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So do individual killers...which is about as relevant.

If the US government was threatened, the plan is the same as it always was. Lock everyone up who is tacitly related to the "others" eg American Indians, Japanese internment, McCarthy.
> It's not rocket science.

Yet there’s no reliable research that proves how all of that works in most people nor how the situation can be solved at large scale. I think it’s a way harder problem than flying rockets.
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Wouldn't they be able to trace who registered the C&C domain every week?
That’s 1.12 though, isn’t it? I’m not disagreeing that it’s the sweet spot, I just think we already have it, or close enough.
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> But in Python you're limited to working on the context of a single module. If you modify a module that was imported then you have to restart the REPL because you can't reload modules. It just doesn't work.

This is so frustrating, the Python REPL does some kind of module caching, and I haven't found how to disable it. When I asked on IRC a few years ago, I was told that I was using the REPL for the wrong purpose.
I haven't used assana since the earliest days. Just looked over their marketing website, wow it looks completely different! I may take another look but at the moment, I have no issues with pivotal tracker.
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I'm kinda curious where the rest all goes. Seems like there's a market opportunity to streamline operations & improve efficiency if 80% of the purchase price of a product goes into things that are not the product.
Well, you're commuting too far, but anyway: San Mateo has a bridge, you can go via San Jose, and you can go via Marin County.

Even the Bay Bridge is seldom 100% out. It has multiple lanes, unlike a typical rail line.
There is a 'hunter vs farmer hypothesis'. It is certainly a cute idea. But even if it is true, the society isn't going back to back to persistence hunting.

There is some real human suffering right now (simply by definition from DSM - if there is no impairment, it is not ADHD).

"I guess I picked the wrong time to be a human being".
why is that? what makes something relevant? I think just the opposite - it's increasingly relevant, even though I don't follow his ethical system.

how is your single conversation with him relevant? It doesn't seem relevant at all, sample size of 1... maybe it would be if you bothered to tell us what he dismissed.

This last part seems disingenuous, but how so?

I'll grant you this: he hasn't said much that's new and also of interest in the past 10 or 20 years probably. But his past thinking is still extremely relevant.
Gas is limited by having per block gas usage limit. One block cannot consume more than 8M gas.

Uint256 comes from the fact that it is native word size for EVM and that is because of crypto operations.
> below are links to a cost of living calculator

For a family with two children. Divide $130k in half and you get a realistic $65k each before taxes. (The calculator has a tax line item.)

Note, too, that this blends Astoria and Flushing. Friend of a friend is a single mom of three living in Jackson Heights on less than $65k. She commutes in by subway + LIRR or subway + ferry, using the time to consume audiobooks.
I also believe it was More ergonomic if 2 variables have the same type:

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Here are the Android Q2 figures from that link:

2018: 88%

2017: 87.8%

2016: 86.2%

2015: 82.2%

2014: 83.8%

2013: 79%

2012: 64.2%

2011: 43.4%

So I think it's fair to use the present tense, especially now that Apple will stop disclosing iPhone unit sales which indicates they are no longer growing.

I wonder whether we'll see a tipping point - especially in poor countries where the Android share is close to 100% - where developers start producing Android apps but not iPhone apps, and this affects the desirability of iPhone.

As a side note: I hate statista and hope it is removed from Google search because (a) 90% of the time when I try to access that page I see a "Exclusive Premium statistic" label that blocks 80% of the graph; (b) 100% of the time when I try to view the source figures of the graph I get the "Exclusive Premium Functionality" blocker.
> somehow struggle to get their core product right, it's like it lacks vision

My theory here is that todo/work tracking apps are always doomed to end up like this. The problem is that we use the same words to talk about something that varies greatly from person to person, and even more so from organization to organization.

The upshot is that a company will start out with a strong vision, find a narrow segment of users who work perfectly in line with that vision, and make them happy. But then they want to expand, so they start adding features and options that let others groups find a way to work using the tool. Eventually either the tool stops expanding or feature creep and death-of-a-thousand-cuts changes make it an all-things-to-everyone nightmare (hi, Jira!).

