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I'd say that family holdings are definitely a factor, specifically vineyards and olive groves, at least for the very richest. TBH, I can only provide anecdata, but most of the wine and olive producing country around Florence is owned by a few families that have owned it for centuries.
But making such opening statements questions their integrity
So inheritance tax?.

Or is there an argument that this is good for society?
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> This is literally the future open source promised and people wanted: the freedom for a business to be flexible in regards to technology and not get tied into unpleasant vendor contracts and demands.

Oh the irony. Open source is just a development model, while Free Software, if anything, it meant to provide freedom to all users, not just business.

Reinforcing the public cloud oligopoly only reduces such freedom.
I also live in Hong Kong and I did notice that people seem to walk faster in Winter than Summer :)

I do think that the weather is a factor that should be studied... Another factor is location, I've found that people walk faster in Central than in other places but that might follow their theory about money.
I'm not sure it's strange: these are "nomadic" not sedentary devices, you don't keep your MP3 player and GPS device and camera in your shed, you have them on you at all times, so combining them makes for a much simpler nomadic experience.

Not to mention phones are really quite good at being mp3 players and GPS devices and cameras at least for the average person, so the tradeoff is not big.
You have a very basic flaw in your logic - the fact that some people simply enjoy MJ effects in same way they enjoy beer, and it does them no more harm. Its relaxing capabilities can be tremendous, depends on individual.

You conflate it with much more dangerous cigarettes, probably because its still mainly smoked, but in future this won't be the case. Simply replace all MJ with beer in your statements, maybe it will be more obvious.

What I want to say - get off your high horse a bit, don't try to do blanket statements for all humanity - weed ain't more dangerous than beers if consumed by sane people in reasonable amounts (same as alcohol). Stop trying to remove it from society - society wants it. Not because we're all hard addicts on it, simply because we enjoy effects. Same as I enjoy effect of a beer after long day, or glass of good red wine with my SO.
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> Digital records don't leave much room for ambiguity, and there are already countless organizations working on preservation as a purpose in and of itself, and other organizations working on data preservation for less idealistic reasons.

You say that, but there's data on media from 40 years ago that can't be accessed either because of bit rot or because the technology no longer exists. Hell, most of the content on the internet from 20 years ago has since vanished forever.
It's noteworthy that as you have shown, functional languages still have this insane opposition in the industry because they are perceived as toy languages.

Despite the fact that they have a very bullish minority in the industry doing some very serious and lucrative work using them.

See for example Jane Street and Ocaml.

The fact that functional languages are not yet "mainstream" is more of an artefact to two things unrelated to their capability as languages in an industrial setting:

a) Historical baggage. Industry has always taken the first tool it has come up with, declared it the "professional tool", which has become a self fullfilling prophecy then. Despite when looked from historical perspective, there is no technical reason why the chosen language was best among many. See for example C, C++, Java, and my favorite example JavaScript (ship it! 9 days is quite enough to make a language).

I.e. industry has taken anything that creates an abstract syntax three that can be transferred to the chosen execution context, and maked it work by adding tooling and education, no matter how crude the language itself was.

b) Lack of industrial quality tooling. See a). Industrial quality tooling is often a sane prequirement to choose a language for a project. There might be instances where you feel you might want to hire a legion of developers, and then you choose probably one of the most popular languages because it has tooling and it has a large number of candidates who know the language.

Note: neither the fact that the language has tooling, nor that is popular, does mean it's the "best" for an arbitrary scenario.
That's a very nice poem (thanks!), but not a good example, mostly because it is a poem.

As a poem, it has no equivalent rendering in colloquial Chinese. Also as a poem, it deliberate sheds information, permitting (or even pursuing?) ambiguity in its quest for specific phonics, scansion, symbolism (in many cases - maybe not in this one), etc.

Probably the way to get an example is to start from something spoken in modern Chinese and see how it comes out different in written Chinese?
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Thanks! As far as I'm aware, you can't manually trigger the 'add to homescreen' prompt as it's a system-level interaction. Android Chrome & Firefox should trigger it, but if not it's under the default browser settings dropdown on Android, and under 'share' (I think) for IOS.
I think he'll never need a resume anymore..
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Couldn't syntax like `a_string[..3]` be made to result in compilation errors in Rust? Since that'd almost always be a bug? (right?)

And in the rare cases, when it's not a bug, then one can just use `as_bytes` which would be good to do in any case, to indicate to other humans that this is not a bug.

