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> A super volcano like Yellowstone could easily kill 90%+ of our species in the first year after an eruption and most of the other animal (and plant) life

A malfunction in life support systems in a Mars colony will wipe out 100% of the people living there within the first week, or day. Are you suggesting this is less likely than a super-volcano, which might never erupt in the next 5-10-20 generations?

> Big rocks have smashed into Earth before and will again. A pandemic could easily spread across the planet in months decimating population and launching us back into the stone age.

Mars being different how?

> as you just lost most of the people that knew how the power plants work, how medicine worked, how making concrete worked, how growing crops in worthwhile quantities worked.

Print books with manuals on how to bootstrap civilization from 0AD to at least 19th century level / electricity. Disperse and distribute said books through libraries, vaults and other methods if necessary. Knowledge is pretty hard to lose (entirely) in our information obsessed society. Imagine if we switched our efforts from serving ads and saving petabytes of cat videos to actually archiving, preserving and distributing useful knowledge.

There will be gaps, but not humanity ending ones.

> Earth = eggs in one basket

A more accurate analogy of the Mars colony would be taking 1 egg out of the basket, putting it on the ground and kicking it toward your destination multiple times, hoping it doesn't break. In reality, it's several magnitudes more risky than that.
To me the biggest mystery about the 2008 crisis is why so much QE has resulted in so little inflation.

The only convincing arguments I have heard so far is that:

1. at the same time banks were forced to significantly deleverage, so while the fed was pouring money into the systems, banks were effectively pouring money out of the system.

2. inflation happened but it was all concentrated into financial assets, real estate, and salaries for the upper middle class, which expenses (college tuition, luxury flats and houses, restaurants, etc) have seen a double digit inflation (my FT subscription must have doubled in 10 years!). These aren't really measured by CPI indices.

I guess it may also have to do with how the QE was introduced. If it was money printed to pay civil servants it might have had a different effect than introduced in the bond market.

But I don't know if it is reproducible. It feels like we are at the end of the current cycle (it's hard not to be nervous when looking at a 30y chart of the S&P500). QE is pretty much all the way in, rates are low. There isn't going to be much more central banks can do than print even more money. Inflation should show its ugly head sooner or later.
See this topic where even tech nerds are idolizing books...
Common Lisp reads and writes vectors, has a simple syntax for them and provides a sequence abstraction over lists and vectors.
Ah bloomberg news, understanding that a new economic slowdown is in the cards wants to reassure the public that the economists have learned something. What they've learned is that they are ever more desperate to attempt to coax additional growth out of a slowing machine that increasingly just fails and takes ordinary people with it. Without new markets, the economy will continue to slow and monopolization will continue to increase.

Look to Africa for the empire's new concepts: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175567/tomgram%3A_nick_turse...
I agree. If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
To me, the problem with Debt is that while it indicts compound interest as harshly as it deserves, for all its hidden downstream consequences, it does not propose a real alternative to it. He proposes just not paying debts, but this means nobody accumulates capital, even literal seeds.

It is as though he proposed the alternative to sugar be starvation. While those are both equally invalid choices, and are arguably the economic models of capitalism and communism respectively, there is no balance to be struck between the two, and they both lead to death, be it from malnutrition or diabetes. It is only barely better to strike a balance[0].

What we need, really, is bread and fasting, and what this would entail is missing from that book.

[0] Before insulin injections, diabetics, universally having developed the deficiency late in life, were indicated to eat very little, and lived ~5 years at most after diabetes developed, IIRC.
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Did you read my post? Legacy admission was started at Harvard as a means of ethnic discrimination. Before then, a large percentage of students at Harvard were Jewish because they ignored the social convention that only the elites applied to Harvard. When students are judged only on academic merit, nepotism is not an issue.
I'm not a fan of WebAssembly. I like js because you can instantly reload and test changes to your code without lengthy build or compile times and I'm hoping for typescript to become standard so that the same applies for typescript. I doubt the same will ever be possible with WebAssembly.
I'd recommend trying out https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/. Truly something different.
Exactly the same sort of FUD was stated when Bush was president. Trump is strengthening NATO, is in the process of renegotiating several trade treaties which appear to be well received by all sides, and has made some unprecedented progress with N. Korea, while building a coalition of Arab states to counter Iran and Russia in the Middle East, plus putting pressure on Europe to lessen their dependance on Russian energy.

