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Can you (or somebody) explain how that works in practice?

Here I am ready to deploy some new feature to gmail. In the meantime, I'm getting a steady stream of API changes. Can I build and release gmail to a specific revision number, and only incorporate the changes when I am ready, or are all release essentially off of the tip of the tree.

I don't need specifics, just the general idea. Where we work basically every project lives in its own branch, which makes it essentially impossible to synchonize changes. Things have to get merged to trunk, then pulled into the appropriate branch, and I don't like it at all.

Do you have version numbers for libraries/components: projext X uses version 1.5.4 of Y, 32.4.18 of Z, and so on, do you pull by revision number, are you all on tip?

It'd be very interesting to hear how you manage this.
:-/ Yeah, deunionizing would be great.... Private school teachers get paid much less than public [1], with the bonus of being fired any time. Instead, when school districts attempt to bust the teachers union, they do it in order to funnel money to charter schools, often religious [2]. These charter schools have selective admissions, and often won't keep children with any sort of difficulty [3], which artificially raises their test rates, and hoses kids who need the help.

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/why-are...

[2]: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28401042/colorado-supreme-...

[3]: http://dianeravitch.net/2014/02/26/breaking-news-new-data-sh...
Here's a great article that describes exactly this phenomenon in more detail.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-m...

> There's really no limit on how much [money] banks could create, provided they can find someone willing to borrow it. They will never get caught short, for the simple reason that borrowers do not, generally speaking, take the cash and put it under their mattresses; ultimately, any money a bank loans out will just end up back in some bank again. So for the banking system as a whole, every loan just becomes another deposit.

> What this means is that the real limit on the amount of money in circulation is not how much the central bank is willing to lend, but how much government, firms, and ordinary citizens, are willing to borrow.

...

> Just consider what might happen if mortgage holders realised the money the bank lent them is not, really, the life savings of some thrifty pensioner, but something the bank just whisked into existence through its possession of a magic wand which we, the public, handed over to it.
If you want to read more from the same lawyer, his blog is available at lawblog.de
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This doesn't take into account the revenue the state gains through its vicious DUI/DWAI laws.

I would venture to guess that number far exceeds $42 mm/annum.
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>> den of trigger-happy bigot-hunters

Yep, that's the US today. And of course Obama doesn't waste a second to exacerbate the situation by vilifying the school/policeman/whatever. It's amazing how in 5 minutes everyone knows all the facts and concludes these school officials are racist xenophobic knuckle-draggers.
This makes it harder to change APIs. Which has advantages and disadvantages.
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And if I didn't miss it already, I wouldn't be surprised at a diversity-focused startup fund announcement some time very soon. In this light, this announcement is probably a test/market research for that fund.

Please do go on.
I realize that the people to whom this is intended to will be upset, but that was what I was aiming for. I don't want to hurt feelings, but I think that if you do something shitty, that feeling shitty for it is somewhat warranted. I am just pointing it out. I like hearing feedback and I wish that I could be less abrasive. Seeing the kid wearing a NASA shirt (which I have) in handcuffs made my eyes well up. That is not OK.

As for the whole "proud to be an American" bit, I am just being honest. I feel ashamed that this is where we are in 2015, reprimanding a young man for furthering his education...that kind of behavior starts a very ugly snowballing of worse and worse things to come if it is not corrected.

I did send this message to them. I wonder if they will ever reply. I think that the POTUS invitation speaks volumes about the magnitude of what has happened. Thank you for your feedback. I really do appreciate it :)
The fractional reserve system on its own is not necessarily the issue so long as those making the loans fairly value the assets that collateralize the loan. Which also dictates that the loans be collateralized in the first place :)
Steve Wozniak spent night in jail for building a fake bomb in high school (2011)
Each time Germans are passing any internet related laws or their brave lawyers are winning another case against evil Facebook/Google I'm just facepalming. They keep on hurting themselves, which part of the internet is so difficult they are not capable of understanding?
No, because his english is horrible, and then he said, during a press conference "we’re here in Germany, we talk Deutsch!".

In general, his english is so bad that it’s become some kind of running gag.
I mentioned this below point below - but I'll make it again here. We do tons and tons of outreach at YC. We meet/talk to thousands of founders a year. With open office hours our goal was to have a way to do targeted outreach which we think is important to close the demographic gap in startups. Open Office Hours should be seen in the context of all the other outreach we do instead of in isolation.
> The TSA has an abysmal record of passing tests.

Probably but my point is all about fear of getting caught before succeeding. Does the truth matter as much as the fear?

