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My only experience is with ELisp/Clojure and you're right that the turn around time is much faster with editing, but at least in ELisp I find "stepping" through code much more confusing. The call stack (or whatever the equivalent is called) has some weird characteristics:

1 - It doesn't match one to one to the code and is in a funky non S-expr form where the function name is outside the parans

2 - As expressions are evaluated and you pop up the stack it will dynamically filled in parts of the higher expression so the "stack" is morphing and changing. It's cool and convenient but also disorienting.

3 - Each line/frame can be horribly long (like a whole let or cond expression in one line) and it's not clear which section/term/subexpression is being called in the frames below

I'm using the normal debug-on-entry and I'm definitely no pro, so maybe there is more ergonomic way to debug? (In the little Clojure I've done it seems to be the same)
> In the US this isn't true. In the US we've decided to democratically spend it on the military.

So it is true.

The People (collectively) have decided to elect those whose policies are to spend money on the military rather than other things.

If you want to change this policy, you need to find likeminded people and together convince enough other people change their minds.
Even if her Tweet was uninformed, it's still not a nice thing to say. One of the big problems with social media is that people have very different standards about what they will say on the internet vs. real life. It wouldn't have happened if she hadn't decided to be a jerk to someone she didn't know.
Are memories of old wars used as the fodder for new ones?
Apple went on record as making their next environmental push for longer lived devices, now that they hit the 100% renewable energy goal. Given that goal and the performance boost that iOS 12 brought for older devices, lower unit sales are inevitable.

On the plus side, we might get a break from the annual IS APPLE DELIBERATELY MAKING IOS SLOW SO YOU'LL BUY A NEW PHONE??? stories, so it's a trade-off.

Their plan seems to be making it up on services and pushing app subscriptions over 1-time purchases.
> Considering the blatant abuse it was very much necessary.

Disagree

> Planting notions is[n't] really doing much?!

No, especially considering the scope, cost of compliance, and downsides of government interference.

> The idea that more tracking and more data collection has no downsides is how we got here in the first place.

This is why I originally wrote "One day I hope people can separate what they want and what they can get". We have to separate intent/reason from reality, and we have to stop assuming all attempts to curb a problem are righteous and justified. There are downsides to collection as FB and others are seeing in countries without these laws. The downsides grow with education. How is that even possible if there are no downsides? And, pretending that false statement was true, I'll take the company tracking and data collection over government interference any day. The former has very minimal, often only theoretical harms, whereas the latter has very known and already realized consequences to business compliance costs, freedom of information costs, and difficulty to roll back when misused.
He wasn't attorney general, isn't attorney general, and 3 years ago no one had any inkling he might become acting AG.

Your comment amounts to "wet streets cause rain!"
We released a (free) page that shows the top apps for every country and category in both the iPhone and Android markets.

It's main benefits are:

1. You can see the top 1,000 iPhone/iPad apps and top 400 Android apps (where other free resources are limited to < 100)
2. All lists update every hour (where others update daily, and with a delay).

I'd love to hear what you think about this.
The design of Twitter actively discourages understanding context.
Somewhat ironically, The Register has a misbegotten step-sibling, https://www.theinquirer.net/ [1], which tends towards the dry and purely technical and I've always found it thoroughly unenjoyable.

[1] I can't remember the history [2], but long ago there was some disagreement and subsequent parting of ways and The Inquirer was born

[2] Wikipedia does though, obviously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register "[co-founder Mike] Magee left in 2001 to start competing publications The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner and TechEye."
I was fortunate to be sold a carbon and titanium bike at cost many years ago. It’s an amazing machine, and I truly love it, because nothing I’ve ridden since in aluminum or steel can compare. If I had $5k to drop on a new Specializes Carbon with RED, hell yeah id do it! It’s like: Once you’ve driven a Ferrari, the only thing you want to do is drive a Ferrari.
Someone at NASA is jealous their thunder is being stolen by a for-profit outfit.
Unfortunately, I have seen worse. I guess we can be thankful that *chan boards never became mainstream.
Assuming you're being honest (not sarcastic or trolling), your original intuition made a lot of sense. There's nothing wrong with having a moral compass that runs contrary to the popular mindset. Occasions often arise when that is the actually "right" thing.

Not to go too much into politics, but perhaps time is better spent by helping humanity heal and become more mutually caring rather than more authoritarian and flex on each other. It doesn't sound like you missed an opportunity at all, but rather dodged a bullet.
> showing ads from third party ad networks without specific consent

Showing third party ads without consent is perfectly fine. IFF you don't gather, share, or process any personal data in doing so. If they serve static non-personalised ads, that's perfectly GDPR compliant.
> one part Jesus (including both the Protestant work ethic and the belief in "deserving")

Protestant theology actually says the opposite of "you deserve blessings", historically. The "five solas" of the protestant reformation include "sola gratia" (salvation only by grace - undeserved good treatment), and "solus christus" and "sola fide" make similar points.

