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That is correct.

European business culture also contributes in some small part, so given enough growth it would have eventually been a problem anyways, but it was exacerbated by importing tens of thousands of primitive terrorists.

This is almost a cliche of people who don't know shit shout cuba.

They've had an Internet for years with no wifi. They have mechanics that can reliably work on cars from a half century ago.

Cuba is a wealth of intelligent engineering minds, plagued by reprehensible Communist rule. Money has never stopped the cuban spirit.

It's a disgrace to compare the Cuban spirit to Saudi Arabia.

Why would you make that point and imply that my opinion matches up just because other people think that way?

Saudi politics are possibly more detestable than Cuba. Id have said as much if I figured some clueless HN user would pigeon hole my argument.

Twilio, craigslist, twitter, wikipedia, are all pretty simple from the top view.

Don't you think they'd have thought that through?

I admire your diligent concern, but I thought the same thing for a split second and dismissed it.

I can't imagine even a corporate churn machine with the most reckless abandon designing a device like this and missing the most basic obvious attack vector.

Well, anyways....

The software release of the year, easily.

What an incredible journey the team has had this far. A very approachable group of people involved with the project have tirelessly given their work to the Julia language and finally, FINALLY the 1.0 is ready for consumption.

As if I wasn't psyched for this weekend enough already!

What is the net outcome of a trade war? Is it just money shifting around?

I'm not squeamish about putting some pain on China, but who's to say they won't resume the same tactics later on?

Clicking (doc) leads me back to the landing page.

These bullet points are exciting but where is the docs? Examples? Anything?

Dart excommunicated server side dart. If I were someone who has already been let down once by that decision and is already frustrated by the extremely lackluster library story for server side dart, why should I use dart?

Flutter is the only reason. I don't care about mobile. Hell, if they take android to flutter-only, it'll finally give me the fire to switch to iOS. I been meaning to anyways.

I'm happy that Bracha got out of there. What a shame such a bright man's work has been so foully steeped in Google nonsense.

Opera is incredibly smooth, works on every device I own, it's fast.

The new ownership situation isn't optimal but the quality hasn't gone to shit yet imo.

I remember when opera used to have an IMAP client built in and you could open up an IRC chat tab, it had so much cool stuff!

Mozilla is terrible. Way too left, low quality everything. Mozilla is the single most toxic thing in software culture in the past fifteen years, imo.

Your remark is sorta like "I don't trust Frigidaire, they only have one product!"

Which of course places you in perfect position to shill for Mozilla.

Those people generally aren't of the same caliber as Matlab programmers.

I'm talking about professional-grade numerical work. People use matlab or R for this currently. Mathematica too.

These people, who are very talented mathematical minds but maybe not necessarily the most talented programmers, are going to eventually find Julia to be more convenient and more attentive to their needs doing numerical work than Python+PyJunk libraries.

Python sucks. Plain and simple. No types, no macros, it's slow, it can be a pain to get gpu support up and running, the main guy just up and left (?!?!?), and the primary survival trait of the community at large is figuring out how to write python and make something other than python do the work.

It would be like buying a car and the dealer hands you a complimentary bus pass and says "try and keep her off the road if you can help it."

So yeah. I don't consider it a major threat to the ecosystem.

I haven't seen express pool here yet. Maybe I wasn't selected or maybe it's not here yet.

<parody> Horse and carriage drivers offered jobs in Ford factory, Horseback Union said no!

Six horse carriage drivers committed suicide in the past year. </parody>

Most taxis are horrendous. They barely speak English or have some sort of hygiene issue or try and take me on some wacky route like I don't live here,

With uber starting to do stuff like upfront fares and uber pool, it's pretty much over with. I've seen a LOT of new yorker trends over the past two decades, and I can safely claim that Uber has reached an indispensable point for the average upper class new yorker.

The last linchpin imo for uber will be something like uber pool with better dedicated routes. Like a bus, but without all the people that ride the bus. That will be awesome.

I've actually wondered about that too! My uncle has a bunch of old rifle optics equipment. Very unusual reticles on some of them!

Do countries like Germany, with rich, relatively recent military history have schools where people go to learn all the different models of bomb that they used back in WW2? How do they keep all that important knowledge circulating for defusal techs after all these years?

Quite interesting

I wish Pokemon Go had been the game we've all actually been waiting on. With familiar Pokemon PVP and real-world Pokemon scavenging. The gym concept they have is just not that much fun. But I guess the advantage to Pokemon go is being accessible to younger audiences who weren't alive when red and blue came out (I think I was nearly 30 then!) and also that the lack of more concrete game mechanics lends the game a more expressive nature. I've seen people that just play to collect their favorite one, and that's kind of magical to me.

To hijack this thread a different direction for a moment, is this type of change one that would be allowed to occur in 1.x? How is it determined what changes are suitable for 1.x and what will wait for 2.0, once 1.0 is released?

