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Tons of language are secret weapons if you use it for what they were created.

Here are some more outside of Erlang, that I know of and I'm sure there's more.

APL/J/K - mathematical algorithms

Prolog - logic, tons of business rules

Forth/Lisp - bottom up programming, when you have an idea of the primitives you need to tackle a problem, but not exactly sure how to put it together.

Assembly - When you must absolutely run impossibly fast especially on very small CPUs

AWK/Perl - slice and dice text files

For these languages, I don't substitute for any language. I'll never slice and dice with Java, Python, Go. I don't care. Awk or Perl. I'll never implement tons of rules in any other language, I don't care what logic library they implement without first doing so in Prolog.

For the solo programmer, the above languages hold very true. I have played around with Erlang since Prolog influenced it's syntax, but I'm yet to have to build a large scale fault tolerant system that needs it, but the knowledge is tucked away at the back of my memory should I ever.

I feel that Python, Javascript and Go can also be some sort of secret weapon if used in the right place.
13 ms is not noticeable and almost everyone is much closer to Google or Microsoft machines than NYC is to Chicago. The bigger but more tractable issue are the steps between your machine and your ISP.
Oracle reveals large stake in new Intel competitor
We have all this knowledge of human physiology and metabolism

I think the depth of knowledge is very uneven. We're not sure how Tylenol works. (Disclaimer: I work in software, not bioscience)
Yes.

It will be a big story, sure, but not really going to change the world. An alien _intelligence_ discovery would be far more world altering, but even that would blow over unless the aliens are all up in our face somehow.

Life just goes on, the new becomes the new normal.
I’m not sure how long H&M has had a solid foothold in the US. At most 15 years, but possibly your estimate. They have had more stores than Forever 21 in the US for a few years now though.
Twisting a quote into a different meaning is a lie, and pretty similar to planting evidence. You are saying two strikes, and then we have license to make up a third to take you out.
From my understanding of the article, they are Cuban beans.

TL:DR - Funds routed through the US are subject to US laws and regulation, no matter if the origin, and terminating point consider the act legal.

Long:
If they held the funds, it's because someone at the ACH saw the business name, and automatically assumed that there was a potential liability (that happens, it's rare, but they will shut you out until you talk to them to prove your innocence).

If they were the more enterprising type, the person who made the call looked up their web site and read how they purchase their beans from Cuba. While fully legal in Canada, if the funds are routed through the US(I can almost guarantee it), JP Morgan can be held liable, and as such they would like to avoid the repercussions of the US government.
EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances
The article focuses on the use of hands, but a visionary future technology might focus more on voice and NLP. This is something I have worked for some years:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-advantages-of-a-n...
“Calorie counting doesn’t work for you because you’re not good enough at counting calories” frames the problem in a way impossible to disprove. Maybe people aren’t arguing that they’re breaking the laws of physics, but that they’re having trouble with estimating the caloric surplus in the first place.
4G LTE has dramatically higher system spectral efficiency (in bits/Hz) compared to 2G - over 100x [0]. That's why 2G is getting decommissioned in favor of LTE (and 5G).

NB-IoT is probably where your application would go these days. Bi directional communication, cheap chips, and data plans around $10/device/year for 12MB [1], which is a lot of short messages (though things like OTA firmware updates might be painful).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_efficiency

[1] https://www.twilio.com/wireless/narrowband
No, he has been widely reported for decades that he behaved unprofessionally, and harassed women who worked with him.

That it took him publicly taking the position that child sex work was acceptable is the problem - his long history should have got him fired decades ago.
A couple of my friends went to a restaurant together in the US. One of them paid with card, the other friend paid the first friend back by sending him a transfer by PayPal or Venmo, I cannot remember which. The amount was around $10-$20. The description said Persian restaurant or Iranian restaurant, because that's the kind of restaurant they had gone to. The transfer was blocked and the transfer amount remained in frozen state for over a year.

