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As I've participated in Elm's growth over the years, more and more I feel for the React devs who are pulled in many different directions by impassioned voices on every side. People have really strong feelings about how open source software authors should spend their time.

I read the GitHub issues linked in the OP of that thread. Two are feature requests, and one is a bugfix for a behind-the-scenes problem which apparently has no noticeable symptoms. I understand OP's frustration that these haven't been merged or closed; nobody wants to do workarounds, and everybody wants feedback when they post on GitHub. I'm also personally sympathetic to the idea that Elm core libraries should have more frequent minor releases, which I agree with.

The thing is, I also understand that when open source authors prioritize engaging on GitHub, that implicitly means not prioritizing other things. People think "how hard can it be to write one sentence of feedback as to whether this will get merged?" but that's not how GitHub works socially.

An under-appreciated reality of OSS is that maintainers have two options: engage in a back-and-forth with issue posters until the issue is resolved to the poster's satisfaction, or brace for complaints that you're unresponsive. If authors conclude other priorities are higher than seeing that issue through to its eventual conclusion - however much time that may take up - it's understandable why they wouldn't even begin that conversation in the first place.

(Naturally, those who prioritize responding on GitHub are subject to complaints that ambitious long-term projects are taking forever and perhaps deserve to be labeled vaporware.)

If you have a BDFL, some will say things are moving too slowly because the BDFL doesn't have enough bandwidth. If you have a committee instead, some will say things are moving too slowly because there's too much bureaucracy. Trade flexibility for guarantees? Some will call that stifling. Trade guarantees for flexibility? Some will call that dangerous.

We programmers have every possible combination of preferences, and those whose preferences already align with a given project tend not to bother posting about it online - because they're off happily using the thing that's worked well for them. I think this is why I've found contributing to open source consistently rewarding but frequently exhausting.

For reference, here's what Evan said about the big picture topic here: https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/73ubxo/an_explanation_...
Yes, more that ever we have to be critical of what we read. A problem I see is that some people now distrust so much the mainstream medias that they turn to unreliable or complotist sources of "information". This could be largely avoidable if the existing plurality of opinions were more broadly expressed by publishers.

In my country the press developed a whole lexicon of expressions to avoid speaking of any senstive topics. But once you know some keywords and watch what information was left out, you could build a more accurate image of the underlying fact. But that required some awareness.
I'm puzzled that the author doesn't spend some time considering the possibility that Rick might be an idiot. His code was disorganized and possibly way more complex than it needed to be, he had control of his own time but was missing his own ship dates, he was yelling at people ... this isn't necessarily the profile of a genius.

The conclusion seems to be "smart people are bad at software" not "Rick wasn't so smart." Maybe it's worth considering both possibilities.
Why Python's Integer Division Floors (2010)
We've banned this account for egregiously breaking the site guidelines.

It's pretty rich to go on about censorship and then pull a move like this. If we don't ban you, then comments like yours destroy the site, but if we do, you can do the "help help did you see he just repressed me" bit from Monty Python.
> I think the chances “flying taxis” become a thing before fully autonomous cars is actually pretty high.

Not sure. They will become profitable only at a point where you can sell many flying taxis, at which point the airspace becomes crowded and the problem becomes harder than autonomous cars.
I understand Google/Alphabet is doing the "absolute regulatory minimum" here, as it usually tends to do in everything else, but what's the point of having a self-driving car with a wheel you can't access in case of a self-driving system breakdown?

The manual control should be easily accessed by the passengers. Will Waymo even allow people to sit in the front seat at the wheel and allow them to control it whenever they want?
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Do we? I see more justifications on intrinsic differences than I see otherwise.
..Thanks for the info, I'm reading specs on that now.

Do you know if you loose a stop or two of aperture like you do with a doubler? i.e. if the lens is f/1.8, will it still be that mounted on the Sony?
NYC specifically knows exactly what it's like to have a lot of aerial taxi traffic, as helicopter shuttles were really popular there until the crash on the PanAm building and withdrawal of all permits for on-building helipads. The risks are far too great to allow flying machines in city centres.
The best and healthiest breakfast routine is to skip breakfast completely :)
I'm not sure about that. Smart phones still can't match APSC sized sensors in low light (and probably not even M43 either). They also can't change lenses if you need a different perspective. Also, for studio work, they need a way to trigger the lights. Right now, it's using hotshoe trigger. You also need a way to save to SD cards, not just to the internal HD, and a way to import the raws to a computer. And no, snapseed isn't usable for a professional that shoots 1000's of photos per session. If you add all that up, it basically becomes a bulky, mirrorless camera.
You don't need a x3 there since most cameras use a single monochrome sensor with a colour filter array on top – the debayering process can happen offline.
No, not according to the article. It says that lettuce and other veggies have nitrites and don't cause cancer but the chemical reaction of meat with saltpeter causes the meat to become a carcinogen.
Is it possible to find legitimately nitrate-free bacon in the US? If so, under what brand?
In high school I sometimes hung out with a friend and his uncle. The uncle was two years younger than us.
The concrete numbers about absolute risk are useful. Thanks.
I didn't know that in the 90's Google Analytics ever exists!.
Building a lot of SaaS products for startups these days.

