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> very bad person making very bad things most of the time.

That's your slanted viewpoint based on what you've been hearing in the news media. Why is he a "very bad" person? Why are most of the things that he makes "very bad"? There's been a spate of bad press about Facebook recently, so that's primarily what's been coloring your view.

For people in other bubbles, they might believe that "Democrats are very bad people making very bad policy most of the time", or "Muslims are very bad people doing very bad things most of the time". Gross simplifications are easy to adopt, hard to abandon.
I'd like to add to this that regulatory capture isn't some benign cancer. I read a really good piece on the history of the Venezuelan economy recently, and a significant factor in their failure as a liberal state and decline into socialism was regulatory capture. Capitalism only works when monopolies are fought/busted. Regulatory capture does the opposite, and in turn tarnishes people's impression of capitalism.

I think this should really give a strong impression. Venezuela went from one of the most prosperous nations in the world to what is likely now the worst place in the world for a poor person to live in, and it only took a few decades. There's no reason the US is immune to the same fate, and it started long before socialism with things like regulatory capture.

"The Venezuelan economy has a profusion of restrictions and impositions on businesses, particularly in the areas of labor and new business formation. Only the big, well-established companies can afford the high regulatory burden. This is consistent with George Stigler’s (1971) insight on regulatory capture, which abets government creation of monopolies stymieing competition. Further, the high levels of informal or underground economic activity in Venezuela are consistent with existence of a high regulatory burden (see Diaz and Corredor 2008). Unsurprisingly for such a setting, corruption is rampant." [1]

[1] https://econjwatch.org/articles/venezuela-without-liberals-t...
If you apply that standard be careful with any walls on your house because you would be liable for death threats spray painted on it. Look at Gawker - they are liable for /their/ content. Not user content.
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What if I don’t support or defend the Second Amendment? Does that make me unamerican? Should I renounce my citizenship?
I've had to go through security and immigration when flying through Dublin and Seoul. So I don't think you can exempt Europe and Asia from the list.
My point is your experience isn't universal, not everyone is like you. Some people simply don't have it as easy when forming and maintaining a habit.
This is a good time to review the guide provided by the EFF:

https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
In addition to that, I also wonder what punishments they can mete out to people who happen to not be high-level Apple employees with a network of powerful people who can advocate on his behalf.
Keep in mind there is also the try! method to raise an error if the method does not exist (which is now likely implemented as &.)
Several static analyzers (like Frama-C [1]) can extract loop invariants and try to prove them, giving you the best of both worlds.

[1] https://frama-c.com/
When he says ("But our vision is a grand one—unify all of computation into a single coherent language, and for that, the FOSS development model is not well suited") is not that Wolfram can't be made open source nominally (e.g. "we make it, we control development completely, I call the shots, but it's just under GPL" for example).

His emphasis is that Wolfram was not, and in his opinion will never be, a good fit for the "FOSS development model" (what I call "bazaar-style" in my comment above).

Considering that he thinks that Wolfram couldn't be developed in the "FOSS development model", and that he things that model is not suited for Wolfram, it's also unlikely that he will open source it either. Since there's no much purpose in open sourcing something that doesn't benefit from that model. You just give your product away for free (beer/freedom) with no benefit for either the product or you.
Thanks! I've been working on audience definition, and was planning to try to refine as we get into more granular testing. We don't have any social account linking to avoid that friction point, so our visibility is limited. Any tips on getting audience insights?

Do you have any thoughts on cost & value of CPI vs CPC vs CPM?
Yes, they do. Unless I misinterpreted your comment, connection flights from outside EU to US/Canada don’t require the Schengen visa as passengers don’t leave the “clean” zone.
Interesting that men who eventually will have kids earn less than men who eventually won't have kids (4 years prior to the first child birth, fathers-to-be still earn less). That is not the case for women.

Difficult to tell how pronounced that is without the raw data though.
I think you mean "never visit Anywhere", since the UK (where you say you're from) does this exact same type of search and seizure, even to UK citizens. You could be subject to it when returning home from any trip abroad, not just the US.
OP here - The URL is admittedly off-putting & the date of the announcement is odd, but it appears legit:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/02/black-...
https://interestingengineering.com/will-we-actually-see-a-bl...
http://www.newser.com/story/273418/no-ones-ever-seen-a-black...
https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann19018/?lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Dr20f19czeE (live stream)

Could be an elaborate joke but from what I understand it is a set of images from the Event Horizon Telescope https://eventhorizontelescope.org/ capturing Sagittarius A (the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way)
I've never really seen a code base that is hard to work with due to "language feature abuse" (excepting inheritance). "Don't use this language feature" or your code will be hard to read is sort of the bogeyman of the programming world.

