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>Most native peoples were very in tune withe the earth (Pagan Europe, Native American tribes, Hindu India, Tribal Africa, Aboriginal Australia, etc).

The reason there were so many bison in the US when the settlers arrived is that the native Americans had already hunted the rest of the megafauna to extinction. While I think there is a kernel of truth to your comment, I also think the premise that primitive people's were more "in tune" with nature than their Western counterparts in some deep cultural or spiritual sense is a revisionist myth predicated on the "noble savage" archetype. The truth is more likely that being "in tune" with nature was simply a matter of survival for such people. Obviously, if your culture survives primarily on deer, you don't kill all of the deer. But primitive people were quite capable of destroying or harming their environment, as long as they could survive it, just not as capable as more advanced societies.
Unrelated to the article, but the headline raised the question in my mind - is intelligent life an inevitability, and is that a good or bad thing?

If the human race had not, would another species eventually rise to a similar position? And would it have caused the same destruction?

On the flip side, what purpose would natural life serve if there was no species sufficiently cognizant to recognize it?
I tried Flow and TypeScript out about half a year ago in a client project and Flow was kind of painful and difficult to use, the updates, bug fixes and new features weren't coming as often as TypeScript's were, and maybe 70% of people I talked to were using TypeScript instead of Flow. Since then it's more like 90% now, and the TS team seems to be adding and announcing features faster than before, whereas I haven't heard about any new features in Flow. Maybe they're there, I'm just saying I haven't heard about them. This is all anecdotal but from what I've heard, it's very common. This is a big reason I chose TypeScript in Autumn. Also, VS Code has become the de facto free editor of JavaScript projects with a full set of professional-grade IDE features across the board, and VS Code has first-class support for TypeScript but only plugin-level support for Flow. Since Monaco is simply extracted from VS Code, that means I got all VS Code's IDE features for free when I embedded Monaco into Autumn, all I had to do was set the language to "typescript" and it just works. All these free and serious benefits of TypeScript's ecosystem kind of point to this conclusion that I've seen on HN and elsewhere over and over, that TypeScript has already won and Flow is on its way out.
At first I was confused and wondered whether my understanding of how pianos work is totally inadequate and whether normal pianos have fewer than one string per note (perhaps with some sort of a fret system to allow adjacent keys to share strings). Turns out they have more than one on average; typically two in the tenor range and three in treble, so as not to be overpowered by the massive bass strings.
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> checking if any credentials are accidentally typed.

Doesn't that require maintaining a database of all credentials?
That's insane.

In my EU country, pretty much everyone of age 18-65 has a smartphone and a laptop, and that's it.

Tablets, e-readers, smart watches, and digital cameras are not popular, and home assistants are pretty much non-existent.

TVs are rarely watched at home anymore, apart from the live sport events a few hours per week.

Yet, nobody considers himself very analog or very digital, and almost everyone feels like he has all the tech he really needs.

The lack of large suburban areas might be the main reason for this. Most people are either busy in the city, or in the nature with each other.
It's true that 2D is a lot easier than 3D. It would also require a lot of new technology. It is a solvable problem, though, and we need to solve it to some degree even today (due to airplanes). The need to solve coordination will only increase thanks to proliferation of drones, too.
> some in this thread are calling for leniancy for 'swatters'

Saying that swat teams need to safely deal with false reports is not in any way sympathizing with swatters. Of course swatting is bad - everyone knows that. But "get people to stop lying to police" is not an achievable goal; "get police to stop killing randoms because someone lied" is.

> perhaps because they've done it themselves or are friends with those who have.

This is out of line, surely.
No, they’re known for hanging out and collecting more stock while weighing the company down with their deep incompetence and indifference.
Naming your god vaguely as "God" is the fault of the authors of the Bible. Also, is it The Bible, the Bible, or the bible? Stop applying your religious conviction to my method of dictation. Name your god something more namelike. Like Steve. Then I'll know to capitalize it.

If I named my kid "Person", the fault would be on me when people keep writing "person" to address him.
Which part of npm acts unexpectedly?
Why would purpose be a thing to the accidental?
> It almost like it's the exact opposite: shared fiction is what hold us back ...

Shared fiction is nothing else than just shared knowledge. Without collecting and keeping your knowledge you can't go further, there's no basis for innovating further.
> Even with JS disabled you can still get a lot of these via CSS.
That's exactly what they're saying:

> They used to be impure during periods when there weren't sanitary napkins. But now its not the case.
Does anyone know of any "third choice" around typing JavaScript? I would love to add types to my code, but I want to write "real" JavaScript: so the code I input is the code that is executed by the browser. I just want the compile step to strip away the type annotations.

