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I also prefer the option monad, etc. over returning (result, result..., err) tuples but terseness of error handling is as much a property of the language (i.e. operators, features, etc.) as it is a property of the type system. Consider the "try!/?" pseudo-macro from Rust. If Go had macros, there would be nothing preventing something similar from being implemented.
Uh, you realize that abusing that probably means they'll have to cancel the public service at some point, right?
This has been my position as well for a long time, but I'm starting to feel like there's an unexpectedly enormous number of people out there with zero ability to critically evaluate information, and it seems as if all a terrible idea needs in order to gain critical mass is that it be emotionally satisfying and generally known.

I honestly don't know where we go from here - I continue to believe that giving the state the right to determine what speech is allowed and what's not to be far more dangerous than the alternative, and that's not likely to change. But it's almost as if we've discovered that idiocy is contagious, and the vector is the internet. Maybe it's temporary, because the internet is new - maybe society, having never dealt with a deluge of information like this before has no natural immunity to it, and it will develop over time. Or maybe we've found a loophole in human cognition that will end up destroying us.

At any rate, I can't fault a private company for trying to do something about it; it's like a bus company finding out their seats are the vector for some horrible disfiguring viral disease and removing them in an attempt to stop the epidemic.
Yeah he appears over and over. Eg

if i were to choose a patron saint for cybernetics out of the
history of science, i should have to choose leibniz. the
philosophy of leibniz centers about two closely related
concepts-that of a universal symbolism and that of a calculus of
reasoning. from these are descended the mathematical notation
and the symbolic logic of the present day. now, just as the
calculus of arithmetic lends itself to a mechanization
progressing through the abacus and the desk computing machine to
the ultra-rapid computing machines of the present day, so the
calculus ratiocinator of leibniz contains the germs of the
machina ratiocinatrix, the reasoning machine. indeed, leibniz
himself, like his predecessor pascal, was interested in the
construction of computing machines in the metal . it is therefore
not in the least surprising that the same intellectual impulse
which has led to the development of mathematical logic has at the
same time led to the ideal or actual mechanization of processes
of thought.

- Cybernetics (1961 ed.)

Leibnitz, in the meantime, saw the whole world as a collection of
beings called "monads" whose activity consisted in the perception
of one another on the basis of a pre-established harmony laid
down by God, and it is fairly clear that he thought of this
interaction largely in optical terms. Apart from this perception,
the monads had no "windows," so that in his view all mechanical
interaction really becomes nothing more than a subtle consequence
of optical interaction. A preoccupation with optics and with
message, which is apparent in this part of Leibnitz's philosophy,
runs through its whole texture. It plays a large part in two of
his most original ideas: that of the Characteristica
Universalis, or universal scientific language, and that of the
Calculus Ratiocinator, or calculus of logic. This Calculus
Ratiocinator, imperfect as it was, was the direct ancestor of
modern mathematical logic. Leibnitz, dominated by ideas of
communication, is, in more than one way, the intellectual
ancestor of the ideas of this book, for he was also interested in
machine computation and in automata. My views in this book are
very far from being Leibnitzian, but the problems with which I am
concerned are most certainly Leibnitzian. Leibnitz's computing
machines were only an offshoot of his interest in a computing
language, a reasoning calculus which again was in his mind,
merely an extention of his idea of a complete artificial
language. Thus, even in his computing machine, Leibnitz's
preoccupations were mostly linguistic and communicational.

- Human Use of Human Beings (1954 ed.)

Wiener becomes preoccupied with Leibniz from his youth, writing philosophical entries for the Encyclopedia Americana which are like premonitions of his cybernetics.

He wasn't uncritical though, he especially attacked the pre-established harmony of monads. The argument I'm pursuing is that if you get rid of God, if you let monads actually intercommunicate, if you reinvent Leibniz's continuum of infinite confusion and infinite clarity of knowledge as entropy and information, you're pretty close to cybernetics.
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What? I though they were bored stiff. Every time anything happens - even the most insignificant accident - you’ll see a flock of police offices taping out the scene, parading numerous vehicles and generally making much ado about nothing :)
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You mean a bit like NaN in floating point math?

ie. code execution continues with the same flow, but any code that takes as input an error will return the same error.
There's a huge difference between the US and EU in this regard. If I steal a car in California and try to sell it in Nevada, I can expect to be arrested.