Ask anyone from one of the countries sanctioned by the US, like Cuba or Iran. This kind of experience is not new and it is not an exception. I no longer get surprised, just more and more disappointed.
Paul Thomas Young

obit: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421573

rat paper still missing
> If a student can do it in their heads, then the work is too easy! [...] Instead of battling over “showing work,” simply increase the complexity of the problem until the student must do the work out to get it right.

This is a good idea, and having tried it, I know it sorta-kinda works a little. When I’ve tried it with my kids, what happens most often is one of two things. Sometimes if it gets too intimidating they give up and won’t try without hints. And sometimes it gets them to write some intermediate steps, but they still skip over the easy pieces, try to do 2 or 3 simplification steps at once and make mistakes. That should, you’d think, be convincing about the importance of writing down more granular steps, but for whatever reason they just hate making it mechanical and they keep resisting the idea of writing incremental steps. I’ve tried too many times to point out how much it help avoid mistakes, but they just think I’m a windbag and asking them to do boring things.
Why do you need more control when scrolling on safari or twitter.
They Met at the Gym and Lost 598 Total Lbs. Now, They're Getting Married
I've long held that 'entrepreneur-friendly' investors on the Peninsula should have some kind of Heli-shuttle that runs up the western-most side (aka follow 280 for the most part) of the Peninsula to San Francisco or sponsor some kind of vice-versa for city-based founders.

Instead we're left with the alternative of wasting half a day or more running down and up. I get that you shouldn't hate the player but hate the game but in this case the game kind of sucks and that's just for local folks.
This.

I am currently in the process of loosing weight and the only thing I've bothered with is calories. No foods are off limits. I allow my self to eat more in accordance to the amount of exercise I do (which naturally incentivises me to exercise, but doesn't depend on it).

I wrote up some formulas to estimate my weight loss before committing to the diet. It's been three months and so far it has been accurate to the pound (accounting for natural dailyvfluxuations in weight).

I'm sure there is some value in monitoring carbs, starch, fats, sugars, and other things, but I can confirm that the simple calorie diet works very well. If all you're interested in is weight loss, I strongly recommend it.

IANANutritionist, but here's some extra tips I've found very useful:

- !ntx searches nutritionix.com for nutrition data on Duck Duck Go.

- Drinking a lot of zero calorie beverages helps aleviate hunger (I like Propel, Sprite Zero, and Dr. Zevia).

- Don't frett over being super accurate with your counting. Just don't cheat yourself and it will even out over time.

- If you're like me, a big portion of your diet is covered by a relatively small selection of meals. If you figure out the calories in those, it becomes much easier to plan meals and alter plans on the fly.

- If you breakdown a meal, it's often possible to make a small modification that significantly reduces its calorie count.

- Don't focus on eating traditional diet foods (eg salads and "superfoods"). If you focus on having a perfect diet, you might burn yourself out.
Slightly off topic, but there is some overlap between productivity and usability so some of you might be interested in my write up 10 important usability tools:

http://smashcompany.com/top_10_usability_testing_tools/
Nailed it. Brilliant.
Just a thought: type in your year of birth to this Social Security Administration website (goes back to 1800's), and find out what the most common names were (in the U.S.) back then. Pick one of those, so that other people of about your age not uncommonly have your name, and everyone will know how to pronounce it.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/
Yes, eventually the Earth will be swallowed by the sun, nothing lasts forever. The point remains, wind cannot power modern transoceanic shipping and neither can trees, deep phrases about the ephemerality of the world notwithstanding.

