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Is the spelling of "preëmptive" with a trema correct? I know of course what a trema does, but I have never seen it being used in this word.

Sorry for being off-topic. Actually not so off-topic, considering how often the word is used in CS :)
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Have you read Stranger in a Strange Land? I suspect someone else has taught you that word and they did it badly. To grok is to understand something at a profound, visceral level.
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U.S. dollar allows US to extract neo-colonial tax from the rest of the world. US has a huge trade deficit because US simply prints more dollars to buy everything they need.
So the inflation is different from the current expansion.
Hahaah my youngest watches these. I really hadn't imagined the videos were made by middle-aged men with mustaches :-)

Well, thanks! It's absolutely braindead stuff but braindead in a lovely way. Perfectly great for half an hour of powering down.
>The fact that there isn't even a client for the world's most popular search database is indicative of the ecosystem as a whole.

It indicates that you haven't written one? That's a rather strange attitude, for sure it doesn't have a wrapper for any rest api, what it has is all needed tools for write it, that's what really matters. The tool in repo above does not even use a library, only generated bindings. It's much easier to write a client to a rest api in OCaml than in Go due to derivers [1], atdgen [2] and the power of the language. Take a look at graphql bindings as an example [3] [4].

[1] https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving

[2] https://github.com/mjambon/atd

[3] https://github.com/andreas/ocaml-graphql-server

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaKcEGkItsY
Kids love sugar too. That doesn't mean it's good for them though.
It isn't. It doesn't really seem to even require an industrial robot arm (though that definitely buys reliability). It seems well within capabilities of DIY robotics.

(Side note: building a pizza-making robot is one small dream of mine.)
Can you point me to the law or the part of the constitution which allows for summary execution without a trial for rudeness to law enforcement officers? I'm not aware of such, and to me it seems to run counter to the principles embodied in the constitution.
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Ask HN: Low latency audio. OS X vs. Windows 10
I overheard a conversion by two professional music producers talking about low latency audio in music production. One of they claimed this: When a system is running under high CPU usage there is a greater chance that Windows (10) will continues to play a smooth audio stream compared to a mac. A mac, that is under heavy CPU, audio will start to crack up. This is by design. The priority for OSX is to provide zero latency audio where Windows (10) priorities smooth audio, no matter what, with the cost of increased latency. For Windows (10) to be able to do this there is an audio buffer that OSX does not have. This buffer allows a Windows (10) machine to continuously emit a smooth stream even under high CPU load. What I asking it this final statement: "Because of that latency Windows (10) is not suitable for music production." Is there any truth to what those guys said. Is Windows (10) not suitable for professional audio production?
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Fully agree, great point
There are a few others doing it, but I think it's a terrible idea. There's a lesson to be learned from the insurance industry on this one. You'd essentially be providing an insurance policy to your customers (i.e. the payout is source code to your application) when they have no insurable interest (i.e. the success of your business.) What this means is that they can benefit from your failure while having no actual interest in seeing you succeed. Perversely, if one of them wants the source code, then they do have an interest in seeing you fail. They may not try to kill your business directly, but it can actually be against their interest to supply you with more business which would keep it worth your while / viable.

Instead, I'd suggest thinking about their concerns and come up with a mutually beneficial way to address them. If they're worried about you walking away from it, offer them a long term support arrangement with some legal teeth where there's enough $$$ involved to guarantee your continued engagement. Bus factor... meh, you're a one-person shop... if they want to mitigate that risk, have them pony up some money and you'll be happy to staff up. etc. etc.
> mutation (especially if localized and doesn't leak outside of a function) can really help functional code become a lot faster

There's this magical thing in Haskell called the "ST Monad", where you can have a pure function (does not have IO in its type signature, does not use unsafePerformIO) that takes a normal value, returns another value, but can use mutation inside the function, and the type system guarantees that the mutation doesn't "leave" the function. So for those cases where, in C++ I would think "this function is pure enough, it doesn't print or order fish food, though it does mutate this temporary array", Haskell's compiler will actually confirm for you "yeah, you're right, it is pure enough".
your media is doing huge damage to American society by reporting it the way it does

Absolutely. The concept is referred to as "if it bleeds, it leads" (in terms of coverage). Media routinely will repeat news hourly of a 3-person shooting 2 blocks away from a school out of state yet completely ignore a 20-homicide-attempt weekend in Chicago, because that's how the narrative goes.
> Perfectly great for half an hour of powering down.

