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Dynamic languages are ok for toy projects/websites.

If you have to build something large/complex/that has to work within constraints, statically typed languages are the way to go.

If refactoring "a decent portion of the code" of a project involves only a couple of interfaces/types, it is a tiny project and yeah, using a toy language would probably have been ok for that.
Some tried back in 2011, didn't go to well: https://youtu.be/vWxxtzBTxGU
Yes, that description represents my experience also. Even religious rituals were treated that way - as a means to develop focus and self-discipline.

That said, in the same households, people can still be very superstitious, because practically, sometimes being that way helps you explain otherwise difficult things that happen in life.
Steam in-home streaming over gigabit LAN seems to be the best case scenario for this tech, and for me that is still not good enough for most of the games I like to play.
Good riddance, we don't want whiners badmouthing our products on social media. Have a nice day.
As someone without a CS degree, I want to second how good Interview Cake. It probably depends upon how you like to learn, but I found the interactive style of the site "clicked" with me. The UI is great, and the organization of the materials is also very clean. I found it friendlier & easier to work with than Cracking the Coding Interview.

I also got lucky -- the question for my phone tech screen at the company I wound up accepting an offer from was almost identical to one of the Interview Cake questions I'd worked.

I paid for whatever the shortest term membership was in the weeks I was preparing for interviews, and it was worth it.
"Apple Tax?" When I purchased my last beefy workstation, I looked at Dell, HP, IBM, and clones. When I purchased my 2008 8-core workstation, Apple was hands down the cheapest option. It lasted 10 years until I finally decommissioned it (no more OS updates and slow 3GBps disk I/O). With the last upgrade of PCI SSDs, it still performs just as well if not better than any new laptops I've used.
Twitch streamer Ninja reportedly earned $1M for promoting Apex Legends launch
A new idea for a Hitchcock film...
> Should not there be some criminal charges?

That depends on whether you can convince the court.
It's quite common that the top comment asks "why is everybody saying X", as if X was a widespread opinion. But then you have to scroll three pages down to find the comments being referred too, and they are usually heavily downvoted.
I'm in California. EVs are a tiny niche market, battery tech still has massive mileage and safety issues to overcome and the grid is not fit for purpose in most parts of the world.

China are building out scale EV infrastructure and since they are the main global market for vehicles going forward it seems inevitable they will ultimately own the EV transportation and infrastructure markets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid_in_China
How do you balance your own needs against those of your family's? My kids are 2.5 and 6 months, and I frequently stay up late to work on personal projects or even just drink beer and watch TV. Its hard being tired the next day, but the alternative is never taking any time for myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
Facebook and Big Tech are monopsonies, even when they're not monopolies
10 bits per channel does not necessarily mean you have HDR.

In the past, it was used to get finer gradations, which is in fact fairly important if you are working with black and white , to avoid banding.

HDR involves mapping the 10 bits over a different tone response curve that covers a wider output dynamic range.
This is classic Wired- style writing. They want a protagonist, a hero, a villain. It's always painted as far too simple and dramatic when most technology is actually developed in the most mundane boring ways.
It doesn't matter if the transaction can't be altered if something went wrong. The customer can still have a complaint to register, like "I am not your customer, please stop sending me his receipts".
> Would you say that a museum or university isn't sustainable because its revenue from goods and services is less money than it spends?

Yes?

That's why it's being usually run by tax money.
A regular flow of funds. Something you can plan and work with.
Well, I am not a web developer; thought I have developed simple web apps for understanding the development process but never deployed anything in the wild. My experience is into embedded and desktop application development. I recently received a request from one of my clients to develop a small web app that has to be accessible from the client's multiple offices with 3K employees. The employees use varying devices and web browsers (e.g. IE8+, old Android and iOS phones etc). I am looking for information on what things I should look for, from deployment, security and maintanibility point of view, before, during and after deploying the software. The web app is a simple work log book where employees log in the tasks done everyday and supervisors audit the information entered.

I want this web app to be secure, scalable and maintainable. If the client in future wants someone else to take over the project then it has to be easy for them to do so.
I'm a cats-over-dogs person, but cats can definitively attack people. Killing is probably quite rare, but then again they don't have the size and strength of a pit bull or rottweiler. Yorkshire terriers probably haven't killed many persons either.
There's a vending machine for (fresh baked warm) baguettes in San Francisco
The actual dynamic range of the displays, and the tone response curves mapping input number to output brightness.
> They also have a ban against distributing or even talking about macro/autohotkey programs, and, of course, they can see every single message and piece of content you put on the service.

Woah. That's strange considering I've subscribed to the AHK Discord group for a while now. Maybe they're referring to the ban in the context around cheating in video games.
Just couldn't read because Page down, or down arrow doesn't scroll on firefox. Very weird behavior.
The noses were gold plated.
That bus driver is awesome!

