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No, not at all. But I'm past reproductive age, I have more than enough money to retire comfortably, and I have no kids and therefore no skin in whatever game they want to play with the planet.

I'll be gone in 30-50 years, poof, like I never existed. But I will be around more than long enough to watch a bunch of rich obese white gasbags die of coronaries and other otherwise easily preventable ailments, and to see whether AI does something magical around 2050 or so. That's enough for one life, no?
> opening a new opportunity for artificial intelligence in the vast and lucrative global health industry.

well done! google will join the lucrative industry of the people’s health. the rich will survive, the other will build the machine to make them survive.
Are we not allowed to use our own words to describe things? I find it weird that in addition to our culture, foreigners are judging our language, seemingly just for fun.
Has anyone done a serious audit on Monero? I have a feeling people are overconfident about it's anonymity.

Picture Tor. Now picture your browsing history is stored forever so if there's ever a bug in the protocol, it all goes clear...
That's wild. What do you suspect they're attempting to accomplish with HGPW? Are they using it to scout patent opportunities?
"I have a feeling that a lot of these actresses knew what they exactly what were doing."

I think that goes way too far.
references to it peaked in the 70s and have been declining since.

But has it peaked as an ideological foundation of the ideologies of recent campus activists? It doesn't seem that way to me.
Your comment spawned the following (minor?) idea for me: A lot of the devices (and hence IP addresses) we basically know are never going to be accessed directly by a human being, only through some combination of tools and automated processes, if at all. Make a distinction, where possible and appropriate, between these and the actually-UX-relevant addresses and reserve the shorter/nicer ones for human use.
(This may not be a great idea, or may be impractical, but I still wanted to put it here, because there's benefit in mapping out any amount of the potential solution space.)

Also, thinking about it in this way, "end user" for IPv6 does not only translate to the developers working with IPv6 as consumers (think someone getting an IP from AWS for deploying their app), but, for maximum effectiveness, should also include the developers working on the implementation as well as distribution end of the technology. As always, these two (or more) groups have different levels of motivation to adopt and use the technology, and as such it is likely that the usual tradeoffs can be made (making something a bit harder to implement, for the sake of much increased "consumer" experience).

Ideally there would be a spec and an implementation that would appeal to both allocators as well as consumers of the address space.
Should also note that the Java 8 Streams API and lambdas are a joy to use.

I used to hate it 8 years ago, but the project I’m working on has a modeling heavy problem, and Java with the immutable data structures in Guava was a good match. Was just blown away by the language now. Still clunky, but there’s something to be said for a compiled language with great tooling, effortless refactoring and budding expressiveness.
I used to do alot of self-motivation hacks, but ultimately threw everything out the door because they were unsustainable and tiring. I eventually noticed that if I was helping people, I didn't need any kind of motivation. I do things because I care. Perhaps you could try the same approach?

In the first summer that I couldn't get a coding internship (in college), I taught my friend who didn't have a coding background how to code. I taught my girlfriend at the time how to code. I started a meetup group and taught everyone I could. As they got better, I started to learn new things to teach. When I took on contract projects, I talked it over with my trusted friends and we solve the projects together. They were getting better through the projects I take up and my projects became a little more fun to work on.

Now, fast forward a few years, many of the people I taught are now senior software engineers. I still meet up with them a few times a week to talk about new coding patterns, discuss work projects, and help each other get better.

For me, the mindset shift I needed to do was to start thinking about how I can help others around me and make sure I'm helping them effectively.
I would be surprised/mortified if Apple didn't hold the keys.

Otherwise iCloud Keychain which houses credentials for non-Apple sites would be exposed. I can't imagine the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon etc just sitting back and allowing Apple to compromise their sites in the name of Chinese expansion.

It would surely amount to the biggest security compromise in history if this was the case.
>When people criticize the word "Meritocracy" they are not criticizing the concept but the usage.

I don't agree - there is a subset of people that criticize meritocracy as a concept because they believe the idea of 'merit' is inherently racist and classist - if you start at a different level, it becomes more difficult for you to accrue 'merit' and so that needs to be balanced and taken into account. Some people believe this is much more important than hiring or promoting on 'merit'
I find this line of reasoning a bit strange. I've only dabbled a bit with some unpopular languages, but I don't think their limited popularity implies they're only suitable for niche use cases. In fact after using some languages (most recently Clojure) I find programming in other mundane languages like JS a huge step backwards.

