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Developers in open source companies do have finite budgets, do have deadlines and have some pressure to innovate.

And yes, they do often work for upstream projects as part of their jobs, pushing for changes they need for their deadlines.

Most of open source work is done by companies. And yes, a lot of them with remote workers.

Though I agree, I don't expect an iPhone to be made remotely though, hardware is complicated.
I don't think that's a misunderstanding at all. The argument is all about control flow and programmer understanding. The actual underlying mechanisms aren't what he is arguing against, instead he dislikes the potential for programmer confusion when code is being executed that wasn't expected. That is 100% possible with goroutines.

Method calls aren't really branching. The code path is still totally linear. You could basically copy paste the code in the method definition in place of its call and get the same outcome (not literally but you know what I mean). For goroutines this is not the case.

I think your points about state ownership are right on, but that's kind of the author's whole point. Right now, there are a lot of things you have to be very conscious of to write good code that executes cleanly using goroutines/threads/etc. That is very much the same as writing good code with gotos. It's 100%, unequivocally possible to write good code using gotos (every control flow structure dijkstra proposed can be represented with them), it just requires a lot of added thought, and the potential for mistakes is much higher.

The author is not proposing any functionality that doesn't already exist, just a new control pattern to reduce the chance of creating problems.
Thanks for the addendum. It's prescribed for ADHD off-label more frequently than most people realize, and I've been prescribed strattera, concerta, and adderall before settling on armodafinil.
Just checking but you know a midwife isn't a doctor, right?
In practice that's not really how it works any more. Most "insurance" companies don't provide much actual insurance. Instead they act as third-party administrators for self-insured employers and other group buyers. Those customers are very price sensitive, so insurers have a lot of incentive to drive down provider prices in order to maintain market share.

What's increasingly breaking the free market is provider consolidation. In many areas most of the small medical practices have been bought up by larger organizations. So those large providers control so much of the market that insurers have to pay whatever they charge. For example, in Northern California if an insurer (other than Kaiser Permanente) doesn't have Sutter Health in their network then their plans aren't viable.
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Indeed. My issue with not being able to trust them to install what I tell them to install aside: If MariaDB had actually "just worked", I probably wouldn't have even noticed.
Movies have sequels - the Fast and Furious franchise is built on the same audience-character relationship development that you attribute to shows. And there are one-off long-form shows that are very unlikely to have sequels (such as Godless) which are more like 10 hour movies.
Rather die.
For me it’s jobs. I move to a cheaper place for a while, and it was great, until I couldn’t find a job in my industry. Then it was really bad.
> see: the divorce rates around the world

That could just as well be evidence for formal marriage not being easily sustainable.

A formal marriage comes with its own pros and cons compared to other relationship types, as such I don't think you can use divorce numbers as evidence for intimate relationships being difficult in general.

The rise in divorce rates and the decrease in marriages could just as well be interpreted as formal marriage being perceived as too difficult of a relationship type to sustain, so people are increasingly opting for alternative types instead.
Yes. I traded equity options. The methodology can be summarized as sentiment analysis and "alternative" data gathering.

My algorithm earned about 127% on an initial outlay of $30,000 from August of 2016 to the beginning of January 2018. The algorithm only deployed 5% of available capital (defined risk exposure) at any time and targeted an aggregate win rate of 60% or greater. Its primary imperative was volatility prediction to sell options on equities with overrated volatility. Selling options is a good foundation for a strategy because you can easily make steady returns over time. But one loss can eliminate a year of profit (or your entire outlay); hence the volatility prediction is required to establish a probabilistic win rate above 50%. The goal is to profit on many small positions consistently, not to profit on fewer large positions. Risk is defined to limit total exposure for each trade. There are explicit stop loss and stop profit triggers, and leaving an indeterminate amount of profit "on the table" (selling a position early) is preferable to risking any amount of loss.

Volatility prediction happens in two stages. Stage one is this: first the algorithm seeks all equities with only one or two sources of revenue and a market cap above $1B. Next it crawls news and social media to assess the amount of "hype" attention the equity is receiving. Then it ranks this list according to the amount of hype, weighting social media (uninformed hype) and source of news (informed hype) differently, in ascending order. Lower hype is considered better (and to clarify this point: hype is considered a volatility indicator whether negative or positive). This task is executed daily.

