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BWH culture is crumbling so I won't blame him for seeking other opportunities. However, this is an odd/weak selection where I believe Amazon-Berkshire-Chase will regret. Toby Crosgrove, former Cleveland Clinic CEO, would have been a well-qualified candidate and better choice. He has over 10+ years of leading a highly complex AMC and elevating the organization into the top 3 hospitals in the country for many consecutive years. This man can get things done via transformative, sustainable, and systematic changes.
Alternatively, the CEO of Iora Health would have been a good choice too. Let's pause and compare performaces and outcome of between Cleveland Clinic under Crosgrove and Iora Health under their leader, and Adrianes lab under Atul. The result is clear. Atul doesn't have the experience only the Harvard brand. Being a CEO is different from being a professor, surgeon, philosopher, or executive director at the Adrianes Lab. In those roles and physician-led environment where MDs are treated like kings, the medical directors can put in 5-10% of their time with the expertise of administrators, interns, staffs and get away with having the breadth but little depth and claiming to be a SME. Atul seems like a good storyteller and highly intelligent physician, but he is absolutely an individual contributor. Frankly, Boston is full of highly intelligent and innovative people like Atul; the CEO of this venture should have more experience or at least specializes in one of the three verticals. Atul would have been a better executive advisor.

Concerns:
- He stated not wanting to give up his privileges of practicing at BWH and professorship at Harvard meaning he can't be fully committed to leading this new organization. This is not an academic medical center environment where a physician can have multiple administrative titles and not put in the hours and work.
- Atul's fame is credited to his publication, but also from the prestige of Harvard's affiliations. He knows this and is trying to strategic about not giving that up, but I would hope he realize that truly effective leaders know they can't do everything. Most of those innovator physicians stretch themselves too thin and get their hands into too many pots, making them ineffective. If he's serious, then he needs to commit and prioritize.

IMO, extreme network/lip service must have been invloved in his pursuit or the new venture and company is only buying his fame, reputation, and brand for marketing purposes.
A lot of people pay for online dating services. It's about a $600M/yr market in the US[0].

Answering why is also important, but it's incorrect to assume online dating isn't a thriving market.

https://www.statista.com/outlook/372/109/online-dating/unite...
Announcing Kinematica: Animation meets machine learning
Forgive me for not having more details on hand right now. So far in my reading of her book, Alexander’s thesis has three main prongs of support.

The first is historical. When we look back at Jim Crow, do we say that grandfather clauses and literacy tests were about improving the quality of citizen engagement at the polls? Of course not. Jim Crow was designed to reaffirm a racial hierarchy within the constraints of the new constitutional amendments. Is it inconceivable that we would get policies designed to reaffirm racial hierarchy in the colorblind constraints of the civil rights movement?

The second is rhetorical. What specific appeals did politicians make to support the War on Drugs? What images did they use?

And the third, as a comment below points out, are the results of the drug war. Was it carried out in a racially evenhanded manner?

The War on Drugs is large enough that there can be no smoking gun tape of politicians conspiring to pull one over on society and do the racism again.
> women could become part of the workforce too

> women's rights and their participation in many other areas.

> Since the decades following industrial revolution, they became more and more present steadily in politics, academia, culture, etc., becoming quickly co-protagonists of modern life.

Some studies say that as a result they are unhappier and have less children.

See: https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp09-11bk.pdf

> I dream of a world where one's sex is just a biological detail that matters in their amorous affairs and private life.

Do you want men and women to act, think and feel exactly the same?
I don't understand trying to conflate GDPR and this copyright proposal.

GDPR is a reasonably written attempt to preserve some measure of citizen privacy (i.e. you and me). It's an extension and continuation of Data Protection that's been there 20 years. Companies coped with no ill effect.

The copyright proposal is entirely for the benefit of large media companies, and the smell of lobbyists is overpowering. (i.e. not you and me)
Great to see OCaml featured here. Such a neat little language, combining functional programming with a healthy pragmatism in supporting imperative constructs with no fuss.
You may be able to go faster with Rails, but scalability is where Play would blow it out of the water. If suddenly tomorrow my Play services get hit with 100 times the usual user number I wouldn't even notice.
ConflictJS: Finding and Understanding Conflicts Between JavaScript Libraries
The difference is largely irrelevant. Browsers could have easily decided to integrate a JVM, they just never did. And Flash was ubiquitous.
As someone who did not grow up in the US I can assure you that housing policies to avoid overcrowding (the hallmark of urban poverty) have existed for a very long time in places with no racial or foreign immigration issues.

