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There are genetic conditions which can cause problems with any artery in your body, and you really want to know if anything's likely to go pop, anywhere. When you go for a full-body scan for this they're not going fishing, they're looking for something specific being wrong in a whole-body system.
Yes, me too - I had two weeks of constant headaches and both physical and mental exhaustion. I still went to work, but I got basically nothing done for the whole fortnight.

Still, I'm glad I did it - it was definitely an unhealthy addiction for me. I'm now 15 or so years mostly caffeine-free.
The problem is is that most businesses refuse to negotiate on scope once deadlines have been agreed.

Getting a manger who is willing to do that is great.
Can’t see the article (paywall), but this isn’t a surprise. You have Democrat candidates open to or advocating for the notion of increasing taxes on the elite classes. For the rich, it’s a tiny investment to support the opposing candidate... not to mention the poor and uneducated classes who are convinced democrats only want to take their freedom and turn America into Venezuela.

On a personal note - with money supposedly being free speech, it’s absolutely critical we increase estate taxes, especially for billionaires. Personally I don’t want to live in a world where our opinions and politics are shaped by dynasties, whether that’s the Trumps, the Clintons, or anyone else.

I’m highly paid ($300K+), so before anyone says - I’m not trying to steal from anyone. But having a billionaire class that laws don’t apply to or that can essentially do whatever it wants makes no sense to me. It’s a bigger threat to democracy and freedom than any terrorist or religious extremists.
This whole article rubs me the wrong way. It's holding up their failures in software planning & management as best practices. And while they are normal practices in the industry it doesn't mean they are good practices.

They start off by talking about how important estimates are, and how they always meet their estimates across many types of projects/deadlines.

Then they admit that "delays are normal and expected" - so you're not meeting your estimates.

Then they admit that "they delivered something different" - so you're not building what you promised.

Then they admit that "they "spent too much time on non-deliverables" - so you're spending the last months pre-deadline working hard to catch up on something that is already behind schedule and doesn't match the original spec.

But it's all OK because they kept the stakeholders updated with frequent communication and conversations...basically the same result as if they had not estimated a date but instead focused on iterative delivery and constant feedback with the customer. Sound familiar?

> Suddenly, the whole team became focused, distractions were all gone, and we moved at a faster pace than I've ever felt the team do so.

Why was the team not focused & distraction free from the start?

How could you achieve this efficiency without needing a deadline hanging over your heads?
The article gives a good reason for why it works in Taiwan, despite its problems:

> Taiwan’s high-speed rail system proved reliably profitable — and popular, with 64 million riders last year.

Aside from talking about the (potential) cost, you didn't make any other point for why there shouldn't be a HSR. It's fine if you don't think we should have one because it's becoming too expensive, but I don't see any argument for why it wouldn't be useful.
Sure, but the normal working class hero have limited capital and limited time to research and limited knowledge of the stock market. Sure, he can own 0.00002% of a company, but in the end it doesn't really matter. He still doesn't have control over the means of production of which he puts his own labor into. He's still dependent on his salary which the true owner of the means of production can take away at any time.
Al my laptops are gaming type. They can work properly without overheating/throttling
> How is OpenAI misleading? ...When I saw the press release I understood the demonstration was about hand dexterity and not trying to use AI to solve a Rubik’s Cube pattern.

Uh... the headline of the article was literally "Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand".

Kudos to you for apparently reading past the headline and understanding that the demo was actually about hand dexterity. But come on. The average layman reading the headline is going to believe that what's newsworthy is that OpenAI solved a rubik's cube.

If OpenAI didn't intend for that to be the case, they should have used different words. For example, "Using a neural net to achieve a breakthrough in robot hand dexterity" would actually describe what the demo is about.

Unfortunately that is about 1000x less interesting than "AI robot solves rubik cube". Which is why OpenAI didn't choose that headline, and why people like Gary Marcus are criticizing them for being misleading.
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2fiwgs/why_col...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/faq
How does that work? If i implement my own editor using sdl2, how will it know? Are you sure it's not just cocoa specific?
If that's the case it's possible for gtk too.
Hi, I'm the OP of this "controversal" opinion.

There is nothing objectifying anybody here. I really do not see how anyone is getting at that. In what way have I made anybody an "object"?

