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>he could have started having employees work from home. I'm sure that even in the dot com era, telephone and IRC and email would have worked out just fine for coordinating business.

The 1999 to 2001 time period of home-internet was mostly slow dial-up modems instead of high-speed broadband. I'm unaware of any high-velocity SV company that had an army of remote workers collaborating and checking in code over dial-up. (Yes, Linus Torvalds Linux project was collaborating over email but that's a different cadence.)

In the story, he says they lost half their customers in the dot-com crash. That magnitude of revenue loss is going to overwhelm the savings of having people work from home and layoffs will happen anyway.[0] The company still has to pay employees' expensive full-time salaries whether they're in the office or remote.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=loudcloud+layoffs&oq=loudclo...
They just not very clear. If you language "in progress" then you need collect 5k sentences. They have special web app called "sentence collector". In which you can approve sentences or add new ones. Each sentence should be approved by 3 people. After sentences are approved they get released to GitHub. After 5k sentences are approved you will be able to record audio and listen to recordings as in any other "big" language. As practice shows you need very small amount of people to do it. 4-5 is enough.
AirBnB is well out of their 'earlier stages'.
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True, however the failure rate of all of the webservers you might want to connect to is much lower than the DNS server's.

Moreover, the DNS failure might not come from the DNS server, but a misconfigured computer/router/DHCP server, etc. And it depends a lot on your DNS server itself. It is a single point (chain, if you want) of failure, and tends to fail quite often, in my experience.
It’s also somewhat common in the scientific community even in the US.
Did you try using DoNotPay to cancel DoNotPay for you? It sounds like they can write ominous legal letters threatening themselves.
Her videos for Wired are pretty fun as well. My family watched them together and found them fascinating.

Shortly afterward, I was in DC with my family on vacation, and we went through the international spy museum (which is a lot of fun). When we got to the gift shop, we found out she’d been there not even an hour before signing copies of her book. I was bummed, to say the least.
This literally made me laugh out loud. I’m glad I just got in before I read it. Well done, and I can only assume: well put.
Just get a list of the politicians that have voted against filing taxes for free, and vote for their opponent in the next election.
“Boring” Industries Benefit the Most from AI
Fair, but I would not really call a single helix a 'fold', either!

Ok, so I'm playing with definitions here a bit. Clearly 2k9b adopts a helical structure so it is 'folded' in some sense. However it has no tertiary structure.

Structural proteins like collagen are different again. They have a simple fold that could be described as quaternary (multichain), although that is again an abuse of terminology.

There are also some small proteins (peptides?) held together by disulphide links that have no secondary strucure to speak of. I think these are Class 4 in CATH, but I do not remember.

What is an example of a beta-sheet peptide? Amyloid is beta, I thought, but sheets are not normally stable outside sandwiches, barrels, etc
I've worked in a private sector (publicly traded) fortune 500 company, a large government contractor, a non-profit state government subsidiary that was quasi-independent, and now for a state government.

My experience is that in the public sector, things often move slower, but the range of productivity seems to have a significant overlap with an average large company. I think the cost of nobody believing in what they are doing is an underappreciated drag on many private sector workplaces. The fact that failure is not an option in the public sector has several oft repeated negative consequences, but it also means that you have a reason for coming to work and making an effort, (other than not starving) even if nobody appreciates it, management is terrible, working conditions are lousy, pay is poor, co-workers are idiots, etc. That counts for something towards effectiveness, if there is a core group that hasn't descended into nihilism.
SF Fed: Banks could stop lending in climate-threatened communities
>A nitpick for whom?

For people living in the CA filter bubble where everything is done via ballot measure.

Edit:I shouldn't have to explain this but not literally everything in CA is done via ballot measure.
Hi one of the paper authors here. Most of the discussions here center around the legal concern rather than the project itself. We are working on that. But for now we decide to take down the website first. Sorry for the inconvenience folks and thank you all for the input.
Every order of magnitude change in upload speed has spawned a whole host of new applications to take advantage of it.

Upload is the key--not download.
Well, as we are finding out, freedom results in people being hurt. If you limit the freedom, you can prevent people from getting hurt.

Is freedom worth the harm it enables? That is a choice everyone has to make. Most people are willing to give up a lot of freedom in exchange for mitigating harm.
I think that response is dodging the question and being very hand-wavy.

I didn't ask if the distributions are different. They are different, that's a fact we know, and what many people believe is the problem.

The question is, what evidence is there that the differences are intrinsic? For that, there's very little evidence in favor and strong evidence against. Specifically, the differences in the distributions of preferences among women over time and country by country are larger than today's differences between men and women in the US. That's pretty solid evidence that the distributions are cultural and not intrinsic to gender.

