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> I don't really understand the "line in my terminal for everything else" reasoning, as I don't mind alt-tabbing.

What exactly don't you understand about it? For me it's the single most
frequently used environment, I can do more things and do them faster than in
any other way. What is there about it not to understand?

Then, I don't mind alt-tabbing either. I do mind, however, the amount of it.
I have multiple terminals open and I operate at the limit of my abilities to
manage them. With a separate GUI window, I would either have one more window
to switch through (and thus I would be over my limit) or have one terminal
less to execute commands.

> But I really don't understand the "constantly opening and closing my editor" thing.

A workflow thing. I don't understand people running GUI for version control,
or GUI for simply opening a file in a directory tree, yet people do that all
the time.
Most don't have decent tooling set up for such a thing. Org-mode has a great feature where you can quickly capture todo items along with the place you were when you made them etc. (file/project, for example). I could be writing a function and get a thought about some upstream calling code, press a key, make a note, forget about it and carry on coding, knowing that it made it on to my todo list for investigation later.

If I had to switch to some other note taking platform it would probably break my flow enough that I wouldn't do it.
The line "I guess there's a need for that kind of person to exist to do our dirty work." made me suspect he was talking about killing not murdering (I presume he wouldn't say that about murderers.) His response to me seemed to confirm he was using the word murder in a loose sense to include lawful killing.. that's how I read it anyway.

Also, I didn't say he used the term "badly", I wondered if he was using it precisely. Maybe you think linguistic imprecision is bad, but my intent was to suss out his meaning, not criticize how he uses language. I'm more interested in the meaning behind the words.
I just find it best to keep those kinds of complaints extremely specific. Maybe the founder validation statistics you're talking about have changed since the last study was done. Imagine we'd fixed all race and sex discrimination problems (bear with me for a moment). By leaving unfounded statements like the above littered across the internet, we'd be ensuring that future generations of minorities also feel a vague sense of inferiority. This causes the exact kind of uncertainty the author is concerned about.
This is obviously a very small sample size, but I work at a startup in Toronto and 3 of the 4 executives/managers started their career in the US and then moved back to Canada once they got older (30-35yo)
Eh, depending on the depth of knowledge required to build your startup I believe the skills required to get your project off the ground can be learned.

Beyond that point you can hire.
Is the date 2002 correct? Which browser was that released for?
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I can eventually see the mechanisms for informing users changing. I would imagine that in the next few browser releases, granular control of JavaScript features will be more accessible, especially as they provide access to more native features.
They absolutely do get strong support elsewhere.

I would argue even teams of co-founders require a diverse support network! Relying on only your team is putting all of your eggs in one basket and superficially restricting the diversity of views you need to be innovative.
What solution solved more problems in history than violence?
Is there even a bound on the computational power we'd need to make an advancement here?
> Although these techniques would be able to work out the paths even after the upgrades, “the problem is, they are too slow”, says Cécile Germain, a computer scientist at the University of Paris South in Orsay. Without major investment in new detector technologies, LHC physicists estimate that the collision rates will exceed the current capabilities by at least a factor of 10.

Sounds like the LHC’s physicists have an idea.
> One of its major summer events is the Secret City Festival—a weekend of parades, concerts, and tours of the federal facilities. “It’s the only time during the year that the public can gain access,” Smith says.

From the article. This sounds like it's not publicly accessible 51 weeks of the year. Shouldn't that explain it? :)
There's no such thing as serverless, just someone else's server.
1.Everything Is Negotiable by Gavin Kennedy

2.Getting to Yes
true though they did later on wield massive power
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Do you wager Ernst Jünger fabricated his memoir?

I strongly suspect there are exceptions to this rule. At the very least we know there exist people in prisons today who enjoy murder. Arguably that's very different since (I assume) 'enjoying killing' and 'enjoying getting shot back at' are worlds apart. But, would it surprise you if there was a small minority of drone operators who genuinely enjoyed their work?

Then again I suppose (hope) the modern military system might select against that kind of mindset.
"including some big success stories like Pebble’s Eric Migicovsky"

Right...
It provides the missing counter-piece to human civilization, ever since we started farming.

You can not be intellectually honest with yourself and against war(before the invention of fertilizer and the atomic bomb) if your lifestyle produces x^2 kids every generation. So war always was the other part of the cyclus civilization was ramping up towards.

And this cycle deformed us - the culture as a total down to the individual whose psychological variations and epigenetics are basically barely hidden adaptions to these cycles.

