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It depends what you call “readable” I guess, if you think it as : “I can have a glance at this code and feel comfortable”, then obviously C is more readable than Rust, because Rust has a quite a few specific syntaxes that will feel alien to anyone not accustomed. But I'm not sure this metric is relevant.

And on the other hand, if you call “readable” the ability of someone knowing the language to get on board of an existing project, understanding the control flows and feeling confident to make changes, then Rust wins easily because the type system gives you all the information you need straight in front of you.

The first time I had a look at Servo[1], I was able to change what I wanted (which were quite a lot of thing: a few dozens of lines in something like 5 or 6 different files) in a few hours. And when I compiled it it worked fine. Good luck doing the same with a C project you just discovered. And I wasn't even a professional Rust programmer at that time.

[1] the experimental browser engine form Mozilla
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Radically honest assessment:

- BTC volatility makes the contract pricing (budget) and proof of funds a moving target.

- Its not even a semi-autonomous smart contract, so enforcement requires the same legal expense to enforce as a normal contract.

- Jury.io is a year ahead, and I've not checked recently but I believe Allegro is as well.

There is no innovation here. I wish there was b/c we could use a fully vetted product like this.
I kinda want to see a black mirror episode of AI overlords shepherding humans for their own good :)
No to the latter.

Instead please extend HTML with useful entries and stop using Javascript for layout and handling connections and refreshes.

What you said suggest the use of migrated like Google AMP. Server side had no idea how things are supposed to be rendered.
Trying to force it via JS is an extra crock.
I thought that what happened was that the USA was the only major industrialised power to emerge from WW2 with a functional government and economy, and consequently enjoyed 20+ years of unprecedented economic dominance. Subsequently it built whatever military assets it damn well pleased.

I would argue that if you want to identify the mechanism of military dominance that the US has used to assert itself in the world you should look to Trident and the Ohio class.
You're out by a factor of 1000.
Once again someone fails to separate passive marketing that provides knowledge about a product and allows customers to decide, from active marketing that seeks to manipulate and deceive.
Signed up. I have been on working on something similar for my own use. Would be glad to chat with you. Email in my profile.
it is true, but is it bad that jornalists are so solective? do you want news network which will cover news on all continents, to report all kind of disaster "yesterday from food shortage died 10k people in X, today is also 5k died". Such network will be flooded with boring, unrelevant (for most) information. And it will be hard to find timeworthy article amongst all the trash (and it's your time).
Cygwin is kind of similar with it's limitations, except it's a bit more complicated. The files will show up but there is some "magic" happening to map the permissions and ownership between them.
Hard to say what that culture is exactly, though. It could simply be a culture where the employees feel safe enough to express concern with the company. Ie, both employee groups have the same numbers of people who care about ethics, but one group feels more able to express those concerns.
> Alternatively, and more innocently, this could be due to the end of the life-cycle of several appliances in Second/Third World countries -- or maybe even First World (do you know anyone with an aging fridge?).

I don't think this can be overstated. True or not, the common belief held by most people in the US is that older Freon based systems are better than modern systems. This is due in part to the high cost and lower efficiency of those systems when they started showing up in the early 90s. As such many people chose to hold on to their older systems and maintain them.

The last two houses I have owned each had HVAC systems dating back to the 70s and early 80s and each had slow leaks that required refilling each year. The cost to refill a system has steadily increased but it is still under $500.

Modern chillers are not compatible with older furnaces so replacing your AC unit requires replacing your entire HVAC system. Prices start at around $4000 and many homes in the United States are multi system. We were quoted $12000-18000 to replace the two systems in our home last year.

Given the cost disparity between maintaining a 40 year old system and replacing it, what do you think most people would choose?
Just read the last story in "I, Robot".

Twist: from the point of view of at least one of the characters (and the general tone of the story), it's a good thing. President of the World makes the case that the world has always been too complicated for humans to control their own fate, and the ultimate goal of technology has always been to guard against chaos with machines big enough to tackle that complexity. ;)
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Yea sometimes one should consider the meaning of a word even if it sounds cool ...
3. Require all meetings with lobbyists to be public- with video and transcript documentation. Mandatory jail time for those who don't comply.
I mean, if they were people with strong ethics who don't want to do harm, they probably wouldn't be working for Google in the first place.
Economically, older cargo types can make a lot more sense than a new plane. With the 744 no longer in production, a used model with another 15 years of use at $50mn is a better investment than a new 748 at its $400mn list price. Well-capitalized wet lessors like Atlas can afford to invest in new frames, but if you're a startup or a primarily passenger airline looking to branch out into a few cargo routes, you can't necessarily afford to buy new.