If I have a car stolen in The Netherlands and it's being sold in Romania, and I find out who's selling it and where, I'll be told that I have to travel to Romania and file report with the local police there before they'll do anything.

The only inter-state enforcement we have in the EU is Interpol, which doesn't care about anything like that, they only handle the likes of violent crime.

So it's kind of like expecting to recover your stolen car from Mexico or Belize, except crossing the border is a lot easier.
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This seems like a perfect argument for ICOs. Tokens have several additional favorable properties. I think this new paradigm subsumes the ipo/direct listing debate.

Great read: https://news.earn.com/thoughts-on-tokens-436109aabcbe
If the old "Top Gear" shows are to be believed, eastern European countries are full of cars stolen from western European countries. Then there's this: (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-12-27/news/991227006...).
The problem with that is assuming they will have internet connectivity always on when you want to contact them. Which I never found true even for the few people I regularly communicate over Signal. Most people turn off data and only turn it on somewhat regularly over the day to check stuff. Older people (like family) have no idea or barely know what internet is or even the button for that does and just expect communication to work like always: sms and phoning. But if people cam do the above approach good for them. I can barely convince anyone, even tech people from work or friends to install even more chat clients/services. Most are just fed up and feel tired of the whole thing.
There's a lot to be said about legacy systems that just work.
> The UI of Calls has made some strides to look like the mockups from the design team. Below you can see the implementation (left) next to the mockup (right).

Is there a reason the programmers couldn't just implement the design as given? They added a bunch of useless borders and gradients, and removed all the labels. This looks exactly like the Parable of the Concept Car: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/08/12/concept-cars
I would put a true utopia, with e.g. the good parts from unlimited free energy, at a hundred or more on that imaginary scale.

Sure. I'll have that instead of the 8-ish student life.
Why are you so cynical? When a company does anything its essentially to make money but we can laud companies for positive decisions or criticize them for negative ones.

SPOT's decision actually hands more money to the real investors over large institutions or individuals with lots of wealth that get to get in on the IPO strike price and cash out after a few days or hours into the market opening.
Most companies will offer to pay for the relocation of you and your family, along with your home, from Egypt to wherever you want to move.
That is how worker coops work all members are share holders one member one vote.
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So if you're looking for someone who can execute both at the same time, whiteboard coding is ok?
There's no inline caching is there though? And so no 'mother of all optimisations' inlining. Or is my understanding of how Objective C works mistaken?

You wouldn't dream of implementing a dynamic language these days designed for performance without basic polymorphic inline caching. But Objective C seems to get by fine without it. Maybe it's not as essential as we think.
And who decides what is and isn't a silly idea? For 40 years, Americans were told by the government to believe that low fat high carb diets were the key to a healthy life. Not only is that not true, but it's never been true. There was never any evidence to support that stance. And yet, that was the official government policy and subsequently the commonly held belief for 40 years.

"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Not Mark Twain
You would be surprised how much effort businesses put into building a relationship with local police, that is a big part of a security director's job. The more people they have on site, or the higher their inventory value, the more they are willing to spend on the local PD. I've seen areas built on company property that are effectively police sub-stations, giving cops a place to do paperwork and take a break, in order to cheaply keep them nearby. I've seen off duty cops hired for show up jobs, just to guarantee timely incident response. I've seen local PDs negotiate a fee schedule... it ain't a bribe if there is a "fee schedule". No, companies aren't doing this in order to break strikes or otherwise oppress employees - there is just a ton of risk when you concentrate hundreds of people in a small place that you're legally responsible for. I have seen some interesting results come out of it though: one holiday night a copper thief got onto the facility roof to plunder the AC units, one call from the off duty officer resulted in the immediate dispatch of a police helicopter and nearly a dozen cruisers. This is from an American perspective, but I'd be surprised if it was different anywhere else in the world.
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Makin' games, burnin' savings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7MXfg2wt28&list=PLqJcvcLs4C...
That’s possible. If we are simulated, it’s also possible that we emerged in this simulated universe and the maintainers of the simulation don’t understand the human mind well enough, similar to how we don’t. It’s also possible “they” don’t know we’re there in some random corner of their simulation.

On the other hand it’s possible that the entity who would run this is aware and can manipulate our minds, or rewind time.

The problem is that if we just assert that we live in a simulation, anything imaginable or, if you allow for the outside universe to have completely different laws of nature, anything unimaginable as well.