There was initially talk of Flow using comments to actually work without touching the source code at all, but I don't think anything came of that... is there anything else on the horizon?

[Edit: Nevermind: I went looking for the github issue about adding types as comments, and it turns out it's already supported by flow: https://flow.org/en/docs/types/comments/ - is there anything like this for TypeScript?]
Thanks for the Auto CI/CD suggestion. I struggle with it since it doesn't cover things like license management and monitoring.

I agree DevOps is a culture foremost. But at the same time it is starting to turn into a product category (DevOps tools).

Hope you are able to adopt GitLab with ease.
Those hard real time GCs everytime I've seen them come with overall throughput compromises. Many times real time constraints and overall throughput aren't mutually exclusive.

And even on the soft real time side, like rendering modern GUI, GC pauses causing frameskips (you have ~16ms to render each frame) makes your app look janky.
> However, we typically say a fifth has a 1:1.5 Ratio. This is an approximation due to the overtone series. When a string vibrates (or a horn vibrates, take your instrument), it vibrates at a fundamental frequency and several harmonics above it as well. I cannot find it exactly, but I believe it is closer to 1:1.48 to make overtones work.

I think you got this backwards. A perfect fifth is precisely 1:1.5 — or, put differently, the third harmonic is 3x times the root/first harmonic's frequency, and, transposed down an octave, that gives us the fifth.

Modern instruments use equal temperament tuning, where the frequency ratio between any two consecutive steps is the same, and you go from any note to a note at double the frequency in 12 equal steps — this means each step has to correspond to multiplying the base frequency by the 12th root of 2. In this tuning, the fifth corresponds to 7 steps, which corresponds to a multiplier of 2^(7/12) = 1.498.
Not a link, but a book. Deep Nutrition, by Catherine Shanahan.

She cites a couple hundred studies in the book, worth a read if you’re into this stuff.
I want this but for Lua. Its my favourite language. I wonder how difficult it would be to get Lua running on this thing - anyone got clues?
Last time I checked, the free offering was 2 CI builds in parallel on AppVeyor, which is just too low and slow for feedback on my project.

Also, considering I make exactly $0 per month from it, it's either be patient or use another service that had more capacity and faster builders.

I believe that Travis-CI had a higher limit for parallel jobs, but your builds would most often end up queued because of a low capacity for a certain type of agents. Also, something quite noticeable was their lower limits on build time, which is why for some builds a cache was necessary. It got a bit hairy when you needed a full successful build to properly populate the cache but they would never finish in time.
And of course, the biggest drawback from Travis-CI back then was the lack of Windows support.

As for Azure CI, I believe there's something like a 10 parallel builds limit. And I've got exactly 10 configurations!
> If they can't do it for a few quid, how can they do it for larger sums of money?

If I remember correctly, debit card protections don't exist below £100, so they literally can't do it for a few quid, but they can for larger sums of money.

This isn't an example of Monzo being terrible, this is an example of debit cards being terrible.
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A choir doesn't need equal temperament because they have a continuous tuning versus a piano. A string quartet (and a trombone!) can do the same thing, they can adjust the tuning based on the instrument, the octave, and what everyone else is playing because they all have continuous tuning versus discrete tuning (I am a trombone player, so my individual instrument has its own quirks at different partials, but I can use the tuning slide to adjust and be in tune exactly).
I know, right‽‽‽ I don't even know why people pay other people to cook for them! Absolutely preposterous!
Ask HN: How would you spend $1,000 a month to maximize your productivity?
I’ve begun to realize I have a variation of “Not made here” syndrome in my personal life. Hiring someone to clean my apartment once a week would save me hours and cost very little, but I end up doing it myself. A personal trainer could help me design a good training plan and keep me on a schedule, but I seem to insist on (unsuccessfully) designing an optimal workout plan entirely from scratch.

So, what would you do with $500-1,000 a month to save time, multiply your productivity, or generally just focus more on what’s important in life?
This is basically fact free.

First, you have the timing wrong.
" In filings in May 2017 "

IE before a PR and HR crisis or whatever you want to call it.

Second, it was solicited, as they were written as a legal response to a legal claim.

Third, claiming that expresses a policy preference is silly.

Do you believe that criminal defense attorneys express a policy preference that say, murder is okay?

If you go and read the actual filing, and other filings, here's an actual fact for you:

Google is literally making the same defense that others before the NLRB are.

So if you want the outrage, i suggest you direct it at everyone.