Code is hard to work with because of too much coupling, or bad architecture, or no tests, or bad abstractions.
Last year the midfield was where it was at.
But there are people now that hear voices...
"Newspapers can't globally decide to emphasize particular stories and have as great an effect."

One way to read the new's industry's issues with Facebook is that, actually, yes they did, and they're trying to protect the turf that Facebook is encroaching on.

The media has an incredible power to set the agenda, in both a positive (choosing to cover) and negative (eliminating a story by simply ignoring it to death) sense, and it uses it to an extent that can only be called "routine".
Honestly, Leela Chess Zero was built on top of the AlphaZero algorithms, and I'd argue that LC0 is more relevant and interesting today than what happened two years ago.

Two open source implementations with active development is equal footing. The importance is the algorithm and how it improves, not on a specific implementation that has been abandoned. For those, we have TCEC and CCCC continually measuring those and a fair number of other implementations.
I don’t understand why you’d quote me saying one type of threat isn’t real, then reply with “except...” and describe a totally different threat.
> you can't acquire a standalone copy of most of their content

That was the default for decades in film. Film schools had personal libraries students would schedule time to use. Home video changed that (which was fought against by the industry) and the original DVD Netflix changed that again for rare movies. I can see how that would affect your emotions but it has had little/no effect with the Academy Awards.

I actually think Spielberg would be ok with not allowing Apple, either. Years ago, when iTunes and iPod video started getting films, Spielberg said something like, "I didn't create these movies to be viewed on a tiny screen."

I haven't followed this too closely, but I get where Spielberg is coming from--although, I dunno if I agree with him that Emmys are better suited for Netflix (they have their own agenda). The Academy was built for the betterment of theatrical feature film. The whole point of the Academy Awards is to promote feature film. If Netflix is just doing the minimum to gain credibility for something that's not feature films, I can see why the Academy is not cool with that.
Piston-engined aircraft, which are basically just light general aviation aircraft, can and have used ethanol.

Most commercial aircraft use jet engines. Other biofuels that are chemically closer to kerosene can be used in most existing jet engines in blends; use of 100% biofuels for hasn't been extensively tested-- but it has been tested![0] This is also the highest-hanging fruit and I wouldn't worry about it in 2019.

[0]https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=96702
That only applies if the case goes to trial though. Border guards frequently assume that they have near unlimited power regardless of what the law says.
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If you go back and read the post and linked ticket, that is indeed the original proposal for Ruby, which somehow morphed into positional arguments.
> I'm a supporter of equalty outcomes...

Whenever someone says this, I become very leary of what they say next...to achieve "equal outcomes" you're gonna have to meddle in somebody's personal business at some point to achieve the desired "leveling"...this is bad news
I tried it but it was cpu intensive for very small improvements
The point isn't that it's an unsolvable problem, the point is that you have to resort to clunky syntax or a 3rd party library to do this. And for something as basic as this, there's probably a number of different libraries that solve the same problem a slightly different way.
On a related note, car rental places now email me the contract and rental documents by default, I receive no paperwork unless I remember to ask. The problem didn't register with me right away (It was so similar to what hotels do when you travel, all paperless now) but the last time I returned the car I asked them what I was supposed to do if I was stopped for a traffic violation. "You can open the email from us on your phone and give it to the officer" they suggested. I recommend everyone ask for a printed contract instead.

As an aside, on iOS, the airline apps I have used work like the Wallet app and are visible on the lock-screen, the device must be powered on but remains locked when you display your boarding pass, etc.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/02/black-...

It's the 3rd, so probably not a joke. I have to assume this is going to either be incredible or incredibly disappointing. But I'd love to hear some more informed speculation than my own.
Electric heat pumps + insulating to PassivHaus standards is very much competitive with carbon based fuels in colder climates. The operating cost is very low. But the up front investment can be steep.
Any judge worth their salt will rubber-stamp a search warrant for Bob Joe, with a justification of: "Officer Harry had a 'hunch' that Bob Joe may be a criminal of some kind."

Most judges will not approve a search warrant for an entire city block, with a justification of: "Officer Harry had a 'hunch' that a criminal may live somewhere there, or that criminal activity of some kind may be taking place in this area."

