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> Consider the advanced features as a scientific prediction: "If you do not use these features, you can't have a good program come out the other end." This prediction is falsified by the concrete existence of a lot of good Go programs.

I'd claim that programs built without those features have a ceiling on how complex a problem they can solve before maintainability collapses under its own weight. Go is popular for microservices, which makes a certain amount of sense (if you believe that microservices are an effective way of doing systems architecture - I don't, but I can see why people would). I've yet to see a Go system that I found genuinely impressive/innovative in terms of the functionality it provided.

> To give a degenerate example, my six line shell script does not need to be written in the Rust type system. It is not only not helpful, it would be actively harmful. The scope of programs that don't really need those features and where they quite easily become actively harmful is larger than a lot of people think.

Disagree. In my experience a significant proportion of production incidents happen because a six line shell script gets modified incorrectly, or does not handle an unexpected condition properly.

I've seen plenty of ineffective solving of business problems in e.g. Haskell, which I think boils down to a failure to appreciate how low the reliability requirements actually are in most businesses (exacerbated because many organisations are dishonest with themselves about such things, even in internal communications). I do think that someone who knows the advanced features but is willing to write "YOLO Haskell" (or similar language) will be more effective at solving business problems and creating value than someone using Go or similar (and at this point I've built my career on the effectiveness of fancier languages, even for 6-line-script-like tasks).
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There needs to be independent investigations into police behavior. They should be arrested and stand trial, but the internal investigation will probably just slap them on the wrist.
Imagine being the child born on the ship on a crash course to this new planet.

Here's one for you. What if WE are the children currently on a 'ship' (Earth) being sent somewhere..? ;-)
"...siphoned off all our trade secrets.. " And you know that because...???
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How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser
How do "core domain modelling" and "service layer" communicate if you don't mind sharing?
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't Whatsapp encrypted end to end? The only information available to Facebook is meta-data, who I was sending to, what time, response time, etc.

Is there anything I'm missing? If not, how does Signal deal w/ meta-data?
Still, slightly different code paths is better than totally different API, no?

The web doesn’t automatically give you cross browser pages. You have to fix compatibility bugs and sometimes do things two ways. But it’s way easier than having separate WinForms,
Cocoa, and QT UIs.
Connecting MongoDB to Ruby with Self-Signed Certificates for SSL
'Ignorance of the (social) Law is no excuse.'

Regardless of motive, they deserve to be mocked for such a stupid act.
Are you suggesting that quality of services offered is invariant of employee quality?
Custom made motivational posters, with elegantly typeset quotations and slogans. Part of the same great rebranding/reorganization initiative in which employees got company-branded mugs and pens.
The reason it is slow is not because it is written is Lisp but because of how it is implemented, primarily because it is a hobby project. Graphics are rendered on the CPU for example.

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/gui/blit-x86-...
A. Please be sarcasm..

B. That's.. not communism.

C. Especially in this case, the safety issue affects everyone else on the road, too. If someone crashes into you while playing with their Apple Play, congrats on enjoying the unregulated free market.

If your kid takes a ride in a friend's dirt cheap car they bought because they're 17 and they get in a wreck, congrats.

If manufacturers can make and sell unsafe cars, they will, and it will drive up the cost of safe cars.

When products as critical as cars unsafe, it costs everyone, even those who don't buy them.
> Decriminalization will not magically make this issue go away

Perhaps not. It’s complicated either way. But legalizing alcohol did remove the bootlegging gangs
The last two points apply to any crypto, but the first two, Scale and Network, are plausible.

Basically the tl;dr is facebook and the other "tech titan" validator nodes provide a large, existing distribution channel, and presumably they can unleash their armies of developers to make all the techie crypto stuff Just Work.

A long running bitcoin criticism has been that it's been like PGP -- built on sound principles, but the usability has just been too hard. Coinbase took off because it made crypto easy to the average joe... HN people understand you should never leave your bitcoin on a centralized exchange, but the average user has difficulty understanding the idea of keys, wallets, dongles, etc.

If Libra's going to succeed, it's going to be because they're going to do what Apple did to Unix: take the good parts, leave them available to the powerusers, and wrap the rest with really friendly usability.

And they've already done something like this: one of the advantages of React has been the developer tooling. There's always going to be a subset of users that prefers to string a bunch of tools together themselves, but with a corporate backer, you can invest in solid developer experience.
Do flash drives every "refresh" unmodified storage? I'm not super familiar with the behavior of cheap flash storage controllers
Lake Ontario has had record high water levels in 2017 and again in 2019, maybe they think that will get much, MUCH worse? But given the rest of the map, I think it's just bad science.
We've gone from Office Space being everyone's nightmare, to the Cube Farm being an upgrade from the hell of Open Plan. Talk about backsliding.
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> convert UTC in their heads

Why would they do that, instead of using the computer to do it?
I used Python / Flask / Apache for server stuff, MySQL & Sqlite for storage, and jQuery & vanilla Javascript for frontend. But I'm sure any web stack would work.
The "51% attack" was in the financial interest to the miners. An actual attack would not be.
"That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design."

