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It’s about the ability to reason about the code. Option types force matching expressions whenever you encounter the wrapped value, forcing the developer to handle the failure case.

Equivalent C# code is to add checks for nulls all over the place, aka “defensive coding”. C# has an Option type sort of with nullable types, but they are for value types only, and developers can still reach in and just grab the value, eliminating the safety that option types provide.
It got much worse after SCOTUS invalidated portions of the VRA. States which previously needed federal approval to change voting procedures closed polling places on college campuses and drastically reduced early voting windows to make it more difficult for college students to vote. Some states (I know Texas and N.C. off the top of my head) don't allow student IDs to be used at the polls, either.

Other states targeted minorities with similar tactics. Alabama (which needed federal sign-off on changes under the VRA) passed a voter ID law then closed 30-something DMVs across the state, almost exclusively in areas with huge black populations.
Yeah one disadvantage of buses is that you really have to know the system pretty well... by the time you ask Google Maps how you should get home it might be too late.
No...but it is a little confusing.

Ok, there is a woman Lindsey Middlecamp, who has a twitter account [1], where she 'calls out' men overly concerned about womenfolk not dressing chastely enough.

Here's a fun tweet: https://twitter.com/CardsAgstHrsmt/status/986304355753185281

Ok, so this women believes that women should be able to dress as sexy as they want without fear of reproach. So far, so good. God bless Lindsey Middlecamp!

The reason she comes across as a wacko is because she seems to think male toplessness is the equivalent of female toplessness. It's not. Women will not pay money to see men topless.

Then, as alleged by Mr. Fredin, she launched an anonymous attack against Mr. Fredin, falsely accusing him of rape.

Mr. Fredin, a bit piqued, responded by unmasking his anonymous harasser, Ms Middlecamp, and gave her a little payback.

Ms Middlecamp went to court and got the court to grant her an order, preventing Mr. Fredin from letting anyone know that Lindsey Middlecamp is the person behind @CardsAgstHrsmt.

That last part is the constitutionally-suspect part.

[1] https://twitter.com/CardsAgstHrsmt
That won't happen until Politicians start considering under 40s. People vote for those whom reflect their political interests.
I appreciate you engaging on this in such an honest fashion. I meant that to be a bit tongue-in-cheek and was evoking Bill Burr perhaps a bit too much. TBH though, I was very tired and too hostile with my post.

In my defense though, this whole conversation feels like a time loop on HN every time it comes up. It's not hard to predict/categorize the arguments and arguers at this point, as a generalization.

You have a vocal group of progressive enhancement cargo-culters who are a decade out of time; the very real motivators for the formation of the dogma missing for years. For them, progressive enhancement is "the way it should be". Then you have a group that know the ship has sailed shouting down anyone who won't join the new world order, regardless of whether they have significant value/cost reasons. Both sides talk at each other.

On the fringes there are the hypermilers and the data analysts. There is a small contingent of the equiv to hypermilers; they know it's rather inconsequential, with no notions confusable with ideology, but it's more of a game or hobby to them. The data analysts actually talk about the numbers of people still blocking javascript and whether it's worth the effort in 2018 for the average site.

At this point it's more a social study than an insight into the cost/benefit.
looks like reinforcement learning people have been missing out on the last 70 years of cognitive psychology. Stimulus-response theories of classical conditioning have been a subject of controversy since at least the 50s[1], these are very poor cognitive models

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism#Criticisms_and_lim...
Man, I don't know you and just from reading your two replies in this thread I feel like you'd be an awesome dude.
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Expanding on this a bit, see the idea of an 'Efficiency wage' (above market-clearing salary):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_wage
Couldn't agree more. The fact that there are options out there means that there are more ways for these things to hopefully "click".
The way this article scrolljacks on mobile makes it unreadable.
I like my car. A lot. Stereo is great, seats are comfortable, goes where I want it to go when I want it to. Sure it's expensive, I have 220$ monthly parking bill (Pittsburgh, I know it's worse elsewhere), insurance, traffic, whatever--in a way I think my car is like a child's safety blanket. I just don't feel right without it handy.
The devil's in the details. There isn't really such a thing as popular will - there are a lot of people who all want different things and who can change their minds. What can happen in practice is you have a referendum like the brexit one where there is a lot of misinformation and the vote goes 48-52 one way or the and then the more fascist tabloids go on that the result is the will of the people and anyone who questions it is an enemy of the people etc. Much of the language originates with Hitler and Stalin who used that stuff in worse ways.
> I want an Airflow that runs and scales in the cloud, has extensive observability (monitoring, tracing), has a full API, and maybe some clear way to test workflows.

