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I recommend 4chan for their advice, they are convinced it's soy and that eating raw onions is the solution. (Don't take that or anything else on 4chan too seriously though).
Difficult to understand how people can still think like this. This is complete nonsense. Look around. The USA and Europe are littered with economic ghost towns where the disappearance of factories and industry sent the community into an economic death spiral from which they won't ever recover. Simplistic models like this have no bearing on the real world.
The purpose is exactly to express possibly missing return values, which is exactly why it is called "optional", rather than "pointer_type_semantics<T>".

I also don't see why you would ever use it in the way you're describing. Even if you had template code, either you manipulate objects/references, or pointers. And worst case, you usually try to handle references, rather than trying to risk UB.
I would, but I probably wouldn't pay enough for it to be worthwhile for Facebook. I guess they earn way more a year from me than I'd be willing to pay.
Cool names might be neccessary, but not sufficient, for popularity?
I'm not an algo trader, but you need the data from both ends of the link to determine if there is a trade you want to make, right? One side or the other is going to need prices from both ends in order to make a trading decision, and preferably both, since each side can only make decisions that are relevant to their side of the link, because needing a round trip negates all of the speed advantage you incurred by developing a top secret HF trading link.

Edit: I meant the HF here to refer to the "high frequency" wavelengths in use in the link (in Ham parlance, HF and shortwave are roughly synonymous), but just realized it also could be "high frequency" as in the frequency of trades.
I struggle to believe that wealth is what is missing. You can eat healthily for very little money. It does however require time to cook / prepare, which maybe be tricky if you have two jobs.
We're always a threat. All we need today is a closet Hitler type rising to power in any of the nuclear countries - and that's just today. No idea what socio political landscape will be when the world is hot, water and food scarce, and we know there are aliens out there.
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I'm not sure I saw any signs that they're "reconsidering" on this ticket -- just that they're now aware of how many corner cases they have.

I can easily see Google saying, "eh, that's your problem, learn to whitelist your site with us."
What if it turns out to make healthier cows? I'm not just making that up, I think it will probably have a positive effect - cows need iodine too! Not sure if it's enough to sway farmers.
This is also how Swift implements it support for optional. So far I don’t see a difference in expressive power between the two languages. A user never has to actually type out Optional, when adding ? is enough. Swift also has optional chaining and nil coalescing operators as syntactic sugar. Under the hood there is still an Optional type for the type checker to work with.

I think this is becoming a trend in modern language design. However as this comments section demonstrates it’s hard to understand its benefits or why it’s an important improvement, if your only experience is from C/C++/C#/Java etc
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I've recently (since about 5 months) started learning Piano (or rather, keyboard) and I've looked forward to playing it everyday. It's relaxing and helps me reduce the stress. Plus, it helps me get out of my comfort zone and give me wonderful new perspective on things.

And for the past 2 months, I am also taking tennis lessons, and they've had unexpected positive influences on my life. I am waking early everyday to play, I've improved my stamina, and I get a solid sleep at the end of the day because physical activity tires out over the day and you easily sleep.

10/10 would recommend hobbies to all.
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Pork and chicken require less land? Could that be because they're usually kept in cages?
We're not talking about cells, we're talking about gametes, an fertilized ones, with that. Otherwise, you may have the best mutation ever, it will never be herited by your offspring.

So, basically, the total number of sharks having been born and having reproduced. It must be large, but probably not enough to beat the odds.
too late to edit four days later, but I forgot to point out it is free.
You might be pleased or displeased to know that at Técnico they no longer teach Scheme in the introductory programming course, nowadays it's Python. When I did the AI course, the project was still to be developed in Lisp, but more recently I recall hearing that they were thinking of switching to another language because "nobody can stand lisp". Fun fact: one of the founders of Siscog, Ernesto Morgado[1], is big in the rice business, and is/was the president of multiple rice millers associations. Both Pavão Martins and Ernesto Morgado still lecture at Técnico.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Morgado
>It's as big a catastrophe as the Australian coral die off

Not really. Kelp grows at 3+ inches a day. Coral <1 inch per year.
Ask HN: Is your company complying with GDPR?
I'm probably not the only one who has been getting tons of emails about data privacy related to the new European law, GPR. As a strong advocate for personal privacy, I think this law is great, and I applaud every company that is working hard to comply with it.

While I realize it only applies to Europe, it seems like it's a step in the right direction in general. It's clear some companies like Facebook are choosing not to comply with it, and while Facebook's choice doesn't surprise me, it is disappointing.

For the rest: if you are not complying, why not?
”All models are adjusted for maternal BMI, maternal age, socioeconomic index, recruitment site, ethnicity, polycystic ovary syndrome, previous miscarriage, smoking status, alcohol intake, multivitamin use prior to conception, frequency of sexual intercourse, paternal BMI, paternal age.”