To be fair, the Fed is kind of that.

It's a cabal of bankers who decided that the USA would be better of if they did the central banking.

In practice, it's not too-too far off how other central banks works, but technically it is a private entity, owned by the banks.

FB's new coin doesn't really have any real use other than basically dropping all of the ugly limitations of the regular financial system.

Though there are a lot of regulations there 'for our safety' - in reality, the flow of consumer money is just a huge pile of tangled cobwebs of stupidity.

This is will be a really great opportunity to do '21st century currency'. If it works, there's going to be a whole new way of doing money. The banks, in a way, should be afraid.

That said, there are huge privacy concerns as well which might very well kill the ostensible improvements to be had just by doing things in a new, clean, way.
Oh neat! I made the centipede. I didn't realize someone posted this until I saw some traffic from HN. It's a work in progress, I have some fun plans for it.

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...

"since 2000 a unanimous decision has been more likely than any other result — averaging 36 percent of all decisions. Even when the court did not reach a unanimous judgment, the justices often secured overwhelming majorities, with 7-to-2 or 8-to-1 judgments making up about 15 percent of decisions. The 5-to-4 decisions, by comparison, occurred in 19 percent of cases"
The infamous "useless use of cat"
Hands-off Managers and Department Heads -- who are largely uninvolved in the hiring process.

Especially true for large companies, they've abdicated this responsibility to mindless, soulless HR flunkies.
And the energy transferred by an impact with a piece of dust at luminal speeds
Thanks! I only recently got one too, but it's been really useful for projects. Which did you get?
I was looking for something that looks comfortable to sit on while pedalling. I found none.
What you're describing isn't an advertisement, so isn't at all relevant to the discussion.

It's well known (and not at all secret) that google will grab upcoming flight info from emails and put it into your calendar. But this info still isn't used for ad targeting.
I've recently started seeing a ton of these kinds of cameras with video analytics being deployed in South Africa. The company that is mostly rolling them out, vumacam [1], strikes me as quite scary.

Because they’re not a government organisation and their business model seems to be selling their camera feeds to private security companies, I wanted to find out specifically who they share video feeds with but they're not totally clear about this besides for saying that they share information with third parties. Does this mean that anyone can claim to be a security company, pay for the feed and get access to video analytics and cameras at every street corner? Even if this is not true, it still looks as if there might be many opportunities for people to abuse the video feed _just_ when legitimate security companies have access.

What really worries me though, is whether or not they're running facial recognition on the camera feeds. On their website, they're very open about running automated licences plate recognition and market it as a huge selling point. But in their privacy policy documents they often make reference to collecting data about individuals and vehicles as well as "biometric information" [2]. Plus, if you look under the features section of their website they show screenshots from something called "Milestone" which seems to be the platform they use for video analytics [3] and it seems like there are tons [4] of facial tracking plugins that work on this system. So, it could be totally possible for someone to install face tracking in addition to license plate recognition, whenever they wanted.

When I talk to people about the cameras most are so excited about the prospect of them reducing crime that they would happily accept any of the possible effects they might have on their privacy. Which is fair enough, crime is such a huge problem in South Africa that it might be worth taking a hit to our privacy if it means less people get murdered. I think what this means is that in places with high crime rates, it’s going to be very hard to convince people to take their privacy over anything that might tangibly curb crime. For myself, I can’t help but see these cameras as leading to dystopian like futures, which makes me very worried, even if they were to significantly reduce crime.

[1] https://www.vumacam.co.za/
[2] https://www.vumacam.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PAIA-Ma...
[3] https://www.milestonesys.com/
[4] https://www.milestonesys.com/solution-finder/ayonix/APS-mile...
Impressive work.

Looks a lot like the sedan-like Australian Utes (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nmBx_EY3UnM/maxresdefault.jpg) that are quite popular there.
That's more decentralized than Bitcoin is - there you have 6 pools in control. Global financial systems are expensive and high-reward (not to mention technically challenging since there is not a single proven cryptocurrency that could handle Visa's current TPS - AFAIK). Decentralization makes very little economic sense (at least all the models I've heard so far).

True believers forget that normal people have zero interest in spending energy thinking about their financial system. Just give me a card backed by a company whose name I've heard of and who I can sue if I have to and then let me focus on my life.
They aren't minting their own money out of thin air - it's fully backed by existing currencies like the Dollar/Euro/Yen/Pound. They're just making it easy to send this across borders digitally.
Likely because they’re now owned by Cisco and their privacy policy is now just Cisco’s generic policy, so it’s not clear how much they log.
"Could you elaborate on what Bitcoin failed at?"

