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For the longest time it's been a truism that developer time is a lot more expensive than CPU time, which leads to things like the proliferation of Electron.

I get why it's done, but part of me wishes that CPU growth would stall off for a bit so the software industry would have no choice but to treat optimization as a selling point again.
>I believe casinos pose a risk of not only spending money, but also exposure to much more harmful activities (drugs, prostitution, violence)

Yeah, as a kid it was always very annoying how everything but gambling was easily accessible.

Nobody would card me when going to a bar, brothel or when buying drugs... But entering a casino? heh
I don't think that the issue lies there.

Look at the likes of Eclipse, not using Electron and way slower, while offering a marginal increase in functionality compared to a customized VS Code with plugins. Also, would you spend 5 hours each day in front of a Winforms or Awt based usually ugly-ass editor?

The only negative side of going with Electron in the VS Code case is the size increment that comes from bundling the chrome engine.
EV's are a waste of time. Sites should focus on HSTS, DNSSEC and a CAA record and all the other things that make a difference and actually provide some material benefit and some protection to the end user rather than a green traffic light approach to security.
It was a powerhouse before. From my memory the mood in the West got worse. There were tax raises and a lot of uncertainty when it became clear that it wasn't as easy as initially planned to get the East going economically. There was a substantial number of people on both sides who wanted the wall back.

I am not saying the reunification wasn't worth it but it was much more difficult than people may think.
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Slightly unrelated, but to those who have never tried Lisp because of the parenthesis (like me until recently), here's my take:

I've recently started hacking with Elisp, and I really like it. Parenthesis are obviously pretty awkward at first. But now I wouldn't leave them for anything else. As it turns out, the brackets make it easy for your editor to understand the semantics of your code, to a whole new level. So your editor is now actively helping you navigate and edit your code. You go from expressions to expressions, add one after an other, transpose them and their parameters, absorb other expressions, insert them etc. It's true magic. I thinks that's why some don't like the fact that CL-loop is not "lispy" enough: you lose your editor's help inside a CL loop.

So the parents are actually really cool: you can basically tell your editor to move code around and insert / delete it instead of doing it yourself. With these tools (smart parents and paredit on emacs), your parenthesis are always matched ! And because it's lisp, you're actually forced to use these tools because it's a nightmare otherwise (which makes it kinda hard to learn at first), so you actually do learn them. I haven't used smartparents with other languages, but I hear it works pretty well.

Finally, it seems that lisp dialects compile to almost anything. Which means that you can use a lisp editor and get all its benefits even when working in clojure on the JVM or clojurescript on the browser etc. And once you're good at lisp, you can pretty much make Emacs do anything.

Conclusion: Lisp Is Pretty, give it a try when you get a chance ;)

[0] https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens

EDIT: fixed some sentences so they make sense...
Just friends == polite way of ‘not interested’
I do think that the price as a cons being like 15$/month is kind of a negligible cost if you're using it every day for multiple hours.
This is a bit different - the health effects were not the intended outcome.
Seems pretty normal. Like women with shorter guys (and many other stuff on both genders etc)
Does it matter if they don't? People are entitled to opinions which may seem absurd. https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Avoiding_Tr...
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If the price is right, there are plenty of applications where dodgy RAM is good enough. Once that starts to eat the incumbent's lunch the prices will follow.
Questions like that are asked more to find out how people cope psychologically with ridiculously hard requirements.

It's more like -- how they cope with some one deliberately playing with their head.

Or if they're not deliberately playing - they're at at least acting very, very pretentiously. Believing that they know how to cook up a "test" for real-life problem-solving skills. When in reality they're just parroting some toy problem they read on the internet somewhere. Or that someone that they thought was cool gave them in an interview way back when.

Can they start picking it apart, and at least find some bits of it they can solve, or do they squirm, or whine, or rage quit?

In a completely contrived and artificial context that not only bears very little resemblance to the conditions in which developers actually do need to solve difficult real-life problems - but in many ways is in fact a grotesque distortion of those conditions.
Fair enough. I was just adding this trivia since the item stuck out of your list: all the other items may (under some jurisdictions) be illegal to possess.
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Hi

I'm a 2x Founder, serial entrepreneur and growth strategist. I founded and exited online tuxedo rental company SimpleTux before starting my second venture, Renly, an Airbnb for commercial business space, where I am currently CEO. Additionally, I've led growth at a number of startups, including alumni from such prestigious programs as Y Combinator and Techstars. My speciality is growth hacking. I'm sure I can help and would love to set aside a time for us to discuss your goals and how we can accomplish them together. See my startup resume at www.chrissheng.com

While every company's growth hack is different due to the product/service and marketing mix, the method to discovering that hack is the same. It's an incredible amount of testing, the ability to come up with a never ending source of creative content and channels, benchmarking and optimizing. It takes discipline to stay the course and set the variables. Usually a growth hacker is either really good at analytics or creative, I pride myself on being strong in both.