I’m not a proponent of any simulation theories at all (they’re fun to think about, though), but I’d imagine that just like in “ordinary” science, people are interested in only testing falsifiable theories about the kind of simulation that we could understand and retain knowledge about.

Assuming for example that time can be restarted to prevent an insightful experiment to happen won’t ever give any meaningful result to begin with. As a corollary it’s never possible to disprove “simulation”, as a fuzzy term, in general. Scientists can however assume a much more constrained simulation that is maybe closer to how we would do it, and construct experiments that at least allow us to refute whether the alleged simulation seems to have those simpler properties or not.

In this case, it seems their simple model does not hold, and the simulation might be different. There can still also be no simulation, but we can never be certain.
Bugs and symbols. There's a mac command line tool I can't remember the name of that pulls all the readable (and more) text from an application, this has been used to find out what made a closed source app (e.g. private iOS apis).
the primary use case for julia is where you expect to be doing computationally-intensive work over and over again (e.g. in a supercomputer deploy where I was using 20 HPC nodes over the course of 4 days), so the amortization of the (short) recompile time is worth it, and the ease of writing software using the julia generics is totally worth it. Also see the Celeste.jl project where they were able to very easily optimize for a super inconvenient platform (xeon phi).

If you're expecting a high-performance jit that needs to be called all the time because your program gets unloaded from memory and needs to be rebuilt by a kubernetes server every fifth web request, don't use julia.
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I'm not sure specifically for restaurants. A lot of my ideas on health come from "Catastrophic Care", where they talk about "the surrogates" who stand in, for the role customers would pay in an ordinary cash transaction.

P.S. Bisto food sucks. I went to Paris on my honeymoon last year, I live in SF and our food is better and way more innovate to boot.
No in general.

If yes, the problem should be simple and relevant, and the session highly interactive. The assessment should be about (a) How interested the candidate is in the problem (b) How receptive they are to feedback.
This goes into a lot of detail on all this http://phrack.org/issues/66/4.html
Yes and they can be changed - increased, decreased or eliminated - due to the political environment.
Does YC have any moral guidelines for the companies they fund? I was assuming there’d at least be a hand-waving “make the world a better place” or something, but I’m not seeing anything on their principles page: http://www.ycombinator.com/principles/

Would YC fund a cocaine delivery company if it was legal and profitable? A news site that fuels revenue by spreading hate? Military recruiters in poor neighborhoods as a service?
That depends on your 401k. I agree that if you can switch to one with vanguard funds that's definitely the most optimal
I think this is definitely an outdated dichotomy, especially in the context of a game company. The bros/jocks now are the gamers, who used to be nerds - now the nerds are the hardcore programmers/database people/accountants. Those who are in the gaming culture are every bit as much in hypermasculine jock culture as football players, just without the physical abilities.
TFA says the same thing about predictive text.
You can get some ideas from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/25/getting-things-don... but I'm not sure if they apply here.

Is it possible to isolate some part, a small part and fix it? Perhaps some new code. Perhaps some stand alone part that is easy to use like an internal library.
Most/all modern monitors have presets, one of which is "store demo". All you've got to do is pick the calibrated preset.
When I do whiteboard interviews I want a little bit of code because I'm stunned by the number of people who can't write a loop. But mostly I want to see the design process. I ask for a simplified version of a real feature that has an algorithmic core. This lets us code something but lets us discuss all sorts of edge cases and real world complexities that would come up in a true deployment.

Lots of interviewers suck. That isn't a property of whiteboard interviews.
I wrote a paper arguing that 'ancestor' simulations are effectively impossible. Part of that argument was that, in order for the simulations to be meaningful, the world had to work largely the same way as our own. (Otherwise, it's not an 'ancestor simulation'. Other types of simulations could work.) You could, for instance, just project a 'video' of the sky every night to save some energy costs. Until the simulated people gain the ability to, say, practice photometry. Then your have to spend a bit more energy simulating the actual physics. So, as time progresses in your simulation, energy costs rise.

Eventually, your simulated beings develop the ability to compute. There are some things you'll be better at optimizing, but over time the simulated beings will get closer and closer to the optimal way of doing an operation; at which point any operation they do is an operation you are doing.

Until they generate a simulation of their own. That's when it all falls apart. At the point they make their own simulations, now you're paying in energy for your simulations, plus all their simulations and their simulations' simulations in an infinite chain. Voila. Infinite energy requirement. (There's some caveats here... some simulations may result in a dead world, but presumably every successful simulation would run more than one successful simulation of its own.)

