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Guessed wrong! I do live in the US at present, however.

> Obviously it's a bit nurture on both our parts, but sugar for breakfast is crazy, as is being taught that things like soda or snickers should ever be eaten except for in exceptional/celebratory circumstances.

There's always a gap between how things should be done and how they are actually done. I personally don't eat sugary cereals, or drink soda. I like sweets and candy and I'll admit it's a struggle to control sometimes, especially when I'm stressed out. I won't judge someone in far worse circumstances than I for indulging in sugar - it might be the only good thing in their life. And I don't approve of government resources being spent on checking what kind of food people eat - you can get far more bang for your buck elsewhere.
I didn’t understand why you have to use caching with DataLoader. I am also not sure about what you mean by inconsistency. The n + 1 query problem is usually solved by making two consecutive queries to the database. One for the root element and one for the total list of all edges, thanks to DataLoader. What is the problem with that?
The Next U.S. Moon Landing Will Be by Private Companies, Not NASA
So, while his father was being paid reasonably well according to you - he is employed by your father's firm, which leads me to believe you grew up with considerably more resources to be able to pursue your passions then the child in question. As such, the argument still applies that not everyone has an ability or an opportunity to pursue their passions.
Electron. :(
"why don't we see skyrocketing prison/homelessness/etc as a consequence of people not being able to have these drugs"

Look at crime numbers in the past. You may notice that crime has been dropping for decades.

As for people without criminal tendencies, there used to be good jobs for people without a high school diploma, that would enable a person to raise a family in a good town in a nice house with one income.

And of course a lot of people with untreated ADHD probably died young from reckless behavior.
In Go, i++/i-- is a statement, not an expression, so that doesn't work.

More generally, assignment is always a statement, and never an expression (e.g. you can't say a = b = c)
The Nihau Incident (Pearl Harbor)
It might be under-repaired, but entering "Taj Mahal maintenance" into Google shows there are tons of travel articles on their maintenance efforts, and which parts will be under repair when. It seems a bit questionable that this is totally omitted.
indian here, it always amazes me how people can suppress their frustration while articulating a problem.your comment was on point.
> I think we in the west ended up replacing religion with, not an absence of it, but with a religion of the Self

More like objectivisim or individualism. Many of my small talks with people in the west include discussion about Ayn Rand and her work on FountainHead and Atlas Shrugged. After hearing about it for a long time I read the book. And frankly, the whole concept of individualism is strange to me.
> and scares off the approaching deer

And that's exactly the way early humans hunted. The method is called persistence hunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Humans run slowly, but human bodies can dissipate heat very efficiently through sweating, and this makes humans good long-distance runners. AFAIK, humans can outrun most other animal species.

So if I understand it correctly, the hunting method involves scaring your prey, running for a while(yay hyperactivity), using your big brain to figure out where the prey went and running again for a while. Rinse and repeat for many hours, until the prey literally dies from exhaustion.

I imagine persistence hunting as a series of puzzles while you literally can see your reward - no delayed gratification involved.
Like any other thing the SEC would consider a security, it’s complicated and technical. The article refers to https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf as the SEC’s basis for considering how “coins” relate to securities.
I think nuclear weapons have significantly changed how large nation-states approach disagreements. :) Look at how the Cold War was won, and know that these things are played out over decades. iPhones might be assembled in China today, but that is clearly a huge liability going forward.
Yes. The point of agreement is that both people in dictatorships AND people in democracies are more vulnerable to insider attacks from their own governments, than to outsider attacks.

I was calling that out as .. interesting.
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read the whole thing in context and it might make more sense...basically he's saying don't be a self absorbed a hole and go out into the world and do things
I'm afraid you're misinterpreting some well-established history. Leary and Alpert were allowed to do their psychedelic study at Harvard on condition that they only give the drugs to grad students. Andrew Weil asked to join the study and was turned down because he was an undergrad. But then Alpert allowed a different undergrad to participate (not Weil - I got that bit wrong above). When Weil found out, he wrote a story for the Harvard Crimson exposing that Alpert had done this, which triggered a scandal that got Alpert fired.

Years later, Alpert/Ram Dass mused that one reason he had slipped up and allowed an undergraduate into the study was because he had found the undergraduate attractive. There is no suggestion that he acted on the attraction. He was simply looking back on his own motivations, reflecting on what might have led to his career-destroying move.

One of Ram Dass's qualities as a spiritual teacher/speaker/seeker has been an unusual openness about his personal experiences. He was talking about being gay, for example, long before that was socially acceptable. I think it is a positive thing that he has been so willing to share his own struggles and challenges. Maybe when some other guru character admits to an "attraction" years later, that would be a euphemism for "seduced" or "raped". But there is no reason or evidence to conclude that here. This was just Ram Dass sharing his experience with the same openness he always has.
Is anyone aware of any good utopian fiction?
> If Maybe is an input just keep the original function around and provide a new one that wraps it.