> You don't think that would make the public fearful? "Bomb at Security Checkpoint" as a headline would be terrifying to most people.

Well finding a bomb doesn't mean it will actually explode and as long as the number of death is way smaller, they would have way better target than that (one that doesn't have a ton of security guards and multiple layer to stop you).

> Have you ever been to a security checkpoint? At a larger airport there is easily hundreds of people in line, usually in a confined space.

I haven't no but by what I see they aren't in confined space, the walls are far away, and they are one in front of the other, acting like human shield.
Wow, that's interesting. It does look like the worst scenerios could (at least in theory) overflow the causway area and hit Davis/Woodland. It's right on the edge, though, so that may only be a concern in the most extreme events.

I may have misinterpreted the situation re: ARkStorm, and I agree something closer to a "strong El Niño" seems far more likely. Still, it's interesting to know that flooding in this area is at least plausible.
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didn't lyft recently stop (or at least announce its intention to stop) its international expansion to focus domestically?
I do not really have this association due to the events that took place with the ping scenario. I just assumed they felt they were doing the right thing and negating any side effects from something that was misunderstood.

The flute situation on the other hand seems like an almost personal attack, but that's just petty nonsense that quickly fades with time.

My wife's scenario (and various others) still has an impact to this day.
Within context the comic in question was titled 'Mr. Robot, My Girlfriend and me'. In this case is this really a stereotype? I mean I watch a lot of geeky TV too and this sort of thing happens to me when I'm watching those shows with my girlfriend.

Also, this isn't done with the intention of malice. Shouldn't that be of some consideration?

If this is an issue then, Shouldn't we also talk about how the humor isn't just aimed at her but at the male characters in the story? Aren't the male characters (overused) stereotypical geeks? I mean on the edge of their seats over a DDOS attack? After all It's not like the Borg or weeping angels attacked.

I always thought that great art/comedy reflected real world experiences and that it was just fine for any artist express that. Is that not the case? Yes The artist can and should be critiqued but he and other creators are under no obligation to change their art or be guilted into changing their vision to suit others (subjective) tastes.
Windows, Office, things like .NET, other sites like MSN and Bing...
> bootstrapped for first few years

I recall whatsapp being free before it was for pay, how was it bootstrapped?
LightboxE: A browser extension for quickly viewing linked images and videos
And taxing it enough ensures those black markets don't disappear.
U.S. Multinationals Need to Safeguard EU Citizen Data
Because it’s usually not an issue. In my city, we have open hotspots in most of the downtown areas and in all the shopping malls anyway – since 2011. It’s not like this new bill would change anything anyway, as providers just showed a "if you tick this box, you are liable, not us" page upon connecting to the network.
Agree. The best case for Lyft is that they enable a major international player (Didi, Ola etc) to enter the US market. Similar to what UrbanSpoon did for Zomato (vs Yelp).
Most schools don't have "modern" computers (by most definitions of the word "modern" at least).
Africa braced for snakebite crisis
Marijuana has an incredibly high tax in Colorado. IRC its like 25%
Brazil has such a mixed demographic though. Like I don't care what your personal racial heritage is, but I was wondering, like, if an American resident says, "I'm Brazilian", what does that mean? Especially if they're of African descent. Would e.g. YC automatically just count them as Hispanic even though they're not actually Hispanic, just because they're "brown" (or white, or black, or whatever else) and Brazil is a South American country?

edit: Relevant article http://www.allinportuguese.com/blog/2013/02/25/are-portugues...

Also, how would YC handle, like, a Japanese Chilean immigrant?
The very fact that we 'do not break APIs' is one of the reasons that this newsreader is 100+ MB. If Google Chrome wasn't 4,490,488 lines of code designed across years of development to, well, _support old web APIs_ -- then it would likely be much smaller. :)
Not everybody lives as an uninteresting life as you. There are people, including common people, from journalists to clerical workers and what have you, who have been targeted all over the world as dissidents by this or that regime.
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The evidence in this case is the fact that they built the company and product with 50 developers.

Whether that evidence implies anything about the product's complexity is the speculative part.

If the explanation is that every single programmer at WhatsApp is 10x more productive than programmers at similar top companies, then my first question is how did WhatsApp manage to hire such people but Google, Facebook, etc., did not?
Why? Alcohol is much more harmful than cannabis. It should be taxed at a higher rate.
I like it. Unfortunately after running nicely for the first 6 levels, the framerate dropped to unplayable on level 7 :(

I'm on the open source (Nouveau) drivers with a "NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M]" which I believe is pretty shite, so don't worry too much I guess!
HAXXORS

I half believe it to be a branding thing at this point.
The crux of the problem is that the Fed is "pushing on a string" - playing with the supply side of money while having absolutely no effect on the demand side.