Frontend: ReactJS

Backend: NodeJS

Database: Postgres

Hosting: AWS

CI/CD: Gitlab

Simple for me. Easy to deploy changes quickly. Fast iteration.
In the video inside the car, there are buttons on the ceiling for the middle row of seats saying "help" and "pull over".
Agreed. Linus's rants tend to be:

> Derision and general point

> Insult

> Derision and minor point

> Actual, concrete, well reasoned point

> Derision

He usually has very good points, but people tend to focus on the derision and insults. That means people aren't seeing the points he's making. That's not entirely their fault. Communication is a two way street, and he's making his own communication actively worse.

His infamous C++ rant (http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus) is the one I always go back to. It makes perfect sense when you realize he's talking about coding for the kernel or otherwise coding for something that can only really be understood as a series of bytes. It's complete nonsense if you're talking about, say, business software, where all that abstraction makes the software comprehensible. He also does things in that rant like essentially champion reinventing the wheel, though, too.

People always defend him by saying:

* "Passive aggressive corporate culture is toxic!"

* "It works so it's not toxic/who cares if it's toxic!"

* "They don't have to contribute if they don't want to!"

And I just don't buy any of those arguments as a defense for bad behavior.
If given the choice people will usually pick the field they find interesting. If however you live in an impoverished country where getting a job in a STEM field could be the ticket out, you are way more likely to consider picking those fields. My (original) country is rather poor for example, but the education is free and a lot of people in college that were studying with me picked EE & CS just because it could give them a good paying job, they didn't care about the field nor did they in most cases enjoy it all that much, those who didn't change their mindset usually didn't graduate or it took them more because they were forcing themselves, anyhow in those living conditions the male to female ratio in STEM fields was always close to 1 : 1. But that might not be the case were OP lives, because in a rich country people get to choose with far less pressure and in the end it still holds true that most girls just don't find those fields to be interesting.
By “withdrawal of all permits” does this mean for new helipads? Or were all on-building helipads in NYC prohibited to operate going forward?
No, it is not difficult at all, and it wasn't 10 years ago: kalahari.net was launched in the late 90's or early 00's. The steps are no different from anywhere in the world - find an e-commerce site you like (there are dozens that sell computer equipment), add computer to cart, pay with credit card, enter shipping address.
I think what's really missing from the discussion is the simple fact that if creative jobs (artist, writer) or less technical jobs paid as well as Soft Eng jobs then we wouldn't be having this discussion. Alternatively, we wouldn't be having this discussion if our society did not largely judge a man's success in life by his wealth (and the things money can buy, like a nice car).

I guess what I'm saying is that, if I had the choice, I would rather be a sculptor making the same salary as a Senior Soft Eng than an engineer at a large company. Too bad our society isn't set up like that, eh?
Equal lanes is impossible to accomplish, the're just too many variables.

What makes more sense is focusing on the best possible path forward for everybody, or creating the opportunity for the racer to be as fast as he can be, independent of the speed of other racers.
This is one of the reason of the obesity epidemic. Our body loves sugar which was very hard to come by, but which now is cheap and abundant.

Also keep in mind that up to 200 years ago average life span was ~35, so cancer didn't really had time to develop.
Basically remove bacon, chorizo etc. from your life. Heavier meats I tend to avoid, but my girlfriend loves the first two. Read her excerpts of the articles last night and it made for an awkward bedtime. It's not that I seek these types of warnings, but given how often she uses bacon in meals it was a must to share..
I agree with everything in your comment.

Regarding necessity I think it should not be interpreted too strictly. Rather, I believe it means something like this in EU law:

“Necessity implies the need for a combined, fact-based assessment of the effectiveness of the measure for the objective pursued and of whether it is less intrusive compared to other options for achieving the same goal.”

(Quote from: https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/17-06-01_... )
Compared to what? Useless to compare anything without numbers.
On this topic, highly recommended if you or someone you care about is close to death:

"Final Journeys" by Maggie Callanan

Also, The Grief Recovery Handbook, by John W James and Russell Friedman
I would say it's relevant - not only is reducing consumption of bacon and meats good for your personal health, it's good for our climate and overall environmental health. Raising pigs industrially is a huge environmental problem that affects a lot of people, especially in the American south.
Exactly. My fiancé bought a board game from Amazon. Some of the die cuts for stuff weren’t quite lined up with the graphics. We contacted the creator and their answer was that it was counterfeit.