So, your options are:

1. End the simulation when the simulation becomes capable of running its own simulation.

Useful, perhaps, but not very for a very old civilization. It's not clear that humanity 1 million years will be that interested in simulating the first X00,000 years of humanity.

2. Dumb down the simulation.

However, this would have to be done "just so" so that the energy use limit converges as the depth of simulations approaches infinity. This also provides a mechanism for a simulation to detect that it is a simulation (I forget why, it's been awhile), making the entire exercise not useful as an ancestor simulation.

3. Prevent simulations from running their own simulations.

Like (2), this potentially allows the simulation to discover that it is a simulation. It also may make the results of that simulation less useful. If you, for instance, wanted to know what the world might be like if event X happened differently, you could change that event and let the simulation run, but as soon as you got to the point where they would have run their own simulations, you can't be sure of your results.
Who's to say your opponent will always be sane, or have something to lose? It's remarkably blasé to just say meh, MAD. Also there are many threats that could significantly degrade the US without destroying it, for example anti-satellite, cyber, to name a couple of obvious examples.
Some of them are aoft paywalls. Others are easily defeatable, though it may not be legal to link to a readable link.
There are some lines you can't cross. I doubt any philosophers would truly argue that free speech is absolute, and that yelling FIRE in a crowded theater should be protected because it is possible to ridicule the speaker and calm the audience before they stampede each other to death. Malicious intent and incitement of violence are not mere speech.
This is a fair point when there are limited options available (price, availability, location, convenience). In Portland, there are tons of options that are healthier and cheaper.
If the problem is "what determines truth", then there isn't an organization out there that could resolve the issue (barring something like the Chinese government, I suppose)
So the TL;DR is: move on.
There’s no inlining, because determining whether inlining wpuld be safe is probably Turing-complete. However, IMP cacheing is a thing and that’s enough for most cases. For the rest there is C and (Objective-)C++.
I didn't say anything about cheating...and the article was about two people who were compatible except that one really wanted to get married and the other didn't.

I think that the cultural expectation that a relationship isn't valid or meaningful unless it results in marriage is part of the issue, but for those that really want to get married I'd hope they realize that not everyone shares that desire.

It's sad to me that in the article's circumstance that the contentious marriage issue would cause the woman to rearrange her opinion of her ex because he didn't want the same thing she did. Helpful for her maybe, but sucks that this is the proscribed method of dealing with people.
> If you're a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who knows they can raise a seed round together. If that's you, you shouldn't take our offer.

This definitely makes it seem like you are preying on the uninformed given the tiny amount of funding you are providing for the percentage of ownership and being essentially handcuffed for 8 years.
If your looking for someone who can think, code and present at the same time, yes.
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Where's all the oil we acquired from destabilizing the ME?

It would make sense if the US currently controlled all the oil fields in Iraq and Kuwait, but we don't.
That's all fine and dandy, but is there actual factual standing behind the positions I listed?
Yes and no. I read in Brealey-Myers [1] that you can get 80-90% of the way to pure beta (market risk) by picking 15-20 stocks. You just have to pick ones that aren't super correlated, e.g. 10 pharmaceutical companies.

Whether it's worth your time messing about with this is a separate matter entirely.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Corporate-Finance-Richard-...
There’s no inlining for Objective-C methods, if that’s what you’re alluding to, because the language dictates that every method call must be observable. objc_msgSend is generally really fast, though; it’s usually as fast as or faster than a virtual function call.
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If/when you expand into Canada, can I start the pilot franchise in Ottawa called KRAFT DINER?
There is only so much that you can do with wealth in China; many corrupt individuals often park their illicit wealth abroad in Western nations and that is where sanctions against these individuals (or companies) really hurts them.

Sanction enough individuals and you force them to fall in line and discourage that kind of corruption.
Well, for some people, pulling the parking brake is a "massive inconvenience" which ends up having serious consequences.

Technology can't solve everything.
My reading is that (a) systemd can't read home directories on the file server, because clients understandably don't get root permissions there; and (b) the reason systemd was trying to look in those directories is that they contained (non-root-users') FUSE mount points.
Do you think you could get this to work for Google Assistant as well?

Does ASL-to-text already exist outside of voice assistants, or is that part totally new?
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