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Ask HN: How to Break into Another Language
I have four years of professional experience in my chosen stack, but I'm wondering if there is a way to break into a different language/stack without going back to entry-level positions with half the pay I could otherwise make.
Because this is what every election poll does. Nobody asks people if they would vote in such person a year from now. They always ask what is your voting preference today. If Nate Silver did something different, then he would be completely wrong.
Pronounced, originally, to rhyme with "honey" and "money". The obvious vulgar homophony explains why the word is obsolete today and, when it is used (as, for example, in the toponym "Coney Island"), is invariably pronounced to rhyme with "phony" and "bony." Mind you, the pun would already have been perceived in the original Latin (cuniculus/cunnus) and indeed this pair may ultimately be related; cuniculus (whence also conejo, coniglio, coelho, Kanin[chen], etc.) meant not just "rabbit" but also "rabbit hole."
A common pedantic comment I hear many times from clojure devs its that (the few)libraries are complete, just work and don't need any updates.

Far from the truth IME.

Having said that, Clojure is my favorite programming language for writing "business" applications.
... so goes their argument. Yet for their "free online access", the first thing one is greeted with is a requirement to make an account, presumably entering into a contract, meaning it's not Free. In addition to pegging your CPU because you have to use a javascript browser to view it, terrible navigation controls, and most likely preventing copypasting, and printing. From a practical user-friendliness perspective, I'd really just suggest torrenting the pdf and getting on with your project.

If one doesn't actually want to digest dense technical specifications, I'd recommend a practical book distilling the subject down to what's relevant. The local library likely has such books, along with a copy of the full NEC.

If you were simply trying to be helpful by pointing out a practical avenue of access, then the following rebuttal isn't directed at you. But from an abstract legal perspective, the whole point is that a private entity should never have the privilege of owning the law, and them being kind and gifting some limited form of access does not change this.
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If over time, your forecasts predictably change, then you can be arbitraged.

If e.g. I know that you'll have a probability below 40% at some point in the future, and I know you'll have a number above 41% at some point in the future, then it's trivial to create a strategy over time that is guaranteed to make money.

Taleb's claim, as I understand it, is that Silver is incorporating random noise into his model and so will exhibit such predictably swings, which enables arbitrage.
By western standards they do. They probably still do it a lot less often than the Chinese EVs but it's not like the average Chinese buyer is rich enough to care about an edge case like that.
Every flat tax proposal comes with a Negative Income Tax portion to counter regressitivity. People misunderstand what flat tax proposals are all about.

With a tiered tax system, individuals need to be the ones who pay taxes because people who combine income from multiple sources need to pay differing amounts of taxes. With a flat tax system, all income is treated exactly the same so governments can switch to collecting income taxes from corporations. Corporations basically report the amount they spend on payroll every year and pay some percentage of that as a tax to the government. Then the government takes some portion of that money and remits it back to individuals as a negative income tax (essentially a UBI).

Flat tax changes the way money flows, instead of company -> individual -> government, it goes company -> government -> individual. It's both easier to tax corporations than individuals and easier to give money to citizens than take money from citizens. These two powerful benefits alone are meant to make up for the severe rigidity and lack of flexibility that flat tax systems intrinsically have. It's an open question whether these two things are enough to make up for all the flat tax flaws but I don't think there's an obvious right or wrong answer that we've discovered yet.
is Zero an option anymore, or is this entire article about how they are making the form more accurate instead of just picking a nearby number out of a hat?
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Another one specifically for the Beeb

[0] http://www.8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/publications.shtml
I exclusively use the web interface for both, as its easier to shut off from work when its just a tab I can close, as well of not liking the bloat of chromium based apps.

But if this is stable and lightweight I might use it. Gonna test it for a while.

Thanks.
I like the idea. I was thinking about something similar with twitter. I wanted to get most shared links, filter only those that speak about startups, and present them as top shared first.

I think there is a need for service like yours
I think it's important to note that I always consider even a USB stick fresh out of the packaging to be a 'strange USB stick', because I've seen cases of USB sticks being infected at the factory.
> exponentially more expensive

Just a pet peeve, but is it a trend that people like to use “exponentially” to just mean “way more”? Exponentially doesn’t mean what you just wrote here.. Exponential implies a rate of growth, the cost of tesla’s isn’t doubling every N years compared to other EVs..
This was changed actually. You can change your password to something more secure now. The help files appear to not have been updated.
Not to degrade the mention... I've done a lot of the same with Dokku on DO before. There's plugins for Let's Encrypt and some other bids. CDN, haven't worried about it too much, have used Cloudflare in front of a few sites, ymmv though.

