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No I mean transhumanists and Singularity believers, like the conventionally religious, still fear oblivion, specifically in entropy and the inevitable heat death of the universe. So they too seek transcendence and the perseverance of the ego, except rooted through (speculative) materialist means.
Guido always took the role of gatekeeper and arbiter (I'll consult with the community and decide what submissions go in) rather than a true dictator (I'll decide what goes in... submissions? What submissions?).
Email services like Gmail should not treat all emails as identical. Some emails like change in the security settings eg. password reset, change in 2FA, suspicious activity notifications from Google as well as 3rd party, etc. are more important than usual emails. Such critical emails should not be allowed to be deleted by the user for a certain period of time say 1 week. While it might be annoying to see those emails lying around in your inbox. I would prefer that over an attacker being able to clear their traces after taking control of my account.
That use qualifies neatly under "barely".
Spoiler tags please! For the uninitiated.

Dimensinoality reduction? I never thought of those weapons as akin to universal PCA before. Thanks for the image.
Gos: Armed Golang ( solutions for go module, goproxy, cross compilation, etc.)
Should have used WeChat. On a Huawei phone.
E is the output gear, and B is the input. The arrangement on the right is to make the frame A and gear C turn in opposite directions, and D adds the two rotations together again to turn E twice for each revolution of B.
By "major options", I guess you mean popular/mainstream options?
How many do you consider enough?
Just wondering as to why people even bother with the US at all? What does the US give you that UK doesn’t, besides a fucked up government (even more so than the UK - see who’s in charge of the FCC or the tax filing situation), crazy & unreasonable immigration policies, etc?

This won’t change as long as people accept it. But if tomorrow tourism & business travel slows down to a crawl because of this you can bet you’ll see changes the next day.
SPJ is a Microsoft Research Cambridge employee, but as far as I know that doesn't give Microsoft Research (let alone Microsoft itself) any undue influence over the language's direction, they can't gatekeep or ram things into Haskell or GHC.
I enjoyed all of historical Isaacson biographies (Einstein, Leonardo, Jobs, Franklin and Innovators).

I suppose the the biographies would need a more detailed critique of what people did not like in them to say anything particular about one of them.

Jobs biography alone does not give a sufficient image of the man, for example. But when combined with "Becoming Steve Jobs" the picture is more well rounded. That does not mean I did not enjoy the book.
It's pretty stupid. Moving can mean taking action. Not that it's any of their business. On the other hand, I can see why they would think that, but isn't it like, pretty easy to tell if this guy ends up overstaying his visa or whatnot?

Then I get distracted by the embarrassment I feel reading his meticulous reassurances to her banal insecurities.

Then I'm back to feeling bad for the guy, with someone like me reading his texts.
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I'm noticing it even on obscure sites and resources from obscure sites also. Was watching the network panel waterfall and it can take 4sec to resolve a 1kb script.

If I do a git push to gitlab then it can take 90 seconds to even start responding.

I hate the internet so much here that I'm never returning until the firewall is taken down. Some nights I just give up and go to bed early
I guess the most important distinction is the “B” part (benevolent). Guido is called that because he is known (since before BDFL is a thing) to listen to other people, and adapt when they disagree strongly with his decisions. Google has never demonstrated the same attitude afaict, and in multiple occasions showed exactly the opposite.

Edit: And to answer the question, no, there’s no philosophical differences. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Python never called itself a community’s language (there are instances core devs said in no ambiguous terms that it is Guido’s project). The problem only arises if a project gives an impression that it is owned by the community when it actually isn’t.
Focus the conversations around your experience being an EM in your current role. Do NOT expect that you should know (or should have experienced) certain things because you are a manager in your current role...just accept candidly what you have experienced and what you haven't.

Management is all about experience.
Swift has garnered little traction outside iOS development, while other languages are gaining traction inside iOS development (javascript mostly, but Kotlin is also trying to make headway into iOS development).

I won't put survival rating for it to be very big. I'm sure Apple would keep it for decades to come, but I'm wouldn't bet on it being anywhere near as popular as it is now in the future.
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Only TCP port 80 and 443 requires ICP.
I bought a MacBook Air recently and the decision was really tough. Obviously the Pro has much more horse power but on the other hand: why would I need so much CPU and possibly GPU on a laptop? If I want to do some data intense task, it will be by far more convenient to run it on a remote server. The tasks run while the laptop is in my back pack and low CPU power means also longer battery life time.

Yes, the keyboards have high failure rate. But I mean Apple is not known for its conservative design. If I compare my new MacBook Air with most other laptops, especially old ones, those look like teleported from 30 years ago. The new keyboard is far better to type on and my latent RSI highly appreciates less motion necessary - slow SSH sessions punish me with double types but there are solutions, maybe Mosh (mobile shell) works.

