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Looking at those charts, why are libertarians considered right-wing? They may be so economically, but they definitely are to the left (or even the far left) socially.

Giving that this post talks about social stuff, and not economical stuff, I believe that 51%/49% chart to be simply wrong.
Numbers/sources?

The official reports say that they’re expecting 60% of immigration growth to come from economic migrants.

And the proportion of new Canadians settling in BC/ON/PQ is down from ‘97. But who knows how many “settle” and move the next day.

They’re blaming processing times on any decline for economic migration, which I’d expect this government to rectify. People tend to vote for the people that let them in.

And if anything, the economic migrant categories have quotas. Less demand = less points required to win an invitation.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...
Clicking next, next, next one/five titles at a time is my complaint. And even paging doesn’t help much when it’s constantly resorted.

I could semi memorize my local blockbuster and do a walking scan for stuff that was new or caught my eye. They also picked a genre for a movie. Netflix you can see same movie in drama/comedy and thriller. Just makes their catalog look bigger and harder to sort through.

I don’t use Netflix through a touch device. Only on TV via Apple TV or amazon fire so there may be some experience I’m missing out on.
>> The median income of NY's 14th district is 52K. My mother in law makes about that working in a hotel in Manhattan and is an immigrant who has lived in the same apartment in this district for 20 years. In what way would Amazon moving in possibly be good for someone in her situation?

> Would your mother-in-law not rather work in a hotel closer to home? Not everyone has to work directly for Amazon in order to benefit from the investment. Increased numbers of high-paying jobs means increased spending and new businesses in the area, as well.

Sure, maybe she could work at a brand-spanking new hotel next to HQ2 in her former neighborhood -- after she's been driven out of it by rising rents caused by HQ2.
There’s no reality in which the scam commonly known as Tether is a stablecoin.
That's crazy... Seeing how many comments a video sometimes can get. I don't see how someone could go through all their comments for some videos, and it also means they would have to keep track of this for every video posted...
only because people are too sensitive
Just like Accenture did.... not a new playbook but memory fails.
I wish there was an epub version, so I can read it on an ereader. PDF's aren't nice to read on mine.
It would be cool to see links from previous days/months/years point to an archived version of the link (if possible). If you go back a substantial amount of time, you end up hitting a lot of broken links.
> Massive public attention has already been brought to Facebook and its policies.

Not so much, really. Outside of techie types, my experience is that very few people are aware of this stuff.
This >> "An important thing to realize is that Redis has not a solid roadmap, over the years I found that opportunistic development is a huge win over having a roadmap. Something is demanded? I see the need? I’m in the mood to code it? It’s the right moment because there are no other huge priorities? There are a set of users that are helping the design process, giving hints, ideas, testing stuff? It’s the right moment, let’s do it."
I don't have production experience with ARM unfortunately but Raspberry Pi is huge... Linux on desktop sucks if you have any laptop or something like this, but specific hardware just like RPi, everything works for my needs. I have node.js, .net core, python and loads of software that just works for me on ARM. Let alone I have Synology with ARM processor. Making servers is a lot easier than making consumer grade laptops or desktops. I agree with Antirez, there is so much space to try out stuff on cheap ARM with RPi and other SBC it just going to roll over x86 because ARM is going to be ubiquitous with phones and SBCs. That is why x86 won with SPARC and PowerPc, it was just in more places.
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On the name question, perhaps: previously. As in when tv shows continuing a story was novel, and they'd do a "Previously, on Buffy..."
I write Java but I seriously doubt that ARM has comparable JVM, it’s probably slow compared to x86. Cross platform in theory, not so much in practice.
There is a sweet spot.

The boss can't hire new grads to work on it, because they can smell the manure from a mile away. So as long as you're willing to slap on yet another coat of superficial patches, they'll keep paying you to do it.

That's an equally-bad symptom of the same problem, approaching from the opposite side. The structural problem still doesn't get fixed, because the developers aren't repulsed by it at a visceral level quite enough to kill it with fire or nuke it from orbit. It's just scary enough to scare off the competition.

The technical debt is kept in place, so that people can live off of the technical interest payments. It's not an honorable living, but it is a living.
> What does a republic get you that a dictatorship couldn't do more efficiently?

We're wayyyy off on a tangent here, but the removal of an unpopular leader from office...
And this is a fantastic argument why 'The West' owes reparations to the descendants of the West African Slave trade. The genocide in Rwanda, the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (to name but two recent atrocities); these were over within a handful of years. Every single second of it was worse-then-horrible and equally shows the worst of humanity. They nonetheless ended.