So even the most seemingly peaceful society is one recession away from becoming a emotionally hardened band rallying behind some leader to wage conflict upon whoever is foreign and in reach.
Which is one of the reason why the economic mill must be kept going, no matter what- the alternative is not some settled down hippie life- but a war of all against all.

Respect to whoever coerced the current path (cell-phones with cameras, internet) into being. It seems to be pretty reliable when it comes to instilling self-control and preventing the war mode partially. And of course, thanks goes to Los Alamos, the atomic egg that prevents the best at power-grabbing from sending millions to die like in the iran-iraq war or the WorldWars.
Same here, super under-rated app
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“The top three performers of this phase hosted by Google-owned company Kaggle, will receive cash prizes of US$12,000, $8,000 and $5,000.”

“incomparably more difficult”
Despite concerns, MTN has largely complied with license obligations in Uganda
Thank you :)

It's interesting that another comment mentioned the design lacked polish - I guess it's one of those subjective things where you can't please everyone!

We wrote everything in VanillaJS using a framework we developed in house (it does rely on jQuery, but only the slim version). I'd compare it to VueJS, with deeper reactivity for certain types of variables, and a novel patching method that circumvents the need for DOM-diffing.

The graphics/charts were also an in house product. We're thinking about making both code bases open source in the next few weeks. The UI framework will probably be MIT licensed, but the charting lib will probably have a dual license, much like highcharts.js.
This really misses the picture of what's going on. Fedcoin could be coordinated by the federal but live on or be connected to a public smart contract platform where that, now digitised asset, could be used programmatically and interdependently with many other systems in a much more efficient and easy to assemble way than can now be done. This may not sound like a good idea to most on hn but it's at least new.
Sites that offer paid and ad sponsored alternatives are fine. It’s sites that don’t offer subscriptions that should just change their business model, if it’s now based on intrusive tracking ads from ad networks.

And no, I don’t mind consuming contents from hundreds of ad financed sites while simultaneously wanting the majority of them to simply disappear because they could likely never sustain a different business model than ads.
How co you argue it’s deterministic? If one actor asks two other actors to do a job and send the result back, those results come in a nondeterimistic order. That’s a race condition. It’s easy to write programs with bugs in them because of this.

Something like fork-join is deterministic because results come in a fixed order.

And for generating SIMD from actors? Or handling irregularity efficiently? I feel like you’re making the ‘sufficiently clever compiler’ argument.

We cannot currently efficiently solve all parallelism problems in practice using actors, and we don’t know how we would be able to.
If enough people start doing this, AdBlock will somehow react to get people to see their ads again.

Just because you got rid of the problem doesn't mean the conflict of interest isn't there. And if there's a conflict of interest, it's just a matter of time before something happens. Having an extension in your browser that you can forget about is much easier on your nerves than an extension that doesn't do anything bad at the moment, but could.
> I think the author intends for me to be outraged, but I'm not.

Problem is that Google and Facebook are partial monopolies. It's not fair.
Such as http://www.onlondon.co.uk/
though they raised money through a fund raising platform https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/on-london-co-uk
(Edit to add link to fundraising, disclaimer: also I personally know the main jornalist, but not finally connected)
I never understood why people would use fail2ban or similar approaches. Just set proper password and move on. SSH traffic is tiny, it's not a problem. You'll never be hacked with a proper password. Let them waste their time.
Large ISPs wanting to get into CDN revenues and DNS, just a little hiccup to start testing the waters... ISPs are mad most people use Google or Cloudflare DNS now instead of their own which facilitate their ad networks and future CDN properties.

Large ISPs want that DNS endpoint and are aiming for CDNs as well, they are gonna eventually sell it as other CDNs/DNS can't be workable due to issues like this.

Large ISPs stopped innovating for decades and are mad others kept innovating on top of the network. ISPs think they own the network and are taking back this property not by innovation, but by bribes to 'representatives' and by force.

Now that net neutrality is demolished and ISPs can sell your private data, they have a reason to ruin DNS and CDNs to eventually own that for tracking and revenue streams. We made IMMENSE mistakes in 2017 with allowing ISPs to bribe their way into removing privacy protections and removing net neutrality. We gave them reasons to dismantle systems built ON TOP of the network so they can own those areas by controlling the network. 2017 was regressive for the internet markets built on our internet utilities.

Rather than ISPs building their own companies to compete on top of the network, they want to use their network lever to barge their way in with bribes like the Kool-aid man through walls that shouldn't be breached.