BTC failed to be a currency that could be used for practical purposes. There's really nowhere to spend BTC today that matters.

If Amazon, Costco and AirBnB etc. allowed BTC, well, others might join, and we'd possibly see real circulation. For whatever reason, it was never meant to be.
Currently working at a place, taking a significantly lower pay, just for the morale around here. Last place I worked didn't even have free coffee, and it was a Fortune 100 company. I'll take the coffee and ability to put my feet up, thanks.
Ouch. A slap in the face to you and they might as well have burnt that $150 (Likely $300 dollars before taxes) since it had the total opposite effect.
I don't think he's suggesting anyone should do anything violent. I think he's suggesting that if Zuckerberg continues down this road, he's going to face problems by whatever routes remain available. The only thing GP said anyone should do is Zuckerberg should "probably hire more personal security".

Would it have come across as less of a threat if he had quoted JFK ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable")? Was JFK threatening Latin America when he said that to their diplomats?
>Whenever possible, use the email as the user identifier. You can manage with any other kind of identifier, but debugging is significantly easier, since you don't have access to the customer's IdP to know the correspondance between an actual user and its opaque identifier.

This is an assumption that a number of service providers run in to when setting up a SAML relationship with Stanford’s IdP: Not every Stanford person has a published email address. In particular, people who have been sponsored for accounts (in order to log in to Stanford systems) don’t have their email address published (we don’t have their permission to do so).

Email addresses can also change.

As was mentioned, there are opaque identifiers that uniquely identify someone and that do not change. We also provide the person’s SUNetID (their Stanford username), even if there is no email address.
My guess is things like this: https://www.thebetterindia.com/61757/traditional-water-conse...
If it's considered to be a currency by the gov. then regular financial regulations will apply.
Yes I agree, we seem to be working on the wrong problems or get the priorities wrong. We keep on inventing newer technologies which come with newer problems while the ship is slowly but surely sinking. Sometimes I wonder what would it take for all of us to join a concerted effort to concentrate on the real problems we have. Technologies seem to veer into an escapist route, some way for us to run away from the problems we do have: virtual reality, leisure space travel, AGI, synthetic life, immortality.. I hope we'll eventually wake up in the last hour, at least to acknowledge where we've gone wrong.
Brats and Caminoes could make sense when having bucket seats in the truckbed was allowed (though obviously dangerous). But nowadays I guess it only makes sense for hauling white goods home from the home center and such.
I still don't have an email address.
Would merit a much stronger response than mockery IMHO.
Not really, the data miners link your CC to your email, WIFI cell MAC, Bluetooth MAC, Cell ID and many other data points.

Think of it like a DNA string of datapoints about you online. Stored in a hash so it can be shared across platforms.

If $USER meets this CONDITION then show THISAD
These last batch of rulings have had unlikely or unusual combinations of both liberals and conservatives.

The case for gerrymandering was decided by Ginsburg, Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Gorsuch.

Here's two more cases not along traditional partisan lines:

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/17/733408135/supreme-court-justi...
>If you weren't a computer scientist (or college student) you weren't even getting a job working on one!

This isn't remotely true.
This is an absolutely excellent set of documentaries about British efforts to reverse engineer and outthink various pieces of German technology during the second world war.
I spent 2 weeks basically carrying our team building a proof of concept for a $10 million contract, working 60+ hours a week, and got a $25 gift card for applebees.
Looks nice, but I wonder how this will stand the humidity and time test respect to a unmodified tesla. Electric and water does not mix and this looks like a red carpet for rainwater. I hope they will be meticulous in this aspect and seal carefully.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210979 and marked it off-topic.
Semantics. When I say "money", I mean Libra. If this currency is to be trusted, proof of stake should apply to all parties - having some party able to mint libra is no different to what banks do now. That libra can be converted into cash from their reserves using users funds. How can you guarantee that this wont happen? How is this regulated?
A lot of the time in Go you do have to copy-paste-tweak - sorting lists for example requires quite a bit of boiler plate.

That doesn't mean the code above is good, just that the lack of generics sometimes makes copy-pasting in Go inevitable.
Yeah.. All India has are brainwashed terrorists who cross over into the neighboring country and use their flesh as boom fuel.
Reframe that as: The ignorant should be mocked, and you can see why that attitude makes the world a more unpleasant place.
> you’re implying the detractor does not exist for the alternative.

no? what kind of crazy dichotomic logic is that? you're way overthinking it.