People are probably the biggest determining factor in achieving a quality result. But I don't think that means we should forget about trying to improve our tools.
As a GenXer myself, let me know when it's my turn. I see the long lasting effects of the "greatest generation" and Baby Boomers far more than anything GenX has "built".
‘It’s not fast enough. It’s not big enough. There’s not enough action.’
Dynamic typing (like static typing) is a spectrum, actually. You can flag method missing errors at a minimum, but in a nominally dynamically typed system, you could flag class mismatches before you ever got to a dispatch error.
This is why we will most certainly expand out into the solar system in the coming centuries. There are immense energy sources and resource deposits available.
I don't see how the halting problem has anything to do with validating smart contracts. Ethereum burns gas as it runs and there's a gas limit so that is the solution to the problem wrt contracts that don't halt.
That's webscale af
Yes, kinda. I tried the iPhone 8 (this is Brazil..) after 8 years on Android and feel like Android is much more modern, integrated, free, and even has better designs on so many places (yes, its odd). Particularly the Play Store is beautiful compared to the App Store.

Every app on iOS has a paywall, integrations are limited, apps can't process your SMS, stuff like this enrages me. Actually I couldn't even find a good way to transfer images/codes both ways, like I do with PushBullet on Chrome + Android all the time.

For me iOS also misses taps and lags on some operations. If using Swiftkey, sometimes the wrong keyboard will pop-up. I feel like the image I had as an outsider that iOS was perfect and smooth kinda broke.

So I guess I cannot compare to other people because they use their phones differently: I have to test everything...
No one said the challenge was easy.
Yeah, I know many businesses still have to use IE11 because some web app they use requires IE (often on an intranet, but sometimes still even in the internet). Sad state of affairs.
Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men?
Yes, and you need to charge it daily because it uses as much power as it does.
Yes, DRM makes ebooks about 20% as useful as they should be. I don't think I'd mind paying more for ebooks if I could grab pieces of the text I find interesting and collate them with my own notes in a document that lives in an app designed for documents (like word, or Evernote, or Bear, or HTML.....)
> In those parts of society, values like equality, liberation, and cosmopolitanism aren’t just treated as values—organisations of society that different people prefer to different degrees—they’re considered moral.

So is equality a value you share or not?
What are the 12 languages?

I already tried:

node
perl
python
ruby
bash
tcsh

From the code it is obvious that DOS and php are on the list, but I don't happen to have them.

What are the others?
I'll be gone in 30-50 years, poof, like I never existed.

Nihilism -- ever the source of far-seeing wisdom.

But I will be around more than long enough to watch a bunch of rich obese white gasbags die of coronaries

Looking forwards to the deaths of others on the basis of racial stereotypes? Always a good sign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreDa1xarTM
> The question I'm then moved to ask is this: who cares [...]

Many care because Apple's motives and principles wrt privacy are often used as a reason to choose them. That they haven't stated publicly that they are complying but disagree (like they have in other instances) makes many wonder whether Apple is honest about their motives and principles. I understand the critical among us know it's all about the money, but others do want to know why Apple publicly states its beliefs in one case and not the other (again, not about compliance, just about public disagreement).
>I'm curious - what were the devs doing with their time, if feature improvements were constantly being vetoed?

Yeah it was a really weird culture, there was definitely some quiet time where I would propose a product improvement but still get no traction. Eg the product website was really embarrassingly 90s, they would let us A/B test customer deployments but not their own site.

There also was a lot of repetitive content scraping tasks that should have been improved and resulted in excessive pager duty (hard to explain but think fragile regexes that parsed customer HTML). That was the last straw for me, I'll do pager duty but not every night just because the PHB is a fool.

They mostly burned our time on trivial consultingware requests instead of improving the core product. I eventually started sneaking core enhancements in by padding out the customer work and just not telling anyone.

This is the same PHB who threatened to fire me because I had to rush my partner to hospital with a concussion. Wonderful human being that.
Existential crisis: heterogeneous collections in Haskell
The Robot Workforce: AI in 2018
Apple still sold in the US whilst the Trump administration withdrew from Paris climate accord. They also still sell in the Phillipines whilst Duarte is on his cleansing spree.