Hopefully the future regime will be constrained by a means of locomotion that can sustain global commerce such that we don't have to roll back standards of living by the better part of a century. We know this is possible to do with nuclear energy - nuclear maritime propulsion is a mature technology. But the stubborn rejection of nuclear power means that hydrocarbons are here to stay. Fuel synthesis is only feasible with huge amounts of energy. Maybe possible if terrestrial nuclear energy becomes popular, but that too seems like a slim prospect.
Spectral efficiency is super important. Especially with IoT, because there are going to be so many devices. Trying to do that with old pager network bandwidth would quickly overload the network.
So countries need to pressure each other’s neighbors into agreements where all of them refuse business with ships that do not follow such regulations?
Victor is one of the people behind Dynamicland, the "live paper"/"room is the computer" startup that was shut down recently. That was on HN last week or so.

Fancier input devices seem to have come and gone. They peaked in the 1990s, when you could see a lot of them at SIGGRAPH. My favorite was the magnetically levitated sphere in a bowl. It was like a 3D joystick/trackball with force feedback. It was really cool. It never sold. There were lots of gadgets like that. An animator friend had a workstation with a keyboard, a knob box, a button box, a joystick, a trackball, a tablet, and two screens. Some of the people doing Jurassic Park had a model dinosaur where you could move all the joints, the computer could read the angles, and the on-screen image moved to match. None of this ever caught on. Even 3D joysticks are rare. Game controllers with two joysticks caught on, but those joysticks are abstractions of what's on screen, as, for example, steering, not direct interaction.

I tried Jaron Lanier's original gloves-and-goggles VR system. You couldn't do much with the gloves. That was pretty much true in later glove systems. Autodesk fooled around with VR in the 1990s, but determined that gloves and goggles were not going to make CAD easier.

Lack of force feedback is a huge problem with gloves. Without force feedback, it's like trying to work in oven mittens. Much of human precision is tactile feedback. Without that, precision work is slow and tiring. As everyone who's soldered surface mount parts under a microscope knows.

Back in the 1990s, when I was working on collision detection and physically based animation, I considered building an input device I called "The Handle". The Handle was to be a jointed arm, like a robot arm, with a grip handle on the end as an input device. A servomotor system (or, for cost reasons, I was thinking brakes only back then) would provide tactile feedback. The handle itself would have the ability to split, like pliers, so you'd have something to squeeze.

The Hammer could potentially simulate pliers, tongs, wrenches, hammers, etc. Do simulated auto repair. Assemble Meccano. This would have been what Victor is calling for.

Could it be built? Yes. Would it sell in volume? No.

That's the problem.
Even pretty hard core gamers seem to think that 40ms or less is good for gaming. So that leaves some leeway to work with I guess.
She’s a publicist “friend”
Even if it does what it says, it’s a minor improvement over existing motors once you factor in the rest of the car. The mass of the motor matters but much less than the mass of the batteries.
Lovw this sort of news/work. I can see how the SPARK subset can be used here to make formally verified wasm.
With all the lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions, it's sad if no researchers tried to grow things in it.
It might not be their fault for breaking the law in the middle of nowhere, but they did still break the law.

Not saying it justifies lack of medical care, I just think you're making an excuse for the wrong "element" of their behavior.
Fines should be a way to reduce lawbreaking, not shake down the citizenry for extra budget cash. Cities that rely on this despicable practice deserve to die on the vine.
Some people do have a sensitivity to salt. I am one of those people. Excessive salt does weird things to my body. My grandmother is the same way.
Also my question
So... this is Terminal Services as a Service?
"Is there a cryptography application" was my thought too, however I'm guessing pairs of primes aren't used there.
You're right! But I tried tonight just to see if it was possible to see anything at all. My eyes are kind of shitty but we live out in the boonies with no light pollution. There's a little 'yellow brick road' of stars that lead you to it and if i looked slightly aside i could juuuuuuuuust make out the slightest smudge where it is supposed to be. It was right on the edge of my ability to perceive it, need to try again after spending an hour in the dark.
Just ordered. They better be good!
Something feels kind of "right" about this in the same sense that machine learning techniques seem to be able to produce correct results. In my "things that exist in Star Trek:TNG that we should be making more progress on" list, I think that how we program is wrong for a great many of use-cases.

