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On that note, I'd include Erlang. It's not gradually typed, per se, but you can have a fully dynamic language (no type specs, no Dialyzer), a completely optimistic static analyzer for inferring types and warning where it's inconsistent (Dialyzer runs), and then you can add specs where needed to tighten up and improve what Dialyzer can catch, to basically be a fully static language.
It's not that compilation itself was slow with Guix, but (to my memory) it was because all Guix packages are completely separate by design and have dependencies which are not shared, so you might have to compile, say, five different versions of guile to satisfy those five different dependencies in five different packages.

Compiling guile from scratch was, by the way, insanely slow, and because I struggled to get Guix working right on my first try, I had to compile it over and over again, which took about a day each time. A "guix pull" took four hours on my system, and I had to do it twice each time, once for root and once for my own user. My first "guix pull" took two weeks due to all the errors, toubleshooting and restarts the process took as I tried to get Guix working as it should.

In addition, it seems that Guix packages don't have optimizations enabled, which is a deal breaker for me, as optimizing the packages I install is a significant reason I compile them from scratch in the first place, as I'm running on an old, slow machine which could use all the performance boosts it can get.

Finally, I might have a broken environment on my system which makes compilation even slower still than it otherwise would be, but until I get it fixed I have to live with it, and so for all of these reasons compiling everything from scratch on Guix is just not practical for me right now.

Maybe with a newer, much faster machine I'd be ok with it.
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Estimates for YouTube are on the order if $15-25 billion in annual revenue and a ~50% profit margin. With very solid revenue growth. The data is clearly worth real money, but I doubt the data alone is worth 5+ Billion on it’s own.

PS: People are watching on the order of 1 Billion hours per day of video so IMO those revenue numbers may be low as that’s 1$ of revenue per ~15 hours of video watched.
Yeah we have several levels of regulated claims around juice in the states too. Orange juice != orange drink != orange flavored beverage
I read a theory that says that these impossible interviews were designed so that companies can say they couldn't find any qualified stateside candidates so that they could get more H1B visas. It just kinda caught on because everyone wants to imitate FAANG.

When I started in 1997, it was a 30-60 minute walk in. Now I understand multi-day interviews are the norm. Madness.
This makes no sense. Phishing comes from phreak + fishing, but the "ph" in phreak is already from the word phone (phone + freak) -- so the ph in "phishing" already comes from the word phone! The telephone version of phishing should be... "phishing."

But thanks for the explanation.
Well, for instance, TIOBE has Rust at #34, below such mainstays as ABAP, COBOL, and Scratch. It has Groovy above Ruby.
Glass causes a massive amount of pollution via breakage and product loss, injury, and more carbon use because of its higher weight.
Something doesn't add up.

I suspect there's a large part to this story that's escaped (or been obscured by) the reporter.
Fewer LOC would actually benefit them at scale.

If you need several millions of lines of Python to do what Instagram server does, the code is bloated.

My bet is that they let too many Java devs loose on the code base, without experienced Python devs reviewing the commits and managing the deluge of unnecessary classes. I've seen it happen before.
Stab trim cutout has been the response item for a long time.
Before the stab trim was turned on again the plane was climbing.

"unstoppable MCAS"

* Leave stab trim cut

* Hold electric trim up

* Control airspeed

* etc...

AoA senor is not a single point of failure. The 737 is not a fully automatic / flight protected plane. ie, the plane will continue flying with very little sensor input at all - you can even dispatch with problems with a surprising amount of equipment under the MEL.
Anyone care to do a nice graph showing all the tested possibilities?

Being in total darkness was the best? and by how much compared to light with blue removed?

It's also possible it's due to the retinal damage which caused early mortality?
> By the time incarceration started ticking up in the early 1970s

Don't just bury the lede. What changed in the early 70s that would have caused such a thing.

> We don’t know why that happened. But it seems pretty clear that our incarceration rate was a lagging response to that phenomenon.

Yes, we do know what happened. The 70s saw Vietnam Vets coming back from a pointless war with PTSD and heroin addictions. Nixon signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Act in 1970. Reagan threw gas on the smouldering fire with the Comprehensive Crime Act and bang, everything is illegal and now with the mandatory minimum sentencing. At every opportunity the federal government, rather than evaluating to see if these laws were effective, chose to make more things criminal. This didn't dissuage gangs from engaging in illegal activity. It actually made them more paranoid and more violent. Anynone that might have been remotely considered a snitch or narc was killed. If you're staring down a life sentence if you got caught might as well remove any doubt.
The site refers to the app as "Iron Cast App (open-source)" but I wasn't able to find the source code.
And if the pilots had been trained to turn it off at the right time it would have been safe. They weren't (the plane was advertised as requiring no new training), and boeing made MCAS deliberately hard to turn off.
What riches are there to be found in space and brought back to earth to sell for economic gain?