With all the respect in the world, I understand what you are crusading for. But you are on a witch hunt, and actively making people your enemies who would otherwise support your cause.
Maybe sit with her and try a few different games and see what catches her interest.
That is exactly the thing I select for. I recently had to hire 4 developers, and I was not all that interested in how many years of experience they had in javascript or typescript (our main language), and even less if you know Vue or Express (our stack). I mean, it's good to know javascript, and certainly ES6 or typescript, but I'm much more interested in: can I discuss stuff with you, do you have interesting opinions, can you make clear decisions in the face of unclear requirements, are you creative, and can you fix stuff and build features without anyone having to hold your hand? In case of doubt, knowledge of ES6 or Typescript or any relevant front-end framework (Vue, Angular or React) can make a lot of difference, but I'd rather hire someone who knows a dozen languages we don't use than someone who only knows exactly the one language we do use.
Would Trump even have a platform if it wasnt for twitter & FB?
That was unexpectedly entertaining.
Dynamic typing vs. static typing is on a different axis than strong vs. weak typing. Python is a strong dynamically typed language, with some "static lite" features introduced in Python 3.

Dynamic typing means that types can be changed arbitrarily at runtime, compared to statically typed languages which define all types at compile time.

Strong/weak means that type coercions rarely/never happen automatically. For instance JS has some interesting behavior enabled by weak typing `[] + [] -> ""`. Whereas Python rarely coerces things for you. The division operator in Python 2 was strongly typed, while they changed it to weak typing in Python 3 (inline with the practicality vs. purity convention).
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There was a period where feeds were just wall to wall outrage. Literally, at trump, at obama, at random other friends on facebook. It was crazy.

Reality - life's much better getting off social media and hanging out with friends in real life - and instagram has a bit less outrage machine stuff - easier / quieter place to share pix of the kids playing and catchup with what folks are up to.
I think that is misdirection.

There are two parts that I don't think are contradicted by this article:

1) Facebook, twitter, and other social networks give people a voice and a community.

2) If these platforms are censored in a country, it has a great effect on free speech in the country.

Now, there are some good questions related to the article to ask here:

a) Are these platforms actually a problem because of the amplification of outraging?

b) If they are, how does that impact our society?

c) Is there a way to empower people (and keep the benefits of current platforms) without increasing the negative effects as well?
A part of me, definitely.

Several other parts have grown in its place though.
I really like consolas. It looks beautiful, there is no ambiguity between characters, the spacing and sizes are perfect. It comes pre installed with Windows, and I even use it on Linux, which is my primary development environment.
Though perhaps not the case, it sounds to me like you're saying "let's not consider the morality of the situation".

Moving it to a later part of the text is a great way to get people to ignore it.
HtDP is all about a 'design recipe' which is worth understanding even if you've studied SICP. On the other hand it's very slow-paced in comparison and won't stretch you the same way.
Comment deleted because this doesn’t appear to be the right place to discuss nuanced issues about Facebook.
Letting Birds scooters fly free
Pretty much every big company has big conferences that they "need" to announce appropriate stuff at. In my experience, you end up with a combination of changing what you announce, announcing what you planned but without immediate availability (especially if it doesn't obsolete a current product), dropping features, and prioritizing work on what you really want/need to announce.

Historically, the software industry has been more fluid with its announcement cadence that, say, the auto industry. But companies still have big events at which they really want to make high visibility announcements.
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Amazon b2b: https://www.amazon.com/b2b/info/amazon-business
specific languages are the result of history and territory. Language is an innate human capacity. the speed, breadth and depth of acquisition is measured relative to other humans. less methodical than athletics, art, music or mathematics- which are easier to measure. but definitely not as nebulous as influence, attraction, art or leadership- which are just now becoming measurable with proto artificial brains.
I always assumed part or perhaps most of the funding would come from flattening the tax system.
> soon as you give people 1000 dollars, their rent, transport, and other associated costs will go up by exactly $1000

I don't think this is actually true, though I'd love to see an economic model that would convince me otherwise.

Sure, if the only income anyone had was UBI income, then increasing UBI by $1000 would (to a first order approximation) increase everyone's purchasing power equally, and the price of goods would increase by the same amount. (Though note that even in this simplified situation, due to effects like price/wage inelasticities, you wouldn't expect every price to move at the same time).

In the current UBI proposal, however, many people would still earn most of their dollars from other sources, and so the changes of purchasing power wouldn't be evenly distributed.

My intuitive model for this is that if the average person gets 1% of their income from UBI, and then UBI doubles to 2% of income, then prices should inflate by 1%, because everyone has 1% more to bid on the goods they want. But for those who are getting 100% of their income from UBI, then that 1% inflation on goods doesn't affect them the same way; it just means their purchasing power decreased by 1%, after doubling, so they still got a 99% increase.

1% is a placeholder, you'd need to model this with real data of course, true median salary and the proposed UBI.

Obviously the reality is way more complex since you have different mixes of goods and services purchased by the different segments of the population (e.g. perhaps more people in the bottom quartile of income rent than the top quartile), but we don't need to go into that much detail to disprove the argument above (at least with the level of detail that was afforded in the parent post).
> If you do a serious degree-level computer architecture class, it'll probably involve MIPS, mainly so that your professor can set some really tough exam questions about the pipeline.

