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I notice Scala missing from your list - if you need the JVM or find Elm to not quite have what you need, it's a great language. It's basically the opposite end of the spectrum, design-wise - Elm is "let's create this highly opinionated, carefully curated language and try to make it perfect" and Scala is "let's throw every feature we can derive into our type system and let people work it out".

It's got it's issues (mostly that it's incredibly easy to abuse powerful features), but it also has a ton of stuff I really miss in other languages.

I have a web-based party game (CaH clone) I wrote in Scala for the back-end, Elm for the front-end. It's a bit old (I'm planning a rework and update when the next version of Elm comes out), and it's definitely not the best code ever as it's a hobby project, but you might be interested.

https://github.com/lattyware/massivedecks
You have probally been told this, but you are a good writer.

You might have a book, or two in you? If that interests you?

I'm interested in the six years living in a tent, and what honestly led up to that.

On a personal note, I need to have structured sound (music, tv, radio, etc.) around me at all times.

My mind just wanders to the negative if there's no noise. Car noise, city noise, people talking is just irritating, but I just seem to need that radio on.

I'm not schizophrenic, but do have some anexiety disorder.

Anywho--I'm not giving advice about a book, but your posts do stand out. I didn't realize until today.
You'd think for an $80 mouse they'd have thrown in a few cents worth of charging management circuitry.

Another reason why even on apple.com it has an average rating of 2.4/5.
I disagree. As a European "leftist", which I guess counts as the "far left" people like to blame things on, I think almost all these issues being discussed are right wing issues. To the point were you have to explain to people in Europe, that have been reading US articles, that the things they are opposing doesn't exist here. Overall European leftist doesn't want company policies, affirmative action or even large immigration. They want powerful unions, fair admissions to university, daycare, protection of employment and other concrete things that the US consider socialism. This entire "social justice" situation is because liberals in the US doesn't want to give up their privileges of private social insurance, good schools districts, rising housing markets, lobbying etc. So the result is the predictably a shallow shouting match, which people are uncomfortable with after the fact.
I doubt it. If further optimizing pre-optimized assembly were that easy (or that valuable), then we'd also expect to see more tools for postprocessing compiled binaries. (Just because WASM is a bytecode format doesn't mean it's comparable to Java bytecode and Java's JITs; javac isn't an optimizing compiler.) I'd be happy if anyone actually working on a WASM interpreter could chime in regarding expected optimization potential.
I also wonder if this is a prudent assumption. Existential threat is really hard to measure. If we want to know the average lifespan of a modern republic that has existed for about 250 years already, we don't have many data points to compare to. Here are ones that may count:

- San Marino has been a republic for over 1000 years

- The Netherlands was a republic from 1581 until 1806

- Switzerland has been a republic since 1648

- Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, and a dozen other Latin American countries have been republics continuously for over 150 years. Not without their share of upheaval, but even in the case of Venezuela I don't know that you can argue that the country stopped existing in sudden crisis.

And that's all I can find, for "modern" republics >= 150 years old at present or at cessation. The next closest is France, which is also still a republic. We don't have too much data but I would listen to an argument that modern republics seem to be unusually long-lived compared to more traditional government types. With no better information available, you can choose either to trust the examples we have, or to adopt the doomsday prepper mentality. When trust is cheaper, it's not any surprise to me that people trust the government to continue existing.
Mmm real images have a very high number of NxN patterns, and copying images with large structures won't work out well when only considering local similarity?
A recent acquisition has (so far) been very approachable - a recommendation I got from a blog post that I can't recall..
"A Brief History of Numbers" by Leo Corry, Oxford University Press 2015. A fairly rigorous presentation from a strongly historical perspective. Excellent for this math hobbyist.
Ask HN: In what areas/ways will robots/AI replace humans in upcoming 50 years?
Same. There are some parts of the code that I haven't touched in a few years, and when I do there's a significant effort to refamiliarise myself... and a whole lot of "what stupid idiot wrote this", oh yeah, that was me three years ago. :)

I just finished the Python 2 -> 3 upgrade on it, that was fun.
When you put it that way, I really don't want to live in a perfectly efficient market.
Well, at least with a GMail address you are safe, because there are no GMail servers in Mainland China, because Google doesn't operate in Mainland China. But your point stands for other, more cooperative, mail services.
In this case, I'd argue both.
We must be referring to different riots.

I was referring to the one where morons from both sides decided to show up with weapons and assault each other.
I think I'd agree, in part at least.

It's great being able to get outside in the relative quiet. Maybe a walk at the beach, or in a forest, or on a hike in the hills. Maybe even a drive if you enjoy drives out of the city. Etc.