I don’t doubt that in the South such ideas were co-opted by advocates of the racial status-quo. But it’s not helpful to project that notion onto other places, even if they are in the US.
Santa Monica tells scooter companies: You can stay – but there are new rules
Berlin was arresting people with any amount of weed in certain public parks just a couple years ago, because an awful coalition government thought Zero Tolerance would surely work this time.

Its laws are more or less identical to New York State's - decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, everything else is extremely illegal - just with shorter prison sentences and perhaps slightly looser enforcement.
In life u just need to "fit", or get picked on.

Incidentally this is precisely the "natural law" that james damore broke when he bragged about how natural laws are supposed make genders different in the workplace.

He was fired for breaking the most important law "you must fit/adapt or get excluded" while pretending to know better how life and biology works lol. What a retard
Hired raises $30M to build an easy subscription pipeline for company hiring
She was surely broken in several fundamental ways. But as a product of her time and history, she has plenty to say. And it can resonate even today.

As with anything, some balance is required. Monopolies exist (and seem inevitable these days) and must be dealt with. But person-to-person, her views and the individual are evergreen.
At one time Java, Flash, Silverlight, etc. would all run without user confirmation/interaction. User confirmation was only introduced when security problems became an issue.

So my point still stands — Qt on WebAssembly is analogous to the plugins of yore like Flash and Java applets. WebAssembly is kind of like a new plugin container for native code.
Serverless is just a new word for single-serving computation.

Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends.

~ Fight Club

It's the gig economy for servers. Rather than a server having a stable comfortable job, it must get one piece of work at a time and only gets reimbursed for services performed, not for its availability.
I think it becomes a race issue when majority of those displaced families are immigrants and out of those majority are Hispanic families. Yes, I agree there will always be a couple of poor white families out of 100 displaced families but it is not fair to say it is NOT a race issue and just a class issue.
> The nuclear bomb is the true peace maker.

Sorry, then why has the US been involved in a major war every ten years since WW2?
I agree, but that costs money for the company and time for the developer.

Airbnb dropping react native due to a lack of qualified candidates that were articulate in both the native and javascript realm is a great example. Something can work flawlessly with the right conditions (for instance, developers that understand and can implement the path of least resistance across native and react), yet if its prohibitive to create those conditions you are back where you started.

If the dominant ideology among developers is that learning X language or technology costs more of their career than its worth, it dies out. Same goes for the company and their resources.
That’s actually my point, I would argue Gawande doesn’t have expert knowledge. Being an expert surgeon is a very different skill set than an expert in healthcare delivery and management.

Let’s take the checklist manifesto, a fantastic idea that unfortunately isn’t as widely applied as it should be. Why? Because if you ask most surgeons they’ll say, “yeah it’s a great idea, I do it already/I don’t need to do it though because I’m that good”. In practice it doesn’t get applied because humans have ego and incentives get misaligned. It’s not actually that beneficial to reduce complications in surgery for the hospital as long as the patient is insured. And it’s not that beneficial for the insurance company to reduce costs because fundamentally as long as the insurance company can accurately predict how much costs will rise next year, they still make money. They just need to know how much premiums will go up.

Healthcare is full of great ideas and ways to make things better, but they often just don’t get implemented because the whole system is so poorly set up. I don’t see any evidence that Gawande for all his talents has a good approach or the expertise to break through all that.
You can obviously send directories with scp, just use -r. Or am I missing something?
Static typing alone won't save you from creating monolithic code that's hard to maintain. My current employer has been slowly decoupling their 20 year old core product written in .NET into microservices (mostly Java, some Node) for years. The legacy .NET codebase has tons of tightly coupled dependencies, logic heavy error prone stored procedures spanning thousands of lines, and laughably slow startup/deployment times.
Ideally, the company switching to D wouldn't affect their current or future engineers at all unless some of the engineers are also programmers.
I feel like this statement is often used and just as often wrong.

It's not about avoiding the goto like behavior. It's about making you to know it exists and forcing you to handle it.

Rathet than throwing 5 calls deep, doing nothing until you empty your call stack, you must explicitly say "I know I'm part of a system that may error" at each step along the way.
This is marked as dupe but I cannot find the dupe.
Could be worse. One of Reddit's favorite pet theories is that one's skull shape reliably indicates their "race".
I've been using Flutter for a few months now, and have not felt this productive in years. Being able to iterate so quickly on real or virtual devices has changed how I design and development a UI. I can set out with a mock-up and almost immediately start to feel why it isn't perfect and just use it until the feel is right. The productivity bonuses are sometimes hard to explain to people who haven't yet tried Flutter and it's tooling.