We left a bad review of the seller. I challenge you to find that - and even better - who’s to say it was that seller or another bad actor that polluted the stock?
You, as the author, should mention that stores such as Whole Foods Market have sold bacon and other meats for years without nitrates or nitrites.

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/why-our-bacon-better

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/i-love-baco...
DataTables seemed awesome until I discovered DevExpress DataGrid and the rest of their widgets.
You can do better if you cut a deal with the people you are buying the tickets through to split the commission, it can be an extra few % on your turnover.

As alluded to early in the article, he was selling 300k in tickets per year, making 20k profit, which is around 6% commission or so.

So when you plan on buying a lot of tickets, choose one agent, and tell them their total paid commission is about to get a significant boost because of you, and you should split it.

If you find a lottery that looks to be an over that is.
>According to the best available evidence, eating 50g per day of processed meat increases the relative risk of developing colorectal cancer by 18%. Given the prevalence and prognosis of colorectal cancer, this equates to about one premature death per 200 people as a result of eating processed meat.

That is a huge number.
New algorithm can create movies from just a few snippets of text
Alternately, it exposes the creator of Elm as someone who should have thought harder about naming, and not chosen the name of a very well known piece of software that predates theirs by a few decades.
On a side note IBM has a similar process for parenting things. We’ll obviously cover content that goes into a product, but we also allow more hypothetical ideas assuming they Pass a series of tests for value originality and some other points.
Summary: Researchers collaborated with epilepsy patients, who already had electrodes implanted in their brain to monitor seizures, to improve the patients' memory. The electrodes are capable of both reading brain patterns, and stimulating brain activity. ML algorithms learned what each patient's brain pattern looked like when they successfully memorized a word. The ML algorithms would then provide a jolt to mirror those successful-memorization-brain-patterns for words that the patient would historically not have memorized.
> Aircraft tend to mostly hit empty fields and mountains because that's what most of the US is covered with.

Also because the route takes them that way. People are going to be doing short commute runs in these flying taxis (airport to city, house to work, etc). That's not over lots and lots of nothing in the general case.
Personally what I worry about is that there are too many conflicting, adaptive, self-correcting systems that we don't understand from first principles.

The body has it's own internal "AI" that also responds and adapts to these incoming pulses over time. You could probably snort some speed and get the same effect described here ... but if you keep doing it, it won't keep working. Now replace the Speed with AI that generates the pulses and can adapt the dosage in response to the bodies AI... we just don't know what it would do long-term.

The real problem IMO is that the AI prescribing the dosage doesn't have any of the sensory inputs the human brain does. So it might boost working memory in a way that is maladaptive to the situation.

All in all -- I think these technologies could be quite interesting for allowing us to hyper-evolve out of our mental limitations that are still over-fitted to living in the jungle... but might make us weak as a species in the long run by forcing us to have sensory stimulations that are overfitted to a particular prescribed state that we label as "good".
> Don't the studies show that, by and large, no it isn't?

No, the studies are very clear. They were widely misreported.

There are two things: how good the evidence is, and how strong the effect is.

The evidence that processed red meat causes cancer is now as strong as the evidence that smoking causes cancer. We know that both do cause cancer.

But processed red meat doesn't cause much cancer. Smoking causes a lot of cancer.
They will be fully automated and regulated.
So interestingly - I’m an amazon shopper who’s unhappy occasionally. Where to I flee to? I want to buy a new cutting board. Where do I go? AliExpress? Walmart?
I looked over the images in DPReview's sample gallery [0] and I'm astounded by the noise performance. I'd consider printing an image taken at ISO 3200 or maybe even 6400 with that camera. For context, I don't think I would print an image above ISO 800 from my current camera (Canon 7D).

[0] https://www.dpreview.com/samples/9120111657/sony-a7-iii-samp...
The one I was thinking of was for WSJ. fullwsj.com. Used like for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14511605
Author here.

Application instrumentation - whether via Prometheus, StatsD, Scout, New Relic - solves a very different problem than this. The server timing metrics here are actually extracted from an APM tool (Scout), so you get the best of both worlds.

With those tools, you do not get immediate feedback on the timing breakdown of a web request. At worst, the metrics are heavily aggregated. At best, you'll need to wait a couple of minutes for a trace.

Profiling tools that give immediate feedback on server-side production performance have their place, just like those that collect and aggregate metrics over time.
Mentioning “on Cheddar” in the title seems very much promotional. Could we get a title change on this post?
>That way holding cash is better than buying a government bond but you're still loosing purchasing power holding cash, so why not spending it?