Netlify is definitely on my todo/reading list... I just tore down my personal website and blog, with the intent of getting it running elsewhere. For my blog, I exported all the details into markdown files with front matter, but hadn't done anything to get it re-published anywhere. So, who knows.

I have a genuine interest in exploring a lot of this, but motivation + time have been limiting factors for me.
At first, I thought "what's the point?" Then I saw:

"It's not built on top of web browser technology: it responds quickly to input, sips gently from computer resources, and gets out of your way."
According to the author, readers of the book are already translating the port of Git in the book to C++, Clojure, Elixir, Haskell, Java, Node, Rust, and Swift

https://twitter.com/mountain_ghosts/status/11148630508075499...
Isn't Taleb arguing that his model comes being modeled during periods of relative calm. So when the black swan event does happen, that wasn't priced in as a possibility at all, creating an arbitrage there.
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You'd think when they have all the money the risk would be really high
I like that "Not made from a web browser" is a headlining feature. My laptop has 16 GB of RAM, and still doesn't have enough memory to run all the Electron apps I use without grinding to a halt.
Or more simply, what pattern do student IDs conform to? I’d be absolutely shocked if they were randomized.
Or links with example pages where to experience that would be nice
not to mention when google puts you in captcha-hell-ban.

often, after a few difficult ones, I realize I get stuck into the same 20 challenges. over and over. no matter if I get them rigth or not. We do run all browser in the office with figerprint protection on and run non-exit-tor-nodes in all offices. But those are hardly excuses.

The hell bans happens more often on firefox for android, but I guess that is what you can expect when you go against goliath.

It's literally google censoring me from talking (and sometimes reading) random sites on the web
I learned programming on a Timex Sinclair (2 KiB) with the book Brain games for kids & adults using the Timex/Sinclair 1000, 1500 & 2000 series. There were other editions for other platforms (Apple, Commodore, etc.)

It consisted of 26 games/puzzles, one for each letter of the alphabet. Went looking and found this little treasure trove:

http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=3&id=9556&d=42&h=...
In regards to the very specific claim that the volatility of an option's price decreases asymptotically as the uncertainty of its underlying increases? No, that's entirely correct.

In regards to Nate Silver's forecasts more generally? I don't know - it's hard to get past the tone of his arguments to understand what his actual disagreement is.
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UpCodes cofounder here. Fair point, and we definitely don't want to steal any credit from people like Carl Malamud and so many others who have devoted over a decade to this.

We're pretty new on the scene and unlike Carl who's an activist and whose main purpose is to protect the rule of law, we kind of stumbled into this lawsuit. We thought we were in the clear! Especially reading the case law, including the Veeck case (fought and lost by SBCCI which later became ICC) and seeing that Carl has most of the ICC materials on his site. We thought at the very least ICC wouldn't be able to relitigate this issue. It's bullshit.

Anyway, UpCodes wouldn't exist if it weren't for Carl Malamud, Corynne McSherry and Peter Veeck.
Netflix has been using anti-consumer dark patterns for years. I avoid their app now, since it forces trailers in your face on the main menu. If they want to further sabotage their own presence on Apple devices, that's fine with me. It'll give their competitors an opportunity.
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I love the interface, but how does it connect with Discord and how long until they try to shut it down?
I don't think student governments get to push policies that can actually help students very much. I don't think school administrations let the student government have any real control whatsoever.
The S9 is literally on the same platform as every other S-Bahn train that goes from Hbf to Alexanderplatz, so you'd also have to willfully ignore the ample station signage for all the trains that pass you by.
Love the Tufte style. One real limitation, however, is the "mobile view" in which the margin notes collapse into clickable superscript numbers. I don't think it's clear to most readers that one is supposed to click on those to expand them, meaning they aren't likely read by perhaps 50% of your readers. One thing I've seen, and adapted for my own site [1], is inserting these margin notes beneath the paragraph in mobile mode; this way, the notes do not go unread.

[1] http://cachestocaches.com
I really want to be Nassim Taleb, I don't want to get a real job, I don't want to be a slave for any kind of rules or laws whether in corporates, government or academia, I am much bigger than that, I just want to make enough money trading and shorting stocks during an economic bubble and retire young and then set myself emperor of the world and make fun of whoever I don't like such those academics who can't make 6 figure until in their 50s, of course academics are much less smarter than a stock trader, otherwise why couldn't they become rich like Taleb? right?!
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Ask HN: Can you apply for AWS-Activate as an indie startup?
I know it was possible in the past but right now all I can find is AWS Activate for programs that offer it to their startups...
> The average Chinese electric car is more akin to a really fast three-wheeled golf cart.

that is simply not true. have you ever been to china? there are tons of electric sedans and SUVs on the road, and i would guess that greater than 80% of my didi (the chinese uber) rides while there for two weeks were electric vehicles. these vehicles were very nice (as good interior fit and finish and external design as a tesla) but obviously much cheaper, and there were multiple models from multiple manufacturers.

sure, china also sells electric scooters and other types of vehicles, but china demolishes tesla's numbers for actual electric vehicles made and sold.
In my opinion, the fraction of the cost of the army that goes to preserving fiat is somewhere in the region of 0%.