People should also consider that progress means regress in some way. Most technologies advertised on HN have some serious flaws compared to the old school alternatives. But who seriously wants to go back to 90s computing?

I'm quite happy with the new laptop, it's perfect for development, it can be used anywhere, it can be charged with my phone charger (!) and the case is made of iPad Pro scrap, I couldn't be happier.
There's zero commitment to these apps. Just choose one for a couple months and watch everything new in the library and rewatch some old stuff you missed or want to watch again, then cancel it and go on to the next subscription for another two months or so.

I don't understand why people think it's a problem to need 6 different subscriptions -- there's literally no reason to have all 6 at the EXACT SAME MOMENT.
My thoughts exactly! It's important to have a community and to work with it, but, especially for a programming language, there has to be a clear concept of which features should be implemented and which not - just accepting community contributions for the sake of making the community feel good would be the wrong way. Otherwise you end up with a feature monster like innumerable other programming languages, and that's exactly what Go doesn't want to be.
It would still be corporate sponsorship and not a true community effort though. Not having to work to pay bills makes it much easier to run a large project.
The cost of rewrite at that point is typically less than cost of straightjacketing the existing codebase to support all new requirements, otherwise it is less likely to happen. So, defaulting it is.

(Mind you I'm not fully sold myself that 'technical debt' is a useful analogy at all)
Where comes the expectation from, that someone else fixes your problems for free?
If you clone Go now, you get a robust codebase for free, and you could do any maintenance on your own (as a reasonably large organization)
This is one side of the story. There's likely more than just this text message that raised suspicion.

But the law is quite clear that anyone applying for admission to the US is presumed to be an intending immigrant and the burden is on them to prove they will leave before their duration of status expires. Literally millions of people per year are denied visitor visas because they can't meet that burden of proof. Not sure why this is particularly newsworthy.
What’s interesting to me about this debate is that everyone seems to view it as a Disney is coming for Netflix story and not the other way around. But what prevents Netflix from creating its own animation studio and producing its own blockbuster films and distributing them in theaters? What about licensing merchandise from its movies or television shows? It’s not all that clear to me that consumers will pay a monthly fee to stream movies they’ve already seen. In any case Netflix is so different than what Disney announced with Disney + that the case put forth in the article seems very simplistic and lazy.
Rust is another choice ~
Could you define "around here"?

I'm from Germany and for premium satellite content (Sky) you pay 25-30 euros upwards for the movie and entertainment (shows and documentaries) packages.
Bother with what? Living there?
> Married people are happier than single people.[...] Liberation" from religion and marriage has made millions miserable.

That is not entirely true for everyone. In particular, happiness after divorce differ between genders. People still marry and can marry. What changed is that women have more choice unlike in the past and once married, people can divorce.

Some of people (both men and women) who are single are that for a reason - meaning them being married would mean the partner would suffer a lot more.
I guess touchpads must be far more important to some of you than they are to me. I'll only touch mine on the rare occasion I'm lazily reading on my laptop rather than a tablet. I'd hardly miss if it stopped working.
I think "procrastination" means a different thing when you're able to write a large number of books, etc.

At that point you're not a procrastinator, just a productive person who doesn't like to do particular things.
> usb-c everywhere is so lame

Do you mean "not having anything other than USB C is lame", or "I dislike USB C and wished Apple had gone with something else"?
From Facebook's email: "We use location-related information – such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you’re near (..)"

From their Help page on the data downloaded in the "Your Information", the only locations included are "The last location associated with an update."

How can you possibly claim they "gave them access to all of the data that they had on him"? FB itself denies this claim.
If you want the exact same behavior, then you cannot refactor. Of course refactoring can and will affect performance.

Refactoring should maintain identical functionality not counting performance unless it's a requirement.
As someone who has relative who underwent electroshock therapy in the 70s and read documentation from before, during and after, I will say that the treatment is worse than barbaric. For all practical purposes it was a treatment to remove the issue out of sight and out of mind.

As a teenage child he went from someone considered gifted (very high grades), to someone who could not tie his own shoes. Extreme cognitive impairment which his parents noticed and objected to during the ongoing treatment. In contrast, with modern psychology he would likely had gotten a diagnose of ADHD or autism because of his temper tantrums, and treatment outcome would look very different.

We have to consider that cultural environment of the 60s and early 70s. A lot of society, especially education, demanded a military style discipline. A student who did not obey got literally beaten until they did, breaking people physically and mentally until they would fit the mold. Electroshock therapy in that culture worked very effectively in doing so.
>> But Google is the gatekeeper for these community contributions; it alone decides what is and isn't accepted into Go.

