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Congrats Apple! Also, I have been struggling uploading my first iOS app to Apple store since last 10 days!
This[1] just says most states provide free access to their database to find registers agents.

I don’t live in the US, so no idea which department handles that.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_agent#Registered_ag...
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I've recently discovered SSC, and I really love it. So educational, insightful, and engaging (easy to understand, fun to read). I'm looking for more stuff like this. I know about LessWrong, Wait But Why, and Paul Graham's essays. Can you recommend more good similar rationality/science/tech related blogs?
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Care to put a little Bitcoin on that? ;) I'm skeptical.
It's interesting how the people who "do things correctly" and the people who "do things usably" almost never are the same people.

Could it be that these things are mutually exclusive?

Anecdotally, I've tried to learn Nix for several years. I learned to write Dockerfiles in hours.
Your best bet is RKE. https://rancher.com/an-introduction-to-rke/
Hey, I can answer them all and even say how 3rd is different from

undefined == null;

Does that mean I am hired? :-)
Doesn't this make the profession rather stressful?

I mean how can you sell your work to anyone if you fail most of the time?
I agree this one is very elegant, but the downside is that you'll still need the parens if you use it as a subexpression, which you most likely will if you want to distinguish between, say, 0 and None.
"I just hope they always allow users some way to switch to the old Reddit as an option"

Pretty much the only thing why I am still using Reddit via PC in addition of mobile app (third-party)
Relative to the Cold War, where biggest threat was the paranoid Soviet leadership overreacting to their expectation of a first strike by the West, there don't seem to be that many scenarios where a war seems likely.
Maybe like this https://www.labnol.org/internet/google-creation-date/20747/
My forecast is that heavy diesel engines (excavators, farm equipment, ships, maybe trains) will be replaced by hydrogen power. Either fuel cells in the 100-800 kW class, or gas turbines for the megawatt to tens of megawatt applications. For the latter, you might need to blend hydrogen with e.g. ammonia to slow down combustion, but we'll get there.
Using 'as' is prettier, but a pain to read, as your eyes have to go all the way to the end of the line

You can still use the old way if you think this new one is ugly, but to be honest I think it's going to be an improvement.
It makes a difference, but the difference is small enough that unless you're a serious lifter (or on a really drastic diet) you won't get anywhere near noticing it.

It matters for a serious lifter because the year over year improvements once you're past your "newbie gains" are so low that every tiny little advantage you can get matters if you care about maximising your lifts.

But we're talking about maybe the top 5% of gym goers, and a much smaller proportion of people in general.
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A very cynic and provocative follow-up to this hypothesis (if it turns out to be true) would be:

DNNs are nothing more than a huge set of NNs where at least one happens to solve your problem and the DNN finds out which one.

The approach is then essentially the same as a Random Forest with bagging but with the decision trees substituted by Neural Networks.

This in turn would mean that:

1. The "Deep <Your Algorithm here>" revolution is in fact not a revolution but just throwing many models (and thereby resources) at the same problem while obscuring that you don't have any idea which one will work because the DNN will do it for you.

2. The age old problem of initializing the neural network is not at all solved and can lead to drastically better results if finally somehow addressed.
I agree the check_foo() duplication was bad, but was this workaround really so bad?

while 1:
foo = check_foo()
if not foo: break
do_foo(foo)

Its only downside was taking 2 extra lines, not actual understandability.
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If privacy shield gets scraped, then I might have to switch my European business to use only European third party services. At our company we use a carefully selected number of U.S. services that we believe have the interest of their customers and data at heart, but without privacy shield we might not be allowed to use them.