I'm sure I'll be down voted for stating facts, but that's just the times - people hate facts.
SSDs isn't still expensive. Prices has gone way down lately...
I think that this is a much better plan- gives an economic reason to stay, which is going to have a lot more staying power than "because it's there". Although, this is itself rather dangerous since we are then intentionally steering asteroids towards the Earth.
As the other commenters said, the arrow functions, which are very comfortable and very directly inspired from CoffeeScript.

But more importantly, the whole idea of ES6 was inspired by CoffeeScript. This might seem weird if you were outside the loop at the time and don't realize how succesful it was, but the fact that ES6 got so many cool features was directly due to CoffeeScript's success.

If ES6 wouldn't have those features, people would not have switched from CoffeeScript back to pure Javascript. And the success of Typescript shows that they still have to move quickly to keep pure Javascript relevant.

Here's a list of comparisons between CoffeeScript and ES6/7:

https://github.com/hemanth/coffeescript-equivalents-in-es6

Note that these are features that were not in ES5, then they were in CoffeeScript, and only then were they added to ES6. The similarities are in no way a coincidence, almost all of CoffeeScript was in one way or another integrated into ES6.
I’ve reluctantly switched from st3 to vscode for all of my TS projects. the auto import feature makes dependency management... manageable (so may solve 1. for you too). i think the slightly slower UI is more than made up for with all kinds if nice autocompletes and powerful rename/refactoring capabilities.
THat's not fudging; China has a deal with the USPS where they get to ship to anywhere in the US essentially for free.
The tale of Typescript was that several of Microsoft's own JS codebases had gotten too huge to manage in just JS and Typescript was built to scratch their own itch first. Microsoft happened to have a smart developer-focused division that also realized that Microsoft's own customers could benefit from the tool, too.

Microsoft has invested quite heavily into some very large TS codebases: VS Code/Monaco, VSTS, the Azure portal, large components of Office, large components of Bing, and so forth. Given the scale of some of those projects (in terms of users at the very least, even before you get into metrics like lines of code or dollars generated), that is a lot of benefit to having a strong tool like Typescript to do that work in. Many of the same developers working in Typescript use C++ and/or C# daily, so they already understood the usefulness of things like static type checking. Releasing it to the public when they did seemed a very cogent realization that that "enterprise JS application problem" was far bigger than just Microsoft and they were in a good place to help with that, given it's long been a goal of the company to help developers.

As for a Typescript proposal for TC39, I'm willing to bet everyone is still worried about accidentally creating a second "ES4" debacle, including Microsoft. I'd love to see, and would much more expect at this point, a pragmatic compromise like Python's PEP 526 [0] / PEP 3107 [1] project, encouraging JS engines to syntactically accept things like Typescript's type annotations, but remaining agnostic to what the annotations represent semantically (giving other JS users the option of doing things with the annotations other than types, too, if they wished).

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0526/
[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/
"vibrate"

Is this supposed to mean "notify"?

Also [1] doesn't return the most ideal results.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asecurityheaders.com+v...
Do you really believe CoffeeScript's arrow functions (or whatever else) had a bigger impact than adding static types to JavaScript? CoffeeScript is mostly about shorter-syntax improvements, while TypeScript (or Flow) just changes everything… coding, debugging, refactoring, pushing code in prod with the assurance that it won't break…
Please don't do pointless flamewars on HN. This discussion went way off the rails.
Heya! I have been working on almost exactly the same thing for the last couple months :)

I haven't had a chance to actually read your post yet, but I'm really looking forward to it.
I wasn't actually aware that was a Coffeescript first, I had the impression they started with -> and adopted fat arrows later with the advent of ES6, as I know fat arrows was in ES4, but you're right, Coffescript seems to predate even ES4. Good to know.
The history of economic thought is oppression and greed. Time and Time again.
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You were repeatedly uncivil in this thread. That's a problem. Please don't get carried away like that and please don't do flamewars here.
Could anyone comment feasibility on the 'Cowboy Bebop'-style para-terraforming postulated on Mars by creating a small non-domed, livable section inside of a large crater, where the crater walls are high enough to 'contain' enough of the greenhouse gases being produced by the settlements? [0] Would we be better off just building huge domes, or digging underground?

