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> Nowadays it's just build: ["jbuilder" "build" "-p" name "-j" jobs ]

It's just one line of config and it is worth it since it gives an opportunity to use any build system you want to (or for some reasons have to) use. Still much better then pulling "deps" from github repos directly.

I strongly disagree here. Deps is rather ugly, but it works and it's easy to use. A language should have 1 build tool that works for 99% of use cases, and the rest of the tooling should support that by default. This is especially painful for beginners, amplified by the fact that the docs point you to Makefiles by default.

> Sure, you can write manually a ton of boilerplate for each numeric type in go, just like it's done in gonum. I'm not sure if it is good since more code means more issues and bugs, and I definitely prefer to write or hack something like this:

I'm confused; you're responding in the context of compilers producing fast code, but you seem to be advocating for a more generic type system than Go has, which I've already agreed about.

> how the hell is `|>` an obscure combinator? It's just a "unix pipe's" typesafe kin. I've never seen any usage of obscure combinators in ocaml beyond parser-combinator libs ofc but these usually are well documented and you wouldn't use them if you don't like combinators anyway.

I didn't claim it was obscure; I claimed that it's not useful--it's optimizing for fewer keystrokes and not readability. I can appreciate code-golf for its own sake, but I need my team to be able to jump into code quickly, and that often means that naive is better than clever and a little boilerplate is better than terseness. BTW, the HTTP parser that you shared is a good example of this. The Go version might be imperative, but at least it's clear.

> It is dead simple, just add [@@deriving yojson] to your data structure, and you'll get to\of_yojson functions, what could be more simple?

Like I said before; this might not be a good example, it's just the first one that came to my mind. Maybe the problem here is that the good documentation is so hard to find. Still, I've come across lots of unnecessarily abstract libraries before, I just don't recall the details.
Ask HN: How many digital agencies are there in 2017
A solid # would be ideal with a link to the source.

but if not, then a rough approximation will have to suffice for now.. need it for our deck. thanks!
Net: add bpfilter
What is your role within the company?

Beware of the Halo effect [1]. For example, people are biased towards their first and last impression. That's why you/everyone should write stuff down regularly, so you can at least try to offer more objective and balanced feedback, and not just on the first thing that comes to mind.

I would recommend the book "Managing Humans", which originated from a blog [2]. It has good content on how to talk to people, and which mistakes to look out for. I found it quite entertaining. I believe you can read all content online.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
[2] http://randsinrepose.com/archives/youre-not-listening/
what if i set a machine to fire a gun randomly and select it for the trait of hitting people? who is responsible?
On the otherhand nonhumans are not protected by law, so government can kill it at will.
Time to get a Nexus pass. It really is worth it.
Except that most standard listings are a step up on plus. Which just goes to show how bad they messed up here. In some ways it has an Apple feel to it, charge more for less.
Both of my paternal uncles had paranoid schizophrenia. In the 50s, the police were called and confiscated their rifles, after they went on a (bloodless) rampage around the neighborhood.

One was convinced that the other had control of cosmic rays, and was bombarding him with them. Sadly, he was so out of touch with reality that even when he did have actual problems, nobody believed him.

These days, my father's showing many of the paranoias they had - mostly fueled by external sources, such as Trump's incoherent rantings and the utter bull from Infowars.

A note to anybody who takes exception to this: I don't care. I'm not interested in a political debate. I'm much more concerned about my father's ranting about gangsters ('banksters') behind the scenes orchestrating a move to a one world government, conspiracies to hide alien governmental contacts (including the recent bout of pneumonia that Buzz Aldrin contracted while visiting the aliens in Antarctica, the same ones he'd met when he landed on the Moon), the secret Muslim army that's building up in Australia to wrest control of the nation, and how someone showed on YouTube that he'd managed to build a perpetual motion machine that the evil "oil companies" had bought and were keeping secret so that they could deny free energy from the people of the planet. Also, global warming is a conspiracy by the evil socialist liberal neo-socialist left commie neo-commie elites who control the universities, the media, and weather forecasting groups and the only ones who can set us free from this conspiracy are the oil companies and Trump, who are the only good guys left.
“There is virtually no documentation on frame synchronisation on the Internet”
Industrial (durable) laptops with matte screen and without manufacturer malware?
Lenovo thinkpad is a great laptop. But I want something without malware and just as industrial: Metal frame in the body, matte screen, drop-proof casing.

Where do I find this?
Fascinating. It's a shame that it's so hard to get people to pay for quality journalism. The world will be a dark place if the only news sources left are blogs by self-proclaimed journalists.
I reached that threshold mostly via submissions, I don't comment that much (but also downvote very rarely). Surely, also submissions may add to the echo chamber, especially if they hit a nerve.

