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But code is text, it's about keeping the original text accessible as an alt. Which Carbon actually does apparently.
The article mentions that quantum computers are “an order of magnitude” faster than traditional computing. My understanding is that at the moment, this is incorrect: (noise-free) quantum computers are better at certain specific tasks, and otherwise, are no better than classical computers.
No, this is absolutely not the case in the UK.
I feel like dynamically types programming languages had a huge hype period, and then all the startups we saw write in their dynamic languages later ended up adding types, because maintainability is simply SO much easier when you have a good type system and the compiler can help you. I say that coming from a road starting at PHP, then moving to Python, JavaScript, Java, Haskell.

Funnily enough, strongly statically typed languages are not bad at all for the early prototyping stage. In fact, I would argue that they are much better, but you have to switch your approach from slapping some functions out, to instead slapping out some ADTs, that form the basis of your app.

A lot of good advice for Haskell is given in this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/7sr8k7/fast_protot....

One important thing to note though, is that I honestly don’t think this will work well, unless the language has at least type inference and support for ADTs, newtypes (or, tagged types) and pattern matching at the minimum. Less than that, and you end up fighting the type system, instead of letting it be your help and guide.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and certainly not uncivil ones.
I have kept copies of code and email from every job since the 1980s. Some of it is now hopelessly unusable since codepoints have drifted (I mean, the raw data is still there but the characters are garbage in ASCII, are probably badly transcoded EBCDIC).
This is why I use Play Music : I can upload my own tracks and download my library if need be.

For games I largely favor GOG : all the games are playable even without their launcher (even though I use it) and you can back them up.

For movies/series, is there such a solution ? apart from torrenting of course.
Isn't it more that they're against Trump, and what the Republican party has become? They are only for one political party because there is only one alternative. Back in the day, I know that their leadership was close with people like Colin Powell and Kissinger, so there are probably some traditional republican values held, it's just that in recent years the party has become completely toxic.
Not OP but I have been 2 years in the US. There are many great things in the US, I had a wonderful time, but I'd never swap EU for it. Just two points: vacation time and health insurance. Especially if you are older and/or with kids I'm very thankful to be in the EU.
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Definitely has the option to adjust depth of field in post-processing. Done it lots of times.
I just moved here to the Netherlands, message me on keybase if you have any questions.
Please don't foment flamewars on HN.

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A couple of European countries offer the option to learn two foreign languages during school.

So usually the most sought combinations are English and French, German or Spanish, which already covers our internal travel needs quite well.

Then a couple of Erasmus and the language knowledge can be ramped up to a few other European languages.
sadly the early access signup isnt working, i just get "an error occurred" which is a shame as i recently got a similar service called LiquidSky which does a similar thing except it has centralized servers and it almost manages to be perfect save for a few occasional dropouts that wouldnt bother me too much in a single player game, sadly though im playing overwatch and that bit of lag can be the difference between dead and alive, this may just be good enough to use problem free
Such an important question. I wonder how I can use my skills for it. Not easy to answer. I'm trying to get into cleantech, looking for a job currently.
Why would you expect the truth of basic statements to be easy to establish? Science is hard and many basic questions are debated by experts. Political consensus is difficult.
Entirely reasonable question, but I wasn't talking about making custom layouts for each device. I'm also talking about a single UI design that is responsive to different screen sizes. But instead of supporting all iPhones, if we instead support 4.7-inch screens and above, that's less work, because there are fewer cases to handle.

Taking your example of expand/collapse, when you implement it, it's more complex than it appears when watching a Youtube video: you now have to handle three states: a collapsed state on small screens, an expanded state on small screens, and big screens, which don't have expand/collapse. This imposes more work on the designer to design for these states and make sure they're all usable and look good, perhaps with animated transitions between them. On the engineers, who have to deal with multiple code paths and edge cases. On QA, to spend more time trying to test more scenarios on different devices. Everything sounds simple till you code it up :)

Now, if you could eliminate this complexity by not having to collapse the control in the first place, that would be simpler. Maybe there's enough space on the 4.7-inch screen for that.

UIs scale up better than down. I prefer to do UI design for the smallest supported screen size. If we choose to support 4-inch screens, we may have to choose a UI design that's not optimal for 4.7-inch and bigger screens, which the majority of our users actually use. Whereas if 4.7 was the baseline, we may be able to come up with a better design for most of our users.