The massive downside for me as EU business:

1. Lost time and money having to migrate.
2. Usually european companies providing the same service are worse, leaving me and my customers worse off.
I would have thought "move fast and break things" could almost be an Air Force motto!
US$1 = JP¥110 = ISK 107, so the same logic says the purchasing power of a dollar in Japan and Iceland is even higher than in India.
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I'd go with yeah. It's nice having some sunlight around.
Does this apply to Comcast?
Possibly because the applications are qualitatively different; possibly because the software is being produced by military personnel (aided by civilian advisors).
I don't think we're talking about the same reddit, in my experience their search engine has consistently been awful!
On different occasions I was unable to retrieve a post I almost remembered the exact title of via the reddit search engine, but found it quickly through google with the "inurl:reddit.com/r/subreddit" option
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This is a bizarre thing that keeps popping up here. This assumption that as soon as somebody learns how to code, they pack up and move to the Bay Area. Since when was Silicon Valley the only place with competent software developers? We exist all over the planet, often getting paid very different amounts, and usually, yes, very much less than Bay Area developers.

In reality, the USAF here is competing against the cost of defence contractors. Which it turns out, is pretty easy because they've been charging megabucks for everything for two decades because their only competition has been other defence contractors. Thanks to politics, right or wrong, they've had no capacity to ramp-up on in-house development and submit their own bids to really compete on price.

I really hope we're entering into an age of reality where public organisations (military, government, healthcare in the civilised world, etc) —and more, the people funding them— realise that in-housing development work is so much cheaper than farming it out.
I have a different trick: I use Lob.com to send a cancellation request through certified mail. Works every time, and takes 5 minutes.
I agree w.r.t. what you should Redux for. That said, if you store application state in Redux, is that nout "outside of React", passing it in as props? (Though not necessarily the root's props.)
I tried on Ubuntu 18.04. Firefox around 2k and Chrome around 10k
I wasn't actually talking about traffic, I was purely talking affordability. e.g. You can live in nice areas around Leamington-Spa with 5-15 minute commutes in light traffic, with huge amounts of green space for kids, or you could live in Zone 4 and have to commute to the City every day. Similarly in the US, you could commute to Mountain view, and live in a city condo, or you could live in Raleigh, NC and work for SAS/Red Hat, and live in a wonderful outdoor area 10 minutes away.

Sure, the worst areas in the US are worse than the worst areas in the UK, but that doesn't mean that the worst areas in the uk don't suck. You said you couldn't put a price on not having ghettos, not that the ghettos in the UK are better than the US equivalent. Besides, being on HN, the majority of us aren't going to be living in the Missions or Paisley.

> Also student loans are paid for by the UK government, and you only have to pay it off after graduating, and even then it's basically a small percentage of your earnings.

Right, but you still have to take out a 35k loan, and pay 9% of your earnings for 25 Years, or until it's paid off. That definitely doesn't sound like having to pay nothing to me.
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There are two core problems here,

- Discovery: Does the script to do X exist?

- Documentation: What does this script do? What are the parameters? How do I execute it?

Writing these scripts with Jupyter notebook solves both these problems effectively,

- For discovery, you can search by keyword & organize in a hierarchy (e.g. folder for separate services)

- For documentation, code snippets and instructions are interleaved in a single document.

You can host Jupyter remotely, your teammates can login, search for their scripts and execute from within the browser. No need to worry about dependencies/environment etc.
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Great list of related projects! I missed some of them in my research. Now I'll deep dive into each and steal all the good ideas.

Text-to-speech is very promising, but I could use it only about 20% of time during the day. Other problem is I would constantly have to check the recognized text for errors and have a way to delete and re-entry. So far it's been frustrating to use.

Neural interfaces are really the end goal. AFAIK current commercially available solutions are able to recognize only a dozen actions after training, not enough for text input.
The poor performance of web technologies (despite the incredible wizardry that's going into our browsers) are a large part of the reason that so much mobile-device interaction fails to run at 60FPS, no?

It's 2018, we're all walking about with supercomputers in our pockets, and yet we're putting up with <60FPS UI.

The impact of UI performance on user experience is serious enough that Netflix wrote their own rendering engine. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/crafting-a-high-performa...
> Did you use the previous value of i, or did you just intent to increment it? ++i communicate that I'm not interested in the old value, where as i++ does the opposite. I actually use it as such, because my intent to a future reader of the code is more clear.

I would consider that a valid reason to use ++i. In this case, however, he indicated performance as being the reason. Furthermore, this was for a school assignment demonstrating that we could properly implement a particular algorithm, so the performance difference was absolutely irrelevant.
As a user, I like the promoted "posts".
In that case, well. I sometimes click the ads!