Look forward to connecting.

Chris Sheng
www.chrissheng.com
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The current events too were a fantasy, were they not?

I agree that Kim's preferred outcome is almost certainly to remain in control in NK. But it may not happen. If his regime falls due to internal pressures after denuclearization, why wouldn't we expect NK to join the West? Why would we expect Kim's regime to continue to survive after denuclearization?
Ireland also provides a counterpoint if you look a little further back in history. The Irish civil war didn’t end particularly cleanly and had very long lasting repercussions in modern Irish politics
I'm not sure in what way your Eclipse experience was so atavistic, but I'd like to point out that at least for several years I was aware of, Eclipse had a significant competitive advantage:

Incremental compilation.

You could make a small change, do a Ctrl-S, and Eclipse would compile the change nearly instantly, where all competing products (that I was aware of, correct me if you know better) needed to fire up a Java compiler and feed it at least all changed source files. For me, this was difference of 2 seconds versus maybe 20-30.
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The only thing you need to know about EV is this: If an attacker puts up a MITM site with a valid DV cert, your browser will be like, cool, let's use this less-verified cert instead, because a CA signed it, even though the last time I visited it was an EV cert. Your browser doesn't care, users don't care, it doesn't actually improve security.
That results in what is basically the dating schema for the last century. Men put forth the effort, and women choose the winners. If a man does not try, he does not find anything. If a woman does not try, she just gets poor suitors.
> there’s no mechanism by which ... “women” ... can even be identified

_No_ mechanism? Seriously? How about when the user is named "Jane Smith"? Or, heaven forbid, they actually use a PROFILE PICTURE with their ACTUAL FACE. Oh god the horror!

I, as a white male with a caucasian sounding name have the privilege of being able to use my actual name on the internet. Women that want to be taken seriously don't even have that choice.

Sure over time women figure out that anonymizing their gender online is a wise strategy, but how many brand new programming-enthusiasts are going to learn this when they have negative first experiences on the most popular Q&A platform for programmers? How many never return to contribute because of those negative experiences?

It's no wonder you can't go to SO and find women, they either aren't contributing or they have effectively hidden themselves among the ranks of the men.
> atavistic

I remember this word from the movie submarine.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440292/
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Agree: passing the request with the full context as parameters to the handler function seems like a more explicit approach.
I'm not sure this is actually true - but if you have sources, I would happily give them a read. It seems almost common sense that pedophiles abuse children because they want to abuse children. It gives them pleasure, so they do it - if they create a video at the same time, it's almost incidental. Unless we assume that there are people out there who wouldn't normally abuse a child, but they do it because they want to make a video and put it on the internet - then yes, demand for such videos creates supply. I find that unlikely though.
As a human, I want humans to have great lives. Part of that means taking care of your things. People like to say, "The Earth doesn't belong to us, we belong to the Earth," but I would contend we are best equipped to take care of it, and it's for our own benefit. Taking ownership of the little piece of it we interact with on the daily isn't all that daunting of a task.
If I am European and I ask Facebook to remove my data, will they also remove pictures of me which are owned by my family? I doubt it, and that's also the problem with providing consent on these DNA databases - they don't require the consent of all of your relatives.
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SQLite is a proper SQL database that can be written to file, or held in memory. Since you have access to MySQL, I'd just stick with that because it has more features.
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How do you sell virtual items in, say, Overwatch? AFAIK the item is attached to your user and there is no trading.
That's an interesting definition of "trying harder". I think the person employing that strategy would quickly find that it doesn't work as well as some other ways of trying harder. Those could include:

Inhabiting different environments. E.g. a female friend suggested I take up yoga as yoga classes tend to be more/mostly female. Within a few classes I was dating a woman I met there.

"Putting it out there" by which I mean proactively telling friends that you're interested in meeting women. This was suggested to me and my first reaction was "That's silly. Everyone knows I'm single and looking..." but in fact most people - even your friends - aren't prioritizing your dating life. If you mention it to them it sometimes can trigger a "Hey, that reminds me, I know someone who's also single...you two might be a good match."

