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> the interpreter has to check the types of the variables a and b at runtime beform performing the right form of addition (it might be an int, or a string, you dont know)

That's not necessarily true. In Scheme, a very dynamic language, the compiler will generally make choices about memory layout of the various values before launching into the evaluation phase. Where safe or possible to do so, it will probably reduce the number of choices that will have to be made at runtime, at compile time. The interpreter may not have to lookup what the data type is, because it may just have two bits of memory and an instruction to call. You can know what the data will be, and optimise for it. [0]

There's no reason that: b = 1; c = 2; a = a + b needs to be slower than a = 1 + 2 if b and c are never referenced before or after. But in Python, it is, because the design makes it harder to know whether or not an object should get optimised away.

> And LuaJIT is one of the the fastest dynamic language implementations because the language is very simplistic

Right, Lua is dynamic, and one of the design choices was making it simple, and so it's easier to make it faster.

[0] http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html
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I think it’s easiest to explain like this.

You don’t get a lot of opportunities to earn a PhD, most people never get the chance. By comparison almost everyone in CS get a lot of truly great job opportunities in their lives.

That’s a PhD, we had a habit of hiring people before their finished they CS degrees because skilled people were so hard to come by back in the day. They have good careers as far as I know, but they would have had much better opportunities if they had finished their degrees, and some of them haven’t taken that well.
It could just be people independently working on the same things, as is common in technology.
Why would that hurt your chances? Wouldn't they see that as a good thing?
Anthony Grafton Defends the Footnote (1997)
We have a conference room named Tardigrade.
Dan Boneh's (Stanford) Cryptography I on Coursera.

Excellent course; he is a fantastic teacher.
C# is the same, int is merely an alias for Int32 and the default Array type only holds 32bit.

If you really need to, it's easy to wrap this into your own BigArray-class holding a 32bit-array-of-32bit-arrays and overriding the []-operator with Int64 as argument.
That just shows profit margins on builds haven't changed. It doesn't matter if you are technically getting the same price per square foot on the house if you can't afford the homes available on the market.
We did that at Bagcheck in 2010. It was super common. They may have taken your idea and ran with it but it wasn't a novel idea. Generally though, at scale, you run into problems with the affiliate programs and they cut you off.
As much as I want to hate this, I was part of this marriott.com fiasco -- Marriott switched from a monolithic, huge, J2EE stack and moved to openshift for container management. The problem? the development teams didn't really and fully understand the concepts behind containers...and internal Marriott staff had limited knowledge of Openshift or how it ran.

They brought in RedHat ProServ to manage the Openshift stuff, my former employer to lead the DevOps group in assisting the dev teams to containerize, and then when I left that team to go somewhere else, tried bringing in a devops shop in Bethesda (and then tried to hire everyone in the company to come work for them).
How China changed its language on Xinjiang's “re-education” camps
Considering a formal apology was issued by the state department to the surviving Saint Louis passengers, are we destined to keep repeating history's mistakes?
I'm agnostic towards the medium if instruction but if I'm a little familiar with something, I would take a reputed book or official docs over video courses.

However, if I get too perplexed by something and need hand-holding to understand something, I look for videos.

Also, videos help in cases with libraries whose documentations are lacking or don't have docs regarding integration with something.
I believe you independently derived a very old, but lurcrative, idea. Kontera started off back in 2003 although I don't recall when they actually got to double-underline links. Viglink has been doing this more subtly as a commercial service since 2009, and AOL actually had a flavor of this built into Instant Messenger. There were also a number of affiliate networks that built this infrastructure to parse the Commission Junction offers database and update their networks with match/near-match products & services.
Your focus would be completely misplaced.
Well if Beaumont is still there tomorrow we know our answer.
That's what I was referencing to with games that are also available on Steam.

Microsoft isn't even attempting to join windows and Xbox, and is only selling games that developers already make available for windows - except as "Xbox play anywhere".
I think you're right, and it illustrates a fundamental problem of the capitalist system—it is incapable of making value judgements on its own. "What about consumer choices?". Consumers, in general, are also not making value judgements when they buy something. Perhaps purchasing taps into something primal in us that we cannot intellectually override in the moment, just muse about after the fact. To wit, the market for ethical goods is miniscule, and most pick the product with the highest perceived cost/value ratio. What remains is government. While we don't tend to make value judgements when we shop, we do make them when we vote. Which is why it's crucial that governments have the power to regulate corporations' actions, also abroad.
Thinking of dystopian authors and something motivational I immediately thought of Island by Aldous Huxley.
It seems kind of silly to argue that the democratic politics is legitimate and violence is not, when the whole point of the democratic state is to create a monopoly on violence.