There isn't anything quite like it. But unfortunately many people seem to forget that we are able to do this.
Of course in this case US were rescuing heroes... And just how bloody was their opposition given the very limited effort expended.

Besides, would it be US' fault that by 1945 Germans were rather starving, too? After all, armed opposition to communism is no less justified than armed opposition to nazis.
It kinda depends!

If you have a small team, kanban is really great. It's easy to communicate what goals are; everyone's pretty aware of what is going on, development-wise, company-wise. You just need a good workflow, and that is what kanban is.

I like scrum more when you have a larger development team, because it's much harder to communicate what goals there are. People are less aware of what's going on in the platform, in the company, etc. The start and stop points in scrum are great times to reconnect and allow that communication to happen.

But, there are lots of contexts, and lots of ways to solve communication problems, so it's really difficult for me to tell you what you should or shouldn't be using. It's almost more important to just have a process that is clear to everyone so they know what their expectations should be.
I don't know what you mean with "discriminate with their speech" what does that mean? The point of free speech is to get the ideas out in the open so we can debate them.
I suspect what you are seeing is a reaction, or over-reaction, to how Americans have long censored our own history. Once you figure out the official (accepted, schoolbook, popular) depiction of history edits out the nastiest bits in favor cheerleading, the presumption that anything "left out" should be taken in the worst possible light comes naturally. This is especially true when the information in question ("The US invaded Russia? And we just dont mention it?!) seems so potentially loaded and relevant to current world events.
Public debt is a promise to fund future obligations and things like pensions would be significantly devalued if it isn't honoured, so in political practice it is debt.

That debts and savings are two sides of the same coin is tautological and doesn't require a state or fiat currency. Your current account with the bank is a debt the bank owes you. All savings are debts.
> Nursing homes are all about cheap CNAs and LPNs providing minimal services for minimal dollars. The doctor doesn’t really deliver care, that’s done by nurses, who don’t really exist in nursing facilities.

Absolutely this. As someone in EMS, a very large majority of nursing homes will have 1 RN on shift (and we're talking 200+ bed facilities), and a cadre of LPNs and CNAs.

Their liability insurance means that sometimes, anything more than a band-aid mandates a call to 911. And oftentimes when we show up, asking for a patient history, "Not my usual floor", "I just started shift", etc.

Meanwhile, the sign out front advertises "round the clock nursing care" and they're happily billing the patient, their families many thousands of dollars a month (sometimes easily into the five digits).
That makes no sense because they could easily fix whatever battery-killing problem you get with some electronics.
You wont like it, but... How would you feel being asked for a checklist for 'good software development' or something similar by a cooking chef? Hire skilled and dedicated DevOps/SRE/SysAdmin/hype-of-the-week person. ;)
Well done. Just... well done. You should be very proud of what you did that day. Thank you.
I'm nowhere near as cool as Von Neumann, but I find that loud noisy music helps me work. The noisier the better. It helps to drown out background sounds that catch the attention.

If you hear a door creak or a person speak, that's attention grabbing. Are they speaking to me? Is someone looking for me? Can I add to the conversation?

But with noise you are isolated. The attention grabbing sounds don't come through.
I feel like this can't be said enough. Various kinds of minimalism, which are really just different ways of being left in peace, are now pleasures that are only reachable by the privileged classes. So of course these pleasures find a lot of enthusiasm here. Not that I'm any less enthusiastic than most here, but we shouldn't forget that out industry contains some of the worst offenders when it comes to distraction and interruption.
I wonder if they are in fact shooting themselves in the foot in their fight against this cracker.

Aren’t there laws that basically invalidate evidence gathered by illegal means?
Damn PB way to be a thug about it; now this is hacking, not that bs marketing term.
Yes and after Lyndon Johnson - a Democrat signed the civil rights act, the south turned against the Democratic Party. But here is the southern Strategy in Lee Atwater’s own words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ

And you have heard of Strom Thurman haven’t you?
There’s something missing from the social justice narrative though, demonstrated by the situation in Silicon Valley and those other fields I mentioned: it doesn’t take into account the power and oppression it exerts itself. In a society where social justice advocates are outside the dominant power structure—as was the case when these ideas were originally articulated—this doesn’t matter much, since their power is negligible. That’s increasingly no longer the case, as social justice advocates have come to exert major influence over central areas of society, and consequently have also gained substantial power over society as a whole. Clearly, an accurate model of societal power must include social justice ideology and its advocates.

I grew up in a part of the country that voted Trump in 2016. When I was a child, we had to drive almost 50 miles to visit friends who were also "brown people" of vaguely the same ethnic group.