Personally, I use Kanban Flow, which is very focused on a Kanban style approach. By the name it's obvious they're targeting a very specific niche. Since I happen to be in that niche, I love it. But I wouldn't recommend it to all comers, because for a lot of people it won't match their tasks or how their brain works.
That girl will be mocked by many other people.
I think the question though is that if “int” were an actual integer, would you still default to using int32/int64, and for what reason? There are valid uses for fixed-width types, but beyond domain-specific number crunching (crypto, image processing, etc) I would argue that the use of these types is technically incorrect, and not what people expect. Even experienced programmers will see “x > x + 1” and mentally replace that with “true”, even though if x is fixed-width, the value of that expression actually depends on x.
I rationize the multiverse theory this way: There may be events that are purely chaotic. If you could rewind the universe, the outcome would change following a probability. If our universe started, then it is possible for a different universe to start. The initial conditions for any universe may be a set of chaotic events. If it was possible for an infinite number of universes to start, then maybe there is at least one universe for every possible chaotic event that could have occurred in our universe, and infinitely more that could not have occurred in our universe.
Still the pace under which they are able to develop new functionality is amazing given their size and growth rate.
> I know I'm late to the party, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - It's a BBC Radio Play, but was my first exposure to the story,

Also, the world's first exposure. The BBC Radio Play preceded the books (the first two “phases” preceded the first two books, more specifically.)
Using Target is nothing about the price. It’s because I once got a counterfeit baby product from Amazon and aren’t going to risk that again.
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That ended up being the biggest hurdle for me. I wanted a single repository with some Go source code, some Python, some C++, and I didn’t want to have to put the repo in a specific place or set environment variables for every project.

Nowadays I just put my Go source code in <repo>/go/src/example.com/pkgname and that works well enough, but it's a bit clumsy and reminds me of bad experiences navigating Java source trees. I haven’t switched to modules yet but I will once I get 1.12 everywhere.
Wow thanks. That sounds like pretty much all I need to know at this point!
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Does anyone have any experience working as an industry expert consultant for a hedge fund run research group? I recently was and they seem legit as in they are part of a major fund. They offered to pay me a really high retainer for about 1 hour per month of conference call to discuss things in my industry. This seems a little too good to be true. Any thoughts?
They're saying you earn United miles by booking Airbnb stays through the portal in the app. It's essentially another cashback website that provides miles instead of cash. It probably isn't worth it unless you can easily use United miles.
The latest comment on the gist is gold! It's like watching a conversation in code.
I explicitly said above that Go is an easy language to learn. But, I found Rust easier.

And, yes, I'm finding Rust easier to learn than JavaScript. Without question. It is a much, much, smaller and more cohesive language. It has some new concepts (features or techniques that I have never used in any other language), but so does modern JavaScript, and with JavaScript there's usually five ways to do it, and half of them are really poorly thought out. I don't dislike JavaScript. I'm not saying one shouldn't learn some; one definitely should. But, it's definitely going to be "some", for most people, because there's just too much of it to learn it all, unless you can devote yourself full-time to being a JavaScript expert. I aint got time for that.

As I mentioned, I've built a (toy) project in Go. I've spent more time with it than Rust at this point. I know how it works, and what getting started looks like. And, though Go was pretty easy with few pain points, I've found Rust to be easier and to provide a more clear path for a beginner to follow, so far.

Everyone is different, and we're all coming from different places. No one has exactly the same set of starting conditions for learning a new language as I do. For some, Go may be easier than Rust (I expected it would be, which is why I started with Go and avoided Rust for so long). For me, I am finding Rust easier. I haven't done much with it, but I was surprisingly productive surprisingly fast.
Being a freedom and justice loving classical liberal, it pains me every time I read details of the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghurs.

What I fear though is that any treatment that I would approve of would be ineffective in preventing radicalization. Is there any example of ethical and tolerant treatment that manages to prevent the spread of Salafi radicalism once it has taken root? In adjacent Pakistan we are seeing millions of people throwing a fit because a Christian woman accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death was finally ruled innocent and released after 10 years in prison. How can China avoid ending up like this and avoid having to deal with its own version of the Taliban? Is there any country that has pulled it off without resorting to brutal totalitarianism?
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They said they didn't do this for security reasons, they wanted hardware virtualisation to separate Lambdas - not container separation.
Your comparison is probably not accurate. The situation now is completely different from 30 years ago. Cars have become much cheaper at the same time, there are low cost options for travelling larger distance like planes and buses, that did not exist as much before. This is not a single variable environment here.
It's all relative. In the country at large, maybe. Relative to NYC or other big cities, definitely not.
The communists have an extremist problem the dwarfs the scale of the Taliban. They have starved and killed people in the tens of millions.
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Rust is probably the least weird of those I listed. I find its syntax "too busy", similar to C++.