Certainly "prosperity gospel" teaching is rampant, but it has very little to do with the Jesus of the New Testament or with historical Protestantism.

> You can't think a fax is a gift from God if you don't think there's a God, for example.

You also wouldn't think that if you read the Bible much.

- Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
- Proverbs 22:7 - The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
- Hebrews 13:5 - Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

You can find many examples of professing Christians (or atheists) doing stupid things. That doesn't necessarily mean that Christianity or Jesus is the problem. It's more often that they don't follow what they claim to believe.
totally agree with you. And some visa gift cards charge you monthly fee after activating them!! I had few cards that I forgot to use, and their value became $0 after a year. And I am also concerned about the environmental damage caused by millions of plastic gift cards.. all the way from sourcing, manufacturing, transporting and disposing them. And to certain extent, it forces over-consumption behavior. I got 2 kids, and always got too many BabysRus/ToysRus gift cards. I am either forced to use them or re-gift/exchange them with others. In the end, the cards always get used by either myself or the others. If unavoidable, then you can at least print/send an e-gift card.

If it's plain cash, I can just deposit them without buying anything. For these reasons, I always wrap cash in an envelope with a personal hand-written note. Have been gifting this way to teachers, postmen, home-cleaners and no one has complained so far. When my friends/colleagues try to gift for any occasion, I always encourage them to gift cash.
> how can it be cleared with USD if there's not some US institution in one place or another

Anybody can setup a little hut where they take in physical US dollars and give out virtual dollars which can be transferred over the internet, ala Tether.

If you operated such a hut outside the jurisdiction of the US, it doesn't matter what laws the US has, they don't apply to you.

This is the point I was trying to make that you dismissed as "infantile": just because you hold US dollars doesn't mean US laws apply to you.
I always wondered what people think who produce weapons and such and how they go about their lives knowing what things they are making are doing. Now I have some idea.
Nonsense. Most Gartner analysts have never touched the tools they write about. The interview a small set of users to draw broad conclusions. Overpaid journalists at best.
Liquidity reduces the cost of trading for everyone, which is something you can just empirically verify. What do we care what someone's motivation for doing it is? Presumably everyone's motivation in finance is to make money.
Violence tends to be the dynamic in which power is doled out in the anarchy of post-revolutionary states. Whether it's direct violence against political groups or against honest hardworking citizens so their property can be handed to another group. Usually it's a little of both.
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But did the first one deserve to be "hounded" and harassed until she left twitter?

Umm, maybe? You know that wasn't a single, isolated incident of shit-posting without context. It is entirely possible that a lesson about interjecting yourself into conversations with nothing constructive to say at 2:00 a. m. whilst knee-deep into a six-pack has been learned. And thus the world becomes a slightly better place.

Actual lynch mobs, yeah, those are bad. But no one was hanged here. If you'll allow me some literary license, all it amounts to is that some snotty bitch with 13 followers won't be posting one-sentence shit-posts anymore. We won't be missing her otherwise insightful looks into the situation in the Middle East, or her thoughtful analysis of world economics. So I'm torn. Yeah, lynch mobs, blah, blah. OTOH, maybe some folks just aren't suited for public discourse.
No, the bottom end for Apple is the iPhone 7 - Apple is still selling it, for £449.
Which is a good thing, I can't see why these devices shouldn't last five years or more.
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People are sarcastic in real life too. “Want a medal?” is usually harmless.
You can implement the algorithm yourself.
Well I'm glad that after 4 comments, you've finally gotten to stating a point.

Unfortunately, your point is shallow and dismissive, rather than engaging substantively. It obviously doesn't seem silly to me. If you're saying it seems silly to you, an anonymous rando, I can live with that. If next time you would like a writer's help in understanding what they've written, try asking succinctly and with at least a modicum of respect. Because people generally have better things to do than spoon-feed anonymous jerks.
When I read something like this my first instinct is always to do a root-cause-analysis (5 why's) like I would with a software problem. I recommend trying it.

What went wrong?

- An innocent person has heard hurtful things about himself on twitter

- Why? (Is it Twitter is too negative? Or Twitter exposes you to greater range/quantity of remarks? Or because his mom made an account for him? ) All good questions, let's go with the first one

- Why is twitter negative? (Is it just a convenient place to expose the negativity people always feel? Is it just a certain subset of bad users who enjoy creating drama for kicks? Or does the environment lead to escalating miscommunication/conflict?)

- Why does the environment lead to escalating miscommunication/conflict? (Because you might not recognize if a tweet is by somebody with down syndrome when an online medium? Because it's easy to misunderstand somebody if you judge them on isolated remarks? Because a lot of discussion is on emotional topics which leads to impulsive tweets? Because it's easier to get angry at a remark than a person?)

