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You never know when you're going to die. Realizing that it could be today can change your perspective on life. Losing your fear of dying will make you dangerously honest.
I've read that he had some reputation as an alcoholic.
What is that cost?

Part of the cost is that tech companies have to find more and more money to pay staff in order to maintain the growth their investors demand, which leads them to do less and less ethical things like spying on people.

While such a large portion of tech company revenue is going to landlords (via staff wages) tech companies will continue to get worse at things like privacy.
What else have you used can I ask?
All good points, parasites are generally to be avoided and do have consequences.

As for tapeworms, it really depends on the type. Some as you say just eat your lunch, but pork tapeworms are dangerous. They carry a risk of having their eggs wend their way into tissues such as muscles, and most dangerously the brain, with predictably disastrous consequences. Neurocysticercosis is no joke, and if you’d like to never sleep again try a google image search for it.

The only two (controversial) benefits of human parasites I know of are non-pork tapeworms used for dieting, and... something very interesting indeed. I give you... Helminthic Therapy. Some clever folks noticed that certain parasitic worms (helminths) are very good at modulating the immune system of their host, presumably to protect themselves and their offspring. They reasoned that a controlled infection could help with some autoimmune diseases, and it’s a subject of research.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401880/

Even more interesting though is the hypothesis that widespread helminth infection is a contributing factor to lower rates of allergies and autoimmune disease in developing nations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
I have a project that uses it, Meh. when people use Camlp4, it's a pain to read, the stuff is had to follow when it's a wall of text because of the level of indirection, Lwt makes everything hard.

When I was 20, I thought Ocaml was the best thing in the world, because I was writing it. Now, after years without using it, I have to maintain other people's code, my opinion changed.
There’s no way that would be their reason.
The conclusion of the post is, literally, that you don't need to understand monads. Not what the title sells.
See also the Gish Gallop - a debating technique named after the creationist Duane Gish, which involves making as many specious arguments as quickly as possible. An unprepared opponent is likely to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of points they need to refute.

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

A variant of this technique is now standard in competitive debating, creating a truly absurd spectacle; most teams speak as quickly as humanly possible to fit the greatest number of arguments into a fixed time limit, creating a barely-intelligible blur of words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/09/26/corr...
Well, you’re not entitled to conduct attacks on them at all, so why shouldn’t the terms be up to them?
Yes, people and organizations have come forward and said they have evidence. It's a simple google search away. You, similar to the OP, seem to be ignoring all of the many warnings from many organizations. If you think that intelligence agencies are going to show you, a random person, or the public the evidence directly I think you're not really aware of how they work. Why would they burn assets and methods to prove this when everyone agrees on it?

I would probably agree with you that attaining evidence of this spying would be somewhat easier for governments than for others. However, the rest of your assertion that these accusations are only due to geopolitics is pretty out there given it's almost universal at this point that people think Huawei are not on the up and up.

Hurtling accusations without any sort of supporting evidence is literally what you've just done. There's a ton of evidence out there to not use them.

Here are some pieces of evidence for you that literally were on page 1 and 2 of a search:

CIA, NSA, FBI just last year saying the US shouldn't use them:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2018/11/25/u-s-...

At least the US and Australian Intelligence services have hard evidence of them spying for the Chinese government:
https://www.axios.com/report-australian-intelligence-know-hu...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-security/former-ci...
I see your point, I strayed into rhetoric there somewhat.

On the topic of US corruption, it will be interesting to see the outcome of the Mueller investigation. I suspect most of those at the top will get away with it with scant repercussion. At least, that's what usually happens.
There is a ban on Lenovo products. From 2013, regarding a ban imposed since approx 2005:

"Chinese PC maker Lenovo has reportedly been banned from supplying equipment for the "secret" and “top secret” networks of many intelligence agencies, due to concerns its products are vulnerable to being hacked." ... "The ban is only thought to apply to the most highly restricted networks, and Lenovo remains a significant supplier of computers for “unclassified” government networks in these countries."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10208578/Spy-age...

(That said, I have a Lenovo X1 Thinkpad, bought partly because of all the recommendations on HN, and in particular seeing Troy Hunt using Lenovo. I'd forgotten that article when I bought it.)
The guy he's citing is a quack.
In this case, shouldn't it just be called a nap?

