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Speaking of serializable closures: does anyone here know of any work being done on languages that would support nameable, completely size-transparent and versionable closures across different code versions?

This isn’t something out of the ordinary, you would think - but I can easily see how that could be hard to implement.
A relative of mine used to work on automation for a large pharmaceutical manufacturer in the US. He used to talk about how unrelenting the FDA was in their inspections. The better your processes were, the harder the FDA would try to find new and seemingly arbitrary faults, almost to the point that it would be better to have some glaring but easily fixable issue to distract from all the minor things they would find.

One example he said was that the FDA decided that they couldn't share tools (hammers, wrenches, etc) across manufacturing lines used for different drugs. This was supposedly to prevent cross contamination of the drugs. Generics made in India and China don't have to compete with such high standards.
The kind of parents that would object to this and find it a reason to homeschool aren't going to be "follow and don't question authority" kinds of parents.

Your concern for the children of parents who think public school is not authoritarian enough (and the children must stay home and be 'properly reared'), is fair.

But, that's just it. It's an alternative, that can be good or ill.
Programming and Programming Languages [Book]
I would like to believe that the people who use those features would make the much simpler switch to Linux but with the new WSL and (ridiculous) terminal I know a lot of them will be persuaded to transition into the special hell that is Windows.
A New Privacy Feature in iOS 13
That's correct. :)
> Let's start with something simple, like syntax highlighting.

I built a syntax highlighter, Shiki, that allows you to use any theme from VS Code to color your code [0]. It works great with Node now as a static website generator plugin, but with some effort you can run it all in client side as well. TypeScript's new handbook is using Shiki [1].

I can't really believe how it's 2019 and Medium and Slack still can't syntax highlight code snippets.

[0]: http://shiki.matsu.io/

[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/TypeScript-New-Handbook/chapters...
Microsoft discreetly wiped its facial recognition database
A pioneer of battery-powered trains now wants a nationwide fleet of them
that's besides that point? When you quote 500k/yr salary that typically includes perks like insurance. But are we really quibbling about $20k in expenses on a 500k salary? Even if I grant you 80k/yr to run your family that still leaves more than enough for your two porsches.
I've been full steam on the Nim train for the past year. It really hits a sweet spot between semantic complexity and language power. If you've used any mainstream language and understand types, you already understand 80% of the semantics you need to be productive. But more advanced features (generics, algebraic data types, hygienic macros) are available when needed. Now that the language is approaching 1.0, the only caveat is a small ecosystem and community. Nim has completely replaced Node as my language of choice for side projects and prototyping.
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There's a little known provision in most child porn laws that exempts people reporting child porn from charges.

That doesn't fix the problem. If they're bulk downloading photos from a phone, then most of the photos are going to sit there unexamined. Later on, looking for something else, somebody will stumble upon those photos and discover that they've been sitting there for months or years. But the school hadn't been reporting the crime.
Kinda exciting and sad. We don't know now what we'll later regret having committed to.
I found Nim to have a small but active and supportive community. The library ecosystem, while a little thin, has a lot of activity, and I was able to find what I needed or create wrappers for C libraries.

One difference between the Swift and Nim communities is that where Swift's is full of noobs answering each other's questions, Nim's is full of experts who are just as eager to help.

Nim also has pretty good, fairly complete docs and a decent book.
I’m referring to AWS’s policy compared to DO’s.

If he were using AWS or Azure and he had the same set of issues, I wouldn’t blame him at all. But he is using a third rate cloud provider because it was cheaper and then he acts surprise that they don’t have the same level of competence and support as AWS or Azure.

Yeah I purposefully left out GCP. I wouldn’t trust their support anymore than DO.
Doctors are way overpaid. The barriers to entry to become a physician are un-necessarily high, and I have a suspicion that that's by design. You only need a moderate amount of intelligence to learn and apply medicine. If the barriers to entry were lowered, then physician salaries would fall precipitously as supply would outgrow demand.
> Regarding this, you can block these UI elements using content blockers.