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I don't think this is accurate whatsoever. I think the main driver of these decisions is real estate. It's simply much cheaper to build a low-rise complex on lots of acreage than it is to obtain the same square footage downtown.

However, if a corporation can reallocate labor capital into real estate, IMO what happens in the NYC area, that's what they'll do.
It's hard to even wrap my mind about the consequences of those limitations though. The web as we know today would not exist, hell the world would be a different place without facebook and all the other social networks.

And something would replace them, and the same problems would happen because the fundamental problem is not caused by some technological decisions, but stems from human nature.
My personal experience? Perhaps things are different in SLC but out here it's:

"Who can help bro/sis so and so" or in EQ "So and so is looking for part-time work if you know of any place" and being sent to the storehouse for food. A friend was told no financial assistance and that she should consider subletting one of the rooms in the house she rented, even though there were 3 bedrooms for her and 5 kids and then 'coincidentally' within a week after that she had family services in her house saying she had x days to get a functional refrigerator before her children would be taken (apparently that's a thing). People here will ask for help on the private FB group for the ward when they do occasionally need it.

I imagine you see more instances because you probably have a considerably larger ward. We don't even set up overflow most weeks and I'm fairly certain in 13 years I've had to share a pew less than 5 times for sacrament and even at tri-stake mid-singles firesides we have tons of empty pew space.
But this is Twitter we're talking about here... Context is for those nerds at Metafilter!
This title is ridiculous, even by Hacker News standards. There's nothing in the article about a "love for weed".
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Even software developed with effectively unlimited resources is rather buggy. The closest humanity has ever come to truly reliable software was probably the Space Shuttle flight control system, and that code was relatively simple in a highly constrained problem domain. There is zero evidence that "serious methodologies" would get us any closer to a working AGI.
I've never really thought about it but I think this is my #1 gripe with Twitter.
The problem is like 0.2% of cyclists actually race but it's about 95% of marketing.
Well - ok - I may have overstated in that: Yes, market making provides more liquidity. Yes, it makes it more efficient. Yes, for everyone, not just the marketmakers and exchanges.

But no, this is not the reason marketmakers make markets.

They do this in order to make more profit.

The rest is a side effect that they happily spindoctor into their "raison d'etre".

The company I worked for is known for being the primary source of rich people in the Netherlands. And they keep getting richer. Very much the so-called 1%.

And a disclaimer: I'm an engineer. Not a trader.
Moreover, the example of "In tests, cyclists cannot tell the difference between frame materials when the frame is covered." - who cares?

I probably wouldn't notice the difference between some quality swimming gear vs elite (gold medal quality?) swimming gear either. Running shoes, etc.

Since when does a humans ability to determine minute differences in materials actually matter? Why would we care would opinion the biker has of the material? If it's objectively better, and better is defined by measurable, quantifiable metrics - then what do we care? We're not talking about a wine-snob scenario. Where it's purely subjective opinion based. We're talking about performance characteristics that, when used in competitive scenarios, actually matter.

Now does it objectively matter to some "bike snob" just riding to work? Eh, maybe not. Sure he may make it to work 1m faster due to an objectively better frame, but who cares. Yet, the fact that the bikers use case is subjective does not invalidate more objective use cases for better frames/etc.
the same video with only the introduction to SOUL is here: https://youtu.be/-GhleKNaPdk?t=910
> And thus the world becomes a slightly better place.

The biggest delusion of every lynch mob ever...even before the internet. There's a very good reason we got rid of lynch mobs:

a) they get it wrong wayyy too often, (ie no due process)

b) the punishment they hand out is often way more extreme compared to the alleged 'crime'

c) other non-criminal bystanders get swept up and attacked merely for opposing the mobs method of punishment or lack of clear evidence (a and b), ie you get punished for having the rational calm voice because the mob wants blood.
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It seems like in both cases the problem was lack of context. She criticized him because she didn't realise he had Down syndrome, and then the mob hounded her because they didn't realise that she had apologised.

Perhaps Twitter is especially bad for this because its character limit encourages truncation of context.
Traders typically provide two prices - the price they will buy at and the price they will sell at. Their profit comes from the spread between. A good trader does not care if the market moves up or down, they make their money on the spread, a trader typically wants as little inventory as possible.

The people who cause markets to move are not the traders, they are the people who buy from and sell to the traders.
One thing that strikes me about the idea of colonising the galaxy is it has practically no economic benefit to the people making that investment. Not to mention that any society you set up on a neighbor star is likely to diverge culturally (and perhaps biologically) in significant ways — perhaps to a point where they’re more likely to be mysterious rivals rather than friends.
Why would it scale with the square? A brain is a physical system, and computers can simulate physics in a way that scales. In principle it might have to be a quantum computer, but most people who've looked into that are very skeptical.