It surprises me that, starting with only 5598 subjects, it is possible to control for 13 different factors and keep a signal, more so because a few of those have fairly strong correlation with fertility.

Because of that, I would want to know whether adjusting the yes/no threshold values for those variables would affect the conclusion.
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Seems like a step in the right direction though? If BN had won in coalition with PAS, they would have had to bend over regarding sharia, hudud, etc.

Acronym decoder:

BN = Barisan Nasional = old ruling coalition

PAS = Parti Islam Se-Malaysia = take a wild guess :)
That's not my interpretation of their comments at all.

#55 "Chrome Product Manager for desktop here. Thank you for posting these examples, they're superful helpful to the team. We didn't intend to break all this awesome existing content that relies on webaudio, and we are investigating paths forward now. More updates will follow on this bug."
I've written this comment several times in several forms - it's not exactly what I want to say, nor exactly how I want to say it, but having written it yet again I'll now leave it here, FWIW.

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I answered you at length in an earlier comment[0], but you never replied, so I don't know what your reaction is to it. Let me be more blunt.

Getting a PhD requires doing research that will get you a PhD. If your objective is to do research to start a company or business, that is almost certainly different, and almost certainly has little or no overlap.

If your objective is to do research to start a company or business, doing a PhD is almost certainly not the way to go about it.

How would you fund your PhD?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17027828
I don't know, I find SF very Californian - people are enthusiastic about everything, even if they aren't being genuine.

NY feels more real - as in London, Berlin or Paris, someone will tell you if something's shit. NY also obviously has a comparable arts scene. Apparently there's a SF Fashion Week but it's sure isn't in international calendars. People from NY seem to have travelled more than people from SF too.

Maybe SF is more like, say, one of the Spanish cities in terms of being relaxed?
The more unfamiliar it is, the more inclined I would be to use hourly billing. In your blank page example I would bill by the hour.
As Northern European with ambitions to move to a US tech hub one day, I am interested in knowing a bit of your background. Did you go to school in the US? How did you acquire your visa? Were you sponsored by an employer or did you go through the lottery? etc.
What information do you have about this ICO event for developers? https://icoreview2018.com/ Maybe you can give me exact answer on this article.
Pedantry ahead: the various implementations of (J(ava)?|ECMA)Script tend to disagree with the point on pREscription and non-divergence (yay 20 MB of stubs and libraries for sort-of-coherent behavior). Moreover, the example of "Class" is just a pre-compile check convention, the compiler doesn't care.

(Postel w/r/t API - Does that make any sense? Or is that a fancy way to say DWIM?)
That's pseudogenes, but it's not a massive part of the non-coding DNA.
Return on investment depends on both the return and investment. Once a civ hits Type 1 or Type 2, what they would consider an "expensive" investment is very different from what we would today. To a sufficiently advanced civ, destroying planets would be no more expensive than setting a sentry turret or an automated Predator drone.
More on FOAM's use of Time Synchronization for dynamic proof of location here:
https://github.com/f-o-a-m/public-research

Product white paper:
https://foam.space/publicAssets/FOAM_Whitepaper.pdf
While I agree with you about the complexity of the issue, it doesn't seem fair to compare local meat to imported plants. What about local meat vs local plants? Local plants vs imported meat? Imported meat vs imported plants? By cherry-picking a single one of these combinations, you can make either side look favorable.
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This sounds awesome. A shame I wouldn't want to move to nevada (or even the US.) however I am curious to see how this turns out.
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> nothing is objectively good or bad

Really? Nothing?
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...but Google is one of the giants that could pull that off and become The Platform.
Climate change isn't the weather. It isn't one year or several years, it's a trend over decades or centuries or millennia.

Do you know what's normal? Abnormal weather. Exceptional circumstances happen all the time, weather conditions do not follow a bell curve.

I am not at all denying climate change, but you can never point to an event and shout about it. It's a long term statistical trend, not a few coincidental events. It's one variable out of many that cause every weather event.

Warmer water is absolutely not related to climate change when you're talking about small scale short term events.
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The article does say less beef, more local fruit and veg.

Also agriculture in Spain/Italy is not based on slavery.
Before the ThinkPad there was the THINK pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9GBTFrFTQ
Being the second biggest polluter of CO2 pretty clearly refutes that “developing countries” are the biggest polluters. The US has a lot of problems, but I’m not sure I’d call it developing.
> During negotiations, do you think it would be fair if the employer asks if you ever intend to move?

Yes. Clearly you are ignoring the reality of different labor laws in different places, and making sure the company is prepared to meet the needs of the law.