Like, i can find filings from various "loved" open source companies that make the same argument, etc.
I look at it as the same thing as "mom" vs "Mom". When someone is referring to their own mother, as in "I'm going to tell Mom", then it is capitalized. Vs "I'm going to tell your mom".
But your mentor can just be your coworker! That's how many professions have worked for a long time. I don't get where this idea that academia has a monopoly on difficult skills and knowledge comes from.
Both yarn and jest have announced they're switching to TypeScript. A corporate like Facebook would never allow that unless there was an internal shift in direction.

I'd consider flow dead.
For this you need to first have the cash up-front to pay for a second pot only needed for one week a month.

The general economic problem behind this is common for people living from paycheck to paycheck. For example, a good pair of shoes will last over a decade but cost 100€ (=> less than 10€/year), while cheap shoes for 10€ last a year. Now the cost over 10 years is equal, and for any year the shoe lasts longer, the person saves money. But without access to non-predatory loans (such as payday lending, pawn shops, mafia loans or CCs >5% APR) the person can never realize the saving.
And some universities hire tenure-track faculty whose primary responsibility is teaching.

See "Teaching Professor" on this list: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Lists/list.html?_ga=2...

It would be good if this were more common...
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A nice idea in theory, however most cities are woefully behind on public infrastructure to begin with. They're going to be much, much slower to roll-out than any self-contained SDC by SV or Detroit makers.
You're missing the point. I'm saying I'm completely willing to exchange some ease of worker organization for a more peaceful (some might even say thoughtful) workplace due to the current mess the culture is.
I really wish companies chasing this far-fetched dream of an autonomous car instead invested in their local transit authorities to make public transit free for all.
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That's just, like, your opinion man. Other people have different political opinions.

The progressive majority were all for firing people for political beliefs as long as it was people they disagreed with... now they're aghast at the abstract concept of it?
Flow really shines when you have a large, untyped codebase and want to incrementally add types to it. If you're starting a new project (or rewriting one) TypeScript is the more sensible choice. By nature Flow is going to be used less and less over time.
> What's import is DC, LA, and many other metro cities that can't build more roads, but still need population and economic growth.

Mass. Transport.
If the food industry doesn't fund research, are we better off with none at all?

Yes, individual vegetables and products matter relatively little compared to balanced eating. But saying this guide isn't useful is factually incorrect.

Its an improvement over the previous guide. That makes it useful. It tells people to eat more veggies. That makes it useful.

Unfortunately we live in a world with imperfect information and while it's not the perfect guide for everyone, no gude ever will be.

The biggest issue with your rant is simply that you're complaining needlessly without offering a useful alternative.

You've made some obviously incorrect statements. The fact is that people are living longer, and dying of "sicknesses" they wouldn't live long enough to reach in the past. America hasnt one so well on those metrics, but the world as a whole has significantly improved.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=World+wide+life+expectancy+trend
These are systemic problems in the industry, though. Leaving google will almost certainly place you in a company where the situation is worse, and where the ability to set industry standards is less.

As for the "it's not a democracy:" I ask why we tolerate that. In a country founded in individual freedoms, we're apparently ok with creating no-freedom zones that pretty much every adult has to spend half of their waking hours in.
Google owns the email system. Why can't they limit its usage by its own employees? Companies do that all the time. Employees have no rights to do whatever they want with someone else's infrastructure.
Gitlab's Legal Page – Legal's role within a startup
I don't know if this is true. My career is also a result of the excellent mentors I have and continue to have, the wonderful peers I cooperate with, the selfless professors who taught me fundamentals, the excellent technology already built by those who came before me, etc.

I really can't say that my career is a result of my own hard work and passion as if my own hard work and passion is the primary thing that allowed my career to succeed. It doesn't matter how passionate and hard working I am if my environment wasn't condusive to computer science as a profession.
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It's more about bad grammar than anything else, to me. Proper names should be capitalized. You wouldn't type "zeus" or "thor."

If you're talking about the concept of gods, then lowercase is fine, and the article mentions that.
Because a lot of programmers on HN are at the upper edge of their field’s income distribution for a variety of reasons, location definitely being one of them. When a field unionized, the people near the top typically stand to lose the most, even if everyone as a whole are more enriched.

I would bet money that the most elite members of car manufacturing were also not particularly enthused about unionization, although I have no clue what specific job would qualify as elite.
Revolut also have disposable cards that are valid for only one transaction.
Looks great, reminds me of Kimono labs.
> The very same Harvard web-site?

Thanks, but that is not from the post I was responding to, and only addresses part of the claim I was disputing. The link says unsaturated fats are better than saturated fats... and specifically calls out olive oil as being healthy:

> “Good” unsaturated fats — Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats — lower disease risk. Foods high in good fats include vegetable oils (such as olive, canola, sunflower, soy, and corn), nuts, seeds, and fish.
> is intelligent life an inevitability, and is that a good or bad thing?