Perfect for you or your child? :)
> I mean "transparent to the OS" in reference to operating system tooling rather than the kernel objects that make up containers (there is an argument that these are related concepts -- but I think we can have cohesive tooling without redesigning how Linux handles containers). The lack of a 'struct container_t' in Linux definitely makes containers quite complicated to set up, and is a constant source of pain

It makes it difficult to reason about containers, as well. For instance do you see confinement technologies such as AppArmor or SELinux belonging to the container or are they slapped on top of containers? Where do you draw the boundary? And does it make sense to talk about "containers" when it's such a vague concept. Also, there are now "VM containers" such as Kata.
Someone always brings out this argument - that it's acurate in the aviation world.

But that is different from the average human, who expects the autopilot to automatically pilot the car - including stopping at stop lights and for pedestrians.
My tech company has individual desks in the open office. I don't think this environment you describe is the norm but I don't have numbers. That just sounds like bad management.
Crowdfunding might be an option if everything else fails. However, it's highly dependent on your network and social visibility.
what is this danger you speaking of
I think there is a theory about our brains being limited in volume due to birth and that further increases are unlikely. Likewise, I doubt you could significantly increase athleticism.

We could use it to remove defects and certain predispositions though to fine tune our genetic code.

But I remain skeptical about any super humans.
Genuine answer: it depends on the color of your skin.

Cops generally have a lot of leeway in how they handle a situation and current training focuses on protecting the officer at all costs. This means the public is viewed as the enemy.

Post 9/11 the US police departments have been militarized with surplus equipment and trained like soldiers. While I still think most cops are "good" the fact is that the "bad" ones can ruin your life in an instant and you will have no recourse. The only safe interaction with US police is the absolute minimum required by law.

You cannot assume a police officer will help you and they should be avoided as much as possible.
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If you're talking about suicide rates in general, numbers can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

TL;DR. The US seems to be slightly above the average EU suicide rate, but below several individual European countries.
because the US is better at marketing an idealized (and false) version of its culture to the world than other countries

Of course, not. US became a top destination in a very simple fashion which doesn't involve neither culture, no marketing: your cousin/friend goes to US, and writes back that there are jobs, and food/clothing is relatively cheap, and you think "aha!", and you are the next. And at some moment the whole community comes to the same realization, and now parents prepare their kids for emigration for better life. And it works even in countries where governments are very hostile to Americans, and promote the idea that US is the capitalist hell :-)
There are numerous news stories about Australians gettting shot by police while traveling to America

Name any three.
Doh! Thanks. That sentence got too complicated :)
I built out https://github.com/krakenjs/fetch-robot to avoid some of the esoteric issues around CORS endpoints -- and to avoid the performance hit of that preflight request.

It acts as a `fetch` implementation that allows you to declare cross-origin policies in advance, then channel the requests through an iframe which enforces those policies.
The problem with this is:

a) it doesn't scale

(you are now doing the other devs' job)

b) it only works if you are infallible

(if there's a bug in your fix the other dev is going to say "colanderman told me to do it this way")

I know that it is tempting to just tell people what to do, but it's not a long term solution.
There are different dimensions of quality, and some of them have a much bigger payoff in the middle to long run than others.

There’s a profound difference between ugly code and tech debt. Many people don’t really understand the difference until they’ve struggled with it for a long time. They will alternately declare Tech Debt or YAGNI in wholly inappropriate situations.
>Yet sinking the company is not in the interest of the worker.

It's not necessarily a big deal. The workers can just go and get another job. It's the owners who are really crying.

It's not especially perverse for unions to be indifferent to the risk of sinking the company if the people they represent hold no stake in it.

Especially since the threats that this will happen from the owners will be overblown.
Very curious about this as well!
While those are all good points, I feel like

> Don't stop trying to improve.

can't ever be overstated.
That's a valid remark, although it is very general. For instance Geiger counters might not help with the actual problem of sorting in recycling centers.

I would be interested in the actual available sensors for discerning the materials in question, say between a glass bottle and a plastic bottle. Are there sensors that can discern between Polyethylene, Polypropylene etc. ?
The entire webstack is such a broken mess of inconsistencies and thousands of hidden traps that can render the entire thing insecure.