You can get a joystick controlled chair that can go off road, and put knobby tires on most chairs. It's a matter of money and mess for those who are in chairs.

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In this case it has to do with the design of the chair.

It's a pretty big leap to assume this design an improvement in how a chair is controlled, especially by a quadriplegic.

It would be a matter of preference for most paraplegics, but that's generally a matter of convenience. From that point of view I don't think this is an improvement at all over a joystick.

Joysticks are very intuitive and require almost no effort. Leaning back and forth and side to side is not so intuitive and requires a lot more effort.

One thing this chair does offer is "fun". I think it's cool as can be and I'd love to take it for a spin.
I suppose my point is I distrust your certainty. It's quite possible 20 petaflops may be enough. Maybe we will need many exaflops. We don't really know.
Building an Analytics Dashboard with Node, Express, and Cube.js
It is an internal software problem.
AI will render political discussion between honest human strangers impossible on the open internet.

At some point this technology will extend into what's left of print, then talk radio, then TV. An endless supply of Markov punditry.
Domestic cats don't have the physical capacity to kill a human due to their size. Were they larger on average, say 50lb, it would be possible.
Chin up buddy, as everyone has said, plenty of companies want people with your experience. I was in a similar position, my company was not growing anymore and I became a little nervous, so I started thinking in a Plan B just in case. Turns out it was pretty easy to get an onsite interview at facebook because they're looking for people with that kind of experience: “shipping real products to real customers”. I think if you prepare and apply and prepare some more you will be fine my dude. :)

I'm 32, we're the new young!
My chillest job ever was writing code at a non-tech company. It's exactly as you described. Very rewarding when you can impact your entire team with well placed solutions.
WAP was big in some countries. It never took off in the United States, and my boss at the time took a haircut on the project.
looking at the other threads on this site's forum, this is a very, very bad site and has no place on hacker news. flagged.
And they rolled their own encryption. It's a false sense of security.
There's thousands of RPI cluster designs, not many Plan 9 detailed guides for said cluster though.
Think things like election meddling. Propagating truly fake news to cater to the emotions of what people simply want to be true. Humans are weak against Confirmation Bias, ten minutes on Facebook will show you for sure.
CSS features for adjusting text underline offset/thickness are coming to Safari
Matomo offers a hosted version of their product as well.
Well, maybe it just doesn't exist and my Roomba is as conscious as me.
Ah after some more googling it looks like that's controlled by the "suggested archive" option under google photos. I'll try it and see.
Assuming a go game takes 30 minutes on average, and you are never sleeping, resting, etc, you can do approx 18k games per year. In order to reach 4.9 million games you'd have to play for approx 280 years. So yeah, definitely not thousands of years :). Still, we are maybe one or two orders of magnitude away from the amount of games that humans need to play to become world class players.

That being said, the AlphaGo zero paper ends with the words:

> Humankind has accumulated Go knowledge from millions of games played over thousands of years, collectively distilled into patterns, proverbs and books. In the space of a few days, starting tabula rasa, AlphaGo Zero was able to rediscover much of this Go knowledge, as well as novel strategies that provide new insights into the oldest of games.
Because it needs to determine if a string is a '????? '''''?????, of course.
So you're saying that if I disagree with the parent, I should upvote him, to break the paradox?

Maybe other voters have already noticed the paradox, and taken appropriate action!
> A simple bot on Telegram is the perfect antidote against political stupidity.

It's a perfect vehicle for political stupidity too.

Here in Germany Telegram has a history of being the preferred nest for all kinds of fascist hate groups that have been banned on Facebook. Actually this is the only times I've heard/read about Telegram in the media here.
Hanlon's razor doesn't apply here. No one is implying that anyone at Boeing allowed this to happen due to malice, that would be truly insane.

Negligence perpetuated by greed is far more likely and equally as criminal.
Someone at Stanford suing because they couldn’t get into Yale honestly sounds post-satire.

Stanford is pretty universally considered better...and if it isn’t it’s the same. This sort of lawsuit sounds insulting to people like me who had no chance at any of the above.
Chickens have this weird "IT'S BLEEDING. MURDER IT!" kinda vibe.