I am an Engineer over at Astronomer.io and we are working on making Airflow the best piece of software it can be. We offer both Enterprise and Cloud editions. We are solving exactly the problems you describe above.

Take a look and feel free to reach out if you have any questions or feedback.
It's got a home run but I hope the researchers continue to refine the work. 30% faradic efficiency, even with the material degradation, shows a lot of promise.

It seems like they were using a low intensity light source which could explain the reduced output per cm². I didn't read any specifics about light source or intensity in the original publication.

At 30%, and the fact the output can be stored directly in that form (as hydrogen and oxygen) and used in a fuel cell later when power output is required seems promising.
I think if you believe the US is sanctioning Iran because of their gay rights record then that would be pretty naive. It's all about power and politics. We didn't depose their democratically elected leaders for their benefit, that's for sure.
While I think it's great you have the option, it doesn't strike me as the best choice.
As released by the the Department of Commerce, ZTE has a document detailing:

1. how they evaded the sanction against Iran (destroying documents, re-export through a third country, deliberately removing logos from cargos, etc)

2. rewarding, rather than disciplining, staff involved in the evasion of sanction, an outright violation of the agreement they signed with Doc for a probationary punishment instead of a full-blown one

3. the resumption of sanction-evasive behaviors, while fully aware they are under active investigation

Did I mention ZTE had prepared another document detailing exactly how their competitor Huiwei does the same?
You can't just cut out parts of the workforce that you don't want to include in your data.
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Part of home values dropping is also their culture of preferring new constructions over old buildings. But then again I think objectively, all things being equal, everyone prefers a new house, but Americans are more tolerant of old buildings.
This makes sense if people living in the house are the owners, but it's completely opposite for rentals. The owner may be keen to invest in lower future bills. But if they're just renting, why would they care? The bills don't come to them and they still get the same in rent.

It could work for rentals if there was enough empty places that people could be picky about the energy efficiency of the houses they rent, but that's likely not the current situation.
Are you implying that science and engineering are problematic for women? ಠ_ಠ
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Not trying to discount your experience here but are those the actual numbers?

My intuition is that the effectiveness of algorithmic advertising is largely over-stated. I'd really like to see a controlled test of FB ad ROI vs traditional ad ROI.
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Unfortunately overfishing is super common. Tragedy of the commons and all that.

Quota systems and overfishing aren't mutually exclusive either. There's plenty of fisheries quotas that are still higher than a sustainable quota should be.
Don't worry, it's very weird in Japan too.
> but Trump administration are making them very difficult to work in the US

Is there any evidence this is true yet? I thought they were only going after 'chain migration' which has nothing to do with skilled workers? Or do you mean the rumblings about cracking down on those H1b mill companies gaming the system?
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> Do people really think this kind of thing is common?

I think the use of the word "industry" is my main problem with it. An industry sounds big, like it has multiple companies and tons of customers.
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I find it weird that people keep making languages with static typing where all types can also be null instead of using an option type. Doing so nullifies a significant amount of the correctness checking static typing provides.

It makes some sense for interoperation when living inside .NET or the JVM, but this was a known problem when those systems were designed.
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In a language like C, NULL solves problems that are otherwise awkward to solve.

1. What should `malloc()` return on failure?

2. How should I indicate that I don't care about certain out parameters, e.g. the parameter to `time()`?

3. How should I initialize variables that are going to be used as out parameters, e.g. in `strtol()`?

Other languages address these at the cost of significantly complicating their type system and ABI: generics, multiple return values, etc. In a language intended to be small like C, I'm not sure how you can do better.
> Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy and other sites have put up Red Alert banners as part of a day of action to drive petitions in support of the resolution.

I get the feeling that these sites are just 'preaching to the choir' (i.e. their customers already support these things, and most likely have let their 'representative' know).

Is anyone doing anything to give the 50 senators who are against this a taste of what is to come? I recall cloudflare or someome along those lines threatenning to throttle traffic from government IPs, or maybe that just happened in my dream..
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I don't know how standard a mortgage was 30+ years ago. I do know the interest rates were higher and they weren't handed out like candy as they are now. My grandfather bought a brand new house in 1972 for $12,000, paid cash. And my parents built their first house in 1990 and paid cash as well. They moved and built several other houses all with cash as well. Is it too much to ask that I be able to pay cash for a not so great but brand new mobile home?
There's phase and frequency information in neural spike trains.
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Won’t the new residents pay way more than the old ones because of prop 13? I don’t see how there’s any way the new residents don’t end up paying more than the old ones.
That’s what South Beach in San Francisco has become... the problem is that it’s seismically unsustainable.
Yes and no. Mostly no.