The problem with that is now you have to maintain two functions that do the same thing just to satisfy the type system.

> If `Maybe` is an output then existing callers SHOULD be broken,

He agrees with you on this, according to the talk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18555916
please see the great Tom Scocca's commentary - https://mobile.twitter.com/tomscocca/status/1068351171654549...
Have you ever considered whether you suffer from depression and/or anxiety? I was in a similar place after my ADHD diagnosis. Ritalin helped my career greatly, but I was still unsatisfied with life in many ways. After I started taking an antidepressant (Remeron), things got really good for me. I took control of my life and fixed a lot of problems. I find my work and my social relationships more fulfilling. It also fixed my insomnia.
He may not have done everything he promised, but as someone who isn't a big fan, he has probably delivered on more promises than most presidents.
Yep, same here. These games just sound exhausting and tedious.
Almost every sentence in this reply seems uninformed. Airtable & Asana are not comparable. Asana clearly has vision but possibly different from yours. A company raising Series E obviously would have positive financials. Founder posted hockey stick graph of revenues on Twitter. $50m is not that big of a Series E raise and will obviously go to engineering and sales & marketing.
Yep that's why as Hickey says people are excited about union types. But in the context of a refactor or a change to an API where you care about breaking existing users, there's a perfectly valid way forward.

Basically I don't think Option types are as unwieldy as Hickey is making them about to be. Indeed Dotty (one of the examples in the talk) will be keeping Option even in the presence of union types (mainly because union types fall down with nested Options and with polymorphism).

That being said Haskell (and Scala) is annoying when it comes to trying to combine different kinds of errors together, if you want an error type more expressive than Option.

OCaml here (and Purescript) have a much better story with polymorphic variants.
Ah yes, well. It does indeed have free paper trading.
Disagree. The NHS in the UK is free. And they don't stop till you're either better or dead. The US health system is messy, but that's no example to go by.

In India, they're not just nitpicking your insurance policy, but doing underhand things like pumping warm water into clinically dead victims to give their families false hope, so they keep paying the ICU fees (anecdote from a friend - he was eventually alerted to this hogwash by an upstanding admin clerk in the hospital).
I can understand the curiosity.

But let's say they look into it...are they likely to find his criticism to be reasonable and just walk away after that?

I just wonder if you go as far as to investigate such things if you've got some motivation or inclination to find / feel their actions are biased or uncalled for and that might lead to what Facebook did... fire up their own disinformation...
If you're independent, you can live in a way that gives you a lifestyle that would require a salary as an employee of $500k-1M
We flag the story about Google employees discussing censoring conservative news sources but we push this story about Facebook to the front page? The intellectual dishonesty here is astounding.
This is from the BBC which has a definite negative reporting bias on anything to do with India.
"People will come up with reasons the system they live under is the laws of nature," probably is a law of (human) nature, though.
> How do I, personally, define normal? Who gives a shit?

If you care enough to leave a comment on HN, please also explain _why_ you think it is poor. Because right now your comments add no substance to the discussion.
Wow, Mr. Ram Dass and friends scored some amazing tail. I could get behind this holy man business!
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What I don't understand is why this is so persistent. Irrational markets, I guess.
At least partly because up until this point Facebook has denied she did any such thing. If it's not a big deal they would have disclosed it before now.
Interesting that you bring it up. The Indian Supreme court has always been very active and seems to provide a sense of "balance" to the political chaos that is persistent. There was a very good (albeit very west-centric) article in NYT about this - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/asia/india-supreme-...
I remember, back in 1995, reading a big banner hung up on a very prominent intersection in the downtown Mumbai area, that celebrated a supreme court decision on a controversial political corruption case by declaring "Thanks to the supreme court, India survives despite it's politicians. That, at that time, summed up the feelings of many urban middle class residents.
Perspectives on Politics isn't exactly a top-drawer journal. It's the sort of outlet where articles (often more on the philosophical side) end up that lack the scientific rigor necessary for the top-tier journals.

Also, FYI, political science has a pretty contentious divide between people who favor a scientific approach and those who prefer a normative/philosophical approach. The two sides basically hate each other. So to claim that "In political science - they assert this is science" pretty much misses half of the story.
The fear that comes from knowing that if you say or do anything, no matter how minor, you may lose your job if your narcissist CEO disagrees with it.
Exactly. If someone said something questionable about you, you might do a google search. Doesn’t make you a stalker.
I'm not sure an addon per tracker is web scale.
> Why is this a story?