Ha, I remember suffering through this. MIPS has a relatively pretty instruction set but it’s just such a pain to write by hand and the arbitrary choice of forcing delays and pipeline stalls on developers in the way that it did was just really disappointing…
Certainly? Were they verifiably first, or is that a guess? What about ultraportables like the Sony Vaio UX series?

I would argue that consumers demanding portability is not a “trend.”

And the only way to deliver true portability is to combine components. e.g. smartphones.
World's first Ebola vaccine gets green light from EU regulator
I'm not sure about django but flasks Application object has a before_first_request method which takes a function designed to do this type of initialization operations.
Well he obviously doesn't need such a thing, but that doesn't mean he has to prevent others from having it
Coffee consumption: umbrella review of meta-analyses of health outcomes (2017) [pdf]
You'll note I'm only talking about exclusivity here, not IP ownership. The money for streaming, say, GoT would still go to HBO regardless of where they were streamed, but HBO shouldn't be able to refuse to license other platforms to steal it.

Let’s talk software, should developers who write GPL software be forced to allow on the iOS App Store? Should GPL 3 software not be allowed to ban TiVo from using it? What If I have a SASS offering and I don’t want it to be used in a Confederate Memorabilia store. Should that right be taken away from me? What if I have a Christian movie, Pornhub opened a digital video store and I decided not to license it to them, is that not my right?

Right now, Mongo’s license doesn’t allow AWS to host a managed offering even though you can download the same software and host it on an EC2 instance for free. Should that not be allowed either?
because the people advocating for tits equality are a tiny group, while mainstream politics have wide implications. I m all for tit freedom, but facebook's lawyers have to weigh in the costs of litigation
I mean - all the polls show he is behind the Democrats, including from Fox News, and so I am not sure where you got the notion that impeachment is the only way they can “defeat him”.

I think the impeachment talk stems from how he’s been abusing the executive office for personal gain, whether that’s holding aid to strategic allies for his political gain or enriching his pockets (holding the G7 conference at his failing resort).

When I read posts like yours - it’s kind of astounding. The guy is clearly and openly undermining the country for his personal gain. People around him have been indicted or sentenced for criminal activities. Like what would it take for you to see that? Or is it that you don’t care as long as Democrats are “crying”?
Regarding Insta, it’s interesting how some platforms are inherently more peaceful.

The lack of links? Tiny, almost irrelevant image descriptions? Barely a commenting system to speak of? Just vanity and pretty people.

It’s quite nice. And makes for a good case study.
Food science is iffy, and different people may react differently to the same food.

Personally, I think coffee is not healthy for me. I used to drink 4+ cups a day for the last years, but stopped last year.
Since I stopped I feel much less stressed, have less problems getting up in the morning, and my sweat stinks less.
Though not quite on point with TFA, to anyone interested in this type of stuff I highly recommend The Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast[0].

[0] https://shwep.net/
Andrew Yang is the Trump of tech. And his brand of politics is more a dangerous threat to democracy than Trump’s is. His messaging and policies are just like Trump’s in that they’re dumbed down, optimized for social media likes and subtly enforce a world view where extreme income inequality is inevitable so let’s make the best of it. AI/tech isn’t going to kill the middle class by itself. This destruction will be assisted by technocracy propagandists like Yang.
Right. Nothing to do with free speech.
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Show HN: Back a crowdfunding campaign on kickstarter/indiegogo using BTC
I dunno seems like a very different scale involved when the other side of the world can spoon feed me and my neighbors our opinions with complete anonymity

Oh sure the syntax may be similar

The semantics embedded within our current context of FB & 1700s paranoia over invention itself? One seems ridiculously easy to game and gain global advantage. The other influenced some neighbors.

We’re at a point where the general public is being enraged by goobers who want carnage, and moderates who want to chew all the resources up, while putting on a happy face, ignore the consequences. Not much of a third option allowed when that majority controls the wealth and can easily distribute the most visible argument.

In a free market of ideas one, where we weigh all the options equally, one might think socialism would then get as much airtime. But you know fuck that cause iPhones and self driving cars are so cool, whatever if it destroys the species.

The mainstream right and left are just arguing how hard we push on the gas pedal.
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When they get too big.
We need to fire whoever decided to make this decision, and then fire whoever decided to hire that person, and then reevaluate the entire existence of the agency that managed this entire process. Nuclear weapons are not a joke. These are the kinds of things that actually threaten our immediate existence. This whole thing makes me seriously sad, anxious, and scared. I don't know what else to say.