The only other means of communication which might have led me down the same path on that occasion was a family message board on QuickTopic.

However, frankly, Facebook is much better, for a wide variety of reasons. The message board was never ideal, privacy was a binary choice, people regularly struggled with it, photo sharing was a joke, etc. It's not at all obvious that the short hospital stay would have been communicated there.

Email, phone? Nope, wouldn't have happened.

Has Facebook displaced other communications mechanisms? Sure. But for the most part, the alternatives were far from ideal. Facebook has won by being better.

It's just unfortunate that they aren't satisfied with being a good way of keeping in touch with friends and family.
It will definitely improve enterprise adoption. We're a G Suite shop, but I wouldn't mind giving our users another web browser to use if they want to.
Nice to see them mention the bank of North Dakota. They had similar issues with local banking needs not being met by anyone else so they started their own bank to float local banks that could and were willing to help locals and fund new local banks as well.

It also provides good rates on student loans as well.
The problem with your position is that the politicians still win if under 40 doesn’t vote, but people under 40 lose. People under 40 hurt themselves, not politicians, by not voting.

People in office already won office. Why would they be motivated to care to win people who won’t vote anyway? They clearly can get elected without them.
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While Swarm has an auto-check in feature where it tracks your location, location services isn't really required to use the app.

Since the user is actively telling Foursquare/Swarm where they are, I don't think Apple would mind.
BART is pretty good... you can get from a cheap gang infested area of Richmond to downtown SF in an hour. It’s pretty expensive though, an hours pay for the round trip.
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I think there are a lot of kids who declare English majors who took a fairly typical high school curriculum. Which is to say that they read a fairly modest number of "classic" books for school and liked reading various things on their own. They have an interest and ability to study English lit.

That's a very different level from what it takes to get into, say, Juilliard in the arts or what some seem to expect with respect to programming/CS.
I’ve been running the beta on my desktop. In this release, they have also established sane defaults for a wider range of window managers and desktop environments.

The rough edges I’ve hit can all be attributed to systemd brain damage (like the fact that the linux kernel no longer has a working, synchronous, “probe the network cards and create a logical interface for each one” primitive).

My only beef with devuan is that the beta install I have runs systemd’s elogind. It seems stable enough under devuan, but routinely broke under back when this machine was actually running systemd, and I plan to cleanse it with fire if it is still there after I update to stable 2.0.

I highly recommend devuan. Unlike Ubuntu, debian regularly rebuilds everything from source, and ~95% of their packages have reproducible builds.

For me, this, plus pre-systemd levels of stability and debuggability is a winning combination.
please cite your sources.

Here's one that contradicts this directly:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robbmandelbaum/2017/02/24/no-ob...

> Except that it doesn't seem to be true. Health insurance premiums have been rising for decades, almost (though not quite) as stubbornly reliable as an eastern sunrise. And it turns out that these increases actually slowed after the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010. That's according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which tracks a range of topics around spending on health care in its Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The survey tracks the health insurance offered by private firms big and small, and in all cases, the average rate of premium growth from the time the law passed in 2010 through 2015 was actually lower than from 2004 to 2010. And premium growth was lowest for firms with fewer than 50 employees.
Why they use "ASCII" for a distro release? This is so confusing name for people who don't know what Devuan is. I firstly thought some wierd guys created their own character encoding and claimed 2.0 version of ASCII.
You've created something useful and it will save a lot of programmers a ton of time.

I didn't find your writing insufferable. I've written tongue in cheek (or over the top) posts about my projects in the past. If they can't see the humor and the usefulness of the project, their loss.

Thank you for creating Glom and thank you for posting it on HN. Count me in as one of your users.
> You can't have a city without gas stations

Manhattan has ~1 gas station per 42,000 residents, and it seems to be doing just fine. Back of the envelop calculation puts the San Francisco ratio to ~1 gas station per 43,000 residents, so it is about on par with other dense areas of the US.
Empathy is not necessarily just for the one receiving empathy.

There is a radical view that consciousness is the fundemental unit of reality, and as such, it would not be wasted.
And how often do you think this happens--where there is an accusation with absolutely no basis in reality?

From what I have seen, it happens fairly often.

Would you really cast out all women from your professional circles because of it?