So apart from defending Apple's employees (DACA, LGBT etc) they don't really get let politics get in the way of business.
Fancy meeting you here. Was just thinking about you yesterday. Email inbound :)
I have been reading HN regularly for 10 years. It has taught me everything I needed to know to get started. I applied to YC 4 times, got rejected 3 times, crashed one startup and ultimately found my current cofounder through the YC community.

HN is not perfect, but I am incredibly grateful for everything it has given me. Like so many here, I couldn’t have done it without Hacker News :)

To this day, the advice I give anyone who wants to get into technology or starting a company is to read everything on HN for 3 months and to look up all the things you don’t understand.
Coping with Spectre and Meltdown: What sysadmins are doing
> This is not affirmative action. Affirmative action is structuring hiring policies such that everyone gets an equal chance at an offer - even if it means that some groups get more help to get there than others.

If this is the case, then the diversity policies at big-name Bay Area tech companies often go beyond affirmative action and into the realm of outright discrimination. For example, identical resumes at my company have 3-4x chance of getting an interview if the name suggests the applicant is a woman and or black or Hispanic. You may or may not agree that "structuring hiring policies such that non white & Asians, and women have greater chance to get offers than non-diverse candidates" is affirmative action, but the point remains: that's what many Silicon Valley companies are doing.
It's the r^2 that matters right? I could give a crap about the picture.
It was my question too! Thanks for clarification.
That complicated type system w/ type inference does come with it's own costs, usually bad compile speed issues. It's what I've noticed when looking at languages like swift, rust, scala & haskell.

I'm currently dealing with it in a large swift project, and I would much rather go back to the extra verbosity of objective-c than have type inference at this point.

But that was insightful, thank you!
You're basically describing asm.js -- a subset of javascript that is known to be easy for engines to turn directly into native code and execute, that you can use as a compilation target.

The difference between asm.js and WASM is mostly just that WASM is more compact and easier to parse, while asm.js is a more gradually compatible upgrade story.
Ask HN: What does it look like to start businesses during economic crisis?
Now seems to be the right time to start my own business.

But it seems to be also logical to expect another economic crisis.

What does it look like to quit job and start a business during economic crisis? Is it wise?
This is pretty hilarious, but as a fan of both American football and soccer, basically complete nonsense. Soccer commentary is pretty much just as pointless anyways, maybe even more so, since usually the analysis is a lot more ambiguous.
There seems to be an idea floating around that anything at all is permitted under the RFC for MSAs unless it is specifically prohibited using the phrase "must not", regardless of context and other guidance in this RFP and the other RFPs that refer to it. Perhaps this is true. I have a sincere question for anyone holding this opinion: would Google be in compliance if their software altered the message body by adding the sentence "Google is the best search engine ever." here and there, at random? If not, why not, exactly?
The more forcefully and loudly people try to suppress certain ideas, the more they are afraid those ideas might be right.

For example, nobody is trying to suppress astrology, because nobody is afraid it might be true. The same goes for phrenology, ancient astronauts, flat earthers, 9/11 conspiracies, etc.
What kind of equality? Liberals and conservatives tend to have different definitions.
The risk is not that a contract will run forever, but that it may be intractable to exhaustively predict all possible outcomes or prove much of anything about a contract even given the computational time afforded to it.
Wechat supposedly ripped off a lot of features from LINE, but since LINE is a Japanese/Asian thing, most Americans know even less about that than WeChat.
>This question might come across as dumb, especially for a 30 year old, but I come from a culture where this aspect of work was never emphasized and at this point, I don't know who to ask.

Off topic, Could anyone point to a place where you could ask for advice of life? It seems once we are in the 30s, there are more questions then answers then when i was in 20s.
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This is equivalent to saying we must never legalize alcohol because it will increase the number of people blind from wood alcohol poisoning and increase the amount of money flowing to people like Capone and Nitti.

Also, this:

> with legalization then it only increases the size of the fringe due to the debilitating physical and psychological effects of drug use and promiscuity.

... is not so much unproven as disproven.
Beats the heck out of shining a 1500 lumens torch everywhere in the theatre though. Or whatever output their iPhones produce, they all seem to be stuck at max brightness.
I can only speak as an ex-postgrad philosophy major and Australian left-wing political activist, but I haven't heard anyone mention critical theory in an activist context for years.
Hindu temple and the structure of human body: Comparison
Name and shame buddy, we need to know who the toxic abusive employers are. There is no such thing as professional decency in this situation. Exploitative capitalist behaviour needs to be dealt with in unconventional ways.
If you search for any loaded term on Google it will lead to confirmation bias.