This announcement of preview 1 is coming at a great time as I am launching my first app on iOS and Android next week.
There's actually a spectrum between, being fairly treated in the workforce and in politics, and 'think and feel exactly the same'
> it will possibly take a year, and probably longer, to migrate to D

The article title is misleading. They still have not migrated.
Yes, it's similar to C++. A Rust `fn()` type is similar to a C++ `(*foo)()` type and at the low level is just a pointer to code. A Rust `Fn` trait object (of which there are several variants) is roughly similar to a C++ std::function and is "fat" in that it can contain data as well as code. Most higher level languages don't make the distinction, buying conceptual simplicity at the cost of potential optimizations when a simple code pointer will do.
Wrote a post about this awhile back, easier to just link to it instead of copy + paste :)

https://esheavyindustries.com/2017/01/i-owe-my-career-to-bei...
The reason is that some people use the word freedom and liberty as synonymous, while others put clear distinctions between them and argue that GPL do not fit their definition. Thus people who disagree have to take clear examples to explain why liberty laws restricts freedom in order to create liberty.

If you prefer to use philosophy terms, conditions are negative rights. Those are similar to things like "I have the right to not get assulted, I have to right to not get enslaved, I have the right to not get robbed, I have the right to not get murdered, I have the right to not get recorded in the shower, and so on. Negative rights is freedoms to not have things happen to you by restricting what other people may do. Positive rights is things like I have the right to health care, I have the right to be on public ground, I have the right to social security, or I have the right to ask the government in the Freedom of information act and so on. Positive rights usually but not always demand something from others. Most constitutional laws tend to be negative rights.

Combining negative and positive rights is how liberty is created. Its a balance between freedom to do things and restrictions to not do things to others, with the goal of maximizing free will and personal agency for society. GPL give freedom to do anything but with conditions that limit what you can do to other people. Just like with liberty the GPl tries to maximizing free will and personal agency and uses negative and positive rights to reach a balance.

One could ask why the free software movement picked freedom when they intended to say liberty, and the reason is historical and localized. RMS did not want to associate the movement with the libertarian political platform. Maybe they thought that most people don't really distinguish between freedom and liberty, but now days liberty is generally favored over freedom.
"But, how do you systematically unit test nested functions?"

You don't. You test the enclosing function. The nested function is just an implementation detail like any other line of code in that function.
I agree, this is exactly where I’d have hired him. He’s be perfect as the soul and conscience of this company.
The US startup company is disappearing–and that's bad for the economy
The route school buses can take toward racial equity
The nuclear deterrent is real. It's like the old saying "an armed society is a polite society".
I did PHP, Java and Perl work for years before diving into Rails for a little over a year on a big job. As soon as that job was done and I updated my Linked In / Resume to include Rails I was FLOOOOOOOOOODED.

It was nuts. Never seen anything like it.
It's called speed dating, but it's actually much slower per decision than popular places like Tinder and Bumble. I imagine ML can be built to decide who should talk to each other. (push a button, wait in a queue, ML decides who to pair up)
What makes you think that talking to customers involves feelings? It can also be completely professional and objective based - the only difference is that you certainly need good skills in showing appropriate affect in a wide range of situations.

Being bitchy/sarcastic at a bar sounds ... well very emotional to me.
We are told to delay acting on climate change because it costs money. Then we are told by the same people that carbon capture will save the day. Now, most definitely by the laws of thermodynamics you will spend more energy in this roundabout way of doing things. Not releasing a gas in the first place, is cheaper (in energy units) than releasing it and then trying to capture it back.

Assuming that energy units roughly equate to dollars, it would be immensely cheaper to cut our emissions today, as much as possible, than to keep emitting CO2 at our current rates and then hope to capture it back in the future. The reasons we behave in this illogical fashion:

1. The costs of acting now and the costs of acting in the future are going to be bared by different entities. Thus some entities can profit out of this, to the detriment of the rest of us.

2. The nominal economic cost will be higher, but it might become economically more viable, still, just plainly out of desperation when things get really bad.

So to answer you question, maybe yes. Not entirely though. CO2 can be captured back, maybe, but the damage to human societies and the environment cannot be fixed. But nonetheless, this should not be an excuse to delay action on climate change!
> Do Debian contributors just upload a binary blob to the Debian servers and that's it?

The practice has either been eliminated or curtailed but, yes, this was done for a long time.
I'm not sure we've demonstrated that men behave any differently? Then this becomes a simple strawman with 'woman' painted on it.
Yeah. Not to mention that it is trivially easy to scale web apps horizontally. So the real bottleneck is the data store, not the programming language you used for your app.
Not the dating market, just the online dating market

People date up and down all the time, and attraction isn't just limited to good looks. People are attracted to different things in an individual (good looks, ability, wealth, intellect, power or status, etc) -- it's just that those don't always show well on dating profiles. They are much easier to spot in the real world.
Yes, Americans don't understand disagreement, even legitimate disagreement. You are wondering if this is because they fear incurring liability if they admit there is a problem or due to the almost prison-like environment of high school in their formative years, or what. It's a great problem for foreigners.
Exactly. If you resign before your insurance coverage monthly renewal is effective, you don't get your insurance renewed.