As long as warrants are targeted, they tend to be rubber-stamped. The purpose of the warrant process is to make sure that law enforcement is targeted.
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Ask HN: Why does software development suck so much in finance?
I've been working as a dev at a hedge fund for less than a year and I just can't believe how awful it is:

- all I do is operate and maintain hacky old ETL jobs

- I spend hours and sometimes days editing databases and config files

- there are no best practices

- issues are swept under the rug or just passed around the team until people forget about them

- my manager is a manger because he's the only person that hasn't left the team over the years

- everybody has an opinion on everything even though they have zero proven experience on the subject

- people are not focused at all

- people don't grow, they just get comfortable and complacent

- it's like a 9 to 5 except that you're supposed to work for 10 hours a day

and the list goes on..

This is my first full time job so I'm super confused. Is this how all tech jobs in finance are? Why? What's your experience as a dev in finance?
How did you get an emoji on HN?
"Cryptic sigil soup" has been in Ruby forever. Remember that Ruby was envisioned as the successor to Perl.
What point are you trying to make? Isn't it pretty common behavior for a developer to register individual LLCs for separate projects to minimize liability? And wouldn't it make sense for a solar developer to work with a law office that has experience with that particular regulatory landscape?
Would work if you trusted that the devices weren't tampered during inspection. Why would I put my keys on something which might've been wiretapped? If you really need to compute whilst traveling or through the states, just buy something cheap whilst you're there.
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Technologically-speaking, been done; the economics aren’t quite there yet, but there are some promising noncarbonization paths that potentially could scale to price-parity, depending on global fuel costs.
Oh, I'm not taking issue with the US's behavior. I'm just taking issue with people who use it to argue that the US is the bestest country evar. If it really were, it would have been able to defeat the USSR soundly with its superior military technology.

It's perfectly fine to admit the US is a mediocre large country, absolutely worth living in, but not some singular shining glory. It's perfectly fine to admit the US is bad at both picking and waging wars. That's my position.
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>While you have it - for "us" it is "effectively gone" - unless you uploaded it somewhere.

The stuff I have that I considered still relevant and interesting, I put on my website and it is presumably mirrored in The Wayback Machine by now although I have not actually checked.

I agree with your basic points. I have a lot of stuff that's scanned and online but it's a job.

For example, I have a large format book chronicling a year in product development at Data General in the mid-80s. It's really a fascinating snapshot of the time. I'm guessing it's not the only copy still around but it's probably one of a relatively few and should really be online.
> [100-mile] border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population, and around 75 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population
If [0] those returns are accurate, can be proven, and your strategy can be scaled up to multi-million dollar positions, you should take it to a hedge fund/prop shop/etc. and be able to make 7 or 8 figures. Your bonus should be dependent on performance; you may be able to negotiate a % of the profit. Those companies don't care about your background if at the end of the day you make them money.

[0] Granted, that's a huge "if".
Context: he was indicted on multiple counts of campaign fraud yesterday to the tune of several million dollars.

Rep. Mark Walker is likely implicated as "Public Official A" in court documents.

Robin Hayes, the chair of that state's GOP party chairman was also indicted yesterday in the same probe.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/north-carolina-gop-chairman... has a copy of the indictement documents embedded on the page; not sure how to link them directly.
Learned that and the "weakest precondition" stuff from Pierre-Arnoul de Marneffe in 1994 at the University of Liège (ULg). Very useful but we didn't grasp the full power of it at that time.
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This is a second part of the article of last week: https://www.poeticoding.com/elixir-streams-to-process-large-...

This time we are going to process on the fly a 30 million lines remote file, summing the numbers of each line. We will see how to implement the functions we need to convert a stream of chunks (the one built in the part 1) to a stream of lines. We'll then run a benchmark of two different implementations.

We will then see how easy and quick is to process just the first 30 lines of the same 125mb remote file.
From another report,

>> Mobile advertising revenue – Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 91% of advertising revenue for the first quarter of 2018, up from approximately 85% of advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2017.

In particular, Facebook makes its money from mobile ads
Awards matter to the people making the movies, and if your work for Netflix will never be eligible for an award, it may make it harder for them to recruit top talent.
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I don't think there's any country in the world that doesn't reserve the right to deny entry to non-citizens for any reason they choose.
Sounds like something a stuck-up asshole would say.
> Facebook is a website with 99.9% benign user generated content

99.5% of Boing 737 MAX never crashed. That doesn't mean that 0.5% crashing isn't a systematic problem that is newsworthy and demands action.
It's not really BankIDs fault. It was discussed when it was discovered that Allra had misused BankID in this way. The BankID will say who/where is trying to log on, and the hijackers trust that users don't read the BankID login screen.

It's a great service and I can't believe shady things like this is allowed.
Sounds like the perfect job for Public Service Announcements. I remember when those were a regular thing on TV.
Alternative take: this is an attempt by Zuck to push regulation preemptively in order to counter the recent bad press. Better that the gov't create rules affecting all players (all companies affected, including FB) than to continue having just your own company in Washington's crosshairs.