What fiction fails to teach you is that being good at violence is a lot of work! To be good at it you need to take krav or bjj or mma classes at least 3 times a week and go to the gun range at least once a week.

I personally think society would gain vast benefits from making dueling legal again. Sadly the lawyers would never allow it because they would lose half their business!
The exact number is not particularly relevant and is deliberately vague since it doesn't say in what area or what kind of city I'm talking about.

This is because the point is to illustrate the ridiculousness of suggesting that infrastructure should only be meted out once demand is known in the concrete with people living there by pointing out that until you build the sewer system, N people still need to poop, not to talk about what kind of population growth is normal for a large city.
5-6 years old don't really play those increasingly complex games. They play games on simple level. When I was young, ADHD was blamed on tv.

There is big difference between ADHD and bored neurotypical child. It is not just walking instead of sitting, it is jumping on the table running around hitting kids so wild that other kids are scared - and kid is unable to control it. The same kid can be in control and all good and then suddenly loop to out of control mode in second.

There are behavioral issues related to games in my observation, but those are temporal and milder. Mostly that kid act like a jerk right after playing or during playing. Also there is ... not so great culture around gaming streams that makes kids think that being jerk is cool. It however does not cause ADHD like behavior (nor violence it seems to be).
Sorry for the thread hijack, but:

Let's Encrypt. Ever going to roll it out?

I plan to switch away from Namecheap soon unless it's implemented, it's really disappointing to me.
Good point, we are talking about dragonfly alot here right now but if we look at the googles themselves, they don't seem to really care compared to the sexual harassment from leadership.
Not sure if it helps, but - sometimes the time is just right for some ideas and they crop all over the place. While it may seem to you it was your idea, they could have been working on it for days / months / years... I agree it sucks for you not to be able to know that though.
For anyone else wondering, this is now “content blocking” and by default is in private browsing mode only but can be set to always on. Sounds like a good idea. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection
If their day consisted of outdoor free play, they wouldn't actually be learning - which is half the problem. They need to learn, and about every 5-10 years, the amount they need to know in order to function (in other words, how much the teacher needs to teach and test for) seems to be doubling. Then again, I wonder how different our world would be if I could just send the kids outside who didn't want to be in my classroom, let them have their "free play" time, and then be able to spend my focus & energy on a smaller and more focused group who know that there's an option - and make a deliberate choice to stay.
Marriott did outsource their development of the migrated SPG+MI marriott.com.
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No C#, useless for me.
How many of those companies can be considered substitute employers to Google? That offer the same level of compensation?

That is what an economic substitute is. SMB tech companies typically don't compare.
Comes down to whether they're willing to forfeit the potential 10-20k profit from investing that 15k wisely over 15 years, if it means they're burning less carbon
The facebook-only container is really slick. If you go to facebook.com or instagram.com it'll replace the current tab with a FB container automatically.
Thank you, I need to explicitly call out our/my shortcomings if we want to improve as a company going forward. We are making big changes to the way we are doing things and a commitment to full transparency and having open and honest conversations with our customers are the biggest of those.
Why Xiaomi's fancy phones aren't selling
The article is not sacrosanct -- a number of people here, including myself, have made criticisms of it -- and you seem to be forgetting that my point started with a criticism of the article, not of your comment. It, like you, talks of _the_ multiverse in one specific way, and I was pointing out a problem with that. It said:

"The multiverse is another answer that has recently become quite fashionable. This theory is an attempt to explain why our universe has the life-giving laws that it does. One who believes in a multiverse maintains that our universe is just one of many universes. Each universe has its own set of rules and its own possible structures that come along with those rules."

See where it says "The multiverse is" and "This theory is", as if the multiverse notion is only that?

and the full text of my response to that point was

> It's really misleading to present the multiverse notion as an attempt to explain a universe suitable for life.

>

> There are many other reasons people have proposed it. For example, in the Many-worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
I was on T-Mobile too with a EU phone. If you are using a EU phone, there is compatibility problems with the T-Mobile network. Unfortunately, I only learned about that from my friends after I bought your safe offer. The sales person didn't warn me in advance.
No it doesn't, it does not ask you to provide your own password.
> I believe this was an honest misunderstanding and not an attempt to steal the idea because if the patent had issued and become valuable, it would have been easily invalidated.

"Easily", if you have deep pockets to foot all the legal costs.

Big companies know this, hence I don't think it was an innocent misunderstanding. The fact that they wouldn't even add OP as an assignee on the patent just reinforces my view that they were acting in bad faith.