A better argument is that neurons do complicated things. But they also satisfy many inessential requirements in having to be built by evolved machinery and to stay alive; a designed system with more advanced technology than ours could do at least as well at thinking while dropping the inessential needs. So that's certainly possible. This leaves "not easily achievable". It only has to be accessible enough for someone; I-can't-imagine-how isn't a strong argument.
Flip 3 bits at once and your ECC protection has been Rowhammer'd
"religious immunisation exemptions"

God, apparently.
451 Research does VERY good research and they fully disclose exactly how many respondents, their size and other relevant demographics of their research. You will NEVER see Gartner disclose how they conduct their research and the demographics. You just have to take their word for it.
For me, the more shocking discovery in that article is that there are actually organisations that consider genetic screening for Down's Syndrome to be eugenic discrimination.

Although people with Down's syndrome have a high likelihood of passing on Down's syndrome if they do have children, inherited cases are extremely rare.
That is what he said.
Back when I was a macOS user (back when we just called it System 7 …) I discovered Alpha: an extensible editor written in TCL. It was pretty amazing, and was what first opened my eyes to what could be done with a scriptable editor.

Oddly enough, it still exists: https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/ (last updated 16 days ago!).

I’m a heavy emacs user nowadays, but there’ll always be a soft spot in my heart for Alpha.
> Those interviews are, of course, something you can easily (with a serious time commitment, but fairly easily nonetheless) prepare for and game

Assuming a certain level of intelligence, that is.
Read the whole article.

> Jacqui messaged her privately to explain why it was an achievement for him, and the woman immediately apologised. "She was mortified, said she was so sorry," Jacqui recalled. For Brent's mum, that was that.

The problem is not just replying with no context and no forethought, but feeling that their petty response it worth publishing.
Browsers and javascript has been security disasters for decades and yet the web crowd perpetuates this model and even plans for webassembly.

Large webassembly applications will make it extremely difficult to inspect suspicious code for this kind of attacks.

Dodgy ad providers will exploit similar vulnerabilities to better track user behavior or worse.

Yet, there isn't an ongoing discussion on limiting the resources available to random websites. The idea of not enabling js by default is seen as absurd.

Good luck to all of us: browsers are developed by companies selling ads.

EDIT: Judging by the downvotes looks like I struck a nerve.
Those are marked as "private" if you view those blogs in an incognito window (not logged into Tumblr) it will tell you that the blog is private and you must log in to view the blog. That's entirely the user's decision to make their blog private to the public.
I think it's more nuanced than that. How about: we are all assholes sometimes, the internet (and Twitter in particular) makes it harder to keep those reactions in check.
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Hi,

I am new to these things.

(This is a little off topic but I figured I'd ask.) I took a look at my key (you can see it on my profile) and noticed it is 2048. Is there a reason to go with 2048 as opposed to 4096?

Sincerely,
But humans are the dumbest possible animal capable of creating a technological civilization. If we weren't, then our dumber ancestors would have done so.
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> who the fuck asked you

What’s with all the tough guy shit on HN now?

Who asked her? No one. No one asked them to post publicly on twitter either so “who the fuck asked you” doesn’t seem to apply.
Tax might "hypothetically" the best way. But it has got to be one of the least efficient means to redistribute wealth ever.
I voted for "Gamma Ray Burst" in the Florida election instead of "Big Rock From Space" but when they counted them, it was determined that my intention was to vote for the Democrat candidate.
I thought it would be pretty obvious I wasn't including comments such as these where the intent is obviously malicious.
> It's a pity. SML is in many ways a joy to work with. The language doesn't change, which is a nice thing in itself in the current climate, but it has many things people still look for in modern languages (type inference, pattern matching, a module system). Multiple compliant compilers are available that produce fast code. The syntax is delightful, relying on neither brace delimiters nor syntactic whitespace.

is it now ? Caml has been taught for a long time to a lot of to-be engineering students in france, and it was frankly almost universally hated ; likewise for people that are taught LISP.
>Since when does a humans ability to determine minute differences in materials actually matter?

when the difference we are talking about is "ride quality" then humans noticing is the only thing that matters. If we were talking about speed, then it wouldn't.
Obviously it was not a nice thing to say. It was dealt with appropriately by the child's mother. The twitter mob accomplished nothing besides more people being jerks.
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> These jobs do exist. Data entry, library clerk, trucker, for three. These are basically asocial.

I've been a librarian for 20 years. It's basically a combo of non-profit retail and fundraising. Unless you're an academic cataloger, asocial people don't last long in libraries.
I guarantee there's something you spend money on that someone else would make this same comment about.