All these problems are, of course, solvable, but if they take X amount of time to solve, is there something more beneficial you can do in that time?
Back in the day, you could enter special codes to cheat, or execute certain button combinations on the controller. There were even various devices that allowed you to cheat. Imagine if doing any of those things made your entire cartridge collection disappear..
This comment adds zero information to the discussion. Not hacker news standard, I think.
I do the majority of my training fasted (ie 8-14 hours since last I ate). I used to struggly wildly with working out before breakfast, but with some experience now I think training fasted is definitely superior [for my own needs, N=1, #YouDoYou].

Not only is it not uncomfortable, I feel _way_ better before/during/after working out.

Firstly: the food in your mouth is not used for your workout. You work out with food already digested and put in your muscles. Our biology is not precious, jungle-warrior neanderthals did turn into skeletal waifs if accidentally they hunted before noon without a BCAA-rich recovery shake. Nothing about morning training is energy, it is all habit, comfort, and hormones.

The primary issue, for most people (including me earlier), is that they train "before breakfast" and not "fasted". Important distinction. Hunger (and the hormone that causes it), comes in manageable 20-30 minute waves. If you do nothing it will pass. Most people take a banana, or some milk in their coffee, or a "little snack" before trainin. That breaks the fast. That is "break-fast", and it starts your body expecting food. So if you don't break your fast, you aren't exciting those hormones and insulin, so your body is ready to roll focused on the task at hand.

Secondarily is hormones. When you are fasted your body makes lots of great focus hormones. It also gives you extra HGH. Training also delivers HGH. Training additionaly delivers bombs of happy-hormones, and go-rip-the-world-a-new-one hormones. If you're fasted, you are more sensitive to those hormones, meaning you feel better. If you're fasted your low insulin also lets your body get as much fat-energy as it needs, so your energy levels can be amazing.

Outside of that is simple comfort and habit. The time your body expects food, the "engrained eating time", is adaptable. Having a lower baseline insulin, and a lower-carb diet, that minimizes "hangry" feelings and snack cravings will also be a huge help. Combine the two and you've got a recipe for insanely fun work outs with no hunger issues and better energy than otherwise.

Black coffee, water, and nothing caloric before training. It's night and day :)
It's not for me, it's for my father and Skype is where his friends are.
> I guess there’s a reason Apple is dominant: aggression and brutality always win out in humanity

How does that follow? Google, Facebook, Microsoft... are all equally heavy handed so I don't see how that makes Apple any more "dominant" than the other players in the field.
> This is why I use Play Music : I can upload my own tracks and download my library if need be.

This was to get easy adoption from people with existing music collections, don't be surprised when they cut this feature in future. With people growing up with spotify and the like I doubt it's even that important for new users anymore.
It doesn't compromise the users privacy in any meaningful way. Back in version 12.04 there was a scandal wherein searches on the desktop could return remote results from Amazon. Canonical countered that all data was going through them and no personal info was leaked but nobody actually wanted to see ads in their desktop search or share data about their files with Canonical thus this was changed in 14.04 or 14.10 if I recall correctly.

Essentially this hasn't been an issue in about 4 years.
Well, the compiler was its own thing and had very different goals. I'm sure that wouldn't have flown for most use-cases and from what I've read it was used only for running production code because compilation took a while.

HHVM also adds a lot of syntax to make Hack. And moreover I don't doubt Facebook wanted the option to remove backwards compatibility in the future. Issues like MAX_INT and pass-by-reference don't seem pressing enough if you're using the language, but if you're building a compiler or VM small language quirks will be the one exception that break whole potential optimizations and/or ways of architecting things.

Facebook is not concerned with backwards compatibility because they can just change their source code, but PHP is, in order to remain relevant to the community. I honestly think trying to work on the same VM would've caused more issues in the long-run.
Sorry, I don't know.

UK social services should strongly prefer the father over a foster placement, so if he was around they should have allowed the children to stay with him. They can only remove the children from him if "nothing else will do" to keep the children safe. Having said that,there has been a worrying rise in child protection proceedings recently.
> All it proves is that comments that contribute nothing get downvoted.

I actually think it contributed a lot to the discussion, hence why I upvoted it (even though it still looks grey to me now). More to the point, the OP seems to be a conservative Google employee who feels his/her job is threatened by the internal company culture at Google, internal company culture which can be seen in the the video itself.
Steam desperately needs competition. It would be interesting to see how much more the market would pay to actually buy games again rather than rent them.
I think the big bad habit is not doing what you do, ie no caloric intake before training. Most people who try sneaking a quick snack before training, or break their fasts with milk in their coffee/tea, and then eat breakfast after training. It's just not the same.