[0]https://i1.wp.com/www.inetres.com/gp/anime/bebop/02/bebop_02...
If only sessions on travel-related websites didn't expire already after half an hour.
If you're using webpack with ts-loader you can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin to create aliases in webpack. awesome-typescript-loader has the same functionality available too I believe
Did you try already? Not sure what your CV looks like but the way you list your experience is a bit concerning. That's quite a lot of stuff. And you say you don't have much to show for it. Most people are going to assume you're mediocre or even a beginner in all of these. Say less and people will assume more competence.
Hello HN! I’m a UI/UX designer and I often find myself installing new apps to check out the design and how they do certain product flows. I then take a bunch of screenshots for future reference. Over time I found screenshots limiting because:

* With static screens, it's hard to visualize full product flows

* The best apps use animations and microinteractions in interesting ways that screenshots just can't capture

* They would get lost in my camera roll and were hard to find when I needed them

To solve this, I've curated over 200+ interactions and have another 100+ apps lined up that I'll be adding over the next couple weeks. You can browse by pattern (Onboarding, Inviting friends, Ask permissions etc.) or by App. I've added basic search functionality if you're looking for something specific that isn't tagged.

Looking for feedback on:

* If you're a developer, designer, PM, entrepreneur: Does this help your research process?

* What can I add to the site / change about it to make it better for your use case?

Thanks!
These things had a ~100kg payload to LEO which is tiny in terms of space flight. For comparison a Falcon 9 v1.0 could take 100 times as much stuff into LEO and a Falcon Heavy can take 630 times as much stuff into LEO.

So it was a solid demonstrator of capability, but Briton would have needed to spend quite a bit on R&D to scale these things up.
To my limited non-Haskellian understanding, you can give a block of expressions to a monad. It then decides which expressions to evaluate, in which order, optionally depending on the value they might return to the monad. So you could have a monad which does "evaluate all these in order unless something goes null" (which is a nuisance to type in C-style languages), or one that expands on the if-then-else concept. None of these carry forward internal/hidden state like an IO monad does, but are there to expand user control for how to flow from 1 expression to another in your custom scopes.

It's somewhat conceptually related to Command or Visitor Pattern programming, but Haskell has syntactic sugar to have them basically work similarly to normal statements. Alternatively, this is a runtime-only version of one specific thing that Lisp macros can do to &body scopes, in constructing custom control flow.

This also is only 1 way to use monads, as they're a technically pretty simple tool (an interface with 2 functions) that can be used in a bunch of scenarios.

[If I'm wrong, and I'm probably wrong, I'd love clarifications for myself, too!]
If only Google Wifi worked with wired connections, I would've considered buying one. I ended up going the Ubiquity route, and couldn't be happier.
Library books should definitely destroy shelf litter, like your 900 page "Java: The Complete Reference [2001]" type stuff.

[Edit: When I wrote the above comment, had no idea whether or not this is a real book; I made up the title and the [2001] just to exemplify that sort of junk.]
Your impression comes from the media's tendency to try and present "both sides" of a story. So when reporting on an issue that 99% of professors are one side, they'll select one of the 1% and one of the 99% to give interviews.
I keep waiting to get cynical about Spring Boot for some reason (maybe once the next conceptual breakthrough which looks obvious in retrospect happens), but honestly it's the breath of fresh air and simplicity that the JVM ecosystem needed, and it has literally turned writing Java weba apps upside down (err..inside out?) in the best sense possible.
It feels like a giant step backward from a development standpoint. It's as bad or worse than the days when I had to make a change, save it, FTP that file to the server, refresh, lather-rinse-repeat. Want a debugger? Nope. Want log files? Gotta get them from a different service that frequently has a lag of 30 seconds or more[1]. Don't get me started on the massive vendor lock-in inherent with a Serverless Architecture[2].

Don't get me wrong; from a resources management and scaling perspective it's great. But that doesn't outweigh the massive pain during development that it creates.

We're in the process of rebuilding a project to move everything out of a Serverless Architecture. After six months of building it on serverless we finally all agreed it was a big mistake.

[1] That's our experience with AWS. May be different with other providers.