ISPs are in all out war mode fighting being a utility or commodity, rather than building competitive products or innovating on top of the network, making the network better/faster/fast they want to win by force and milking it, not by building products and improvements people want.

ISPs are also gunning to help build our government firewall/filter that is for censorship and IP protection [1]. AT&T in particular has been a privileged insider to the surveillance state and filtering[2]. It is also an extension of FOSTA/SESTA censorship. Turns out, building the government filter for surveillance also gets you a super efficient ad network by peering into all private data. No way blocking Cloudflare was a mistake, it was ISPs kicking the tires of their 'innovations'.

In 2017, we allowed emboldened network provider monopolies to get more emboldened and now that they won, they want to run all ad networks and will do so in unison with the surveillance state and filtering/censorship.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/04/internet-censorship-is-advanci...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
> It leaves people lots of time to think of better jobs to get.

Thinking is a useful skill if and only if the job they aspire to is philosopher. For everything else (and for philosophers as well, really) you need training, and for that you need time.

> And they can quit.

Sure. Anyone can choose to starve.
Wow, that is very counterintuitive..

I suppose you could set any threshold x, and play so that if the first number is bigger than x you stick, otherwise you switch. This would be strictly better than random (break even) if x is within the range of numbers that A is picking from and the same as random if not.

It depends on when you measure your chances: before A has picked a generator this gives you >50% chance but if A has already picked a range to draw from that doesn't contain x then you're back to 50/50. Still, I think this would count as guaranteeing >50%?
Problem is that these young whippersnappers don't even realize that there is nothing "new" about this tech stack. You can recreate the new sexy with 30 year old tech. You are talking about a load balancer that is redirecting requests to individual cgi-scripts based on the url. They have just given up knowing how to setup and configure physical servers.
The Fed can create unlimited money out of nowhere and doesn't have to answer questions about it from anybody. I don't think they dream is a transparent blockchain and money supply limited by an algorithm.
What are the difference between CE and EE, I thought the VM were the same it is more of a toolchain options?
Which is also why publishers will soon realize they can’t serve stuff in chunks where the reader can opt out of downloading or rendering certain parts.

I thinking canvas+wasm and similar tech will soon be used in a second coming of flash - where a full site will be downloaded as a blob and rendered by site code.
In Germany, no-one is holding stop/slow signs at any construction site. This job is universally done by portable traffic lights.
I'd choose a longer period than 1 year - the are always ups and downs from one year to the next. Let's take Amazon as an example: their effective tax rate from 2012 for 5 years is 12%. They can only pay that because they have armies of tax accountants looking for loopholes. Small local businesses - the ones who might compete with Amazon - can't afford those accountants so they pay the statutory tax rates.
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> If you assume 40% of them are black, like the article claims, the number comes out to 2,645,400. This is considerably less than the number of slaves in 1860, or 1850 for that matter.

As far as I can tell, the tables in: "Recapitulation of the Tables of Population, Nativity, and Occupation" from[1] indicate that there were roughly 800.000 male slaves 15 years or older in 1860 - they're listed next to free coloureds" - but I find no indication about black/non-black slaves (I imagine there were some Native Americans, Chinese at least in non-insignificant number?).

I believe op was talking about adult black males.

On a side note, would be nice if this data was digitized properly and available for easy analysis? I couldn't find any indication that it is?

[1] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/dec...
They work well enough together that I set up any new PC for friends and family with them, after giving them a non-admin account.
you are posting on HN that does not have 3rd party advertisements the website is simply cheap enough to keep running that it does not matter

This is misleading. HN does have ads, in the form of job posts for the YC companies. The site itself also serves as a business development tool for a (now) huge investment fund.

Additionally, this site isn't so cheap to run anyone could do it without caring about the cost. The hardware and bandwidth isn't free [1], but more importantly, I believe multiple people work on HN part-time, and dang works on it full-time [2]. That's not cheap, at all.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11889575

2. https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
> Your argument here amounts to: if it's not descriptive, it must be prescriptive. By this argument, the entirety of pure mathematics is prescriptive. Is the idea of a semiring a description of a particular natural object? But it makes little sense to claim the idea of semirings is normative. After all, math studies many structures that don't satisfy the semiring laws, as well!

