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That was a disappointment. Obama ran on restoring the rights retracted by the Patriot act, on closing Guantanamo, etc. After taking office though, things went in the other direction. There were new abuses and more National Security Letters issued than ever before.

It makes you wonder if new presidents get "read in" on what the "puppet masters" are expecting of them (/s) or is each simply more corrupt than the last, regardless of Party.
The irony though is if they allowed their cars to be modular, they would be able to just mount a tablet flashed with their own operating system.

This might prevent them from operating a wide variety of controls from the entertainment dash though.
Amazon almost certainly has better quality control that most of the sellers on their platform. The vast majority of their sellers are extremely low effort, one or two person companies who take advantage of how easy it is to source and ship goods in the modern age.
Who needs a mean when you can train a model to calculate means....
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I've invented several chess variants, none any good except for one which allowed you to take your own pieces. Seemed pretty good. Inevitably it's been done before https://www.chessvariants.com/difftaking.dir/selfeliminator.... So there's my offer for a new variant.
I got the email, and read through the post, it seems awesome. I remember the original HN post and am excited to see the progress.

I have a few random questions.

1. What is the support for interop with other languages (e.g., python for machine learning, rust for low level). Or is that even a reasonable question to ask?

2. What is the pricing structure going to look like?

Very exciting! This is great.
All the popular languages from last gen, did not have non-nullable types.
What is or is not a valid reason to grant asylum is entirely up to the host country. Though, granted, "I'd prefer to live there" probably isn't going to impress very many of those decision makers.
Here are some sequencers you could look at (that I've personally owned)

Zaquencer - $200. The most sequencer you can get at that price point. But lots of knob turning, no real displays. Its fun though.

Toraiz Squid - $600. But it has some great features, and its very 'playable'. You can also drag and drop all of your midi from the device into the DAW.

I would suggest starting with purchasing a MIDI interface and a sequencer. Just use them to control software instruments in your DAW.

This is my workflow. Make a bunch of patterns in a sequencer. Record audio or MIDI into the DAW. Arrange the patterns. You get you brainstorming done on the hardware but the editing on the software.
mea culpa. And thank you.
In terms of equalizing bargaining power, not having unions maybe makes sense if there 3,000 highly competitive companies in the auto sector instead of only three.
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Makes sense. If Snowdern refuses to come home to face justice, then what options remain? We don't have an extradition treaty with Russia.

IMO it looks weak if he's allowed to live out his days in Russia. Trump knows this and wanted him back but clearly Putin isn't going to just hand him over.

edit: My parent comment that was flagged stated my opinion that Showdern should be taken out.
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It's a monolithic repo, but not a monolithic codebase. It contains many many separate projects, libraries, and applications. There's a lot of code reuse, but it's not like you have to wrap your head around the whole thing.
I wholeheartedly disagree with any decentralized approach to national economics. Not because it wouldn’t work, but because it would. Money is power only because power likes it that way. But power is power, and a decentralized monetary supply does not serve the powerful. They will attack it with every weapon they have (which is basically all of them) to ensure it doesn’t happen until they control it.

In the early 20th century, the rich owned gold mines. Once we moved off the gold standard, they simply took that wealth and put it into the fiat system by owning companies. Even if we do end up on a nominally crypto-backed monetary system, I would expect any governance (even decentralized) to favor the incumbent wealthy as much if not more than our existing system.
Interesting read.

As an FYI, Table 1 (Strengths and Weaknesses of Payload Delivery Ratings) is unreadable on mobile.
Your definition of safe must be different than mine, because car drivers are protected by wrinkle zones, roll cages, airbags and seatbelts, whereas a cyclist is less visible, takes up less space and has ~nothing to protect their body.
Your story is quite short.
It feels like HN regular are unlikely to be the ideal audience for this. Reaching for a metaphor, it's like a bunch of expert Unix users gathering around an IBM PC or Macintosh in the 1980s.

It's so easy to bemoan the control we lose (a major problem given our existing workflows) and have no use for the functionality it confers (simplicity, batteries included, lack of yaks that need shaving).

A really great new idea should empower millions of people completely unlike us to build software.
In my experience my non-american friends never really seemed to get Seinfeld or find it very appealing. Seems like the global part of this isn't that significant from that perspective
I think you're ludicrously underestimating what brains and biological neural systems in general can do.
Really curious. How are the other guys selling for $0.99, if they didn’t get the competitive pricing? (Presumably because they didn’t go through the sign within X feet antics)
What does "async support for plugins" mean when hands are on the keyboard? Linters/etc that run without a need for :w?
We need something more akin to gun laws.