I thought space flight is too expensive and unobtanium is yet to be discovered?
It is lying. They claim something that they have no evidence for. Whether the number truly is 38 at that moment is irrelevant in this case. Because if the number was 0, 42, or 1437 they still would have made the claim that 38 were looking at that flight.
The US jails people for drug possession still, while in Europe even drug dealers walk freely outside any day.
And I don't like medicare nor medicaid either.
Why is it any more fair for someone's wife to expect him to get his genitals sliced open than for her to take a pill? That's a decision spouses must make. But my contention was that it was a broad statistical figure, not that it applied directly to you. The demographics of HN readership are certainly different from the demographics of broader America.
Nice. Reminds me of a "Using a Raspberry Pi to send and receive Morse Code with a laser" post from a while ago [1].

[1] https://partofthething.com/thoughts/sending-and-receiving-mo...

Knowing a little Morse code, the scene in Stranger Things where they set up a whole wall of letters was mildly infuriating. I guess if no parties knew the code that's what you'd have to do. But what a great reason to learn!

Ham radio operators still use it (they call it CW for continuous wave) mostly because it is really easy to hear over super long distances (inter-continental) with small radio equipment (often just a few Watts) through all the noise.
But good communication can solve all those obstacles.

Good communication can solve hundreds of years of deeply ingrained sexism in society? I mean...maybe. But I don't think this is at all obvious.
> YouTube is another, as far as we can tell it’s currently extremely profitable

Anecdotally, the fact that YouTube is flooding their channels with more and more advertisements would seem to indicate that they are NOT profitable at all.

I now loathe YouTube links and highly encourage people to try to put their video content anywhere else (even their own webpage--hosting is a lot cheaper now).
> * Encouraging consumerism and subsequent pollution.

I am sorry I dont follow.
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>> Many modern witches style themselves as goddess-worshippers, but in medieval and early modern witchcraft spells, the Virgin Mary plays a much bigger role. She is referenced far more often than any goddess.

I believe the Virgin Mary is considered to be an aspect of the goddess, like other female deities and divine figures: Aphrodite, Ishtar, Freya, Bast, Kali, etc. In that sense, there is no incongruity.
This is really nice! It reminds me of a similar site I played on ages back that supported online play for several different card games - it had a similar minimal, clean design. (Wish I could find it again.)

I agree, often I look for a card games online, but they are mostly bloated, full of ads, require accounts, really spammy.

Refreshing to see this.
Sure, randomly picking a number is bound to land on the right answer eventually, but the website is still lying because it is telling you 38 even though it doesn’t actually know that. It is assuring you something that it provably doesn’t know. That’s a lie, correct or incorrect.
Are you sure? The value of a thing is often estimated by the interest others have in it. Regardless, it can be fraud.
I just can't believe that people actually pay to have these things in their houses. Or maybe, sadly, I can.
I’m sure there are laws against making false claims to sell your products.
> plenty of companies are run by criminals

Another blanket statement with zero supporting fact at the beginning of an argument.
> Listen: do not use the mouse! And use Vim or Emacs. Professional programmers only use keyboards and this kind of editors.

Sure...
That sounds like it's probably cheaper in the loan long run to buy a bicycle plus you don't look like an adult using a child's toy.
What’s wrong to entitled attitudes?

I feel like “entitled” is some sort of jerk buzzword. Entitled is a wonderful thing. I think it’s good to be entitled to not being exploited by billion dollar companies making decisions that make like worse for people. Even if it’s just a little worse like not being able to watch a movie with your kids. Sadly, we’re not entitled to such a thing.

Why is Disney entitled to oppressive “well-established ownership?” I’m not sure how one is more entitled than retaining copyright for 70 years after the artists who create something die.
I guess it depends on what you're optimizing.

Hard for a user, but simple for distribution or legal.
"To get around the prison’s strict no-internet policy, the program built a “faux-internet” using video seminars."

That would be a pretty significant barrier to contributing to an external project.
Bill would punish firms for hiring part-time workers
It could also be an attempt to sway the public and their views on piracy.
It really isn't. It's quite obviously possible and not worth the effort if you happen to know anything about Rubik's cubes and neural networks.

In fact, I would be much more interested in "I solved a Rubik's cube using a computer" because you can then talk about the mathematics of a Rubik's cube (presumably the algorithm used is a human-comprehensible one), while for "I solved a Rubik's cube using a neural network" the only sensible question is "and how badly did you have to overfit to do that?"
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John Chambers and a star team of ex-Cisco engineers launched Pensando Systems
Top Navigation vs. Left Navigation: Which Works Better?
>And the reality is that dropping stack requirements drastically improves the candidate pool. For one you have way way more candidates to select from.

There's definitely a sweet spot in terms of stack specificity. There's very little issue hiring a flask developer if you need somebody to work on django. However, if you're a ruby shop and you hire a java developer - even if they are great - you've potentially doubled or tripled your onboarding time.