Haskell, I feel, needs no explanation.
It's not a question with a yes or no answer. Employee morale can be better or worse, and different for different teams. The whole notion is just a vague average. Arguably it's more important at Google to the extent that they attracted idealists.
It seems to me that this study proves something I have long suspected: whatever the neurological reality of this disorder in people who actually have it, the diagnosis is often in effect something like "Teacher Inconvenience Syndrome". And the practical upshot is that rather than build an educational system suitable to children, we are willing to drug them for the convenience of the current system.
We hired a designer. We're not frontend devs, but do have people who have some experience with this.

Please file bugs! https://github.com/rust-lang/beta.rust-lang.org/issues/new/c...

Some of this is stuff we know, and are tweaking. As the blog post about this says, this is a beta, and we have a lot more work to do. For example, the calendar thing: it's temporary. It's not trivial to style. There's been zero optimization work, which is a lot of what your comment is about. We didn't want to invest in that until we got the big picture stuff down.
Lambda functions can be configured to use SNS for dead letter queues as well. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/retries-on-erro... (event sources that aren't stream-based).
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Clojure has facilities for seamless interop with Java (or whatever platform it's hosted on). A lot of times when inter-operating with Java libraries, you get back an opaque Object with associated methods when you'd normally expect a transparent Clojure map or some other pure data structure if you were interacting with a purely Clojure library. Datafy is just a protocol that allows you to transform those opaque Objects into transparent data structures.

Clojure separates data from the functions that operate on it. In contrast, Objects intertwine those two things. You can roughly think of the "data" part of an Object as its attributes, and the "function" part its methods.
I'm a man, and I had my first kid at 45, just had my second at 49.

I didn't plan for it to be this way; my wife is 10 years younger than me, and she wasn't ready to have kids until she was in her mid 30's.

I do sometimes wish I'd been able to have kids sooner; I'll be pretty old by the time my kids go off to college, and I'll be very old if/when I ever see any grandchildren.

However, I'd like to say, don't not have kids just because you may be a bit older than average. I'm pretty able to handle it so far, despite the lack of sleep and stress that goes along with having kids. It's such an incredible experience and greatly enriches one's life.
Completely wrong about the monopoly part. In the US most of the road tracks were created and driven by private companies. And they were competing on destinations and cost.

In Japan right now there are multiple lines that you could take to reach the same destination so there is actually a lot of competition going on.
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Was that the right action to take? Do you agree with that decision?
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> To wit, if U.S. issuing banks (i.e., banks that provide credit cards to U.S. consumers) were to refuse to settle certain transactions (e.g., card-not-present transactions for a subset of Merchant Category Codes) with the banks identified as supporting spam-advertised goods, then the underlying enterprise would be dramatically de-monetized.

> Furthermore, it appears plausible that such a “financial blacklist” could be updated very quickly (driven by modest numbers of undercover buys, as in our study) and far more rapidly than the turn-around time to acquire new banking resources—a rare asymmetry favoring the anti-spam community.
Doesn't feel like a waste ;) The time spent investigating different GUIs in Clojure or integrating languages with better GUIs with Clojure feels does like a waste. I eventually settled on plain ol Swing but JavaFX looks quite nice.

clojure.spec was a nice step up to natively dealing with data 'shapes', I'm hoping the datify/nav protocols will be a step up to what I'm doing as well. It's basically a generalised browser over data with different print representations, collection handling, publishing, muxing, etc. The REBL will hopefully raise consciousness of just how abysmal the representation and navigation of the web is today.
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It's a valid point - if I were concerned that Jr. developers would parrot every line from the course to the ridicule of very particular Sr. developers I would have specified that the Virtual DOM makes React faster than if it were trying to directly use the actual DOM, all else being equal.

But since that wasn't a concern of mine when I made that video (it is far from the main takeaway of the course), I kept it as simple as it needed to be to get the point across.
You’re conflating popularity and ethics. Unpopular research can still be ethical. This research is unethical.
Yes indeed! But what is the alternative, especially if you are using approximations to transcendental constants?
Because it's extremely worrying to me when there's a media blitz from one geopolitical sphere of influence about the actions of another sphere, when those exact actions have happened in the past in the first sphere, and as far as we can tell would happen in the future. That generally gets used to harm way more people than the original action.
Yeah, and I would be surprised to find a person here who praises that policy. This is textbook, premium grade whataboutism.
I (and many people I know) would stand against this internment and join protests in the streets to put pressure on the government to reverse such a ridiculous blanket action. Regardless of what the government does to preserve their self interests and power, these actions are wrong and I will do what I can in my power to oppose them.
Experimental and production are two words that should be used together.
Ask HN: What can I do when I'm not a culture fit?
I'm a quiet person and parties make me anxious.