OP was lucky to catch this before the patent was issued.
I am puzzled by this statement:
Tables using on-demand mode support all DynamoDB features (such as encryption at rest, point-in-time recovery, global tables, and so on) with the exception of auto scaling, which is not applicable with this mode.
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-n...

Does it mean auto scaling is no longer needed, or it won't happen in this mode (some hidden fixed capacity?)
Here's my HN submission of a demo I wrote of something in the same space back in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1908283

It wasn't a new idea then either. The founder of VigLink reached out to me then to share what they were working on.
Since you're a researcher in the field, what would you suggest a teacher (specifically an after-school "enrichment" teacher - who cannot give grades and/or homework) do to maintain better classroom control? I'll be honest, I'm getting to a point where if there's a boy in my class, he gets one class session to prove whether he's one of the loony kind or will actually focus - and then almost completely ignore him and his behavior if the former. It's not good for the kids, it's not really a productive thing on my part, but it's been the only thing that works.
You'd use a new title if you switched trades. How is this any different?
Considering the recent Reuters research:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...

> "One other thing that is very visible in its absence. Young men. You see plenty of people in the streets: lots of children, lots of mothers of children, and many young women, especially running restaurants and small shops. Old people in their typical Uyghur garb, men with their hats and beards, and women with their head coverings. Oddly, many middle-aged ladies covered their hair, but wore high-heeled shoes. But very few young men. The ones we did see were the mellow kind, the sort of boy who was a good student in class. I’ve traveled extensively around the world, and everywhere you can see groups of strong, tall, young men just hanging around, sort of looking for trouble. Young men do that. Young men hanging around doing nothing but looking intimidating exist everywhere, including China, even Japan or Singapore. But not in Xinjiang. As for where they are, your guess is as good as mine."

I think Reuters found where they are located.
I am torn apart between investing the next one year between Go and Rust. I want to do some cool systems level programming. Both seem to be very good at it. Go has additional advantages of being older (and may be wiser).

What does the hivemind think?
This is a cool idea for an add-on, I use the Multi-Account Containers add on along with Cookie AutoDelete to do basically the same thing for a number of sites: Google, Facebook, twitter, linkedin (rot in hell, linkedin), amazon, etc. I like having my cookies there so I don't have to log in every time, but also don't want to be tracked around the web.

This looks like a great way to help people who don't want to fiddle with settings to get the same sort of protection. It'd be nice if Multi-Account Containers had an option to add these sites. I should cut a PR for that, probably :\
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Didn't know about Scheme. Thanks for the link!
Think of it from another angle: You're interviewing this guy that has this idea that would be hugely rewarding for you with a payout of n% if you proposed it via the internal idea program. No one will notice. Or hire that guy and leave that to him.
> More importantly, sharing work publicly keeps the project can alive and inspires others to continue developing!

Which a patent does too, just with a license or 20 years later. It keeps people from reinventing the wheel and gives the disclosure rights even if they didn't have the infrastructure to create or monetize on their own. This isn't one of those nefarious software patents where the whole thing would be obsolete within 5 years, this is LED books, which simply becomes more feasible as transistor sizes shrink and battery technology improves, perfect for a 20 year exclusivity period before falling into the public domain where it can be vastly more practical to create in 2033.
Yeah it is definitely possible it was just a coincidence. But that was a couple years ago, and if Amazon has taught me anything it's that backstabbing is definitely part of the culture in many of these tech companies.

While it could be totally an accident, I could also see it being stolen. Truth is, I will never know if it was just bad timing or an actual malicious interviewer.
Enforcing a distribution assumes that student abilities are indeed stable.

In my experience, they aren't, for a number of reasons.
You keep beginning your responses with formal criticisms of my posts instead of the content within, starting with "You keep..." This time it accuses my previous post of "bringing in disparate arguments," but said post contains three paragraphs excluding the pull quote; the first two address pieces of the first paragraph of the post of yours my post was responding to, while the third paragraph directly responds to the second paragraph, indicated by a pull quote. It's clear you're either not really interested in discussion, or we're talking past each other, so there really isn't a need to continue this conversation thread.
By “fan out” I mean that SNS will execute as many Lambda functions as needed to handle the published events as they occur. This gives you much greater concurrency than a typical pub/sub architecture where you typically have a ceiling on the subscriber count or are forced to wait on consumers to process the earlier enqueued messages before processing subsequent ones (i.e., the head-of-line blocking problem).
Interesting. These seem like relatively minor issues to me. We switched from Asana to JIRA about a year ago. We spent about 2 years using Asana, and I hated working with it daily. JIRA is very far from perfect but like it many times more. We have significantly better understanding of where our team is and our projects now, and we scoured the web for every way to use Asana we possibly could find. To each their own...