A similar trend occurred with the MD-11. Only a hundred or so frames exist, the last one built in 2000. As a passenger airplane, it was not great: high deck angle in cruise, noise, and of course poor fuel burn compared to projections. But for freight, its nearest competitor is the 77F. A few years ago when I was looking into this, a used MD11 frame would go for around $3mn. With a D-check you could have it flying again for an all-in cost of maybe $10-$15mn and it would last another 10 years. The 77F lists for around $200mn. Thus, even though the M11F is far less efficient than the 77F, it would be 10 or more years before the fuel costs would make up the difference in initial outlay. This is why the MD-11s are still flying.

Passengers prefer new planes, but cargo doesn't complain!
> Who greenlit this.

> “We understand if this is disturbing -- it is designed to be. This is a thought-experiment by the Design team from years ago that uses a technique known as ‘speculative design’ to explore uncomfortable ideas and concepts in order to provoke discussion and debate. It’s not related to any current or future products.”

So the answer seems to be "nobody".
This is getting gross. I really fail to understand the type of person that believes this is a good idea.
Nobody. As clarified near the bottom of the article, the whole thing is speculative concept work. It doesn't reflect anything that's actually being built.

I'd assume it's a useful exercise for a company with the kind of power a Google has to take a hard look at the limits of that power.
Idk, play just seems more significant.
We can estimate the computational power of a human brain. If we throw an order of magnitude more compute than that at a neural network and train it for 20 years, why wouldn't that give us a general intelligence?

The issue with physical structures is that eventually the mass and stresses in the macro structure overcome the strength in the micro-structure. That is why nature stops at, eg, elephants.

It isn't obvious that intelligence suffers from such limits, as the only time the limit of intelligence has been tested (in terms of evolution) was when humans tried it. There is no evidence humans are pushing the limits of what intelligence can achieve. Quite the reverse, honestly, when you look at the performance of computers so far.
From working with their products all the time, my suspicion is that there's some really great people working on a lot of the lower level stuff like the kernel, driver model, CLR, etc, but they're surrounded by an ocean of morons who can't even make a menu work reliably and a lot of executives who really wish the desktop was a smartphone.
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as someone with a visual impairment I am always amazed at how little we talk/learn about accessibility and its lack of inclusion in the tests of new products.

I like this "inclusive desing" term better though. (even though its the method to achieve accessibility)
Up is down, black is white, wrong is right.

If I have to choose between cynical, selfish, sociopathic corporations and ones that at least try to do the right thing, I'll choose the latter every time.

Google doesn't always get it right, but the world is a far better place because them.
I believe the article clarifies that the creator of this video doesn't believe it's a good idea. It's speculative.
It would probably be more detectable, since a cat's movement pattern would likely be very different from you or a stranger you hired.
A lot of domain registrars seem to go for the "pile it high, sell it cheap" business model. I think as with any other commodity that a tech business (or any business!) needs to run, you pick your suppliers carefully.

In the UK, I wouldn't touch 123Reg with a stick because I know their support is terrible. I would however use Gandi or AWS as I know their support is decent.
Another perfect illustration of the way that Google recasts "your personal information is required to generate that outcome" as "you must surrender your personal information to us in order to benefit from that outcome."

Most of the functionality they describe is perfectly achievable without any personal data ever leaving your phone / home computer / personal server, but the quid-pro-quo of "service in exchange for data" is too deeply ingrained.
Oh noes! The representatives are dealing with dishonest constituents? How ironic.
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Actually, that time was 1986, if one excludes encryption (which is easy to add).

* https://www.rpi.edu/dept/acm/packages/zoo/2.1/rs_aix31/src/z...
Also, unless you dwell only around the "tourist areas" (which are I believe tightly controlled by the Thai Police for security/antiterrorism reasons) it is a tad bit difficult to not stand out (in more rural areas) as "The Guy From Europe", particularly if you speak no Thai and are tall, fair haired and with blue eyes as an Eastern European is likely to be.
It's changed as the demographics shifted and the county urbanized but thirty years ago the local sheriff still issued deputy animal control papers to hunters, farmers, woodsmen, etc. who reported dog packs. There are fewer farms, greater housing density, more posted land, revised laws, and different attitudes toward animal control (generally, better) but the problem still occasionally comes up. Feral dogs aren't just a semi-rural problem, this was the situation in Brooklyn https://gowanuslounge.blogspot.com/2007/07/dog-days-remember... and resulted in a handful of publicized attacks on joggers and pets.
What about an alternative conjecture - they can help each other?
Does anyone have an idea of how difficult it would be to create a sensor network to monitor for CFCs?