In the Star Trek fictional universe, you often see characters programming impossibly complex things very quickly. There's several episodes where a character will create a holodeck simulation simply by describing what they want and providing detail for the parts the computer got wrong until the simulation is more or less what they want.

I feel like in some cases we're starting to figure this out like with GauGAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5U4NgVGAwg

But what about other cases? Can we just sort of describe the output we want, feed in data and have the computer more or less figure out the set of functions that produces what we're looking for? Such a paradigm would basically allow anybody to make a huge array of one-off, ultra-custom, long-tail, "programs" that solve extremely niche needs without needing to learn all the rigor of actually programming.
Those rocks are highly controlled, however there are scientists investigating whether soil can be made from simulated regolith.
wat.. ok
I feel emboldened to antagonistically challenge your pronouns right now, and I barely know you.
I taught "College Algebra" for one semester, long ago, at a big ten university. Naturally I told my students "show your work" without ever wondering if anybody had ever explained what that meant. It began to bug me. I asked some professors. None of them could explain it either, though they were certainly indignant that the students couldn't do it.

Many of my students came from schools where they learned a method called "guess and try," where you plug answers into the problem and see if one works. This is a speedy way to dispatch multiple choice tests.

To my students, "show your work" meant showing some evidence that they had solved the problem themselves. They thought I was policing them, when I really would have liked to engage them at a bit higher level.

In my view, "show your work" means, loosely speaking, to create a fictitious chain of reasoning and present it in a style learned from the textbook and classroom presentations. I call it fictitious because they might have guessed the answer and then worked backwards from it to obtain the steps. I could handle saying that a bright student should be able to do this, but that it should be taught.
I have no teaching experience but plenty of experience as a student. This is right on the money; it would have made me a much less frustrated child. Kids are sensitive to being patronised, and so many adults think they're slick.
OFAC lists are no joke, you will go to jail for disregarding it.
> I guess I need to just learn my lesson that the system can never be trusted here.

I made a similar generalization about dentists a number of years back. I regret making that generalization now.

I wish I had instead decided “that one can’t be trusted, let me try another”.
Fines, in my estimation, should go to central coffers -then redistributed to municipalities based on need.

Otherwise it has perverse incentives, or at least misincentivizes certain kinds of policing. On the other hand, the state should not divert funds (you know as they are wont to do with lottery monies, etc which start out as being for education, or whatever, but then get put into a general fund and the gov goes about and spends it on their hi-viz, lo-impact projects or play other 3-card Monty games with revenue.
More efficient than enormous, unmanned self-filling hydrogen dirigibles? They could operate in dedicated lanes away any from population centers...
The wow factor being embodied primarily in a Charismatic Young Narcissist (CYN) CEO. See Elizabeth Holmes.
Drop the PhD from your resume and try again?
And, more to the point, some people not having public water and sewerage systems doesn't stop us selling toilets or taps.
Oh, I totally agree.

I don't know how to fix it, but I don't like how education and competition teams are tangled up in the US. In lots of Europe, schools don't do that, and there are a greater number of local recreation centers that have quality competition teams both for kids, college students, and adults for very reasonable, low fees.

It seems like a better model, but we're used to doing it the current way and have built up large facilities at high schools and colleges.
I used to (nearly 20 years ago) roast coffee in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Canada, and folks from Alaska would often stop in the shop. People that bought Cuban coffee often requested it be rebagged and just labelled “coffee” for about the same reason.
I can choose 400k-500k compensation working at fang or I can choose 100-200k compensation working remotely.
>> "In-depth chromatographic analyses of illicit cocaine and its precursor, coca leaves."

...And your point is? Why do you get the impression that we disagree on this? I have already known this for many years.

>> "natural occurring" is in no way sufficient to suggest that a substance is healthy or not

This is not something I claimed at all. It is absurd to extrapolate this from my argument.