Stage two is alternative data gathering. For each equity going down the list, common sources of financial data are crawled (analyst earnings consensus, prior 10Qs and 10Ks, etc). I receive a notification with a list of which companies are "candidates" for trading, and look into them to identify sources of alternative data. This data is mostly found through web crawling to track signals with a 1:1 indication to a given equity's revenue. Once I have automated the method of collecting the data, it gets incubated for timeseries analysis for at least two quarters. If it forecasts revenue correctly to within 95% accuracy, the equity is formally whitelisted for trading eligibility to the algorithm.

Finally the algorithm begins selling options on each whitelisted equity. On a daily basis a volatility forecast is made for the equity based on weighted social sentiment and the corresponding alternative data timeseries. When the volatility prediction reaches a certain threshold, the algorithm ceases selling options on that equity.
Sure, that's why you move from one place with a decent job market to another with a decent job market.

But people an aggregate move towards places that offer economic opportunity and away from those that don't -- hence the waves of migration from rural to urban areas and away from dying cities like Detroit.

The only people (not quite that absolute, but close enough) who move from a place with plentiful opportunity to one without opportunity are those who a) have no choice (or feel they have no choice) -- be it due to being priced out or having to take care of an aging parent; or b) aren't subject to such economic pressures (work remotely or are financially independent).
I have no problem with looking for good ideas from other countries. I just want to use realistic figures and study what the second and third order effects would be.

The main point to my arguments is that cheap money makes things expensive. Meaning is the government or somebody else subsides healthcare it will get more expensive. Because why not. Hospitals are trying to compete with other hospitals so they want the biggest budgets for paying the best doctors and newest equipment and technology. So why not charge just a little more then you need to get that. Then the next year comes around and the hospitals need more money so they charge just a little be more this year and it goes on and on.

You could probably start to fix things by making everyone publish their prices and charging the same price for cash as they would to insurance. From there things would start to unwind.
New numbers illustrate how fast fundraising has changed for young startups
The RFC is in its final comment period: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2394#issuecomment-383...

Very excited!
Ok then, I'll let them know they have to return the 4 Billion dollars from the Fast and the Furious frachise because no one cares about racing in the States anymore. Furthermore, since your contention certainly implies Americans have no interest in going fast, I will notify all the car and motorcycle manufacturers to stop producing blindingly quick models for sale here... no one cares.

Plus we're gonna save a fortune on speed enforcement on the roadways. I'm happy about that.

Oh man, and that's right--we better close all the indoor karting tracks, and my buddies who run succesful Racing Schools here should probably also look for another job.

Wait... will this also affect GTA related online gaming? Sure it will. IRacing too I bet. Shoot!

Oh well... it was fun while it lasted.
I don't agree on this count either. You can have performance and maintainability by writing your business logic in a daemon. Only very few applications will find this IPC cost unacceptable, and WASM promises to raise the performance ceiling even further. There are lots of good arguments for native software, but I don't find the performance argument to be particularly compelling.
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>The vast majority of Linux kernel contributors work for companies who pay them to work on the Linux kernel.

Sorry for not being clear, the context was "building" a product. E.g. rewind the clock to 1991 when Linux Torvalds and volunteers and hobbyists are "working remotely" via USENET and exchanging emails. The Linux kernel they iterated on is an astounding achievement but that collaborative process is a totally different dynamic than a business that has to spend real money and get a product out.
This is a step in the right direction. I hope they push all medical services and drugs to publilsh their prices. This way, customers can have the option to pay cash or go through insurance.
His note on resource cleanup doesn't really make sense -- or, rather, it only makes sense if you're using python's solutions for it. What about something like, say, c++ where you have a smart pointer that keeps track of the number of references to it, to store your file pointer? Then when you pass that to your concurrent function, it won't get cleaned up, until that other thread finishes, then that reference to it will be lost and it'll clean itself up.
That’s the one kind-of solid reason (albeit one which implies bad planning and/or inflexibility on someone’s part). But if so, you’d damned well better be giving anyone doing desk work flexible options for working remotely.
I imagine the second attack may be mitigated by the fact that the publisher might be easier to hide than with direct access. E.g., if your dead man's switch were just some daemon running on a machine somewhere that you have to ping periodically, attackers could find the IP address of the daemon by watching your network traffic.

In the OP, you and the daemon (aka the trusted publisher) communicate exclusively via the blockchain, so it will be a lot more difficult to find the daemon's location.