What would the PPM at source be? Quick googling suggests that there are sensors that can detect down to 1000PPM [1], but I'd guess you'd need something substantially lower than that.

[1] https://docs-apac.rs-online.com/webdocs/15a6/0900766b815a66d...
> I can't help feeling we're begging the question a bit with qualia

Exactly, it's kind of like how the debate about "free will" is being handled, either you use a definition of free will that makes it trivially true, but useless, or you use a definition of free will that requires you to literally believe in magic
There is definitely a limit to how abstract and minimalist a UI can be. After months I just recently realized Outlook web' s rules creator accepts a raw email address (without selecting a contact) by clicking the _empty_ white space to the right of the ellipsis. There are no borders, no color change, nothing to indicate a free form text input.

EDIT: forgot to add context
How did poor advertisers manage when advertising was hiring hawkers to stand on street corners and holler out the ad messages?
Even though speculative - collective multi-generational Behavioural Sequencing (and influencing) seems like Psycho-history.

Sci-fi becoming possible dystopian reality yet again.
My colleague @ejholmes wrote a cool tool that borrows heavily from `make` called `walk` (https://github.com/ejholmes/walk). It's written in Go and using a graph for dependencies so that tasks at the same horizontal level in the graph may be run at the same time. We use this at remind.com to significantly speed up our multi later AMI build times.
That would be a horrible idea (hopefully Trump wouldn't think it was a good idea). The accord relies on international cooperation. If we flew a missile into, say, China - setting aside all the other international implications of that - they could easily say "well screw you" and spin up 100 more factories.

Plus, it's probably some private black-market dealer, not a bad state actor.
> Well I've heard of someone who was stockpiling and was planning to sell banned Freon.

That's not a bad investment opportunity.

Freon prices in HVAC maintenance have risen dramatically in the past couple years. According to the technician who serviced my mom's system Monday, it was $100/lb last year and is $170/lb this year.
> Who said they don't?

Polling says they don't. [1]

> Since they are still elected, clearly many people do agree with their priorities.

That's not accurate. Since they are still elected, clearly enough people agree with enough of their priorities (or perceived priorities). That's not to say that they couldn't better represent their voters, when that representation is clear.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/12...
Dropping in with my make horrorstory. I once had the pleasure of interacting with a 20k makefile (builds any one of 15 or so projects for any platform because "splitting up the makefile would lead to code duplication since a lot of the makefiles would be similar") I'm told that makefile is over 40k lines today only a few years later.
Could we see the positive speculation video? There must have been one, right? Standard scenario planning technique.
Getting feedback when a company declines to make an offer
I recently interviewed for a position at The Atlantic Monthly as part of their data team. After two hours in person, a phone screen, and a two hour coding test, I was told I was "in contention" -- and then they went radio silent for two weeks. Finally I heard back from the recruiter that they had declined, but provided no other feedback. I contacted the hiring manager, who I'd already exchanged several emails with, to ask if he had any constructive feedback, but did not receive a reply.

I understand the potential reluctance of a firm to provide feedback to candidates they decline to hire, even ones they feel are reasonably strong: they are probably concerned about legal ramifications. But still, this feels unprofessional, especially when you've spent a day or so invested in the interview process.

I'm curious what the HN crowd has to say about this.
They in fact did, many years ago. This is discussed elsewhere on this very page.
I chuckled -- given the authors, I think this was intentional irony.
Nope. That's the workaround. I usually just open an incognito window and watch the video I want.

Most of the time even if I pause my Google Play Music and open a new Youtube tab to watch a video I get the you can't watch two things at once notice. Very annoying.
In a theoretical sense this is essentially how Google works. See Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754
Yeah, he has a point :) It's always struck me as weird that we "allow" political leaders that can put personal gain and career in front of what's good for everyone else. Also as you touch upon the world is rapidly becoming too complex to be governed by us. AI could save us from bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption, shortsightedness and cognitive bias.

I'd actually welcome our AI overlords if they could execute according to a a reasonable value system (maybe execute is the wrong word). On the other hand, how do you set its goals, and what could possibly go wrong :)
Falcon 9s?
Here the feral dog problem is solved enough that there's a substantial population of rabbits living in town.

(a small town in a rural county)
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They go to all places.
I don't understand how the 'payback' will be sweet for you, or anyone else.
You know what else would help make Windows more accessible for disabled people? Open source.
It’s all about priorities. You’re confused on what matters the most in life and this happens to a lot of people in your exact same situation. Your kids, your wife. Let’s put your job aside. A job is nothing, you’re not a founder you’re not following your own mission so it’s just about the money to support your family. Some people would argue here but these people don’t have a real purpose in life.. again, they don’t follow their own missions AND they don’t value family.