I'm very interested in how detailed and coordinated the Julia team has become regarding the longer term future of Julia. Admirable effort all around.

I really enjoy seeing Julia devs so invested and up-to-date with projects and experiments like this, because isn't this the bread and butter of technical computing? The nitty gritty of making all these bits and bytes do work! So cool.

Is Ryu.jl significantly faster than what's in Base? Is there already an open issue somewhere?

Do you find there are a lot of people in your circle that post those?

My friends (I'm 54) are probably older and more boring than yours, but like if I open Facebook right now there will be grandbaby pictures, look what I did in my shed this weekend, and politics. That's pretty much the formula year round for my timeline.

I strongly suspect that's a trend with younger people. I don't see my friends and coworkers experiencing the same type of satisfaction when posting something that I see younger users having.

Hell, I'm glad I'm not the type of old person that doesn't know how to use Facebook. Just that is really enough satisfaction for me.

It's fascinating stuff. Those are the types of people our society will need a thousand years from now when we're coordinating larger structures in space. Maybe even coordinating builders/supplies from different planets!

It's not making much money because it's not that conducive to writing real lisp code with. Nobody thinks about sexprs the way parinfer does unless that's their first encounter with them. If you went and taught parinfer users how to use paredit, they'd wonder why paredit is so much easier and feels more w useful to them.

Additionally, it's a niche market in the first place. People aren't exactly clambering for more lisp dev tools except in recessed corners of the academic universe and places where clojure is used. Aside from those users, there's little demand for a tool like this, and that market is like I said, further eroded by significantly higher quality tooling that's already available.

Not every piece of code someone writes is worthy of being paid for. Not every piece of code written deserves to have been written in the first place, unfortunately.

As long as Amazon doesn't get it, I'll be pleased.

I'm not so familiar with the academic side of things as much as I am finance and corp side of things.

Academic roles probably benefit a lot more from the more rigorously designed language/platfrom R offers. Not to mention the maturity of the ecosystem.

Julias big draw is performance, in my eyes. Ease of use is good too, Python syntax + types + macros is great, but the speed is absolutely killer once you get it tuned up.

Time will tell, but I see some very strong threats as Julia already has packages for xlsx, and a good Quant community forming up.

For finance, I will be shocked if Julia isn't a household name 2-3 yrs from now. It's what the financial world has been waiting for.

Python won't be killed for a while. It's just too ubiquitous. But it poses no major threat to any major firm who needs decent performance, and there will be more and more turmoil in python chore community as time goes on. I think it will get much worse, not better.

Do you have citations or further reading on this? I am not trying to nitpick you, I want to read more about this but I googled megastructure and I get back a bunch ofnonsense. I find it interesting what architecture experts have thought about the extreme end of human structure.

All you need is a megastructure 50 miles tall!

For the uninformed: concerns don't mean vulnerabilities, necessarily

At least there's no proof so far

Yeah, talking about partisan politics, while not fun, it is necessary occasionally, is impossible on HN.

Talking about certain people and their decisions in tech is not possible also.

I don't think downvotes are useful inputs, personally. It's far too easy to farm votes and use the accounts for essentially manipulation, it doesn't actually contribute to the dialogue, even when they're down voting something like an overly obvious question or dumb comment, a down vote doesn't really change anything.

I think accounts under 5000 karma shouldn't have dowvoting capability at all. Additionally, once a down vote has been cast on a comment, that post's score should be hidden to discourage multiple downvotes.

Unless someone is spamming or posting something actually harmful or illegal, ie not just an opinion, there's no benefit in discouraging that person from contributing in the site.

These are my thoughts. I've seen HN go from a bastion of intelligent hackers and scholars mature enough to discuss nearly anything to a collection of mostly childish people bickering about nothing. Over the years and different accounts and seeing the wrong people rewarded and the wrong people blasted out for minor errors. It's crazy.

Downvotes are just one angle, but I agree that it needs attention.

Edit: this post now serves to prove the point I'm making.

F# gets used a lot in finance. If you're in the NY area with F# experience you could easily find a contract or maybe a position.

When Julia 1.0 drops, there will be some shifting around as the industry begins the Matlab exodus. But not a lot of prospects right now. It has a really cool type system with multiple dispatch, but it's dynamically typed. Depends on your taste. Takes practice in my experience organizing code by dispatch. Didn't click in my brain at first. Also, there are macros ala Lisp, good performance, etc.

Not sure about Ada, hoping to find out more.

If a person wanted to write ada outside of a government agency, what are the options?

What's wrong with any of this?

People who are using and selling drugs are criminals like any other type of criminal.

Civil forfeiture is fucked, sure, but the rest of the consequences sound pretty fair. Break the law, you pay the price. If you rob a small bank instead of Deutsche, should you get a smaller penalty? Just because it's a small quantity of drugs doesn't mean anything, it's still the same crime.