I do wonder how a sunny spot on a soft object would have compared to the other stimuli.
It is not impossible to stop using and drinking completely. I am a very high performing software engineer and 20 years ago I had an opioid problem. I experienced bad things and out of control things as part of my addiction. My thinking was nuts. Yes I could have killed myself. My productivity dropped so much I was told "all the managers are wondering about you," but no one could figure it out, because I didn't seem like the type. I quit my job. Then I did the whole rigamarole of getting clean and I followed the suggestions of people who had struggled with the same problem and gotten freedom around it. I still do that. I am saying this (under a brand new login) because if there are people out there who are feeling hopeless, there is hope for you. I don't think about using anymore and I have learned tools to deal with my (substantial) success. You can too. The best thing was I got clean when my son was very young, he never saw me loaded, I had a good and stable relationship with his mother, and my son has no attraction to drugs or alcohol at this point. I was raised in an alcoholic home so I can't tell you the sense of accomplishment and gratitude I have about that. You don't have to be a genius to do this. You need willingness and honesty and you need to get some help. Good luck, I am rooting for you.
"Databolt" is nowhere near long enough to need abbreviation and in any case you should tell people what it is before you start abbreviating it. Starting with "D6t", which is horrendous to pronounce, is silly.

Internationalisation is long. Databolt isn't.
Needs 2013 tag. Still fun tho.
It occurs to me that the tight labor market is forcing wages higher naturally. Additionally, the recent tax cuts have helped inject cash into the economy.
Interesting that you cite stability concerns. I am not sure that's the case anymore.

My employer runs 5-6 complete openstack environments and those things have never had an unplanned outage that I'm aware of. My stuff hasn't ever gone down, I know that.
> and better use such farm for a big money-maker.

So...like raise goats or something?
What if you removed that one sentence from the article and read it again. What would be your conclusion?
I did one small pedagogical project in PureScript. As a language, I really like it; in fact I'd prefer it to Haskell in many ways. The compiler experience is good, if not great. Compile times are a lot slower than Bucklescript but a lot faster than ghcjs. Performance is definitely worse, but for many apps I think it'd be fine (and you can always FFI out...). There is a webpack loader for it, although I've had some issues trying it. I've found the syntax to be quite confusing though, even coming from a Haskell background. Parser messages are vague and tracking down the bug can be very frustrating. Also not supporting things like trailing commas is lame (but the same in Haskell). Type errors are also often difficult to understand (even compared to Haskell).

I think overall it needs more development, in particular in regards to UX and integrating into a modern development workflow. I'm excited to see its progress :)
Many rights in the US are only guaranteed in the sense that they "shall not be infringed" or "Congress shall make no law". The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and the right to bear arms, but the government won't build you a church or buy you a rifle.

Housing could be a right in that sense: the government shall make no law preventing the construction of housing. Of course, like all other rights, it would be balanced against reasonable government interests like ensuring that the housing is safe.
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These kind of awesome and strange project always confuses me: as a vim person, I deeply doubt if this Emacs is the text editor I heard before.
wow! this is beautiful and very impressing! I love Lua and can see myself making a lot of use from this REPL.
The depressing state of tech right here.
The privacy clusterf*ck combined with politically-motivated censorship is really starting to steer the conversation towards regulation.

Given how profoundly big tech has failed to act responsibly with the power it has amassed, I think it's both inevitable and a good idea.

And I say that as a libertarian who works in software.

I'll take the US gov's track record wrt protecting speech vs what we're seeing with the tech industry right now.

Having said all of that, I wonder why FB gets piled on here vs Google. Google is just as bad, if not worse, and they have control of both a widely deployed browser and an operating system.
I realised a while ago that I was spending way too much time and energy getting into pointless online arguments about social justice issues. I now have a pretty low threshold of disagreement above which I'll immediately (and politely) disengage, and if it escalates at all from there, just block the person. I no longer care if someone is wrong on the internet, it's not my job to re-educate them, and the less energy I waste on them the better.
I trust there are separate plans to preserve his websites & photos on archive.org’s wayback machine.
> A variant of this technique is now standard in competitive debating

I think the reason for this is that there's a rule (possibly unwritten?) that if you drop an argument you automatically concede it. So it's in your best interest to belt out as many points as you possibly can and hope your opponent can't respond to all of them.
Depends on what you want to do on the server side. For many, it is enough to have a Postgresql database backend, and a very limited amount of other services needed, in such cases Dart is great for server side.