For example, when I worked at a small 5 person startup based in NYC, we hired a remote dev in St. Louis. Our cool tech-startup HR software _was not able to pay him_ because they were not prepared to operate in St. Louis. It took like about a month and a half to get that sorted.

Your logic is nice, but it fails to account for the realities of the world. Buisnesses will reduce risk in any way possible, and the situation you are describing is literally unlimited downside risk for the business. Those are nice signals to employees but create new overhead and problems for the business.
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A history of bailouts in New Zealand is a pretty short list: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/4859373/A-history-of-bailout...
From the article you link:
- Sea star disease: probably linked to increased sea temperatures, see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.0007...
- Warm blob: nobody seems quite sure to what extent climate change is involved here, see: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-wedge-seawater-blob-blamed-mar... but to be clear, this is literally an increase in ocean temperature

I'm not saying "hey this is definitely due to climate change", but ridiculing the suggestion that an event apparently linked to increased ocean temperatures might have something to do with climate change seems a little off.
Mundane replacement and maintenance, just like the big flashy projects, are insanely expensive per unit work.

It’s one thing to pay workers really well (especially when you include benefits on an accrual basis) but it’s another to pay really well and have terrible labor efficiency.
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I similarly love plain React and ES6 as it reduces my cognitive load. create-react-app is fantastic as well.

What I do wonder about is inline styling in JSX that I encounter so much in React code.

It feels "wrong" to me as inline styling has been considered a "bad" thing forever.

Among React pros is inline styling not considered a code smell?

Shouldn't style live nicely in CSS files?
Honestly, 1994 or not, styling a passage of text with CSS just isn’t as useful anyone would like to imagine it being.
Ask HN: How are you avoiding annoying auto-play videos? (Without ad-blocker)
Increasing websites are auto-playing videos (mostly, news websites). I am against ad-blocker. Also, more often than not, these videos are not ads -- they are just part of the content. So, how are you dealing with it?

As of now, I changed chrome setting to disable sound on all websites. But it's a pain to unmute the tab every time I want to listen to something on a trusted website (youtube, ted, etc)
The rate of growth is immaterial if the die-off is because of a permanent change, which there is every reason to believe is the case (based on every model of climate change, and it will only get worse).

Also, the rest of the trophic web that the kelp forms the basis for is hosed. Since they are one of the most productive ecosystems, it's kind of a big deal.
When Americans say the singular "America" they mean USA.
>"You can't make it stop at every block in order to make it take less walking to get to the bus stop"

You absolutely can, that's how the main bus lines in Copenhagen operate. Some of the stops are only a couple hundred meters apart, and during most of the day the schedule isn't fixed, it's just signed as 5-8 minutes between buses.

The main A and C bus lines criss-cross the city on bigger streets, usually parallel to each other for a lot of stretches, and occasionally on the exact same streets for short stretches. In addition to this, there are a number of lines that service smaller streets on longer intervals, with the stops a little further apart.

Of course we also have the S-trains and Metro, which step up in distance and grid size, compared to the A and C bus lines.

It works. I rarely have to walk more than a couple of minutes from a bus/train stop to get anywhere I'm going in the Copenhagen area.

And this is with stops basically every other block, buses every 5 minutes in rush hour on the main lines, occasionally parallel lines (where it makes sense) and no artificial limits on the service area.
Yes, when something goes awry with the initscripts system. And systemd is not
exactly famous for its transparency of execution and stability of options'
behaviour.
Who in the 70's thought AI would be defined by being good at chess? I mean it can just about brute force the game; how is that intelligent?

The Turing test is way older and seems to have been the standard measure since it's inception.
What I don't understand is why they went this convoluted route of trying to assess what's legitimate or not, what's a user interaction or not. Does anyone know why they didn't go the route of other permissions like notifications or location, with a discrete popup that says the page is attempting to play some audio (or video), do you want to allow? If it is legitimate, the user clicks allow once and the site works forever.
Usually when a major web browser decides to do something that has the potential to break existing websites they do extensive testing and put the call out for dev feedback before they release. Why didn't that happen here?