Using the court is an extreme level of threat against the average person. So someone who grossly misuses it should face similar penalties to someone misusing a gun; losing the right to access the weapon. Facebook being given a 20 year ban on going after anyone in court would be a good start.
While in browser password managers have drawbacks, they have the big advantage that they stop fishing / fake domain attacks. I think I'm much mor likely to fall for one of those, than my password manager get hacked.

Also, generating all passwords off one master password deterministicly sounds like an awful, awful idea. If someone manages to get one of my passwords, they can try performing an offline attack against the encoding password. If they succeed, they have everything.
We will absolutely support light mode, and we plan to deal with many other accessibility concerns (I touch on that very briefly at the end of my video). This sort of inclusivity is massively important to us. I hadn't realized Dark mode was tough for certain audiences - I'll add it to the list. (We also plan to get an a11y consultant in to make sure we get all of them)
From the landing page:

> Speed of developer iteration is the single most important factor in how quickly a technology company can move.

What? "Speed of developer iteration" barely makes any sense, it's poor wording.

In any case that proposition seems dubious. Companies exist to please customers, not its own developers. Too often we (developers) conflate our happiness/productivity with that of the actual stakeholders.

With that said, at scale one tends not to need a faster feedback loop, but greater guarantees around correctness (in logic, deployments, etc). Encouraging us to work in a mindless, iterative manner goes in the opposite direction.
Is there a way to pay per article, or do I have to buy the $999 yearly subscription?
> They can simply sue you in the jurisdiction in which you live, getting a court order for you to reveal the information.

> Unless you don't mind serving indefinite jail time for contempt of court.

Not how it works internationally, this looks more like a US-centric view of the world. I believe in most countries courts would not do that at all. If you want an example, look how nobody can sue Snowden in Russia.
It depends how genuinely independent the next president is of the intelligence bureaucracy. This isn't really a partisan issue.

The problem the president faces is that if you piss off the intelligence services, you a.) won't get much useful intelligence to do your job and b.) have powerful organizations with lots of dirt on you who want to see you gone. So from a strict power-play position, it's never wise to piss off the intelligence services. Those who do likely won't find themselves in power for long.

(We've seen some of this with Trump, who did piss off the intelligence services and now sees a steady barrage of leaks designed to damage his reputation and undermine his power, as well as administration officials who keep critical information from him because they don't trust him with it. Personality-wise I would've expected Trump to be more likely to pardon Snowden, but Trump is philosophically an authoritarian and not terribly sympathetic to people who undermine authority.)

I could see Sanders or Andrew Yang potentially pardoning Snowden, but I think Warren or Biden would be too cooperative with the government bureaucracy.
There are some downsides. The fact no one is held accountable for failure means incompetent people can waste a lot of resources and time.
I didnt realize netflix lost the rights to the office - does anyone know when it is disappearing ?
The only case where it could be an issue is at bootup, when the subsystem simply does not have enough entropy. OpenBSD solved that by storing a seed for next bootup at the end of boot and during shutdown.
Yes, I mean GM. Would be a great way to bypass all the fuss and expense of these fancy health plans.
"where a single chip can cost 300$ and has to be shipped from mainland America..."

that assumes that the failed part is even available.

I'd sure be irritated to have the controller board for a Cadillac XLR convertible top fail and have to shop junk yards, no doubt the wrecking yards are hip to small things of value that they can store on a shelf somewhere.

To be fair, I know more than one purchasing guy, usually in boutique electronic product companies, who spend a fair amount of their time tracking down obsoleted parts on eBay to repair or build one last batch of a metal box with circuit boards inside. It's just the nature of modern times I guess, but luckily we can often pick the era we want to live in in our personal lives.

I just need to stock up on old Thinkpads, avoid home automation, and carefully choose any car purchases.
Okay, relatively moot.

Apologies for the snark, but I feel it's important to keep in mind in discussions of trust and security the enclosing scope or context. You can't trust the "integrity of the Linux source code" if you are checking it with compromised hardware, or running it on compromised hardware.

> Linux runs on more platforms than those two as well.

I am not a security specialist, just a plain ol' paranoiac, but at this point in history, given what we've seen and heard so far, I would bet most platforms are compromised hardware. I don't really have anything more constructive to add so I'll shut up now.
Could it be used as a source of entropy for cryptographic purposes?
If you weight all sellers equally, sure. If you weight by sales volume, I suspect they'd come out behind.
I’d think it would strain rather than ease a relationship to be home with your spouse all day every day.
> Not to tread too much into political territory, but if Warren or Sanders is the next US President I'd assume he will receive a full pardon.

I wouldn't assume that.