If you read closely, it was in the context of it being engineered for a dopamine spike, aka a drug. Maybe the argument could have been better stated by stating that moderate use of sugar typically equates to the same amount that is generally found in a diet consisting of natural, unprocessed and healthy foods.

I didn't think it would be possible to interpret the argument in such a non-nuanced and obtuse way, evidently I'm wrong.
Personally, I generally drink no more than one medium/large coffee all day, but sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, and sometimes I spend all day drinking it and reheating it, and still have some left when I go home.

I guess I kind of wait until I feel particularly down and tired, but otherwise well hydrated, and that's when I want coffee, but not always at the same time of day.
You are not alone in that opinion.
Although I think that's reasonable at some level, I think there's dangers in it as well, in that I don't think we really know that much about metabolism or physiology in the grand scheme of things. Physiological and microbiological studies are plagued by confounds and unreplicability problems, for example, and even where it's not, our understanding is more meager than many think. Trying to tie population-level findings to physiology is great if it's possible, but I don't see it as necessary on either end, at least for awhile.

It wasn't that long ago that the role of microbiome was recognized, for example, and even now it's contentious. Conversely, scores of epidemiological findings have had nice physiological explanations that turned out to be much more complicated, like those involving saturated fat, cholesterol, and carbohydrates. DHA, omega fatty acids, etc. are similar. Physiology is complex enough that you can accommodate just about any finding.

To carry this a bit further, it can be problematic going in the other direction too, from physiology to populations. Some of the anti-sugar advocacy, for example, was rooted in lab studies that neglected the effect of fiber in digestion of fruit, so you had people advocating that whole fruit consumption be avoided based on incomplete understanding. It's hard to argue that unprocessed whole fruit is undesirable on the basis of observational nutrition studies. Someone looking at the wet lab data and advocating abandonment of whole fruits might have done well to look at those observational studies to see why different trends were occurring.

I'm not saying that tying one level to the other at some point isn't necessary. I just think one or the other level can't be dismissed out of hand just because things don't map onto each other initially. It's possible that one level provides clues that the other is missing; it's also possible to come up with plausible but wrong bridges between the two levels.
Who ever said glucose is vital? It is another source of fuel that is well used by the body, some might argue more than ketones. The point is moderate use of sugar is healthy, not that its vital to use sugar.
First of all, offices virtually always do have high speed internet, which is the primary use case here.

But even if you're working from somewhere else, remote desktop doesn't need "high speed" anyways. It sends intercepted OS-level draw commands rather than bitmaps, so as long as you're not doing Photoshop it's closer to terminal bandwidth than YouTube bandwidth.

For the vast majority of business apps over remote desktop, whether your internet is high speed or not is a complete non-issue.

And the basic latency (e.g. for typing text or clicking a menu) is the same as terminal latency too.
Should, in practice, no
I mean I’m a C++ programmer too, but I learn other tech so i dont end up myopic in how to best solve a problem. You shouldn’t learn node.js because its “new” (also: its definitely not new anymore), you should learn node because c++ is bad at most of the things node is good at (and vice versa). (and before you think im picking on systems programmers, I also have a dim view of web developers that refuse to learn any non-web tools)
Propagating mistakes across all the things is devops
I'd reach out to Rick Latona. Ping me if you want a referral or other contacts in the business.
I think you’ll find a certain UK airport disagrees with you significantly. This sort of asymmetrical warfare isn’t about “attack” or “defence” in the strict sense, but it’s more about a less well-funded group inflicting significant losses on a more well-funded group.
Hey, I would love to talk to you more about this since you were at the same age when you moved. You mind exchanging a few emails? I couldn't find your contact info on your HN account.
Kids don't have mature facilities for self-motivation; you can't expect them just to do math problems because it's good for them. Tell them they can't do X until they finish 20 difficult math problems, and I guarantee they'll find a way to optimize their work habits.