So ... much like Linux where Linus is the gatekeeper, and he decides what goes in and what doesn't, and also abuses people while at it?
Manjaro is fine, but I preferred Antergos because it used the Arch Linux packages, meaning I always had the latest ones. AFAIK, Manjaro is behind by like a month? In which case, why even bother with rolling release?
> Why not physical escape and power keys at the ends?

Courage.
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alias warg=“ssh”
In honor of Game of Thrones ending, instead of saying "I had to ssh into that server", just say "I had to warg into that server".
Rust is your choice :)
> except for the new OS

What do you dislike about the OS? Presumably it's running macOS Mojave?
> the GDPR does not cover raw server dumps, a fact which has been proven in court.

What's the case?
Travelling there or thinking of moving there (if you have the possibility to obtain a work visa/green card/etc).
+++ SPOILERS +++

Eh, they had inside information (the Earth-Trisolaran Organisation was in contact with them).

And it's hard sci-fi because they were AIs made of protons, not actual fairies found in the magical forest of Elthrolien that had to be seduced with promises of space mead.

That's how it goes with sci-fi, innit. You can come up with anything you like as long as it's obvious that it's just advanced technology, not magic. Cixin Liu usually manages to weave in a couple of natural laws to every impossible thing so he passes.

I was more annoyed by the lightspeed contrails to be honest. That really comes out of nowhere and is a total literary device that has no basis on anything we know of. Makes the whole endeavour space opera if you ask me - which is not bad in and of itself. But in that case, where's the nuclear energy-sword wielding hero who saves humanity? Disappoint.
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That's a shockingly low health for a battery with that few cycles. Actually, if you use your computer every day, that's a small number of cycles…
A small group of programming language professionals with fifty+ years of shared experience developing compilers decided to keep on going with the language family they invented and extended.
I hate self-promotion, but I write on http://theengineeringmanager.com/ which might also have some interesting articles for you.

There's a Management 101 section which I wrote for people becoming a team lead for the first time, and then the Growth section expands into wider things.

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Depends on how you define death. There's ALGOL, SNOGOL, LOGO, Pascal, Visicalc, APL... They were all mainstream at a point, and they all still exist, but the userbase has become tiny.
The only reason I want a Mac again is for MacOS's hiDPI support. I can't stand regular screens anymore, and from what I've heard, Windows 10 hiDPI support is non-existent, even for non fractional scaling.

Using Windows 10 forces one to either use a low resolution screen, or deal with the consequences (most non-flagship software fails at scaling).

And that's not even getting into font rendering issues. Windows 10 can't render don't properly, except in design apps such as InDesign, for some reason. As for Linux compatibility, Win10 does a semi-decent job emulating Linux system calls with WSL.
Isn't the Touch ID sensor a "physical power key"?
What is "pro-climate" today if the main line of this recent out of "nothing" nuclear hype is: "It's either nuclear or coal", which is a lie painting people who don't want to have nuclear as some kind of idiots with a phobia.

> If you still don't believe me, feel free to drop your email and I can setup a time for you to meet several physicists or engineers in the NYC area for lunch, for an educational session free of charge.

Oh please...what are the chances that the person is even close to the NCY area...? I'm from Germany. You know...the country with no nuclear issues at all anymore...besides with the waste of it of course.
We don’t have legal “minimal wage” here in Geneva (there are some other cantons, which have it, but not us). There are certainly not enough jobs for everybody here, and many other issues, but low wages somehow isn’t one of the problems. I wonder how that works.
I assume you install different browser than Safari.
So is it frustrating that you have to install 3rd party browser?

Come on homebrew is awesome. Install is easy and then you just point brew bundle to file with everything you need, go for coffe and your computer is ready.
If we look at the Top 10 programming languages, I think only Ruby is community driven that has very little cooperate backing. All the other languages are driven by one (Apple;Swift), or multiple, (Javascript, Java) cooperate sponsors.

I think the balance is hard, you will need lots of resources from Documentation, VM expertise, Library, etc.
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Sure, I knew exactly what I was doing by daring to use the popular parlance rather than the GNU/preferred nomenclature. Being labelled as "unfortunate" is certainly the least that I deserve for that transgression.

However, at no point did I blame anybody. Everybody here probably has very good reasons for doing what they do. The parent comment asked "what part of the above portions of copy fail to convey what Guix is?", and rather than equivocating around that profound mystery, I answered truthfully.