One of the things that bothered me the most about Asana was how slow it was (also a UX issue).
Thanks for sharing this cartoon! This phenomenon is not limited to physicists either, it is pretty much true for all professionals and famous people. But also, physicists claim that they do not deal in philosophy, yet the main subject matter of theoretical physics is a collection of old philosophical subjects such as time, space, the cosmos and absolute beginnings of things. There is a confusion here.

This article makes important points about the relation of physics and mathematics. I agree that physicists pick and choose "smooth" and solvable system and then claim to reveal the secrets of the universe.
It’d be between fast.ai and javascript30.com

Fast.ai has an incredible library built on PyTorch and it’s amazing when he talks about the latest research and already has it available for free there. The teaching style is super nice too, very practical and without skipping the bits that get you to world class results.

Javascript30 is 30 free short modern JavaScript lessons with no libraries or builds or any of that stuff. Great way to get back on track and catch up with what vanilla is can do, and Wes Bos is exceptional as a teacher.
You probably missed the huge discussion from 3 days ago [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534392
I'm sorry, but how on Earth is that a patent?

Things like this make me believe less in patent reform, and more in complete abolishment.
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Or CC details... ;)
What problems have you encountered using the same SNS topic as the dead letter queue for the Lambda function?
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That cap's been there for a while. IIRC, it was implemented some months after T-Mobile started the "race to unlimited data"... was that the winter before last? Speaking of the U.S. marketplace. I never read an official explanation, but my assumption/understanding was that this was Fi's response to remain competitive with other carriers' "unlimited" plans.

What concerns me is the throttling at/after 15 GB. Other carriers have this, too, but it is supposedly "dependent on local load/conditions", and comments have led me to understand that, for some if not many people, they don't encounter the slowdown much in practice.

Whereas, being an MVNO and also perhaps having better software, Fi might be more strict and aggressive with the throttling? I don't know.
You're not inherently trusting your VPN service to:
a) not track you
b) not keep logs
c) not disclose this information to your actual ISP

You're also now just sitting behind whatever ISP your VPN uses which knows everything you're doing and sells it back to who-ever.

If your not rotating your VPN services that still allows you to be tracked via that IP. At the end of the day all your data still belongs to someone and can be used for whatever. Until DNS over TLS is complete and rolled out across the board your metadata can still be used.

Not to mention all of the other things associated with this. Even being connected to a VPN via your phone will still leak information like your coarse location, wifi networks and bluetooth beacons nearby which all get sent to your primary phone carrier and whatever applications you use.
There was nothing NSFW in there, I was very disappointed.
Hello Fej, to be honest, we signed an exclusive contract with Comodo before Let's Encrypt even existed. The length of that contract is ten years. It's put us in a tough situation as far as what we can offer out of the box to our customers. While our customers can still install LE on our hosting services on their own, we can't actively do this for them. The only other option here is to break that contract which will cost us millions of dollars and it's something that I continue to consider.
I think you’re not going to win this argument, but I will point out that you can’t look at a giant meadow of grass, focus on a few weeds and say, “see, it’s not grass!”.

As a system, science has brought about a better understanding of the physical world around us and has dramatically improved the lives of every human on the planet.
Sorry, will try to add in near future.
> More generally, we have a decided lack of novels describing a better future.

Maybe that's because it's hard to be optimistic about the future starting from now? The worst case is that the environment goes to hell and we die, or the economy crashes and life becomes hell, or killer robots kill us all (at the behest of some state actor or just because they loooove paperclips). The best case is we get humans to not behave like humans (so some people are less miserable), and then we either upgrade ourselves into unrecognizable transhumans or we become pets to transhumans or incomprehensible AIs.

> To a considerable extent, futurism is still stuck in the 1960s. What passes for futurism today is a minor tweak on the present.

Maybe that's just because we've picked most of the low hanging fruit that we could see in the '60s, and what remains still feels pretty far off? The best possible future that we can hope for can be summed up as "now, but don't fuck it up."
He can’t smoke weed and drink whiskey at least not on a podcast
China races ahead of West in pursuit of 5G
Compared to those pictures, my couch is a veritable church pew.

If people enjoy working in that kind of environment, fantastic. But it really looks like it would drive me bonkers and I'd long for a bland cubical with a neckbeard neighbor who didn't really like people.