One reason for me to stay here is the diversity (and civility) of the comments, I don't think it's too bad. Another favourite read of mine is Arstechnica, but the comments there don't reach the quality of the comments on HN, imho.
Google Cloud TPU for Machine Learning Acceleration Is Now Available in Beta
How much do you want to bet that a lot of these technologies are built on open source software? If it was a company that was licensing software to them, there would be someone to hold accountable, but with open source, you just make and release something and it is not your problem who uses it for what.
I wish that we, the people of the USA, had a voice in how our government thinks it should represent itself. The fact that the word 'customers' is removed is just a distraction from having removed "nation of immigrants". This country is becoming less of an immigrant nation.

What are the implications of this besides a change in words? Does the department now get to make claims about not having to assume certain responsibilities because of the altered mission statement?
I'm likely the developer that's in your target audience: a self-taught Junior in a feature factory with no mentorship and 'agile' cycles that have you always on the next thing after the other. These types of articles are super helpful in beginning to shore up the foundations. Thanks for the article.
Theres also the concern if you're not really doing a STEM subject that has high career prospects, its not really worth it to take on student debt from college only to graduate without a stable career.

I think this may also be a concern to people from rural areas who can have livable careers without college.
Bit of a late reply. I find this difference so difficult to grasp. We use our bikes as a utility first and recreation second. Here the bicycles are generally sturdy, heavy, robust. They can take rain, wind, sand, dust for years with minimal maintenance. We don't go fast, but we arrive at our destination without gasping for a breath. Road bikes are seen as unpractical: the chains require weekly maintenance, sitting forward is more dangerous and gives you a bad overview of the road, they don't take rain well (rust) and they wear down relatively fast. Why use them for your commute? It doesn't make sense! It's like taking a sports-car to work every single day. It's fun the first day, but it gets boring, expensive and impractical rather quickly.

Examples: https://www.batavus.nl/stadsfietsen
Interestingly enough, AppGrid started out as my custom Slate configuration. But I know there’s something to be said for the convenience of not having to configure anything, and having an app Just Work[tm]. Even after I created Zephyros and Hydra and Mjolnor, I always come back to just using AppGrid for its simplicity.
Roader: Never miss a moment
I appreciate the mention of West Oakland. I walked past Esther's Orbit Room on my way to work today. A derelict jazz club, a holdover from the time when West Oakland was flush with money and culture brought from all over by the people who worked the railways.

That was before the Cypress freeway tore West Oakland in two, or 980 sheared it away from downtown Oakland, or the trans-bay BART tracks, or before the USPS distribution center was built. The last, for those not familiar, is a 6 story concrete windowless menace that I've started calling the "Ministry of Truth."

Slums exist because the privileged spent a century paving over neighborhoods filled with people that they wished would just stop existing.
> How do you even measure that?

How about on a per capita basis?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/tony-porter-su...

Or how about

1. In terms of quality and sophistication tech. US and Britain pioneered most of the surveillance tech.

2. Experience and age? We have decades head start on the chinese when it comes to tech surveillance.

3. We are more "connected" and a more urban society with surveillable data? Nearly 50% of china still lives in rural areas.
This often only happens in Cities where Airbnb is either illegal or is fighting with local cities.
Do you mean https://help.github.com/articles/setting-your-commit-email-a... ? Would you mind creating an issue for it since I can't find one yet https://www.dropbox.com/s/52lh6hvgf0pb62s/Screenshot%202018-...
Time-Lapse Sequence of Jupiter's South Pole
That's all of them OP meant individual ones.
I think you're confusing an ad agency with what I'll refer to as an ad service.

An ad agency works with companies to produce ads. It does the concepting and production of ads(etc.).

An 'ad service'(unsure of proper name) provides the medium of which to display the ads. These include tv stations, google, youtube(owned by google), facebook, amazon, all those annoying ones in free mobile games etc.

There's a huge difference to what wpp and google provides. Google earns 90% of it's revenue(source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busin... - i googled it) from ads.

That said I agree that just because google provides a platform for ads doesn't mean it's "dna" is based in advertising. It's a core component of the company, though, and drives everything else the company does.
Since Oct, Apple Has Made 1,600 False Alarm 911 Calls from Elk Grove Facility
I'm thinking about adding a crawler to Bookmark Archiver, to augment the headless chrome screenshotting and PDFing that it already does.

Wget is also a pretty robust crawler, but people have requested a proxy that archives every site they visit in real-time more than a crawler.
Yeah, you’re right! Wonder how they handle it then.
This post is clearly suggesting that the PEOPLE of those nations don't want that dystopian future.

What China is doing in Xinjiang is not something many, if any, citizens around the world want.
Getting high quickly is important, which is why launch vehicles go up first, then do a gravity turn in thinner air, reducing drag and aerodynamic pressures on the vehicle. It's hard to go horizontally fast when you're fighting thick atmosphere.