There's literally rose-tinted glasses you can glue onto their beaks so they can't really perceive red. This prevents them from pecking each-other to death.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses
Fitbit Versa Lite vs. Amazfit Verge vs. Ticwatch E2 – Which Is Better?
This is about investigating one particular widget which has been implicated in these crashes, had the source been available people would have been able to look at exactly how that system works over the last months, rather than speculating while they wait for the closed investigation to occur, and while they wait for the second accident to occur. This isn't a general 'bugs will be found', it's about being able to substantiate targeted suspicions about a particular part of the code.
I felt the same reading it. Thinking wow this is the best use of imgur.
Interesting point. We could be looking at a huge compensation from Boeing to the major airlines for this.
But personally, I think the damage to their reputation, and possibly FAA's, would far exceed that.
You are a very well trained neural net... The concept is based off of actual Neurons in our brain. Can't tell if you're serious or trolling though lol.
This is an excess of capitalism: those with capital are given too much power, and their self interest ends up being entirely selfish at the expense of society at large. Capitalism needs regulation, and if the system ends up entrenching itself so that regulation becomes impossible (because of corruption, self-interest, short-term gains, etc), then it means the entire system of capitalism is faulty.
Similar things have been or are being tried (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project).

But the _precise_ capabilities of a human brain are not actually what we want.

For starters, an infant's brain does not have any immediately valuable capabilities.

After that brain is exposed for several years to signals propagating through the brain's host body from the surrounding environment, it has developed many interesting capabilities. But those capabilities are only meaningful in the context of the input stream that the brain has learned to interpret.

So if you want your software simulation of a brain, running on a hangar-sized computing cluster, to perform human grade cognition, then you'll have to provide it with a signal as rich as and of the same form as the signal that we receive on a continual basis through our 1 billion sensory cells (optical, auditory, proprioceptive, etc).

And in order to supply that signal in a realistic way, you'll have to simulate the environment in such a way that it responds to motor output from the simulated brain. (Or you can use the real environment, but then you have to have the brain operate a complete synthetic human body).

All this is a tremendous technical challenge, outlandishly expensive and, even when achieved, does not immediately enhance our understanding of how naturally intelligent systems process information. Nor does it provide us with a means to construct specialized intelligent agents that operate in the world, whether autonomous vehicles, burger flippers, surgeons, or stock brokers.
The UBI of $1K a month is insane. This would be 320 million Americans receiving $1K a month per person? That's $320B a month...$3.8 Trillion a year. That's DOUBLE the current Federal government's annual expenditures. He argues, with hand-wavey logic, that this will solve our problems and we can tax tech companies and all of this...but no, there's not enough annual revenue at the big tech companies to cover this enormous welfare program.
And is probably a reference to the Pinto Memo - a cost-benefit analysis performed by Ford in 1973 [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto
How did Boeing QA sign off this anomaly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Boeing_737_MAX_groundings...
C++ is the most popular language at Facebook, I know that one for sure. They used to run PHP on HipHop VM which was written in C++, but now they transpile PHP to C++.
>Maybe you're taking the blub paradox backwards. People think Go is worse than other languages because they look at it from a PL theory point of view

That's not the canonical version of the blub paradox though.

In the canonical description it's the increased expression (due to advanced PL features like macros and closures) of the language that can't be appreciated by the blub programer. So, Go is the one that lacks those things.

One could make a case that the other things you mention (compilation speed, cross compilation ease, etc) are also important and should be appreciated, but that wouldn't be the blub paradox.

Besides, other languages can have those as well while keeping their advanced features (compilation speed aside, the rest are more about tooling work, which is orthogonal to the language. And D, for one, can compile as fast as Go, while still having Generics).

https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/D_compilati...
I'm a little confused with this one. It would be one thing if these students didn't make it into an ivy league college because of this....but they did. A class action is good, but seems like it would be more powerful if it was students who did not make it into and Ivy.
It's great until you discover that Google's migration tool doesn't port Google Authenticator data when you switch phones. Ask me how I know. :-)
"premier Linux desktop project"

That's the real yikers to me.

The metadata for downloaded files thing is all over the place (i.e. how macs will tell you that you're running something downloaded from the internet and where).
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Hard to get people to switch if it's £3 though :(
It's worse if your hobby attracts users. Not a lot of users, of course, but barely enough to continue. You feel responsible and can't drop it. After a while the project becomes boring and keeps you from learning new and exciting things.

Soon you have to make excuses to family and friends, which don't understand why you still spend your time on the project...
> There's no question this operation would become known the moment it happened

No question, like none at all?

The fact that this is only making bigger news after weeks, and only because the police was actually called to the scene, ultimately leading to the CIA connection, does kinda contradict that idea.

Who knows if the Koreans would even have been willing to call local police themselves, embarrassment can play a very big role here, just like having a foreign police force go through your embassy isn't without its own set of very relevant security issues.
On MacOS, FF marks files as downloaded from the web for the system. And also, in its standard 'Downloads' dialog you can copy the address of each file and, purportedly, go to the page it was downloaded from (the latter not working for me).
Either he's socially handicapped, or the company really needs to improve it's working environment.

Fifty fifty really.
Thanks for your comment. It is probably not too late to change the name because it's alpha yet. It may be misleading for newcomers, when JSMD tries to support even more languages through plugins.