B.t.w. I love the error message `[..3]` generates: "thread 'main' panicked at 'byte index 3 is not a char boundary; it is inside '早' (bytes 2..5) of `ab早`'" — I've never seen such easy to understand error messages in any language (except for in a few cases in Scala).
How is this relevant?

Human rights is a recent development, that does make them a bad idea?
Or justify violations :)

The concept of a professional trained police force is well proven by now, I see no reason to question it :)
They claim it is too obscene in the context of the innovation award categories- there isn't one for sex toys (https://www.ces.tech/Events-Programs/Innovation-Awards/Honor...).

I absolutely agree that they are overly puritanical when it comes to adult products in general though.
No, right now it's the RPG elements that are trendy, RTS is soooo 2000.
> There are still way too many hompohones which can introduce a lot of amibiguity.

Is this a problem when speaking? How many times a day do speakers of Chinese have to ask a collaborator which homophone they are using?
Hardly a novelty, it's been around longer than object-oriented programming has. But apart from that, you are correct to state that it is a minority paradigm on the general job market.
I wouldn't take comments about the relative popularity of programming language threads so personally as to insult someone.
That sentence was presented clearly as a quote from the MongoDB CEO, and followed immediately by "[t]hat’s a pretty feisty comment."

I don't entirely disagree with your overall assessment, but it could just be a case of clickbait journalism, rather than payola.
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That's not quite what I was suggesting. I'm a liberal capitalist (well, mixed economy) myself. I was just pointing out that despite being the forum for an investment firm, this site isn't just libertarians and neoliberalism.
Wales voted to leave by about the (UK) national margin.
> caloric overflow pools in other parts of the body

So if you are saying its contributing to "increased mental clarity and engagement" but the overflow is causing issues over time, then does this mean its just about finding the right dosage/frequency to maintain high clarity levels?

I guess its more like there is no free lunch here.
I'm fairly certain why I walk fast in a city and it's because of the lights and buses. In certain parts of downtown you turn into a video game character because you've learned how all the crosswalk lights work, how the traffic flows.

So if I see that I might make a green light if I walk faster I start to speed up, and then I catch myself maybe 20 meters after the light and slow down.

Same with trying to avoid bicycle paths and catch buses.

It's all one big video game and it raises your pace significantly. I often catch myself walking faster than I intended and make an effort to slow down.
I am shocked, shocked! that people tend to take their houses off the market for the holidays and reactivate listings after the holidays.
It used to amaze me when I walked my children to school. We would pass people getting in their car to avoid walking half a mile. I suspect a lot of the time they don't even think about it, it's just automatic.
I would actually like to thank AWS for focusing on supporting Open APIs. Let the community design the standards and operations and let the vendors compete to implement them, open source included.
Taking away the ability for those who can take longer term risks doesn't really do anything to help those who don't have that opportunity. The total income brought in from inheritance taxes isn't really enough to create a society wide impact on this type of problem either.
From http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/the-ose-toy-ces2019/

"Sex toys and CES have an unusual history. While the Ose wasn’t allowed on the show floor, adult novelty company OhMiBod has been a regular attendee for several years (and even won a Best of CES award in the the “Digital Health and Fitness Product” category in 2016).

Trojan condoms has also shown branded sex toys in years past. And Naughty America, an adult film studio, has a presence on the show floor this year, albeit in a private meeting room in the back."

Which might explain why they couldn't display their product- all of the private spaces were already sold out by then.
I worked for Amazon and various other companies. Most of them did not have those restrictions.
Their integrity is irrelevant when you have the facts and can judge the behavior of CES for yourself.
Great comment. Great comment.
They created modern banking. The Medici Bank [1] extended credit across Europe to finance trade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_Bank
I agree. I respect Troy enormously on the subject of security (and making that subject more accessible) but I saw one of his "Hack your career" talks last year and found it to be much too focused on money, along with a big dollop of survivorship bias.
This really brought back memories and put a smile on my face. My Master's thesis was writing a fluid simulation on the GPU, also using OpenGL (with all work done in GLSL fragment shaders) and also restricting simulation to 2D (because I was specifically simulating fluid running across a surface).

The most interesting thing to me was how much this article resonated with my own experiences in GPU-based particle simulation. I instead went for a particle-based method and had to make do with the state of GPU hardware and drivers as they were back in 2011. But despite the difference in computational model and all the differences stemming from the evolution of GPUs and compute shaders, the main struggles are still the same: discretization and parallelization.
Mildly interesting, but why is this here on HN?
Not really for tech professionals exclusively. His reasoning should really be replaced by: 0. Get a well paid job.