The West African Slave trade lasted for HUNDREDS of years. "Chattle Slavery" only ended in name and one needs only look at the Prison system in the United States to see the still evident policies and procedures that continue to this very day to continually harm the descendants of slavery. This is an ongoing crisis, that must be resolved.

What tortured damage lingers in the DNA of these descendants? We have proof that Rwandans, and Jews have suffered damage and harm; is it too hard to imagine that we owe a debt and an obligation to healing these injuries?

And for healing to begin, the damage must stop.
> You need the right to work in the US.

You should mention this on the website.
When that happens we’ll also see a big push to add ARM support to all the native nodejs modules that are out there. (And I assume Ruby, Python, Go, etc packages).

Linus’s prediction is based on the premise that everyone will continue to use x86 for development. But that’s probably not going to be the case for long. Multiple sources have leaked the rumour that Apple will release an arm MacBook next year. And I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft has an arm surface book in the wings too.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/21/apple-custom-arm-based-...
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Republics and dictatorships are overlapping sets; in fact the instance of the latter from which the term derives was a designed-in temporary state of one of the best-known ancient examples of the former.

You probably meant something like “democratic republic” or the not-quite-equivalent “representative democracy” instead of bare “republic”.
This is pretty interesting. Thank's for the details, I might try this out.
The demand is mostly in chemical industry and very inelastic. No one is going to put another plant on line because platinum group metals are cheap (but plants may be pulled off line because the economy is in the dumps, as happened in 2008 and 2017). Even small increases in supply will lead to great drops in price. You can only hope that a plentiful supply would encourage new uses.
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Who's going to make the "develop on x86, deploy on server-side ARM" experience smooth? It certainly isn't today. Who has that kind of control of the entire stack top to bottom? Amazon is the only one that comes to mind... but I wouldn't bet on it.
Couldn't find this in the article: How is it expected to reach the Earth in 2020 when it took 3.5 years to get to the asteroid? Will it begin its return when the asteroid is closer to the Earth?
When I was young, taking the ferry would cost you a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
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> a junior developer put on a major healthcare project could absolutely do some damage to their fellow human beings.

Any compliant healthcare software project would keep a junior developer very far from the patient -- there are many layers of review, testing and validation that would prevent one developer's mistakes from significantly putting patient health or data at risk. Even senior developers (usually) shouldn't be able to touch stuff that close to patients.

A doctor literally has their hands on a patient. There isn't a review pipeline that makes sure a doctor's mistakes are caught before they reach a patient.

(That's not to say mistakes that harm patients don't happen in healthcare software, just that it's hard for one developer to cause harm without many others approving it first)
You're right, we will add this
> it's very concerning to me that engineers still go to work there

Me too. And, although it may be unfair, I have to admit that I view engineers who are still willing to work for them as suspect.
I like it. It seems to surface more unusually good stories -- but is that a problem?

Won't the list end up dominated by a handful of winner-take-all stories, lingering throughout the entire day at the top of the list, rather than an ongoing series of slightly-less-popular stories popping in and out?

If there's always going to be better stories with the "sorted by time spent" view, does that create a danger that everyone will just devote their attention to those few high-grade stories, and ignore all of the rest?
You could just use average income over the previous 3-5 years rather than the current tax year income. The IRS already has that data on file.
> For example, you can have a perfectly legal contract, but the other party is in a corrupt foreign jurisdiction that would never find in your favor in the event of a breach. Then you can't contract with them because they have no incentive not to breach, without an alternative method of ensuring compliance that doesn't rely on their corrupt government.

can you give a concrete example? this requires a smart contract does it not? what is an example contract (specifically) where this is useful?
Honestly, it is annoying to see essentially advertisers pushing others around. Moreover, only an idiot would associate your product with content on a site from user generated content.

I consider ads a form a propaganda because they are trying to influence your behavior.
Obviously, those tasks will be done by battery-powered drones soon, perhaps starting tomorrow! :)

In all seriousness, I wonder why they didn't revise the SOHC modular series, perhaps it's a packaging issue? Is the Romeo foundry being used for these?
HN commenters: “Blockchains are dumb! You could do the exact same thing with a distributed Byzantine fault tolerant database with publicly auditable merkelized logs that collects transactions into blocks!”
As I mentioned elsewhere, I do not find it a hard problem, and neither do most programmers that I know.

BUT.

Most of the people in my "tribe" had some formal education in computer science.