People moan about C yet I find the web stack greatly more painful to write because you didn't even have control over the compiler following standards strictly (where stuff has even been standardised).

I really do wish we worked together to create a new standard for building and deploying documents and applications over the internet because this HTML (and all its supporting technologies) is an experiment that has gone bad. Id preferably want something that doesn't allow each browser to interpret the specifications differently and absolutely something that isn't controlled by Google (they would obviously need input but the last thing we need is another AMP).

Of course it will never happen, but one can dream / rant nonetheless.
You are making my point for me. I'm talking about people who rely on donated food to survive and you are talking about prices, markets and competition.
AIUI the problem with individual medical insurance, in the US, is that without group bargaining and a requirement that all people must have it, there's both little incentive for insurance providers to compete for business, and the nasty reality that lots of people not having many expensive problems subsidize the few that do, and if you cut the long tail of people with problems that are cheaper than their premiums, you end up with exorbitant costs for the remaining people, and then a death spiral as "more healthy" people continue to opt out of rising costs, and the cost needle keeps moving up.

I'd probably prefer something more like a logical inverse of that - baseline guaranteed coverage for everyone by a government agency, and then if necessary private providers can wrestle over offering various incentives to use them beyond the guaranteed coverage. (Not that I have an incredible amount of faith in most governments acting efficiently, but they almost always have a better record than for-profit agencies, and I'd prefer to avoid a government mandate of a non-government agency.)

(I'm not going near the convoluted structure of compensation types because I don't think I'm informed enough.)
>How does someone who is 90 have the tenacity to kill someone?

Barring a new mental health issue which turned this guy murderous, he was probably not-a-nice-person earlier in life, thus already capable of (and perhaps never held responsible for) many earlier misdeeds.

So, wild guess: step-daughter declared intent to reveal his prior crimes, to mom and/or authorities. Then, step-father kills to keep his secrets.
Off the top of my head:
1. Increased risk of getting dementia (due to living longer).
2. In some cancer cases, being kept alive in a state of suffering for a year or two more than you would have lasted without treatment.
3. Health treatment costing a significant fraction of GDP.

Some people might still think these are good things. I think "questionable at best" is a good summary.
I'd still code a lot. Just not software of dubious social value that's meant to make someone else money.
SO, that explains the business case behind the pay raise just fine. Reducing the $ 4.2 billion stock based compensation (2017 figures) and giving the blue collor workers an added sense of stability. In Germany, one of the main complaints used by Unions was that RSUs and bonuses are not what workers want. So both problems solved, kind of.
I think this attitude is part of the problem.

> Do you need to do rolling deployments? Boom. Kubernetes pays for itself right there.m

No, you don’t need to do rolling deployments.

> Do you need someone else to join you on ops duties? Boom. If they know Kubernetes, they can easily find their way around your system.

Easier than ssh’ing in and running ps?

Don’t get me wrong, k8 is great if you need to manage a complex system. It’s just that most of the time you can choose to not build a complex system in the first place.
> It's hard to point to a product that came after my tenure (I was on the team that original made the POS called Cloudera Manager) that's really used by anyone at scale.

There are tons of them. Spark, Hue, Sentry, Kafka, the list goes on.
Thanks, will try.

Meanwhile, I found this - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
GPLv2 doesn't have patent clauses either (that was the reason for GPLv3). So I'm extra confused.
racial disparities in policing including who gets pulled over how often

But, there isn't a racial disparity when you adjust for cause of stop. Generally, stops are initiated from activity observed from behind , where ethnicity of the driver can't be seen.
> From what I understand at the moment the problem is that many police precincts in the US cannot afford them (since they don't get enough funding -- you need to hire people to sort through the footage as well as licensing the hardware and software from Tazer and so on).

This has little to do with taxes and more to do with priorities. Thanks to civil asset forfeiture the money is absolutely there for many police forces, but they would need to prioritize this over the acquisition of armored tanks and other militarization programs.
It's a bit artificial though, as a metric, you could just do a trivial commit twice a year to keep your "promise".

Great looking file manager will give it a bash next time I'm on my mac :-)
> Entity is one of the worst, least productive

I think that hits the nail on the head; I never got why anyone used that. We never did and we have been using c# for a long time (all over to Core now) and all the horror stories never applied to our work, I think, because we never touched entity.
Coursera will not grade the end-of-section quiz for non-paying students.

