very little code to translate a scheme like language to Lua without adding too much runtime overhead. The difficult parts of lisp to implement, namely closures, come for free.

With LuaJIT as good as it is, I would not be surprised if something like this would outperform guile.
Yes. Fixed now.
S-expressions are not directly an AST: they are a form easily matched to an AST (which could be the Lisp at hands, or some language for which there is some translator/parser/interpreter around, or some language for there is no code in the system to (fully) handle it). This makes the use of s-expressions simple, they can be handled by the development tools without them always having to know what language they represent.

If your development tool knows how to handle a particular language, then it can handle the AST for that language, but not any other. You could instruct the tool about the other languages, but that requires ways to let the tool know; in the end this is similar to the static versus dynamic typing discussion: static typing doesn't allow any potentially unsafe data, and a tool working with an AST directly wouldn't allow any potentially invalid programs, which in principle (or theory) is nice but difficult to achieve practically, it presents overheads for the tool implementer and for the user probably alike. And it probably takes away a lot of interactivity: just like reloading modules in a statically typed language (like ML or Haskell) is not as direct as being able to modify values and functions in a running system and having them be called directly.

So I think S-expressions are a very pragmatic concept that is going to be difficult to replace without the replacement costing more than it benefits.
Is moral ideology beholden to demographics?

Equality of opportunity is meant as: Inequality should rise from personal choice and decisions, otherwise, why should anyone strive to be better than anyone else?

I suggest looking at the history of states that favor equality of opportunity (equality) against equality of outcome (equity).

I'll leave you with this Soviet joke: 'They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work.'

Please see this idea illustrated in two ways:
-http://deplorablyconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02...
-https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S01680102140029...
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, then walled garden and/or broken things.

Emails should not include any JavaScript. It would give anyone a way to send immediately executing code into your inbox. CSS animation in email is already bad enough.

Maybe an AMP filter could check the plain text content against AMP and HTML content and bounce the email with a custom message if there is no plain text or standard-HTML way to read the content.
I'm a blockchain investor at [redacted] if you want to talk more. Initial thoughts:

-A solution in your space is badly needed. Fund administrators really need an option that is better than cointracking.info and coinigy. A lot of these folks are looking at partnering with Libra here in the near future.

-your offering as is, is too limited. anyone investing seriously in the space owns a lot more than than the 4 coins available in your wallet option.

-Most could probably get by with the exchanges you have listed so that's a a good thing

I know you're just getting started, so I'm excited to see how your offering progresses. Good luck, and happy to talk more offline. Would also be interested in investing. Thanks.
You'll need a lot of citation for that. Also, Affirmative Action is decidedly not an anti-poverty program. It's an anti-bias program. And the comparison to China and India is apples and oranges. Aside from the fact that both countries have hundreds of millions of people in poverty, their success has been in industrializing agrarian societies. America is pretty far past that point. Our levels of absolute poverty (penury) are already near zero.
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> Most people are there because they don't have a way out ...

You're refuting an anecdotal example with an unsubstantiated claim.
> While it is expected that the runtime error would float up and terminate the program

This will supposedly happen in a future version of node. [1]

[1]: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v8.x/docs/api/deprecations.ht...
> I also don't see why the unhandled exception from the background thread cannot terminate main thread. Why not? That is how unhandled exceptions are supposed to work. Terminating the program is the optimal default behaviour for any error in my opinion. This way you won't miss them.

This is how unhandled promise rejections will be handled in node soon. In the browser, you can declare an event handler for unhandled promise rejections.
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> Most people are there because they don't have a way out even if in your specific circumstance that wasn't the case.

That’s a huge statement. How would you back that up? “Most” people? Who? When? Why?
I am from the US, and my core rule has always been that the moment someone is going to pay me for it I need to have the business setup. For me, this is a liability concern as the business will insulate my personal assets and protect me with some relative degree of confidence. Depending on the product and your risk tolerance of course this can vary. And I know some people disagree with me, but this is my personal rule.
To me that was the most interesting part.

With respect to the politics of implementing these programs, it's not simply the incentives created by the 48% that lead to a programs continued adoption, but the incentive created by the 52%.
This is a shockingly dismissive comment for the space.

I understand that cryptocurrencies are a divisive topic, particularly on HN. Dismissing the hard work of a startup showing off what i believe to be a well-executed marketing page and tool is not only shortsighted, but goes against the very philosophies of Hacker News in general.
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Explosive growth in delivery services has reached a new milestone with the launch of CBlocks.io, the Miami company delivering cryptocurrency to your door - but the young startup has had to pause new orders for the second time in 2 weeks. The product is in such high demand, CBlocks has temporarily suspended new orders in order to replenish inventory.

Deemed “an awfully easy way to get your friends hooked on crypto” by The Next Web and having Forbes ask if CBlocks is “your next favorite mystery box - for Cryptocurrency” - the young Miami startup offers people an opportunity to dip their toes into cryptocurrency. The order process is simple: 1. You place an order on their site choosing how much cryptocurrency you want to receive on your CBlock 2. They randomly generate 5 different crypto coins from the top 100 on coinmarketcap.com 3. Your coins are delivered on an encrypted USB drive in a protective acrylic case 7-10 business days later.