Theres also this "Bad debt is the likes you have on a credit card. It's almost always accrued on a depreciating asset (for example, a new TV) and it's very often at a high interest rate"

Why is depreciation always mentioned as a problem of bad debt? My house will depreciate if I don't maintain it.

Surely bad debt is a combination of interest rate, and whether you actually need, and can afford the thing you're buying on credit.
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This looks super-cool, too bad I don't have expertise in Metal/3D graphics.
Chrome on Androids offers it automatically for PWAs that meet some requirements. You can also add it manually from the browser menu.

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https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/app-install-b...
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I'm in my (very) early 30s and I found it very interesting. I don't necessarily agree with the entire mindset, but overall is one of the "I should have read it 7 years ago" articles.

Most of the "lessons" are not groundbreaking, they are rather things that are obvious and most of us know about. The value for me came from having them all written down in an organized way. It's much easier to refer to something more tangible than your memory.

One thing that bugs me and puts me off is the financial literacy that Troy mentions. I try to translate some terms to my mother tongue only to find that, even then, I still don't really understand them.

Does anyone has any pointers on how you can start improving on this like finances 101 or something?
Obviously an anecdote, but a friend of Minsk told me that knowing Mandarin can easily raise your salary x2, especially on managerial/sales positions.
I keep seeing this sentence (or variations thereof) on every thread about this topic.

It sounds weird to me that people think a foundation created by Perens and Raymond (et al.), the people who defined Open Source, and wrote the Open Source Definition is not the defining authority on what open source is.

What gives?
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QA (both embedded and external) is extremely far from dead in the game dev industry at least.
Latex is really good if someone needs lots of math, references and so on. It's really par none when it comes to technical writing. But it's so clunky in some ways it's more of a precision tool for this particular task than a generic layout software. I'm saying this as person who's in his past lives written scientific material using LaTeX and done semi-professional graphic design and layout work as well.

Oh god, I in my time tried to tweak LaTeX so I could reach the same aesthetics as using InDesign. While doable (I'm sure) - it's not really worth an effort. LaTeX and it's ways of working are very specific to that one context. it's the Torx screwdriver for the torx screws of technical and scientific publishing. But lot of layout stuff needs a philips head, a nail and a hammer and so on. While a torx screwdriver surely can be used to pound nails, I would not suggest it as an efficient tool.

Don't feed the LaTeX fetish. Some people like to do everything with it, just like people like doing lots of odd things that bring particular aesthetic joy to them, that would be completely impractical or intolerable to others.

LaTeX in a non-technical or non-scientific context is an eccentric quirk. I love eccentric quirks and people who have them! I have many myself! But I would not push my quirks to other people in any setting.
> Because they have money

Seriously?
It's easy to blame on gender bias in todays climate, unfortunately. Every single major media outlet will publish your story.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between actual gender bias and gender bias pushed by activist, i feel.
The processes are measured differently, so 7nm isn't physically 3nm smaller than 10nm in this case.

I believe they said in one of the articles that more details on how they achieved the power saving will be forthcoming nearer the launch date.
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No point. The very wealthy can find very good ways to avoid such taxes, e.g. through creating foundations, businesses, etc… I believe this is one of the reasons why wealthy families often create some foundation.

It allows one to put their children on the payrol, keep money in the family and prevent any outsiders to gain access to this capital through marriage, etc… You could invest most of the money and spend a minor amount on charity each year, allowing the capital to grow and avoid paying taxes. Money donated to the foundation is in many countries tax free as well, so it's another nice way to avoid paying too much income tax.
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I absolutely agree- every major cause tends to attract those who wish to capitalize off of it for their own gain, and all it does is provide fodder for those who are looking for reasons to detract from the movement.

According to the Fortune article (http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/the-ose-toy-ces2019/), they were notified around two months ago- why publish a response now? Seems more of a strategic PR play in the news cycle IMO
Testing could be much easier for the implicit state version. I've not defined it, but you are assuming things about how the render function or the implicit state behaves.

In my hypothetical implicit state framework - A widget is composed of a sequence of steps, each of which is an independent widget. So it's easy to write invariant properties for each step -

For (text "String") it's guaranteed that the widget never returns a value or raises an event. i.e. the type is

forall a. Widget a.

So the issue of calling render a third time never arises.
Judging from the videos’ descriptions this is not “critical” but rather insulting.
I think it highly depends on where you live. Although some rules are universal, many aspects rely on taxes and laws in your country/area.
A French sex toy for women (Little Bird by B. Sensory) already won a CES innovation award in 2016. I can't remember if it was in the robotics category or not.