Even if he doesn't get to dictate the regulation (thus not achieving regulatory capture), it would still accomplish the mission of keeping the business alive. They will continue selling their ads and making money, regulation or no regulation.
It's not just one story though - there have been plenty stories and comments on HN, as well as other places.

I'd be surprised if anyone who regularly travels to the US hasn't found it to be extremely unpleasant at times. A while back I spent 6 months or so going back and forth from the UK to Houston or Atlanta, and every time I absolutely hated going through immigration. I've travelled to dozens of countries, and literally everywhere I've found the border guards to be friendly - except the US. Every time they behaved like power-hungry bullies, or I saw them behaving that way towards others. One time I travelled with a female colleague who was basically harassed by ridiculous questions from a very angry and loud border guard for no reason at all. He wasn't satisfied until she was in tears.

Another time there was a really long queue after getting off a flight (think it took over an hour to get to the desk), and there was a pregnant woman in the queue who seemed unwell and wanted to sit down - a guard shouted at her to stay in line, refused to get her a chair, and refused to let her jump forward in the queue (despite prompting from willing fellow passengers).

So the reason people don't want to travel to the US? Because it's a fucking horrible experience.
Because reliable intermittent (what we should call pv/wind + storage or gas for redundancy) pollutes multiple times more than nuclear. Nuclear is the cleanest form of electricity generation that we can produce in scale, and the cleanest one for the amount of fossil we want to get rid of. Quick reminder: more than 60% of the world's electricity is fossil-based. To replace that only with nuclear would need 1500 new reactors. Do you really think it will be feasible to do that with wind and/or solar?
This is such an astute observation, yet remarkably simple.

I'd never stopped to think about it, but I think the world would be a much better place if more people did.
Just use bootstrap if you just want something that is simple and just works.
Okay, you've dedicated time to your project... but you haven't answered the question: why you've posted before release?
There's still the problem of powering the heat pumps with clean energy in winter. It has to come from somewhere. These polar vortices aren't getting any milder. This is a massive slice of the energy pie that requires discipline and planning to decarbonized. I worry because I perceive complacency due to cheap natural gas and I fear we won't come close to decarbonizing enough unless we're serious and quantitative. How many new kW of heat pumps would it take to heat the US Midwest through a winter?
No certificate / unknown issuer causes big scare page in FF by the way.

Oh and then even if I continue, corporate DNS is blocking you due to "security threat".
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I think the issues you are facing at your current job can and will be present in any job you take in the future.

My only advice to is to build a life that doesn't revolve around work. Its tough to do, but necessary to get out of this funk.

I think this is common with people new to the full time work force. Your entire childhood is spend grinding and stressing over 'getting a good job to earn money and be happy'. Well, you can have the job and the money, but nobody tells you that happiness is not a given.

Find out what things you enjoy to do outside of work. For me, its outdoor activities/hobbies (hiking, biking, skiing, rock climbing, camping, etc), and making art. I try to do something related to one of those activities every single day. Working is just a way for me to make enough money to have a place to sleep and afford what I like doing.

In essence, find a reason to get up excited in the morning other than going to work.
Touch/Face ID are also disabled when you boot the phone, so turning it off is sufficient.
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Thanks for the reminder that it can always be worse :)
Lead acids have very poor cycle life compared to lithium ion, unless you only use a small amount of their capacity such that the usable cost per kWh between the two are nearly the same.... but lithium ion prices have continued to reduce such that the usable price per kWh for lithium ion is now lower.

Additionally, the round trip efficiency of lithium ion batteries is higher than lead acid. Plus, the added weight of lead acid further increases installation costs. So when all is said and done, lithium ion is now superior to lead acid for grid storage.

Exceptions exist when the simplicity of managing a lead acid battery comes into play. Lithium ion batteries need to be babied. Lead acid can be just thrown onto a DC power bus.
So you would prefer {|dividend, divisor| dividend/divisor} over {@1/@2}?
Why would you assume that wrongly quells the fear? I would tend to assume that the demonstrated character (good or bad, good in this example) of the principals of A16Z would remain the same across the company change.
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Let me guess, you didn't provide references because the sites predicting the growth of the internet were not archived? :-)
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Surely in a free market the cost of renewables would just track fuel prices. You would have to sell your renewable energy for slightly less than the cheapest fuel based source. That would make it very difficult to get finance because the rate of return would be unpredictable. So in a market dominated by unpredictable fossil fuel generation it makes sense to set a minimum price. And the government has to act as the buyer who agrees a price ahead of time.