I joined a company that loves to party and talk a lot and it feels a little required because I get hints that I should attend them.

While I've gotten up-to-speed on technologies relatively quickly and then thrown into the deep end to drown (2 months in), I feel like this company just doesn't value that contribution compared to if I had quickly made a bunch of office friends and wasn't up-to-speed tech-wise.

I've had counseling but I've told them that I'm happy being alone and quiet (and I really am), so they don't recommend medications for me.

If everyone wants people who engage in the culture, wouldn't I be better off cutting my losses and leaving sooner, or should I go for the standard 1-year before leaving?
I just moved to Asana because I’m joining a team that needs to manage tasks together. There are a lot of things that just seem nonsensical to me.

Very little information exists at the project level - there’s no way to tag, sort, or filter through different projects. It’s almost a useless level of organization.

Custom fields seem to be accessible across teams in an organization, though there is no easy way to carry them across projects. They also seem like they don’t do much - you can’t filter or search based on custom field values.

The UI has a bad sense of hierarchy and important information is easily hidden. Finding the notes associated with a subtask means you need to click a barely visible button that doesn’t change state when information is behind it.

For how long they’ve been at it, these seem like simple problems to not have solved.
I find this ^^ to be one of the main selling points. All online courses are in danger of falling into the "Tutorial Hell" category, where they spend all their time teaching you without the student actually being more capable afterword. The Scrimba platform significantly lowers the barrier for students to get their hands on the code and actually obtain new skills. I have yet to find another platform that lowers that barrier as efficiently/well as Scrimba.
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"They want to live in houses with gardens where their neighbours also have houses with gardens."

... which is a totally reasonable and in-bounds objective for an actor in a democracy.

I might not personally vote for such a thing - I happen to think that a LOT of San Francisco should be in-filled and doubled in height - but I value democracy and local control more than I value my personal tastes in SF neighborhoods.

The predictable retort which will now appear, like clockwork, is that local control is inherently undemocratic to which I would respond: how did you vote in the Marijuana legalization ballot initiative ? Where do you stand on sanctuary cities ? Why are those local control issues palatable, but financially inconvenient ones are not ?
That would fit into a spacious Int64.

I typically wouldn't be passing around milliseconds since epoch as an raw number, but then that's C#, I guess you might do that in other languages for performance or out of necessity.
>Not because I have a particular interest in my house price

Where I live condos/highrises have gone up and the very few houses that remain as neighbors...well the prices haven’t gone down because supply is up, in fact the prices of the houses have skyrocketed.

That wouldn’t be true of every location, but it would be interesting to have an interactive map to see where this type of developments have occurred/when and then resulting prices of the remaining homes. Correlation/causation and all of that but I’m sure there would be interesting patterns.
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Shouldn't idiomatic go return an error instead? Magic number ranges for errors always seemed a bit old-fashioned.
This argument falls flat for me. Classes aren't supported natively by processors either, yet any number of OOP languages use them.

It's generally nice when you can do simple things with the language's built-in standard library. I tend to prefer languages with more powerful standard libraries because it means that you can more easily move across codebases since they'll all be the same. If commonly used data types like rationals, hashes, maps, strings, etc., aren't defined in the stdlib, then there'll be any number of different libraries to use them, and you'll have to potentially re-learn a lot of different unnecessary things when working on different codebases.
I'd love to know which IS the best React course out there so I can learn more for my next time around the block :) (Sincerely)
> do you think we’re gonna go down there and do anything about it? Nope!

You sound like you think that we aren't going to do anything because we just don't care, or at least don't care enough. But "doing anything about it" in Venezuela would mean an invasion. It would mean killing a bunch of people in the name of helping people. (Granted, at least some of those killed would be part of the problem. Still, killing people to help people has a pretty bad track record and a very moral foundation.)

In China, it would mean all-out war with a near-peer nation, which would probably result in nuclear war. While what China is doing is horrible, nobody wants to stop them at that price, and not because we don't care enough.
I think part of the problem is that in many circumstances, such as Yelp and Amazon reviews, popularity is the best proxy for quality that is currently available. Perhaps if other ways for people to quickly distinguish quality were developed then people would start making better decisions.
> "Symmetry of time means that the outcomes of experiments should not depend on when the experiment took place."

I don't think that this is correct.
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We've merged these threads and transferred some juice back to the previous submission.