It's however perfectly acceptable to dismiss me and my comment and assert that there is nothing wrong with that website copy. For example, it may be doing a great job of self-selecting and separating the enlightened from the casuals.
No, but it's very likely that they'll make decisions that'll alienate the community and thereby cause it's ecosystem to lose more and more relevance. It has done that with other open source projects they stewarded.
> The good thing is that any extended development session calls for an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse/trackpad.

For you. I do all my development on a 13" laptop.
I'm sorry to be negative, but your argument seems to boil down to "because I say so". Max Planck (quoted above [1]) suggested death is necessary for the progress of science. Your counterargument seems to be... that I should kill myself?

On a slightly unrelated note: making a blanket list of arguments you disagree with and then dismissing them all rarely leads (in my opinion) to a productive discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975834
I'm almost certain this is organic traffic.

You could consider monetising with a footer URL to a site who wants traffic.
Pretty sure SPJ does have to work to pay bills. It's just that they work for a research institution and can thus do part of their work in / on the project. In no small part because CS research was one of the use cases for creating Haskell.
Well if it’s moving there for work, the upsides are significant for certain fields. Software folks are paid like peasants in London compared to SV.
Whether Kubernetes is important for you, and whether Go matters as a language for implementing it is very much the question. Kubernetes was started in Java, and Kubernetes developers themselves describe it as incoherent mess of dozens of daemon programs in various stages of completion in the process of refactoring Java idioms into Go while introducing redundancies due to Go's limited code organization facilities.
It's a deliberate decision to not impose any set authn/authz structure on the user as many projects have differing requirements in that area.

Maybe someone could make a project creator on top of Phoenix that adds some basic authn/authz to the default structure.
That sounds awesome, except a low resolution screen (1080p) is a no-go in 2019. So far I haven't heard of anyone being pleased with Linux or Windows milquetoast hiDPI support.
> I used to use Outlook Web and might go back. The native client is a nightmare but does some useful things the web one doesn’t.

Is Mail.app, or some other mail client, an option for you?
Personally I’m still bitter about the death of MagSafe, which was the greatest thing ever.
I don't hear anything.
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that's it, thank you!
> ...what in the world makes you thing that?

Go literally special-cases generic builtins because they couldn't be arsed to properly implement it but knew nobody would accept completely untyped core collections.
He wasn't denied a visitor visa, he's been banned for life and that can't be overturned. Quite different. He also has a girlfriend in the US, so that's over for him. That's life changing.

BTW, he doesn't exactly need a visa, he was on an ESTA.
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But he's trying to be nicer, so cut him some slack :)
That depends on the type of gym. I'd say that the chance of finding a community in a gym is inversely proportional to the amount of machines it has.

Try a gym that doesn't even have a treadmill.
> Would just Yung be ok?

For me, that's only for family members and very close friends. :-)

It's like a personal nickname that you feel comfortable with if only a close circle of people use.
Governments love sales tax! Its just so damn easy and simple. When I was a kid it was at 17.5%- now its at 21%.
I don't mind because the government here actually tries to provide for its citizens. Keeping the nation orderly and tidy takes a vast amount of money.
People assume that a "programmer" is male because if he weren't, "woman programmer" would likely have been used. The meaning of a word is determined by its use. If we want "programmer" to include women, we have to use it for women.
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OK, but it is "SNOBOL".
Thanks, this works, I didn't see that option. --no-heading is also useful. (other comment)
That's different. The original link aims at mechanical contraptions while yours at mechanical computation.
Still equally impressive and interesting
My framework to think through technical debt: I don't think of it as debt (negatively connoted) but business investment.

When you take a debt it's usually to finance something. Focusing the wording on debt highlights the negative side of the trade off. It's like we're suddenly all turned fiscal austerity hawks, where any bit of debt is evil.

I feel like developers are each placed somewhere on a continuum from purist to entrepreneurs. Purists can spend weeks to tweak an SQL query, while entrepreneurs would be happy with a no-code Zapier MVP that actually lands customers

It's not to say that one is always better than the other. A balanced team probably needs both. In our company, I'm more on the entrepreneur side (which I guess is good for launching a startup) but the recent addition of a "purist" to the team has improved our codebase significantly.
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It's faster…
Don’t think same day streaming release is a remote possibility because Disney would be canabalizing it’s theater revenue. I do think it’s likely the only place you will be able to watch it after it leaves the theater.
And I'll add the obligatory comment how us ThinkPad users enjoy our keyboard with the TrackPoint, experience no other manufacturer provide. I'd just remove the touchpad for more keys to the keyboard.
SPJ and a fe wothers work at microsoft, but they are few compared to the community. Likewise, several high profile haskellers were at Standard Chartered, but I don't believe this was significant.

I would say the main drivers of Haskell these days are academics, PhDs and consultancies.
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