Not sure if this is in any way better than just accessing the daemon through Tor though.
I wonder what happens if you're in the wild and you've used up all of your plan messages for the month?
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It would never happen. But if it did prices would stop going up at least.
What’s their political goal?
Suicide bombers are distressed indeed they are conditioned in a very methodical way to do what they do which is why they are almost never a “lone wolf” type of an attacker.

They are groomed then are run through a regime of psychological reconditioning until they can blow themselves up.

Arguably they are a victim while their puppet masters are the true terrorists.
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I tried that thing were you refuse Microsoft's license on a new PC once (I don't think it's still doable). I followed the procedure on the manufacturer's website and sent them the license sticker that was attached to the computer. The refund for Windows Vista Home Basic was 15€ (retail value of a disk was between 45€ and 75€, I can't remember). So I guess that's the kind of pricing we're talking about here.
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Looking through the price history and proposals for this well-known skyscraper[1] it looks like it varies. You can get one for ~$1B but there are also $12B proposals for new skyscrapers at that site. WeWorks are usually at premium locations, so that probably drives their rents up a lot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_Fifth_Avenue#Ownership_and...
Well being an Okie, I had plenty of cars already.

I put less than 1k miles on my truck in the 3 or so years I lived in the area. I really enjoyed the hometown feel of Pacifica, the people were super nice too. And we used to go hiking almost every weekend up at San Pedro Park.

Plus, best Taco Bell in the world! ;-)
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Will hospitals decide to just not take medicare any longer?
It looks like the courses use cognitive toolkit aka CNTK for deep learning. This is sort of the equivalent of watching a class from Google where they use tensorflow or fb where they use pytorch.
From MySQL's documentation:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-parameters.ht...

> Caution: Many operating systems and some disk hardware fool the flush-to-disk operation. They may tell mysqld that the flush has taken place, even though it has not. In this case, the durability of transactions is not guaranteed even with the setting 1, and in the worst case, a power outage can corrupt InnoDB data. Using a battery-backed disk cache in the SCSI disk controller or in the disk itself speeds up file flushes, and makes the operation safer. You can also try to disable the caching of disk writes in hardware caches.
With a realistic enough VR and feedback environment I would take it if they could keep the essence that is me alive and able to interact with reality.
Taking notes in a digital lab notebook (i.e. text file) while I'm thinking has sped up the re-inflation period significantly from ~1/2 hour to ~1-5 minutes.

I can highly recommend it for folks in very noisy/distracting environments. It also points out how much you struggle to stay focused if you are not continually writing in your notebook.
I feel like this is a little different, though. Social dynamics in the West are shifting. In the past, men had a fairly good understanding of how to approach and date women, but nowadays, its not so cut and dry.

I'm not arguing that we need to regress to the 1950s, part of this transition is getting rid of the awful treatment of women, but the rapid social change is leaving some people out in the cold.

There is a lesser movement that might be under the umbrella of Incel called MGTOW (Men going their own way). It rejects matrimony, seeing it as wholly beneficial to women, and pushes men to create independence from women.

These movements are a response by men who are lost in the murky waters of social change. On the one hand, MGTOW is saying "fuck it, we don't want to deal with you", whereas Incels are saying "fuck you, deal with me".
I'm not sure if AMD properly supports invariant TSC. See this post from Agner Fog with regards to the Zen cores:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=838

> The varying clock frequency was a big problem for my performance tests because it was impossible to get precise and reproducible measurements of computation times. It helps to warm up the processor with a long sequence of dummy calculations, but the clock counts were still somewhat inaccurate. The Time Stamp Counter (TSC), which is used for measuring the execution time of small pieces of code, is counting at the nominal frequency. The Ryzen processor has another counter called Actual Performance Frequency Clock Counter (APERF) which is similar to the Core Clock Counter in Intel processors. Unfortunately, the APERF counter can only be read in kernel mode, unlike the TSC which is accessible to the test program running in user mode. I had to calculate the actual clock counts in the following way: The TSC and APERF counters are both read in a device driver immediately before and after a run of the test sequence. The ratio between the TSC count and the APERF count obtained in this way is then used as a correction factor which is applied to all TSC counts obtained during the running of the test sequence. This method is awkward, but the results appear to be quite precise, except in the cases where the frequency is varying considerably during the test sequence. My test program is available at www.agner.org/optimize/#testp

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EDIT: Odd. AMD Documentation of 17h (aka Zen) suggests that the TSC is invariant: https://support.amd.com/TechDocs/54945_PPR_Family_17h_Models...