Once you start eating your body wants more food. Eat nothing before training and you're still in warrior mode.
thanks for the clarification. anything except exaggerated tides wouldn't make any sense to me
Wasn't HHVM created as compiler or interpreter for PHP?
For me, I want to download and install everything. I want every small thing I do to be its own program, with its own name.

I want to be able to remove my network card and still have programs which work. I want to own everything about my own PC and all the data that enters or leaves it. When everything's in the browser, that's not possible, because you're essentially turning a PC back into a network terminal. I want my computer to be mine. I want my data to be mine. I do not want anyone or any program to have the authority to edit data on my PC over a network without my clear consent. And if you say that installing and/or activating the browser executable means I'm giving consent to it to edit data freely on my machine, then I think I'm going to need to go a different way than the Web.

We need the freedom to have our own computers, our own thoughts, our own data. We need to be able to say at a user level that we wish to interact with this data in our way, rather than "the Web way". Not every piece of data needs to be viewed or manipulated in a way that works in a Web browser. And the processor load should absolutely be a concern. A well-written and optimized program written in asm will always run faster and better when compared to a "program" written in a web-deployed JavaScript on top of a browser.

Why should we be constrained by the lowest common denominator of the Web, when having the ability to use our own offline system enables the use of millions of more user-focused use-cases?
Poor Wikipedia will need to migrate back to php7 runtime which still could be complex despite of language compatibility.
I've gone through a few of them since buying mine 6 months ago, and yeah it's going to be slow unless you manage to get one with iOS 10 on it.
I think this might be a historical accident. What typed language could ppl use? Java, C++ mostly? They’re (for me) both a horrible mess.
I think ppl will start using these “new” typed languages from get go: TypeScript (or Flow+JS), Hack, there’s likely more space for these. A high level, both functional and imperative, expressively-typed with type-inference language is going to dominate mid-term. Or still put differently, everyone’s learning from Haskell while not using Haskell.
The thing is that the enterprises seem to be okay with them being the only user of their open source projects. Don't ask me why they then decide to do open source projects in the first place, but that's what I'm seeing.
60h is common standard in US, if you are just doing 40h you are being lazy.

Most companies offer 1 week vacation.

Maternity leave is a foreign word to many companies.

Some have a no limit vacation, but the work culture is such that even less people actually take vacations.

Then you get to be tied up to the company regarding healthcare.

Unions in IT, which exist is a couple of European countries, are seen like persona non grata.

There are lots of wonderful things in US, work conditions in tech not necessarily.
From my experience going from clean shaven to a small beard can throw the whole system off and requires manual intervention rather than going through the automatic gates. Fingerprints surely would be more accurate.

Have no idea whether foreigners have to give fingerprint scans at Australian customs, it's common practice throughout Asia.
Oh wow. That info should be spread!
It's not a loss until you sell.
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I feel like I'm getting a better experience for free than any that I paid for with Windows.

You get what you paid for is what ignorant people say about software. The entire software landscape is absolutely littered with very very expensive turds. Cost and quality don't seem to be terribly correlated.
Global Foundries have dropped 7nm.. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13277/globalfoundries-stops-a...
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I agree with you. Bringing up politics in the workplace is rarely appropriate, and the way Google does it here is not only inappropriate but very offensive. I definitely wouldn't want to hear mud slinging about my political views in a corporate environment. This whole meeting is simultaneously childish and deeply disturbing.
Those are streaming/pubsub services though, this actually claims to be a store. I feel that's an important difference.

Do people just point their system journal at Kafka and wait for something to break?

At my previous job we built something similar to this out of rabbitmq and mongodb. I always wondered what the other big log companies used. Mongodb seemed like a pretty good fit, but a pure append only database might be even better. Trimming performance in MongoDB was subpar so we worked around it by creating a new collection for each day, trimming became a simple operation of dropping a collection at the end of each day.
Keep the low effort joke posts on Reddit. And if you had read the article first, you'd know the software engineer is a she.
Democracy isn't that great if the people vote for politicians who implement bad laws. What I'm afraid of is that the majority of Europeans actually think this law is good.
This kills me. I loved the reminders mixed with emails, I didn't need any separate app: all notes abd emails abd reminders in a single giant todo interface. It's perfect. The migration guide states they have nothing for the reminders beside a stupid suggestion to use split screen with 2 apps on phone (which is not even close to what i need).