> Do you think 99% of people who go to college

moreover college output has a lot more variation than trade school output, so assuming that the proportions of outcome are the same is as well something that was never claimed.

> You must understand

you just dropping things I never said and argue as if I said them, how does one go and debate or understand that? it was never my point to begin with!

jesus, 6 post ago I made one point: trade school aren't providing the titles one would go get to optimize for class mobility, heck, the rest isn't even a point of discussion really, the whole idea on which trade school are based on is to bake blue collar workers.
also the overhead of calling out to c can actually be quite high: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/the-cost-and-complexity-o...
:)

Good thing they dont share the actual data and only share hashes ;)
Damn! My current CEO wants to do the same. But he wants people to vote across teams. EG, backend engineer nominates machine learning researcher. Machine learning nominates HR. For a $1000 bonus, or a new ipad previous generation. Reasoning is that the manager cannot approve because that would reward favoritism, so random people nominating random people it is. Bad ideas coming from a good place I guess, but people are going to feel demoralized for sure in the end.
Haha you really do represent the ideal climate "skeptic"

* reject evidence for non-sense reasons

* over reliant on public search engines for quick, contextless answers

* pedantry rather than discussion

* a complete and total inability to find any meaningful evidence for yourself

For the record, my original comment in this thread has always been about the Southwest, but since you're behaving as such an anti-intellectual bad actor, I'll continue spoon feeding you the data that you're clearly too lazy to even try to understand

"Freshwater supplies from rivers, streams, and groundwater sources near the coast are at risk from accelerated saltwater intrusion due to higher sea levels. Porous aquifers in some areas make them particularly vulnerable to saltwater intrusion., For example, officials in the city of Hallandale Beach, Florida, have already abandoned six of their eight drinking water wells."

>Obeysekera, J., M. Irizarry, J. Park, J. Barnes, and T. Dessalegne, 2011: Climate change and its implications for water resources management in south Florida. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 25, 495-516, doi:10.1007/s00477-010-0418-8.

>Berry, L., F. Bloetscher, H. N. Hammer, M. Koch-Rose, D. Mitsova-Boneva, J. Restrepo, T. Root, and R. Teegavarapu, 2011: Florida Water Management and Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change. 68 pp., Florida Climate Change Task Force

That's just one way that climate change is negatively affecting groundwater in the US south east and how freshwater is becoming more scarce in America due directly to climate change

Have any more ignorance-fueling pedantry to use to avoid discussing the topic at hand?

Maybe you'll try reading a source? Nah, you'll just Google search it!
Another case in point: Seattle has an outdoor mall called University Village. On a map, it looks like a walkable urban paradise but actually being there is a dramatically different story. There's a wildly-popular multi-use trail--the Burke-Gilman--that goes right next to the mall but direct access to UVillage from the Burke is not well-marked and involves crossing at least two roads. Access by bus is OK but you can tell that pedestrian access doesn't rank in the top five of priorities since one set of bus stops ends in three steps and the other set of bus stops accesses a pedestrian path that's almost always closed for one reason or another due to "construction."

Meanwhile, UVillage has an extensive set of interior streets with pretend stop signs for pedestrian crossings that drivers often ignore. And the mall owners keep building parking garages, closing off sidewalks for a year of construction in the process.

I have high hopes for the rebuild of Northgate Mall, on Seattle's north end next to a light rail station. The owners of Northgate filed their 129-page development plan with the city and they spend quite a few pages on how pedestrians will access the property, where people can congregate and play and exist without cars, and how the two additional interior streets will have calming and slowing measures to put pedestrians first. If the owners of Northgate Mall's written plans come to fruition as written, I hope UVillage's business will drop so they'll be forced to adapt in the same way.
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> Not that documentation is bad but it is rarely correct.

Rarely? I often turn to the documentation to check the capabilities, syntax and semantics of the languages and interfaces that I use. If it were only rarely correct, I would be in trouble.

If you are talking about application code specifically, my experience is that documentation is too rarely present to be an issue.
Who cares? No one stores their wealth in USD. You simply buy treasury inflation protected bonds. Problem solved. You only keep in USD your working capital.
I'm always reminded of the addage: "The elves are leaving middle earth" when it comes to such penny pinching: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
It's not beautiful, but it actually looks nice IMO.
John Oliver did a segment explaining how Murray Coal gave people bonus checks as low as $3 for dodging safety policies to mine more coal, and said "they can void their checks if they don't want the bonuses". Some miners mailed the checks back voided with "Eat Shit Bob Murray" on them.
A cruise line was included in that particular episode for exactly that. But in this case it was outright fraud.
Simone Giertz is a human treasure.
Haha I guess it's a as-many-legs-as-you-want-to-print-apod!

The PWM modules are also driven through I2C. Do you mean the latency between the sending the command and the motor doing it?