From what I understand, military personnel generally "operate" equipment and technologies that are built and designed by private industry. I can only imagine the idiotic buzz-word sales pitch that some whiz-kid fast-talking slime-ball in a suit from a fancy looking tech company made to some meat-head, decorated military general with no understanding of what a digital threat model is and barley knows how to check his email on a windows 7 machine on IE, all for quick federal contract. I hate it.
Presumably, the part where you push your opinion as fact to other people and do so in such a way that people are willing to label you as an outright troll.
And how is that different than VC backed startups?
Engineers create value, management is a tax on that value. And when management takes over a company culture the next stop is typically bankruptcy as management wont stop until all value is extracted into their pockets. American corporate history is littered with examples.
"strong typing": everything has a type and cannot be accessed at some other type; "static typing": everything's type can be determined statically (according to one definition)

In Python everything has a type, and you can't use a float as a list, for instance. It's correct to call it both strongly typed and dynamic, those are not antonyms.
Ask HN: How do I minimize money to China?
How do I minimize how much of my money goes to China ? Is there any tech manufactured in the EU/USA ?
free speech is only for popular, mainstream speech?

I don’t really care what’s cost effective for Facebook’s lawyers; we don’t have to care about that, so we should stop enabling the lie that their main concern is enabling free speech.

Costs, playing nice with established powers, not scaring away advertisers by putting their ads too near a nipple — these are their concerns, and we should stop participating in the destruction of the meaning of “free speech” by calling “a narrow spectrum of speech compatible with our current corporate goals” “free speech”.
In theory.

In practice,

- stories are not always the same "size",

- someone correlates story points to a time unit,

- everyone estimates stories differently,

- not everyone understands how to do the thing because they've never done the thing,

- everyone understands complexity differently,

- people makes estimates to what they think everyone else will say,

- no one ever goes back and updates an estimate,

- the estimates are never used as data in the future,

- there are never enough estimates to create a reasonable model that gives predictability better than a hand-waving human,

- no one's really invested in the estimates they are giving., because no one really cares that much except for whoever "needs" the estimate,

- estimating meetings are incredibly boring and a waste of time,

- they give everyone a false sense of certainty

I'll stop there...
Kaohsiung's is even better.
I agree l but it's literally the number one point I expect to see when this topic comes up. Everyone and their mother is quick to point out that the two axes are different
I've created a similar project a while back: https://github.com/autoapply/autoapply
Yes. Basically you can't rapidly evacuate cities. Maybe highways help a bit but, if you can barely handle commuter traffic on a given workday, you're certainly not going to completely and quickly evacuate a city if there's some threat--and that's before you even get to the issue of people who don't own cars.

So the idea that highways would be useful if there were an imminent threat of nuclear attack looks pretty silly.
no - I believe the parent comment is right it's passed by the value of a reference as seen here from the console

var changeref = function(ref) { ref = {}}

var changeable = {prop: "something"}

changeref(changeable);

changeable;
Object { prop: "something" }

var changeprop = function(ref) {ref.prop = "anything"}

changeprop(changeable);

changeable;
Object { prop: "anything" }

the use of changeref does not turn ref into an empty object, because you passed the value of the reference, but the use of changeprop did change the property of the object because you are changing the prop on the reference.

at least this is my understanding of how it works. Interestingly enough I totally blew a simple programming test on the phone recently because I forgot about this (well my whole mind went blank and I couldn't do anything so even if I had remembered this it wouldn't have been enough - it was lucky I remembered my name)

on edit: console used, Firefox developer.
I know the answer, thanks to watching a recent video by Richard Feldman on why functional programming isn’t popular yet. I recommend watching it for some interesting talk about programming languages in general, it’s on YouTube at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4

Anyway what privates give you is what everyone wants from a programming language: modularity.

We want to be able to expose an api to some code and for it to have some inner workings that we don’t see because:

1. If we know they can’t be touched we have some implicit guarantees about our program. E.g. the mouse pointer cannot go off screen even if we try to make a call to do that.

2. It is simpler for a programmer to understand the api which might be 1% of the size of the module itself with all private’s.

3. I can change my private’s without breaking your calls. Essentially a minor version change in Semvar parlance instead of a major breaking change.

4. Make impossible state impossible! By guarding the state.

All these things require modularity, and OO uses classes and private members to provide that modularity.

Elm uses modules and the exposing keyword (or lack of!) as a contrast.

JS modules are similar with a lack of an export allowing you to hide something. That something you did export can use for state or functionality. There is an old IIFE trick that works this way also.

Making everything public is a bad idea, as you miss out on modularity advantages. Not sure how Ruby hides things as I haven’t used it for a while but I’m sure there is a way.

And finally reflection in OO to access private’s is almost always a sin, unless you are make a debugging tool or similar. Canny? No way!