Cofounder Mario Aguayo says “We always had friends and family asking us to help them buy coins, and we realized that it was way too difficult for people to get into the crypto space. So we wanted to make it easier for people to learn about and be a part of the cryptocurrency world”.

While Bitcoin & Ethereum took center stage in 2017, investors have been really excited in the new opportunities in alternative coins (alt-coins). This lesser known but fast growing segment accounts for roughly $11 billion in daily transaction volume. As 2018 unfolds, cryptocurrencies will continue to be a fascination to all of us - at the center will be alt-coins.

“We think this is a no-brainer way to get started in crypto - it’s an amazing item that really captures what is happening.” says Auston Bunsen, cofounder, “Our early customers have said that buying a CBlock isn’t just about owning crypto, it’s like an art piece that they’ll be able to put in their house or office as a conversation starter.”
Can you explain in which direction something better should go? The AST is very much at a higher level than how the vast majority of programming is done, which is by manipulating the text that later gets parsed into an AST. I'm having trouble envisioning what editing a higher level than the AST would look like, without jumping straight to visual programming, which I find very inefficient in every incarnation I've seen. (And we could debate how far above an AST such systems actually are.)
Can the University press offer a similar deal to their employee/professor, undercut the commercial publisher, save the student money and still profit?
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Insult is in the eye of the victim, not the perpetrator. Always has been.
In the context of brain psychology, short-term needs to be seconds to minutes. For example try to train a dog with rewards that come an hour later. It won't work.

In the example that I gave, you brush your teeth, your mouth feels better right away. That works.

By contrast if you start working on your project now, next week you won't have a miserable all-nighter. That doesn't work. Just ask anyone in college if you doubt me.

That is why a monthly feedback cycle did not prove to be successful motivation here.
> It is clear from a slew of radical movements by the new US administration that it has contempt for consumers and has zero interest in enforcing existing laws against big corporations. It's all about growth at all costs, and government agencies that have explicit charters to protect consumers, the environment, and the marketplace, have been or are in the process of being gutted.

You reply to a comment and say it is pejorative and unhelpful but then politicize your own response as well. Your paragraph here is equally unhelpful.
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> It took me over a year of working with them to really get a feel for them

I had a similar experience. It took quite a while for me to stop shooting my foot. My takeaway from that experience was that, while they do have certain advantages, Promises suck. Any abstraction that is so unintuitive that it takes beginners dozens or hundreds of hours to master is probably not an abstraction worth using - especially if it is supposed to be a primary feature of the language.
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As a person who has spent well more than $10,000 on his equipment and software setup for astrophotography, I disagree with the blanket "don't" statement. I think the biggest cause of frustration is amateurs starting out with something like an AP1100 and a Takahashi FSQ, along with some ridiculous overpriced CCD camera they bought because it was listed as having "the most megapixels" in order to try and avoid the pains of a "substandard" setup. Ironically, however, this usually causes more pain than if the setup had been simpler in the first place. Additionally, it harbors resentment towards the hobby from the person who just dumped 15k on their bulky imaging system only to find they can't even get it to guide correctly. I operate my primary scope in a large personal observatory, but I can't rave _more_ about the amazing pictures I've taken with my cheap ZEQ25, Explore Scientific ED80, ASI 1600MM-C, and cheap set of narrow-band filters. Setup is fast, the focal length is short, the speed is (fairly) fast, and the results can be seen in just a single night of test imaging[1] for less than $2200. Additionally, new devices[2] are coming out that will make imaging even simpler!

1: https://imgur.com/a/fcFbh

2: https://vaonis.com/telescopes
How could you say that the tech you develop might be the only factor in revenue calculations? That makes no sense to me in investment banking.
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Another plug for Aerogarden - along with the obvious output, it's been a terrible lot of fun for me.
This article doesn't even touch on the worst sin of JavaScript Promises: they swallow errors and exceptions, which makes them nearly impossible to test correctly and makes debugging horrifying (if you even notice anything is wrong.)

Promises are a great example with the problems of believing that something good in one language will be good in another. Promises in JavaScript are fighting the language, because JavaScript is fundamentally a collection of isolated but contextual behaviors.

Using Agents to encapsulate callbacks is easier to reason about, easier to test, less likely to swallow errors whole, and doesn't have any of the problems laid out in this article. Unfortunately because it isn't a model popular in any other language, it doesn't have the name recognition Promises do.
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Incremental compilation turned on by default :-)
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I agree, there will always be exceptions. My bigger point is that you must accept N% of failure if all you're addressing is the money part of the equation. My opinion is that N is a much higher number than is socially acceptable.
None of the things you've just said make any difference to the fact that it doesn't make sense and is a terrible idea.

I fail to see in what way my statements are "legacy" or not relevant to micro-services. My company (Cuvva, insurance in the UK) runs a "micro" service architecture and deals with these problems every day.

It is not possible to use DB-level locking/transactions across network boundaries. It's just as simple as that. It's not an opinion - it's a fact.