I would definitely not assume that it would happen early on, given their policy ambitions, the need for political capital for them, and the fact that both are experienced enough legislators that they are unlikely to have (or succumb to staff who have) naive ideas about the impact it would or would not have on their broader agenda.
Thanks for the quick reply :)

A few more questions

# Maintenance costs & agility

You're not just building a programming language, you're also building an IDE, and now a version management system (through feature flags).

Each of these tasks are hard problems individually, what gives you the confidence that a small startup can build all of them? All of this while trying to make your company profitable.

# Ecosystem

If your language is not hosted, how do you plan on building an eco-system around it. (I know you come from a Clojure background so you've probably seen the wonders of being able to re-use Java's ecosystem).
Apparently this is getting a 4k treatment. I wonder if its just a lazy upscale or an actual remastering.
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Although natural, that reactor is geological not biological.

It's unlikely that enzymes could catalyse fission reactions. It would be amazing if they could...
> “We’ll continue to make it easier for you to control how and when you share your location.”

Technically, that's true. The choice between “yes, always” and “yes, always” is as easy as it gets, while of course also being totally misleading in arrogating that users actually do have a choice.
I (and many other people at my company) still have a phone at my desk. There are still phones in hotel rooms, and restaurants, and sundry other places. Most people may no longer have land-line phones at their houses, but the concept certainly still exists.
The most egregious missing container is "set", coming from Python (as many Go developers do). After debugging, reviewing, and writing at least 3 different local implementations of a set, I can't wait for generics so that it can be written once and then never looked at again.
See link to a chart on returns by year/fund from the article: https://twitter.com/vcstarterkit/status/1173611439833006080
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I would second this. I moved from Go to Crystal. Crystal has been great to work with. Due to a rich standard library, the absence or fewness of third-party libraries may not be much of a problem, especially if you are looking for developing web applications and command line tools (two areas where I have used it). It also has a very friendly and helpful community.
Why <trendy language 1> and not <trendy language 2> ?

Maybe because trendy languages aren't a panacea.
We do intend the HN audience to love this too. Our target audience is developers building backends. We don't expect we'll wrestle people from their Emacs, so we're definitely not targeting all possible developers today, but definitely developers.
> No, we should pay more for cars so that executives can keep their multi-million dollar pay, and so that the average surgeon can afford three summer homes, and so that my 401k can keep growing at an average of 7%/year, from now till the day I die, without me having to lift a finger. Duh.

Don't worry, your 401K has a decent chance of losing half its value before you retire.

As for multi-million dollar compensation, why don't you run the numbers and see how much the executive salary adds up to and then tell me how much money could be saved there. Maybe you'll have an argument then.

> Why is optimizing labour costs the only option that such false dichotomies put on the table? Why are all other expenses sacred, but wages the first on the cutting block?

If you run a multi-national company, in order to stay competitive, you need to look for the cheapest prices everywhere, including labor. Labor just happens to be the major cost factor, so naturally it's the first thing to optimize on. Your own wages are, naturally, the last thing you want to optimize on.

You can argue that these companies should be bribed into taking more expensive local labor, just keep in mind that this bears a cost that all of us pay.

> Most of a typical family's expenses are housing and healthcare. No amount of blue collar wage cutting is going to make either of those two line items affordable. But it sure as shit will make said blue collar family not be able to afford them. Wringing your hands over the cost of consumer goods, while ignoring those two elephants is bad policy.

Of course, housing and healthcare can't be outsourced in the same way that car manufacturing can be. If I follow your line of reasoning, manufacturing should get the same privilege, so that housing, healthcare and consumer goods will be less affordable. Like I said, this is possible, but you lose the comparative advantage, which is just leaving wealth on the table. Perhaps those auto workers should get a job in those more privileged industries instead?

> We'd all be better off if we lived in a world where cars and widgets and clothes cost twice as much, but healthcare half as much.

Fair enough, let's artificially suppress healthcare compensation in favor of manufacturing compensation. I'm sure it'll do "wonders" for the quality of either.

> You can find such a model on the other side of the pond.

On the other side of the pond, everyone earns less, especially healthcare workers.
Sure, a game where the rules can't be easily codified but understandable by humans would pose a good challenge. I'd like to see a computer play Calvinball :)
Yeah but you can't implement it generically.

That means for every conceivable input type and output type combination you have to have a new MAP or REDUCE function to handle it.

All Modern languages except golang and elm only require one implementation of MAP that can handle all type combinations.

It's called parametric polymorphism.
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Some advice (from a company that sells our own products on Amazon): buy only from Amazon or the manufacturer. When buying from the manufacturer, look at the 1 and 2 star ratings. They will be the best barometer of product quality.
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I like to learn when I read, which is why I've never read Shakespeare (voluntarily).
Considering many have always had a mobile on them, yes.
It's because of cost and because grid power is generally very accurate (at least in the US). No one cares if their oven clock loses 10 seconds per year, and "white goods" (appliances) are generally designed to minimize costs as much as possible. The electronics in a typical oven are very simple, and using the power line as a frequency reference is very easy and cheap to do.