What maintains the value of fiat is not government coercive action (e.g., having an army that forces people to use currency). Instead, the value is dictated by how much the populace believes it is worth. So it's the general government actions to maintain the health of the economy, and none of that would disappear if the government were to decide not to use fiat.

Indeed, to the extent that you'd compare how much the government spends in a hypothetical world where it doesn't use fiat currency versus one that it does, it probably takes more resources in the first case (i.e., fiat currency is a net asset to the government, not a net cost).
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(For what it matters, in March Groove also shutdown their OneDrive support because something about the OneDrive API was changing. Presumably no recurring license costs involved there, just old fashioned tech debt when using cloud services.)

DRM is literally all about licensing costs. Even if they were licensing the DRM tech from themselves, that was a licensing cost on the books, and it is entirely possible that that overhead was enough to close the licensing servers. That's before you get into whatever details of whatever contracts they were using to license the books from the various publishers.

Continuing to support DRM-free EPUB in someway or another is entirely orthogonal to continuing to run DRM license servers. It's very clear they no longer intend to run the license servers. It remains to be seen if they have interest in DRM-free EPUB viewing.

Also, Edge isn't going away soon and Edge doesn't seem to be related to the store shutdown, it seems to be license/cost-related. The previews for Chromium-based Edge are out now, but the switchover isn't expected for months or years from now. I'd be hugely surprised if the switchover deadline is any closer than Windows 20H1. There's no need to fast track EPUB support in Chromium-based Edge because Chromium-based Edge doesn't itself appear to be on a fast track for Windows.
I'm not sure why you'd make such a trivially disprovable claim, they quoted you word for word, it's very easy to prove that with a quick browser text search...
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Great! Is Cloud Run positioned as a possible replacement for App Engine?
That's great to hear, thanks! Is there a page in the docs where this is documented? I'd also like to know if there are any restrictions (e.g., are all outbound ports open, etc)?

If you could comment on when/whether compute instances will get IPv6, that would be great also :)
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Nice.

I've been using add-ons that protect from canvas finger printing but those are super laggy and slow firefox down.
Even simpler, stop eating.
Sure, assumptions are shorthand ideology for the brain.
I use Netlify, but GitHub does not require paying to host a public site.
Huh, yeah, that sounds very plausible.

A forecast that really did try to be an option pricing model like that would be interesting to see. It would have the advantage over a “now cast” that you could actually run the numbers and see how accurate it is. Whereas nobody can ever know what would actually happen if there were an election now rather than a year from now.
I think they meant that the false votes were all cast from a single computer.
The legendary iron cow!

https://www.jugsfurniture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/k...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/si...
We can run your user data by our AutoML tool http://ForecastApe.com and add a predictive power estimate to each dataset. In fact it is like adding a dollar tag to their data. So they could thus justify cleaning it.
You can change the definition of B all you want, it's still a formal fallacy, meaning the argument is literally worthless. You have to structure a very different argument from what you've shown to assert that bitcoin would reduce national military expenditures, not just tweak the details.
I don't disagree that complex differential equations govern climate. But if the best we can do is say "it's too complex to show correlation" well then don't be surprised when people think you're selling snake oil. I don't, but that's just not strong science.
As a rubyist, I wish more books were written in it. I suspect it's one of the easier languages to read as pseudo-code, even with less familiarity.
I had a friend who went to Michigan State. This was back when computers were a new thing. As a freshman, he signed up for a graduate level comp sci class. Had a hard time convincing the prof he should be let in the class. As time went on, it was clear he was the star student. The next semester he was a TA for the class.
I have reported 238. 45 have been fixed, 27 I later marked as "works for me" (so fixed by some other change in Firefox). 57 were duplicates of other bugs (and I'm not looking to see how many of those were fixed).

Things do get fixed, but it is a big project with not a huge amount of staff.
Suppose I walk into the neighborhood 7-11, and steal the money from the cash drawer when the cashier glances away. I'm only caught once the tapes are reviewed and they find my license plate. Should my punishment be to give a presentation to the cashier that they should be watching everyone at all times?

Obviously the answer is no. Sometimes, catching someone breaking rules/laws after the fact is sufficient - 100% prevention of a crime before it happens shouldn't be the only way crimes are avoided.