In what I've seen of Social Justice advocates both online, and in my various run-ins with them in person, I've noted the eerie similarity between them and the bigoted people who used to racially bash me and my sister when we were children. There's a sort of "seeking" going on. There's far too much "witch-hunting" and threatening conformity in it. There's a hatred, and a glee in being superior. There's a similar clinging to image and a similar rejection of logic.

I was once an ally of Social Justice, and would be still, but I've seen the underlying morality of it play out both online and in my face and in person. Unless Social Justice starts loudly calling out the injustice done in its name, then my "lived experience" of it speaks loudly that today's Social Justice is malevolent.

Please Listen and Believe.

(Another data point: This thoughtful and well considered Quillette link was flagged and had to be unflagged. Ask yourself who is behaving in a censorious fashion and trying to suppress real discourse. That side is generally not the "good guys" as much as they might try to convince themselves otherwise.)
Self driving vehicles make sense as the next major change, akin to the jetliner, mass production car, steam train, and steamship.

Until something along the lines of antigravity is discovered, I can't see any major modal change in aerospace. Fundamentally there's little different from today's 787 or a380 than a 747 or 707. As was pointed out, you used to be able to cross the Atlantic 3 times in a single day. The major change to open up Europe-far east travel wasn't high speed planes, it was the opening of Russian air space.

Aside from some modest range improvements there's little change in 50 years on long haul travel. The only things on the horizon would be antipodal non stop flights, but those distances tend to be uneconomic due to having to carry the fuel. High speed trains are slightly faster than they were in 1980 but not by an order of magnitude, things like the Shanghai maglev seem doomed to be one off curiosities.

There's not much in today's transport world that would shock someone from 60 years ago.
The site looks good, clean and does a fair job however there's a ton you can add on (which may break its minimalness) like checking how many users are complaining about the side on twitter and maybe allow manual feedback.

Also, if you plan on building this further, get some tests in that package.
I'm going to assume that you are just reaching out for counterfacts without being particularly well-versed on the history here, because the Russian Duma was, from inception to the revolution, a very bad joke. It was only barely tolerated by Nicholas, and dissolved for years at a time whenever it tried to compel the autocracy toward meaningful reforms. That parliament has a very great deal to do with why events took the radical course they did - it effectively discredited everyone who tried to work within the system.
I imagine just the fact that they no longer face the possibility jail time alone makes them feel a lot safer.
And yet we do live in a Citizens United world. Candidates do need money to win.

I have my issues with the Democratic party but I don't take nearly as dim a view of them as you do. But even if I did, just opting out of the process as you suggest would just do even more to support the status quo.
Not everyone in the US does this. I don't usually. It's odd, honestly, because it seems intended to honor the people who produced the film.. but they aren't there to hear or appreciate it. So.. Not sure?

If the idea is just theatergoers feeling togetherness at experiencing the film with each other, then maybe it makes sense? Yet, it's quite different.
> Did it improve faster than it would have under democratic rule?

That wasn't an option for Russia at any point, as it isn't even today.
>In fact, it's so hard to reconcile that I sometimes wonder if leftists are a straw man invented by the right, but I'm starting to realize that may not be true.

Leftists are not, but "leftists" as described by the right often are, as are "feminists" and "SJWs."

And because it will probably come up, yes, the same phenomenon exists on the other side as well.
"caring about craftsmanship" != "caring about elm"

I care about craftsmanship even when I'm writing JavaScript.

And when JavaScript is enough of a burden, I go to TypeScript, not Elm.
That practice would stop immediately if there was some risk to the non-criminals/other criminals, to lose there money by mixing it, wouldn't it?
> even though the commitment of the director varies greatly from facility to facility

Right, in many places the regulations require laughably little oversight. "Offline review of patient care records at least monthly" (even quarterly) suffices as "medical direction" in some states.
Open Source as Business Strategy with Segment’s Peter Reinhardt
If you like this, it was posted as a very popular Show HN in 2016, so you may be interested in the extensive comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612246
There’s a VC funded company working on this (in the Bay Area) - Mammoth Diagnostics http://www.mammothdiagnostics.com
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A leftist violates general democratic principles in the fight against a particular injustice.
I'd be stronger and say flat taxes are nonsense.

All the people that go on about incentive and the open market amaze me when they claim that it's a disincentive for people to work when you lose say, 50% over some high amount.

Once you have a ton of wealth, it just becomes relatively worthless to you. People with a ton of wealth don't add (significant) value except by providing that wealth to others, which then nets them even more.

We should be trying to limit the ability to just continually accrue wealth. At some point it stops serving society for an individual to have more. The incentive is gone - no one is not going to try because if they are so successful they earn over $10m say, they will not get any more.
Ask HN: How do I turn my smartphone into a dumbphone?
I have a Oneplus 5 that I spend too much time on. I'd love to restrict the phone to calls, messages, camera + maybe whatsapp. Are there any custom ROMs or apps for this and has anyone tried it?
> So you can just give a fake address and the police can't do anything.