We are already reading the arguments of one side here, I wonder what the actual justification for the rejection was.
The same app/site that I use to find charging stations tells me exactly what they charge for parking time and electricity consumption.

Even if it didn't, most business relies on repeat customers. You can shear a sheep many times, but skin it only once.
This deserves a blog post :)
Management may not see it that way, but a cunning, experienced tester is invaluable.

The nature of testing may have changed.

For one, the approach to testing is different with more smaller iterations and more powerful automation.

For another, better automation has split testing into more of an automated test developer/pipeline plumber part and an exploratory (manually testing the juicy stuff, the boring routine is handled by automation) part.
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Feedback is pretty useful for new programmers though. It's how they learn!
Yup, I do agree you should focus where you need to.

My focus was reading and writing mostly but I can speak (tones need work as expected)
He is quitting the UK, regardless of your semantics
The "Tech for a better world" category seems to be a catch-all, including such things as the Nissan LEAF, a smart pet bed, and a wine preservation opener.
A bit of an educated guess but I believe the answer stems from markdown originally targeting terminals, which would line wrap but not word wrap. So you could get ugly output like this:

hello, wor
ld!

(albeit this is assuming the terminal is only 10 characters wide but I hope you get the point)

So it used to be common for developers and sysadmins to manually wrap to 80 characters (a habit I still regularly catch myself doing even now). Obviously with GUI readers and variable-width characters, you wouldn't want that 80 character manual wrap honoured.
Do you have a source for this? The data I've seen in peer reviewed publications are based primarily on NHANES data, which doesn't cover recent history.

I've seen a Beverage Marketing Corporation graph that shows a 1% decline in soft drinks, but a 4-5% increase in ready-to-drink tea, sports drinks, and energy drinks. The raw Excel data is sold for $3000, so I don't know what the absolute values are, but it seems likely the decline is soda is largely being offset by equivalently bad/sugary replacement drinks.
Very off topic, but I couldn't find another easy way to get in touch with you. If you're up for it, I'd be super keen to swap notes on self-publishing. (Or to be more precise, I'm super keen to learn about your experiences with subscription self-publishing, and I'm hoping I can return the value in some way. I've been doing skill-building biz books & a bit of textbook stuff.) I'm rob@robfitz.com if it's relevant.

PS. sorry to everyone else for the off-topic!
I don't doubt that the rich own nice things (and that their rich ancestors did too) but the question is whether this is causal, and I'm highly dubious, over these long time-scales.

Clark has evidence from lots of countries, and I'm still surprised just how uniform the numbers are. Even in places where private property was all-but-outlawed for 2-3 generations in the middle.
6 years is standard, plus the time between the forgiveness event and filing, which gives you another 3-15 months or so. Down to 3 years if your balance is <$10k.

And as I mentioned before, if it was too short you could declare bankruptcy, which is an option you don't have with student loans. My point that even in the worst case you're in a better position than before still looks valid.
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> Functional languages are great toys but nobody uses them to get work done, almost without exception.

Whatsapp was written in a FP, as is a large segment of Cisco router control plane. React arguably is strongly pushing towards a FP subset of ECMA6.
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As impressive as this toy sounds, I don't see how it is related to robotics. The comparison between a vibrator and a full sex robot does not make sense to me; a sex bot needs to articulate joints and show human expressions, a vibrator needs to make some ver slight movements in very specific places.

I don't blame the author for being upset about this because I can't see a reason to retract the submission to the contest. I do, however, feel like these kinds of sex toys are only minimally related to robotics, so I think they shouldn't have been able to submit their device in the first place. That's another fault on the end of CES. As sibling comments note, there's been vibrators on the robotics section before, but it might be that they slipped through the submission process as well and, to prevent controversy, let through unscathed. Now that more of these submissions come through the board seems to have decided that enough is enough and actually speak out against these just-if-not-nearly robotic devices.

Their defence that the product has been designed with the help of roboticists is very strange. If me and a few aerospace engineers build a fence that fence does not qualify as a space craft, no matter how many heat shield we stick to the side of it.

Spending half the page blabbering about empowerment of women and LBQTI+ only detracts from their argument. Their baseless claim of mysoginy and homophobia distracts from their reasons for why they should be included in the first place and should not have been included in this response. It makes the author of the piece look very unprofessional and desperate for help from some of those action groups that take to the streets the moment they see the word "discrimination".