Did the school make some poor choices with their cybersecurity? Sure. But an open/unlocked door does not give permission to steal or break the law, whether that door is digital or physical.
Who on earth is trying to make any kind of argument that laws constitute creative expression? From the laws I've read, they seem to embody a perfect example of the polar opposite of creative expression.
Indeed. An immediately expiring temp password is the usual workflow for new private-labeled Google accounts. I suppose, though, that somebody thinks middle schoolers can't handle it.
And yet despite of it doing everything that fits the niche http://www.projectoberon.com :-)
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I'm doing a talk at Next tomorrow about just that. For now you are probably better of using Ruby on App Engine, assuming you need to use redis as a cache. Another new feature that we launched today is VPC Connectors, which allow Cloud Functions and App Engine to connect to servers/services in a VPC.

Cloud Run will have support VPC Connectors soon (it is supported, we just haven't wired up the API/UI). After that, its your choice, they run on similar infrastructure so you just need to decide if you want to live in containerland or source code land.
Thanks! As far as you can go and you compete with the rest on the leaderboard. If you manage to pass the first boss at level 10 you unlock a new character that can join you in the future runs. With 100 unlockable chars the end game has lots of combinations and variety.

52 is pretty good score. Current top score is 160.
Well I know for a fact that Ann Coulter is on very good terms with several HuffPo dems, yet they appear bitter rivals on tv. Its definitely plausible Taleb, Silver & Pinker are drinking buddies who hatched up this elaborate charade to hawk stat books. Statistics is an extremely dry subject & nobody including the doctorate students are particularly excited about, so props to this triad for engaging in these antics.
Finance is worse than most industries because financial institutions grow by acquisition. You make money by managing customer assets of some sort, so you're constantly buying up smaller companies, and the main corporation is this frankenstein's monster of smaller companies.

Not only does anything digital has to be transferred over, but often customers have to be persuaded to agree to new terms, which is obviously a long, complicated process.

They also have legal legacy as the government will always grandfather old accounts when the law changes. So the banks may have special accounts that are obsolete but a few customers like the perks, that could live in an old system of their own.

Plus there are various deals they've made over time that might restrict one part of the company from doing some activity, any kind of international stuff is a total mess, it goes on.

All this means they have a ton of duplication and are constantly trying to merge their internal systems, on top of the normal awfulness of any non-tech company trying to do technology.
I don't want to speak for the original author here, but I believe he's basically saying that Clojure has a bit of a tradition of "change no behavior!". Rich Hickey has said as much in one of his talks [1], and while I think Rich Hickey is objectively smarter than me, I don't actually agree with him on this point.

The difference between Clojure and nearly any other language, however, is that you don't need the core library; you can add any language feature you want due to the awesome macro system in Lisps. Even if they deleted the core library tomorrow, we could still build in literally any language construct we want as a library.

This is why Lisp is made of magic :)
I believe zone A is inside the inner ring. There is a slight gradient inward there, but otherwise you're right, the background color of zones A and B is very similar.
I did something very similar to this for my high school's prom queen vote who I wanted to win for teenager reasons. The voting system was just a bunch of laptops in front of the lunch room running a web app and all that was needed to vote was to know a student id. A few hours and some javascript later, I voted more than the entire senior class. It was only discovered after the event.
Internet voting. What could go wrong?

In my opinion these two have done us all a service by showing what could go wrong.
> yet another reason why you can't make these energy consumption comparisons without being intellectually dishonest.

The intellectually dishonest part is trying to shove as many extra costs onto the fiat currency side of the equation without counting them for cryptocurrency.

Comparing the energy cost per transaction is a simple, pairwise comparison. Even if all the world used bitcoin for currency, there is no reason to expect that things like banks, armies, and the entire financial ecosystem wouldn't also exist. Trying to make fiat currency account for all the latter costs is just trying to mask the fact that bitcoin is by design inefficient.
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True, but I was talking about a headphone being pointless for A2DP because the transcoding would degrade audio quality to the point that even a cheap earphone would be sufficient.

Or if someone wants the headphone form factor, then 80 bucks is more than enough for an ok pair of Bluetooth headphones that won’t sound worse than the A2DP transcoded stream already is.
As society is dependent on a growing youth to support senior care, it depends on your POV.

Because you specifically are doing well, doesn't mean society is. Directly, the women in particular are not harmed, but statistically less happy. Changing perspectives on a broader level would help a lot in any case.
Loads of people criticized Silver for not having "predicted" Trump's electoral victory. I imagine Silver's language was trying to hand-hold people to an understanding that even 20% probability events happen 1 out of 5 times.
With so many people trying to twist and spin every headline, prediction, number, I appreciate Silver's attempt to make a reasonable guess with transparent methodologies.