Can you find any stats showing that a White male has a harder time in America getting a job, getting a loan, getting a mortgage or lease, getting into college, etc than an equally qualified non White male?
Let's talk about reliability: The network is unrealiable; Firewalls might be broken, packets are dropped, IP-addresses may change, cellphones lose connection in subway tunnels. Simply calling "streaming reliable" without even defining what the "reliability" is protecting again, makes "reliable" an overstatement.

IMHO the most reliable way to get data from point A to point B is likely by having a client actively polling for data, using a strict socket timeout. Data should be at-least once delivered. If JSONS should be called anything remotely "reliable" as periodically polling, at least it should have a strict timeout (not mentioned in the article) for receiving the next newline & it should handle replaying of non-acked messages. Otherwise I would call it far from "reliable".
It absolutely can seem that way, depending on the worldview you grew up with.
You're welcome, I really hope it works out for you. If I can help with introductions or in any other way feel free to mail me.
Sure, that isn't due to the halting problem though. It's certainly trivial to show that any solidity program running on the ethereum VM will halt.

What you're saying is that the current ether VM languages don't have much in the way of formal proofs to support understanding their behavior, but that is an area of active work afaik and doesn't fall out from the halting problem.
Equality of opportunity is foundational. It's a good definition of fairness.

Equality of outcomes is insanity. The presumption that it is how things are supposed to be has basically been used to justify anything, up to and including rape and genocide. "Equality of outcomes" is basically Marxian ideology dressed up as a virus to be injected into a democratic society. It throws out meritocracy. Is it any wonder that many ideologies which espouse it also seek to throw out logic itself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnUOcsjqgA
do you regret throwing away your family photos? your car? your friendships?
> I think any attempt to standardize or to make it another engineering discipline would mean the end of high programmer salaries.

I think you might live in a tech city bubble.

Outside of a few tech cities developer salaries are well below engineering salaries.

If development was treated more like engineering then developer salaries would go up. A lot.
Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a website
5 Most Mysterious and Unexplained Events Caught on Camera
You might try mathtools in place of amsmath. It is a wrapper that fixes some things, and adds lots of useful stuff.
Pretty good actually. 23.1 billion in revenue for 2017. Coming back to stronger profitability and their phone sales are surprising everyone:

"Nokia smartphones were #3 in the UK for the quarter and in the Top 5 in Russia, Vietnam and most Middle Eastern markets"
A320-X DRM: What happened
I’m also old, and my main objection to the present “SJW” movement is their strong preference for a fight fire with fire approach, in contrast with the fight fire with water approach encouraged by Ghandi and King. For example, they have reinterpreted the “respectability politics” concept to mean they can be as rude and mean-spirited as they please. In the civil rights movement, that term meant something quite different.
I'm pretty sure that no one that might be labelled an SWJ knows, or cares, about "critical theory".
They could do the same if you store physical gold in your safe deposit, but rich people vault gold without any problems.
Sounds familiar. Thank you Daniel, for all you've done.

In case anybody is wondering about what this refers to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4739649
> What would the Americas -- the world -- look like today if the Europeans never came here? Or at least, came and engaged respectfully

One historical scene in particular plays out this idea. It occurred as Cortes marched across today's Mexico towards the city and ruler he had heard so much about. At one point — not yet at the city — Moctezuma sent some emissaries to greet him. They brought two others with them, who were sacrificed in front of the Spaniards.

You can find accounts of this story from both sides: from the chronicles of Cortes and his conquistadors (Bernal Diaz, for example) and from native accounts (as told in The Broken Spears, as another example). And the differing reactions to this event tell you everything. The Spaniards were appalled, some even cried. But the emissaries were totally baffled by their reaction to the gift.

What you see is two cultures separated by an almost unimaginable amount of time, distance, and history. The clash that occurred would have been hard to prevent whenever it happened. As others have pointed out, even basic biology (immunity) was different enough to make an enormous difference without people consciously having to do anything.

Peter Watson's "The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New" is a pretty fascinating examination of the overall contrasts between Eurasian and New World cultures. It's a story that's hard to tell, and there is a lot of speculation and ambiguity. What is clear, above all else, is that the whole ordeal ended tragically, insomuch as it ever ended at all.
I'm not sure if this post is sarcastic or not, you realise he's giving away something like 99% of his money?