If those distribution differences were constant over a long time, say a thousand years, and constant globally, then your argument might have a leg to stand on.
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Do you have an example of a ToS that prohibits class actions, but otherwise does not contain binding arbitration? I've never seen something like that.

> They commit small violations, counting on the fact that most consumers will realize that it's not economically feasible to file claims for a few hundred dollars.

Maybe not feasible for your time in going through the hassle of filing a claim, but the point of small claims court is intended to be inexpensive. The fee should be under $100, but I understand that still might be prohibitive for low-income users.
Fun fact: Using knowledge gained in this way isn't insider trading[1]. Conceivably a person could even sell tips based on information heard in public places to traders. During the golden age of Wall Street, this was extremely common. Traders or their lackeys would visit businesses (or the bars near them) and pump employees for info.

[1] Not a lawyer, not legal advice.
Even getting a data analyst job in one year would have been worth it.
It's not about speed, it's about reliability. We have a backup 5G connection for an office in central London, when it rains heavily it just goes down.

Cable/Fibre does not have this problem.
Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups
I have a hard time seeing advantages of ditching files. I like this concept, but you can have it both ways (come up with a graphical notation that you can then manipulate with graph like tools), but at the end of the day you need a source of truth, and the file metaphor (a named region of code) is hard to beat (impossible to beat?). Even databases store things as files.
The genetic basis of complex traits was the biggest open problem in science (IMO) long before this discovery came along.
good addition there, it fits the trope for sure. im thinking fusion synchrotron, perhaps even a lithium deuteride filament to generate the plasma, and an effective uni-directional beaming technique. check out plasma pinching, and compression.
> 500-employee company, 100 of those in engineering/IT roles.

> No security policy in place.

How is that possible? Are you saying there's no security policy or a minimal security policy? I can't imagine how a company gets to 500 employees without a single security incident that forces your hand to create some kind of formal policy.
My favorite NAT-busting mechanism is Tor hidden services, The onion network provides the basic P2P overlay as well, so it keeps life simple. STOMP over WebSockets is cool, and I believe can be implemented without using any Chrome code these days.
I certainly agree with you, that the larger concern here has to be the government, and its overt, broad, barely regulated, data collection efforts.

I'm pretty sure Yang is the best thing to come out of this election season so far, even though I have to disagree with him on a large number of items, at least he's forcing some conversations.
More impressed with changes to bail and what constitutes a misdemeanor and more. modifying the war on drugs to target those exploiting others instead of merely using would go a long way to meeting their lower incarceration numbers they want.

but let us not kid ourselves, those numbers are not majority small time offenders. a city that large has a good number of people not fit to be around the rest
> If I draw a picture of you, is it your data or mine?

Clearly mine. You recorded information about me without my consent.
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It'll be interesting to see how they actually pull off the prisoner reduction numbers in practice. Hopefully they don't just start ignoring petty theft like some other places have done. That would likely eventually result in the policy pendulum swinging hard the other way eventually.
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Ask HN: What's the Future of HCI?
HCI = Human Computer Interaction

I'm looking back at the work of Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay. It seems like their visions were ahead of their time and are still more ambitious than anything we have today.

Instead of reinventing the future of HCI, I would like to first review all the existing material on the subject. I'm interested in everything, from sci-fi (Star Trek, Minority Report), research labs (Xerox PARC, DynamicLand), existing technologies (Semantic Web, AR/VR), future technologies (Neuralink), etc.

Is anyone familiar with the state of the art in HCI? What's coming in the near future? What will the perfect user interface be like in 10, 100, 1000 years? What opportunities are available today, with existing technologies?
> Does (g ∘ f)(x) mean g(f(x)) or f(g(x))?

The function composition operator can be vocalized as, in this case, "g after f". That is, apply the f and then g. Translating '∘' into 'after' is the easiest way to understand it.
The reason that distros have adopted it is because it makes their job easier, and they don't have to worry too much about the cost to the larger Linux world.
My experience is upper management will scapegoat Haskell the moment they get the chance. Outside-hired leaders who doubt it from the start. It's a weird unpopular language - an easy target.

If you just get over it & use Haskell, things will be fine. You'll get huge gains thanks to a lot of Haskell features & libraries, and you might have to write some more fundamental libraries yourself. Haskell makes that pleasant anyways. Worst-case, using Haskell could end up being a wash vs other languages.