I'm looking around for alternative products that behave like inbox.
When the French executed Lavoisier, they said "the republic needs neither chemists nor scientists". The US seems to be of a similar mind at this point in time.
No, that's not what I'm saying, but you already know that. Either way this isn't very productive unless you have some arguments.
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> The point is that targeted ads are a small price to pay

That's your personal opinion, and that's ok. However, others may and do have a different opinion.
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I always liked the term minion but it would probably also offend someone.
The rule is about the implementation itself, but the other one is part of the benchmarking code. You'll need to be able to use the implementation, that doesn't rely much on external libraries, with types from other packages. If you read the article, you'll find Julia is all about composing functionalities from different packages. Its a major driving factor behind the ecosystem - and usually not possible if your language relies on c libraries to do the heavy lifting.
I wasn't aware that cats were political.

What a silly argument.
To be fair, advertisers are significantly less likely to complain about price discrimination than end users.
Time to start an open source version of Inbox? -> https://codepen.io/simoberny/pen/bdvMyj
Do more to show it then. Firefox has consistently been clamping down on user freedom and aping Chrome as closely as possible, instead of actually focusing on doing the right thing. Google is not the health of the web. Helping Google is contributing to the largest walled-garden that exists.
Are these really YIMBYs? Do they own the property they want to live in (ie is it their back yard?), or are they renting nearby and want to own a nicer property?

I'm certainly not arguing that some markets need resetting, but as parent says, this isn't what the people who want this want. They'll sell progressively crappier and crappier property because that's what property markets will bear when unregulated.

The only way to depreciate without lowering quality is area decline. Sounds awful but I honestly think some places need this. If they keep growing, keep sucking in high paid jobs, the lower classes (that the upper classes need) won't be able to afford to live where they need to.
They don't really advertise it, but there's no requirement to use DRM on Steam: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
Adding more servers stops being a good option after a certain point. If you're a small company running on 20 servers you can increase your performance by 5% if you add just one more. Install it in one day, boom.

If you're running on 200,000 servers, a 5% increase is 10,000 servers. That means opening a new building in your data-center, making sure your recruiting team has resources to hire enough staff for it, then hiring that staff, negotiating contracts with the power company, the component suppliers, building permits, hopefully you have enough network capacity otherwise you'll have to expand that too, etc.

It's many months of work and a lot more expensive than hiring a handful of engineers to tackle performance and maybe build some libraries in-house.
If you run an ad campaign at a targeted audience, why can't the campaign have a specific page marker (campaign=only-christians (coded as AB1)) that reveals personal data?

We never had a choice of an alternative model. The monopolies involved demand privacy for their services.

You can serve ads without targeting or target content instead of audience: broadcasters have had to do this for a long time and it can be very profitable.

It is evil and bad to profile people and worse to force it on them by abuse of market position. Audience targeted ads are a form of discrimination.

Some of the data Google harvests has the potential to get people killed. For instance, when Google are gathering data about who uses membership areas of political sites, frequent sites for certain sexualities, using regulator pages to blow the whistle, etc. Google doesn't have a right to collect this data. It's evil.
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I'd go so far as to say that book not worth re-reading isn't worth reading once.

That could work well as an argument against reading newspapers.

Thoreau in Life Without Principle:

"We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Yes, every thought that passes through the mind helps to wear and tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which, as in the streets of Pompeii, evince how much it has been used. How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate, whether we had better know them,—had better let their peddling-carts be driven, even at the slowest trot or walk, over that bridge of glorious span by which we trust to pass at last from the farthest brink of time to the nearest shore of eternity! Have we no culture, no refinement,—but skill only to live coarsely and serve the Devil?—to acquire a little worldly wealth, or fame, or liberty, and make a false show with it, as if we were all husk and shell, with no tender and living kernel to us?"
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> They found that the cells surrounding the suppressed tissue communicated with the placenta, which then signaled the rest of the organism’s tissues—including the other hind leg—to slow their growth until the hindered limb caught up.

Can somebody dumb it down for me? It's fascinating but I still don't understand how do they communicate. Is it done through nervous system? Presumably not because it's not reaching all tissues and it's probably not yet fully developed at that point. So how does it happen? If it's just releasing some chemicals it seems hard to imagine that it could be accurate. Plus how would the slower limb know that these chemicals come from it and it does not need to slow down growth. How does something know that it is slower than it should be? So many questions.