Yes, to some extent, mathematics is prescriptive. Publishing a paper on semirings or computable functions means that you think these objects are interesting and should be studied. But pure mathematicians usually stop here, they don't pretend their research has value because it related to the real world somehow. It's just supposed to be interesting on its own. On the other hand, type theorists push their theory with the expectation that it is useful for creating computer programs despite decades of contrary, if any, evidence. I wouldn't mind types studied the same way that, say, first order predicate logic is studied. The fact that most of the type theory researchers seem to hail from CS departments seems to suggest that types would simply fade into irrelevance however.

I also see a difference in the extent that mainstream mathematics is prescriptive vs descriptive. Certainly you would agree that most mainstream maths, say number theory or differential topology, is much less definition-heavy than type theory is. And most definitions in pure maths have auxiliary character, they are only interesting in that they help clarify proofs. Sometimes it happens that definitions turn from auxiliary to interesting in their own right; this happens mostly when the same construction makes sense in multiple context.

In type theory, on the other hand, definitions, and not of the auxiliary kind, make up most of the work. The proofs are usually mere bureaucracy, with definitions set up so that the facts the researcher wants to hold do so essentially by definition. Thus the definitions, i.e. the prescriptive part, is really the main contribution of type research.

> But it's certainly not the case that all PL theory studies the lambda calculus. PL theory includes work on verification of imperative programs; on macro expanders; on compilation techniques; and on pure logic.

Well, the linked document is called "PL theory", so I simply assumed that it would cover all of it to some depth and not just a particular subfield. May impression is that the "type" paradigm is the dominant one in PL research and I simply assumed the authors of the linked paper have the same impression given their selection of material. I certainly didn't mean to discredit the other fields you mentioned, I simply can't have an informed opinion about them.
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I find that tge only way to use web securely is to disable JS alltogether except for a few hand-picked web pages. I use qurebrowser for that, and chromium for some nasty web apps I have to use.
Completely serious, thanks. It is totally normal for the Marines to beat it into you, they are trying to make sure that when the shit hits the fan you do what you need to do without hesitation.

Yes, I was in the U.S. military 25 years ago. I will leave it at that and not try to demean your opinions with an unnecessary personal attack. It's just the Internet, after all, and 'winning' an Internet argument ain't worth it ;-).
Let me clarify---some version of typed lambda calculus. The document linked here doesn't seem to deal with the untyped lambda calculus and much less so with properties that are stable under change of representation of computable function.
If their diet is what is causing them to commit violent crimes, which is what the majority of prisoners are in for, not weed, then yeah, that diet is a problem.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-real-answer-to-...
Try release-5.1 branch. See https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pull/263.
That one did not "go". Someone is trying to get that much money for it.
> "Violence (or threat of violence) is the answer to almost all problems."

Not including which js framework to abuse, I hope!
Then do me a favour and call these things what they are: transvestite links.

Meanwhile if you want to make two (and seemingly soon three) apps from one codebase, just use Flutter or similar.
For view encapsulation I really recommend using https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components
We use this in all our react projects and we haven't had any problems since with leakage
> most people use Google or Cloudflare DNS now

Do they? I'd say most people would be troubled to find their DNS settings let alone have the confidence to change them. I'm open to correction on that, is there any data on Google /CF DNS usage?
Yes but with a huge monthly rental that means you pay a lot more than buying the phone ought right.
I think that's an interesting approach. For the record, I absolutely share your healthy suspicion that health sciences need a bit (much) more hand holding than some (most) other disciplines.

To needle you slightly further, though, I'd recommend you consider John Snow's investigation into cholera clusters near certain water sources in London:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...

What should we make of that?

Ok, more generally...

I'm glad you're giving this some thought, because this line of inquiry (or something like it) really affected the way I think about science and knowledge. It's an incredibly rewarding line to go down, though not entirely free of frustrating dead ends.

If you find this stuff interesting, you might want to poke around a bit in 20th century philosophy. There are some (needlessly lengthy) summaries at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, esp. under "Logical Empiricism." I hesitate to recommend that, though, it's long on history and short on significant arguments and though-provoking examples.

"Two Dogmas of Empiricism" by Quine profoundly affected the way I think about all of this. It's not an easy piece, I had to read it a few times and kept turning it over in my head for months. At first I thought it was nonsense. Then I thought it was just wrong. Then it sort of wormed its way into my head and changed a few core things I believed about knowledge. Or reorganized them. Karl Popper, Rudolf Carnap, and Wittgenstein all had profound contributions here too.

At the end of Quine's paper he says that White basically said everything important on this already in "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism." I haven't read that, but maybe it's the accessible version. One could hope.

http://www.thatmarcusfamily.org/philosophy/Course_Websites/R...