Rewrites aren't always indicative of failures of language or the engineers writing it. They're also a useful mechanism for solidifying control for a VPE-type at a nascent but quickly-growing startup. Especially if said VPE-type wants to push out personnel that were there before them.
Thank you for posting this! I had the same thought using a Visa card transaction, but you saved me the work!

Second order effects from this crazy policy are nearly infinite.

Note that I’m not talking about the intent of the regulation, but rather the issues of implementing it.
As I write this, I'm on a Comcast connection with IPv6.
I see. Just pointing out that OP did not incorrectly summarize.

I sometimes forget that there are those who read the HN comments before clicking on the article.
I'd just like to know how spending 8 billion on new buildings will fix the scandal and corruption issues. I get that the new jails will be more modern and humane but that's only part of the issue. The only thing this appears to be doing is freeing up a lot of interesting real estate for development while leaving more questions than answers.
I think in this case having bad input is part of your business logic and should be treated as such. This is very easy in Elixir, specially since you can overload a function using pattern matching and so you can create a function (defined after all others) that matches anything. This is basically your error case.

"Let it crash" is commonly misunderstood. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't treat the known unknown cases of your business (like bad input), it means errors that are generally not known a prior (a database crash or network partition, for example) does not need to have a treatment since the Elixir/Erlang will simple crash and restart.

Things like K8s also brings a similar thing that Elixir brings to you, however having this in language is powerful since it allows ulyou to treat it better, if you want.
And when you use a Visa card? Is it yours, visa’s, the store’s, or the bank’s?

Or all of the above?
> Ok, but why did my app get 10 times faster?

You rewrote it.

The language you rewrote it in probably has less to do with it than rebuilding all at once what initially was built over time/organically.
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I don't know PDP7 assembly either, but I don't see how it could stand for "previous directory" (and be equivalent to today's `cd -`). Any command to change directory needs to be done in-process by the shell, so it would need to be implemented as a builtin, not a standalone executable.

So "print directory" or (print something about the) "parent directory" seem more likely to me.
One approach here might be to take a cue from Forth and other concatenative languages and use postfix notation:

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This assumes that everyone just has a huge set of canned answers memorized, versus putting together some on-the-fly combinations of some building blocks like maps and different things to do with lists.

If you can memorize the whole world, that probably would be useful day to day too - I'm sure you'd see a lot of stuff you could use the shit you memorized for! - but it doesn't seem to be happening much.
Given how outdated most Android phones are, they are substantially more of a security risk than a Nest (of some sort), Alexa, or Apple smart speaker. With Google your facing someone substantially fucking up, a search warrant, or compromised account. A random compromised Android phone, just about anything or anyone and the only giveaway is going to be the battery draining faster than expected.
> Home values could fall significantly.

> Banks could stop lending to flood-prone communities.

> Towns could lose the tax money they need to build sea walls and other protections.

That's exactly what should happen. If a city is about to be reclaimed by the sea, the very last thing you want to do is build more houses there. This incentivizes people to do the sensible thing - move away from areas that'll be hard hit by climate change - without compelling them to do anything or engaging in expensive unlikely-to-work boondoggles. The town'll die, but the people survive.
Serif’s Affinity suíte of products is by far the most credible competition and suitable replacement for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Anyone dissatisfied with Adobe (you should be) ought to consider these alternatives. They’re polished, well supported, have received a constant stream of quality feature enhancements, and are traditionally licensed.

They won’t work for everybody, but there is a large cohort of Adobe users out there that could instantly substitute their software with minimal effort and get out this absurd predicament.
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> Everybody reads Facebook.

No they don't. Far from it.

> Those newspapers are disappearing, and people pay little attention where they do.

Local newspapers are coming back. There are at least three glossy free newspapers where I live (published weekly or monthly) that are packed full of local advertising and local news stories, local identity profiles, etc.
My goto while building a 3D printer is this:

https://hackaday.com/2018/08/03/classy-corexy-build-breaks-d...
Which is why we have things like patents and copyrights.

I fail to see the issue you bring up.
> It doesn't address the biggest privacy concern: the government's collection and use of personal data.

I don't agree that this is the biggest privacy concern. In my opinion, this is just as concerning as corporate collection and use of personal data.

> We should be really going the other direction and not allowing these corporations to hold this data in private silos

We should not be allowing anyone to collect this information (without informed consent) in the first place.
> Only as likely as you are to lose your phone at the same time as your keys today

This makes no sense and I struggle to even comprehend how somebody could come to this conclusion.

Before: I take my phone out, I unlock it, I look at something on the phone, then I get distracted, I leave it on a bar, a desk, somebody's refrigerator, wherever.