You want all retirees to spend all their money at once? What if they planned to live for another while?

Safely carrying value into the future is a service that can sometimes cost you. There is nothing unnatural about negative returns. If cash has zero returns when when market rates on private safe investment is negative, savers start accumulating pieces of paper or electrons in accounts instead of things that have real world value and create economic activity. This puts the real investment market into a gridlock and production drops.

>Imagine you make an investment every year which produces the revenue for the year after.

Yes and it always helps you when the prices are higher when you sell than when you buy.
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While I agree with everything you said, there are companies like Moment that are doing some very interesting things with add-on lenses for smartphones. I've been having a LOT of fun with their macro and wide-rectilinear lenses on my iPhone X. Their 60mm tele is nice too when you add it to the iPhone's tele lens, giving you 4x optical zoom. It won't replace my 5Dmark4 any time soon, but you can get some really nice photos.
Aren't your posts in this thread just saying "I don't want to change my lifestyle despite the evidence?"

That's the human default. People never want to change their lifestyle. Just like how most people don't exercise and are overweight.

It's just not really something to celebrate.
Is there seriously some new cold war going on?

I read in other media how some new American weapons can fight certain Russian tanks etc, and now I read about Putin bragging about his new weapons.

My prediction for the post-Sovjet area was that the US and Russia would just leave each other in peace.
In 1977 NYC has suspended all helicopter traffic in the city after the crash and only allowed new heliports along the river:

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/may-16-1977-he...
The fact that feelings are subjective doesn’t mean that you can’t draw objective conclusions about things that affect peoples’ feelings.

For example, kids who feel ostracized won’t do well in school. By your definition, we could have schools where, say, left handed people are systematically ostracized, but those kids would still have equality of opportunity.

You’re just arbitrarily defining “equality” based on the degree of equal treatment that you think society should have to provide to people. But your definition defies “equality” as a mathematical concept.
They are not years away, they are only a few innovations away, mostly related to battery performance and more compact powerful engines. Then of course, regulation.
Are you talking about the graphic? I would guess they imposed some order on it, but I also sort of expect that the sort of thing you talk about doesn't happen all that frequently in different branches of a family tree.
> Fifteen minutes to see a free doctor!
It's not free, the money to pay the hospital bills comes from
taxation
There is an agent added to pork meat to make it look pink. The pink making substance is called natrium nitrate E250 look for it the next time you shop meat in the super market. Natrium nitrate has a skull symbol marking it as a poisonous substance on Wikipedia. Food industry labels natrium nitrate not as a make pork look pink but as a preservative.

To avoid natrium nitrate you can by some ecological food.

The German version of Wikipedia has a skull symbol marking it as posinous on natrium nitrate
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natriumnitrit
There is, of course, the web interface.
I guess you could argue on the ethics due to the fact that these "smart" players are never contributing to the jackpot, and only playing when the payout is higher than the probability (an over), but you need the mugs in order to fill the pool.

If the world was filled with smart gamblers, no one would bet because nothing would be an overlay.

Its like when I see a horse racing win pool go up from $0, to $2. Someone has had a bet. Whats the most they could possibly gain by that bet (given the current pool)? Its about $1.70, so why bet in the first place? I don't know. Maybe they liked the colour of the horse.
> equality of opportunity is already present

is it? You don't provide any argument to back this up. Legally maybe there are equal opportunities but is does society provide them? And if not should we do something to fix that?

Equality of outcome is a proxy for opportunity so if outcomes are radically unequal, surely that means something needs changing to make opportunities more equal?

Of course it may not always be a precise proxy, but its a lot easier to measure and at least gives a clue that something is up.
Dumb question but I recently was looking at Elm and ReasonML (by Facebook) and don't really know the difference... they seem to try to achieve the same thing no?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but not allowing flash was before the app store was even an idea.
I was thinking of that exact use case — could this be a modern alternative that might get even wider distribution due to lower barriers to entry?
The short story of how this works.

- Take an arbitrary article as an example: https://medium.com/popular-science/twitter-is-killing-its-te...

- Extract the article id 58d900b2ac8.

- Hit the url medium.com/p/58d900b2ac8/notes which returns a JSON-ish object.

- Find the webCanonicalUrl. In our case it looks like "webCanonicalUrl":"https://www.popsci.com/twitter-mac-app-dead-applications-rep...

- Go to that instead.

Neat trick.

Edit: Medium appears to have caused webCanonicalURL to always be empty in response to this.
I have an aunt that’s two weeks younger than I. Another aunt from that same mother is only six or seven years older than I. The fact that my Mom got started young with me is a contributing factor.