Thomas Palley [1] sums this up nicely in a 2011 critique of QE:

The underlying problem is structurally deficient demand caused by thirty years of neoliberal economic policies that have undermined the income and demand generation process (Palley, 2009). However, rather than fixing this problem, policymakers are again turning to ultra-easy monetary policy in the form of QE. Viewed from this perspective, QE can be interpreted as a form of asset market trickledown whereby supporting asset prices is supposed to jumpstart the macro economy…From a political standpoint, this is an enormous change from the world of forty years ago. The New Deal policy paradigm of wage floors and household income supports has been replaced by one of asset price floors and asset market subsidies. Viewed through a political lens QE therefore represents the triumph of plutonomics, and that makes it an obstruction to the extent it obscures the challenge of repairing the income and demand generation process.

The Fed has dug itself into a hole with QE, where it is losing the ability to control anything in the economy due to the lower 0 bound of the FFR and the economy's inability to handle an interest rate hike.

It is up to the Federal Government (which, democratically speaking, means we the people) to adopt New Deal-like investments in infrastructure, R&D, education, and tech to seed long-term prosperity in order to rebuild an economy with a strong middle class that will demand loans for things like mortgages, appliances, cars, and machinery, as well as drive invention and wealth creation rather than rent-seeking & arbitrage as we are seeing today.

[1] https://ideas.repec.org/p/uma/periwp/wp252.html
That's OK, I learned something new. I thought it was just for shadowbanned accounts.
I'm curious what privileges you perceive, or know to be true, for non-minorities.

I absolutely agree there is a problem. I've heard many first-hand accounts of violence and disrespect from all races. I'm interested in a solution that doesn't just take the labels from a pie chart and reinforce the dividing lines between what ultimately is one group.
Because CD is banal -- not as romantic/collectible/historical as vinyl, and not as conventient as mp3.
What do you have to do to get Basel to "build" a target that its designers have never encountered? The biggest problem I have with modern build systems is that they invest a lot in building specific types of artifacts. For instance, you might be able to compile and link a C program in three or four lines. In exchange, they fail miserably to account for situations like statically linking raw binary data into an executable or facilitating the automation of a target image build. So it's usually easy to build a desktop application but not much else.

How easy would it be to automate a complete Android image build in Bazel?
Point taken about inflation. But the thermophysics part still hold true though. You cannot increase economic output a lot without using more energy which will make earth boil.
"the possibility of the user encountering page faults" is absolutely hilarious. Clearly trying to take a stab at Apple because the author thinks that there should be more RAM in the boxes, and trying to come up with some justification without understanding that page faults are a basic and normal thing that happen all the time on any sort of modern device.

Also, regarding the "never existed", check out this post from 2010 from John Carmack, discussing the challenges of dealing with iOS's mmap limitations at the time:

http://www.bethblog.com/2010/10/29/john-carmack-discusses-ra...
>As part of our global partnership, Didi also invested $100 million in Lyft.

Hmmm..very interesting. Looks like Didi is trying to get more aggressive in Uber's own backyard.
Well, for one, it still effectively prohibits public wifi...
>This scale isn't unusual at all

How many apps are used by 13% of the world population every month?
Just because it doesn't make you money doesn't mean it has no value.
Interesting point. Of the $2.46 Trillion of treasury holdings, $638 Billion have a duration of 10+ years [1]. Of the $1.7 Trillion of MBS, not surprisingly almost all are over 10 years.

[1]http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/Current/
How is this a side effect of it being in the same repository/
Probably all worried about their debate tonight.
i disagree with the anti-identification claim. if we indeed do not "see race", then how can we even talk about racism, let alone fix it? this may seem trivial, but it is important. as a gay guy, i've heard similar arguments from people (like, "i don't care about sexuality, as long as you're a good person"), and i believe in good intentions, but many people do "see race", and that creates a social situation where people are disadvantaged because of it.

as i said in another comment here, social context is key and should not be ignored. if the scale is tipped to one side, you have to add weight to the other one if you want to balance it out.
Is that you, Gerben Vos?
Personally I'd still talk to a lawyer (easy for me to say as I have a friend who is a business lawyer), but I wouldn't go so far as to say not having a lawyer here would be "bonkers"

The argument is pretty clear and rational; unless the judge was in the pocket of the company on the other end of the suit (in which case you're fucked anyway), I think representing one's self would be pretty straightforward in this case.
Date: June 9, 2015.
I'd argue alcohol is way worse than weed. I like my whiskey, but its one of the leading causes of deaths for anything from car accidents to cirrhosis.