Also it's odd that Chrome decided to explicitly whitelist some sites. Surely that's an admission that their automated workflow doesn't actually work well?
So no citation for your assertion then. Got it.
same here for India datacenter of AWS or GCloud
I'd say several reasons:
1.) a lot of folks have trouble with the abstactness
2.) a lot of folks think C syntax is how all languages should be
3.) the lisp ecosystem is fractured into too many lisps like SBCL, Clojure, Racket, Allegro, Franz, Picolisp, ABCL, Shen...etc, so some confusion amongst those that are new
4.) poor windows support for SBCL...it literally tells you it is experimental if I recall correctly. Setup wasn't straightforward
5.) tooling is complex and emacs is recommended for both SBCL & Clojure, which is arguably more difficult than hitting run in most modern IDEs
6.) multi-core seems to only be in Clojure
7.) lack of decent libraries. There is always someone quick to say that this is false and that they have everything you need, but coming from Python and Perl's CPAN, I couldn't disagree more
8.) learning resources are very hit or miss. I found it hard to pay attention to many of the top lisp books because a lot of the examples such as building an mp3 database would be one line of code or two in python. Of course they're just trying to show concepts and terse expressions isn't where lisp shines, but the effect is underwhelming.
9.) your fellow developers won't use it and a large company will probably have an IT department that won't let you run in production without it being far better known: Java, C#, Python, R, C++, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript...etc without major pushback...notice how many people equate lisp with personal projects?
I lived there 2014-2017 in the Inner Richmond + Outer Sunset. Rent was ~$1.5k/room, getting to Financial District took about 40 minutes on express bus (2BX) or Muni metro (L).

A lot of internal US migrants find SF really eye-opening: the wider variety of food & culture, the reasonable public transit, the influence of the strong cultures (LGBT+, black, hispanic, asian, hippie) that have thrived in the city. It really is very European for a NA city. SF has lots of great places to see, in the city & around the Bay Area and North California. The Presidio & Golden Gate Park are fantastic close natural escapes from urbanity.

Coming from Europe, I was shocked by the horrible transport (tiny Muni buses with 5 steps to get in), the crime (petty and serious, like scavanging recyclables from restaurant waste into the back of a pickup outside my window at 2am or shootings on Market St), the weird flavour combinations in mid-scale lunch places (I'm calling you out, Golden West), the extremely visible wealth inequality + the "I'm alright, Jack" attitudes, the unimaginable mental health crisis in the homeless population, dealing with private health insurance, taxes and immigration, finding out co-workers on insane salaries were almost destitute from paying off student loans, and the ridiculous housing situation, in the city and in East Bay (people forced out of SF by gentrification and now being forced out of Oakland, Alameda is the deepest white-flight suburb). Oh, and paying more than $10/month for a phone plan.

Coming from Australia, I found the cost-of-living was reasonable (food & rent) and the coffee was terrible, awful. I gave up on the Russian roulette of $5 barista/espresso burnt coffee + boiled milk, and stuck with filter/drip, which was consistently not great and not expensive. There are a few places you can reliably get a good cappuccino for $3-4…

A lot of the comments here focus on the anti-tech sentiment & monoculture of tech: they're relaying their experience of not being a part of the community, as being a overpaid 20-year-old in their first job out of college hasn't prepared them for inviting neighbours over for coffee. The "other US cities transport their homeless to SF" trope is indicative of this attitude: it's not my fault there's so many homeless here, other people are making the decisions that inconvenience my day-to-day, nothing I can do to change their behaviour, so I don't need to do anything to improve it.

Weather was fine, summers were cool (cold at night) & foggy, spring and '''fall''' warm and sunny. Earthquakes were fine, you have to have some supplies and at least know about what to expect when the big one hits. Traffic is normal I guess? Kind of bad when the 49ers/Warriors/Giants have a home game and you want to go across the Bay Bridge.

I left becuase I got fed up with feeling like part of the problem & not having any say in elections + not waiting to raise an American family (eventually). I miss the amazing library system, 24-hour donut places, and the strangly serene driving culture.
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Yup, we pay them.

Support has since informed us that the announcement was in the monthly newsletters we don't read because they're usually all marketing materials.
"Warmer water is absolutely not related to climate change when you're talking about small scale short term events."

Do you understand how statistics work?
What you bring up stems from two things, infrastructure needs to prioritize busses, and second comparing busses to single car does not work. Since we are obviously talking about rush hour. At a traffic light in a busy intersection where I live there will be max 15 people in cars, 50-400 people in busses, and about 100 more on the streets walking and bicycling. I think 5 times more people in busses is a pretty good advantage.
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I would suggest just having the tab muted by default, and maybe an easier button to toggle on/off, than current right-click, to unmute/solo. Perhaps, a limited notification for the first 100 times your tab is muted and it detects sound being played in the tab, so you're not wondering why no sound is playing.
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> This does not work if you want to speed up routes in rush hour, because people will demand stops at every block.

Actually, this is exactly how Marshrutkas work, at least in Sofia/Bulgaria. They do not stop on "every block", they stop only if they are not full enough or someone wants to get off. But normaly, this persons tell their destination early enough to the driver, so he or she can plan better the few stops. Nowadays most people prefer the Metro over the Marshrutkas though.