That sounds like a dangerous strategy. Surely lying to police is an offence.

You'd be better off asking what crime you are suspected of committing first, and if there is none, declining to answer.

Of course, police probably wouldn't like that strategy much either.
How do you get information out of a living cell without destroying it?

Right now observing neuron function within our brains is limited to tools such as magnetic resonance imaging. But molecular recorders, such as the Crispr Camera system demonstrated here. Provide a mechanism for cells to log their own history. With storage space extensible to a petri-sized population of bacteria totalling billions of gigabytes!

I think the vision is more than data storage however. Synthetic biological constructs typically involve complex and precise steps. By encoding the recipe in biology. It ushers in the path for automating the laboratory workflow.

Movie Replayed From Living Cells' DNA Debuts "Molecular Recorder"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK3dcjBaJyo
Agreed.

This is kind of like Warren Buffett taking over Berkshire Hathaway.

But now Musk is definitely the face and head of the company same as Buffett. That is what counts for most people after everything is said and done.
Russia is in a geographical position where it will always have pretensions on Eastern Europe. Communism was a veneer for imperialism, and if it weren't for NATO and the EU, the same would happen today.
Certainly not in Kansas, anymore, Toto.
The crazy thing here for me is that YC rejected you as a business with $1M in revenue. I think any business with $1M in revenue has tremendous potential.
Technically a FRN (Federal Reserve Note) is backed by a US Dollar. These are distinctions which seem odd today, and describe the odd system that we now have.

A "US Dollar" is defined constitutionally as being "gold or silver". However you can no longer redeem a FRN for a USD....only for more FRN's.

It raises several interesting legal questions when pondered, for instance when you pay taxes you are being taxed on USD earnings, although technically you've never been paid this.
You’re thinking of gmail the service. We were talking about iCloud though.

Gmail addresses can be used as Apple IDs, which means the iMessage messages travel inside Apple’s iCloud services.
Had the allies really been invading Russia, the world would have been a much better place. Unfortunately, their role was very limited.
You could look into streaming parsers such as Oboe.js, which specifically support the use case of parsing JSON tree's larger than the available RAM[0]. Then again, when you're loading such huge JSON files into a 32-bit instance of Chrome, it is likely you should look for a totally different solution to your problem.

[0]: http://oboejs.com/examples#loading-json-trees-larger-than-th...
They never tried to shut down unofficial repair shops and you're doing a disservice to the whole idea behind "right to repair" by saying that. The only thing Apple has publicly done is disagreed with and lobbied against the current "right-to-repair" legislation that's going on. They have publicly stated that they're not against the concept of people repairing their own devices but that what they're actually against is the requirement that they provide, without cost, the tools and instructions necessary for a third-party to perform the repair. Apple only cares that the repairs are done correctly. They don't care who repairs it as long as the repair doesn't cause the mistaken perception that the phone itself is faulty or poorly manufactured. They allow any third-party repair center to get certified to be an authorized Apple service center. To ignore that huge chunk of the reasons why is to be disingenuous or ignorant. They have a completely valid stance about the current bills.
I built this in browser database app entirely in ELM. Since there is no existing rich component library available I had to write everything including a high performance grid implementation from scratch. The entire app took about a week and has zero runtime bugs since launch. I have to give credit to Elm for most of that.

https://bellpluscat.com/
The article says that SJWs are labeling holder's of certain beliefs as "bad people". I'm saying that is them using their free speech.
I didn't think of that scenario -- equally as scary.
Ask HN: What, you found out later, were the biggest gaps in your education?
Things that, when you learnt about them, it was most surprising your previous education had never mentioned?

e.g. For me the biggest ones have been:

1. The Crusades. They seem absolutely huge in influence, the single most influential phenomenon in the history of the West, in the formation of Europe as an entity, in so many ways. Never mentioned in all my years of schooling. (see the Crusades chapter in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe)

2. The huge influence of Rousseau (French Revolution, Romantics, Nazis, the modern consciousness etc etc) (see Damrosch's Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius)

and I guess also:

- the real character of US foreign interventions since the 1890s and US role in the world (see Chomsky's political books, and the voting record in the UN GA & SC)

- (a musical one - I'm a musician) that equal temperament wasn't universally adopted until recently, the mid-late 19th C. Not in Bach's time, like I'd been taught.
Thanks.

FWIW it does figure out that I am running node for v6.11.2.
Physical assets can be, and frequently are, insured. If they’re very valuable, the insurer will undertake investigations, and involve law enforcement if needed.