Increasing your velocity. At the end of the day meeting someone you want to date is a numbers game. The more women you meet the more likely you are to find a match. "Trying harder" can simply be making more attempts to meet more women.

I.e. trying harder doesn't have to be creepy.
> Are you even a biologist though.

Yes.

> or else CRISPR would already be a widespread mode of therapeutic treatment

You underestimate how long it takes for anything to get from fundamental research to treatment. Not just because of risk. And CRISPR is already in extremely widespread use as a molecular biology tool.
While it may be hard to show that Java's demand has decreased - and overall it may well not have since many companies which were using Java will continue to do so just by inertia - but for the latest generation of programmers, specially ones focused on ML / Data Science, Java feels like ancient history
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Maybe the fact, that North Koreas nuclear test site has collapsed, has something to do with the progress in the negotiations:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/214...
The cost of clock regions is slower speeds between tiles and more transistors and power wasted in clock management. In the end you need need buffers and cache for cache for cache to maintain speed and locality. All this wastes transistors.
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Google now offers editable menus: https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/News-Updates/Launc...
This actually explains excellently my own averseness to working at big companies.
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Our 11 person startup had an expression of interest from quite a reputable VC and we had few months of communication regarding growth, revenues etc.

Finally the VC agreed to invest he wanted to do due-diligence by going through the customer's list rather than checking our business bank accounts. I was a bit hesitant but wanted the funding to go through, to take my mind off it and focus on the startup.

I sent the list of customers, their contact details and the revenues from each of them and the investor just vanished after that.

I know PG said that in silicon valley a verbal commitment is as good as a deal. This VC gave us verbal and email commitment and then vanished without the common courtesy of explaining why.

There has been no response to my multiple emails or phone calls. The VC is very well known and not a flyby shop.

The main issue is that the investor already has a startup in his cohort that is in the same space as us. Few months later my customers started receiving emails from this other startup.

I have no idea how to ask this VC , who has infinitely more money and power than our startup, to destroy all of our data and not use it in any way whatsoever.

I don't want the funding and I don't want to burn the bridges but I want to protect our customer data.
An interesting conundrum occurs to me as I read and processed this through my own largely failed or semi-failed start-up experiences. The issues is this that the failure in my experiences has been enterprise sales delivery. We built cool, even award winning tech. We delivered the product to market. We had CIOs say they loved it. But driving real adoption, selling and getting revenue not just accolades was the issue.

So in light of this article, much of the behavior that the author describes sounds a lot like "sales" the very thing I have found missing. And, because it sounds and feels like sales on some superficial level it is easy to imagine for the practitioner that they are just around the corner from the big win.
Eclipse Keybindings are stored per workspace. A workspace can be used to develop multiple projects.
Except the guy named Saddam was the president of a country that did NOT have WMD.

Kim is smart because he knows Trump is a Putin puppet and Putin wants to use NK to destabilize China. China and NK are protecting themselves with this peace deal.
The Wikipedia article for East/West German unification has a quote of a cost for reunification of about 10% of South Koreas GDP/year over a 20 year period. And North Korea 2018 appears to have a lot more catching up to do than Eastern Germany had in 1989.

Long-term I'm sure it would be profitable, but would South Korea dare make that investment in their current period of tremendous growth? The opportunity cost loss is massive. Would US/China help invest?
In the Guidelines link to at the bottom of this page under 'What to Submit':

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
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This script automates the task of setting up the Onion router using the raspberry π.
It is also worth noticing that the actor model, which Erlang is based upon, was first presented at a major Artificial Intelligence conference! [1] Really, the ML=AI thing is a very recent trend.

[1]C. Hewitt, P. Bishop, and R. Steiger, “A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence,” in 3rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence., San Francisco, 1973.
This is why I use two. I use Sublime for my "should always be fast" because...it's always insanely fast but then use VS Code for more code-like things.
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Posted by Ian himself. Why would he go to the trouble of mocking it up?
The scariest news I heard last year was not the North Korea nuclear testing, but the insect mass collapse by 82%. This is insane. We need to seriously reconsider the use of all insecticides, not just the bee-harming ones.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-...
IMO if you're testing for algorithm memorization you're doing it wrong. I prefer to give someone a really simple exercise and then challenge them with added complexity to see how they adjust (since this is what most real work looks like anyway).
It's turned out to be GEDmatch.com: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/26/ancestry-23andme-deny...
> That's an interesting definition of "trying harder".