EdX grades exercises for audit students, on every course I’ve done there the free/paid experience is identical, the only difference is whether they issue a “verified certificate” at the end. Often people audit courses and only upgrade to paid once they have a passing grade.
Perhaps you should finish reading the rest of that sentence..tesla is the most advanced "ON THE MARKET". People keep comparing it to non-existent market competitors like waymo. Tesla has close to 1 million cars on the market. Waymo has zero. It's really easy to compare your power point presentation to a company with a giant fleet out in the wild and claim you have the best tech...
And as to your second point, yes the fact that companies should bring their tech in house is my own opinion. What's your point?
Not this, go to the source rather than Gladwell (Anders Ericsson) if you Google him a bit there's some podcasts where he talks about deliberate practice and he cowrote a pop book called Peak which introduces his major findings. Definitely worth a read as Ericsson is the foremost expertise researcher in the world.
I think this is a useful promise for customers.

But what happens when you disappear from the web, after you bought a tropical island ;). How are people going to get the source code? Do you use some escrow mechanism?
If you're ever in The Hague, the Escher museum is a must-see. Seeing Metamorphosis II displayed in the round was just fantastic.
Only available in the US. I am really surprised that such obvious use case is not covered by tens of apps already. I would certainly pay few bucks for such app if the servers were out of reach from corrupt poluce departments and governments.
Don’t wind yourself up about it though. One of my favorite definitions of adulthood is “learning to integrate all of your life experiences”.

All your detours and diversions add up to You, including the stuff you were afraid would never matter.
This is an interesting point that had not occurred to me. However one could argue that customers "benefit[ing] from your failure" is not the case.

Typically a customer buys software because they lack (or are not willing to provide) the internal capacity to buy and evolve the software themselves. If the software producer fails, this will slow-down or kill software evolution, bug fixes, production of documentation etc, thus hurting the customer. As but one data point, consider Windows XP, which is still in widespread usage as of October 2018.

Avoiding this scenario is the customer's interest in the producer's continued success.
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Some, including myself, take it as a slightly negative signal. I’ve seen too many paper tigers.

I take almost any MOOC as a positive signal that this candidate invests their own time in ongoing professional development, but I have encountered some who apparently learned nothing, maybe got someone else to take the tests or used a braindump site.
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OK. So make a list for me of causes and ideas you hate the most.

I'll arrange for you to tithe in support of organizations promoting those causes. I'll also arrange for someone to show up at your home, every day, and deliver a one-hour lecture on the ideas you dislike.

I'm sure you'll do this because, after all, you believe in free speech and you believe you must "uphold" it by requiring people to support ideas with which they disagree, Yes?
> blockchain for lettuce at Walmart

Who would have thought, it's actually real: https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/solutions/food-trust. It seems to be based on Hyperledger Fabric, which apparently does not require proof-of-work. That's amazing, and thanks for mentioning it. This is the first non-disastrous blockchain project in active use that I've ever heard of.
The iPhone definitely did not definitely did not bring tons of people to computing for the first time. By the time the iPhone came out PCs and laptops were pretty much in every home anyway. Let me put it this way, I live in a third world country(Lebanon), and the first time we had a computer at home was in 1996(11 years before the iPhone), and by that point most of my friends in school already had a PC at home. We were not wealthy by any measure(more like lower to middle class at the time).

The iPhone did many things, but that is not one of them. No, what brought computing to the masses was Windows and cheap computers(around the time of the 486~pentium era). While I agree that nowadays it's common for a child's first interaction with computers to be a smartphone, this was definitely not the case when the iPhone was first introduced in 2007 and access to computers was already quite common and cheap everywhere around the world
Did you actually set up the phrase, or did you just try the phrase that the author was using? Open the settings for the Shortcut (the button in the upper-right) and "Add to Siri".
You get information like: You have a 11% greater chance of developing disease X as compared to most people.

That first line above sounds useful, right? But read on...

Then you find out that most people have a 0.3% chance of getting disease X (3 tenths of 1 percent chance, for those who wonder if I've made a typo). So, instead of a 0.3% chance, you have a 0.333% chance.

Big deal.

The ancestry part is interesting. But if I had it to do over again, I might not do it, because by doing so I made some of my family members uncomfortable by revealing some of their private information without their consent.
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We did, and we keep having it, because the problem still remains - people need to work to earn a living. We'll stop having this conversation when we'll solve that problem.