Because George Soros is a lightning rod for the alt-right and NWO conspiracy theorists.
By behavior I mean not doing the class work.
Microsoft isn't as exposed to tariffs on Chinese imports.
My personal situation, on a relative scale, is rather more tragic. I would suggest you not to make that assumption about my upbringing, for you would be quite incorrect.
In future submit as a link post and comment below seeking feedback. Actually, delete this submission, resubmit as a link post and if you want anyone to read it retitle something more informative/clickbaitier.

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Having actually read the article I suggest you consider how much you want to be a developer and how much you want to be an activist. Your lifestyle seems so unstable that I imagine a lot of people would read the article and say to themselves “No way am I hiring this person.”

The message you want to send may be different but the message I’m receiving is not of a digital nomad, someone who’s making a living off the internet. It’s of a drifter, loosely attached not just to the labour market, but to people and places generally.

On the writing itself there’s not that much structure. Beginning, middle and end are lacking. There’s no message or story. It’s a succession of events. Also, you have multiple eggcorns in your writing, where you misheard speech and wrote it down as you heard it, rather than as the expression usually goes.

> I told them that I was looking for other opportunities and their draw dropped.

It’s jaw, their jaw dropped.

All that said you’ve done a lot of writing on medium, way more than I’ve done anywhere but commenting. Good luck and keep going.
Just to be clear, I believe some people have disorders that affect attention. I also believe there's a larger group of people who are just cognitively different. They are fine in some circumstances, not in others.

As an example, I'll note that common characteristics of people with ADHD include hyperfocus [1] and higher creativity [2]. They are also more easily bored. Is this different? Yes. Is it bad? Certainly in the context of the standard educational experience. Do stimulants help? Sure, but they also help everybody cope with boring things. Almost every office in the world has a coffeepot. We have built a system that most people need stimulant drugs to function well. That some people need more or different ones than others to fit the system's needs is unsurprising. I'm just suspicious that the disease model fits it particularly well.

As an analogy, consider who can reach which cabinets. We just accept that there's a pretty wide normal variation in human height; some people can reach higher shelves than others. We also recognize that kids grow taller. If we started declaring kids below the median height had "Height Deficiency Disorder" and started giving them growth hormones because they couldn't reach the top shelves, that would be pretty sinister. Especially when that happened to the ones who were just younger in their grade, and therefore naturally shorter. Especially when it's possible to build cabinets differently, to provide assistive devices, and to help short kids learn how to deal.

So yes, we definitely don't want kids to fail. But I would like us to treat medication as a last resort, and to start being more accepting of neurodiversity.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/hyperfocus-flow

[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-there-and-every...
Partly, it is because the US Constitution and Indian Constitution are very different documents. Look especially at Part IV of the Indian Constitution, "Directive Principles of State Policy". See for example Article 43 which requires the Indian government to endeavour to provide a living wage. So, the Indian Supreme Court gets to evaluate (if it wants to) whether the Indian government is doing enough to provide a living wage. By contrast, the US Constitution says nothing about a living wage, so the US Supreme Court has very little constitutional justification to get involved in wage policy.

(Part IV is non-justiciable – you can't sue the government for violating it per se; but, nevertheless, the Courts are supposed to keep it in mind in their decision making, and so I think it does contribute to some of the substantial differences between Indian and American constitutional and judicial cultures.)
>> To have a diagnosis of ADHD, there must have been symptoms before the age of 7...

As every five year old is likely displaying symptoms of ADHD, that is going to lead to a lot of false positives which seems to be the issue that most concerns people.
Should it be read as "you may not resell it" or "you may not use it while being paid by someone"? It's a bit unclear.
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I don't have children. I have friends who have children. I don't know if you have children. I have seen that children can be stubborn in their eating habits - I know I was.

Low-income parents may be hesitant to introduce new, healthy foods to kids because if the kid doesn't like it, it's time and money wasted (assuming the parent can't finish it). They're more likely to buy something the kid is sure to eat.

> If they don't eat it, they weren't very hungry

That's what I think to myself also whenever I see a parent running after a child trying to feed them. But parents can't seem to find peace unless the child finishes their meal. I've also heard children get cranky because they're hungry, but don't eat because they haven't learned that it will make them feel better. Being in that situation as a parent seems horrible. I'm willing to believe that stressed out low-income parents would rather that the kid eats anything, even crap, than face a meltdown.

> Do not feed them crap because "that's all they'll eat".

If I ever have children, this is my plan. But I have also heard that plans don't survive contact with the enemy...
That is an incredibly large amount of engineering effort to compete with plain old vibrators, and also appears to misunderstand the target market.