I for one would love to see a comprehensive study on the cohesive "value" of both drugs in society and alter taxation accordingly. Alcohol has to cost the most for highway patrol and other social services. Decriminalizing marijuana has to have a substantial savings. Taxation is fair - sin taxes are completely optional and the state needs money. It sounds like the weed tax is too high and the alcohol tax is too low.
Yes, that is counting everything. It's "the software needed to run all of Google’s Internet services" (so probably not Emacs, but the other stuff). But it's all in the repo, and it all has to be maintained.
I've heard a lawyer mention that (in Germany) in these cases you should actually abstain from any remarks like "my kids didn't do this" because if you rule out all other possible suspects you only leave the default: yourself. As long as there are other possible suspects, the court is a lot more likely to dismiss the claims.

So, yes, if you shared the access with others (even your own family), that fact may be a get-out-of-jail-free-card. Just don't make the mistake of trying to protect them (there's no need to anyway -- as long as they don't make that mistake either).

Sadly there are still a lot of these frivolous lawsuits and the standard practice is to ask for a ridiculous fee and to sign a cease and desist (don't ever do this without talking to a lawyer -- otherwise you can suffer even worse consequences if additional claims pop up, even if they concern things you did before signing the document).
Isn't that because lower end ARM is in-order?
Its interesting that they compare LoC with Windows. I suppose that this article wants us to be amazed at those numbers. However, my experience with Google's products indicates a gradual decline in performance and a simultaneous gradual increase in memory bloat (Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Android). Which ironically, FWIW, hasn't been the case with Windows. I have noticed zero difference in performance going from Windows 7 to 8 to 10.
Ahmed Mohamed invited to White House, Facebook, Google after clock incident

Yeah tell me more.Also gl to america when one day again a person named ahmed mohammed blows up a zillions of people with some bomb. But no you are not putting these people on pedestal.

I am sick of you people. Russia should have burned USA to the ashes. At least the russians are just drunk idiots.
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"Intervening" is not the same as "financing". My point still stands.
This discourages you from ever making breaking changes to an API. On the face of it that sounds good but sometimes you do have to make breaking changes. My guess is that there are many duplicate projects in the Google code base for when a breaking change is needed. This is a way to sidestep the problem.
Nifty game.

I'm especially interested in how it works under the hood. Any plans to release source code?
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Man, have these people never heard of "art for art's sake"?

Why does anyone do anything that isn't obviously beneficial?

Why climb K2? Why spend years writing a book only a handful will read? Why paint? Why make free software? Why modify a car?

Everything about this damn incident is making me angry
Example: I have an African American neighbor one block over that I see regularly. He works in IT/devops. Like every IT person, he gets yelled at by random people at work all the time; it's a high-stress job. But when he gets visibly frustrated, he's The Angry Black Man. Dipshit coworkers complain that they don't feel safe.

It is an example of a white male privilege that being frustrated and swearing at your computer screen is unlikely to result in a white male being put on a PIP for having a "threatening demeanor".

There are probably hundreds of things like this.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9671922
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There are 27 million white/European Americans of Hispanic descent in the United States today.

There are over 200 million white people and over 4.5 million Asian people living in Latin America.

Do you mean Latinos of descent other than European and Asian?
In the larger context of YC outreach to thousands of founders a year why is a special program for targeted outreach creating harm?
“The committee is confident that it has the tools it needs to raise short-term interest rates when it becomes appropriate to do so,” Fed chair Janet Yellen told Congress earlier this year, adding, “and to maintain reasonable control of the level of short-term interest rates.”

subtext - Keep a close eye on this situation, as it may require popcorn and a safe viewing platform.
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why do you think the lines are the problem? certainly, race is a thing. the problem is IMO in the asymmetry of power and opportunity between the slices of the pie chart. that races exist is undeniable, but racism does not stem just from acknowledging the existence of the variety of human race.
One possible downside is that it undermines the "clearing" of a market. That is clearing the things that haven't worked.
SQL Server has got to be a few lines...
Not without consulting a lawyer first.

If you signed one of these in the past and get "caught" again, you're in even worse trouble than you would be otherwise. The last thing you want to do is give them more ammunition against you.