Oh, wow, this is kind of a revelation to me, I can block the overlay, the bottom fixed banner and the top fixed header and suddenly even medium is a decent reading experience. Thanks for the tip, I'll be using it on other sites too!
Did anyone have experiences with ATS lang [1] as C replacement?

[1] http://www.ats-lang.org/
They have already done something similar in 1950 with radial tires and I think they will do it again if they can (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_tire). Additionally you don't need 10x market share, you just need to go from 3% margin to 30% margin for example with your 10 times better product to make it even.
Protecting Yourself from Amazon Violating Your Air Rights and Privacy by Drones
> If ads had never been allowed, would search be more like AOl's keywords?

Not sure how that's related to ads. I've been online since 1996, and AOL wasn't available in my country, although did get those AOL trial diskettes with my copy of C&C: Red Alert.

Xcite, Yahoo, Altavista, Askjeeves and others simply had a search box and an alphabetical directory of sites. I didn't hear about Google until 1999 when I came across a Time Magazine article about it, and there were ads on the internet well before then.
> What is the difference between her and an astrologer?

$442B.
Turing machines and Turing incompleteness are utterly fundamental to computer science theory. He is rightly up there with Church and Godel for kicking off a proper analysis of what computers can and cannot do. (And then of course the Turing test was kind of a second version of that from the AI perspective.)

There are other plenty of people overlooked for WWII contributions due to secrecy, and I was disappointed by how much the NYTimes article focused specifically on that aspect of Turing's work and deemphasized the rest, but it's just flat out false that Turing would be a minor figure in computing history if not for his sexual orientation.
I have the opposite problem: DO seems to keep my stuff "up" and keeps charging me. I go and shut stuff down, delete droplets, etc, then months later they warn me about my invoices adding up at a rate of $80/mo. At this point I am suspended, but apparently still being charged. So I owe them hundreds of dollars despite repeatedly shutting down and deleting all droplets.
Yeah they are nice; they've been trained to be. A lot of their issues though only pop up later in life, like in college. Things like struggling with deadlines, since now teach isn't mom who needs to go shopping and will let you turn in your homework late, or who can be bullied to do so. Or remedial ed; a lot of homschoolers are massively deficient in math, since very few parents can teach it.

There are issues with the ones you don't meet; lax homeschooling regulation and oversight can easily cover for parental abuse, and unschooling can really mess up a kid too.
I think it's going to be weird and messy whichever way it goes. If it is under government oversight, politics is just going to ruin the whole purpose maybe make it worse. Me and you can have a debate about whether or not neo nazis should have the right to speak their hateful messages without calling eachother nazis. But voters aren't so calm when their elected official slings mud suggestion someone is one because they don't want to ban their speech.

I'll admit though. I'm not so sure what the effect of breaking them up will be. How many services would be lost, how many sites would go down because of lost services, how much money would be lost due to search ranking being ineffective or businesses needing to buy ads from multiple companies. It would hurt a lot of people at least temporarily. But I think long term the Internet and business would thrive after a short term pain. It would definitely have to happen in stages though. Each part of the business broken up into a few.

But yeah I agree, the escape velocity companies you mentioned need to be put in check somehow.
Julian Barbour has what I consider to be a pretty well-reasoned notion a timeless universe composed of a large number of mathematical configuration spaces he calls "nows" -- i.e., it contains many states, but no objective notion of time -- outlined in his pop-sci book "The End of Time" [1999] and his website http://platonia.com/

p.s. for the record, Barbour is no clown, but a serious cat -- he is also the guy that wrote "Absolute or Relative Motion / the Discovery of Dynamics" which is a bedrock treatise on Machian ideas in physics
> You can't get to an edge or boundary of space-time because it's not 3-D, it's curved in this really weird way.