Air density at the top of Everest is 1/3 of sea level, and because of the Earth's shape, Chimborazo's 20,000 feet (6,000 meters)
is actually further from the Earth's center than Everest, so half pressure sounds pretty reasonable: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=942816...
Though UPS is slow in the race it is very good strategy to tackle the problem. Most UPS or USPS vehicles need only 100-150 miles range, they can charge overnight. No need to wait for a crazy vehicle which has 500 mile range
Algorithmic entities is just a rhetorical device here. The article is about the challenge of policing the extisting system of anonymous corporations.
I think the point is that without any special grant of rights, AIs might be able to gather them by existing legal mechanisms.
Election fraud in the 1800s involved kidnapping and forced drinking (2016)
The features I have described are available in the Dreamliner and the Airbus 380, and have been more than a Hollywood fantasy for at least a decade...

Self-flying isn't as difficult as people think it is. There are fewer obstacles and risks to deal with.
I'm picturing a daredevil getting shot out of a cannon. Where is super dave when you need him? Could be the spokesperson.
People don't get psychologically addicted to guns like they do to most drugs. Gun bans are perfectly successful in drastically reducing gun violence in countries other than the US.
I could see this costing $30, but $49 is quite a stretch. What are your main advantages over Orange Pi Zero [1] which costs $8.49? I can only see the DDR3 rated to -25 and the secure enclave.

1. http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/
Atmospheric density decreases exponentially with height.

Total impulse required to blow through drag forces is a nasty nasty power law.

It wouldn't be that difficult to make a linear rail launcher in a vacuum, or on the moon. Air resistance really is the whole problem.

If you can put the launcher above the atmosphere, it's 100% worth the effort.
Our laws desperately need unit tests and integrations tests...
I'm not sure there's much of a chicken and egg problem at all. The cryptocurrency adoption has steadily increased so far.

If anything the biggest problem is understanding how to use cryptocurrencies in the first place. For mass adoption that's where we need to see innovation most (and of course scalability, which is directly tied to mass adoption).

I don't see the government adopting/not adopting a cryptocurrency affect adoption in a major way on its own. People who don't understand how to use cryptocurrency still wouldn't use it unless it was forced upon them somehow, like their employer saying their salary will be exclusively offered as cryptocurrency from the next month forward. But that could cause all sorts of issues.
With the UK, this is already well known. They have about a camera per 14 people give or take. Post 9-11, in the US it's also spread. Typically it's in really crime-ridden areas where law and order is barely sustainable (yes these exist). The only one I can't comment much on is Russia. Given that they essentially have a dictatorship, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a big program as well.

imo the state of the art surveillance isn't in China. It's either in the Middle East (especially in Dubai) or Singapore.

This happened a few years back: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/an-eye-for-an-eye-...

(I used to work in the video imaging industry.)

The OP of this thread is missing the point of the article though. They can call themselves Liberals, Conservatives, Communist Party Members, Nationalists or whatever, but only the elites want mass surveillance and really no one else
Diversity certainly isn't the only term--the other is inclusion. We stand by some of these female heavy companies that are inclusive of underrepresented groups in tech. That's the difference between 80/20 and 20/80.

Our ranking weighs gender and race-based diversity across all types of roles, as well as a score calculated from the Simpson’s Diversity Index. With Simpson's, diversity goes up as a result of an increase in demographic richness and evenness, commonly used in university admissions. It's one of several variables used in the ranking, and probably speaks a little more directly to the way in which you're interpreting diversity.
Ask HN: What do other databases think of Datomic DB?
I'd be interested to hear what other people building technically complicated databases think of Datomic?

Maybe the likes of Cockroach/Postgres/MS-SQL devs.
"pg" is still making statements, e.g., in this thread, as "pvg".

What was the motivation for hiding scores? Was it to prevent exactly what you describe? (i.e. downvoting based on view that a comment received "too many" upvotes)

What happened to polls; HN used to have them. Wouldnt they accomplish the desired behaviour? (i.e. measurement of disagreement)
Eh, I'll stick with the PocketBeagle board. It is half the price, very easy to source, doesn't require any special connectors and has those extremely useful PRUs.

Slightly larger, slower and no wireless connectivity but that is a worthwhile tradeoff.
Ask HN: Is There Any Good Open Source Voice-Activated Virtual Assistant?
$30 million is NOT a load of funding, especially for something like this!
One thing which is not clear to me: I just recently had a submission which had more than twice of upvotes than had been added to my Karma. As far as I understand voting rings may be responsible for that. I am however much too lazy for engaging that way (I also have no social media accounts), I spent my time rather on HN ;-). Does someone has an explanation for this? Do others engage in those rings to get favorable submissions onto the fron page?
Ask HN: Where do you go to follow blockchain and cryptocurrency news?
This is a prolonged internet argument, which is really just wasted time, I need your figures, using my data is just lazy without pinpointing where the "accounting for job title there is virtually no pay gap" comes from.