If you rely on many third-party services, chances are that the client API coverage is not that great, and you are better off with node at this point.
If you held it for a "couple" years then you should still be ahead, definitely not a >60% loss:

https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/krakenUSD#rg730ztgSza1gSMAz...
Not sure why you say you can't share code between server and app: if the code is in a common library that both import, it can be shared.
I think its useful for taking the emotion out of it, and to be reminded that this is an issue we've been dealing with for a long time.

Also this is when red light districts originated, a model still common in Europe today.
Is continuing to use fossil fuels a bad thing, if it's in conjunction with sufficient cleanup systems? It sounds like in your example, the problem is the bait-and-switch from "clean CO2-neutral power plants" to "traditional coal power plants".
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I have been using the same web browser, in terms of codebase, ideology and heritage, for over a quarter century now.

NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape 2, 3, 4/4.78, 6 -> Firebird -> Firefox -> Waterfox.

I have run other web browsers such as Opera and Vivaldi, but my main browser has always been and will always be a Mozilla product.
> A variant of this technique is now standard in competitive debating

Not outside the US it isn’t. Policy debating is a special US abomination, with unfortunate extensions into the cultural colony to the north. Everywhere else does parliamentary debating.
What are my options for playing console quality games mobile? Games like God of War Chains of Olympus or Gran Turismo on PSP do not seem to exist for mobile. Even willing to spend the money my most played game on the go is Puzzle Chess.

Yes streaming games is always in the news, but that seems to be stuck waiting for proper network coverage and still there is no device to play them on.
Yeah. You need at least as much energy to turn co2 into carbon (and oxygen) as you got from burning it in the first place.

Scrubbing coal powered plants takes away the whole point of the coal plant because you end up with negative energy.
I give whiteboard interviews. Believe it or not, I am intelligent. I am not going to disregard you because you got some minor syntax wrong on the whiteboard. I can tell the difference between a fundamental misunderstanding and a mistake that happens due to using a language that wasn't designed to be written on whiteboards. If you, the candidate, don't understand that, then I guess you are not fit for the role anyway.
It was less dangerous for those prostitutes? The chilbirth and childcare was more disastrous and difficult for them as they were single mothers and breadwinners as a result.
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Feynman’s Lost Lecture [pdf]
Hopefully, probably sarcastic, but just in case you're not: who puts the data on the blockchain?
That quote on the slide is the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_...
It scares me how much I relate to this but don’t have the eloquence to express it like you did.

I’ve evaluated it for a lot of smaller stuff I’ve needed to get done, but ultimately it just ends up being easier to use a framework or language that I already know.
Ask HN: Has the ranking algorithm of HN changed?
Is it just me or are the posts that are being listed on Show HN (especially) relatively older, even though there are many new and growing posts of the same category.
But that's ignoring the opportunity cost.

Strategically, you probably want to focus on what your core competencies are, even if you could in theory do something for cheaper. It's easy to ignore the foregone best alternative of iterating on your own product instead.
I use ocaml daily for work - our core product is written in it. We actively avoid anything that deviates from the base language for reasons of clarity. No camlp4, no lwt, no fanciness other than some of the batteries libraries that improve on the std library. It does occasionally mean we type in more than we would if, say, we used extensions to give us Haskell-like do notation for monadic code, but at the end of the day we err on the side of being very conservative.
Thank you! Will add the source.
I just discovered this and haven't tried it yet. The reason why this is so much faster seems to mostly be that it uses https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus (by the same author) as a daemon to get git status info.

The classical way of running a dozen git commands gets really slow in complicated circumstances. I think previously you had to either limit displayed git info or update the prompt contents asynchronously to get a reasonable latency in a Zsh prompt.
How would that work? Surely the company could make a fake duplicate and show it to you in a Merkle tree as "proof"? They literally make up every node in the Merkle tree after all.
Hi,

Author here. Hope this is of some interest to people at Hacker News.

Feel free to AMA.

thanks,
Rob
Certainly not if you're this ant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

The process leading to mortality takes 4–10 days, and includes a reproductive stage where fruiting bodies grow from the ant's head, rupturing to release the fungus's spores.
Look at the description of the that the poll asked:

"% of developers who are developing with the language or technology but have not expressed interest in continuing to do so"
How do you tell that a paper containing conclusions to support an agenda is written with correct scientific rigor, rather than fraud? Using Simpson's paradox, one can obfuscate their biases by making the desired conclusion drop out of the data.
Why Facebook and Google don't care about their scandals–or you
So the article seems to be saying that CTAs are failing which is true based on numbers and then claims this is because the environment is too random.