Our experience when hiring people is that there are programmers with a lot of raw talent and potential who will need a full slot (about 45 minutes of actual problem-solving time) to come up with something like the the code you suggest.

There will be no time to discuss their solution, ask them how to handle multiple types of parentheses, &c.

What most of those "They seem really smart, but struggled to balance parentheses" candidates seem to have in common is coming to programming without the formal education, e.g. through a "hacker school."

Whereas, the folks coming to us directly out of a university with a traditional CS curriculum grasp the basic idea right away, and we usually get past the first question and on to a follow-up in the same 45 minutes.

We already know from their resumé that some of the folks are coming from Waterloo or wherever, so it adds no useful information to us for them to do a lot better than the people with less formal backgrounds. For this reason, we now only ask this question of people doing work terms from universities with a formal CS curriculum.

When people are coming to us via another path, we now give them another question entirely, and we will be retiring this one outright in the near future.
> the definition of the Earth's crust I'm pretty sure includes the oceans, the seafloor, and everything down to the mantle

If the crust included the oceans, there wouldn't be different figures for the oceans in the same article.

You make a valid point about the seafloor being part of the crust; but I didn't intend to include the seafloor in "oceans".

> Atom count seems like a pretty pointless metric; we're talking about resources available for mining, in which case mass is what counts.

That depends on what we're mining the resource for. For example, if we're mining for metals to use in catalytic converters for vehicles, atom count is the relevant metric, since the catalytic effectiveness depends on the number of atoms, not on the total mass.
Same reason as mine- separation of work and private profiles
It sounds like you wanted a revolutionary open discourse, and are surprised that the discourse is full of revolutionaries.

I really don't know how to fix the human empathy problem, though.
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Bitcoin is a good backup currency for travel. I tend to use my regular bank card, but I've been in situations where none of my bank cards work at the local ATM. I know the article is about blockchain in general. But I think it's worth pointing out a legal and good use case that might not be obvious to people who don't travel.
Why do you say that?

Far more industry leading companies (much less companies as a whole) have rose and fall in power, changed their goals/products/management/etc in the past 5/15/50/etc years than governments. Turnover is far higher in corporation management positions than congresses and parliaments, and further, there is no law saying that I have to buy any specific good from a company, whereas I don't get a choice in which government I pay to build the the roads or police where I have established my life.
>Decoration distracts.

This is the principle that lead to the abhorrent and unusable flat design. Sometimes, lack of decoration distracts. Because it is this "decoration" that makes things look familiar. Without the decoration people have to stop and think and figure out things.

iOS 6 and below is an example of decoration making things more familiar and intuitive. As Steve Jobs designed it, the world inside the iPad screen was a seamless extension of the world outside the screen. When you went inside the iPad, everything looked familiar. But now we have a hard boundary at the device, and different rules apply inside that boundary. You have to learn and memorize new rules because the outside rules that you are already familiar with are of no help inside the screen.
You don’t have a choice with smartphones. So it’s not very relevant. I will write for Itanium if necessary. But given a choice, x86 wins.
> Clearly they didn't think this through.

You're assuming this was a malicious move on Apple's part, as opposed to negligence or apathy.
I'd be interested to see actual numbers for transaction volume, latency, and reliability of SWIFT and blockchain in practical use cases.

I worked on a payment system using the UK's Faster Payment Scheme a while ago. The SLA for latency is two seconds end-to-end, and is usually much faster than that, was simple enough for a gang of underpaid COBOL programmers to implement it successfully, and didn't have a mechanical error rate worth bothering about. In January it moved 186.1 million payments and 161 billion pounds:

http://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/statistics

FPS is UK-only, but there's nothing about the technology or the commercial and legal machinery that wouldn't work internationally. If SWIFT is really as bad as you say, it could be replaced with a better instance of the same technology; it doesn't require a haunted git repository to fix it.
eh, it's a fairly predictable response from people who can't come up with anything better. In fact, I'm usually surprised when I don't see it.

Whatever. My wife's perfectly happy with her F250 with the old 7.3L Powerstroke diesel. Maybe I'll ask her what she's compensating for :-)

Gotta say, though. I'd love me one of those F150 Raptors. Yummy!
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Yea, why didn't they just round up and make an 8-liter V8...one liter for each V, to make it easy for us Americans.
"dabbled on their own" could mean "(slightly above) zero to intermediate coding experience".
Thanks for the update! I really think there's a huge opportunity of growth there that goes beyond SCM/DevOps for medium sized teams.
Use powershell ;)

It's wonderful.
Also if you get forced at gun point to sign a smart contract giving your money away (or say a company which takes longer to transfer), what would be your recourse in a trustless world?