>All of which means that if you insist on [X] experience, most of the time you're scraping the bottom of the labor market barrel and getting mediocre engineers.

I don't think that's necessarily true. Nonetheless, this could be market specific. I can imagine that hiring a developer in, say, Ohio might make your approach more worthwhile compared to hiring in SF, where the talent pool is deeper.
> They might just have different moral values.

This is why "values" is a terrible word to use to describe morals.

Values are subjective things like modesty or frugality. Those are values, because how you dress or spend your money generally have consequences only to yourself.

Something becomes immoral when it deprives another person of their inalienable rights; it causes them harm. Others' rights aren't subject to negotiation, that's what "inalienable" means.

That one can often get away with bullying or lying might make it seem like it's just a personal choice. That is, until people get fed up with it and hold that person to account for their actions.
> Once your HW is unsupported by Apple you're stuck with an old OS that is unsupported by third party software as well.

The latest version of MacOS supports hardware from 2012. High Sierra (released 2 years ago) supports hardware from 2009 and 2010, and very little if any software released today won't run on it.
I'd love to know; I've developed quite a taste for them. There's definitely manufacturers for CRTs in niche industries.
It may make more sense for the moment to find someone who'll help you refurbish an existing CRT than to find a new one, however.
Hey it happens, no value judgements really; I do it myself all the time. The problem lies in my misunderstanding more than anything else.

“Human rental business” absolutely makes whatever economy that is sound much more like the reality these workers live in. We should use it more instead of the euphemisms we all use now.
Not false advertising but surely it can produce damage by inducing hurry in the customer who then won't have enough time to make the right choice or look for alternatives.
That's probably because it's a kickstarter
Oh, I know your type. I had once a boss that was like you, all academic background, zero practical skills. He was bragging around with his degrees and when put in front of actually programming something useful he'll just skimp around. Wanna know why you don't get even a coding test from companies? Because at the phone interview you raise all the red flags with your answers, so the hiring prospector realizes you're just a theoretical type, not a practical type.
Piece of advice, do what my boss did, he went back to academic life and he's doing just fine there. You know the saying "those who can't, teach". So teach.
Where does this kind of nonsense attitude come from? I use GUI editors, use the mouse, don’t use magic keyboard shortcuts, and I manage to produce software like everyone else.
> we incarcerate a lot of people on drug charges.

We actually don't. Obama tried to reduce the prison population by reducing the sentence or releaseing non-violent drug offenders. He found out that type make up less than 10% of the prison population.

The punitively long sentencing from the War on Drugs has meant that the people will go to great lengths to avoid arrest. Someone looking at 30-50 years for distribution won't think twice about murdering a witness if they think it will help them beat the charge.
Oh, just Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix and likely every hospital, utility company, police force, military, or bank you depend on. And the people programming the robot swarms that pack your groceries (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-robot-swarms/).
Redemption has to be earned. Spending x years with murderers, rapists, sadists behind bars is hardly a good way to turn you into a better character.
My own personal (fanciful) beliefs:

- at least two executives including the CEO should get life in prison

- at least two people from the FAA should join them

- Boeing should be dismantled and become at least two separate companies.

- The FAA should also be rebuilt from the ground up.

- Create a new type of corporate tax that helps ensure the FAA has a more adequate budget.

- New law that ensures that CEO and some other upper-level decision makers need to have senior engineering experience. (Ideally there would be no executives at all, just engineers, but that's too unrealistic even for my fantasy here).
You could do the same thing with almost any type of app where you run your own web service; it's kind of a black box to the app market's test group...you could change everything but the domain name and security certificate (and most app stores don't pin the cert as they expire and you wouldn't want to recertify at every cert switch).

One thing Amazon or Google could do here for voice apps, though, that Apple and Google (Android) can't for standard phone apps, is audit voice responses for anomalies or user input that matches a suspicous pattern and flag apps that trigger it.

They can do this because every utterance a user sends a voice assistant passes through Amazon or Google systems. If an app has access to user PII, they could add some automation to flag suspicious user responses or anomalous activity that differs from x days previous and pass it up the chain for review.

One thing I do like about Alexa development is that if you, as a developer, are privacy-minded (and don't need nor want user data for anything), you can protect your users by configuring your apps not to collect any of your users' info . As a developer, you don't even get IP addresses as everything goes User > Amazon > Developer > Amazon > User.

You always get session and Amazon-assigned user id, but they're typically pretty anonymous unless the user says "I am Jane Doe" -- which, I guess we should be honest, probably does happen more than it should, and this is what the OP researchers are exploiting.
Except, every company in 2019 is marketing themselves as if they have some unique proprietary tech. I just saw an ad for Holiday inn that did this.