Also, crystal oscillators aren't that accurate. You can make them more accurate by heating them to a given temperature, but this is something only done in expensive test & measurement equipment.
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I think the big changed needed on Amazon is the "Seller". With their commingling of all products with the same SKU, "seller" is an irrelevant term. If people could review actual sellers, it could put a dent in the knock-offs. I'm not sure if there are just enough people who can't tell the difference or don't want the trouble of returning it to make this a profitable strategy for everyone.
> But of course on planet earth at least it is hard for nature to use things requiring too high or low temperatures

So, no, superconductivity probably does not exist in nature
Chicken & egg problem: It's hard to find remote jobs if they're not being offered. We need to incentivize working from home (non-commuting) via tax governmental policy (local, state, federal level in the US). This is critical in order to cut greenhouse gasses and prevent traffic congestion without needing to build expensive new roads.
Exactly, great point. All other arguments are moot. They have a monopoly. This is an example of abuse of power. The argument that they do it in the name of user experience is an example of the double speak of SV giants. This will not hold up under justice department scrutiny. I hope the tech giants are "brought to heel" as HRC would say.
Seinfeld is on TV every single day of the year right now through syndication. I don't think you could find All in the Family on TV at all.

I think one is slightly more popular today than the other.
Reminded of the well known quip: the golden age of science fiction is 14.
Amazon is at least liable (theoretically, at least) if they sell an AmazonBasics product that winds up giving my kids lead poisoning, and will have a lot harder time disappearing into the wind to avoid a lawsuit. They disclaim any liability for third-party sellers.
With Amazon, you sit your butts at home and get what you want without getting stuck in traffic and waiting in line to check out in-store just to get a $20 keyboard.

Nevertheless, it remains questionable how this change would be a fair competition for Amazon sellers, not just the Alibaba private label sellers but also all the sellers with popular products.
Without getting into whether what Amazon is doing is right or wrong, as a vendor, you have to accept reality for what it is and come up with a business plan that gives you an “unfair advantage”.

Selling physical goods is a three part process - manufacturing, marketing, and selling. At each part of the process, you have to know what helps you stand out.

Manufacturing - is there something that enables you to manufacturer a product that can’t easily be copied or that allows you to create the product cheaper than competitors?

Marketing - are you depending on SEO and Google ads just like all of your competitors?

Selling - Are you depending on Amazon just like all of your competitors?

You have to be able to optimize on at least one of those areas or you’re going to find yourself competing on price at either slim, no or negative margins or being lost in a marketplace where everyone is doing the same thing.
A lot of FUD, but no evidence that Saudi investors are using their influence to make tech companies do bad things.

If you follow the money, you'll likely find a questionable source. Americans benefit from US military raining drone strikes in other countries. By being an American citizen, are you tacitly approving drone strikes? No. By paying taxes that fund drone strikes, are you tacitly approving drone strikes? No. Taking Saudi investment is not tacit approval of their atrocities.

There's certainly a higher level of geopolitical tension there, though. I don't really know what the US could to answer (make more money?), but I don't think the tech companies themselves can do much about this, they're mostly pawns in a larger game of chess.

If the US wants to regulate these investments, then by all means. Lobby for that if you're really worried.
I sympathize with your rant but wanted to point out that Spigen is in fact a pretty well known and recommended brand for phone cases. I suspect part of the reason for this is that a lot of Chinese manufacturers are able to get their hands on leaked prototypes / information regarding new iPhone models due to them being manufactured in China. This gives them a valuable headstart in getting phone cases to market so they can maximize sales in the first few weeks while a lot of the more reputable companies are busy building out their cases.
Ok, so what's the overall rate of return for venture capital? I don't care if they hit or don't in the end if they end up winning for investors.
The collaboration is google-docs style. You can see if you're working on the same code as someone else, see the feature flags they're building, etc, to avoid conflicts.

That said, we haven't tested this with teams of more than two people, so we might need to change how this works.
Additional to the passport issue others mentioned (and if I remember correctly) he said he would return, given a non-military trial.

I find it a bit difficult to find the source given the fact that these keywords are on top of headlines now.
Holy cow, that is pretty. I wonder which is better, Gnvim or Vimr for a full Neovim experience?

Either way, VimR is impressively nice looking. Thanks for the link!
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I'm getting 100% packet loss as soon as the connection reaches masterinter.net when I do a traceoute. Uptrends is also showing 5-10s load times for that domain.

I sent you an email with the trace results.