All of this is what "effective" means.
>How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

I mean, they have chosen to migrate. That doesn't imply they're done with the implementation.
The numbers are super off yes.

- 1 dev, 9 months project, 16k LoC excluding comments, including UT.

- 16 devs, 2 years project, 200k LoC excluding comments, including UT.
> Why are people upset when a service that is run by a for-profit entity decides to change how it runs?

I don't know, maybe because it leads to destruction of valuable content, regardless of whether it is legally ok.

The notion that just because something is legal, it can't be upsetting is absurd. What about if the government decided to use eminent domain to acquire your land? It would be legal, but probably still upsetting.
There are very good reasons why a doctor might decide to change a prescription for someone, and listening to the patient over the doctor in some of those cases would not only be a bad idea, it could be potentially fatal or cause long lasting problems.

For example:

- Evidence of abuse of a drug.

- A second prescription which interacts badly with the first.

- Changing health circumstances (pregnancy, some sort of deficiency, failing internal systems, etc).

The correct thing to do in a case like this is to stop and coordinate with the prescribing physician. Having a pharmacist look at some change compared to how things were done prior and have a patient tell them it's a mistake and they should ignore it without consulting the prescribing physician is almost never a good idea.
Yes - sorry for being unclear , that was the 'almost' in my comment. I was explaining why this situation is unheard of and there isn't a standard practice, and why someone like Apple doesn't face this problem.
Why would you need to? If you unit test the top level function then you're implicitly testing anything it does, e.g., use of the local function.
Rails has this: https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin
Indeed; I saw the same problem. Our team (4 out of 8 are remote) does daily meetings now, and it's actually pretty rare that we go over 10 minutes, let alone the scheduled 30.
Sure but Springdale’s a purely tourist town, since it’s practically in the park. And there’s no ranchable land right in Springdale. It’s cute and there’s more options there for tourists, but you can usually find cheaper quarters only minutes away in the other towns. FWIW, when my family stays near Zion to shuttle & hike, we usually rent a house out by Hurricane.
I really like this concept OP. I think your biggest non-technical hurdle is going to be dealing with the classic issue of there simply being significantly less women than men. I'm curious to know how you plan to approach that after you introduce a proper business model.
Then you get a scolding from your supervisor that X customer thought you were "disrespectful" and "insensitive of their needs". Customers don't want objectivity, they want you to do the thing they want right now, and what are we paying you for anyway?
Can we just block Europe? Like, partition the internet or something... /s
> GDPR is a good example of another law which is potentially dangerous. However, I do see that it's hard to comply with both, but I don't see how they interact with other.

The copyright law requires you to store metadata about the user who publish content forever while GDPR forbids you to do so.

> Why?

I would say most of HN leans left not libertarian.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32495402/why-does-go-for...
Agree, there will be some issues with what I'm proposing, but I'm mostly looking at it from an in-app time sink perspective. I'd like to remove any frustrations associated with using dating apps. If someone ghosts IRL, then that factors into the AI/ML as time goes on (maybe they can only go on 2 coffee dates per month for the next 3 months as penalty).
Listening to Yanis Varoufakis talk about what Greece went through you get the sense that what they have on the Europe wide level isn't exactly democracy.
I realise the way I put it may sound ominous, but it's for the good of everyone involved really.

Most organisations are shockingly ineffective. Micromanagement and lack of long term planning is abundant. I get hired because I'm good at writing software. This is not wrong, but I can add much more value if I deliver what is needed rather than what is asked. My goal is simply to be able to do that.
GE Drops Out of the Dow After More Than a Century
A eslint-config for the team!

I get that setup with a style guide during the down time of the allotted "onboarding" phase.
> I thought this was because Britain didn't have a constitution as such so the don't have actual referendums?

The UK does have a constitution, it's simply not codified into a single document. Parliamentary sovereignty means that Acts of Parliament are part of the constitution, and so any referendum's result cannot be binding, which may partly explain why they weren't seen as part of UK politics up until recently - there have only ever been three national referendums, one on EC membership in 1975, on changing the voting system in 2011, and leaving the EU in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_in_the_United_King...
And once again: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp is the premier source for me. It should be added, that their aim is to give a (readable) specification of the language (http://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:FAQ). If you need a stressable answer to some weird C++ question, you can look it up there first.