Was your BOM cost 100x higher than the competition, or only 10x higher?
Sure sure. Criticism is untenable until we all prove ourselves perfect.
Yep, it is a weird deal. Any company worth 1,5bn should be able to generate cash or raise debt instead of going for expensive equity. Looks like the valuation is well out of sync with their actual financial health.
The process of identifying bugs and the process of distributing patches are two separate things. And there is a very specific reason the "Android ecosystem" is slow to distribute patches -- an important piece, namely the hardware drivers, is not open. The reason you can't install the latest stock Android with all the latest patches on your device is that the device is stuck with proprietary blob drivers that aren't compatible with newer kernels.

So that whole tweet from Andy Rubin about “the definition of ‘open’” has always been BS.

And it doesn’t matter why people can’t get security updates. The fact is that iOS users get security updates faster and more reliably than Android users for phones that are up to 5 years old.

They don't have to do it out of altruism, there are plenty of self-interested reasons to do it. Security researchers build their reputations by discovering vulnerabilities. iOS jailbreaks are valuable.

So since security researchers including people from Google have found security exploits in closed sourced software that kind of makes the whole open vs closed thing a moot point...

People really overestimate the difficultly for someone who knows what they are doing to find security exploits in closed source software. Heck, I was disassembling and patching 16 bit x86 code and 8 bit 65C02 code in middle school.

And how many of those were discovered specifically because the source code wasn't available?

Again, there is nothing magic about “source code”. It’s a little harder, but a skilled developer can follow the logic of assembly language.
Eh? Obama, Kerry, Bill Clinton... I'd say they all pass the beer test with flying colours.

Obviously the exception here is Hillary Clinton. But I do wonder about the gender component of the beer test - while she was seen as aloof and alienating a lot of women didn't see Hillary that way.
I don’t think a lot of poorly managed companies even get to a $1b valuation. Easy to be an armchair quarterback. One could argue that it’s been one of the beat managed companies and like most companies it faces ups and downs.
The fact that it didn't have an official package manager from day 1 is a big issue to me. All other new languages have an officiel package manager - elixir, rust, ... https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
I for one totally agree on rust being easier to learn than Javascript. I suspect it is because of the explicitness of rust vs the flexibility of javascript where you can do literally anything you wish without any sort of guard rails, then there's the ecosytem with like a gazillion tools in your build pipeline. I really admire front end devs because they do what I cannot, I guess i'm not as clever a programmer, I need the compiler to hold my hand , lead the way, and yell at me when I am going astray, rust does that for me , and when I'm done obiding by the rules, cargo is there to take over the rest of the process.
>Generics in c++, c#, scala, java

They're not all the same though are they.

C++/CLI had both compile-time generics (templates) from C++, and run-time generics from the CLR. And they could be complementary at times.

For compile-time generics, Dlang are a lot more sane that C++, having had the benefit of coming later, and dumping C compatability.

Similarly, CLR (C#, ...) generics had the benefit of being designed having seen Java first, so IIRC they're baked into the CLR. CKR generics were derived from work done at MS Research Cambridge, and I seem to remember Don Syme (F# creator) being rather proud of them. Disclosure: I was contracting at MSR Cambridge back in 2007.

Anyway, the golang designers will be aware of these implementations, so hopefully they'll come up with a nice design.
If that's Apollo Hospital remind me never to go there
Bank of Thailand: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-george-soros-broke-the-b...

Soros wasn’t alone, but the hedges funds certainly helped crush Thailand in 1997, triggering the Asian financial crisis. It’s not a stretch to suggest that his massive funding of political groups in countries in which he has bet against the currency is connected.
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I stumbled upon importlib.reload(module_name) in the Spyder IPython console, which I use as a REPL alongside the code editor in Spyder. REPL based programming has spoiled me and I find myself drifting towards lispy things like Clojure for the REPL alone, nevermind all the other good things.
That’s a lot of speculation from limited information. Best to default to outrage in this case...
I wonder if these payments to celebrities worked?

E.g., did the $100K that Centra Tech gave Floyd Mayweather Jr (according to the article) pay off for them?
I'd be interested to see a study into that. Of course, not all promises are equal. For me, the big promise (and one of very few pluses I could see in Trump's platform) was "draining the swamp", and he's done anything but. Well, either that or making great affordable healthcare available to everyone.
Congrats on an useful service, that I will pay for.

Couldn't help noting the similarity between your end product and Jurassic Park's layout :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng (around the 15th second).
Have you considered using ipython as your REPL? I use ipython and in my profile, I have the following setting. This enables auto-reload and it works almost all the time.

Here is the option I have in my profile file. You can run this command inside the ipython session as well:

%autoreload 2

The times I have seen auto-reload fail is when there is lot of class creation magic going on or while dealing with global connection objects which sql alchemy might be creating. But, other than that it works very nicely.