As a user I hate the banners. I don't see them of course, because I ad block. I would never click them.
Given that I'm sitting at home watching TV - and they're all busting their asses off in the cave - it's hard to discuss this without being disrespectful to them - which I certainly don't want to be. But anyway...

Looking at some of the photos, lots of the gear they are wearing is ordinary recreational gear - nothing like what an experienced cave diver would use. So it raises the question, in my mind, as to whether their navy seals actually do have any formal training in advanced cave diving. Combat diving is unlikely to be the same thing.

So the very unfortunate incident might actually support my previous comment, not contradict it. Cave diving is very dangerous to the untrained or improperly equipped. But proper training and equipment can mitigate those dangers. The two brits would not have been wearing anything like the kind of gear in the photos :-(

Again, kudos to the people on the spot, doing their best.
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Most people will find it damn hard to eat that much protein without getting a far too high calorie intake for their activity level.

Having lifted for 14 years, with some shorter breaks, with protein intake ranging from less than half of that to meeting that, I feel confident that you need nothing like those amounts. If you're a competitive lifter, you might want to push your intake up towards those levels, but the improvements you can expect are tiny.

The research indeed does show improvements, at higher intake, but the difference is small enough that it really is irrelevant to most people.

Most people will take years of serious lifting with a strict focus on increasing strength/volume (rather than "just" staying healthy) before they lift heavy enough for it to be something to even think about. As someone else said, timing might play in a bit more, but total daily intake does not need to be that high.
Most of the confusion and frustration rises from lack of understanding of the runtime execution and not the language; in case of JS:

- execution flow and temporality of the code excecution(async, promises, etc...)

- interoperability and boundaries of JS with the DOM, styling and HTTP(WS)

This hold true for most languages; concurrency, parallelism, etc...
The devil and mastery is in the learning execution environment.

The static nature of writing code to represent dynamic, living state machines presents a gap and confusion.

My advice is to learn core technologies really well; JS, DOM, HTML, CSS, HTTP(S)/WS(S). Once you do this, you’ll quickly understand and debug tomorrow’s frameworks.
Typescript is very similar to plain JS. The type annotation is purely optional. I really bought into the optional type annotation pattern when I learned and used Julia for a project. Typescript is also like that. It's extremely unintrusive to use and I'm quite sure such a huge shift as the one that happened in Angular won't happen.
This is unfortunately only true in a competitive environment for non essential goods. If you provide services such as internet, or telephone where people can only choose between one or two providers, which are all equally bad, the customers don’t have a choice.

And then there are services where people sign up but only a very small percentage would voluntarily come back no matter how good or bad your service is because they sign up out of impulse. Gyms are good examples for those — people sign up because they want to lose weight/stay fitter, etc but only a small percentage actually goes there after the first few times. This of course sucks for the regular customers who want to pause their membership because they are too busy for a few months or move, etc (but on the other hand, those no-goes also subsidies the regular goers because the gym can offer a lower price for everyone).

For those companies, we need laws that make it equally as easy to cancel as to sign up.
> Why would anyone have loyalty to a company that has no loyalty in return.

Because companies benefit from this form of asymmetry and others, e.g.:

- The company can hire many employees but employees cannot work for multiple companies at the same time

- The company knows salaries of all employees and does market research but employees are recommended not to share and compare their salaries

- The company can offshore work but employees cannot.
There are regulations for that in Germany.
If the chances of dying after loosing a limb aren't very high it just doesn't make sense to develop (extreme) pain from an evolutionary perspective.
> particularly since the current US administration will presumably see this as related to the larger international trade-war.

It's not just the administration. Every time the EU has levied fines against Google a lot of Americans on HN claim that the EU is doing it because they're jealous of how successful American businesses are.
Do you have any arguments to justify that? It sound very reasonable to only return a match object when you have a match. Otherwise, you give more responsability to the Match class (knowing when it is None and handling many special cases) while you could just use None.
Unless you already have kidney problems, most people will find it exceedingly difficult to eat enough protein for it to be a problem.
redux isn't a framework, it's a very small library
The few subreddits I follow have also become hostile towards users wrt participation. People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns.