[2] I recognize that Serverless Framework helps mitigate this but that's just yet another abstraction on top of abstractions in my opinion.
Yes, it is aesthetically ugly. But as someone who has used TypeScript for a handful of months, it's very easy to read.
The key is sexual reproduction. You're not selecting for a single trait at a time, you're selecting for all of them. Yes, the ability to digest milk as an adult was unlikely to have contributed to the reproductive success of the very first individual it arose in. But it didn't need to; it only had to not prevent reproductive success. Over a few generations the gene spread to dozens, then hundreds of individuals, sheerly from being along for the ride. At that point, statistics can begin to take over - even a tiny advantage will gain a foothold if given enough people to prove itself over.
Translation: Self-driving cars with LED screens to show ads to pedestrians.
>Beyond this relatively simple point, I don't think he had much of anything concrete.

He also made a pretty good case for gold's intrinsic value and economic importance being driven by war.
Going to Mars is the same idea of leaving the Rift Valley and leaving humanity's roots to see elsewhere.

It's the same idea of going into a boat west and then realizing there's a continent West of Europe.

It's the same desire when you're a kid and told in strong words to only walk on the sidewalk and then dash and try to cross the road by yourself because there's something interesting out there.

It doesn't make sense at all to go to Mars and may prove useless to us. Who knows. But humans are driven by more than "practical level"
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Uh, you're wrong.

The USA has both jus sanguinis (you're a citizen because your parents were) and jus soli (you're a citizen because you were born in the US). The jus soli provision is written into the Constitution to prevent Southern states from trying to deny citizenship to emancipated slaves via a grandfather-like clause; if you were born in South Carolina, you are a citizen from birth of both the US and South Carolina, and there's nothing South Carolina can do about that.

If you are born to US-citizen parents in, say, France, you are automatically a US citizen, and you can get a US passport even if you haven't been to the US for the first 30 years of your life. The rules become more complex the more tenuous the connection becomes, but the US does apply a jus sanguinis path to citizenship as well.
Or something similar such as the way the HomePod setup process works.
How old is your work laptop?
I just heard from a software startup, that has been in business for a while, that their ~30 team members are running macs made before mid-2015...

Does a faster computer truly equate to an increase in productivity? How old is your work laptop?
Agreed. Somehow, they need to get the theaters and/or the studios to share in their model.

If they can demonstrate to the theaters that their heavy users are worth a lot more than just a ticket, perhaps high concession sales (through coupon redemption), then maybe the theaters would consider giving them a break on ticket price because they're supplying high-value customers.

Secondly, if they can pump the hell out of new movies so the studios or distributors get an even bigger bump on opening weekend, then the studios might be willing to fully or partially fund those tickets for that publicity (aka "trade spend").
I don't think it is an either/or. TC39 has shown that they love multiple implementations of things. CoffeeScript and Typescript (and Babel) implementing things together ahead of the spec, and how they agreed/where they differed/what obstacles they encountered, was likely as much of a factor as either language in isolation.
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Amen to that. A launch loop or EM launch system on the Moon combined with ore processing and a robotic assembly/launch/retrieval system for asteroid mining could change the world in ways that firing some doomed saps at Mars never will. With all of those raw materials we’d have a real hope of spreading out in ways which can help to preserve Earth, rather than abandon it like a virus shedding from a cell.
Please follow the HN guideline that asks you not to name-call in arguments. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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TypeScript makes JavaScript easier & less buggy IMO. The more people developing with TypeScript, the better chance they use Microsoft's other tools. Some of those tools cost money. Some also make deploying with Azure really easy & enjoyable. Azure is their big cash cow.

The more MS tools you use & the better perception of the company you have, the easier it is to find yourself just wanting to stay in their ecosystem.
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Just looked it up, and I am sort of failing to find a proper resource. It is about using SIMD capabilities?
it's exactly why we need sovereign money
> Just ask - you will get at least 5 different answers to every question.

That's because you asked a normative rather than a descriptive question.

Admittedly, econ is a field where there can also be a problem with descriptive questions, but blaming the field of economics for the fact that normative questions involve subjective value judgements and every person has a different framework for making those is quite unfair.
Random would just favor the biggest demographic
True, but every day the bank's lobbyists influence your government.
In my experience, economic conclusions are almost entirely a result of the initial assumptions that their model was built on. Right leaning economists make different assumptions than left leaning economists so they get different conclusions.
QE pumped up balance sheets, cash was not released into the wild.