None of these things mean smart investors (or even customers) are being hoodwinked by this marketing nonsense however.
Yes, it's "almost" comical. The advantage of having a CDN with a pop in every city, vs. just having 3 or 4 well placed POP's around the world will be marginal once HTTP3 is broadly supported.
What is an interactive story? I did the "try for free" thing and don't understand it at all, started typing random things so maybe I could see the result and understand it, but was then prompted to select a plan, then I got into a "how to create a story" that was teaching in a very odd way what I should do in the website.
The info is there not to stop piracy but as a legal matter in case the customer says "I didn't knew, I wasn't informed".
The number of police officers per capita increased by 30% from 1960-1970, but increased only moderately after that, peaking at about 40% above 1960 levels: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~jmccrary/chalfin_mccrary2014b.pdf. Violent crime rate more than doubled from 1970 to 1990 while police per capita went up only 10-20%.

Moreover, the overall increase in violent crime tracked the homicide rate. Homicides are very well reported, throughout the modern era. The homicide rate doubled from 1963 to 1973. That almost certainly reflects an actual increase in homicides, or just previously unreported homicides being reported due to increased policing.
Lol this was so out-of-place given that most of the other advice was pretty reasonable.

It would definitely seem a little odd if someone used no keyboard shortcuts at all (like, edit->copy, edit->paste), but even then I can't imagine really dinging someone for it if they get through the problem at a reasonable pace.
>The VC subsidies for some of these companies are so high that they are basically selling $2 for $1 in some cases (WeWork was basically losing nearly $1 for every $1 of revenue!)

Effectively none of these companies lose money on a marginal basis. In other words, an additional customer making an additional transaction helps their bottom line. There's always two major questions. (1) Can the company grow to where their overhead is covered in that marginal revenue and (2) can they acquire the customers cheap enough.

Your statement that WeWork loses $1 for every $1 illustrates a common misinterpretation. Those two numbers have basically no relationship with each other and don't tell us anything. Imagine that WeWork wasn't a total fraud. They set up their first 10 locations for $500,000, have annual revenues of 1 million and profit of 500,000. A VC comes along and says "Shit dawg, here's 50 million set up 100 more locations". So WeWork takes that money, spends 50 million and a year setting up new locations. \

What's their financial statement going to say? That they lost 49.5 million dollars on revenue of 1 million. Obviously that's an eye popping loss, but assuming they can replicate their success it's a smashing investment. The latter part of that last sentence is the important thing. Whether or not the money these companies is investing is going to see returns or if they're wildly optimistic in their long term projections.
This reminds me of one of the worst things about interviews I’ve had (with big companies and small): typing code into a shared Google doc for phone screens.

There’s nothing like doing so that will make you appreciate auto-indent, auto-closing braces, and efficient keyboard navigation.
From Commodore 64 to Clojure
Bajanda, the Cuban app that bets for the mobility business
This Sure Looks Like Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account
finally someone mentioning "Daddy Time Mono" font. Cheers!!
you've bought into the conceit of the whole thing. who doesn't want "free money"? but it's literally wealth redistribution, and which libertarian wants that? that "seed money" simply puts the poor in a deeper hole relative to the rest of the economy, as inflation stabilizes prices aronnd the new floor. moreso, wealthy folks have just staved off larger socioeconomic changes for what amounts to pennies.

then think of an alternative world where labor and capital are equal partners in the optimal allocation of resources (the central promise of capitalism). labor is no longer in the dark about opportunity costs and accrued benefits and their fair share of it. consumers negotiate with corporations on equal footing so we get the fairest prices. as a free person, you no longer need a handout because you can negotiate fair wages and fair prices.
You're getting your versions mixed up there. It's OS/2 1.x that ran on the 286. 2.x and later required a 386.
Why would you pick Go or C++ over Java?

C++ is a hydra of complexity, sure it has it's place, but it's not nearly as productive as Java for your typical web application.

Go is almost the opposite, so simple it lacks features like generics.
The last time I used Go it had fundamental usability issues around dependency management(although I think recent versions have improved on vendoring a little).
"Senator, is the safety and prosperity of the American people your highest priority?"
I guess you should point people to "The Missing Lab" story so they understand what is an interactive story.

But basically it's just a series of phrases with stuff you have to select afterwards.

I like the idea, but don't like that it happens all inside a computer screen and all by just random clicking. I was expecting something happening in the real life (but I don't actually know how).

Anyway, this is the end of my useless feedback.
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There is no better way to incentivize recycling. Single stream has been a failure. Once trash is mixed complicated and expensive separation by humans is necessary. Deposits reduce the amount that get mixed in the first place.

Furthermore I'd go much farther myself. A lower deposit on items that can be easily recyclable. A much higher deposit on plastic items that are hard to recycle in order to push the manufacturer's to make recyclable packaging.
Do you have any concerns about liability for not doing background checks?