I'm not saying there's a concerted effort (by Reddit or 3rd parties) to sway public opinion -- but it certainly feels that way.

And yes, the site has become horrible for usability.

I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit.

That's not to say that they shouldn't get rich in the process, just that they should be building something incorruptible.

I'll donate $1000 to a crypto address if others are willing to match.
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There is one such project in the works: https://mastodon.social/@prismo

(Note that the project is Prismo, not Mastodon - their web presence just happens to be a Mastodon profile at the moment.)
foo = check_foo()
if foo:
do_foo()

Why would you ever write that?

Just

if check_foo():
do_foo()
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Am I wrong to assume there was nothing wrong with the previous code and these changes are gratuitous (e.g. just because we can)?
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yea. On mars.
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Seems like there is some issues with the -2 without a space in them.

- 2 + 2 works fine while -2 + 2 does not. -2 +2 seems working though.

Also, try to search "-2" to get no results.
No problem here (Norway).
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Seems there is, there must be direct line of sight to the outside world: https://www.komnet.nrw.de/_sitetools/dialog/5278

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That patch is not meant to be applied. It has been created to demonstrate the difference that the new syntax would make on code actually used in production.
I can't answer this without knowing your definition of reactive.

To me, dataflow is simply a stream of data triggering calculations even if the data is unchanged. e.g. the stream of 1,2,2,3 would cause four calculations.

Reactive means that only 1,2,3 would appear to the calculations. In other word only changes are reacted to.

My framework is reactive by these definitions.
That's interesting. So I took a look at lob.com's web site and I can't figure out which service you use.
I agree that half the content being ads is pretty bad, but what makes the expanded view as a default so bad? I don't like it myself but e.g. 9gag is super popular and it uses this style.
Just "2 * 2" is near enough instant ("About 25,270,000,000 results (0.64 seconds)") but "2 * -2" takes its time ("About 0 results (5.16 seconds)").

Some sort of conflict between the "ignore keyword using hyphen prefix" and the "is it a calculation" detection, causing the search itself to time out and produce zero results? Searching with quotes ("2 * -2") is fast ("About 25,270,000,000 results (0.49 seconds)") but no calculator is shown.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17349849
Plenty of sibling comments spelling out why not.

I want to add that for farm equipment, having a big weatherized battery cube and a crane to swap it is practical. For automobiles, less so.
I think it might be related to the fact that you are excluding a keyword (-2) then including it (2). That confuses it, maybe causes a loop?
It isn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism gives these examples:

> in January 2008, Hannaford Bros., a supermarket chain based in Maine, began paying the entire medical bill for employees to travel to Singapore for hip and knee replacements, including travel for the patient and companion ...

> In 2000, Blue Shield of California began the United States' first cross-border health plan. Patients in California could travel to one of the three certified hospitals in Mexico for treatment under California Blue Shield.
The time to complete the calculation was the same as 25*5 or any other calculation I tried.
Oh absolutely. In other words, you'll be in exactly the same situation US businesses are in, that rely on Chinese and other suppliers that are now subject to tariffs. Politicians, eh? Hope someone wins this trade war soon so we can get it over with.
> It’s so strange, you’d think the cost of recruiting, hiring, and ramping up a new employee would be much more than just bringing your existing productive employee up to market rate, yet few employers seem willing to do this.

Not strange at all. The company is willing to sacrifice employees to send the message that people are replaceable and will be let go if they demand salary raises.

It's a way to keep salaries from growing.

> They looked at me as if I just escaped the lunatic asylum.

Good old gaslighting. You get the same look from managers even in high turnover company.
Does the portable service run in a PID namespace? Couldn't find the response in the article.
I just use the web GUI to upload a PDF and send the letter.
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Nowadays everything runs on SAAS, why are banks and other institutions letting key people use MS windows and outlook in the first place. Don't you reduce your risk by like 90% by using Linux clients instead?
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Isnt it too early for going ES6 only?

For learning sure, but for production I still think best to go ES5 ...