Lets use Wall Street Journal data then, they're a reputable source no? This one examines using specific job titles:

http://graphics.wsj.com/gender-pay-gap/

And give me actual links and sources or else your argument is invalid without evidence, if you don't have any data or evidence backing me up, I can move on and ignore you as a troll without data.
> SEC documents show that Yaney raised $1 million in equity in 2014, the year SpinLaunch was founded, $2.9 million in equity in 2015, $2.2 million in debt in mid-2017 and another $2 million in debt in late 2017. Now Yaney confirms SpinLaunch has raised a total of $10 million to date, and that he’s personally an investor... “The current status of our Series A raise is that we are still taking meetings with potential investors and have not yet received an executed offer.”

Do I not understand how series of funding works?
At around 50km radius you get 3g. That would be a pretty big centrifuge! Humans will probably never use this but maybe some types of satellites can handle the load.
Targeted ads to me also means that company knows way more about me than I would prefer. Why is that a problem? It might not be. I'm not doing anything wrong. But I have curtains on my bathroom window for a reason. I'm not doing anything wrong in there but I also don't feel like anyone else needs to see it.
I'm an engineer. Fairly flat organization for now.

Love the thoughts on Halo effect. I also feel like other peoples perception, if communicated publicly, biases everyone to that same perception of someone.

I'll take a look at the blog post/book.
In some cases, there is a trivial one-to-one mapping between a Javascript object and it's JSON serialization.

This is not the case in Dart for a number of reasons.

Many folks are happy with the solution we have – here's an example: https://github.com/dart-lang/json_serializable/tree/master/e...

We're certainly interested in making this better in the future, but as Bob said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16441665) we're very focused on finishing Dart 2 first.
Signal Interference?
Or, overrun with CNNs and Fox News that exist primarily to entertain under the guise of 'news'. Oh wait.
What secure element chipset are you using? This could be very interesting for a project I am working on. Does it run JavaCard / GlobalPlatform and are the access keys available?
Fascinating that culturally the author couldn't bring himself to talk to the kids. The only kid he talked to was one of the unusual college attendees. Kind of shocking if you think about it. He repeated a lot of narrative from numerous professional axe grinders, but nothing can really be learned from that. It wasn't a story about the rural kids who don't go to college, it was a story about politicians axe grinding where the claimed subject was never considered; could have been a story "about" Bolivian tin exports or farm subsidies for all the subject mattered to the discussion.

An analysis mode the author didn't consider is time. The rate of attendance has increased dramatically over time. Attendance is a little less than 10% lower for rural kids, and google nearly instantly found a graph of college attendance per year indicating the rate has been increasing at a fairly linear rate of a bit less than five percent per decade, so rural kids are not living in a dystopia as much as they're living in roughly the early 00s. Not a bad time to live, really. Culturally I'm sure there are variations in attitude in various areas and having 2005 cultural attitudes in the year 2018 isn't really much of an issue especially if your friends family neighbors and employer have attitudes that are significantly pre-2005 anyway.

An interesting analysis mode is comparing supply and demand. According to the linked Washington Post article below, only 27% of college grads in America work in a job closely related to their degree, and "The chances of finding a job related to your degree or major go up a few points if you move to a big city". The kids might be intelligent enough to see that taking out a home mortgage sized student loan to get a degree that will not lead to gainful employment is a poor investment. The article further states only 62 percent of grads had a job that requiring a degree. You can hand wave a lot, but around 4/5 of rural kids are throwing money away if they go to college.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/20/only-...

The advice on HN usually skews toward advice for SAT score recipients above 1475 points or so... please remember this is a discussion about 100% of American kids not the 1%. Based on the numbers, college was a waste of money for somewhere between one third and three quarters of attendees, so rural kids not wasting money on a bad investment is not exactly a crisis.
If the person appears in your Google Contacts, are you able to to clear the birthday field?
A lot of LLCs are anonymous. The states that set them up don't actually know who owns them. How would they know there's no human owner?
> This post is clearly suggesting that the PEOPLE of those nations don't want that dystopian future.

What people want a dystopian future? That's a pointless statement. Also, Nithin Cota is not chinese nor ughyur. How can he speak for those people.

> What China is doing in Xinjiang is not something many, if any, citizens around the world want.

You can say that about the same things that happened in the US, britain, europe and around the world.
The "blameless culture" doesn't typically extend outside one's own organization.
It's not identical to the RPi 3. Raspberry Pi is using a Broadcom chip, this one is an Allwinner H5. They are similar, but at least the H5 has far better support in mainline Linux.

Still Mali, though. Which I totally agree is crap. And no drivers for other display types.
Given that the cab is usually left completely open, and that the cargo area isn't enclosed when it's in use, I'm not sure it makes sense to use aircon in a delivery vehicle,