But shouldn't we consider as possible cause the fact that CTAs became common. When multiple parties use the same strategy it can not be winning any more for everybody.
The price for a studio isn't going to be far behind a 1 bedroom, and rooms in houses aren't really an option for for people who aren't single in most cases. Even if you wanted to cram multiple people into one 12x12 room, most cheap rooms for rent are explicit about 1 person only.

Look at median household income, San Francisco is effectively off limits to most people.
The question is how you're going to cleanup CO₂, which is almost always energy-negative.
What's the justification for running a host that responds to HTTP and doesn't immediately upgrade to HTTPS?

I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where I manage a web server that is accessible to anonymous people running pen scanners on it that has a justifiable reason for broadcasting port 80.
True, but they were considered ~disposable.
The best negative carbon tech that exists are trees and plants. It's not future tech it's already here!
Mass production of biochar and use it as a soil amendment. Sequesters carbon in production, sequesters more in the soil as it encourages biomass formation and encourages even more as plants grown in such soil do better.

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

> Biochar is charcoal used as a soil amendment. Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in soil for thousands of years.[1] Like most charcoal, biochar is made from biomass via pyrolysis. Biochar is under investigation as an approach to carbon sequestration,[1] as it has the potential to help mitigate climate change.[2][3][4] It results in processes related to pyrogenic carbon capture and storage (PyCCS).[5] Independently, biochar can increase soil fertility of acidic soils (low pH soils), increase agricultural productivity, and provide protection against some foliar and soil-borne diseases.[6]
I didn't get in details, what kind of CS question should be eliminated in "non-whiteboard" interviews. However, I would definitely ask at least basics of algorithms, their analysis, and data structures. For example, in my carrier, I saw enough getter methods (e.g. getCustomers) which looks from outside simple/fast but internally do linear search on each invocation. It especially "nice", if you have a piece of code which iterates over multiple collections in nested loops on UI thread..
Waiting for the Youtube cat video, the Instagram cat pictures, and the Twitter commentary.
> The extra neutrons are perhaps so speeded up by the heat that they cease to be efficient atom-busters. Thus the reaction poohs out as the temperature rises.

One can wonder, was it disinformation or just that they didn't know good neutron reflectors which could be used for making viable bombs?
Would the Saudis really have created this app if it didn't convenience Saudi men? I doubt that. I don't think the Saudi government is in the business of conveniencing Saudi women, except insofar as that's an incidental byproduct of conveniencing Saudi men.
Ocaml is a bit easier to reason about w.r.t. performance (time/space complexity), and the code is a bit clearer if you're coming in cold after not having seen parts of a codebase for a while. Spent ~10 years at a Haskell shop, and currently at an Ocaml one, and was a Standard ML hacker prior to the Haskell job. Done some F# in there too, although for the most part that just feels like ocaml w/ some cleaned up syntax and a nice interop with the rest of the .net ecosystem.

From a nontechnical perspective, some changes in the Haskell community and ecosystem also turned me off on it starting around 2011, and I find the ocaml one to be a bit more up my alley.
Why would they even need to turn it back? I'm sure some of it might be salvageable but I thought the point was more towards just containing it.
They aren't denied access to it, they just have to pay attention and be discerning if they want to filter all that information for the truth. The problem today is, there are fewer and fewer people who are trying to inform instead of persuade.
To put some data to this discussion, in Transparency International’s 2018 rankings, the US comes in 22nd least corrupt, and China comes in at number 87: https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018
Interactive bulk editing with vim macros
Allow me to rephrase; it's a shame he never learned that joining mobs is bad before he ever started joining them.
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Have seen that being done in a long time here. I don't think they've done this or the last 4 years.
I've found that when you reach a certain degree of complexity in an application, a functional CSS library like Tachyons (http://tachyons.io/) or Tailwind (https://tailwindcss.com/docs/what-is-tailwind/) is the only sane choice.
Yeah, unless we are speaking about gab.
You had to have really been out to lunch in 1983 if you were not at least aware of The Day After and its impact and controversy.

https://www.avclub.com/the-day-after-traumatized-a-generatio...
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Vancouver, Moscow, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Melbourne, Sydney, Amsterdam... $700k/year for a comfortable retirement with kids is just so far out of touch anywhere else than SF, NYC, maybe London. How can someting like 95%+ of the population who make less even cope? (Manhattan median household income is ~$85k).