There's no recourse for deliberate fraud, sure you could read a contract before signing it and know exactly what it does, but you can hide surprising behaviors in innocent looking code. The Underhanded C Challenge (http://www.underhanded-c.org/) proves this.
I mean, look at what Fidelity is doing with FZROX and FZILX. Both Vanguard and Fidelity are locked in a crazy fee war [1] to be the GOAT of asset management companies [2]. How the hell do you compete with Fidelity as an individual stock picker when there are no fees to speak of to participate in this fund?

I've seen people mentioning that HFT can totally and consistently beat indexes [3], but then a) can I even get in on the action with less than $1000 and b) is the automated system in place any good?

[1] https://riabiz.com/a/2018/12/13/vanguards-asset-machine-wobb...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701283

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19228699
This was essentially my own reaction. If you've read his novels (which are mostly autobiographical), it is obvious that his alcoholism is far from anything glamorous. His entire life looks like a trainwreck (especially Factotum), complete with brushes with skid row, and a lot of this can be chalked up to drink.
Depending on focus, might even be interested in contributing
(not an expert on cubesats or rocket science, but have worked for a major aerospace publisher and more recently for an ESA-funded EO startup)
Is it? I was under the impression x86 had basically failed and everything was ARM. Or is MIPS or something else reasonably popular?
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That article is citing the same ITEP report that was posted here, a report which does not cite its sources. I'm not trusting ITEP to be any more unbiased than the Tax Foundation.
There is an interesting communication problem here.

If I could guarantee that every candidate would read my blog, I'd happily point them to an essay like this, and then in the interview we could work on something meaty, like pattern matching.

That would suit your second recommended strategy. But I wouldn't want to write an essay like this, and then favour those candidates who like to read Hacker News or follow me on Twitter. We're trying to select for talent, not for membership in a tribe :-)

So we're retiring this question, and we already have a few replacements that we use for many candidates. But I won't blog about them, in an attempt to hew closely to the first strategy you suggest.
And what if a lowly peasant like me wants to synchronize with the big trading firms' feeds? Do I need to sell a kidney to play on the same field?

Blockchain does exactly this without everybody having to sort out discrepancies. Everybody getting the same picture is built in. Just the possibility of there being discrepancies in the ledgers you described would have me looking for a better way.

I would much rather have the option of connecting to a decentralized feed that is the same for everybody regardless of resources.
Well, what I meant was that if Stonebriar was out of the way for someone like me who grew up north of the Galleria, then the Galleria must be really out of the way for people in Frisco.
in my limited experience, open forum social boards without a particular political stance very rarely have data available easily
I would counter that those things are not to limit supply, but to ensure quality of service. When you're holding someone's life in your hands the profession can suffer greatly from bad actors or just those with limited skillset. It behooves everyone in those professions to make sure the quality of service remains as high as possible because bad service could damage everyone in the industry.

As we move forward and software does impact people's lives more and more and in some cases can lead to injury or death, we will see many more professional hurdles put in place. But it won't be to keep the profession pool limited.
$500MM is not $3B, and you don't get to lie about the amount just because you think its still a big number.
Speaking of code readability, the article uses a function in the example called "isNotOpenSource()". If you have a function that returns a boolean, it's best not to put another boolean in the function name i.e. "isOpenSource()" is cleaner and more readable.

Honestly, it's a code smell that makes me trust my initial reaction that the switch statement is indeed more readable than the authors solution.
> not the government

Point of information: "the government" should not be regarded as a monolithic entity unless it actually behaves as such. As a Brit, my medical records are held by the nationalised health service, but this doesn't mean that random cabinet ministers or police can go leafing through them on a whim.

For me, they're held with https://nhsnss.org/how-nss-works/ ; quite a lot of England actually has them held by a private company, Serco.

(edit: should probably add another distinction between "illegal" and "doesn't happen at all")
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That's an excellent resource that I've used heavily (along with their awesome forecast package for R). I also found QuantStart's series on Time Series Analysis (scroll down a bit: https://www.quantstart.com/articles) quite helpful, and it gets a little deeper into the math so I had a better understanding of why certain things are done.
An easy way to do this is figure out related syscalls. in this case it will be open (vfs of sockets) accept etc. Grep for those and then you'll see the data structures and the code they use.
> People wanting to raise a family? How preposterous!

I know! People should be satisfied with the opportunity to change the world (and make me rich) at my startup. Asking for more is kinda greedy. /s.