What!? Strawman much? Put words into another's mouth much? Sheesh!

Let me tell you this. I was pretty much a butthead (lowercase b) in my 20's. The older I get, the stupider 20-somethings seem, and the wiser my parents seem. Heck, I was still plenty stupid in my 30's. Younger people have a lot of good things going for them, but there are going to be overreactions and, let's say, "deficits in experience." This is entirely an equal opportunity phenomenon, too, across genders, races, orientations, religions, heights, etc. So no, no probably one gets cast out. Human beings need checks and balances, and groups of humans working together sometimes need the check and balance of experience and another's point of view.

Men talk about how aggrieved they are in this new world of transparency and accusation. This transparency has come about because many women have been subject to some really, truly awful stuff.

At a fundamental level, this isn't about men vs. women. It's about transparency, fairness, and due process. I know firsthand about how really, truly awful stuff can happen under the surface of things. I know because those things were done to me. Both in the fashion of racial bashing and sexual abuse. I could probably talk for hours about the things done to me by white males. Still you can't abandon principles just because something was so very bad. Those principles are what separates good people from the brutal vengeance of purely tribal thinking. You can't have true justice without those principles, because power corrupts and human nature will pollute what happens. "An eye for an eye, making the whole world blind."

"Listen and believe," is okay as a first step, but taken as a substitute for due process, or as an excuse to throw it away, it's morally bankrupt and it denies human nature. There are reasons why we have things like courts and the 5th amendment. It's very, very easy for people to fall into groupthink and for lives to be ruined for absolutely no reason. This is something which is cognitively difficult to understand, but which is a hard won lesson of our society. It's also something which I've seen firsthand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMQYB2Coufg

Women are human beings too. And human beings have the capacity to and sometimes lie. They have lapses in judgement. They get corrupted by power. They sometimes lack the experience or haven't processed their experiences. If "listen and believe" is the full extent of how you would treat with women, well, that's about the most dehumanizing and belittling thing toward women I've heard someone suggest today.
I think "industry" is a fine term. Lots of things that are relatively low diffusion are "industry".

Take:

Artificial limbs.

Antique fashion.

Independent supercars.

S&M goods.

Fake furniture props for selling houses.
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I hope there is a level of funding for science and education at which you'd say there's too much.
Interesting that creepiness is associated so strongly with non-normative behavior.
That’s so interesting! I see now what you mean (hi google), but my initial mental image was a rich old man with a death-grip on his riches.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't Twitter, I guess. That thread is an atrocity from top to bottom. Previously I had sort of admired Pao, in a certain way.
This terrible (imo) approach would require a huge amount of capital for people to either build or to live in a low-density community.

Today, a big factor driving up rents is the amount of money coming into "hip" areas, seeking profits proportionate to it's investment. I can't see how this scheme wouldn't simply increase the problem - while trampling people ordinary intuition concerning property.

The ideal situation imo is to have certain areas where very high density is the only use and other areas where low density is standard. Here the market would dictate an overall increase in density while relatively reducing the cost of buying land.
> The core thing React Router accomplishes can be done in ~50 lines of code including the switch statement for "routes".

This is a pretty common theme for me when considering any react-* library, and I think it says a lot about how nicely React lets you abstract away behavior.

As for Redux, I feel like the payoff has been worth it, especially when adding in the benefits of tooling and middleware. When I learned React for the second time, I did it with Redux out of the gate, and while it did take a while to ramp up, the upside was I was able to see immediately where bugs were occurring (React + Redux DevTools) and didn't have to grok the component lifecycle before getting some data on the page.
Can you say what additional processing those FGPAs in Azure are doing?
For the record I'm a huge fan of busses and highly skeptical of trains. I'm sure that there are some places in the world where the Mayor's statement is true. Those places are rare.

In a downtown corridor during rush hour? Sure - I could totally see a lane full of just busses. However, most dedicated bus lanes won't be that busy. This isn't to say that there aren't good reasons for dedicated lanes - just that the reason the Mayor gave was at best hyperbolic and at worst maliciously deceptive.

> more people will take the bus and so you will add more buses.

In a well run business that would be true.

In the first world, most busses are heavily subsidized. This means that the more busses that are run, the more money the system loses (not strictly true, but roughly).

What you say should make sense, but it doesn't for important institutional reasons.
I found Transit[1] extremely helpful for this. It lets you search for bus routes that will take you where you want to go, provides a walking route to the bus stop and tells you when you need to leave to get there on time, provides real-time arrival information and tells you how many stops are left before your destination and when to get off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(app)