Without intelligence, there is no good or bad. You can't begin to overlay a moral framework on the world if there are no sentient beings to create it.
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who testified that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering sudden infant death syndrome was 1 in 73 million.

Even if he's wrong, using just the wrong stats says, well, in a country of >300 million (such as the U. S.) that's going to happen once in a while. Even a smaller country like the U. K., my response would be, "so it could happen, and it wouldn’t be all that outlandish for a case to crop over the course of, say, decades?"

OTOH, I don't care if the odds are 1 in 73 gazillionbillion, it could happen and the prosecution still needs to prove otherwise. We're not playing craps here.
See Clever Hans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

" horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer"
Except that being powerless before a boss is hardly a form of independence.
It might make some of the people here who are worrying about competition for their jobs feel better to know that a good portion of CS graduates couldn't code their way out of a paper sack[1]. I have a CS bachelor's from what is considered a very good school and let me tell you, I frequently worked on group projects with complete sloppy bozos who had no idea what they were doing and still graduated. I can't imagine the standards have gone up with the recent flood of students and pressure to improve graduation rates.

[1]I know, I know, CS is not about "coding". But trust me, these people were not making up for it with advanced theoretical work or even like, HCI.
Boycotting is one small lever of control.
And that wastes physical real estate that could be used for a more modern cable. And with more USBC / thunderbolt cables around, theyll also get cheaper.
> If I named my kid "Person", the fault would be on me when people keep writing "person" to address him.

That would be silly of you, but it would still be obvious bad grammar. Proper names get capitalized in English. It's pretty simple.
I think the correct keywords for this would be "tool assisted continuous scrapping"
What's wrong with canned chickpeas?
> When I went to university graduating in 2007, so just before the crash but not really very long ago, everyone was pretty chilled out about their courses. Nobody did internships

Perhaps these things go in cycles. When I was in university in the late 90s, almost everyone tried to get some sort of internship over the summer, and some were very competitive.

The telecoms were booming back then and I was turned down by one of the big companies (Nortel) before landing a co-op at a smaller network equipment maker.

I was definitely influenced by the on campus CS culture (big "top 5" state school), which encouraged summer internships. However, I could also see how people who entered college after seeing and experiencing the economic pain of 2008 would have a more focused approach to how they spent their time in university.
This may be true socially, at least in some situations, but not legally or morally; most car wrecks, except those with obvious negligence or worse, are "accidents."
Even down to the cook (not even "chef"). I go to a specific restaurant on a weekly basis, where I know the names of the cooks. I order different dishes depending solely on who's working that day, since I know which get prepared best by who.
I don't know how much correlation between the 'secret' history and the rest of SV's history but if you're interested Steve Blank covers the secret history nicely:

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
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The whole point of these actions is to avoid paper trails.

The political speech aspect of the matter is a red herring. The priority is suppressing contrarian contemplation in writing to avoid issues with litigation, etc.

Lawyers who are defendants want to preserve nothing. Lawyers who are plaintiffs want to retain every utterence ever made since the dawn of time.
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umm.. yes we are all aware of this.

Its a single geographic region. Its not allowed according to financial or healthcare data regulations in India.

P.S. i personally am working with the "Big 4" consulting guys to get a white paper to work with this. But big missed opportunity for Azure. All because of bad UI.
When I was at Intel, I recall that in (SC5?) they had a lot of the processor design diagrams on the wall as art. They are beautiful.

Also, they turned the bad chips from fabs into keychains - with all the CPU Circuitry revealed behind a dollop of clear epoxy - had that as my keychain for nearly a decade.

Core memory is really cool - and just in case you like some of this https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/ is a good place...
Delivered nothing over the millions of fully autonomous miles? Delivered nothing to the residents of the Phoenix area who are using their SDC?

And, yes, as usual, tech company way over-promising on timelines. But that's no different from anyone else trying to generate hype and garner investments/public partners.
I am extremely skeptical. Why? Because if you're using your phone to measure PD, you're presumably looking at the phone as you do so and your pupils are converged compared to a PD measurement when focusing at a distant (near infinity) object. It's not clear to me how using a 3d sensor to scan a face solves this problem and why this would be superior to the "focus on something far away and put dots on an old pair of glasses" method described here: http://www.daniellivingston.com/2012/06/measuring-your-own-p...
Not sure about exactly this thing, but there's a few embedded Lua's, e.g. http://www.eluaproject.net/ or https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware
Wasn't God always referred to The Lord or YHVH in the original Bible anyway?

Hmmm autocorrect automatically capitalizes Bible but not god.