Can you elaborate? I was under the impression that the curvature is essentially zero and that the universe is open.
Ryan Dahl created Node.js prior to being hired at Joyent, and then sold them the rights to it.
Honestly I wouldn't worry about it, if anything Google Cloud just raised the profile of every BI product out there.

I work very closely with the Google Cloud team as a technology partner. With the recent hire of Thomas Kurian he has to make a big splash at Google while good will is forthcoming and I expect he will continue to authorize significant acquisitions to help build out their cloud to compete with Azure/AWS. The next piece of the puzzle will be an integration platform to help bring it all together.
That's wishful thinking.

If there's state in that virtual machine, it's probably either stored on the physical host or in a SAN. If it's in the physical host, it has to be fished out of that machine or restored from a backup. If it's a SAN, you can lose your virtual machine if the SAN goes down.

I've seen both happen.

Actually, a single machine with RAID is surprisingly stable. A provider like Hetzner can switch out a faulty disk in less than five minutes, or switch a faulty motherboard/power supply in less than half an hour.

Virtualization on top of this does not increase stability, in my experience.

Now, some cloud providers do have more sophisticated distributed systems that do not have single points of failure, and that's a completely different story.

Of course, the software itself is a source of correlated failures, so even there you should never rely on a single cloud vendor.

There's a poster here on this site who commented some months ago that he had for years rented three servers, each on a different continent, each from a different provider, and never had downtime. That's engineering.
It seems you are happy with it. "I'm slowly starting to increase eating out at above average places and taking trips more frequently." That is life. That's why we live. You deserve it.

There is a significant difference in quality between eating out in a $10 place or a $100 place. Yet, the difference between a $100 place and a $1000 place is pretty small.

It applies to almost everything: entertainment, food, computer equipment, traveling, etc. The first order of magnitude is the one that will give you more bang for your buck, don't jump to the second order of magnitude.
It's significantly harder to test than it is to control the process used to create the drugs.

The idea that the FDA can test every batch of every drug imported is ridiculous, they can however implement strict controls for the production of the drug.... but not abroad.
Everything has a cost. NASA estimated their cost was $370 million to switch to metric.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/04/why-the-us-hasnt-fully-adopt...

The cost of switching road signs alone was quite expensive. Exit numbers, for example, are often the mile marker number.
I see no reason why intelligent life with high technology could not have developed on Venus. Say, several hundred million years ago. And perhaps they triggered runaway greenhouse warming, which vaporized the oceans. And so perhaps it was the loss of the oceans that ended plate tectonics, not the other way around.

I doubt that runaway greenhouse warming could get so extreme for Earth. I recall reading that solar input is enough lower here. Also, at million-year scales, I gather that high CO2 levels increase weathering, and drive carbonate deposition in the oceans.
Nope, the name is K3D-jupyter.
They do offer a student discount of 60% off for 12 months.
True, but WWII was the precipitating event nonetheless, partly because nations like the UK could barely afford to hang onto their empires, and were increasingly dependent on the US which was generally anti-colonialist (if inconsistently so).
He bought bitcoin.org domain in 2008 and by credit card. If bank statement says that then he can be considered at least being a part of Satoshi group or even Satoshi himself.
Fair enough - Thanks for clarifying :)
> My understanding is that Joyent is comprised primarily of Sun refugees who've attempted to compete in the same OS/server space that Solaris operated upon way back when.

I man not really, Joyent is a hosting company (cloud & virtualisation). That's built upon an Illumos distribution (SmartOS) but SmartOS is not their business.
Because then conspiracy theorists will understand a weather ballon can be an alien spacecraft too.
Is Lyft still arranging leases for drivers / do they do that in India? If so, that's an easy place to encourage EVs.