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16898821

> I think the person employing that strategy would quickly find that it doesn't work as well as some other ways of trying harder.

You'd think, but in practice, not always. Aren't humans amazing?

I think if we're being prescriptive, I think working towards a culture where all parties involved do both choosing and trying. Put forth the effort to get to know people, then choose who you want to be romantically/sexually involved with among the people for whom there is even a remote mutual desire.
The danger of using CRISPR could have, in principle, been worse than it turned out to be, sure. But the fact is, CRISPR has been used to modify living organisms, and those organisms don't have any more mutations than average, and they seem to be just as healthy as unmodified organisms (unless the edit itself is deleterious).

We might find out some day that there's some behavior of DNA and DNA-binding proteins that CRISPR interferes with, but if it does exist, the effect has to be small enough that we wouldn't notice it.

edit: I should clarify, there's still work left to do to ensure CRISPR's safety. It needs to be looked at in more cell types, and work in somatic cells in adult organisms is still in its early days. My point is just that putting CRISPR into a cell, in some scenarios, doesn't cause substantial problems.
"That era is now over."

Not sure that is true (pedantically), as my son is building Minecraft modules in CodaKid, and they have him using Eclipse, I'm sure b/c it's free: https://codakid.com/. (They have great classes, FWIW/IMO, not affiliated.)

I also don't get all of the "Eclipse is super-hard to use" comments in the thread.

Look, I love LPS and think that now that we have the luxury of local cross-process wire calls and being fast enough to provide butter-smooth IDE features, that is definitely the way forward as a cleaner, less-coupled architecture.

But whenever I pop open Eclipse, it's still faster, runs tests faster, debugs faster (for Java code), than VSCode does (for TS/JS code). Perhaps its Stockholm syndrome, but as a user I really don't think it's that bad.

Where I believe it is bad, and the OP alluded to this, is on the internals/plugin side of things; it sounds like life as an Eclipse plugin developer really, really sucks (see ScalaIDE/etc. pain), and given that the pre-LPS architecture of every IDE was "in-process plugins", that, IMO, is what really "killed Eclipse"/it's momentum.

Especially with open source, where people have to enjoy what their doing to contribute, and AFAIU I don't think I've heard of anyone every enjoying Eclipse plugin development.

But, anyway, LPS to rescue: democratized IDE development, all from within the safety blanket of your preferred language.
Is not suspicious that this Blog [1] has a new entry in the front page every single day for weeks or I am just paranoid?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rachelbythebay.com
Some rebuttals:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/04/26/a-few-th...

https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/04/no-ray-ozzie-hasnt-solved...

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2018/04/ray-ozzie%E2%80%9...
I never really know how to read these betting sites, but what I see there is 4/1 for Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In.
JetBrains is great. I happily paid for that over Eclipse.
In our use case, which is developping a project using Tomcat, I've found Eclipse to run rather well and not hard to use. So YMMV
Fair enough. Yet they’ve had Katyusha style launchers pointing at Seoul for decades capable of destroying it (also assuring they get destroyed in retaliation by Am troops).

So, the threat of millions of lives has existed since the detente. The main thing changing is the willingness of Am to apply true pressure and pass that pressure on to “friends” of NK as well as engage diplomatically. NK has not suffered from not having a credible MAD option.

But it’s not a done deal. It’ll take time.

It seems in these comments people are resistant to credit Ams because that would admit the current admin’s strategy is better than the prev admin’s failed strategy and people are loath to do that for political reasons.
What, the role of firing people (including his Secretary of State) and calling the NK leader “rocket man” on Twitter? NK basically thought that Trump was off his rocker!

The only thing that could be considered Trump’s move was to agree to meet NK, something he was advised against doing and technically hasn’t done yet.
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Another example would be the discovery that the ECM (extracellular matrix) plays a huge role in cellular development. Completely unrecognized until experiments done by Mina Bissel's lab opened up an entirely new field in cellular biology.
Although the naming has a rationale (as explained in the footnote), using the name Temporal Difference Model for this method is a recipe for a lot of confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_difference_learning
I used Eclipse for 5 years starting with 3.0 and hated it from day one. I started programming in Java shortly after it first became available and loved it. Eclipse managed to suck all the fun out of using it.
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