See bottom of page 82.

I can't say I've run tests as thoroughly as Agner Fog has done however, or even have access to Zen cores.
Of course there's a bill being handed out someplace, since hospitals pay medics in money not booze. Yes. The insurance operator (public or private) gets the bill.

It may not look like much to those of us who hang out on HN, but if you have a normal job, serving drinks or selling stuff in a brick and mortar shop or whatever, there's a world of difference in details like who gets the bill, what you need in order to get insurance and so on.
That's extremely untrue. Especially if we are counting non-retail investors i.e. prop market maker trading
If there's some social good the government is pursuing it should, as much as possible, be done through taxation and spending rather than rules that the government hopes will accomplish the same thing in a way where they hope voters don't notice the indirect costs.
Google uses its search skills to help fight opioid addiction
On the other, I see a lot of potential for reducing our current problems by providing more support for developing portable, flexible income via the internet.

The problem is any online business involves competing with everyone on the Internet. Maybe the skills of fluent-in-American-English or leadership or persuasion or math or programming allow a few to make a decent income selling that unique thing. But any skill that can be mastered is going to have a flood of people learning it from all around world, reducing it's price online.
Haproxy, Nginx, kubernetes all implement layer 4 & layer 7 load balancing.

If you are aspiring to writing cloud native applications, there is not very compelling reasons to run reverse proxies in my opinion. If its possible to offload that responsibility to the cloud platform vs running your own infrastructure, that is highly desirable for some people.
I'm not sure how China expects this to end well..
We are seeing a number of market enthusiast coming up with trading strategies that work. Most don't have the staying power to get them to work enought to trade. Some do. Those that have the staying power often lack the financial resources to trade those algos for themselves. Problems = Capital, Access, Data, ...

To overcome that some are turning to CloudQuant (where I work). The CloudQuant algo development environment, backtesting tool, and trading strategy incubator is making it easy for people to take their trading ideas to funded trading rapidly. So far they have announced $72M in risk capital allocated to algorirthms created by individuals. Algos are licensed from the creator.

https://info.cloudquant.com/
Exchanges came into existence so Bitcoin could have value. Otherwise it's not worth anything more than an expired poker chip.
Quote from GMail project lead:

In a slight shift from how Inbox was characterized at launch, Bank says it now amounts to an experimental test bed for future Gmail features. “Inbox is the next-gen, early adopter version, whereas Gmail is the flagship that will eventually get the best new features,” according to Bank.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17277360/gmail-redesign-l...
I'm remote, and have largely fixed the Slack issue by keeping it silent on my desktop - no notifications. I have a very small set of filters for notification on my iPad, like if someone mentions me by name or certain people DM me. Otherwise, I tab over to Slack when I'm waiting for something else.
Perhaps, based on the article, a better title could be "researchers keep large fraction of brain cells alive in pig brain..."

I hope they did some fMRI studies of the brains. Wonder if they just got some random noise (i.e., brain cells firing asynchronously) or if there was some discernable pattern.

And if there is a pattern, then.. wow! But also, little creepy..

As an aside, I respect that the authors on the paper refused to comment on it till the paper gets reviewed / published.
Oh gosh, the scrollbars. The scrollbars are more of a disaster than before. I was trying to figure out Gmail for someone with macular degeneration who doesn't want to deal with screen readers or Mutt. Instead she stubbornly uses a magnifier and bumps the font size. It was impossible because Gmail's sidebar ends up taking over the entire screen, the messages pane gets squished into oblivion, and there's no horizontal scrolling. Indeed, there is still no horizontal scrolling for the messages pane, and there are even more things in the way of it.

(Incidentally, I tried setting up a screen reader as an ambient helper to wean her onto the idea, but Gmail's HTML client, which is the only thing that doesn't fall to pieces here, works terribly for screen readers).

This really should be basic stuff for a frontend web developer: the main scrollbar (the one attached to your root html element) should control the scroll position of your main content. No excuses, you lazy gits, we have `position: sticky` now. Inbox has this figured out, and that's probably one of the reasons I like it.
Be careful. I did this exact thing with my first child, but they billed my insurance company for the 35% they discounted, anyway. After something like 50 phone calls and hours and hours on the phone with people who said they would "take care of it", I finally got taken to collections and ended up paying it to avoid damaging my credit.