Guaranteeing and publicizing a better rev share for EVs could drive adoption, although slowly. For quicker adoption, they could set up a wait list for drivers with non-EVs and tell the drivers they can skip the line if they get an EV. For every two EV drivers that sign up, they can also let in three non-EV drivers. When a non-EV driver quits, they reduce their EV deficit; when an EV driver quits, their EV deficit increases.
The Roman republic was an oligarchy though, and in practice government was pretty different from today's democracies. It's an interesting idea, for sure, but it's really not comparable. Also remember that the Roman republic was basically _constantly_ at war, and Romans didn't really distinguish between militar and political skill
Neither does JavaScript fetch, I dont get your point
I played the beta too, but never a local copy of AC: O. I couldn't tell whether it was the game or Stadia or my connection (Google Fiber, no wi-fi), but it felt like walking through mud.

If that's was just the nature of the game, that's not a very honest choice of game. Every game I've bought for myself is in recent memory was more responsive.
You can check different open source options here that you can download and deploy on your own servers: https://opensource.com/article/18/1/top-4-open-source-analyt...
This is a really dismal view of homeschooling that I don't really understand. Are there bad situations with homeschooling? Absolutely! Are there bad situations in public schools? Absolutely! One is not inherently better than the other.

Maybe myself, my siblings, and our many homeschooled friends are just abnormalities, but we have never had issues embracing society, understanding it, and we never needed to have "fix" our parent's influence later in life. Do I know kids that struggled with that? Sure. You want to know where else I see kids deal with all the issues you mentioned? Public school. Lots of 'em.

I don't know if you were homeschooled as a kid and had a bad experience, know someone who did, or are just spouting the typical "homeschooling is bad! they have no social abilities!" arguments I hear constantly. But I would encourage you to maybe challenge that perspective. Homeschooling can be a wonderful tool and equip kids in ways that public schools are simply not able to. It takes a ton of work. It's not for everyone. But to say it is inherently a lesser education and experience than public schools just doesn't line up.
Evidence:

* Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects.

* Both Le Roux and Satoshi work in C++.

* Wright claimed in legal filings to have been involved with Le Roux.

* Allegedly, Wright and a friend have built a cluster of computers to crack secrets, which the theory presumes to be the password for a TrueCrypt volume with Le Roux's bitcoin key.

* Le Roux has an alias, "Solotshi", which sounds like Satoshi.

* Le Roux published a short manifesto, long before Bitcoin, that echoes some Bitcoin principles.

* Satoshi disappeared at about the same time Le Roux was really kicking his criminal conspiracy into gear.

* A forum post presaging Bitcoin was posted from the Netherlands, where Le Roux is from.

I mean, judge this stuff for yourself. Independently: a lot of people want this to be true.
But to me (at least) how you get your money is the fundamental difference. The rich guy has to go to work - the wealthy guy has to do whatever he wants.
"What do we say to the God of Death?"

"Okay, start it up."
>Finally, it's bizarre to me that in a first-world country, smart and rich parents have decided the education system is so broken, it needs to be worked around instead of engaging with it

Most homeschooling programs in the USA are (were) heavily religion based. But, in the last 10 years I've seen a growing number of non-religious curriculums that are now available. This clearly shows that neither the religious nor the atheists are happy with the schooling system. There's clearly a problem. And in the same time period (at least in Texas), the standardized testing has increased which leaves schools with less freedom on what to teach as all time must be devoted to what is on the test (which is of questionable content)
What if the bro-culture of coders is an echo bubble that doesn't even understand what Medium has become?

So you guys are going to create your own paywalled walled garden for coding content? What's your solution even.

https://medium.com/1-one-infinity/why-medium-doesnt-suck-f04...
Also possible tech trigger: extremely unprofitable tech companies going public. Slack, Uber, Lyft, etc. In fact,

"In 2018, 81 percent of US companies were unprofitable in the year leading up to their public offerings... That's a statistical dead heat with the rate in 2000, the year the dot-com bubble burst"[1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/3/6/18249997/lyft-uber-ipo-public-p...
The trouble is, unless you have a grand old time arguing vague ideas, you might not find the ideas that can lead to new falsifiable hypotheses.
Why is everyone talking about backups and not the actual infrastructure?
The call just wrapped so folks could grab lunch, but anyone who is interested can see next steps for the project in collaboration with @buremba and the Rakam team here https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/06/rakam-is-collaborating-w...