Other than that I love the design of the syntax, especially raw cell seem so great to me. I'm often supersized by the fact that both Markdown and Jupyter don't have the official ways to insert comments. Fetch cell is also a smart idea.
How big is the market for this? Does anybody still have functioning Apple hardware from this era (late 1980s I believe) and if so would you be willing to modify it to add this cover
GNATstack (https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/toolsuite/gnatstack) does this (I think) using GCC stack-usage information, and propagating through static analysis. It has some limitations about procedure access types (function pointers) and returning dynamic-sized objects on the stack. But still, an interesting tool. For Ada and SPARK (that I know of), C/C++.

BTW the GNAT Ada runtime comes with a nice tool to monitor dynamically maximum stack usage : https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-93-gnat-dynamic-stack-analy... . To be used during tests and qualification, to get a somewhat clear picture.

And to check for Stack Overflow in Ada at runtime compile with -fstack-check. The overhead is not so high and it saves from most of the stack corruption cases... Not all, especially if you're doing unsafe stuff...
Exactly. Sounds like someone trying to go for a big payout.
> Any ideas how to reach people without gatekeepers? I have just one way: a desktop app or mobile app that is allowed to periodically wake up and poll a server.

If you're asking "anybody today" then yes, that's probably one of the only ways.

But maybe tomorrow might be better.

On the horizon (where it may stay - it's been slow in coming) is the idea of "distributed and serverless" internet. Also known as "peer-to-peer".

You can think of it as everyone (well, their device) being their own server - kinda like the internet was originally meant to be (before vast sums of money got involved).

Through "magic" - each person that is on the network can browse, send, receive, post, etc - to others without needing much of anything else - just the pipe (not really any way around that kind of "gatekeeper" unless you have a mesh network of some sort - and even there, long-haul can be tough or impossible). A well known example:

https://ipfs.io/

...there are others out there as well; just google around for "peer-to-peer web" and similar terms.
From what I understand, repeated output is a common failure state with neural net stuff in particular, though I don't know why.
use case is to spread misconceptions in the society (that's what bad guys want right?) in an automated way. especially during elections.
That doesn't tell you much - it's not unrelated to their official work, it's just not related to company priorities. If it's a project you work on at / for work, copyright is likely still owned by the employer. See also the number of personal projects that are not official Google projects at https://github.com/google .
One of those things is not like the others.
It's a simple problem of where the market is.

India, Russia, and Brazil isn't the target market for people like Schneier. If you narrow the market to the US, Statista reports that Telegram has twice as many users in the US as Viber.

I'm from one of those countries where Viber is hugely popular (by far more popular than WhatsApp and Telegram), and I hate it with passion. Kind of like Telegram, its end-to-end encryption was also home-made last time I've checked, but at least it's turned on by default.
Stanford is also included in the lawsuit. And it is not about getting admission, it's about the application fee they paid without getting a fair process. Read the article.
FYI, the post is by reddit user /u/Admiral_Cloudberg/, who has done a number of flight crash investigation posts on imgur like that: https://www.reddit.com/user/Admiral_Cloudberg/submitted/

Edit: Ooops, someone already mentioned this below. Oh well.
Using neural nets to predict tomorrow’s electric consumption
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The character of a comment thread can change quickly here. I don't doubt the possibility that it was an overwhelming opinion when the parent decided to comment on it, even if no longer the case.

So maybe the flaw is to over generalize the gist of the thread early in its history.
It's bad UX to have messages that are entirely identical from a user perspective, but perform different functions. The email with the functionality to reset your password was no different than the past ones that have no effect.

The emails should have specified the expiration date in the text of the email document from day one.
> There's no such thing as piracy.

There's no counter-argument because you have no argument at all, just a brazenly re-defined term.

A rational discussion requires shared language. You've thrown that out the door right at the start.
This is a bit of a rosy view of acceptance. Buddhists thats painstakingly built the Ajanta and Ellora cave complexes weren't accepted. They were wiped out by the Hindu Priesthood that felt threatened. Human beings are capable of great stupidity irrespective of what culture they have preserved.

There are great lessons in both, what they got right and what they got wrong.
This hardly seems right – UCLA, USC and Yale are victims of the bad actors involved just as much as the students are. I haven't seen any indication that the colleges involved were aware this was happening in a way they overlooked.

You can file a lawsuit for anything in the United States. I would love to hear how this lawsuit isn't frivolous or (at worst) searching for a payday.
So you are telling me watching all those spy movies hasn't made us experts in CIA operations?
Exactly right - same thing that happened at NASA. There aren’t grand conspiracies - just people acting in their own interests, based on the incentives that have been set up (or evolved) in the organization.