So, focus on your family and try to find happiness by watching your kids growing and learning about new stuff. Screaming comes from a lack of general knowledge. They’re just kids... play your role in being a dad and just learn how to appreciate what you and your wife have created. That is your real mission in life. Love your wife, help your family, inspire your kids.
show up to a protest. bring your family and friends.

encourage everyone to boycott american companies.
wow. i was actually considering making a twitter client for my own use (and maybe others). but given how hellbent Twitter is on making life difficult for third party devs I have no confidence in this. also: $339/month for more than 15 accounts? come on. We're not all Twitter, Twitter.
Not to mention Twitter would ban your IP if you did large amounts of scraping.
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I've not been able to find anything about it being debunked. Wikipedia[0] says

> A 2012 study at the University of Rochester (with a smaller N= 28) altered the experiment by dividing children into two groups: one group was given a broken promise before the marshmallow test was conducted (the unreliable tester group), and the second group had a fulfilled promise before their marshmallow test (the reliable tester group). The reliable tester group waited up to four times longer (12 min) than the unreliable tester group for the second marshmallow to appear.[11][12] The authors argue that this calls into question the original interpretation of self-control as the critical factor in children's performance, since self-control should predict ability to wait, not strategic waiting when it makes sense.

but it sounds like the original experiment controlled for the trust factor so I don't really think it shows that the original results were invalid.

Having said that, I've not done a huge amount of research into this so maybe take my opinions with a grain of salt or two.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
Not the poster but I'm normally a single issue voter and am registered just to vote no for 90% of the things the city wants to do. From a macro-perspective, in the last two years I've seen my taxes go down and unemployment drop. That's all that has personally affected me and I can say that the economic optimism in my city has sky rocket. Overall I'm pretty happy with how things are going.
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I was actually just curious.
That's quite a leap to equate "okay with killing people" to "working at Google".
The problem is toilets.
I’ve one of these locally as well. We used to like it until we went 3 times in a row to see a specific movie and were told that the online schedule was incorrect. What a waste of time.
> "I tell people that if it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." It's when something isn't in the news, when it's so common that it's no longer news -- car crashes, domestic violence -- that you should start worrying." (Bruce Schneier)
Any dog ever would gladly trade a few zaps for a wide open place to explore outside. Cruelty is depriving dogs of exercise and outdoor time and stimulation and the chance to run, not invisible fences.
Everybody's saying China, and, well, maybe. But what about North Korea? Despite China having a reputation for shady business practices, the Chinese government at least often gives the environment a higher priority than the US does. Also, North Korea probably has tons of outdated hardware, I would guess, and little respect for the outside world.

God help us if it is North Korea. Things are delicate enough as it is, with the peace treaty and the nuclear situation.
yeah, but we'd need to make it first. like i said, i'd do it myself if i didn't have to maintain my moneymaking elsewhere.
We created a tool used in niche fixed income asset-backed securities (which are heavily engineered). We crawl EDGAR for ABS-EE filings which are posted in XML, clean and standardize them, drop them into a data base and then allow users to create instant stratifications of the portfolio (rather than having to download the 80k row loan file and run pivot tables).

This allows someone buying the B tranche of FORDO 2017-B to see how many people in Florida are 30-60 days delinquent, what model car they drive, the LTV, etc.

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Note: this is not exactly a "hobby" but we offer all of these services 100% for free without restriction so thought I would share regardless.
I actually read this whole thing as: we don't disable this ourselves. But if you're using us as the last layer before the user agent, you can dump this header. And our Varnish language makes it easy.
is more of a black / white thing sadly. Well white / other really. Probably a 1 to 100 ratio. If not more. 10 white deaths is more news worthy than a 1000 non-whites.
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I recently discovered Windows+Shift+S to take a shot of an arbitrary area of my Screen. Now I use it ALL the time. It's practically the only new feature in Windows 10 worth having!
ASK HN: I often have these basic product ideas which I would like to bring to market. Im quite happy to go the lean startup route and then invest $XX,XXX for production once happy ill have sufficient demand to take a punt. That side of the business I understand.

What I don't understand is the production side of things. How/where do I go to get these things produced. How do I choose a provider, etc. In the case of this fidget cube, would they have sent 3d models or a prototype of what they require, or is there some middle step Im missing out?

I know I could take someone on to do that for me, but I'd really like to understand it myself.

Would appreciate any guidance!