We have launched a new open source project to work on the spec and collaborators are welcome
>What is the difference between her and an astrologer?

To be fair, they don't let random astrologians on the curb manage $442 billion.

That said, this is likely just PR for her personal/firm's position against tech and likely bullshit. If a recession happens tomorrow, tech would be affected and she'll win even though the underlying cause probably wasn't tech. I think the DOJ investigations will make tech more interesting at least, so I really doubt the "glory days are over" when more glory opportunity comes along (whatever the fuck glory means in tech).
‘Space Weather’ System Could Protect Earth from Solar Storms
I strongly believe that more data is always better. (But more testing is not always better if it's an invasive biopsy.)

If more data results in more unneeded biopsies, then just stop taking biopsies! It seems very obvious that the answer is to perform a series of MRI scans over a period of weeks or months, and track the size of the lump. If it's growing rapidly (or more lumps appear), then you would perform a biopsy. I don't even think you need machine learning for this. It just seems obvious that a quickly growing lump is cancer (almost by definition), so you need multiple scans over time to detect the rate of growth.

Is this a controversial opinion? Why is better to wear a metaphorical blindfold instead of just being smarter about what you do with the data?

Is this because MRIs are expensive and are in high demand, so it's just not practical to do this?

EDIT: I updated my comment to remove "more testing is always better".
Having to remove the rear wheel is definitely better from a slippage point of view, but now you still have the friction of removing your wheel and putting it back and getting your hands dirty in the process.

Maybe I'm just lazy after all...

But it still illustrates how something like Peleton can be appealing for many.
Correct. And the whitepaper was published in 2008.
Maybe lots of edge datacenters--that should be able to bring latency down to the single digits for most metro areas.
I doubt twitch shooters would be playable. I've used steam's in home streaming, and platformers that require precise jumping accuracy are basically unplayable because even a fraction of a second hiccup in latency can get you killed. Even simple platformers like Crash Bandicoot can get frustratingly difficult to play over a stream. If the service gets popular enough, we might see developers making changes to help out players using Stadia, the same way that they add auto-aim for most console shooters, but disable it in the PC version.
Almost-total amateur here: We don't.

We really don't. We don't have any physical evidence of anything from before the big bang (presuming that's what we call the "beginning"). Zero. All we have is people having views on the current situation, trying to apply those views backwards to "before", where they may or may not fit, and saying "I think it's like this".
The truth is that Joyent bought TextDrive. At Joyent we were developing a big RoR app. TextDrive did great hosting. Jason and I decided to merge.
You get some games free with the service like Destiny 2's expanded content (same as PSN Plus/Xbox Live Gold).
This was linked above

https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-custom...

It doesn't explain any detail behind why there was radio silence until social media support stepped in, which is what I'm very curious about, but it does have a timeline of events and an apology.
It's far, far from over as long as SmartOS remains easier to use and more reliable than GNU/Linux. The source code is there to fork, so just like GNU/Linux, there will be people working on it and using it. OpenBSD has 5.71 developers and yet they're kicking ass churning out security features and innovations like there's no tomorrow. I secured my copies of the illumos and SmartOS gates.

Joyent is proof that large scale cloud can be done with SmartOS.
When I joined Digital Ocean, back when it was 2-3 months old, I hit a KVM bug in their stack with my network traffic that caused them to rate limit my droplet to 1Kbit/s because it kept taking the host machine down I guess(?), and then them ultimately terminating it without a ticket asking me to even investigate. That was enough to pretty much never consider using Digital Ocean for anything “production” ever again. They didn’t terminate my account, and apologized with credit, but wow.

Another thought: That was also back when support responded in a reasonable time frame, and they actually spoke on IRC and everything too.