Now: I take my phone out. I need the FIDO key to unlock it, so I get that out too, I unlock the phone, I look at something on the phone, and then I get distracted and this time leave both the FIDO key and the phone in the same exact place, because of course I do I was using them both when I was distracted.

Can at least one of the people who seems so sure that somehow this wouldn't alter how often they lose the two items they now need together explain their thinking? Do you just... lose things randomly like maybe you have a gaping hole in your pocket and things fall out but you've never bothered to repair it? How are you losing things so that it somehow doesn't matter whether they're used together?
Ah the old multi-factor sort problem. Fun figuring out how to handle those scenarios in Elastic Search too (or more generally any sorting UI). For example you want traditional Chinese food near you. What is better - traditional Chinese food 14km away or fusion 2km away? Well that depends on the wetware, but you have to guess what the user would want.
It's not just my team, there are many of people working with Clojure and other functional languages out there, and there are plenty of FP projects in productions in pretty much every domain.

Functional programming is weird in the same way Japanese is weird to an Anglophone. A person who learned Japanese as their mother tongue will find English equally weird. The comments in the link you posted already address the points the author tries to make, which all boil down to FP being different from what they're used to.
I'm guessing that RMS's position is that he is involved in the project: he leads GNU, Guile is a GNU project, therefore he is in charge of Guile.

Disagreements over what it means to be a part of GNU have been a (usually minor) issue for decades.
It’s the politics. If the core team decided to change the parameters of bitcoin at worst everyone would fall in line and at best it’d fork and you’d lose a whole lot of value.
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...and the "peaceful freedom fighters" showed their real face finally, for everybody to see it.
Mycroft is the biggest that I know of: https://mycroft.ai/
As long as you've got the cost approved for your cost center it will continue to be paid until someone says otherwise. The end result is the same.
You might be able to cure dying without curing age related degeneration of the body. Migrating minds outside of the body might be possible. To me it seems quite likely.
Measles can cause 'immune amnesia'
Rikers is a nasty place. I know guards that work there. Very soul crushing.

Borough jails aren't going to be any easier to maintain if the federal ones are anything to go by.
>AFAIK

You better know well, all given :)
How are you sure you can turn it off? Are you removing the batteries?

I don't understand how the risk is anything but greater with a phone.
I've found a lot of success in that philosophy, but also some incredible damage. I ran towards my dear for a long time, and mostly it worked out. Even when it failed, it was a learning experience - I knew not to trust, but was no longer afraid of what I had previously feared. There's a huge difference between being afraid and being aware of falsehood/scam/danger.

Then I ran into something truly awful, and got drugged (and possibly raped, though I will never know). I've been afraid since then, and it's gonna take me a good long while to shake it off. It has immensely negatively affected my life, and it's made me question my judgement in a lot of situations - because I'm pretty sure the experience is only unique in that the stars aligned, not that the intent, will, and opportunity wasn't there in plenty of previous places, only didn't all line up before.

I don't have anything that I can take from it, except a certainty that Chestertons fence is real, and a lot of things that are looked down upon are looked down upon for good reason.
I read this after seeing this submission earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21285793
Maybe Mega Blocks will give them a license to use their mark :)
Yeah that’s probably the case for most rewrites.

But in this case the django app was a full rewrite of a php app. It’s quite similar to the eventual elixir app.

I feel it’s pretty much a fair fight, but you’ll have to take my word for it.
Maybe it just prints the patent directory, then. I’m not sure why it calls creat, though…
can you imagine a team volunteering for that? Nah, they’ll hope for the best from the public registry.

The way people tackle their dependencies inside docker is utterly irresponsible.
Sure I get that, but I'm saying your statement about "the overall historical trend" is wrong, or at least fails to capture a large part of the truth.

At some point in history, people stopped worrying about not understanding compilers

This part is misleading too -- I would say there is a renaissance in compiler technology now. For the first 10 years of my career I heard little about compilers, but in the last 10, JS Engines like v8 and Spidermonkey, and AOT compiler tech like LLVM and MLIR have changed that.

The overall historical trend is that computing is getting used a lot more. So you have growth on both ends: more people using high level languages, and more people caring about performance.

It's not either/or -- that's a misleading way of thinking about it. The trend is more "spread", not everyone going "up" the stack. There will always be more people up the stack because lower layers inherently provide leverage, but that doesn't mean the lower layers don't exist or aren't relevant.

And lots of people migrate "down" the stack during their careers -- generally people who are trying to build something novel "up stack" and can't do it with what exists "down there".